Chapter Forty-Eight: The First Political Council – The Theme of Seafood
Justin the Great quotes: A small seafood not only greatly improved the business reputation of the Thorn Empire, but also accumulated a lot of wealth at the beginning of the Thorn Empire, enriched the finances of the Thorn Empire, and made an indelible contribution to the development of the Thorn Empire.
Justin didn't go to practice after breakfast as usual, because there was a government meeting in the conference room in the castle today.
Jia Ling was in charge of arranging all matters of the meeting, while Vivian and Qing Jiuling, who were also heavy responsibilities, accompanied Justin to the conference room for a meeting.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began, with Karlens presiding. Jia Ling sat in at Justin's request.
Karlens bowed to Justin before proceeding to the official officiation.
"On the agenda of the first meeting, the heads of the departments present the progress of the work of the ministry," Karlens said. The first reporter was the Minister of Finance, Jia Daring, who reported on the various expenditures of the Thorn Collar. ”
Jia Daring felt that everyone's eyes were focused on him, but he was not in a hurry.
Migrate qi and nourish the body. Jia boldly served as finance minister for several months, and he has sharpened his past posture and temperament of groveling, resourcefulness, and hard work, and then cultivated a temperament and spirit of grace, calmness, and command.
Jia Daring cleared his throat, and without looking at the statistical table in his hand, he reported one by one: "Since the lord brought the first batch of people and goods from Ark City, according to the statistics of the financial department, the transaction volume of our goods in the past few months, including the transaction amount of slaves, has reached 200,000 gold coins. ”
Hearing the exclamations of the others, Jia Daring was a little fluttering. At first, he was not optimistic about the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, but there was no way to refuse.
Now Jia Daring sits in the position of Minister of Finance, although he is a little trembling, but he is also very comfortable. People from all sides have to stammer him when they get in and out of the accounts, which is much better than the position of the general manager who waits for people.
Fortunately, Jia Daring was not dazzled by power, and knew that his position was like a furnace, although he was a little greedy, he didn't dare to be blatant, and he didn't dare to embezzle territorial property. It's just a card when withdrawing money and receiving some rebates.
Although he didn't know if Justin was aware of his behavior, his daughter Jia Ling's admonition to him was indeed very harsh. Because at the beginning, his position as the head of the house was also a blessing for his daughter.
At that time, Justin was only eight years old, and he somehow ran out of the castle, and happened to run into the ugly man at that time, which is now Jia Ling. Because slaves do not have surnames.
The two played together for two hours that day before they reluctantly separated. Later, after Justin left the castle, he played with Jia Ling.
Later, when the old steward died at the time, and Justin's father Jawanda was worried about finding a suitable person for the steward, Justin casually said that the ugly father was very clever. In this way, he was chosen as the governor.
Because of his diligence, Jawanda gave him his name. He remembered that Jia Daring once bravely confronted a demon snake in order to protect Justin, although the demon snake retreated automatically, but as an ordinary person, he was so brave and bold, so he was named Jia Daring.
Jia Daring has gone from a slave on the verge of life and death to a housekeeper with more than enough food and clothing, and he is naturally grateful to Justin. Although he is now in a high position, he does not dare to be too presumptuous, lest it have a bad impact on his daughter, and then affect his own status.
This kind of thinking is very practical, and it also curbs his inflated desire to a certain extent, so that he does not have any major mess.
Jia Daring continued: "The construction of fifty-six towns cost a total of 30,000 gold coins, and since the construction of the Thorn Leader Engineering Corps was free of charge, the cost was reduced by more than half; the total cost of importing various goods, seeds, and livestock was 50,000 gold coins, of which the import volume was gradually decreasing; among them, the purchase of slaves was the largest, reaching 120,000 gold coins; at the same time, we exported all kinds of seafood and handed over a total of 30,000 gold coins to the treasury. The fiscal deficit was 170,000 gold coins. ”
After speaking, Jia boldly licked his somewhat dry lips.
