Genorio put the stack of documents in his hand on the table: "Your Highness, you can take a look at these books. These are the accounts of the maintenance funds spent by the Business Alliance in Morente City in the past three years. If only Judging from the results, the total loss of all chambers of commerce in the business alliance has reached nearly ten million goldfords each year in the past three years. The labor force made up for this loss, and the real profit deficit was reduced to about one million goldfords.
Through these books, we can draw a very interesting conclusion. The business alliance has constructed a self-sufficient economic system in Morente City. They do not need foreign exchanges and trade. The million residents of Morente City are both consumers. Producer again. The various chambers of commerce in the business alliance provide them with the most basic living security, and they obtain food and living supplies from various chambers of commerce through various labor services. In the process, they didn't need Kingford to trade.
We found several letters in the inner city from the vice-president of a chamber of commerce and his friends, in which the vice-president of the chamber of commerce and his friends debated whether it was worthwhile to feed a city of millions of people who were not engaged in agricultural production . This point of view is very interesting. The friend of the vice president thinks that the scale of Morente City should be reduced, and at least half of the million residents should be sent to the territories of various chambers of commerce and nobles, so as to reduce the burden of various chambers of commerce on Morente City. .
The vice-chairman's point of view is the opposite of his friend's. He believes that the quality of the millions of residents in Morente City is far higher than that of the submissive citizens in the chamber of commerce and noble territories. The business alliance can develop to this point. The ground is inseparable from the countless talents that Morente City has 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 to those produced in the chamber of commerce in terms of quality and production efficiency. Produced in Morente.
According to the documents we found in some high-rise residences of the Chamber of Commerce in the inner city, in fact, the Chamber of Commerce is also arguing endlessly about the future of Morente City's development. Although Morente City is not as good as it used to be, and has lost its status as the central commercial city of the Galintia continent, the millions of free Morente City residents have also become a burden for the business alliance. Even though a delicate balance has been reached between the production and expenditure of millions of residents, in the eyes of some short-sighted Chamber of Commerce executives, they regard the millions of Morente City residents as burdens rather than wealth.
We found a proposal in the archives of the Alliance Council, which seems to be a joint proposal by more than a dozen chambers of commerce, demanding that half of the residents of Morente City be forcibly dismissed, and about 500,000 people be diverted to the territories of various chambers of commerce, and then The more than a dozen communities in the vacant outer city were replanned and designed, and large-scale real estate development was carried out, making Morente City truly the capital of the business alliance, a noble city of the noble business alliance...
However, this proposal was rejected by the seven giants of the business alliance. The president of the Two-headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce, Grand Duke Camberlet, also made a speech at the alliance council. This is the record of his speech at the meeting. President Camberlet said that the difficulties are temporary. As long as the Kingdom of Antinac is defeated, the business alliance can usher in long-term peace. By then, all difficulties in the business alliance will be solved. Investments will be rewarded handsomely.
Contributions now mean future gains. Grand Duke Camberlet said that after the war ends and peace arrives, Morente City will regain its former glory. And a great city not only needs noble nobles, but also a large number of people who serve it. Therefore, although the millions of residents of Morente City are everyone's burden now, they will become everyone's source of wealth in the future. As long as we persevere through this difficult time, a bright future is not far ahead.
At the same time, Grand Duke Camberlet also announced that after the victory over the Antinac Kingdom and peace came, the business alliance will redesign, plan and expand Morente City, and the current twenty-four communities in the outer city will be relocated and relocated in the newly planned area. The original address will be integrated with the inner city to build a new aristocratic district with a beautiful environment. This new district will also build a series of entertainment venues such as a song and dance theater, an equestrian arena, and a swordsmanship hall. And this reconstruction plan will allow all chambers of commerce in the business alliance to unite and unswervingly support the resolution of the alliance in this war to share... "
While listening to Genorio's report, Lorist tapped the table lightly with the index finger of his right hand. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart that President Camberlet of the Two-Headed Dragon Chamber of Commerce deserves to be the hero who has held the decision-making power of the business alliance for many years. Only, he has a much longer-term vision than those businessmen who only have gold coins in their eyes. It is not the fault of millions of Morante City residents that Morente City has fallen to such a point, but a problem with the national policy of the business alliance.
