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Advanced countries support backward countries in many cases because the backward countries are too poor. Even if they want to plunder, they need something to plunder. When an industrial country faces a group of primitive people, it can probably plunder

There is only population. That is, like the triangular trade, the population is captured and used as slaves.

But this actually comes with a cost. What can be targeted is only those tribes whose civilization level is low enough to a certain level, which can be easily conquered by force, and even allow them to fight against themselves and capture their own people.

For cities like these that have occupied cities and can develop independently, it is very difficult to capture the population by force. More importantly, slavery is impossible to appear in the territory.

Because after truly mobilizing the subjective initiative of workers, we will find that the wealth created by slaves in the production process is really too little.

Compared with the wealth created by ordinary people's independent productive labor under the urging of needs, the wealth created is really much less.

In terms of pure work efficiency, the efficiency of modern free people is actually much higher than that of ancient slaves, and these are not achieved with whips. Since there is the threat of force, better methods can be developed.

The value of a person's labor. Then there is no need to use force and coercion.

Chengying's external strategy is also a method of economic plunder, just like the initial export of things like iron pots and bicycles. In the early days, there were no such things, and the residents in these cities could live a normal life before. But by the time

After seeing these commodities, you will find that without these commodities, your living standard will suddenly drop by a notch.

Even if they had no demand for these goods before, demand will be created after they gradually become accustomed to using these goods.

In fact, there are many models that create demand like this. For example, soap and other things are very easy to produce in the wasteland territory where the chemical industry is complete. And in order to promote these things, they

A considerable amount of work has been carried out based on public opinion. These are completely beyond the cognitive scope of the territorial lords of this era.

The work done in terms of public opinion is also very simple. It is nothing more than forcibly adding smooth hair and smooth skin to human aesthetics. This itself is in line with human aesthetic tendencies, so it is easy to achieve, and

In the wasteland territory, a large number of portraits can be printed through printing. After those exquisitely made and beautiful portraits that are not like real people gradually spread in the surrounding cities, people's aesthetics gradually began to deviate.

Originally, the aesthetics of people in this era paid more attention to body shape. Sometimes, considering the convenience of childbearing, those who were slightly fatter and plump would be more popular.

But as these portraits spread, gradually the aesthetics of these people began to shift from the aspect of body to the aspect of appearance. Look at a person's face, see whether a person's hair is smooth, and whether his body is clean?

I began to pay attention to whether a person has a special smell, or the smell of perfume. In some novels or stories circulated in the market, it is described that real beauties have the fragrance of flowers.

So demand was created where there was no demand, that is, demand for toiletries and perfumes. These things need to be obtained through alcohol distillation or chemical methods. Garden City is equivalent to carrying out

Strict technological monopoly.

There are no competitors at all to imitate, and these goods can be easily exchanged for a large amount of labor. The residents of these cities must engage in a large amount of originally heavy labor in order to be able to enjoy these newly created consumer demands.

Not just themselves. These created needs also affected their lords and the local nobles.

The local nobles need these toiletries, perfumes, glass, mirrors, fine porcelain and silk, and cloth with beautiful patterns. However, they are not capable of producing these things themselves, and if they want to buy them, they are quite expensive.

, so they can only exploit the people in their own territory.

So we had to accept some of Wasteland City's plans and plan them to be part of the future industrial chain, and during the planning process, each industry had at least two cities responsible for production. In other words, these two cities

They have to compete with each other. When purchasing, they have to bid against each other, and the one with the lowest price can get the right to purchase first. It can be said that the labor force in the surrounding cities is squeezed to the extreme.

There were even many people who couldn't stand the oppression of the lords and began to flee towards the Wasteland City. And there was no way to stop this kind of thing. If the Wasteland City encountered people who were fleeing, they would be directly transformed into their own side.

The citizens will not be released at all.

Even some people who have the ability to leave the city quietly will choose to work in Wasteland City. These people will soon find that the income from working is much higher than the income from working in the territory.

Some people have made up their mind to go out to work by themselves, and then use the money earned from working to pay taxes. In this way, there is no need for related work within the territory. The remaining money is earned by themselves.

The lords who have arrived are accustomed to conducting transactions through currency. They are happy to accept this method. They only need to pay an extra part of the tax burden before they can go out to work.

In order to obtain labor force, it does not need to be plundered, but must be obtained through war. These labor forces are much more motivated to work. So why use violent means at the beginning?

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If you are some ambitious nobles, you will definitely not agree to this method. The people in your territory go out to work. On the surface, this is

It can bring you more money. But in fact, that is not the case at all. If you are a motivated lord, you will try your best to bind the population of your territory to your own land.

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Because the significance of these people to the lord is not only to provide wealth, but more importantly, they have military obligations to the lord.

When the lord needs to fight a war, they will be recruited into the army. It is somewhat similar to the reserve force, but the actual situation is actually different.

Nowadays, the combat effectiveness that these residents who need to fulfill their military obligations can no longer keep up with this era. In the future, professional soldiers will actually be more suitable.

It's just that these lords simply couldn't afford to support professional soldiers, especially when they were so close to a behemoth and suffered economic plunder. If they wanted to support their own professional soldiers, the money they earned was simply not enough.

