Utopia

Sizzle!

As a result, accompanied by a burst of extremely piercing electric current, a gray-haired dog-headed man who couldn't help but run back from the earth slope was instantly charred by the strong current.

At the same time, the guards of Gas City immediately rushed to the nearest position.

"Here they come again."

Yawen no longer wanted to comment on the stupid behavior of the dog-headed man who continued to be ignorant and deliberately came to die.

However, thanks to the cooperation of Mayor Kanai just now, now he saw the militia (mercenaries) wearing uniforms with the national emblem of the Kingdom of Negan carrying guns and pulling cannons, and started fighting with the dog-headed bandits who were planning to attack the town, and his heart finally didn't feel tired as before.

The only thing is that these dog-headed people are carrying weapons and equipment that are not of their own origin, and running to Gas City to die... Don't they really have any fear?

After all, with the current equipment and training level of the dog-headed people, don't they feel that they are very backward and weak?

Obviously, the question in Yawen's heart has actually been answered. That is, the dog-headed people who originated from the Jiwei Peninsula cannot accept their fate of being inferior to others for generations, and they do not allow any race to despise their existence.

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It’s just that reality is always crueler than ideals. The ideal country concept they pursue seriously infringes on the interests of neighboring countries. And in order to maintain their so-called racial self-esteem that does not exist at all, the dog-headed people’s behavior of fabricating history books gave the Iron Fist Empire an excellent excuse for war.

So far, there are only less than 90,000 dog-headed people left on the Jiwei Peninsula, and they have split into different national forces. More than 20,000 dog-headed people have fallen under the butcher knife of the Iron Fist Empire. But they are still unwilling to publicly admit their mistakes on historical issues, and they have to pass down the fabricated history from generation to generation.

As a result... Anyway, the Iron Fist Empire has classified the dog-headed people as a kind of creature that can be killed at any time.

Such treatment is really worse than livestock.

But compared with the horse-headed people who have truly become a completely insignificant tiny dust in the long river of history, the dog-headed people really have to "thank" Quan Ruotian, the first person to unify the major dog-headed tribes.

The problem is that the legacy he left to the dog-headed people is not all very good things. In fact, it is because of his ideas that the gray-haired dog-headed people are gradually awakening and starting to resist the white-haired dog-headed people's autocratic and cruel slave-like rule.

Therefore, in the embassy of the Orchid Republic, Irving and Haken looked through the window and saw that all kinds of gray-haired dog-headed people were happy, and they knew what trouble was.

"Irving, they look very happy."

"Nonsense, the Orchid Republic exempts agricultural taxes, which of these gray-haired dog-headed people who specialize in growing rice would not be happy? Moreover, what exactly are they thinking? Aren't they afraid that their country's income will be greatly reduced by abolishing agricultural taxes?"

Although he said so, Irving himself actually guessed that the officials of the Orchid were not that stupid. Not collecting agricultural taxes, directly collecting them in business, that is, agricultural product trade, can also make up for the difference in the middle.

What's more, the Orchid Republic has special collective farms and special state-owned grain wholesale companies. Even if farmers can't find a more suitable middleman to sell, these state-owned grain companies will still purchase grain at the market price.

And the Orchid Republic has a policy that the Negan Kingdom is now adopting, that is, the Ministry of Agriculture also has special state-owned enterprises that will purchase grain at a fair price and sell it to the outside world at a fair market price.

Although it sounds a bit silly, this is a guarantee policy for dealing with droughts and floods, reduced grain production, and even poor harvests. It is a good policy to ensure that a country will not have large-scale starvation and people fleeing everywhere.

Although up to now, the Kingdom of Negan has never encountered a famine attack, and even has a certain amount of surplus grain for export and profit. However, the problem of famine and unstable food supply on the Elsa continent is a hurdle that many countries cannot escape. In addition, not every piece of land is suitable for building farms for agricultural activities, or some land that should be used for agriculture becomes other types of land for various reasons. The unrest that occurs on this basis has always been an important factor affecting the survival of a country or even a race.

Of course, this does not mean that no country on the Elsa continent will build a granary to store necessary food for emergencies; but it means that their granaries are easily attacked, resulting in a large amount of food loss, causing unnecessary panic.

"I don't know if it's less or more, but this country doesn't even have a casino..."

"Wait? Casino?"

"What? No?"

"Uh, it's okay, there's nothing wrong with it."

As long as a certain intelligent race establishes civilization, gambling will inevitably appear in the social activities of that intelligent race.

However, thanks to Her Majesty the Queen's disgust, the Kingdom of Negan has only one city that allows legal gambling. Moreover, the main patrons of this casino are not the people of the Negan Kingdom, but tourists from foreign countries.

After all, everyone knows that this thing is as harmful as drugs. But there is no way to do this. The lottery system for sports competitions has only been perfected for nearly a hundred years. In addition, in the early days of the founding of the country, the Kingdom of Negan needed a lot of funds, and the huge income provided by the casino was very difficult to refuse.

As a result, until now, Her Majesty the Queen actually hopes to completely close this gambling city. However, with the "sponsorship" of foreign merchants, the gambling city still provides the Kingdom of Negan with a foreign exchange income of up to 10,000 yuan per year. Her Majesty the Queen herself is a little speechless when looking at the officials of the Congress.

You must know that the cost of a Seahawk-class heavy bomber airship is 10,000 yuan per year. And the price includes all weapons and equipment, living facilities, military rations and other items.

The good thing is that there are not many gamblers like Haken in the Kingdom of Negan. And the reason why Haken went to the casino was that he was forced by life and had to try his luck.

He now has two boys and three girls, a total of five children, and the family expenses are not small. Therefore...

Anyway, Irving shook his head. Every family has its own difficulties. Whether it is a big family or a small family, it is the same. The only thing is that now there are sports competitions and later public welfare lottery tickets, maybe casinos will soon be replaced.

What's more, in foreign countries, especially the Iron Fist Empire and the Crurod Empire, these two countries have several large casinos built by casino tycoons...