The merchants' frenzy was only natural. This was an unprecedented concept and a new plan.
Of course, the Celestial Dragons would never bring up such a concept. They had no need for it whatsoever. Stimulating the economy was not something they needed to worry about, nor did they know what significance or effect economic stimulation had on this world.
But even if they did know, so what? They still would not care in the slightest.
But the Revolutionary Army was different. The merchants had already been able to feel how different the Revolutionary Army was from the Celestial Dragons, but this time, the gap between them seemed as vast as heaven and earth.
They were practically the merchants' saviors—the gods of merchants.
What did tax exemption mean? In any agricultural nation, in any world, taxes on merchants were extremely heavy.
In everyone's simple-minded view, merchants facilitated circulation, but they were clearly taking products that did not belong to them elsewhere and exploiting information gaps to profit from the price difference.
But in modern times, this simple-minded view had improved somewhat, and the concept of circulation had begun to take root in people's hearts.
Even an information gap had value. Or rather, information alone was the most valuable thing of all.
This was most evident in modern society's internet age.
But this was still an era that discriminated against merchants. People believed that merchants did no labor, merely moving from one place to another to earn the difference in price. If the world of One Piece had not been so dangerous, with so many pirates and Sea Kings forcing merchants to risk their lives on every voyage, merchants would not have needed to bring their own armed guards and sailors.
This mindset and discrimination would likely have become even more deeply