Chapter 115: The Transformation of the Starfall Surassi (Thirty-Seven) Chamber of Commerce
Beginning in the year 1127 of the Great Calendar, the woman of Nismuel, with Dante David, a half-grown child, searched for his origin in this chaotic land.
Although there was no perfect household registration system in Sulasi's time, fortunately, through the description of the enshrinement, Dante's mother was a broken nobleman - now officially named the noble of glory.
For the meat eaters of this era, the aristocracy, no matter how broken he is, is also a nobleman, a class brother, and the commoner is not of the same race, so the broken aristocracy also has a household registration that is far more complete than the commoner, and this household registration is the clue for Dante to find his biological mother.
If it had been a hundred years ago, of course, there would have been no problem in doing so, but in the 17 years since the beginning of 1111 in the Great Calendar, with the fall of Ax once again as the fuse, the situation in Sulasi has become increasingly deteriorating, and the system that was barely able to operate under the heavy oppression and tearing down of the aristocracy has begun to completely collapse.
After the general collapse, the official aristocracy was fine, and the household registration management of the dilapidated aristocracy was basically suspended.
She and Dante first came to Myrdal, and after seeing the former home, she completely broke off the idea of going home and concentrated on accompanying Dante.
The two of them first returned to Xingqimu, which had been closed, and saw an old man who claimed to be a relative of the worship, and the old man followed the last wish of the worship, and threw the space ring containing "What I Saw and Heard for the Rest of My Life" and "Miscellaneous Records" to Nishier, and after allowing the two to enter Xingqimu Academy, they left the two alone.
Anyway, the valuable things in this academy have basically been emptied, and you can take the rest.
Eventually, Dante accompanies Nigsil on a stroll around the Academia of Apocalypse, a place that has had a profound impact on both of them.
Dante is thinking about his adoptive father, and Nicheel is reminiscing about what happened here.
"David, do you know? I've been through a lot of things in this academy, and I've encountered some ugly things, but I still remember clearly that there were only three people who impressed me the most. ”
Facing the sunset, holding Dante's little hand, Niguel recalled.
Ah, it's a pity that I haven't taken a bath now, my body is slimy, I remember that after taking a shower before, I hurried to the class, and the summer evening breeze blew through the undried body, that cool feeling, it was really beautiful.
But the people of this academy didn't give Nishiel good memories.
is not very talented, but because of his father's sacrifice, he became a formal student, which caused Nisol to be unable to escape well on both sides and was isolated on both sides.
"Who else is I, father?" asked Dante, who was holding his little hand, and out of the corner of her eye, Nispur noticed that Dante was rolling her eyes again.
The first time she saw this situation, she thought that Dante was angry, and after getting along with Dante for a long time, she realized that this was one of the peculiar things about Dante.
"There is also an even stranger offering than your father's. ”
Dante rarely did not argue, after all, Dante's adoptive father God chattered one of the rare commonancings between the two: "What did he say to you?"
"Class... Ass··· In fact, now that I think about his words, and the examples he gave, discussing the past and the present, I seem to understand a little bit why Sulasi has become like this now. ”
The reason why Sulasi has become such is that the current administrative system is extremely inefficient and the execution is too low, which has seriously affected the operation of the country.
The solution to the problem of Sulasi is also very simple, to curb corruption and promote class circulation.
However, both of these methods are aimed at harming the interests of those vested interests, so who are the vested interests? The answer is everyone, including Solit.
The so-called cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, this seems to be the easiest way to deal with it, but it is the most difficult one to do, and the leaders of Sulassi, including Solit, have no hobby of reforming their own lives.
This doomed Solit to mend the seams and unimportant parts of Sulasi, in order to continue the life of the country that was struggling, because once a truly beneficial change was made to the country, even the new Doreman would abandon the traitors of this class.
However, under the watchful eye of Goshoge, who was eyeing him to the south, no one could estimate how long Sulasi would survive.
Of course, those who are eager to try are always eager to try, and Surassie has survived for too long, for a thousand years, everyone has become accustomed to Surassie's presence, including Sushi and Goshy. Not to mention those people at the bottom, even Xiu Ge himself, I am afraid that they will be strange to the world that does not exist in Sulasi.
However, these macroscopic things were too far away for Nishil, and all she could notice was Sulasi's current poor road conditions.
Because of the war, all kinds of bandits appeared along the way, wantonly looting the merchants on the road, sometimes the bandits gathered too much, and even the passing troops did not let go, and the soldiers who died along the way were not one or two.
This is not impossible, many of those bandits are because after being forcibly conscripted, severance pay is not paid, and military pay is not paid, resulting in the collapse of the army that cannot return home.
If it weren't for Dante, who is the son of a demon and has special abilities that ordinary people don't have, he issued many warnings to Nimuel along the way, and asked Nimuel to change his route in advance, and Nimuel would have gone on the road alone, I'm afraid that his bones would be able to beat the drum now.
Thinking about the ferocity of those bandits, thinking about her own strength, Nisil couldn't help but tremble slightly, glad that she had brought David with her—wait... Shouldn't he have been commissioned to put on David?well, I also have the intention of going to Myrdal to see if I can find my own family.
This is the second manifestation of the political chaos in Surassi.
In just 20 years, what Ni Mushroom heard from her parents and remembered when she was a child that the once prosperous trade routes had gradually begun to shrink and were close to extinction.
As trade routes shrank, what once required a great deal of economic knowledge became an adventure, and if you could sell the local produce, someone from outside would take over – provided you could make your way through the bandits along the way, sell your goods alive, and make sure that the seller's nobles didn't eat the black.
