Chapter 531 Loan Issues

On September 21, Lorist received a summons from the island of Hilowas, and the Fat Man and the Duke of Fausta reached a ransom agreement, the Fausta family paid one million gold fords to redeem the Grand Duke of Fausta and his family's armed Firebird Legion, and the Norton family will send the North Sea Fleet to escort them back to the Kingdom of Chigda. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The ransom for a soldier of the Firebird Legion is ten gold fords, nearly half a million gold coins for 50,000 people, plus the Grand Duke of Fausta, as well as those gold knights and silver knights and the like, packing one million gold fords should be said to be an unbiased price. Shi Fatzi didn't release the water, and the Duchess of Windsor didn't take much advantage because of the previous relationship.

However, the Grand Duke of Fausta made a suggestion to Shi Fatzi, because after the surrender of the Firebird Legion, the Norton family armed disarmed all the weapons and equipment of the Firebird Legion, so the soldiers redeemed by the Fausta family were all barehanded, and their weapons and equipment were used by the Norton family to equip the two newly formed city defense corps in Morent City. When Archduke Fausta stayed on the island of Hilowas, he noticed that a garrison stationed on the island had a different standard of equipment, and after inquiring, he thought about buying armaments from the Norton family to rearm the Firebird Legion.

If someone else wants to buy weapons and equipment, Shi Fatzi will definitely be overjoyed, this is a big business. A soldier's set of standard equipment costs at least sixty goldfords, and the arms trade of a Firebird Legion is at least three million goldfords. To put it simply, a set of standard equipment is worth more than a sturdy soldier. However, because it was the Grand Duke of Fausta who wanted to buy it, in the absence of friend or foe, Shi Fat did not dare to make the decision, and was ready to take the Grand Duke of Fausta and the Duchess of Windsor back to Moriente City to meet with Lorist and then discuss.

In addition to this incident, Shi Fatzi said that he received news from the family territory that Princess Celivia, Fenna Gary, and Daisy's two maids were boarding a ship from Beihai City and were heading to Hilois Island, and it was expected that they would arrive in two days. So Shi Fatzi planned to wait on the island for two days, and then return to Moriente City together after the three ladies arrived.

Why did Celivia suddenly think of coming?Lorist rubbed his temples, feeling a slight headache. Could it be that Celivia heard some news and knew that the Duchess of Windsor was her first girlfriend, so she was jealous and wanted to come and say goodbye to her? Probably not, she refused to meet the Duchess of Windsor, and she was very well-behaved in Moriente City, so she didn't do anything to make Celivia catch her......

After thinking about it for a long time, Lorist didn't come up with any clue, forget it, it's going to rain and the mother wants to get married, this is something that can't be stopped, let's wait for Celivia and them to arrive, it's a big deal to accompany her more and be careful to coax her, who called Celivia ten years younger than herself, since marrying herself, she has always been more and less together, and she has been fighting outside, and she is so attached to herself, worried about herself, it is difficult for her. This time they came to the city of Morente to accompany them well, and they should have come here for a vacation.

Two days later, Director Speer asked to see him. This time, Speer was in charge of the management of the prisoner of war camp in the docklands, and had been trying to make money from more than 100,000 residents in the inner city. Since the Fat Man and the Earl Kate of the Business Alliance reached an agreement on a ransom for more than 100,000 residents of the inner city and a package of transportation, the two months have been almost executed, and more than 90,000 residents of the inner city have been freed after spending the last copper plate on their bodies in the prisoner of war camp and transported in batches to Maweiforin Province. The Norton family reaped nearly seven million goldfords in cash proceeds, as well as countless jewelry, high-end furs, jade, and luxury goods......

But this time Director Speer came to protest, because there were more than 10,000 of the most stubborn misers in the prisoner of war camp, and they refused to spend money in the prisoner of war camp, except for the free two bowls of clear porridge that could count a few grains of rice every day, and tried to spend the least amount of money to buy a little bread to satisfy their hunger, even if Director Speer doubled the price of bread tenfold again. In the face of the incessant sending protest documents from Earl Kate for more than a month, Lorist finally became impatient and ordered the release of all the misers, who still kept most of their personal belongings.

"Your Highness, please give me another month, and I will surely be able to squeeze the last gold coin out of these misers. With a delay of another month, our family will be able to get a million Kingford from these people......" Director Speer assured, patting his chest and red-eyed.

"Let's put it all on, for us, a month's time is more precious than a million Kingford, and we have more important things to do next, so there is no need to delay the follow-up plan for this little money. You should also get out of the POW camp and no longer waste all your time there. Lorist shook her head and refused Director Speer's request.

There is a reason why Lorist said this, although Tagger did his best to arrange for the business alliance to give the illusion that the city of Moriente was in a bloody storm, but there are many people, and for a long time, there are always some flaws that will make people with a heart wonder. For example, the request for the Business Alliance to send more capable personnel to Morent City again to start a bigger riot, the Business Alliance sent two groups of nearly 100 people over, and after being cleaned up by Genorio and Reddy, it seemed that something was wrong, and no matter how much they asked, they refused to send people.

