Chapter 1058, the Dead Cycle of Industry

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After learning that Alfred was fine, Ryan let go of a big stone in his heart: "Are you sure?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, according to the news, Patriarch Alfred will stay in Brunswick for a period of time. His Majesty is said to have announced that he will be promoted to Cardinal." Talleyrand leaned on his cane and turned to Ryan He smiled and said, "This is really good news, Your Majesty."

"It can't be said to be good news, Talleyrand." Ryan had already escaped from the ecstasy at this time, and the Knight King couldn't help frowning when he heard that Alfred would be promoted to a cardinal: "The cardinal What does it mean? It means that Alfred must be resident in Brunswick and serve as an advisor and assistant to the High Priest, so the Diocese of West Britannia must appoint a new Patriarch."

"Yes, but it is said that the Justice Church is willing to break some small conventions for this. I mean, maybe Alfred will also serve as the patriarch of the diocese in the capacity of a cardinal." Talleyrand leaned on crutches, he smiled He said: "I think His Majesty the Great Priest must have arranged it like this."

"It's possible." Before Ryan could speak, Suria spoke, and the female knight said to Ryan: "It is very likely that in addition to Alfred, there will be a huge cataract, a whole The full administrative team, and the Battle Priests Corps"

"Okay, okay, Suria!" Ryan really admired his queen's political sensitivity. The King of Knights sat back on his chair and stopped Suria from continuing: "Don't jump to conclusions so quickly, If the Justice Church gave Alfred a ready-made team, then we have the need to be vigilant, my dear, think about it, is it possible that Archbishop Vicmar asked Alfred to let him do it, and do it himself What about building a whole set of administrative teams?"

"It's not impossible." Suria thought for a while and accepted Ryan's point of view, and the female knight sighed: "What I'm worried about is that the loss is so huge. The Justice Church must have suffered a great loss in recent years, and Alfred The 800 people taken away by Germany suffered so many casualties, what should the local civilians do? How should we deal with the issue of pensions? Wouldn't the anger enough to comfort and appease the military family be transferred to your head?"

"This is a problem." Ryan was reminded to the point by Suria.

After a series of brilliant victories in the Great Expedition allowed the Bretanians to enjoy unparalleled dividends, it also brought a side effect, that is, the Bretanians have begun to get used to "victory is taken for granted."

And similarly, the war that Ah Fu participated in was not convincing to everyone. Ryan knew that it was very easy for people to understand that it is very easy to fight "to defend their homeland and protect their own interests". Active participation.

But it is very difficult and almost impossible to let the ignorant serfs and even most of the free people understand that "we are fighting for the well-being of mankind and the safety of order".

Some people must say no. For example, in the previous Celestial Dynasty, the people pushed the victory with small carts?

Brother, let me just say one thing here, the spirit and ideal are great, but what really touches the hearts of the people is the interest. The land reform is in the real sense, so that all the oppressed farmers can get immediate benefits and benefits, so everyone is willing to win the food and shadow.

Why was Ryan able to directly subdue all the dukes without shedding a drop of Britannian blood? Isn't it because he directly brought benefits to the common people and defended their rights?

But Alfred is not like this.

"How much of Alfred's army survived?" Ryan thought for a moment and asked Talleyrand, "Is there any news?"

"Yes!" Talleyrand looked at the letter again to confirm, and added: "A total of 46 people survived and stayed in Brunswick with His Excellency Alfred."

"Promote all these 46 people, the serfs will be promoted to freemen, and the freemen will be promoted to honorary freemen.

Ryan said lightly: "If there are already honorary free citizens, if there are any, I will canonize them as knights, and integrate these 46 people into a new team. They will be Alfred's future administrative team." "

"Then they need a name, Your Majesty, a name you gave yourself." Talleyrand said respectfully.

"46 people." Ryan touched his chin, and the number 46 made some sporadic fragments vaguely emerge in his memory.

"Then call it Nogizaka46!"

I am the dividing line of Nogizaka46

Three days later, in Britannia, on the canal from Jean City to Mousilon, the king's coat of arms flag with irises on the yellow background of swords and swords in the book was waving on the canal.

Knight King Ryan wants to go to Mu Xilong to investigate the situation in person.

On the deck of the ship, Ryan and Bellegar stood together and looked at the scenery along the river. The first phase of the canal project was completed, the second phase was almost completed, and the third phase was about to start preparations.

"Brother Lane, I heard that you borrowed all the money to build the canal from national debt?" Bellegar asked with great interest, "Relying on the customs duties and toll taxes on the canal?"

