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Section Five Hundred and Eighty-Ninth Economic Issues

Two years later, the Holy See's territory was continuously captured, leaving less than one-fifth of the original one.

As winter came, when the first snow fell, Tian Kuang led the First Legion to conquer Gabriel.

This is a war that is difficult for all parties.

The army of the Lord's Kingdom suffered heavy casualties, with more than 12 million people killed in battle alone. This, without weapons of mass destruction and the participation of armored groups, itself means that the battle is extremely tragic.

Tens of millions of people were killed in the battle. In order to supplement the losses on the front line, Joseph had to recruit a large number of civilians. The age of soldiers' selection expanded repeatedly. By the late war, it had already increased to fifteen to sixty-one. As the most elite Holy Cult Army lost all losses under the joint attack of the Empire and the Kingdom of God, the Holy Cult Army was filled with a large number of old men and children. Especially at the end of the war, in the last offensive and defensive battle in the capital Gabriel, many women even appeared in the Holy Cult Army's troops.

Tianhao ordered the city of Gabriel to be temporarily closed to form a guard circle with strict garrisons.

He spent more than a week in the abandoned dungeon and returned to the ground, feeling disappointed.

This base is not as good as expected. It has to be admitted that the priests did a good job in maintenance and experimentation. Although the biologically modified weapons closed underground look quite like that, there are almost no ones who can actually be put into battle... In fact, it is normal to think about it. If biological weapons made breakthrough progress before the catastrophe, they had been used in actual combat long ago, rather than being left in a semi-sealed state until now.

The real gain is the computer information database, as well as the scientific and technological achievements hidden by the Holy See in the long years of the past. The relevant information was filled with hundreds of carriages and transported back to the north under the protection of heavy troops.

The infiltration of the three countries of Viking, Rhine and Goreth are still continuing. The shift in the main battlefield means that the army's attack is turning, and Rahman is very satisfied with this and expressed his willingness to continue the alliance between the two countries and finally complete the conquest of the entire continent.

The empire's population is growing, and the troops with the heaviest losses on the front line came from the PKU. More than 5 million people died in battle during the Holy See War. Tian Hao recruited white civilians twice that number. The combat followed the old rules of the past. The regular army of the Empire was responsible for overall control, and the battle with the highest mortality rate was handed over to the PKU.

Of course, some people are dissatisfied and some people escape, and they will never escape the surveillance of the supervisory team.

Family planning was implemented very well. Take the Saxon-occupied area as an example. In the past few years, the birth population has been far less than the death population. Of course, this is largely due to Hutson. He was frightened by Klena's tragic death, and since then he has spared no effort to correct his mistakes and waved his butcher knife at his tribe members.

It is undoubtedly a delusion to kill all white people in a short period of time. Tianhao can only start from other aspects.

The most important means of control is education.

The Imperial Ministry of Education issued a grading examination system for the Dragon Language in the year before yesterday. It is divided into ten levels according to different stages. Only white people who pass the Dragon Language Level 4 exam are eligible to become (promoted) the third level. The examination is conducted once a year and the certificate of passing is reviewed every two years. If you pass a higher-level language exam, you can get more rations and you can even serve as middle and lower-level officials in the occupied areas.

It became so important to master the dragon language. Through repeated wars, the Dragon Empire has become the most powerful country. Whether it is the iron-clad ships crisscrossing the sea or the steam trains emitting thick smoke, the conquered white people feel fear and then awe.

There are still many white people talking about the Holy Lord privately. Their worship of the word "rice" is deeply rooted in their bones and will never be eliminated in their lifetime. However, the influence from the giants in the north is very obvious. Even during daily prayers, many Holy Lord believers use the dragon language instead of their former mother tongue.

If you want to master a language to the extreme, the best way is to train daily oral language.

Longyu teacher quickly became a new and popular profession.

