Chapter 1,346 Imperial Meeting
I don’t know if it’s intentional or if it’s just the rules. The invited guests had no seats and had to stand in front of the central podium.
Coupled with the malicious gazes around him, Lin suddenly felt like a gladiator standing in the center of the Roman arena, ready to sacrifice his victory or his own flesh and blood to the gods. As for the circle of Roman citizens sitting outside, they were just looking forward to the scene of blood and flesh.
But according to someone's observation, there are no such high-risk elements among the nobles present. Even if there are warriors with energy levels in their bodies that reach the level of the Empress, they are all gray-haired old men. Of course, these people are not at the level of extraordinary beings, so there is every reason to suspect that a few of them can still fight.
In other words, just relying on the strength and experience of the elves behind them, they can easily cause a massacre in the meeting hall of the Karlsruhe Empire. You don’t even need to do this yourself.
As for not doing anything yet, first considering the strength gap between one's own people and those who are not one's own, as well as the route of escape, this is already someone's subconscious reaction. Escape is easy to say, but Flash can take care of everything. As for the difference in strength, it is only a rough estimate, and I cannot rule out the possibility of being mistaken. Some people still regard the two principles of not wasting money and preserving life as their top priority.
After arriving and standing in front of the podium, Lin opened his mouth and said hello: "Respectable adults, I am the messenger of the gold coin goddess Koin, the magician Gabrash Tripwood. Good day, everyone."
The reason why I didn't talk about my title of great magician was because I was not recognized by the local magician association in the Karlsruhe Empire. Despite this, he can still claim the title he obtained in the holy city of Estari, but it is inevitable that there will be some discordant voices or challengers.
In order to avoid trouble, Lin should be more conservative. Anyway, the focus today is not on one's own magician rank. Just showing the identity of the Gold Coin Goddess Chosen is enough.
After giving a half salute to the empress sitting on the throne, Lin continued: "I came here today to explain to you all the banking beliefs that Her Majesty the goddess wants to promote."
With this as an opening statement, Lin briefly stated the banking services now on offer. Of course, it is also covered by the 'faith' of the gods, but the content is much simpler. After all, when reporting to a group of big bosses, they don't need to know the detailed operation details. They only need to know how much benefit they can get from it and where the benefit points are.
If you don’t talk about money with your friends, talking about money will hurt your feelings; if you only talk about money with your boss, if you don’t talk about money, there will be no topic. The low-end ones talk about financial management, and the high-end ones talk about taste. However, in a business report like this, it is of course impossible to talk to the other party about what fabric to use for clothes, how to match them in what season, etc. So it’s better to be more vulgar and just talk about money directly.
As one of the five great empires in Midland, the fine money minted by the Karlsruhe Empire is a very good point of interest. It has enough gold content that it can increase after being exchanged for Coin coins, which means that one's wealth can be increased by 10 to 20%. This is quite attractive to both nobles and commoners.
As for the convenience of banking functions such as cross-regional exchange, the Grand Duke of Kawei family in the Guwana Empire can be used as an example. The relevant information may not be disclosed much in the open chat section of the forum, but those who are interested can still find traces. Of course, the disclosure of this information was also approved by the current Grand Duke, and the content was also reviewed by the other party to avoid the appearance of something inappropriate.
Once the two trump cards come out, basically all the benefits that banks can provide will be exhausted. But this benefit is the result of the Gold Coin Goddess treating everyone equally, and the nobles do not gain more benefits from it than the common people.
In fact, the entanglements in most areas are also concentrated in this part. Noble lords always think they are entitled to more. The nobles of the Karlsruhe Empire certainly had the same idea, and they were even more greedy.
During the question-answering stage, some nobles immediately started discussing how much tax money should be collected from the gold goddess... This thought left some people speechless.
In the history of Earth or Midi, there was no reason why taxes were collected by religious groups. Therefore, the regimes of all dynasties have always thought about how to weaken the influence of these religious groups and found various excuses to get a share of the land and industries they occupied.
But this thought directly touched the head of a god, and someone wanted to ask: Are you serious? A living god. If you go crazy, even if it doesn't change the world, at least it will shake the earth.
To such a request, Lin could only answer formulaically. The Goddess of Gold Coins only uses her divine power to provide believers with some convenience in using money. The handling fees charged for this are only to maintain the daily expenses of bank employees in various places and do not make any profit from it.
Since you are not making any money, you certainly cannot pay taxes. Besides, does the gold coin goddess need money? All she needs is the circulation of money, just such an act.
Secondly, the money received by the Gold Coin Goddess is not hers, but is deposited by others in their divine kingdom and is kept by the goddess. Of course there is no reason to pay tax.
Then someone asked the Goddess of Gold to reduce the handling fees, or even completely eliminate the handling fees paid by nobles when depositing and withdrawing money. The reason...anyway, the noble who suggested it couldn't give a good reason. The over and over again is that aristocratic blood is very noble and there is no need to pay this money.
