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Natalie nodded: "Yes, a sense of security. You think, Ariel is different from me, or from Alice. I became your wife and the queen of this country. Her master, Ariel Si has also become a prince and concubine, with a prominent status."

"But in comparison, does Ariel have anything to rely on? Although she is Chao Chao's mistress in name, her mistress' title is not that stable after all. Perhaps for an ordinary girl of her status , the identity of a royal mistress is enough, but her sense of insecurity is very huge, and such a title can't bring her such a sense of security at all."

"Ariel, this child, has liked money since she was a child. She always told me that as long as she has money in the future, as long as she can have a lot of money, then she can do whatever she wants, and she no longer has to worry about it all day long. gone."

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"So you see, that's the root of the child's most important problem. She wants money, lots and lots of money, always wanting to have a lot of money to satisfy her intense insecurities."

"But this time, look, Your Majesty, you directly said that you took back her current most profitable revenue. In this way, doesn't it mean that her biggest spiritual pillar was directly destroyed by you? Such her It's not unreasonable to do such an emotional thing."

Meng Lang let out a breath slowly, and said: "Is this really the case? But, I didn't want to do anything to her at all. As long as she can come to the capital, she can still have a lot of wealth and get Everything she could ever want."

Natalie shook her head slightly, and said with a very clear expression: "Honey, girls may not be as rational as you guys are. We girls are often more emotional when we do things, maybe we can't think about it. Jiu Yuan, I feel that if you hurt me now, then I must resist you. And it is precisely because of this emotionality, so many times, we girls will have some things that you don’t let me do, and I just want to The emotion of doing something to intentionally work against you."

Meng Lang took a breath, then shook his head helplessly.

The queen smiled again and said: "So, for Ariel, you don't always make things so big. This child needs someone to coax, and this person may not be you, but you should let her The lover came to coax her, and it's good to coax her happily."

His Majesty the Emperor tilted his head slightly, and said slowly, "According to what you mean...?"

Natalie chuckled again, and said, "Need to say? Of course, let your baby brother coax her as soon as possible, and then get her pregnant as soon as possible, so as to give birth to our royal blood. As long as you have a royal child, Then she will definitely not have that insecurity anymore. As long as the insecurity is removed, then everything can be solved, can't it?"

After hearing the queen's analysis, Meng Lang began to shake the red wine glass in his hand again, thinking carefully.

After a while, he drank the red wine in the glass, got up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows again, looked at the rainy outside, and said slowly——

"Natalie, your judgment of your sister...I'm not doubting how long you've known her, but I think that the Ariel you mentioned may not be the Ariel Garcia I know .”

Natalie was taken aback for a moment, and said slowly, "What's wrong?"

Meng Lang exhaled slowly, and continued: "If she is really just a girl who has no future design and just wants to take one step at a time, then the problem is really simple now. Well, you should know She took those civilians who knew nothing and defeated Guangzhongguang’s Knights, right? Although I was very surprised that Guangzhongguang was captured, I was not more surprised by what she did next matter."

The emperor stretched out his fingers to the envelope on the table again, and continued——

"The lord of Lagoon City in the Marginal Province is a viscount named Norris Paxas. He is a minor character. This minor character had a close relationship with Ariel before, tinkering with those elemental machines and making money together."

"Perhaps because of this reason of making money together, after the troops led by Guang Zhongguang arrived, he showed a gesture of not cooperating but not opposing. This kind of performance is obvious, and it is already a big blow to the collection of elemental machines." expressed resentment.”

"This battle report came from the border province ten days ago. It says that the Viscount of Lagoon City has decided to join forces with Ariel and join the rebel camp."

In this regard, Natalie's face finally showed a little panic, she covered her mouth and exclaimed: "How...how did this happen? If you put it this way... Isn't Marginal Province...?!"

Meng Lang exhaled slowly: "Yes, once Xiehu City falls, the Border Province will be lost. The reason why the entire Border Province was defeated so quickly is that Ariel defeated my thousand with only 100 people. That fight with the Cavaliers obviously helped fuel that."

