Chapter 358: Hokuriku United Development Bank!
In fact, both Levi and Kevin guessed wrong.
The goddess of love and goodness, or the goddess of love, Shuna, is a powerful god and the most passionate of all gods, and her shrines can be found in all corners of the continent of Corell.
A large city-state with a long history and thriving most of the time, with its wealthy aristocracy, wealthy merchants, and large middle class, has made the Temple of Love one of the most prestigious sacred places in the continent of Corell.
Every day, many young couples come to pray in the temple of love, hoping to receive the blessing of the goddess of love.
Therefore, as a half-native who has been living in Jishui City for more than a hundred years, how could she not have heard of the great name of this goddess and her temple.
And not only had she heard of it, but she knew much more than Levi, and she was sure that Levi and his subordinates didn't really know much about the deity and his church activities, or that they didn't dare to squeak at the time when they did.
Because if they were clear and understood, there is a high probability that they would not choose this point in time...
The reason is that both the Holy Day celebration and the monthly feast of the Great Carnival start in the evening.
In this feast, the bards will play the most beautiful and emotional music and sing poems in praise of love and encounters, and the devotees in the audience will enjoy the dancers' dances, and when sex arises, they will also pull their partners into the dance floor, so that beautiful love can take root in such a joyful atmosphere and ear and sideburns.
If that's all, Xia Lanwei Luosi is naturally extremely yearning.
However, among the many myths and tales circulating in Corell, Shuna had 'romantic' relationships with many of the gods of Pan-Ferron.
So I don't know if it's because she's too open-minded.
In her teachings, the section on love, although it encourages 'believing in love, believing that true love will win in the end'.
But also insist on 'following your heart and towards your true destiny'.
So strictly speaking, this goddess of love is a philanthropist.
That is, it praises love, but it does not praise the loyalty of love.
Therefore, on the holy days and feasts of the goddess of love, it is common to see people confessing their love to each other all night in the forests and parks where the celebrations take place.
I want to ask why Charan Vilos knows...
Forty-six years ago, out of curiosity and for the purpose of pre-investigation, she had snuck through in disguise.
As a result, the overly energetic picture directly frightened this short-sighted house dragon and fled.
That night, Charan Vilos really grew up...
Although there are some 'lewd' content in the ones she usually watches, the gap between imagination and reality before she has really seen some things is still quite large.
As a silver dragon who adheres to her own desires, she strongly disagrees with the side of Shuna's teachings that agitate and indulge desires.
But even so, she supported the courage to discover love and pursue love in Shuna's teachings.
Therefore, when the two sides were approaching, when she first heard that Levi's subordinates had actually encouraged him to go to those nasty taverns, the little maid beside her immediately felt a real murderous intent, and her little face turned white with fright.
But just when she heard that they were about to go to the Church of Eros, she felt her chest pound uncontrollably, and somehow, she immediately asked this sentence:
"Yes... Take me along?"
She almost blurted out that she regretted it to death.
On a daily basis, the brain, which can easily parse and construct thousands of spell models or memorize all the terms of the deed number, is like a hot water kettle about to boil, with thousands of various thoughts colliding inside.
For a moment, 'Ahh
After a while, he said, 'It's over!' and asked to go to the Church of God with him, what would he think of himself, would he think he was a dragon with an overly open head?'
But it was as if a calm voice was telling her, 'No! Levi's, he didn't know about Shona and her church. ’
Then another voice came out, 'But sooner or later he'll know!'
Bite!
Just when Xia Lanwei Luosi was blushing and about to smoke, Levi, who was opposite her, was stunned for a moment and immediately agreed:
"Okay. ”
"Huh?"
At this moment, Levi seemed to have returned to the 'Flower Bush Holy Hand' style when he used at least hundreds of words to praise each other in the first meeting and shamelessly praised each other's 'You are so good-looking'.
'He... Did he just say yes? Or did he have... Already feel my heart?'
And when Xia Lanwei Luosi only felt that her head was about to go down, she heard Levi's next sentence:
"It seems that we really want to go together, and it just so happens that I also have some business matters that I would like to discuss with Miss Xia Lan for advice, is the Goddess of Love and Kindness Church? ”
Levi said that he laughed at this point: "You may not know, after the last time we and Kelben smashed the workshop and market in Jishui City together, the merchants of the entire Northland are now inexplicably wary of us, so if I go to the crowded House of Pride and your Chamber of Commerce in a bright light, I'm afraid that the transaction volume of the entire Jishui City will drop by at least thirty percent today, haha." ”
"......" Xia Lan Vilosi.
