Chapter 713 Bracada Under the Foam

September 7, 01, God's Chosen Calendar.

The God War broke out.

The four gods defeated the Lord of Chaos in the sky of Yasha, and the whole world rejoiced!

This great victory was like a shot of adrenaline for the Yasha world, which had been on the defensive. Its invigorating effect was comparable to Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.

For a time, in the taverns of major forces, the ballads sung by the bards turned into war songs praising Yasha's crusade against Chaos. The enthusiasm of the major forces for fighting against Chaos also increased a lot, and there was even a wave of heroes rushing to sign up to guard the border of Chaos.

However, there was an exception.

The adrenaline of Yasha's victory over Chaos seemed to have no effect on Bracada.

Two weeks had passed since the news of the victory, and the whole country of Bracada was still in a state of mourning.

Inwu Territory was originally the most prosperous trade center in Bracada. Whether it was the quality and quantity of shops or the number of customers, it was the best in Bracada, and even the whole of Yasha.

During the peak season of sales in Yinwuling, the sales boom is enough to make anyone who sees it unforgettable.

Especially during holidays, Yinwuling is always full of vitality.

Groups of customers are shoulder to shoulder and spend money like water. The streets and alleys are crowded with people, and there is an endless stream of customers in front of all kinds of shops. People are happily choosing their favorite products and enjoying the fun of shopping.

From magic books and various magic machines to food, snacks, and handicrafts, they are all selling vigorously and colorfully.

But now, on the streets of Yinwuling, there are more merchants selling things than customers buying things.

Especially those shops that sell high-end magic mechanical products are simply deserted and cannot make ends meet.

"Magic gas car, magic heater, magic ice machine... all are big brands of first-line factories, all are first-hand products of the factory.

Sell at a loss! All are discounted!

In our store, your gold coins can be used as Titan coins. Yes, you heard it right, all are discounted!"

"The store is closed, the factory genuine products, limited sale, limited quantity, first come first served!"

"Storm Treasure Factory is closed! Storm Treasure Factory is closed!

The boss Huang Bulaji owes 350 million and ran away with the little bunny.

We have no choice but to sell the treasures in stock.

The original price of alchemical treasures is more than 500 and more than 1,000, now they are all 180! All are 180!

Boss Huang Bulaji, you are not a human, give us back our hard-earned money!"

During this period, Bracada's economy has been shaken.

Mi Xue Bingtang told Bracada with facts that the market has rules and the economy has cycles.

The cycle is twenty years, like a dream and fantasy.

Twenty years ago, Bracada had just ushered in a technological explosion. In the first 10 years, industrial productivity increased by 40% to 55%, and the number of factories increased from single digits to hundreds of thousands. Bracada's gross national income almost doubled every year!

Bracada, with a long history, took advantage of the explosion of magic technology to fully stimulate the potential of the old power.

With the help of sucking blood from various affiliated forces and dumping luxury goods to the top leaders of major forces, Bracada really lived a good life.

At that time, as long as you were a [Brakada] - note that the [Brakada] here refers specifically to advanced soldiers such as mages and lamp gods, you could easily find a good job that would allow you to live a life of feasting and revelry.

Those mage academies, before students graduated, factory owners contacted them in advance, offered various conditions to invite them to join, and bid against each other, using all means.

At that time, Bracada's food was so cheap that everyone could have enough food and clothing even if they didn't work, and Bracada's resources were so cheap that warehouses in every city were piled up like mountains.

So, why is there no gold coins in such a glorious Bracada now?

In a nutshell, it is because the people have become poor and there is no money to be made.

The development of magic technology has indeed driven the prosperity of the leading industries. Trosa, the boss of the Trosa Chamber of Commerce, has become the richest man in Bracada, with a fortune of 60 billion gold coins, equivalent to the lifetime income of 1 million middle-class Bracada families.

A total of 16 largest chaebols control 73% of the country's GDP. The top nobles pursue monopoly, and small and medium-sized enterprises seem to have no worries about survival, but in fact they can only eat soup and water.

In the next 10 years, Bracada's industrial production doubled again, but the income of ordinary mages and lamp gods remained almost unchanged.

The Trosa Chamber of Commerce increased the production of magic gas cars and doubled the output. Do they have to ask those mages who have difficulty buying a car to buy two?

Ordinary people are too poor and useless, and magic gas cars are unsalable, so the Trosa Chamber of Commerce will certainly not invest in production again.

