Volume 8: War and Peace Chapter 27: Slow Reflexes (2)
"Alright, that's all for the scenery! Lexington, you would like to report to the Directors on the recent financial situation of the Association. "Hit a stick and give a sweet date, although the method is old-fashioned, but the effect is still good, even if all these people here are human spirits, there is no way to escape this routine.
Lexington, dressed in a smart white-collar outfit, stood up, preferring this kind of clothing similar to that of a real-life office girl to a bell and tiramisu, and some players will make similar clothes themselves, but this clothing has almost no additional effects other than the most basic equipment attributes, and of course, almost no one will use this kind of thing as equipment.
"After the guild completed the crusade task and had the ownership of Venaparion, the finances of the guild and the territory began to be fully divided under my responsibility, because a lot of things happened in between, resulting in the financial division being completed not long ago, I invite you to come to the meeting today, an important thing is to inform the directors of the financial situation of the Angel Covenant Guild after the split, if you have any questions about the content of my report, you can apply for access to the financial division records after the meeting, There are detailed financial income and expenditure and profit status. "As a real-life senior financial planner and senior financial assistant, Lexington is very confident in the financial splits he has made, and even if the big conglomerates behind these directors have a large number of accounting staff, it is impossible to find obvious problems in those records.
Through this financial split, Raphael also successfully separated the province of Burrion from the name of the Angel's Covenant, and in terms of ownership, all the territories and outbuildings belonging to Raphael, soldiers, shops, etc. in the province of Burrion have nothing to do with the board of directors, and are completely supported by Raphael and Bell's own gold coins.
This is also Raphael's long-brewing counterattack, in the past nearly a year, the board of directors has gradually begun to encroach on the control of the Angel Covenant with sufficient funds in hand, although there is no obvious change in sight, but Yu Bin is reminding behind his back, how can Raphael let these insatiable guys act as they please.
Hearing Lexington's words, Rao is an old politician like Sun Lao couldn't help but be taken aback, and sat up straight with a snort.
"President Raphael! Why is there no such thing as a financial carve-out that has not been discussed by the board of directors? The fat man surnamed Gu put away his smiling face and asked loudly, compared with Sun Lao, who represents the government, he is more sensitive to financial changes, the government can not put financial issues in the first place, but for a consortium, finance is the most important issue!
"Mr. Gu, why does the financial split have to be discussed by the board of directors?" It was Tiramisu who spoke, compared to Raphael and Bell, Tiramisu, who was the deputy city lord of Venabrion, was obviously more suitable to fight back, "If I'm not mistaken, when I first agreed to you to participate in the operation of the guild and finally established the board of directors, the contracts signed and the rules formulated were clearly written, and all the rights of the board of directors were limited to the Angel's Covenant guild and the guild under its name, and the territory of Venabrion belonged to President Raphael in any way!" ”
Gu Fatzi stood up with his hands propped up: "But when you attacked the province of Burion and destroyed the demons entrenched here, you used the power of the Angel Covenant, not just a few of you!" So, Venapryon deserves to be the common property of the guild! ”
"I think Director Gu made a mistake!" Lexington said, "Although the army of the Angel Covenant was used in the attack on the province of Burion, it was in the name of President Raphael himself, and the deposit in the early stage and the employment fee in the later period are clearly and detailed in the financial income and expenditure records I mentioned earlier, if you are interested, you can check it after the meeting!" In addition, there are many guild members who have helped President Raphael recover the province of Burion on a voluntary basis, and Director Gu can personally ask any member who participated in that operation about this! ”
That's right, this is the killer feature that Raphael and others have prepared for the board! Or is it the killer weapon that Yu Bin gave to Raphael! Voluntarily!
No matter what kind of game it is, even if it is playing dice, as long as there are people, there will be a group, and the group will naturally choose a suitable person to represent the interests of the whole group, which is the case in reality, let alone the virtual game world.
And the representative of each group will have a higher status and a stronger psychological advantage over the members of the group, or it can also be seen as the blind obedience of human beings themselves. They will always subconsciously go along with the person with a higher status, and in some cases use unpaid service as a way to get closer.
Even those small guilds composed of thirty or fifty people, when the president raised his arms, there were people who were willing to respond, and they didn't want any reward to be born and die for the benefit of others, going up the mountain of swords and going down to the sea of fire, not to mention a beauty like Raphael!
Lexington said that those members were willing to participate at the beginning, which was actually a face-saving for Gu Fatzi, if he really asked those members about this matter, it is estimated that eleven out of ten would beat him up, just kidding, to help President Raphael, a powerful and beautiful, but also gentle and intelligent beauty, and even have to be paid? What the? You even say it's wrong? Is it to the detriment of our own interests?
I'm willing, can you handle it? And you dare to doubt our feelings for the president?
Big guy copy guy! If I don't beat this fat man to the point that his face is full of peach blossoms today, I won't be considered a senior fan of the president!!
Therefore, whether it is legal or emotional, the board of directors can't say a word! The lord of Venabrion City is Raphael, which has been publicly recognized by the Raphinian Kingdom and the Holy See of Light, not to mention that after Raphael became the Holy Maiden of Light, the entire province of Burion is nominally hers!
Gu Fatzi opened his mouth sneeringly, subconsciously wanting to refute, but he couldn't say a word, he looked at the other directors and found that most of them were the same as him, and there was no way to object to Lexington's statement.
He finally looked at Sun Lao, but on the face of this senior politician, Gu Fatzi only saw disappointment and indifference, he stood with his hands on the table for a while, and finally had to sit down.
