In 1693, shortly before his death, the then Governor-General Rutger von Ascheberg wrote an account of his time as Governor-General of Scania (1680-1693) and the efforts of his predecessors (1658-1679) in the same post. Ascheberg pointed out that the time before him, i.e. the first period under Swedish rule after the Peace of Roskilde in 1658, when Scania was transferred to Sweden from Denmark, had been fraught with hardship when the governor-general's office was to be established in Scania. This changed when Ascheberg took over as governor-general, and by the time he wrote his report, the governor-general's office had already been successfully established. In plain language, this meant that Scania had been provided with a fully functioning Swedish administration and the traces of the previous Danish administration had been virtually swept away. In a contemporary European perspective, this was something quite unique, as the norm was that newly conquered areas kept large parts of their administration intact and in cases where attempts were made to adapt the administration, it took a long time and many compromises had to be made along the way. The success in Skåne thus needs to be explained. Previous research has clarified Skåne's formal Swedification, but little is known about how it happened in practice. The following doctoral project aims to do this through a case study focusing on the work of the bailiffs - strategies and opportunities - to introduce and establish a Swedish tax system in Skåne 1658-1700, the very foundation of other state activities.