With this spare money, they might as well buy land and speculate on the Mage Tower to earn short-term funds.

If the Mage Tower is expensive, who will buy it? It’s still the mages who don’t have a Mage Tower who will buy it.

What if you can’t afford it? Your income is so stable and your salary is so high, borrow it!

As a result, a large amount of gold coin resources flowed to real estate, and then more gold coin resources were sucked back from real estate.

By now, Bracada’s so-called hard work to get rich has long become a joke.

If you want to live in a luxurious Mage Tower, want to have a big manor, a big villa, and want to ride an armed boat, you have to take an unconventional path.

Those top dignitaries, who have armed boats, villas, and Mage Towers, where do they get so many gold coins?

To put it bluntly, if it’s not your own gold coins, you don’t feel bad when you spend them.

For ordinary people, it’s impossible to get rich overnight without stealing or robbing.

She is a maid in an armed airship villa, making a fortune.

Ordinary mages and lamp gods are car loans, mortgages, consumer loans, and all kinds of advanced consumption.

Ordinary mages in Bracada are intoxicated with the life of luxury and have no idea of ​​the nature of gold coins.

What is gold coins? Gold coins are the embodiment of labor. Borrowing is overdrawing your own future.

The rich get more wealth, the poor get a lot of debt, and after the carnival, it is chaos.

When the economy is good, no one feels it. Now the economy is bad, ordinary mages and lamp gods who borrow money, the eyes are closed and open, and the interest is the principal.

They are like puppets kidnapped by the Bracada vault, with holes all over their bodies, and bloody gold coins are flowing out every minute and every second.

If you don’t want to pay the interest, you can only make quick money to pay back the principal as soon as possible.

How to make quick money? Either war or venture capital.

The first bubble, the war against Negan, because of the unknown intervention of the forces of hell, Bracada suffered a great defeat.

For the lords who treat war as a business, and those small nobles, ordinary wizards and lamp gods, defeat means that their investment in the war will be lost.

Those who finally borrowed money crazily to fight the war even lost their pants.

Bang, the first bubble burst, and Bracada has already shown some signs of collapse.

But soon, the second bubble hit like a hurricane.

Investment!

Then they were cheated by Mixue Bingtang again, although they have not realized that they have been cheated yet.

But as the flow of gold coins became more and more concentrated, Bracada's economic bubble has begun to collapse.

After the economic bubble collapsed, the average salary income of ordinary wizards in Bracada fell by 70% in just two months.

But the interest value of their loans remained basically unchanged.

In order to repay various loans, they can only eat potatoes and pumpkins every day and drink a bottle of beer for three days.

They can't make money from the common people, and the nobles are accelerating their internal competition. The big nobles eat the middle nobles, the middle nobles eat the small nobles, and the small nobles wait to die.

Within two months, the monthly investment in factories in Bracada plummeted from 10 billion to 1 billion.

Industrial production decreased by 90%.

Factories across the country closed down, the number of unemployed people exceeded 160 million, and the people felt more and more difficult.

There was a dock in the Falling Moon Territory recruiting workers for only three positions, but 2,000 people signed up.

It's not that Bracada has no gold coins, but that the people have no gold coins.

Aged, Trosa and others have piled up gold coins, but even if they have three heads and six arms, how much can they eat and use in a day?

When the bubble burst, the consequences of excessive concentration of wealth broke out all at once.

The top dignitaries, who number 0.2% of the entire Bracada, have occupied 98.8% of Bracada's wealth.

The total economy has shrunk, and the remaining wealth is not enough to sustain the survival of 90% of the people in the 98.8%.

The bottom of the peculiarly shaped economic support pyramid collapsed.

Even the Indo-Ukrainian Territory, which has always had the best business, has no business, not to mention other places.

Because of this, the news of Yasha's victory over Chaos did not cause any waves in Bracada - I can't even afford to eat, so I don't care about Yasha Chaos, I just want the end of the world!

This situation has certainly been noticed by the top dignitaries in Bracada, especially those in the Grand Council.

They are certainly not blind or deaf, and they all know that the situation will be bad if it continues.

But - so what?

If you want to change the status quo, you have to make these top dignitaries bleed, release some gold coins to flow back into the market, and revitalize the economy.

Well, the question is, who should be allowed to release?

A. [Let Trosa release, he is the richest. ]

I am Trosa, a permanent member of the Bracada Grand Council! The founder of Magic Technology! The ruler of Trosa Chamber of Commerce! A legendary hero!

