On September 21st, Lorist received a message from Hilovas Island. Fatty Shi and Duke Fausta reached a ransom agreement, and the Fausta family offered one million gold to redeem Duke Fausta Armed with the Firebird Legion and their family, the Norton family will dispatch the North Sea Fleet to escort them back to the Kingdom of Chigda.
The ransom for a soldier of the Firebird Legion is 10 Gold Fords, 50,000 people are nearly 500,000 gold coins, plus Grand Duke Fausta, and those Golden Knights and Silver Knights, packing a million Gold Fords should be said to be one unbiased price. Fatty Shi didn't release the water, and the Duchess of Windsor didn't take advantage of her previous relationship.
However, Grand Duke Fausta made a suggestion to Fatty Shi. After the Firebirds surrendered, the Norton family armed forces disarmed all the weapons and equipment of the Firebirds, so the soldiers redeemed by the Faustas were all unarmed. Their weapons and equipment were used by the Norton family to equip the two newly formed city defense regiments in Morente City. When Grand Duke Fausta stayed on Hilovas Island, he discovered that the standard equipment of a garrison stationed on the island was different. After inquiring about it, he thought about buying armaments from the Norton family to re-arm the Firebirds.
If someone else wants to buy weapons and equipment, Fatty Shi will definitely be overjoyed, this is a big deal. A set of standard equipment for a soldier costs at least sixty Gold Fords, so the arms deal for a Firebird Legion is at least three million Gold Fords. Simply put, a set of standard equipment is much more valuable than a strong soldier. However, because it was Grand Duke Fausta who wanted to buy it, Fatty Shi did not dare to make a decision when there was no distinction between friends and enemies. He planned to take Grand Duke Fausta and Duchess of Windsor back to Morente City to meet with Lorist before discussing it. .
In addition to this incident, Fatty Shi said that he had received news from the family territory that Princess Sylvia, Fenner Galli, and Daisy, two ladies in attendance, had boarded a boat from Beihai City and were heading for Hilovas Island. There are still two days to arrive. So Fatty Shi planned to wait on the island for two days, and then return to Morente City together after the three wives arrived.
Why did Sylvia suddenly think of coming over? Lorist rubbed his temples, feeling a little headache. Could it be that Sylvia heard the news that the Duchess of Windsor was her first love girlfriend, so she was jealous and made her petite come to say goodbye to her? Probably not, but I refused to meet the Duchess of Windsor, and I was very obedient in Morente City, and I didn't do anything to catch Sylvia...
After thinking about it for a long time, Lorist didn't come up with any idea. Forget it, it's going to rain, and she's going to get married. It's something that can't be stopped. Let's wait until Sylvia and the others arrive. At worst, I'll spend more time with her. It's just to coax her carefully. Who told Sylvia to be ten years younger than me. Since I married me, I always get together with her more often, and I have been fighting outside, but she is so attached to me and worried about me. It's hard for her. This time when they come to Morente City, they will accompany them well, and it will be treated as a vacation here.
Two days later, Director Speer asked to see him. This time, Speer came to Morente City to be in charge of the management of the prisoner-of-war camp in the dock area, and he has been racking his brains to earn money from the more than 100,000 residents in the inner city. Since Fatty Shi and Earl Kate of the Business Alliance reached an agreement on the ransom and delivery of a package solution for more than 100,000 residents in the inner city, the two months have almost been implemented, and more than 90,000 residents of the inner city are in the prison camp After spending the last copper plate on his body, he was freed and transported to Mawei Forint Province in batches. The Norton family has received nearly seven million gold dollars in cash proceeds, as well as countless jewels, high-end furs, jade and luxury goods...
But this time Director Speer came to protest, because there are more than 10,000 most stubborn misers in the prisoner-of-war camp. In addition to the porridge with grains of rice, try to spend the least amount of money and only buy a little bread to satisfy your hunger, even if Director Speer doubled the price of bread ten times. In the face of Earl Kate's non-stop sending protest documents for more than a month, Lorist finally became impatient and ordered the release of all these misers who still kept most of their personal belongings.
"Your Highness, please give me another month, and I will be able to squeeze out the last gold coins from these misers. As long as we delay for another month, our family can get a million gold dollars from these people..." Spey Manager Er patted his chest and promised with red eyes.
"Let's let it go. For us, one month's time is more precious than a million gold dollars. We have more important things to do next. There is no need to delay the follow-up plan for this small amount of money. You should also start from The prisoner-of-war camp is free, and we can no longer waste time there." Lorist shook his head and rejected Supervisor Speer's request.
There is a reason for Lorist to say this. Although Tagle has dispatched capable people to try his best to give the business alliance the illusion that Morente City is in a bloodbath, but there are many people with mixed eyes, and as time goes on, there will always be some flaws that will make people feel unintentional. Interested people are puzzled. For example, the request for the Commercial Alliance to send more capable personnel to sneak into Morente City to cause even greater riots. After Ao and Reddy cleaned up, they seemed to sense that something was wrong, and refused to send anyone no matter how much they asked.
