Otherworld Nation Founding Chronicles

"Well, it looks like soy sauce and looks a bit different from soy sauce ... well, this is this ..."

I put fish sauce "Galm" on the sashimi and carry it to my mouth.

Fish sauce "Garum" is a seasoning made by fermenting fish.

The taste is similar to soy sauce ... but what is different from soy sauce is definitely different.

Well, if you eat it as a fish sauce "Galm" instead of soy sauce, it is delicious enough.

"But ... I often eat raw fish raw, but I've never heard of eating octopus raw. At first I thought it was uncomfortable, but it was surprisingly cool."

Alexios attaches the octopus sucker to the fish sauce "Galm" and carries it to his mouth.

I haven't eaten a lot of delicious suckers since the last time.

"But I like carpaccio more than eating it with the fish sauce Garm."

"Well? I guess it's different for each person ..."

I'm both cool.

…… When asked if it is soy sauce or carpaccio, it's soy sauce, but don't worry if asked if it's fish sauce “garm” or carpaccio.

Currently I am in Lezard.

He came to Alexios for instructions from the governments who had thrown them up and received reports only.

I'm having a dinner with Alexios now.

The reason for eating sashimi is that the Alexius man suggested, "Her Majesty, why don't you eat raw fish?"

Sea fish are often eaten on the southern coast of the Adernia Peninsula.

There is also a culture that eats raw fish.

Alexios is not Adernian but Pofenian ...

Pofenians are marine ethnic groups.

Having a culture of eating raw fish is not strange.

However, the culture of eating raw fish is limited to the coast.

Fish are easily damaged and cannot be transported inland.

A considerable amount of dried fish is distributed, but raw fish are not traded.

Thus, the people of the kingdom of Rossais ... Julia and Tetra do not eat raw fish.

Surely those two would frown.

By the way, they both like fish.

I went there earlier, but dried fish are in circulation, and I often eat river fish.

The problem is not that the fish is useless, but that it is not fired.

Adernians have little or no taste for cultural food.

Alexios probably wanted to surprise me from the interior.

However, the Yamato soul is moving in my heart.

Raw fish are welcome.

I used a fish sauce "Galm", but when I was eating carpaccio together, I talked about soy sauce.

Alexius then bites and said there was something similar.

... I was hoping for soy sauce from the bottom of my heart.

Well, I've never seen soy, but I can't see soy sauce.

"So let's hear about the progress of the reform."

I told Alexius after finishing the last slice.

"The first challenge ... the legal and tax equality of first and second class citizens has been achieved."

Lezard is divided into first-class citizens and second-class citizens, depending on whether they pay high headcount taxes or not.

This was due to a thorough property politics.

Nevertheless, in our country all the commoners, the aristocracy and the royal family are equal under the law.

There are some tax exemption privileges for mansions and royalty, but only a few.

The taxes paid are the same.

For that reason, it is necessary to apply a similar tax system to Lezard.

But it had two obstacles.

One is registration of a resident card.

Because, until now, second-class citizens were not subject to tax payments, so their population was not accurately known.

It's just a matter of doing a rough survey for a national political survey and understanding its population.

But if you are going to take taxes, you need to know exactly how many.

Second, the resistance of the residents.

For the first-class citizens, their political privileges are removed and they are equivalent to second-class citizens.

The tax system in the kingdom of Rossais is not a flat rate but a fixed rate.

So the richer you pay more taxes.

Pay for the right.

That would be irritating to the people of Lezad, a country style.

It is not an interesting story even for second-class citizens.

In Lezard, second-class citizens have no rights and no obligation to pay taxes.

But King Rossais's tax system is equally imposed on all citizens.

You have to pay taxes that you never had to pay.

So I thought it would take some time ...

Apparently it seemed to be a success.

"The great merchants who hindered reform in the previous war fled abroad or became nobles of Rossais. All that remained was small and medium-sized merchants. It was a heavy tax, so it was accepted smoothly. "

"A second-class citizen?"

"They ... what do they say, they are not taxable in the first place?"

According to Alexios, all second-class citizens are like peasants, workers, or beggars.

