European Financial Emperor

097 Takes Venezuela Oil Fields (1)

The British government accepted Eaststellar’s proposal and announced that it would hand over the entire eastern Canadian border along with British Columbia’s frontier areas, including northern British Columbia and Utah, which are still considered unexplored areas, to Lee Hwan.

It wasn’t a big deal compared to the territory that Canada would have in the future, but it wasn’t large enough to be absorbed by a single dominion.

In a word, if done wrong, it could be beyond Lee Hwan’s ability.

But this was a clear opportunity.

Officials of the British Ministry of Finance who visited Lee Hwan were applying pressure, not pressure, to Lee Hwan.

“I don’t think it would be enough to jump with joy even in Russia under these conditions.”

“Hmm, it is.”

“And it’s like a bank was established at the initiative of our British monarch, wouldn’t your Majesty’s majesty save some face if you sign a contract this big?”

Britain was still arrogant.

Now, as the war in Eastern Europe was heading towards victory for the Austrian Allies, it was not unreasonable to say that he was arrogant.

However, it was clear that such arrogance would one day become a decisive mistake to give Lee Hwan the nape of his neck.

Lee Hwan decided to accept their proposal.

“good. You’re going to hand over Canada’s east coast to us.”

“Haha, you’re too big!”

“Just keep in mind that you have to bring gold directly from North America.”

“… … Should I bring gold?”

“It is difficult to trade with just a certificate. When we, Easterfield Finance, were first established, that was stated in the company’s internal legislation. If I start denying this, the entire board of directors will be denied, and I have no choice but to do it.”

“Hmm, then.”

Even Britain could not disobey Eaststellar’s will.

It was because they had to secure Central even to stock up on military funds to be used in the future.

‘Yeah, if you’re going to pour money into the Great Game in the future, you’ll have to pay that much.’

In order to compete with Russia for aggression in Asia, it is necessary to mobilize funds that are difficult to understand in this age, and of course, there will be no choice but to bend the waist.

Lee Hwan was convinced that Britain would continue to wage war in the future, and that opportunities would come to him every time.

This is because the East Stellar Company has grown into a huge financial power.

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Ministry of Finance officials wrote a contract with Lee Hwan and placed several additional orders.

It was just the expansion of weapons.

“Although the lease had some remaining time, it gave me more money so I could purchase weapons. Please give us an extra ES-1.”

“How much more do you need?”

“About 100,000 tablets?”

“You need quite a bit.”

“Can you pay me?”

100,000 rifles was a huge amount indeed.

With the exception of the United States and the United Kingdom, almost every country has at most 10,000 or 20,000 firearms.

Even in fallen countries like Spain, they were fighting wars with fewer than 10,000 guns at best.

Buying 100,000 such ES-1s meant that they wanted to fully prepare for the upcoming great game.

Perhaps if 100,000 ES-1s were provided, the balance of power between Russia and Britain would be disrupted.

Already, there was a marked difference in the weapons system, and if there was an imbalance in numbers, it was clear that Britain would win a landslide victory over Russia.

But for Lee Hwan, there was no need to worry too much.

This is because East Stellar already possessed technology that surpassed the ES-1 by several generations anyway.

“You do that.”

“Yeah, you have a big barrel!”

“You’re welcome.”

Treasury officials praised Lee Hwan by beating his knees and stroking his mustache.

After that, they handed Lee Hwan a thick envelope.

An official from the Ministry of Finance said to Lee Hwan, who tilted his head.

“Let’s open it up later when we get back. ES-2, I thought it was time to lift the sales restrictions.”

“… … yes?”

“Then we are alone.”

British Treasury officials did not answer Lee Hwan’s questions and just disappeared.

Lee Hwan opened the envelope after they left.

And soon, Lee Hwan’s eyes widened.

“… … Huh.”

The envelope had the name Baltic Sea Corporation written on it.

The Baltic Corporation was a company that helped divide Norway, the northern territory of Denmark, which had been on the French side during the Napoleonic Wars in the past, and was effectively known as a behind-the-scenes force controlling the Free Trade Zone of Selan Island.

The contents of the document were that he would become the second largest shareholder of such a Baltic Corporation, and furthermore that East Stellar could become a major shareholder of the Baltic Corporation.

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General Manager Winster Ryan drove to Eaststellar’s Third Mine.

The Ryan family is a descendant of the Rose family, and is a group composed mostly of orphans or illegitimate children.

Only geniuses were selected from among the illegitimate children of nobles or orphans of a fallen family, and they were raised as collateral blood of the Rose family.

They were very loyal to the Rose family, and their attachment to a group called Eaststellar was quite strong.

In a word, it was no exaggeration to say that they are people who live with a sense of belonging.

Winster Lion was managing Montana Mine 3, Mine 4, and Mine 5 by road and driving them back and forth, sleeping only four hours a day and working very passionately.

“Today, 10,000 migrants have been distributed evenly across the mine. In the future, if the commercial population flows into it, I think the picture will be very interesting.”

