Chapter 63 Economic Control
The road from Shangjiang City to Jiading City has always been envied by other cities. It is polished and flat bluestone paved, then filled the gaps with fine sand, and then roasted them with fire magic. The narrowest part of the entire road is ten meters wide, which is extremely strong and durable. Running on the cart with carts, it is almost impossible to feel too much bump.
If you run fast and transport more, the goods will be circulated quickly and the money will come naturally.
But except for the road from Shangjiang City to Jiading City, the roads connecting other cities are in disrepair. After the last war, the roads became even more dilapidated and the transportation conditions were very bad.
For example, Howard developed mineral resources during his time in Fengxian City, the Beast Clan, but Fengxian City was not close to the sea. They needed to pass through Nanhui City of the swamp clan to transport the mines through sea transportation. The fierce competition in ore business was not high, and the profits were not high. The swamp terrain of Nanhui made the transport costs of the ore clan very high and the speed was very slow.
Other cities also have road problems.
Everyone wants to build roads, but they don’t have money.
This time, Shangjiangcheng is willing to pay for everyone to build roads, which is definitely a great thing.
In addition, Shuntong Chamber of Commerce is willing to sell goods on behalf of others, which is also a very good thing for some cities.
The ore business of the beast tribe is not only affected by the road, but how to sell the ore in its hands is also a headache for them. The purchase prices of ores vary from place to place, and the orcs cannot enjoy the low tax policy of Shuntong Chamber of Commerce in the local area. Therefore, after selling ores, after paying taxes and paying shipments, there is really no more money left.
If the Shuntong Chamber of Commerce is willing to be responsible for the ore sales, the beast tribes in Fengxian City only need to give the ore to the Shuntong Chamber of Commerce to make money, which is much more than they earn by selling it themselves. In this case, Fengxian City does not have to consider the problem of whether ore can not be sold. It can devote all its energy to the development and mining of mines, and can even process the minerals semi-finished products to make more money.
In short, the support policies mentioned by Daliang, combined with the market owned by Shuntong Chamber of Commerce, can not only allow cities to maintain income from drought and flood, but also allow city lords to see a profit.
Finally, I was able to follow Shangjiang City and Jiading City to have soup.
However, compared to the simple-minded orcs and swamps, Duke Joshua could see Daliang's intention.
When the road is built, it can not only be used to transport goods, but also to transport troops. His Chongming City has always been in a semi-independent state because it is lonely on the sea. If you want to reverse, you can enter the land through Baoshan City and guard it. You can drive the fleet to the estuary of the Yangtze River and cooperate with the shore defense fortifications. You can't go ashore with few times the strength of the troops.
However, after this cross-sea bridge was built, when Shangjiang City wanted to attack Chongming City, it only needed to let the Pudong fleet control the bridge, and the human army could continuously invade Chongming Island.
Other cities will also expose themselves to the military fronts of the human and undead after the road is built.
In addition, Shuntong Chamber of Commerce takes over the goods sales links in various cities, and it is even more a waste of money.
When each city handed over the sales link, it was equivalent to handing over its economic lifeline to the Shuntong Chamber of Commerce. After losing its independent economic system, the Shuntong Chamber of Commerce would pinch you as much as it wanted. The Shuntong Chamber of Commerce and Shangjiang City's interests are highly consistent and inseparable.
Therefore, Shangjiang City first completes economic unification through this method. Even if someone reverses the situation, he will find that he is being controlled everywhere in terms of funds and the cost of rebellion will increase significantly.
Of course, if you don’t have a rebellious attitude, these two policies are very good for each city.
rebel?
Joshua no longer had this intention. He was a comprehensive defeat in the military and court struggles. He was guarding a increasingly dissatisfied Chongming City with the title of Grand Duke. The financial pressure had already made him anxious and his spirits much older than before.
Looking at the city lords whose eyes were already bright, Joshua knew that nothing he could say could not change the end. In this battle for power, the human race won the final victory, and Shangjiang City would have control over each city that had never been able to reach before. Unless the commercial empire of Shuntong Chamber of Commerce collapsed, the seven sub-cities could only rely on Shangjiang City.
Will Shuntong Chamber of Commerce collapse?
Thinking about the Dragon Clan delegation that arrived in Shangjiang, Daliang had already planned everything.
"Okay, okay, okay." Joshua couldn't help but applaud Daliang and said, "Earl Daliang is a nightmare for me, but it is a blessing for Shangjiang. I agree to build a cross-sea bridge from Shangjiang City to Chongming City, and hand over all the sales of farm products on Chongming Island to Shuntong Chamber of Commerce.
If Shangjiang City is willing to accept a part of the elves army, I am willing to sell half of the Chongming City army to you, including 100,000 soldiers including three golden dragons and six green dragons.”
Daliang said to Joyce: "Can I privately invest in buying this elves army?"
Joshua's willingness to take the initiative to disarmament shows that he has decided to completely surrender to Shangjiang City. This is definitely a major breakthrough for Joyce. The former king did not do it, nor did King Howard, and she did it.
Although Joyce, who didn't understand the economy very much, had not seen through why Joshua surrendered easily, it must be related to what Daliang just said. In fact, when Daliang emerged, the strong Joshua kept going downhill, and his rebounds were suppressed by Daliang.
Joyce was very happy, and the army in Shangjiang City was mainly human race, and rashly joined the army of a large number of elves, which required great changes to the command and logistics system.
Since Daliang was willing to accept this elves army, Joyce agreed directly.
It was an extra surprise that a huge elves army was in his pocket. Daliang's ruling leadership was developing very rapidly, but the scale of the army needed to be accumulated slowly. Shu Xiao had already spread the stall in the world of Yingling, and various tasks were advancing in unison. The number of troops was really banned. He had complained to Daliang many times that there were not enough soldiers.
But Daliang has no good idea. He has a bigger stall in the Dead Country, and the undead army is not suitable for large-scale appearance in the ruling sequence. Now Daliang can only ask Shu Xiao to spend a lot of money to acquire soldiers from players, but the market for middle and high-level soldiers is very hungry and can't buy them even if you have money.
The 100,000 elves army has solved the big problem of ruling the shortage of troops.
Xu Man's Yunxiao Corps is the territory of the elves, and the logistics support of this elves army is not a problem at all. Moreover, Joshua even sells the Golden Dragon and Green Dragon clearly at a price. What is the difference between this and picking up the ultimate creature for players? Moreover, this is the active army in Chongming City, and the military combination is very reasonable, including a large number of middle and senior soldiers of Pegasus knights, tree spirits and unicorns.
But in this way, Daliang must ensure that this imperial meeting can successfully promote Joyce to become king, if Joshua disagrees and rebels.
Then... all those who die are brother's soldiers.
Chapter completed!