The surrounding nobles received the news from the family domain, and their expressions all changed! It's like a shell lang who met a dung digger and watched his lunch being snatched away...

In this regard, Ted opened his mouth while drinking an ice drink! He didn't understand why this group of nobles valued money so much?

"Hey... If you are bankrupt, you will be bankrupt, what's all the fuss, it's just some money, things outside the body, there's no need to make it look like constipation, so exaggerated..."

Money is such a thing, if you don't bring it to life and die, you won't take it with you, and you won't give birth to a cub if you throw it in the warehouse, so it's better to spend it, either buy some useless luxuries and force the façade, or build a castle and compare with other nobles...

If you don't take it out and spend it, the hell knows how much money you have?

Just like the Lannister family in a movie, it seems to be one of the richest families in the worldview at the beginning, but in fact, they have to borrow money to maintain their dignity!

So... Take out the money and spend it, and everyone will know how much you have...

According to the report obtained by Ted, most of the nobles are actually not as rich as they imagined.

Especially the nobles under the camp of the Great Prince, without exception, they are all bankrupt! The reason for this is that they were held back by religion, and all their money was taken to honor God, or it became funds to support the enthronement of the great prince.

There is not much left for himself.

In contrast, the rest of the people who did not go bankrupt were almost all militant factions under the Second Prince!

After such a temptation, Ted can be regarded as figuring out the foundation of the various families in the empire.

The eldest prince is strong on the outside, but he seems to be powerful, but in fact he is very poor, in terms of military strength, he can't catch up with half of the second prince, if he doesn't have the support of the church...

It's like the third bubble of a bad stomach! Clear soup with little water! The shell Lang was in tears when he saw it...

When Ted turned to the second page, when the nobles and titles, as well as the amount of spending, came out, Ted shook his head in a little disappointment.

Almost all of the people who support the eldest prince are not very well-known small nobles, most of them are here to make up the numbers, there is no duke, there is only 1 marquis, or the party that is politically married to himself, there are a total of 12 counts in the entire empire, except for Ted himself, only 11, and among the 11, only three support the eldest prince.

"What a number! If you look at it this way, in the later stage, the eldest prince will not use the power of the church, and he will be completely defeated..."

But if it really starts, who cares what power and what force, and if they can use it to strengthen themselves, it's a good thing! When the time comes, the eldest prince will definitely not talk about martial virtues and send the elite assassins of the church to assassinate around the clock...

This is especially fatal to the second prince, but it will not have much impact on Steve.

Last night's incident was a complete accident, as Steve had died and called the plane to send the guards and himself back.

If Steve hadn't been stupid and his IQ hadn't dropped, the assassin would hardly have gotten close... He didn't have to live in the palace and take risks.

It's impossible to sneak into Steve's bedroom right under the nose of the Iron Fist Guard!

Because these guards are all screened out for extreme xenophobia and will not accept any benefits from the North!

If the Assassins were to force their way in, they would soon be knocked out.

Not only in terms of living habits, but also in terms of clothing habits and hygiene habits, they are like Africans in the white pile, as long as they are not blind, they will immediately find this group of melon peels.

But such a good guard, Steve actually brain-pumped the lower limit of IQ...

As soon as he thought of this, Ted covered his head and sighed!

After he shoved the last bite of the burger into his mouth, he took out a wet paper towel, wiped all the dirt off his hands, and turned his head helplessly to look at the smart Steve...

Steve thought he wasn't wiping his hands clean, so he pulled out another wipe to wipe his hands...

He's used to this kind of life, but as a foodie, he doesn't stop eating staple food!

Because of Wachena's relationship, Steve's daily exercise has skyrocketed, and three meals a day can't meet his daily needs at all!

So... Serve some high-calorie snacks after a meal... Like, potato chips!

In order to make it easier to carry, Steve brought large packages or bucket-shaped potato chips...

Ted thought that Steve would keep a low profile, take out the bucket of potato chips without making a sound, and eat them quietly without being noticed by others.

But he has a problem that is difficult to get rid of, that is, he is very sassy in some things!

He doesn't mind that others are richer than him, and he doesn't mind being a tool, but he definitely minds some strange sense of ritual!