“Good. What could be a problem?”

“Installing the conveyor belt is a bit difficult. Moving the conveyor belts to the newly created mine requires an endless amount of manpower.”

As the gold mines within the Eaststellar Dominion began to burst, the movement of migrants was secretly increasing.

Although it is still kept secret from the outside, operations such as establishing a gold mine and deploying troops in the vicinity were already underway.

Equipment to go into such a gold mine was moved one by one on a tractor, and accordingly, there were many movements of technicians and mercenaries.

Excavators, excavators, dynamites, tows, automobiles, and conveyor belts were the main equipment.

Conveyor belts, in particular, would play the biggest role in gold mines.

When you open a mine door with dynamite, an excavator and a tractor enter and create an entrance to the gold mine, and the miners with the excavator enter and push the rock out of the mine.

In this process, the conveyor belt takes the rocks out on behalf of the miners, and excavators and tractors send the rocks to an after-treatment plant to collect gold.

In this process, the conveyor belt could be said to be the key.

“The Baron is waiting for you. Not a single mistake will be tolerated.”

“I am doing my best. Please wait a moment.”

“Once the construction of the conveyor belt is completed, the East Stellar mine will begin to grow explosively. As the gold mining village was established and the army was brought in, the surroundings were very tidy, and the East Stellar Expeditionary Force swept through North America in cooperation with the United States, and the security was quite good. Now, the baron’s plan is to deliver the news that a gold mine has exploded here and to bring in foreign capitalists. After that, there will definitely be a city here, and we will become the rulers of the big city.”

“Oh oh… … !”

“You just have to follow what the baron leads. It’s not that difficult, so don’t make things complicated for nothing.”

Upon arriving at the 3rd Mine loading dock, Winster Ryan meticulously checked the number of diesel drums that were supposed to arrive today.

Since all the oil that goes into the towing machine and the conveyor belt engine is diesel, diesel must be included as an essential item in mines.

However, when I counted the drums, it looked like I was emptying three drums.

“… … Is the drum empty?”

“One of the janitors at the loading dock got caught swinging a diesel drum, but even when he dies, he doesn’t open his mouth.”

“If you steal something, you deserve to be punished, but why don’t you open your mouth? Do you really want to die?”

“Hey, you know that the legal system of the Easterfield Baron is a bit lax, so you stick with it. In principle, if he appeals to the Barony Court and says he wants to go to the Dutch court, the Eaststellar Company has no choice but to set sail because of him.”

“Huh… … . Is the law like that?”

“There is nothing special. Even if it is a dominion, in the end it is considered a foreign territory of the Netherlands.”

Now that the bandits are beaten, people who commit various crimes within the Dominion are coming out one after another.

The biggest problem was that there would be a huge amount of workers coming to the mines soon, and there was no fundamental plan on how to deal with them.

“Well, the current law is a bit lax. Even if the baron declares a new country at all.”

“A country? So, will you cut ties with the Netherlands?”

“Yeah, I don’t know either. But what is certain is that if we declare a new country and become a sovereign state, there will be no basis for these f*cking bastards to argue about legal interpretations or whatever.”

“The importance of the sovereign state is here… … !”

“There seems to have been rumors that the Baron Easterfield would be promoted to a state, but the Baron has not said anything.”

“There must be something different about it. The Baron is so resourceful, isn’t he planning something that will bring us Eaststellar a huge profit?”

“Well, that’s right.”

It was a fact that everyone knew that the country was imminent in many ways.

But the timing was an issue.

“Maybe. Maybe the Baron is picking the timing because of the financial powers abroad?”

“Financial power?”

“Why didn’t our Easterfield finance eat up the UK and the Netherlands? However, I understand that there are few ties with European regional banks such as Norfeld, Einst, and Rieveld. So, in a word, the indigenous forces were pushed out without a single shout out to the migrants.”

“To borrow the words of the baron, is it the same as a rolling stone other than a stone studded with?”

“Well, that’s it.”

Finance is fundamentally a business that makes a living on loans.

The size of the loan for a country or region is always fixed, and financiers live by sharing it according to their influence.

However, the unwritten rule was broken with the advent of East Stellar.

“Who said that? I wonder if there is going to be a war like this.”

“The war is already over.”

“No, it’s a financial war.”

“Hey, you’re going to war with money?”

“Marketers are the ones who wield hilts for a few bucks. I don’t think there’s any way you can stay still even if you lose your territory, do you?”

“Well, there are very few people who can sit still even if they have their bedrooms taken away.”

There were several opinions about Lee Hwan’s postponement of the declaration of the country.

However, these two now had a more serious problem.

“Oh! I need to meet him. You don’t have to find out where the diesel was stolen.”

“Isn’t it already sold?”

“If it was sold, we should find out who was behind it, wouldn’t it have been stolen because there was someone who bought the stolen goods?”

“Aha!”

“Come on, let’s hurry!”

The two headed to the mining village detention center.