In the past two months, the development of the city of Morente has also been on the right track, with the establishment of various workshops, the establishment of many small chambers of commerce, and the return of the fishing fleet, which has brought the city of Morent to life. Although there are still more new problems, the Autonomous Council of the City of Morent has finally taken control of the whole city, and everything is moving in a better direction.

Coupled with the fact that after a while, those private sea owners from the southern seas will flock to the Golden Bay to land in the city to purchase goods and trade, and the city of Moriente will be lively again. Although Earl Kate and the freed residents of the inner city were confined to the grain storage base outside the East City Gate, the Norton family forces guarding it, no matter how tightly guarded, could not prevent the singing and laughter in the city of Morient and the toasts of the banquet from reaching outside the city at night, not to mention that any riotous city would be brightly lit and music fluttering at night, and anyone who saw it would suspect that something was wrong.

Therefore, Lorist decided to send these residents of the inner city and Earl Kate out of the country as soon as possible, after all, sending them all away from Moriente City now can confuse the business alliance for a while, so as to save them from discovering the truth and jumping over the wall to fight to the death with the Norton family forces, Lorist doesn't want the elite power of the family forces to be consumed in the Plains of Mana Hill in vain.

"The Autonomous Council of Morent has submitted a bill to me in which they will apply for a loan of ten million Kingford from our family to maintain the commercial development of the city of Morent and the formation of an armed force. I agreed. After you have settled the affairs of the prisoner of war camp, you can go to the Autonomous Council of the City of Morente to discuss the loan, the terms are not harsh but not too favorable, just follow the general commercial loan. Lorist said to Director Speer.

If you are realistic, the so-called commercial loans are actually usury, nine out of thirteen or something. For example, the temple of the goddess Serguin, who was in charge of commerce and wealth, amassed wealth by exchanging and issuing usury. For example, the gold dollar coupon is issued by the Temple of the Goddess Serkin. In the past, some chambers of commerce of the business alliance stored the gold fortune in the temple of the goddess of Serguin, and paid a storage fee and handling fee of one percent, which could be exchanged for the equivalent value of gold dollar coupons, and whoever took the gold dollar coupons to the temple of the goddess of Serguin in the future could exchange them for the same denomination of gold fortune for free.

In a sense, the Temple of Sergen was like a financial institution in Lorlist's previous life that issued and stored and issued loans at high interest rates, and all the ransoms and expenses paid by the business alliance this time were all gold dollars. Perhaps the business alliance thought that the Norton family forces would sack the entire city of Moronte, and even those temples would be destroyed, so they spent the gold dollar coupons in their hands as soon as possible while they were still valuable, so as not to turn all these gold dollar coupons into waste paper after the Temple of the Sergen Temple was looted by the Norton family forces.

When Fat Man and Director Speer took these gold dollar coupons to the Temple of the Goddess of Serge to withdraw the Golden Fortune, the High Priest of the Temple of the Goddess of Se Jin said that the exchange of these gold dollar coupons had almost wiped out the Golden Fortune stored in their vault. Although Fat Man and Director Speer were very skeptical of whether the High Priest was telling the truth, the system of rationing of food and living materials that the Business Alliance had implemented in the city of Moriente in recent years had indeed had a great adverse impact on the Temple of Sergein, and the slump in commerce made it impossible for the Temple of Sergen to even find a target for usury.

Director Speer jumped up as if he had been stepped on by the tail: "No, Your Highness, how can you make such a decision! Our family has already lent the four million goldfords seized to the Autonomous Council of Morent City as working capital, how can they be so greedy to borrow 10 million goldfords from our family again! They will definitely not be able to afford to pay it back, you are throwing the gold coins into the water, and you can't even hear the repercussions!"

If it is a normal business loan, if there is a mortgage, you can borrow it for two or three years, and you can get a high interest of four million for 10 million, and Director Speer will not object to such a good thing. However, the loan request made by the Autonomous Council of Morant City was a bit excessive, and they demanded that the Norton family borrow a whole amount of 10 million for a period of five years, with an annual interest of 1 million. On top of that, they couldn't come up with anything to pledge, because Moriente City and the Plains of Falli-Hill should seriously be the spoils of the Norton family.

Director Speer thinks the loan application submitted by the Morente City Autonomous Council is a model of an empty glove white wolf. If the Autonomous Council of Moriente suddenly collapsed, the Nortons couldn't even find anyone to ask for the money back. But it was such an unreliable loan application, but Lorist agreed to it.

"Your Highness, you think about the fact that our family's armed forces have captured the Plains of Mana Hill and the city of Morent, and it is not easy to get such a small profit, but you have to spend it here, this is simply ruining the family's wealth!" Director Speer said bitterly.