After hearing this, her whole dragon's body and mind went blank for a moment.
'It turns out... Is that what he thinks?'
For some reason, she was slightly disappointed in her heart, but she breathed a sigh of relief.
'But... That's who I know. ’
Xia Lanwei Luosi tapped her feet, turned to face the sea, raised her white neck and glanced at it.
In just a short moment, she transformed from a girl dragon who was carried away by love, to the original female president who was in charge of everything and calmly faced everything.
Then he turned his head to look at Li Weiyan and smiled, smiled very decently, blinked lightly, and said slowly:
Indeed, the trade war made the merchants of the Northland realize that the market itself can be manipulated.
"Although we have controlled at least half of the workshops and markets in Jishui City, it has also caused the market to shrink and slump for a period of time.
"Now, 46 years later, the market and economy of Jishui City have regained their prosperity, and it is indeed not appropriate to stimulate the fragile nerves of those colleagues until there is no expected strategic goal.
"The Temple of Eros is different, a couple of 'lovers' who are 'in love' are indeed easy to lower their vigilance.
"After all, love is easy to blind, isn't it?"
Xia Lanwei Luosi said this sentence in a pun.
It's like, as if it's to yourself.
In Corell's mainstream perception, love and beauty are signs of weakness and are easily despised.
So even though Shuna is a rare and powerful god of divine power, even though her church is widely loved throughout Corell, and her teachings have many adherents, most people think that Shuna's followers are not harmful, because the vast majority of Shuna followers are seen as frivolous, vain, and superficial.
In the eyes of the gods, the god Shuna is also inseparable.
Li Wei saw that Xia Lanwei really 'thought' like this, and his originally tense big heart finally couldn't stop beating wildly.
'Whew!'
I'll just say, how can a successful woman like Charan Vilos behave as innocently as an ignorant little girl. ’
"But I have to say that the other party's shy and timid appearance just now is really too deceptive! Sure enough, there is no simple existence that has lived for a long time!"
'Ahh
'They must think I'm a 'big boy' who has just been sexually aroused in his youth, right?'
Thinking of the other party's 'sudden realization' and holding back a smile at that time, Levi felt ashamed and wanted to die.
'Also... I'm so witty. ’
After thinking that he had dismantled the other party's attempt to 'tease' his 'little trap', Levi also pretended to be the same as a hero, stretched out his hand full of gentlemanly demeanor, and said:
"But no, then Miss Charanvilos, are you ready to be 'blind'?"
Xia Lanwei Luosi, who was already calm, froze again after seeing Levi's invitation.
'Is this for me to hold him?'
'In the eyes of outsiders, wouldn't they really be a couple?'
But in an instant, reason suppressed emotion again:
"What do you want, it's just a hand-holding, basic aristocratic etiquette, what do you want!"
'But... But I'm still so shy!'
Xia Lanwei Luosi feigned composure and stretched her hand under Levi's arm.
Poof...
The big hearts of the two dragons fluttered at the same time.
"Hmm," Charanville tilted her head sideways and smiled in a lovely nasal voice, signaling 'I'm ready'.
But what she didn't know was that her actions made Levi feel uneasy for a while, and he screamed in his heart:
'No... No... I just raised my hand and motioned for us to go? Got it?'
'Uh, but this seems to be the basic etiquette of the human aristocracy of the main material world? Right?'
'Ahh Ahh
Li Wei only had a smiling face, and led the other party all the way to the side of the port road.
I was a little embarrassed to think about whether to tell Calvin to arrange a car, or to rent those rickshaws?
But the former is afraid of causing misunderstanding on the other side, and the latter is too shabby and rude...
I heard a crunch.
A steam locomotive with a luxurious appearance stopped in front of the two-headed dragon:
"Two distinguished guests, where do you want to go?"
'Hmm, have there been primitive 'taxis'?'
Levi couldn't help but think.
But after thinking about it, this seems to be normal, after all, steam locomotives are still scarce at present, and their convenience is inherently in line with the aristocracy's concept of consumption.
