Chapter 469
The captives of the Star Luo Empire were placed in the Kingdom of Barak, a new city named the City of Exile, which was only two hundred kilometers away from Atlanta City in a straight line, and there were also captives from the other four empires.
The five empires have all mentioned the exchange of prisoners, but it is not only the Chaman Empire and the city of Atlanta who do not agree, but even the captives themselves are unwilling to return......
Most of them escaped from hunger and couldn't stand it, and now if they return to their own country, even if they are not sentenced to treason and executed, they will become slaves, and their families will be affected, even if the empire does not have the idea of disposing of them, but who can guarantee that they will not be liquidated in the future? and this is also an indelible stain, and there will be no future in the empire.
On the contrary, in the city of exile, they will have a greater opportunity, although they can only live in collective dormitories, be controlled every day, undergo labor training, and have their status as "slaves", but they are not slaves after all.
"With slaves" is a new word invented by Atlanta City for these nearly a million people, the status is the same as slaves, but it will not be marked as slaves, and if you perform well, you can get out of the "same slave" status, and you can even join the Atlanta City household registration.
There are not many managers in this penitentiary city, only a few officials sent by Atlanta City, and the vast majority of middle and low-level officials are from this group of people themselves, with twenty-five people as a squad, four squads as a squad, and then three squads as a platoon, three platoons as a company, and so on, the highest rank is the commander, divided into four legions for militarized management, the manager and the managed cannot be of the same nationality, the division commander and above the rank of Atlanta City are drawn from the Atlanta City Dragon Falcon Army, under normal circumstances, a squad cannot appear ten prisoners of the same nationality。
Under this slightly rough management, the entire city of exile turned out to be in order, although because of the relationship between different nationalities, there are often small-scale brawls, but both sides have control, and there will be almost no deaths, because the rules of the city of exile are very simple, as long as there are no dead people, no disabilities, they can be dealt with internally, once they die, the murderer is sentenced to death, the conspirators are reduced to slaves, the food standard of the same class is reduced by half, and the workload is doubled for two weeks.
Because Atlanta City is well prepared, the surrounding area of the Exile City has been fortified, which is equivalent to a closed military camp, and the daily grain is transported to a nearby placement point fifty kilometers in the morning, and the Exile City arranges for people to carry it into the city, completely preventing the occurrence of rebellion.
The captives had to work in the city of exile every day, and in their spare time they could apply to learn other skills, and once they passed the exam, they could apply for a shift transfer and receive a corresponding salary.
Among them, the lowest skilled job can also get 1,000 bonds a month, which is equivalent to ten gold coins, which is five or six times more than their previous income.
And the workload now is not even as good as the amount of training they had in the barracks, and after the shift, it will be even less, as long as they work for a few years, they can not only redeem themselves, but even take their families over.
Although the Exiled City is now a dormitory, they have learned about the current situation of Atlanta City through a square magic device called the Magic Vision, and the living quarters in it are like the Kingdom of God!
And that's the future plan for the Exiled City.
At that time, the Exiled City will also officially be renamed the City of Hope, and it will become a city under the jurisdiction of Atlanta, and they will be the first to inhabite.
As for the arrangement of these people, Atlanta City also made it very clear that only 200,000 of them will continue to exist in the form of legions, and the rest will be transferred to skilled jobs or trained into other professional talents.
Therefore, the style of competition in various armies prevails, and those who have hope do not want to give up, because although the benefits of being a soldier are not as good as some other professions, but they don't need to think about it, as long as they listen to orders, it is better to be simple, and the benefits are extremely good, which is definitely the best choice for their group of people.
For the city of exile, the Barak kingdom is actually extremely greedy, in this war, Atlanta City has reaped the greatest benefits, and the Chaman Empire can be regarded as reborn, only the Barak Kingdom, because of the weakest strength, when the spoils of war are divided, there is almost nothing to distribute, there is no money, no one wants people, if there is no low-interest loan from Atlanta City, I am afraid that the post-war pension will not be issued.
