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"The little beast who killed Xiaotao and Mei'er two years ago suddenly showed up. Under the instruction of the Soul Master of the Worship Hall, he raised his butcher knife against the Sun and Moon Royal Family, confiscated their property and exterminated their entire family, killing countless people."
Speaking of Xu Tianxi, Yan Shaozhe's eyes were filled with a dark haze, and he said coldly: "This little beast without filial piety is really so cruel that he killed many royal relatives and threw their bodies into mass graves, leaving them to become wandering ghosts without a trace!"
The facts described by Yan Shaozhe were correct. Since so many people were killed, Xu Tianxi didn't even bother to erect a tombstone, let alone bury them according to the proper ceremony. He fully utilized the ability of a fire-attributed soul master and cremated them on the spot.
A Miss Ye who possessed the sacred fire could not escape the tragic fate of a worker. She was sent by a black-hearted boss to be a tool. Once the sacred fire was cast, her body turned to ashes.
After burning into ashes, in order to prevent the impact on the environment, it was Xu Sanshi's water-attributed fire brigade's turn to take action to raise and wash the ashes to prevent air pollution.
"Afterwards, this little beast confiscated all the property of those princes and nobles. He also forced more than 90% of the taxes on all the properties of the living princes and nobles, and cut 90% of the tributes. He was so cruel and outrageous!"
As he spoke, Yan Shaozhe felt a little sad for the royal family of the Sun Moon Empire. They had the misfortune to encounter such a cruel and ruthless person. The dead saw their property confiscated before they died, and the living were even more miserable than the dead.
What is the difference between asking the princes and nobles who have never paid land tax or business tax to pay such heavy taxes and asking for their lives?
Hearing this, Mr. Zhuang, who took over from Lin Huiqun and was in charge of Jubao Pavilion and Shrek's foreign business, also sighed:
"Yes, this little beast was too cruel and vicious. I heard that his 90% tax was just the starting point. The more wealth a royal family member has, the higher the tax rate he pays. The highest tax rate was as high as 995%."
"This is equivalent to him working hard for a year and earning 100 million gold soul coins, but only 500,000 gold soul coins fell into his pocket. Looking back at the history of the mainland, there has never been such an outrageous thing. This person simply does not understand the way of economics and only knows how to rob and plunder!"
"If you don't give him money, he will directly bring people to confiscate the family's property and exterminate the whole family. Tsk tsk, the royal family of the Sun Moon Empire is really living a life that is not for human beings. They are simply like pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered."
Shrek City is the economic center of the three empires, with convenient transportation, guaranteed security, and Shrek's golden signboard. Even so, they dare not collect commercial taxes to the sky, and the annual tax revenue is only a few hundred million gold soul coins.
This little bastard has confiscated the property of so many royal families and robbed so many people. How many billions of gold soul coins must he have earned? Old Zhuang didn't even dare to think about it.
As soon as Master Zhuang opened his mouth, people started talking immediately. The old and new elders of the Sea God Pavilion started talking one after another, and there was some sympathy in their words for the Sun and Moon Royal Family.
"That's true. Although we have always had grievances with the Sun-Moon Empire, we might as well put aside our stance at this time. These royal families have really suffered an unprovoked disaster..."
"Hehe, I knew this little bastard was a hypocrite when he saved people in Xingluo City two years ago. Now it turns out to be true! He can even murder his own clan members, which shows how cold-hearted he is!"
"A person who is cold-hearted and has killed countless people will surely be punished by God. The Lord of the Sea will never bless him..."
"The Sun-Moon Empire is originally a foreign bandit, how can they be qualified to compete with us..."
Almost every elder had a sarcastic and indifferent smile on their face. Their innate stance made them extremely hate Xu Tianxi's "retrograde" behavior, or perhaps... fear.
The people in the Sea God Pavilion, whose current thinking is still quite backward, naturally don't know that Xu Tianxi's method is not original, but refers to the policy of Commander Luo during the peak period of a certain Dish Cooking Lighthouse in the previous life.
