I, the dragon man!

Chapter 412: Everywhere
"Any island?"

The kings were a little startled by Gawain's words, and they fell silent collectively.

During this silent time, they probably calculated the cost.

No matter which world you are in, the cost of building roads will never be low, so this kind of plan puts a lot of pressure on the kings.

So, Gao Wen, the wise king of the kingdom, immediately asked.

"Wait, Gao Wensheng, can this so-called sea train really greatly increase the scale and speed of transportation of various goods as you said?
If it is possible, haha, then of course I am willing to lay the groundwork. Perhaps one day in the future, I will not need to take a boat to Mary Gioia for a meeting.

You see, I absolutely support your decision, you are as bright as the sun in my eyes.

But...Your Highness, I hope you can understand my difficulties.

Our country really has no money now, and the gold in the sky is really too heavy. In order to pay back the gold in the sky, we have really gone bankrupt! "

After the words fell, the speaking king looked carefully at Gawain, and then he made an embarrassed expression.

At the same time, after a moment of silence, the other kings immediately voiced their support for the king who was crying poor again.

For a time, these kings who wore gold and jade, and the crowns each carried were worth at least billions of Baileys. Not long ago, they were buying luxury goods and fashion slaves in Chambord.

They were described by themselves as like horizontal drifters who barely survived by sleeping on bridge holes.

Those who are poor don't know, they must have a dream of being an actor...

Aside, seeing the kings' performances gradually becoming exaggerated, Gawain raised his hand and patted the table lightly.

"That's it for now, everyone!"

As soon as the voice fell, Gao Wen pressed his right hand on the table, and countless electric arcs burst out.

Accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of the electric arc, the kings who were crying for poverty were startled, and they quickly sat up straight.

Seeing them calm down, Gao Wen withdrew his right hand and said with a smile.

"I understand your difficulties, but you also need to understand my difficulties.

Since Tianshangjin was established as the world government, it has maintained the core rules until now. Even I cannot easily break such rules.

If it is just the gold in the sky for individual countries, then I may be able to propose relief.

But you are sitting on seventeen kings, and the kings who did not arrive here in the great voyage, and the representatives of the raw material exporting countries who are not qualified to stand here in the four seas.

Adding all these together, I am afraid that there will be four to fifty countries that will gradually join our cooperation in the future!
This is nearly one-third of the confederated countries in the world. I am powerless and unable to make a proposal for so many kings to temporarily refuse to hand over the heavenly gold.

This point, you should be able to understand! "

After finishing speaking, Gao Wen coldly glanced around, his eyes made everyone who was seen by him lower their heads.

But even so, the kings will not easily shut up.

After all, in the eyes of the kings, if they want to spend a large sum of money for Gao Wen's plan, their behavior will not only lower their own lives by at least one level, but will also make their nobles They complained!

In particular, the kings felt that Gawain's back hurt a little while standing up and talking.

Their subordinates earned less, and they would never be able to complain to Gao Wen.

Those who are regarded as thorns in the eyes of those people are, after all, poor kings like them!

In short, even though the kings were trembling, they did not accept Gawain's explanation. Immediately, some kings said cautiously to Gawain.

"But, my lord, I... hey.

I am really willing to support you, but I really have no ability!

After all, everyone knows that the Kingdom of Alabasta has just experienced a drought that lasted for several years. Now I still have to rely on other people's help and assistance to barely keep the commoners alive. "

Speaking of this, Cobra gave Gawain a look full of deep meaning, and at the same time, he continued to talk to the people around him and Gawain with his full-level acting skills.

"The civilians in our country really can't afford to eat. They can't squeeze out any oil from their bodies. If you don't believe what I say, then I can even hand over the entire economy of my kingdom to you, my lord!"

Having said that, Cobra put on an attitude of breaking a can, and danced with a bitter face.

"As long as you don't move me and the treasures of the nobles under me, then the financial power of our country will be handed over to you at worst!
The shops of the nobles under my command can pay you taxes, but in addition to the normal business tax, if you plunder the wealth of our nobles too recklessly, then even if you are a Tianlong person, we will bring the lawsuit to Wulaoxing before.

