Gold is Justice

Until early in the morning, the mermaid army finally completely withdrew from the city. The city lord was probably afraid that the mermaid army's retreat would be fraudulent, so he didn't lead the army out of the city to attack, and was completely shrunk inside the city.

In this battle, the mermaid army sacrificed twelve soldiers and injured 31.

As for the casualties of the imperial army, it may be similar in a short period of time, so there is no need for Ariel to investigate.

While she laments that such a city is still difficult to capture in one go, she is also relieved that the goal of the campaign has been achieved.

Throughout January 1307, Ariel was finalizing the village's foundation work.The land on Qiongshen Mountain is as hard as iron, just like the name of this mountain, even reclamation is so difficult, and it is full of various saline-alkali lands that do not grow plants.

For this reason, Ariel ordered the element factory to quickly produce an element car that can be used in such a mountain road, or a small element reclamation tool that can be used portablely to facilitate land reclamation.

Before the ten element factories were fully completed at the end of January, Ariel wrote a letter to the city lord based on the information from the front line, expressing her wish for peace talks between the two parties and business together.

Of course, such a request would be regarded as a provocation by the other party and thrown back directly, but it doesn't matter, Ariel continued to write letters in the second month, and also started further financial rectification work...

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"Phew... this continuous rainy day finally seems to be coming to an end."

Early in the morning, Ariel woke up amidst the non-stop rumbling sound of those elemental machines. After a brief wash, she put on a hat, gathered her blonde hair, and walked out of the room.

After entering the cafeteria, she took a small piece of hard bread and a sip of water like the other soldiers, and smiled at the other soldiers who paid attention to her, beckoning everyone to continue eating, then she took a bite of the bread and took a sip of water. He walked over to the soldiers who were squatting on the ground or sitting on stones.

"Madame Marquis."

Seeing her approaching, the soldiers got up quickly. Ariel smiled, took another bite of the bread, and squatted on the ground like the soldiers.She raised the clay bowl in her hand to take a sip of water, and said, "Alfred, did you discuss anything about the plan we discussed yesterday?"

A soldier next to him quickly put down the soil bowl in his hand, wiped his hands, took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket, and said, "Ms. If you do this, there may be some troubles in the future.”

Ariel took another bite of the bread: "What's the trouble?"

The soldier said: "According to the procedure we agreed on yesterday, then the matter is handled in this way. First of all, those handheld cultivators. This kind of cultivator is really good, it is very small, not as huge as the plow hanging on the element cart, and the two hands It can be operated, and the operation is quite simple. It is just right and convenient to use on this kind of mountain.”

"We show the farmers this hand-held cultivator, and then distribute the cultivator to them and let them plow the land. After they have plowed the land and harvested the crops, we will use food as a tax."

"But Ms. Marquis, there is a very important point in this, that is, we brothers have the final say, if we really give the cultivators directly to those farmers, on the one hand, our production capacity is limited and we cannot produce so many. Second, the cost is too high for us.”

Ariel frowned, put all the bread in her hand into her mouth, chewed a few mouthfuls, swallowed, and glanced at the other soldiers: "Is the cost really that high? Our city lord For a month, I didn’t even dare to go out of the city, and I didn’t dare to mention the encirclement and suppression of us. I thought we could contact the rich towns down the mountain more.”

The soldiers said: "Ms. Marquis, we... really do not study much, and we did learn some basic mathematics knowledge with you. But no matter how we calculate, the cost is too high. If possible, How about we turn all those farmers into miners? Dig a little more magic crystals, which is more convenient than farming."

Ariel rubbed her forehead, and after thinking for a while, she turned to another soldier and said, "Bulton, when we were discussing two days ago, you mentioned an idea, what is that idea?"

Another soldier was taken aback, and then said shyly: "Ms. Marquis, that...my proposal is to provide farmers with loans, let them borrow money from us, and return it after they make money... …But……"

His eyes flickered, and he glanced timidly at everyone around him——

"However, this method is the method used by those landlords to destroy my family... I was just obsessed with ghosts for a while, and I thought this method made money really quickly, so I proposed it... I didn't really want us to go back to the landlord The old way of collecting rent! Ms. Marquis!"

