Chapter 426: Incomprehensible [2]
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Take a look at these people, the people from the Imperial Central Bank, the people from the Imperial Chamber of Commerce, and the people from the Ministry of Finance, to be honest, these people and Du Lin are not all the way, and there is still a gap between them, after all, the 30 million gold he took away at the beginning was offended by him except for the General Chamber of Commerce. He couldn't understand why Mr. Jack had invited them here, and had met with him.
If Mr. Jack could not tell a reason, he would at once turn around and leave, and hold the king accountable for the matter.
Mr. Jack smiled wryly and slowed down a bit, "What the king means is that these people are people who can cooperate, who can provide more and more stable funds, and also have higher execution. The King has asked me to tell you that he is doing this selfishly, and that he wants to maintain and deepen his relationship with these people and the organization behind them, so he invites them to come and talk to me. ”
"You can choose to make them our partner, or you can pretend that you don't know anything, and the choice is yours and not me, or the king. ”
Durin really didn't expect that the king not only had selfish intentions, but also conveyed his selfishness to him through Mr. Jack, and put the final choice in his hands. He thought about it for a moment, and then whispered, "I'm afraid we won't be able to satisfy their appetites...... Unless more people are pulled in, I'm going to make a phone call!"
Then Mr. Jack took Durin to the side room, and then closed the door, and Durin made a phone call to Harry, and then to Collills, who could not come immediately because he was in the capital, but Collills was nearby and was already on his way.
After waiting for about twenty or thirty minutes, Colills arrived, and brought Harry's nephew, Harry's plenipotentiary.
Colylls was naturally famous as a railroad tycoon, and the three bigwigs present knew him, and Durin asked Merlin to take Suri around, closing the door by the way. After thinking for a moment, he began to move on to the real topic of the day: how to cause great damage and impact on the finances of the Federation!
The bigwigs in the room thought it was just a small gathering to connect with each other or make new friends to fill their circle, but when Durin said the theme of today's party, everyone became very serious. Rather than making new friends, the theme that Doolin brings up will capture their attention.
As we all know, in the Civil War, where it was not clear who had won, the Union firmly held the Empire's tariff power as a condition for the armistice, which made the Empire suffer very much in the trade between the two countries, and the deficit was particularly serious. According to the armistice treaty signed at that time, the Union would hold the imperial tariff rights for at least thirty years, after which the empire would need to pay a lump sum of five billion star dollars to redeem the tariff rights and achieve the purpose of tariff autonomy.
If it can't afford to pay, then the federal government will continue to hold de facto control of the tariffs for twenty years, a three-plus-two agreement.
If it weren't for that war, if it weren't for the sudden increase in the momentum of the new party within the empire, the imperial family might not have had such a shameful agreement in order to quell the external war as soon as possible and prevent the new party from usurping power. But the agreement has been signed, and no amount of anything will help.
Civilians may not feel that this agreement has brought any changes to their lives, but this agreement has made the merchants, the imperial management, feel pain, deep pain, this will become a thorn, forever stuck in the heart, even if it is pulled out later, it will leave a clear scar, and it will never be forgotten.
The empire's economy has been sluggish all these years, and it can be said that the wounds caused by the war are too heavy to recover. It can also be said that the empire has lost too much initiative in foreign trade, resulting in the economy for a long time difficult to improve, until in recent years, continuous innovation in science and technology has solved some of the problems that have plagued the past, and the effect of high technology has loosened some financial markets and achieved economic recovery.
If they can bring a violent impact and a great negative impact on the financial market of the federation at this very delicate time, they will not only be able to gain a certain initiative in bilateral trade, but also a big thing that will boost the national spirit of the country. At this moment, interests and the like seem to become less important, what matters is how to make the Federalists unlucky.
The gentlemen in the room listened to Dührin recount his plans and kept making phone calls, so much so that the number of members who actually participated in the game grew from about ten people that Doolin expected to more than twenty, including even Mags, and a guy named Kubal, who was currently the leader of the old party, a former imperial duke, a member of the royal family, a general of the Praetorian Guard, and a whole host of titles.
