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After Lisa left, Louis lay quietly on the mountain of gold and silver. He closed his eyes as if he was taking a nap. In fact, he was thinking about what he needed to do next.
A trip back to Earth was already a must because he realized that if he wanted to quickly develop Dragon City, the food could only meet the basic needs at most. He still needed a large amount of Earth's resources to form the needs of the city's development.
'But transportation is a problem…'
Louis was in urgent need of a legendary spatial equipment. It would be best if it was a spatial equipment with a large capacity that could allow him to put tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of tons of things into it.
The supplies that Louis needed could no longer be found at sea. He had to land on Earth and enter some developed countries. In that case, he would not have enough time to transport supplies to Saint Solon like he did at sea.
However, spatial equipment with a large storage capacity was definitely at the level of a divine artifact. That was something that even gods could not create multiple pieces of. It was not easy to obtain it.
" And in order to find the energy source that can grow rapidly, I have to stir up trouble on Earth. It's very likely that the energy source has been discovered and collected by some countries. It's probably difficult to find it using ordinary methods…Besides, I even brought Cthulhu and the dragon to Earth. How can I stop so easily?'
But if I want to cause trouble, what I need now are those complicated and ever-changing spells, but I can't learn spells all at once…
'Forget it. I'll deal with whatever comes my way. No matter what, I have to return to Earth. After Dragon City finishes recruiting soldiers and the military training is on the right track, I'll go back once! Once I returned with a large amount of wasabi, the mage army would have some progress. Dragon City was safe now, but it probably wouldn't be long before the other organizations understood my situation. True danger would definitely appear.'
I must remember that even true gods will fall. Even if I can transform into a demigod dragon, I must not let my guard down. I must not relax because of the recent stability. If the humans gather enough powerful beings, they can surround and kill me.'
" Increasing my own strength and speeding up the construction of the city is the path that I must take!'
As a dragon with ideals, Louis was different from his lazy brethren. His goal was to become a true god and a dragon god. Even if he had an innate advantage and was born with a divine persona, he would never let his guard down. If he was killed by someone with such a huge advantage and a golden finger, Louis would probably call himself trash.
"Phew…"
With the next plan in mind, Louis let out a sigh of relief. Countless dots of light appeared in his mind. These dots of light gathered together to form the outline of a city. This was the 'reconnaissance guard' that Louis placed in every corner of the city when he was patrolling the city.
As long as he switched his mind to these light spots, he could monitor every part of the city at any time.
Although Louis had to learn magic step by step, as a dragon, his mental strength far exceeded that of a human mage. He realized that he could monitor multiple scout guards at the same time, just like turning on several surveillance cameras in the computer in the control room. Moreover, with his mental strength, he could even multitask. As long as he wanted to, he could see the entire city at any time.
This was the city surveillance system that Louis had set up in Dragon City!
When he was bored, he would use this system to peek around. He would watch a city being built under his orders and watch people living happily in the city he built. It was also a great satisfaction for him.
Everything in this city, be it people or objects, was his property!
He first switched to the orcs. From the surveillance camera, he saw that the orcs were holding a small orc-style banquet. Seeing them singing and dancing, he nodded in satisfaction and adjusted the surveillance camera to other corners of the city.
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"Creak!"
The old wooden door was pushed open, and a tall man walked into a small tavern. There were not many people in the tavern, and they were all nearby civilians. They looked up at the man and then looked away, continuing their conversation.
The man walked to the old bar counter and said to the boss behind the bar counter,"…Praise the dragon! His Lordship has finally lifted the economic ban and allowed commercial activities. I've been craving for it for more than a month.”
The owner of the tavern was a tactful old man. He glanced at the man and smiled."…Praise the dragon! White, what would you like to drink?"
The man named White sneered and said,"What else do you have here? There are not enough supplies in the city right now, and you probably only have low-quality wheat bars here?”
The boss wiped the glass in his hand with a rag. Hearing White's words, he gave a hollow laugh and made him a glass of ale. He put it on the bar counter and said," You know that the city hasn't been communicating with the outside world recently, so the price of the ale is a little higher. Three copper coins!”
"Hmm…it used to be two copper coins.”
Warter muttered, but he still obediently took out a few paper notes from his pocket. He took out three of them and handed them over. Each of them had the word " ten cents " printed on it.
The boss didn't take it. Instead, he said in a low voice,""…I don't want to use these paper notes. Do you have the copper coins of the Subilian Empire?”
Hearing the boss's words, Warter's eyes suddenly turned cold. He sneered,""…The lord has just issued a law. Dragon City is not allowed to reject the banknotes issued by the lord. Of course, you can reject it. However, when the patrols come later, you might have to pay me ten times the price of three copper coins.”
The boss's expression changed. He quickly grabbed the three paper tickets and smiled fawningly."…I accept, of course I accept! I'm a law-abiding citizen!”
This was a new law that Louis had recently enacted. With the basic restoration of Dragon City and the expansion, it was no longer possible for all the civilians to give up their other jobs and go to the construction site to move bricks every day.
Other than hiring some civilians to carry bricks, Louis had already resumed the city's commercial operations.
Unlike in the past, Louis no longer distributed food to the civilians. Instead, he had formulated food stamps. Every household received food stamps according to the number of people. The amount of food distributed to each household was still set by Louis before. It was enough to keep people from starving to death, but there would not be too much surplus.
The commoners could only use food stamps and money to buy food. There was a limit to the amount of food that each person could buy. Louis 'government had also started to hire people to pay. Because Louis had a lot of ready-made food, the price of food was not expensive. As long as one had hands and feet to work, they could definitely earn enough money to buy food every day. Moreover, they had surplus. The surplus could be used to circulate and form commercial activities.
The reason why Louis used food stamps to limit the purchase of food was because he knew that for these civilians who used to not have enough to eat, if the price of food was low and they had spare money, they would definitely spend all their money on purchasing food reserves. In this way, the entire economy would be a pool of stagnant water.
This was just like the real estate market in China. The residents had all gone to borrow money to buy houses. All the money was stuck in the real estate market. It would be strange if the economy became active.
The reason why Louis issued paper money was to construct an economic system that belonged to Dragon City. This was because he had a large amount of food as the foundation, and these food could be exchanged for money in other countries. Therefore, Louis had the equivalent of supporting the issue of paper money. As long as his food was there, he was not afraid of price collapses and bank runs.
In this way, he could also use paper money to collect gold coins, silver coins, and other metals from the people to fill his nest. In the future, if he did business with other countries, if other countries wanted to buy items from Dragon City, they would have to exchange gold coins for paper money and then buy them.
As long as Louis 'regime was stable, there would be no problem with money not being able to buy food. This system would not be a problem because it was only a city and did not involve too much territory, allowing paper money to circulate in one's own city.
When Louis had enough gold and other precious metals, he could link the general equivalent of paper money to gold, which would be even more foolproof.
As for the issue of counterfeit banknotes, Louis had a solution. The current banknotes were only a trial issue. When he obtained a large amount of wasabi and had Matches refine it into a magic potion, each banknote could be coated with a small amount of 'magic origin elements'. In this way, only mages could counterfeit banknotes, but the cost of forgery was too high, and the road to counterfeit banknotes was cut off in an instant!
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