Gold is Justice

A fat-looking female soldier spoke cheerfully.

Ariel nodded, and said, "The Royal Pharmacists' Association has given us four trade routes. What is the current situation of these four trade routes?"

The fat female soldier smiled cheerfully: "The situation is not bad! We have sent out a lot of mermaid coins through these four trade lines, and at the same time received a lot of imperial gold coins. Now these gold coins have been melted, Take the iron out of it and use it as a material for casting weapons and tools. It has to be said that now the empire has begun to paint a layer of gold leaf on the outside of iron coins to dare to call themselves gold coins."

Ariel nodded, also smiled and said: "There is no need to mint things like currency at face value. Other than that? How is our import and export of goods?"

The fat female soldier said cheerfully: "The situation has been greatly improved! We used to be short of salt in our area, and we basically had to dig mountain salt to make ends meet. But for things like mountain salt, Ms. Marquis, you also You know, there are always some impurities in it, and the taste is a bit bitter. If you eat too much, it may be bad for your health. Now we can buy a large amount of sea salt from merchants through trade routes! Not to mention, the sea salt of the Blue Bay Empire The quality is really nothing to say! In addition, there are some seafood, medical supplies, medicines, etc., which are all things we urgently need."

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Hearing that the current situation of the trade route is not bad, Ariel nodded slightly and smiled, and said: "Order, starting tomorrow, the exchange ratio between mermaid coins and gold coins will be 1.51 to 1, and then sent to the mermaid coins of the Blue Bay Empire." The value is still sent at the exchange rate of 1.5 to 1."

Although the fat female soldier didn't understand this matter very well, she also asked several soldiers engaged in economics in private, saying that if the exchange rate is lowered in this way, the price of the mermaid army will probably become cheaper and cheaper, but there is no way, Since Ms. Marquis said so, that's the only way to do it.

The fat female soldier took the order, and a tall and thin male soldier next to him said, "Ms. Marquis, I have prepared the announcement you ordered. Please take a look."

Ariel took the document from the male soldier and looked at it for a while, then slapped the table, nodded immediately and said, "Very good! Let's distribute it like this!"

The male soldier seemed a little dazed, but he still took the document back and went away muttering.

Others may not be very clear, but the male soldier knows that what he holds in his hand is a business invitation document.

With this document, the next thing Mermaid Army has to do is to issue an announcement to all businessmen in the entire Blue Bay Empire. Anyone who is willing to come to invest in the territory to build factories and produce materials, Mermaid Army will not only be exempted. In the first three-year tax rate, various administrative and financial preferential activities can even be given with extremely favorable conditions.

Can such a method attract those businessmen to invest their money?The male soldier didn't know, he only knew that even if those businessmen came here to invest, they would make a lot of money in the base area, and the money might not be transferred to ordinary people like him.

But even so, since Ms. Marquis gave the order, of course the operation must continue.

Afterwards, there was a short soldier. Ariel raised her head and handed over a document with a smile: "From today onwards, we have set a minimum wage limit. The monthly minimum wage is at least There is also one yuan mermaid currency. If it is lower than this figure, no matter what business you do, it will be suspected of breaking the law. This is a suggestion given to me by some of your colleagues in the Department of Justice (Harmony). I think it is feasible, and we will implement it now. If our If the economic situation improves, the minimum wage can be raised again.”

The short soldier took the decree and turned to leave.But after hesitating for a moment, he turned his head and asked: "Ms. Marquis, there is one thing I have been thinking about all the time, that is, although the minimum wage of one yuan seems okay, if our currency continues to depreciate, what will happen in reality? It’s not a lot, is it? And the price is not so rich compared to some developed areas of the Blue Bay Empire, and the areas where those rich businessmen are basically located are also in those developed areas. Under such circumstances, will Wouldn’t it cause those people to come to our base areas to invest in building factories, so that they don’t have to pay taxes, can get the land for building factories for free, and at the same time suppress us with the minimum wage?”

