I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

The second phase plan that Medea gave to John was to directly decouple the currency from the Glory Silver Coin!

The Demetria Church has never been idle, or rather its next-door neighbors never give it the opportunity to be idle.

The history of the development and rise of the Holy See can be said to be a process of constantly encroaching on the land of the Roshek Tsar.

In the beginning, the two sides were originally one country. The Tsarist Empire was once very glorious. They were the first quasi-empire on the continent where the royal family concentrated most of the state power.

Until it fell into chaos and weakness due to the fighting among the princes, the sudden rebellion of the state religion, the Church of the Goddess of Light, and the division of the country shattered the Tsarist Empire's imperial dream.

From then on, the two sides were caught in a long tug-of-war.

If Medea, who has read all the history of the continent, were to comment

That is a war among elementary school students in which the lower-class soldiers on both sides are hungry, one is driven by violence, and the other relies on the method of spiritual victory to beat each other.

However, as time went on, it was obvious that the Tsar was worse in the competition. The Tsarist Empire was defeated in the naval battle, and the reputation of the Vatican's Invincible Fleet was established in one battle.

The country had completely lost the chance to continue fighting Demetria, and more and more land was lost.

As a result, a golden pie fell from the sky. Not many years later, the Seris Federation Navy on the other side sent the main fleet of the Holy See into the bottom of the sea, instantly slowing down the momentum of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire.

The two sides have now entered a relatively peaceful confrontation period.

John's goal was to issue currency based on the undeveloped lands that Demetria won in the war against the Roshek Tsardom.

Recently John has submitted his own bill to the King's Parliament. In anticipation of the future profits of the four state colonies along a line from Voskinsk to Pemech, the Kingdom Church, John and the noble groups will jointly form a new company.

Woking Macher Company

By monopolizing the vast future commercial trade and natural resources of the four colonies to form a new pool of monetary media, Demetria will become the largest commercial empire on the magic continent in the hands of John!

For this reason, John even promised that as long as the corporate consortium could be successfully established, he would use part of the company's profits to help the kingdom repay foreign debts and purchase new weapons and equipment.

To continue to expand the war against the Tsarist Empire in exchange for more national interests, and at the same time encourage merchants within the kingdom to lend money to the kingdom in exchange for trade privileges for the four colonies and other newly conquered colonies!

Is the future that John describes feasible? Yes! In fact, the probability of success is not low.

What the Church needs in these newly occupied areas is the population of believers, what the kingdom needs is the tax revenue, and what the Wokingmehe Company Consortium needs is the expected future profits.

This is equivalent to allowing the kingdom to have more income in addition to additional taxes, while other small and medium-sized nobles who cannot get a share of the benefits also have the opportunity to get on board.

In addition, they were nobles as well as businessmen, and they needed places to obtain cheap raw materials and to dump industrial products that they could not sell to the Seris Alliance. These newly occupied colonies were undoubtedly a very suitable choice.

The problem was not that John's idea was not good enough, but why should he be brought along? Wouldn't it be better if I could make the money myself?

It doesn't matter who came up with the idea, it's only important who has the bigger fist.

At the subsequent King's Council, John suddenly proposed the idea of ​​a stock trading system.

He proposed to pool funds from the people of the kingdom to re-arm the Vatican's troops in order to conquer more colonies and gain a wider area to sell its products.

The positive cycle of more public investment and stronger Vatican forces, if it works well, the kingdom and the Vatican can theoretically obtain vast territories and capable soldiers without spending a penny.

This is exactly the reason why John is confident that he can get on board. No one except him understands how to make this logic work, and he currently controls Seris's trade channels and cannot be bypassed.

Why can't he avoid it? He is the only one who is different from other church merchants. He can often smuggle products that are banned by the alliance to countries other than the Kingdom of Surya on behalf of the Holy See.

Such as inexpensive and high-quality medium mortars, bolt-action metal bullet rifles, and even horse-drawn field artillery. If John has enough money, he can even get them tanks.

Otherwise, why would both the Church and the Kingdom be so frightened as to place spies around him?

The current relationship between the Holy See and the Alliance is very delicate. Everyone knows that there will inevitably be a war between the two, but no one knows exactly when it will happen. Privately, trade between the two sides has always been smooth.

The Alliance doesn't care whether to fight or not, but the Church has no money...

The huge fleet needs to be rebuilt, which costs money. The dead and wounded soldiers need compensation, which also costs money. Retraining the navy also costs money, and new equipment also costs money.

Moreover, due to the collateral effects of the annihilation of the Invincible Fleet, the Tsarist Empire has recently begun to stir again. According to intelligence, they have done several big deals with the Empire and purchased a considerable amount of aircraft equipment.