These territories themselves have never considered relying on military force to achieve independence, so they just let this kind of plunder happen.

At a certain level, the current situation is that these city-states are like those countries that were on the verge of superpowers in a certain era. There is a saying that they are too far from heaven and too close to a certain country. Now their situation is similar. Cheng Ying does not hope that

A powerful political power emerged in these city-states, so while plundering through economic means, it also worked hard to disintegrate their cohesion and absorb their population, making these cities weaker and weaker.

When railways are built to the doorsteps of these cities, their populations will basically be completely annexed. As for the ownership of their cities, they are still in their hands in name. But in fact, they no longer have any administrative capabilities.

Even if you still have a certain amount of military armament, when your administrative capabilities are completely controlled by your opponent, what you can do is very limited.

As the economy gradually comes under complete control, the military may be cut off by the enemy's dispatch of troops and supplies.

This matter also starts from the previous economic plunder. Because various agricultural machinery are more developed, the mechanical planting yields in Wasteland City are higher, and the price of food is also lower. So the surrounding farmers find that they do not need to plant crops.

You can go out to work, and then buy food in Wasteland City. Use the purchased food to pay taxes. And the money you can earn from working on your own is much more than what is left from farming before.

As a result, a large amount of land in these surrounding cities has become barren.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wasteland City took over the initiative, and instead sent people to these cities to cultivate the land, and promised that after the cultivation, they would pay directly, and the money paid would be much more than normal.

In this way, the lords from all over the country also agreed. If they were given money, why should they refuse? But the problem is that the fields in their territories have been paid more by others, and the food produced has also been paid by others.

After transporting it away, if you want to use the food, you have to spend money to buy it.

As a result, these countries that were originally capable of being self-sufficient in food have to purchase food from abroad. And if they want to grow their own food, they will find that the cost of growing and obtaining food is too high. The cost.

The price has already exceeded the price of grain, and related industries are completely losing money.

They have no choice but to outsource these lands. If the lifeline of food is controlled, even if it is true in the future, the two sides will conflict. As long as the other side refuses to sell food, then they will have nothing to do.

While Chengying is controlling food, he is also making further attempts to control water sources.

If there are railways that can facilitate transportation, they can occupy some plateaus where it is difficult to survive. This is the source of the river. Building dams here can, on the one hand, serve as important water conservancy facilities and improve the surrounding water temperature environment. On the other hand,

At the necessary moment, it can directly cut off the river water, causing the lower reaches of the river to fall into drought and water shortage, and it can also directly release the flood when necessary, completely washing out the downstream areas.

Although most of the time there is no need to use such means. But with such means in hand, the major city-states in the downstream areas will not dare to make trouble. Everyone is counting on water sources for irrigation. Naturally, it is impossible to control the lifeline.

When in the hands of others, it is easy to violate.

Chengying is very experienced in the construction of these water conservancy facilities. Not only can dams be built to control the hydrological environment downstream, but hydropower stations can also be built on top of dams. Although its territory has not yet fully entered the electric age,

Only a few factories, such as aluminum synthesis factories, require large amounts of electricity.

But it is an inevitable trend to enter the electric age in the future. In fact, the technology required for generators is not particularly high. If a hydropower station can be built, there will even be a large amount of surplus power generation in a short period of time.

Electricity can be used almost freely near the power station.

Therefore, in addition to controlling the downstream, these hydropower stations are also surrounded by a large number of high-end laboratories and factories. They are the most advanced product production bases in the territory. Most of the factories use electric energy as power. Compared with

Those outside who are still using steam engines can produce a wider variety of products with higher technical content.

On a certain level, although Wasteland City has not physically occupied these surrounding city-states, it has substantially completed its control over these city-states.

Even if you want to fight in the future, you can directly ask them to send troops. Even though everyone is equal in name, in fact it has become the uncrowned king of this area.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is a pity that this area as a whole appears to be quite remote and desolate. Even the city-states surrounding the wasteland area have chosen to comply with the will of the wasteland city.

, still did not exert much influence on the mainland. On the contrary, the conflict between Luo Lin's group and the Augustus family intensified.

The Wilder family's army that had been sent to attack the Luolin family's rear was inexplicably annihilated, causing the balance that had been tilted towards the Augustus family to turn back. The annihilation of the 50,000-strong army had a huge impact.

Big. It directly changed the situation of the battle. Now Rowling has the advantage.

Several times, large armies pressed into the territory and almost captured one of the four cities owned by the Augustus family. Even if it was not completed yet, they had already completed the siege of one of the cities despite the pressure from the Augustus family.

, cutting the original four cities into a 3+1 format.

Augustus wanted to lift the siege of his city. One way was to go all out in the three cities on the same side to attack the Luolin warriors who besieged his city, but the other side was determined to attack his city this time.

He took a bite of meat from his body, and it can be said that he went all out to attack with an army. The best result was just a crazy fight under the city wall. The besieged city had been blocked from both ends, and there were no resources inside. If a few more days pass,

If the siege cannot be relieved in a month and the food inside is exhausted, I am afraid that the only choice is to surrender. By then the army that besieged the city will enter the city. After the siege is lifted, Luo Lin will have two supporting points here. Both sides

The advantages and disadvantages between them immediately changed completely.

[To be continued]

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