Realm of Power

When the fat man heard that Audrey actually said such words, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, shrugged, and smiled. "You are sure you are right. I was already disappointed with Fei Shan, even for a senior person like Prais." Even the administrative officials feel helpless about Fei Shan's development environment. What kind of development plan can you, a daughter of a wealthy family, make? If you just want to use this to attract my attention, then I can be very honest. Say, this is of no use to me!"

Audrey blushed, gritted her teeth, raised her small and white chin, and said crisply like an unconvinced swan under the fat man's gaze, "It's okay if your Majesty doesn't want to believe it, although I don't know that ordinary person." What a person Lord Rais is, but all he sees is now Fei Shan, who didn’t know that in the more than a hundred years since Fei Shan was founded, the elites of the kingdom have been pursuing Fei Shan’s strength in various ways, and even to some extent, they have indeed found the path to Fei Shan’s strength, but later For some reason, I couldn’t go down this road in the end!”

"Is there really such a thing?"

The fat man touched the bridge of his nose with his hand and his eyes flashed.

In the past half month of contact, he knew that although this woman was arrogant, her methods of doing things were eclectic, otherwise he would not have encouraged her to sink all Feishan nobles into the sea, and this woman actually did so. , I’m afraid ordinary men don’t have this kind of courage and courage. Judging from the slightly red expression in Odili’s eyes, it doesn’t look like she’s just talking nonsense.

"Sixty years ago, when Fei Shan was at its peak, although Fei Shan's navy plundered and dominated the inland sea and grabbed a lot of resource benefits for Fei Shan, Fei Shan also had another industry that, although not as powerful as the navy, was one of the most powerful in the entire inland sea. In the end, it was very prosperous, and together with the Feishan Navy, it pulled the Feishan Kingdom towards the One of the two carriages running forward, covering the entire Feishan coast. The central port of Badiya was brightly lit all year round because of this industry. At that time, 30% of the tax revenue of the entire Feishan Kingdom came from the income of this industry. , when the Strand people rose up to challenge Feishan’s naval hegemony, it was also Using Badiya Port, the center of this industry, to lead the main force of our Feishan Navy into the ambush circle, it finally led to the disastrous defeat of our Feishan Navy. A summary of the golden era." Audrey saw the fat man believing a little, and her pretty face She raised her head excitedly, with a look of hot yearning flashing in her eyes, "Although Fei Shan is now Although the navy is not as strong as it was back then, it will be the same if it is replaced by the imperial navy. "Slow down, you are talking about... it's not the black market and gambling industry, is it?" The fat man raised his hand and interrupted Audrey, blinking. Blinking and taking a deep breath of the cold winter breath, this woman really caught something real.

"Your Majesty is indeed very discerning!"

Audrey's cheeks turned red and hot, she nodded fiercely, and said in a serious voice, "Feishan's golden heyday was not just about naval plunder, but also the prosperity of a series of industries brought about by the rise of the navy. The most famous of these developments is the central city of Bardia, which is now known as Lisbonto, the city that never sleeps, but sixty years ago, it was the port of Bardia!”

Mentioning Fei Shan's strong era, Audrey's face showed uncontrollable excitement and pride. It meant that Fei Shan was destroyed by the empire now, but sixty years ago, the sails of Fei Shan's naval battleship Covering the inland sea, there are endless ships going to and from Badiya. The empire still doesn't know where it is in that small and remote place!

“Reviving Badya?”

The fat man subconsciously touched the bridge of his nose again. He didn't mind Audrey's little bit of pettiness.

The reason why he values ​​Audrey is that Audrey is an ambitious woman. In this era, if she does not have this ambition, even if the empire is willing to support her and let her become the spokesperson of the empire in the Feishan region, how many effects can it ultimately have? No one was sure of the effect, so he directly gave up on Hakara who was supported by Lakoye, and instead turned to Hakara's daughter Audrey.

Audrey is the daughter of Hakara, a pure Feishan noble, and with the current power of the Hakara family, she is already qualified to become an agent of the empire.

As long as the empire supports it, Audrey will be the future head of the Hakara family, and Audrey herself is obviously more pragmatic and has little resistance to the empire. Since it is impossible for the empire to find an agent from Feishan's elders, then it might as well just Looking among the second generation of Feishan nobles, Audrey is undoubtedly the outstanding one among them, with knowledge, ambition, courage, and means! The biggest point is that Audrey knows better than Hakara that the Hakara family can only survive if they completely tie themselves to the empire.

