Chapter 4593 Break the Endless Loop

In the following period of time, Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan seemed to have completely forgotten about Henry Ball, and devoted themselves to the development and construction of the lower city.

In fact, for them, the most important thing right now is to continue to develop and accumulate strength for the lower city.

As for whether Henry Boll and the frontier army will rebel and when, it is really not very important to Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan.

Not to mention the development of the lower urban area, it was enough for them to worry about it.

In the final analysis, the root cause of this is that the people on the front wing have messed up the development of the lower city.

If it was possible, Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan really wanted to flatten the lower city and start over.

But obviously, this idea is unrealistic.

Let's not talk about anything else, let's just talk about the issue of construction funds. Where did they get so much money?

The limited funds collected before were simply not enough.

Not to mention bulldozing the entire lower city and restarting, even if they want to do some big projects, they can't handle it.

The core issue is undoubtedly taxation.

The guarantees and benefits mentioned before are of course very good, but they are not just talking about it. It takes a lot of time and energy to implement it. At the same time, it also requires a lot of money. It can’t be done in a short while. Yes, it needs a long-term development.

But the problems that Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan had to face now were right in front of them.

Because the tax revenue is low, development cannot be achieved, and because development cannot be achieved, the tax revenue is low...

They can be said to be caught in an endless loop now.

In order to break this vicious cycle, the first thing Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan did was to let the people in the lower city know where every penny they handed over was spent.

The main reason that causes various tax evasion and tax evasion and makes people unwilling to pay taxes, in addition to various selfish problems, is also the main reason is the problem of ideology.

Due to the rule and exploitation of the Yiren before, in the eyes of the people in the lower city, the taxes collected from them basically went into the pockets of the Yiren in power.

Although the person in power has now been replaced by Luo Ji, the concept of the people in the lower city has not changed.

Of course they are happy when taxes are reduced, but that doesn't mean they are happy to pay taxes.

Therefore, Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan's move was to dispel the doubts of the people.

Under this premise, Luo Ji directly stated publicly that the first tax collected will be used to improve the "security" of the lower city.

For the people in the lower city, everything about them is based on the premise of 'surviving'.

And it is directly related to the issue of 'survive', and the two most important points are nothing more than the 'problem of food and clothing' and 'problem of safety'.

After the tax was changed to a 50-50 split, everyone had more money on hand, and the "food and clothing problem" could naturally be improved to a large extent. Under this premise, the "safety problem" became the focus.

It goes without saying that Downtown has always been very chaotic.

After the Scarlet Group unified all the forces in the lower city, although it has become relatively peaceful, things like robbery, extortion and theft in the streets and alleys still happen a lot, and in the most direct way, Affect the lives of people in the lower city.

Under this premise, Luo Ji said that taxation would be used to improve the "security" of the lower city, and this matter naturally attracted the attention of everyone in the lower city.

People who live here, who doesn't care about this problem?

After attracting everyone's attention, the next point is undoubtedly to explain the specific measures to everyone.

Here, by the way, it is worth mentioning that in this era, both humans and Yiren are generally illiterate, so newspapers and other things are all useless and worthless.

Under this premise, Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan, who had no other choice, set up a special propaganda department and set up a simple propaganda stand in every block of the downtown area. At a fixed time, their latest decrees are communicated to the people through oral means.

Now let's get back to the topic, if we mention the issue of public security, we will definitely mention the police station they just set up before.

To put it simply, if people encounter illegal incidents such as robbery, extortion, and theft, they can go to the police station to report the case, and their police officers will investigate it.

Therefore, a very important part of the first tax revenue is used for this police station. The money for maintaining the police station, recruiting police officers, and allowing police officers to train and equip them all comes from tax revenue.

Therefore, when reporting the crime, the reporter needs to show his citizenship certificate.

And this citizenship certificate was given to every tax-paying citizen when they paid their taxes.

It was made of reinforced plastic and stamped with the tax date, along with the taxpayer's name, gender, home address, and a vivid portrait.

Of course, these were made with equipment modified by Xu Ji.

The rubbish mountain outside the city has long been turned into their back garden, and the materials inside are basically taken at random, which allows Xu Ji to better manufacture equipment for them.

As soon as the equipment came out, making such a plastic certificate was a breeze for Luo Ji and the others.

People in the lower city who are illiterate and do not have the technology at the same time have no way to imitate.

From this moment on, the benefits of paying taxes began to gradually manifest.

And this is just the beginning.

To improve law and order, passive reporting is definitely not enough, so they will also send out patrols in various places in the lower city, and conduct regular patrols every day and every time period.

In addition, they will set up police booths in various blocks.

The establishment of police booths is conditional. To put it simply, which block has more taxpayers and the amount of tax paid has reached a certain level.

The human beings in the lower urban areas are basically used to living a hard life. It is actually useless to talk about ideals, the future, and responsibilities to them.

Faced with such a group, it is best for you to tell them something practical.

This police box was built with taxpayers' money. The salaries of the police inside were paid for by taxpayers, and the equipment on their bodies was also bought with taxpayers' money. It's not a matter of course for them to focus on protecting taxpayers. thing?

This principle can be said to be very simple, who can have reason not to accept it?

Once these new policies surrounding public security issues in the lower urban area were released, they immediately aroused widespread heated discussions.

Among the public, it is not uncommon for people to sing bad news. This can be seen from taxation.

Luo Ji and Ye Qingxuan didn't care much about these pessimists. Anyway, after a period of implementation of this policy, everyone knows whether it is good or not and whether it is useful.