Chapter 994： Mountain country (1/2)
North Sea!
Mountain country!
The country of high mountains is located in the southeast of the North Sea, on a small island of 20,000 square kilometers that is less than 100 nautical miles away from the Upside Down Mountain!
The local area has a warm climate and is suitable for living. It is a rare and livable island!
However, because of the dangerous terrain of the kingdom, the small island where the whole kingdom is located is mountain-shaped, standing in the middle of the sea, not suitable for growing food, but only suitable for planting trees and fruits, so the total population of the kingdom is not large, only 500,000!
And because the kingdom is the last kingdom in the North Sea from the upside-down mountain, and the terrain is mountain-like, it is also called the wall of the North Sea!
Also because the kingdom is the last kingdom from the North Sea to the upside-down mountain, the kingdom is said to be the only way for the North Sea to go to the great waterway, so the business of this kingdom is very prosperous!
But under this prosperity, some darkness is inevitable!
Thirty-five years ago, a business alliance called the Alpine League was established under the organization of the powerful Duke of the Alpine Country and the Duke of the Mountains, Sherlock Fokker, in order to monopolize all commerce in the Alpine Country!
In the next 35 years, in order to compete for greater benefits, this alliance began to use various overt or covert methods to expel other chambers of commerce and business alliances in the mountain country!
In the end, under the power of Sherlock Fokker, the local real power duke of the mountain country, other chambers of commerce and business alliances were expelled from the mountain alliance, leaving only the mountain alliance. This business alliance!
It can be said that the mountain alliance monopolizes the commerce of the entire mountain country!
But there is a good saying, monopoly will go wrong!
It is also extremely suitable to be placed here in the Mountain League!
After expelling other chambers of commerce, the alliance of the mountains also tasted bitter fruit!
The expelled business organizations united to deal with the mountain alliance, so that the mountain alliance had to be trapped in the mountain country, unable to compete for greater benefits.
Therefore, the merchants of the Mountain Alliance have changed from the original unanimous external competition for greater benefits to internal competition for greater benefits!
But here comes the question. The Mountain Alliance is already the largest and only business alliance in the Mountain Country. Where can they compete for greater benefits?
In the end, the people of the mountain alliance focused on the low-end merchants who could not join the mountain alliance!
That is, growers, small merchants, raw material producers, and other people at the lowest end of business!
And because of the backing of Duke Sherlock Fokker, besides being squeezed, these people at the lowest end of the business watched the daily decline in their wealth, and even changed jobs to do other things because of Fokker. The duke's power is not enough.
Therefore, in the past ten years, countless growers, small merchants, and raw material producers have been squeezed out of their property, which has also caused a major blow to the business of the mountain country!
But for this, Duke Fokker not only has no intention of regretting it, but has intensified, and even ordinary civilians have begun to squeeze!
No matter what you do, farming or working, he never let it go!
Farmers will lower the price of agricultural products!
For those who work, their wages will be lowered, and there will be no bottom line and no wages for overtime!
Anyway, as long as you live in this kingdom, every penny you make needs to be squeezed by Duke Fokker!
In this case, even the king of the mountain country could not help but hate Duke Fokker!
But what is helpless is that after all these years of development, no matter whether it is an army or an official in the mountain country, as long as it is a high official, it is a member of the mountain alliance.
Those who are not will be squeezed out by the people of the mountain alliance, unable to hold real power!
It can be said that Duke Fokker has become the uncrowned king of the mountain country!