A chaotic, very unusual, yet quite ordinary banquet ended.
After all, someone failed to stay and spent the night with three beauties at the same time. Although the empress didn't mind, and the other two didn't mind either, they didn't invite them, and someone just wanted to flirt with him, but he didn't really dare to do anything.
This is not because Lin is bold and seductive, but tomorrow is a big event. The envoys of the Goddess of Gold Coins will go to the imperial meeting and compete with a group of nobles from the Karlsruhe Empire.
When taking over this task from Coin, Lin certainly studied the current development of the bank and the situation of the Karlsruhe Empire. It is not certain whether the empress was an old acquaintance at that time. Even if she was an old acquaintance,
How much friendship is still available is also uncertain. So at the beginning, Lin just made a plan that would work.
Anyway, the development of banks is a general trend, it’s just a matter of speed, and no one can stop it. But if the development goes awry, Lin will still take care of it. At least he doesn’t want to create that kind of unprecedented financial monster in his own hands.
If you do that, you will eat others and yourself. It may not leave a bad name in history, because not many people understand it, but it will not cause less evil than the independent-minded Lao Xi in World War II.
However, after the past few days, coupled with the old and new relationship with the empress, Lin had some different ideas, instead of just dealing with it. Just how to implement it and to what extent it should be achieved are actually all
You also need to discuss it with other people.
When doing things, especially teamwork, the most fearful thing is that the person sitting in the sedan chair will think about it, and the person carrying the sedan chair will not let go. If you force people to go up the Liangshan Mountain, the beauty of things will change.
Of course, it is impossible for Lin to do such a thankless thing. But before asking the empress's sincerity, there are some things that he can prepare in advance, such as increasing the weight of the chips in his hand.
Now that we have made this decision, we have to carefully consider what we should say at tomorrow's imperial meeting. Lin thought this.
However, what makes some people feel confident is that banks are now established in the Gwana Empire and the Vader Military State, not to mention all over the country, but have been established in towns with a certain population or above.
The Holy City of Estali, with the help of the Technology Guild, is not only inseparable from people's lives like a certain X-treasure before time travel, but it has also actually entered the lives of many people.
There are also five elven kingdoms that have begun to lay out early. With these areas as the center and radiating outward, it can be said that the development of the bank has been unstoppable. In this case, the style of the gold coin goddess should no longer be as small and cautious as in the past, and slightly exposed
It shouldn't be a problem to order Fangs and Claws.
Although Ke Yin's attitude was tough in the past, in fact, the main control over whether to establish a bank or not was still in the hands of the local lords. Lin and the elves could only use some interests that were visible to everyone and were consistent to induce the lords to agree to the establishment of the bank.
However, many lords were dissatisfied with not being able to enjoy the privileges from the establishment of the bank. However, they could not change the rules set by the goddess. The only thing they could do was to find ways to hinder the bank when they were unhappy. Although this was
It's a way to kill a thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred losses to yourself, but the noble lord has the capriciousness to endure.
Similarly, if Ko Yin is dissatisfied, the only available method is to postpone the establishment of the bank in the local area. What you can use to comfort yourself is that the manpower to promote banks is limited. Even if a certain place is not willing, you can still put resources into it.
Elsewhere, it's generally not in the way at all.
But how long can such a passive choice be maintained? As banks have more and more branches, there are also more places where elves can practice, and the training speed of manpower is getting faster and faster.
However, to establish a bank, it takes time to build a house. Even if there are powerful local people to help provide a ready-made house, it will also take time to renovate and decorate the interior. This is not the goddess's side. With the people ready and a nod, the bank can be opened and online.
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If the bank continues to expand, sooner or later it will encounter a bottleneck. That is to say, the more civilized lords who can accept new things have allowed the bank to open. Then what is left are the old diehards and old-schoolers. Not to mention the goddess, they want to take advantage of it.
If not, they themselves will cut off the bank's opportunity to enter their territory.
At that point, will we have to compromise with these stubborn old guard in exchange for the entry of banks? What will those who joined early think? Will they demand the same privileges?
For many things, the only difference is not to do them and to do them. You cannot do them only once or limit the number of times. As long as a hole is opened, there will be no way to stop it later. It is like a small crack in a dike, which will eventually turn into a collapse.
Same as embankment.
Lin's original idea was to rely on the largest number of ordinary people to get used to the bank, and in turn force the noble lords to accept it. However, after the actual operation of the bank, he found that this idea had its flaws.
The first is that the mobility of people in the Lost Land is not as high as one might imagine. Especially in special areas, or those that impose strong control on the territory, it is easy for these places to block information from the outside world. They cannot benefit from the establishment of a bank.
Or convenience, naturally it is impossible to reversely push the lord to accept it.