The entire industrial faction stands behind me, and the four demigods have industries here. Do you want me to bleed? Do you want to die?

B. [Let Fafner go, he is a reckless man, and he lost the last battle, he is the culprit! ]

What do you mean? I, Fafner, the commander of the three armies, the leader of the war faction, dare you touch the military funds?

Awesome! I think you want to rebel, catch me!

C. [Let Deris go, she is just a bard who plays the piano, easy to bully. ]

Young man, do you know where Bracada borrowed the loans from so many mages?

The Bracada Treasury!

Then do you want to guess which faction the Treasury belongs to, and why is it so rich?

Good guy, robbing the creditor, really think our logistics faction has no force?

D. [There is no choice, then we can only let Escher go. Escher is nicknamed the philanthropist, but he has always been a good man. ]

Hehe, I am not talented. The current speaker of the Bracada Grand Council, the current emperor, do you understand?

Please refer to Queen Catelyn and Dragon Queen Moril before talking to me again, thank you.

E. [Let Algaid go, he seems to be the weakest! He has no strength but is so rich, he is innocent but guilty! ]

Young man, do you know the value of the legendary architect?

Don't know?

Oh, that's right, you are not worthy of knowing, otherwise you wouldn't say such stupid things.

F. [Let the Thunder Temple, that is, Titan, go]

Ah, I'm dead.

Six options, all are life-threatening questions, this question is easier to do.

Just close your eyes and choose G!

G, [Let the people suffer a little more. ]

Everyone is happy!

…

"Ahem! Next, it's the next topic.

According to the reactions of the major cities, the unemployment rate in Bracada is high, and nine out of ten mages can't find a job.

Without a job, there is no income, and without income, there is no way to survive. This is a major issue related to the rise and fall of the country.

Gentlemen, do you have any suggestions or opinions on this?"

At the Grand Council, Escher looked around and waited for a long time, but no one spoke.

He had no choice but to say:

"Since everyone is not enthusiastic about speaking, I can only name names.

Pickjem, as the second-in-command of the industrial faction and the manager of many gargoyle factories, do you have any solution to this problem?"

Pickjem stood up with a thoughtful look on his face and said seriously:

"I do have an idea.

Speaker, we need to combine the new situation, develop new wisdom, and solve this problem from a new height."

"Oh?"

Aescher also became excited,

"Tell me in detail."

"I think the problem of too many unemployed people needs to be combined with Let's solve the previous problem together.

The previous problem is that a large number of factories' products are unsalable, the inventory is serious, and the factories are losing money.

You see, there are so many goods that cannot be sold, and so many mages are unemployed.

Then let those unemployed mages set up individual businesses and sell goods, isn't it enough?

Kill two birds with one stone!

It can solve both the problem of overstocked goods and the problem of unemployed mages. "

"Pa pa pa! Great! Great!"

"Good! Kill two birds with one stone, kill two birds with one stone, worthy of being a permanent member, it is a high standard."

"Your Excellency Pickjem has a good idea!"

Many members applauded and cheered.

A peripheral reserve member applauded without thinking, and after clapping for a long time, he suddenly realized a problem.

He quickly poked the people around him and whispered:

"Hey? That's not right. The goods are unsalable because no one buys them. Let them sell, who will they sell to?"

"You are the only one who is smart? What does their life or death have to do with you? Shut up."

"Oh, that's right. Good! Pickjem Changren is so awesome."

Pickjem nodded to the people around him who were applauding to express his gratitude, and sat down with a smile on his face.

At this time, the thunderous applause and cheers gradually subsided.

Escher smiled and said:

"Very good, then these two issues will be considered as one and solved together.

Next issue."

Speaking of this, Escher solemnly pulled his tie and adjusted his hat, and his voice suddenly became much louder:

"Gentlemen!

Our immortal hero, the glory of the Bracada Council, the great hero who defeated the Demon King Territory, the Honorary Permanent of Bracada, the embodiment of wisdom and beauty, courage and force.

Miracle Maker, His Highness Xingfeng!

Officially promoted to a master-level hero at 10:30 yesterday.

This means that we in Bracada will have both a legendary architect and a master-level architect.

In terms of quantity, we will be tied with the Elemental City for first place, and in terms of quality, we are the well-deserved first place in the Yasha world!

Let us give the warmest applause to His Highness Xingfeng's mentor, the great legendary architecture, the Permanent of Agaide, and express our most sincere congratulations!"

PS: It's too late, I'll send it first, and there are still four thousand later