Restarting the war will cost money, and they have to fight because they are being beaten by others, and they cannot save a penny. If Tsar Roshek keeps biting them, then things will become interesting.

It is possible that within ten years the Holy See will not have the ability to launch another cross-continental expedition alliance. They are willing to do so, but the Goddess of Light will probably burn them at the stake for fun.

John's idea is undoubtedly a brand new route. As long as it is handled well, the military forces of Tsarist Demetria can basically be restored to their heyday after defeating them.

At the same time, the surrounding threats have been eliminated, and they can turn their guns and concentrate on fighting the alliance, instead of being torn between the two sides as they are now.

In the end, John kept spending money to bribe Farhad, and with the help of the Grand Duke behind the scenes, the King's Council passed a series of John's plans.

They agreed to jointly establish the Wokingmehe Conglomerate, with the Kingdom becoming the company's two major shareholders through the right to mint coins and the Holy See using the occupied colonies to invest in the company.

The kingdom's noble merchants provided the kingdom with high interest-free loans in exchange for trade privileges in the four states and the subsequent new colonies. John merged the company that traded with the alliance into the new Wokingmech Company in exchange for the third largest shareholder's share.

The four companies jointly invested and held shares, forming the first super giant enterprise in the history of the magic continent that simultaneously controlled the kingdom's coinage, trade privileges, and the Vatican's army.

At the same time, the first stock exchange in the history of the continent was also opened in the capital of the Vatican, but currently only the shares of Wokingmehe Enterprises are being sold.

Many people were just watching, and there were definitely few people who wanted to buy. To be honest, 99% of the Demetrians had never been to the lands they occupied, so no one would believe John's nonsense.

And Wokingmeher Enterprise also has a time bomb-like burden, which is John's promise to the kingdom that he can provide employment for 20,000 people.

Twenty thousand people? Why did this newly-promoted earl dare to brag like that?

Chapter 176: Annuity debt, great racism.

Because of the burden of arranging jobs for 20,000 citizens of the kingdom, the development of Wokingmeh's stock was not smooth in the beginning, from the establishment of the stock exchange to the normal opening for purchase.

In less than a month, Wokingham's stock had fallen to half of its opening price, which was embarrassing.

A large number of young nobles who were unhappy with John's limelight laughed at him at the party, which also shook his "star" image to a certain extent.

John just smiled and didn't care much about it. At the beginning of the second month, John announced an unexpected news to the public.

That is the [Stock Buyback] plan. John announced that he would buy back a limited number of Wokingmeher shares at the original price in six months.

In other words, if you buy Wokingmeher shares at the current price which has fallen by half, you will definitely make money after John buys them back in six months.

Almost from the moment he announced the news, a large number of people and petty nobles, who smelled the scent of gold coins, swarmed to the stock exchange.

The exchange, which had been deserted, was suddenly packed with people, waving banknotes and trying to buy a few shares of Wokingmeh.

At the same time, John also announced that he and the Seris Alliance had signed an exclusive overseas agency agreement for tobacco monopoly, further making the stock market even crazier.

Tobacco is currently only grown in the subcontinent, and its growth conditions seem to require an environment where magical elements are suppressed.

The smoke it emits has a certain magic-suppressing effect. In the past, alchemists purified the raw materials and used them as magic potions to poison magicians and make them temporarily lose their magic power.

Medea recognized what it was the first time she saw it, and then developed the root of all evil - tobacco.

It is precisely because of this unique tobacco monopoly that Medea has the confidence to support the families of martyrs and descendants of heroes.

Apart from daily necessities, only tobacco and alcohol are essential for long-term prosperity.

In fact, it is not considered as wine, but Medea is consciously creating two high-end brands of wine, one is grain wine and the other is wine.

Whenever foreign businessmen want to discuss cooperation with the Seres or when government banquets are held with guests, this special brand of liquor must be used, which means it is promoted at the official level.

If her plan goes according to plan, when Seris develops rapidly in the future, these two types of wine will remain popular in most of the Pan-Seris area.

It doesn’t matter whether it tastes good or not, what’s important is whether you have two boxes in the trunk of your car to give as gifts!

In addition to the tobacco monopoly that he had agreed upon with the Seris Alliance, John also "smuggled" a large amount of arms and weapons from the alliance by using the Surya card.

And this is something that the Kingdom and the Church are happy to see, because while smuggling arms, the Church is also using the Wokingmeh Company to continuously exchange various raw materials in the country with the Seris Alliance for the "silver coins" that the Church urgently needs.

