In the morning, after having breakfast with the warlords, Bejao had people lead the warlords to the place where he would be staying—one of the villas behind the Bejao Estate.
Considering the immense historical significance of what they were about to discuss, Bejao had temporarily requisitioned these villas. It was also the first time in the several decades since he had become president that he had used a Presidential Decree.
He felt somewhat ashamed of this, but the owners of the requisitioned villas expressed their understanding.
After all, only when Maliro truly stabilized could it enter a new era. As members of the Maliro People or residents here, they also had a responsibility to contribute some of their strength to the cause of unification.
Sitting in his office, Bejao was signing some documents. Because of the extreme cold, some crops in the north had gone from two crop rotations a year to one.
The reduced harvests of grain and tobacco had dealt a devastating blow to Maliro's economy. In the past, tobacco could be called Maliro's economic pillar. A single country held more than seventy percent of the global market for high-quality tobacco.
But now, with tobacco production falling and food supplies running short, many things had become difficult.
Bejao had discussed these issues with several Cabinet Members of the Central Government. They believed the most important thing at present was to reduce the area planted with tobacco and increase the area planted with grain.
If tobacco could not be supplied for export, the only consequence would be reduced income.
Apart from symbolic taxation, the warlords in various regions would not provide the Central Government with much tax revenue at all.
Therefore, the decline in tobacco production was not especially significant to the Central Government. It was the decline in