1562 Pie in the Sky
The sudden outbreak of riots outside the headquarters of Penteo's Southern Front aroused the attention of the Gefra people in the shortest possible time.
Then some very clear photos came out. Watching those Pengeo soldiers shoot and kill the local natives, all the Gaevras in Amelia felt a kind of...
An indescribable feeling of comfort!
A stream of cool air rises from the soles of the feet, then penetrates through the buttocks, and goes straight to the Tianling Cap, that refreshing and transparent feeling!
Compared to the Gaevra people who were gloating about their misfortune, the locals became a little confused.
Some people think that this must be fake news, that those people are not locals, but faked by the Gefra people.
These despicable Gefra people tried to pretend to be locals to attack the southern front headquarters, but the Penteo people saw through it at a glance and killed these people.
The Gefra people are so shameless!
That must be it!
But...some people began to calm down at this time, because it was not just the Gevra people who were spreading these rumors, but also their own people, the locals they recognized.
In a certain sense, the Gefra people are indeed not human beings. They burned down the city and supplies, leaving countless people without a living environment, food, or medicine, struggling to survive in the wild.
but!
They didn't kill these people!
Instead, it was the Penteo people who shot and killed these natives, no matter what the reason!
The enemy did not kill us, but "our own people" opened fire on the locals...
There will always be some people who think calmly, and then they feel something different from it.
Regardless of whether they would think this way, at least from the current point of view, the effect is better than what Gaevra and the federal people imagined!
The Pengeo people used to condemn Gaevra and the Federation from the moral high ground before, but now they can condemn them back, twice as much!
After something like this happened, the biggest change was that the indigenous people in the areas of Amelia that had not yet been "recovered" seemed to have become stable.
Some people are just mean.
Originally, it was not planned that Lynch would come back to the Amelia region, but in view of his cooperation with the Gevra government, Ancock's second batch of tanks needed to be delivered, so he came over.
He still has a lot of money to transfer here. Richard used his life to make a lot of money for Lynch. Lynch will be grateful to him for the rest of his life.
At that time, the Gaifra government did not show its weak side like it does today. The Prime Minister even bluntly told Lynch that the money he earned from Gaifra could only be used in Gaifra!
In other words, if he wants to transfer the money out, the money will disappear out of thin air, and the relationship between the two parties will drop to a freezing point.
If this money is used on the island, it will only be robbed by the nobles in various ways. This is what the nobles are best at, from the first night right to the first night tax.
Some people think that the "right of first night" possessed by nobles is a manifestation of the first night tax, but in fact this is not the case.
Strictly speaking, they are related, but they are two different things.
In the medieval period of Gefra, commoners in noble lands needed to report their marriages to the lord, and they had to pay a "marriage tax."
In other words, even if people got married at that time, they had to pay taxes to the nobles.
This is also an early manifestation of the first night tax.
But some people can’t afford the money. You can’t just stop getting married just because you can’t pay the taxes, right?
You know, the price of not getting married is that the natural fertility population index in the territory is reduced. In that era of sparse ethnic groups and frequent wars, if a noble has no one in his hands, it means that he will lose his life anytime and anywhere!
So the solution is very simple. When people can't afford the wedding tax, they use the bride's first night instead of paying the tax.
In fact, many people are more willing to do this than pay money!
Some girls even feel that if they can become pregnant with a noble child, it will be a huge promotion for them and their family!
This is one of the reasons why illegitimate children of nobles were common in the Middle Ages.
Maybe some people will be curious, forget it if they are beautiful girls, what about the ugly, fat ones...?
In order to ensure the justice and necessity of taxation, the nobles will sacrifice themselves a little!
In order to collect taxes, the nobles really used various methods.
In terms of plunder alone, Lynch is really no match for these nobles. Pillage is their ancestral craft, and there are many big nobles among them.
Lynch doesn't have much risk resistance in front of them.
Therefore, Lynch's choice at that time was to transfer money to the Amelia region for investment. His Majesty the Emperor and the Prime Minister were also very satisfied with this. Comprehensive support for the development of the Amelia region is a basic national development strategy.
Now part of this money has become stocks of some companies, and about 300 million to 400 million, in the form of precious metals, is lying in bank vaults.
