05-30-2018, 06:52 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Seeking Interview for Nippur!Chronical and The Nippurian Gazette
From: Victor Wolfe <newbabylonpr@omail.com>
To: Zubair el-Sahli <nctngeditor@omail.com>
1. A very reasonable concern, the quantity of guards is less of the focus as we now have a pretty solid number to keep our citizens safe, the focus now is on quality as I personally felt very strongly that in the past the guards let the people down. We have hired a new guard captain who has implemented a more disciplined routine and a better-standardised equipment. We also plan on building a new barracks to allow for more rigorous training regimes. To extend this we plan on working with our neighbours the town with no name, as they appear to have as bad a bandit problem as we once did, helping to protect them will also allow our Guardsmen to get that invaluable real combat experience. We have also started to take the fight to the bandits themselves with the hand of the king currently leading the charge. So overall we are making it harder and harder for the bandits to perform successful raids and we hope to starve them out as the months go by.
2. Well our first major priority economy wise is going to be to make sure that Nippur has plentiful food and water, money becomes rather useless during a famine after all so the process of reclaiming desert land and turning this fine city into a glorious bread basket takes priority, of course, this will create new jobs in irrigation management and food production at the basic worker all the way up to managerial jobs, after all, if they have the skills secondaries can hold any job in this city. Once basic needs are taken care off we will focus on expanding the economy, trying to bring in tourism to create new opportunity there and I personally as the leader of New Babylonian diplomacy will try to open up as much trade from all over the verses to really give us a lot of raw resources and goods to work with. And employers paying a fair wage may even get lower tax as an incentive to help the overall quality of life for the average worker.
3. Ah yes, the case of the merchants who thought that their riches should give them total control of the city, truly a sad case. however, as the guard captain and I saw that this could cause even more economic strife we came up with a plan to handle this, allowing people who seemed to have the skills to fit the industry we seized from the merchants to take over their old businesses for a fraction of the price it would normally be worth, even allowing some of the very skilled but poor that had been bankrupted by the oligarchs to take over on a small loan. After all the treasury isn't hurting thanks to the wealth seized from the merchants so we felt it was right to funnel this into the economy. And it seems to be working, the early reports suggest that with a lot more but smaller businesses the economic growth forecast is heavily up from the monopolies that they are replacing.
From: Victor Wolfe <newbabylonpr@omail.com>
To: Zubair el-Sahli <nctngeditor@omail.com>
1. A very reasonable concern, the quantity of guards is less of the focus as we now have a pretty solid number to keep our citizens safe, the focus now is on quality as I personally felt very strongly that in the past the guards let the people down. We have hired a new guard captain who has implemented a more disciplined routine and a better-standardised equipment. We also plan on building a new barracks to allow for more rigorous training regimes. To extend this we plan on working with our neighbours the town with no name, as they appear to have as bad a bandit problem as we once did, helping to protect them will also allow our Guardsmen to get that invaluable real combat experience. We have also started to take the fight to the bandits themselves with the hand of the king currently leading the charge. So overall we are making it harder and harder for the bandits to perform successful raids and we hope to starve them out as the months go by.
2. Well our first major priority economy wise is going to be to make sure that Nippur has plentiful food and water, money becomes rather useless during a famine after all so the process of reclaiming desert land and turning this fine city into a glorious bread basket takes priority, of course, this will create new jobs in irrigation management and food production at the basic worker all the way up to managerial jobs, after all, if they have the skills secondaries can hold any job in this city. Once basic needs are taken care off we will focus on expanding the economy, trying to bring in tourism to create new opportunity there and I personally as the leader of New Babylonian diplomacy will try to open up as much trade from all over the verses to really give us a lot of raw resources and goods to work with. And employers paying a fair wage may even get lower tax as an incentive to help the overall quality of life for the average worker.
3. Ah yes, the case of the merchants who thought that their riches should give them total control of the city, truly a sad case. however, as the guard captain and I saw that this could cause even more economic strife we came up with a plan to handle this, allowing people who seemed to have the skills to fit the industry we seized from the merchants to take over their old businesses for a fraction of the price it would normally be worth, even allowing some of the very skilled but poor that had been bankrupted by the oligarchs to take over on a small loan. After all the treasury isn't hurting thanks to the wealth seized from the merchants so we felt it was right to funnel this into the economy. And it seems to be working, the early reports suggest that with a lot more but smaller businesses the economic growth forecast is heavily up from the monopolies that they are replacing.
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