Chapter 1,345 Meeting Hall
A messy, very unusual, yet quite ordinary banquet ended.
After all, someone failed to stay and spend the night with three beauties at the same time. Although the empress didn't mind, and the other two didn't mind either, they didn't invite her. Someone was just flirting with her, but they didn't really dare to do anything.
It's not that Lin Youse is bold, but that tomorrow is a big event. The envoy of the Gold Coin Goddess will go to the imperial meeting to compete with a group of nobles from the Karlsruhe Empire.
When taking over this task from Coin, Lin certainly studied the current development of the bank and the situation of the Karlsruhe Empire. It is not yet certain whether the empress was an old acquaintance at that time. Even if it is an old acquaintance, it is also uncertain how much friendship is left. So at the beginning, Lin just made a plan that would work.
Anyway, the development of banks is a general trend, it is just a matter of speed, and no one can stop it. But if the development goes wrong, Lin will still take care of it. At least he doesn't want to create that kind of unprecedented financial monster in his own hands.
If you do that, you will eat others and yourself. It may not leave a bad name in history, because not many people understand it; but it will not cause less evil than the independent-minded Lao Xi in World War II.
However, after the events of the past few days, coupled with the old and new relationship with the empress, Lin had some different thoughts, instead of just dealing with it. Just how to implement it and to what extent it needs to be achieved actually needs to be discussed with other people.
When doing things, especially teamwork, you are most afraid that the person sitting in the sedan chair will think about it, but the person carrying the sedan chair will not let go. If you force people to go to Liangshan, the beauty of things will change.
Of course Lin couldn't do such a thankless thing. But before asking the empress's sincerity clearly, there are some things that you can prepare in advance, such as increasing the weight of the chips in your hand.
Now that we have made this decision, we have to carefully consider what we should say at tomorrow's imperial meeting. Lin thought so.
However, what makes someone feel emboldened is that banks are now located in the Gwana Empire and the Vader Military State, not to mention all over the country, but have been established in towns with a certain population or above.
The Holy City of Estali, with the help of the Technology Guild, is not only inseparable from people's lives like a certain x-treasure before time travel, but it has also actually entered the lives of many people.
There are also five elven kingdoms that have begun to lay out early. With these areas as the center and radiating outward, it can be said that the development of the bank has been unstoppable. In this case, the style of the Gold Coin Goddess should no longer be as petty and cautious as in the past. It should be no problem to show a little bit of fangs and claws.
Although Ke Yin's attitude was tough in the past, in fact, the main control over whether to establish a bank or not was still in the hands of the local lords. Lin and the elves could only use some interests that everyone could see and that were consistent to lure the lords into agreeing to set up a bank.
However, many lords were dissatisfied with not being able to enjoy the privileges from the establishment of the bank. It's just that they can't change the rules set by the goddess. The only thing they can do is to find ways to hinder the bank when they are unhappy. Although this is a way to kill a thousand enemies and damage yourself by eight hundred, the noble lord cannot bear to be willful.
Similarly, if Ke Yin is dissatisfied, the only available method is to postpone the establishment of the bank in the local area. What I can take to comfort myself is that the manpower to promote banks is limited. Even if a certain place is unwilling, they can put resources in other places. Generally speaking, it will not be a hindrance at all.
But how long can such a passive choice last? As banks have more and more branches, there are also more places where elves can practice, and the training speed of manpower is getting faster and faster.
However, to establish a bank, it takes time to build a house. Even if a ready-made house is provided with the help of powerful local people, it will take time to renovate and decorate the interior. This is not a goddess. With all the people ready and a nod, the bank will be open and online.
If banks continue to expand, they will encounter bottlenecks sooner or later. In other words, the more civilized lords who could accept new things allowed banks to open. Then what is left are some old die-hards and conservatives. Not to mention the goddess trying to take advantage of these people, they themselves may cut off the bank's opportunity to enter their territory.
At that point, will we have to compromise with these stubborn old guard in exchange for the entry of banks? What will those who joined early think? Will they claim the same privileges?
The only difference between doing many things is not doing them and doing them. It is impossible to do them only once or to limit the number of times. As long as a hole is opened, it will be unstoppable. Just like a small crack in a dike will eventually lead to a breach.
Lin's original idea was to rely on the largest number of ordinary people to let them get used to the bank, and in turn, invisibly force the noble lords to accept it. However, after the promotion of actual operating banks, it was discovered that this idea had its flaws.
The first is that the mobility of people in Midland is not as high as one might imagine. Especially in special areas, or those that impose coercive control on their territories, it is easy for these places to block information from the outside world. They could not taste the benefits or convenience from the establishment of the bank, so naturally they could not push the lord to accept it.