The development of Morente City has also been on the right track in the past two months. The establishment of various workshops and workshops, the establishment of many small chambers of commerce, and the return of the fishing fleet from a good harvest have made Morente City full of vitality. Although there are still more new problems, the Morente City Autonomous Committee has finally taken control of the situation in the entire city, and everything is moving in a better direction.
Coupled with the fact that private shipowners from the southern waters will flock to Tibetan Golden Bay to land and enter the city to purchase goods for trade after a while, Morant City will become lively again. Although Earl Kate and the released residents of the inner city were confined to the grain storage base outside the east city gate, the Norton family armed guards, no matter how tightly guarded they were, could not block the singing, laughter and banquet toasts in Morente City at night. The sound spread outside the city, let alone any riotous city with bright lights and music flying at night, anyone who saw it would suspect that there was something wrong.
So Lorist decided to send these inner city residents and Earl Kate out of the country earlier. After all, sending them away from Morente City now can confuse the business alliance for a while, and save them from finding out the truth and jumping over the wall to fight the Norton family. Armed to fight to the death, Lorist didn't want the elite forces of the family's armed forces to be wasted on the Mana Hill Plain.
"The Morente Autonomous Committee submitted a proposal to me. They will apply for a loan of 10 million Jinford from our family to maintain the commercial development of Morente City and form an armed force. I agreed. You put the matter of the prisoner-of-war camp After the completion, go to discuss the loan with the Morente City Autonomous Committee. The terms don’t need to be harsh but they can’t be too favorable, just follow the general commercial loan.” Lorist said to Director Speer.
If it is more realistic, the so-called commercial loans are actually usury loans, and they are all about what happens out of nine out of ten. For example, the Temple of Serkin, who believes in governing commerce and wealth, is to accumulate wealth by exchanging and issuing usury loans. For example, the gold dollar coupons are issued by the Sejin Temple. In the past, some chambers of commerce in the business alliance stored Jinfu in the Temple of the Goddess of Sejin, and paid 1% of the storage fee and handling fee, and they could exchange it for gold dollar coupons of the same value. Free exchange for Kingford of the same denomination.
In a sense, the Sejin Temple is like a financial institution in Lorist's previous life that issued, stored, kept, and issued high-interest loans. All the ransom and expenses paid by the business alliance this time were gold dollar certificates. Perhaps the business alliance thought that the Norton family armed forces would loot the entire city of Morente, and even those temples would suffer, so they spent the gold coupons in their hands as soon as possible while they were still valuable, lest the Temple of Serkin be destroyed by Norton. After the family armed robbery, all these gold dollar coupons became waste paper.
When Fatty Shi and Director Speer took these gold dollar coupons to the Sejin Temple to extract the gold blessings, the high priest of the Sejin Temple said very painfully that the exchange of these gold dollar coupons almost wiped out the gold blessings stored in their treasury Light. Although Fatty Shi and Director Speer doubted whether what the high priest said was true, the food and daily necessities ration distribution system that the business alliance implemented in Morente City in the past few years did have a great impact on the Serkin Temple. The great adverse effect and the depression of business made it impossible for the Temple of Serkin to find usury issuers.
Director Speer jumped up as if his tail had been stepped on: "No, Your Highness, how could you make such a decision! Our family has already lent the seized 4 million Jinford to the Morente City Self-Government Committee As a working capital, why are they so greedy and want to borrow another 10 million Goldford from our family! It is absolutely impossible for them to pay it back. If you do this, you will throw gold coins into the water, and you will not even hear an echo !"
If it is a normal commercial loan, if there is a mortgage, if you borrow it for two or three years, you can get a high interest of 4 million for 10 million. Director Speer will not object to such a good thing. But the Morant City Self-Government Committee's loan request this time was a bit excessive. They asked the Norton family to borrow an integer of 10 million, with a period of five years and an annual interest of one million. The most important thing is that they can't come up with anything that can be mortgaged at all, because Morent City and Fali Hill Plain should be the Norton family's trophies seriously.
Director Speer believes that the loan application submitted by the Morent City Autonomous Council is a model of empty hands. If the Morente City Self-Government Committee suddenly collapsed, the Norton family would not even be able to find out who to ask for the debt. But it was such an unreliable loan application, yet Lorist agreed without hesitation.
"Your Highness, think about it, our family took down the Faliqiu Plain and Morente City with armed forces, and finally got such a small amount of income, but you have to spend it here. This is simply ruining the family's wealth!" Si Director Pell was heartbroken and tried to persuade him.
