Blessed by abundance, be a Terran curse

I won’t bother you now. I will save the time first and ask you to continue building the castle for me later.

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Chapter 25: Where did the money go? I don’t know!

At the same time, the banshees on the other side of Kazdel looked at the large bag of gold coins in front of them and fell into deep thought.

A dress costs one gold coin. How come the prices outside have suddenly become so high?

"It seems that the child is indeed being cared for by someone important. Perhaps we can help each other."

Ramalen had vaguely guessed something, but she was still not sure.

She respected Huang Cao's personal life very much, and did not interfere too much even though he often went in and out of the valley under the pretext of buying medicine.

So until now, she didn't know that the grocery store manager and the dear Dr. Huang were the same person.

But so much time has passed, and the other party has become equal to himself in status and name.

He even possesses more wealth than her, the Lord of the Royal Court.

"Please return some of these gold coins. There are too many of them."

A large bag of gold coins, this amount is a considerable fortune even for her.

Where does so much money come from?

Even Theresa, who took over the national treasury, could not have come up with hundreds of thousands of gold coins at once to buy land.

At the end of the letter, Huang Cao wanted to ask Lamaren to help him connect with the Demon King, on the grounds that the development of the territory required various materials.

Only the Demon King has the right to trade these materials.

But why did you have to look for me? Why not go directly to Theresa?

Could there be some secret here? It can't be that we have dug up a gold mine, right?

But even if gold was unearthed, the refining equipment was extremely heavy and bulky. Theresa, who was now desperately short of money, would never allow others to mine the gold in Kazdel.

Theresa sold the land to Huangcao for only 500,000 gold coins, and there was not much left after buying the food.

The rest were all invested in the military, so Kazdel is still short of money.

This is why Huangcao has been unable to purchase pig iron.

All the weapon craftsmen were recruited by Theresa, and all resources that could be used for weapons were first invested in the border of Kazdel.

Although the Victorian coalition has no plans to do anything to Kazdel at the moment, the nearby Leithania has been watching covetously.

Huangcao's territory is not far from Victoria, so that it will be more convenient to trade with this big country in the future.

So it’s not without reason that many Sarkaz in the original plot hate the Leitanians.

Huang Cao also explained in the letter why he wanted Lamaren to act as a matchmaker for him.

There is only one reason, and that is he is afraid that this pink-haired guy will take advantage of the situation to raise the price for him. He just bought the land not long ago, and now he has to buy other resources.

So it’s easy for people to think that you must have money!

Since you have money, you might as well support me first and I can pay you back later.

As for when it will happen in the future, we probably have to wait a few hundred years.

As a Sarkaz, can you not live for a few hundred years? If you can't wait, let your descendants come to claim the responsibility.

Ramalen shook her head, thinking that Theresa should not be such a person, but then she suddenly remembered that she had borrowed food from her a few years ago and had not returned it yet.

He also made his people spend the entire winter in hunger.

Although it was for the Sarkaz children, you should at least give some symbolic return. As a result, she hasn't seen even a grain of wheat until now.

Even the two of them haven't seen each other for almost two years.

Your sisters are connected with you by heart, but you are playing tricks on them!

This behavior is really chilling.

So in order to gain some benefits for her people, Ramalen decided to cooperate with Mr. Huangcao first.

Due to the banshees' deliberate concealment, Theresa only knew that Huang Cao had stayed in the valley for a period of time, and had no idea what his relationship was like with the banshees.

"By the way, the name of that child's territory seems to be Eden, right? This seems to be the concept of Lateran..."

The population of the Valley and the Garden of Eden is very similar. Except that the land is not as large as the other, the theoretical resource consumption is actually similar.

Especially so far, Lamaren's main actions have been to let her people have a good rest.

Try your best to soothe the pain caused by the war and restore the population, and don't plan to climb the technology tree.

So on the surface, the theoretical resource consumption of both sides is not that large, but in reality the difference is not small.

Now the problem arises, Theresa may not know this fact.

This is also the reason why Huang Cao chose to cooperate with Lamaren again.

Through Lamaren, he purchased the resources from Theresa at a relatively low price, and then paid the former a handling fee.

Once the iron ore and other materials enter the valley, no one knows what they will be used for.

Ramalen knew that the other party was also using her, but if she put herself in the other child's shoes, she would realize that the child was also trying to make life better for his people.

What’s more important is that he didn’t let himself down, and his people could also benefit from it.

Strictly speaking, Theresa did not suffer any loss, because she was still paid.

It was like killing three birds with one stone. The banshee got the kickbacks, Huangcao bought the resources with money, and Theresa used the resources to exchange for money to make up for the deficit in the national treasury.

So in the next few years, under the operation of these three parties, the mineral resource problem in Huangcao's territory was almost solved.

Several successful harvests were achieved, and several larger towns were rebuilt.

Of course, given the available resources, most houses are made of wood or stone.

However, at this time, when the territory was thriving, Huangcao encountered another problem.

He was lying on the bed, looking at Huafalin in front of him with a serious expression, and his tone was a little lost. "Huafalin, how much money is left in my vault?"

Huafalin rolled her eyes, but still answered seriously:

"My dear Lord, after all these years of squandering, we now have only 50,000 gold coins and 200,000 silver coins. If we continue to spend recklessly, we will be bankrupt before next year."

