People in Terra, governing a weird little country

The capitalists in Colombia at least have a four-hour rest system. But here in our place, if I don’t have a conscience, I won’t let you rest even at night!

Work overtime 007! If I don't squeeze you dry, how can I justify the salary I pay you?

As soon as the idea came to his mind, Ernst raised his head immediately. Facing Holhaiya's complaints, he simply gave Holhaiya a reason that he could not refuse:

"No money!"

Holhayya was suddenly speechless.

She sniffed and began to regret her rash decision, but immediately shook her head.

"No, Holhaiya, you don't want your plan to find Quetzalcoatl historical records to fail, right?"

"It's just a small difficulty, it will pass if you bear with it!"

She asked Ernst for the financial account books, which would be sent to Miss Joyce soon, and asked this genius who was very sensitive to data to copy and reconcile them.

You don’t know until you see it. When you see it, you will be shocked. Holhaiya raised his head and looked at Ernst and asked:

"Aren't we quite rich? We have 6 million in funds on our books!"

Thanks to the three big families, the address of the government office and the various appliances inside were donated and given by them, and Lola and Ernst had their meals at Ernst's home. This outing was fully supported by Kalan Trade, Black Steel International, and Magnus Bank, and Ernst didn't spend a penny!

Under this begging-like business model, Ernst managed to achieve the feat of being open to the government for several months with basically zero expenses!

The 600 million yuan loan funds are still intact in the account.

Seeing that Holhaiya was planning to take the money, Ernst shook his head, feeling quite helpless:

"We can't use this money. I've made a rule that government spending must be made public. Even if you want to apply to buy a small stove, you have to go through the process until next spring. Otherwise, it would be misappropriation of public funds, which would set a bad precedent."

That being said, if Ernst wanted to apply, it would almost certainly be approved - he was the one who applied and signed and stamped it. Even if he wanted to advance the time, that would not be a problem. After all, the people of Kjerag had no idea about the government at the moment, and not many people would pay attention to what the great Son of God bought for them.

Even if they knew about this, they might still strongly support it.

But Ernst didn't want to break the rules he set right away.

Hearing this, Hol Haiya smiled and said, "My Boss, isn't this a very simple logic?"

"This is a government office, so if you buy a small stove for yourself, it's considered misappropriation of public funds. But on the other hand, if you buy it for the government, then it's fine, right?"

She moved her buttocks and sat next to Ernst, raised a finger, and said to Ernst's face:

"Look, we are about to welcome a big foreign figure. This big figure comes from Victoria, the most luxurious central valley on earth. He is the representative and family of the pampered duke. If such a person comes to our freezing cold Kjerag and sits on a chair in our office where the temperature is below 0, won't his buttocks be frozen in two?"

She pursed her lips, made a sad expression, shook her head and sighed:

"It's his butt that got frozen, but it's your face that got hit! Just think about it, when he goes back, how will he evaluate you and Kjerag? How will he evaluate the Kjerag people and the great god Yelagund?"

An image suddenly emerged in Ernst's mind. The representative in thin aristocratic clothing and the Duke of Windermere's family returned to Victoria after being frozen solid by Kjerag. The Duke of Windermere asked him, "How was the visit? How do you feel about Kjerag?"

The representative and his family rubbed their buttocks upon hearing this, and complained aggrievedly:

"The local gangs are so rude! My butt is almost broken after this trip!"

Ernst shuddered violently, swallowed, and shook his head.

The scene was so beautiful that I dared not imagine it.

Seeing this, Holhaiya asked:

"My righteous, kind, and hospitable boss, are you willing to exercise your glorious right to urgently provide our guests with a warm little stove to protect their butts?"

Ernst said seriously: "Of course it is my duty!"

He stood up from the slightly frayed but very warm real fur sofa, walked to the desk in a casual manner, picked up a pen, wrote a purchase order, and handed it to Hol Haiya with high spirits:

"I'll leave this matter to you!"

The pride in his tone was as if he was signing a check for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hol Haiya took the purchase order and nodded slightly: "Your order, my boss."

Having realized his long-awaited dream, Ernst felt much better and even began to think about national affairs:

"Speaking of which, the Grand Duke of Victoria is coming. Do we need to be on guard?"

"Be on guard?" Holhaiya guessed what Ernst meant and nodded. "Yes, we have to be on guard. If you are seduced by the Victorians' sugar-coated bullets, I will be in trouble."

Ernst coughed twice and rolled his eyes at Holhaiya.

Although our cheese snow leopard is indeed good-looking, and we are so powerful that we start in fifth gear on the Kjerag Pass, but to say that we were seduced away is still a bit too much!

It’s not like we haven’t seen Victorians before. Isn’t Vina one of them?

She has a broad mind, is talented, has a lot of experience, and is knowledgeable. Maybe she is the fugitive daughter of a great noble of Londinium, or a visitor of the Duke? I feel she is not as good as Vina.

"I'm talking about intelligence, national defense intelligence, military intelligence, and the like. Do you want to be on guard?"

Ernst Road.