The main focus is to peel off the upper layer and then fill the middle and lower layers, which is a great improvement.
Although it is a big step to jump directly from the mixed period of slavery and feudalism to the peak period of capitalism, this is a fantasy world after all. Xu Tianxi believes that it can be done and the effect is very good; the primitive accumulation has been accumulated.
The princes and nobles who were skinned had no objections, as if Xu Tianxi didn't hear them.
In Xu Tianxi's plan, it would take three years to clean out all the parasites in the Sun Moon Empire, from the royal family to the powerful nobles with fiefdoms, to the big landowners, wealthy businessmen, and small nobles, all of them would be targets, one by one, and no one would be left out.
Those sentenced to death don't need to think about it, just be careful in your next life; for those whose crimes do not deserve the death penalty, if they want to live, they can pay money to save their lives, and if they don't want to live, they will all be sent to the execution ground; they will be killed without hesitation.
In this extraordinary world where all power belongs to oneself, why should I worry about you turning against me or writing a little essay to ruin my reputation? Have you ever heard of the Dark Age next door? Rather than you turning against me in the future, I'd rather kill you all first.
In the past, I was a minor soul master, so I could only turn a blind eye to guys like you who sucked blood from the general public and acted recklessly. Now, I can kill Super Douluo. If I don't take action against you, wouldn't I have practiced in vain for so many years?
After staying in Mingde Hall for a while, Xu Tianxi knew very well that funding was a huge limitation on the advancement of soul guide technology, and that money was necessary to develop productivity.
Due to the rapid development of soul guides, the Sun-Moon Empire is generally much stronger than the three major empires in terms of infrastructure, but it is not so transcendent. It also requires money to build national channels, construct water conservancy facilities, build national information base stations, invest in the construction of soul guide malls and other infrastructure.
The fact that various types of civilian soul guides have not been able to enter thousands of households shows that people do not have money and still need money to invest in creating a better environment and stimulate vitality.
So many places need money, and Xu Tianxi also likes money. He will take money from whoever has money. So these old things from the old times can just go on. He told Xiao Hongchen that it is not empty talk to use their blood to forge a more powerful empire.
Later, large-scale infrastructure construction can reduce taxes, but now we have to collect taxes from the sky; compared with the civilians who have been violated by them and have to bear debts that they cannot repay for several lifetimes, what is this little bit of suffering? He just let these people experience what they like to do.
Of course, many people have double standards. The elders of the Sea God Pavilion can tolerate the nobles who share the same interests with them sucking blood from the common people of Douluo Continent for ten thousand years, twenty thousand years, or even forever, but they absolutely cannot tolerate someone doing such a thing to them.
What made them even more angry was what Yan Shaozhe said next: there was also a traitor in their original Three Kingdoms!
The Xingluo Emperor Xu Jiawei, who had started stirring up internal troubles a year ago, did not learn from the good but from the bad. He even imitated the Sun-Moon Empire opposite him and sent out the Royal Guards to search and confiscate hundreds of noble families in Xingluo City in one go. As the emperor of a country, he took the strong men from the Worship Hall to attack, and the city of Xingluo was littered with corpses!
Afterwards, he implemented a tax rate starting at 80% in the country, which was 10% less than that of the Sun and Moon Empire.
Although Xu Jiawei publicly sentenced those nobles for their numerous crimes after the murder, and the core nobles of the empire such as the White Tiger Duke's Mansion did not remain passive, the Shrek people still found it unacceptable.
The most infuriating thing is that Xu Jiawei actually announced in public that 30% of the money obtained from the house search would be used for military expenses, 20% would be used to repair Xingluo City and appease the people, and only 50% would go into the national treasury.
This led to the most powerful military within the Xingluo Empire collectively agreeing with Xu Jiawei's actions. All major legions sent representatives, and they were almost going crazy over this military expenditure, with each shouting "loyalty" louder than the other.
At the same time, some military leaders with great ideas simply "fight the enemy on orders" and let the army clear out the nobles and wealthy families in the vicinity. Many old nobles of the Xingluo Empire were tortured to death.
