EFB #640 - Chapter 640: 80% of Taxes
#640 - Chapter 640: 80% of Taxes
“A colony in the Endless Abyss?”
Hearing this proposal, Wu Wei couldn't help but frown.
“This idea is good, but the problem is, the cost of capturing a plane is very high.”
Capturing a plane,
“The cost of capturing a plane is not much less than the daily consumption of these demons, and because of the frequent battles during this period, I can no longer send extra troops to capture new planes.”
“No, no, Lord, you've fallen into a misunderstanding!”
Seeing that Wu Wei didn't understand his meaning, Birkin smiled.
“Lord, my meaning is, you don't necessarily have to completely capture a plane.”
“You only need to make the natives of this plane feel fear and obey you!”
“Wait, I understand, you mean...” Hearing Birkin say this, Wu Wei's eyes lit up.
“That's right!”
“You only need to spread your terror in this plane, spread your terrifying aura of disaster, and they will surely submit to you!” Birkin said excitedly.
“For example, randomly slaughtering half the population.”
“For example, threatening their children, torturing their leaders...”
His short legs danced happily between the chairs.
“As long as they can't withstand this torment, then you can do whatever you want.”
“However, I still have a suggestion.”
“That is, you'd better not colonize them yourself, but assign some people to manage them.”
“Demons and you, although you can spread fear and make them submit.”
“But making them submit is just a condition, not the goal.”
“Our real goal is to make them our free labor after they submit, to make them pay tribute to us!”
“For example, the farmers in these planes provide 60%, no, 80% of their annual harvest to us.”
“As long as they provide these 60% of the grain and income, then we can spare them and let them live.”
“But if they don't do it...”
Steward Birkin made a throat-cutting gesture.
“Hehe.”
“Doing this can save you more precious gold than directly colonizing!”
“Oh?”
Seeing Birkin so confident, Wu Wei became interested.
“In that case, you'll be responsible for this matter!”
Hearing his Abyss Overlord say this, Birkin almost fainted with excitement.
Because he knew...
His chance to make a fortune had come!
So, the greedy Birkin knelt directly in front of Wu Wei, expressing that he would definitely make Wu Wei satisfied.
He would use his weak power to solve this troublesome logistics problem for the Abyss Lord!
And Birkin didn't lie, because in just a few days, Birkin began to act.
First, for this experiment, Wu Wei returned to the real world and bought a medium-sized agricultural plane through auction.
The price of this agricultural plane was not expensive, only about 400 million resource points.
The reason why this plane was so cheap was because the biggest output of this plane was grain and other crops.
Then, after Wu Wei bought this plane, he returned to the Endless Abyss at the speed of light, opened the portal to this plane, and let Birkin personally select some troops to enter this plane and begin his first colonization attempt.
“Roar!”
With the roar of the dragon Daisi, a once magnificent palace was directly burned to ashes.
Accompanied by the screams of the king and his ministers, people covered in flames jumped from the palace and fell on the cold ground.
And countless shivering people were gathered by the demon overseers in the city square with horrified expressions.
The reason why they were so obedient was because those who dared to resist these demon overseers had already become the demons' rations.
And those who resolutely resisted, that is, their king, were even more miserable.
Because they were being scorched by dragon flames.
“Hahahaha, burn them for me!”
“Burn them hard!”
Birkin grinned, looking at Daisi flying in the sky.
And he could also feel that the expressions on the faces of the terrified civilians under his feet seemed to become more desperate.
But he enjoyed this despair.
“Ahem, my dear people....”
Dong!
With Birkin's voice, a charred corpse slammed heavily in front of these people.
The huge landing sound made the surrounding people exclaim.
Although the corpse was severely charred, they could still recognize from the vague face on the corpse that this corpse belonged to their past king.
“I don't want to talk nonsense, so I'll tell you my demands in the simplest way.”
Although Birkin had a smile on his face, the surrounding people felt chills all over their bodies.
“From now on, your kingdom has officially become a colony of our Abyss!”
“And as a colony of our Abyss, you need to provide 80% of your harvest to the great and supreme Abyss Lord every crop season!”
“What? Are you crazy? 80%?”
“We'll starve to death!”
“Please, don't do this!”
“Our arable land is not enough to support such high taxes!”
Sure enough, as soon as Birkin's request was made, the surrounding people immediately shouted.
“.....”
Birkin smiled and let the dragon Daisi pounce on the area where the shouts were the loudest.
The next second, these poor people were directly turned into ashes.
And the rest of the people didn't dare to shout anymore.
“Insufficient arable land? This problem is best solved.”
“Because now....”
“Your arable land should be enough, right!”
Looking at the overseer Birkin on the high platform who was more terrifying than a demon, the people below were silent.
The shadow of death loomed over everyone's heads.
Next, in just two days.
Birkin led the dragon Daisi and a small number of demon troops, relying on the power of the Abyss Portal, and successfully raided the remaining six kingdom capitals in this plane.
After easily eliminating the defenses in these kingdoms, the residents of these six kingdoms, like the first kingdom, agreed to Birkin's request.
After all, compared to dying on the spot, they were more willing to live on.
However....
The existence of one kingdom was somewhat special.
Not only were they unwilling to provide taxes to the demons, but this kingdom even confronted the troops sent by Wu Wei with weapons.
And this special kingdom attracted Birkin's attention.....