Before ascending to God, be a good lord

Chapter 506 503.financial problem

On the afternoon of the 21st, Ben Kaur met his teacher, Klein, at the Magic Tower of the Star Club.

Ever since Ben brought the set of exquisite ball magic circles, the entire magic circle has been running in Klein's meditation room, even though every original exquisite ball has been replaced by the core made by the legendary mage himself, and is displayed in the In the cabinet next to it, as the only set of student works, the preference is self-evident.

"Teacher, I heard that Rand and Sir Humphrey Appleby exchanged signs?" As soon as he saw Klein, Ben began to ask about the situation in the Great Council.

"That child seems to suit him very much," Klein nodded. "The good news is that the protection policy of the Galloping Horse Plain will come down soon. Today, the girl spent a few hours bewildering the people at the scene. , no one wants to entangle with her."

"That's great." Ben smiled unkindly, "I knew that Little Cardinal's future was limitless."

"But there are two more bad news." The smile on Master Klein's mouth gradually disappeared, "Today, the installation of the No. 3 test furnace at Yantie Division also failed, and the situation is similar to before."

"Is it possible..." Ben's habitual guess was interrupted by the teacher before he could say it.

"Sofia, Wendy, and Greya are all at the scene, and the circumstances of the accident are very similar to the accident on June 6 that you and Teferi described..."

"Aren't they injured?" Ben blurted out without hearing what happened next.

"There are more demigods and legends than magisters, and it's not their turn to have an accident." Klein looked at his beloved apprentice and smiled, "This is the first time I've seen you care so much about high-level mages."

Klein didn't say anything further. In fact, the situation was too bad. Although there were a large number of magisters and legends present, the magic elements resonated with the energy in the magma, and the layers of magic shields could hardly block the bursting magic. Elements, although there are various suppression circles inside the mountain, no one can remember to operate them.

In the end, it was Queen Tania who came from the magic net and manipulated the magic net to absorb the excess magic power. Otherwise, not to mention the girls in front of the magic furnace, even the legends on the side would have problems.

"They are all rare seedlings," Ben interrupted the teacher with some shame, "What do you think is the reason?"

Klein let out a long sigh, "I'm afraid that Lante Galloping Horse is not only the favored benefactor of the Queen of the Devil's Web, but also the benefactor of the Goddess of the Devil's Web."

"This?" Ben opened his eyes wide and looked at the teacher. Weili, the god of the jade moon who is in charge of the magic net, has never had a human family, but it can be explained when he comes here, "That is to say, it is not a demon. The problem of the furnace, but the person who connected to the magic furnace, is it because Rant has obtained the authorization from Willie himself, so he can connect the magic furnace to the magic network?"

Ben's mind was spinning rapidly. If Rand is the goddess' favored person, when did Willie fall in love with him?On the day Tanya came to the throne, Willie didn't make any gestures.

After thinking for a moment, Ben suddenly thought: "Could it be that time when Willie came? It was the time before Tanya took the throne? It is said that Rand took her up the ladder of the moon god at that time."

"I'm afraid it was that time," Klein nodded calmly, and then took out a large stack of various books from the interspatial ring, from thick magic books to clay tablets to metal plates, all of which were in total. Shiben, "I went to Mrs. Ji's to check it out. In human records, no one has ever been able to ascend to the level of the Moon God with magic goblins. A few attempts have ended in disastrous failure."

Then a metal plate stood out from among the many books and floated in front of Ben's eyes. A simple picture was drawn on the plate, a humanoid creature climbed the ladder under the moon under the gaze of many of the same group.

"Coincidentally, in the oldest legend, there is a very similar record, which is the record of goblin civilization at least 3 years ago..." As the gods involved were involved, the voices among the legends became more and more Small, getting closer and closer to passing directly in the magic net.

The god of goblin craftsman, under the gaze of the entire civilization, was invited by the moon god, and boarded the jade moon. After that, the goblin civilization advanced by leaps and bounds, becoming the second civilization after the gods, regardless of elves, orcs or humans. , can only live in the goblin city.

"Does Rant know that he is the only builder of the magic furnace?" Although he was prepared in his heart, seeing the will of the ancient god still made Ben a little nervous.

"Then I don't know, but some ancient gods must know, such as the goddess of wealth and commerce." Klein pressed his eyebrows with his right hand, "The second bad news is that Red Dragon Rock has just ordered materials for 10 magic furnaces from Yantiesi , Six of them have already paid Rand for the installation and magic patterns.”

"Why is this bad news?"

"Because the original plan of the Ministry of Finance was to take advantage of Rand's visit to the Imperial Capital this time to negotiate a magic furnace deal with him: Rand will produce the magic furnace, and the Finance Department will have full authority to install it. The plan of the Finance Department is to install 800 magic furnaces first. Plug up the hole in the Galloping Horse Fund." Klein was well aware of the attention paid to Rand by the Department of Finance, but he didn't tell Ben or Rand before, and wanted the Department of Finance to try his luck.
"However, Honglongyan provided him with a large amount of funds to be used as the currency in the Benma Plain. It doesn't matter how much money there is. The important thing is that the Goddess of Commerce directly reached an agreement with him, which means that the Imperial Treasury His plan to work may not work."

"Department of Finance? Do you want Rand to work for nothing?" Ben Kaul was a little angry. In essence, he himself is a link in the magic furnace industry chain, which means that the Department of Finance also wants him to work for nothing.

"At the very least, I want Rand to fight for a while, and then we can discuss the next thing after he becomes legendary," Klein shook his head, "I guess they have run out of recruits, do you know how much money is left in the Galloping Horse Fund? Originally The 3 magic furnaces mortgaged by the fund can be exchanged for 750 million gold coins at most, but it has now been blown to a scale of nearly 20 billion,"

When the Galloping Horse Fund was mentioned, Klein's face was obviously ugly, "All the magic workshops invested by the fund will get more orders, and will also be followed up by more legendary families. Although the value of the workshop has risen , but the most core magister in the workshop will not recruit new high-level people to produce together and create more magic products.

In other words, the money from the Galloping Horse Fund was not used to invest in the expansion of production in the magic workshop, but instead became some kind of advance reward for the magisters in the workshop. "

"The Finance Department should have known about the situation of the Benma Fund?" This was the first time Ben heard the teacher explain the plight of the Benma Fund so clearly.

"It must be clear. The Finance Department has long understood, but the Finance Department has no right to choose. All the resource allocation of the empire will eventually be divided according to the possession of the magic furnace by each region. Unless there is a major war, the empire's finances will be It will continue to develop towards fragmentation." Klein, as the first disciple of the God Emperor, is very clear about the current problems of the empire, which also makes his attitude towards the fund very contradictory.

"As a financial tool, the Galloping Horse Fund raised large sums of gold coins from outside the imperial capital, allowing the power of the empire to override the place."

"If it weren't for the Galloping Horse Fund, each family would never hand over gold coins to the imperial capital, and the empire would become more and more fragmented. No matter the goblin civilization, the orc royal court, the elf alliance or the human empire, they all fell into a similar predicament. inside."

Hearing this, Ben also fell into a conflict. After a long time, he asked: "Then, can the Minister of Finance solve the existing problems of the empire?"

Klein shook his head: "How is it possible? He is the grandson of the God Emperor. He was raised according to the emperor, and he is not familiar with the economy."

"Then the chief secretary of the Ministry of Finance must have something to do?"

"I'm afraid it's even more impossible. He's an economist." Klein smiled wryly. "Perhaps it should be suggested that Lant Benma go to the Finance Department for a try. After all, he's a savage."

(End of this chapter)