Gold is Justice

"The financial situation of the border provinces is a little tight now. We have to prepare for war, so exports have begun to decrease and imports have increased. Many merchants have also targeted our situation and started to raise prices. Even if our gold coin reserves are rich, we can't use them like this... ..."

"President, is the situation really that tense now? If we can't borrow enough money...then will we really... be in trouble?"

"If you want to be able to deal with the Imperial Army, the most important thing now is to borrow money from Tianhong Province and Diliao Province. The more you borrow, the better. There is no upper limit. I can take as much as they are willing to borrow. Since 50.00% If they are still not interested in the profits... then let's make [-]% profits."

"President... This is too much of a joke!" The sweet wine cheese outside listened to the discussion of the two people inside, and it sounded from the voice that Ariel was indeed worried about money now.After thinking for a while, Sweet Wine Cheese strode in, put down the elemental gun in his hand, and supported his body like a crutch.

After seeing the rum cheese, Ariel froze for a moment, put away the sorrow on her face, and turned into a smile: "You come back—"

"Aren't we short of money now? How much? Or the more the better?"

Amusement Cheese did not intend to say these words in a smooth tone, but said them directly.

Ariel was taken aback for a moment, and then realized that Amusement Cheese had been listening outside the door just now, and then sighed, and said, "Of course, the more the better. What? Can you get the money?"

At that moment, Tianjiu Cheese wanted to say something just now, but when the words came to her lips, she held back all of a sudden.

Her eyeballs rolled around, and then she looked at the tense and hesitant expression of the guild leader in front of her again, and after thinking for a moment, she said, "You won't...are you lying to me again? "

Ariel knew that this girl was already a little afraid of well ropes, so she slowed down the expression on her face, trying to form a relatively indifferent mood, and said, "Lying to you? I didn't lie to you. I want money. , what is there to lie about."

Sweet Wine Cheese thought about it, and thought it was right, but then said again: "Then...President Ariel, before I tell you what I think, I want to know our current situation. What are we? How short of money is it? So short that we can increase the interest on the loan to [-]%? Can we really afford such a high interest? Moreover, how urgent are we now, even if we don’t hesitate to use such a large amount of money to borrow money? "



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Ariel glanced at Cream next to her, and suddenly thought that letting guild members form their own teams to borrow money was a plan she made at the beginning of the year.At that time, Rummy Cheese hadn't joined the guild yet, so he didn't know about it at all.

After thinking about it, Ariel said, "If we really want to talk about the lack of funds... although there are many, it is not so urgent. I asked all the guild members to open their own funds when they are free at the beginning of this year. Pulling a team of people to borrow money in towns outside the border provinces is to make things as big as possible."

Rummy: "How do you say?"

Ariel exhaled and continued: "In the border provinces, we are rebels, so it is only natural that we have to face the frontal oppression of the imperial army. But on the other hand, if I want to win this battle with the imperial army If we want to fight, then the cooperation of Tianhong Province and Diliao Province is definitely needed. Even if the entire province cannot cooperate, it will also require the cooperation of several cities in it."

"However, the raw materials entering the marginal provinces are almost cut off now, and we have no way to connect economically with those provinces without access to raw materials. Our exports will soon be cut off, and neither will our imports. Things can be imported, and under such circumstances, if you still want to make economic connections with other people, the easiest way is to ask them to borrow money and promise a huge interest."

"As long as someone in these provinces is willing to lend us money, it is tantamount to binding them to our marginal provinces. Since their interests are bound by us, then in order to protect their own interests, they will be regarded as a war with the Imperial Army. It is only natural to fight against and secretly assist us."

After hearing these words, Sweet Wine Cheese suddenly felt a little unbelievable, and interjected: "You are so naive! Under the current situation, will someone lend you money? We are about to fight, others It may be too late to withdraw the capital!"

Ariel sighed, nodded, and said, "Yeah... that's what I'm worried about right now."

Sweet Wine Cheese waved his hand: "And, after all, they are loyal to the Empire, right? Those noble landowners are the citizens of the Blue Bay Empire anyway, how could they betray the Empire for such a small profit? ? When the time comes, the empire will crush them with a slap, and they will lose more than they gain."

