It can be seen here that George V and others are thieves, and Kai is not bad either.
They were still dreaming about the wealth in the tomb, but what they didn't know was that it was more convenient for Kai to carry the wealth with him than to put it in his pocket. Isn't that what the King's Treasure House was for.
Of course, Kai's treasure house is still not as exaggerated as Gilgamesh's. Kai has seen Gilgamesh's treasure house, and the wealth in it is the real gold and silver. Kai even doubted that all the wealth in the world at that time was not enough. Gilgamesh.
Dalton and the others have been hesitating about the land property rights, and at the same time they are constantly testing for information on the treasure.
In the end, Kai got impatient and directly showed what the 'King's Treasure House' was, and then Dalton and the others honestly sold the land to Kai. There was nothing they could do about it. The ability that Kai showed made them even less able to covet him. They couldn't even understand this method at all.
I can only give up...
Of course, the British are not good birds. When they have no hope of those wealth, they open their mouths. They can see that Kai is determined to get the land there. Since Kai wants it and is rich, very rich, If they don't kill it, they won't kill it.
Kai didn't talk nonsense to them. He gave them whatever they asked.
And Dalton was not polite and directly asked for 10 million pounds! Pre-war proportions, gold payment!
To be honest, Dalton only dared to speak so maliciously because he saw that Kai didn't understand the market. Before the war, one ounce of gold was worth 3 pounds 17 shillings 10.5 pence. The pound is on a gold standard, and you can exchange it for gold.
But the problem is that this is wartime, and the British government has greatly overissued (referring to printing more banknotes), causing the pound to depreciate sharply and gold to appreciate sharply.
According to the current black market conditions. One ounce of gold can be exchanged for almost 100 pounds. Moreover, it is still priceless and unmarketable, because during the war, the United Kingdom implemented special laws, and now various banks have stopped exchanging gold.
So although ten million pounds may not seem like much, it was definitely a huge sum of money at the time.
To give an intuitive analogy, the purchasing power of one pound at that time was equivalent to 1,000 yuan today. Just imagine how much it was.
So Dalton's heart is really dark.
But Kai didn't care, because he did some calculations and found that even according to pre-war proportions, 10 million pounds was only a small amount.
Kaidu does not need to use the treasures in the tomb, he can easily pay for it with his own private money.
When Kai traveled around the world, he also accumulated a lot of wealth, which he originally planned to leave to future generations... but it turned out...
When the black-hearted Dalton opened his mouth, George V trembled at the side. He was frightened by his advisers and teachers. Although the manor was large and well-run, it only cost tens of thousands of pounds to survive. After all, real estate was not easy to sell during the war.
But just such a piece of land was sold by Dalton for 10 million...
You must know that before the war, Britain's military spending was generally only maintained at about 200 million pounds. This earned one-twentieth of the military expenditure. (Of course it was more than this number after the war began. In fact, Britain's military expenditure during the war has been maintained at about 2.5 billion pounds per year)
But when Kai opened the King's Treasure House and poured gold on the ground like water directly in front of George V and Dalton, George V felt that Dalton seemed to be missing.
George V has always felt that the British royal family was relatively wealthy, but today he really saw what it means to be a wealthy family.
The living room, which was originally quite large, was suddenly filled with gold. If George V hadn't been so agile, he might have been drowned in gold.
Although he felt that he was short, Kekai's bold payment method still left Dalton shocked and speechless.
Money means cowhide!
It was only when Kai reminded them to sign the contract that the two of them came back to their senses from the massive amount of gold. Although they are all very wealthy people, it is the first time for them to see so much gold laid out in front of them so intuitively.
After coming to his senses, George V did not immediately prepare the transfer contract, but continued to promote the royal family's real estate in London.
During World War I, life was not easy for Britain, and the royal family was no different. Even in order for the nobles to buy war bonds, the royal family had to set an example, use its own wealth to subsidize the government, and buy war bonds with blood in its heart.
Now the royal family's funds are also stretched thin, so George V also hopes to get some financial subsidies.
Kay was not very interested in George V's promotion, but seeing that this guy was a good licker, he spent millions of pounds of gold to buy several castles and some properties in London. Among them is Leeds Castle, known as the "Queen of Castles", which is the best country castle for the royal family.
George V was very happy about this, and even was so happy that he directly canonized Kay as Grand Duke of the Rhine, which restored Kay's original noble status. Of course, this Grand Duke is just an honorary title. He has no territory, no salary, and no corresponding political status or power.
Kai didn't care either. If George V really gave him these things, he wouldn't dare to ask for them. After all, with power comes great responsibility. Kai was not interested in taking responsibility for a country he didn't understand at all.
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After chatting with the King of England, Kay did not immediately return to Leicester's manor. Instead, he lived in St. James's Palace in London, which is located next to St. James's Park in central London, not far from Buckingham Palace.
No matter how indifferent Kay was, George V still admired him very much and even urged Kay to live near Buckingham Palace so that he could listen to the great deeds of the ancient kingdom of knights at any time.
