Chapter 1383: Difficult Delivery of Dragon Island Strategy

Because the Greco family fleet's trip was imminent, Lin followed William on his family's ship without making much preparation.

The design of Midi's sea ships can be said to be quite advanced, directly based on the Galenic sailing ship. As for the Galen ship, it was the hometown of a certain traveling people, but the wooden sailing ship before the advent of the steamship era had reached its extreme development. Including the gun emplacements on the sides, the layout of the ship's masts and rudders, one can see the shadow of an unknown senior traveler.

However, there are no artillery in Midi, so the gun positions of Midi sea ships are equipped with crossbows. One of the great advantages of the crossbow is that it can be used with the magic crossbow, which is one of the few weapons that can kill sea beasts.

In comparison, artillery shells are more difficult to process magically; someone who has tried to make physical magic bullets knows this well. Lin speculated that this was also a major reason why the unknown senior did not introduce artillery technology. After all, everyone knows about the Galen ship. It is impossible not to know about the artillery. They are all products of the same period.

The magic weapons of ordinary warriors or the attack magic of magicians are just like scratching an itch for huge sea beasts. Only by using siege-level weapons can it possibly cause harm to the opponent. A sea ship equipped with a ballista is the best combination.

Most of the fleet are three-masted sailing ships with a large load capacity. However, because they are transporting large livestock, mainly cattle and sheep, in order to maintain the minimum space for movement, the transport capacity cannot be increased, and they can only make up for it by increasing the number of ships. After all, living animals such as cattle and sheep cannot be stacked and arranged as closely as ordinary goods.

The ship Lin and William were on was a battleship in the fleet. It is smaller in size, but its number of masts and sail area are not inferior to those of larger ships. This means that the battleship is faster and more agile. This has certain advantages in combat on the ocean.

However, unlike the ships from the Age of Discovery back home, there are still supply needs for gunpowder and cannonballs, so the ships in Midi have a relatively large margin in terms of carrying capacity. These extra cabins are not used to hold the supplies needed by other ships, but to carry the main interests of this fleet, which are the private goods carried by the family, including some stuffed by the Imperial Navy. Personal extra money'.

Among the private goods used for trading with Long Island, the largest items are coins, followed by various crystals, gems, and magic stones; there are also many white waste magic stones that have used up their power. There are also some glass beads mixed in. If someone is not dazzled...

In addition, there are also strange products and works of art designated by certain dragons. There are even some craftsmen! However, these people were not sold to Dragon Island, but to work on Dragon Island. After finishing their work, they would follow the subsequent fleet back to the main continent. For example, help some dragons carve stone statues, or help some dragons that have transformed into human form draw an image.

Ignore the fact that the merchants of the Karlsruhe Empire dare to use glass beads to deceive the Dragon Clan. Only then did Lin notice one of his blind spots, which was the coins stored on Dragon Island. This turned someone's trip to Dragon Island from a casual trip to a must-go trip.

Wherever there is money, there should be a place where the goddess of gold coins shines with all her power!

However, opening a bank on Longdao requires on-the-spot evaluation before making a decision.

The reason why I say this is because the dragons want money not because of the value of the coins, but because of their desire for the precious metal itself. Making a bed with gold coins can be said to be the thing that the dragons are most passionate about and love to compare with each other. In other words, the dragons' view of 'money' is not so much a medium for transactions, but rather a decoration and furnishing.

In this environment, the high or low precious metal content of the coin itself is not the point. As long as there are enough of them and they look amazing, that's enough. This is reflected in the fact that a considerable part of the coins transported by the Greco family fleet are bad money that other places disdain to use.

If it weren't for the banks promoted by someone, the value of the bad money would explode. Taking the bad money to the bank to exchange it is definitely more beneficial than using the bad money directly at a discount. It is estimated that all the low-quality coins that cannot be circulated in the empire will be used to trade with Long Island. Because that's how it was done before.

But now the actual value of bad money has been discovered by banks, but banks have not yet been fully promoted in the empire. This makes most holders of bad money keep their coins and wait for banks to officially open near them, so as to earn the maximum benefit from their bad money. This made the Greco family's work of collecting coins more difficult.

Previously, a family challenged the route they controlled to Dragon Island. It was because of a lack of coins that they asked for help from outside. As a result, this became a signal of the Greco family's weakness in the eyes of outsiders. In order to deal with the challengers and collect enough money, they almost had no time to catch up with the fleet.

And this fact means that if you want to use the value difference between coins to encourage the dragons to use banks to exchange Coin coins, it will not be very effective. It's like serving a plate of exquisite dishes to a person who only cares about eating rough and filling, and he will probably only get a comment that the food is not enough to fit between the teeth.

Different demand sides require different strategies. But Lin hasn't thought of a good way yet.

