As she spoke, Princess Victoria stretched a little indecently, and then stared at Charlotte expectantly.

"After a while, Grandmother will leave some things to me to deal with, and when the time comes, not only Mr. Lockin, but I hope that you will also come and help Charlotte.

You can't rely on the old fox, then you have to rely on the young people.

Of course, I will naturally pay for the remuneration or something, and with this suggestion from Mr. Luo Ming, I will have a lot more money on my hands, hehe. ”

Of course, the second half of this sentence is actually a joke. The land rent, which was collected at Luo Ming's suggestion, was to be paid directly to the state treasury.

However, if Princess Victoria's own talent had been shown in this matter, it would have been more pleasing to her grandmother, Archduchess Victoria I, and would have given her thousands of gold coins for pocket money, or had simply let her manage some of the finances.

The money to hire a few minor nobles as consultants was naturally more than enough.

"By the way, please thank Mr. Lorming as well. The material reward will be sent in two days, so now help me pass on a word. ”

She said earnestly: "I have benefited greatly from the wisdom of Mr. Loming, and I have seen the loyalty of this clever plan. I will pay tribute to my grandmother, the Grand Duke, on his behalf. ”

"Huh?" said Charlotte, taken aback.

Luo Ming herself wrote in the letter that she would dedicate this idea to the princess, and asked her to use it as an idea she came up with herself - such a subtext, the princess is not the eldest lady in the boudoir, and after reading thousands of documents, she must be able to see this subtext.

However, knowing that this was the most beneficial behavior for herself, she did not do it.

After finishing the afternoon tea and politely sending Charlotte away, Princess Victoria returned to her desk indoors, and then took out a roll of paper with dense words written on it.

Naturally, the principality also has intelligence agencies, and although it is impossible to really manage every little thing in the country, if she gives an order to investigate one thing, she can still obtain a lot of information.

After all, Charlotte was one of the few close friends in her life, and the sudden appearance of a young man next to Charlotte still made her very concerned about this incident - so there was this investigation report.

Although most of them are just a compilation of the rumors of the nobles, they also have reference value.

"It is said that he is twenty years old, suspected to be a descendant of an ancient aristocratic family, suspected of the strength of a swordsman, excellent swordsmanship, once killed a necromancer, a cultist, and a clone of demons, and saved a member of the Grek family and received a sword...... It is said that he quickly borrowed money after obtaining the fief?"

For the time being, there is only so much information to be obtained, but every word of this makes Victoria very concerned.

Coupled with the way to make money on the letter sent today, she has unconsciously become curious about Luo Ming.

"Young Talents...... Hey, I dwarf it. ”

The princess has received the highest education since she was a child, and her talent is not bad, and she has always studied and exercised diligently under the urging of her sense of mission to inherit the principality in the future.

However, compared with Luo Ming, he is slightly inferior in force, not to mention, in government affairs, the other party can also surprise him.

That's right, it's a real surprise.

The annual income of the Grand Duke, including the output of the royal domain, the taxes of the whole country, and so on...... When the wind and rain are good, it is only the level of more than 2440000 gold coins.

However, the annual fixed expenses are at least 120,000 gold coins, and some large projects cost money like water. In the event of a disaster year or the like, it is even more likely that you will eat more than 200,000 gold coins a year, but your income will only be more than 100,000 gold coins.

Therefore, the amount of deposits in the treasury that can actually grow each year is really not very large.

A few thousand gold coins may only be about one percent of the 2440,000 gold coins that the principality earns every year, but the bigger the family, the more you can't look down on this tiny number.

One hundredth of a hundred gold coins is of course nothing, but one percent of twenty-four or fourteen thousand gold coins can be held for a grand and grand banquet according to the specifications of the royal family, or raise more than a dozen knights of the inner palace, each of whom is the elite of ordinary soldiers, and can be qualified to be the commander of a ten-person squad, and once the army is temporarily expanded, it will immediately be a two-hundred-man army.

Don't look at 200 people seems inconspicuous, but in fact, if the royal family does not mobilize for war, the elite standing army near the capital area will only add up to 5,000 people, of which there are only a few hundred knights in the inner palace.

Of course, if you want to fight a big battle, then you will naturally rely on these elite soldiers as the backbone to quickly expand the army.

Tens of thousands of logistics soldiers (in fact, they are the people who transport grain), tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers sent by levies, plus the help of lords from all over the country, there are actually more than 100,000 troops together.

In the ancient days of the Celestial Empire, the "800,000 army" was actually so hard-hitting, in fact, even in the heyday of the Han and Tang Dynasties, the elite standing army was only tens of thousands.

Thousands of gold coins are received every year...... To describe it in another way, it is the output of more than 100,000 acres of cultivated land, not to mention knights and barons, even an earl generally does not have more than 100,000 acres of cultivated land.

In other words, Lockin's plan was tantamount to giving the royal family the same benefits as an earl's allegiance.

However, in Princess Victoria's view, these monetary benefits are secondary.

The most precious thing should be the idea of this idea, perhaps ordinary people can only see the benefits brought by this idea on the surface, but as a superior, the princess knows that the other party's idea is by no means something that ordinary nobles can have.

Rather, it was another way of thinking from the top – that money represents power, maximizing profits without affecting other factors – and that was also instructive to her.

It's just that one thing makes her wonder - how did Luo Ming come up with this kind of thinking?

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The two curtains were lifted, and the redundant attendants respectfully retreated, leaving only Princess Victoria and her grandmother, Archduchess Victoria I, in the main hall.

Both have the word Victoria in their names, and they look very similar, and looking at the girl in front of him, the old man remembers the scene of looking in the mirror when he was young.

At that time, she was driven to the shelves, and she did not get enough education and training opportunities like this granddaughter, but directly learned while making mistakes in actual governance.

Although the level became higher later, the mistakes of the early years could not be completely erased after all, and she herself knew that it was good for future generations to be able to call her three points more than seven points of merit.

"You seem to be in a good mood to-day?" she asked the princess in a kind voice that was almost never revealed to outsiders.

Because Princess Victoria is the hope of her old man.