Starting with the defeated female knight

Although some were injured or even 'killed' in previous conflicts.

But just like the children who suddenly disappeared.

When you're halfway through a fight, or when you're seriously injured and waiting to die.

For no apparent reason, those people's bodies would disappear.

After the war, he was also awakened from his coma.

Then they were thrown out one by one.

Stop fucking sleeping, do you think this is a hotel?

[Get out and work overtime!]

With this relationship in place, the group felt even more at ease with Green.

Not to mention the children, if it weren't for the fact that Green's group was only teaching children at the time, they themselves would have been eager to join in and listen to the lessons.

In this situation, let alone opposing Green taking care of the child.

They were even plotting how to send the remaining children in the family who hadn't been eaten yet.

It's not that they have any special fetishes.

But in this respect, Tentacles is far too authoritative, especially compared to the Empire, you know?

Moreover, it's not just various families.

As mentioned before, during this conflict, Green paid special attention to and adopted children who had lost their parents or even their families.

Unlike other children, these children, even after they are released, only have tentacles left to rely on.

Especially those children who lost their families, in the end, they collected the family's inheritance as heirs and then handed it all over to the tentacles.

They've already gone this far, so Tentacles can't just ignore it, and no one else can say anything about it.

As a result, in the end, everyone knew what the tentacles were doing, and some people could even guess what the tentacles were waiting for.

But the more someone knows something, the less likely they are to reveal it.

Even Elise, who always complained about Green, went to great lengths to throw most of the Stuart family children into the Tentacle Hole during the previous conflict.

It allowed them to have a thoroughly enjoyable learning experience.

Incidentally, besides the Stuart family children, she even threw her own little maid in there.

Although it wasn't for academic study, he did provide Green with a lot of help as a teaching assistant.

【No, is nobody here?】

I'm really going to eat a child!

As it spoke, the sticky tentacle licked the small cake in its arms, making the other party giggle.

"It's so itchy, Tentacle Master..."

"I'll get my revenge too..."

Don't lick it, the slime on this tentacle tastes awful.

"It's okay, I like anything that belongs to Lord Tentacle..."

"Ugh, it's so bitter."

I already told you not to lick it.

Faced with Green's threat, the others exchanged glances and remained silent for a moment.

They delivered a powerful counterattack.

"Well, Lord Green."

Are you full?

"If that's not enough, we have some children here, you see..."

silence.

【BYD, are you treating me like a daycare?】

But in any case, these children were indeed swallowed up by Green.

And instead of objecting, this group was even considering how to stuff more delicious children into his mouth.

However, although the situation is abstract, it is not entirely a bad thing.

For example, by influencing and controlling these children, he can easily mobilize the power of the entire capital to do things that the capital itself could not do before.

Just like...

Wealth redistribution

As mentioned many times before, the vast majority of the empire's wealth resides in the hands of a small group of people at the top.

Although the Pareto principle (80/20 rule) also exists in conventional economics, which states that 20% of the people own 80% of the wealth.

But when it comes to empires, the Pareto principle doesn't apply. Saying that 1% of the people own 99% of the wealth is an understatement.

In this situation, even if there is sufficient wealth, a large population without purchasing power will not constitute a sufficient market.

This is also the main and direct reason why their previous limited industrialization could lead to such an explosion.

To solve this problem, which is mainly to create a huge secondary market for Dawn City, we must first address the extremely uneven distribution of wealth.

The situation is alright with the monks, although monks from various schools of thought are indeed quite wealthy.

But as everyone knows, every research profession, without exception, is basically a money-evaporating machine; no amount of money is enough for them to keep going.

This is why even though the monks of the Ming School were already very wealthy, they still immediately joined when invited by nobles, and even the various schools had considerable conflicts over the distribution of benefits.

Because monks not only need material enjoyment, but their research expenses are also astronomical.

In this situation, although they are now very wealthy, and were even the biggest beneficiaries of previous industrialization.

