Nagalil was poor.

Before identifying this question, there is another question, how poor can you be called very poor?

In Nagalil, at least twenty to thirty percent of the people, from their birth to their death, they never owned a single bill of their own.

It is difficult for people to count how much income ordinary people earn in a year, because most of their income is bartered, and these things are also necessities of life, which are quickly consumed in their daily lives.

So much so that at the end of the year, their home may just have some more food, two or three more clothes, or a solid patch on the leaky roof, and that's it, that's all.

In addition to the fact that they do not have relatively absolute power in their hands, they have actually become part of the ruling class of Nagalil, and some of them are even more powerful than the lower rulers.

For example, the largest trading house in Nagalil, the "Preton Comptoir", the owner behind it, Mr. Preton, had a very personal relationship with most of the governors.

However, the ruling class lived a life comparable to that of the upper class of some developed countries, a life of drunkenness, and it was evident from the gold-trimmed table in front of the provincial governor that he was rich.

It wasn't just him who was rich, but so were the merchants who served the ruling class.

But people can't do without him, for the simple reason that there are many things that only Mr. Preton has access to, and he also has a relative power at sea.

Even a hundred years from now, piracy will not be a profession, let alone now.

Every year the ruler here brought in all kinds of goods and industrial equipment from abroad through Mr. Preton's way, and the more people relied on him, the more influence he could turn into short-lived power.

People can't live without him, and at the same time hate him, he sucks blood like a vampire, for example, a luxury car that only costs about 100,000 federal soles in the producing country, and he just pulls it to Nagalil by boat, and the ruling class has to pay at least 300,000 to 400,000 federal soles for it.

Even if the ruler of Nagalil himself contacted the doorway, there is a good chance that he will be robbed and sunk in the sea.

Dispatch troops to escort you?

There are many sorts of pirate groups that roam the vast expanse of the sea, some of which are said to have some relationship with Mr. Preton, and apart from Mr. Preton's merchant ships and those of some other merchants, it is difficult for ordinary merchants' merchant ships to enter Nagalil.

This also makes it impossible for people to avoid these merchants if they want to import things from abroad, especially things that are hugely profitable.

At that time, after the exploration team discovered an oil field hidden deep in the jungle, the first idea was to develop it across borders, and the leader of the exploration team did not consider letting the local indigenous people develop it, but chose to contact the country and find a way to win the right to exploit the oil field through political influence, whether it was coercion or inducement.

The matter leaked out before it could be formed, and after urgent consultations between the central Government and the governors of the provinces of the United Kingdom of Nagalil, a man-made accident was caused by an unexpected attack by a beast of prey, and the beast was eventually killed.

It's a good idea, not to discuss whether the foreign ports and seas allow the Nagalil warships to dock closely, or whether the cost of dispatching the warships is higher than the merchants' offers, and whether they are the opponents of the pirates, the energy consumption alone is enough to give them a headache for a while.

Nagalil does have a lot of mineral resources, but these resources are not developed, including one oil mine that they have actually discovered, and it is not developed.

Everyone doesn't mine, so there will be no problem, and foreign countries have always been very confident that there may be rich mineral resources here, but no one will take it seriously until something is really explored.

The central government of Nagalil is not cooperative, and the capitalists will not incite their country to war with Nagalil because of some uncertain things, and they will fight a theocratic state.

To prove this, Nagalil officials also sent a search and rescue team, and successfully captured the predators that attacked them, dissecting some stumps from their bodies that could prove their identity.

From this time on, Nagalil refused to allow scientific exploration teams to enter Nagalil for mineral exploration, they were unable to protect their underground mineral deposits, and even because these mineral resources caused the ruling class to lose their dominance, they simply did not give others a chance.

The desperate suicide attacks of the people are enough to frustrate everyone unless they can kill all the believers.

No one would do that to drag a country into the water for a long war of offensive and defensive occupation for the sake of some uncertain resource.

One of the characteristics of the theocratic state is that when people chant the names of the gods, the timid and cowardly natives in front of the artillery will instantly become extremely brave and fearless of death.

Mineral exploitation is something that needs to go deep into the jungle and occupy areas, which means that if they do that, even if they conquer some areas, the situation will eventually be eroded.

