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All dark elves are like this, with no loyalty or morality.

Only if they are provided with benefits and advantages will they obey orders and carry out plans.

Likewise, their loyalty is not absolute. You must give them gold coins and wealth at all times to keep them loyal.

The first lesson of being a Dread Lord is to learn to check the morale of your troops and know when and how much benefit to give them.

The three ships have returned to the Kingdom of Nagaryeth, and this business trip ended in failure.

Although all the goods in the cargo ship disappeared in Marienburg, no wealth or rewards were exchanged.

Moreover, the wealth looted by the dark elf soldiers was not particularly large, and it was impossible to ask them to give it back.

After all the hard work of coming such a long way, it was all in vain, even Windlow felt it was a bit troublesome.

But I am a businessman. Businessmen do not care about plunder and war. The only thing that businessmen care about most is that they work hard but do not make any money.

At the same time, as a businessman, Windlow has a particularly good advantage, which is that he knows how to summarize.

Such an action can be simply referred to as military business.

By controlling a violent force, carrying weapons and equipment, and relying on oppression and killing to plunder resources.

It is essentially robbery, and you can't make money from robbery. After all, a business that can only be done once has a more professional name, which is called speculation.

If you speculate correctly, you can indeed make a fortune, but if you fail once, you will lose all the money you earned before.

As a businessman, Windlow would never engage in speculation, which is something that small business people are particularly keen on doing, and he would not lower himself.

There is at least one benefit to this kind of military business activity, and that is that it can ensure the loyalty of the troops.

Loyalty that only works for yourself.

Such a dark elf army has completely regarded Windlow as one of their own.

They even gradually began to disobey the orders of the Witch King and instead worked with this human.

Interests are truly amazing. They can make cunning humans kneel, proud dwarves bow their heads, despicable ratmen surrender, and arrogant elves bend over.

As long as Windlo gives an order, this group of dark elf soldiers can really obey orders completely, because they know it is profitable.

By raising your sword and shield and chopping off other people's heads, you can plunder a lot of wealth.

It's just that it's easy to chop someone, but it's not easy to find someone who is sticking out his neck and waiting to be chopped off.

Windlow knew that such military business behavior was very unsafe. This attack on Marienburg was barely a success, but what would he do if he faced the imperial artillery next time?

The imperial artillery is now even equipped with cannon grapeshot, which can evaporate light infantry with just one shot.

Although the dwarves also equipped their cannons with grapeshot, according to the Nuln Gunnery School, the dwarven grapeshot was sour.

Shifting his focus from the sea to the land, Windlow knew very well that farming was the safest way to continue to develop his wealth.

"The Lord of the Kingdom has ordered that starting today, the agricultural tax law will be changed. Taxes will no longer be paid based on the number of people, but will be paid based on the area of ​​land owned by individuals! The land belongs to the taxpayer!"

After closing the book, Mousse led the dark elf army to deliver this order to every city, every village, and even every manor.

That's right, even though it has been bombed into a wasteland, the fertility of the land in the Ulthuan Islands is far greater than that of most parts of the Empire.

Theoretically, the agricultural tax on the elves should be higher than that on the empire, but Windlo checked almost all the tax bills and found that the agricultural tax collected was unbelievably low.

Because the elves have a long lifespan, their land annexation problem is more serious than that of the Empire.

An elven landlord owns thousands of acres of land, but the elven civilians who are responsible for production do not have their own land and instead have to pay various taxes.

The most important thing is to participate in military service.

The lack of wealth, universal conscription, and overly cruel taxation enriched the nobles among the elves, but made it difficult for the common people and the Phoenix Court to increase their income.

After the announcement of this policy of equalizing the land tax, it immediately received joy and praise from all the elf farmers.

They have been sowing and harvesting for the nobles in the manor for generations, and they never expected that tens of thousands of years later, they would one day have their own land.

Since there were not many cities and villages in the Kingdom of Nagareth, in just one week, Mousse had already delivered the order to all cities and villages.

But there was no joy or excitement on her face. Instead, her brows were almost wrinkled. As soon as she came back, she rushed directly into Windlow's office.

He slammed the order sheet directly on the table, his face almost sticking close to it.

His body was still covered in the smell of sweat from the long journey, but he still came here as soon as possible because of a very basic problem.

"What on earth do you want to do? We have offended all the nobles of Nagarythe!"

Mousse was right. When she first received the order, she thought that Windlow had come up with some new method of taxation that was extortionate.

But after delivering the order to several cities, we discovered that something was wrong.

This policy of equalizing the land tax is really terrible!

With the issuance of the order, the burden of farmers was linked to the amount of land they owned. The more land they owned, the higher the tax; the less land they owned, the lower the tax; and if they had no land, they paid no tax.

All elven farmers work in manors, and their status is not much different from that of Bretonnia's serfs. They do not have their own fields, which means that they do not have to pay a penny of tax in the future.

And since they pay the taxes, it means the land will be theirs in the future.

Judging from the amount of land, the elven nobles who currently occupy a large amount of land will have to work hard just to pay the taxes.

Even a Dread Lord like Mousse who specializes in combat knows a very basic truth: what will happen if all the nobles are offended at once.

"Listen, Wendlow, you don't understand elves. Although Duruchi and Asur have many differences, they have one thing in common."

Mousse patted the table, looked around vigilantly, and her voice became noticeably softer. She was already worried about the safety of the human in front of her.

"If their interests are damaged, these nobles will definitely rebel. The most important thing is that they have already started to act."