Chapter 519: The Great Pit

Jenorio placed the stack of papers he was holding on the table, "Your Highness, you can take a look at these account books, which are the accounts of the maintenance funds that the Business Alliance has spent in the city of Morent for three years. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info If we look at the results alone, the total loss of all the chambers of commerce in the business alliance during these three years has been as high as nearly 10 million gold fords, but the various chambers of commerce of the business alliance have made up for this loss through the rationing of food and living goods and the labor force of the millions of inhabitants of the city of Morent, and the real profit deficit has been reduced to about 1 million gold fords.

From these ledgers, we can draw an interesting conclusion: the business unions have constructed a self-sufficient economic system in the city of Morente, they do not need to communicate and trade with foreign countries, and the millions of inhabitants of the city of Morent are both consumers and producers. The chambers of commerce of the business alliance provide them with the most basic subsistence support, and they obtain orders for the distribution of food and subsistence items from the chambers through various labour services. They don't need Kingford to trade in the process.

We found several letters from the vice president of a chamber of commerce and his friend in the inner city, in which the vice president of the chamber of commerce argued with his friend whether it was worth feeding a city of millions of people who were not engaged in agricultural production. This is an interesting idea, as the vice president's friend thinks that the city of Morente should be reduced in size and at least half of the millions of inhabitants should be sent to the various chambers of commerce and the territories of the nobility, so as to reduce the burden on the city of Morente.

The Vice-President, on the other hand, had the opposite view of his friends, believing that the quality of the millions of inhabitants of the city of Moriente was far superior to that of the inhabitants of the chambers and nobles, and that the development of the business alliance to the point it had reached was inextricably linked to the countless talents that the city of Moriente had to offer. At the same time, the vice president also gave an example, his chamber of commerce also moved the production workshop back to the territory of the chamber of commerce, but then found that the goods produced on the territory of the chamber of commerce were far inferior in quality and production efficiency to those produced in the city of Morente.

According to documents we found in some of the high-rise residences of the Chamber of Commerce in the inner city, there is in fact a debate within the business alliance about the future of the city of Morente. Although the city of Moriente is not as good as it used to be, it has lost its status as the central commercial city of the Guelintia continent, and the millions of free residents of the city of Moriente have also become a burden to the business alliance. Even though there is now a delicate balance between the production and expenditure of the millions of residents, in the eyes of some of the unforeseen chamber executives, they see the millions of residents of the city of Moriente as a burden rather than a wealth.

We found a proposal in the archives of the Coalition Council, which seems to be a joint proposal of more than a dozen chambers of commerce, requiring the forced dismissal of half of the residents of the city of Moriente, the diversion of about 500,000 people to the territories of various chambers of commerce, and then the re-planning and design of more than a dozen communities in the vacant outer city for large-scale real estate development, so that the city of Moriente will truly become the capital of the commercial alliance and a noble city of the noble business alliance......

However, this proposal was rejected by the Big Seven of the Business Alliance, and the president of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, Archduke Comberlet, made a special speech at the Coalition Council, which is a record of his speech at the meeting. President Cumberlet said that the difficulties were temporary, and that the victory over the Kingdom of Antinac would lead to a long-term peace for the Business Alliance, and that all the difficulties of the Business Alliance would be solved, and that all the investments in the City of Moriente would be handsomely rewarded.

Giving now means reaping the rewards of the future, and Archduke Cumberlet said that when the war is over and peace comes, the city of Moriente will return to its former glory. And a great city needs not only noble nobles, but also a large number of people who serve it. Therefore, although the millions of residents of the city of Moriente are a burden to everyone now, they will become a source of wealth for everyone in the future, and as long as they persist in surviving this difficult time, a bright future is not far ahead.

At the same time, the Grand Duke of Comberlet also announced that after the victory over the Kingdom of Antinac and the advent of peace, the business alliance will redesign and expand the city of Morente, and the twenty-four communities of the current outer city will be relocated and relocated in the new planned place, and the original address will be connected with the inner city to build a beautiful aristocratic new district, which will also build a series of entertainment venues such as the Grand Song and Dance Theater, the Equestrian Arena, and the Sword Fighting Hall. And this rebuilding plan will allow all the chambers of commerce in the business alliance to come together and unswervingly support the coalition's resolutions in this war......"

While listening to Genolio's report, Lorist tapped the table with the index finger of his right hand lightly, and had to sigh in his heart that the Cumberlet President of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce was worthy of being the hero who had been in charge of the decision-making power of the business alliance for many years, and he had a much more long-term vision than those merchants who only had gold coins in their eyes. The fall of the city of Moriente to this point is not the fault of the millions of residents of the city, but the national policy of the business alliance has gone wrong.

