In the Station Kingdom, Lant's wedding didn't last long. Wendy, Gu Leiya and Little Cardinal put on rings, and everyone kissed Lant, and then accepted Lili, Faniel, Qiucao and Yicui. The worship of the four priests is over.
At the subsequent banquet, Lant sat in the middle, Gu Leiya, Wendy and Little Cardinal sat beside him, eating barbecue and watching the dance of Qiucao and Faniel.
"Lant, actually, it's okay if you don't share the priesthood with us."
Guleya, who was leaning next to Lant, whispered.
"Before, I have been thinking about how my wife will call me, how she will face me, and what status she will have in this station," Lant put down the food, watched the two girls dance, and continued, "In the end, I still think that as a member of the people who built the magic furnace, you should enjoy the power of faith brought by the magic furnace."
Suddenly, Lant looked at the dragon girl and said with a smile: "Besides, in addition to the magic furnace, I can also be the shit shoveling god and the barbarian god."
"You are almost as serious as your ancestors," the Dragon Girl said angrily, "But what about the future? Jonny, Sophia, Faniel and others also participated in the magic furnace, as well as Yinghuo and Kay. , Jenny, Honir, and even the Yavini Golden Moon that the Tower of Purity has always wanted to give you, and the Elenda Maned Wolf, and maybe Britt Lanyuan, Raging Fire in the future. Imola Longhorn next to me, and even Catalina..."
"My dear, eat more meat!" Lant couldn't help but feed Guleiya a small piece of steak. "Some people and cat gods are yearning for the divine feast here. Eat more."
"Lant, if you have the skills, why don't you help me look at the accounts," the little cardinal also picked up a piece of steak and said while eating, "The Imperial Capital Finance Department urges me to pay back the accounts every day. Just now, Mr. Klein told me I mentioned it and said that if I don’t pay it back, the cost of their settlement will be tens of thousands of gold coins, and it will have to be added to the bill.”
As soon as the dance ended, Fanier ran to the dining table and said to the little cardinal: "Qiucao and I worked hard to arrange the dance. You should cherish it and don't watch and eat at the same time and talk at the same time."
"Huh? I already share the priesthood with Lant, shouldn't you also be my priest?"
"Hey, my God," Faniel had great respect for Lant, but that didn't mean that this respect could be transferred in one night. She curled her lips and said, "If you dare, don't ask me to simulate calculations in my dreams tomorrow!"
"Oh, my good fox!" When the little red bird heard this, she immediately changed her face, "I was just joking, we will see you in my dream tomorrow night!"
Gu Leiya asked with a smile: "Don't you have your own secret lock? Can't it be used for simulation?"
"It's too late for Misuo to be responsible for data calculations in various places now. How can there be extra time for me to simulate!" Little Red Bird explained, "Especially the bills from the Department of Finance, but it's troublesome. Thousands of pages of documents are moved in boxes. "
Little Cardinal suddenly hugged Faniel tightly and said cheerfully: "Be good, Faniel. I was really joking just now. Don't pay attention!"
The interaction between Little Cardinal and Faneuil made Wendy giggle. Although huge changes occurred in the territory, the relationship between their sisters was still equal and warm.
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On the morning of the 26th, in the Control Mystery Lock Conference Room, Little Cardinal and Wendy faced a group of officials from the Imperial Finance Department.
The table between them was filled with accounting documents. These documents showed where the empire's subsidies to the territory went when they were fighting against the orcs.
In the past few days, Little Red Bird wanted to save 1.8 million gold coins from this. However, after several verifications, she could not find any flaws. It wasn't until last night at the station that Lant gave her some advice, and she had specifically confirmed it just now, so that this negotiation with the Imperial Treasury took place.
"Mrs. Little Cardinal, Mrs. Wendy, you two," Gordon Campbell from the Finance Department took the lead in greeting the two girls. "I didn't expect that the two ladies would have the time and energy to deal with this debt as they were newly married. "
Jacob Shubin also smiled and said: "Yes, we still suggest that Ye Qicheng adopt the form of debt-for-equity swap and use the profits of each magic workshop as repayment. In this way, it can also enjoy many subsidies from the Department of Finance. .”