The soldiers next to him saw that the soldier became nervous, and they all said, "Ms. Marquis, please forgive him. He was just in a daze for a while..."

Ariel quickly waved her hand, shook her head vigorously and said, "No, no, no, I'm not blaming you. I just don't think we need to settle the matter so deadly. Indeed, the landlord has used this method to harm many people, but the method It’s not harmful in itself, what really hurts is the landlord’s desire for more money. Well... we can use a more flexible method to deal with this matter so that things don’t become so rigid.”

After thinking for a while, Ariel clapped her hands together and said, "How about this? We also set up a bank to borrow money, and let the villagers borrow money..."

Before Ariel finished speaking, a little soldier suddenly stood up, his face flushed, and he said angrily: "Ms. Marquis! Why do you still use this method?! I knew that you would never cheat us people like this. I just joined the Mermaid Army! Why do you want to lend money again now?!"

Seeing that the little soldier became emotional, Ariel didn't speak.The soldiers next to him hurriedly comforted the little soldier and let him squat down again, but they also looked at the leader with their eyes, seeking answers.

Ariel smiled, and said: "Please listen to me. As I said just now, there is no distinction between good and bad methods, and the person who uses the method is the key to determine the effect of this method."

"Although it is said to be a bank, and it is indeed used to lend money to the villagers. But in our bank, lending money to those villagers requires those villagers to sign a contract."

As soon as they heard the word "sign a contract", some soldiers reflexively broke out in cold sweat and couldn't sit still.Ariel didn't care, and continued to say——

"On this contract, we wrote it like this. It stipulates that the villagers who have borrowed money can only use the money to buy small cultivators produced in our element factory!"

"After buying these cultivators, they have to pay us grain during the summer harvest, which is about a quarter of the price of the small cultivators. In this way, after two harvests, the summer harvest and the autumn harvest, next year's autumn harvest They should be able to pay off the debt. The cultivator can also be owned by them at this time."

"During the use of the cultivator, if any damage to the cultivator is not their own will, then our mermaid army will be responsible for the repairs, and they do not need to bear the repair costs. If you are cultivating with the cultivator, but due to various If it is not their own reasons that cause their farmland to fail or have no harvest, then we will not expropriate their grain and let them postpone it until the next harvest.”

"However, after we hand over the cultivating machines to them, if we find that they have not kept them properly and have not worked hard to cultivate the mountainous land, then we have the right to take back the cultivating machines, and their arrears are also on the date of our recovery of the cultivating machines. Time to write it off."

"And the most important thing is that in the price that our bank promised to lend them, we promised not to charge any interest."

"How about such conditions?"

These soldiers in charge of finances look at me and I look at you, they are slowly digesting Ariel's proposal.

Some of the soldiers even stuffed the bread into their mouths, then took out paper and pens from their pockets and began to calculate.

After a while, the soldiers finally figured it out, and said, "A quarter of the money may not be recovered in two years, and it will take three years. However, if someone works hard enough to reclaim a lot of wasteland, Maybe there will be a miracle."

"Ms. Marquis, this kind of contract is really rare. There is no interest, but in fact, we will not give them any money, but hand over the cultivator to them. The purpose of the cultivator... is only to plow the land , there is no way to use it for other purposes.”

"Yes, yes, and our handheld cultivator is suitable for use on the mountain, but it is not very useful on the plain below the mountain, so there is no need to worry about the villagers selling the cultivator privately, after all, it can't be sold for much money. "

"However, some preventive work should be done. For example, if someone maliciously destroys the cultivator or sells the cultivator, then punishment should be imposed..."

"Punishment? Confiscate the house and land? Then what is the difference between us and those nobles?"

"You are stupid! Didn't you hear what Ms. Marquis said? We will only do this when the villagers don't cherish the cultivator at all! And we are all farmers, you think we will deliberately prevent the villagers from cultivating the land, Squeeze them in the end?"

"Well... Ms. Marquis, this method is very good. It encourages farming, encourages mutual trust between the two parties, and does not need to give money, but only needs to give this kind of materials that are not used in other places... Very good! We can say first come first Well, this way, we don’t have to worry about running out of stock, after all, only those who want to get rid of poverty the most will work hard to fight!”

