Vol 4 Chapter 18 seen – felt

Sobia is a typical inland city, geographically located in the easternmost part of the Xingxing Plateau, and East Balam is bounded by the Oudas Grand Canyon, and there is no obvious boundary with the northern indigenous area.

The next afternoon, a group of four arrived here.

After arriving here, Aphra was very happy, and the smile on the corner of her mouth never let go. Many of the laws and regulations here were formulated and promoted by Ariste with them, so she has a sense of accomplishment and is proud of her brother at the same time.

“Teacher, I’ll tell my brother first and let him prepare accommodation for us.”

Not long after entering the city, Aphra suggested to Grelint.

Of course, Sobia also has official residences, but the group of soldiers that Arist and the others led were all from mountain bandits. There is a martial arts field and a garrison, so they simply built a school field outside the west side of the city.

The most important thing is that Arist and the others are not involved in government affairs themselves, so there is no need to live in the city.

But as the actual controllers of this small city, it is of course very easy for them to find and arrange several accommodation with better conditions.

Grelint shook his head and said:

“No, we’ll just stay at the hotel and see Arist tomorrow.”

He wanted to observe the changes brought about by the New Deal from the side. After all, ideals and reality are often different, and he didn’t want to let Tripp, the bullock driver, know that “Grelint” is the actual controller here. Know this Yes, only Avra ​​and Alister, even Sasha and the four of them, have only seen the image of “Ellen Bieber” in Grelint.

“Oh, okay, teacher.”

Aphra blinked, not knowing why, but she nodded obediently.

…

The colonial area of ​​Intis is wider, but the intensity is lighter. It did not establish a colonial government and exercise comprehensive military control like the Loen Colony. Instead, it implemented the so-called “co-governance”, that is, semi-military control. Generally, they are still indigenous forces, but they usually have to provide policy facilitation for the interests of Intis.

The result of this is that there are often fires everywhere, and some cities are often seized by the indigenous rebels or warlords supported by countries such as Feneport, and there is almost no cultural assimilation.

Of course, after the Northern Continent has been colonized for two hundred years, it is inevitable that there will be great changes here.

The most obvious point is that the currency they use has basically been completely replaced, and only hard currencies such as gold and silver can still be used for transactions.

Due to its proximity to East Balam, the mainstream currency here has two systems.

This is a relatively large denomination banknote, and the slightly smaller ones are the two Loen currencies of pennies and soles, and the Intis currency of dinars. Intis implements a two-tier currency system, 1 felkin is equivalent to 500 dinars, and the official exchange rate is 1 dinar to a quarter of a copper penny, and its purchasing power is in the sense of Grelint. 1 yuan is equivalent to RMB.

That is to say, 1 gold pound is worth 240 pence, or 960 dinars, which is about 2 fils.

Of course, the denomination of “fell” is too large, and “dinar” is too small, so there are five denominations of dinar, 5, 20, 100, 250, and 500.

It should be admitted that the Phil-Dinar is a lot more scientifically sound than the gold pound-soul-pence, which is a mind-blowing and very stupid currency system – at least it follows the decimal system.

Grelint stayed in a relatively common budget hotel, the price was 100 dinars a night for a room.

The price of a hotel with the same conditions is about 40 pence per night in Backlund, about 25-30 pence per night in Verteke, and about 15-30 pence per night in several medium-sized cities that Grelint has just passed through. 20p.

That is to say, just looking at the price of the hotel, the price or economic level here can already be compared to Vertec, and the latter is a rare large city in the Southern Continent, and its status in the Southern Continent is equivalent to Loen’s Stoun , Coston City.

Of course, it is definitely not reasonable to take hotel prices as a reference standard.

So Grelint took another look at the price of rye bread. As the staple food of the people at the bottom, this is more informative.

25 dinars per pound.

Sure enough, from the price of the staple food, Grelint immediately saw the problem. The economic level corresponding to this price is comparable to that of large cities such as Stonn and Coston, and even small and medium-sized cities such as Tingen. Cities are no match.

Of course, it should be admitted that although Tingen is not large in scale, water transportation and transportation are relatively convenient. At the same time, it is a famous university city in Loen, which is not comparable to ordinary small and medium-sized cities. Moreover, Sobia is a grain-producing area, and it seems unfair to use rye bread as the basis for measurement.

In general, there is still some progress, and it can be said that it is great, but after all, the reform time is too short, and many aspects have not yet developed.

What confuses Grelint is:

“Why are hotel prices so exaggerated in Sobia?”

He casually asked the waiter at the hotel restaurant, a dark, thin, short man who looked about the same age as Grelint.

It seems that many similar questions have already been answered. The short, black and thin waiter did not think much, and replied casually:

“That’s right, sir, we are a well-known grain-producing place here. Both the output and quality of grain are very good. In the past, it was only because the commercial tax was too high, and it was very unsafe inside and outside the city, so there was not much. People come to do business.”

