And regarding Su Li, this iron-willed chancellor had advised him more than once. The most memorable instance for Su Li was when the sound of studded boots grinding over the pages of tax records on refund scattered across the ground was unbearably grating, and he asked Su Li: "My lord, have you perhaps forgotten how the green-skinned warlord Kuke tore open Viscount Moka's throat in the south? When those filthy beasts come surging like a tide, is it the copper plates returned to serfs that will build the city walls, or the knight lords' plate armor soaked with the serfs' sweat and blood?"
Compared to a tax refund, this governor of the Provincial Affairs Council would certainly prefer to increase taxes on the territory's common people. Even if it came to a compromise, and both parties reached an agreement, at most he would draw some funds from the strained finances of the territory to purchase fodder from the farmers.