"What? Is there a problem?" Ryan laughed like a fool: "I don't need to spend a penny, and it also strengthens the credit of the national debt."

"Yes, national debt." Bellega suddenly said with emotion: "It's a pity that this method can't be used on dwarves, you know, Brother Ryan, all dwarf clans only recognize gold or mithril, vibranium, obsidian or other What, no one will recognize this kind of bond."

"Are you trying to say that human beings are more likely to trust others?" Ryan understood Belgar's meaning with a smile.

"Oh, Brother Ryan wants to seduce me, but unfortunately, as the real king of Eight Peaks Mountain, I won't fall for your tricks!" Bellega laughed straight, stroking his white beard: "But Brother Ryan, I have There's something I want to tell you."

"Speak." Ryan said casually.

"Hero Dugan told me in private that you seem to be deliberately suppressing the Musilon military factory." Bellega said honestly: "He remembered that he said more than once that he wanted to open more factories and recruit more worker apprentices. At the same time, I plan to include several nearby places, but you just don’t agree, why, Brother Lane?”

"Isn't the reason very simple?" Ryan said with a smile: "It's easy to say that there is no limit to expanding the industry, but what if the things produced can't be sold?"

"Why can't it be sold?" Bellega still didn't understand: "You have such a big country with a population of more than eight million, how can you not sell it?"

"Yes, there are a lot of people, but what should most people do if they don't have money to buy?" Ryan continued with a smile: "Most people work hard to ensure food and clothing. How can they have money left to buy weapons produced by military factories? No more food, no more land?”

"Uh" Bellegar was at a loss for words.

Ryan knows that industry has its own dead cycle, and he is now using administrative power to suppress the excessive development of Musilon's industry.

What is the dead cycle of industry? In fact, the reason is very simple. Industrial production needs a very strong agricultural support, and in the production process, industrial production is always relatively surplus, always tends to produce more, and always tends to be more profitable.

Therefore, after excessive production, goods are hoarded, and when the industry develops, the wages of the labor force will naturally rise. At this time, the industry will tend to open more markets to dump goods, and obtain cheaper labor and cheaper raw materials. Pursue high profits.

What should we do if the domestic demand is met? Then go to open foreign markets.

What should I do if domestic labor is too expensive? Then bring in immigrants to find cheap labor.

What should I do if domestic raw materials are too expensive? Then try to lower the price of raw materials or import raw materials from outside.

Saturated again? Labor is expensive again? The raw materials have risen again?

That's another cycle.

Needless to say how to do it specifically, a few keywords: triangular trade, the empire on which the sun never sets, and the Opium War.

But in this world, that step is hard to take.

Triangular trade? Go to Ulthuan and Naggaroth to capture elf slaves? Go to Lustria to catch the Lizardmen?

Even if the hidden dangers of separation and independence are not considered, the premise of overseas colonization is to defeat the natives. Britannia has defeated the Arabs, but the Tomb King deep in the desert is

Or turn around and go to war with the neighboring empires, dwarves and wood elves?

Once the industrial expansion fails, the crisis begins.

Of course, there is another point that Ryan also told Bellegar, that is, he also needs to ensure the development of agriculture and social stability. Many people have always looked down on agriculture, but Ryan is very clear that agriculture is the foundation of the country, and the development of agriculture must be guaranteed. Only with the stability of the society and the stability of the knight kingdom can we have the opportunity to survive the dying moment, with agriculture as the mainstay and industry as the supplement.

In fact, Ryan has been intentionally hostile to the business princes of Fort Marienne.

Capital has never been a kind person. When a businessman becomes rich, the first thing he thinks of is not to encourage production and healthy competition, but to frequently cheat and force the good to be cheap. Capital only pursues two things, the first is profit, and the second is The second is its own value-added.

In Ryan's view, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is essentially the same as developing manufacturing and suppressing the financial industry.

To give a simple example, why do I have to work in the fields when I can live by collecting rent? Go to work in a factory?

It is too slow to collect rent to make money, why not speculate in real estate!

Real estate speculation is too slow to make money, why not speculate on land!

It is too slow to make money by speculating on land, why not just speculate on concepts!

Playing drums to pass flowers around, looking for someone to take over, that's how Nur's land price rose.

But these things are faced with the real catastrophe and the threat of the last moment, the so-called prosperous housing market and developed capital squeeze out the water, what is left?

"Brother Lane is right." After hearing this, Bellegar thought about it, and the King of Eight Peaks nodded silently. He thought about it a lot, and he understood why Thorgreen kept emphasizing dwarven food and beer after he became the High King. Be self-sufficient.

