Chapter Forty-Eight: Add Weight Again
Just when the civilians of the entire kingdom of Stormwind are excited about the lack of taxes for five years, a new news shocks the nobles of Stormwind - the newly enthroned King Varian Ureon is trying to sell the goblins royal treasures, including the crown!
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Hearing the news, all the nobles who participated in the run on Lothar couldn't help but be shocked, they didn't expect this to happen at all, but their hyena-like keen political sense allowed them to quickly judge the result of doing so!
Once Varian really sells the crown and takes the money to repay the goblin loan, as long as the news is made public, I am afraid that the residents of Stormwind will willingly offer their taxes, and the Senate will not be able to stop them in any case, in which case everyone will suffer huge losses - the nobles have made up their minds to run the royal family, hoping that Lothar and Varian will not support it first, and then propose to change the tax. And now that Varian has sold the crown, the economic pressure has shifted to the side of the aristocracy, and the nobles who have lost their taxes for five years are sitting on the empty side, and I am afraid that after five years, these people will not be qualified to stand on the political stage.
"Smack!"
This was the fifth cup that Duke Disa had broken to-day, and the praise from the commoners did not make him feel the slightest comfort, and all the praises of virtue sounded to him as a mockery of his own lifting of stones.
"Damn, how dare he? I thought there would be no support after Lothar begged the other six nations for the population to almost tear their faces, but those goblins, those lowly greenskins! Oh the crown! That's the crown! Varian would dare to sell it! Goblins dare to buy it! ”
The panicked aristocrats used the excuse of celebrating the success of the joint meeting, and after getting the news, they quickly gathered together, this time, there were only a dozen people participating in the meeting, but behind each participant, there was the support of a huge force.
"This time, we may need to do something unruly." As the presiding officer, Duke Disa got straight to the point, "Maybe in some areas, we are going to fight our noble Sir Lothar head-on, so I didn't inform those wall grasses and small nobles, everyone present is an absolute elite, let's talk about it, what should we do now?" ”
Everyone's eyes looked at Onexia, who had a calm face.
"Well, Count Presto, do you have any good advice this time?"
Onexia smiled brightly, an arcane blue flashed in her hand, and then a delicate balance created by arcane energy appeared in the center of the room, on either side of the scale, with a crown on one side and a fortress on the other.
Seeing Onexia's spell-casting skills, a hint of jealousy flashed in Duke Disa's eyes - mages' mysterious powers often give them a head start in political battles, and this Count Presto seems to be a very powerful spellcaster.
"Looks like I'm going to need to give this lady a good beating after overpowering Lothar."
Unaware that she had been targeted by an old fox, Onexia began to speak her mind in a demagogic tone.
"The aristocracy and the royal family are like two sides of the scale, maintaining a delicate balance, and the so-called political struggle is to put weight on this political scale."
As she spoke, several delicate weights appeared on either side of the scale, several of which were placed on the scale, and the balance remained even after the scales shook slightly.
"There are many types of weights, but now there is no war, so most of the money is put on the table. Now, someone chooses to take out a loan, but unfortunately the loan is not on the scale, and the repayment of the loan is necessary, so he has less weight. ”
Next to the side where the crown was painted, several weights disappeared out of thin air.
"So the other half choose to increase the size, and at the same time, hoping to overwhelm the other party."
Most of the remaining weights were placed on both sides of the scale, and the balance shook slightly, and the balance was restored once again.
"And now the situation is that someone has finally put all their weight on it." On one side of the crown, all the weights next to the balance were placed on the scale, "What we have to do is very simple, put a little more weights than him, it is enough." ”
Weights were also placed on the side of the fortress, more chips.
The scales began to tilt towards the side of the fortress, and finally collapsed, Onexia waved his hand, dissipating the remaining arcane energy, "Now the royal family has reached its limit, but we haven't yet, so we are simply adding some weight, so that Lothar and our King Majesty, without political chips, what else can they do?" ”
The nobles present were all thinking about the feasibility of the method that Onexia had said, but after thinking about it, they felt that although it made sense, they couldn't do it.
"You're saying that, but I wonder where our weights are? At the last joint meeting, Lothar and His Majesty the King had to contend with us, but now they can start to ignore all our proposals! ”
"Yes, I have no doubt that Anduin Lothar would be able to do such a thing."
"After all, everyone is recuperating now, and this excuse is simply omnipotent......"
"The orcs are finished, and there's nothing we can do to fight directly."
Listening to the private discussions of the nobles, Onexia showed a just right amount of haughty expression.
"Have you ever been to Treasure Bay?"
The aristocrats shook their heads.
"The goblin auctioneer there, as long as your price is high enough, anything can be sold to you!"
Goblins?!
It dawned on the nobles that it would be difficult for Lothar and Varian to concentrate on recuperating after selling their crowns, but as long as they had gold, it would be much easier to get the goblins to change their cooperation goals.
At this time, Lothar can only rely on goblins, and the other six kingdoms have been "exploited" by Lothar, in order to keep the labor force of Stormwind City, almost depleting the treasury - plus political reasons, the six human countries naturally cannot pay for the crown; The High Elves to the north are not uncommon for this crown at all, so Varian has only one buyer: goblins.
As long as a buyer is found, you can use gold coins to stop Varian from selling the crown, and then the royal family of Stormwind will still have no money, so they can only turn to the Senate for help, so that everyone here can further expand their influence.
Thinking of this, the dozen or so nobles present silently began to nod their heads - this really seemed like a brilliant idea!