Kai also stayed because he wanted to know something.
What is different from other British palaces is that St. James's Palace is built of red bricks and is not grand. Only the gate tower is higher. From the architectural shape and the shape of the garden arch, we can see that this is a typical British Tudor-era building.
Kai likes this castle very much. It is low-key, not gorgeous, and has a lively atmosphere. He even thought about paying for the purchase, but unfortunately George V was unable to do anything. Because the previous asset resale made many people in the royal family extremely dissatisfied, thinking that it was detrimental to the dignity of the royal family, so even if George V wanted to sell again, he would not be able to do so. No more.
In the end, Kai could only pay a sum of money to rent this place as his temporary residence.
Kai lives here these days and begins to read various books to enrich himself. Especially the information about the ancient country in the East, he was seriously planning to return there. Even Kai had planned that his first step before going back was to spend a lot of money to buy back the cultural relics that the British had plundered from China from the British Museum.
This can be regarded as him, a wanderer from another world, making some contribution to China in this time and space.
But after reading a lot of information, Kai Wuyu discovered that China in this time and space did not need his contribution at all.
Although China in this time and space is indeed not having a good time at this point in time. The domestic situation is turbulent, warlords are fighting, and the people are in dire straits, but it is far from as miserable as the Kaiyuan time and space. In this world, flower growers are a very special existence. Just like in the original time and space, in the feudal era, flower growers always led the world and dominated the world.
In modern times, it has also fallen behind the West due to institutional problems. But even so, Western countries are still helpless with flower growers.
For example, at the end of the last feudal dynasty of the flower growers, the British were already an empire on which the sun never set, and the flower growers never paid much attention to the ocean, so the navy was very weak. This was an opportunity for the British, so the complacent British thought of opening up this market, or simply turning the flower growers into Indians, and thus launched the so-called Opium War.
As a result, the British army had just landed in the south, and they were beaten so hard that they didn’t even recognize them. If the British government at that time had not stopped the losses in time and paid a large sum of money to redeem the prisoners of war, those ghosts would probably be in the bitter cave. Squat for life.
Afterwards, the last feudal dynasty of the flower growers collapsed, and the situation in the flower growers suddenly became chaotic. A group of European ghosts thought they saw an opportunity, so they assembled the Eight-Nation Allied Forces to split up the flower growers and turn them into a semi-colony.
Unfortunately, the result was still tragic. The Eight-Nation Allied Forces landed at Jinkou. What else could they do? They were caught by a warlord who occupied the capital at that time and gave them a blast. The Eight-Nation Allied Forces were completely wiped out. The same warlord was competing for territory with other warlords. I didn’t want to Make the ghost guy anxious and make trouble for yourself.
So we just asked the Eight-Nation Allied Forces at that time to pay money and even the warships were returned to them.
Just like that, this warlord was criticized by various domestic newspapers as a dog, saying that he betrayed the country for glory and bowed to the devil...
Seeing how vigorous his predecessor in time and space was, Kai began to wonder, is it necessary for him to go back? The key is that I still look like a ghost. Based on the current prejudice of flower growers against ghosts, it seems that I won't have a good life if I go back.
As for the plundered cultural relics... what a crap cultural relics. Those collections from flower growers in the British Empire were all resold to the British by the cultural relic dealers in the flower growers' country, and they were all defective products. Really It's a good thing, but the flower-growing family has no intention of selling it to the ghost guy.
That's according to what Kay heard while disguised and chatting with a Chinese restaurant owner in London.
'Gui Lao knows a lot about Chinese culture, and if defective products can be sold to them at a high price, that's enough for them. '
A subsequent visit from Cotman completely put an end to Kai's idea of returning home.
According to Cotman, the attitude of the big eastern countries towards foreigners has always been bad, so forget it, some honest foreigners can live there. But it's only for honest ordinary people. As for foreigners with extraordinary powers, don't even think about it.
Cotman also told Kay a story to support his statement.
Around the middle of the 19th century, that was the period when vampires were most rampant. Vampires were fighting fiercely with the church in Europe.
At that time, vampires also thought about expanding to the East in order to increase their power. At the same time, the church also had this idea, but the church's approach was a little smarter. They planned to let vampires take the front line, and then go to the flower growers to take root in the name of helping the flower growers fight vampires.
As a result, the vampires went and the church went with them.
And then they all died...
The flower growers were suppressed by the local government at that time...
The church sent people to negotiate, but the flower growers ignored them at all. They looked down on civil organizations like the church. Of course the church was not happy, so it organized an expeditionary force to let the flower growers see the strength of the church. At that time, several countries responded He responded to the call, but as a result, the church's expeditionary fleet was destroyed by a group of pirates before it could even approach the mainland.
What is even more frustrating is that the feudal government at that time did not know that there was such an expeditionary force coming to trouble them. This also laid the foundation for the subsequent Eight-Power Allied Forces.