If the merchant alliance does not implement the lord system, then the city of Moriente will still be the first commercial city in the continent of Guelintea. It's just that those merchants don't want to be looked down upon after dealing with the nobility too much, so they have to implement the lord system to squeeze into the circle of the nobility. Perhaps this is also related to the traditional custom of dividing land and sealing lords practiced in the Gelinthia continent for thousands of years, after all, no matter how much money a merchant has, his status is not as high as that of a territorial noble, how can a merchant in a commercial alliance such as the sky endure the feeling of inferiority......

It's just that the decision-makers of the business alliance forget that people are selfish, and businessmen are egoists. The former glory of the city of Morente was built on the foundation of a fiery commercial trade. With the implementation of the lord system, each chamber of commerce has its own chamber of commerce territory, so it is natural to move the production workshop to its own territory to reduce production costs. Not to mention, the relocation of a material warehouse to the territory of the Chamber of Commerce alone has reduced the city of Moriente to a tax revenue. Under such circumstances, how could the city of Moriente not be depressed?

Without economy and trade, the millions of inhabitants of the city of Moriente had to be reduced to slaves and experiments in various chambers of commerce. Don't look at the people who talk about freedom and equality, but in fact they don't control their own destiny, because they even have the right to distribute the most basic coarse grains and the ration of living materials in the hands of the various chambers of commerce, poor millions of residents of the city of Morent......

Fortunately, the top of the ruling leadership of the Business Alliance is wise, knowing that after the war is over, as long as the Business Alliance reaches peace with various countries and forces around it and opens trade routes, then the city of Moriente can regain its dazzling brilliance. So now the various chambers of commerce of the business alliance are still willing to feed the millions of residents of the city of Moriente at a loss, which can be regarded as a long-term investment, and these chambers of commerce are betting on the future of the city of Moriente.

"Is that all that? Genolio, you've done a good job this time, and you've gathered a lot of information about the city of Moriente. Lorist praised with satisfaction.

Jenorio smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, here's a very bad news......

"What's the bad news? Tell me, the situation is not much worse. Lorist said disapprovingly.

"Your Highness, because our Norton family has occupied the city of Morente, the fragile economic circle formed by the business alliance in the city of Morent has been broken by us. Now we in the Norton family have to feed more than 1.5 million idle residents of Moldon......"

"What do you say?" Lorist felt as if he was listening to the Arabian Nights, is this possible?I am the victor, the conqueror of this great city, and we of the Norton family have taken over this city, shouldn't we have collected all the riches and made all the city's inhabitants prostrate at my feet and expect me to be merciful and let them go, and then I triumphantly returned to my family territory with treasures and beautiful women?

As if knowing what Lorist was thinking, Genorio spread his hands innocently: "What I said is true, Your Highness." Unless you give another order to kill the city's millions of inhabitants, you can pack up and pat your ass back to the Northlands. It's just that then our Norton family will become the target of reprimands and scolding from the world, and as for the family reputation, uh, did our Norton family still have a family reputation at that time?

Well, of course I'm just making an analogy, and I know that it is impossible for His Highness to give such an order. It's just that after our family occupied the city of Morente by armed forces, not only the Cristo Hills, which originally provided coarse grains such as potatoes and oats for the city of Morente, have been cut off from food supply, but the livelihood of millions of residents of Morent City has also been lost. So, Your Highness, now the 1.5 million people of this city of Molente need our family to feed them......"

It seems like I dug a hole to get the business alliance in, and I ended up filling myself in...... Lorist stood up extremely depressed, and first gave Genolio's brain twice: "It's not a small amount of courage, dare to talk to the teacher like this!"

Then Lorist walked around the room again, and just now he seemed to have a flash of inspiration, and he thought of something, by the way, it was Genorio the boy who talked about food, and then he had to feed the millions of inhabitants of the city of Morente...... No, we have captured as much food as the convoy of transports, enough to feed the millions of residents of Morente City for two or three months, and we can bring more food from the family territory......

Lorist suddenly realized that food, the key is food, how could he forget it. The family's North Sea Fleet defeated the Invincible Armada, and the convoy fell into their own hands. Without this grain for the Business Alliance, even if the city of Morent is recovered, it will not be able to take out so much grain to feed the inhabitants of the city of Morente.

And the coarse potatoes that can be provided in the Cristo Hills also need two or three months to grow. Now the peasants in the Cristo Hills have not cut off the supply of coarse grains to the city of Morente, but they now have all the rest of their rations, and the potatoes in the fields have just been planted, and it will be more than two months before they will be harvested.