Cream at the side heard the rum cheese constantly hitting Ariel's confidence in the plan, and couldn't help it, and said, "You can't do one sentence, but don't forget, you are also a member of Song of the Mermaid now." One, after the imperial army comes, you are also a traitor who will be wiped out!"

Hearing this, Tianjiu Cheese suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, put on a confident smile, and said, "I knew it, you would definitely treat me with this attitude. But don't worry! Before I beat you hard Before my second brother, I would never leave here. Moreover, I can do what you can't do!"

Ariel froze for a moment, and looked at the girl with doubts in her eyes.

Seeing Ariel looking at her with such eyes now, Sweet Wine Cheese was extremely happy!She put her hands on her hips and said cheerfully——

"Please? Hee hee, I knew that you would beg me one day! Let me tell you, although I have broken up with the surname Bilan, I still know two princes and ministers! Just like Tianhong province now The great lord of Wisconsin Brook, and the great lord of Delia Province, Morgaran Hardy Georgia. These two old guys will bring people to the capital to celebrate my birthday every year, and the gifts they give are also very luxurious. Although they have not seen I have seen my face, but I have heard my voice." "It was the troops of these two lords who sent people to rescue before. Although they were blind and didn't believe my words, they still recognized me as the former leader. The identity of the princess."

"President Ariel, do you know what to do next? Hehe! You let other guild members visit. It is of course useless to ask them to borrow money. But as long as I go, I believe they will immediately send Lend us the money! At that time, we can use this money to wipe out the second brother's army, and then we will directly counterattack Hanhai City! Hit his throne!"

Seeing Ruian Cheese's triumphant appearance, Ariel sincerely felt that although this girl got rid of many bad habits, she still started to repeat them after all.

In other words, there are still some inherent thinking things in her mind that have not been able to be eradicated.

These two great lords and commanders each ruled the entire province and held considerable power in their hands.If these two provinces are willing to rebel together, it will be of great help to resist the Blue Bay Empire!

But, this is simply a fool's dream!

Before the fierce wave died, the two great lords were still willing to let go of the border blockade while watching the situation, and let their merchants do business with the marginal provinces.But now that Song of the Mermaid was charged with murdering the emperor, the two great lords immediately sealed off the border.It is precisely because of their blockade that the goods from the marginal provinces cannot go out or come in now.

After all, they are big lords with a lot of land in their hands. If they can earn a lot of taxes by letting go of trade, of course they will have no problem.But now this is actually related to the issue of being a rebel, how could they let go so easily?

If it was really that easy to let go, they should have known that the rum cheese was in the marginal province, and it was impossible for their own people to send them to borrow money and they would just shut the door.

In other words, Ariel feels that even if she is asked to find these two great lords, the most likely thing is that these two great lords directly order her to be locked up, and she will be offered food and drink until the empire After the army came over and flattened the border provinces, they sent out the "former" eldest princess and returned it to Hanhai City as the capital of atonement.

Therefore, sending the rum cheese over there is undoubtedly sending a sheep to the tiger's mouth, but it will cause him to lose an assistant on his side.

At this time, Cream also saw the sad and helpless expression on Ariel's face, as well as a bit of wry smile.

After thinking about it for a while, he also understood the relationship, and then turned his head to look at the rum cheese beside him who was still complacent.

After Tianjiuche saw that the expressions of these two people were not so relaxed, the smug smile on the corner of his mouth also slowly dissipated.

After waiting a few more seconds, she couldn't laugh directly: "Why... What's wrong? Is there any problem with this?"

"If you can't even get the market lady to sell you fish for half the price, then it's even more impossible for you to borrow money."

While Amazake was still thinking about the meaning of this sentence, Cream turned his head, faced Ariel and said: "President, otherwise, we directly admit that we are the murderer who killed Violent Wave Bilan How about declaring responsibility for this assassination?"

Hearing Cream's words, not only Ariel was taken aback, but even Rummy was also taken aback.