For example, now... While everyone sighs and sighs and is hungry, Steve must do something! You have to let the people around you know that he's full!

The next moment, he took out from his clothes an oversized one-kilogram pack of Texas barbecue-flavored potato chips that were only sold in the North!

"Just a potato chip! Drink ice Coke, the sun will go down in a while, and I will play against the enemy..."

Seeing that Steve was about to eat a large bag, Ted hurriedly raised his hand to organize: "Eh, eh, don't eat it!" Steve! You're going to a duel in the afternoon! Eat like this, not afraid of sleepiness? ”

"What are you afraid of? I've got 550 rounds of ammunition with me, and what vicious prisoner can stop me? Steve shook his head and lifted his cloak to reveal a P90 submachine gun and 10 loaded magazines...

"Alright! But you also have to be careful, we're not here on vacation..."

Ted sat on the side, although he said this in his mouth, his hand was not honest, and he took out a handful of potato chips directly from the plastic bag of potato chips and stuffed it into his mouth!

Immediately after, a crisp 'click' sound came, which immediately attracted the attention of the Emperor of Leicester in front!

Just as he was about to reach out and ask for food, the old iron who served the nobles took out a small package from the goods he ordered...

Compared to the small package in front of him, as the emperor, he wants bigger and more big bags!

"Why is Steve's hand so big, and I'm so small?"

Faced with this problem, the waiter made a difficulty... He pinched his fingers and counted for three seconds, not daring to snub the emperor, and immediately replied: "This... Your Majesty, you can't blame us for this... Our chamber of commerce was acquired by the North Minsheng Group, and the supplier was them, but they were only willing to provide us with a version with a maximum package of 300g, which is exclusive to the North Territory, and they don't sell it..."

Since it's a matter of the North, Lester has to ask Ted why! Immediately turned around, looked at him and asked, "Ted... What's going on? Selling something and picking and searching? This little bag looks shabby! There is no aristocratic version? ”

In this regard, Ted is also very uncomfortable, because the origin of this thing is in the north, if you want to sell large packages, the profits will be reduced, plus the freight, and in the end it is almost not profitable to sell a package, only selling small packages can make money: "Your Majesty, you can't blame me, I also have to consider the transportation cost in it, I also want to make money..."

As an emperor, what annoys him the most is the smell of copper on other people's bodies, and he can't wait to snatch all other people's money and put it in his pocket: "Cut!" Come on... You're going to lose your money! You'll have to pay taxes anyway! ”

"Pay taxes?" Ted leaned back slightly, then spread his hands out to show his disunderstanding...

Lester thought Ted was pretending to be stupid, so he took out the Imperial Law to talk about it! "Even if you're an Imperial Earl, you have to pay taxes to do business in someone else's territory! At least 2 percent! ”

Other laws, Leicester could not remember, but for taxes, about money, he remembered even more firmly than the Chancellor of the Exchequer ...

However, Ted is not a fool, he has long come up with a solution in order not to pay taxes to the empire and not to strengthen the power of the enemy.

At this moment, he put his hand on Steve's shoulder and smiled, "But... Your Majesty, I'm just the head of the Chamber of Commerce, and the 'actual' owner of the Chamber of Commerce is Steve, who is a member of the royal family..."

"Huh?" Originally, he planned to take this opportunity to pit a lot of money, but when Lester heard that the owner of the Chamber of Commerce was his son, his expression changed instantly...

Because according to the laws of the empire, members of the royal family and religious organizations enjoyed the privilege of being exempt from taxes.

Other words... He doesn't want to get a copper tax.

Hearing this, Lester turned his head viciously to look at Steve, the fifth prince who was originally quite pleasing to the eye! Inadvertently, a heart of comparison suddenly popped out!

"Steve, how much is your current property, converted into gold coins?"

"Huh? I don't know! I've got to take a look..."

As Lao Tzu, in a way, he must be richer than his son! If you are really slapped on the beach by the back waves, at the very beginning, you will definitely not be happy to save face!

Only when his son far surpasses Lao Tzu will Lao Tzu slowly accept it, and gradually change from having no face to being proud of his son...

