Roland comes from a more civilized earth than the world of Vares, and of course knows that any form of primitive accumulation of capital must have a corresponding price. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

If the port did not engage in "scissors poor" in the surrounding countryside, nor did it establish colonies overseas in a big way like the Holy Assanian Empire, then it is conceivable that the cost of completing its capital accumulation must have been transferred to the neighboring underdeveloped city-states and the backward areas on the Lucian Plateau with inconvenient transportation.

"Needless to say, Mr. Roland should be deeply touched by the fact that those regions that need to export raw materials and primary products in exchange for large quantities of imported grain, such as Kitland, have to rely on the trade channel of Port Baiou and have to accept the exploitation of traders; In addition, the other weaker city-states of the Bend Alliance are also suppressed by the regional overlord of White Gull Harbor to varying degrees, I will give an example of personal experience, when I first started running this trade route from Kitland City to North Bay, the destination was not in White Gull Harbor, but a small city-state called Silver Sail City, because it was closer from Kitland to Silver Sail City, and the round trip could save a week's journey, and the corresponding journey was safer, but suddenly one day, a strange half-elf gentleman found me, Claiming to be the commercial representative of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce in Yinfan City, he invited me to abandon the current trading model and join the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce, and then ship the spirits, furs, cold iron and camel hair produced in Kitland City to Baiou Harbor, and the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce took over the export. ”

Mikhail took a sip of wine and smiled self-deprecatingly: "At first, I refused his invitation, not only because I didn't want to go far, but also because I had a happy cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce in Silver Sail City, and I couldn't betray my business partners with a clear conscience and damage my reputation." ”

"How did the gentleman convince you?" Roland asked.

"He didn't talk nonsense, and he made one condition: I had a place at the Yanbo Hall in Kitland. In the future, whether I or my wife, children, relatives and friends, if I encounter trouble in Kitland City, whether it is a public or private lawsuit or a poor economic turnover, I can find the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce to help solve it, the Yangbo Association has a mercenary group to help me fight against the threat of violence from competitors, a team of legal experts and lawyers to help me fight a lawsuit, a private school for me and other children of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce employees to enjoy free education, and the Yangbo Family Foundation has also opened a private account for me to provide me with the most convenient and preferential financing support, you said, Can I refuse such a condition? ”

Mikhail smiled bitterly and sighed: "If Silver Sail City can provide the same conditions, even if it is a little worse, I will not waver, but unfortunately they can't do it!" So as you can see, I had to think about my family, as for conscience and credibility...... Ahem, sometimes I don't care so much. ”

Roland listened to him tell about his personal experience, and his heart was mixed. In fact, Baiou Harbor is a supercorporation disguised as a city-state, quite the style of a multinational monopoly on the planet, and its abundant capital gives it vigor and inevitably stimulates the desire to plunder and expand, this plunder of land, resources, technology and talent is not achieved through military power or political power, but through more hidden gold power.

Why did the agent of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce in Silver Sail City win over Mikhail, a self-made peddler? Because he believes that Mikhail has great potential and is a rare talent, if Mikhail continues to make a small fuss in Silversail City, his development prospects are very limited, and if he receives a big investment from the giant Yangbo Chamber of Commerce, his career will rise rapidly.

Later, Mikhail's life trajectory was not as the gentleman expected, and within ten years, he changed from a hawker to a big merchant with two hundred Lothmons, from a poor man in the civilian area to the chief agent of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce in Kitland City, and he could talk to the lord and his wife, and his family moved to the villa area, entered the upper class, and lived a rich and decent life.

So on the other hand, Mikhail's original partner, the Chamber of Commerce in Silver Sail City, it may not matter if one Mikhail loses one, but the long-term loss of talents, like the continuous blood loss of the human body, will not last long and will go bankrupt, and the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce will take the opportunity to buy the bottom and quietly expand its sphere of influence, if this situation does not change, one day Yinfan City will become a vassal of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce, and this free city-state will also become a "branch of the head office", and all the citizens are working for the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce.

To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is not new at all. The British East India Company, as a trading company, was the de facto ruler of the entire Indian subcontinent, and the status of the Mughal emperor was not as good as a director of the company, and this is exactly what the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce and the Twilight Foundation intended to accomplish in Kitland City, but Lyubov Yanbo's methods were more gentle, while Tamara Tartarus's methods were more radical, if it weren't for Roland's appearance in Kitland at a critical moment, he used the means of the time-traveler to help the lord couple escape from the quagmire, Kitchenland City is no better off than Silversail City these days.

From Mikhail's personal experience, it is not difficult to deduce a common phenomenon in the North Bay region: the intrinsic profit-seeking nature of capital drove the frenzied expansion of Baigull Harbor, while the interests of other city-states were suppressed and forced to fall victim to the accumulation and high concentration of capital in Baiou Harbor. (To be continued.) )