Every evening near dusk, there are thick clouds and mist hanging in the sky over the sea, and the setting sun can only take advantage of a little gap to shoot out streaks of crimson rays.
Perhaps due to the weather outside the window, the cabin, which was brightly lit with electric lights, still seemed a little dim.
This is an official-only ship flying the flag of the World Government. Far in front of it stands a huge red earth wall that towers into the clouds and the top cannot be seen at all.
At this time, there were more than a dozen identical ships sailing on the nearby sea. They were all from various kingdoms or cities and islands in various sea areas.
[Dong dong dong]
In the cabin, John, who had brown curly hair and a lot of freckles on his face, was wearing a bright yellow plain suit and gently knocked on the door of a room.
"Please come in."
"Teacher, those people said it will be here in forty minutes." John walked into the room and closed the door, looking at Professor Smith respectfully and said.
"okay, I get it."
The latter who was sitting in the chair raised his head and nodded kindly, then stood up and put the pen cap on the pen, and then began to pack up the text materials on the desktop.
"Let me help you, teacher."
John hurriedly walked over to sort it out together. Professor Smith smiled and did not refuse, but asked: "I heard that the World Government didn't call you originally, but you asked for it. Can you tell me why?"
John showed a shy smile and said: "There are mainly two reasons. One is that I don't want to be separated from the teacher. After all, I haven't finished your class yet, and you also know that students are very interested in currency. I thought
I should be able to observe Bailey's release up close this time."
Both of them came from the Kokokkadi Kingdom in the North Sea, which was a large island with an area about half the size of the Kingdom of Alabasta.
It is also the most modern and wealthy country in the entire North Sea. Gentlemen in suits and leather boots and ladies in long skirts and high heels can be seen everywhere. It also has self-sufficient production industries, universities, and banks.
If a time traveler's initial location is here, then he may think that he has traveled to London, England, in the eighteenth century.
The prosperous economy, coupled with modern military equipment, gives their army the firepower to easily resist pirate attacks, and its national strength is among the best among all participating countries.
Naturally, it has become a key target for the world government to recruit administrative and financial talents this time, especially King's University of Cambridge in this kingdom.
Professor Smith is the most famous economist and great economic planner of the university. This professor, who is nearly 60 years old, has spent nearly 40 years building the entire financial industry for the Kingdom of Kokokkadi and
Based on the country's economic foundation and environmental resources at that time, many construction goals and development plans were pointed out.
So when a ship of officials from the World Government arrived in this kingdom and asked the King of Great Britain to recruit Professor Smith to serve in the Ministry of Finance, they actually encountered some obstacles.
But just when the atmosphere between the two parties became serious, the professor took the initiative to agree.
"Really? It seems like you are the same as me. I also want to see more economies in higher places..." Professor Smith smiled.
"I thought before that what I have learned in my life can only be applied to one country. It is too narrow and too regretful. I didn't expect that they actually came here. I always thought that the world government did not pay attention to economic matters.
"
After packing up the information and texts, the two of them took their respective leather bags and walked out of the room, and went to the spacious main cabin to gather with other people. Looking around, there were a hundred or two hundred people.
Although their clothes, skin colors, pupils, and hairstyles are all different, they are like a group of people from different eras, inexplicably brought together, but everyone's eyes reveal wisdom and knowledge.
These people all have greater or lesser fame in their respective kingdoms, and they are all elites, leaders, and scholars in the political and economic fields.
However, unless they are from the same kingdom, due to the difficulty of communication between islands, they are obviously active in the same industry, but they are complete strangers to each other.
This also resulted in that although there were a large number of people gathered, there was no noisy conversation except for the sound of breathing. Such a high-quality performance also made the surrounding Maritime Affairs Department officials responsible for management very relaxed and satisfied.
About fifty minutes later.
Professor Smith, including John, and hundreds of scholars from the Kingdom of Kirkcaldy walked down the deck along with the crowd and officially set foot on this small town called Red Harbor because it is close to the Red Earth Continent.
"So many people, so many ships... Are they all scholars?"
John excitedly glanced around and saw ships moored in the port carrying the flag of the World Government, and a group of men and women exuding intellectual temperament would disembark from each ship.
"That's how it should be."
Professor Smith nodded, squinted his eyes and looked up at the huge red earth continent that was so close that it was terrifying.
Soon, a group of officials from the Finance Department came and said they would lead it next.
However, Professor Smith was called out alone, and together with nine other unfamiliar scholars, became the first group of people to ride the bubble boat.
Immediately, Professor Smith and others lined up to walk through the wealthy town inside, and then took turns riding the bubble boat, slowly rising along the wall of the red continent to the top. This process alone took more than half an hour.
In fact, the height of the Red Earth Continent is several thousand meters high.
"It seems that it is impossible to bring everyone up before tonight. Let's notify people to prepare enough rooms!" The official who was riding the bubble boat with Professor Smith and others took out the phone and ordered.
"Yes, Deputy Minister."
"Are you the deputy director of the Finance Department?"
Smith waited for the other party to put the phone back into his pocket and asked. The latter turned around and smiled enthusiastically: "Yes, my name is Jerry. I will ask Professor Smith for more advice in the future. Your previous works,
Our finance department collects them all!”
"It's your honor, but as a deputy minister, why do you personally lead the way?"
The eyes of the other nine scholars also revealed doubts.
Deputy Minister Jellief smiled and said: "Of course ordinary people are not qualified to ask me to come, but you are all the top scholars recognized by our Finance Department, and you will also be a member of the 'Tiantian Gold Collection Management Committee', so in order to communicate with you in advance, I
As soon as I got to know each other, I took the initiative to serve as a guide.”
Smith and other ten economists subconsciously thought about the keywords they heard and asked: "So our next work is related to heavenly gold, so what should we do?"
"Restructure the 'Tian Shang Jin' and change the existing unified collection into proportional sharing of fees. What you have to do is to provide us with a scale based on the payment ability, productivity, population and other economic bases of all franchised countries!
"
"..."
Upon hearing these words from Deputy Minister Jellief, ten economists including Professor Smith were shocked and their eyes lit up.
They have long seen that the current heavenly gold collection system is very unreasonable, but there has been no improvement for hundreds of years, and now the world government is finally going to change it, and they have asked themselves to be responsible for the reform!
surprise!
Professor Smith in particular felt ecstatic, feeling that what he had learned could finally be used on the world stage.
“The direction of this restructuring is that big countries should pay more, small countries should pay less, rich countries should pay more, and poor countries should pay less, or they may not pay, but we must plan their economic development so that those who cannot even pay the gold in the sky after the restructuring
Even poor countries in the world will be able to afford it one day!"
"yes!"
Ten of the world's top economists, with an average age of about forty-five, flushed with excitement.