When Ted came into this world, his parents were gone, so he didn't have a chance to experience it.

So, he honestly took out the financial report from the city hall and gave it to Steve Concorn, but he didn't expect this.

As the boss of the North, although the Chamber of Commerce nominally belongs to Steve, Ted owns fifty-one percent of the shares, the Dragons, as landlords, own twenty-two percent of the shares, and Steve, because he donated all his property in the early stage, gets twenty percent of the shares...

As for the rest, because I don't know who to give it to, it was all packed by Ted and given to Chris...

After being a vassal for so long, you must give some benefits, otherwise you will be ashamed of your ancestors and ancestors!

In this regard, Chris did not refuse, but just pretended to be calm and raised his trembling hand, took the document, and put it in the safe at home...

Even if Steve only owns 20% of the shares, the final share is very scary!

According to the financial report of the half-year summary, the total revenue of Beijing Minsheng Group from the beginning of the year to the present, plus 30,000 precious metal feces that have awakened the dragon... All converted into gold, there are about 15 million tons.

In a few more years, it will exceed the total amount of gold that has been mined on Earth.

Subtracting the cost of infrastructure, and then subtracting the messy costs and losses and labor, there is a net income of about 5 million tons, and in terms of shares, Steve has a million tons of gold coming in... After deducting personal income tax from the north, 270,000 tons of gold were received.

At the beginning, when Steve knew about this, he also put on a score to emphasize that he was royalty! Don't pay taxes!

But Ted doesn't care about royalty or aristocrats!

With his 'antimatter bomb' deterrence! Even the dragon patriarch Francis has to pay taxes!

When Steve saw that the dragons had to pay taxes, he reluctantly agreed to Ted's request.

It's just that Steve, who is a royalty and has never paid taxes, is heartbroken when he sees nearly three-quarters of his income being used as taxes...

But when you think about it, this money is already so numbing that it is like having 100 billion and 100 billion gold coins, for a human being, there is no substantial difference, as long as you don't gamble, no matter how much you squander this money, it will not be spent.

Moreover, this is still less than half a year's financial report, and money will continue to be recorded after that.

Even if you take this money to govern the country, it is enough! Just the money circulating in the Xueman Empire does not add up to so much...

This was a big gamble, in order to prevent future prices from skyrocketing, 'copied' the homes of all the nobles, and happened to win, and got the wealth accumulation of most nobles for dozens of centuries, or even more than a hundred centuries.

A direct wave of fat~

By the way, the prices in the empire were pulled to the lowest level, eliminating the possibility of inflation caused by gold and silver, so that ordinary people could eat and drink enough.

In order to prevent this group of people from thinking that this is a gift from God, almost every store is covered with large letters of northern products, and they do their best to get the people to be separated from the idea of the Imperial Religion.

And whenever there is no metal currency circulating in an area, the Ministry of Foreign Trade will start to build a large number of shops and workshops, and recruit a huge number of locals as employees, and pay wages in northern currency!

Now, the task of buying gold and silver and promoting money is done in one go...

Soon, when gold and silver are reduced from money to cheap commodities, the wealth in the hands of the church will be worthless!

In addition, the think tanks in the north also thought that the local nobles would use the currency of the north as a tax, and in order to harm other nobles, they also thoughtfully set up banks in the public domain of the empire outside the city...

Not only can you exchange the coins in your hand for 'chatter', but you can also access chatter...

Although it is a bank, it is also an intelligence department in the north, because if you want to open an account in a bank, you must leave the necessary personal information, fingerprints, foot prints, and even voiceprints...

These clever residents will definitely not pay taxes to the nobles who have been oppressing them for a long time, so they will definitely open an account in the bank of the north and deposit all the money in the bank!

Watching the guards scavenge money at home at will, but finding nothing, this group of people can be regarded as completing a silent resistance...

After this operation, Ted only built the necessary infrastructure according to the future plan, and completed the operation of collecting information on the inhabitants of the empire by the way, and if someone committed a crime in the future, he would quickly lock down the prisoner.

...

Listening to the inquiry from his father, Steve, as an honest man, would definitely answer truthfully, so he took Ted's report and read it out directly: "Well, father, my money is about... Let me count... It's about 270,000..."

