Chapter 257: The First Confrontation with Rocodor

Jung's question of food is arguably the most serious thing that Genoya is now encountering, and it is even more important than the important things that Jonas put together. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

After all, as the old saying goes, people are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry, and for the people of Genaya today, whether they are men and women, old and young, or poor and decent, they are all facing a shortage of food and waiting to be fed, which will undoubtedly greatly affect the foundation of their rule if it cannot be alleviated in the short term.

In the face of such a grim situation, far water could not quench the thirst of the near, and the Earl of Il's own army was now facing several huge logistical supply difficulties, and he could not lend a helping hand to help him maintain the stability of Genaya, so in the end, it could only be solved by Jung and Jonas themselves.

However, even if one of them is well versed in ancient and modern times, and the other can fight well, it is really impossible to say that they can take things out of thin air now and take out enough food for the people of Genaya, which is obviously something that only God can do.

And what Jung and Jonas can do is to send people to harvest the wheat fields around the city of Genoya, and use a team of 100 people to equip a 50-person guard responsible for protecting them to carry out the harvest work, so as to slightly alleviate the current food shortage problem in the city, and then send some hunting teams and fishing boats to salvage as much food that can be eaten by people, so as to alleviate the impact of food shortage as much as possible.

But these are really a drop in the bucket for the city of Genaya, as we all know, Gennaya is a commercial city, and the food it can produce is extremely limited, and it is impossible to supply the rations of more than 100,000 people, not to mention that it is now the autumn harvest season, but during the previous period of war, no one had the heart to take care of those wheat fields in the fields, so it is impossible to save the fear with such a little food.

As for fishing, it is even more ridiculous, Genoya is a commercial port, there are no less than hundreds of ships coming and going to the port every day, and the duration of this time can be counted from the beginning of the establishment of the city, the rise of human civilization, in such a long sailing time, the fish in the channel have already been killed, and the remaining fish have left this sea area, if you want to fish on a large scale, you can only stay away from the harbor and go to the deeper ocean to fish, and this is a very big challenge for Gennaya ships。

After all, there is no foothold in the ocean, as long as the wind blows, death will follow, unlike those commercial ships, who sail for a while and have a port or lighthouse to show them the way, and fishing boats want to find a large number of fish on the bottom of the sea and return to port smoothly, in this world without sonar and advanced technology, it is really difficult.

So after Jung and Jonas did all this but found that the food was still not enough, they naturally had to find a solution, and the people who could have a solution, there were many people in this city, but people who were willing to help themselves and worthy of their trust, it seems that the father and son could only be placed on Rocodor, the merchant who had the largest granary in the city and maintained good trade relations with many national leaders.

In return, Jonas and Jung immediately changed the order of the people they should meet after entering the city, and put the deputy governor of the city hall of Genaya, who was originally the first to represent the government, and the captain of the first detachment of the gendarmerie brigade, who was the second to represent the army, behind Rocodor, and changed their first meeting target to Rocodor.

It can also be seen from this that Jung and others were impatient when facing the difficulties of Genaya's food problem, and it can also be seen from the side how scarce food is for the jubilant people outside.

Jung's culture is simple and clear, Roccodo naturally understands it, he didn't say much, this time, he came to take what Jung promised and show loyalty, of course he wouldn't do this kind of thing, so when Jung raised this question, Roccodo took out the food plan he had prepared, a total of two, handed it to Jonas and Jung respectively, nodded his head, and said in a very approving tone:

"Mr. Jung, the problem encountered by the people of Genaya, as a lord, will naturally cooperate with you to solve this problem, this is the solution that I have discussed with Jike and your colleagues in the business world, please take a closer look. ”

Between the words, calm and atmospheric, but put Jung and Jonas in a very high position, and did not lose the posture that Jung should have as a businessman in the face of aristocrats because Jung promised him to become a nobleman, as soon as he spoke, he waved his hand, so that Jung felt very satisfied, and he was just cold, he had already prepared ginger tea there, and the quilt kept himself warm, this feeling, it was really Jung felt a burst of joy, took the report, opened it and began to read it carefully.

Jonas is completely different from Jung's attitude, Rocodor's way of speaking at the moment makes him easily think of the style of those bureaucratic people in later generations, opening up the people, closing the people, full of benevolence, full of morality, which makes Jonas can't help but be a little wary of Rocodor.

It is really rare to be able to speak such a seamless and flawless official term without going through systematic training, which is really rare in a world without a party school or a diplomatic university.

Jonas thought so in his heart, and the movements of his hands were not slow, although Rocodor's sleek style of acting made him a little vigilant, but it was precisely because of his caution that the methods he proposed were more important to Jonas, because this kind of image showed that this is a smart person, and the opinions of smart people, whether good or bad, Jonas must listen.

Opening this method of maintaining stability researched by the elites of Rocodo and Genaya, Jonas's eyes were attracted by the content, and he couldn't put it down, reading the administrative method of up to 20 pages quickly, while Jung on the side, like Jonas, looked at the things in his hand and kept for a moment.

It is true that the merchant class, which has been cultivated over 800 years, is not inferior to its own administrative bureaucrats in terms of administrative ability, and it is really necessary to be careful that they can make such a detailed plan and cooperate with them on their own. ’

Jonas read through the entire administrative measures, and he found that in addition to the solution to the food problem, the report also mentioned the future administrative problems and military and political problems, and even the people's assembly system, a system created by Jonas, also put forward several suggestions, hoping to be improved, and these opinions, in Jonas's opinion, are really somewhat reasonable, and sometimes when I read it, I feel that these suggestions are still a bit advanced.

This really shocked Jonas, this group of businessmen, it is really not simple, with their own oral story, they can grasp the most important link in the system they designed, and make changes in key places to meet their own interests, and the most joint of all these beneficial interests is heavily biased towards Roccodor.

That is, in the People's Assembly, Roccodo and his family will always be honorary presidents, with the same veto power as presidents, and will be hereditary and forever irrevocable.

It doesn't matter whether this policy is useful or not, and whether he will adopt it or not, just to get all the businessmen to agree to it and add him to the policy proposal, in this capacity, it is worth Jonas to add this agreement to the charter of the People's Assembly.

This is obviously a political master, and it is really not easy for a businessman to have such talent.

Jung on the other side looked at the report in his hand, and he also praised the person who wrote the report in his heart, but unlike Jonas, Jung's focus was mainly on the food issue, so the suggestions and solutions to other problems were ignored by him intentionally or unintentionally, of course, this may also be because those problems in the system reform were caused by Jonas, not his expertise of course he chose to avoid, but the food problem is something he can ask.

So the first question he asked Rocodor, it was about Rocodor's question about food.

In Rocodor's report to Jung, there are about five sheets of paper on the food problem, which describes in great detail the current food shortage in Genoa and the attitude of the people towards it.

After these five pages, there are the opinions of Rocodo and his friends, the first of which is to open his own private granaries and the granaries of runaway merchants to save emergencies, and the third to open private forest territories and to set up porridge sheds mixed with wild vegetables and wheat in various parts of the city, which seemed to Jung to be fine, but on the second point, Jung had to hesitate.

"Mr. Rocodor, I would like to ask you a question about the three solutions you have written in this report, and I would like to ask you to answer me seriously, in the second article of your report on the solution to the food problem, you wrote that in 15 days, 2,000 metric tons of grain from abroad will be transported to the old port to help the citizens of Genoya solve the famine, is this really feasible?"

Jung handed the report in his hand to Roccodor, pointed to the grain terms on it, and moved his fingers as he read it, because this assurance was so important to him.

2,000 metric tons of grain, for the city of Genoa, where 100,000 people, if one person eats one pound of rice a day, it is enough for the Genoea people to eat for 40 days, and if you save a little, it is enough to sustain the end of the war and the autumn harvest, when the time comes, the food problem can be solved automatically, so Rocodor's proposal, Jung must read it word by word, and he must get Rocodor's guarantee on the spot to rest assured.

"Of course, Monsieur Jung, Monsieur Jonas, the citizens of Genoya are not only the ones you need to take care of now, but also the people I will need to care for in the future, and their wails, as a legal citizen and a moral person who is favored by God, of course I feel anxious and want to do something.

In fact, at this very moment, the caravan of my companions and I had already taken my letters to those friendly territories, and I believe that even if 2,000 metric tons of grain is difficult, 1,500 metric tons of food is absolutely fine, and this is enough for us to maintain the situation. ”

Rocodor's answer was as humble as he had spoken before, and from beginning to end, as Jonas and Jung read the report intently, Rocodo and Jick looked like good children, sitting in their seats, leaning forward, looking ready to ask questions, which undoubtedly flattered Jung to a great extent.

"Mr. Rocodor, you can be trusted. ”

Listening to Rocodor's assurance, his tone was full of confidence in controlling things, which made Jung's heart feel a little relaxed, and he chose to believe Rocodor's words, nodded, and said to Rocodor, who was well-behaved on the side.

"Where, where, I am only a merchant, and what I can do is extremely limited, and if it were not for your proposal, how could I have been here to serve the people of Genaya, therefore, Monsieur Jung, please do not compliment me, you should compliment yourself, oh, and Your Excellency Viscount Jonas, your presence is reassuring to the people, Your Excellency. ”

Rocodo said modestly, and throughout the conversation, he couldn't find any fault.

"Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Rocodor. Although he didn't want to take a, but since everyone mentioned himself, he still praised himself, and if he didn't speak, he would inevitably give people an unfriendly impression, which was undoubtedly unfavorable for the work that was in charge of personnel reform, which required a lot of affinity, so he still responded with a smile.

"You deserve it, Your Excellency Viscount Jonas, I'm not a sycophant, now Genaya only needs to talk about your name, who doesn't praise you, you have given everyone the right to decide the fate of this city, you have given them the grace to be free from the misery of war, such a merit, this will not be praised. Roctor said softly, with sincerity in his words, but Jonas had goosebumps when he heard it, and he quickly hid his inner embarrassment with a smirk and diverted the topic. (To be continued.) )