Your Majesty, drink the medicine quickly

Chapter 280 Dean’s Nemesis

"That's what it means literally."

Alfred sighed and looked at his friends: "The financial situation of the kingdom you see is all the bubbles I created. These bubbles made the nobles willingly open their own treasury, Gold coins poured into my pocket.

Let the banks of hell lend me a lot of usurious loans that I can't afford to repay, let businessmen and heroes from all over the world flock in, and let me use bad checks to make the lords bring thousands of dollars to me. Thousands of people left their homes and fell into deserted ghost towns. "

He continued: "If Katerina hadn't taken out all the money from Tadar's treasury, the bubble would have burst long ago."

"You mean, you've been tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall?"

"No," said the Duke, "one brick was removed and ten walls repaired."

"No, it's impossible! There is a lot of money in the kingdom's treasury! And it's piled up like a mountain!"

Arthur Lu Zhenhe sneered: "You can deceive others but you can't deceive me - you, Elizabeth, and 'Bishop Carroll' went behind Nip's back and secretly took away the treasure of the old god hidden by the evil cult. He also sold those things to Dante and the Southern Holy See!”

"Arthur, there is no treasure at all."

The Duke showed off his cards: "However, Dante and the Southern Holy See are indeed involved - we have three, three, four cents."

"What three, three, four cents? Isn't there no treasure? Where does the money come from?"

After a pause, Arthur Lu Zhenhe's face suddenly turned livid: "Wait. Damn it, which banks and nobles have you borrowed money from?!"

[After Xiaolu returns, it’s time to check the bank and financial statements in the names of Hollyoak’s agents. 】

"That's what I said." Li Pu, who had been eavesdropping, quietly looked at the camera: "Sooner or later, this dean of Holy Oak will ruin his father's family fortune."

"Ahem, don't worry, Arthur, I can repay the money from your bank." The Duke glared at Li Pu and reassured his creditor: "Including your research funds, there is not a penny. There will be less.”

"I won't believe you! You liar! Everyone in Violet is a liar!" Arthur Lu Zhenhe's eyes turned red: "Repay our money quickly, you can't cheat your own people!"

"I'm not lying to you, Arthur. The treasure exists, but it's not in Violet." The Duke said, "My expedition team will get all the treasure back soon."

Arthur Lu Zhenhe's pupils shrank slightly.

The ancient elven ruins of Scarlet Fern Forest are known to the world to contain treasures. However, no expedition team has come back alive so far - neither from hell nor from heaven.

"Uh," Li Pu said numbly, "I suddenly had a bad feeling."

"No wonder you are so brave. It turns out that you have already made this idea. But are you sure your expedition team can really get the treasure?"

"I'm sure." The Duke nodded deeply: "You should know how reliable my promise is, and my expedition team is more reliable than my promise."

Li Pu's eyes turned to the camera here and whispered: "The Duke used the word "reliable" to describe this expedition team. I'm afraid it's not very reliable."

Arthur Lu Zhenhe asked: "When will they set off?"

"Tomorrow," said the Duke, "they will do things very efficiently."

"Fred, I can't wait that long!"

Arthur Lu Zhenhe said: "Your expedition team will spend a lot of my money before bringing the money back! Today you have to collect enough money for me, at least one-third of it." Second, otherwise, let alone research, there will be no money to maintain the equipment!”

"We can give you three-thirds." The Duke said, "When our expedition team comes back, we can give you six-thirds." "Are you serious?"

"Of course it's true, one third is in the treasury now. One third will be paid tonight." The Duke said: "The other third, the wizards in this world are much richer than your Holy Oak wizards, and The richest wizard in the world could build a kingdom in the South with just a small opening in her personal purse."

"Fred, I keep an eye on the world wealth rankings here every day. You don't need to tell who is rich. But she just recently paid a sum of money to fill the southern treasury. Besides, she is richer than you. Be more stingy."

Arthur Lu Zhenhe looked at Li Pu intentionally or unintentionally, and said to the Duke: "And she is secretly competing with you in the south. Unless your side collapses soon, she will never lend you money. And I will never lend you money." , 'Arthur' has no reason to approach her."

In the eyes of the Empire, Prince Arthur was justified in extorting a sum of money from Violet.

But if he asks for a sum of money from the niece of 'Prince Tadar Regent' who is superficially a close friend but secretly a rival, the emperor will be on his sight.

[Her Majesty Queen Margaret has a long-standing grudge with her uncle Alfred. Although the two became die-hard teammates because of Li Pu's relationship, they also became competitors. 】

[In other words, they all want to make more achievements and show them to someone. 】

Li Pu covered his face. He knew who the words these two guys said today were for.

The expedition team was talking to themselves.

I also tell myself that I am short of money.

A father-in-law and a nephew are acting together in front of him!
"Lu Zhenhe, what kind of research are you doing?" Li Pu looked at Lu Zhenhe and frowned: "You guys, aren't you secretly studying how to deal with me?"

"Do you have any conscience? Just the 'Holy Grail' and 'Holy Mirror' used to save your life made me mortgage the land deeds of Holy Oak!"

Lu Zhenhe felt a little nervous after hearing this. He gritted his teeth and said, "If I were really thinking about how to deal with you, you would have let me do it!"

"Father Fred, this guy is full of words. You can't trust him too much."

Li Pu said to his father-in-law: "He is one of 'them' after all. I don't feel comfortable giving him so much money."

"Nip, this matter is not about trust. It is about the future war." The Duke said: "We need to bribe an enemy in the empire. If this enemy is one of the supporters behind the New God and the empire, then It’s even more important to buy it.”

Lu Zhenhe: "."

Li Pu understood what the Duke meant.

The empire does not care about the kingdom, but they can destroy the kingdom at any time. And Arthur, in fact, came here to blackmail with the emperor's will.

The three-thirds of the 'political donation' given today is used to deal with the empire and buy time for the kingdom - this is the price of the money given today.

And the three-sixths of the future will not be given for free, but will be exchanged for other benefits.

"If the problem can be solved with money, it is a good deal." The Duke said: "And an enemy who is at odds with our enemy is more reliable than an ally."

"Indeed." Li Pu nodded, looked at Lu Zhenhe meaningfully and said, "At least he can be trusted in the matter of 'political donations'."

"There's no end to your madness." Lu Zhenhe rubbed his face, feeling so tired.

(End of this chapter)