Power and Empire Chapter 695: The way home (9)
695 Homecoming Nine
The storm of early spring has not yet passed. The violent storms and rain are still raging outside the Governor's Mansion in Su Luo. From time to time, the sound of big trees being broken, crushing all nearby houses,
Salton turned his back on his back, looking at the street outside the window in silence,
The patters of the big raindrops on the windows. Although there are raindrops and stars outside the window, there are still lights in the city, like the stars in the sky, the streets are crowded with people, the screams of the merchants’ streets, and the pedestrians are leisurely. The light of the walk is like a shadow, and the lively girl in various clothes strolls on the street in the rain, as pleasing to the eye like a butterfly flying down.
Because the prosperity of Su Ruo has not been affected by the war, it has been maintained since the Swadian period. As the largest city in the south of Swadian, from east to west, the scale of this city can be described as magnificent and long. The city wall is 30 miles wide, which is definitely one of the best cities in Ikadiva, where the population of the entire continent is only about 30 million.
The Suluo area is located in the center of the three borders of Swadian, Dorok, and Nord. The conditions for becoming a business center are unique. The new Governor Suluo Salton adopts an economic policy similar to a business alliance. , All trade in the Suluo area has cancelled the traditional trade tax, and the actual transaction amount shall prevail, and a one-twentieth tax shall be implemented.
This policy has greatly eased the impact of the destruction caused by regional turmoil,
The nobles are still drunk and dreaming in the banquets and songs, while the commoners live their own little lives. The occasional silver bell-like laughter from the window sill, you can see a pure and lively face in the blink of an eye. Su
The Su Ruo people are not all Swadians. In order to build a logistics base that can fight against Nord, the Su Ruo people consciously built Su Ruo as an economic center of the entire south. Warin, and Su Ruo in the south, the strategy set by the first Swadian king has been regarded as a national strategy by subsequent generations of Swadian kings.
Facts have also proved that because of the solid support of the Suluo region, the northern momentum of the Nords in the south has been blocked several times. These two places have been used as the focus of population migration, forming the largest resource area in the north. Three counties, and the largest logistics center in the south, Su Luo.
It is against this background that countless peoples conquered by Swadian have been driven here. Under the power of Swadian, after hundreds of years of integration and evolution, a region mixed with ethnic origins has been formed. Race, Su Luo people,
They are different from the more orthodox blond and blue eyes of the Swadian people. Most of the Suruo people have a little black appearance, thick lips, and their eyes are not blue, but a bit of mixed blood. Silver gray,
Maybe the reason for the mixed descent. Su Ruo’s women are always known for being beautiful and coquettish, while men are handsome and handsome. If you touch a real blonde and silver eyes, it’s definitely just the look in your eyes, which is enough to make most women's hearts move. Evildoer,
Dozens of areas separated internally and externally, from the innermost high-class noble area to the outer civilian residential area, densely populated roofs, countless densely staggered streets divide the city, forming its own unique life In this district, the 300,000 Su Ruo people living inside seem to be living peacefully without feeling the flames of war pervading the mainland at all.
Since Salton became the lord of Su Rao, the thieves who dared to do business without capital on Su Rao’s roads, and put the public security in Su Rao area first, have been attacked by this big figure from the Ministry of Military Affairs. Severe blows. The local garrison and the newly formed Suluo local army used them as training targets, but only 2 months later, the famous Greenwood leaders at the time, apart from leaving Su Ruo who knew the current affairs very well, other Everyone obediently hung their heads at the gate of Su Ruo to warn them to go with him.
The public security is good, the transportation is convenient, and the most ideal passage for border trade. The roads are filled with all kinds of goods every day. Vehicles are flooding into the vast market in the city. Su Luo is becoming the largest and most prosperous in the southeast region. City,
Unfortunately, Salton, who created all of this, has a bad reputation in Su Ruo, because he is the governor of Su Ruo region. He not only has administrative power, but also has military power. The newly formed Su Ruo Di One, the Second Army, in addition to the defense task, has another important task, which is to check the goods in and out of the trade to see if there are any prohibited goods in the trade.
The definition of prohibited goods is constantly changing. Weapons, war horses, and armors are naturally prohibited goods. However, in Salton’s personal review of the "Circulation Act", iron ore raw materials, grains, and other general daily necessities suddenly become In addition, the local military and political chiefs can also define and add to the list of prohibited items according to the actual situation.
In this case, Salton, who is the supreme commander of the army in the Suluo region, has a very large command authority. He has the right to determine the prohibited items and types according to the actual situation, and organize the arrest and seizure of the troops. In other words, if he disagreed, the merchants would be breaking the law even if they transported a bundle of firewood from Su Luo.
