Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 721 Industry and Commerce (Second update for subscription)

Over the past few years, the Blue Dragon Kingdom has vigorously developed the domestic railway network, and has initially built a railway network system covering almost the whole country, and even connected the railway to the Great Wall on the border not long ago.

The great development of transportation facilities has injected extremely powerful vitality into the industry and commerce of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Factories sprang up around the city, either because of the geographical location or because of resource conditions, the scale of primary industrialization gradually formed an agglomeration effect, forming a large industrial city.

With the historical experience of the rise of many countries in different worlds, those senior executives of the Blue Dragon Kingdom who have been trained and instilled knowledge, Austin's confidantes, naturally know the truth of business power.

Therefore, in the process of development, we should try our best to provide good conditions for the development of industry and commerce, and smooth out the obstacles that may be encountered.

Although some pillar industries related to national security are still controlled by the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Moreover, due to the short rise of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, most of today's magic technology is based on the scientific concept of assimilating other worlds, combined with local magical supernatural abilities, more than [-]% of the knowledge patents are in the hands of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

But this does not hinder the rapid development of industry and commerce.

In Middle-earth, this feudal world where the classes are extremely solidified, the merchant class is either those small merchants who have to climb mountains and mountains, be careful of thieves and monsters at all times, and have no background or background.

Or they are big businessmen who rely on the banner of some big nobles and carry out various monopoly operations.

In other words, in Middle-earth, if you have a background and no blood, it is basically impossible to become a big businessman.

The development of commerce is naturally severely suppressed.

When transporting goods, you need to guard against thieves and monsters on the way, and you have to deal with the tax cards set up by different lords and nobles on the territory, the taxes you pay when you enter the city, and even some unscrupulous guys will directly detain you as a thief or spy. It is not impossible to kill and seize property.

Coupled with the vast rural areas, many serfs did not even have their own property. Apart from the necessary salt, there was basically little foundation for large-scale commerce.

The nobles in the old world relied only on the mountains to eat the mountains, the water to eat the water, and basically relied on the hard work of the serfs to live.

In the old world industrial and commercial activities, relatively scarce,

Except for big cities, there are basically few traces of industry and commerce.

But this does not mean that industry and commerce have no basis for existence.

Perhaps I have been suppressed for too long in the old world,
There may be other reasons,
Anyway, with the official support of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, the industry and commerce of the Blue Dragon Kingdom is increasing rapidly at an incredible speed.

A few years ago, the economic aggregate of industry and commerce broke through more than double the weight of agriculture.

and,

With the output of a large number of high-quality industrial and commercial products in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, those new gadgets brought a lot of novelty to a large number of nobles in neighboring countries that lived in the Middle Ages and lacked entertainment.

This has cultivated a part of the comprador class with a big background for the Blue Dragon Kingdom, and also cultivated many small merchants who go through the streets and go deep into the mountain villages in the hinterland of the country to conduct transactions.

The growth of the business class and the expansion of the market have further stimulated the development of domestic industry and commerce.

The internal society of the Blue Dragon Kingdom is undergoing increasingly intense changes.

Many farmers who used to beg for a living on the land put down their hoes and went to the cities to work and earn money, resulting in a large number of migrant workers.

Today, with the rapid development of industry and commerce, in the face of large-scale mechanization and large-scale intensive production models, the small family-style small-scale peasant economy is increasingly unable to make ends meet. Many people yearn for a better life in the city, or for the sake of their families. Even better, they left their hometowns and went to work in the cities.

Although the life in the Blue Dragon Kingdom is very different from the days when you were hungry and full, as long as you work a little harder, under the situation that the land tax is almost full, it is not enough to eat black bread every meal. question.

But the question is, why eat black bread when you can eat white bread?

Why wear old clothes that haven't been changed in ten years when you can earn money to buy new clothes?
Yearning for a better life, whether it is an orc or other intelligent creatures, is an instinctive desire from the heart.

Coupled with the inclination of the official policies of the Blue Dragon Kingdom and the dominance of official public opinion, some redundant laborers in the countryside left their hometowns one after another and went to work in the cities.

And this also caused, once during certain special holidays, migrant workers who returned home formed a wave of returning home during the Spring Festival similar to the country in Austin's previous life.

An alien version of the Industrial Revolution,

With the development of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, it is unfolding in a mighty way.

The huge industrial and commercial system is more than ten times superior to the agriculture of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

With a lot of wealth in his hands, he naturally looked down on the small part of the land tax revenue in the newly occupied area.

However, the Blue Dragon Kingdom officials did not immediately abolish all land taxes in the newly occupied area.
There is nothing more than a soothing effect.

A prisoner who has been locked in a cage and abused for a long time, one day the jailer suddenly provided the prisoner with an incomparably rich food. The prisoner would not think that he was lucky, but probably guessed that this might be his last meal.

The same was true of the serfs in the newly occupied areas.

From childhood to adulthood, the inheritance from generation to generation told them,

The land is not theirs, so they have to pay taxes for farming, and hand over [-]% to [-]% of the harvest to the nobles, which is a matter of course.

In the name of celebrating the rule of the newly occupied area, the Blue Dragon Kingdom only charged [-]% of the land tax to all the serfs and freedmen in the newly occupied area. Although it is unbelievable, it is still within the normal category. Although the serfs and freedmen found it unbelievable, they would only kneel on the ground and shout for the mercy of His Highness Austin after the village government confirmed it in three days.

But if the tax is directly abolished,

That is an existence like breaking the three views!

You must know that in the eyes of most serfs and peasants, paying taxes is a matter of course for people to drink water and eat.

Once the tax is completely exempted, maybe a good thing will turn into a bad thing, which is likely to cause confusion.

Anyway,

Only [-]% of the land tax is enough to make these oppressed serfs and poor people grateful.

And the fact,
And it is true.

Relying on this step-by-step policy, not only did not make the vast serf class in the former Three Kingdoms suspicious, but it also made most of the serfs and free people in the countryside calm down.

Let them really remember that they have become subjects of the Blue Dragon Kingdom,
Become a citizen of His Royal Highness Austin who is as great as the sun shining on the world!
(End of this chapter)