Looking at it this way, this fellow Thorgreen's beard is still very long, Bellegar thought: It's a pity that he is still not as powerful as my Brother Ryan.

According to the rules of the dwarves, the Musilon military factory has two days off every ten days, a ten-hour work system, and all statutory holidays are off. The cost of employing people is actually quite high, but on the one hand, Ryan insists on it, and on the other hand, the dwarves are stubborn. However, the result of this is that it is impossible for the Mousilon military factory to compete with the Nuer military factory except for a small number of high-end products, but how can Britannia completely rely on imports for firearms? So Ryan wants to suppress on the one hand, and subsidize on the other hand. The three chief engineers of the military factory, Dugan Tiehan, Sergo and Kalashnikov, all have some opinions on this. Dugan complained to Bellegar this time. As a result, Bellegar came to Ryan to speak.

Ryan narrowed his eyes, now all the goals are to build high walls, accumulate food widely, and develop insignificantly, with the goal of getting through the last moment.

At this time, the world changed drastically again, and the King of Knights subconsciously turned his gaze to the north.

Somewhere the great guardian node has failed again!

At the same time, in the north of Brittania, a mysterious place facing each other across the sea, is the island of Obion, which is always covered by dense fog.

North of the Great Ocean, west of the Norse Coast.

When the Old Sages came to this world, they fell in love with the good place of Obion Island at a glance. The sun is shining here, the seasons are like spring, and the crops are plentiful. The Old Sages chose this place as an important stronghold.

There were already human beings in Albien at that time. The ancient sage chose to teach the human prophecy spells and mantra spells to the humans here. These primitive humans are called "truth messengers". It is said that these truth messengers brought the fire of civilization to other humans. , It is said that there is no intelligence to confirm the authenticity.

After that, everyone knows that the Old Sage's bipolar portal collapsed, and the mortal enemy Chaos came to the door. No one knows whether the Old Sage escaped or was completely wiped out, but before leaving, the Old Sage left two This can be called an incomparably rich heritage of megalithic circles and ancient giants.

The giant stone circle created a huge enchantment, which limited the corruption of Chaos to Norsca and no longer invaded the south, and the ancient giants showed incomparably powerful power to kill the Chaos invaders, and persisted until the Great Vortex was built and Chaos faded .

But the price was also huge. The fog covered the sun and the sky, and then heavy rain and storms followed. The whole of Obien quickly turned into a rainy and muddy swamp. Due to the extreme isolation from the outside world and the passage of time, a large number of inbreeding marriages lead to more and more ignorance and continuous loss of knowledge left by the ancient saints, and the ancient giants gradually degenerated into a group of fools.

Thousands of years later, the original demon prince, Belak, came to Obien.

Bilak is the first demon prince in the universe. He used to be under the four gods and above ten thousand demons and received powerful blessings from the four gods at the same time. However, Bilak always had the ambition to become the fifth god of chaos and began to resist the four gods. God's order, so Tzeentch cursed and took away its body in order to punish its arrogance. Bilak was forced to become a shadow, and most of his strength was taken away and injected into the crown of the chaos artifact. Become a twisted soul all day long in madness and chaos.

There is only one task left for Bilak, which is to guard the crown of the master, crown the warrior who passed the qualification examination and become the new Chaos Eternal God, and give him a horse.

This was repeated several times, and when Bilak came to his senses occasionally, it stared at Obien's giant stone circle. The original Demon Prince first corrupted the few remaining Messenger of Truth on the island to make them think they were Old Sages, Worship it like a god.

Then, after corrupting some of the Truth Worders into dark emissaries, Bilak successfully obtained the ancient sage energy in the giant stone circle, and almost recovered his physical body, but unfortunately failed, and was finally defeated by the order alliance of high spirits, humans and lizardmen.

But today, Bilak's seal was opened by a traveler. After decades of searching, he finally found the original demon prince.

"Where is the Crown of Dominion?" The traveler's words were both pleasant and annoying.

"Aha, another self-righteous idiot wants to go to his destined destiny!" Belak just woke up from madness, the original demon prince is purple in color, and his appearance is terrifying enough to make mortals terrified and even frightened to death .

"Let me ask one last time, where is the Crown of Dominion?" The Chaos Artifact Kingslayer was unsheathed, and the Chaos Demon Uzul within the sword was ready to move.

"It's really the last artifact, the Crown of Domination, in the Chaos Temple deep in the northern part of the Roof of the World Mountain Range!"

"Take me there, immediately!"

"as you wish."

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