When the Saintess Arrives, No King Exist-Chapter 663 - 621: A street in the Ry Court Barracks is enough to shock the entire 1000 Valley

The first fiscal meeting at the Holy Machinery Court wasn't convened without preparation; it was well-planned.

Firstly, it's due to the special status of Langsande County.

Although South Mande County's own tax revenue is less than 2000 gold pounds, in just three months, under the premise of unsaturated wool production, they provided 3000 gold pounds of revenue for Horn.

Since these people are primarily farmers, they don't always have time to spend on spinning.

So, over a year, relying on this woolen textile production chain, it is estimated that Horn's garment workshop in Langsande County can earn about 9000-10000 gold pounds annually.

This income is almost comparable to the sugar and grain trade.

Counting the original tax revenues of Langsande County of 20,000-30,000 gold pounds, along with the wool production chain and the sugar and grain trade line, it is estimated that the county's annual income can reach about 50,000 gold pounds.

Secondly, as the head superior of all grassroots monks, Horn is not only a religious leader but also the central figure in local village administration.

Although Moliat can mobilize funds, including revenues from all regions beyond Langsande County,

not all the money needs to be transported to Hotam County; it would be too costly to send it back when needed.

So after the Priestly Order collects the taxes, they are uniformly deposited in the county treasury, and integrated bookkeeping is done to connect with the two tribunes.

The county governor can only use the tariffs and consumption taxes directly collected by the village magistrate in urban areas.

If Moliat wants the county governor to do something, she just gives a note to the county governor, who will take it to the priest-in-charge to request action.

The issue, however, is that the priest-in-charge is appointed by Horn, and although the priest-in-charge cannot refuse Moliat's orders, if Horn voices an opinion, you might feel the hassle of procedural delays.

Therefore, to eliminate internal friction, Horn hopes to form a reliable budgeting system to adequately plan for future finances.

To ensure reliable and efficient finances, the money must be spent judiciously.

Both parties gather to decide on priority expenditure areas according to future development directions, knowing exactly how much to allocate and who receives it.

As Moliat was originally supposed to visit the Holy Machinery Court, she coincided with the internal fiscal meeting, so it was simply done together.

Putting away several briefing reports, Horn, while donning a coat, took the schedule and walked out of the room.

"Petier, call for the coachman; we're going to the Mechanical Palace to see how Hilov's new peat refining technique is going."

"Got it." Petier quickly went to a corner of the room, found the stable among the ten brass pipes, opened the cap, and tossed in a signed note asking for the carriage to be prepared.

By the time Horn and Petier went downstairs, the Holy Gun Cavalry responsible for security and a plain carriage had already arrived in the back alley of the Holy Seat Mansion.

The wheels rumbled on the brick-and-mortar road, quickly rolling from the dim alley to Central Avenue.

Horn lifted a corner of the carriage curtain and looked out the window.

With the establishment of the Holy Axis, alchemists, witch doctors, and wizards flocked to the Holy Machinery Court along the Ibe River.

With their help, the entire construction speed of the Holy Machinery Court was as if a miracle occurred.

From Mansion Square, looking straight down Central Avenue, stood a 45-meter-tall Gothic-style clock tower surrounded by slender arches.

Its dial was about 4 meters in diameter, with an outer layer of a copper ring and the interior using mosaic-style colored glass, behind which was a circle of yellow fluorite.

This way, even at night, people can tell the time through the hands and the different colors of fluorite on the markers.

This thing seems high-tech, but it's actually driven by a set of hundreds of kilograms of weights that require a dozen workers to wind the winch to lift the weights each week.

And gazing to both sides from Central Avenue, the previously sparse stores were now filled.

With the establishment of the Thousand River Valley Holy Monarch Country, the Holy Machinery Court and Langsande County quickly became promised lands for refugees and laborers.

Coincidentally, the mortar road construction between the Holy Machinery Court and Joan of Arc Castle was completed, and nearly seven or eight hundred migrants emigrated from Black Snake Bay or other regions almost every week.

Whether coming from the Nao'an River or the Ibe River, they all docked at Joan of Arc Castle and then followed the mortar road to the Holy Machinery Court.

Some found work in the workshop area or rural brick kilns of Joan of Arc Castle and stayed, while others worked as construction workers and porters at the dock.

Each month, the real arrivals at Autumn Dusk Island in Daze Village were estimated at just over 2000 people.

Especially the poisonous witch marshes in Deer Horn Town led to the migration of a large number of local farmers to Daze Village.

Because, as the dredging of the two rivers was about to be completed, the poisonous witch marshes were likely to turn into a lake area and form a new tributary.

Hence, Horn proposed a relocation policy, moving 6000 farmers living in the poisonous witch marshes to the countryside of Autumn Dusk Island.

This resulted in gathering over 30,000 people on Autumn Dusk Island, and the population of the Holy Machinery Court skyrocketed from 11,000 to 19,000 within half a year.

Thanks to Autumn Dusk Island being a mortar producing area, the mortar prices were low.

Vite, to supplement municipal income and provide job positions, frantically built four-story Insula Apartments on the outskirts.

In Horn's view, these Insula Apartments were not even up to the technology level of self-built rural houses, possibly even worse.

At least self-built rural houses would use reinforcing steel and cast concrete pillars, while Vite's designs only had a one-meter foundation, unplastered exposed walls, and floors made of wooden planks.

When Horn inspected last time, footsteps on the third floor could be clearly heard on the first floor.

Yet, correspondingly, a single Insula Apartment could be built by 20 construction workers in just two months.

Vite constructed a total of 110 Insula Apartments in four months, which could accommodate about 6000 people.

Though the housing quality was poor, the price for each room was about 8 gold pounds, taking five to six years for an ordinary laborer to purchase, but only two to three years for an artisan.

If they couldn't afford to buy it, it didn't matter; renting each month for 15 Dinars could accommodate two to three people per room, averaging out to 5 Dinars per month.

Nowadays, the lowest daily wage in the Holy Machinery Court was 1 Dinar, meaning that 5 Dinars a month accounted for roughly one-sixth of the income.

Moreover, after continuously renting for seven years, you could directly purchase the house by paying a small property tax.

Hence, these Insula Apartments were surprisingly full, providing the Holy Machinery Court Hall with about 150 gold pounds of steady income each month.

The mortar workshop, Mountain Copper Workshop, water-powered and gear spinning machines, and a series of workshops provided abundant secondary industry positions, attracting a large influx of population.

Coupled with its special status as an administrative center, the tertiary industry naturally became enriched.

The Holy Machinery Court was brimming with job opportunities—postmen delivering mail, boys selling newspapers, street cleaners, water workers maintaining drains and public water sources.

Chefs, barbers, scribes, coachmen...even if one was bad at everything, there was always construction work.

The increasing number and variety of shops on both sides of Central Avenue became very natural.

In fact, not only the lower-level refugees, but recently, some Kush Knights from Jinhe Town and Ibe Village started scoping land and farms near the city.

After all, the grandmother from the Alco Family could see that once the river dredging project in South Mande County was completed, and wool spinning could be directly transported to Autumn Dusk Island, the local land prices would increase tremendously.

As the carriage crossed the narrow wooden bridge, Horn poked half his head out of the window, and the walls of the Mechanical Palace and the leather cannon towers at its four corners came into view on the hill.