I don’t know whether it was intentional or just the rules. The invited guests had no seats, so they had to stand in front of the central podium.
Coupled with the malicious gazes around him, Lin suddenly felt like a gladiator standing in the center of the Roman arena, preparing to sacrifice his victory or his own flesh and blood to the gods. And the circle of Romans sitting outside
Citizens, they are just looking forward to the scene of blood and flesh.
But according to someone's observation, there are no such high-risk elements among the nobles present. Even if there are warriors with energy levels in their bodies that reach the level of the Empress, they are all gray-haired old men. Of course, these people are not at the level of extraordinary beings, so
There is every reason to doubt that a few of them can still fight.
In other words, just relying on the strength and experience of the elves behind them, they can easily carry out a massacre in the meeting hall of the Karlsruhe Empire. This does not require you to do it yourself.
As for not doing anything yet, first consider the strength gap between one's own people and those who are not one's own, as well as the route of escape. This is already someone's subconscious reaction. Escape is easy to say, and the flash technique takes everything. As for the strength gap, it is only approximate.
It's just an estimate, and I don't rule out the possibility that I might be wrong. Some people still regard the two principles of not wasting money and saving their lives as their top priority.
After arriving and standing in front of the podium, Lin opened his mouth and said hello: "Dear gentlemen, I am the messenger of the gold coin goddess Koin, the magician Gabrash Tripwood. Good day, everyone."
The reason why I didn't talk about my title of great magician was because I was not recognized by the local magician association in the Karlsruhe Empire. Even so, I was able to use the title I got in the holy city of Estali to call myself.
But it is inevitable that there will be some discordant voices or challengers.
In order to avoid trouble, Lin should be more conservative. Anyway, the focus today is not on his own magician rank. Just showing his identity as the gold coin goddess elector will have enough cards.
After giving a half salute to the empress sitting on the throne, Lin continued: "I came here today to explain to all of you adults about the banking belief that Her Majesty the goddess wants to promote."
With this as a prelude, Lin briefly stated the banking services currently provided. Of course, he also used the 'faith' of the gods as a cover, but the content was much more concise. After all, when reporting to a group of elders, they did not need to know the detailed operations.
As for the details, you just need to know how much benefit you can get from it and where the benefit points are.
If you don’t talk about money with your friends, talking about money will hurt your feelings; if you only talk about money with your boss, there will be no topic if you don’t talk about money. Talk about financial management at the low end, and talk about taste at the high end. But of course it’s impossible to talk about clothes with the other party in a business report like this.
What kind of fabric to wear, how to match it in what season, etc. So it’s better to be more vulgar and just talk about money.
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As one of the five great empires of Midland, the fine money minted by the Karlsruhe Empire is a very good point of interest. It has enough gold content that it can increase after exchanging it for Coin coins, which means that its own wealth can be increased by one.
To 20%, this is quite attractive to both nobles and commoners.
As for the convenience of bank functions such as cross-regional exchange, you can use the Grand Duke of Kavi family in the Gerwana Empire as an example. The relevant information may not be disclosed much in the open chat section of the forum, but interested people can still find traces. Of course.
, the disclosure of this information was also approved by the current Grand Duke, and the content was also reviewed by the other party to avoid the appearance of something inappropriate.
Once the two trump cards came out, basically all the benefits that the bank could provide were exhausted. But this benefit was the result of the gold coin goddess treating everyone equally, and the nobles did not get more benefits from it than the common people.
In fact, the struggles in most areas are concentrated in this part. The noble lords always think that they are entitled to get more. Of course, the nobles of the Karlsruhe Empire also have the same idea, and they are even more greedy.
During the question-answering stage, some nobles immediately started discussing how much tax money should be collected from the Gold Goddess... This thought left some people speechless.
In the history of Earth or Lost Land, there was a reason for not collecting taxes from religious groups. Therefore, the political powers of all dynasties have always thought about how to weaken the influence of these religious groups, and found various excuses to seize the land and industries from them.
Get a piece of the pie.
But this idea directly affects a god, and someone wants to ask: Are you serious? A living god. If it goes crazy, it will not change the world, at least it will shake the earth.
To such a request, Lin could only give a formulaic answer. The Goddess of Gold Coins only uses her divine power to provide believers with some convenience in using money. The handling fees charged for this are only to maintain the daily expenses of bank employees everywhere.
No profit was made from it.
Since she doesn't make money, she certainly can't pay taxes. Besides, does the Gold Coin Goddess need money? All she needs is the circulation of money, that's all.
Secondly, the money received by the Gold Coin Goddess is not hers, but is deposited by others in their divine kingdom and kept by the goddess. Of course, there is no reason to pay taxes.
Then someone asked the Gold Goddess to reduce the handling fee issue, or even completely waive the handling fees that nobles pay when depositing and withdrawing money. The reason... Anyway, the nobles who proposed could not give a good reason. I kept going over and over again.
