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

It was not the war-mad Hogg and Nero who raised the words, but the half-lich Wren: "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, but it is not like a five-colored dragon that is dominated by the desire to conquer in his body at any time, Caesar himself does not desire war, especially a meaningless war without a purpose is something he does not want.

"I'm sorry to remind you that the Empire's treasury is already in deficit."

Wren lowered his head and said: "Our export trade and tax revenue are not enough to support the expenses of the empire, in addition to the assembly line arsenal can be profitable, the Black Wing army, weapons research institute, material manufacturing room, shipyard and smelter you raise need to invest a lot of money support, and now we are stretched." ”

Caesar looked a little surprised: "You said that there is a deficit in the treasury?" We have more than 3,000 pieces of armor and weapons exported every month, plus the bulk trade in grain and timber, which, by the way, includes the lucrative elegy, which, together with taxes, cannot offset the consumption of the empire? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Wren nodded, and took out a large pile of books from his space pocket: "This is the detailed rules of the empire's income and expenditure for the whole year this year, and the people below have already counted it, and they can be checked at any time." If you need it. ”

"Forget it."

The black dragon shook his claws, and it was a kind of torture for him to check these things, no wonder Wren said that the empire needed a war of aggression, this was the fastest way these guys could think of to make money, war money was indeed easy, and even more so for a hybrid empire like Black Wing.

But Caesar was not interested in such a war, and it was not a long-term solution for a country to rely on plunder to maintain internal friction, and necessary institutions such as shipyards and weapons research institutes could not be stopped, and he had to think of ways to make money.

"How long will my treasure vault last if I open it?"

Caesar asked in a sullen voice, his treasure vault and the imperial treasury are not the same thing, after ruling the entire Northland, this guy has finally become rich, and the black dragon has a mountain of gold and silver treasures in the treasure vault deep in the royal court, which is enough for the empire to squander for a while.

Wren was stunned for a moment, what the treasure means to a giant dragon is extremely clear to anyone, the Black Dragon Emperor has not taken all the gold coins of the empire for himself, it is already good, his voice immediately lowered, and he said resignedly: "Your Majesty...... Even if we don't pay the reward, those people have to work for the royal court; And your Blackwing army is loyal to you and will never cause a commotion because of a lack of food. ”

"Are you kidding?"

The black dragon glared at him, and two white gases erupted from his nose, and a thunderous voice echoed in the royal court: "I ask how long you can hold on?" ”

"This ...... It is impossible to estimate exactly, but even so, it can only last for half a year to a year. ”

"That's 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." Wren bowed to him.

"Go and inform the officials and clan leaders in the various regions that the royal court is going to open banks throughout the Northlands."

"Banks?" Wren 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 puzzled eyes.

"You put aside the affairs of the spellcaster's team first, and I'll talk to you briefly, and you listen carefully, because you're responsible for the rest of the relevant matters."

Caesar said: "The empire did spend a lot of money, but it did not disappear, but in the form of payment and purchase of goods, it went from the treasury to the people and merchants, as I said—only the gold coins spent are meaningful." But their significance may end there, because most of the gold coins are hidden in the hands of humans, turned into stones and buried in cellars and burrows, and low taxes cannot bring them back to the Empire, which is why you tell us that our treasury is empty. ”

"Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

"I mean find a way to get them back." Caesar said, then glanced at the soul fire surging in Wren's eye sockets, and added, "Of course, not by plundering and forcible conscription. ”

"So what should we do? Humans are misers, and without the use of coercion, these damn fellows will never voluntarily return these gold coins that belong to the Empire. The half-lich 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 now the empire tells them that if they lend the empire gold, over time there will be more of the gold that belongs to them?" ”

"I don't understand, Your Majesty."

Wren was skeptical: "You mean that the empire borrows money from the people and then pays them back more money after a while. But that way, it's harder for us to have any gold leftovers. ”

"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 in its hands." Caesar denied it.

"I see."

Wren nodded: "In my memory, this kind of thing is not something that no one has done, once there was a merchant in the central trading city-state who did this, when the news spread, suddenly several big creditors jointly demanded that the merchant repay the debt, and he couldn't take out so much money at all, and then he was dismembered and dismembered." ”

His words made Caesar slightly surprised, but he didn't expect that there were many smart people in Eladia, the black dragon paused, nodded and said: "That's right, but the empire is different from the merchants, the empire is the guarantee of people's survival, the empire is the master of the lives of the residents, and the empire is the authority and guarantee that can be trusted." As long as the empire prospers, even if it only lasts on the surface, it is difficult for this to happen. ”

"However, in order to prevent this from happening, there are also some rules that can be attached, such as borrowing money within one month and no profit being claimed, the profit of borrowing for every year of borrowing increases, and the amount of profit is recalculated after claiming back the loan and then lending."

Wren hesitated: "But no matter what you do, if the gold coins don't increase in the end, sooner or later this illusion will be punctured, and I'm afraid it will cause deeper turmoil." ”

"What if it really increases?" Caesar tilted his head: "This world is not just our country, the empire can do too much with the surplus money, how can it not increase?" ”

"You're well thought out."

Wren bowed convincingly, and asked the last question: "It's just that the empire borrows money from the people, and Eladia has never had such a thing happen since ancient times, isn't it a little bad to spread it?" ”

"Then let's give it a different name."

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