Ariel tilted her head and thought for a while, and then finally nodded slightly with a slightly apologetic smile: "Theoretically speaking, it is indeed possible. However, this is a necessary thing."

The soldier was stunned: "Necessary? Ms. Marquis, when we followed you, you said that you wanted to create a beautiful world where there would be no more oppression and no distinction between nobles and commoners. But in this way, those Aren’t the rich still oppressing us?”

The two soldiers next to them were also silent, and seemed to be looking for an answer now.

Ariel exhaled slightly, waved her hand, and asked the soldiers to close the door.

After the door closed, Ariel walked out from behind the desk with her hands behind her back, came to the short soldier, and looked at him quietly.

Looking into Ariel's eyes, although the short soldier also felt that the appearance of the Marquis was very beautiful, but now when he looked at these eyes, he didn't have any extravagant thoughts in his heart. It is a natural sense of majesty.

"Are you willing to give your life to create this beautiful world?"

Facing Ariel's question, the soldier was taken aback for a moment, then stood at attention, and said with a serious expression: "When I joined the Mermaid Army, I swore that I would give everything for the coming of that beautiful world. And of course my life."

Ariel nodded: "Very good. Then tell me, if we want to create that beautiful world, what is the most urgent thing we need to do now?"

After thinking for a while, the soldier said, "The most urgent thing is to stop the Demon King's Army that wants to destroy or rule the entire Yellow Chicken Continent. After defeating the Demon King's Army, we have to find a way to defeat the Blue Bay Empire."

Ariel nodded again: "Very well, then if we can pay with our lives for a better world, then in order to defeat the Demon King Army, even if we pay a little bit of labor as the price, it should be acceptable, right?"

A sad look appeared on the short soldier's face again: "Then... I don't understand, ma'am." With a wave of her hand, Ariel returned to her desk and said, "I let our currency exchange rate drop, and our goods It will also become cheaper, and the imperial gold coins will be able to buy more of the products we produce from our hands. At the same time, I set the minimum wage standard, and at the same time gave great preferential policies to merchants, which will make those merchants Naturally, they will gradually relocate their factories in the Blue Bay Empire to our base."

"That's right, I did give those merchants a way to continue to oppress us ordinary people. But the factories that produce goods have all moved to our side, and the Blue Bay Imperial Army only needs to use these iron coins to paint them into gold leaf in the end." The money can be exchanged for our mermaid coins, and in the end, if they can’t produce anything one day, and they can only ask us to buy everything, what will happen to the situation?”

To put it simply, the short soldier's eyes changed from confusion to sudden realization!

He seemed to finally understand the meaning of this, nodded immediately, his expression changed from dissatisfaction at the beginning to excitement, and he was about to turn around and run out immediately!

"Wait a minute, don't worry."

Ariel stopped the soldier and said——

"You can discuss this matter with your colleagues, or even with comrades in the Ministry of Economic Affairs, to see if you can make a more perfect mathematical formula. But you can't go out and publicize it. It's just an early stage. It can't be in the early stage, we still need to be cautious, you know?"

"Yes! Madam Marquis!"

The soldier saluted Ariel again, then quickly opened the door and jumped out.

Watching the soldier leave, the expressions on the faces of the remaining two soldiers also became slightly relieved.But one of the male soldiers still said: "Ms. Marquis, this kind of thing...couldn't the people of the Blue Bay Empire think of it?"

Ariel chuckled: "Of course I can think of it. They are not fools. How could they not think of things like emptying out the empire in the end?"

The other female soldier immediately turned into a sad face: "So this plan... will it work?"

Ariel smiled at this.

She was not laughing at her own soldiers, nor was she laughing at many merchants of the Blue Bay Empire, including sugar-coated wine Qiaoguo.

Instead, they are mocking mankind, even the history of mankind.

Not to mention other things, it is just that more than 300 years have passed since the last war between the demon kings. During these thousands of years, many countries have been destroyed due to various reasons.Before the collapse of these countries, no one in them would have thought of the reason?