If this money wants to leave Gefra and Amelia, now is the best time!
Gu Xi
They will go back from here with the transport ships and fleets. Only by putting the money in his own treasury can Lynch feel that the money is really valuable.
Otherwise, any accident may turn them into dust!
When Lynch arrived at Amelia, a lot of people came.
Even the Governor came to the port to greet Lynch.
The external narrative was that he was here to receive advanced military equipment from the Federation. In fact, he went directly to see Lynch without even looking at the tanks.
"I was happy for a while when I heard you came. Since you left last time, I have been thinking about when we can sit down and talk."
"Your predictions and opinions on the development here have been determined to be reliable. I admire your vision very much. The development of Amelia cannot be separated from your support, Lynch!"
The Governor was very welcoming. He did not call Lynch "Sir" or add his title after his name, which would have seemed unfamiliar.
Instead, calling him by his first name seemed more cordial.
The two held hands, and Lynch smiled and said a few words of modesty.
When he talked to the Governor about Amelia's economic development and market changes, he had suggested that the Governor's Office should not interfere excessively with the spontaneous behavior of the market, because the capital market has a very terrible ability to self-adjust!
There is no need for any individual or organization to arrange it. After each economic growth and development cycle ends, a second development cycle will usher in.
And in the second development cycle, find new growth points and correct the mistakes in the previous development cycle!
But this does not mean that capitalism is a perfect route, or that it has special value for people.
The class and inequality created by a few people controlling the vast majority of wealth are the biggest drawbacks of capitalism.
Even if the total wealth and production capacity grow rapidly, such a social structure cannot be changed, and various social problems and class conflicts will inevitably exist.
Some problems and contradictions can be solved very well. For example, workers' unions and socialist parties do these things.
They are inconspicuous, but they play a very important role in social regulation.
But some problems cannot be reconciled and corrected. These problems eventually accumulate to form a terrible pressure, and then explode within a certain period of time!
To solve these problems, further research and some less appropriate methods are needed!
This time the fall of Mr. Geruno and the Duncan family made the federal government realize this.
When conflicts cannot be resolved, the best way is to break down the barriers between classes, release the high-pressure energy from the top of society, and reopen the upward path.
This is equivalent to giving one or many meat bones to the lower class of society. The people who have already turned into wolves and have been targeting the lower class people of the middle and upper class will now start fighting for these meat bones!
The energy at the bottom is completely released in the dog-eat-dog situation, and society at the bottom begins to stabilize. People who get promotion opportunities will protect the interests of the group more consciously than those "old people"!
Society will enter a new reincarnation!
The "new aristocracy" will continue to suppress the changes at the bottom for a period of time and increase their own power, and then society will enter the primary stage of the next cycle.
You will find that the entire society has suddenly become very peaceful, prices have come down, and people's lives have begun to become better...
Gaevra, as well as the Amelia District, are embarking on this path, the path of capitalism.
So for the Governor, the "free market adjustment" that Lynch talked about has allowed Amelia's market and economy to achieve unprecedented development!
Imperial College even hopes that he can go back and give a lecture to talk to the professors and students of Imperial College about his experience in economic construction.
But what does he think?
The economy developed without him doing anything, and he himself was confused.
This is a side effect of the development of capitalism, and the market will become extremely prosperous.
After Lynch had a brief chat with him, he shook hands with other nobles and said hello.
The minor nobles have fled to the Federation. The nobles who stayed here have basically taken root in Amelia, and they have invested everything here.
It’s not that they don’t want to leave, it’s that they can’t leave and can only stay and live and die with Amelia!
After returning from the port, Lynch declined the governor's invitation and went directly to Blackstone's office.
There are currently 1,200 employees here, and about 6,000 employees are located in other areas. This is the headquarters.
People were very excited about Lynch's arrival. When Lynch said that he had also brought a large number of aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery, people even cheered!
During this period of fighting with Peng Jie'ao, Blackstone Security employees clearly realized that they were far from elite in front of Peng Jie'ao and Li Jun!
Although it is difficult to admit this, it must be admitted.
Even a ground force composed entirely of Blackstone security field services would have a hard time resisting Pengjiao's set of army war procedures that are proficient to the core!
They can only rely on more advanced military equipment.
Planes, and tanks!