"According to the battle report, it was a very novel elemental spear that defeated the Knights of Light in Light. This spear has an unimaginable shooting distance and super destructive power. The defensive magic and armor used by ordinary troops are in this The weapon was as if it had no defense at all. Now, many people are speculating that your good sister has dedicated herself to the devil and turned into a terrible witch, trading her beauty and body from the devil. weapons. Some even say..."

After a slow pause, Meng Lang continued to say——

"Some people even say that she has become a signal that the devil is about to reappear, and what she dedicated is the devil who was sealed thousands of years ago. The sealed devil used the witch's hand as a medium to try to get his hands on it again. This world extends its claws to all countries on the entire golden continent, slaughtering all lives."

If these words came from the mouths of some drunk alcoholics in some taverns, Natalie would definitely laugh them off.

But now, these words are spoken from her husband... who is the current emperor of the Blue Bay Empire, so one can imagine how much weight they carry.

Natalie covered her mouth again, and after hesitating for a moment, she said in a slightly terrified tone, "Honey...you...don't really believe such absurd rumors, do you?"

With his hands behind his back, Meng Lang sighed slightly: "It doesn't matter whether I believe it or not. The key question is whether other people will believe it."

"Thousands of years have passed, and we humans have almost forgotten the existence of the Demon King. But now, the terrifying combat power reminds people of this terrifying existence that cannot be studied carefully."

"Whether Ariel is a witch or not, or whether she borrowed power from the devil, is not important."

"But she won the war, and that's important in itself."

"Now, I don't know when this damn drought will end... This has also caused various uprisings, large and small, throughout the empire. Before that, the farmers were fighting on their own, with no centripetal force .Under such circumstances, the Imperial Army can easily suppress them."

"But now, once there is a force that can confront the imperial army head-on, then those rebels will obviously find a backbone and start to gather towards the marginal provinces."

"Weak ants are nothing to be afraid of. What is really scary is that these weak ants have found their queen."

"And now, Ariel Garcia, undoubtedly has the potential to become an ant queen."

"I appreciate Ariel's ingenuity, but if such ingenuity can't be used by me, but used to resist the empire, then it is really... a pity."

Now, a little loneliness and regret flashed on Meng Lang's face.It can be seen that he is very reluctant to give up, but he is reluctant to give up but cannot give up.Under such a hesitant and entangled state of mind, he could only sigh helplessly——

"Of course, it doesn't hurt that Ariel controls the entire border province. Even if she now owns three cities and fifteen villages in the entire border province, as long as they cut off their passages and consume them bit by bit, after all Can beat her one day."

"What really scares me a little bit is that she did something very unbelievable."

Natalie had never seen such a frightened expression on her husband's face before.

Even in the face of the most ferocious monsters, or on the battlefield, she believed that her husband would never show fear.Even if the demon king came in person, her husband would rush forward without hesitation, and would put a sword in the chest of the demon king with all his might!

But now, my husband...is showing a scared expression...

"She did... what?"

Natalie swallowed and asked.

Meng Lang exhaled slowly, and said: "According to the information I got, she canceled the currency settlement method of the Blue Bay Empire, and redesigned some fluffy pieces of paper to replace gold coins. In other words, she now Gouging down the walls of my country."

Natalie doesn't know much about economics, but judging from the expression on Meng Lang's face, she also knows that this is definitely a very serious matter.

At that moment, she gently hugged her husband's arm, and said slowly: "Paper money...? Use pieces of paper as money... to spend? How is this possible? Who would think that light and fluffy paper can buy things?"

Meng Lang nodded: "At first I also felt that I was whimsical, but after I asked the Minister of Economy, I found that this kind of thing does not seem impossible. Especially, our country has already had research in this area , and has also published related books, providing a theoretical basis."

At this point, Natalie rolled her eyes, immediately thought of something, and said in surprise: "Could it be! The book on the theoretical basis...is...!"