If you don't have land, you won't be subject to land tax, and if you don't do business, you won't be subject to sales tax.

Apparently, I thought about things in the sense of the kingdom of Rossais.

Most of the commoners in our country are homegrown.

So some second-class citizens thought they had some small land.

Apparently, Lezard seems to have a considerable gap between rich and poor.

"The only problem is military service."

There are three major taxes in the kingdom of Rossais.

One is sales tax. The state collects 5% of sales.

The other is lease fees ... substantial land taxes. This is 10% of the profits earned on the land.

And finally military service.

However, the first two are rabbits, and military service in Lezard is difficult.

For conquered Lezard humans, there is no step in my war.

Of course, it is because of me that the security and security of Lezard is maintained and the merchants can do business safely.

It is thanks to me that Lezad was not looted by Pofenia and has survived until now.

And I was the one who rescued many Lezzads from slave hunting.

That's what Lezard humans understand.

However, it is different story to die for the king.

Even if you are convinced by reason, you cannot be emotionally convinced.

And there's no help hunting unmotivated soldiers into war.

If this was an Adernian, there was no problem.

Military service is considered the most prestigious tax for Adernians.

What cowards do, such as paying money and exempting them from military service.

The idea is common.

In fact, all Adernians in the country, both rich and poor, are equipped for military service, despite differences in equipment.

Even though the royal family were treated more than a centurion, they also sent their children to war.

Denying military service is only when protesting against the nation about their rights and the security of life and property.

Adernians have a broad and common belief in serving nations and powers that protect their lives and property and protect their lands from the war.

So the Adernians in the land I got ceded or conquered, responded to military service, whether or not they swear to me.

For Adernians who are semi-farming and semi-corporate, have a monarchy of military nations in various places, and are raised on the Adernia Peninsula where wars occur all year round, war is a challenge and not a fleeing thing.

Well, it would be another story if we had no time to cultivate throughout the year and would repeat the war to overflow with the dead.

Adernians are people with totalitarian ethnicity.

In comparison, the inhabitants of Lezad, rather than the Christians, are individualistic.

To be precise, it is correct to refer to world citizenship "cosmopolitanism".

The Christians are proud of their ethnic group, but they are simply diversified (diaspora) when their homeland is in danger.

Perhaps the idea is that there is no relationship between the ethnic group and the state of the Christians, since the Greeks themselves have never experienced a single country.

Instead of being tied to a country or land, get on a ship, embark on the wind with sails, and embark on the open sea.

That is the attraction of the Christians and can be said to be a drawback.

I guess it's debatable which ethnic group is better, but at least from me, the governor, no ethnic group is as complicated as the Christians.

Now……

It is such an individualistic ethnic group and the Christians cannot respond to military service.

"But we can't afford to do military service ... because we've made it a jurisdiction. We can't introduce a military service exemption tax ..."

The power of King Rossais lies in conscription.

You can instantly and inexpensively organize a large army during the war. That is our strength.

The introduction of a military service exemption tax could break it.

However, it is not possible to treat only Lezard as special.

"I thought a lot, but ... the residents of Lezad have a love for the city of Lezad and exacerbations for the Pofenians, even though they have no loyalty to the kingdom of King Rossais and His Majesty. Even if it isn't useful, it's enough to be useful as a rider on a three-strand or five-strand. I want to make Lezard specialize in the Navy and exempt it from land recruitment ...? "

...... Hmm, yes.

In the sea, pirates always appear, so there is never less frequent action than land.

And the people of Lezad must be more motivated to defend the territorial waters and trade area of Lezad and fight the hatred Pofenia than to War for the Expansion of the Alms.

Or, contrary to the Christians, the Adernians are probably useless at sea.

The majority of Adernians will say, "People don't float on water."

Also, if you are a three-rower rower, you don't need any special weapons or skills.

Bringing weapons used in war is a rule.

Not only second-class citizens who do not have weapons and cannot afford to buy, but also residents of Lezad who have never fought, should be able to fight as such.

And naval battles are more familiar than land battles.

Alright, let's go.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. You can now complete the tax reform."

So what is the political reform?

"It's confusing ..."