"One hundred and eighty-six years ago, Grand Duke Morente, who occupied the Mana Hill Plain, suddenly announced the restructuring, abolished the traditional feudal lord system of the Galintia continent, established the Ford Chamber of Commerce, and united the two-headed dragon, Vicia, May The six major chambers of commerce, Hua, Liward, Peterson, and Chicod, formed a business alliance to conduct business with countries in the mainland based on the Fali Hill Plain. A reliable and reliable force has also greatly improved the status of merchants, and for the first time on the Galintia continent, they have issued their voices and political appeals... "
The meeting room is full of senior civil and military officials of the Norton family currently in Morente City, such as senior knights above the battalion commanders of the four armed armies of the family, as well as Director Speer and several civil officials. They were all urgently summoned by Lorist to discuss the plan submitted by Fatty Shi, which almost related to the future of the Norton family's armed forces in Morente City in the future.
Fatty Shi was standing on the podium giving a lecture to a large group of high-level family members sitting in the meeting room, explaining the history of the business alliance and Morente City, so that these high-level family members could understand why he proposed such a plan. What kind of impact will the plan have on Morente City, on the future of the business alliance and the Norton family.
For those who have a deep understanding of Morant City, such as Lorist, El, Fatty Shi, and Yuri, who have lived in this city for more than ten years, explain to those high-level family officials who do not understand the history of the business alliance why they are doing so. It is very difficult to be cautious when dealing with the more than one million residents of Morente City. Just as Tiger Tiger was puzzled, he asked Lorist strangely why he didn't forcefully relocate half of the million residents of Morente City to the family territory? Just like Yungeshandra Province, a newly acquired jurisdiction, it is sparsely populated and urgently needs to develop labor.
The tiger Ross thought very simply. Migrating half of the people to other places would not only solve the livelihood problem of millions of residents in Morente City, but also add hundreds of thousands of people to the family. That would be good for everyone. Unwilling to migrate? Hehe, don't you know that the Norton family's best weapon is forced relocation? As long as Lorist gives an order, he and the Flying Tigers promise to take care of everything properly.
Lorist smiled wryly, as long as things are really that simple. After the founding of the Commercial Alliance, the hundred-year war against the invasion of the former Cressen Empire filled the blood of the people of the Commercial Alliance with the concepts of independence, freedom, and equality, especially the residents of Morente City. They regard themselves as free people. The concept is particularly proud and proud. And this pride and pride is the return of their blood and tears for more than a hundred years. It is the freedom and pride that their ancestors won for their descendants and descendants with countless lives and heroic deeds.
To move them back to the family territory as citizens, that is simply a diseased noble would do so. It is conceivable that if these residents of Morente City are really relocated to the family territory, it is guaranteed that everyone will become a kindling, and they will vigorously incite everyone among the citizens to fight for freedom and equality, and form a group to fight against them The lord... Well, just thinking about Lorist gives me a headache. As a member of the nobles of the territory, let alone letting the residents of Morente City move to the family territory, even if they want to go to the family territory to do business and work Loris Te has to consider whether to refuse their request.
"The establishment of the business alliance, the unique system and the merchant-oriented national policy made it difficult for them to move forward in the first stage. All countries around the world are suspicious and disgusted, and they have made various difficulties for their business transaction requirements. They even blocked the border and refused to conduct any commercial activities with them. At this time, the former Krissen Empire felt that this was a godsend opportunity, and prepared to swallow the Mana Hill Plain while the business alliance was isolated and helpless.
But Krissen IV forgot the most important point. Compared with the weak force of the commercial alliance, the Krissen Empire, which ranks first among the three major powers in the Galintia continent, is more feared by the countries in the central and southern parts of the continent. What the Kingdom and the Principality are most worried about is that once the business alliance in the front falls, the iron cavalry of the Krissen Empire will sweep in, and everyone will be finished by then.
As a result, various countries around the business alliance have given great support to the business alliance's war against the invasion of the former Krissen Empire, hoping that the business alliance can resist the invasion of the former Krissen Empire. In the next hundred years of war, the business alliance became stronger and stronger. It not only defeated the former Krissen Empire, but also won a high reputation among the countries in the south-central region, and opened the door to various countries in the mainland. The trade route in the direction has become the most powerful force in most of the central and southern regions.
