Chapter 32: The Poor and the Tyrants

His Highness Alan has been very busy these days, he has been spending several nights in the study for several consecutive nights, and the only thing that accompanies him is the new mask magician, Lord Electrolux, which makes the maids around His Highness Alan very worried. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

You must know that His Majesty Alan is an out-and-out handsome guy, and he is also the dream lover of all the ladies in the castle, but so far there has been no rumor that His Royal Highness Alan has any special relationship with any woman.

Could it be that Lord Allen doesn't like women, but ...... Sins and sins, no wonder Lord Allen doesn't look down on us, and he hasn't married a wife for so many years, and he has never been interested in a young lady from any family.

A rumor spread among the little maids, and soon became the latest conversation after dinner.

Alan naturally didn't have time to pay attention to these rumors, he was already annoyed by all kinds of things, and the army would arrive in three days, and all he would eat at that time would be his money, how could he have so much money to support so many soldiers?

Although he is also secretly developing military strength, all this is done in secret, so these strengths must not be exposed, and the materials funded by the merchants cannot be touched, otherwise the plan of the third prince will succeed, and there are too many things that need to be financed for a war that has dragged on for so many years.

But in order to act for the people of Wangcheng, the tax will be raised?

First of all, this will cause dissatisfaction among the people, and the glorious image that he has established over the years is likely to collapse in an instant, and on the other hand, he will show his incompetence to Wang Cheng, which cannot be solved perfectly, and will inevitably end up in the minister's mouth.

Where to raise money?

Alan looked at Il pitifully, he had now formed a habit of looking for Il, although he did the same back then, but Il is obviously much better now than when he was a child.

"Dear friend Il, do you have any good ideas? ”

Il was meditating intently, since that day he saw that the bishop of the main city church almost instantly changed color and lightning and thunder in the sky, he always felt that he was still much inferior to him, presumably God must have left behind many killer features for the church to exist for a long time.

Suddenly, the meditation was interrupted, and Il opened his eyes dissatisfied.

"My Royal Highness, what trouble have you encountered again?"

Alan sighed and said: "You also know, although I have saved some money and food to support private soldiers over the years, I don't want to show my third brother this little bit of the old bottom, and to be honest, I really don't have much materials to squander to support a war that I don't know when it will be over." ”

Eir had a mask on his face, and Eren couldn't see his expression, but he could feel Eir's unhappiness, and he followed him every day, as if he had gone back to the days when they were children in the palace, but at that time Eir had not carried anything on his body.

"His Majesty likes you so much, can you just cry and be poor?" Yir didn't think this was a very troublesome thing, after all, he was a rich man, and he had piles of gold coins on his body, so it could be said that he was full but not hungry.

How dare Alan go back to the royal city, there are 'jackal beasts' all over it, and it is very likely that he will die halfway before he even sets foot in the royal city, his third brother can definitely do this kind of thing!

"This ...... I can't go back to Wangcheng now, and my father has delegated power to me to the greatest extent, and I can't make it difficult for him, the materials I can raise on the side of the Chamber of Commerce can only support the expenses of these 30,000 soldiers, but if we even count the 50,000 troops on the border, we can't last half a year. ”

"So what are you going to do?"

Alan frowned, he could only think of a very bad solution, but if this method was used, Allen's territory would be firmly bound for a long time to come.

"If there is no other way, I can only borrow money from the Treasury of the Free Federation. ”

Il already knew in his heart, of course he knew what the Free Federation's treasury was, as the only bank on the continent, it was dedicated to merchants and nobles, the treasury helped these rich people to keep gold coins, and to borrow money, many small countries need to borrow money from the treasury when they are at war to have enough ability to send troops.

It's just that the nobles borrowing money from the treasury must be guaranteed by the land tax of their own territory for several years or even decades, so that Alan will not be able to turn over for at least ten years, I am afraid that he will finish paying off the money in the treasury, and his third brother will have already succeeded to the throne as king.

"How much do you need?" Ilr asked him.

Alan has been settling accounts for the past few days, and he has been trying to find a way to complete this expedition with the least amount of money.

"At least 200,000 gold coins, this is already the bottom line, no matter how little I am afraid that the armor of the soldiers will not even have any defensive power left. ”

Ill was visibly dissatisfied with Alan's statement, and he put his arm on Alan's shoulder and said to him solemnly:

"Allen, you must know that fighting a war is not a child's play, the soldiers' equipment cannot be shrunk, and the most cost-effective way is not that you have left it from the inside, but to solve this war as soon as possible and ask the other party for war reparations!

Alan sighed, "Of course I understand these truths, but these equipment didn't fall from the sky, we have to spend money to buy it, what do you say?"

Ilr didn't know how much the dragon treasure in his hand was worth in total, but 200,000 gold coins was definitely a small amount for him, not to mention anything else, just say that the pile of gems and Warcraft cores in the Il's space storage bracelet could sell for sky-high gold coins at auction!

"Maybe I can lend you 500,000 gold coins first, and we'll win the battle first. ”

"What! You're rich? How can you have so much money? Could it be that you're working in a gold mine in prison?"

Alan looked at him incredulously, is this kid so rich? He has never shown it before, what did he go through when he wasn't with me? Damn Il, his mouth is so strict!

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Il began to shake the sleeves of the wide mage robes, only to hear the sound of clattering, and the sleeves seemed to be a trick and there was a steady stream of gold coins falling out!

The glittering golden light reflected in his eyes, arousing the most primitive desires of human beings, Alan greedily grabbed handfuls of gold coins, he couldn't help but wonder if that sleeve of Il's was a cornucopia?

I don't care so much, it doesn't matter where he got the gold coins, let's use them first!

No, let Ilr take off his clothes and let me check them out!

Thinking of this, Alan put down the gold coin in his hand first, and Il, who was still shaking his sleeves there, suddenly pounced on Il, pressed him against the wall, and picked the sleeves of his clothes to study it carefully.

"Ah, Your Highness!"

Hearing a scream accompanied by the sound of glass breaking, the maid who had come to invite Alan out to dine covered her eyes and turned around and ran out quickly!

The two of them stopped their movements in embarrassment, and Allen's first reaction turned out to be worried about whether the maid had seen the gold coins all over the ground, and Il must be worried about his reputation!

He hurriedly pushed Alan away and wanted to chase him out to explain clearly, but the maid had already cried and ran away!

It's over, now my innocence is not guaranteed!

"Count the money, aren't you worried about people saying you like men?" Il rushed back to the room angrily, since he was a child, Allen's behavior was abnormal, he saw that Allen was still counting gold coins there, and he didn't fight anywhere! If it weren't for the fact that he and he were friends who grew up together, Il would definitely be going crazy.

Alan waved disapprovingly for him to close the door, and Il's snorted coldly, and the door closed heavily with the help of a gust of wind, and the pile of glass on the ground was restored to its original state before Il's magic could be used.

"There have been rumors in the city for a long time, but these rumors will be self-defeating sooner or later, what do you care about it?

Eren's nonchalant tone upset Il, and Eren seemed to have turned back into the little prince who used to like to play tricks on him, and he was always the one who was unlucky with him.

Seeing that Il was still very dissatisfied, Alan said helplessly: "Otherwise, if I let people pass it on, I will say that you are actually a beautiful woman dressed as a man, so that they will not think that what I like is a man." ”

"Get out!"