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"The country needs my help?" Meng Han looked at Princess Catherine, who was very serious in front of him, as if he was looking at it a little funny. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info from the heart, Princess Catherine is definitely a beauty, with a delicate face, a pair of majestic phoenix eyes, at first glance it is a powerful person from a powerful family, a slight glare at people, can also make people feel faint pressure.

However, this kind of pressure does not exist at all for Meng Han. You can talk to the elven queen, and in the face of the princess of a principality, it is already very face-saving to say that she is a little majestic.

Princess Catherine has a good figure and wears a princess dress, but she can't cover the curves of her body. The big place is big, the small place is small, even a long skirt can't cover the golden ratio of long legs and thin waist. Coupled with her youthful face, people can't help but be attracted.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, are you mistaken?" Meng Han looked up and down with an appreciative gaze for a long time, and then asked with a smile: "I'm just a little viscount, strictly speaking, just the mayor of Huangsha Town, what can I do to help the country?"

"Oh, that's right!" Without waiting for Princess Catherine to speak, Meng Han directly grabbed the topic again: "I think I can still help, as long as I work hard to build my territory, pay taxes for the principality, and do my job well, it will be the greatest contribution to the principality, right? Princess Catherine? In order to support our principality, I have paid taxes for ten years at one time, and I believe that all the nobles in the principality are not as active as me, right?"

Now Meng Han, what can the principality look up to? gold coins, and possible masters. However, it was obvious that the possibility that those masters were Meng Han was too small, and everyone would rather believe that it was the Marquis's secret armament, rather than Meng Han's. The time for Meng Han's rise was too short, so short that everyone didn't have time to believe that he had the time to recruit such a master. The rest seems to be all that is gold, or rather, Viscount Antonio's ability to earn gold.

After Princess Catherine said a word from the beginning, the rest was all arranged by the Grand Lord of Menghan. The words that came out made Princess Catherine cry and laugh, but there was no possibility of refutation. What he said was true.

"The current situation of the Principality is not optimistic!" said Princess Catherine, with a sad look on her face.

"I don't feel it!" Meng Han spread his hands, then turned his body and pointed outward: "The people live very happily, live and work in peace and contentment, the country and the people are safe, where did you not be optimistic? Your Royal Highness Princess, are you a little too alarmist?" It's not that Meng Han doesn't cooperate, no matter what Catherine says, she is also the daughter of His Majesty the Grand Duke, Meng Han doesn't feel that he has reached this point, and there is any room for relaxation with His Majesty the Grand Duke. Even if Meng Han wanted to, it was estimated that His Majesty the Grand Duke would not hesitate to take it over and slaughter it as a fat sheep, and there would never be any other way out.

"Not alarmist. Princess Catherine shook her head, looked at Meng Han very seriously and said, "Internal and external troubles, there is nothing to reassure people. All you see is false prosperity. ”

"However, false prosperity has brought me a large amount of gold coins!" Meng Han still had that calm smile, without the slightest tension, but in his tone, he completely disagreed with the words of Princess Cathery: "If the real prosperity is the opposite of this, I would rather have this false prosperity." Of course, Your Highness the Princess, I never thought it was false prosperity, that's just your statement. ”

"Because of the appearance of your silk, the principality has become the public enemy in the eyes of all the principalities. Princess Catherine finally told the real reason: "The sensation and value of silk have made many surrounding principalities eye. Around our principality, there is a pack of hungry wolves, waiting for us to show the slightest flaw, and they will bite us hard. ”

"Then don't show your flaws. Meng Han's lazy tone made people want to beat him up, and Princess Catherine on the other side was like that. However, Princess Catherine still took a few deep breaths and suppressed the evil anger in her heart.

"But you have put my father at odds with the Marquis. With a tone of inquiry, Princess Catherine said this: "If it weren't for you, Lord Marquis wouldn't have turned against his father so resolutely, and if it weren't for your auction, the Duchy wouldn't have lost hundreds of thousands of gold coins, as well as goods worth hundreds of thousands." If it weren't for you, the surrounding principalities wouldn't covet the wealth of the principality, if it weren't for you......"

"Stop, stop, stop!" Meng Han said three words in a row before interrupting Princess Catherine, who had just become impassioned. Princess Catherine, who suddenly became excited, even stood up with her fingers in her mouth, even if she stopped talking, she still looked at Meng Han a little angrily, and a little flash was faintly visible in her eyes.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, isn't what you said a bit excessive?" The princess was excited, but Meng Han was not excited. Now how does he think of this Princess Catherine, how does she look like a stupid girl who doesn't understand politics at all, and then she is deceived and only knows how to defend her relatives. actually ran to his own territory with great fanfare, and then pointed to his nose and said that he blamed himself for everything, and almost cried later?

"It's all your fault!" When Meng Han said this, Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine was even more angry, and the tears that she had forcibly endured just now finally dripped down.

"Okay!" Meng Han was puzzled by this strange princess, sat back, and quietly waited for Princess Catherine to regain her composure and sit back in place, and then said seriously to this naïve princess: "Since Her Royal Highness the princess is dissatisfied with me and has accusations, then, according to the laws of the principality, I am a nobleman and can defend myself." Your Royal Highness, I do not agree with the accusations you have made against me. ”

"If the surrounding countries covet it because of the richness of the principality, I do not agree with this accusation. "Anyway, being idle is idle, and it's good to debate with this eye-catching princess: "First of all, if you are afraid that wealth will attract the greed of the surrounding countries, then, is His Majesty the Grand Duke willing to make the Principality a poor country, where everyone lives in great difficulty, including His Majesty the Grand Duke and the nobles?"

"No!" Princess Catherine is innocent, but that doesn't mean she's a fool. Who wants to govern the country under their own rule, and the people are not as good as the day by day?

