Chapter 2883 Three Volcanoes

Azula is experiencing something that a twelve-year-old girl has no chance to experience. Standing opposite a large group of old foxes, she found a very embarrassing thing, that is, the country has no money, and the money is used for war and loaned to the Fire King's beloved generals who need help. But the beloved generals also have no money, which means that they borrowed money because they have no money. Anyway, they don't want money, but they don't want to pay it back.

Even if the princess dares to kill people, she really can't do anything when she faces shameless and fearless ministers. Unless she can find someone else to replace these shameless people. At the same time, she doesn't believe that these trusted generals have no money. If they have no money, will the money disappear out of thin air?

The money definitely didn't disappear, but turned into various assets. The Fire King's trusted generals are not stupid. They know that money must be spent, otherwise it will depreciate. So they will turn money into assets, which will promote the appreciation of the Fire Kingdom's assets and obtain the added value of assets. And to buy assets, you don't have to show up in person. It must be a roundabout way, going through several white gloves, each white glove deducts a little, and the money is gone, gone, and can't be found.

Because of asset appreciation, more money will naturally flow into the asset market, so the money is still there, just circling in the asset market. For example, real estate, commodities, precious metals, antiques, etc., all make money in them.

So the Fire King has no money, his trusted generals have no money, even the white gloves say they have no money, and the people certainly have no money. No one has money. In fact, the money is in the market, always turning, and may stay in someone's hands for a short time, but as long as the assets are still appreciating, the money will continue to be traded in the market.

So it is difficult for the princess to get the money from the treasury from a specific person, and don't even think about getting money from the market, because once you get money from the market, a large number of assets will depreciate, and many people in the Fire Nation will go bankrupt instantly, and eventually the country will be ruined.

Duran told the princess all this and told her: "If the money is not used to upgrade the industry, but is just passed around in the asset market, then the Fire Nation may seem to have an active economy, but in fact it is vulnerable. Now, except for the airship project, the Fire Nation's other weapons and equipment are designed decades ago and are outdated. It is because the other three families' magicians have not developed weapons, so they make do. But once others start making weapons, they will soon catch up with the Fire Nation." Duran is not exaggerating. In the original book, there is a craftsman who designed a brand new flying stick for the Avatar, as well as submarines, hot air balloons, and various weapon mechanisms.

The flying stick is the traditional weapon of the Air and Tribe. It can release a pair of small wings and fly with the Air and Tribe's air control. It can also be used as a stick for fighting by folding the wings. The flying stick designed by this skilled craftsman for the Avatar is very easy to use, and even adds a snack space to place the snacks that the Avatar likes to eat, so that he can eat them when he is hungry while flying.

With the blessing of this skilled craftsman, combined with the gold control technique, the weapon advantage of the Fire Nation will indeed be surpassed. The Fire Nation relies on flames to smelt iron, while their metalbending technique relies directly on metalbending, which is more efficient.

In short, the Fire Nation now looks powerful, but its military expansion has come to an end, and its economy is also playing with asset appreciation. The situation is very bad, and it is already a spent force. The princess frowned, she was very heavy, she used to think that if she killed her brother, she would be the Fire King, but now it seems that it is easy to sit on the throne, but it is difficult to manage the Fire Nation.

"No wonder my father is anxious to capture Yonggu City. If we can't rob wealth from abroad, the assets of the Fire Nation will be difficult to maintain high prices. Once the assets collapse, the country will be finished. Now we really live on a volcano, a military volcano, an economic volcano, and a volcano in the geographical sense." The princess felt that the Fire Nation was so difficult? There are volcanoes everywhere. If any volcano explodes, the country will be finished.

The problem has been found, but what should I do? The princess was confused. Not only was she at a loss, the Fire King was also confused. The Fire King knew these problems better than the princess, but unless there was a big change or the Fire Nation was defeated, many problems could not be solved at all.

So it would be better if the Fire Nation was defeated at this time. Of course, if it was defeated, the military industry and soldiers would be punished, and the Fire King would have to step down. At that time, the prince would definitely be very popular, because the prince had already expressed his concern for every citizen of the Fire Nation.

"Why are asset prices high? That's because some people make money through asset appreciation. The poor make money through labor, and the rich make money through money. Even if the poor work twelve hours a day, they can never beat the speed of asset appreciation in twenty-four hours. But the rich have no money and have to continue to borrow money, because they have to keep investing in assets, so that they can maintain high asset growth and continue to attract more money to enter the market, so that they have the opportunity to make more money." Duran said that everyone has no money, because the money is circling in the market, and no one dares to take the money out, because if they take it out, it will collapse, and the wealth of the rich will also shrink, because a lot of their wealth is also converted from assets, and the reality is that they don't have so much cash.

"In short, a one-cent item is hyped up to ten cents, but in reality no one has ten cents, and the richest person only has nine cents, so he has to borrow money to support the level of ten cents, otherwise no one will believe him, and then the things will fall into his hands." The princess said very heavily, the problem is more serious than she thought. Although she gritted her teeth, she didn't know what to do.

Rely on killing? Rely on mobilizing the nation's artificers? The princess thought that there might be a chance, that is, relying on the supremacy of artificers to mobilize the power of artificers across the country, nationalize the assets, redistribute them, and continue to invest the saved money in new weapons to start a war again.

In fact, if redistribution can really be completed, industrial upgrading is more useful than investing in new weapons, after all, military expansion is no longer profitable.

It is better to turn the military into civilians, produce civilian goods, and then trade with other forces.

Duran thought that fighting such things could not last long, and it might be profitable to build after the war. But if the war zone is really built, then the Earth Power and the Water Tribe can rise again, and they will not look at the Fire Nation well at all.

So there is a very embarrassing thing about war expansion, that is, what to do after conquering the land? If you don't build, the management cost will be very high and you will lose money all the time. If you build, then the local economy will grow, and you can betray the Fire Nation and set up your own business.

So the best way is for the Fire Nation to upgrade its industry, and then trade with various places, and make various places accept the Fire Nation's set of standards through trade. Then make friends with distant countries and attack nearby ones, slowly nibble away at the land. With the same standards, it will be much easier to annex.

In short, expanding territory is not such a simple thing, especially the geographical location of the Fire Nation is very awkward. It is across the sea from other forces. If you want to rule the land, it is best to move the capital. In short, it is very troublesome.

The princess sighed and suddenly felt that it didn't matter if the Fire King was not in the right position. She didn't want to inherit the will of fire. It was too difficult. Facing three volcanoes, who could move? The only way out is to redistribute, then upgrade the industry, transfer the military to civilians, establish trade with other regions, export standards, and then move the capital. This is Duran's long-term suggestion, and the princess also knows that there is only one way.

After this set of processes, it is estimated that in a hundred or two hundred years, the Fire Nation will be able to change from an island country to a land country.