Rawls yawned and got up from the bed. The personal servant Morris had already placed a cup of brewed Marquis black tea on the table beside the bed. After taking a few sips, he went directly to the bathroom on the second floor.
Today is Saturday, and there will be very few things to deal with in the morning, so as usual, Rawls will take a bath first.
At 8:15, after washing up, Rawls put on a lavender dressing gown under the service of his valet Morris, and went to the restaurant downstairs to prepare breakfast: eggs, bacon, and jam.
white bread, milk.
After breakfast, the butler August presented the ironed newspaper to Rawls according to Rawls's Saturday habit, along with this week's bills and various meeting notices in the next few days.
"Bavart's shareholding changes, many nobles inject capital"
“The seven major banks ushered in the largest shareholding changes”
"If the nobles intervene in the bank, what will be the future fate of the bank?"
…
I flipped through several newspapers in succession, "Backlund Daily", "Backlund Post", "Tasok News", "Daily Observer", all the large newspapers in Backlund had similar titles, and they were all reporting
The same thing:
Under the leadership of Earl Hall, more than a dozen land nobles and even a marquis purchased the shares of the seven major banks in Loen and became their shareholders.
The Kingdom of Loen uses a centralized bill clearing method to handle transfers between banks in the same city, but unlike its counterparts in the Republic of Intis, not all banks here can join this ranks.
The seven largest banks firmly hold this power, so they are also called clearing banks, leaving other banks to rely on them.
Although the shares acquired by these nobles are not large, it is enough to eliminate the need for them to obtain income from land rent. The most important thing is that these conservative-leaning nobles have dug a nail in the financial world of the New Party camp.
This should be one of the conditions for the reconciliation of the conflict between the Conservative Party and the New Party this time. Rawls snapped his fingers, and the butler August came forward, bowed his head and said:
"gentlemen."
"Go and check the recent status of the major companies in which Earl Hall has a stake."
"OK."
Of course Rawls didn't want to take advantage of the opportunity to get a piece of the pie. He didn't have that much money, and even if he had money, he couldn't get in. Without the help of Earl Hall, a big banker, how could those land aristocrats buy shares in the seven major banks?
He believed that simply investing in a bank would never satisfy the Conservative Party's appetite. The only possibility was that Earl Hall would provide more benefits.
Putting down the newspaper, Rawls took the bill on the side and looked at the numbers on it. His eyebrows were beating. This week's expenditure exceeded 200 pounds, reaching an exaggerated 226 pounds, and this month's account only had
A measly 73 pounds and 9 sulers were left.
This week, no, this month, Rawls did not hold a dance or banquet at home, but he did attend a lot of banquets. The specifications of these banquets were far beyond Rawls's class, so all the money was spent on
On clothes and attire.
For example, the price of the sapphire tie pin when Rawls attended the ball at Count Wolfe's house was around 96 pounds, nearly half of this week's expenditure. Plus those custom-made evening dresses, leather shoes, etc., the amount on the account
There is not much money left.
There was still more than two thousand in his account, but Rawls suddenly discovered that if he paid for the cane on Monday, his account would be empty.
Although Alger still owed him two thousand pounds, water from afar could not quench his thirst nearby! When he got rich, he was afraid that he would have to sell the house.
Has Klein’s poor god attribute infected me?
Rawls rubbed his temples, he had to transfer money from the office account, otherwise the expenses for next week might not be enough.
Forget it, let’s sell more knowledge in Monday’s tarot meeting. Think about what can be sold. And now only Audrey has the money to buy it, but she has already sold two recipes, what else can she sell?
?
Information about major mysterious organizations? Or also sell the Sequence 6 formula?
Shaking his head, Rawls got up and went upstairs to change clothes. He had already paid out the butler August. It was time to see what the capabilities of the cane he ordered were worth the 4,000 pounds Alger said.
He and Lord Philip chatted very late yesterday, and the two of them also made preliminary plans and division of labor for the reconstruction of the Hillston Police Department. Rawls and Philip had a clear division of labor. Rawls only came up with ideas, and Philip was responsible for the specific implementation.
, both of them are very satisfied with this division of labor.
Rawls originally planned to rest at the Carlton Club, but when he thought that his first extraordinary weapon might have arrived at Pulitzer Harbor, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he chose to go home.
However, it takes an hour to take the steam train from Backlund to Pulitzer Harbor, and there are no steam trains at night. Rawls may not be able to bring the cane back to Backlund even at dawn.
So after Rawls returned home, he went directly to the Anchor Bar and asked the owner Ken List to help him retrieve his cane. Ken knew that he had a close relationship with the "Viscount of Fear" Bird Mustang, and he also had an interest in the extraordinary.
He has a certain understanding of weapons and his fear of becoming an extraordinary person, so Rawls is not worried about problems.
Calculating the time, it's already past 10 o'clock, and it's enough time to go back and forth.
…
Rolls, who was dressed as Jeffrey Lister, climbed directly over the wall into the back wall of the bar and knocked on Ken Lister's door.
"Squeak"
The wooden door opened a crack and Ken List was visibly relieved when he saw that it was Rawls. He opened the door and motioned for Rawls to enter.
As soon as Rawls entered, Ken List wiped the sweat from his bald head and complained:
"You're finally here, why are you here so late?"
Looking at Ken's bald head covered with beads of sweat and his white shirt that was already soaked with sweat, Rawls touched the beard that had just been attached and said with a smile:
"Uncle Ken, it's rare to see you like this."
Ken glared at Rawls, walked aside, wiped his face with a wet towel, and said vaguely:
"I shouldn't have agreed to help you get such a dangerous thing yesterday. Take it away quickly. It's under my bed!"
Rawls chuckled, walked to Ken's bed, held the bed frame with one hand, lowered his head and looked under the bed, and saw a black iron box about one meter lying quietly on the ground.
He reached out and pulled out the box, placed it on the wine box aside, blew away the almost non-existent dust on it, touched the mysterious patterns engraved on it, and after touching it with his spirituality, he confirmed that it had not been opened. Rawls was satisfied.
nodded.
Ken on the side saw Rawls putting the iron box on the wine box, thinking that Rawls was going to open it, he hurriedly ran to the door:
"Jeffrey, you can't open this box here! Take it away! Go home and see!"