Volume 3 Chapter 141 - Welfare policy (1/2)

Seveni put down the quill pen and pinched the bridge of her nose. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

When she opened her eyes, she looked around and confirmed that there was no one else in the City Lord’s office. She spread out her arms and forcefully stretched herself out.

Because of the comfort that came from stretching her body, Seveni felt a bit better. She couldn’t help sticking out her tongue and revealing an embarrassed smile.

She had been strictly taught growing up in the royal family, so she always kept a perfect image in front of others. Even something as normal as stretching out was something that she could secretly do when no one was around.

Even so, although it made her feel like she was doing something bad, she still couldn’t stop.

But there was no other way, she was just too tired.

It was already the end of the year and as Banta City’s City Lord, there was a lot of work Seveni had to finish.

All the various things came together made her unable to sleep properly for close to a week, so she was now feeling incredibly tired.

But this was her first year as the City Lord and she was shouldering her royal father’s expectations, so naturally she couldn’t slack off at all.

To her, the best consolation was that during the work of these days, through the various reports, she had seen all the changes that had shocked and pleasantly surprised the people of Banta City.

According to the financial report from this year, so far, Banta City’s total tax revenue was five million seven hundred and thirty thousand gold coins.

Because this year wasn’t over yet, if they counted the final month’s tax revenue, then Banta City’s total tax revenue would be over six million gold coins!

Moreover, if it wasn’t for Count Stagg’s promoting agriculture policies, causing the tax revenue from the first half of the year to drop.

With the trend of the second half, Banta City’s total tax revenue could have even broken ten million gold coins!

Thinking of this number, Seveni felt her eyes fill with golden glow, making it really hard for her to believe this matter.

It had to be known, the Lampuri Kingdom’s total tax revenue last year was only two million gold coins.

Now just a single Banta City had taxes that could have broken the ten million mark.

Although according to the rules of the Royal Parliament, each city in the kingdom only needed to turn over a small portion to the kingdom as taxes, if every city in the Lampuri Kingdom was like Banta City with a tax revenue that broke the ten million mark, the Lampuri Kingdom’s finances would be completely different.

If the Lampuri Kingdom’s yearly taxes could break the ten million mark and wasn’t a pitiful one or two million like it normally was, the Lampuri Kingdom would be much stronger.

Since whether it was for an individual or a country, being rich was a very important matter.

Of course, although Banta City had high tax revenue, it also spent quite a bit of money.

Since Seveni became the City Lord, Banta City restarted the renovation projects that Count Stagg stopped. Banta City had turned into a large construction site in half a year, with all kinds of new roads and facilities all over.

The Banta City renovation project took a lot of money. In just half a year, they had spent over one and half million gold coins.

And according to estimates, in the next two to three years, they had to invest at least four million gold coins to finish the projects.

But since Banta City now had money, there were many things that couldn’t be thought of before since there was a lack of money were brought back up. Xu Yi proposed many things and now various welfare policies were being implemented for the citizens of Banta City.

These welfare policies also spent money, but Seveni still continued carrying them out. Even if Banta City’s tax revenue was very high, at the end of the year and after paying to the kingdom finances, Banta City was only left with one million and two hundred thousand gold coins.

Now that the new year was approaching, even if Seveni wasn’t willing, she had to spend some of this money on social expenses.

At the beginning of the next year, Seveni might not even have half a million gold coins left.

Thinking of this, Seveni shook her head with a bitter smile.

“It really is no money no worries, but there’s plenty of problems after you get money.”

She looked at the tax reports and Seveni thought for a bit before closing the report. She looked out the window and found that it was noon. It was rare good weather for a winter day like this and the sun was bright, lighting up everything outside.

After hesitating a bit, Seveni changed into a casual set of clothes and decided to take a walk.

When she pushed open the door, the workers of the City Lord Manor were all stunned.

Seeing Seveni’s casual attire, several workers looked at each other with smiles, but they didn’t say anything.