Chapter 301 (2/2)
Tiger turned red and gritted his teeth ”I…Fine In my opinion, the Tehtly surprised He did not expect the man as a pure soldier to also see that fact
The Temple has ruled the Roland Continent for thousands of years! Its history was longer than er had just said the Tehed ”I did not expect you to think of this as well”
Rody paused for a while Since he decided not to beat around the bush any longer, he said, ”If you want er nodded and looked around He then pulled Rody to the edge of the pond and sat down
Rody pondered for a h the Temple is extremely influential in the Roland continent, it has a fatal weakness! It does not have its own territory! Even the weakest kingdom in the Roland Continent has its own territory, its own people, and its own farmland However, the Temple does not have these!
”In other words, the Tee It relies on the tribute and taxes of the different kingdoms and the people
”You also know that war costs money! Without land, there would be no land tax! Their Holy Knights are elites However, as elites, their expenses are also frightening…
”At the beginning of the war, the Temple may have a lot of money to spend However, it is i it forever Besides that, the other kingdoms on the Roland Continent should also be financially more powerful than the Te aruide the ar your opponent, the Te out!
”Once the war has started, the other nations will no longer give tax revenue to the Tee tree without roots
”Why does the Teht now? I believe the worshi+p of the Gods and even the blessings are all fake! Do you know this? According to , at present, a common family of the Roland Continent pays forty percent of their earnings as a tax to the kingdoive twenty percent to the Te money is their own In fact, the ordinary people did not think too doh That is why they felt that the Tedom
”If it were dom just before the start of the war! I would lower it down to an outrageous level! When the war starts, it would be inevitable for you to lose territory in the beginning However, in order to receive funds, the Temple would definitely start to ask for tax money This way, no matter how much taxes they ask for, they would inevitably lose popularity! Based onthe rest of the continent could last for half a year When it is exhausted, more taxes would be the inevitable outcoher than the kingdoh if it was low! People will then stop supporting the Temple!”
”But…”
Rody smiled and said, ”People are selfish!+ If you were to ask an average person to pay twenty percent of their annual income as tax to worshi+p the Temple, they may be able to accept However, if you told them to pay half or more of their inco a ion are not worth hed very hard ”I know there are soious fanatics that would donate all of their property However, those kinds of lunatics are aone of such lunatics out of every thousand people can already be considered good! Most, or rather, the vast majority of people are all ordinary people As a result, this would becos of the people As long as you persevere for a long time, the final victory would be possible!
”The i to take note of is—the Tehts Their only solution is to hope that they are able to rout your n That is why you should just give up some territory and avoid confrontation If the Temple wants to occupy those territories, they would need to divide their forces to handle it This would htly weaker You do not need to worry about h the territories have been occupied, once they divide their forces, it can be taken back The defenders in that small area would probably not be able to resist even if they were elite Holy Knights In short, the objective is so that they are not able to collect the taxes so easily!”
Rody sighed ”In fact, the most difficult part of this approach is the early phase of the war! The guys at the Teht of this and will inevitably find ways to end the war as quickly as possible That is why the pressure will be i is the only way! If…if you can prevent yourself fros will start to ih he was trying hard to digest Rody’s words He then s the early days of the war for the people But our large army will also need doms, the Roland Continent’s financial resources would definitely be able to hold out longer than the Teh, there is still the Dwarven Kingdouys are not of the Roland Continent! You can easily ih taxes there! The dwarves are also not your own soldiers and they are separated by the sea! Do you think the Temple can attack the dwarves? On top of that, the dwarves had been trading ironwood for hundreds of years They are very rich!”
Rody paused for a while He then cautiously said, ”Even if you still require assistance in the end…Our Radiant E financial support Of course, ill not send soldiers to ensure our position and to prevent your side frohed bitterly ”This plan is too weird…But now that I think about it, this is the only way But, I am not proficient in finance”
Rody harshly rebutted, ”The Roland Continent has so doms and nobles Each family has many servants and are extremely wealthy If you really lack money and provisions you can just threaten the nobles I aer, terrified of such a proposal, blurted out without thinking, ”This cannot be done…”
Rody cale If you cannot co er had a cloudy expression and seeritted his teeth and said, ”Earl, I would like to first thank you for your advice! Although I have reservations about your idea, I will certainly convey this to His Majesty…Also…”
Tiger seemed to have finally made up his mind and then said, ”I fully ad on the Roland Continent and helping ive you the best treater did not know his identity, but the King did He straightaway refused though Tiger also did not give up He even thought of an alliance and invited Rody to help him as an advisor However, this was also rejected by Rody
Finally, the cohed and slowly said, ”I did not expect the Radiant Empire’s Duke of the Tulip Family to have so h I did not personally witness the Duke’s strength, today’s discussion asp in adhed ”Looks like I will never have a chance of a repeat battle with the Duke! I a army and abundance of talented people!”
The man finally bowed to Rody then walked aith his chest held up straight
Rody sighed in relief He was about to turn back to the hall when he heard Nedis’ voice next to hihed in a sharp voice ”Wonderful, Rody! I did not expect you to be so sinister as to give them such a plan! If the Roland people listen to your lies, even if they win the war, they will only be able to recover after a hundred years!”