It's just that the interest rate is low, but the amount of money is too huge, and the Barak Kingdom wants to learn from Atlanta City to issue its own paper currency, which is purely greedy.
However, firstly, they have used the metal currency system for so many years, and they have no understanding of the paper money credit system, and they do not understand the way of it, and secondly, the anti-counterfeiting is not easy to do, although they do not understand the principles of economics, but they also know that if the currency they issue is imitated by people, resulting in the collapse of credit, I am afraid that the kingdom will die without a fight.
And Atlanta City can issue so many bonds, firstly, there are a lot of reserves, which are enough to resist risks, and secondly, Atlantan City's reputation in people's hearts is extremely high, after all, so many monopoly industries, the daily income has long been astronomical, and it is impossible to care about their little money.
Kingdom of Barak.
The royal capital of the royal palace.
"Your Majesty, the City of Exile belongs to the territory of the Barak Kingdom, but now it is being used by Atlanta City for free, which has seriously hurt the interests of the Kingdom, and we must take some measures. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, bowing down.
The Minister of Military Affairs also stood up, and said with a gloomy face: "This time the distribution of post-war results, our Barak Kingdom has paid the most, but the gain is the smallest, I think it is necessary to protest like the Chaman Empire and the Barak Kingdom, if it is not for the contribution of our Barak Kingdom, how can the mainland have today's situation." ”
Other ministers also stepped forward and voiced their demands, almost all of them dissatisfied with the status quo and wanting to obtain greater benefits.
Tolkien had a headache about the joint request of several ministers under his command, of course he knew that the Barak Kingdom had gained the least this time, but what could he do, after all, among the alliance, the Barak Kingdom was the smallest, and the Chaman Empire suffered a lot of losses, so he had no ability to pay the corresponding compensation, as for asking for it from Atlanta City, it was almost impossible, and now they still owed Atlanta City a lot of money.
As for the problem of the city of exile, it is even more difficult to say, it was originally a piece of uninhabited land, who would have thought that Atlanta City would be able to turn a basin terrain into a natural factory prison, not only can it obtain nearly a million free labor for a long time, but also double the scale of the industry, and now more than a third of Atlanta's goods are produced from the city of exile.
He also knew what these people were thinking, after all, the city of exile still nominally belonged to the Barak Kingdom, and now there was a trend of Little Atlanta there, so it would be more uncomfortable for them to see the duck brought to their mouths and not eat a bite.
It's just that people have to do what they can, and so does the country.
The Barak Kingdom simply did not have the ability to manage such a large city, and if that city was handed over to the Barak Kingdom, the city would be destroyed.
Tolkien did not talk to the ministers about Ari, and although he was very excited when he heard that Ari was going to return the city of Atlanta to the kingdom of Barak, after all this time of consideration, he decided to give up on taking back the city of Atlanta.
There are many reasons for this, but of course, the most important is that he feels that the recovery of Atlanta City is far less than the free development of Atlanta City.
Although Atlanta City can make the Barak Kingdom soar in strength, in fact, the power of Atlanta City is far greater than that of the Barak Kingdom, and the ending of the snake swallowing the elephant is often not too good.
And he is also very confused, Atlanta City has taken an unprecedented path, and he has no idea what Atlanta City should go in the future.
In other words, Tolkien was timid.
He was afraid that Atlanta City would go downhill under his leadership, and in that case, he would really not have the face to see Gal again.
However, the words of these ministers could not be ignored all, he thought for a while, and said: "It is impossible to recover the exiled city, and asking for money from Atlanta City will not solve any big problems, and now the top priority is to take advantage of the Chaman Empire's own preoccupation and develop ourselves, otherwise when the Chaman Empire becomes strong again, it will not allow us to develop." ”
The Chancellor of the Exchequer frowned: "If you don't find a way to get rid of the Exile City, I'm afraid it will take a long time for the kingdom's finances to recover its health, and during this period of time, the kingdom will have to work for Atlanta City to repay the loan." ”
Tolkien asked rhetorically, "Then what can you do?"