If the business alliance does not implement the lord system, then Morente City will still be the number one commercial city in Galintia. It's just that those businessmen don't want to be underestimated after dealing with the nobles a lot, and insist on implementing the lord system to squeeze into the circle of nobles. Perhaps this is also related to the traditional custom of assigning land and titles that has been practiced in Galintia for thousands of years. After all, no matter how much money a merchant has, their status is not as high as that of a landed noble. How could the merchants of the thriving business alliance bear it The feeling of being humbled...
It's just that the decision-makers of the business alliance forgot that people are selfish, and businessmen are even more self-interested. The former glory of Morente City was built on the basis of fiery commercial trade. With the implementation of the lord system, each chamber of commerce has its own territory of the chamber of commerce, so it is natural to move the production workshop to its own territory to reduce production costs. Among other things, the relocation of a material warehouse to the territory of the chamber of commerce has reduced Morant City's tax revenue. Under such circumstances, how could Morente City not be depressed
Without economic trade, the millions of residents of Morente City had to be reduced to slaves and experiments of various chambers of commerce. Don't look at all of them talking about freedom and equality, but in fact they don't control their own destiny, because they even control the distribution rights of the most basic daily necessities and the ration list of daily necessities in the hands of various chambers of commerce, poor Millions of inhabitants of Morente City…
Fortunately, the top executives of the business alliance are quite wise. They know that as long as the war is over and the business alliance reaches peace with various countries and forces around it to open business routes, Morant City can regain its dazzling brilliance. Therefore, the various chambers of commerce in the business alliance are still willing to support the millions of residents of Morente City at a loss. This can be regarded as a long-term investment. These chambers of commerce are betting on the future of Morente City.
"Is this the case? Genorio, you have done a good job this time, and you have collected all the information about Morente City." Lorist praised with satisfaction.
Genorio smiled wryly: "Your Highness, the following is very bad news..."
"What's the bad news? Tell me, the current situation can't be that bad." Lorist said disapprovingly.
"Your Highness, because our Norton family occupied Morente City, the fragile economic circle formed by the business alliance in Morente City was broken by us. Now our Norton family has to support more than one and a half million Morente people who have nothing to do. City dwellers... ”
"What did 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, our Norton family has occupied this city, shouldn't we take all the wealth and let all the city residents prostrate at my feet and expect me to show mercy and let them go, Did I then triumphantly return to the family territory with treasures and beauties? How did it become that I led my family's armed forces to occupy this city and have to feed the more than 1.5 million residents
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 more than a million residents of this city, Then we can pack up and go back to the Northland. It's just that our Norton family will become the object of scolding and scolding by the world. As for the family reputation, uh, will our Norton family still have a family reputation at that time
Uh, of course I was just making an analogy, I know it is impossible for His Highness to issue such an order. It's just that after our family armed forces occupied Morente City, not only the Cristo Hills, which originally provided potatoes, oats and other coarse grains for Morente City, had cut off their food supply, but the livelihood of millions of Morente City residents had also disappeared. So, Your Highness, the 1.5 million people in Morente City now need our family to support them..."
It seems that I dug a hole, preparing to let the business alliance fall in, but I ended up filling myself in... Lorist stood up extremely depressed, and first gave Genorio a couple of slaps on the head : "You are so courageous, you dare to talk to the teacher like that!"
Then Lorist wandered around the room again. Just now, he seemed to have a flash of inspiration and thought of something. By the way, it was Genorio who talked about food, and then he wanted to feed more than a million in Morente City. Residents... Well, could it be that the business alliance armed forces gave up taking back Morant City just to make our Norton family bear this burden? No, we have seized so much food from the transport fleet, enough to feed more than one million residents of Morente City for two or three months, and we can also 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 Armada, and the transport fleet fell into its own hands. If the business alliance doesn't have this batch of food, even if Morant City is recovered, it won't be able to produce so much food to feed the residents of Morant City.
The potato coarse grains that Cristo Hills can provide also need two to three months of planting period. Now the farmers in the Cristo Hills have not cut off the supply of coarse grains to Morente City, but what they have left now is rations, and the potatoes in the fields have just been planted, and it will take more than two months There will be gains.