Think about the various tax cuts and preferential measures provided by countries around the world for new and high-tech industries. Let’s not discuss the issue of where the saved money disappears in the end. When a company’s financial statements are not good-looking, the first words of those CEOs and general managers are: the government’s tax cuts and support are not enough. That’s why they didn’t make any money…
The original intention of the government to collect taxes is to redistribute wealth, so the rich are taxed heavily and the poor are taxed lightly. But what the actual situation is, someone really doesn’t want to say more.
Although the bank is part of the belief of the Goddess of Gold Coins, even people with weak beliefs can use it. But this does not mean that people who work in banks have to live off the donations of believers like other divine churches in the past. So no matter what, in order to maintain the normal operation of the bank, handling fees must be collected.
But it is impossible for Lin to put this burden on ordinary depositors and let go of the nobles who are most likely to have large sums of money coming in and out. As for the reasons for rejecting others, there are also ready-made reasons, such as gods treating believers equally. Unless the nobles are willing to show more sincerity, they will of course have more privileges. This is what any god’s church does, and there’s nothing wrong with it.
But for those who strive for this privilege, there are problems everywhere, okay.
They also know the faces of various churches very clearly. At least the Life Faction in the Church of Three Holy Lights has a lot of dealings with them. It is said that as long as the money is enough, the dead can be resurrected. And the resurrection is real, not just talk. Of course, the dead person must be fresh enough. If the person has been dead for too long, the body will be incomplete.
But the nobles made these requests just to save money. What's going on now that you have to contribute a sum of money in exchange for your privileged status?
Do you really think that the nobles of the lost land are the rich and powerful people of the earth? In order to get to the top of the list, I don’t even feel bad about throwing a lot of money into the water, just to save face.
impossible! Although the nobles of Lost Land also care about face, they are still much more pragmatic. There are people who pretend to be fat, but they are extremely rare. So someone's few words made these people give up their minds.
Although faced with a series of doubts, it can be seen that these are just the appetizers. The nobles who came forward to propose fighting for privileges were all minor nobles, and no heavyweights came forward. And the things that were brought up were all commonplace.
The advantage of this is that no one has ever succeeded in asking the Goddess of Gold Coins in other places. But from the standpoint of the empire, they had to raise it and express their attitude.
Then let some small nobles come forward, knowing that the only outcome is failure, at least everyone's face will not be too ugly. But if it is proposed and the effort is successful, then everyone will benefit. Nothing bad.
But after the appetizers were served, it was time to finally bring the main course to the table.
Duke Infanta was the first to step forward. He looked at a magician who was talking eloquently and said: "Your Excellency, when the bank is established, all coins will be changed to coins with the portrait of Her Majesty the goddess, instead of using coins minted by each country. Maybe you have explained However, regarding the various benefits of doing so, I don’t see many benefits for the empire. Can you please explain what benefits it will bring to the empire after handing over the coin minting work to Her Majesty the Goddess?”
Oh, someone finally asked this question! Lin smiled happily. I thought I was going to find a way to bring the topic to this aspect, but someone else brought it up. I wonder how many traps the other party saw in this matter?
Lin responded with a polite smile: "My lord, you are asking this question because you probably have doubts about the right to mint money. But first, I want to ask your lord, in what capacity are you asking me this question?"
Duke Infanta was a little stunned by this unexpected reaction. But this emotion only lasted for a moment. He keenly asked the key point: "What kind of identity and what does it mean? Please explain clearly."
"To put it simply, it is three different identities, and I have three different answers. The first identity is an ordinary bank user; the second identity is a noble lord; and the third identity is on the side of the empire. At a high level, look at the matter of minting rights."
"Can you please tell me something?" The Duke Infanta's curiosity was aroused, and he used honorifics to someone, but he didn't know it.
Lin didn't care about the difference, and explained with a scheming smile: "Users of ordinary banks do not have the right to mint coins. Therefore, the benefits of exchanging and using Coin coins through banks have actually been mentioned before. There are many. These are also the main points of publicity in the process of promoting banks, so I won’t go into details here.
"As for the position of noble lords, it is mainly for those who have mines in their territory. Because the goddess can accept gold, silver, and copper ores and exchange them for a certain amount of Koin coins according to purity and weight. But no lord should be willing. See, the miners taking advantage of the mining opportunity to line their own pockets.
"Then the last point is to look at the matter of minting power falling into the hands of the goddess from the perspective of the empire. I can responsibly say that this is definitely the stupidest thing in the history of the Karlsruhe Empire, and even all the countries on earth. , the worst decision is no different from betraying the country! But not handing over the right to mint money will lead to the destruction of the country. It is worse than betraying the country!"
One word came out and everyone was shocked!
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