A small night watchman, but like a king, directs the prime minister to write a written certificate. Although Iger took advantage of the fact that he was dressed in black and made the other party more vigilant, when he walked out of the Prime Minister's Tower with the certificate stamped with the wolf's head seal, he still couldn't help but sigh in his heart: It turns out that as long as they master the right method, these high-ranking nobles are as easy to deceive as ordinary people.

It's no wonder that Littlefinger is able to thrive in King's Landing, toying with Baratheon, Stark, and Lannister.

Lies, it really works.

......

It was already dark when he returned to the inn, and Egg didn't run around with Yuren anymore, and after a night's rest in his room, he ushered in the second day of his life in King's Landing.

"You went to Eddard Stark yesterday and asked for two people, a room and a certificate?" Tyrion's eyes flashed with curiosity, according to the experience of getting along for two months, there must be some way in this, and Egger's explanation always gave him a long insight: "I can understand the first two things, what is the use of that certificate?"

"Take it to cheat money. ”

"Cheating money?" Tyrion was stunned, "If Eddard Stark knew that you were using the certificate he signed to cheat money...... Well, he may not have the authority to dispose of you, but with a letter, you may be directly recalled. ”

"Yesterday we arrived in King's Landing, and when you passed through the gate, you made a comment on the 'Prime Minister's Tournament', remember? Rather than respond directly to Tyrion's reminder, Egg talks about something else, "There's one thing I agree with – holding these events makes the kingdom thrive. The Iron Throne, at the cost of being heavily indebted, delights spectators and businessmen alike. The king did spend a lot of money, but it did not disappear, but in the form of an event, which was circulated and stimulated by the economy, and ran out of the coffers of the Lannisters and the great chambers of commerce into the hands of the people, merchants, and winners, whether he did it intentionally or not, but in this respect the king's squandering was at least not entirely harmful. ”

Tyrion didn't interject, curious to see what his adventurer friend from Caina might have set out in the light of Robert Baratheon's extravagance.

"However, a large part of this money, their journey ends there. The people of Westeros are so fond of hiding money, the rich hiding gold coins, the common people hiding silver coins, and the poorer ones hiding copper plates...... If it is not necessary, it is better to hide it until it dies or is robbed. After King Robert spent the coins and entered the hands of the people, at least half of them were deposited in the form of storage, and they were not put into circulation again for a long time - and this is very harmful to the development of society, and I am going to cheat this money out of it and let it work. ”

"I've heard the same thing from a bachelor in Old Town, and it means the same thing you want to say—gold and stones in a treasure trove. Tyrion looked up at Egger, "Everyone knows that the circulation of money can prosper the economy. But the irregularity of the seasons and the wars make people worry about tomorrow, and if this situation does not change, you can't convince people to spend their money by reasoning. ”

"It's a bit whimsical to change the perception of consumption in Westeros as a whole, I'm not that ambitious. I don't ask them to spend their money, I just ask them to lend me it. Iger smiled, "People hide money because they fear they won't be able to earn it back in the future, so what if I tell them that if they lend me money, it will automatically make money?"

Tyrion seized on the loophole in Egger's words: "You say, 'You tell' them, which means you don't really have a way to make money happen." ”

"It's true, at least not for the time being, but as long as you find a way, you can. "Until then, I'm going to convince people that they're going to make money if they lend me money — and that way, pay it back a little bit more when I pay it back," Iger said. ”

"Interest. ”

"Yes, and it's higher than the normal borrowing rate. For example, one hundredth of a month, you lend me one hundred gold dragons today, and a month later, I will pay you one hundred and one. ”

"Where did you come from with that extra one?"

"From someone who hasn't been urging me to return it for a while. ”

"This ......" Egger's words are indeed a little difficult to understand for the inhabitants of Westeros, a continent that doesn't even have a bank, let alone the concept of investment, but fortunately Tyrion has a bright brain: "But this will be revealed one day, if suddenly one day everyone asks you to pay back, what will you do?"

"You immediately asked the key point, if this happens, it will be 'broken capital chain', let alone me, even if it is as powerful and rich as iron vault, it will immediately go bankrupt. All I want to do is prevent that from happening. "Use small rules or bait — for example: borrow my money for less than a month and get it back without interest, borrow more than a few months and the interest rises to 1.5 percent, and take it out once and start from scratch...... And so on and so forth. ”

"But no matter what you do, if the money doesn't increase in the end, the day when the scam is broken will still come!"

"Sooner or later, sooner or later, there will be more things to come—sooner or later people will die, sooner or later the dynasty will fall, sooner or later the world will be destroyed, and as long as I can find a way in time to postpone this date indefinitely until the distant future that I can't see, then what's the difference between it and not existing?"

"You're sophistry, Egger. Tyrion showed a nervous and disapproving expression for the first time: "Don't be like this, it's better to be down-to-earth, you do this, and when the day the matter is revealed, no one can save your life, if you just want to make a deal, my pocket money is enough to pay for you." ”

Iger was a little helpless, he thought that a smart person like Tyrion would be more receptive to new things, but now it seemed that his plan was probably too advanced for the people of this world, and he had to find some other way to convince him.

"What I've said above is just the beginning of this plan. You're right, when this 'scam' gets to the mid-stage, I'll have to find ways to make the money really bigger, such as investing in certain chambers of commerce, expanding the Night's Watch fleet, and making trade between the Legion and the Landgivers more frequent across the Narrow Sea...... Use real profits to pay interest. ”

"As long as you don't go wrong in the early stages of your plan. ”

"Yes, but you can't go wrong in the early stages. "Now that I have proof of the Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch and the Hand of the King, I borrow in the name of a legion, not an individual, and I won't get nothing, if I can't get too much...... And as long as the principal and interest of the first round of borrowing are paid off once, the investor ...... is established No, the creditors' faith in me, everything will go more and more smoothly. Tyrion, how much can you come up with right now?"

"Less than a thousand dragons, of which four or five hundred must be the ransom for you to leave the Night's Watch, because I negotiated with your chief affairs officer and craftsmen on the type and quantity of supplies, so I have to pray that the prices of goods do not rise when I leave King's Landing. ”

"Okay, let's just say you have three hundred gold dragon cash now, what can you do with this money?" Egger still didn't give up persuasion: "Enough to buy a batch of supplies in exchange for three or two more months of freedom, even to start obsidian mining may not be enough." ”

"I'll figure it out for you, my brother has some money, he doesn't spend much, I can't, I can go to my father and get some more, not too much, but definitely a lot......" Tyrion interrupted Egger resolutely, "No matter what, deception is shameful, and I won't help you with your plans." ”

......

Seeing Tyrion's serious and insistent expression, Egg suddenly realized where the problem was, and at the beginning of the conversation, he joked that what he was going to do was "cheat money", which was meant to be a joke, but who knew that it was self-defeating and was taken seriously by the other party.

He cursed himself in his heart, his head racing, and he thought of a way to make up for this mistake.

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