Chapter 388: Imperialism

"Well said!"

Before Fila's speech was over, a brocade-robed young man had already raised his fist and stood up, and the rest of the people also clapped their hands and applauded, and there was a great tendency to share the same hatred.

Gu Yang smelled a hint of danger, and the Dao Court had already begun to export revolution. The "Alliance" is the "Anti-Pirate Alliance", and the purpose of this negotiation seems to be to further open up the Crystal Island market.

Of course, Crystal Island wants to protect its own local industry, but the real purpose of Guyang Daoting is to use this negotiation to promote its own values. If you really want to export, the Yuanming Continent is a bigger market, and you can find "pirates" to sell on behalf of you.

Gu Yang casually picked up the "Pravda Post" on the table, and after glancing at the news of the last few issues, he confirmed his guess.

In the past three years, due to the obstruction of "land reform", the economy of Daoting has experienced overcapacity, as Ouyang Tang expected. According to the common sense that "internal problems must be solved externally", the foreign policy of the Daoting was clearly turned to the left, and within three years, all the small islands except the Crystal Island were included in the "Island Defense Alliance" system.

There is no objection to the principle of "zero tariff" and "most favored nation", because all the small islands are raw material sources, and no one expects serfs or miners to be able to afford cars and planes.

The area of Crystal Island is dozens of times that of all the outer islands combined, and if there is no Yuanming Continent on the side, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the Crystal Continent. The environment on the island is superior, and there are hundreds of low-grade immortal veins, among which there is a medium-grade immortal vein. Although it was only a high-grade immortal vein, its value exceeded the sum of all the lower-grade immortal veins on Crystal Island. According to estimates, the medium-grade immortal vein can produce 100 million immortal coins a day, and the wealth can be imagined.

It is precisely because of the vast land and resources of Crystal Island that he did not directly intervene in the expansion of Guyang Daoting, not because he was incapable, but because he was disdainful. In the beginning, people were very happy to buy high-quality and inexpensive Valan Island products. But as Valan Island products spread like a flood of beasts across the principalities, the higher-ups of Crystal Island realized that things were far from simple.

First of all, there was a large outflow of immortal coins, which led to the situation that the kingdom's finances had to borrow money from the bank for a while, and the bank actually lent them Guyang coins. Although the Yigu Yang coin was steadily exchanged for one immortal coin, and the interest was paid in savings, it was cited as a great shame by the Duke of Luoya, the Minister of Finance of the Kingdom.

The second is the sharp reduction in tax revenue, which comes from the offerings of the principalities on the one hand, and the land rent of the districts under its jurisdiction on the other, especially the rent of the shops in the Crystal City. However, under the impact of Valan Island products, the shop business is sluggish, and even the upstream industrial chain is under-operated, and the land rent cannot be collected at all, otherwise there will be chaos.

The same situation also appeared in the major principalities, but the grand dukes turned around and directly invested in the Valan Island stock market, and handed over the dividends every year, which was exactly the same. Guyang Daoting also wanted to pull Loya into the water, and after Luoya calculated, he thought it was feasible, so he reported the plan to invest in Valan Island's national bonds and stocks to Prime Minister Othello, but was scolded by Othello:

"Bastard, how do you ask me to report to Your Majesty at the end of the year, this year's income is one billion yuan, but there will be no dividends for the time being. Or this year's income of 100 million shares, and now the price per share is 10 yuan! Tariffs will be imposed, tariffs must be levied, a list of taxes must be sorted out immediately, and the kingdom's financial revenue must be restored to 1 billion cents per year!"

Luo Ya retreated in embarrassment, and the royal court then began to impose customs duties on incoming goods. But what left all the top brass speechless was that after a month, the tariff revenue did not increase significantly, and the products on the streets of Valan Island were still flooded.

The experienced Luo Ya knew what was going on, and quietly changed into the second batch of customs. Tariff revenues have not improved, and the products of Valan Island on the street have increased unabated.

Later, someone came to visit Luo Ya with gifts, counted the incompetence of the previous customs, and recommended himself to serve as the third batch of customs ......

After raising the tariff, the archipelago kingdom changed a batch of customs almost every other month, and after changing more than a dozen batches in a row, the high-level of Crystal Island finally collapsed, and Prime Minister Othello directly ordered to negotiate with the Guyang Daoting, requiring the Guyang Daoting to directly pay a tariff deposit of 200 million cents per year, so the two sides have been talking about the present......

Gu Yang flipped through the previous newspaper, and then saw the recent situation of Dragonstone Island, and the "alpaca" in his heart ran wildly......

Soon after the Daoting occupied Iron Boat Island, the Terror Island pirates withdrew, but they didn't take many people with them. The Dragonstone Daoists began to liquidate the traitors, and no one thought there was anything wrong, only Gu Xiaomeng jumped out to accuse the Dragonstone Daoists of violating human rights, and then announced an embargo on Dragonstone Island with weapons and Yuan liquid, and instead airdropped weapons to the rebels.

The Dragonstone Daomen ran out of ammunition and had to shrink their defenses. And Gu Xiaomeng didn't make a move, and as a heavenly monarch, he couldn't make a move. Seeing that the Dragonstone Daoists were defeated, Crystal Island suddenly announced its support for the Dragonstone Daoists and sent a royal fleet again.

