Since everyone came to the meeting one after another, Li Xuanying has been constantly complaining to Guo Kang in a low voice.

This guy is too talkative, and even gives Guo Kang the feeling of going to school when he was a child, chatting secretly with his teacher and deskmate behind his back.

"I always thought these people were not very credible." He glanced at the representatives of the vassal states opposite, and said in a low voice: "But to be honest, if Greek officials were allowed to manage it, it would probably be worse--they must have been

They will impose levies and fill their own pockets, force all the local civilians and nobles to rebel, and then run back from the piss and let us clean up the mess."

"Then don't worry." Guo Kang pointed out: "At the same time, people's hearts belong to us."

Although his words were a bit unpleasant, Guo Kang felt it made sense unexpectedly.

The Greeks' level of scraping the ground is indeed amazing. It is said that the reason why the Arabs did not suffer much hinder when they fought out the peninsula was because the two young men, Eastern Rome and Sassanthemum, were exploited too hard.

Even with the religious tax of pagans, the Arabs collected lower than the two of them. Therefore, many people would rather defect to the Arabs than follow the empire.

Even without a long war, the taxes of Eastern Rome could be received by wealthy areas like Thrace, where population could not grow. This exploitation method was later perfectly inherited by the Ottomans. In modern times, where populations around the world were growing rapidly

The Ottoman forced the population of Egypt and Xiaoya back to the level of the three ancient dynasties. It can only be said that the people in this place are a bit powerful...

Of course, different civilizations and regions seem to have different tax habits. For example, the taxes of the Arabs seem too high in the East. Even if additional taxes are exempted, the Central Asians still cannot accept the taxes donated by the Arab Empire.

Tax resistance riots were held every few days, hoping that the Tang Dynasty would come to manage and bomb the Arabs.

It is also because of this that the Tang Dynasty and its subordinate forces were very popular in the local area for most of the time - because they had to be less. Every time, the Tang Dynasty could obtain more information and more adequate supplies, so that the Arabs

In theory, the army can suffer from the lack of familiarity with the roads, terrain, and water sources in its own control areas.

Until Gao Xianzhi went out to massacre the city and scared away the local followers, the military operation was smooth.

Therefore, the Khanate people actually understood that the best way to get support from locals is to collect less money. This is much more effective than religion, political system, etc., and the support from locals is actually part of the strategic advantage.

Advantages can directly affect the military's combat effectiveness and thus affect the outcome of the war.

Of course, there are many factors that determine the victory or defeat of a war, and this is just one of them. But unless the combat effectiveness gap in other aspects is large enough to a certain extent, this factor must still be taken into account - at least, in the regular army of the Tang Dynasty and the big black-clad army.

Food, this factor cannot be ignored under this level of combat effectiveness gap.

"Have you not started a fight with the Poles now?" Li Xuanying asked.

"Not yet." Guo Kang said: "But I'm not afraid of them. We have prepared very well this time."

The system of the Purple Horde comes more from the Liao Kingdom, or from the Tang Dynasty. East Asia is a tax depression. The military farm operated by the Guo family on the north coast of the Black Sea has a tax revenue of one-fifth, which is actually shared by farmers.

On top of the head, it will probably reach one-third. However, this tax is already very low in the local area.

Next door Poland implements a system that mainly rents labor land. To put it simply, it is similar to the well-field system. The difference from the Western Zhou Dynasty is that they are calculated based on working hours rather than working areas. Farmers must have 3 to 4 per week.

God works for the lord's private fields. During the busy farming period, because the lord asks to step up his own private fields, the labor time has to be increased, and some people can even add up to six days.

This is just one of them. Since most people are serfs, they do not even own the tools. Therefore, cattle, horse, plow and other animal utensils have to rent them to the lord, and then they are blackmailed for a rent.

If you want to process the grain you planted, you have to rent the lord's mill, which is also one of the lord's main sources of wealth. I don't know how much more taxes like this are added together, but it basically depends on the lord's mood.

Therefore, Polish serfs in the border areas often fled and came here to seek asylum.

In Eastern Europe, due to the degree of exploitation of people, serfs escape is a very common thing, and they even form their own villages and communities and even regimes. These people call themselves "free people" and are called "Cossacks" in the local language.

With the existence of the Purple Horde, serfs fled more frequently, and many people were incorporated by Guo and others. The Polish nobles were very angry, and the Parliament of the Republic finally even issued a special letter of state, protesting to the Mainland, believing that everyone was fighting.

When you fight, your behavior is too unkind. As a nobleman, he actually tried to please serfs and dig up other nobles' corners. In the end, he still talked about the rules or not. Is there any dignity?

The Guo family didn't know how to answer him. Finally, the King of Lama came forward and told the messenger that we were Nestorian heresy and did not abide by the rules of the Catholic nobles, so we could handle the matter.

"I'm afraid we can't wait." Li Xuanying continued on the side: "In fact, not only the Poles, but also many serfs and even soldiers from all over the country, escaped to join us. After a long time, I guess I'll have to fight the Second Civil War.

I'm already mentally prepared anyway."

"Don't be afraid. Moscow people will report it to us in time anyway." Guo Kang joked: "A few days ago, the representative of Novgorod asked Da Khan for complaining. Da Khan was not there, so he sued Tuohuan. He said that Moscow claimed that

If they can't collect enough taxes, they will directly snatch their caravan."

"Moscow didn't recognize it, saying it was either robbing or legal tax collection. Anyway, the difference between the two is not very obvious, so they didn't fight for it. I think, this time we have to fight again."

"Moscow has never been liked by them." Li Xuanying nodded and said, "Tver has not been able to do so for many years. Otherwise, I would probably have to beat him up."
Chapter completed!