Chapter 1,266 Planning for the Grand Duke Level
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Are phone calls expensive?
This simple sentence made Lin have many associations. First of all, when Ke Yin appeared in front of him in this form for the first time, someone was really shocked.
After questioning, I found out that the last time I took Hefquin to Coin's Kingdom of God and summoned this twin-tailed mechanical girl, some nanoworms had stayed in the Kingdom of the Goddess of Gold Coins. Because of this, he reached an agreement with Coin, and Hefquin became the bridge of communication between the goddess of gold coins and her chosen people.
It can't be helped because someone is not a believer but an atheist. Although the identity of the chosen one was given, it was accepted by someone in a special way, without truly resonating with the divine power of the Goddess of Gold Coins. The goddess usually couldn't take the initiative to contact someone, so she was forced to come up with such a method.
But Lin didn't know the contents of the agreement Hef Queen reached with Coin. You know, it is impossible to get these robots who were formerly elemental creatures or even elemental lords to do things for nothing. The reason why someone seems to be able to manipulate them at will is because he has a great favor and the promise of five expeditions can be replaced.
Hefquin seems to be in front of someone because there is an additional agreement between the two. That is, Lin agreed to let the hive queen stay with her, giving her the opportunity to learn some knowledge that she had not told other robots.
But if the nanoworm aggregate is asked to do something that is not directly related to itself, it will require additional costs. If there is no accounting or debt, it must be settled in cash.
The most important point is that just like the conditions Hefquin offered to the old Duke as a joke before, the cost of letting an elemental lord take action is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. It has nothing to do with how troublesome the matter is, but to do with the rank of the person who takes action. This is a common practice for elemental elves.
From the earliest level, the elemental elves who have not even condensed their bodies, to the highest level, elemental creatures recognized by the elemental spirits and belonging to the lord level. After they accept the summons, no matter what the summoner's requirements are, they will not compromise. executed. However, the elemental elves will not care whether their abilities are sufficient to carry out the request, nor will they bargain.
Even if it is a slayer of gods, the summoned elemental spirits will faithfully carry out their orders. Of course, a weak person may be crushed to death by a finger of the god and return to the elemental world; a strong person may be able to scratch some of the god's skin and then be beaten to death.
Anyway, when elemental elves accept a summons, success is never guaranteed. They only execute orders. If the order is completed, leave; if the order is not completed, if you are beaten to death, you will leave.
No matter what the order is, it is common knowledge in the land that sacrificing tributes of different values can summon elemental spirits of different levels.
Once you reach the level of the Elemental Lord, you can't just sell the Summoner; you may have to sell several generations, or even sacrifice an entire city, in order to get the Elemental Lord's response. In this regard, the appearance of gods is no exception.
If Hef Queen and Coin's assimilation communication protocol is paid per second. So after calling her out before, she was left alone to discuss things by herself. No wonder the gold coin goddess went crazy.
It's just that Lin couldn't help but be curious about what the price was for even the gods to feel physical pain.
In short, Hefquin didn't want to help, so the old Duke couldn't force her to help. Not to mention Mr. Kawei, I’m afraid the emperor of the empire wouldn’t even come forward. So the twin-tailed mechanical girl shook her hand, said hello, and then disintegrated the girl's aggregate, turned into loose sand again, and disappeared from everyone's sight.
The old Duke had no choice but to continue to neglect a god, especially now that he still had something to ask for. So turning his attention back to little Ke Yin on the table, Duke Kawei started negotiations with the Gold Coin Goddess.
In fact, ever since he got the news about the bank, Kaweigong has been thinking about how he can use the bank and what functions he needs the bank to add. This kind of thinking actually comes from the training of cars, which allows the old Duke's ideas about new things to no longer be limited by old experiences, but to think as much as possible and then think about the possibility of realization.
And as a great nobleman, it's not like he has never dealt with gods. Just like someone's unaccustomed common sense of the lost world, the distance between the lost gods and humans is not that far away. Although it's not to the extent of being able to respond to requests, it's not the kind of thing that makes heaven and earth unresponsive.
After having ideas and preliminary plans, and discussing with Ke Yin, the matter came to a conclusion quickly. Anyway, the attitude of the gods has always been very simple. Can this be done or not? If it doesn't work, then even the initial effort can be saved; if it can work, then of course it will be arranged according to the plan. There is little room for bargaining.
What's more, the old Duke had made quite a lot of plans before he came. After all, a great ducal family should have all kinds of experts behind it.
If these people were asked to build a car, something that had never existed in the land a few years ago, I'm afraid they really wouldn't be able to do anything about it. But for an organization like a bank, as long as they know what it does and how to follow the rules, they will have wasted their time in a great ducal family before they can have fun.
The reason why the Gold Coin Goddess had the patience to discuss it with a mortal like this was because the Grand Duke's craftsmanship was not comparable to that of ordinary people like Lin.