And Durin's plan has also grown from 300 million to 700 million, everyone has decided to play a big one, earning more and earning less is not the most important thing, the important thing is to let the Federation also feel what is called pain!
Actually, it was originally just a small plan......
Outside the room, Suri stared at a painting hanging on the wall at the end of the garden hallway, which she couldn't touch through the glass shroud, but she seemed to have heard about it somewhere.
There is a shoemaker sitting in the corner of the room fiddling with a shoe, and there are thirteen people watching him by the doors and windows of the house, their eyes full of surprise and high respect. In the upper left corner of the window, there is a white cloud in the sky, and a child with wings can be faintly seen smiling in the white clouds.
This painting is called "work", and it is the highest achievement of the famous representative of the consciousness painting school more than 400 years ago, and countless scholars and experts have seen something different from this painting, and more than ten different books have appeared on the market to explain the meaning behind this painting, and what Finty thought about when painting this painting.
Perhaps it was because the fame of this painting was so great that Suri quickly recalled that she didn't expect to be able to see this painting here, it was incredible. Although I don't know if the painting is real or fake, looking at the surroundings and looking at the staggering decorations, it's hard to imagine a pile of shit in a pile of dazzling gold coins, so Suri thinks the painting is real.
She let out a long sigh, she had done her best to understand the world of the rich, but at this moment she realized that if she wasn't in it, she would never be able to understand how the world of the real rich was different from the world of ordinary people.
They were able to trample thousands of blankets under their feet instead of hanging them on the walls.
They were able to hang lampshades worth hundreds of dollars like works of art in every part of the hallway that needed light.
They were able to make a toilet bowl out of a large piece of agate and embellished the rim with gold.
They...... The world is really incomprehensible.
The painting is worth at least three million, but it is hung here silently, without thermostats, without lights, without journalists, without scholars, without students and teachers who are studying or researching the paintings. It was thus hidden in this no-man's corner, losing its supreme glory!
"What's wrong with this painting?", Merlin didn't know much about these things, it seemed to him that it was a somewhat inexplicable painting, probably because the shoemaker's leather shoes were so smelly that they scared the guests out of the house, and their eyes showed a kind of disdain.
Lo and behold, everyone can interpret something different, and this is the charm of the works of the top masters, and this is the revolution that the school of consciousness has brought to the world of oil painting. Until now, it has been difficult to produce such great works, and many artists have begun to reflect on what has changed what artists have created, like dead things without a soul.
Merlin didn't know about it, he was just curious about why he was silent in front of a painting in the face of Suri, who kept screaming out of those ornaments and hanging ornaments.
Suri glanced back at Merlin and sighed again, she understood that this was the life she was pursuing, a life that could be caught by her, but definitely not the life she wanted the most.
If Merlin has a higher level of knowledge, a higher taste for life, and a ...... for more joy in life.
Maybe she can't be Merlin's girlfriend because she doesn't deserve it!
"Let's go look around the other places, it's really big here!", Suri took Merlin's arm and walked down the corridor to the other open rooms, she gradually lost a little in this luxurious castle, and quickly came to her senses. She realizes that this may be the place where the princess should live in the fairy tale, but she is not a princess, she can't bring laurels, she can only be the wife of a vulgar person, and enjoy a vulgar but rich life.
People always feel inferior in front of things beyond their imagination, which has nothing to do with ambition and desire, and is purely an invisible class crush.
They wandered around the castle for a long time, and even the two of them were the only ones at dinner, during which people kept coming in to join the secret meetings in the conference room. After dinner, the steward of the castle told them that they could choose a room, as the host and Mr. Doolin were receiving some very important guests, and the meeting might go on late today, so they would not go back.
This makes Suri very happy, and spending the night in such a place will be her biggest bragging rights.
Tonight's Suri is extraordinarily open, allowing Merlin to experience a joy that he has never experienced before!
Money is the best stimulant for women, and this sentence is not false at all!
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