Chapter 184: Chapter 180: Clan Council (2)

Tang Zhi smiled airily,turned toward Tang Luo and asked, “Elder please explain.”

In the council, only ranks matter, not names, hence he referred to Tang Luo as Elder.

Tang Luo took a deep breath, took out a stack of papers from his bosom and declared aloud, “This is my proposal for today, please review.”

He summoned a warrior from the legal department to distribute these papers to everyone’s desk.

Tang Cunfu contemptuously took the proposal, refusing to believe that this child could have anything worthwhile to say. He already presumed the act of stealing the proposal was directed by Tang Zhi. It’s a pity the Pride of Xiling is a man of no wisdom, being used as a pawn, it’s truly regrettable.

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He examined the page in his hand, initially full of dismissive suspicion but as he read, his disbelief turned into shock. Unable to contain his surprise, he bellowed, “Ridiculous, you actually want to repeal this ban on tillage?!”

He thought Tang Luo was just a troublemaker pushed forth by Tang Zhi and had no expectations for this proposal. But he didn’t expect that the Pride of Xiling, silent but dumbfoundingly brilliant, was intent on disrupting centuries-old customs.

Tang Luo, with hands clasped behind him, glanced at Tang Cunfu and calmly advised, “Cunfu, don’t panic. Once everyone finishes reading, I’ll explain my proposal. For now, I ask that you refrain from disturbing others.”

at a loss

suppressed his rage and read the proposal carefully. From his grimace, one could tell that he was already planning his

finally understood the proposal written on the paper: To repeal the Ban

common people of North City in Xiling to reclaim uncultivated lands, limited to five acres

any questions, feel free to ask.” Tang Luo addressed

of a new policy, there are two requisite steps: determining its feasibility, and deciding how

the doubts of the authorities in Xiling and then win the majority vote. Once passed

from the thirteen elders, the clan chief, and a regional elder, the rest had

huge income to the clan. To suddenly abolish it and replace it with this, Five Acres Decree, where do you see the benefit?” The first to question was

answered Tang Gaomin, “The income will be compensated by land tax. North Xiling is home to nearly one and a half million people. Excluding the hundred thousand families, there are one million four hundred thousand civilians, equivalent to three hundred thousand

Xiling, My Tang Family’s annual income should be several hundred million gold. Elder, with this meager fifteen million gold to make

of finance, how could he not take into account taxes? Ignoring the low tax rate, the annual yield of Xiling’s grain market alone would bring the

hearing Tang Gaomin’s words. They all thought that swapping the

expression. Smiling, he looked at Tang Cunfu and asked, “May I ask the representative, what is the most needed

topic and was about to retort, but he was held back by an elder

Luo to ask him a question. However, his anger had not dissipated and he rudely replied, “Of course, it’s insufficient military

recruit warriors. Basically every available warrior in Xiling had already been

“Gentlemen, the current number of sub-branches in Tang Family has exceeded two hundred, yet the Battle Hall only trains over four hundred warriors each year, and many of them become cannon fodder because of the lack of

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