The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Charles easily entered the imperial capital, and the entrance fee of thirty silver coins to the city is really dark, you must know that in the information of the Charles's investigation, even the income of lower-class families in first-tier cities like Xuchang is still five gold coins a year, and they have to pay sixty percent of various taxes, and they can only spend two gold coins all year round, that is, two hundred silver coins, and you will need thirty to enter the city once, and the imperial capital is really explosive

So there are not many people in the imperial capital that should be people-to-people now, and even the free caravans don't like to come to the imperial capital very much, and the people who enter the city are all caravans with a big background, or officials from other places, and there are mercenaries who are ready to find a job in the imperial capital, usually this kind of mercenary is here to be a thug for the minister's faction, so don't look at the night raid has been killing and killing, but the number of scum on the minister's side has not decreased much, how much or more

Charles first went to the mercenary union to report, and then found a tavern to stay in the night, during which he locked a few targets, there are too many scum in the imperial capital, Charles waited until midnight, on the surface he went back to the hotel, and then left directly behind his back, followed to find one of the goals set before, and took it directly

"Hey~ Where is General Bude's mansion? Where is the minister's pigsty? ”

"Who are you!? What are you doing!? The person who was caught by Charles woke up on the spot, staring at Charles with a look in horror, he should have thought that Charles was an assassin, and he was going to assassinate the general and the minister

Xia Er is not nonsense, this guy is one of the rats in the imperial capital, specializing in the buying and selling of women from good families, if it weren't for Charles's hearing is much better than that of ordinary people, and he can also lip speak (super high analytical ability in a sophisticated state), he doesn't know what this guy is talking to others, but now that he knows, this kind of person is not a pity to die

The mouse with two broken fingers was covered with sweat on his forehead, and Charles covered his mouth so that he couldn't make a sound: "I just need my answer, where's it?" ”

The mouse realized that he had met a stunned young man, and after he let go of his mouth, he didn't shout, and said through gritted teeth: "You're sick, this is the Eastern District, it's a civilian area, if you're looking for an official, then go to the Southern District, as for the place you want, I don't know how to step on a horse."

So the guy's fingers were broken twice, "You rat don't even know where these two's mansions are?" Are you kidding me? ”

It took a lot of effort for Charles to get what he needed, and then he broke the neck of this scumbag, and threw the body into the gutter on the side of the road at random, it doesn't matter, I don't know how many people die every day in the imperial capital now, and the security team has no way to check it at all, especially when the security team judges that the murderer is very powerful, even if they can find someone, they don't look for it

After a good night's sleep, Charles came to the notice board early in the morning, the notice board is the place where the imperial capital officially released important news, for example, there are currently red pupils and brand's wanted notices on it, and there is a big slogan that the night attack is a reactionary organization, Charles searched around and did not find the death of Hill, which also means that Hill has nothing to do, and the night raid members will definitely be on the notice board if they are killed

In this way, Charles was a lot more relieved, and during the day, he still investigated the living conditions of some people in the imperial capital, and by the way, he went to a ready-to-wear shop to buy a costume that learned to dress in the form and changed out of his mercenary uniform, and bought a monocle with no degree to hang on the glasses, and straightened his hair to make himself look more learned

"Who?" , The guard at the door of the General's Mansion asked solemnly, the southern district is a huge mansion for officials and wealthy businessmen, usually no one comes, and if you want to come, you will send a post in advance to explain that you are coming, the General's Mansion is originally a place with less communication, and the appearance of Charles is very surprising and vigilant

Charles bowed slightly: "I'm an alchemist, I want to defect to the general, more important things... I'm afraid it's not something that the little brother needs to know, can I bother you to report + a little?" ”

"Alchemist?" The two guards looked at each other, one of the guards opened the door and went in to report, and the other said, "Okay, you can wait a while"

"Of course this is no problem", Charles said as he took out his small notebook and began to write and draw, of course the guards didn't know what Charles was doing, but alchemists were some strange people, so he didn't care what Charles did, and even felt 'Ah~ Sure enough, he is a learned alchemist, what do you have to do at this time'