Wokingmehe used the 'silver coins' obtained from the fixed bulk transactions of the Seris Alliance as reserves for the United Bank to continue issuing new currency banknotes.

The increasing number of universal "silver coins" deposited into the warehouse has also indirectly increased the confidence of the people of the kingdom in paper money. In addition, Wokingmeh Company has been continuously purchasing precious metals and re-minting various silver and gold coins, and the value of paper money has been further increasing.

Behind the scenes, Medea used the contacts between the smuggling fleet and the Wokingmeh caravan to exchange the printed counterfeit universal silver coins with the genuine precious metals and raw materials of the Holy See. More and more worthless glory silver coins and universal silver coins filled the vault of the United Bank.

At the same time, the obsolete bolt-action rifles, medium mortars, Maxim heavy machine guns, Hotchkiss heavy machine guns, light tanks, etc. that were kept in stock were continuously sold for cash.

These things have almost no value to the Alliance. The light tank does not have the newly researched explosive reactive armor and magic dynamic pack. It can be said that the only valuable thing on the body is the cannon.

The Vatican may not be unaware that these things were sold to them by the Alliance itself, but they really need these weapons because they are really useful.

It takes about three months for a soldier who is proficient in using a bolt-action rifle to be trained to the point where he can go to the battlefield. The most valuable thing on his body is the rifle in his hand.

A mature mecha soldier not only needs a long time to learn how to operate it, but also needs to have a high level of magic. The purchase price of the mecha is also very expensive.

Calculated by cost, the total cost of a qualified mechanical soldier would allow the Holy See to equip a musketeer force of about 300 people, assuming that everyone carries a gun and is fully equipped with bullets.

If they are just used as cannon fodder, it is not impossible to divide the three hundred guns and bullets among different soldiers and form a force of a thousand people.

No matter how powerful a mecha soldier is, he cannot fight against a hundred at once. The Pope knows this clearly.

What they are best at is inciting believers to go up and be cannon fodder. Cannon fodder with guns in their hands is always more useful than rushing over with knives in the past~

Relying on these equipments, the Holy See quickly organized a number of reserve legions to begin training and figure out their own fighting style.

The Russian Tsarist Empire was not stupid. It just watched the Holy See frantically expand its military and prepare for war. Relying on the fleet they later formed, the Tsarist Empire crossed the ocean to the Allied ports to purchase goods.

They spent a lot of money to buy all kinds of weapons, and also hired a teaching corps of 1,000 people, ordered light tanks for two tank divisions, and a large number of logistics support vehicles, transport vehicles, etc.

It can be said that Seris sold weapons to both sides and fanned the flames, fearing that the other side would not fight fiercely enough.

Are these weapons a threat to Seris's own army? Of course they are, but even if they don't leak out, they are still a threat.

Rather than waiting for the other side to evolve into a new type of magic weapon that is not inferior to the technology, it would be better for the alliance to take the lead and actively promote the upgrading of weapons on the main continent.

As the saying goes, bring your opponent to the same level as you, and then use your rich experience to defeat him!

Without a systematic industrial strength, she doesn't care even if the manufacturing of specific weapons is reverse-engineered and copied. What she is fighting for is that the industrial future of the alliance will definitely not go astray, but other countries may not be sure.

Therefore, now, except for the air force weapons, Media is willing to sell them to anyone who wants them!

At this moment, the complete 'Sherman' within the alliance has been manufactured and is beginning the final mass production.

It turns out that if the large number of light tanks are not sold, they will be stored away. It would be better to give them to other countries to reduce the burden on China.

In the past, the great powers, in addition to the weapons in service, would have large amounts of excess inventory sealed up in various war reserve warehouses for emergency use, and the same was naturally true for the Alliance.

But Medea doesn't want to store too bad weapons and equipment. After getting rid of these old stuff, brand new equipment will be taken offline and sealed.

For example, the new model of the Sherman medium tank, the bare body, the 20mm machine gun, the automatic rifle, the fragmentation grenade, the anti-tank recoilless gun, the military body and other general weapons that will never become outdated.

After completing the replacement of the entire army's equipment, the military factories will not shut down. Instead, they will continue to manufacture old models for export and make money.

Another part of the new weapons are manufactured and sent in batches to war reserve warehouses in major mountain valleys for storage.

While the Three Kingdoms were busy making money, weapons and equipment, John was also busy in the Vatican.

Now the stock price of Wokingmeher Company has reached the point where it is hard to get a share, but he has not stopped yet. Instead, he held a grand dinner and invited all the nobles, big and small, in the Vatican Kingdom.

In addition to inviting them to come over for food, drinks and fun, he finally revealed his purpose, which was to sell [Annuity Bonds] to these nobles.