Alien world

Chapter 1373 7. Pot and Lid
Annan was thinking as he walked back to the City Lord's Mansion, completely unaware that a few hundred meters behind him, Laila, who had just had a great time fishing, was also walking back with a fishing rod on her shoulder.

At the window, Idyllia saw Annan coming back and pushed the wheelchair out of the office and waited for him in the lounge.

Annan, who was walking outside the lounge, took a quick glance and saw his eldest sister sitting there, with her hands on her legs, backing away.

"Sister, are you waiting for me?"

Annan walked over. Usually, the eldest sister would wait in the lounge when she had something to tell her.

Idilia nodded slightly and lowered her head to take off a ring on her left ring finger.

The soft light of the magic lamp hit her cheek from the side, illuminating her scattered hair with a hint of gentleness.

Idilia raised her head and handed the copper ring with the image of a fire-breathing dragon to Annan.

"This is the key to the family treasure. If you sell everything inside, it will probably be worth hundreds of thousands of gold nars."

Annan paused after taking the ring. "The family still has something that hasn't been er... wasted by me?"

Annan was talking about how his family had paid a high price to get "himself" to become the mayor of Breeze City, and then took away a large amount of wealth when he took office. As a result, he was attacked by Olmedo's father who colluded with the ratmen.

“There are only some antiques left, which are worthless in the eyes of merchants but priceless in the eyes of collectors.”

"Forget it then."

Annan returned the ring.

It’s easy to guess that what the eldest sister gave her must have been something from the ancestors of the Reeves family.

On the other side, Laila also returned to the City Lord's Mansion, tiptoed up the stairs, and heard faint voices coming from the lounge.

Idilia refused to take it, so Annan squatted down, held her fingertips, and put the ring back on her finger without saying a word.

"Big sister, I'm not being polite. I'm sure I can make 750 million in a month. If I can't make up enough, I can still borrow from you... Um, why can't I wear it?"

The ring was stuck on the second joint of the middle finger. Annan tried hard a few times, but stopped when he found that his elder sister's skin had red marks from abrasions.

"You put it on the wrong finger..." Idilia raised her slender ring finger helplessly.

"Oh, sorry..." Annan smiled embarrassedly, held up his finger and put the ring on his ring finger.

Outside the lounge, Laila peeked out from behind and looked at the scene in shock.

No, no, no... maybe it was a misunderstanding, like my eldest sister's ring fell to the ground and Annan picked it up...

"I'm sorry if I hurt you..."

"It's okay, it would be better if it was a little thinner."

Listening to their conversation, the shock in Laila's eyes turned into horror. She shrank back behind the wall, her back pressed against it, her eyes wide open.

Something big has happened! My eldest sister is really in love with Annan!
Leila's mind was filled with taboo images that were not tolerated by the secular world. Although Annan had no blood relationship with them...but the outside world didn't know!
Although it might be a good thing for the Reeves family, as Annan truly has a blood connection with them, why not keep it hidden?

No, they were indeed hiding, and I overheard it by accident.

Should I continue to pretend I don't know, or help them conceal it, or just silently bless them...

"Annan, I'm a little worried."

"Do not worry……"

It seems that the eldest sister and Annan are also worried about how to conceal the news. Leila was so worried that she didn't even have the interest to continue fishing tomorrow. She tiptoed away and drove away the maid Abby who was walking towards her with two cups of hot drinks.

Alas, she was worried sick about this family.

……

Annan's few words of comfort could not reassure Idiliya - after all, the interest alone was more than 300,000 kinaers every month.

"You said that the savings bank can collect 750 million knives in a month. I have no doubt about that. But the money is not ours. After the misappropriation, what should we do if the customers want to withdraw the money?"

"Sister, the usefulness of the savings bank is that we can use 9 pot lids to cover 10 pots."

Idilia was stunned for a few seconds, then she understood the meaning behind the example.

"What if something unexpected happens, for example, they find out about the situation and come in droves to take the money in the bank?" Idilia pointed out the situation that the bank fears the most - a stampede.

Annan said seriously: "So we have to make them believe that we have ten pot lids, and they are made of mountain copper."

Annan decided to tell his elder sister some of his inner thoughts:

"The savings bank is just the tip of the huge iceberg I call "finance", the starting point of the expedition. Through the savings bank, we can quickly accumulate wealth that would take more than ten years to accumulate."

"With this money, we can develop rapidly and do things that we couldn't do before due to lack of money. And development will make people believe in the prospects of Liberty City and be more willing to deposit money in the bank, forming a virtuous circle. In addition, we can also issue bonds."

"Bonds?"

Annan’s legs felt a little numb from squatting, so he stood up.

Idilia raised her head and followed Annan who was sitting on the sofa.

“Well, let’s say we need one million kinnars, we will issue bonds worth one million kinnars and let the people buy them, and then promise to give a higher interest rate, such as 10% or 15%.”

"Bonds are like a window for us to borrow money from the people. For the people, bonds are a rare way for them to participate in collective behavior and make contributions to the territory."

Annan felt a little thirsty as he spoke and glanced out into the corridor.

Normally, the maid Abby would have come over with drinks by now. Why hasn’t she come for so long?
"How is it different from a bank?"

Annan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's to change the name to be more legitimate?"

"Although we can directly use the money in the savings bank, the fewer pot lids there are, the greater the risk. We can't use one pot lid to cover ten pots, right?"

We have no choice but to do this now.

The eldest sister thought about it, and Annan continued, "And as our influence grows deeper and deeper, and the circulation becomes stronger and stronger, almost everyone will be a customer of the savings bank... By that time, we will have the right to mint coins..."

So Annan looked down on Lord Raymond. Taxation? It was so unskilled. How was it different from robbery?
"Don't we already have the right to mint coins?"

Idilia was talking about the qualification to smelt gold and make it into kinnars.

Any slightly larger lord could buy the right to mint coins from the Church of Wealth, not to mention that Annan was the Holy Son of the Church.

"That's different. The coinage I'm talking about is ..."

Annan looked around and pointed at the blank parchment on the table and said, "For example, let's say we take this to the bank to exchange it for a gold coin. Someone does so and actually withdraws a gold coin from the bank. Then its value at that moment is equal to that of a gold coin."

“We have used our status and credit to create a currency out of thin air.”

(End of this chapter)