Chapter 165: I Have Been Working Overtime Since the End of the Year. This Overtime Will Probably Continue Until New Year's Day.

It can be seen here that George V and others are thieves, and Kai is not bad either. →They were still fantasizing about the wealth in the tomb, but what they didn’t know was that Kai carried the wealth with him and was more defensive than putting it in his pocket. Isn’t that what the King’s Treasure House is for.

Of course, Kai is still not as exaggerated as Gilgamesh. Kai has seen Gilgamesh's treasure house, and the wealth in it is truly huge. Kai even doubted that all the wealth in the world at that time was not as rich as Gilgamesh's. many.

Dalton and the others have been hesitating about the land property rights, and at the same time they are constantly testing for information on the treasure.

In the end, Kai got impatient and directly showed what the 'King's Treasure House' was, and then Dalton and the others honestly sold the land to Kai. There was no way they could understand the abilities Kai showed. So I had to give up...

Of course, the British are not good birds. When they have no hope of those wealth, they open their mouths. They can see that Kai is determined to get the land there. Since Kai wants it and is rich, very rich, If they don't kill it, they won't kill it.

Kai didn't talk nonsense to them. He gave them whatever they asked.

And Dalton was not polite and directly asked for 10 million pounds! Pre-war proportions, gold payment! To be honest, Dalton only dared to speak so maliciously because he saw that Kai didn't understand the market. Before the war, one ounce of gold was worth three pounds, 17 shillings and 5 pence. The British pound is on the gold standard, and you can exchange it for gold.

But the problem is that this is wartime, and the UK has significantly over-issued, causing the pound to depreciate sharply and gold to appreciate sharply.

Compare according to the current black market conditions. One ounce of gold can be exchanged for almost 100 pounds. Moreover, there is still no market price, because during the war, the British implemented special laws, and now various banks have stopped exchanging money.

So even though ten million pounds may not seem like much at first glance, it was definitely a huge sum of money at the time.

To give an intuitive analogy, the purchasing power of one pound at that time was equivalent to 1,000 yuan today. Just imagine how much it was.

So Dalton's heart is really dark.

But Kai also cared about it, because Kai did a little conversion and found that even according to the pre-war ratio, 10 million pounds was only a small amount. There is no need to use those treasures, Kai can easily pay with his own private money.

When Kai traveled around the world, he also accumulated a lot of wealth, which he originally planned to leave to future generations... but it turned out...

When the black-hearted Dalton opened his mouth, George V trembled at the side. He was frightened by his consultant. The manor only cost a few hundred thousand pounds. After all, real estate was not easy to sell during the war. Moreover, the purchasing power of the British pound before World War I was absolutely beyond the imagination of modern people.

But just such a piece of land was sold by Dalton for 10 million...

You must know that before the station, before the war, British military spending generally only maintained around 200 million pounds.

But when Kai opened the King's Treasure House and poured gold on the ground like water directly in front of George V and Dalton, George V felt that Dalton seemed to be missing.

George V has always felt that the British royal family was relatively wealthy, but today he really saw what it means to be a rich man.

The living room, which was originally quite large, was suddenly filled with gold. If George V hadn't been so agile, he might have been drowned in gold.

Although he felt that he was losing money, Kekai's bold payment method still left Dalton shocked and speechless. Money means cowhide!

It was only when Kai reminded them to sign the contract that the two of them came back to their senses from the massive amount of gold. Although they are all very wealthy people, it is the first time for them to see so much gold laid out in front of them so intuitively.

After coming to his senses, George V did not immediately prepare the transfer contract, but continued to promote the royal family's real estate in London.

During World War I, life was not easy for Britain, and the royal family was no different. Even in order for the nobles to buy war bonds, the royal family had to set an example by itself, and used its own wealth to subsidize the government, buying war bonds with blood in its heart.

Now the royal family's funds are also stretched thin, so George V also hopes to get some financial subsidies.

Kay was not very interested in George V's promotion, but seeing that this guy was good at being a licker, he spent millions of pounds of gold to buy several castles and some properties in London. Among them is Leeds Castle, known as the "Queen of Castles", which is the best country castle for the royal family.

George V was very happy about this. He was even so happy that he directly canonized Kay as Grand Duke of the Rhine, which restored Kay's original noble status. Of course, this Grand Duke is just an honorary title. Kai has neither territory nor salary, nor corresponding political status and power.

But Kai didn't care. If George V really gave him these things, he wouldn't dare to ask for them. After all, with power comes great responsibility, and Kai was not interested in taking responsibility for a country he didn't understand at all.

After chatting with the King of England, Kay did not immediately return to Leicester's manor. Instead, he lived in St. James's Palace in London, which is located next to St. James's Park in central London and not far from Buckingham Palace. No matter how indifferent Kay was, George V still admired him very much and even urged Kay to live near Buckingham Palace.