"Oh, Director Speer, tell me how much profit our family has gained in Morente City..." Lorist's voice began to cool down.
This is a very simple matter for Director Speer. He opened his mouth and said: "The city of Morente has been captured, and the family armed forces have seized four million goldfords in the inner city, and there are also jewelry worth two million yuan, etc. Valuables. Most of the seized items in the outer city are the most basic raw materials. Although they are worth nearly ten million gold dollars, they are of little use to our family. For example, the hemp raw materials account for one-third Second, if these things need to be transported back to the family territory, it will not only take up a lot of transport ships, but I suspect that the shipping costs will be more expensive than the raw materials themselves.
In addition, there is a batch of timber piled up in the seven shipbuilding workshops in Zangjin Bay, worth nearly one million gold dollars. In addition to these, there are precious items such as fragmentary high-end materials, wine, armaments and weapons, high-grade ingredients, etc., which add up to a value of two to three million.
Next is the ransom of more than 6.3 million goldfords paid by the business alliance, and the one million goldfords paid by the Fausta family on Hilovas Island, and the 720,000 goldfords earned from the inner city residents of the prisoner of war camp. There are more than 100,000 Jinford and nearly 2 million valuables.
Your Highness, the total amount of cash is only more than 18 million Jinford. You have already borrowed 4 million to the Morente City Self-Government Committee, plus the previous purchase of meat and livestock and coarse grains from the Cristo Hills to pay Morun The expenses of the residents of Techeng doing things for us are nearly one million gold fords. If we lend another 10 million to the Morente City Autonomous Committee, then our family will have less than three million gold fords left.
Your Highness, I remember you once said that war is about logistics, and our family’s armed forces have spent a lot of money since participating in this war. Among other things, in the past three months, the family’s four major field armies and the North Sea Fleet have been armed for nearly 14 years. The salary and welfare subsidies for 10,000 people plus wartime salary increases and rewards, as well as logistical supplies cost almost 1.5 million Jinford. In particular, Your Highness, two months ago, you ordered five million gold fords to be allocated from the family reserve fund to expand the North Sea Fleet, and the rewards for the family soldiers who died in battle were as high as 500,000 gold fords for the North Sea Fleet... "
"Needless to say..." Lorist waved his hand to stop Director Speer from nagging: "I understand what you mean, Director Speer, do you want to say that if you give the 10 million yuan to the Morente City Autonomous Committee? Our family lost money on the loan, right? But what is the use of the 10 million, why not transport it back to the family territory and store it in the treasury? Have you forgotten what I said? Gold coins need to be circulated in the market to be reflected Its value, stored in the treasury, is nothing more than a pile of dead matter, that is but a wealth figure on paper.
What I want to remind you is, Director Speer, have you forgotten some other income, such as the income from the sale of the grain we transported to Morente City, and the products accumulated on the family lands on Hilovas Island? The proceeds from the commodity goods being snapped up by private ship owners in the southern sea area, and the booming business opportunities in Morente City after we lent 4 million gold dollars to the Morente City Autonomous Committee. As far as I know, most of the hemp raw materials seized by our family's armed forces in those chambers of commerce warehouses have been bought by those textile workshops, and the amount is nearly three million goldfords, isn't it
I believe in your loyalty to the family and me, the Norton Patriarch, but, Director Speer, I regret that you have been focusing on the gold coins in front of you and neglecting the more important interests of the family. You should know the next plan our family will implement in Morente City, which is to support the Morente City Autonomous Committee to establish a free alliance and part ways with the business alliance.
The ten million goldford loan application is more like a test for our Norton family by the Morente City Self-Government Committee. What they worry most about is how much support we will give them, because they are also worried Secretly conduct peace talks with the business alliance and abandon them. This ten million Jinford loan is the guarantee deposit given to them by our family.
Director Speer, you don't need to question my decision, just follow my orders. Of the 10 million Jinford loan, 5 million of it will be used to expand the new legion's armed forces, so that the Freedom Alliance to be established can have a reliable force that can resist the invasion of the commercial alliance's armed forces. This will enable our Norton family to leave the battlefield of the Fali Hill Plain. The remaining five million will continue to make commercial investment in Morente City, so that the Liberty Alliance can be self-sufficient as soon as possible, and rely on commercial taxation to continue to ensure its continued development.
For me, it is the greatest good thing to spend 10 million Jinford to find a reliable transit market for the commodities and goods produced in our family territory. Today I spent 10 million, but it will not take two or three years. Can earn back 20 million or more gold coins from here. Director Speer, what you have to do is not to oppose my decision, but to discuss with the Morente Autonomous Council how to supervise this loan to ensure that the funds will be invested where they should go instead of being stolen. Misappropriation and embezzlement. Do you understand it? "
"Okay, I understand." Director Speer sighed: "As you wish, Your Highness, I will follow your instructions to process this loan."
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