General Bude's mansion was large, and the guards who reported it would come in ten minutes, opened the small door and said to Charles, "Follow me"

The first impression of Charles when entering the General's Mansion is that it is neat, there is no carved beams and paintings in the General's Mansion at all, it is a very simple and practical architectural style, and there are not too many decorations, the trees and grass are very smooth, and there are few dead corners in the line of sight, it is not like a place to live at all, but like a fortress

Soon Charles was brought to General Bude, Charles was also drunk, the General's attitude was a bit direct and excessive, Bud waved his hand to let the soldiers retreat, as for the people who served him at all, there was no third person in the room except for Bud who was sitting behind the table and Charr who was standing

"You're an alchemist? So what did you come to me for? I don't need your little tricks here", Bud doesn't look down on alchemy at all, alchemy is a unique skill in the West, if the empire is the Han Dynasty, then the West is Rome, anyway, it's not much of a feeling, although it is also a big civilization, but Bude, as a general of the empire, is a staunch defender of the supreme idea of the empire, so he refuses to be an alchemist

Charles took out his three small notebooks and threw them to Bud, and did not speak, Bud squinted his eyes and looked at Charles carefully, and then picked up one and looked at it twice, there were a lot of numbers on it, but Charles wrote very clearly, and it wrote in detail the changes in the income of each occupation investigated by Charles in the past 20 years

"You did your own research?" , Bud is a general, he doesn't care about political affairs, but it doesn't mean that he can't understand these simple data, and as the patron of decent officials in the empire now, he can't get used to the style of Minister Earnest, but he can't catch the minister's handle, and the minister and the emperor are too close, and General Bude, who is loyal first, can't attack the minister

"I did it, the data sample in it is relatively small, because I did it alone, if the general needs to see more, then let your people go to the secret investigation by themselves, just investigate them one by one according to the data I wrote inside, very simple things, but very intuitive"

"Sit down and talk"

"Thank you, General"

Bude flipped through it a little more, and he stopped looking at the rest of it: "It's all this kind of data, right?" ”

"That's right"

"Who the hell are you? What is the purpose? Alchemists don't need to worry about these things", Bud narrowed his eyes, but his hostility towards Charles was not high, the first was his confidence in his own strength, and the second was that he believed in this thing, Bud felt that Charles could come to him with this thing, it was loyal to the empire, and Charles might be a cadre who wanted to be a member of the government but was unwilling to go along with the ministers

As soon as Charles sat down, it was no different from slumping there, and he turned his head to look at Bud with his chin on his back, this posture made Bud very uncomfortable, but Charles didn't care: "It doesn't matter who I am, if the general investigates, he probably won't be able to investigate, because I used to be a recluse, but now I'm out and come to save the empire."

"Presumptuous!" , Bude slammed the table, the anger in his eyes could be seen, Charles's identity is not a problem, the problem is in the four words 'save the empire', the empire is guarded by his general Bude, and there is no need for others to save it!

"Calm down, does the general really think that the information I gave you is the worst? Just 60 percent of the income is collected, and 40 percent of the resources can be used to live all year round, is this the bottom? Charles said with a smile, completely ignoring Bud's anger

"What do you mean by that?"

"On the surface, the people I can ask questions about are still relatively idle people, who work in the fields in the early spring season, and are busy for a year's livelihood, but ah, there are some people who are busy even in the winter, and then... don't live to the spring, well..."

Bud narrowed his eyes, "You mean, everyone below this is dead?" ”

"That's not it, about 20 percent of the time you can barely live, those below this value will either beg or die, and ah, basically those below this value are slaves, they have no free property", Charles shrugged his shoulders and said the minimum standard very easily

"That is, they are still alive, and those useless serfs are consumables"

"Tsk, the general's words really make the serfs sad, of course the serfs can't hear it, but ah, the general, you have to think about it, how did the slaves come from? It's just that the population growth of the slave group can't support such a large number of slaves."

The two looked at each other, General Bud must have liked this topic, he didn't pay attention to these things at all, just frowned: "Then you come and tell me what these things have to do with me?" And what does it have to do with the Empire? ”

"Then I just said that when a family does not have enough free assets, that is, cash, then these families have no resistance to some possible social changes, they will go bankrupt instantly, and the fixed assets, that is, the house, are sold or directly annexed, and these people become slaves."

