Durin's Diary

Chapter 707: Prelude to the End

Meanwhile, the Archdiocese of the Church of the Goddess of Wealth.

Paris.

Kakanif came here with his grandfather. As his designated successor, Kakanif was not yet able to join the speaking sequence at the meeting.

But he is still qualified to be a bystander.

There is only one topic for today's meeting - whether to pay Du Lin all the profits he made on the two exchanges.

This is a huge number, so huge that even the king would feel suffocated.

For Kakanif, it is a number condensed by the price paid by countless merchants and nobles at the cost of their families and lives.

Mr. Durin was not a cold-hearted person. Kakaniff knew this because he had visited farms in various places and found that the farmers there lived more comfortably than the freemen of Sidney. They had free medical care, which was enough to make the freemen of Sidney envious.

As the Liberté de Marseille wrote, Lord Turin was simply returning to the nobles and merchants the suffering that the serfs and citizens had endured for thousands of years.

The world is like a giant casino, and the exchange is merely the largest and most legal one among them. Its legitimacy is granted jointly by the country where the exchange is located and the goddess of wealth. If you understand this, you will understand why Mr. Du Lin does not "gamble" elsewhere, but is keen on forcing people into a desperate situation in such a place.

Because these people are enemies of Northernism. It is their greed that has harmed themselves, and they cannot blame anyone else.

Kakaniff sat in the corner, looking at the head of the church on the stage. Below him, the cardinals were arguing like old women in the market. Some did not want to pay Mr. Durin because if they did, tens of thousands of merchants and small nobles would go bankrupt, even the earl with real power would be seriously injured, and even the duke with the most money would be seriously hurt.

But some people also felt that they had to pay Dulin everything he earned - because if they lost their neutral position, no one would believe in the Church of the Goddess of Wealth anymore. Many shareholders in Dulin's trusts and conglomerates were also believers of the Goddess of Wealth. Not paying Dulin the money he deserved would mean losing their faith.

So now everyone on the stage is arguing.

Kakanif glanced at the pocket watch in his hand - there was less than half an hour left before the meeting ended, because today was the last day of the extension period for large transactions announced by the exchange, and twelve o'clock today was the last moment of the last time.

Kakanif suddenly found himself at a crossroads of his times.

The choices made by these old guys on the stage may profoundly change the course of history.

………………

Gala was sitting in a secret box at this moment, where she could see the Minister of Finance's grandson, Kakanif. This young man had obviously matured a lot, and from his eyes, one could see his contempt for these old guys.

Yes, despise.

There was no point in arguing. Even if the Kligern family was currently at odds with Durin, Gala couldn't think of any reason to prevent Durin from obtaining the money. As the Lublin Daily said, if the existence of wealth management couldn't protect the actual owners of the wealth, then there was no hope of gaining public support.

The mortals in the church have forgotten why the gods became gods.

Is it because of strength?
The original creator would do so because of strength, but she in this temple is definitely not the case.

This made Gala very sad - the hatred between the Clegane family and Jun Gu lasted for nearly two hundred years, and this was not a problem she could solve at all. In some aspects, the Clegane family was just like the owner of this temple, and had problems that could not be avoided.

This problem cannot be solved, and for both of them, it is just a matter of dying sooner or later.

This reminded Gala of the Austrian-Swiss Union, a place once considered a wasteland by countless people, but now, under the governance of Mr. Paul Corleone, it has become a paradise on earth and a tourist destination.

Durin took over the land, but gave it to the then unknown Paul Corleone. Who would have thought that Durin's brother would be such a genius in governing the territory.

I heard that because of Poole's incident, almost all university professors in the Northern Kingdom were one-sidedly cursing the prince who had died many years ago. If it weren't for him, the Corleone family would still be the noble family of the North, and Poole, the capable minister, would still be a capable minister of the North.

What's wrong with believing in Northernism? The universities in the Northern Kingdom have long been infiltrated by Northernism like a sieve. The professors there either sympathize with Northernism or are believers in Northernism.

As for Sidney, there is no need to mention him - the Northern Kingdom has heard and understood the changes in Farol and the Austria-Swiss Union in recent years, let alone Sidney. After the Jun Gu incident, the Northernists in the southern provinces began to infiltrate more and more. The mayors and mayors of the southern towns and cities almost all encountered various accidents, and then the people who came up were all young and middle-aged people with various Northernist backgrounds. They colluded blatantly, and some nobles stood up and wanted to replace their newly elected local mayor, and the whole family was killed by strong men overnight.

As for the Jun Gu, they are even more lawless - they have quickly become linked with Northernism.

If it weren't for Hake, Gala would have wanted to leave long ago - this country is hopeless, the nobles and the royal family have always been at odds with each other, and now the people are the same. If there is a new king, Gala has plans to vote for Northernism himself.

But as long as there is a Clegane on this land, she will not betray her oath.

As he was lost in thought, Gala noticed that the cardinals below had finished their discussion.

It looks like it's finally coming to fruition.

That's right. After all, the time has already reached 11:32. If an answer is not given, everyone on this earth will laugh at the stupidity and corruption of the church.

After the leader on the stage read the results, he raised his head and took off his glasses with trembling hands.

"Today, twenty-seven cardinals were supposed to be present, and twenty-seven were in attendance. Thirteen agreed to pay, and fourteen refused." He licked his dry lips. "My fellow church members, you have set a terrible precedent. No church has ever done this before. But this is the choice of the College of Cardinals, and I respect it... Therefore, I declare that the Church of the Goddess of Wealth refuses to pay all profits earned by Durin Elsh's group from the exchange and will return the money to all debtors."

(End of this chapter)