A family with a history of ten thousand years and a long line of nobles? Excuse me, just talk to the soul masters about their soul skills and the battle formations of the army. Whoever doesn't take action now will have no military funds, and the brothers under you will have to eat meat in exchange for equipment.
For some reason, the Tianhun Empire also followed suit and invited those bastards from the Body Sect to help. As a result, the nobles of the Tianhun Empire, which had the most powerful soul masters among the three empires, were powerless to resist the royal sword and were forced to increase taxes by 90%.
The style of the Body Sect was even more brutal than Xu Tianxi's. Many times they even skipped the process of arresting people in jail, gathering evidence, and killing them on the execution ground. If they didn't bow their heads, they would lead their troops to attack, and the bloodbath continued for thousands of miles inside and outside Tiandou City.
At the same time, the Tianhun Empire cunningly announced that families with Titled Douluo would not be subject to additional taxes, and families with Soul Douluo and Soul Saints could apply for tax reductions. The aristocratic alliance became vulnerable to collapse, and those who could not escape had to obediently offer up their property.
As for the nobles who were able to escape... those adjacent to the Douling Empire naturally went to Douling, and the vast majority of the nobles fled in the direction of Shrek City. There were also many nobles in the Xingluo Empire who secretly made greetings, hoping to move their families to Shrek City.
During this period, the elders of Sea God Pavilion received hundreds of letters of complaint and nostalgia, which almost brought the roof down.
These elders were all born in aristocratic families. After becoming Shrek members, their relationship with their families became much more distant, but there were always some distant relatives, and even Elder Song was no exception.
"In short... this is the situation. I am telling you with a heavy heart that the royal families of the two empires have gone crazy. They have forgotten their old friendships and have become mean and ungrateful. They wantonly eliminate dissidents and have forgotten that their ancestors ascended the throne with the support of these old nobles..."
Yan Shaozhe's eyes were filled with tears, and he deeply hated these guys for taking the initiative to follow the Sun Moon Empire to mess things up. Shouldn't the nobility be passed down from generation to generation? How could you do such a thing?
Old Song looked sad and said in a sorrowful voice, "Shaozhe is right. These days, the letters from those kind-hearted people have almost broken my heart."
"The children in the inner and outer courtyards have also received letters from their families. During this period, I saw many children petitioning us to move their families here and receive the protection of the college."
Xian Lin'er hesitated and reminded, "But mom, the royal families of the two empires have also informed us not to interfere. How should we deal with it?"
Old Zhuang said compassionately, "Don't let the children down! Although our Shrek Academy is not as good as it used to be, it is still the most prestigious academy on the continent! It's fine if we can't organize an inspection team to protect the continent, but can't we even protect the children's families?"
"You know, these children will all be our Shrek people in the future. If Shrek Academy can't even protect the Shrek people, is it still Shrek Academy?"
"Shrek City is huge, it can accommodate thousands of new families! If it's not enough, we can expand it. Let's all work together to build a new home where we can live and work in peace and contentment!"
Money has never been a problem for Shrek. With so many nobles, it is enough for them to build a new Shrek city!
Yan Shaozhe nodded heavily and agreed: "Not only that, we should also accept more people with lofty ideals who have been persecuted and displaced. Shrek can accommodate them!"
"I think these two empires are on the verge of collapse. We at Shrek must preserve the flame for Douluo Continent!"
"Shaozhe is right!"
"That's just what it should be!"
"I agree!"
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The Sea God Pavilion voted, and Yan Shaozhe's proposal was passed unanimously.
Who doesn't like a free blood bag? Shrek certainly won't charge such a high tax, but since we are all building a new home together, there must be no problem in selflessly contributing to the new home, right?
But at this moment, Beibei, who had been listening in the corner of Sea God Pavilion, suddenly spoke:
"My Lords, if the Sun-Moon Empire continues to do the same after launching a war and forcibly spreads it to the entire continent, how should we respond?"
"This..." The excited elders' expressions suddenly froze on their faces.
Yes, what should we do after the war breaks out? Will the Sun-Moon Empire accept conditional surrender?