Although the people of the Commercial Alliance made great sacrifices in order to win their freedom from being enslaved by the former Krissen Empire, they also gained self-confidence and pride. When my Highness and I were studying in Morente City, the most common sentence we heard was the most proud of Morente people: I am a free man. A newspaper once published a survey showing that the people of Morente City were the most unsuitable citizens to serve under the nobility of a territory. Because he will regard himself as an equal person with the lord, not only will not obey the lord's assignment, but will also subconsciously oppose the lord's rule over him.
Therefore, the residents of Morente City are a kind of alien on the Galintia continent. They will not become loyal citizens of the nobles of the territory, but they will willingly bow down in front of the gold coins. In other words, the business atmosphere of the business alliance has created a unique Morente city people. They despise authority, but worship money and wealth. They are only willing to be slaves of money.
The biggest mistake the business alliance made was deciding to implement the Lordship system, which should be the political appeal of the business alliance's ruling chamber of commerce executives. Although they are the rulers of the business alliance and hold great power in their hands, they are despised by the aristocrats because they have no titles in their business dealings with surrounding countries. Merchants are greedy for profits, love comparisons, and can't stand these contempt, so they decided to implement the lord system to elevate their status and status.
Originally, the Business Alliance decided to acquire noble fiefdoms from the fragmented former Krissen Empire, but a sudden glass war changed the close relationship between the Business Alliance and the surrounding countries. The business alliance annexed seven countries including the Trimble Kingdom through war, adopted an expansion policy of launching wars against surrounding countries, and changed from a defender in the central and southern parts of the mainland to an invader.
Although the major chambers of commerce in the business alliance have gained benefits in this expansion war and obtained their respective chambers of commerce territories. But this war is not worth the loss for the business alliance. Externally, various countries in the central and southern parts of the mainland regard the commercial alliance as a destroyer of order, and have adopted the decision to block borders, cut off commercial routes, and suspend commercial exchanges. This has caused the commercial alliance to suffer a major blow in terms of commerce, and foreign transactions have never recovered.
Internally, the major chambers of commerce in the business alliance have moved the production workshops and storage bases set up in Morente City to their respective chambers of commerce to reduce costs and increase profits because they have obtained their respective chambers of commerce territory. However, these measures were a fatal blow to Morente City. A commercial metropolis with a population of one million and unlimited vitality began to decline.
In order to divert the conflict, the top executives of the major chambers of commerce in power blamed all the crimes on the blockade of business routes by various countries in the surrounding area, and publicized that the plight of Morant City was caused by those countries in the surrounding area, and for this reason once again contacted The kingdom coalition forces in the central and southern parts of the continent have fought, and the current strategic situation has formed in the central and southern parts of the mainland... ”
After a detailed introduction to the history of the business alliance and analysis of the current situation in Morente City, Fatty Shi finally talked about the key points of his plan: "Our Norton family is to stop the conflict between the business alliance and the Kingdom of Antinac." This hopeless bloody battle lasted three years before occupying the city of Morente and the plains of Faliqiu, preparing to force the business alliance to sign an armistice agreement with our kingdom to restore peace.
However, the response of the business alliance was beyond our expectations. They simply abandoned Morente City, leaving us in a mess and burdening our family with a responsibility of more than 1.3 million yuan. A large parcel of livelihood for the residents of Morente City. Although we have not yet received a formal reply from the business alliance for our peace talks, we must be prepared in advance to guard against the various conspiracies and schemes of the business alliance. Past experience has proved that although the merchants of these business alliances have various noble titles, they are still immoral and trustless.
A few days ago, our family conducted a thorough investigation of the twenty-fourth district of the outer city of Morente City. During the process, I was surprised to find an unbelievable fact. Fatty Shi smacked his lips, picked up a glass of water and drank it dry, then picked up a slender wooden stick and pointed to a map of Morente City hanging on the wall: "The major chambers of commerce of the Business Alliance are in Morente The power of the city was wiped out by our family's armed forces, and the food and living material ration distribution system that was originally implemented among the more than one million Morente residents also disappeared. The heavy responsibility of maintaining the livelihood of more than one million residents also falls on our Norton family.
