What we experienced on the journey may be forgotten by us; but what we learned on the journey, we will remember it in our hearts.

——Miyazaki (Japanese well-known animation director and animator)

"Your Majesty, Marshal Ronderstad’s Southwestern Rebels and Marshal Albert’s Northwestern Rebels have a minimum of three days to enter the area controlled by the rebels, but the year is approaching; the two marshals are specially sent People come back to ask if they want to wait until the New Year has passed before marching."

Listening to the report of the left minister, Duke Mediz, Bai Feng asked Duke Crest, the Secretary of State for Military Affairs: "Crest, you are the Minister of the Empire, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty, it is normal for the year-end to the frontline to think of homesickness. It is thought that the two rebels can be allowed to rest on the spot for a week. After the New Year, they will continue to advance to the rebel area and destroy the two rebels of the split empire."

"This matter will be issued by your military department." These little things Bai Feng did not mind, but he added: "The new year is approaching, all the officials and soldiers of the empire will issue an additional month of silver as a new year red envelope, The frontline soldiers will issue an additional two months of payroll silver as a New Year's red envelope. This money will be allocated by my internal bank, and the Imperial Ministry of Finance will take care of it.

"Your Majesty Ron!" The officials of the Palace of Justice, all listed as rewards, said in unison.

"Your Majesty." Foreign Minister Duke Ribbentrop reported on the exchange: "Marquis Molotov sent him back from Frankfurt, the capital of the Rheinland Business Association. He represented the latest trade agreement between the Empire and the Rheinland Business Association. Please You confirm it."

After receiving the trade agreement submitted by Yulin Tiewei, it took Bai Feng nearly ten minutes to read the extremely wide-ranging trade agreement, and then he asked the Duke of Salah, Finance Minister: "Salah, your finances How did the Ministry evaluate this agreement?"

Salah, who had reviewed this trade agreement earlier, was slightly excited: "Your Majesty, as long as the Rheinland Merchants Union can implement half of these provisions, the total import and export tax revenue of our empire over the next three years will be Increase by at least one-third!"

"It's such an exaggeration?" Duke Werner, the right phase who hadn't seen the trade agreement, was surprised.

"Sir right, you don't know." Under the sign of Salah, the first minister of the Ministry of Finance, Marquis Krossick, explained with a smile: "In the past, the trade between our empire and the Rheinland Business Association was an unequal trade. , Take the most common food as an example."

"Businessmen of our empire purchase grain from the Rheinland Business Association and return to their country. They only need to pay 12 points of taxes and fees to the Rheinland Business Association, but businessmen of the Rheinland Business Association only need to pay ten points to our empire. Taxes and fees; this alone, our empire will spend an additional nearly ten million gold coins every year to purchase enough food from the Rheinland Business Association."

"Now Rheinland Business is willing to set equal tariffs with our empire, which means that when our empire buys grain from Rheinland Business and returns to our country every year, we only need to pay ten points of taxes and fees to Rheinland Business Great thing!"

"That's what it is!" Many officials who didn't understand it immediately showed a sudden enlightenment.

"It's more than that." Marquis Cunningham, the second minister of the Ministry of Finance, added: "After the Rheinland Merchants lowered their tariffs, the merchants of our empire could import all kinds of goods from the Rheinland Merchants at a lower price It is also of great benefit to maintain the stability of our domestic situation and promote economic development, and even has a greater impact than directly giving us hundreds of millions of gold coins!"

"Your Majesty, as far as the veteran knows, the Rheinland Merchants Union, while reducing tariffs on the empire, also abolished all previous import and export restrictions imposed on the empire. This is not just economic cooperation." Pa, who narrowed his eyes, originally Duke Tell said suddenly.

"What the Prime Minister said is that the Rheinland Business Union did indeed make unprecedented concessions to the empire, and the reason is not just to strengthen trade with the empire." Without the opening of Bai Feng, the Foreign Minister Duke Ribbentrop took the initiative Accepted the words.

"I don't know what Marquis Molotov of your Ministry of Foreign Affairs promised to the Rhine Business League on behalf of the empire. Will the Rhine Business League be willing to make such an unreasonable concession to the empire?" Duke Patel, who was the prince of the empire, asked The tone of the words is extremely sharp.

"Sir Prime Minister, Marquis Molotov did nothing more than inform the high-level of the Rheinland Business League about the status of the empire." Duke Ribbentrop responded without any weakness: "The Orcish Empire in the East and the Barbarians in the South , And the Mongolian tribes in the north, will soon become stable trading partners of the empire; the importance of the Rheinland Business Alliance to the empire is no longer as good as it once was."

Duke Patel, with a slight gaze, first glanced deeply at Duke Ribbentrop, who was proud, and then turned directly to Bai Feng on the dragon chair. The southern barbarians and northern grassland tribes are all ill-inflicted in the empire. You must not suffer from raising tigers for the benefit of trade!"

"Prince Prime Minister is assured that the trade items of the empire and orcs, barbarians, and grassland tribes are all daily necessities and high-end luxury goods that will not be affected by tigers; all strategic materials including food, weapons, salt and iron, we will only Buy it or not."

Finance Minister Duke Salah’s explanation did not satisfy the doubtful Duke Patel. He insisted: "Your Majesty, the old minister did not believe in the loyalty of the Ministry of Finance and the laws of the Empire, but did not believe in the greed of the imperial merchants. Profit-seeking nature!"

"The veteran once heard a statement: Once there is a proper profit, the gold coin will become very bold. As long as there is a 10% profit, it will be used everywhere; there is a 20% profit , It will become active; with 50% of profits, it will cause active risks; with 100% of profits, it will make people disregard all laws."

"When there is a profit of 300%, the gold coins will make people no longer afraid of crimes, and even the punishment of hanging will no longer be afraid; and the person most easily manipulated by gold coins in this world is undoubtedly a businessman. Your Majesty, You can't believe the merchant!"

Looking at Duke Patel with his face in distress, Bai Feng's heart is full of helplessness; Duke Patel's words are very reasonable, but Bai Feng can't listen to his advice, because Bai Feng can ensure that the orcs and Barbarians will not become enemies of the empire.

The crux of the matter is that whether it is the secret agreement between Bai Feng and the orc empire secretly signed by the gods, or the true relationship between Bai Feng and the Roman city of the barbarians in the eastern part of the barbaric land, they are temporarily secrets that cannot be seen; Without explaining these relationships, how should Bai Feng refuse the admonishment of Duke Patel?

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