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of course not.

Some countries can not only think of the reason, but even the people in power at the time and the common people below understand where the problems of their country are.

But so what?

Even if a country is full of smart people, when these cleverness and wisdom face the behemoth of "interests", even if they know that continuing to move forward may lead to a catastrophe, human beings still do it time and time again.

Humans are such simple creatures.Pure, direct, and never thinking in a rational direction.

At that moment, Ariel comforted the female soldier, and then continued: "Is it the autumn harvest season now? How is our grain production this year?"

The female soldier nodded and responded: "If you count the previous summer harvest, the output of this year's farmland is almost two hundred catties per mu. It is still in the autumn harvest, so the specific amount may vary, but in general The amount should not be too large. Our colleagues in the Ministry of Agriculture have estimated that this year’s newly cultivated farmland will be about 150 mu. According to the new farming method, the yield of wheat per mu should be about 200 kilograms, and the yield of rice At about 2000 kilograms, combined with the original almost [-] mu of farmland, a total of [-] mu of farmland, the total harvest should be around [-] million kilograms."

Ariel nodded, and then looked at the male soldier on the other side: "What about taxes?"

The male soldier immediately responded: "As you ordered, Ms. Marquis, our tax rate will be collected at half of the land rent of those noble lords, which is 25%. Therefore, the total amount of our taxes and grains is about 500 million kilograms. At present, these taxes and rations will be collected by the leaders of each base area separately, and special storage buildings will be established to store them, and a corresponding military ration system will be established at the same time."

Ariel finally felt a little relieved that the system she made could run smoothly now.However, she still wanted to ensure that there would be no surprises in the future, and then continued to say——

"From now on, we will link our Mermaid coins to the amount of our food. Colleagues from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Trade should hold a joint meeting with your Taxation Department and Farmland Department to discuss the key points. I will also attend this meeting at that time. But before that, I would like to emphasize one point, that is, in addition to the grain collected, we also need to purchase a large amount of grain that is rich in the hands of farmers and is willing to sell, all as Our reserves are stored."

The male soldier was slightly taken aback, and said, "Ms. Marquis, do we need to collect more food? With so much food accumulated in our hands, wouldn't it be a bit of a fuss? After all, it is a huge sum of money to build a special granary." Expenses, if you have to specifically ask farmers to collect rich grain, the amount is also a big problem.” Ariel waved her hand and said with a smile: “If you don’t have money, then go print it, our money printing machine should be a while ago Already ready? And if the farmers want to exchange the mermaid coins we printed for food, then we must exchange them. In addition to food, if you want to exchange gold, you can use our reserve gold At the same time, we must stabilize people's hearts! At the same time, we must tell everyone that as long as we are on the side of our mermaid army, the ratio of food to mermaid coins will always be constant. For this reason, we must build more granaries. Also communicate more with farmers. I think you are all farmers, even if you are able to eat every meal now, you should be able to experience the misery when you were hungry before, right?"

After thinking for a while, the male soldier nodded slightly.

Then, it was the female soldier who said after thinking for a moment: "Ms. Marquis, there is a sentence that I always want to say on behalf of everyone."

Ariel was taken aback, and looked at her: "Say it."

The female soldier seemed a little embarrassed. She glanced at the male soldier next to her. Seeing that the male soldier's eyes were also full of encouragement, she finally regained her composure and said, "Everyone thinks that you will lead us, really. That's great. You always want to keep us from starving, and you want us to live in this world dignifiedly. I have been following you since the time of Pelican City, when I was a weaver girl .Now, I can get your appreciation to participate in the work of the Ministry of Agriculture. Without you... Alas, people always say that there is a God of Light, but in my opinion, you are the God of Light who descended directly on us in front of you."

To be honest, Ariel has heard a lot of compliments in her life.Some said she was smart, some said she was smart, and some even said she was cunning.But it is the first time that he is directly called the God of Light in this way.