The Chancellor of the Exchequer obviously had an idea, and when he saw Tolkien asking, he replied directly: "Look for Gergil, he is now a powerful deputy lord in Atlanta City, and with his help, the kingdom can drink a mouthful of soup even if it can't eat fat." ”
"Looking for Gergil?" Tolkien shook his head when he heard this, "I'm afraid you're thinking too much, that fat man is the least daring, in the five years that Ari didn't come back, he didn't betray the interests of Atlanta City, not to mention now, and if the matter is revealed, our relationship with Atlanta City will be completely broken, and at that time, the kingdom will have one less ally and one more terrifying enemy, I think, you don't want to have such an enemy next to you." ”
The Chancellor of the Exchequer reluctantly said, "Are we just watching them develop while we watch from the sidelines?"
Tolkien said with a smile: "Actually, the situation is not as bad as you think, the Ari City Lord of Atlanta City has a passage that is very right, things are seen from different angles, the same is half a glass of water, some people will only see the part that lacks money, and some people will see the part that they have, in fact, our Barak Kingdom has the advantages of other countries on the continent." ”
"What's the advantage? Is it because of Atlanta?" everyone wondered.
"That's right, it's Atlanta City!" Tolkien nodded, looked at everyone, and suddenly asked, "Do you think the Barak Kingdom will become the only country on the continent?"
"How is this possible, the six empires have controlled the continent for so many years, and there are two major temples here, we don't have any chance. The military minister shook his head directly and said that even the most optimistic person would not have such unrealistic ideas.
"Since our kingdom of Barak cannot be the only nation, then why should you resist the city of Atlanta in your hearts. Tolkien looked at them and asked, "We don't actually have an antagonistic relationship with Atlanta City, whether it's Gal or Ggil, they are the hub of communication between us and Atlanta City, as long as it's a legitimate request, they won't refuse, in that case, why bother getting those things that can't be put on the table." ”
Tolkien also figured it out during this period of time, although he didn't say it in the past, but in his heart, he actually regarded Atlanta City as a potential enemy, and everyone couldn't accept that Atlanta City suddenly became stronger than them, so many aspects were guarding against Atlanta City.
As it turns out, this is not a very good idea.
Atlanta City is now a mountain of gold, but it was not them who first discovered this mountain of gold, but the Phantom Cloud Empire of the Chaman Empire.
Before the Barak Kingdom reacted, the Phantom Cloud Empire had taken the lead in putting down its identity and learning the Atlantan model from all aspects, and now the three squirrel brands established by the three young people were already the most powerful business empire in the Phantom Cloud Empire, famous all over the continent, and even able to compete with Atlanta City to a certain extent in terms of some light snacks such as milk tea.
Of course, what everyone doesn't know is that although the three squirrels are nominally the industry established by Palacio, Burris, and Monique, they are occupied by Fei Fei Comprising Firm 49% of the shares, and if the three shares are separated, Fei Fei Comprising Bank is the real largest shareholder.
Tolkien paused and continued: " Therefore, I have made a decision to list the two nearest cities of Atlanta City and the City of Exile as direct cities, under the direct control of the kingdom, and the administrative level is equivalent to the royal capital, and at the same time, these two cities should actively cooperate with Atlanta City, gather talents from all over the country, take advantage of population advantages and cost advantages, and actively learn the model of Atlanta City, and then take over some industries that they do not attach much importance to from Atlanta City, and gradually develop, I believe that with Atlanta City as a reference, even if it can't catch up with Atlanta City, it will develop better than other countries on the mainland。 ”
Tolkien looked at the crowd with a powerful confidence in his eyes, and he admitted that he was not as good as Ari, but as long as he did better than the other countries, he would still be the wisest king in the history of the Barak Kingdom, and future generations would be grateful for his decision today.
Seeing that everyone was still calculating the benefits in their hearts, Tolkien sighed and said seriously: "Everyone, asking for it is certainly the fastest way to develop, but if we lose our ability to hunt, then what's the point of asking for more fruits, and when those fruits are eaten, we will only die faster...... "Baizhi" The latest chapter of the "Super God Magician Claw Book House" is free to read for the first time.