"Forget English, that is the inferior language used by barbarians. Bloodline is always the key to determining whether a noble identity is not as simple as you imagined. Being rich can certainly allow you to enjoy material creatures, but you still have to use dragon language for discussions on the spiritual realm... You actually asked me why? Well, if you give up learning dragon language, go back to the dirty and inferior fourth or even fifth social level! Eat rotten and smelly food, sleep in the pigpen every night, never repent, and always talk about your damn, inferior, and extremely inferior English!"

The Imperial Ministry of Education fully promotes the teaching of dragon language, and teachers stationed in schools in the occupied areas must also use dragon language in the classroom. Regardless of whether you can understand it or not, in short, just study honestly. Spend more time and completely forget your mother tongue. Only in this way can you keep up with the times and keep up with the trend.

The expanded dragon language has affected all aspects of the occupied society.

Farmers must speak the dragon language when paying taxes, otherwise even if they pay the full annual share, they will still be determined by the official under various excuses to be considered as "vaccine". They must be filled as required and a three-fold fine will be paid.

"Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying." This is the standard official reply.

Of course you can resist, the ending is that the whole family is killed and beheaded and displayed in public.

Do you think language and cultural occupation is as simple as saying it is? If there is no strong army as a backing, who dares to do so?

When the empire incorporated the overall demographic statistics of the occupied areas into the control system, the dragon language penetrated every corner of the white society.

If you want to get married, you must go to the Civil Affairs Bureau of your jurisdiction to register. The registered officials will ask random questions, but if you can't answer them, you will not be able to get the certificate. In fact, the question itself is very simple, nothing more than "You Ma Gui's surname". The key is the dragon language Q&A. If you don't understand, get out and turn left. You will pay five yuan of dragon coins per person and receive a one-month language short training class.

The whole process of registering a child is a dragon language conversation, and there is no English letter on the ID. It is your business to not understand it, or the same sentence - if you don’t understand it, learn it.

The per capita ration distribution of all towns must be used in Dragon Language. If you cannot name your own name in Dragon Language, just go to the side honestly and watch those guys who are fluent in Dragon Language receive bread, and you can only go hungry.

When these harsh regulations were first implemented, there were strong opposition voices everywhere, and there were even large-scale opposition to demonstrations.

Tianhao's response is very simple: leave the matter to Stewart and Eliza, and let them kill their own people. The reason why this world is chaotic is that there are too many opponents. These guys usually hide in the dark, but now they all take the initiative to jump out. The next job is to catch them and behead them.

In this process, innocent people will definitely be hurt, but so what? It is never a good habit for melon-eating crowds to watch. Anyway, the white people die, and the more they kill, the better.

With the demise of the Holy See, the opposition to Dragon Word in the occupied areas became smaller and smaller. But the number of white people was still huge, and not everyone had the talent to learn language. They were restricted by various laws and regulations, forced to study, took language exams again and again in pain, licked their wounds in failure, fought at night, and studied painfully day after day until they collapsed.

On the eve of the exam every year, various language training classes can make a lot of money.

After the exam every year, a large number of white suicides appear everywhere. The methods are diverse and exciting. Jump off a building, dive, cut the throat, take poison, lock yourself in the room and burn coal to death, kill yourself by swallowing a gun, stabbing the stomach with a knife halfway, and ask friends to help behead their heads, set fire to burn themselves... In short, there are all kinds of strange things, everything is there.

The Imperial Public Security Maintenance Force is an exception. According to the relevant laws promulgated by the young emperor: those who have military achievements can temporarily avoid learning Dragon Language.

Please note that there is one keyword in it - for the time being.

The imperial security maintenance force is huge, and the war against the Viking, Gorgeous and Rhine is still ongoing. Tianhao puts the kingdom of God last and maintains ally relations, but has long formulated a secret combat plan with Rahman as his imaginary enemy.

The plundering of the occupied areas enriched the living supplies of the imperial people. Correspondingly, banknotes replaced metal currency in all aspects.