Therefore, even the descendants of young aristocrats want to be able to use them for their travel, even if they cannot afford to buy a steam locomotive.
The market is like this, where there is demand, there will be business opportunities and speculators who are good at seizing business opportunities.
Levi instinctively opened the car door for Xia Lanwei Luosi, Xia Lanwei Luosi also instinctively got into the car, Levi kicked up from the other side, and said:
"Loving God Church, thank you. ”
"It is a pleasure for us at George Motors to serve you. The slightly thin driver in front of him said in a deep voice without looking back.
'George Dealers?' Calvin could... Have you already set foot in the taxi market? It's just that this configuration decoration is a little too high-end, etc., why does it feel like the driver's back is a little familiar...?'
Levi expelled this somewhat absurd idea, and then opened a 'magic silence enchantment', turned his head and said to Xia Lanwei Luosi:
"I wonder if Miss Charanville sometimes had such thoughts when she was doing business with some ordinary merchants, if I suddenly saw a big business opportunity in Silvermoon City, but it would be too troublesome for me to go on the road with a large amount of 'gold and silver coins', and it would be easy to run into robbers on the way, it would be nice if I could find a way to make both parties fully trust. ”
Hearing Levi's words, Xia Lanwei Luosi, who was a little stiff, withdrew her gaze from the blonde driver, thought about it, and said with a smile:
"Yes, it is, especially if the goods I need to buy are of great value and high value, after all, neither the gems of the Scorching Hell nor the pearls of Tinterbran can be obtained by ordinary merchants. ”
"In such a situation, what would the average businessman choose to do?"
Levi humbly asked.
After all, different worlds may have different ways to deal with it, and if that were the case, his proposal would seem a little ridiculous.
"As far as I know, most of them will choose to send the gold to a certain mint, and then trade with the 'minting certificate' issued by the mint, and the latter can take out the gold after deducting a certain share of the coinage fee and 'coinage loss'.
She thought for a moment and added: "However, the mint nominally belongs to the city lord and the king after all, if a war or disaster suddenly breaks out in a city-state or kingdom, and it is necessary to raise military expenses or relief funds, the gold in these mints will be 'temporarily requisitioned', so sometimes when the distance is not far and the risk is not high enough, they will also choose to pay in cash, but they will also hire a team of adventurers to act as guards, but the risk still exists." ”
Speaking of this, Xia Lanwei Luosi turned her head to look at Levi, fanned her big eyes, and asked with interest:
"What do you mean by that? Could it be that you have a better way? If this is true, I am afraid that the merchants of the entire Correll will be grateful to you. ”
Levi laughed and said, "I can't help the merchants of all Correll for the time being, at most I can benefit a few of our local city-states. ”
"Oh?" said Xia Lanwei Luosi as she pretended to be surprised, looking at Levi with 'anticipation'.
Li Wei also stopped selling Guanzi: "So I want to set up an institution similar to the mint you mentioned earlier, called a bank, which specializes in receiving and paying cash, handling settlements, and remittances. ”
Hearing this, Xia Lanwei Luosi was slightly disappointed.
The other party may not know that she did this before she dried up the 'real estate' of Jishui City...
The cash received can also be used for loans...
But she didn't want to let the other party be disappointed, so she asked:
"It's a lot of demand-oriented ideas, but, as far as I know, institutions like this actually already exist, including our Water City, and if you want to set up a 'bank', you Zelandia can do it yourself, why are you looking for me?"
Levi's dragon tail is finally revealed:
"This is a matter of credibility, and do you think people will believe that the gold they have deposited in the dragon's treasure can be taken out again?"
Poof.
"Oh, so what are you going to do?"
Xia Lanwei Luosi suddenly laughed knowingly.
It's too...
She almost forgot that the other party had already revealed her identity as a dragon.
Indeed, who would choose to keep their possessions with the dragon?
This is one of the reasons why she always chooses to hide her true identity.
Levi smiled confidently:
"So, in order to gain people's trust and achieve seamless and rigid payments between different city-states, I would like to join forces with you, Miss Charanvilos, the Veramarandes of the Silvermoon Federation, and the Radiant Lady Erastro, to form a joint-stock bank that connects the entire Northlands.
"I want to call it:
"Hokuriku United Development Bank!"