Chapter 148 - Such a Unique City Lord
Chapter 148: Such a Unique City Lord
Hearing this question, Mike thought for a moment before he answered.
“Sarco City,” Mike pointed at a city on the map and said.
The king nodded without making any comments.
For the king, whether Mike chose Sarco City or Venezuela City, it was good.
Because Mike could help him resist the harassment of the Dwarves and Trolls.
Although the possibility had become fairly low, he still had to guard against it.
As long as Mike entered Sarco City, Victory City would no longer be a bordering city, but an inland city.
From today on, Victory City could rest in peace and gradually recover from its previous losses.
Therefore, the king was in a very good mood. He patted Mike on the shoulder and said,
“Since you have already decided on the city, when do you plan to take up your post?”
Mike thought for a moment and nodded,
“Well, they are going to clear out Sarco City tonight. We might as well go tomorrow.”
The two of them discussed the issue of the deployment of officials for a while before Mike left the meeting room.
The king said he would leave the management to Mike and would not be involved in it.
It was also a gesture.
If the king interfered with Mike’s management, it might cause Mike to be unhappy. Since the original intention of the city reward was to win Mike over, which would be contradictory.
After leaving the meeting room, Mike did not leave the palace directly.
The king said that he would arrange a reliable general manager for him. This way, Mike only needed to tell the general manager about his idea, and the general manager would take care of the other things.
Since this general manager was so important to the development of the city, Mike naturally had to meet with him before leaving.
After waiting for about ten minutes, a woman in a proper official uniform walked over and bowed calmly.
“Hello, city lord. My name is Ella Jasmine. From now on, I will be your general manager.
“If you have any instructions, you can give them to me directly. I will help you arrange the specific operations.”
Hearing this straightforward self-introduction, Mike nodded in satisfaction.
“Very good, Jasmine. Now, I want to hear what suggestions you have.”
Jasmine replied without any hesitation,
“I’m glad that you are willing to listen to my suggestions. This is my opinion.
“The most important thing in a city is actually the residents. If there are no residents, this city is just a pile of buildings stacked together.”
Hearing this, Mike nodded in approval.
It could be seen that Jasmine was indeed reliable.
After getting Mike’s nod of approval, Jasmine continued,
“I think that if we want to attract a portion of the human residents to live in Sarco City.
“The best way is to open up some welfare policies so that the civilians will voluntarily want to move to Sarco City.”
Mike nodded.
“Alright, we’ll do as you say.”
“As for the welfare policies… Let me think, how about lowering taxes?”
Jasmine’s eyes lit up when she heard this.
In the past, she felt that all politicians were greedy. After all, if the city’s taxes were lowered, the city lord’s income would also be reduced.
She did not expect the new city lord to reduce the taxes so decisively.
She asked with great anticipation,
“Then, how much tax do you think would be more appropriate?”
“The City of Light’s tax revenue is 20%. This can be used as a reference.”
Mike did not say anything and stretched out a finger.
Jasmine nodded, took out her notebook, and wrote it down. She whispered,
“10% tax, is it? 10% is indeed very low. This way, we can definitely attract—”
Before she could finish, Mike interrupted her.
“No, no, no, I’m not talking about 10%.
“I mean… how about 1%?”
Jasmine’s note-taking hand immediately stopped.
She raised her head in disbelief and looked at Mike. She asked hesitantly,
“Wait, I might have misheard. How much did you say just now?”
“1%,” Mike repeated.
This figure made a nearby few palace attendants turn their heads to look over.
1% tax?
How was this possible?
Did this city lord not like money?
The attendants’ thoughts were very simple. They were only surprised that Mike did not want to earn the residents’ taxes.
However, Jasmine knew better than the attendants what this 1% meant.
Every city had to give 20% of its tax revenue to the state every year.
In other words, the city could only receive 0.8% of its tax revenue.
Not to mention that the king might not believe that the city only demanded 1% of tax, so he might wonder if the city lord had pocketed some of the tax money.
Even if the king did not think so, 0.8% was definitely not enough.
This might even cause the government of Sarco City to lose money.
After all, many things required money.
Even the city officials needed to be paid.
How could 0.8% be enough?
Her eyes moved slightly, and her emotions were a little complicated.
She admired that God Slayer was such a good city lord to the commoners.
However, she felt that she had to explain this matter to the new city lord clearly.
Unfortunately, Mike had no intention of listening.
“Alright, it’s settled. Send someone to announce this matter in the City of Light, Hero City, and Victory City right now.
“Don’t worry about the money. I know that this might cause me to lose some gold coins, but I don’t care.”
After saying that, Mike took out 100,000 gold coins and placed them in the palace hall.
“Take this money first. If there’s anything in Sarco City that needs money, just take it from these gold coins.
“If it’s not enough, send someone to get it from the king. Tell him that I’ve requested them. I’ll return it to him later.
“That’s it for now. I still have other things to do.”
After saying that, Mike went offline.
That was right, he disappeared just like that.
After playing the game for a whole day, even though the sky was not dark yet, he was ready to go straight to sleep.
Looking at the box of gold coins on the ground, Jasmine fell silent.
She had never seen such a… special city lord.
Sure enough, he was special.
To say that he was bad, he would rather spend his own money than earn money from the commoners.
However, if one were to say that he was good… after giving the money, he just walked away and did not care about anything else.
Jasmine rubbed her temples and sighed.
“Forget it, at least this isn’t a city lord who is blinded by greed.
“As a general manager, I can only work a little harder.”
Thinking of this, Jasmine finally revealed a smile.
It was really good to have such a city lord.
She immediately began to arrange for people to carry out the publicity of Sarco City.
However, she absolutely could not have imagined the massive impact brought by the news upon announcement.