But Green has a thousand ways to make the money evaporate from their hands, and even make them grateful.

But it was different for the nobles.

Although you've maintained a luxurious lifestyle before, no matter how much you enjoy your life, it can't compare to those money-burning machines like the monks.

Moreover, due to the family structure, nobles often have an instinct to save money.

Those minor nobles might still be struggling financially, but for the major families...

Not to mention daily expenses, their family has piled up all sorts of rare and valuable items.

Even if they did nothing and maintained a fairly high standard of aristocratic life, it would be enough for them to live on for another two hundred years.

However, due to the previous turmoil, a large amount of property has become ownerless.

As for the rest, due to the damage to the family, they also need to replenish a lot of things.

By influencing the children, especially by using them as leverage—for example, threatening to spit them out of their mouths if they misbehaved—Green successfully persuaded those families to spend large sums of money to buy all sorts of high-end goods transported from Dawn City.

The nobles and others were somewhat puzzled by Green's behavior.

At first, they thought Green simply wanted money.

For various reasons, such as children in the family, a weakened power, or that crimson hue in the sky.

Although it hurts, most people still cut their flesh.

As for the small portion?

If it's a family with less of a dark past, or whose remaining members are relatively 'valuable', Green will still have a proper talk with them.

But if it's a family with a lot of dark history and insists on not cooperating, then...

The blood-red top began to spin.

And it's different from the spinning top with tentacles.

A blood-red spinning top can really kill someone.

They can even drain your bloodline.

However, even though it was a painful process, after the cut, those who were willing to cooperate, especially the ones with the best attitude, were rewarded.

After receiving the goods, it turns out that they are actually worth the price; not only is there no loss, but there might even be a profit.

This is actually quite normal.

Because Greenland had already begun formal industrialization, and its industries had already reached a bottleneck.

The quantity and quality of high-end goods they can produce are on a completely different level from those in the capital. Even if they come with the intention of exploitation, it would be enough to make them eat their fill.

However, just when the men in the capital thought that Green just wanted money and that the goods he provided were quite decent, they were increasingly impressed.

They suddenly noticed that after taking their money and piling it up, Green did not load it onto a train to take it back.

Instead, after a period of calculation, they began to expand into the lower and middle classes of the capital, and even beyond the capital.

Is Green doing charity work?

of course not.

Or rather, this current action is the true purpose of the Green Project.

Or, to put it more directly.

Work-for-relief programs

[Investment and Equity Acquisition]

[To redistribute wealth within the empire and create a larger secondary market]

[At the same time, we will use investment to help the Empire with its development, enabling it to serve as an industrial hub for Dawn Territory and share the manufacturing tasks in the mid-to-lower reaches of the empire.]

[At the same time, by leveraging investment and cooperation with local partners, we can obtain a share of the revenue and maintain control and dominance over their economic affairs, thereby continuously generating profits.]

This is called economic colonialism.

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P.S.: I originally wanted to post two larger pictures, but I couldn't find any large ones that I could post, so I can only post some smaller ones.

And here are two more updates. I'll grab a bite to eat and continue.

Volume 1: Chapter 114: History?

To be honest, economic colonialism is a truly heinous thing.

Plundering resources, dumping products, controlling vital industries, and even creating debt traps...

These actions not only erode sovereignty but also hinder long-term development, exacerbate social injustice, and increase political instability.

In essence, it is also through economic means that the strong dominate and exploit the weak.

This is really a terrible thing.

But the problem now is...

How can we convince the people of the Empire of this?

"Huh? Exploitation? What do you mean by exploitation...?"

"Is there any downside to this? I don't know..."

"Why do I get the feeling that the more they exploit, the better...?"

In fact, Green's actions this time were truly economic colonization in a practical sense.

Because in essence, Green wanted to use the Empire as nourishment for the development of Dawn Territory, and to bleed the Empire dry in various ways.

Outsourcing low-end or low-value mass-market industries shifts the cost of downstream development to the empire.