The old Duke asked a magician who was idle to pull out a map of the Dukedom of Kawei. And marked more than a dozen places underground in the duchy where banks are scheduled to be set up.
These are all cities with a population of more than a certain number. They are not necessarily directly owned by Duke Kawei. Some of them are the territory of the old Duke's vassals. The old man has nothing to say about the strength of his control over his vassals. With both soft and hard tactics, others who want to gain leverage and develop a traitor will have no way of doing it.
So when the old Duke nodded his head when it came to setting up a bank, the people below wouldn't stop him. Not to mention that banks are a good thing. Just converting those good coins and bad coins into gold and silver coins is what everyone wants.
By the way, the gold coin goddess is optimistic that she directly uses her own name for the new money. There is no benefit in saying anything to God. The most important thing is that the power of belief in Him grows.
In short, the old Duke's status as a veteran ruling class, his vision and layout are different from those of a person who has been a commoner all his life.
It is said that one of the reasons why a large number of people will gather in CD City, whether in Mystery or on Earth, is that the location is a transportation center. Perhaps the saying "If you want to be rich, build roads first" has not been said before, but the truth is still there.
In other words, radiating from the location chosen by the old duke, it encompasses the entire Dukedom of Kawi. The placement of banks in these locations not only allows them to be used by the most people, but is also very helpful for economic exchanges within the territory.
This means that the old Duke understands that the main function of the bank is actually the ability to deposit and withdraw money from other places, and the exchange of currency or the safekeeping of coins are only incidental. Perhaps the simplification of coin transportation can only be done at nodes where banks are opened; if you want to go outside, you have to make physical coins and let people take them away. But just by doing this, it can save a lot of manpower and improve safety.
Earlier, the social background of the entire world was still in a state of chaos. Even within the empire, there were robbers blocking the way, or monsters going out to perform tooth sacrifices. If people want to steal money, they don't care who the money belongs to. Without strength to protect you, you deserve to be robbed.
Perhaps in the past two hundred years, the Gwana Empire has been internally stable, and no one in the carriages used by the nobles to transport money dared to make mistakes. But from time to time, unexpected events occur, causing a certain year's tax revenue to fall into the ravine. Maybe you can get it back later, but it's always troublesome.
Nowadays, these troubles can be solved by using the functions of the bank, and the various costs saved are difficult for the old Duke, as the ruling class, to ignore. Even the team under him imitated the gameplay of the auto center and handed over the budget book and comparison table, which moved this old man who has always been politically indifferent. This is what actively promoted the establishment of banks.
It's certainly a good thing for the Coin Goddess that someone is willing to push the bank hard. And unlike someone who is petty and petty, Duke Kawei, in addition to more than ten points in the duchy, the internal bank of the automobile center also directly participated in the proposal.
Perhaps the total number of people in these places who will use banking functions in the first place may not be as large as that of the Holy City of Estali. After all, the economic levels and scales of the two places are different. But when it comes to influence, it belongs to a different level.
In the holy city of Estali, those who come to open a bank account, whether they are great magicians, wizards, apprentices, or those with mud-legged skills who do not understand magic, are essentially ordinary people. They only use money to buy their daily necessities or to satisfy their personal desires.
But when it comes to a ruling class like the aristocracy, the use of money may determine life or death. Building city walls, building water canals, building roads, and dispatching food, each has its own strategic significance. According to Coin, this kind of money is not equivalent to ordinary people's money.
When the goddess of gold coins says this, the meaning behind it is worth pondering.
Originally, Lin thought that as long as the money flow was smooth, the power of the gold coin goddess would surge upwards. I never thought about the difference between money and money. It sounds like there is some flavor of causality in it.
It's a pity that I am not a god, let alone the god of money, so I can't personally experience the difference. As for asking the goddess to explain, that would probably be too much. Some things cannot be experienced by people from different worlds. Just like the poor and the rich, men and women, mortals and gods.
Discussions between big guys don't have to deal with each other word for word and pick at every detail like that of a small person. What's more, the old Duke's plans are all geared towards how to maximize the effectiveness of the bank, rather than seeking personal gain. There is no reason why Ke Yin should not give the green light to such a good customer.
As long as their plans are approved and the people below do things correctly, the bank can be opened immediately after it is completed.
Consecration is a certain way of saying it. According to the custom of the Midi people, whether it is a church or a temple, if you want to have contact with the gods you serve, you need a divine envoy, which can be a priest, or at least a monk who prays devoutly, communicates with heaven, and sends down divine power.
However, Ke Yin's faith was not widespread in the past, and only a few people could become his followers. Therefore, it is a bit difficult to find someone to consecrate someone from other places.
The palm-sized halfling goddess looked at the two people in front of her. Suddenly he said to the old Duke: "How about you also become my elector."