"It seems that His Majesty also knows Badya?" Audrey said cautiously

"Shouldn't I know about the base camp of the rebels?" The fat man smiled slightly. During this period, he read a lot of books about the golden age of Feishan's development. Among them, the content about Feishan's navy took up a lot of space, and some of them were Historical books, some of which are biographies, contain a lot of exaggerations.

But in these books, a place name from that time was constantly mentioned, and that was Badya, the city that never sleeps! The book is not stingy with all kinds of praise for Badiya Port, and it is tempting to call Badiya Port a miracle city on the earth. This kind of national bragging is already commonplace for Fatty, so he didn't pay much attention to it when he read the book. What is Badiya, the city that never sleeps?

A bunch of country bumpkins

You must know that eighty years ago, even the population of Kyoto in the Gallic Empire in the north was only about 500,000. In a barren place like Feishan, the population was probably only 100,000. The so-called Badea, the so-called Night City, to put it bluntly, is a center for black markets and gambling. It is completely incomparable to Lisbonto, which has a million people under the control of the empire, so the fat man really doesn't like Badea.

But now when he heard Audrey suddenly say it, the blocked emotions in Fatty's heart were touched. How could he have forgotten that sixty years ago, the navy was greatly developed in the Feishan area, and Feishan's geographical location, It is right in the center of the triangle formed by the coast of Barro in Central Europe, the coast of the Istan Empire and the northern coast of Barro in South Europe. It is the center of the maritime trade routes between these three regions. Feishan's navy operates freely in the inland sea area, pretending to be pirates and plundering most of the goods. It is also brought back to the central city of Badiya on the Feishan coast for processing. After centralized auctions, over time, Badiya Port has undoubtedly become the largest black market distribution center in the entire inland sea region.

As a large number of black market merchants and navy sailors gathered in the Badiya area, the gambling industry also flourished in the Badiya area. Unlike the black market, which was mainly concentrated in one place, because of the driving effect of Badiya, it even once Hundreds of miles of Feishan coast has become a popular area for gambling, whether it is Feishan people, pirates, or other kingdoms Nobles and wealthy businessmen with a speculative mentality of getting rich suddenly gathered on the coast of Feishan. The gambling industry became very popular and became a pillar industry that injected strong growth into the Feishan Kingdom. Unfortunately, this situation only lasted for more than ten years. After Feishan's navy was defeated by Strand's navy, Feishan fell from the altar of the Inner Sea Overlord.

Without the protective power of the ocean, the prosperous Feishan black market and gambling industry were like a big tree that had lost its growing soil and collapsed overnight!

The sun shone brightly from the ceiling in the middle of the attic. Audrey looked at the emperor's shining and ferocious eyes, and her breathing paused slightly. She didn't know that she had opened a door, and she didn't know that she had opened a door. Is it the door to heaven or hell? He carefully stuck out his tongue. This is the emperor of the Falcon Empire. He controls most of the Obaro region and is the master of hundreds of millions of creatures. He is known as the most powerful monarch in Obaro for thousands of years. There is no other powerful person in the world. He is really brave enough. , here he actually proposed to the Emperor of the Falcon Empire to start a gambling industry in the Feishan area.

The gambling industry sounds wonderful, but it is actually a double-edged sword.

The gambling industry indeed allowed Fei Shan to obtain a large amount of funds, but one thing Audrey did not mention was that it was also because of Fei Shan's gambling industry that Fei Shan's domestic economy was developing abnormally. The gambling industry was not only Attracting external resources also caused Feishan's domestic resources to be absorbed into it on a large scale. If one could become rich overnight, who would focus on development anymore?

This was also the main reason why Feishan's navy was defeated that day and Feishan's domestic economy collapsed! It is precisely because of the painful lessons that Feishan has strictly prohibited the development of the gambling industry in China for decades.

It's just that Audrey didn't know that the head she raised really made Fatty's heart flutter.

Just making Feishan's coast a maritime trade distribution center and a black center is enough for Feishan to support the empire's need for southern expansion. What's more, when it comes to the gambling industry, Fatty, as a modern soul, can know even more.

Of course he knows that the gambling industry is a double-edged sword that can hurt others and yourself, but what else is worth hurting Fei Shan now? The worst is this. On the contrary, it was Audrey who proposed this idea, which opened the door for the fat man. After thinking about it, why didn’t I think about it? It’s not impossible for the gambling industry to become a pillar industry in a region, but it’s very promising.