Huorhaya said "Oh" clearly, and then waved his hand:

"It's okay, you don't have to worry about this boss."

"Why?" Ernst blinked. "Because the residents of Kjerag are very aware of prevention?"

"Well, it's probably difficult to investigate just one person." Holhaiya said with a smile, "But I think Victoria probably knows more about Kjerag's national defense than we do."

The biggest reason why Victoria didn't annex Kjerag was that there were two other countries eyeing Kjerag, and with the internal chaos in the country, he couldn't defeat them on his own.

As for Kjerag's national defense, without considering Yelagund, it is surrounded by mountains and has a rugged terrain, making it difficult to deploy large land ships for combat and supply. The guerrilla warfare is difficult to suppress and the deterrent effect is probably much greater than that of the Perlochi family's peasant soldiers.

“And this is basically unchangeable,” Holhayya said bluntly. “Until the form of the war changes, Kjerag’s size alone will not be enough to stop Victoria’s all-out attack at all costs.”

The so-called form of warfare is the traditional method of landing operations using infantry, artillery, and landships.

As for the way to change the form of war, perhaps it is the emergence of some kind of super weapon that can cause devastating blows beyond visual range, such as the Shard in Victoria in the original book, the Horizon Arc that Columbia wanted to make but was abandoned by the Director General, and so on.

"So, Kjerag Defense has nothing to hide, at least from foreign countries that want to investigate."

Because it is impossible to hide it, just like the miniskirt of a prostitute, everyone knows what is underneath. If you want to lift it, I won't stop you. If you don't want to lift it, I won't take the initiative to expose it. It's a voluntary principle!

"The focus of our national defense should be on the country," Holhaiya suggested. "Specifically, we should make the Kjerag people feel that they are protected. That will be our success!"

Ernst thought for a while and smiled: "That's true!"

"Then let them come, and we'll discuss the issue of small stoves and butts."

"Whose butt?" Holhaiya tilted his head.

"Of course it's Miss Holhaiya's." Ernst said, "I see you're wearing very little. You must be cold. Do you need to warm yourself up?"

Noticing Ernst's concerned look, Holhaiya was slightly startled, and leaned a little deeper into the sofa, adjusting her posture. Countless methods of warming the body that her ancestors had personally practiced flashed through her mind, and her pretty face suddenly became hot. She was about to refuse, but she heard Ernst say seriously:

"Why don't you go get the stove back now? Remember to bargain."

Chapter 48 I asked you where the person is? I don't know!

The fact that the Duke of Windermere sent a representative to attend the opening ceremony of the Kjerag railway was not a big international news.

Firstly, it was not the Duke of Windermere himself who went, but only a representative. Secondly, this visit was not an official state visit, but a private, secret meeting. Although according to international practice, the meetings that truly determine the future direction of a country are all secret meetings, Kjerag's level is still too low.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Duke of Windermere's delegation is only a small delegation of less than ten people. With such a small number of people, they can't do anything at all.

Although Windermere's visit to Kjerag did not cause much response even within Victoria, it was the first time in Kjerag since the creation of Yelagund.

Both Kalan Trade and the Kjerag government led by Ernst were fully prepared to welcome this unusual visitor.

"Dad, why do we have to take this road?"

Her short light blue hair covered one eye. Although she was a pampered noble lady, she rarely wore gorgeous and elegant long dresses. Instead, she imitated her mother and wore more neutral and capable shirts and shorts to show off her already large figure. Delphine Windermere was like a smaller and more childish version of the Duke of Windermere, enough to make her mother proudly praise that "British is like me".

Upon hearing this, the man whom little Daifen called father turned his gaze towards the flatter and more repaired mountain road leading to Tukarim. After a moment of silence, he smiled kindly and explained:

"Because we encountered a snowstorm last night, the avalanche caused by it has now blocked the entire mountain road. If we take the original route, we will miss the scheduled opening ceremony, Daphne."

This is of course a lie.

Kent is a cautious person, even he and Amfelise Windermere believe that with Victoria's current undercurrent state, the other grand dukes will not have the heart to pay attention to a small incident involving Kjerag. The opening ceremony and their small actions in it, but be careful to sail the ship for thousands of years.

Try to avoid any place where accidents may happen. It is best to completely hide the existence of Daphne. This is why he specifically asked Ensiodis and got a mountain path that only local old merchants knew about, so that he could enter the mountain.

He bent down, picked up his daughter, who was now more than half his height, and put her into the large leather bag hanging on the waist of the snow mountain pack beast in front of him. He rubbed her short hair covered with snowflakes lovingly, and with the help of the guards, he also got into the leather bag.

"lets go."

He nodded to Enthiotis's confidant, the Matterhorn, named after Kjerag's highest peak.

Accompanied by the loud neigh of the leaning snow mountain beast and Daphne's surprised laughter, Kent put down the warm fur on the leather bag, isolating himself from the snowflakes from the outside world.

.........

Looking down at his watch, whose hands had aligned, Ernst looked at his elder brother for the third time. His face, which had been smiling for a long time, had become a little stiff.