"Then, even if I make silk, the total amount of the tax I have paid to the state, from last year until the next nine years, will be only two hundred gold coins. Meng Han looked at Princess Catherine's slender waist and asked with a smile, "Could it be that my two hundred gold coins have greatly increased the revenue of the national treasury, and actually made the surrounding principalities start to covet it?"

"However, with your current income, you shouldn't just pay that little tax. Princess Catherine immediately changed the subject.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness Princess, that's not what you said when you collected taxes. Meng Han shook his head very resolutely: "Since I have paid the tax, I can't collect it repeatedly." Besides, without me, how much tax would the Duchy receive in Huangsha Town in the next ten years?"

I can't make a reason for the principality to be coveted by other principalities because I have a lucrative industry. This kind of extremely naïve statement will never be admitted by Meng Han. If it weren't for the fact that the other party was Her Royal Highness the princess of the principality, Meng Han would have thrown her back directly.

"However, since you already have a silk industry, why do you still have to auction it?" Her Royal Highness the Princess was obviously not such an easy person to back down, and immediately began to question Meng Han about another action.

"Your Highness, since the silk industry is mine, then, if I sell it, what's not okay?" Meng Han looked at the innocent beauty opposite curiously, and asked very confidently.

"However, if it weren't for your auction, how could my father have compensated hundreds of thousands of gold coins?" Catherine was already a little anxious at the moment, and Meng Han was very reasonable about the previous two questions. She couldn't respond at all, she came here to reason with Meng Han in a moment of excitement, but she couldn't get the desired result, and Her Royal Highness the princess was also a little anxious.

"Well, you have to ask the Honorable Auction House? Since they have already collected the gold coins, they have been delayed and lost them, of course they will be responsible for compensation. Meng Han looked natural: "If they don't pay the bill and give me the gold coins directly, then the loss of the gold coins is also my loss, and I don't need His Majesty the Grand Duke to compensate for it." Speaking of which, you should go to the Honor Auction House, what's the use of looking for me? It's not my fault?"

"If you hadn't offended the elves, how could they have dragged on without paying the gold coins?"

"How could I offend the elves? I saved two elven slaves and brought them a free life, the elves thanked me too late, how could I offend the elves?" Meng Han looked at the innocent beauty in front of him with a sneering smile, and at the same time found the stunned look on the princess's face, his heart moved, it seems that there are some things that this innocent girl doesn't know, otherwise she wouldn't have listened to other people's words and came to the door to find trouble.

"But you should not be in cahoots with the Marquis against my father. As if she had felt that her previous reason was a little untenable, Princess Catherine changed her reason and continued to reprimand Viscount Antonio.

"Your Royal Highness, Princess, speak with evidence. Meng Han took a slow sip of the tea on the table, raised his head, and glanced at the princess with slanted eyes: "Which eye did you see that I was in cahoots with the Marquis?"

"Then what does it mean that you give the silk estate to the Marquis?" Princess Catherine's eyes filled with tears again: "Didn't you obviously help him expand his power?"

"Please, Your Royal Highness Princess, the marquis's silk industry was not given by me, but sold by me. Meng Han's voice became majestic again: "I auctioned it in front of everyone, and the others don't buy it, what can I do? Do you want me to beg them to buy a money-making property as a dignified viscount?"

"You ......" Princess Catherine was startled by Meng Han's suddenly raised voice, and then, hearing Meng Han's words, she couldn't help covering her face and began to cry.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, I don't know whose nonsense you listened to and came to me to ask for trouble. However, I still advise you that a naïve girl like you is not suitable to participate in this kind of thing. As soon as the princess cried, Meng Han didn't know what to do, and waited for Her Royal Highness the princess to cry for a while before Meng Han spoke.

As soon as Meng Han spoke, Her Royal Highness the Princess's voice was much lower, and she seemed to be listening quietly.

"If you really know about this, you shouldn't come to me, you should go back to your father and your two older brothers and ask what they did to put the Duchy in this situation. Meng Han continued, not caring whether he had committed a big taboo by saying this.

"As for me, my goal is very simple, to get promoted, get rich, marry a wife, and the rest, I have no interest, what you said to help the country, I don't have this ability, even if I have, I won't do anything beyond my responsibilities and abilities. Meng Han made his attitude clear, hoping that this girl could retreat from the difficulties. Anyway, she still came to fight for something for her relatives, and this heart is still worthy of recognition.

"You will make money, you can make the principality rich. Princess Catherine had already stopped crying, looked at Meng Han, and suddenly whispered.

"I can make money, but I can't afford to be rich in the principality and coveted by other principalities. Meng Han did not hesitate to refuse with the reason that the princess had just accused him: "In addition, making the principality rich, that is what His Majesty the Grand Duke and the Minister of Finance have to do, and it is none of my business." ”

"I can get my father to appoint you Chancellor of the Exchequer. When the princess heard this, she immediately became a little more excited, and immediately said.

"Okay! Of course I like the promotion. Meng Han immediately nodded in agreement, the reason why he agreed so happily was because Meng Han knew that this kind of thing was impossible. His Majesty the Grand Duke would never appoint a man who was currently on the Marquis's side as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

"Alas!" a low sigh came from the mouth of Her Royal Highness the Princess, and it seemed that she also knew that it was impossible. However, she was still a little unwilling, looking at Meng Han, almost with that begging expression: "Lord Viscount, can't you take care of the overall situation? Even if it's to help me, okay?"

"If His Majesty the Grand Duke appoints you as the heir to the Duke, I may consider it. Meng Han said half-truthfully: "But, even if you are a female duke, why should I help you?"

"What if I'm willing to be your woman?" Catherine, who also doesn't know where the courage and idea came from, suddenly asks the question: "If I were to be your woman, would you be willing to help me?"