"This is inevitable, originally because of the development of industry in the empire, it is difficult for this situation to occur, but now because of the behavior of the ministers, the people everywhere are not living, so the factories are closed, and a large number of working people have no income, which is the reason for the emergence of the Southern Revolutionary Army, and then because the scale of industrial production in the North is low, these people have become slaves"

"You mean, the revolutionary army will get bigger and bigger, right?" , Bude waved his iron palm: "What if I destroy the revolutionary army?" It's true that I haven't faced this drama garbage before, but now that I hear you say this, there are indeed many people in the empire who want to join this group of garbage, and yes, General Ben will raise troops to eliminate them! ”

Charles smacked his lips, and he was also a little helpless: "Eliminating the revolutionary army can't fundamentally solve the problem, when this trend appears, the ministers and the party continue to corrupt the country like this, the revolutionary army is gone, there will be a free army, an insurrectionary army, and all kinds of armies, general, can you kill all the proletarians in all empires?" Even if you really kill all these people, what kind of empire is the empire without the people? ”

Bud looked at Charles with murderous intent in his eyes: "You want to provoke me to go to war with Ornest?" ”

"That's it", Charles admitted very humbly: "If the minister does not die, the empire will be even more corrupt for a day, and relying on the army to destroy those who resist is only to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall, if the fundamental problem is not solved, it will be finished sooner or later"

Bud was pondering, it was okay to oppose the minister, but it was impossible to eliminate the minister, and this was true for Bud, because...

"General, are you taking care of His Majesty the Emperor?" As soon as Charles opened his mouth, he hit Bud's mind, and Charles threw a small notebook to Bude: "If it is for Your Majesty, I think you should kill the minister, this is a budget that the minister's party borrowed for this reason when the palace was renovated last time, do you know how much money was spent that time?" ”

"Eight million gold coins," Bud replied casually, then flipped through the small notebook, and then the table under Bud's arm was smashed by his punch: "Are these true!?" ”

"This general already has a judgment himself, doesn't he? And you can find any firm that trades in wood and stone."

"170,000!? 170,000!! How dare they!? The angry general overturned his desk at once, and the emperor Yadmel Thor was angry and sparkling, and the weather that was originally sunny suddenly hit a thunderstorm, and Bud's anger activated the emperor, and it had already begun to affect the celestial phenomena

The original price for repairing the palace was 8 million gold coins, but after Charles's calculations, it only needed 170,000 gold coins, more than 40 times the difference, although he didn't know much about these things, but Bud knew that 170,000 was definitely not a good material, yes, Bud didn't care about money, he didn't care about corruption, he only cared about not giving the palace good things

Bude is the strongest in the empire, and he is also a general, he has a certain sense of justice, but there is only a little bit, this guy is the patron saint of the royal family if he says it well, and he is the emperor's watchdog if he doesn't say it well

Charles said a lot of imperial defeats before because this guy was indifferent, and took out a small piece of information that made the royal family suffer, Bud was furious, Charles saw it in his eyes and smiled in his heart, but Charles knew that his goal had been achieved, in Charles's calculations, Bud would put the royal family's losses at both ends of the scale, and reach a relative balance with the ministers, and the reason for the empire's defeat that Charles said before was just the straw that overwhelmed the scale

But Charles was not satisfied, it took too long for a straw to overwhelm the scales, and he wanted to add a weight: "Eight million is just a budget in the imperial capital, and in the past, the ministers and his party came to a big sweep in the whole territory of the empire, according to my survey data, the lowest they collected 28 million, and the highest... more than 60 million"

Sure enough, this became the root of Bud's determination, and his electric eyes stared at Charles, and the strong murderous aura was visible to the naked eye: "What is your plan!?" ”

"Take your time with this, you calm down first, I promise it won't be unfavorable to Your Majesty, as for the plan... My information is not enough"

"Tell me what you want, ask people to give people money, I want to destroy Earnest as quickly as possible!"

Charles laughed, "I thought so too"