In this era when trade routes have been seriously damaged, those esoteric economic knowledge is no longer useful, and the key points of doing a business have changed from how much business attention there is to how big the background is, and whether it can resist the black and eat the black.
At this time, even a person like Nishier, who has only learned basic accounting training, can manage business well as long as he has a strong background.
So, can the traditional Chamber of Commerce of Sulassie adapt well to this chaotic new era? The answer is no.
As the exchanges in each city were gradually destroyed, and scarce became expensive, the Chamber of Commerce made more and more money, and it became a profiteering industry, which made the nobles who were originally the umbrella of the Chamber of Commerce red-eyed.
In addition, these days, because there are more and more bandits on the road, the Chamber of Commerce requires more and more investment from the nobles, and finally the nobles think that it is more cost-effective to kick out the Chamber of Commerce and protect the road with their own private soldiers.
But there is a problem with this, pampered nobles may have a greater chance of becoming geniuses, but not necessarily all business geniuses, so the chamber of commerce formed by the nobles will always be less efficient than the chamber of commerce composed of merchants, so what should I do?
That's worse than bad, pull all the nobles into the Chamber of Commerce, squeeze out the businessmen, and let the Chamber of Commerce compete on the same IQ line, isn't it okay?
The first nobleman to do so was Solit.
In the year 1117 of the Great Calendar, the problem of trade routes at this time was not as serious as after 1123, but at this time there was already a Niduan.
At this time, the 27-year-old Solit, the rising star of the new Dorleiman, with the support of his elders, began to earn his first pot of gold, despite the objections of the other nobles in the city.
At this time, he was already aware of the changes in this world, so he began to take risks.
In the original main city of Doleiman, there were three major chambers of commerce and various small chambers of commerce, behind which there were various nobles who collected tribute and acted as the patrons of these chambers of commerce.
And these chambers of commerce are not like other fantasy chambers of commerce, hating their peers, the reason why they are different chambers of commerce is just because of the different types of regions and sales, so the struggle between the various chambers is not fierce.
For example, the new Doleiman family of Solit, the three major chambers of commerce all have the tentacles of the Doleiman family, but it is just a matter of more or less.
Beginning in 1117, Solit united with the young nobles of the main city of Doleman to create a chamber of commerce representing all the Doleman nobles. This chamber of commerce not only grabbed business with the original chamber of commerce, but also let those chambers of commerce continue to pay tribute, making that group of chambers of commerce complain.
However, at that time, the three major chambers of commerce had not yet realized the threat of the Solit Chamber of Commerce, and thought that it was just the product of Solit, the whim of Mosholegnoor.
It was through this chamber of commerce that Solit earned his first pot of gold and established a network with other young nobles, and later during the coup, although this group of non-Moshulegnoll did not help Solit, they did not oppose him.
And 6 years later, when the Solit coup was successful, it was time to repay those partners who had been with him all the way, after all, Solit was not Long Aotian, if he didn't give others soup like Xiang Yu, he would end up alone.
In the "Solit New Deal", there is also a content for the Chamber of Commerce, to the effect that from the issuance of the New Deal, after the payment of the entry fee, goods entering and leaving the city-state need to pay an additional fee.
Internally, Solit explained that it was to ease the financial pressure, but in reality the measure had other uses.
In this regulation, the basis for payment of goods is based on the number of times, in other words, the payment is the same regardless of the number of goods transported in and out of the city at a time.
In this way, the large chambers of commerce will be advantageous, because they have a lot of capital, they can mobilize more vehicles at once, and the vehicles can be loaded with more supplies at one time.
This means that every time you enter and exit, the gap between small and large chambers of commerce is constantly widening.
When this decree was just issued, the major chambers of commerce were still very happy, thinking that this was an opportunity for them to annex the small chambers of commerce, but they were about to cry soon, because after killing that group of small chambers of commerce, Solit's next target was this group of large chambers of commerce.
In the year 1128 of the Great Calendar, Solit claimed that in this Sparry disaster, someone guided Surifer so that Surifer could find a passage that no one else knew, so who could know the secret passages of various places and guide Surifer to invade?
The Chamber of Commerce, of course!
Under the guidance of this idea, the Merchant Accountability Investigation Bureau was established, nominally with the main duty of holding the merchants accountable for breaking the law during the Battle of Spari, but in fact it was dedicated to tossing the chambers of commerce that were not directly controlled by the nobles.
After all, businessmen are also a kind of capitalists, since they are capitalists, don't expect them to abide by the law, as long as they investigate carefully, there are a lot of all kinds of bullshit, although this time, the Suriver invasion does have nothing to do with them.
So under the toss of the Investigation Bureau, the trade volume of the Chamber of Commerce has plunged in recent months, and Sulasi's financial crisis has been greatly alleviated, and of course, the pockets of the nobles have also bulged.
When the Chamber of Commerce was in a hurry, the nobles appeared with a smile and told them that if they felt troublesome, they could give the Chamber of Commerce to themselves.
Don't give?
Yes, remember to pay this year's tribute on time, otherwise you may have to say goodbye to your property.
After a few months, Solit felt that the value of the Battle of Spari had been almost excavated, but the nobles had been hooked up and resolutely refused to abolish this department.
After a period of discussion, the nobles who wanted to be female cousins and set up archways, in 1129 of the Great Calendar, changed the name of the Merchant Accountability Investigation Bureau to the Merchant Loyalty Investigation Bureau, which was responsible for checking which chambers of commerce were disloyal and wanted to defect to the enemy - in fact, it was a shell, and the inside had not changed at all.
In the end, the aristocracy relied on the means of being both athletes and referees, so that the aristocratic chamber of commerce gradually replaced the traditional chamber of commerce.