Meng Lang smiled wryly, and said, "That's right, it's Ariel's teacher—Connor Conservative Studies. This guy has been doing research in the old Tengshu all along. It seems that he doesn't hear anything outside the window and only knows how to do academic research." guy."

Speaking of this, Meng Lang walked to his desk, picked up a book on it, shook it, and said: "There are many books on conservative studies, and he has written them in large and small in the past few decades as a scholar. There are more than a dozen books, and the number of papers dedicated to explaining my own research results is no less than a hundred. Of course, there may be many things in them that are useful, but there are also many things that seem to be really useless. Scholars wrote it out of whimsy behind closed doors."

"So, his academic research basically didn't play much role, and the content was too much and too complicated. Many people, including me, thought that it should wait until after he died before someone would sort out his research. Let’s finally give a final conclusion to his knowledge.”

"But I didn't expect that among all his imaginative academic researches, there were just a few that seemed feasible and were still poaching my corner."

After finishing speaking, Meng Lang casually threw the book in his hand on the table, and continued to say——

"According to this book's conception of currency paper and pen, once the currency no longer uses metals such as gold, silver, copper and iron but paper, it can save a lot of coinage costs for the country. And because the currency is no longer heavy metals, the amount of money carried by people will increase, and it will be easier to trade bulk goods. After all, we have no way to imagine the concept of someone taking out [-] gold coins for a transaction at one time, but if it is For banknotes, perhaps only ten pieces of paper are needed to solve the problem.”

"If the transaction of bulk goods can become convenient, then commercial trade will become more convenient and faster. Once the circulation of money is accelerated, then taxation will increase accordingly, and jobs will naturally increase. It can be said that paper currency The benefits it brings are far beyond simply using gold coins, and even worse than that.”

"I think, for Ariel, her commercial trade has increased sharply in the past year and a half, and traditional currencies must no longer be able to meet her transaction needs. Therefore, customizing the rules for banknotes will obviously be able to improve her business. Do better and make more money."

Natalie slowly put down her hand covering her mouth, and her eyes slowly lit up.After Menglang finished speaking, she immediately asked: "Then my dear, if there are so many benefits to minting banknotes...then why don't we do it? With the strength of our country, isn't it better than a small country?" Marginal provinces are better at handling this kind of thing?"

Speaking of this topic, Meng Lang couldn't help showing a wry smile again.He shook his head helplessly, and said slowly——

"This involves the only disadvantage of paper currency compared to metal currency. And this disadvantage... Unfortunately, it is fatal."

"Huh... After hearing this news, I also asked my economic ministers, can the empire also carry out paper money?"

"But the answer I got was a lot of difficulties."

Natalie frowned, biting her lips lightly, and couldn't bear to see her husband look sad again now.

"If you want to mint paper money and replace metal coins with paper money, that means that the royal family must take back all the coinage rights, and order all regions in the entire empire to exchange paper money for metal coins."

"It may be nothing to those commoners, because they don't have much money. But to those nobles... well, those nobles again."

"For those nobles, if metal currency is exchanged for banknotes, then they must bring their currency to the exchange office designated by me. During the process, I can of course check all their accounts and know whether they have How much property. It is equivalent to a property survey in the entire empire."

"Do you think those nobles will willingly let me investigate how much money they have?"

"Now, when our empire's national treasury is getting less and less, they are all crying for poverty, but no one says how much money they have, and they are willing to contribute to the empire to relieve this series of urgent needs."

"It's like this drought that has lasted for two years. Those nobles are enjoying harvesting the land one by one. Have you ever seen anyone who is willing to open a warehouse to release grain and give the common people a way of life? Once they meet The peasants revolted, and one by one they immediately applied to me for funds on the grounds of countering the rebellion, as if those rebels could never be killed. The more they countered the rebellion, the more the number of rebels increased. Next time I said that currency exchange is needed, those nobles must immediately fall into chaos."

In this regard, Natalie finally understood.She nodded slightly and said, "So... there is nothing we can do?"