Cream went on to say: "According to my intelligence network, all kinds of rebel organizations in the entire Blue Bay Empire are now encouraged by the death of Menglang Bilan. They have expressed their appreciation and hope for our Mermaid Song The meaning of joining. Some rebels are even moving towards us. However, since we have not directly admitted that we are responsible for this assassination, these rebels hesitated."

"So I think, if we directly admit this incident and are willing to use this incident to promote it, then I believe that there will definitely be a large number of rebels with ideals who want to join our organization. To fight against the Imperial Army for us Add a force!"

These words are indeed very reasonable, and Ariel is not ignorant of the extent of the assassination incident in the entire Blue Bay Empire.Just in January before the assassination incident spread to Hanhai City, some rebels learned the news through various channels, and immediately started large-scale operations to attack cities and villages.This kind of turmoil (harmony) didn't even receive any resistance at the beginning, and it was not until the tide and waves came to the throne, under the leadership of the Duke of Jinguo, that these rebellions were gradually quelled.

Therefore, if Ariel really declares to be responsible for this, I believe it will attract quite a few rebels to join up...

"That's a really good idea. But..."

Ariel said firmly——

"I will never admit that this assassination was done by Song of the Mermaid. Not only that, but I also insist that Song of the Mermaid is the one who went to rescue Besan XIII with the heart Real reinforcements. Because once we admit that..."

Ariel glanced at the rum cheese next to her——

"That, for Sweet Wine Cheese, who is willing to join Song of the Mermaid, confirms the fact that she killed her brother and betrayed her."

Sweet Wine Cheese was taken aback for a moment, opened her mouth slightly, and looked at Ariel in front of her with a slightly incredulous expression.Before that, she had always felt that apart from being strict, the president of this guild had at best a good mind, and also had some foresight-like brilliance.

But at this moment, she felt a touch of tenderness from the president.She really cared about the girl who claimed to have disowned the royal family.

This kind of care made Tianjiu Cheese a little unclear whether he should thank him or accept it openly. After a long time, his face flushed slightly, but he was speechless.

Cream let out a breath, and seemed helpless again: "President, this will not work, that will not work...Then what should we do now? The Imperial Army should not be long before they come, we don't have much time..."

This is really a problem, and now, Ariel can only rub her head with a splitting headache.

If there is really nothing to do when it comes time...

Ariel turned her head and glanced at the little white cat that was still sleeping on the counter.

When the time comes, how about lifting the seal of the Demon King directly?

That's right, if you really can't beat them, then remove the seal of the Demon King, anyway, you will die together, and die together!

Thinking of this, Ariel suddenly understood what it was like in those legends and stories that some people were trying their best to release the evil demons. It is possible to use this method of perishing together.

Squeak - touch.

The guild door opened and closed again.

This time it was mochi that came in.

This little blood girl was carrying her bow on her back. Since it was daytime, she looked listless now, her eyes were all drooping, and she would sway two or three steps with every step.

It was none other than her mother Nuomi who came in with her.

Compared with her daughter Mochi, Nuomi's spirit is not very good, but it is still good.She took her daughter's hand and walked in front of Ariel, and greeted the other two guild members present.Afterwards, she took out a heavy bag from her pocket and handed it to Ariel.

"this is……?"

Ariel weighed the bag a little bit, there was no doubt that it was full of coins!

Nuomi smiled and said, "Miss Ariel, I'm really sorry, we are members of the night clan. After leaving the border provinces, those noble lords are still not very willing to approach us. Therefore, we can only find peace and harmony. Some of our businessmen borrowed money, and after asking a few people, they could only borrow so little...I'm really sorry..."

Seeing the tired faces of Nuomi and Mochi, the mother and daughter, Ariel just wanted to say a few words of kindness.But at this moment, a thought suddenly entered her mind!

Her eyes widened, she didn't say those polite words, but went up to grab Nuomi's shoulder and said, "Ms. Nuomi! Those who are willing to borrow money... have their names been recorded?!"

Nuomi was a little surprised, but she nodded and pushed her daughter a little.

Mochi dazedly took out the loan certificate from his pocket, which had the names of six people and the loan written on it.