Hearing about 270,000, Lester breathed a sigh of relief, this is not worth mentioning compared to his wealth of nearly 10 million gold coins! So he waved his hand and said proudly like a villain: "270,000 gold coins? It's not a lot..."

Seeing his father's premature conclusion, Steve hurriedly corrected: "No... Father, it's 270,000 'tons' of gold, if converted into gold coins... Let me count... Probably... 27 billion gold coins... Well... I counted three times, and I was right! That's it! ”

"What's that? How much? ”

"27 billion gold coins."

"You're not kidding?"

"Father, you know, I am the most honest of my brothers, and I am also the most honest..."

"This...", knowing the exact number, Lester turned his head and stopped making a sound, and could only eat potato chips and drink Coke in a muffled voice...

A considerable part of these profits come from the dragon's dung!

If there is no dragon, it is estimated that the financial report will be... It's a big loss!

On Earth, by the 21st century, more than 16 million tons of gold have been mined, barely enough to fill less than two Olympic-sized swimming pools...

But now... The 30,000 recovered dragons only need to take turns pulling once to fill these places, and even this place is not enough!

Later, after a large number of dragons were awakened, most of the gold extracted was no longer recorded in the production value, but was disposed of as garbage and thrown directly into the valleys of the barren mountains of the north...

If you count the lost gold... It is estimated that the unit price per ton is cheaper than iron...

...

After a while, the second wave of takeaways was delivered, and even if the family was bankrupt, they had to pay, because the emperor had paid, and if the nobles ate the overlord meal, they would definitely be despised and ridiculed by others!

So... Everyone can only reluctantly continue to give money to Ted...

The second prince and his staff beside him, because of their strong financial resources, have not been hollowed out for the time being.

Moreover, they bought grain like crazy, not to continue to monopolize the market, but to make the goods into military rations and fight a protracted war with the camp of the great prince.

...

It's getting hotter! Galen stretched and let his fox smell drift out: "Whew... I wonder what this prince's lunch is like? ”

As soon as the words fell, several full-time servants of the nobles came here, and one of them, according to the request of the second prince, brought the lunch he ordered.

"Your Royal Highness the Second Prince, I would like to confirm to you that you are ordering our luxury single package..."

"Yes..."

"That's... Please, we're ready, we just need you to take two steps..."

Looking at the hot summer, the second prince Galen was reluctant to move his body at all!

Of course, the waiter knew this, so he took out the equipment in advance, directly lifted the chair of the second prince, and carried it to the target location together.

"Huh... Your service is really in place! ”

"Your Highness Xie's compliment!" The waiter quickly patted the horse! Then a glass of ice cola was served.

Galen bit the straw, inhaled in a gust of wind, and drank half a glass of Coke directly! Enjoy while watching how the waiters prepare lunch for themselves.

I saw him take out a few cans from the box, open them with a can opener, and put them on top of the portable gas stove to heat them slowly...

"Huh? What is this thing? ”

"Back to Your Highness, this is tinplate canned, which is a specialty of the north, and you can seal the food in the iron can to keep it fresh, even if it is three years later, it will not deteriorate and taste! You can enjoy it anytime! Just warm it up a little before eating! ”

"Oh? That is, it can be used as military rations? ”

"Yes, Your Highness, these things are not expensive, and they can indeed be used as military food, and it is unrealistic to supply the whole army, but it is still okay to use them to supply those elite troops!"

"Oh...!"

Hearing this, Galen was reluctant, but he still took the item slip and turned to Ted's side.

At this moment, Ted and Steve are eating potato chips and drinking cold drinks, waiting for the heat to ease down before continuing to eat melons in the stands...

If he hadn't had to keep a low profile, he would have used the inventory function, pulled out the solar panels, and turned on the portable air conditioner to blow his face!

However, the current strength has not reached the point where you can do whatever you want, so you can only drink ice drinks...

Suddenly, a sound of footsteps caught Ted's attention, and he turned his head lazily, and found the second prince approaching with a kind face, and asked, "Earl Highlington, I have a business here, I don't know..."

"Tell me, Your Highness Galen..."

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