If we exclude the armed forces of the major chambers of commerce of the commercial alliance that have withdrawn to the province of Maweforint from the Faliqiu Plain and treat them as other countries, then let's see if the current city of Morente looks like a hundred A newly established business alliance more than 80 years ago? "
What did Fatty Shi mean by that? Except for Lorist, who had already known about it, all the high-level family members in the conference room looked at each other, not knowing why. But soon someone thought of the history of the business alliance mentioned by Fatty Shi first, and understood what Fatty Shi meant. This was to put aside the major chambers of commerce and high-ranking nobles of the business alliance that had abandoned Morente City, and to re-establish the alliance in Morun. Special City Forms a New Business Alliance…
This is really an unbelievable idea. Is it possible to use more than one million urban residents in the 24th community outside the city of Morente to form a new business alliance
"Of course it is possible." Fatty Shi said categorically: "When the Grand Duke Morente established the business alliance, the total population of the Faliqiu Plain was less than one million, and most of them were serfs who had just been freed. It was only during the resistance war that lasted more than a hundred years that the people of the commercial alliance gradually established the concept of freedom, independence and equality. Now we don’t have to fight for more than a hundred years of war, and we have more than one million urban residents who share the same concept. Is there anything else you can't do?"
What Fatty Shi said shocked most of the people present. You must know that the people present in this conference room are either territorial nobles or candidates who are about to become territorial nobles. Everyone is the beneficiary of the feudal lordship system. It's ridiculous to discuss how to help the millions of residents of Morente City to establish an equal, free, and independent new business alliance together. Lorist thought it was too ridiculous.
"But, at that time, the business alliance had six major chambers of commerce. They had wealth and materials, so they could help the business alliance gain a firm foothold in the Faliqiu Plain. Now Morant City has nothing but the million-odd residents. No, and almost all chambers of commerce have become enemies, it is really hard for us to believe that the new business alliance can be sustained..." Bodfinger stood up and expressed his doubts.
"A blank piece of paper is easy to draw on." Fatty Shi laughed: "It is precisely because of the absence of those chambers of commerce that Morente City is like a piece of blank paper for us to sketch on. Without the chamber of commerce, we can We have community organizations, and the various chambers of commerce in the business alliance restrict the development of the residents of Moriente City in almost all aspects. Without the restrictions of these chambers of commerce, I believe that the residents of Moriente City will explode amazingly soon. creativity, they will bring us a miracle."
Fatty Shi's plan mainly focused on several aspects. First, he advocated that more than a dozen social organizations in charge of the twenty-four communities in the outer city unite with the temple district and the college district to elect representatives to form a council to be in charge of all the people's livelihood affairs in Morente City. Let go of the previous restrictions on various industries by all chambers of commerce, and encourage residents of Morente City to conduct various business activities. The business alliance used to put the parliament under the jurisdiction of the chamber of commerce. Fatty Shi will do the opposite and let the parliament govern all commercial activities.
For those captives who surrendered, Fatty Shi believed that the more than 100,000 recruits recruited by the Business Alliance in several southern provinces and stayed on the Mana Hill Plain could be sent to Yungeshandra Province as a labor force for development. The 112,000 soldiers and captives of Morente City who surrendered can select a group of elites to form four or five regiments to replace the family's armed forces to garrison several fortress cities on the Fali Hill Plain. After all, the family's armed forces have gathered four main legions. In Faliqiu Plain and Morente City, the family territory is very empty.
Regarding people's livelihood, Fatty Shi suggested starting with the shipbuilding and fishing industries. These two industries were previously controlled by several large chambers of commerce, and private individuals were not allowed to intervene. Even private fishing can only be done in the Golden Bay, and cannot go to sea for deep-sea fishing. The seafood in Morente City is basically caught and delivered by the Chicod Chamber of Commerce in the Sunshine Sea. Now Morente City is under the control of the Norton family, and the seven or eight shipbuilding workshops in the Golden Bay have become the Norton family's spoils of war.
Fatty Shi suggested that these shipyards and their spare materials be used to repair warships and build fishing boats, recruit crew members from the residents of Morente City, and even sell the boats to them. On the one hand, fishing can enrich the dining table of residents, and on the other hand, the hemp raw materials collected in those warehouses can be used to hire residents to weave fishing nets, which is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
In the end, Fatty Shi also suggested hiring residents to level the land in Thomas City and Gypsys City to build farms. The three-year bloody battle in Faliqiu caused nearly 400,000 farmers on the Faliqiu Plain to flee to Morente City for refuge. Now that the fighting has subsided, it is possible First restore the fields around the two fortress cities near Morente City, set up large and small farms according to a certain scale for agricultural production, and reduce the number of unemployed residents in Morente City...
These plans of Fatty Shi are very effective measures and strategies, but the only problem is that they need huge financial support. Director Speer frowned and asked this question: "Where does this money come from? It is impossible and impossible for the family to withdraw this money..."
"You don't need the family's investment." Fatty Shi laughed: "Morente City is actually very rich, but we can't get it."
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