Afterwards, Ariel inquired carefully about the situation of these borrowers.In the end, she got a fact that she should have thought of long ago, but she had forgotten!

On the same day, Ariel immediately adjusted her strategy, rearranged her deployment, and asked all personnel, including some government officials, to leave the marginal province and go to Tianhong and Diliao provinces as much as possible to carry out large-scale operations. level of borrowing activity.

As for whether such borrowing activities can really achieve results, we will have to wait to see the results.

Time continues to advance, from spring to summer, just three months are fleeting.

This summer, for all the people on the Golden Continent, can be said to be a summer of hard work.

The drought that lasted for almost three years finally came to an end, and the land of the whole world seemed to wake up this year, exuding vigorous vitality.

The spring rain followed the summer rain, and the season of abundant rain made the farmers in the field grow rapidly, and the suitable temperature made this year's summer harvest probably the best in the past ten years.Although it is impossible to make up for the lack of harvest in the past three years, it can finally let this world full of misery breathe a little bit.

That is, in September after the summer harvest, when the summer temperature reached its peak and began to drop, the war that everyone expected was finally coming.

On August 1306, 8, under the order of Emperor Chao Bilan XIV, the Lanwan Empire raised about 3 troops and marched towards the border provinces.

This army is divided into [-] forwards, [-] front troops, [-] left troops, [-] right troops, [-] middle troops, and [-] rear troops. They carry enough food for half a year and are equipped with what the imperial army could equip at that time. At the same time, he carried a large number of bows, arrows and spears, and rode on a war horse, vowing to quell all the rebellions in the entire marginal province in one fell swoop, and completely end the three-year "turmoil" in this province.

At this moment, judging from the public data, the total strength of the marginal provinces should not exceed 500.Even if Marginal Province has the most outstanding element machine technology in the entire Golden Continent, under the crushing of this absolute number, even if ten imperial troops fight one mermaid army, it is more than enough.

When the war started, it was the moment when prices in the entire Hanhai City skyrocketed.But the Marginal Province is not much easier than that. With the magic power crystal mine cut off and all import and export materials blocked, the situation facing the mermaid army is still much more severe.Now when everyone is talking about this war on the surface, they are estimating how long the marginal provinces can resist.

Some people say ten days at most, while others say that the mermaid army will collapse at the first touch.What's more is that the mermaid army may surrender without a fight in the end, or even turn over immediately before the battle, tie up the leader of the mermaid song, and send it directly to the imperial army.

It can be said that as long as anyone dares to speak, as long as they dare to speak up, as long as they can talk openly, everyone feels that Bianji Province is doomed to lose this time.What makes these people feel that this matter is certain is that there seems to be a little confusion in the marginal province.

As the leader of Lagoon City, Viscount Norris Paxas immediately rolled up all his belongings at the moment before the war, loaded a full ten carriages, and fled from Lagoon City overnight.After leaving the Marginal Province, the former lord of Xiehu City went to Tianhong Province with a surrender-like mentality, prostrated himself in front of Wisconsin, the lord of Tianhong Province, and was willing to offer half of the property in exchange for the great lord to The new emperor interceded, saving his life and title.Moreover, they are also willing to provide a lot of internal information about the mermaid army.

Such a blatant rebellion of course caused the people in the entire marginal province to be filled with righteous indignation, and everyone was scolding the despicable deeds of this shameless noble who only saw the benefits but did not want to take responsibility.



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However, no matter how much you scold, it is useless. The open rebellion of a nobleman in the marginal province has obviously pushed the situation of the already inferior mermaid army into a worse situation.Even at this time, the Viscount Rich Wald quickly became the lord of Lagoon City under the appointment of Count Ariel Garcia and took control of the situation, the outside world's views on this war would not change in any way.

In September, the weather is cool, and the advance army of the imperial army is almost reaching the border of the marginal provinces.This time, they deliberately chose a mountain route that would not be ambushed, but chose a flatter and more open plain terrain to march.

As long as there are three more days, this forward army will be able to come under the walls of Xiehu City.At that time, I believe that the entire Xihu City will become a hell on earth.