After hearing such a name, Ariel was really stunned on the spot, and she didn't recover for a long time.Until the two soldiers had all walked out, she got up silently, walked slowly to the window, and looked at the golden wheat fields in the mountains and forests in the distance, as well as the farmers who were harvesting and tending the wheat fields, and the elements beside them. When the smoke curled up from the machine factory, she just sorted out her mood a little bit.

God of Light...?

Thinking of this, Ariel couldn't help but smile a little self-deprecatingly.She took out a small mirror from her bosom, which she used to check her appearance in her spare time, and looked at the face in the mirror.

Hmm~~~ Pretty is beautiful, but can this face be called the God of Light?Can it be named "God"?

Oh, this is really not a very funny joke.

Putting away the small mirror, Ariel stretched slightly towards the window.At this time, it was almost noon, and the smell of baked bread seemed to be wafting in the air.Asked about the smell, Ariel suddenly felt a little itchy, then packed her belongings, walked out of the office, and walked towards the cafeteria.

Now, the members of Mermaid Song also have their own jobs to do, and since it is daytime, Cheese and Mochi, who are in charge of night guards, are naturally no longer by their side.

Followed by a guard, Ariel tiptoed into the cafeteria, and saw that the staff in the cafeteria were busy, and some simple but absolutely filling bread and dishes were constantly being brought up.

"Ah! Madam Marquis!"

A little girl who was in charge of shoveling the freshly baked bread off the rock pan saw Ariel coming, and was startled for a moment, her whole body was so stiff that she couldn't move.

Ariel waved her hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, don't be so nervous, I'm not a monster, just come and take a look."

The little girl was still very nervous, even when Ariel went to look at the bread, she rushed to the back kitchen and called out all the other staff members.

When Ariel turned her head, she saw a middle-aged man in his 40s standing there nervously, gave a military salute to Ariel, stood at attention, and said in a serious voice: "Report to the Marquis Ma'am! What are your orders!"

Ariel was taken aback again, then looked at the bread next to her and the side dishes at the back, and said, "I don't have any instructions, I just want to practice my hands and relax. By the way, I think your bread seems a bit hard when baked, isn't it?" Not enough yeast?"

Hearing Ariel's question, the uncle looked even more nervous, and even his expression changed when he was so nervous, he hurriedly said: "Report...report to Ms. Marquis! It's...it's the subordinate's ineffectiveness! Before the yeast problem I noticed it in two days. Later, during the investigation, I found out that the staff who were supposed to make yeast were transferred to other jobs due to personnel arrangement problems, and no one made up for it later, so there was a problem! This... really is I am solely responsible for any problems that I have to bear!"

Seeing him so nervous, Ariel also felt a little embarrassed, and quickly stretched out her hand to comfort her: "No, no, no, I don't mean to blame you. Yeast, we can also make it ourselves, but if we don't have much time to make it If you want to buy some, you can buy some, after all, this thing is not too expensive, if you can save a little manpower to do other things, that would be a good thing. Just put..." Ariel turned her head, looking at the hard bread next to her, and the A batch of loaves that looked like they were about to go into the oven.After a moment of silence, she simply rolled up her sleeves, took out the clean spare apron hanging beside her and put it around, washed her hands in the nearby sink, took a little flour and patted it on her hands, and then went forward to knead the dough. .

"Ah... Ms. Marquis, you shouldn't do this kind of work..."

The staff of these cafeterias also became more nervous. The middle-aged man was so nervous that his forehead was sweating, and he wanted to come over to stop it.

However, Ariel still maintained that calm posture, and said with a smile: "Okay, okay, it's okay! I usually only have this little hobby. You see, since our yeast is relatively scarce, we can also change it. This is a way to do it from another angle. You see, we reduce the usual dough to one-third, and after kneading, spread it out into pieces like this. In this way, we can reduce Yeast, or even no yeast at all.”

Ariel happily worked on the kitchen, no matter how nervous the staff next to her was, she was enjoying it.Seeing that the dough was slowly blooming like a flower bud in her hands, she skillfully took out the alkaline water next to it to stick the dough, and opened it again with a rolling pin.

