"Brother Awesome has become a player killer. The second player to withdraw from the competition has appeared."
"Apart from the Heavens lost to a dark horse. Was it luck or skill?"
"Who's to blame for a superstar player withdrawing from the competition?"
"Hui Tu: I think Brother Awesome is going to be the champion."
Sure enough, as Li Huailin expected, this time he dominated the forum again. He had just opened the forum in the morning, and these pinned posts appeared at the top of the forum. Moreover, from last night until now, in just a few hours, the number of replies had already exceeded 500,000. It was simply terrifying.
Li Huailin glanced at them. Most of the players expressed their regret for Hui Tu's withdrawal from the competition, especially the Dark Faction players. Magic Kitchen's performance in this competition was not satisfactory. Hui Tu, who was supposed to be a hero who saved the Dark Faction from disaster, was defeated by Li Huailin in one match. This made them very sad. Although the professionals didn't care about Li Huailin, the Dark Faction players generally began to want to defeat Li Huailin.
There were also some players who were wondering what was going on with Awesome Bro. In the first round, he beat Daoist Priest Ziwei to the point of withdrawing. In the second round, he didn't even participate and won. In the third round, he beat Gray Tu to the point of withdrawing. Was it because he couldn't play the game if he didn't cause some trouble?
Li Huailin's fans were celebrating wildly. Just as Hui Tu expressed his defeat, Li Huailin's fan page registered more than two million people. He became the fastest professional player in history to break through two million from one million. The group leader, Listening To The Mountains, immediately posted a celebratory post on the forum. Without a doubt, he sprinkled salt on the Demons.
"So far, the professional player with the most fans is Fragrant Fragrance. At its peak, it had 4.93 million fans. Now, our Brother Awesome is heading towards this goal," Listening To The Mountains said proudly.
What was the use of having so many fans? Li Huailin didn't quite understand. He didn't release any albums. After looking at Li Huailin, he didn't care. He casually glanced at other things in the forum and found that Spirit World and Reborn, who had been cursing each other, seemed to have quieted down a little. It was estimated that Reborn had begun to cooperate with Army Soul, so he had no time to manage Kai and the others for the time being.
There was no other news. Li Huailin browsed for a while and went online. As soon as Li Huailin logged on and appeared in the Duke's Mansion, he suddenly discovered that it was already very lively. Coincidentally, there was a large group of people working in front of him. Fu Li guessed that they were cleaning the place as all sorts of things had been moved out. A large group of women dressed in maid costumes were busily working everywhere.
"Sir Overlord!" "Sir Overlord!" Upon seeing Li Huailin, several maids nearby immediately came over to greet him.
"Where are McCann and the others?" Li Huailin asked as he walked.
"They're already waiting for you inside, Lord." The maid immediately led the way.
He followed the maid to a room in the Duke's Mansion, where work was in full swing. There were already more than 30 people in the room, and all kinds of documents were being discussed everywhere. It was a busy scene.
"Marshal." McCann, who was in the middle of a discussion, saw Li Huailin and immediately walked over. He reported, "Yesterday, I went back and told them that there are many people who want to help. Almost everyone in the logistics department wants to help. I left more than 100 people here to take over the work. The others have been sent to the finance department next door."
"Next door?" Li Huailin exited the door and looked around. It turned out that this was only the internal affairs department. The finance department was next door.
He immediately went to the finance department next door. There were more people here. There were a few rows of neatly arranged tables filled with people. There were at least a few hundred of them. It was even more lively than the internal affairs department next door.
"My lord." When Oliveira, who was sitting at the top table, saw Li Huailin, he immediately came over and reported, "There are 403 people in the Ministry of Finance now, which is more or less enough. We're now going through the territory's previous accounts and striving to start work immediately."
"I've already sent out notices for all the accounts in various places to be sent here. The internal affairs department will cooperate with the finance department and finish the statistics in three days," McCann said.
"But my lord, there's a problem now. I found out that the Duke's Mansion has no money," Oliveira said.
"No money?" Li Huailin asked.
"Yes, we can't even pay our first month's salary. The treasury is empty too. The people from the Duke's Mansion came this morning to apply for some money to buy new furniture, but they can't get it," Oliveira said.
"Damn, isn't this Filmus's old home? They don't even have a penny? "Li Huailin asked.
"Marshal, Filmus's entire family has been raided. All the money has been deposited into the treasury," McCann reminded him from behind.
"F * ck!" Li Huailin couldn't help but curse. "Did Anthony set me up?"
