As they listened to Odd Coin Ayr, everyone was stunned.
Mass-producing weapons for the Technology God Church, and the money would actually keep increasing?
Could it be that Viscount Rost charged the Technology God Church for the weapons he supplied?
Then where did the Technology God Church's money come from?
Seeing everyone looking at him, Odd Coin Ayr said solemnly, "Viscount Rost's territory can no longer be compared to a single factory. You have to consider the lives of everyone within it together."
"The Technology God Church's demand for weapons and equipment keeps growing, which means they need vast numbers of workers to produce tanks, armor, and weapons. Where would those workers come from? Only refugees drawn in from elsewhere could fill that need."
"Most refugees are destitute. Everyone knows that. In ordinary traditional territories, they would be a burden, but in Viscount Rost's lands, they would quickly become workers, become laborers, produce goods, and then... naturally, make money."
"Once they had money, they would buy all kinds of things. The Technology God Church's new housing at Foster Iron Mine had already proven successful. We certainly wouldn't think much of those homes, and many city residents wouldn't either, but what about the refugees?"
"They needed somewhere to shelter from the wind and rain, so they would buy them."
"Through work, they would earn a certain amount of money and use it as a down payment—twenty or thirty percent of the home's value—to buy a house. The rest would be debt, repaid each month after they earned money, along with a certain amount of interest to Great Dragon Bank. And the collateral Great Dragon Bank wanted was those houses themselves."
"Have you noticed the interesting part? The refugees recruited through military equipment production might earn only three gold coins, yet after