It had only been sunny for a few days, and the sky was drizzling again.

Charles heard from the retired veteran cadres in the square opposite the palace who bragged together every day that there was more rain this spring than in the same period of the previous year.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Victoria, who was drinking afternoon tea in the tea room, pushed a small basket of finger biscuits in front of Charles.

"You've made a lot of money these days, haven't you?" asked Victoria Charles.

"So-so, just make money running errands. Charles ate a finger biscuit, "That Rigoletto has too little money to prepare, and he won't be able to purchase much this time." ”

Victoria picked up the teacup and took a sip of herbal tea, then said, "Since that's the case, then you still run so diligently with him?"

Charles thought for a moment and said, "Because I see a huge hidden danger in our economy. ”

"Oh?" Victoria put down her teacup and looked at Charles with interest, "What's your idea?"

Charles, who had been prepared, took out a book from the storage ring that he had bought from the Rurik Kingdom, and read it after going to the place marked by the bookmark, "Supply and demand are ...... Let's ......."

With one hand propped up on the table and a smile on her face, Victoria reminisced back to the time when Philip explained "otherworldly economics" to her and Catherina.

After finishing the book, Charles closed the book, and then said to Victoria, who was looking out the window, "In the past few days, I have found that we, as a supply side, have problems such as aging product structure, lack of innovation, and disconnection from the demand side. ”

At this point, Victoria poured Charles a cup of tea, "Go on." ”

Over the years, Victoria has always been "grasping the heavy and letting go of the light", while paying close attention to the development of the world's heavy industries such as railway transportation and iron and steel metallurgy, it has adopted the management method of opening up the market and developing freely for the traditional light industry.

Now Charles told her that there were problems with traditional light industry, which aroused her interest in hearing what Charles had to say.

Charles said: "In the past few days, I have been running a lot of workshops with that Rigoletto and looking at a lot of products. ”

"Rigoletto was the caretaker of the royal treasury of the kingdom of Rebach a long time ago, and he was familiar with the elven treasures in the treasury that were hundreds of thousands of years old. ”

He found that the products in the workshop today have not changed much from those of hundreds of years ago, and that progress is only a small step. ”

"This situation was fine in the past when we exported goods to the north at high prices and in small quantities, and our goods were in short supply in the north, and many times money could not buy them. ”

"But since last year, we have increased the flow of people and the export of goods, and the situation will not change in the first two or three years, but as the goods continue to be exported, the market for non-consumable goods will gradually become saturated, and if the goods do not have new selling points, the sales volume will drop sharply. ”

"And what is produced in our workshop is only what the workshop owner wants to produce, and they don't even think about what the demand side wants to buy. This situation works well in a seller's market, but it will inevitably fall into trouble when you enter a buyer's market. ”

Charles drank three cups of tea in a row before he finished finishing the problems he had discovered in the past few days.

After listening to what Charles had to say, Victoria rested one hand on the table, her slender fingers tapping rhythmically on the table.

After a long time, she said to herself, "So, we need to carry out a supply-side reform?"

Charles didn't answer, and he didn't say anything about how to solve the big things of the country.

Victoria will not make decisions on national affairs because of Charles's words, she will ask the relevant departments to investigate the issue, and then convene a meeting of the relevant departments to discuss it, and finally make a decision on it.

"Do you have any comments or suggestions?" asked Victoria Charles.

Charles replied, "I want a piece of land on the side of the road from the station east of Greentown to the city, about a square about four hundred meters wide, and I plan to build a building there." ”

"You're going to make Auntie's rebellion?!" Victoria said with a black line, "It's enough to build a castle in such a big place." ”

"I'm not, I don't, don't think about it. Charles hurriedly waved his hand in denial.

Then he took out a large oil painting from the storage ring and placed it on the wall of the tea room, which he had painted with Horatio's sister Nana these days.

This is a rendering of the complex, which is not detailed, but it can also be seen as a general appearance.

The street is a two-storey shopping mall with a length of more than 200 meters and a width of nearly 100 meters, and the roof is an open-air garden. Behind the mall is the restaurant street, and behind it are buildings of about five or six floors, which are reserved for hotels.

"Huh?" Victoria looked at the architectural renderings and asked, "How many years do you plan to build this 'Peace Mall', and do you have that much money?"

"Money is not a problem, the elven royal court can use land as a shareholder, my family's savings can be used seventy percent, and the rest can be used to attract funds to participate in human society. If reinforced concrete is used, the cost and construction period will be reduced a lot. Charles lightly omitted the question of money and construction time, "I found that Greentown lacks a large comprehensive wholesale shopping mall, and foreign merchants need to ask and run from one workshop to another when purchasing, and Rigoletto and I have been running enough these days." It is also a waste of time for the workshops to wait for customers to come to the door. ”

"If we put all the manufacturers in this mall by product type, then buyers from the north will definitely be happy to buy here. ”

"And the gathering of manufacturers will inevitably lead to competition between them, and the frequent contact between buyers and manufacturers will form the flow of information between the two sides, so that the market will force manufacturers to reform themselves. ”

He believes that Victoria has already paid attention to the supply-side problem mentioned earlier, and if reform is to be made, the comprehensive wholesale market he proposed is a breakthrough to promote reform by economic means, which will complement each other with administrative means.

Charles, who was talking eloquently, suddenly noticed that Victoria was staring at him, which made his neck subconsciously shrink.

Victoria reached out and rubbed Charles's hair, with an expression on her face that Charles couldn't see.

"I can't be exposed, right?" Charles was shocked, "Aunt Victoria has seen a lot of ...... of the time-traveler"

The more he thought about it, the more worried Charles became, with an expression of "I'm cute and smart at the same time", and said at the same time, "Auntie, that piece of land will be granted to me, okay?"

As a result, the expression on Victoria's face became more and more funny, and the hand rubbing Charles's head became more and more forceful.