“It’s different now. Two months ago, I didn’t know where a group of strong men came, integrated the bandits, incorporated them all, and forced the government to reduce or exempt some business taxes, so there are many businessmen who come to do business. already.”

These non-local businessmen are the main source of tourists for the hotel, so it is no wonder that the hotel will increase the price like this.

“Oh?”

Grelint secretly glanced at Aphra next to her, stopped her from speaking, and then asked in surprise:

“I wonder how the prices of daily necessities and real estate in Sobia have been recently?”

As he asked, he took out a 1-soul note and handed it to the short, black and thin waiter as a tip for his service.

1 soli is close to 50 dinars, not too much, but definitely attractive to a general service worker in such a small city, so he clearly became enthusiastic:

“For general daily necessities, the price has dropped a bit. After all, there are more merchants coming and going, and in addition to receiving food, there are also more people who deliver and sell.

As for real estate, prices have remained basically the same, and many bosses are not sure how long the situation here will last. ”

Having said that, he paused, looked at the banknotes, and whispered mysteriously:

“However, our boss said that someone at the top seems to be vigorously promoting the proposal to ban the use of slaves recently, so the price of grain and daily necessities is likely to rise a lot. So if you are in the grain business, you must hurry up.”

It is normal. After all, after the abolition of slavery, the production costs of manor owners and factory owners will increase. If they want to maintain their original interests, raising commodity prices will be the only way. Only in this way, it is the common people who suffer, because some businessmen may take the opportunity to raise prices.

The abolition of slavery guarantees the human rights of those who used to be slaves, but it has no positive effect on the overall economic development, in helping to stabilize prices and improve the quality of life of the people.

After all, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and policy regulation can only be used to improve production relations.

If the production cost can be reduced by means of technology, then without government regulation, those businessmen will take the initiative to reduce the price of goods, because if you do not lower others, your goods will not be competitive in the market, after all, the production cost will be reduced. After that, others can still maintain a considerable profit even if the price is partially reduced.

“It seems that the abolition of slavery involves a lot more than I thought.”

After dismissing the black and thin waiter, Grelint fell into contemplation again, and then he returned to the room and drew up the title of a new article:

“Science and technology are primary productive forces”

After these five words fell, Grelint suddenly burst into laughter:

“As long as these articles are successfully published, Klein will definitely recognize that I am a ‘traverser’, and I am a traverser from the same country as him.”

…

The next day, leaving Carroll and Tripp behind, Grelint took Afra and came to Arist’s school grounds in the image of “Ellen Bieber”.

“gentlemen?!”

When Aphra brought Grelint to Alister, he was surprised and delighted.

Grelint nodded with a smile, and ordered:

“Let’s talk about the gossip. Now gather Sasha, Angelina, Basil, and Uri for a short meeting.”

“Yes, sir.”

With a little doubt, Ariste led the way.

…

Through Angelina’s report, Grelint has a general idea of ​​their achievements in the past two months:

Externally, they eliminated all bandits in Sobia and its subordinate villages and towns, and then tried to advance westward and northward respectively, and successfully trained troops effectively, which greatly optimized the quality of the original group of bandit soldiers in all aspects. Of course, because Grelint did not give them the right to recruit troops, even if some bandits were newly recruited, their troops still dropped to about 400.

Internally, they joined the indigenous mayor, Vincenzo Toure, to formulate stricter laws against crime, and sent 50 soldiers in turn to help hunt down those fugitive criminals, while appropriately reducing or exempting business taxes.

Then, they cooperated with reformist officials, including the mayor, to persuade or forcefully persuade a group of conservative officials to confirm the abolition of slavery, strictly monitor it, and implement a reporting system. But this decree has not been released yet, because those diehard officials did not know where to find a mid-sequence Beyonder, and the two sides are currently facing off.

Arist and the others also faced many difficulties. First, they encountered resistance from Beyonders both internally and externally.

The second is the lack of military spending, not to mention the purchase of weapons. Even daily training depends on fighting those bandits and looting their wealth. As for Sobia’s tax, Arist did not have the order of Grelint, so he didn’t dare to use it for the time being. .

The third is that their actions are not small recently, and the results they have brought are quite gratifying. It seems to have attracted the attention of the Intis military. They have published several condemnation and expulsion announcements in regional newspapers… But they are not Many warlord forces, including large and small ones, those with backgrounds and no backgrounds, have such a set of reporting procedures, but not many actually fall into place, so Arist was a little uncertain about their specific movements for a while.

“Mid-Sequence Beyonder…”

As for the Intis military affairs, Grelint is also uncertain. He plans to wait for Carroll to parasitize back to Eudora, and then check their information from the Secret Order. intention.

The only thing he could deal with directly was the Beyonder of Sobia.

Of course, after thinking about it last night, he has some ideas that need to be discussed in detail about the fact that the liberation of slaves will cause prices to rise.

I saw him tap the table with his index finger, and after thinking for a few minutes, he instructed Sasha:

“Call Vincenzo and his supporters immediately, I want to order some things, and by the way, help you solve the troubles of that middle-order Beyonder.”

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