After experiencing a serious setback, all actions against Lin and the elves have slowed down. Of course, this does not mean that they will completely stop and cooperate 100% with what the elves want to do. It just downgrades from the original armed conflict.
It's just an uncooperative attitude.
I originally thought that the advantages of the bank would make nobles flock to it, and they would come to visit one by one. But in practice, Lin once again remembered how low the lower limit of human behavior is.
Yes, all nobles hope that a bank can be built in their territory as soon as possible, or at least they can use the functions of the bank as soon as possible to minimize the loss of their property.
But they are nobles after all, a group of superiors. How can they do some trivial chores by themselves? If they do everything by themselves, what is the point of raising so many people? So things are handed over to subordinates.
Here's the problem! There are actually two ways to win a race. One is to be faster than everyone else, and the other is to make everyone else slower than you.
Since they had to prioritize the speed of building the bank and were handed over to the hands of the empress by a magician, the nobles really had no room to stretch their hands. However, they could bribe other noble subordinates who received priority services from elves to slow down the progress of the bank's construction.
To put it simply, it means I can't outrun you, but I can hold you back.
This kind of behavior is more obvious in some trading towns that are governed by multiple nobles. Because of the large number of managers and the complexity of the personnel, more opportunities can be found for those who want to hold back.
There are many reasons. For example, the originally planned bank construction location is not good and another location needs to be selected. The number of holy emblems that provide the services of the gold coin goddess is insufficient and has been reserved. There are too few privileged rooms exclusively for nobles. There are also
The bank uniforms worn by the elves are too ugly. We need to consider the local style. What proportion should the bank use local workers and what proportion should non-human Homo sapiens use?
Listing all these things, even Lin was amazed. He felt as if he had returned to his hometown and met someone with a black background who was looking for trouble in his career. Anyway, the other party didn't take hard and soft words, and came just to cause trouble.
Like the people of Midi.
Among the people who have always been in contact with Lin, their attitude in dealing with problems is very simple, that is, cooperation or non-cooperation. Once they decide on the attitude of the general direction, they will follow it when encountering detailed problems.
Set a general direction to deal with these details. Fight all the way until things are completed.
But the group of people I met now are that although they seem to be willing to cooperate, as long as they encounter a small problem, they will overthrow everything and start over. They are obsessed with small problems again and again. If they let more impatient people come in, they will not be able to solve the problem.
If you are good, you will be tortured to the point of mental breakdown.
Fortunately, the elves who followed Lin were all seasoned. Faced with such clumsy tricks, their attitudes were calm. Besides, during all the processes, transportation issues were left to the local lords to arrange, and
It's not about relying on the advantage of flashing to shorten the time wasted in traffic. Anyway, as the old saying goes, the goddess of gold coins is not in a hurry.
They will give up the use of Flash Technique. In addition to being clumsy, it is also because the survey of the bank location requires the assistance of the lord. These people do not have the protection of the elves' holy robes, and World Tree does not want to expend great efforts for these people. So instead of the elves,
They flashed to the destination first, and then waited for the local lord to send people to meet up. It was better to act together from the beginning and save the effort of contacting each other.
Perhaps doing so will prolong the time and increase the chances of uncontrollable factors emerging. But at this stage, the bank of the Gold Coin Goddess is on a roll, and there is no way to stop it. It has never been Her Majesty the Gold Coin Goddess who should be anxious.
As for a certain lazy human being, after he showed part of his strength - in the eyes of outsiders, it was all his strength -, no one went to this only human being in response to the bank's promotion behavior.
The nobles would rather wait for the sixteen elves to have free time than to find the human who is always idle. The reason is also very considerate. Since the magician is the chosen one of the goddess, he naturally has his cards, and everyone also
There is no need to trouble him with trivial matters. The elector should stand in a higher position and control everything.
However, this does not mean that someone can be lazy every day, wait for reports from the elf subordinates below, and then go to the Jade Palace to sleep at night. At least the bank work in the territory directly under the empress fell to Lin. And since he promised to
To help, of course Lin can't just eat and sleep all day long, he has to do some serious things.
According to Lin's previous judgment, the imaginary master, the intelligence chief of Alegria, finally showed up. It's no wonder that the other party was well hidden by the empress, not only because he did not have a noble title, but more importantly
No one would take a goblin seriously.
If he was clearly put on the table, it might lower the empress's evaluation in the eyes of outsiders and bring trouble to the goblin. So after the two parties discussed it, the goblin agreed to become the man invisible behind the empress.
Another reason is that this goblin named Luca is actually a liaison between the empress and the imperial goblin group, and does not fully represent the goblins. Luca's ability to be a direct face-to-face liaison with the emperor
There is.