"Chairman Enchiodis, has our dear Duke of Windermere's representative arrived?"

"Logically speaking, it should be soon."

"Half an hour ago you said it should be here soon, and an hour ago you were very sure and told me it would be here soon."

Ernst put away his smile, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but ask,

"I told my people to pick him up, but you insisted on doing it. Look, now he's gone. How are we going to explain this?"

Enthiotis' poker face, which was always as stable as a rock, was now a little more nervous. Because Ernst was telling the truth.

Receiving foreign guests was something that should have been the responsibility of Kjerag's government. He had snatched this right from Ernst on the grounds that "the train was invested and built by Kalan Trade, and Kalan Trade should also be the host of the opening ceremony."

Ernst did not refute, but considering that the Victorian forces represented by the Duke of Windermere had been unanimously identified by him and Holhaiya as supporters of the "Ensiodis faction", even if he insisted on securing the right to receive them, it would probably be a waste of time. So, after a brief debate, he reached an agreement with Ensiodis.

Ensiodis used the cost of building the Tukarim Railway Station and purchasing trains to offset the taxes he owed to the Kjerag government for conducting foreign trade under the name of "Kalan Trade", and promised to pay the Kjerag government 5 million Longmen coins in "Kalan" trademark licensing fees every year. The task of receiving the Windermere delegation this time was authorized by the Kjerag government to act as the agent of Kalan Trade.

This seemed to be an unequal agreement in which Ernst did nothing but opened his mouth and Enthiotis got the money for free.

But in fact, this is indeed a deal that is a way of getting something for nothing.

Well, that's true for Ernst. But it's not true for Enthiotis and Kalan Trade.

Before the establishment of the Kjerag government, Kalan Trading, under the name of Kjerag's "state-owned enterprise", opened mines in the territory of the Shivaash family, mined resources, and conducted large-scale foreign trade, but it did not obtain any authorization and did not pay any taxes to the Kjerag Manjuyuan government at the time.

It can be said that the reason why the Kalan trade was able to develop so rapidly in just a few years was largely because they were engaged in a serious and unregulated business, which was the barbaric expansion that capital development loved the most.

Manzhuyuan is a fool. They are pretending to be a whore. Religious funding accounts for 60% of Kjerag's total fiscal revenue, but they still keep saying nonsense like "I don't love money, money has no meaning to me", hoping that Enthiotis will bring the money to them before they can refuse.

Who is Ensiodis? In the whole of Kjerag, he is the only one who can compete with Ernst in terms of shamelessness. Can he give money to Manzhuyuan? The annual subscription to the Three Clans Conference is already good. But compared to the money he made from the Kalan Trade, this amount of money is nothing!

Now that Ernst was in power, Enthiotis realized that his younger brother had long been eyeing the fat piece of meat of the commercial tax of Kalan Trade, but both brothers were ruthless and knew that in this era, if you want to do something, you need money. So Enthiotis and Ernst had never reached an agreement on the issue of tax payment.

And today, Enthiotis feels very satisfied that he can take this opportunity to use the investment in the train station to shut up Ernst's mouth that always talks about taxes and ten thousand little stoves.

As for the five million yuan of "state-owned enterprise trademark fee" each year, it is not worth mentioning at all compared to the benefits he gained.

As for what the benefits are...

The Duchy of Windermere, of course.

This was a plan that Enthiotis was very proud of. His letter successfully tricked Ernst into misjudging that he, Enthiotis, really had the face to invite the Duke of Windermere to send a representative to Kjerag.

But in fact, where did he get the face from? He just sent out invitations to all the Dukes of Victoria!

Enthiotis himself didn't know why the Duke of Windermere agreed. But that didn't stop him from being shameless and directly said to Ernst, "You're too slow!", deceiving his good brother once again.

I can only say that when it comes to shamelessness, the men in the Snow Leopard family are of the same bloodline!

He had spent millions of dollars from Ernst to get access to Windermere, which meant that he could use this opportunity to open up a larger market in Victoria besides Askara County, a market that was as large as the entire duchy! This would further strengthen the power of Kalan Trade.

This is a very risky speculation, but for a businessman who is at a disadvantage, nothing can get the adrenaline rush more than speculation where risks and benefits coexist.

As long as he succeeds, the development speed of Kalan Trade will be accelerated exponentially, and he will be able to do more! With Ernst's current strength, there is no way to compete!

The army is in danger, a general!

Brother Reduction of Resistance likes this chess strategy of using the extreme method of "defense -70%" in exchange for "super large attack range and super strong attack power"!

"I asked you where the Windermere delegation is!"

Ernst's question brought him back to reality. He opened his mouth and looked at the vast mountain road, full of confusion:

"Yeah, where are the people?"

Ernst also laughed in anger, snatched the cane given to his brother, put it on his knee, and knocked it in two with his knee in the [Pledge of Allegiance] style, and shouted:

"You are still playing with your cane here! I want to ask you where you are!"

Enciodis was also confused. He didn't even feel sorry for his crutch that was broken by Ernst. He shook his head: