All the qiē is ready to go.

After spending a lot of budget and years, carefully designing the layout, the seeds planted more than ten years ago are finally time to reap the truth of evil.

That's what you say, but it's not that great.

It's just a nefarious plan by someone who can put money into the stock market and go bankrupt, and this is just one of the tricks that have long been used by corporations and government agencies to make high profits in the history of the earth's economy.

To put it simply, it's a scam.

First of all, a very powerful enterprise will throw out an idea, a large-scale project that looks very beautiful, looks very profitable, is constantly discussed and studied by celebrities, and constantly appears in public opinion as a face that will reap high profits in the future, attracting many eyeballs. Then, in order to build the project, a consortium that was stumped by many businesses needed to set up a new company to take care of the project. Public opinion is once again hyping up the topic, letting everyone know that a newly established company is about to build a project with huge profits, but has encountered a little financial problem. In order to make the project go smoothly, the company needs to issue shares to raise funds, and after purchasing shares, it can get several times or even more than ten times the windfall profits in the future by virtue of a paper certificate......

At first, people will wait and see what happens with a wary and hesitant gaze, but after some of the brave and disguised brave eat the first crab, they will profit from it. Lust and passion immediately overwhelm reason, blinding people and rushing to buy shares issued by this company. The rate of accumulation of funds is increasing and growing...... Finally, when the time comes, the company will go bankrupt according to the plan, and the consortium that is manipulating behind the scenes will take all the money away. Only a large group of poor worms who have broken their dreams of getting rich and crying out to the heavens and the earth, and some unlucky eggs who are used to carry the black pot......

This is the best means to get a huge return in a short period of time with the least amount of money, and although the intermediate process is somewhat complicated, the repeated tragedies on the planet show that it is an effective means of looting stupid stockholders, relying on those weaknesses of human nature. Consortiums have always succeeded time and time again.

Now Li Lin is ready to reproduce this evil trick. The object he used for fraud was the railroad, a major railway artery that was destined to remain only in drawings and saliva, and that ran through Castile.

Gone are the days of Castile, which had seized the opportunity in the overseas colonies, with Gareon ships laden with precious metals, jewels, cloths, and spices, and whose finances were the best of all human nations. The Seven-Day War almost broke the backbone of the country. The most prosperous port city was burned to the ground. More than half of the naval warships and merchant fleets were burned. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, villages and farmland were burned, and wells were filled. The Northeast can be considered a complete collapse. And the above-mentioned losses are only a small part of the total losses, and compared with the real losses, they are only a fraction of the real losses.

As a country where agriculture accounts for 76% of the country's economy, most of the facilities that can be called "industrial" in Castile are concentrated in the north, the so-called "periphery". Textile factories, steel mills, shipyards and many more in Catalonia and the Basque Country. After the loss of hundreds of thousands of the most skilled farmers, vital industrial infrastructure and skilled workers were also destroyed, which directly affected the revival of the navy. In the face of the King Charlemagne's navy, which is like making sausages and constantly launching new giant ships, only half of the ships remain, and the "Invincible Armada", which has no new ships to replenish and has to defend the coastline of the homeland, is simply unable to do so. As a result, Castile's overseas interests were thus open to mortal enemies. And Albiang, a traditional ally who has recently experienced a series of high-level shocks, seems to have a somewhat subtle attitude......

Regardless of the fierce rivals on the outside, the domestic situation in Castile is also not optimistic.

In the southern regions, large tracts of land belonged to the landlords and were cultivated by landless tenant farmers. In the central and western regions, the situation is much worse. Problems such as poor land, heavy debts, and scattered land have oppressed the middle and low-income strata to the point where they are breathless. Not to mention the peasants, the village knights also had a meagre income and could barely save a few dollars. The knight and his family had to work in the fields like peasants to barely have enough to eat. The problem of the social divide between the rich and the poor has reached a very serious point.

Take, for example, the province of Ávila. Of the province's 13,530 land taxpayers, 11,452 earn less than 1 Celta copper coin a day. Most of these people were small and medium-sized peasants or village knights, and they were all like this, and one can imagine the economic situation of the landless tenant farmers. In the cities, the situation of small merchants and artisans is not much better.

Under such circumstances, the ruling class, such as the king, the nobles, the military officers, the landlords, and the church, although they suffered some shocks, the overall standard of living remained in a state of boiling oil and being drunk and dreaming of death. The burden of national revival and naval reconstruction was entirely shared among the middle and lower classes, and the already acute social contradictions were exacerbated by the endless exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Discontent with the rulers was accumulating, and at the same time, separatism began to rise in Catalonia and the Basque Country. Some restless guys began to advertise "No Castile, no Charlemagne, we are Catalans." "If you don't be independent, you'd rather die." Heresies.

These two regions have historically been less disciplined and have stronger separatist tendencies than any other province. In several recent uncovered riot plots, the army even searched the hideouts of the perpetrators for the names of cabinet members of the "new government," from Charlemagne's smuggling, the printing press used to print vouchers, the army establishment chart, and other shocking things. What is even more jaw-dropping is that some Catalan separatists actually plan to set up independent governments on a village-by-village basis, and travel from one village to another to prepare passports and visas, and go through checkpoints......

It seems that these separatists really enjoyed what they were doing, not only for themselves, but for each unit to enjoy the pleasures of secession and dictatorship—that is, not only from the rest of Castile, but also from the neighboring cities and villages......

No matter what these brain-soaked guys are thinking, whether it is feasible or not, it doesn't matter to the disgruntled people. What they need is a window to vent, an opportunity to break the heavy status quo. As long as the timing is right, the resentment beyond the threshold will erupt in the most terrifying form in one breath. Pull down the mighty men from their thrones and burn them to ashes.

Ministers with brains are anxious about this, but they don't have a good way either. Until the navy is rebuilt, there is no need to expect to be able to transport precious metals from overseas, and without those precious metals, the funds for the rebuilding of the country and the navy can only be raised by raising taxes, which will lead to further intensification of social contradictions......

A deadly cycle. As long as the brain is normal, anyone can see that this is a highway that leads to ruin, but no one has a good solution.

Just when the capable ministers who were worried about the country and the people were worried about the last few strands of miscellaneous hairs on their heads, V.E Company came to visit. (To be continued......)

PS: Sorry, I was dragged to drink, and the update of the next chapter is scheduled for tomorrow morning. I'm so sorry.