Therefore, this batch of grain of the transport fleet is very important to the business alliance, with this batch of grain, they can survive these two or three months, and then the Cristo Hills will reach the potato harvest period, and in a few months, those provinces in the south of the continent will also reach the grain harvest period, then the business alliance will be able to get through this difficult period of lack of food.

Now that the Norton family has stepped in and captured the city of Moriente, it is obvious that the food of the transport fleet cannot fall into the hands of the business alliance, even if the city of Moriente can be recovered, as long as the Norton family takes the food or burns it with a fire, then there is only tragedy waiting for the business alliance. It was because of this that the top leaders of the Business Alliance simply abandoned the city of Morente and withdrew directly to Mawifulin Province with the remaining elite troops.

Sure enough, businessmen have no sense of honor. Even though the city of Moriente is the capital of the commercial alliance, those merchants still give up when they say they will give up, and they have no nostalgia. If the nobles of other territories and the family domains or kingdoms of the kingdom are occupied, it is guaranteed that those nobles will jump and jump, and they will have to lead people to find the dead and alive to recover the lost land first.

No, the business alliance is not that simple, they should know that food alone will not be difficult for the Norton family. The problem is that the more than one million idle residents of Moldant City, they have no livelihood, even if the Norton family distributes food to them for free, but so many people who have nothing to do will still become the biggest hidden danger in Moldant City.

"Genorio, what did the millions of residents rely on before we occupied the city of Moriente to get the food and supplies of those chambers of commerce?" asked Lorlist.

Genorio replied, "Your Highness, Lord Tagger has already sent someone to investigate this situation in detail, and the documents are in the folder he is holding. ”

"Targer, you say. ”

"Yes, Your Highness. Tagar opened the folder in his hand and began to report: "Before this war, there were nearly 800,000 inhabitants of the city of Morente, and it is estimated that there were more than 100,000 people in shantytowns and slums. However, because the war took place in the Plains of Fallihills, about half a million refugees from the Plains of Falcan Hills poured into the city of Morent for refuge, either to relatives and friends, or to have the money to buy a house directly in the city of Moldant and have a resident status.

The Business Alliance recruited 100,000 recruits in the city of Morente, and then nearly 40,000 people were recruited to the front. The relatives of these nearly 150,000 people can automatically receive two quotas for the ration of food and daily necessities, which can be regarded as the preferential treatment of these recruits by the business alliance. At the same time, they were much luckier than the recruits recruited from the southern provinces, and were not used as cannon fodder for the attack, and were basically responsible for the defense of the rear and the logistics of food and grass supplies.

But after three years of war, the remaining 150,000 people are almost only 1120,000, and now they have all become prisoners of our family's armed forces. And their relatives have also lost the ration of food and daily necessities, adding up to nearly 400,000 people.

There are also those who carry out the primary processing of various production materials for the various chambers of commerce of the business alliance, such as the textile industry, which is the largest of them, and there are nearly 300,000 people in the city of Moronte. They spun the coarse linen raw materials assigned to them by the chamber of commerce into the most basic hemp yarn and twine, and then those chambers of commerce took it back and transported it to the production workshops in their respective chambers of commerce for deep processing, and spun it into various linen cloth and became goods and commodities.

Just like the nearly 10 million Jinford worth of materials we seized in the Chamber of Commerce warehouse in Moldant City this time, most of them are these most basic raw materials, although the quantity is huge, it is of little value to our family. Even if it is transported back to the family territory, who of our current people would still want to wear these linen clothes made of coarse linen, which are neither warm nor durable......

In addition to the textile industry, the rest are military food processing, weaving straw sandals for soldiers on the front line, cutting firewood to burn charcoal, fishing and shrimp in Tibetan Golden Bay, working as a domestic servant in various chambers of commerce, serving as a servant and maid for nobles, etc., basically as long as you are willing to work, you can find a job and get the ration of food and living materials from various chambers of commerce.

Now that our family forces occupy the city of Morente, all the work related to the various chambers of commerce of the business alliance has been canceled, and only a very small number of work related to people's livelihood is still continuing, but the problem is that these affairs of cutting firewood, burning charcoal, fishing and shrimp do not know who to hand over and how to distribute the materials, and the twenty-four communities in the outer city are in turmoil for this, and people are panicking......"

Well, Lorist smiled bitterly, daring to love that he not only had to feed the more than a million residents of the city of Morente, but also arranged work for them. This is really falling into the big hole I dug myself.

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