"Oh, Director Speer, tell me how much our family has gained in Moriente......" Lorliste's voice began to chill.

This was a simple matter for Director Speer, who opened his mouth and said: "The capture of the city of Morente, the family forces have seized four million goldfords in the inner city, as well as two million jewels and other valuables. Most of the raw materials seized from the outer city were the most basic raw materials, although they were worth nearly 10 million gold merits, but they were of little use to our family, for example, the raw materials of coarse linen accounted for two-thirds, and if these things were to be transported back to the family territory, they would not only take up a large number of transport ships, but I suspect that the freight would be more expensive than the raw materials themselves.

In addition, there is a batch of timber piled up by seven shipyards in the Golden Bay, worth nearly a million gold fords. In addition to these are bits and pieces of high-end materials, alcohol, armaments, weapons, high-end ingredients and other valuables, which add up to two or three million in value.

Then there was the ransom paid by the business alliance of more than 6.3 million gold fords, and the 1 million gold fords paid by the Fosta family on the island of Hilowas, and the more than 7.2 million gold fords and nearly 2 million gold fords earned from the inner city residents of the prisoner of war camps.

Your Highness, the total amount of cash is only more than 18 million gold fords, and you have already borrowed 4 million to the Morent City Autonomous Committee, plus the previous purchase of meat and coarse grains produced in the Cristo Hills, and the cost of paying the residents of Morent City to do things for us is also nearly a million gold fords, if you give another 10 million to the Morent City Autonomous Committee, then our family will have less than 3 million gold fords left.

Your Highness, I remember that you once said that war is all about logistics, and our family's armed forces have spent a lot of money since they participated in this war, not to mention that in the past three months, the salary and welfare subsidies of nearly 140,000 people of the four major field regiments of the family armed forces and the North Sea Fleet, plus wartime salary increases and rewards, as well as logistical supply costs, have almost spent 1.5 million gold fords. In particular, Your Highness, two months ago, you ordered the allocation of five million gold fords from the family reserve fund to expand the North Sea Fleet, as well as the bereavement relics for the family soldiers who died in battle, and the reward for the North Sea Fleet is as high as 500,000 gold fords......

"Needless to say......" Lorist waved his hand to stop Director Speer's nagging: "I understand what you mean, Director Speer, do you want to say that if we give the 10 million loan to the Autonomous Council of Moldant City, our family will lose money, right? But what is the use of you taking this 10 million, and it is not transported back to the family territory and stored in the vault? Have you forgotten what I said? Gold coins must be circulated in the market to reflect their value, and what is stored in the vault is just a pile of dead things, which is just a wealth figure on paper.

I would like to remind you, Director Speer, that you have forgotten some of the other revenues, such as the proceeds from the sale of the grain we transported to the city of Morente, and the proceeds from the merchandise goods that have been piled up on the island of Hiloise that have been snapped up by the private shipowners of the southern seas, and the booming business opportunities that have arisen in the city of Morent after we lent four million goldfords to the Autonomous Council of the city of Moronte. As far as I know, the vast quantities of coarse linen raw materials that our family forces have seized in the warehouses of those chambers of commerce have been mostly purchased by those textile workshops, and the amount is nearly three million goldfords, isn't it?

I believe in your loyalty to the family and to me, the head of the Norton family, but, Director Speer, I regret that your eyes have been fixed on the gold coins in front of you and neglected the more important interests of the family. You should know that the next plan for our family to implement in the city of Morent is to support the Autonomous Council of the city of Morent to form a free alliance and part ways with the business alliance.

The loan application of this 10 million Kingford is more a test of our Norton family by the Autonomous Council of Morent City, and what they are most worried about is how much we support them, because they are also worried about whether we will secretly negotiate peace with the business alliance and abandon them, and this 10 million Kingford loan is the guarantee given to them by our family.

Director Speer, you don't need to question my decision, just do what I tell you to do. Of the tens of millions of goldfords, five million of them will be used to expand the new Legion so that the Freedom Alliance to be formed will have a reliable force to resist the invasion of the commercial alliances. This will allow our Norton forces to break away from the battlefield of the Plains of Mana. The remaining five million will continue to invest in the commercial sector of the city of Moriente, so that the Liberty Alliance will become self-sufficient as soon as possible, and its continued development will be guaranteed by relying on commercial taxes.

For me, it is a great good thing to be able to find a reliable transit market for the goods and goods produced in our family domain, and today I have spent ten million, but in two or three years, we can earn back twenty million or more gold coins from here. Director Speer, what you have to do is not to oppose my decision, but to discuss with the Autonomous Council of Morent how to regulate this loan and ensure that the money goes where it goes and not misappropriated. Do you understand?"

"Okay, I see. Director Speer sighed, "As you wish, Your Highness, I will handle this loan according to your instructions." ”

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