Rahman, the king of the Lord, did not live as well as he thought. The biggest trouble came from the domestic economy. Although he received a generous amount of war, what followed was the repayment of the loan to the Dragon Empire. When he married Xida far away from the north, Tianhao agreed to give Rahman a huge loan, mainly for military purposes. The Lord's Kingdom purchased a large number of flintlock guns... Now, the last batch of military aid has ended, and the installment loan payment has reached the fourth phase.

Rahman took out a huge amount of gold and silver.

The treasury is empty, and the Dragon tribe refuses the payment method of white slaves. Their reasons are very good: we have many slaves and cannot accept more white people. Moreover, these people have to eat and cannot let them starve to death in vain.

As a last resort, Rahman accepted the suggestion of the Imperial Finance Ministry: to completely replace the original metal currency of the Kingdom of God with the Imperial Dragon Coin and become the legal currency recognized by the king.

Rahman is not stupid. He played a trick on the signing documents - the fiat currency recognized by the king. There are too many variable parts of this. If he abdicated, if he changed his king, if he refused to admit it one day, then the dragon coin is a piece of dragon coin, a piece of waste paper.

He soon discovered that it seemed like he was a cocoon.

The king was not a businessman, and his concept of wealth was limited to gold and silver. But this situation was not widely used by all people in the Kingdom of God, especially those who did business all year round.

Merchants are particularly sensitive to money. They are very clear about the concept of currency and have a clear understanding of "national currency". They can even be said to have an extremely profound understanding of "national currency".

Rahman would never know that Duke Abbas had been bribed by the young giant emperor. Of course, that did not mean that the Duke had betrayed the Lord, but that the Duke had made some decisions in the face of great interests and believed that these decisions would not lead to too much loss to the Kingdom of God.

When Duke Abbas met the young giant emperor, he heard such "secrets" from Tianhao that he had never thought of.

"This is a piece of gold, this is a piece of silver. Under the premise that they are also one kilogram, the volume of silver is much larger than that of gold. According to the current market price, one kilogram of gold can buy one hundred best slaves (the price among the nobles of the Lord's Kingdom refers to a female slave with a certain special skill and a healthy adult male slave). But in this transaction process, a problem will inevitably arise--When you take so much gold to trade at a designated location, is your safety guaranteed? Can you be sure that the other party will not be slandered... Well, I mean, not only will you not give the slave you had agreed on, but you will kill people and rob your money and directly steal your gold?"

Tianhao's words are full of life philosophy: "So when conducting huge transactions, you must bring enough bodyguards. But this will create new problems: If you hire too many bodyguards, you will not be able to make enough profits from this transaction. Because you have to pay the bodyguard's salary. You can only cut a portion of the gold as a commission, and the remaining gold cannot buy the slaves agreed upon before."

Duke Abbas fell into divine thoughts, and he unknowingly fell into the logical trap woven by the young giant emperor.

"This is just a small example. Believe me, the scale of transactions in reality is much larger than this. Porcelain, spices, gems, fine silk, salt, steel... All these transactions must be paid in sufficient amounts of gold and silver. They are heavy, and to ensure safety, merchants even hire or form a small guard. This is inconvenient and will cause more problems."

Tianhao did not exaggerate it. All of these have happened in the history of civilization and are also the biggest disadvantages of precious metal currencies.

"If it is paper currency, it will be different." When he said this, Tianhao looked solemn, and his whole body released a breath of wisdom: "The banknotes are very light, even if it is a banknote worth a kilogram of gold, anyone can put it in his pocket and take it away easily. From then on, there will be no need for bodyguards again. As long as you hand the banknotes to the buyer, you can bring a sufficient number of slaves to the home happily..."

"Wait!" Duke Abbas was not a fool. He interrupted Tianhao: "I think I understand what you mean. But the equivalent of money and gold is still a long way from Roaring City to Mavie Castle. There is still a covetous look of thieves and bandits along the way, and security is safe and secure... This seems a bit unreasonable?"

"This is the question I will talk about next - the bank." Whenever this happens, Tianhao's smile is particularly charming: "As long as you open a bank between Roaring City and Mavieburg, you can exchange gold for banknotes from the local branch."
Chapter completed!
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