The royal fleet brought not only rifles and bullets, but also artillery and armor. The army of the Dragonstone Dao people regrouped and quickly launched a counteroffensive, all the way to the ground, compressing the rebels all the way to Longshi Harbor. Seeing that the rebels were about to be completely wiped out, a self-propelled armored howitzer called "tank" suddenly appeared among the rebels.

This kind of weapon weighs dozens of tons, and the whole body is covered with metal plate armor, although the movement is slow, but the bullets cannot penetrate, the cannonballs cannot be blown through, and the mountains and rivers cross the water, even if the heavenly master sacrifices the immortal weapon, it cannot be destroyed. And if you accidentally catch a heavy machine gun bullet, you will either be killed or injured. If you take a shot, you will not die or be crippled.

It was dozens of these weapons, which not only blocked the attack of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Longshi Dao people, but also drove them back step by step.

For the first time, highly mechanized weapons were displayed in front of the world, and the Crystal Islands were in an uproar. Some people wanted to buy tanks, and some people strongly advocated containing Guyang Daoting, so Longshi Island was officially placed on the strategic balance of the major forces. Aid from Crystal Island continues to arrive on Dragonstone, including replica tanks from the Master Alchemists.

But problems followed, whether it was a car or a tank, it was all burned yuanli, so since the debut of the tank, the price of yuanye has been rising, and Chiyan Island is currently the only large-scale yuanye production area. This time, it is equivalent to the forces of all parties themselves burrowing their heads into the noose of Guyang Daoting.

Dragonstone Island is a nail wedged into the Forte of Guyang Daoting, and the Dragonstone Daoist cannot fall, and Crystal Island can only continue to transfuse. Otherwise, once the Guyang Daoting completes the integration of the outer islands, it will inevitably expand to the Crystal Island, so the conflict on Dragonstone Island has continued until now. And whenever the Daoting and Crystal Island negotiate, the conflict on Dragonstone Island will be extremely intense.

Gu Yang listened to the news and looked at the newspaper, his brows gradually furrowed. In the past three years, the Daoting Court seems to be in turmoil, but in fact, it is moving forward. If you don't stop expanding now, you just slow down the pace of expansion, and the poor paper profits will evaporate immediately, and the entire Crystal Islands will usher in an economic crisis.

If the economic crisis breaks out, the stock market will collapse, the banks will go bankrupt, the Guyang currency will be worthless, and the Daoting will disappear. In order to save everything, Daoting will turn into a chariot and crash into the Crystal Island at full speed, and a battle between Gu Xiaomeng and the Crystal Queen will be inevitable. Either be crowned king or doomed......

An hour passed quietly, the boarding announcement sounded, and Gu Yang strode into the VIP passage, which attracted a lot of attention.

The airliner is still a three-year-old model, but the flight attendants are already well-trained, and even the costumes have been changed to delicate and capable dark blue vests and skirts, which make people feel like they are away from home.

After the flight attendant ushered Gu Yang into the box on the third floor, she gently closed the cabin door. Gu Yang immediately inserted the identity card into the display screen, and the first thing that popped up was a payment slip of 100 million yuan, and there were more than 200 million cash in the account. It was only at this time that he truly felt what it meant to "no longer have to worry about cultivation resources."

The cultivation area of Chiyan Peak is divided into 100 layers, with the bottom layer being 1,000 yuan a day and the top layer being 100,000 yuan a day. Although it is not within the reach of the general public, ordinary monks can still go up and cultivate for a few days every month if they save up. And there are still only a very few people who can cultivate at the peak, but it's better than in the past when they had money and couldn't go up. The progress of capitalism against feudalism is only a little bit.

Gu Yang opened the financial statements of "Guyang Capital" and gradually frowned.

In the past three years, "Guyang Capital" has invested in listed companies, with a total market value of 10 billion yuan, which is one of the three giants in the stock market today, but the dividends are getting less and less year by year, and last year's dividends were less than 100 million yuan.

There has also been a significant change in the equity controlled by the company......

Guyang Real Estate, Guyang Bank and a number of real estate companies on Valan Island merged to form "Valan Development Company". In short, it is a real estate hegemony company. This company is responsible for the management of all the land on Valan Island, including the Genki Vein. Among them, the old aristocracy of Valan Island holds half of the shares, and the new capital accounts for the other half.

The company's basic market is the real estate of the Valan Island Grand Array and the Great Array Center, and since then, the vitality of the whole island has begun to converge to the Great Array Center. The old aristocracy no longer directly owned land, but only enjoyed equity dividends.

This restructuring and the subsequent relocation of the manufacturing industry were both aimed at promoting land reform. "Guyang Capital" did not take any advantage, but gave up a lot of profits. The more refined and rich the vitality of Kovalan City, the more expensive the land price is, and the distribution of food to the people is an obstacle from top to bottom.

However, "dividing the field into households" is related to Gu Xiaomeng's luck, and she has always implemented it herself, and no one can stop it, so there is one word up and down - drag.

How to build a social system that satisfies all has always been the ultimate problem of political science. Gu Yang didn't have a better way, shook his head, and opened the company's management interface, anyway, the annual income of 100 million yuan is completely enough, and there is no need for more.