The two suns gradually set, and the afterglow of the setting sun fell among the high towers of the imperial capital.
In the conference hall of the Commercial Temple of the Imperial Capital, long tables are lined up in two rows. Laurence Bernard of the Department of Salt and Iron, Gordon Campbell of the Department of Finance, Alexei Zhuoqin and Ben Call, who represent the God Emperor, Facing them sat Lant, Jonny, and Little Cardinal.
At the end of the two rows of tables, sat Zoleka Heljalena who came here specifically for this matter. The reason why a legendary dragon was needed to come here specifically was because Lant had emptied the gold coins in Mog Castle. It was not considered the business of the Commercial Temple, and Zoleka did not explain it clearly to her subordinates, so that no one in the Commercial Temple except her knew that Lant had such a sum of money.
With a legendary account manager coming to handle it in person, the payment process suddenly became much more convenient: Little Red Bird sent someone to transport 1 million gold coins from the storage room and sent it to the Temple of Wealth in Yeqi City. The priests in the temple checked After confirmation, the Imperial Capital Temple of Wealth will transport gold coins of the same size to the Imperial Finance Office.
"Everyone, arrangements have been made in the Imperial Capital. In about 20 minutes, the Imperial Capital Knights will be here to transport the gold coins!" After listening to the report from his subordinates, Zolaika confirmed with several people at the table, "Now that the delivery is completed, I won’t leave everyone to eat!”
There are three pandas expecting to give birth in Zoleka's temple, and she is eager to go home to see the panda babies.
"Lord Lant, I remember that you wanted to bring in nobles from the Imperial City School to pay for potions for 200 people in the morning. How come you were able to come up with 1 million gold coins after noon?" Gordon Campbell asked with a smile. One sentence.
“Different money does different things.”
Lant replied casually. To be precise, in addition to the reason why the old gold coins in the ruins cannot be circulated, the more important reason is that the magic potion and magic plants are expensive and unmarketable. Even if you spend a lot of money to buy them, it is impossible to satisfy hundreds of people at once. When Lant introduced the nobles of the imperial capital, he was interested in their potion methods.
"Your Excellency Zoleka, Lord Lant, did we borrow this money from the Temple of Wealth?" Seeing Lant's unwillingness to reveal anything, Gordon Campbell asked the legendary dragon on the side.
Both Lant and Zolaika had a tacit understanding and did not say the origin of the money. They only said that it was paid by the Temple of Wealth, so that the empire could not immediately know the source of this huge sum of money. This was also considered the goddess of wealth's protection of Rand.
"Guowa, do you miss your mother? Oh, my mother will go back soon. How about you wait for me to come and have another baby!"
Zolaika held a magic mirror in her hand and looked at the condition of her panda cub, completely ignoring the secretary of the Department of Finance.
The little red bird on the other side couldn't stand it any longer, and quickly said, "Our territory has produced a lot of output recently, and naturally we have accumulated some funds. If all this money is used to purchase magic potions, I'm afraid it will also disrupt the market price." , it is better to use it for industrial expansion and upgrading of the territory.”
The girl's words were specious, and Gordon Campbell could only look at Ben Call with resentment.
What kind of place does the imperial capital want to be sealed? Of course, it is a feudal state where finance, personnel, and territorial diplomacy are entirely decided by the empire.
If there were no rand, all the magic furnaces on the Benma Plain would be the collateral of the Benma Fund. The treasury of the Yeqi City Finance Department would be the principal of the Benma Fund. In the future, many mages trained by Yeqi City would also be the principal of the Benma Fund. From the Tower of Purity.
It can be said that the imperial capital has laid out its plans in advance and controlled the people, wealth and magic furnace of Yeqi City. No matter who unified the Benma Plain, they could not do without the Tower of Purity. Therefore, nearly 300 years have passed since the fall of Yeqi City. Neither Long nor Kirislav was interested in regaining this human homeland.
But the premise of everything is that no new magic furnace will be produced in the entire world.
After hearing that Rand could build a magic furnace, the Department of Finance hoped that the new magic furnace would be completely under the control of the Department of Finance. Even if it could not be done, Rand would owe a large sum of money to prevent him from having too much independence. sex.
However, now, the Empire's Finance Department discovered that this fourth son from the border baron family not only unified the Galloping Horse Plains and restarted Yeqi City, but also built a new magic furnace, and even had direct financial transactions with the Temple of Wealth through them, and even more The scary thing is that Ben Call, the legendary mage of the Tower of Purity, is almost stationed next to Lant. Ben Call neither knows that Lant has a large amount of cash in hand, nor does he know that Lant can directly communicate with the Temple of Wealth. docking.
Ben, who felt uncomfortable being stared at by the Finance Department, had no choice but to ask: "Rand? Why do you suddenly have such a large sum of money?"
"Of course it was looted," Lant said with a smile, he had already prepared his excuse, "You guys don't know that I searched the entire northern area of Padmila Palace that time, and the cash alone was piled up like a hill! "
"But, wasn't that area the property of your Benma clan?" It's hard for nobles in this world to imagine Lant's method of ransacking homes.
"Yes, they sacrificed their lives for Yeqi City back then. Why should I use their money to build the city according to their wishes?" Lant said innocently: "And I also specially put the disposal method in It has been publicized in Yeqi City for a month, and no one raised any objection!"
"Hmph, there wasn't even a teleportation hall in Yeqi City at that time. It was filled with your own subjects. It's strange that you have any opinions!" Ben Kaur was not satisfied with Lant's answer, but Padmilla was The palace has not been invaded by orcs, so it is reasonable to find a large amount of money in it.
"But sir, shouldn't the Yeqicheng Finance Department account for such a large amount of funds?" Gordon Campbell found a breakthrough and asked quickly.
Hearing this, Little Red Bird couldn't sit still: "The Yeqicheng Finance Department can't control the accounts of the Benma Royal Family, right? Back then, there were internal funds in the palace, which belonged to the private accounts of the Benma Royal Family, but now the Benma Tribe..."
Before the little cardinal finished speaking, he was held down by Rand. The specific method of dividing the accounts cannot be revealed yet.
"Sir Gordon, let me make it clear that the current Yeqi City cannot manage the mess of the Galloping Horse Fund. Therefore, all the existing accounts of the Yeqi City Finance Department have been frozen by me. My income and expenses for each copper coin, None of it will be written into the accounts of the Yeqicheng Finance Department.
All the money I owed to the Salt and Iron Department and the fund, about 200,000 gold coins, will be paid tonight. There is only one person in charge of the Future Galloping Fund, and that is Fiat Galloping Marquis. "
Gordon's heart was like a storm. He really didn't know what to do. For the empire, one of the most important functions of the Benma Fund was to bind the Benma Plain. Without the plain, the entire Benma family would be in trouble. It's not worth the Finance Department's trouble, but now hundreds of years of hard work have suddenly come to nothing...
(End of chapter)
