We get VERY close to invading someone in this update. Sadly(?), my largest pop of soldiers is 150 shy of a brigade by the end.
Chapter 7: More Stuff, Except the Stuff we Want
A random stranger enters El Presidente's palace in Salt Lake City today.
El Presidente, always eager to hear from his people, decides to accept his request for an audience.
He is an aristocrat in Deseret, and has a very blunt suggestion.
"El Presidente, while I understand that the state needs money, the people have a much harder time affording the goods they need to survive with these massive tariffs you impose on imported goods. I humbly suggest turning down these tariffs, it may bring the state even more money in the end, and your people will be happier as well."
El Presidente considered the proposal. He was nervous about turning the tariffs so high in the first place. Perhaps lowering them a bit would be a nice experiment. "Thank you for your suggestion, aristocrat. I shall lower the tariffs, though not too much.
As the aristocrat left, El Presidente knew that it was a long-term benefit. He decided that losing a bit of money was alright, as long as his idea picked up over time.
Now El Presidente was getting impatient. Its been a month already! But his financial advisor advised him to wait at least 2 years before turning up the tariffs. By his calculation, we wouldn't go bankrupt after that time, so El Presidente grudgingly decided against rolling back the tariffs.
His next issue to worry about was roads, and cities, and the native american population. Wait a minute - Yankee is a language? And Native American Minor is too? What. Regardless, the decision is obvious. Deseret MUST assimilate the natives, and so they will be forced to be fluent in Yankee or die!
Cool, now we can make guns faster than people did a hundred years ago.
Cringing, El Presidente once more leaves the tariffs alone.
To distract himself from the loss of money daily, he takes a look around the world, and how colonization of North America is proceeding.
The Brits have a little more than half way colonized Alberta, part of Canada.
And the United Statsians have just a little longer before Idaho is considered a colonial state.
El Presidente's dreams make him look to the Pacific for his own colonies. Imagine, Mormon Oceania. He looks at a map of the unclaimed islands.
Controlling Oceania and Indonesia could be great for his fledgling empire - the population wouldn't be accepted nor primary, but its not like any of his back home are anyway. Of course, the problem of planning colonization is that we'd have to beat the United Statsians from getting there first, and they have more national foci. El Presidente makes note of this - perhaps he and his former masters in Mexico could later teach America a lesson in humility.
Oh, right. He reminded himself. Need to wait for a few more native americans to decide they want to fight for Deseret.
Cool, now we can make bullets.
El Presidente nearly ragefaces. But again, decides to leave the tariffs alone.
El Presidente also takes a look through his officers. An especially good one appears, named William Howard. He makes Napoleon Bonaparte look like George Custer. After all, Napoleon had a very powerful nation behind him. William Howard just has a nation. But you know what, HE MAKES DUE.
Such a general is the only one worthy to command the entirety of Deseret forces, for he could be the difference between the Bruneians overwhelming our forces or us taking ... 5 casualties in the entire battle. William Howard is instantly awarded a very nice position. No troops to command - yet.
El Presidente gets bored and scrolls around the map and then gasps when he sees this.
What's going on? Is this normal? Is Russia falling to China? Who started this war? FIND OUT IMMEDIATELY.
Hmm, there are 3 wars going on in the world right now.
Russia, Krakow, and Serbia are fighting a war against China, and are winning so far. I guess all that Eastern Russia territory is not very important to the Russians. Spain is, like usual, beating up Morocco for no good reason. And Brazil is invading Bolivia. Huh, how is that goin'?
Brazil is winning, obviously. El Presidente makes a mental note, the Bolivians could make a good ally for when Deseret rules the world. After all, who doesn't want revenge?
Oh hey, our coal is shiny and squeaky now. El Presidente sets his sights on a new project - Stock Exchanges! Mormon Bankers start immediately devising such a system, it could result in better tax efficiency, which can perhaps help to keep the tariffs down.
Chapter 7: More Stuff, Except the Stuff we Want
A random stranger enters El Presidente's palace in Salt Lake City today.
El Presidente, always eager to hear from his people, decides to accept his request for an audience.
He is an aristocrat in Deseret, and has a very blunt suggestion.
"El Presidente, while I understand that the state needs money, the people have a much harder time affording the goods they need to survive with these massive tariffs you impose on imported goods. I humbly suggest turning down these tariffs, it may bring the state even more money in the end, and your people will be happier as well."
El Presidente considered the proposal. He was nervous about turning the tariffs so high in the first place. Perhaps lowering them a bit would be a nice experiment. "Thank you for your suggestion, aristocrat. I shall lower the tariffs, though not too much.
As the aristocrat left, El Presidente knew that it was a long-term benefit. He decided that losing a bit of money was alright, as long as his idea picked up over time.
Now El Presidente was getting impatient. Its been a month already! But his financial advisor advised him to wait at least 2 years before turning up the tariffs. By his calculation, we wouldn't go bankrupt after that time, so El Presidente grudgingly decided against rolling back the tariffs.
His next issue to worry about was roads, and cities, and the native american population. Wait a minute - Yankee is a language? And Native American Minor is too? What. Regardless, the decision is obvious. Deseret MUST assimilate the natives, and so they will be forced to be fluent in Yankee or die!
Cool, now we can make guns faster than people did a hundred years ago.
Cringing, El Presidente once more leaves the tariffs alone.
To distract himself from the loss of money daily, he takes a look around the world, and how colonization of North America is proceeding.
The Brits have a little more than half way colonized Alberta, part of Canada.
And the United Statsians have just a little longer before Idaho is considered a colonial state.
El Presidente's dreams make him look to the Pacific for his own colonies. Imagine, Mormon Oceania. He looks at a map of the unclaimed islands.
Controlling Oceania and Indonesia could be great for his fledgling empire - the population wouldn't be accepted nor primary, but its not like any of his back home are anyway. Of course, the problem of planning colonization is that we'd have to beat the United Statsians from getting there first, and they have more national foci. El Presidente makes note of this - perhaps he and his former masters in Mexico could later teach America a lesson in humility.
Oh, right. He reminded himself. Need to wait for a few more native americans to decide they want to fight for Deseret.
Cool, now we can make bullets.
El Presidente nearly ragefaces. But again, decides to leave the tariffs alone.
El Presidente also takes a look through his officers. An especially good one appears, named William Howard. He makes Napoleon Bonaparte look like George Custer. After all, Napoleon had a very powerful nation behind him. William Howard just has a nation. But you know what, HE MAKES DUE.
Such a general is the only one worthy to command the entirety of Deseret forces, for he could be the difference between the Bruneians overwhelming our forces or us taking ... 5 casualties in the entire battle. William Howard is instantly awarded a very nice position. No troops to command - yet.
El Presidente gets bored and scrolls around the map and then gasps when he sees this.
What's going on? Is this normal? Is Russia falling to China? Who started this war? FIND OUT IMMEDIATELY.
Hmm, there are 3 wars going on in the world right now.
Russia, Krakow, and Serbia are fighting a war against China, and are winning so far. I guess all that Eastern Russia territory is not very important to the Russians. Spain is, like usual, beating up Morocco for no good reason. And Brazil is invading Bolivia. Huh, how is that goin'?
Brazil is winning, obviously. El Presidente makes a mental note, the Bolivians could make a good ally for when Deseret rules the world. After all, who doesn't want revenge?
Oh hey, our coal is shiny and squeaky now. El Presidente sets his sights on a new project - Stock Exchanges! Mormon Bankers start immediately devising such a system, it could result in better tax efficiency, which can perhaps help to keep the tariffs down.
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