THE FIGHT TO BE KING
CHAPTER 71: THE IDEA OF RESOLVING THE FOOD CRISIS
Myro rushed back to the mayor's office, because there was no mayor who appointed Myro then this office has not been used at all.
In the office, Myro's mother and Ferbas and Falka had started cleaning the office. However, the mayor's office has been unused for too long, which makes the office need to be cleaned before it can be used again.
Apart from being an office, this place is also useful as a mayor's residence so that Myro and others can stay here until Myro has enough money to make a Baron villa.
"Myro, are you back? I made you lunch. I also made lunch for everyone, therefore let's eat together" Myro's mother said with a friendly smile, she went to the kitchen to pick up the food she had prepared.
"Let me help" said Ren who rushed towards the kitchen to help Mother Myro prepare the food.
Seeing the 2 women who were already busy in the kitchen, Myro sat in the living room with Feld, Ferbas, and Falka.
Although new to Falka and Feld, Ferbas already felt very close to them.
Although a little foolish, Falka had a kind nature towards her comrades whereas Feld always smiled kindly. This made Ferbas quickly close to them.
Myro who had sat down immediately said "Falka, let the Mongol Cavalry be ready to move for these few days, I believe a big party will happen soon with the Noem Family as its main target. Then send at least 50 Mongol Cavalrymen to guard this place, we do not know when the Noem Family will try to attack or send assassins".
"Okay sir! Falka must have allowed the 50 best Mongol Cavalry to guard the lord! As for the matter of attacking the enemy, the Mongol Cavalry will be ready whenever it is day or night, as long as the master gives his duty then the Mongol Cavalry must move immediately" Falka said firmly.
Myro nodded "Right now we just need to wait for the Sild Family's invitation, as long as they don't invite me after 5 days then we will attack the Noem Family without their help. If the Sild Family has not contacted me at all, then I also do not need to give them any power when I have defeated the Noem Family".
Everyone agreed with Myro's words, after all why give the Sild Family a gift if they did not give any help.
"I did plan to give food, the residents in Loth City, Vendes City and Rorec City were starving. So I plan to endure the hunger among the residents to gain their support, as the ruler of this region then I definitely need the support of the residents of this region, is there a problem with that?", myro asked, he was sure Feld asked not without reason.
"Sir, I don't really understand the political issues, but for the city management issues then I'm still very confident in my abilities" Feld said firmly "If the master gave food to the inhabitants for free then the inhabitants would be too dependent on the master, they began to assume that it was the duty of a Baron to give them food so as not to starve. In the future, if they don't get any more free food from the master then they most likely think of the master as a stingy leader, therefore the master should not give them free food that would make the inhabitants too dependent on the master".
"Then what should I do?", Myro asked confusedly "I can't make them pay with money to get food, however, these people were so poor that they had no food to overcome their hunger, let alone money. I can't possibly make them pay for their houses or their valuables for the food, it just makes me look like a baron who's taking advantage of the circumstances to take the property of the people with the food".
"Master doesn't have to worry, I already have a plan for this" Feld said smiling "Master doesn't have to make them pay using money, houses or other valuables, either, you can make them work for food. All children under the age of 10 can get food for free while those who are already above 10 years old must do the appropriate work to get food such as cultivating the fields, opening up new farms, doing animal farming, being a teacher who teaches children and other things".
"In this way the master can give them food, but on the other hand the inhabitants can also overcome their own food crisis. The more farmland and new farms, the greater the amount of food will be that reduces the food crisis itself. Then every month, our tax revenues from these residents can also become more and more with the amount of agricultural land getting bigger".
Myro's eyes shone hearing this, though, if, as Feld says, they can really solve the food crisis directly by allowing the population to produce more food from agriculture and livestock. It does not even rule out the possibility in the future that they can trade food that is a tax from residents to other cities or caravans of traders.
"Wait a minute, there's still a weakness in the plans you've made" Myro said carefully "If we plan to develop the city in the future, what if the development is disrupted by the land of the residents? In addition, the residents may not have the money to buy the land, we are also not likely to give land for free that is too detrimental".
"What you said is true, so I've prepared a way to deal with this matter before suggesting it to you" said Feld, who was ready for Myro's question "For the problem of urban development, you only need to make regulations such as agricultural land can only be made 10 kilometers from the city, this certainly will not interfere with the expansion of the city in the future. As for the issue of land purchase costs, then the master does not need to sell it but let the residents rent agricultural land. In exchange for using the farm, they have to pay rent in the form of more taxes".
"While the landlord may also sell some land to the residents who have more money, the land purchased only needs to pay less tax than the land the residents rent. For example, purchased land only needs to pay 10% tax on their farm produce each month while the land that rents then they have to provide 20% of their farm income tax each month".
"In addition the master must also limit the purchase of land as everyone at most can only buy 20 hectares of land. This is done so that no one has too much land, the master also has to prepare government land that will not be sold and always belongs to the government. Land in the government is mainly used as military food in case of bad circumstances, while those who take care of military land are employees who you choose and salary every month, let them take care of military agricultural land as well".
Myro was a little surprised, it seemed that Feld had already thought through all of these problems until the possible solution would be in the future.