It didn't take long for the noodles to be finished one by one. It seemed that they were not so much bread as some kind of cakes.

Afterwards, the supreme leader of the army opened the oven, stretched out his hand to check the temperature inside, asked the little girl at the side to adjust the heat of the oven, and then stuffed the dough into it.After that, I closed the lid of the oven with satisfaction, and then I was ready to catch up with the next batch of bread.

At this time, some people had already started to come to the cafeteria to eat, but when they saw that it was their own leader working in the kitchen, they all stood by for a while, not even daring to pick up the bread.

It's just that Ariel is still immersed in the joy of cooking, and she didn't pay attention to the embarrassing expressions of those people outside. Instead, she greeted the people outside the cafeteria window and said: "Come, come, dinner is ready, come here, How do you eat while standing so far away? Also (turning to the cafeteria staff) Has the recipe for tonight’s dinner been drawn up? Bring it to me and see if there is anything I can improve. In addition, the oven’s I just felt the heat. You burn wood a little too fast, which is not economical. Although there are a lot of rice stalks available now, you should pay attention. Sometimes the fire is lit, and then the opening of the oven is opened. Keep the temperature inside small enough to keep the temperature inside from converging. By the way, has the newly harvested wheat arrived? Have you ground it well? The new wheat flour is delicious! You must try the newly baked bread, so There is no need to add anything to the bread, and it even has a faint sweet taste!"

Ariel was only focused on talking and doing things, but she didn't expect that there would be more and more people outside the cafeteria window, and even those who came from behind couldn't see the ones in front, and kept asking why they couldn't get their lunch .

At this time, a person walked into the cafeteria silently, bowed slightly to Ariel, and said, "President, don't disturb everyone for lunch."

Ariel was taken aback for a moment, then turned her head, only to see that the person standing beside and talking was none other than Bath Macaroni.

After that, she turned her head and looked around, and then she said a little embarrassedly: "Ah, everyone is standing still. Come and get the food! Oh...well, you don't need to mind me that much, everyone is human , can we all eat together, can’t we? Come, come, you are busy, eat.”

Although she said so, Ariel still reluctantly put down the dough in her hands, wiped her hands on the apron on her chest, took off the apron, and then reluctantly followed Bass out of the kitchen and walked out of the kitchen. the cafeteria.

Walking on the road, Bass turned his head to look at Ariel, and after carefully observing the slightly helpless expression on the president's face, he said, "You really don't think of yourself as a supreme leader."

Ariel sighed and smiled bitterly: "Stop talking, I know what you want to say."

Bass nodded slightly: "The president is smart. I am not like Cream, who can read your mind anytime and anywhere, and I am not like Brad who has no doubts and resolutely executes your orders. Therefore, sometimes you should Show a little bit of what you're supposed to be in your current position."

Ariel nodded and said nothing.

But Bass continued: "As the supreme leader of the Mermaid Army, it is a good thing that you are close to the people, but no matter how close you are to the people, there are many things that are more important than cooking. You should not waste your time on This kind of thing. It’s like none of us would imagine that the emperor of the Blue Bay Empire would cook for those soldiers, so you have to maintain your identity and propriety.”

Hearing this, Ariel became a little unhappy, and said, "Bass, I think you are a bit awkward. Still insist on that kind of etiquette?"

Bass stopped. He looked at Ariel who took a few steps forward. After a moment of silence, the magic swordsman lowered his head and said slowly——

"Etiquette may seem cumbersome to you. However, this is something I have firmly followed for decades. Even in the future, I should continue to follow it." "Besides, I don't think that etiquette imposes There will be something wrong with the president. President Ariel, have you ever thought that one day in the future, you will most likely be the one wearing a crown and enjoying the coronation ceremony. On such a grand occasion, you Every word and deed will represent the glory and glory of the Mermaid Empire in the future. So..."