However, considering the jealousy of the goblin group, Luka does not want to get too many benefits and become a target for his own people. Therefore, he usually keeps a low profile when doing things. From this perspective, this little guy does have
Beyond the wisdom of goblins.
As a multi-racial country, the Karlsruhe Empire certainly has the race of goblins, both civilized and uncivilized. And because of various problems with goblin character and the influence of their uncivilized close relatives, the empire
Of course, the treatment for goblins is not much better, and the jobs they can do are also low-level jobs.
Furthermore, for a country that advocates force and allows itself to rely on strength to fight for everything, it is no surprise that the thin goblins have become the weakest in the empire. For such a weak group, if they meet a weak emperor, they will look at each other.
So united.
Although goblins are weak, the role they can play is far greater than imagined. Because of their huge number, goblins are almost everywhere in every city and village in the empire. Because they do the most menial job, plus
They can be killed easily, so no one is wary of these goblins. The combination of these two factors makes goblins a very good member of the intelligence network.
Furthermore, in the history of Mystery, goblins are the species of Homo sapiens that once established an empire, so there is no doubt about their intelligence. So even though the situation of these goblins in the Karlsruhe Empire is not good, they still have
Cultural inheritance and preservation.
The most important one is the goblin writing that is rarely seen by outsiders. These graffiti-like writings have become an important medium for the goblins to isolate themselves from the forum and transmit information. Luca integrates the information transmitted from various places and
After sorting it out, it was handed over to the empress.
Perhaps the work content of goblins in various places is destined to prevent them from having access to very confidential information. But Luka's intelligence analysis ability has reached the level of knowing the subtleties. As long as there are some signs of something, he can follow the clues and find the factors behind it. Then
Then cross-reference it with information from other sources to obtain information with very high credibility and authenticity.
These are also the main reasons why Alegria can maintain itself without control under the oppression of many nobles.
Lin met Luka because the elves' journey was not without success.
Where should the bank be located? It’s not decided based on mood. On Earth, no matter which country it is, banks have their own commercial nature, and the location of the bank must naturally take into account the local demand. A small mountain village with less than a hundred people
, it is impossible to set up a magnificent bank hall; it is impossible to throw away an ATM in a financial center like Wall Street in New York. The two are of course reversed.
In the Lost Land, perhaps the bank under the Goddess of Gold Coin does not have such a strong commercial orientation. However, in the early stages of construction, considering the limited manpower, the priority will be given to towns with large populations.
In addition to population considerations, if industry is used as the reference target for selection, then banks will first be placed near mines that produce gold, silver, and copper, and pure farms are the last consideration. This choice is of course because gold, silver, and copper ores can be used with gold coins.
The goddess's divine power is directly converted into the equivalent value of Coin coins; but there is no place for agricultural products that the goddess can contribute.
There are not many lords who own gold, silver, and copper mines. Usually they are big nobles, and they can live a very wealthy life relying on these three mines. Such people are also more sensitive to money than other land diggers.
They are food aristocrats, so they are particularly active in attracting banks to settle in their territory as soon as possible, even near mines.
Because there are these three kinds of mines, in addition to the use of making tools, the biggest project is to make money. Whether the lord who holds the mines gets permission to mint coins from the emperor, or they sell the ore to the emperor, let
When the official institutions of the empire minted coins, they had to pay an additional amount of money for coinage in addition to the taxes paid for owning the mines.
If the ore in their hands could be directly turned into circulating currency, without being limited by coinage technology, and without the emperor having a hand, who would not be happy?
Therefore, the noble lords who own such mines are of course actively seeking cooperation with the Goddess of Gold Coins, building banks in their territories and even near the mines. If they want to cooperate with the goddess, they have to find those elves.
Therefore, by taking advantage of the convenience of inspecting the location of the bank, the elves have the opportunity to get acquainted with the population and mineral conditions of each region. They can even infer the degree of wealth of the local people from the living conditions of the local people and the quality of their houses and appliances.
It's just that the content of the elves' comments needs to be translated to a certain extent. For example, they describe the tastes of the residents in one place as rustics, in another place as being better than rustics, and in still another place as the tastes of rustics who can't bear to look at them. The best comment is '
A little bit of a look'.
From these internal documents written in elven characters, Lin once again confirmed the sinister nature of these white-skinned pointed ears.
In short, with the information obtained by the elves inspecting various places, Lin had no reason not to combine it with the information in the hands of the empress. But he was not obliged to hand it over in vain, and the same was true for the goblin Luka. Only then did the two sides meet to discuss cooperation.