Therefore, this batch of food from the transport fleet is very important to the business alliance. With this batch of food, they can survive these two or three months, and then the Cristo Hills will be harvesting potatoes. The provinces in the southern part of the mainland have also reached the grain harvest period in a few months, so the business alliance will be able to survive this difficult period of lack of food.
Now that the Norton family has stepped in and captured Morente City in a surprise attack, it is obvious that it is impossible for the food transport fleet to fall into the hands of the Commercial Alliance. Even if Morente City can be recovered, as long as the Norton family takes away the food or Once it is destroyed by fire, there will be only tragedy waiting for the business alliance. It was because of this that the top management of the business alliance simply gave up on Morente City and withdrew the remaining elite troops directly to Mawei Forint Province.
Sure enough, businessmen have no sense of honor. Even though Morente City is the capital of the business alliance, those businessmen still give up as soon as they say it, without nostalgia. If the capitals or capitals of the nobles of other territories and the family territories of the kingdom are occupied, those nobles are guaranteed to jump up and down.
No, the business alliance's considerations are not that simple. They should know that the Norton family cannot be troubled by food alone. The problem is that there are more than one million idle residents in Morente City. Even if the Norton family distributes food to them for free if they have no livelihood, so many idle people will still become the biggest hidden danger of Morente City.
"Genorio, before we occupied Morente City, what did the more than one million residents rely on for their livelihood to obtain the rations of the chamber of commerce's food and living supplies?" Lorist asked.
Genorio replied: "Your Highness, Mr. Tagle has already sent someone to do a detailed investigation on this situation, and the information files are in the folder he is holding."
"Tager, tell me."
"Yes, Your Highness." Tager opened the folder in his hand and began to report: "Before this war broke out, there were nearly 800,000 residents in Morente City, and it is estimated that there were about 100,000 people in shanty towns and slums. But because this war took place in the Faliqiu Plain, more than half a million refugees from the Faliqiu Plain flooded into Morente City for refuge, either to seek refuge with relatives or friends, or to buy a house directly in Morente City if they had the money Possess resident status.
The Business Alliance recruited 100,000 recruits in Morente City, and then successively recruited nearly 40,000 people to add to the front line. The relatives of these nearly 150,000 people can have two quotas to automatically receive the ration order distribution of food and living supplies, which can be regarded as the preferential treatment given to 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. They were basically responsible for the defense of the rear and the logistical delivery and protection of food and grass supplies.
But after the three-year war, the remaining 150,000 people are only about 112,000 people, and now they are all captured by our family's armed forces. And their relatives also lost the rationed distribution of those food and living materials, adding up to nearly 400,000 people.
There are also those who perform primary processing of various production materials for various chambers of commerce in the business alliance. For example, textile is one of the largest industries. More than 300,000 people in Morente City are related to this textile industry. They spun the hemp raw materials allocated to them by the chamber of commerce into the most basic hemp yarn and hemp thread, and then those chambers of commerce took it back and transported it to the production workshops in their respective chambers of commerce for further processing, and weaved it into various types of linen to become goods.
Just like the nearly tens of millions of gold worth of materials we seized in the chamber of commerce warehouse in Morente City this time, most of them are the 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 among our current citizens would want to wear these linen clothes woven from coarse linen? They are neither warm nor durable...
In addition to the textile industry, the rest include military ration processing, weaving straw sandals for soldiers on the front line, cutting firewood to burn charcoal, fishing and catching shrimp in the Golden Bay, working as servants in various chambers of commerce, serving as servants and maids for nobles, etc., basically As long as you work hard on the Internet, you can find a job and get a ration order distribution of food and living materials from various chambers of commerce.
Now that our family has occupied Morente City with armed forces, all the work related to the various chambers of commerce in the business alliance has been cancelled, and only a few jobs related to people's livelihood are still going on, but the problem is that these felling firewood, burning charcoal, fishing I don't know who to turn to for the shrimp fishing business and how to distribute the supplies. There is some commotion in the 24th community in the outer city because of this, and people are panicking... "
Well, Lorist smiled wryly, feeling that he not only had to support the more than one million residents of Morente City, but also arranged jobs for them. This is really falling into the big hole I dug.
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