Kai also stayed because he wanted to know something.

Unlike other royal palaces in the UK, St. James's Palace is built with red bricks and is not magnificent. Only the gatehouse is a little taller. From the architectural style and the shape of the garden arch, it can be seen that this is a typical building of the Tudor Dynasty in the UK.

Kai likes this castle very much. It is low-key and not gorgeous, and has a very living atmosphere. He even thought about buying it with money, but George V was powerless because many people in the royal family were extremely dissatisfied with the previous asset resale, thinking that it undermined the dignity of the royal family. So even if George V wanted to sell it again, it would not work.

In the end, Kai could only pay a sum of money to rent this place as his temporary residence.

These days, Kai lived here and began to read various books to enrich himself. Especially about the information of the ancient country in the East, he was seriously planning to return there. Even Kai planned that the first step before he went back was to spend a lot of money to buy back the cultural relics looted by the British from China from the British Museum.

This can also be regarded as a contribution to China in this time and space by him, a wanderer from another world.

But after reading a lot of information, Kai found speechlessly that the Huaxia of this time and space did not need his contribution at all.

Although the Huaxia of this time and space was indeed not very good at this point in time, and the domestic situation was turbulent. But it was far less miserable than Kaiyuan's time and space. In this world, the Flower-Growing Family is an extremely special existence. Like the original time and space, in the feudal era, the Flower-Growing Family always led the world and beat all countries.

In modern times, due to institutional problems, it fell behind the West, but even so, Western countries still had no choice but to take the Flower-Growing Family.

For example, at the end of the last feudal dynasty of the Flower-Growing Family, the British were already the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, and the Flower-Growing Family had never paid much attention to the ocean, so the navy was very weak. So the complacent British wanted to open up this market, or simply turn the Flower-Growing Family into India, so they launched the so-called Opium War.

As a result, they were beaten so badly that they didn't recognize their grandmothers just after landing in the south. If the British government at that time had not stopped the loss in time and paid a large sum of money to redeem the prisoners of war, those ghosts would probably have to stay in the kiln for a lifetime.

After that, the last feudal dynasty of the Flower-growing Family collapsed. A group of European ghosts thought they saw an opportunity, so they assembled the Eight-Nation Alliance to split the Flower-growing Family and turned it into a semi-colony.

Unfortunately, the result was still tragic. The Eight-Nation Alliance landed in Jinkou. What else could they do? They were caught and beaten by a warlord who occupied the capital at that time. The Eight-Nation Alliance was completely wiped out. It was also because that warlord was competing with other warlords for territory and did not want to provoke the ghosts and cause trouble for himself.

So they just asked the Eight-Nation Alliance to pay money and even returned the warships to them.

Even so, this warlord was sprayed by various domestic newspapers, saying that he was a traitor and bowed to the ghosts...

Looking at his predecessors in this time and space who were so fierce, Kai began to doubt whether he had to go back? The key is that he still looks like a ghost. With the current prejudice of the Flower-growing Family against ghosts, it seems that he will not have a good life if he goes back.

As for the looted cultural relics... there are no cultural relics at all. The collections from the Flower Country in the British Empire were all resold to the British by the cultural relic dealers in the Flower Country, and they were all defective. The real good things were not intended to be sold to the foreigners by the Flower Country people.

According to what Kai said when he was chatting with a Chinese restaurant owner in London in disguise, the foreigners knew nothing about Chinese culture. It was enough for them to be happy that the defective products could be sold to them at a high price.

After that, a visit by Courtman completely put an end to Kai's idea of ​​going home.

According to Courtman, the attitude of the Eastern country towards foreigners has always been not very good. That's fine. Some honest foreigners can live there. But it is only for honest ordinary people. As for those foreigners with extraordinary powers, forget it.

Courtman also told Kai a story to prove it.

Around the middle of the 19th century, it was the most rampant period of vampires. Vampires were fighting fiercely with the church in Europe. At that time, in order to increase their power, vampires also thought about expanding to the East. At the same time, the church also had such an idea, but the church's approach was smarter. They planned to let the vampires take the lead, and then they would go to the Flower Country to take root under the pretext of helping the Flower Country to fight against vampires.

As a result, the vampires went, and the church followed.

Then they all died...

They were suppressed by the local government of the Flower Country at that time...

The church sent people to negotiate, but the Flower Country didn't pay any attention at all. They didn't look down on the church as a civil organization at all. Of course, the church was not happy, so it organized an expeditionary force to let the Flower Country see the strength of the church. At that time, several countries responded to the call, but the church's expeditionary fleet was destroyed by a group of pirates before it could get close to the mainland.

What's more frustrating is that the feudal government of the Flower Country at that time didn't know from the beginning to the end that there was such an expeditionary force coming to trouble them.