In short, this is what I mean, you send people to manage our country's finances, and you come to collect taxes from the shops of our common people, that is, other groups of people excluding nobles.

Then, you will be responsible for paying the heavenly gold for our country, is that all right, Your Highness Gao Wen!

You know, I have given you all the financial power, so how to deduct money from the common people, or how to set prices and import and export tax rates, if those are all up to you, you will always have some Earn money.

But I still want to emphasize that I will not give you the right to manage the nobles!
And most importantly, this kind of management can only last until the sea train is fully established!
Do you think this is okay? "

After speaking, Cobra made an expression of interest, and then he glanced at the kings beside him.

Seriously, smart kings were immediately interested in the plan.

For the kings, the little money in the hands of commoners is really a drop in the bucket.

Especially for the common people nowadays, hehe, the tax money deducted from them is barely enough to pay the sky gold!
They also have various industries of their own, and those industries are the main source of their money. As long as they don't move their industries, their hidden treasures will always increase.

In particular, if Gao Wen sent someone to manage the taxation of those low-level civilian garbage, he would not only save money in the sky, but also save money for building sea trains!
Don't the kings know that once things like sea trains are launched on a large scale, it will be a good thing for everyone to make the cake bigger?

Of course they know, but those good things are good things in the future, but they cost their present money.

It is true that if this matter is successful, they will earn more in the future.

But they don't feel compelled to do this sacrifice of the present.

Although money is important to them, although they also want to earn more.

But no matter what, they don't want to bear even a moment of loss!
When Chongzhen was rebelled by Li Zicheng, the emperor personally took the lead in asking civil and military officials to borrow money to fight the war, but he didn't even get 100 million taels of silver.

Everyone is poor!
As a result, after Li Zicheng entered the capital, he directly lifted the plate and ransacked his mother's house.

This copy, hundreds of millions of taels of silver, they are too rich.

Almost all of the smartest people in Da Ming are the No. [-] picks and candidates. Don't they know that Da Ming will continue to exist, and they can earn more?

Didn't they ever think that once Li Zicheng came in, their wealth might really disappear?
Are they just looking at Li Zicheng with a fluke mentality?

Some people say that people who stand at the top of wealth sometimes do not seek to make themselves richer.

They just need to keep the populace poor.

Because as long as the common people are poor enough, their land will always be cultivated, and their side will always be served by someone.

As long as the inferior people are poor enough, even if the upper class earns less, even if they have less savings, they will still be served by the inferior people.

Although there is some truth to this statement, it has been proved by the facts over the years.

The upper classes are never making choices, they want them all.

Why should I lose even a little of my own wealth, while keeping the lower classes poor?

No, I want them to be poor, I want me to be richer, this is their reasoning!
History has proved that the real truth is always that the richer the person, the more he can't let go of the wealth he has already acquired and is about to acquire.

Just at this moment, looking at the gradually disturbed kings around him, Gao Wen really looked forward to the day when they would be eradicated completely.

Although Gao Wen admired Qin Shihuang very much, he had to admit that Gao Wen's favorite method of governing was Zhu Yuanzhang of Ming Dynasty.

Since officials have obtained the qualifications to manage others and have a status higher than ordinary people, then give me the spirit of keeping the poor and don't think about accumulating unimaginable wealth!

Dozens of taels of corruption will also be pulled out, skinned and used as grass, and his head will be killed! ! !

Of course, for now, compromise is an inevitable choice.

So Gao Wen sneered in his heart, and smiled at a group of expecting kings.

"Haha, Cobra actually made a good suggestion.

Such as Cobra's current thoughts, in fact, I have considered similar plans in the past.

You hand over the economic sectors of your respective countries for civilians to me, and let me squeeze the gangsters under your hands for you!
I am a Tianlong person, even if they dare to resist you, even if they dare to defy you, they will never dare to do anything that makes me dissatisfied!

I will deduct more money from them, and then I will bear the heavenly gold that you each need to pay for you, and I will also bear a series of investments in the construction of sea trains for you!

The luck of you guys is really great. You just need to follow my ass and enjoy it when you meet such a generous adult like me!

