Chapter 93 The difference between starting from scratch and occupying
Newgate didn't expect Jack to make money by selling houses in the community, but a house is fifty gold dragons, which is indeed a lot of money.
At this time, Newgate suddenly thought of an order Jack had given before.
That is, all the land in the Atlantis Empire belongs to the state, and citizens only have the right to use it.
And the citizens of Atlantis don't care about this order, because all the land was cultivated by Jack.
Jack paid and provided food. No matter what, these lands belong to Jack, and they didn't think too much.
After all, the king has to find people to cultivate these cultivated lands, and the cultivated land has begun to hire people to cultivate.
You only need to complete the not-so-complicated planting test and get a planting certificate to become a cultivator. It is said that the work of a cultivator is very easy.
Moreover, the cultivator not only provides three meals a day, but also has a salary of 5,000 copper coins a month.
Isn't this much more comfortable than farming by yourself?
The only pity is that the number of recruited cultivators is a bit small.
So now the Atlanteans are not obsessed with the ownership of the land. According to the reclamation plan of the Sea King Island, they all have the opportunity to become farmers.
Therefore, they feel that even if they don’t have land to grow food, they will not lack food, let alone money.
Moreover, it is no secret that a large number of factories have been built on Crescent Island. They even guess that the treatment in the factories may be better.
"It’s okay. We will set up an imperial bank and lend them money, interest-free loans.
In this way, even if they only save 0.5 gold dragons per month, it will be six gold dragons a year.
If it is an interest-free loan, it will be paid off in less than ten years."
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Newgate keenly noticed that something was wrong, but he couldn’t tell what was wrong.
"Your Majesty, why do you have to control their housing?"
Newgate was a little puzzled. Why did the citizens of the empire only enjoy the right to use the land, and they were not allowed to build their own houses on the land?
"Because the population will increase, if they are allowed to build their own houses, the entire Sea King Island will be full of miscellaneous self-built houses.
And building communities can not only make reasonable use of land to allow more people to have houses to live in, but also use the money they use to buy houses to build more communities."
"As for the issue of land ownership you mentioned, only giving them the right to use the land is to prevent land annexation.
If the ownership of the land is given to individuals, the rich will find ways to annex other people's land.
In the long run, the empire will have less and less land, and individuals will have more and more private land.
Until the end, the country can't collect taxes, and some people will be fat and full of oil."
Land is wealth, especially before industrialization, even if it enters industrialization, the land is still valuable.
Although the land of Sea King Island is Jack's now, there will be more and more people in the future, and more and more islands and coastal lands will be occupied.
At this time, if the land is still privately owned, the first batch of rich people will definitely not let go of the newly occupied land.
In addition, Atlantis will be composed of islands and coastal areas around the world, which is no different from the feudal system.
There will be landlords of all sizes who are no different from local emperors everywhere, and Jack's empire built from scratch will have no meaning.
So now that Atlantis has just been established and no nobles have been born, Jack must not implement private ownership of land at this time when the resistance is the least.
This is also one of the reasons why Jack chose to find an archipelago to build a territory from scratch.
If Jack had chosen to occupy a piece of land in Essos or Westeros.
It would be basically impossible for Jack to implement these "deviant" systems.
Because the nobles would unite to resist Jack, Jack's land system shook the foundation of their rule.
In the eyes of the nobles, nationalization is a lie, and Jack's approach is to confiscate their land.
Unless Jack asks Poseidon to clean up all the local nobles.
Otherwise, Jack would never be as relaxed as he is now, and he would implement whatever system he wants.
Newgate also understood Jack's idea. Building a community can indeed provide housing for more people and make it more convenient to manage the population.
"When the time comes, we will directly manage it according to the community, and it will be convenient for population statistics and registration."
"That's right, it seems that you are not so old that your brain is rusty. Not bad, you can continue to work for me for a few more years, and hurry up to train Asidof. That young man is good."
"." Newgate was speechless. It seems that you still want to continue to exploit me.
To be honest, Newgate really wants to retire and return home.
He has promoted the newcomers who should be promoted, and he has also arranged the honest people who should be arranged. Now after retirement, Asidof can take his place.
And he can receive a pension and live in the house allocated by the empire to enjoy his old age.
When Vitellier gives birth to another fat boy for him to take care of, he will enjoy the happiness of family life. His life will be worth it.
As for the power of the prime minister, Newgate really doesn't care. As an old slave, it is the greatest happiness to be saved by the sea king and enjoy his old age.
Let the game of power be left to the young people. Atlantis is basically a 20-year-old young man. In addition, there is a big power vacancy now, and the struggle is fierce.
At night, the moon was dark and the stars were sparse, which seemed to indicate that it might rain in the next few days.
At this time, Jack's decree had been notified to everyone.
The citizens of Atlantis did not protest as Jack imagined, but instead asked when they could get loans to buy houses.
Except for the first 5,000 high-level slaves, the rest of the Sea King Island were ordinary people working hard at the bottom.
For them, isn’t the interest-free loan a housing subsidy for them?
Anyway, they were slaves before, and they could live in a doghouse. Now they can have a house covered with cement. Even if the property rights are only for 80 years and cannot be renewed, they will accept it.
What’s more, it can still be renewed after the expiration.
According to the loan policy given by His Majesty the Sea King, 50 golden dragons will be repaid in 20 years. With the average monthly salary promised by His Majesty, there is no pressure at all.
Jack was also very satisfied with their reaction. This group of people had not been enlightened and their lives had just started to improve, so they agreed with Jack’s words 100%.
In their eyes, Jack was the incarnation of the sea god. Even the living Godzilla obeyed Jack’s instructions and became the patron saint of Atlantis.
This blind worship and belief in the sea god will influence the next generation of Atlantis.
When they enter the Imperial Academy, they will become a generation with both ideological enlightenment and faith.
As the saying goes, the army is divided into three levels: ancient army, modern army, and modern army.
The division is not judged by the difference in weapons.
Like many armies in the Middle East in Jack's previous life, even if they are equipped with modern weapons, they are still at the level of ancient armies.
The most obvious feature of ancient armies is that they don't know why they fight and have no desire to fight.
They can only improve the combat level of their leaders, and they are armed forces that satisfy the selfish desires of the controllers.
Many times, a 10% casualty will lead to a rout.
Modern armies are based on a small number of officers and a large number of consumable soldiers.
They know what they are fighting for and act with this belief.
This belief can be animal desire, religious belief or nationalism.
Its disadvantage is rigidity and dogmatism.
Modern armies have strengthened the basic combat literacy of soldiers on the basis of modern armies.
More importantly, they have judgment and unshakable faith.
The simplest source of judgment is reading and literacy.
But it is usually difficult to have a firm belief after reading and literacy.
If an army has judgment and firm belief, its fighting power, subjective initiative and fighting will be unparalleled.
The most intuitive manifestation is the army's flexible fighting, and it is common for them to hold their ground until the last man.
Obviously, Jack's goal is to build a modern army.
The two conditions of building an empire from scratch and Godzilla gave Jack the foundation for building a modern army.
It only takes twenty years for Atlantis' army to be unprecedentedly powerful.