Besides, the coins left on Dragon Island cannot become part of the currency in circulation, which is not conducive to the growth of the Gold Coin Goddess. For the route planned by Lin for the goddess, the most important thing is to let the coins with the goddess's mark, that is, the Coin coins, circulate in the Lost Land. The focus is on circulation!

But the habit of dragons is to save. Continuously accumulating wealth without using it. This goes against the original meaning of ‘circulation’.

Saving is a good habit, but it is one of the contributing factors to economic stagnation for society as a whole. Some major consuming countries have even developed the concept of "advanced consumption", forcing people to become mules under the whip of capital and keep moving forward with debts on their backs.

This approach will make some economically disadvantaged people become sacrifices and leeks of capital, allowing wealth to be concentrated in the hands of a few people. But doing so can create economic prosperity.

However, a very interesting joke is that capitalists require employees to dedicate themselves selflessly and work overtime in addition to normal working hours. I wish I had to shorten the time for eating, sleeping and going to the bathroom, and focus entirely on the company.

The business is on call 24 hours a day, and it's not only exhausting but also exhausting. Because the customer is God and the boss is the Lord, their requirements must be fulfilled unconditionally and perfectly. Only in this way can we be called a small screw in the company's machinery and promote the company's progress.

Only when the company progresses can the entire society progress, and ultimately lead to the perfect ending of collective sublimation of the entire society. As for the fact that the little screws can only get a meager reward compared to the capitalists, no one cares.

On the contrary, the whole society is urging the little screws to cherish their blessings. Because some people are not even qualified to be screws. Those who are not qualified can only wallow in the mud and become maggots.

The employees worked hard and devoted almost 100% of their time and their best years in order to satisfy the bosses. But the bosses are not satisfied. Capital drives them to work harder to exploit everything and achieve their own success.

But employees who have lost all their personal time have no time to run their families, or else they cannot cultivate qualified next generations. In an instant, the capitalist discovered that the leeks were out of date!

Well...whose fault?

Farmers grow rice and eat rice, but they still know how to save the seeds so that they can be planted next year. Now even the rice grown is ground into rice and eaten. Next year I will plant a ball. Who is to blame? It’s just enough to eat dirt.

In short, this kind of prosperity will eventually turn into a bubble, or it will continue to enjoy a long and happy life, depending on the ability of the person at the helm. It's just thirty years to the east of Hedong, thirty years to the west of Hexi...forget it, it's useless to say more.

The good habits that the dragons happened to form due to their greedy habits were actually the opposite of Lin's ideas. If you want to reverse the habits of the giant dragons, you will undoubtedly have to do something about it. Then the secondary option is how to establish a certain status for the Gold Coin Goddess in the Dragon Clan.

This does not necessarily require deep faith. It is difficult for this group of arrogant creatures to devoutly believe in a certain god, even the rumored Dragon God. But as long as the Dragon Clan gets to know Ke Yin, it will be a great progress.

It should be noted that most of the dragon clan don't even care who the gods are. This is also related to the fact that the dragon clan has achieved the achievement of expelling the gods several times in history. Although he is not a god slayer, it also proves that the so-called 'god' is not superior to the 'dragon'. Naturally, they don't care who is in the group of gods.

But how do we make this clan, the eldest, my second oldest, remember a gold coin goddess? Lin has no clue at all...

On the one hand, this is because from the very beginning of the Ninth Power Plan, there was no such thing as dragons. Now suddenly there was this rather unique group, and Lin couldn't think of any proper way to arrange them for a while.

On the other hand, it was also due to Lin's unfamiliarity with the Dragon Clan. I don't know many dragons, and there are even fewer dragons alive. Since we don’t have a deep understanding, we naturally have no way of knowing what the Dragon Clan’s actual needs are. Since you don't know the needs, you can't purposefully write about the needs and guide the results in the direction you want.

Although supply does not necessarily mean that the target has demand, even if the other party does not originally have such demand, you can still find ways to create it. It's like the candy company in my hometown created a Valentine's Day in order to sell chocolates.

But the premise of all this is that only by having a certain understanding of the dragon family can we find a need or create a need for them. Before this, everything imagined was as unrealistic as a castle in the air.

Therefore, after going to Long Island, it is not a big deal to hide out and visit the sights before leaving. Do you need to communicate with dragons from various positions to achieve your goals?

Thinking of this, Lin regretted killing the two dragons before. Every living thing is affected by first impressions. The first impression I gave to the Dragon Clan was that I was a dragon slayer. This prestigious name outside would get so many looks on Dragon Island that someone would have a headache just imagining it.

Before he could sink into deeper troubles, the unusually violent rocking of the ship pulled Lin's consciousness back from his random thoughts.