Secondly, the authority of the noble lords is still quite strong. And there are quite a few people who would rather suffer a loss than have someone take advantage of them. Seeing that the people in their lords have money and can go into the bank, all they think about is how to use that money.
Put it into your own pocket and drain your people to nothing, instead of thinking about what benefits the bank can do to them.
It's like someone has great confidence in the spread of the forum. In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is impossible for those illiterate people to become users of the forum. And there are many such idiots who are confused. Bank
The same is true for development plans. I thought they were very thoughtful at the beginning, but in fact they were full of flaws when implemented.
Of course, if we leave the matter alone, after a few generations, when all those old stubborns are dead, banks may be able to enter places that were originally inaccessible. But as time goes by, will something unpredictable happen? Lin
Not guaranteed at all.
For example, there are similar financial institutions that have emerged to seize the blank markets before the bank of the Gold Coin Goddess enters.
Even facing the challenges of these newcomers, Lin is confident that relying on the alliance between World Tree and Elf, he can use violence to solve all problems or people who create problems. But if someone intervenes, no matter whether it can be solved later or not, this matter
It's enough in itself to make someone feel sick.
What does Murphy's Law say? As long as things have the possibility of going bad, they will definitely go bad! Not to mention that you have allowed enough time to brew.
Therefore, Lin feels that it is not a bad thing to show the sharp claws of the gold coin goddess at the right time. After all, the current scale of the bank means that for those who have already invested in it, the cost of quitting is too high, and there is no fear that they will back down.
Therefore, even if they are trying to make a fool of themselves, there should not be many noble lords who dare to harm themselves and throw away the bank. Of course, we do not rule out some idiots who are fond of self-imposed palaces.
Since we want to change the passive promotion of the bank into active promotion, shorten the time to lay out the entire land, and reduce the possibility of others intervening after reacting, then tomorrow's imperial meeting should be a very suitable press conference
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Lin thought this to himself, smiling happily at the same time.
Of course, a good mood will bring good sleep, and naturally there will be nothing to do all night until dawn.
It was still a familiar face, Count Efron took great pains to bring the gold coin goddess and his entourage to the palace in a carriage. The destination was the meeting hall in the completely opposite direction to the green hall last night.
The layout of the royal palace of the Karlsruhe Empire was not a complete building that included all political functions. Instead, it was composed of palaces, each with one or several different uses. The farther to the back, the further away from the main entrance.
, the purpose of the palace becomes more personal.
What's special is that there is no concept of a 'harem' in the Lost Land, and there is no so-called defense for men and women. However, the palaces that pay more attention to privacy, such as the sleeping palace and the bath palace, are also located at the back. The more public the purpose, the more private the palace.
The position is further forward.
After entering the palace gate, the first thing you encounter is the guard post of the emperor. Then walking to the right is the green hall for holding banquets; walking to the left is the meeting hall where the nobles discuss and decide on military and political affairs.
I visited the Green Hall last night, but it was the first time for Lin to enter the Empire's meeting hall. So under the leadership of the count, Lin had a good look at this building that had never been made public on the forum.
The appearance of the meeting hall, except for the imperial coat of arms, had no other identifying marks. Lin would have thought it was a temple of some kind of god. The high triangular roof, rows of marble columns, everything was simple.
style of.
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But there is one common feature, and that is 'big'. And it is so big that people think that there are giants in the racial composition of the empire. In other words, when the meeting hall was first built, the giants were one of the goals.
Design made.
Looking at the whitewashed walls and towering pillars, Lin and the elves were unmoved. Lin was because this kind of building, which was similar to the Parthenon, could not arouse his admiration; the well-informed elves were even more
Needless to say, the group of people behaved quite calmly and walked into the meeting hall.
A large number of people had already gathered in the lobby. When Lin and his entourage entered the lobby under the roll call of the attendants, they immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.
Although I have not seen many halls in empires or kingdoms used to handle political affairs. But in the few halls I have seen, only the emperor (king) and queen (queen) have seats, and everyone else, regardless of their status or age
, position, they can only stand when they want to discuss political affairs on this occasion.
The layout of the meeting hall of the Karlsruhe Empire is a little different. Of course there are seats for the emperor and his wife, but ministers involved in political affairs also have their own seats. But it is not a chair for each person, but a high step platform.
, and a long board used as a seat.
With the emperor's seat as the center line, the high step platform is divided into left and right sides. Seats are freely available, but basically people of the same faction will sit together, and everyone will have fixed seats and will not sit randomly.
Although there is no rule that hostile parties must sit on opposite sides, Lin, who has just entered, can see that the nobles on both sides are tit-for-tat. It's just that his group destroyed the original balance and drew all the attention to himself.