Chapter 1,354 Goblin Luca

After a serious setback, all actions against Lin and the elves slowed down. Of course, this doesn't mean completely stopping and being 100% cooperative with what the elves are trying to do. It just downgraded from the original armed conflict to a non-cooperative attitude.

I originally thought that the advantages of the bank would make nobles flock to it, and they would come to visit one by one. But in practice, Lin once again remembered how low the lower limit of human behavior is.

Yes, all nobles hope that a bank can be built in their territory as soon as possible, or at least they can use the functions of the bank as soon as possible to minimize the loss of their property.

But they are nobles after all, a group of superiors. How can they do some trivial chores by themselves? If you do everything yourself, then what's the point of raising so many people? So the matter was left to the subordinates to handle.

The problem lies here! There are actually two ways to win a race. One is to be faster than everyone else, and the other is to make everyone else slower than yourself.

Since the priority of building a bank was handed over to the empress by a certain magician, the nobles really had no room to stretch their hands. But they can bribe other noble subordinates who receive priority services from elves, slowing down the progress of bank construction.

Simply put, it means I can't outrun you, but I can hold you back.

This kind of behavior is even more obvious in some trading towns governed by multiple nobles. Because there are so many people under management and the personnel are complex, there are more opportunities for those who want to hold back.

There are many reasons. For example, the originally designated location for bank construction is not good and another location needs to be chosen. The number of holy emblems that provide the services of the Gold Goddess is insufficient and reserved, and too few privileged rooms exclusively for nobles are set up. Also, the bank uniforms worn by the elves are too ugly, so we need to consider the local style. What proportion should the bank use local manpower, and what proportion should non-human Homo sapiens account for.

Listing all these things, even Lin would be amazed. I feel like I have returned to my hometown and met people from black backgrounds who have career problems. Anyway, the other party is not willing to take hard and soft measures, and only comes here to cause trouble. It is completely unlike the behavior of the Midi people.

Among the lost people that Lin has been in contact with, their attitude towards dealing with problems is very simple, that is, they need to cooperate or not. Once they decide on the general direction, when they encounter detailed problems, they will follow the general direction to deal with these details. Fight all the way until it's done.

But the group of people I met now are that although they seem to be willing to cooperate, as long as they encounter a small problem, they will tear everything down and start over. I dwell on minor problems time and time again. If I let someone with a more impatient attitude come, I might end up having a mental breakdown.

Fortunately, the elves who followed Lin were all experienced. Faced with such clumsy tricks, their attitudes were calm. Besides, in all processes, transportation issues were left to the local lords to arrange, rather than relying on the advantage of Flash to shorten the time wasted on transportation. Anyway, as the old saying goes, the goddess of gold coins is in no hurry.

The reason for giving up the use of Flash is not only due to clumsiness, but also because the survey of the location of the bank requires the assistance of the lord. These people do not have the protection of the elves' holy robes, and World Tree does not want to expend great efforts on these people. Therefore, instead of the elves flashing to the destination first and then waiting for the local lord to send people to meet them, it is better to act together from the beginning and save the effort of communication.

Perhaps doing so will prolong the process and increase the chances of uncontrollable factors emerging. But at this stage, the bank of the gold coin goddess is gaining momentum and there is no way to stop it. It was never Her Majesty the Goddess of Gold Coins who should be anxious.

As for a certain lazy human being, after showing part of his strength - which in the eyes of outsiders is already his full strength -, no one went to look for this only human being in response to bank promotions.

The nobles would rather wait for the sixteen elves to have free time than go find the human who is always idle. The reason is also very considerate. Since the magician is the chosen one of the goddess, he naturally has his cards, so everyone doesn't need to bother him with trivial matters. The elector should be in a higher position to control everything.

But this does not mean that someone can be lazy every day, wait for reports from the elf subordinates below, and then go to the Jade Palace to sleep at night. At least the bank work in the territory directly under the Empress fell to Lin. And since he promised to help, Lin certainly couldn't just eat and sleep all day long. He had to do some serious things.

According to Lin's previous judgment, the imaginary master, Alegria's intelligence chief, finally appeared. No wonder the other party was well hidden by the empress, not only because he did not have a noble title, but more importantly, no one would take a goblin seriously.

If he was clearly put on the table, it might lower the empress's evaluation in the eyes of outsiders and bring disaster to the goblins. So after the two parties discussed it, the goblin agreed to become the man invisible behind the empress.

Another reason is that this goblin named Luca is actually a liaison between the empress and the imperial goblin group, and does not fully represent the goblins. Luca has the ability to be a direct face-to-face liaison with the emperor.