But one thing is very important. "

Gawain raised his palms to everyone around him.

"You have to understand to me that I am not here to do charity, I also want to make money, everyone!

Without money, what will I use to furnish my big ship, and what will I use to feed my maids and guards.

And those slaves that are sought after, you don't want me to be able to afford those slaves, do you?
So, folks, don't wait until the sea train has just been built to kick me off this plate!

Sea trains are destined to be a lucrative business, and I hope to make a good fortune from this business!

My Black Bird cost me a full two trillion Berries, what kind of figure is that, you should understand!

So, three years, I don't want much, just three years!
Three years after the construction of the sea train is completed, I will still hold your financial power!
Moreover, in those three years, I will not continue to pay you any heavenly money!

Can you understand? "

"Of course!"

"Haha, we understand too well, Mr. Gao Wen is a good man!"

"Your plan can be launched immediately, and you can even send people back with me directly, and I will let the adults under your subordinates control the financial power.

But only in the last few years, my lord, you can't offside. "

"Your Excellency is really too generous, haha, it's just a group of common people's taxes, we should earn the same, and we don't have to pay the sky and the money for building sea trains!"

"Yeah, it feels like a huge benefit has fallen on us. How much money can those low-class people get out of their hands? It's all about Master Gao Wen's care for us!"

"I'll put up the statue of my lord when I go back!"

"I'll provide the photos."

"Long live my lord, the five old stars have never been so generous as my lord, they only know how to kill demons!!!"

"Long live my lord!"

For a moment, under the tacit leadership of Cobra and the others, the kings even began to cheer in the meeting room.

They have a lot of money, and there will be countless more jobs and import and export trade channels in their country, and they will not have to pay the heavenly money in the next few years!
For a group of big shots like them, this is simply a blessing from the heavens. As for what they paid, it was nothing more than making the lives of the inferior people under them worse!
As for your question, why don't they feel that those inferior people will live better under Gao Wen's manipulation, and even do something that Gao Wen coerced to attack their superiors, or even directly rebel.

Haha, no kidding, no king would think so!

Because Gao Wen is a Celestial Dragon!
The kings know the Tianlong people too well, and the Tianlong people don't even treat them kings as adults, let alone the mere inferiors?

Even if Gao Wen was a slightly smarter Celestial Dragon, the kings would not think too much about it.

Why is this sea full of stereotypes of Tianlong people?

As for Gao Wen, looking at the increasingly excited kings opposite him, he crossed his hands and smiled while holding his chin.

Whether his plan can be realized depends on the next three to five years.

It is indeed a good thing to be able to control their financial power, and it can even be said to be a surprise. Cobra has never communicated with Gawain about this.

According to Gao Wen's original plan, he wanted to discuss some specific commercial content with the kings, such as a series of commercial adjustments involving the price of raw materials, and then from these commercial adjustments, find out for the kings what they can accept. of profit.

Gao Wen's thinking cannot be wrong, but he really forgot that this is not the real world, this is the One Piece after all!

Gao Wen thought about this matter too much, he really didn't know the kings here.

It turns out that he doesn't know those people better than Cobra at least!
In short, the current agreement is a great thing to cheer for the kings.

At the same time, for Gao Wen, this incident was also worth celebrating.

After all, what Gao Wen cares about is not the gain or loss of money. If he is really short of money, then he can go to the Golden Emperor. 30.00% of the world's wealth is with him.

What Gao Wen wanted was to connect the great air routes thoroughly!
The most important thing is that for him now, the sea train plan is not just a great achievement of the same track!

This plan has other more important meanings to Gao Wen!
Don't forget, Gao Wen is Thunderbolt, he has the ability to use the medium to make himself play at a speed comparable to that of a mobile phone signal!
But the seawater full of sea tower factors isolated all of that a little bit, and the pure air without all kinds of signal towers was not enough to maximize his extreme speed!
So…….

What if Gao Wen covered every corner of the sea with the rails of the sea train?

At that time, every train and track is Gawain's antenna!
Gao Wen wanted to know very much.

Could he... be everywhere! ! !
(End of this chapter)