Any human activity is economically oriented from a macro perspective.

It is precisely because of economic development that there are classes and landlords. With this development, there are nobility and the emperor who rules the entire country.

As a royal family, in addition to the dignity of your status, the most important thing is to ensure that you have sufficient wealth.

A royal family that is impoverished but has no title may still be able to survive and receive the minimum love from the people in its territory. But such a royal family will fall immediately if it encounters aggression from other countries. After all, those farmers will not because of you.

You are a member of the royal family and are willing to protect you at all costs, even sacrificing your own life.

Therefore, taxation is one of the basic property revenues of a country.

Perhaps for some countries, taxation is not the main source of finance. But it is definitely a basic component.

To put it bluntly, everything is a matter of gold coins. If you have money, it is easier to negotiate. If you don't have money, no matter what kind of royal family you are, or even a demon or a god, you will not be able to have any impact on any human activities in the world.

Since October, Ai Luo has been carefully calculating his guild's property income every day.

After these two months of operation, he has become convinced that just relying on the Pelican Town mission entrustment to work, the income is really pitiful. Although generally speaking, he can maintain a loss-free operation, but such a speed of making money is simply not possible.

It is impossible to earn 1,000 gold coins at the Holy Night Festival three years later.

These days, he has also been on tenterhooks, fearing that some big shot would follow Iron Wolf's trail and come here to cause trouble for them.

But he also had some hope that someone would come, because there was no doubt that the gold nugget that Merlin took away, in Merlin... or in other words, a certain big boss behind the Eye of Truth must have started planning some kind of action. Can it be successfully arranged?

Free riding on these actions is the key to your own development!

It's a pity that no one has come these days, good or bad, and everything seems very calm, as if no one cares about Iron Wolf or the gold.

While doing the accounting, Ai Luo looked up at the sky outside.

How about... organizing another adventure into the mine?

As soon as this thought emerged from Ai Luo's head, it was immediately extinguished by his reason.

The level of the mine is still a bit high for Mermaid Song. At least, it would be nice if we could go to the nearest big city to build some swords and spears...

Forget it, don’t think about it anymore.

Ai Luo raised the account book in his hand again, checked it up and down again, then nodded, closed it, and walked out of the door.

The weather has started to get cooler, and as the temperature drops, there are obviously fewer stalls in the central square.

If you really want to sell things, the first month of autumn is already enough for people to sell out a lot of things. What will follow is a quiet winter in Pelican Town. Therefore, the reduction of stalls is also expected.

After crossing the square and walking along the street to the mayor's mansion of Mayor Round Cheese, Aiello gently knocked on the door. When the mayor saw it was Aiello through the window, he immediately ran over to open the door happily.

"Boss, business is booming!"

Arrow had a smile on his face, and so did Round Cheese.

"Hahaha! Business is booming, everyone is in booming business! President Arrow, I am preparing meals for your students this month!"

Of course, Ai Luo could hear the subtext here, and he immediately raised his money bag, shook it, and said with a smile: "Of course, isn't this? I'm also here to pay for the food."

When you have money, it's easy to talk about anything.

Round Cheese happily brought Airl into the living room, and his wife handed Airl a cup of tea.

"Here, this is the food expenses for the students in October. Look, each person has one iron coin per day, thirty days, forty people, totaling 1 gold and 2 silver."

Aiello took out a gold coin and two silver coins from his pocket and placed them in front of the round cheese. The mayor simply smiled from ear to ear, nodded repeatedly, and quickly put the three coins in his hands that were still slightly stained with flour.

He put the coin into his arms, weighed it gently, and smiled even more happily.

"Oh, for the sake of education in Pelican Town, this is what we should do! Have you had lunch? Why don't we leave after lunch! Hurry, dear! Let's prepare lunch quickly!"

Ai Luo was not polite either. To be too polite at this time would be to offend: "Then I'd rather be respectful than obey."

When the mayor's wife went to prepare lunch, Ai Luo took out the account book in his arms and spread it in front of Round Cheese and said: "Mayor, this is the revenue status of our Mermaid Song since its establishment. According to the tax law,

We should pay 15% of all work income, but since the guild is in the start-up stage, it can reduce the tax by five points, so..."

"Oh, please don't tell me this!"

When it comes to numbers, Round Cheese's smiling face suddenly turned ugly.

The mayor said with a frown on his face: "As the mayor, although I have tried my best for our town, I know everyone in our town and know the family situation of every family. As long as they are from our Pelican Town,

Townsfolk, as long as something happens to someone’s family, I will do my best to help everyone.”

