The financial statements... There are numerous records on them. All kinds of income and expenditure are listed clearly now.
However, for people who have read books like Ariel, such a professional bookkeeping method does seem very clear. However, after such a dense bill is seen in the eyes of ordinary citizens, it is some uninteresting numbers and symbols. Some people may have squinted at a few lines with interest at the beginning, but soon lost interest and turned away.
Just
"That... Woman!"
Eddie, sitting in the seat, with her hands clenched with fists, has hung up from the seat. Now, not only were sparks between his fingers, but even sparks began to float slowly in the middle of his hair.
"That... Asshole woman!"
Seeing Eddie trying to suppress his anger, George raised his hand and pressed his shoulder and said, "calm down! Calm down, brother! You can't lose your square inch. You must calm down! "
The angry Eddie twitched at the corners of his mouth and wanted to say something, but after all, he managed to endure the anger and disappointment in his heart and sat in his own chair silently.
Seeing that Eddie finally put up with it now, George finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head, looked at the woman on the podium, sneered and said, "this woman really has a hand? She had the courage to do such a thing! "
"I have to say that the president's skill is really excellent."
On the other side, looking at the huge detailed financial list of Pelican city on the stage, Margo put her hands on her chest, smiled and said——
"But it's also the president. If someone else did this, I'm afraid they would be directly hacked to death before they did it. "
Cocoa also shook her fingers, smiled and said, "the president's sister is powerful ~ ~ ~! Hee hee, I knew that the president's sister is the most powerful! "
These two people are so familiar now that they seem to understand everything, which makes Tesla standing next to him look a little depressed.
The assembler glanced at the bills and asked, "well... What does that mean? Why does it look great to publish the bill of Pelican city? "
Cocoa smiled, looked like an old God, smiled and said, "the most important thing is not that this practice is very powerful, but that this practice can never be accepted by others."
Tesla frowned: "why?"
Margo covered her mouth, smiled gently and said, "our dear assembler, I ask you, if you become the mayor of a city, you know all about how much money the city earns and uses every year, but others don't know all these things. In this case, if you want to get rich, is there any way? "
Tesla was slightly stunned. After thinking about it, he said, "if you get rich... Do you take money from the city's financial treasury?"
Margo clapped her hand and said with a smile, "Cong ~ ~ ~ Ming."
Cocoa continued, "it's not just taking money! In addition, it's easy to use the government's financial treasury to launder money ~ ~ ~ do some illegal businesses ~ ~ ~ even use the city's money to resell all kinds of materials, leave the profits to yourself, return the money to the government, and earn the price difference for no reason! "
Margo: "and what does it mean for our president to announce the government's revenue for the previous year?"
Tesla: "means... Means... Does it mean that since the mayor of Pelican city can announce the finance, why don't other city mayors announce the finance together?"
Coco: "Ding Dong ~ ~ ~! Congratulations, you're right! "
Margo raised her head, looked at the girl standing on the podium with a little seriousness on her face, but with endless light in her eyes, and said with admiration: "our Pelican City announces the finance. In this way, all citizens can know how much money the city under our president has made and used. Ordinary people may think this information doesn't matter, but there will always be curious people to help us continue to calculate an account. When they find that their account is similar to the price we announced, they will agree with our mayor. "
Coco: "but on the contrary ~ ~ ~ if the managers of other cities refuse to disclose their city's income, it means that there must be some fishiness in it! Our president's current practice is tantamount to opening an eye for all ordinary people and letting everyone know that there can still be such things to do in this world! But we human beings ~ ~ ~ as long as we know that some things can be done, it's not so easy for ordinary people not to do that ~ ~ ~ "
After hearing this, Tesla also showed an expression of enlightenment. He nodded gently and said, "I see... The president thought so! Well, if the finance is announced, it means forcing other leaders around to announce the finance... But once the finance is announced, the leaders of those cities will be exposed to make use of the city's finance to enrich themselves! In the future, it will not be so easy for them to incite ordinary farmers to come to us for trouble! "
Margo nodded gently: "but it's not just that. Once the finance needs to be announced, it's not so easy for the lords who think the city's money is their own money to reach into the pockets of the (harmonious) common people. Of course, this kind of thing is only the beginning. There will certainly be many repetitions in it. We need to be prepared to continue to deal with it. "
Tesla's eyes also showed a little color of worship. He nodded silently and continued to look at the financial statements.
However, when he looked at all the finances of Pelican city so far with interest, a member of mermaid song had an involuntary twitch on his face.
"President..."
Cream's hands clenched silently, pinched the edge of his pants, and his whole body began to tremble slightly.
"What's the matter?"
Brad next to him began to tremble when he saw cream, and asked with some concern.
Cream shook his head, smiled at Brad and said, "it's all right, it's just a little cold. I shivered."
"Is it cold?" Brad looked up at the sky now thundering and said, "it's really cooler today than the previous two days. It's cloudy. But... Is it cold? I'm sweating behind the heat now. I just hope the rain can come down as soon as possible so that I can cool down. "
Cream smiled and perfunctory. When Brad saw that the cream had no idea, he naturally turned his head and looked at Ariel on the stage, not paying attention to the cream.
So... Is this cold because it's cloudy today?
Of course not.
Cream is very clear that he feels chilly behind him now because of other reasons.
Announcing the finance of Pelican City, everyone feels that it seems to want to influence the Lords of other cities to announce the finance to the ordinary people, so that those lords can no longer use the asymmetry of information to target Pelican city.
But
But!
If this kind of thing continues... What will happen?
If this attitude continues, later, the people are not satisfied with letting the Lords announce their financial revenue, or even asking the great nobles... The earls and dukes! Even... What would happen if the royal family were asked to disclose their revenue?
Like Brad next to him, this big fool has always had the greatest imagination for the royal family, that is, the prince inside can use a gold hoe to hoe the ground.
But once even a fool like Brad can understand the real income and consumption of the royal family, what will the hearts of the common people think?
Will the nobles... The royal family allow the president of mermaid song, the mayor of Pelican City, to announce the financial revenue of a region so willfully?
The more you think about it, the more cold sweat in the palm of cream.
But as Ariel on the stage, she didn't notice the assassin holding the prisoners, but continued——
"As you can see, this is our budget table. It records all expenses and income in detail. I've sorted them out and written them here. This is what I sorted out by using the data of Pelican city. If anyone thinks there is something wrong in this, it doesn't matter. Just tell me. If you are right, I will revise it. However, what I want you to see is not these huge calculation processes, but the results here. "
Ariel went to the edge of the curtain, held out her hand, patted the last "balance" and said——
"By the end of June last month, the total debt of Pelican city was 1302 gold coins. At the same time, because our city has been expanding in the past period of time, there are many places to use money, so the balance of our book is 829 gold coins. "
"In other words, with the current economic situation of Pelican City, it is absolutely impossible to support the expenses of cleaning up the ruins of the whole city and paying pensions."
As the voice fell, Ariel paused and stopped talking.
Sure enough, about three seconds after her voice stopped, bursts of discussion broke out again from these citizens.
Everyone thinks that Pelican city has been expanding in the past period of time, as if the whole city has countless money! But now after all the books are taken out, people find that the city, which has been booming, doesn't have so much money in essence!