Meng Lang sighed again, and said slowly: "Ariel issued banknotes at the border, and then used the grain revenue from Pelican City as an exchange guarantee, promising that the grain that could be bought with metal coins can be bought with banknotes. With the guarantees in place, and the fact that the marginal provinces are relatively small, her banknote rollout policy looks to be on track."

"But the problem is, if she continues to promote paper money, and the Blue Bay Empire has no way to promote paper money at the same time, then once people have a lot of paper money in their hands and cannot use it in other places in my empire, then it will inevitably tend to To protect those banknotes in their hands, and stand by Ariel."

"No one likes a country where their property is not recognized as their own in an instant. They will only stand on the side that is willing to recognize their property. If I say that by blocking the access lines of the marginal provinces, I can gradually be trapped. If it is a marginal province, then she uses banknotes to gradually infiltrate my country. This can be regarded as a protracted battle, and it depends on who can't support it first and surrender to the other side."

A little worry flickered in Natalie's eyes, and she said, "Your Majesty! We can't even solve a marginal province now?"

Meng Lang shook his head slowly, and said: "Of course not, but I don't want to spend a lot of energy on such a small marginal province. Ariel can use all her energy to fight me, but I don't have that much energy." Focus all your energy on dealing with her."

"So, I hope to use other methods to solve her problem as soon as possible. If possible, I also hope that I can try not to fight each other. It would be too expensive to fight... If you can let her surrender without fighting In the future, even if I seal her up again, it will not cause dissatisfaction among others. Moreover, if those rebels see this powerful combat force and surrender without a fight, it will be very important for the rapid pacification of all the people in the empire. Rebellion is also a good thing."

Natalie rolled her eyes, and after thinking for a while, she said, "Then... honey, I may be a little woman with little knowledge, I have thought of three ways, I don't know... will it be possible?" Let you make fun of me?"



The first thousand and 390 chapter two three methods

Meng Lang turned his head away and looked at his wife with gentle eyes: "You say, I won't mind."

He really doesn't mind. At this time, even if his wife's methods are really crude, as long as he can listen to his wife's voice more, it will be good for his mood.

Natalie smiled, and said: "The first method, isn't Ariel making banknotes? According to you, isn't the benefit of banknotes invented by Connor Conservative? Since he can come up with this method, then let’s ask him if he has any countermeasures? He is Ariel’s teacher, so he must be able to figure it out, right?”

Sure enough, Meng Lang felt that his wife was very cute, and just listening to her voice and chatting with her felt a lot more relaxing.

However, the explanation still needs to be explained, he doesn't want to disrespect his wife and just perfunctory--

"I've thought about this method too. But no matter what, Conservative Studies is also Ariel's teacher. Now that Ariel is openly rebelling, it's my favor not to be implicated. If I ask him about countermeasures, wouldn't it be a blessing?" The other ministers have a grudge? No, unless he himself knows the serious crime and comes to pray to see me, otherwise it is impossible for me to see him."

Natalie stomped her feet lightly, and scolded with a smile: "It's a good face."

Meng Lang: "Please call this 'Royal Dignity'. What is the second plan?"

Natalie giggled, and continued: "The second thing... Are those banknotes made of paper? Since they are made of paper, let's just wait until Ariel spreads out the banknotes completely, and then we put those banknotes out." Take some of the banknotes back, and then specially imitate them.”

"Didn't she say that the price of food in Pelican City will be used to guarantee the exchange effectiveness of those banknotes? If she prints one gold coin, we will print ten gold coins. If she prints one hundred, we will print one Thousands!"

"Then, we will put all these banknotes into the marginal provinces, so that the amount of Ariel's banknotes will increase dramatically! In this way, I want to see how long her banknotes can be used."

Originally, Natalie just said so.

However, Meng Lang's eyes, which seemed slightly slack at first, suddenly became sharper under this idea!

He lowered his head and thought for a while, then put his arms around his wife's waist and said, "Natalie, you are really my good queen! You are also a great genius!"