However, considering the jealousy of the goblin group, Luka did not want to get too many benefits and become a target for his own people. So when he usually does things, he is as low-key as possible. From this perspective, this little guy does have wisdom beyond that of goblins.

As a multi-racial country, the Karlsruhe Empire certainly has the race of goblins, both civilized and uncivilized. And because of various character problems of goblins and the influence of their uncivilized close relatives, the empire's treatment of goblins is certainly not much better, and the jobs they can do are also lowly jobs.

Furthermore, for a country that advocates force and allows itself to rely on strength to fight for everything, it is no surprise that the thin goblin has become a weak point in the empire. Such a weak group met a weak emperor, and they saw eye to eye, so they united together.

Although goblins are weak, their role is far greater than imagined. Because of their huge numbers, goblins can be found in almost every city and village in the empire. Because they do the lowest level of work and can be easily killed, no one is wary of these goblins. The combination of these two factors makes the goblins a very good member of the intelligence network.

Furthermore, in the history of Mystery, goblins were the species of Homo sapiens that once established an empire, so there is no doubt about their intelligence. So even though the situation of these goblins in the Karlsruhe Empire was not good, they still had cultural inheritance and were preserved.

The most important one is the goblin writing that is rarely seen by outsiders. And these words that look like graffiti have become an important medium for the goblins to isolate themselves from the forum and transmit information. Luca integrated the information sent from various places, sorted it out, and handed it over to the Empress.

Perhaps the work content of goblins in various places is destined to prevent them from having access to such confidential information. But Luka's intelligence analysis ability has reached the level of knowing the subtleties. As long as there are some signs of something, he can follow the clues and find the factors behind it. Then cross-reference it with information from other sources to obtain information with very high credibility and authenticity.

These are also the main reasons why Alegria can maintain itself without control under the oppression of many nobles.

Lin met Luka because the elves' trip was not without success.

Where will the bank be located? It's not decided by your mood. On Earth, no matter which country it is, banks have their own commercial nature, and the location where they are set up must naturally take into account local demand. It is impossible to set up a magnificent bank hall in a small mountain village with less than a hundred people; it is also impossible to throw away an ATM in a financial center like Wall Street in New York. The two are of course reversed.

In the mysterious world, perhaps the bank under the Goddess of Gold Coin does not have such a strong commercial orientation. However, in the early stages of construction, considering the limited manpower, priority will be given to towns with large populations.

In addition to population considerations, if industry is used as a reference for selection, banks will first be placed near gold, silver and copper mines, and pure farms will be the last consideration. The reason for this choice is of course because gold, silver, and copper ores can be directly converted into equivalent Coin coins with the help of the goddess of gold coins; but there is no place for agricultural products that the goddess can contribute.

There are not many lords who own gold, silver and copper mines. Usually they are big nobles, and relying on these three types of mines, they can live a fairly wealthy life. This kind of people are also more sensitive to money than other nobles who forage in the fields, so they are particularly active in attracting banks to settle in their territory as soon as possible, even near the mines.

Because there are these three types of mines, apart from the use of making tools, the biggest project is making money. Regardless of whether the lords who hold the mines obtain permission to mint coins from the emperor, or they sell the ore to the emperor and let the imperial official agency mint coins, they must pay more than the taxes paid for owning the mines. Pay a sum of money regarding coinage.

If the ore in their hands could be directly turned into circulating currency, without being limited by coinage technology, and without the emperor having a hand, who would not be happy?

Therefore, the noble lords who own such mines are of course very active in seeking cooperation with the Goddess of Gold Coins, building banks within their territories and even near the mines. And if you want to find cooperation with the goddess, you have to find those elves.

Therefore, by taking advantage of the convenience of inspecting the location of the bank, the elves have the opportunity to get acquainted with the population and mineral conditions of each region. We can even infer the affluence of local people from their living conditions and the quality of their houses and utensils.

It’s just that the content of the elf’s comments needs to be translated to a certain extent. For example, they describe the tastes of residents in one place as rubbish, in another place as being better than rubbish, and in still another place as rubbish. The best comment is 'It looks a little bit'.

From these internal documents written in elven writing, Lin once again confirmed the sinister nature of these white-skinned pointed ears.

In short, with the information obtained by the elves from inspecting various places, Lin had no reason not to combine it with what the empress had in hand. It’s just that he has no obligation to hand it over in vain, and the same goes for Goblin Luca. Only then did the two parties meet to discuss cooperation.