"Marshal, be careful with your words …" Maccon immediately said, "I don't know if His Royal Highness is aware of this. I heard from the city guards that Enmas was in charge of the confiscation of the properties."
"Enmas?" Li Huailin asked curiously. He had never heard of this name before.
"I heard he's on the queen's side," McCann said.
"Malina?" Li Huailin rubbed his chin. Malina didn't like him very much. It was possible that she was trying to set him up. If he had known earlier, he would've maxed out his impression of her before he came.
"Okay, got it. Don't look at the account books anymore." Li Huailin waved his hand and said, "In short, our main goal now is to make money, right? Let's put aside the matter of looking at the account books and talk about it in the future. Now, let's get the taxes first, or else we won't be able to catch our breath."
"Hmm, that works too. We have enough people now," Oliveira said.
"We can basically get in touch with the feudal lords from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They're all willing to cooperate with you, Marshal," McCann reported. Naturally, the Ministry of Internal Affairs couldn't go door-to-door to collect the taxes. They just had to contact the feudal lords and ask them to submit the taxes. As for the feudal lords, who dared to mess with Li Huailin now? The Second Division was stationed nearby. If they dared to disobey his orders, they would be killed in minutes.
"Then what are we waiting for? Hurry up and collect the taxes," Li Huailin said immediately.
"There's a question that I need your confirmation, sir. What's the tax rate for our territory this year?" Oliveira asked.
"Tax rate? How much is it usually? "Li Huailin asked.
"The empire's current average tax rate is 15%. In Filmus's territory, the tax rate is 12%, and other places are between 10% and 17%." On the other side, Oliveira had basically completed the preparatory work. As he spoke, he handed a piece of paper to Li Huailin. "According to the situation over the years, the Ministry of Finance recommends that Sir Feudal Lord set the tax rate at 15% this time."
"15%? Why does it feel so little?" Li Huailin waved his hand and said, "Aren't we short of money? Collect more. "
"Sir Lord, although we are short of money, a sudden increase in the tax rate might cause dissatisfaction among the citizens and cause a drop in popular support," Oliveira said immediately.
"Drop in popular support?" Li Huailin flipped open the page of his territory to see how many popular support there was. In the end, he found it in the internal affairs page. It really was written.
Popular Support: 55 (Receive 1 Reputation Point per minute)
"Reputation Points?" Li Huailin was surprised and quickly looked at his own Reputation Points. It was currently displayed as -3,044 points. Just as Li Huailin was looking at it, his Reputation Points jumped up a little and became -3,043 points.
"Oh, there's such a function?" Li Huailin was very happy. He didn't expect that the Popular Support could also increase his Reputation Points. This was the first time he found out about it, and it was actually for him. The speed was really not bad. One point per minute was equivalent to 1,440 points per day. That meant that his seriously negative Reputation Points could be added back in three days. This made Li Huailin overjoyed. It was said that this Reputation Point was used to recruit a private army. He was worried that he wouldn't be able to find a private army for the rest of his life. It seemed that there was hope.
"Sir Lord? Sir Lord? "Oliveira saw that Li Huailin was in a daze and immediately reminded him.
"Oh, what's wrong? What were we talking about?" asked Li Huailin.
"We were just talking about the tax rate of our territory. I suggest that we don't raise the tax rate immediately. After all, this is our first year here. If we raise the tax rate immediately, I'm afraid that it will cause the citizens to object," said Oliveira.
"Oh, you're right. We should pay attention to the popular support. Otherwise, my Reputation Points might be deducted … Wait …" Suddenly, Li Huailin was stunned. Seeing that his Reputation Points had increased, Li Huailin felt that increasing the Popular Support would increase his Reputation Points faster, so he nodded. But just now, he thought of another problem. How was the popular support in his territory calculated?
"Then what is the tax rate that Sir Lord is going to set?" Oliveira nodded and asked after seeing that Li Huailin had agreed to his suggestion.
"What's the maximum tax rate?" Li Huailin suddenly asked.
"Huh?" Oliveira was stunned for a moment, then he looked at the record and replied, "So far, the highest tax rate in the empire appeared more than 130 years ago, a tax rate as high as 35%. At that time, the war had not been completely pacified, so the tax rate was very high. Since then, there has not been such a high tax rate. The lowest was a tax rate of 5%."
"How much can we collect so that the citizens won't starve to death?" Li Huailin asked again.
"Uh … High … About 70% tax?" Oliveira said uncertainly.
"Good! This time, the tax rate is 70%. Go collect it, "Li Huailin said with a wave of his hand.
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