Thousands of sparks

Chapter 53 Original Sin
In order to adapt to the colonial system, the Privy Council made many targeted changes to the imperial laws.When the empire was only a maritime state, there was no need to distinguish between "settlements" and "villages and towns".The empire's provinces and cities, as well as overseas colonies, were managed by administrative officials directly stationed by the empire.

But such a system is completely unable to meet the needs of the age of discovery.

After the birth of the fourth colonial duke, the administrative resources of the empire were almost completely emptied.Whether it's Olin's top colleges or other low-level administrative colleges... only the most core professors and lecturers are still sticking to their posts.

Those who could leave, from teachers to newly enrolled students, were sent to various planets as administrators.But the gap is still astonishingly large—in some newly established colonial cities, there are only three administrators sent from Olin.Except for the most critical tasks of taxation, colonization and security, other tasks can basically be left alone.

In order to ensure the normal operation of the colony as much as possible, and to preserve the empire's existing administrative training and education system, the Privy Council passed a bill with unprecedented efficiency.

Settlements are taxed at a fixed rate, and only one manager is responsible for paying the tax to the Colonial Hall each year.There is no management of the colonial area, it is all up to the residents in the settlement to decide for themselves.There is no sheriff, only the heraldry management office that appears in the settlement together with the post office to ensure the law enforcement process of bottom line and principle issues.

A settlement with more than [-] residents can be upgraded to a town. As an incentive, after being upgraded to a town, the managers of the settlement will be directly included in the bureaucratic system and continue to manage the original town.

But the system... failed at Bosenck.

From the very beginning of development, Bosenk's pioneers didn't think about building this place into a town - in that case, tax collectors would have to settle in and collect taxes from this fertile sea area.

120 Two years ago, the Olin Fisheries Federation purchased a large piece of sea area and land from the then Duke of Saar.And successfully discovered Newsail's unique species of turtle and how to catch them in this sea area.

The Boysenc Fishing Company, founded by the Fisheries Federation, passed on this "trick" to the poor people they recruited.These poor people who used all their property as travel funds and brought their families to Bosenk became their bait, their laborers, and their fishermen.

A beautiful small city is rapidly taking shape, but the poor who nourish the ocean with their blood have never become rich.

A live boar fish with no damage on the surface of the body is only worth a penny in the eyes of Bosenk Fishing Company.Here, a pound of coal can only be exchanged for 65 of the best turtles—twelve pounds of the best-selling imperial delicacies are only worth a pound of coal in Boysenk.

It's not that no one else wants to come to Bosenk to do business, but the regulations of the Bosenk Fishing Company are the "law" in the settlement.The law stipulates that to do business in Boysenc, you must obtain a license from a fishing company.Under this condition, no one can sell goods here-people who the fishing companies can't afford to mess with, and don't look at the profit of selling goods to the poor.

Still, compared with other places, the poor of Bosenk still lead a good life.As long as you are willing to bleed, you will have a bite to eat.If you work, you get paid.Most importantly, even in winter, the weather here will not be so cold that people will freeze to death directly.

When you arrive in Boysenk, you can live a good life!Such words became the best advertisement for recruiting poor people to Bosenk.Decades ago there were free flights to bring the poor to Bosenck from places like Oberalbin.Now ... the price of a boat ticket to Bosenck is even as high as fifteen shillings a piece.

The more expensive the ticket, the more the poor people can firmly believe that Bosenk is a place where they can live a good life.

Bosenk is like a transit station for countless poor people.They came to this bay with hope and the dream of "becoming a master", and then lost their health through bloodletting again and again.

The only two items in Bosenck's store that were sold at cheap or even low prices were tobacco and spirits.These two commodities are not only cheap in Boysenk, but also in abundant supply.It is impossible for the poor, hooked by cheap tobacco and spirits, to leave Bosenk.

There are only two endings left for them—to live out their lives in a natural village far away from Boysenk, or to die by the sea in a drunken state.

It may have fallen into the water and drowned, it may have been bitten to death by swarms of turtle fish, or it may have disappeared by the sea without a sound.

In order to ensure that Bosenk will always be just a settlement instead of becoming a town, the Bosenk Fishing Company keeps driving the poor in the settlement.At the beginning, they could only live around the fishing company. Later, as the number of spontaneously formed settlements increased, the fishing company scattered them again and again and drove them to other places.

Even at the expense of force.

Bosenck's fishing company has become the true king of the mountain in this land.They are used to living a life of lawlessness, and it is a rare "gentle method" to think of "killing someone with a borrowed knife".

This "fishing company" has been a monster from the very beginning.In 120, after devouring countless lives and making huge profits, it has turned into a pus-smelling pus-filled monster that uses "a good life" as a bait to devour human lives mercilessly.

The Boysenc Fishing Company is the first and currently the only organization that Dusand has encountered in this world that truly implements the "virtues of capitalism".

The company would do almost anything for gold pounds.What's even more unbelievable is that not only can they do it, but they do it very smoothly and without psychological pressure.

"Anyway, if you want to leave Bosenk tomorrow, you'd better pay attention to your safety." Ruo Ni and Du Sande roughly "shared" the good things Bosenk Fishing Company did, and then reminded them friendly, "Fishery What the company does is really hated. There are a lot of gangsters around Boysenk. You have a navy commando guard, and gangsters don't dare to do anything to you under normal circumstances... But it's always right to be more careful in everything. "

Dusande's face turned ugly instantly, "What do you mean?"

"I just want you to be careful." Ruo Ni spread her hands, "This is just a reminder from a colleague—Since Director Paulson can kill people with a knife in order to maintain the economic monopoly of the fishery company... Do you think they will disclose your information on purpose? Whereabouts, and then arrange armed gangs to attack you on the way?"

"For money, they were able to continue to expel and even murder the poor in an organized manner for 120 years. Control them with cheap tobacco and spirits, and repeatedly squeeze these by monopolizing the external sales of turtle fish and the sale of goods to the poor. Poor man..." Ruo Ni sighed, "Their means are very low, but... none of which we can intervene in."

The "we" that Ruo Ni said was obviously referring to the Heraldry Management Office.Although the behavior of the fishing company even made the postman in red feel sick to his stomach, they did not touch the last bottom line.

They still maintained their absolute loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor.

"I've already contacted the tax bureau in Newsale for the tax issue." Ruo Ni rubbed her head and said, "They think that although the behavior of the fishing company is disgusting, it's not illegal. They didn't violate the law." The tax office cannot intervene under the circumstances stipulated by the laws of the empire."

"And... the laws of settlements are still enforced on this land, not the prevailing imperial laws." Dusande gritted his teeth and nodded, "No wonder... no wonder they keep controlling the scale like this!"

"From the beginning of its birth, blood and filth dripped from every pore..."

(End of this chapter)