Becoming an ancient god from blood therapy

Chapter 272 The Arkham Development Act

Bi-monthly calendar January 1931, 1, Arnia, the capital of the Rosas Empire.

Marcy's Bar, Manor District.

For the people in the bar, the world is meaningless, because as long as they have a few bottles of yellow soup, they can forget about it, easily ignore the mortal time, and embrace the happiness after drinking.

Today's Macy's Bar is no exception.

Nine days have passed since 1930. Although it is said that there will be a new look in the new year, the number of drinkers here has increased a lot.

This is not surprising, because the capital is not peaceful today.

More than three months ago, after the investigation from Arkham City, the Great Queen returned to the capital, and did not "cover up" the military headquarters. On the second day, a press conference was held. The crime is made public.

This immediately aroused resistance and condemnation from the people of the entire empire against the military department. Even the various dignitaries and two members of the empire could not ignore and contain such a turmoil of public opinion. Department draws the line.

At this time, the Queen's reputation was getting higher and higher, and the number of MPs and dignitaries who supported the Queen gradually increased.

And because of the reduction in strength, the battle between them became more intense.

Naturally, the military will not stand still. They directly unite with the six big chaebols in the two major industries of the imperial military industry and the chemical industry to start crazy lobbying, suppression and bribery.

And this matter once again demonstrated the omnipotence of money.

The newspapers and reporters who generously criticized the military department the day before quickly turned against the water, and the mainstream media in the empire, which had long been controlled by major chaebols, also began to keep silent about this matter, and began to secretly change concepts and confuse right and wrong.

For such a scene, Suyi was not surprised. She didn't put too much effort into the media, but on the third day after she came back, she directly used her queen's privilege. Many people were shocked by the "Arkham Development Act".

The entire bill was specially prepared for the city of Arkham. First of all, Arkham was promoted to a special zone, with economic and administrative independence, directly under the queen's jurisdiction.

At the same time, because of Los Arkham's perfect performance in this matter, the queen rewarded the mayor of Arkham and a person who had credit for this battle.

Los itself is the owner of Arkham City, the lord here.

The queen once again bestowed the title of Marquess of Ross directly.

With such a title, Ross himself can have his own private soldiers with a number of 500 and more territories.

After owning the title, the land of the Arkham family has naturally expanded.

Afterwards, the area of ​​Arkham expanded rapidly to the southeast, directly taking all the land of Innsmouth before it.

At the same time, the bill gave the entire Arkham very favorable policies, such as the right to free trade, only need to pay 1% tax when trading with foreign countries, such a trade tax is only one tenth of that of other parts of the empire one.

At the same time, if a company is established in Arkham, the entire company can receive government support, low-interest loans and a 50% tax discount.

Since Arkham has the right of self-government and the same administrative power as Massa Province, many related import and export approvals can be handled here.

And Arkham's efficiency in this aspect is 100 times that of Massa province!

Yes, what takes five days in the provincial capital of Massa can be done in just over an hour here.

Such a policy made all businessmen want to see through Arkham but did not dare to act rashly.

Because this bill caused huge waves, especially the dissatisfaction of various provinces and major chaebols.

The military department clearly understood what the queen meant, so it started relevant countermeasures on the day the bill was issued.

The queen has only five absolute privileges in her life, and these privileges do not need to be rational, as long as they are used, they are absolutely legal.

Suyi has used it twice for self-protection before, and used it twice in this act.

Although the bill is absolutely legal, there are policies above and countermeasures below.

The military has already figured out a countermeasure, and for this matter, the Queen's two privileges have been abolished, which is what they are happy to see.

It seemed to them that they had gradually driven the Queen into a desperate situation.

Although the implementation of the bill has been recognized and passed by the law and the parliament, the actual response is not great.

Because at the same time as the bill was issued, the major chaebols and banks successively imposed sanctions on Arkham.

For example, if a company enters Arkham for development, it will not be able to cooperate with its related companies, or cannot obtain bank loans, cannot use relevant transportation routes, and so on.

Because of this incident, these small businessmen did not have the guts to offend the behemoths of the empire.

Things have come to this point, and the war between the two sides around Arkham has changed from a secret competition to an open and all-out war.

The first wave of attacks is transportation.

Due to the poor development of the previous Arkham, the passenger flow is not high.

In addition, most railway companies in the empire are private companies, so almost all railway companies directly canceled the Arkham station.

Since then, trains have been unable to reach Arkham directly, and the nearest station to Arkham is Hessen City, 120 kilometers away from Arkham.

Railroads were just the beginning, followed by roads, ships, and so on.

Even suppliers of some goods are prohibited from selling to Arkham, and are also prohibited from buying Arkham's goods.

"Damn it, are those people in the country full of shit? With such a policy, but such sanctions, do you want to develop Arkham!? Such a preferential policy can only be envious Are you watching!?"

In the bar, several businessmen got together, drinking and swearing.

"Let's wait and see. The bill has been announced for more than three months, and now the only one who dares to deal with Arkham is that lunatic Borg Rick."

"I heard that because of his cooperation with Arkham, he has been expelled from the Ryoke family?"

"Expelled ass, which company can take away 30% of the family's resources and wealth after being expelled!?"

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Listening to everyone's conversation, Astor, who was sitting in the corner, took a deep breath and drank the bottle of wine in one gulp.

Now that he has lost everything, naturally he doesn't need to worry so much.

"Since you bastards won't give me a way out, then don't blame me!"

Artes pinched up his collar, wrapped his scarf and coat tightly and walked out of the bar.

Tonight, it was snowing heavily in the capital.

The stubble-faced Artes just bought a train ticket with a suitcase, and took the train to Haisen City overnight.

That's the closest station to Arkham.

(End of this chapter)