Grace recruited a thousand strong men, and the Fifth Army was established. Reggie promised to allocate two warships to them, plus a hundred muskets. As for the cannons, I'm afraid it will take some time. Reggie was worried about this group.
Once the pirates leave the port, they will turn their guns and attack Spike Island.
After everything was arranged, it was time for Reggie to set off again. After parting for the second time, Grace's mood was even worse than the last time.
She would not stand in the wind and wipe her tears like Wenna did, nor would she leave without saying a word like Sophia. She kept throwing tantrums at Reggie like a madman, and also proposed a lot of new ideas.
conditions.
"I want to see you again before the New Year!"
"OK."
"I will see you again after the New Year!"
"OK."
"This year is the first year, next year I must be pregnant with your child!"
"Uh...okay."
"If you dare to break your promise, I will abandon these Pallas people immediately!"
"Okay! It's all up to you!"
Reggie's fleet set off, and the hazy weather made Reggie feel a little bad. Although Grace sometimes made Reggie feel helpless, Reggie still felt a little lost when he couldn't see her.
Fortunately, this journey is not boring. Reggie can spend some time bullying Dorothy. This withdrawn girl has a special liking for dried fish. Although Reggie caught her several times, she still can't restrain herself.
The urge to eat secretly.
Reggie deliberately placed the dried fish in a not-so-secret place, deliberately luring Dorothy to the bait, and then caught Dorothy on the spot and punished her with relatively mild means.
"Look what you did again? Why do you always refuse to change despite repeated admonitions! Bring the ruler over and hold out your hand!"
Dorothy, who could not bear the bullying, finally broke out one night. She burst into tears, and her loud cries almost broke Reggie's heart.
That night, at least twenty crew members, including Modesa, suffered from severe dizziness due to the piercing cries, and they encountered a storm again. According to Flash, it was Dorothy's cries that alerted Poseidon.
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Natalie protected Dorothy, but this still could not stop Reggie's evil heart. He used the most difficult mathematics knowledge in high school to deal with Natalie's analytic geometry.
Using the coordinate system, analytic geometry can integrate the two knowledges of algebra and geometry, and can also make all those who are afraid of mathematics doubt life in an instant.
Reggie was going to use analytic geometry to contain Natalie, and then continue to bully Dorothy, but Natalie's talent was amazing. She accepted this new knowledge incredibly quickly, and she quickly mastered the distance in the coordinate system.
and the concepts of angles, and also quickly learned the derivation process of some curve equations.
This made Reggie completely focus on Natalie, and he saw new hope in her.
"This is a pen." Reggie waved a quill in front of Natalie. "If I let go, it will fall to the ground. Do you know the reason for this?"
"There is no need for any reason, my lord. If you don't hold it, it will naturally fall to the ground."
"Why does it have to fall to the ground? Is there something on the ground attracting it?"
"Nothing was attracting it, it was meant to fall to the ground."
"But what if it doesn't stay in the air?"
"What is air?"
"That is...why doesn't it stay where it is?"
"It can't stay where it is, and it can't fly!"
"Are you deliberately contradicting me?" Reggie got angry, "Put your hand out."
Natalie stretched out her right hand in grievance, and Reggie picked up the ruler and was about to hit it down, but after thinking about it, he put the ruler aside.
"Don't worry, think carefully about why everything returns to the ground after leaving the ground."
Reggie wanted to impart all his knowledge to Natalie, not just mathematics, but also physics, biology, astronomy and his best, chemistry. He knew that all this was difficult, but he firmly believed that Natalie could do it.
He had enough patience, and Natalie had enough talent, but it was a pity that they didn't have enough time.
Until the fleet was about to dock, Reggie was still introducing the concept of gravity acceleration to Natalie.
But once we land on land, the wonderful journey will come to an end, and overwhelming government affairs will immediately pile up in front of Reggie.
Putting trivial matters aside for now, the first thing to do is to restore the foreign trade of Broken Snow City, and Nipoli has already made preparations for this.
He divided the current trade needs into three parts, one part is used to create wealth, one part is used to enhance strength, and the remaining part is used to improve life.
Urine wax and Dragon Palace crystal (white phosphorus and glass) belong to the first part, which is the source of Reggie's wealth. Because Reggie refused to export food, it has become his only export product and his only income.
source.
Saltpeter, charcoal, iron stone, and white stone all belong to the second part. These are the necessities for Reggie to make weapons, and they are also one of the main expenses of Shattering Snow City. There are no minerals in his territory, so these things are completely dependent on imports.
The content of the third part is complicated. Food, clothes, paper, books, building materials... just the list of these things can almost fill a book. This is the most troublesome part of Nipoli, but after listing
Before making the list, he had to change Reggie's mind.
"This is not expenditure, but income," Nipoli took a pen and made a simple calculation on the back of the list. "We want to use these commodities to earn back the gold coins of the citizens!"
"You mean to buy from the White Tower Country at a low price and then come back and sell it at a high price?" Reggie frowned, "Why would I exploit my people in this way?"
"This is not exploitation, but a reflection of the true value of wealth," Nipoli said. "Manpower in Shattering Snow City is incredibly expensive. You gave all the gold coins to the citizens, and you still have to find a way to get the gold coins back. The gold coins
It is neither food nor clothing. If it remains in the pockets of the citizens, it will have no value. Let the citizens use it to buy goods and enjoy the life they want. You can then use the recovered gold coins to hire the citizens.
, let them create more wealth, this is the real value of gold coins."
Reggie thought for a long time and finally understood what Nipoli wanted to express.
"What you want to say is currency circulation, right?"
"What is currency?"
"Uh... this is not important. What is important is, why should I earn the price difference on the goods? It is nothing more than some transportation costs. With the income from urine wax crystals, I can completely bear this expense."
"I appreciate your generosity, but you used the wrong method. The goods must be exchanged for money of the same value. The fine flour from the White Tower Country costs six copper coins per pound, plus purchase, transportation, mildew, and insect damage.
, accidental losses and other expenses, the value of this flour has risen to ten copper coins. The flour from the White Tower Kingdom is definitely worth ten copper coins in Shattered Snow City. If you continue to sell it for six copper coins, it is equivalent to underestimating the value of the product.
, your goods will be sold out, and after they are out of stock, the prices of privately traded goods will inevitably skyrocket, which will bring disaster over time. Your department store is an example."
Human intervention caused economic depression. Although Nipoli did not understand these economic terms, he taught Reggie a good lesson.
Suixue City is no longer the beggar in rags, and Reggie can no longer feed food into the mouths of his people as before.
Even if he can afford to support a broken snow city, he cannot support a country. If he wants to become the overlord of a country, he must learn the correct way of operating a country.