Well, that's, and it's better to directly meet their claims for benefits than such a complicated process, which also saves some trouble.

The ruling class hated these merchants and couldn't live without them, which was why the second son of the governor of Degra wanted Lynch to fight with them.

The lack of its own oil fields means that Nagalil is dependent on imports for its military equipment.

So even if Nagalil's less powerful warships were to be dispatched, they would first have to buy some oil from Mr. Preton, and then use it to reduce their dependence on Mr. Preton......

From the point of view of the second son of the governor, this is the best choice, no matter how they choose, they are the winners.

The provincial governor, sitting behind his desk with his eyes closed, thought quickly, he hesitated, his reason telling him that it was not a good choice.

If Lynch wins and Mr. Preton loses, then some of the existing rules will disappear with Mr. Preton's disappearance, and Lynch will grow from a merchant in a province to a large national merchant, which will be another few years or more years, and for the local rulers they will earn.

If Lynch loses, there is no loss for the rulers, Lynch's local assets can be directly "confiscated", and Mr. Pretton's side will also lose something in the fight against Lynch, and his attitude will be quite softened.

Eventually, these wolves will come together into a group, a much larger and creepier group, as will the merchants.

From the very beginning when they fought on their own, fighting each other for trade rights and even at sea, to now they have eliminated those unstable factors and have begun to cooperate closely, and they are no different from wolves.

Over the years he had seen through the nature of those merchants, who were no different from the spotted wolves of the steppe, greedy, insidious, cunning, brutal, cold-blooded, and they were not interested in anything but profit.

Every few years, the wolves will have an internal struggle, and the younger wolves will challenge the wolf king when they grow up, and after the wolf king fails, a new wolf king will appear, and the number and territory of the wolf pack will continue to expand accordingly, until they encounter another group of spotted wolves.

The Provincial Governor shook his head and looked up at the third child, "What about you?"

The smile on the second child's face suddenly froze, but the boss, who was not very good-looking, had some smiles, and he even comforted his younger brother, and in an instant, he changed his face and became a good big brother.

It's not a good idea to throw Lynch into this wolf pack, because he's not an ordinary wolf, and there's a good chance he'll cause a cascade of unforeseen questions, like this one to get him to take a stand.

No one knew before that he would eventually throw the problem back and become a nuisance for those of them who made it.

"He wants to monopolize it, and he can, but our conditions cannot be limited to how much money he has in the bank, but how much he gives us in return. ”

"Father, with money, everything can be done, and once we reach a cooperation with Lynch, Mr. Preton and others will treat Lynch as an enemy, because Lynch is with us, they can't be together!"

The third brother is younger than the first two, he also went to school abroad, and he knows far more about developed countries than his two older brothers.

He calmly asked the governor a question, "Why don't we choose to cooperate with Lynch?", and then he began to elaborate on his thoughts, "The ultimate goal of these businessmen and capitalists is nothing more than to get more money, and we can give him benefits, but he also has to provide corresponding returns. ”

The provincial governor looked at the remaining two sons again, these two sons have nothing to say, what should be said and what should not be said let the three people in front of them say, it is okay if they don't say it at this time, the more they say, the more wrong they are, which can only make the governor feel that they are very incompetent.

The governor of the province is actually very aware of the choice of these two sons, he did not criticize, sometimes born in such a family, the order of birth is really very important.

The Provincial Governor looked at the third child who was usually inconspicuous with some surprise, his words may not be completely in line with the thoughts of the Provincial Governor, but it can be said that it is very close.

He bowed slightly, which made the eldest and second look at the third child with unkind eyes, but the third child smiled shyly, as if he was currying favor with the two elder brothers.

After a long pause, he sighed, "You caused the matter, then it should be up to you to end it, I don't want to know how you did it, I just need to see the result!"

In the end, he decided to give the choice of what to do to these sons.

It was precisely because of this attempt to let them deal with these things that he unexpectedly found that the third brother had more brains than his two brothers, so he simply let them toss, maybe there would be unexpected surprises.

As for the case of a breakdown, he can calmly stand up and clean up the mess.