"But, this is the period that gives me the biggest headache every year...it's really hard to calculate taxes! Hey, Ai Luo, look over there. Come over here and I'll take you to see it."

Round Cheese took Arrow's hand without any explanation, dragged him into the office, pointed at the pile of documents on the table, and said with a sad face: "Look, these are all the bills in the town this year."

Taxes. I won’t talk about the small liquor tavern, but the tailor shop in Budian and the long stick tool shop. There are only so many books in these two shops. I have to calculate the accounts in them and calculate them.

The tax exemption amount and taxes are really making my head explode these days!”

Looking at so many ledgers on the table, to be honest...Ai Luo felt quite happy.

Looking at Round Cheese's sad face now, Arrow felt even more happy, as if he was singing loudly while bathing in the spacious bathroom!

The accounts are unclear? The accounts are confusing? That’s great!

The more this happens, doesn't it mean that it is easier to get past the money laundering account?

Therefore, although Ai Luo was already happy in his heart, he still showed a very embarrassed expression on his face: "That's it...but boss, what should I do with my account book? Don't you need to calculate it?"

Round Cheese waved his hand and said impatiently: "What is the calculation? I believe you, just pay as much tax as you think you should pay. My own cheese shop can't even figure it out. At this time, it's really

I really hope that a top student can come and help me settle the accounts..."

At this point, Round Cheese's eyes suddenly lit up! The flour-covered hands immediately grabbed Ai Luo's hand, and said with golden eyes: "By the way! I heard that you are a graduate of Lao Teng Shu College, right?

?It’s the old Tengshu Academy in our capital, Hanhai City, right?!”

"Ah? Ah, yes..."

"Great! Since he is a top student from Lao Teng Shu, he must be very good at calculating accounts! Brother Ailuo, can you help me calculate these accounts? It really gives me a headache! I really don't have the energy to do the calculations properly! If

If possible, I also hope that you can calculate the accounts of our entire town in the next few days! Because during this period, the tax official will come to check the accounts, and I don’t want to leave the tax official with me as the mayor.

What an impression of being competent!"

Ai Luo was slightly startled: "Why mayor? Did you calculate your accounts clearly before?"

Round Cheese shook his head very confidently: "No, it has always been a mess. So I have to be scolded by the tax officer almost every year."

The mayor looked around to make sure there was no one around, then came over and said in a low voice: "After all, I am a mayor, but I get scolded so badly every time that I can't even lift my neck.

, and I’m always told that I can resign and don’t do this kind of thing... You think about it, I don’t have any other hobbies, it’s just a matter of face... I hope I can have a little bit of it. I also hope that one day I can stop being

The tax officer scolded me as if he were my grandson..."

If you don’t want to be scolded, then check the accounts and do the accounting carefully. This is not a complicated job, it is purely a matter of patience, care and time. If you are a tax official, you will see this amount every time you come to collect taxes.

If you are confused, then Ai Luo will probably want to curse.

As the president of the Adventurer's Guild, Ai Luo had no reason to refuse the commission, and then smiled and said: "Well, in that case, I will accept the commission from you, the mayor. Let me think about it, although this commission is not dangerous

, but it takes a lot of time, and the tax officer should be arriving in the next few days, right? Time is quite tight... so in terms of fees..."

Arrow made a money gesture, and the expression on Round Cheese's face suddenly darkened a little. From this point of view, Arrow felt that the mayor was quite similar to himself - they both took money so seriously.

.

"Um...how many do you want?"

Ai Luo thought for a while: "If you were to sort this out yourself, how much time would it take you?"

Round Cheese said with a dark face: "My own words...it wouldn't take ten days and a half months to do it..."

Ai Luo smiled and said: "Then how about this, I will help you get it done within a week for 5 copper coins a day?"

The mayor's expression was as if he wanted to swallow all these bills, with an expression of disbelief: "Five copper coins a day?! I said President Arrow, everyone is a part of the town, and we can do anything to each other.

It’s a deal, do you charge me such an expensive price? It’s 3 silver and 5 coppers in a week!”

Ai Luo shrugged and said helplessly: "There is no way, I am the president of the guild. It is always more expensive to ask the president to serve in person."

Round Cheese immediately shook his head like a rattle: "This can't be done, it's too expensive, too expensive! I've seen the charging standards for tasks in your guild. The maximum charge for tasks that are not life-threatening is 1 silver coin, right? And you actually

Pay it to me on a daily basis? It’s too expensive! If it’s really so expensive, I’d rather be scolded by the tax officer again. One silver coin, I can give you one silver coin at most, can you help me?”
Chapter completed!