The natural advantages of Feishan's geographical location are clearly visible. It is the center of the three major ocean trades and the only place where east-west sea trade must pass. Opposite is the imperial golden port of Hérault. There are countless merchant ships, merchants and sailors, and goods resources gather and disperse. In all parts of the mainland, if we say that in such a geographical location, we can create It is not difficult for me to become a gambling center. This is the advantage of being an emperor. As long as the empire provides enough policies and enough funds are poured in, as long as the imperial navy makes changes to the maritime trade routes, a medieval world can be created. This version of Las Vegas is really stress-free.

Otherwise, it would be good to just build an area like Las Vegas along the coast of Feishan. Thinking of turning Feishan area into treasure, the fat man licked his dry lips excitedly. Las Vegas is What, it’s a miracle, it’s ambition, it’s passion, it’s Xiaojin’s Nest, this place is located on the edge of the desert The city is almost the same as Feishan, with no products and no infrastructure at all. Even in the mid-19th century, an army lieutenant who visited Las Vegas once despaired that no one would set foot in Las Vegas from now on. A desert, but what will appear after a hundred years?

On the fertile pasture of Las Vegas, a world-renowned resort city for tourism, shopping and vacation centered on the gambling industry, has the reputation of "Entertainment Capital of the World" and "Wedding Capital". If you are poor and have a few dollars left, you may be able to make a comeback by going to Las Vegas. If you have too much money to spend, you may experience the chicness of a homeless person by going to Las Vegas. Las Vegas is like this, one side is hell and the other side is paradise. Among the 38.9 million tourists who come to Las Vegas every year, most come to shop and enjoy delicious food, while only a few come specifically to gamble.

From an inconspicuous run-down village to a huge international city, it only took Las Vegas ten years! If with the full support of the empire, Fatty is confident that Fei Shan will be able to recreate what she was like back then, I'm afraid it won't even take a year!

In the afternoon of the same day, Fatty summoned Prais again and handed Praice a drafted plan. The plan was mainly drafted by Audrey. Fatty added some content in key positions, such as the early stage. Invest five million imperial gold to build a casino, and also invest in Badiya Port. The three port cities in the country allow the Navy Ministry to plan the docking points in the Feishan area and allow all merchant ships to dock in the Badiya area. This alone is enough to ensure the flow of merchants and sailors in the Badiya area. Geometric growth, as long as there are people, the casino is not afraid of losing business

"Your Majesty, I dare not speak nonsense about this plan. I can only say that it is beyond the scope of my subordinates' understanding. Please tell me what you should do?"

Plais stared at the plan for more than ten minutes, with a ghostly expression on his face, his lips trembled slightly, and finally chose to lower his head. The senior administrative officer was also shocked by the content of the plan, and gambled Industry has become Fei Shan's financial support. How is His Majesty the Emperor's head so long that he can even think of such a method?

Plais didn't know what to say anymore, so he simply said directly, "You can do whatever you want. I don't understand this anyway!"

"Ahem, I have assigned a special person to temporarily use the Badiya Port area as a pilot to verify the feasibility of this plan within three months. Minister Plais only needs to grasp the overall situation and provide the necessary support. "The fat man coughed dryly. This plan was indeed a bit shocking. It was completely created by Audrey, a crazy woman, and himself.

He and Audrey had been talking about the plan for half a morning. Audrey could say something at first, but then the fat man casually mentioned a few features of future casinos, including mentioning Some of the things that came out, even a monster like Audrey, were burnt on the outside and tender on the inside, and were stunned and speechless.

Without this, it would be difficult for people to live.

Audrey's red lips trembled slightly, and she once again felt miserable that she was being crushed by someone's intelligence.

It was obviously my idea, but why did it end up like this? Opening a casino, just find a venue and put the gambling equipment on it! Are you sure this is a casino? Why spend a lot of money to invite large-scale performances from all over the world? The environment must be beautiful, there are clusters of villas, and there are so many beauties. You can recruit beautiful female slaves from the Barro region in southern Europe to serve as casino personnel. How can the casino be opened successfully? Like this? This is not a casino. It is simply a huge resort, shopping, and aristocratic area that has been expanded under the guise of a casino. Let alone others, even Audrey herself would not dare to say that she does not want to spend some time in such a place. Been to Fraser Casino!