Hearing the three words of the magic furnace coupon, Rand instinctively asked: "This is also your attitude?" ”

"Rand, since you learned that you built the first magic furnace, I know that you will definitely become a demigod or a legend in the future, and it is impossible to be a true god." The demigod dwarf Slem didn't answer directly, but talked about the past.

"It's not just me, I'm afraid that most of the legends in the imperial capital will have the same opinion after knowing you."

Rand thanked Slem's statement: "Thank you for being bullish on me. ”

"Do you know what it's like to be a legend?" Seeing that Rand didn't understand what he meant, Slem continued, "For example, I became a demigod in the ancient empire in 757,

At that time, Douglas was still the Grand Magus of the Imperial Court, and I was already considered the god of iron smelting in the Empire, and my portrait would be hung in all the blacksmith shops, and all the high-level smelters and appendages in the Empire needed to study under me for at least 10 years. ”

"You are truly a witness to human civilization!" At this moment, Rand suddenly remembered what the herbivore old dragon said when he first met Greya's father, Revendia, that humans were nothing more than worms in front of him.

Slem nodded, and continued: "In the eyes of the humans and dwarves outside, I am more like a stone statue, they have become accustomed to the fact that there is a big stone named Slem in this world, and this stone will tell them how to draw runes and how to make magic tools, but this big stone has nothing to do with their fate. ”

Hearing this, Rand was even a little sad, at this moment he somewhat understood why the elves were addicted, the dwarves were addicted to drinking, the human race was addicted to intrigue, and the life span was so long, he had to have some fun.

Having said all this, the dwarf finally got to the point: "Those old bad debts of the Imperial Treasury can be traced back to the era of the city-state, or even earlier the age of the goblins,

These bad debts have undergone tens of thousands of years of evolution, so that the empire has almost no liquidity, and can only continue to raise funds in shares and options, but why has no dynasty been able to change after so many years? ”

"Please advise."

"Money is not created by financing, nor is it consumed by financing, but it is dispersed in the process of financing," Slem muttered, "Sounds ironic, right?" The handling fees in the financing process are like the magic power that Raya has descended, which seems to be nothing left, and has disappeared out of thin air on the ground, but it has actually been divided up by countless high-level and legendary people on the ground. ”

"The gold coin reflects the whereabouts of the magic power, since the magic power has been carved up, the gold coins have been completely divided by large and small families in the continuous financing, not so much that these high-cost financing is a means of the Ministry of Finance, but rather an end in itself."

It's called a magical share distribution system, right? Rand didn't say it, but he mocked in his heart, in fact, after the cardinal's audit and Klein's statement, he probably understood the routine of the Imperial Treasury Department, so he said:

"That's why every fund handled by our Department of Finance is so complicated, they don't raise the cost of financing, but treat the financing process as a dividend itself."

Slem nodded: "You can think so, or you can disdain it, but I want to remind you that for you, the days after becoming a legend will be truly long,

Now your days as a lord and an official of the Treasury Department are just some kind of temporary excess, and you now go and break these old accounts of the Treasury and use the magic furnace to bring a new pattern to the empire's finances, but then what?

Will you, after becoming a legend or even a god, devote almost infinite energy to the Empire's ledger? ”

"Hmmm......"

Rand was about to say something when he heard Slem ask himself, "You don't have to rush to answer this question, legendary law wizards like Hanfei Apopby and Frank Douglas have made it their duty to guard the law itself, so they must be in the heart of the Empire."

But what about you? Are you going to spend the next 1,000 years managing the empire's bad debts? ”

The demigod dwarf's words really silenced Rand, from his point of view, the current financial situation of the empire is like a mess, and even the deliberate result of the demigods and legends at the top of the empire, they want to make the empire into a state that cannot be clenched into a fist, but it will not be scattered,

In this way, as the biggest beneficiaries, they can enjoy the benefits of this state forever, and they don't have to worry about other rising stars challenging them, because the benefits are like those magic in the sky, which are thoroughly distributed in the atmosphere.

After being silent for a long time, Rand asked: "If there is no once-in-a-millennium demon tide, no demon race eyeing the empire, and no sea god system's coveting of land, I don't have any opinion on the current state of the empire." But I would like to ask, will the opponents of humanity really remain at the same level forever? 300 years ago, they just seized the loophole in the portal and caused so much damage to the Empire......"

"Then you should support the Finance Department even more, isn't the current foundation of the empire the legends in the imperial capital and major cities? Isn't the current policy to make it easier to send resources to the Legends? ”

The demigod dwarf looked at Rand with suspicious eyes and said, "In the future, there will be many legends in your kingdom, maybe even your wife, your monster pet, and your fox will become legends or demigods, and at that time, you will understand that all the designs of the empire today exist for these." ”

Now Rand felt that his left ear was listening to the words of the demigod dwarf, but in his right ear was echoing the words of the demigod goblin mechanic Orser Prager: "Can a civilization that only talks about finance still be protected by the gods?" Can a god with a full eye for money still win the support of his followers? Can a sect that only has gold coins in its eyes be accepted by the believers? ”

Although the current finance of the empire is not for greed, this is because the empire cannot really issue gold coins, but only constantly redistribute the original total issuance.

However, once the magic furnace is spread out on a large scale, millions of gold coins are taken out of the Red Dragon Rock, and even the small star teleportation path rich in precious metals between the universe is mined on the ground, will the upper echelons of the empire be able to maintain the current situation? Won't the empire slip to become the next goblin empire?

Rand already had the answer in his mind.

Sherman, who was on the side, looked at Rant's face and said slowly: "Rand, I understand your dissatisfaction with some things, but the priesthood is a long-term matter, and there is no need to carry all the burdens on yourself." ”

Lan nodded and said, "Perhaps, I should find a department to take on before the magic furnace is completely financialized." ”