Chapter 410: City Decoration Tax

“We don’t Need His Highness to help us obtain the legal possession of Holy City of Beauty. We only ask His Highness to ask the distant mountain lord to agree to lend to us for three years. We also don’t need His Highness to help us obtain the real name of the lord and restore the name of the alliance. However, we need His Highness to buy some licenses of the senate for us when necessary.”

“Is that all?”

“Before we make relative contributions to His Highness, that’s all we have for now.”

“Then what do you plan to give me?”

“Within three years, we can offer half of the third province to His Highness.”

“Offer half of the third province?”

After repeating this sentence, Ulysses shook his head with a smile of disbelief.

“You actually want to completely unify the third province within three years?”

“Three years is already the longest time limit.”

“The third province has always been one of the most complicated and most powerful provinces in the entire empire. Not only does it have doomsday, which has always been hostile towards East God, but it is also home to the Dark Dragon Alliance as well as Satan’s Wings, two of the three great pirate bases in the entire empire…Three years? That’s impossible.”

“Of course, it’s impossible without your help, Your Highness. But it’s not impossible if Your Highness is willing to join us in the water.”

As Lei Luo spoke, he raised his head and looked at Ulysses with a fervent gaze.

While Lei Luo was in the middle of the intense negotiation, Morton in the sacred city was also very busy.

Before he left, Lei Luo left all the gold coins to Morton, which amounted to almost 30 million gold coins.

After taking down the sacred city, according to the agreement in advance, all the spoils of war should be distributed to the Grizzly Pirates.

However, Lei Luo asked for a half-year extension to pay in gold coins.

As the mother nest and their families were completely controlled by the Grizzly Pirates, there was no room for negotiation.

They could only sign this agreement with Lei Luo.

In this way, the three million gold coins and 50 million gold coins worth of military goods in the sacred city were all under Morton’s control.

Morton used his connections and connections in the past to clean up all the industrial materials and parts within a week at a price of 25 million gold coins, which was 50% below the market price.

These few items added up to a total of 29.5 million gold coins.

Morton gave three million gold coins to Zha Mu to let him settle his men so that he would not force these pirates into a desperate situation.

After the things in the warehouse were farmed, Morton turned his attention to the tax aspect.

First of all, since the first day he arrived at Holy City of Beauty, Morton began to conduct a comprehensive tax survey.

He carried out a comprehensive reorganization of the tax issues left behind by the former distant mountain lord.

In order to cooperate with this reorganization, Morton also issued a special decree, which became the “citizen correction law.” The law stipulated that anyone who evaded taxes and was reported for tax evasion must pay a fine ranging from three to ten times.

It also stated that the whistleblower could receive 20 percent of this amount. The deficiencies were offset by various real estate.

Apart from that, Morton also imposed a special tax on the citizens of the Holy City of Beauty, which had a population of 70 million.

The name of this special tax was infuriating. It was called the city decoration tax.

The tax was also insane. It was 60% of the annual income of all citizens, and as a compromise, Morton promised that he would not impose any tax on the city for the next ten years.

It had been six days since they last met, and it had been more than twenty days since they had left the city.

Allie did not say anything when she saw Lei Luo’s carefree expression, but her heart was beginning to pound.

She thought to herself, ‘Why is Lei Luo so confident? What will he do if Ulysses does not do as he expects?’

“Don’t worry, the letter of protest from the distant mountain lord should have filled Ulysses’mailbox. The Things Ulysses has prepared for us should have been prepared as well.”

Lei Luo laughed confidently.

“Are you saying that Ulysses wants to give you something?”

“Of course, I came all the way here and didn’t give you anything. Wouldn’t that be too stingy?”

“But why should he give you anything? He doesn’t owe you anything.”

“That’s right, he doesn’t owe us anything, but he wants us to owe him something,” Lei Luo said and drank the wine in his hand in one gulp. Then he walked to the hotel sofa and collapsed.

“How about sleeping for another half an hour and then going to the market with you? I suddenly remembered that I didn’t buy anything for Morton. That guy should have an opinion.”

As soon as Lei Luo finished speaking, someone knocked on the door. Allie stood up, walked over, and opened the door,

it was the confidential adjutant of Ulysses standing outside the door. “His Highness invites the two of you.”

Hearing the confidential adjutant’s words, Allie turned around and looked at Lei Luo.

At this moment, she saw Lei Luo, who had a lazy look on his face, sitting upright with a serious look on his face.

“Okay, please wait outside the hotel for a moment. We’ll be out soon.”

Lei Luo slowly stood up and looked at the confidential aide with a gaze as sharp as a sword.

The confidential aide smiled and nodded, then turned around and left.

When the aide was three steps away, Allie closed the door and Lei Luo immediately lay down on the sofa again.

She smiled and shook her head. “Looks like I won’t be able to buy Morton’s gift.”

Allie continued to walk back to the dining table to eat while saying, “I seriously suggest that you become an actor.”

“If I become the lead, I will consider it,” Lei Luo said with a smile.

A few minutes later, the confidential adjutant brought Lei Luo and Allie directly to the port.

The one who welcomed the two of them outside the port was Prince Julius. Standing behind him was a thin, pale-faced man who was about 1.85 meters tall.

He looked like he was in his thirties, but his mental fatigue made him look like he was already in his fifties or sixties.

He was clearly wearing a well-ironed major general’s uniform, and his military posture was very standard. However, for some reason, he always gave off a relaxed feeling.

As Ulysses’ adjutant, when Ulysses greeted Lei Luo with a smile, he should at least give him a smile.

However, he did not. When Ulysses extended his hand to Lei Luo, he still stood straight.

The gaze he gave Lei Luo was not malicious, but it was not intimate either.