Secondly, the authority of the noble lords is still quite strong. And there are quite a few people who would rather suffer a loss than have someone take advantage of them. Seeing that the citizens have money and can go into the bank, they only think about how to put the money into their own pockets and drain their citizens until nothing is left, instead of thinking about the benefits of the bank to them.
It's like someone has incredible confidence in the breadth of the forum. In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is impossible for those who are illiterate to become users of the forum. And there are quite a few such Bai Ding who are lost in the land. The same goes for bank development plans. I thought it was very thoughtful at the beginning, but in fact, it was flawed everywhere in its implementation.
Of course, if we leave things alone, after a few generations, when all the old stubborns are dead, banks may be able to enter places that were previously inaccessible. But as time goes by, Lin can't guarantee whether something unpredictable will happen.
For example, there are similar financial institutions that have emerged to seize the blank markets before the bank of the Gold Coin Goddess enters.
Even facing the challenges of these newcomers, Lin is confident that relying on the alliance between World Tree and Elf, he can use violence to solve all problems or those who create problems. But if someone intervenes, no matter whether it can be resolved later or not, the matter itself is enough to make someone feel sick.
What does Murphy's Law say, as long as things have the possibility of going bad, they will definitely go bad! Not to mention giving it enough time to simmer.
Therefore, Lin felt that it would not be a bad thing to show the claws of the Gold Goddess at the right time. After all, with the current scale of banks, the cost of exit is too high for those who have already invested in it, and there is no fear that they will back down.
Therefore, even if they are trying to make a fool of themselves, there are probably not many noble lords who dare to harm themselves and throw the bank away. Of course, we do not rule out some idiots who are fond of self-uterinement.
Since we want to change the passive promotion of banks to active promotion. Shorten the time to lay out the entire puzzle and reduce the possibility of others intervening after reacting. Then tomorrow's imperial meeting should be a very suitable 'presentation'
Lin thought so, smiling happily.
Of course, a good mood will bring good sleep, and naturally there will be nothing to do all night until dawn.
It was still a familiar face, Count Efron took great pains to bring the gold coin goddess envoy and his entourage to the palace in a carriage. The destination is the meeting hall in the completely opposite direction to the green hall last night.
The layout of the royal palace of the Karlsruhe Empire was not a complete building, encompassing all political functions. Instead, it is composed of palaces, each of which has one or several different uses. The further back you go, the further away from the main entrance, the more private the palace's purpose becomes.
What's special is that there is no concept of a 'harem' in Lost Land, nor is there a so-called defense between men and women. However, palaces that pay more attention to privacy, such as the bedroom and bath palace, are also located at the back. The more public the purpose, the higher the position.
After entering the palace gate, the first thing you encounter is the guard post of the emperor. Then walking to the right is the green-shaded hall for holding banquets; walking to the left is the discussion hall where nobles discuss and decide on military and political affairs.
I visited the Green Hall last night, but it was the first time for Lin to enter the Empire's meeting hall. So under the leadership of the earl, Lin Ke took a good look at this building that had never been published on the forum.
If it weren't for the appearance of the meeting hall, except for the imperial coat of arms, and no other identifying marks, Lin would have thought it was a temple of some god. The high triangular roof and rows of marble columns all follow a simple style.
But there is one common feature, that is, 'big'. And it's so big that it makes people think that there are giants in the racial composition of the empire. In other words, at the beginning of the construction of the meeting hall, it was designed with the giant race as one of the goals.
Looking at the whitewashed walls and towering pillars, Lin and the elves were unmoved. Lin was because this kind of building, which was similar to the Parthenon, could not arouse his admiration; let alone the well-informed elves. The group of people acted quite calmly and walked into the meeting hall.
In the lobby, quite a few people have gathered. When Lin and his entourage entered the court under the roll call of the attendants, they immediately became the focus of everyone's attention.
Although someone has not seen many empires or kingdoms, the halls used to deal with political affairs. But from the few I have seen, only the emperor (king) and the empress (queen) have seats. Others, regardless of their status, age, or position, can only stand when they want to discuss political affairs on this occasion.
The layout of the meeting hall of the Karlsruhe Empire is somewhat different. Of course there are seats for the emperor and his wife, but ministers involved in political affairs also have their own seats. But instead of one chair per person, a high step platform and a long board used as seats were nailed.
With the emperor's seat as the center line, the high step platform is divided into left and right sides. Seating is free, but basically people of the same faction will sit together, and everyone will have fixed seats and will not sit randomly.
Although there is no rule that hostile parties must sit on opposite sides, Lin, who has just entered, can see that the nobles on both sides are tit-for-tat. It's just that his group destroyed the original balance and drew all the attention to himself.
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