Chapter 333 (1/2)

While St. Attila was showing off in the sunny port of Toulon, Joe was clinking a glass with Sarian at the Hydra palace.

Over 40, salean, because of his strong personal strength, looks even younger than gorkin, who fought in the Lanin corridor.

On weekdays, Salem, who is described as a ”granite sculpture” behind his back, is a little excited. His face is a little red, and even his iron gray hair, which has been carefully treated, also has a few strands of messy hair hanging from his forehead and shaking in front of his slightly fanatical eyes.

He was holding the crystal glass, gently shaking the glass, so that the red wine on the wall of the glass hung a layer of light scarlet.

He was so excited that he talked to Joe.

The ”deal” put forward by Joe has been promised by Matta XIII, and in the name of salean, he has signed a formal ”joint stock contract” with the wittu family represented by Joe.

The royal family sent people to help and escort, and at the same time paid Joe a symbolic 100 million gold mark in cash, thus obtaining 50% of the compensation that Joe got from the super Juncker family in Ruhr city region.

These 50% of the shares were put in the name of Salian.

To be more precise, these 50% shares can be regarded as salean's ”personal property”.

This is a huge fortune. The ”compensation” given by dozens of super Juncker families is higher than the astronomical ”booty” of the whispered Forest Club.

Those ”stolen goods” are ”dead goods” and ”floating wealth”.

This compensation is an asset, an industry and a living asset. It can bring hundreds of millions of profits every year.

This money, Sarian, is of great use.

In particular, among these ”industries”, there are steel mills, foundries, various factories related to ordnance production, and there are also various raw material mines. From the exploitation and transportation of raw materials, to the processing and refining of raw materials, and finally to the manufacture of various finished products, even the sales channels, they are all available.

Combined with the drawings Joe presented to him and the huge profits he would get every year in the future, he had a lot to do.

Money, industry, and the Imperial Army's support for salean, salean had more power and more far-reaching influence.

”Joe, you've given me a big surprise. Really, I didn't expect that you could come up with such a cooperative way of swallowing the bait given by those bastards.” Salean couldn't help but be happy, smiling and praising Joe.

”You don't know You know This cooperation is of great significance to me. ” Salean looked at Joe seriously: ”these industries, and the profits they bring in the future, as well as their own power It's valuable to me, to those who are loyal to me. ”

Joe had been drinking more than 20 cups in a row under the constant toast of salean.

At the moment, a little bit drunk, he asked Salian frankly: ”it seems that you And yours... ”

Joe pointed to the ceiling at the top of his finger? But it shouldn't be As a member of the imperial family... ”

Salean was also a little drunk. He simply sat on his desk, shaking his legs and complaining loudly: ”ah, Joe, you don't know As you can see, the Durham empire is not poor. ”

”I was poor, but since my grandmother took the throne, the Empire has become more and more powerful and richer. The taxes collected every year are astronomical. The state treasury of the Empire, very rich. ”

”The royal family is not short of money. The royal family was all over the Empire and had a lot of industry. Although they are very traditional, old-fashioned industries. For example, mountain forest, manor, mine, etc However, these old-fashioned industries are the most stable industries, and they have a long history. So, the royal family is rich, too. ”

”However, the empire is so huge, the profits are great, but the annual expenses are also very huge. It's an astronomical number that makes me feel scared when I think about it. ”

”In the last two decades, the most powerful in the history of the Empire, there have been more than five years, perhaps seven or eight years? At the end of these years, the State Treasury was almost exhausted, and a large amount of money had to be drawn from the private treasury of the royal family. ”

”Spending money is like water. Therefore, in recent years, the Empire has been frantically opening up colonies, fighting against its neighbors and grabbing new land. Why? In order to earn more gold mark, earn more resources. ”

”You see, it's not just empires. Medland has powerful enough powers to do this basically. However, the nature of the empire is here, and we are more direct, more prominent, and more radical Well, or rather, we are more rude, direct and shameless! ”

”If we want to beat you, we will Unlike the ice sea Kingdom, the Republic of Gaul and the kingdom of Saint HYA, they still have to find excuses for war? Oh, what a bore

Salean took a sip of the wine, grabbed the bottle on his desk and poured himself another.Joe blinked his eyes desperately and looked at salean with great incomprehension.

Such a huge empire, such a huge tax Although the Empire fought in the northwest, the northeast and the southwest, in the East, it was still fighting with several vassals of the Lucia Empire to stir up right and wrong, and to fight in two or three days.

But It does not seem to be enough to drain the finances of such a powerful empire.