"It seems that Director Gu has no better objections!" Lexington was obviously a little black-bellied, Gu Fat was speechless, and she had to insert another knife into the other party's heart, "Then I'll continue." ”
"After the completion of the financial division, the Angel Covenant has a total of one main meeting, as well as five branches, namely Angel Shield, Angel Wings, Angel Blade, Angel Light, and Light Guardian, in addition to the five branches, there are eleven guilds directly managed by the Angel Covenant, and seventy-three guilds managed indirectly, so I will not repeat them here. If only the main guild and chapters are counted, the total number of players recorded in the Angel Covenant is 2,733,955, and if you include the guilds directly or indirectly managed, then the number will be around 37 million, and the number of players directly or indirectly affected is estimated to be more than 2 billion. ”
"Since its establishment, the Angel's Covenant has set up a station in the main city of all races in the Order Camp to manage local members, and in addition, it has set up an office in the main city of most neutral races such as goblins and minotaurs, and is responsible for coordinating with local guilds. In addition, there are more than 500 cities with guild settlements and safe houses, which are used to gather local intelligence and other information. ”
"After more than a year of development, the guild has a large number of shops and industries all over the Ntagri continent, including equipment, weapons, herbs, ores, potions, etc., with a complete upstream and downstream industrial chain, all kinds of craftsmen, forges, alchemy workshops and other facilities."
"By the time the financial division was completed, the guild's daily income was about 23 million gold coins, and its daily expenditure was about 20 million gold coins, and the main part of the expenses was the taxes paid by the local institutions and facilities, personnel maintenance fees, shop rents and raw material procurement costs, equipment and facility maintenance costs, training expenses, and recruitment fees for the recruiting buildings to which they belonged, and generally maintained a slight surplus. At present, the available working capital is about 160 million gold coins, and the warehouses and spare materials stored in various places have not yet had time to be counted in detail, but it is estimated that the conversion of gold coins should be 100 million gold coins. According to the dividend ratio of the board of directors, 27 million gold coins need to be paid to the board of directors every month. ”
"The above is the financial situation of the guild after the financial split."
It's not that I don't know, but I'm shocked! The board of directors and others knew that the guild of the Angel's Covenant was very promising, and since the establishment of the board of directors, the dividends paid to them every month had basically increased steadily, but they knew that they were not as shocking as Lexington's mouth was now.
Not to mention, the number of players registered in the main club and chapter mentioned by Lexington alone is nearly three million, and if each person spends one gold coin per day, that is a full three million transactions, and these guild players are destined to put the main purchase objects in the guild's own store, which means that these transactions are real and there is no false element.
Three million gold coins a day, that's a full 300 million dollars! You ask the world's top 500 companies to compare with Angel Covenant to see which one has a similar transaction volume! No, not a single one!
Not to mention that the cash flow available now is more than 1500 million gold coins, in other words, the cash flow of such a guild is 15 billion US dollars, which is like a joke in the eyes of those directors, even a big consortium cannot come up with such a huge amount of money at once.
However, in fact, Lexington did a little trick when dividing the property, because she counted the members' equipment maintenance fees and staff salaries into the guild's expenses, and in fact, a large part of the guild players were also serving the territory, in other words, Lexington was using the guild's finances to pay for part of the territory's expenses.
This can be regarded as a means of "reasonable tax avoidance", anyway, the doorway is too deep, and veteran gamers may be able to see through one or two, and directors like Sun Lao or Gu Fatzi, who put their brains in the real world, almost can't find out what is boring in it.
"Your Excellency Lexington, I would like to know, you said earlier that in order to participate in the counterinsurgency, part of the liquidity was passively used, how much of this passive capital is used?" It was Sun Lao who came to his senses first, as a former top government official, not to mention tens of billions of dollars, even if it was hundreds of billions of dollars, he had used it many times in his hands, and a gold coin of 1.6 billion yuan might be a great wealth in the eyes of people like Gu Fatzi, but in Sun Lao's eyes, what he cared more about was the things that Lexington didn't make clear.
He has been an official and has managed money, and he knows that the most important thing is not how much is left, but how much is used!
"Please rest assured, Mr. Sun, although part of the working capital used before was used for the first war expenditure to participate in the counterinsurgency, there is also a detailed record in the financial income and expenditure records, and we have used a total of nearly 40 million working capital to pay for the first employment fee and purchase the missing war materials." Lexington said with a smile.
"Forty million?" Elder Sun frowned, "As far as I know, it seems that it only takes less than ten gold coins a day to hire a mainstream third-order player now, can it be that you hire millions of players in one go?" I don't seem to have noticed a significant increase in the flow of people in the province of Reima! ”
"Let me answer that!" Mikael stood up and said, after all, this is a question about the military, and naturally it is more convincing for him, the person in charge of military affairs, to answer, "In fact, the number of players hired in the first batch is less than 300,000, and they are mainly used to carry out exploration and reconnaissance work, although the Armnas Empire has provided us with a part of the map, but it is not detailed to the specific cities and terrain, so I need a large number of scouts and mappers to go to the places occupied by the rebels to find out the military layout and geography there, Rather than using our elite for these things, it's obviously better to hire ordinary players. The vast majority of players who have enough ability to complete these tasks are at least fourth-order strength, and both the employment fee and the reward for completing the task are much higher than the standard of ordinary third-order players, and a large part of the 40 million gold coins are consumed here. ”
"And the remaining almost 10 million gold coins are used to pay for the additional losses of the guild members, this time the enemy is not those stupid monsters after all, the main composition of the rebels is the garrison and city guards of each province, neither the quality nor the intelligence is inferior to us, which makes many cases, we have to use the method of death squads to break the enemy's lineup. These expenses are to compensate for the additional losses of these members! ”