On the 27th, the dark brown dirt road in Walding was filled with dust from the carriages passing by early in the morning.
The idle streetwalker sits on the roadside, smoking low-quality cigarettes and glancing greedily at the people passing by.
A carriage stopped near the bank, and a young man wearing a white tunic and a peaked cap got out of it.
He was high-spirited, his face was moist, and he seemed to be favored by luck. Even the security guard standing by the door gave this man a strange look.
"I, Hu Hansan, am back again!"
Pushing open the door of the bank arrogantly, the young man walked to the bank counter with long strides and shouted to the teller who was not very approachable: "I am Victor Damon."
"Yes, I know you, sir, do you have any questions?" The teller said polite words with an indifferent expression.
"I need to open the safe in Damon's house. The contents are mine now."
Victor said confidently.
"What?" The teller looked like he had heard something wrong, "That's not possible, you have to fill out Form 404."
Form 404...
"It's Form 404 again. Mr. Thomas has approved my inheritance. Haven't you been notified?" Victor raised his right eyelid, a little dissatisfied.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what you are talking about. I just follow the rules." The teller still insisted without flinching.
Victor was a little annoyed, and seeing that he was about to lose his temper, a staff member immediately came down from upstairs and said to Victor and the teller: "I just received notice from Mr. Thomas that Victor Dimon is now the official heir of the Dimon family.
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Victor turned around and saw, wasn't this the staff member who made things difficult for him last time?
Now, he has regained the right to operate the plantation. This guy has changed his previous contemptuous attitude and proactively came to Victor's rescue with a smile on his face.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Victor. This is an oversight on our part. We will take out the contents of the bank safe and give them to you immediately." After the staff member finished speaking, the teller's expression also changed and he kept apologizing to Victor.
I went inside to find the safe number.
The world is so delicate. When you hit rock bottom, any insignificant person will become a stumbling block for you. On the contrary, when you return to power and status, everything will become a boost to follow the trend.
The Damon family has been arrogant in the town of Walding for many years. People live cautiously in the shadow of the plantation. Compared with the disaster caused by offending this local snake family, people are more accustomed to fawning.
After all, they once hired dozens of gun-toting thugs.
"Found it, Mr. Victor, please count these items, then sign and fingerprint."
Victor took the package with a cheerful face, and after weighing it, he felt something was wrong.
Wait a minute, isn’t it money?
Victor's expression did not change and he sat on a chair aside to take stock.
Most of the contents of the safe package were documents, with a small amount of banknotes and coins mixed at the bottom.
Victor took out banknotes and coins of different denominations and sorted them bit by bit.
1 50-fafa note, 3 10-fafa notes, 6 2-fafa banknotes, 9 1-fafa notes, and a bunch of coins, a dozen 1-fafa notes, and 2 50-cent notes.
French points...
In short, it all adds up to just a fraction of 100 Faka.
This is all the cash the Dimon family has left.
Victor couldn't believe it, this was not as much as he had won from gambling earlier.
"My family can't be that poor, right? This amount of money is at most a middle-class person's income in less than a year..."
How did the Damon family manage the plantation? Is it possible that all the money was really burned in the fire?
Victor frowned and began to look at the messy pile of signed paper documents.
Since it was deliberately stored in a bank safe, it must be a very important thing.
Sure enough, Victor quickly discovered the problem of the family's lack of cash.
It was a bond tied with a rubber band in the middle of the document.
The signature on the bond indicated that the Dimon family had lent a large sum of money to someone in the past, amounting to as much as 50,000 francs!
Seeing this, Victor was stunned.
In his memory of the past ten years, there was no such incident at all. Perhaps the cheap father secretly lent it out without telling the family.
"Fifty thousand Faka..." Victor swallowed.
This can completely drain his family...
The borrower's signature was a bit blurry and could not be seen completely. Victor only knew that the person's name was "Cain".
I can't see the last name at all, maybe because the paper has been stored for a long time and the ink is soaked in and blurred.
This is troublesome, because it will make recovering the debt very troublesome.
"Good guy, I have every reason to suspect that the murder of my family has something to do with this borrower." Victor muttered secretly.
Now the only person who has surfaced is Augusta, who was directly responsible for the fire at Damon's house.
Whether there is any dispute with this borrower is hard to say.
After putting away the bonds, Victor looked through other documents.
There is a document signed by the government that is the land deed for hundreds of acres of land in the plantation and is certified by the "Homestead Act".
The "Homestead Law" is a land law promulgated by the Cyclades government in 1806, immediately after the eastward movement began in the Third Era. It is one of the important laws after Cyclades became independent.
The law stipulates that as long as a citizen of the United States pays a registration fee of 10 faraka for living and farming, he can receive an allotment of eastern land of no more than 160 acres. If he cultivates or lives on the homestead for half a year, he will be charged 1 faraka per mu.
Those who pay the card fee will own the land they receive.
Of course, these lands were plundered from the indigenous peoples by the residents of the United States.
In order to occupy these plundered goods, the federal government used preferential policies such as the Homestead Act to stimulate immigrants to go east, and together with the gold rush, formed the final eastward movement.
With this land deed, Victor can legally produce crops.
He put the documents away and looked at the following ones.
"Brewery inventory list?"
Victor frowned and stared at the piece of scrap yellow paper with a corner missing in his hand.
This thing feels like it was mixed into the safe by mistake. After all, the importance of paper is not at the same level as other documents.
But because of this piece of paper, Victor knew that the Damon family was making money by privately brewing wine.
Although Prohibition was promulgated in 1860 in the Third Era, four years ago, there are always people who will find ways to secretly brew wine and sell it.
Especially in places like the East, where the federal government is beyond the reach of the federal government, many taverns use the empty bottles produced before the decree was promulgated to fill new wine and sell it to customers.
Even with a big cover like Cornwall Energy Company, the government turns a blind eye. Unless people from the Prohibition Bureau are personally present, there is no way to control it.
"Interesting... Go back to the family ruins and look for the locked barns to see if there is any production equipment..."
Victor secretly geared up, after all, this is a profitable industry.
After checking some more documents, Victor's eyes finally rested on the agreement signed with Cornwall Energy Company. This was also the fundamental reason why the Dimon family was manipulated by Thomas.
Victor's entire face froze because he saw that in this agreement, it was clearly written that Cornish Energy Company would pay the Dimon family's land tax for the first year and the funds to hire gunmen and purchase serfs.
.After three years, the Dimon family must ensure that the plantation's profit per season is more than 1,000 faraka, and Cornwall Energy Company will take half of the profit, no less than 500 faraka.