"It must be you, a damned vampire, who recklessly purchases medical equipment, that leads to annual deficits!"

"As long as you are happy, my Lord, please pay me my salary. I haven't seen a gold coin in several years."

As the accountant of the territory, Huafalin had never expected that managing the territory would be so expensive.

Fortunately, there is no need to pay taxes to Theresa for this land, otherwise I would have gone bankrupt on the spot.

It’s over, I’ve sucked all the gold mine dry!

Huang Cao realized that the sky might be falling, and with trembling fingers he picked up a cup of tea made with high-end tea imported from Yan Country, took a deep breath and drank it all in one gulp.

Still in shock, he stood up from the soft golden bed, and then looked at the luxurious table lamp decorated with gold with panic eyes.

After getting out of bed, he stepped on a high-end animal skin rug imported from Victoria.

A series of major blows made him wonder:

Where did all this money go?

"Don't you have any idea where your money goes? Every decoration in your room is much more expensive than my equipment."

"Don't talk. The raw material of the long skirt you are wearing is also high-end silk imported from Yan Country. Including the labor cost, it is worth hundreds of gold coins."

"..."

Chapter 26: If you want to make money, make a lot of money! Make money from the nobility

I really don’t have any money!

The treasury is empty, how can I revive the Han Dynasty!

Am I going to find another gold mine?

But my roots may not be able to spread there!

Besides, there are not so many gold mines in the world.

This is not a easy task. It seems that we need to put the issue of tax collection on the agenda.

"It's exactly five years until it's almost over. We'll start collecting taxes in six months. We'll start with a small amount of agricultural tax. Kazdel is still quite short of food right now, even though we won't make much money."

Although I have contributed to the grain production in my own territory, I can’t collect much even if I collect taxes.

With the current population, the grain collected from taxes can only be sold for a few dozen gold coins at most.

Although yellow grass can directly stimulate the growth of plants and exchange food for wealth, he is now at least a person with a territory.

Moreover, in order to obtain a large amount of wealth, one must have a large amount of food support. Not only is it inefficient, but it is also easy to expose one's identity and ability.

Especially if I do this, wouldn’t I just be working as a part-time worker again?

Can an aristocrat without money still be called an aristocrat?

"Why don't we sell some of our clothes to get through these next few years?"

Huafalin gritted her teeth and contributed all her clothes. The fabrics of these clothes were all imported from Yan Country. After all, someone likes to play dress-up.

He often dragged Huafalin to play dress-up whenever he had nothing to do. Although she often took advantage of him after changing clothes, she didn't actually take much advantage of him.

She had already gotten used to it, and even enjoyed Huang Cao's compliments. She would wear it every time even though she said she didn't want to.

Huang Cao shook his head. "Even when a man is in the most dangerous situation, it is impossible for him to ask for the gift he gave away back, even though this gift is indeed a little expensive."

"But that's not the point. I don't lack ways to make money. I just lack safe and fast ways to make money."

"It's impossible for me to be poor. I won't be poor in this life. At worst, I can just steal Theresa's little stash of money."

"I always feel like you said something extraordinary."

"That's not the point. The point is that I have now thought of a way to make money." Huang Cao showed a sinister smile.

After years of companionship, Huafalin knew that whenever this handsome man showed this smile, one person or a large group of people would be deceived.

Selling Originium Inhibitors! But you can't sell them in Kazdel, you have to go to other countries.

Huang Cao smiled and took out a gold card from the drawer, which was engraved with the Victoria logo.

This card is actually a bank card. Although its function is similar to that of a bank card, it does not have any electronic functions.

Cardholders can only withdraw money from the bank in person. Without the password, they can only withdraw money from the bank where they deposit the money according to the pattern above.

His territory borders Victoria, so how could he possibly ignore this superpower?

As one of the most powerful countries in the world today, Victoria's money is gradually overshadowing the status of the king.

Even hundreds of years later, the descendants of King Aslan who are still in power may be sent to the guillotine.

This is also an opportunity. Nowadays, not many people care about the life and death of people infected with oripathy, and of course the same will be true in the future.

But compared to hundreds of years later, today's infected people are still more eye-catching.

Because in this era, the people most susceptible to oripathy are the nobles of various countries. Because they have to cast various Originium spells, they may accidentally injure themselves and become infected with oripathy.

Ordinary people rarely get this thing unless they encounter a natural disaster or dig up source stone mines exposed on the surface.

As for why there are more and more people infected with mineral disease and it spreads to the lower levels.

This is also inseparable from Victoria.

Because Victoria took the lead in starting the Industrial Revolution, using the enclosure movement to drive large numbers of ordinary people into urban factories.

Due to backward technology and lack of understanding of the ore, the factory has almost no protection and the air is filled with a large amount of source stone dust.

The dust caused almost all the factory workers to become infected with mineral sickness.

In addition to the huge demand for source stones from factories, more and more mines have given up mining original metal resources and turned to developing source stones.

Because there is no protection, most miners are also infected with mineral sickness.

The modern Originium industry has created a large number of people infected with Ore Disease, so it will take hundreds of years for infected organizations like the Reunion Movement to emerge.

But all this has nothing to do with Kazdel, because the people here are born with an inseparable connection with Originium, and things that will cause headaches in other countries in the future are actually the norm here.