Chapter 523 Economic Measures

"A few days ago, when I was conducting a survey of the 24 neighborhoods in the outer city, I went to look at the financial records related to the total tax and public expenditure of the city of Morent over the past three years, and then I found an unbelievable fact. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info That is, the total amount of coinage made by the business alliance in the past three years is only 7.6 million goldfords......"

Shi Fatzi took out a sky-blue folder from a large stack of folders on the table and opened it: "The evidence is here, it's hard to believe." When we were a student in the city of Moriente, the total amount of coinage in the Business League was more than 30 million goldfords a year, and even reached 68 million at its peak. But in the past three years, the total amount of coinage has been less than a fraction of the peak.

Why is this so, the fact is very simple, although the current business alliance is in charge of various chambers of commerce, but after the implementation of the lord system, they still inevitably follow the old path of territorial nobility. At that time, the commercial alliance was based on commerce, and the influence was expanded through commercial transactions, and as the standard currency, Kingford became the most popular currency in the Gaylinthia continent because of its exquisite and uniform standard weight, and even eliminated the old man's head gold coins minted by the former Cresson Empire in the north.

However, after the commercial alliance adopted a policy of expansion by war, most of the trade routes and commercial transactions in the south-central and southern parts of the continent were cut off, which forced the commercial alliance to obtain profits only by plundering and occupying the territory of other countries, which was the traditional war custom of the kingdom aristocracy. At the same time, because of the existence of the Chamber of Commerce's territory, the wealth plundered by the armed legions of each Chamber of Commerce is more transported to their respective Chamber of Commerce territories for reserves, rather than handed over to the business alliance for economic development and various production.

Our family forces were lucky enough to capture four million Kingfords in the Inner City, which was used by the Business Alliance to maintain the Armada and to acquire some critical armaments, as well as to raise morale. After arraignment of several prisoners in the inner city, we discovered a very ridiculous thing.

It is said that when the high-level chambers of commerce and nobles in the inner city were about to surrender the city, because our family promised not to infringe on the private property rights of the captives and allowed the captives to take away more than 30 catties of personal belongings, several high-level chambers of commerce hoped that the captives in the inner city would give up their personal belongings and turn the more than 4 million gold fords into pieces and let those prisoners take the gold coins out and return them after they escaped. However, this suggestion was rejected by all the captives, who would rather bring more of their own belongings than keep the wealth for the Business Alliance.

From here, it can be seen that the city of Moriente is actually very rich, but most of this money is private property. Not only the more than 100,000 captives who surrendered in the inner city, but also the more than 1.3 million urban residents in the twenty-four communities in the outer city, nearly 300,000 households, I am sure that each family has no less than forty or fifty golden. For example, the community organization of Lord El's brother, Ledos, has earned nearly 100,000 gold fords in the past three years by smuggling some high-priced meat to residents in the outer city......

The main reason why the business alliance implemented the distribution system of food and living materials in the city of Morente was mainly due to the interruption of foreign commercial trade, and the shrinking of commercial activities in the city of Morente, coupled with the monopoly of the profits of all industries by various chambers of commerce, which caused the city of Morente to become a big quagmire. The millions of poor city dwellers of the city of Moriente, who claim independence, freedom and equality, have become slaves to the control of various chambers of commerce. ”

After laughing at the residents of Moldonte City, Shi Fatzi Zhengse said: "Revitalizing the commercial economy of Moldant City is actually very simple, we only need a little capital and some goods to redirect the city's market economy environment to be revitalized, and we don't need the family to invest a lot of money for this." The four million Kingfords we have seized and the goods and goods produced in the family domains that have been piled up on the island of Hirois will restore the splendor of the city of Moriente to the first commercial city on the mainland......"

Lorist slammed his fist on the table and stood up, stopping the noisy chatter in the conference room from Fat Steward's words: "Plunder is the easiest way to gain the riches of war, but with the harvest of wealth will be hatred and criticism. Our Norton family once destroyed the kingdom of Haneyabada, beheaded 170,000 citizens of this slave kingdom and piled them into a pyramid of human heads, and plundered the wealth accumulated by this evil country for nearly a hundred years, but this is the crime of this slave kingdom, and it is the revenge of countless slaves who have died unjustly over the past hundred years through the hands of our Norton family, and we have a clear conscience.

But just now someone heard Baron Schreder say that the wealth of the city of Moriente is in the hands of more than a million city residents, and he shouted the slogan of robbing them all. Tiger Ross, you seem to be excited, don't you? Isn't it you the one who screamed the loudest? And Director Speer, you don't seem to object to this proposal, do you want me to send you a sword and let you personally rob the millions of residents of Moriente?Gentlemen, I want you to keep this in mind, our Norton family is not a robber, but a noble family that has been inherited for more than three hundred years, understand?

I'm sorry that Baron Schrader has given the best way to get his fortune from the millions of people living in the city of Moriente, and I am really disappointed that you have chosen the most untechnical, hateful, and simple and crude method. Tiger Ross, and the ones who shouted the loudest just now, I won't name them, and after I go back this time, I ask you to memorize the aristocratic etiquette and be able to write it silently, Genolio, you are in charge of checking this matter, and tell me the results, if anyone can't do it, I don't mind supervising it myself. ”

After Lorist fired a fire, the conference room suddenly fell silent, not even gasping for air. If you think about it carefully, it is no wonder that Lorist is angry, but the city of Moriente has more than 1.3 million city residents, not a small city with a population of only two or three hundred thousand, but a commercial metropolis famous in the continent of Gaylintia, and robbing the city by force, even if it succeeds, will make the reputation of the Norton family plummet, and become the bandit family referred to by Qianfu.

What's more, Lorist also personally stated that the Norton family came to stop the war, to reach a peace agreement between the business alliance and the Kingdom of Antinac, promising not to infringe on the private property rights of all people and captives, and dressed themselves up as a nobleman and sword master with great character and moral selflessness. Now, as soon as he hears that the inhabitants of Molent City have private money, he turns around and robs them as robbers, which makes the old faces of the Lorist and Norton families go away......

"Money has value only when it circulates in the market, and it becomes living money, like a small snowball, which will grow bigger and bigger, buried deep in the ground or stored, but it is just a pile of dead things. Forget it, talking to you brainless guys about this is like playing the harp to a cow. Lorist smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Baron Schreed's plan has already been discussed with me, but because considering whether the business alliance will immediately reply to our proposal for peace talks, we can't rush it at this time to avoid provoking the business alliance and affecting the peace negotiations between us."

But waiting for a response from the Business Alliance doesn't mean we can do nothing. I have decided to take the following measures with regard to the current city of Morente in order to address the livelihood of more than one million city dwellers.

First, the surplus medium-sized and fast armed warships captured by the North Sea Fleet were sorted out and handed over to the shipbuilding workshops around the Zangjin Bay, and skilled workers were recruited to convert these warships into fishing boats for public sale, and the residents of Morent City were encouraged to buy fishing boats to form their own fishing fleets to go to sea, and at the same time, fishing licenses were issued to allow these fishing boats to operate in sunny waters and obtain the protection of the North Sea Fleet.

If there are no residents of the city of Morente who are willing to buy fishing boats, then we will recruit crew members to organize a fishing fleet to go to sea, and I believe that after an experience, some residents will be willing to take the risk of buying fishing boats. In addition, the coarse linen raw materials from all the confiscated warehouses could be used to set up a fishing net weaving workshop, which was also a good solution to the livelihood problems of some of the residents of the city of Morente.

Second, from among the prisoners of the soldiers of the surrendered city of Morente, the elite men were recruited to form two city defense corps, and let them take charge of patrolling and law and order in the twenty-four districts of the outer city. The formation and training of the two city defense corps were the responsibility of Bodfinger and Elder. Their equipment was chosen from the equipment of the surrendered Firebird Legion in the Kingdom of Chigda. If the results of these two city defense corps are satisfactory, we will continue to form a few corps to replace our family's armed garrison of the six fortified cities on the Falcan Hill Plain.

Thirdly, we will restore the cultivation of the fields around the fortress cities of Thomas and Gypsys, build farmsteads, recruit hired workers willing to go to the city of Morente, sell all the farms to the residents of the city of Morente after the construction of the farmstead area is completed, and form a farm association to sell agricultural products to the outside world after the harvest of the farms to protect the interests of the farm owners.

All of the above draftees were paid in half cash and half in food, on top of the four million Kingford captured by our family's armed forces and the proceeds of the spending of more than 100,000 prisoners in the prisoner of war camp in the inner city. The money we are now investing in these projects is not free, but will be recouped by taxation after the market economy of the city of Moriente is active.

In addition to this, I have ordered the North Sea Fleet to deliver all the merchandise and cargo that has been piled up on the island of Hiloise to the city of Morent. Last time, the more than 300 private transport ships in the southern part of the continent, after transporting all the grain to the island of Shilowas, purchased a large amount of goods produced in our family domain on the island and returned to the island. At the same time, they complained that the island of Hilovas was too far away and that the winds and waves in the northern seas were too strong, and that it was an adventure for their transport ships to sail in the northern seas......

Therefore, I decided that the island of Hilowas would be used as a transit point, and all the goods and goods produced in the family domain would be transferred to the city of Morent for sale. In the past, we were subject to the trade monopoly of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce and the Chicked Chamber of Commerce, and we were unable to open the sea passage to the south of the continent. After defeating the Invincible Armada this time, the golden coastline of the Sunshine Sea will become a smooth path for our family fleet. We also took this opportunity to market the production of our family domain to the south of the continent.

Using the city of Moriente as a trade center for commodities can restore the city's foreign commodity trade and activate the market economy on the one hand, and on the other hand, it will also facilitate the purchase of goods from those private maritime merchants in the south of the mainland, breaking the trade control and commercial monopoly of the big chambers of commerce in the southern part of the continent, and at the same time, the North Sea Fleet should also patrol the southern seas from time to time to avoid the ships of those private maritime merchants who trade with us from being attacked by the Chikde Chamber of Commerce and pirates.

Finally, I have entrusted Baron Schreid to consult on my behalf with the community organizations of the city of Morente, as well as the temple district and the academy district, to assist them in the establishment of the Autonomous Council of the city of Morente, making this council the supreme authority of the plains of Falde Hill and the city of Moldon, and will be responsible for the administration of the city of Morent and the plains of Fallihills in the future. Even if we can soon reach an armistice with the Business Alliance and restore peace, I'm not opposed to adding a bit of chaos to the Business Alliance......"

Seven days later, Lorlist, disguised in the company of Reddy and Genolio, secretly and privately patrols the bustling business district. The commercial district, which was originally occupied by the major chambers of commerce of the business alliance, has been cleaned up and rebuilt by the Norton family's armed forces, and has become the liveliest area of the city of Moriente. Lorist ordered the sale of grain and various goods and goods from the family's estates, and soon brought the trade district back to life.

In the case of flour, which is sold at three times the price of the Northland, the inhabitants of the city of Morente consider it to be cheap and cheap, so that during the sale period, it is overcrowded every day, and the residents of the city of Molente are willing to pay more money to buy it for storage. It was only when more and more flour was shipped in and it was confirmed that there was no longer a shortage of food that the residents of the city of Morent stopped panicking. Lorist estimated that this was all the result of the food shortage in the Plains of Mana Hill in the previous years.

But the investigation report submitted by Tagger made Lorist laugh, and dared to make a big fuss about him. The reason why the residents of Morent City rushed to buy a large amount of flour was not because of the lack of food, but because the price of the flour sold by the Norton family this time was too low, the price of a bag of flour was about half lower than the price of flour sold by the Fude Chamber of Commerce before, and the quality was better and the taste was better, no wonder the residents who knew the goods bought many bags one after another.

When the business alliance was in a food shortage, the Peterson Chamber of Commerce once bought a batch of grain from the Norton family at a price fifty percent higher than the market price, of course, that price was only the market price of the Andinac Kingdom. But after being transported back to the city of Morente, it was sold at ten times the price, making a lot of money and being praised by the residents of the city of Morente as benevolent, you can imagine how big the price difference between the two places is. It's just that at that time, these trade routes were in the hands of various chambers of commerce, and others couldn't do anything even if they saw such business opportunities.

With the grain trade as a foundation, and the Norton family's payment of real money to hired labor, and never defaulting, the business atmosphere in Moriente City finally began to heat up. However, most of the main customers of the transaction are the housewives of the residents of the city of Morente, and most of the goods they buy are daily necessities and daily necessities. However, Lorist believes that when those private maritime merchants from the south of the mainland sail to the city of Moriente again to make a big purchase of goods, the commercial market of Moriente City will really be on the right track.

A guard secretly came to Genorio's side and whispered a few words, Genorio nodded and approached Lorist, and said softly: "Your Highness, Viscount Penelope has returned, and only one of the people who have gone has returned, and none of the nobles who traveled with him have returned." But he brought back an envoy from the Business Alliance, who seems to know you, supposedly as a vice president of the Peterson Chamber of Commerce. Now they have arrived in the inner city. ”

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