"Thank you to the Finance Department for your kindness. After careful calculations, we believe that a one-time settlement is the most cost-effective." Little Red Bird shook her head and rejected the Finance Department's proposal. "The Yeqicheng Finance Department currently advocates clear accounts rather than keeping Every account becomes an investment.
"Then we will listen to the arrangements of the two of you," Jacob sneered in his heart, but still pretended to say: "There is only one lord like Yeqicheng who can give out 2 million gold coins at once."
After nodding and confirming with Wendy, Little Red Bird asked: "We are here today just to confirm with you two that you are really sure that the conversion and renovation of more than a dozen workshops in Yeqi City actually cost more than 1.5 million. Gold coins?”
Jacobin said without any hesitation: "Of course, all the expense accounts are in these account books. If you two have any objections, you can check them at any time."
Wendy spoke at this time: "We have no problem with the accounts, but we have great doubts about the profitability of these workshops. According to the calculations of these accounts, a factory requires nearly 100,000 gold coins in renovation and upgrade costs, which is not even After accounting for the training and expansion expenses of magisters and magicians in the factory, based on this cost and profit, it will take about 10 years for a workshop to recover these costs."
"But in Yeqi City, it only costs about 20,000 to 30,000 gold coins to build a similar workshop. Our workshop's profitability far exceeds those renovated by the Department of Finance." "Are you really sure there is investment in these workshops? Is it necessary? Don’t you calculate the ratio of input to output before investing?”
"Um..." The two Finance Department officials looked at each other with embarrassment on their faces. Of course they knew that although this account was calculated very clearly, it included all workshop dividends, taxes, etc. in the next few decades into the cost. , such accounting magic cannot be explained clearly.
Looking at the faces of the two, Little Cardinal probably understood the tactics of the Imperial Finance Department.
Just this morning, she showed the same account to the old goblin Mogluk. Unexpectedly, this financial originator from ten thousand years ago explained the problem in one fell swoop.
The Ministry of Finance first set a non-exaggerated error on a certain basic data, and then continued to amplify the error through various means to achieve a cost that seemed okay, but was 4-5 times larger than the actual data.
The old goblin found the origin of the error with just a finger, and then said: "All your verifications are based on the original calculations, but they are full of empirical formulas, and many empirical formulas will also be used in accurate calculations. The conclusion is multiplied by a factor of 5-10 times, so no matter how simple the calculation is, they cannot be counted."
"Wait a minute, don't you mean to say that they have completely dominated the control algorithmically, and no matter how I calculate it, I can't escape his algorithm?"
“It looks like this from the books, but it’s not necessarily true from the facts.”
The old goblin saw that the little red bird still didn't react, and simply said, "For example, there is always a cost for the transformation of the magic factory in our territory, right? Since they have deviated so much, then it depends on their final production scale. It only matters how much it is expanded and how much income it brings from the investment. If the cost is too high and the income is too little..."
"Then just abandon these factories and build new ones." Little Red Bird nodded, looking at the old goblin's complacent look, she suddenly discovered that although the former demigod was a waste in magic, he was making false accounts. Above, however, is the ancestor of the Imperial Capital Finance Department.
"I didn't expect, Mogluk, that you could see the tricks of those guys at a glance!"
Not only the little red bird, but also Wendy, who usually doesn't like goblins, was brightened this time.
"Of course, that's how I fooled the demigods on the audit committee back then in my interstellar mine. At that time, even after hundreds of years of calculation, they still didn't understand where I was cheating!" Mogluk said proudly, "Finally, they promised not to audit my books again, and I gave them my entire algorithm so they could fool other committees."
"Well, the false accounts that have been co-authored for tens of thousands of years are all calculated from you, right?"
(End of chapter)
