Chapter 228 What you see-What you feel

Sobia is a typical inland city, geographically located at the easternmost point of the Star Plateau, and is bounded by the Udas Grand Canyon. After crossing two small cities in the north, there is no obvious boundary with the indigenous areas.

The next afternoon, a group of four arrived here.

After arriving here, Alfra was very happy and never put down the smile on her lips. The new laws and regulations here were formulated and promoted with them, so she had a sense of accomplishment.

, and at the same time, he is proud of his brother.

"Teacher, I'll tell my brother first and let him prepare accommodation for us."

Not long after entering the city, Aphra suggested to Glylint.

Of course, Sobia also has an official residence, but the group of soldiers led by Arist and others were all from bandits. When they were first incorporated, their qualities were uneven and they were not easy to put into the city. Moreover, there was no big martial arts show in the city.

, the garrison site, so they simply built a schoolyard west of the city.

The most important thing is that Arist and others do not directly participate in government affairs, so there is no need to live in the city.

However, as the actual controller of this small city, it is of course very easy for him to arrange a few accommodations with better conditions.

Glylint shook his head and said:

"No, we'll just stay in a hotel and see him tomorrow."

He wanted to observe the changes brought by the new policy from the side. After all, many times the ideals and reality are different, and he also didn't want the coachman Tripp to know that "Glylint" is the actual controller here. He now knows this

One thing is that only Aphra and Aristotle brothers, and even Shasha and the others have only seen the image of Glylint's "Alan Bieber".

"Oh, OK, teacher."

Aphra blinked, not sure, but nodded obediently.

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Intis colonial areas are wider, but the strength is lighter. It does not establish a colonial government like the Ruhn colony and conducts comprehensive military control, but implements the so-called "co-governance", that is, semi-military control, the government

Members are generally indigenous, but usually must provide maximum policy convenience for Intis's interests.

The result of this is that Sibairan often catches fire everywhere and is often seized by warlord forces supported by indigenous rebels or countries such as Fenerport. There is almost no cultural assimilation, and only a simple cultural integration.

Of course, after two hundred years of colonization of the Northern Mainland, there was inevitably a great change here.

The most obvious point is that the currency they originally used has basically been completely replaced, and only hard currency such as gold and silver can be used for trading.

Because it is close to Dongbailang, the mainstream currencies here are two systems: Gold Pound and Fair.

This is a banknote with a relatively large denomination. The slightly smaller ones are pennies, the two Ruen currencies of Sule, and the Intis currency of Dinar. Intis implements a two-tier currency system, 1 Felkin

The equivalent value is 500 dinars, and the official exchange rate of the two countries is that 1 dinar can be compared with one quarter of copper penny, and its purchasing power is roughly equivalent to the 1 yuan in Glylint's sense.

In other words, 1 gold pound is 240 pence and 960 dinars, which is about 2 gold pheasant.

Of course, the denomination of "Fer" is too large, and the "dinar" is too small, so the dinar has five denominations in total.

It should be admitted that Ferdinal is indeed much more scientific and reasonable than the currency system that is so nauseating and very stupid that it is a currency system that makes people feel like it is a bit stupid - at least it follows the decimal system.

In Glylint, they stayed in a relatively affordable hotel, which was 100 dinars per room per night.

The same conditions in hotels, the price of about 40 pence per night in Beckland, about 25-30 pence in Verteque, and about 15-20 pence in several medium-sized cities that Glylint just passed.

In other words, just looking at the hotel prices, the prices or economic level here can be compared with Vertek, which is one of the few large cities in the Southern Continent, and its status in the Southern Continent is equivalent to the North Road of the Ruen Kingdom.

Stoon, Conston City.

Of course, it is definitely not reasonable to use hotel prices as a reference standard.

So Glylint learned about the price of rye bread, which is more reference-based as a staple food for most people at the bottom.

25 dinars per pound, about 6p per pound.

Sure enough, from the price of staple food, Glylint immediately saw the problem. The economic level corresponding to this price is not to mention that it is comparable to big cities like Stoon and Conston, even small and medium-sized cities like Tingen.

The city is not as good as it is, even after the Cereals Act was abolished, Ruhn's food price had been reduced.

Of course, it should be admitted that although Tingen is not large in scale, it has relatively convenient water transportation and transportation. It is also a university town famous in Ruon, which is not comparable to ordinary small and medium-sized cities. Moreover, Sobia is originally a grain-producing land, which is used to produce food.

Rye bread as a basis for measurement seems unfair to it.

In general, there is still progress, and it can be said that it is very large, but the reform time is still too short after all, and many aspects have not yet been developed.