Noble blood is very noble and there is no need to pay this money.
Think about the various tax cuts and preferential measures provided by countries around the world for new startups and high-tech industries. Let’s not discuss where the saved money disappears in the end. When a company’s financial statements do not look good,
, the first words of those CEOs and general managers were: The government’s tax cuts and support were not strong enough, so they did not make money…
The original intention of the government to collect taxes is to redistribute wealth, so the rich are taxed heavily and the poor are taxed lightly. But what is the actual situation, someone really doesn't want to say more.
Although the bank is part of the Gold Coin Goddess' belief, even people with weak beliefs can use it. But this does not mean that people who work in the bank have to live off the donations of believers like other churches of gods in the past.
So no matter what, in order to maintain the normal operation of the bank, handling fees must be collected.
But it is impossible for Lin to put this burden on ordinary depositors and let go of the nobles who are most likely to have large sums of money coming in and out. As for the reasons for rejecting others, there are also ready-made reasons, such as gods treating believers equally, unless the nobles are willing to show
The more sincerity you have, the more privileges you will have. This is how any divine church does it, and there is nothing wrong with it.
But for those who strive for this privilege, there are problems everywhere, okay.
They are also very clear about the faces of various churches. At least the life faction in the Three Holy Lights Church has many contacts with them. It is said that as long as the money is in place, the dead can be resurrected. And they are really resurrected, not just talk.
That's all. Of course, the dead person must be fresh enough. If the person has been dead for too long, the body will be incomplete.
But the nobles originally made these demands in order to save money. But now they have to contribute a sum of money in exchange for their privileged status. What's going on?
Do you really think that the aristocrats who are obsessed with the land are the local tycoons and tycoons of the earth? In order to reach the top of the rankings, they don't feel bad about throwing a lot of money into the water. They just want to save face.
Impossible! Although the nobles of Lost Land also care about face, they are still much more pragmatic. People who pretend to be fat are rare, but they are very rare. So someone can make these people give up their minds with a few words.
Although faced with a series of doubts, it can be seen that these are just the appetizers. The nobles who came forward to propose fighting for privileges were all minor nobles, and no heavyweights came forward. And the things they proposed were all commonplace.
The advantage of this is that no one has ever succeeded in making requests to the Goddess of Gold Coins in other places. But from the standpoint of the empire, they have to raise them and express their attitude.
Then let some small nobles come forward, knowing that the only outcome is failure, at least everyone's face will not be too ugly. But if it is proposed and the fight succeeds, then everyone will benefit. There is nothing wrong with it.
But after the appetizers have been served, it’s time to finally bring the main course to the table.
Duke Infanta was the first to stand up. He looked at a magician who was talking eloquently and said: "Your Excellency, the establishment of the bank will change all coins into coins with the portrait of Her Majesty the goddess.
No longer use coins minted by each country. Maybe you have explained the various benefits of doing so, but I don’t see many benefits to the empire. Can you please explain and leave the job of minting coins to the goddess?
Your Majesty, what good will it do to the empire?"
Oh, after all, someone asked this question! Lin smiled happily. I thought I was going to find a way to lead the topic to this aspect, but someone brought it up. I don’t know how many traps the other party saw in this matter.
?
Lin responded with a polite smile: "My lord, you are asking this question because you probably have doubts about the right to mint money. But first I want to ask your lord, what is your identity to ask me this question?"
Duke Infanta was a little surprised by this unexpected reaction. But this emotion only lasted a moment. He asked the key point keenly: "What kind of identity does it mean? Please explain clearly."
"To put it simply, it is three different identities, and I have three different answers. The first identity is an ordinary bank user; the second identity is a noble lord; and the third identity is on the side of the empire.
Take the issue of minting rights at a high level."
"Can you please tell me something?" Duke Infanta's curiosity was aroused, and he used honorifics to someone, but he didn't know it.
Lin didn't care about the difference, and explained with a scheming smile: "Users of ordinary banks do not have the right to mint coins. Therefore, the benefits of using Coin coins through bank exchange have actually been mentioned before.
There are many. These are also the main points of publicity in the process of promoting the bank, so I won’t go into details here.
"As for the position of noble lords, it is mainly for those who have mines in their territory. Because the goddess can accept gold, silver, and copper ores and exchange them for a certain amount of Koin coins according to purity and weight. But no lord should be willing.
See, the miners taking advantage of the mining opportunity to line their own pockets.
"Then the last point is, from the perspective of the empire, look at the fact that the coinage power fell into the hands of the goddess. I can responsibly say that this is definitely the stupidest thing in the history of the Karlsruhe Empire, and even all the countries on earth.
, the worst decision is no different from betraying the country! But not handing over the right to mint money will lead to the destruction of the country. It is worse than betraying the country!"