"But Ms. Marquis said just now that there is no interest, and if anyone is lazy, they will take back the cultivator and cancel the previous account. In this way, many people will still come to apply with the feeling of not wanting nothing at the beginning. Bar?"

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"That's right...or you should set a little interest, not too high, a symbolic charge of about two or three percent. Then if the other party breaks the contract maliciously...you should ask the other party to pay a little money, not too much It will make the villagers unable to survive, but it will not make the other party feel no pain at all."

"The speed here is a quantity that needs repeated debugging and mastering... What do you think should be the right amount?"

"We need to have a good discussion on this. After breakfast, let's take out the financial data and do a good calculation."

"I have a question here!"

"What's the problem? Say."

"Of course we know that what we are doing is not the kind of money houses, landlords and nobles in the past. But if we tell the villagers, they may not be able to tell what we are talking about. And we are now After thinking about so many details, are we really sure that those fellow villagers can patiently understand and understand?"

"Well...that makes sense, so what should we do?"

"Hey, hey, I have a way to say that! In the small town I used to be, the local lord made money through the bank. But then this lord seemed to be killed by another lord, and the other lord originally wanted to We all know how to use money to make money, so we didn’t make much money at the beginning. Later, the lord thought of a way to change the name of the original bank to Gold Bank! In this way, everyone thought that the gold The bank is not the same as the bank, so it continues to be scammed. So I thought... how about we change the name of the bank as well?"

"Great idea! This is really a good idea! I support it!"

"I support it too! Gold business? It sounds like a gold business, okay, that's great!"

"Okay? I don't think so."

"Ah? What's your opinion?" "Everyone, think about it, this name is Jinxing. Although I didn't know this name before, after hearing this name, my first thought was that this business needs a lot of money. , and it’s all gold! People who can go here must be either rich or noble! My brother, you are a small town, maybe everyone has a little money? But this is a mountain of poverty! People in the village live all year round I’m afraid you won’t even see a little bit of gold, and if it’s called Jinhang, it will scare the villagers away from coming, right?”

"Hmm... This seems to raise objections to... you, so do you have any good ideas?"

"This... I didn't think of any good idea for a while..."

"Cut~~~~~~~"

"Gold Bank... Gold Bank... Hey, I said, since I think the name of Gold Bank is too noble, so that ordinary people dare not come... In the past, the currency of the Blue Bay Empire was gold, silver, copper, and iron. Right? We don't use gold, what about other currencies? That sounds a little cheaper, doesn't it?"

"Bank...copper...iron...well, that feels right. What shall we call it? Bank? Copper? Iron?"

"It's simple. Everyone in our team is not rich and powerful. When we have lunch at noon, we will write out these three names so that everyone can hear which name is more attractive and make people feel more comfortable. Isn't that all right?"

Ariel just came up with an idea, and then watched these soldiers start divergent thinking along this idea. It didn't take long to think of all aspects of a small idea, and began to plan some details and digital content. Ariel was really relieved.

In the past, she also needed to think about these details, but now with these soldiers who are gradually mastering knowledge, they can think together and brainstorm together, so that the efficiency can be faster!

And the little soldier who looked very angry just now is also infected by this atmosphere, constantly putting forward various ideas, thinking about what kind of troubles he may encounter, and constantly coming up with ideas to fill in various loopholes to adjust it. This is where Ariel hopes most.

Ariel was born as a slave, an ordinary person who has absolutely no fighting power and no elemental affinity, and can catch a lot of people anywhere in this world.

Let these ordinary people discuss the establishment of rules and think about how to solve the problem. This path may be the shortcut to build that beautiful world, isn't it?

After breakfast, the soldiers also started to go to work separately.Some go to maintain order, some go to contact people in the village, help the villagers do some work to improve their goodwill, or go out to investigate and so on.

These soldiers who were in charge of the economy surrounded each other while discussing, and went to a simple small thatched hut next to them to start analyzing various data tables and calculating costs and benefits.

Regarding this, Ariel walked towards the current military base of the entire base with her hands behind her back.

Soon, she came to a small shed outside an element factory, reached out and knocked on the door.

The door opened, and out of it was an alchemist who had followed Thor from the Isle of Help.It can be seen that the alchemist now has dark circles all over his face. After seeing Ariel, he opened the door and let her in.