What puzzled Glylint:

"Why are hotel prices so exaggerated in Sobia?"

He casually asked the waiter in the hotel restaurant. It was a black, thin short man who looked about the same age as Glylint.

It seems that many similar questions have been answered. The thin and thin waiter did not think much and replied nonsense:

"That's right, sir, we are a well-known grain-producing land here. Both the grain output and quality are excellent. In the past, it was just because the commercial tax was too high and the city was very unsafe, so

Not many people come to do business."

"It's different now. Two months ago, I don't know where a group of strong men came from, integrated the bandits, and arranged them all, and forced the government to reduce some of the business taxes, so there are many businessmen coming to do business.

Now.”

These non-local businessmen were originally the main sources of hotels, so it is no wonder that hotels have increased prices like this.

"oh?"

Glylint looked at Alfra next to her in seclusion, stopped her from speaking, and then asked in surprise:

“I wonder how the prices of daily necessities and properties in Sobia are going to be recently?”

As he asked, he took out a 1Suler note and handed it to the short waiter as a tip for his service and answering questions.

1Suler is close to 50 dinars. Although not too many, it is definitely attractive to the general service staff in small cities, so he has obviously become enthusiastic:

"For ordinary daily necessities, the price has dropped a little. After all, there are more merchants coming and going, and in addition to collecting food, more people delivering goods and selling them.

As for real estate, the prices have basically not changed, and many bosses are not sure how long the situation here can last."

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, and for the sake of the money, he added mysteriously in a low voice:

"But our boss said that it seems that someone in the upper class has been vigorously promoting the proposal to ban slaves recently, so food and daily necessities are likely to increase prices a lot. So if you are in the grain business, you have to hurry up."

It is normal. After all, after the abolition of slavery, the production costs of manors and factory owners will become higher. If they want to maintain their original interests, raising the price of goods will be the only way. But in this way, the suffering

It’s still ordinary people, because some businessmen may take the opportunity to raise the price extra.

The abolition of slavery guarantees the human rights of the part of people who were slaves in the past, but it actually has no positive effect on overall economic development, stabilizing prices and improving people's quality of life.

After all, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and policy regulation can only be used to improve production relations.

If the production costs can be reduced through technological means, then there is no need for government regulation, and those merchants will actively reduce the price of goods. Because if you don’t reduce others, your goods will be no longer competitive in the market. After all, the production costs will be reduced.

After that, even if others reduce the price, they can still maintain considerable profits.

"It seems that the abolition of slavery involves much more than I thought."

After sending away the black and thin waiter, Glylint fell into deep thought again. Then he returned to his room and picked up the title of a new article:

"Science and Technology are the Primary Productive Force"

After falling these five words, Glylint suddenly burst into laughter:

"As long as these articles are published successfully, Klein will definitely be decisive to be a 'time traveler', and he is a time traveler from the same country as him."

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The next day, leaving Carol and Tripp behind, Glylint took Alfra and came to Arist's schoolyard as "Alan Bieber".

"gentlemen?!"

When Aphra brought Glylint to find Arist, he was surprised and delighted.

Glylint nodded with a smile and ordered:

"Let's gossip, let's call Shasha, Angelina, Basil and Uri first, let's have a short meeting."

"Yes, sir."

With a little bit of doubt, Arist took the order and left.

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Through Angelina's report, Glylint roughly understood their achievements over the past two months:

In addition, they cleared all the bandits in Sobia and their subordinate villages and towns, then went west and north to try to advance, and effectively trained successfully, greatly optimizing the various qualities of the original group of bandits. Of course,

Because Glylint did not give them the power to recruit soldiers, even if some of the newly recruited bandits, their strength dropped to over 400 people.

Internally, they joined forces with the indigenous mayor Vincenzo Toure to formulate a stricter law to combat crime, and sent 50 soldiers to help pursue fugitive criminals, while appropriately reducing the trade tax.

Then, they cooperated with the reformist officials, including the mayor, to persuade or force a group of conservative officials to confirm the abolition of slavery, strictly monitor it, and implement a reporting system. However, this decree has not yet

Published because the diehard officials found an extraordinary middle-sequencer from somewhere, and the two sides are currently facing each other.

Arist and the others faced many difficulties, first, they encountered resistance from extraordinary people both internally and externally.

Second, the military expenditure is tight. Not to mention adding weapons, even daily training depends on cracking down on bandits and plundering their wealth to support it. As for Sobia's taxes, Arist did not have Glylint's orders, so he did not dare to do so for the time being.

Use.
To be continued...