Such power is in the hands of one person. It goes without saying that Salton's fullness of oil and water is the most enviable even in the Nordic military.
Actually, Salton belongs to the kind of person who has been in office for three months and has a net worth of over 10 million. As for where the money is used, not many people know it.
In a week, Salton summoned all the subordinates who hadn't yet sat on the chair with their butts in the chair, and made a big official speech before speaking.
"Recently, the guards have been loosened. Many illegal businessmen have smuggled prohibited items on a rampant basis. This has harmed Su Ruo’s normal economic order. You must not remain indifferent to this phenomenon! Starting today, the various troops have carried out a three-month rigorous effort. To combat cross-border smuggling, you must strictly implement it! If you dare to slack off, don’t blame my subordinates for being merciless!"
"Yes! The generals of Nord replied in unison
Salton took out the catalog with a smile, and the generals of Nord were immediately stunned. Almost breathless, I saw the catalog of prohibited items. It is 20 centimeters thick and weighs up to ten catties.
"My lord...this..."
Someone turned it over and read it tremblingly, and immediately took a breath of air-conditioning. The content of the catalog is so rich that you can compile a large encyclopedia. The items listed are varied, from toothpicks and lipsticks. , Nail clippers, donkeys, commoners, wood, iron ore, war horses are all in it.
Such a heavy catalog made the General Nord look at each other, and they turned around and left. In the next three days, various checkpoints and border patrol troops throughout Su Ruo received a thick catalog. I don’t even bother to read it. Instead of memorizing which is in the catalog, it is better to memorize which is not in the catalog.
Su Ruo’s tax revenue doubled in a month, and some people even heard that Salton used the money to set up a combat department in his governor’s mansion, but at least really two reorganizations. The garrison of the Legion, and the full monthly tax of 300,000 gold coins, are enough to shut up many people at Nord's senior management.
Because everyone knows that what His Majesty lacks most now is the army, and then money. Nord, who has just experienced a fiasco, urgently needs to absorb the lost nutrients from various places. This time the battle of the southward advancement, Compensation for war damages of more than 70,000 people has made the entire Nord’s finances almost bankrupt, and the accumulated treasury for several years has been empty.
Even the Minister of Finance has been sick for 18 days and has not participated in the court meeting. There is no way. It is said that there are as many as seventeen or eight generals who block the Ministry of Finance every day to demand compensation for war damages. These grumpy guys, if It is not estimated that the Minister of Finance is also from the Ministry of Military Affairs. He has directly directed the soldiers to break the gate of the Ministry of Finance.
This time the two reorganized legions were defeated in order to break through the siege, and the Crimson Erdo legion was directly deemed annihilated. With the tens of thousands of mutinies in the Southern Army, this battle is definitely a rare sight in the Kingdom of Ruud in a century. Shame!
If it weren’t for the Falcon Army’s last faint move, and the Nord Army found an outlet to return to China, I’m afraid that the 150,000 Nord’s elite troops would be buried in the mountains in the southern part of the Vicia, but they ran back. Life was not easy. More than 20,000 people were lost. They were attacked by the Falcon Navy in the sea and lost more than 20,000 people. In the end, the number of troops who returned to China by 10,000 ships was less than 50,000.
Next was to appease the Southern Army whose homes were destroyed. The Treasury allocated nearly half a year's income in advance for this. What worries the Nord Kingdom is still to come. The southern coastal areas of the kingdom are still in the hands of the Falcon Dynasty. If you want to regain it, the money you need to spend is hard to count. Some ministers have to wonder whether Salton's move is also a secret order of your majesty!
The change in Su Ruo’s attitude has the greatest impact on the business alliance. Because of too many prohibited items, many caravans have to stop trading activities, but the impact is also huge. Because of the shortage of materials, Su The state of this southern center undoubtedly has an impact on the entire Nord,
About Su Ruo’s abnormal report, it was first sent to the headquarters of the business alliance closely related to it in late March. After receiving the letter, Socutus Delan, after carefully reviewing Su Ruo’s recent merchandise trading items , Immediately drove to Boan Stewart Manor outside Riwading City,
No one will know that this manor with early spring hyacinths~IndoMTL.com~ will be the fat man’s temporary residence now,
Because of temporarily passing through Riwading, the fat man just stayed here temporarily for one night, this is a beautiful place
Dense farms, green fields, a river passing through the front of the manor, winding eastward to the horizon in the distance,
Golden light and shadow are floating on the plains, and the breeze is driving in the fragrance of weeds and mint from the window,
Here reminds the fat man of his falcon territory, calm and calm
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