It's just that before Ariel walked in the door, she heard bursts of noise coming from inside.

"Why can't it be added? Adding a device that can guide magic power can obviously increase the shooting power of the elemental gun! It can greatly increase the attack power!"

"Of course it can't be added! Our goal is to make it as popular and popular as possible! The original elemental gun itself is already popular enough, but if you add a magic guide device, it will soon become something that only a few magicians can use." The weapon used?"

"I said, why are you so stubborn as an assembler? So what if a magician can use it? After adding the magic guiding device, it doesn't mean that ordinary people can't use it."

"But it's expenses, it's expenses! Moreover, our weapons are mass-produced. If you only order a small batch of special elemental guns, then our production factory will have to modify various settings, and the workers will have to Retraining, many assembly lines are equivalent to replacing all of them and starting over again! Mr. Thor, I know that for alchemists, all magic props may be handmade by you, so there is no requirement for mass production. But For our element factory, the first thing to consider is batch, batch, or batch! If you want to lead your alchemist apprentices to completely customize these weapons by hand, then I have no objection! But, you can’t Enter the assembly line!"

As soon as he entered the door, he saw the top assembler of the mermaid army and the chief alchemist of Help Island arguing about the transformation of the elemental gun.

And on the table in front of them, there were several elemental guns that had been dismantled, even a nut and a nail had been removed for better modification.

On both sides of the shed, four or five staff members were lying or sitting or lying down, including the mermaid army assembler who came with Tesla, and the alchemist apprentice who opened the door to welcome Ariel just now.It's just that compared to these two people who are obviously very excited, these people seem to be about to die from overwork.At first, the two quarreling people didn't notice Ariel's arrival and continued to quarrel.It wasn't until Ariel picked up the barrel of a disassembled elemental gun from the table and looked inside that the two finally realized that someone was coming, and finally shut up.

Then, while Tesla was still astonished, Thor jumped onto the table, hooked Tesla's neck, and said to Ariel cheerfully: "We were discussing technical issues just now. It’s so pleasant! The elemental machine is really a very novel power system, which is completely different from my previous alchemy! Mr. Tesla, are you right? It’s simply amazing!"

After Thor's neck was hooked like this, Tesla reacted, nodded quickly, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Yes... yes! I don't have magic affinity, so I haven't done enough research on alchemy all the time. After talking with Mr. Thor for a while, I really feel that there are really many subjects in this world, and there are still many things worth learning!"

Ariel smiled, she didn't have the time to deal with the theoretical dispute between the two now, after putting down the barrel in her hand, she said——

"Mr. Thor has been here for more than a month. I would like to know whether the two of you have any other ideas and creations other than the semi-finished cannon that can be fired in a single shot last time. Our current element factory is almost completed, the required iron ore and copper ore have also been transported from the nearby mountains, and there are enough magic crystals. I really want to know if there is anything new to see? "

Regarding Ariel's question, Tesla could only smile wryly, and said, "President, how could it be so fast—"

"No? Mr. Tesla, I remember we discussed a good idea last night, didn't we?"

When Tesla retreated a little, Thor beside him suddenly widened his eyes, and even put his arms around his neck tightly, while constantly winking.

The corner of Tesla's mouth twitched, but after a while, he exhaled and said: "President, during this time, I have basically been introducing to Mr. Thor the usage method and creation concept of our elemental gun. During this period of time, Mr. Thor also asked me a lot of questions. Especially last night, we discussed a very controversial issue."

Ariel folded her arms, nodded, and said, "Oh? Tell me."

Tesla picked up a gun barrel, turned one end to his eyes, looked out from this side, and said——

"Although our elemental gun has a long range and strong attack power, it has three fatal shortcomings, that is, it will produce a lot of smoke after firing, which is easy to expose the target. At the same time, it takes a lot of time to reload the ammunition every time. This has led to the fact that our elemental guns basically do not have the ability to covertly shoot and continuously fight in a short period of time. Finally, the shooting accuracy of the elemental guns is actually not particularly high. It is very difficult to hit a non-moving target 50 meters away.”

Ariel nodded and said: "You have mentioned these three issues before and said that you want to solve them. Later, we evacuated because of the devil's affairs, and there was no time for you to deal with these matters. So what do you think of to solve now? method?"