Black Dragon Code

"Your Majesty, the Empire desperately needs a war."

It was not the monster leaders such as War Mad Hogg and Nero who made this statement, but the half lich Ren: "I think we must invade a rich land as soon as possible, conquer, kill, and plunder."

"why?"

Caesar looked down at him suspiciously. Although this black dragon is not a good guy, it is not dominated by the desire to conquer in his body at any time like the five-color dragon. Caesar himself does not desire war, especially a meaningless war without purpose What he didn't want.

"I'm sorry to remind you that the empire's treasury has already run into a deficit."

Ren lowered his head and said: "Our export trade and taxation are not enough to support the expenditure of the empire. In addition to the profitable assembly line arsenal, the black wing army, weapon research institute, material manufacturing room, shipyard and smelter you support are all It takes a lot of money to support it, and right now we're stretched out."

Caesar showed a slightly surprised look: "You said that the treasury is in a deficit? We export more than 3,000 pieces of armor and weapons every month, plus the large trade in grain and timber, and by the way, the lucrative elegy cards, together with taxes , can't even offset the consumption of the empire?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Ren nodded, and took out a lot of books from his space pocket: "This is the details of the empire's income and expenditure for the whole year. The people below have completed the statistics, and you can check it at any time. If you need it."

"never mind."

The black dragon shook its paws, asking him to look up these things is simply a kind of torture. No wonder Ren said that the empire needs a war of aggression. This is the fastest way these guys can think of to make money. War money is really easy. This is especially true for a hybrid empire like Yi.

But Caesar is not interested in such wars, and it is not a long-term solution for a country to rely on plunder to maintain internal friction. Necessary institutions such as shipyards and weapon research institutes cannot be stopped. He has to find a way to make money.

"How long can I last if I open my treasure house?"

Caesar asked in a muffled voice, his treasury and the imperial treasury are not the same thing. After ruling the entire Northland, this guy has finally become rich. The black dragon has a mountain of gold and silver treasures in the treasury deep in the royal court, enough for the empire Splurge for a while.

Ren was stunned. Everyone knows what the treasure means to a giant dragon. It is not bad that the Black Dragon Emperor did not take all the gold coins of the empire as his own. His voice immediately lowered, and he said submissively: " Your Majesty... even if we don't pay you, those people must work for the royal court; and your Blackwing army is also loyal to you, and will never cause a disturbance because of lack of food."

"Are you joking?"

The black dragon glared at him, spewed out two streams of white air from his nose, and his thunderous voice echoed in the royal court: "I ask how long you can last?"

"This... cannot be accurately estimated, but even so, it can only last for half a year to a year."

"enough."

Caesar snorted angrily: "Okay, this matter is over for the time being, now you listen carefully, I want to discuss other things with you."

"It's an honor." Ren bowed to him.

"Go and inform the executives and clan leaders in each region that Wang Ting wants to open a bank in the entire Northland."

"Bank?" Ren subconsciously repeated, and then searched in his long memory, and found that there was indeed no such word, so he raised his head and looked at the Black Dragon Emperor with doubtful eyes.

"Let's put aside the matter of the caster team first. Let me tell you briefly. You listen carefully, because you will be responsible for the rest of the related matters."

Caesar said: "The empire did spend a lot of money, but the money did not disappear, but ran from the treasury to the people and merchants in the form of payment of remuneration and purchase of materials. The gold coins are meaningful. But their significance may end there, because most of the gold coins are hidden after reaching human hands,

Turned into stone and buried in wine cellars, caves, low taxes will not bring them back to the empire, which is why you tell my country's treasury is short. "

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"I mean to find a way to take them back." Caesar said, and then glanced at the fire of soul surging in Ren's eye sockets, and added: "Of course, not by plundering and forcing."

"Then what should we do? Human beings are misers. If you don't use coercive means, these damned guys will never voluntarily return these gold coins that belonged to the empire to the empire." The demilich said.

"It is precisely because people know that gold coins are valuable that they are reluctant to return them to the empire."

Caesar said, "But what if the empire now tells them that if they lend their gold coins to the empire, they will have more gold coins over time?"

"I don't understand, Your Majesty."

Ren doubted: "You mean that the empire borrows money from the people, and then pays them back more money after a while. But in this way, it will be even more difficult for us to have surplus gold coins."

"No, once the empire returns more money to the first person, more and more people will be willing to lend money to the empire, and the empire will only have more and more money." Caesar denied.

"I see."

Ren nodded: "In my memory, it's not like no one has done this kind of thing. There used to be a businessman in the central trading city-state who did this. When the news spread, suddenly several big creditors jointly demanded that the businessman Pay off the debt, and he couldn't afford that much money, and then he was dismembered and dismembered."

What he said surprised Caesar a little. He didn't expect that there were many smart people in Elradia. The black dragon paused, nodded and said, "Yes, but the empire is different from the merchants. The empire is the master of the lives of residents, and the empire is a reliable authority and guarantee. As long as the empire prospers, even if it only maintains the prosperity on the surface, this situation will hardly happen again."

"However, in order to prevent this from happening, some additional rules can be added, such as borrowing money and recovering it within one month, there is no profit, the profit increases every time the loan exceeds one year, and the profit amount is recalculated after the loan is recovered and lent out, etc."

Ren hesitated for a while: "But no matter what you do, if the gold coins do not increase in the end, this illusion will be punctured sooner or later, which may cause deeper turmoil."

"Then what if it really increased?" Caesar tilted his head: "We are not the only country in this world. The empire can do too many things with the surplus money, so how could it not increase?"

"You've thought it through."

Ren bowed and saluted convincingly, and the last question: "It's just that the empire borrowed money from the people. There has never been such a thing in Eladea since ancient times. Isn't it a bit unpleasant to hear about it?"

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