Yes, Jia Daring didn't dare to think about it before, and he didn't dare to go to the sea so far away, the first was because of the existence of the Sea Clan, and the second was because of the existence of ogres.
Of the three major human empires, only the Celestial Dragon Empire is close to the Inca coast on the east side of the Cangmang Continent, but it has always faced the attack of the fish-man clan.
This is a brief introduction to the grievances between the Fish-Man Clan and the Celestial Dragon Empire. The Fish-People were originally born from a combination of humans and krakens, and their bloodline power is very strong, and they are best at water magic. Of course, there are also some fishmen with great strength.
When the fish-man first appeared, people were just strange and thought it was deformed, but they didn't have so many ideas.
It was only later that the nobles of the Celestial Dragon Empire discovered that the fishmen were good at diving into the sea and would not be attacked by the Sea Clan. The fish-man suddenly became scarce and expensive, and it also became a tool for the nobles of the Celestial Dragon Empire to seize the resources of the sea.
The nobles took advantage of the strong bloodline of the fish-men, so that they combined with slave women to give birth to a new generation of slave fish-men, and then continued to squeeze.
Under the selfish desires of the imperial aristocracy, the number of fishmen continued to increase, reaching more than 300,000 at its peak.
As slaves, the fishmen were not qualified to learn spells and fighting spirit, but for as long as 10,000 years, they secretly explored the exercises and techniques suitable for the cultivation of their own race, and finally gradually became stronger, clearly claiming to establish the fish-man clan and breaking with the Heavenly Dragon Empire.
The long coastline of the Celestial Dragon Empire was like a sieve for the fishmen who were good at naval warfare, causing the Celestial Dragon Empire to continuously shrink its coastal forces, and eventually form the three major sea cities.
The sea fish eaten by the Demon Cloud Empire are transported from the three major sea cities. This is also the reason why the price of marine fish remains high. Tens of thousands of kilometers along the way caused the situation that the sea fish of the Demon Cloud Empire were "unpalatable".
Under Vivien's arrangement, the Thorn Leader made full use of the power of the Bowen Pavilion in each city to set up a department store pavilion, which was transported to the three surrounding cities and dozens of towns.
Although the magic freezer can ensure the freshness of the sea fish, it is also inevitable that the umami of the sea fish will be destroyed. Now there are 10-day direct thorn collar fish, shrimp, and sea crabs, which can be said to have caused a sensation in the food circles of various places, and the consumption of thorn collar fresh sea fish has become a trend.
Seeing the huge profits of seafood at that time, Justin bought a large number of nearly 100 slave cooks of all kinds to develop ways to eat all kinds of captured sea creatures.
Justin once ordered that any chef who developed a method of eating seafood would be registered and recorded, and according to the popularity of the dish, corresponding points would be given and a certain amount of money would be rewarded. Once you have accumulated enough points, you can break away from slavery and become a free citizen.
Justin also proposed a campaign to "collect all the pages and reward the seafood", compiling 25 different types of seafood recipes, each with 50 pages, but not into a single book, but with one page in each box of seafood, and collecting the pages of the same book can be exchanged for three boxes of free seafood.
People in the Thorn Collar Department of Commerce strongly oppose this practice, arguing that it will create a large number of people who will subscribe to it, which will lead to lower seafood prices.
Justin said something at the time, directly suppressed the people in the Department of Commerce, and unanimously agreed that Justin was the biggest profiteer.
"We only gave out the pages of three complete books in one city, and we scattered the others in other cities, so that they could not collect them until they died," Justin said. Find a few more and pretend to be the ones who collect the pages, and make them believe that others can collect them and that they can do it themselves. ”
Justin's practice not only promoted the practice of seafood, but also stimulated the enthusiasm of seafood buyers to collect the pages, which greatly promoted the sales of seafood, and was established as a classic sales case by the Ministry of Commerce.
Although the success of all this is inseparable from the sales promotion of the department store, it is also inseparable from those obscure desperate fishing seafood, and also praised Justin as worthy of being the brother of the ogre, benevolent, friendly, and an eternal friend of the ogre.