European Financial Emperor

099 Bank Federation (1)

Late at night, Lee Hwan was signing and stamping each document with the sound of grasshoppers.

He was concentrating on his work and looked around in surprise.

“Hey, it’s already night.”

Lee Hwan, who had been wrestling all day, buried in an unusually large number of documents, now rested his eyes for a while.

However, he soon refocused.

He had a temper that couldn’t see the work left.

The reason there are so many documents today is because of the Middle East issue.

Field artillery, self-propelled artillery, and battleships that had departed to contain the Ottomans went south and settled near Israel.

To them, the Arabian emirates expressed their intention to warmly welcome them.

In a letter, Yi Hwan declared that the Baron of Easterfield would unite the Arabian emirates and bring them out of Ottoman influence.

However, the condition of Yi Hwan was to allow him to develop the land owned by East Stellar in the land of the emirate and to acknowledge the sovereignty.

As soon as the emirates heard Lee Hwan’s proposal, they immediately sent an OK sign.

The documents reviewed today contained such content.

“Now, the influence on the Middle East will be solidified.”

From the point of view of the Muslims in the Middle East, what a double-headed welcome it would be to restore the major cities of Islam and free them from the oppression of the Ottoman Empire.

However, in order to deter further war, he blocked the occurrence of conflict in advance.

“I think the occupation of Mecca and Israel was a good thing.”

Yi Hwan captured Mecca together with Israel.

Following the occupation of Mecca, Yi Hwan designated it as a mutually inviolable zone and declared that it could never be invaded.

Israel also belonged to the Baron of Easterfield, but it has been designated as an inviolable area open to anyone without restrictions on passage.

If this was violated, the Eaststellar mercenary corps would unleash merciless fire.

He told me to be nervous, because if I leave the car, I will push him away.

Such threats worked very well.

Now that it’s a temple or something, if you run wild in the Middle East without knowing what to do, you’ll be slaughtered.

At the same time, the emirates requested that the villages built near the oil fields be designated as inviolable areas and participate in the maintenance of peace.

Lee Hwan decided to grant half of their request.

“It’s just nonsense to be inviolable. Since it is an area guarded by our Black Hammer mercenaries, we must put a proclamation stating that if anyone invades, we will punish them severely.”

Inviolability was acknowledged, but the basic gist was that he would give bloody revenge if he invaded from any country.

Based on him, Lee Hwan wrote an answer, decorated the contract, and put his own seal and signature.

Shhh!

With a cheerful sound, the contract with Lee Hwan’s signature was completed, and at the same time, today’s work was finished.

“I think I’m going to live a little now!”

Lee Hwan got up from his seat and put on his training clothes.

Slippers, training, and wearing a baseball cap were Lee Hwan’s everyday clothes.

Compared to the culture of the 19th century, it looked quite ridiculous, but the Eaststellar mercenaries all wore this outfit.

I saw Lee Hwan wearing it and tried to build it accordingly, but it was so comfortable that I became addicted to it.

After wearing them one by one, the mercenary corps adopted the same color as Lee Hwan as their casual clothes and wore them uniformly.

The Dutch Baron of Easterfield was the pinnacle of splendor.

As the East Stellar Company gradually developed and grew, the city expanded, and hydroelectric power plants and canals were built, developing almost to the level of the Port of Rotterdam.

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Moreover, as nobles and caravans frequented this neighborhood, the street naturally became luxurious.

Lee Hwan lived in a castle overlooking the Baron of Easterfield, and around it, shops that had been established since the early days of pioneering were forming a bustling area.

He went into a small pub in the downtown area, a 10-minute walk away.

hum hum… … !

The lively atmosphere of the bar was full of life.

Lee Hwan had the same color as the training worn by the Black Hammer mercenaries, so those who didn’t know him were immersed in his work without much consideration.

He said, handed the coin to the owner.

“Bourbon, by the bottle.”

“Aren’t you going to sleep late?”

“I just finished work, so I came here for a drink.”

“Welcome.”

The owner of the pub, Vivian, was an alluring widow who always wore a red dress.

I don’t know what my husband was doing, but the general consensus was that he couldn’t close his eyes even when he died, considering her slender and voluptuous body and beautiful appearance.

She brought the dried squid and peanuts to Yi Hwan.

“Are you going to eat like this today?”

“Also. That’s why I like regulars.”

Understanding Lee Hwan’s taste, she didn’t hesitate to trim the squid, which is rarely eaten dried in Europe, and hang it on the duct.

Occasionally, I made sausages with squid, and it tasted like squid sundae.

Although Lee Hwan was moved by her sincerity in drying squid for himself, he wondered why he had to do this.

“I’m sorry that I just received it like this. Do you have any reason for doing this?”

“The baron pays you generously and gives you tips.”

“That would be the case with any soldier. In particular, the Black Hammer mercenaries tend to spend their money well, right?”

The Blackmaul mercenaries are the highest paid people in Europe.

So, when you use it once at a bar, it has become a fashion to use it very hot and leave without saying a word.

But even to them, she seldom treated them special.

“just. The baron is handsome, isn’t he?”

“Huh, did you?”

“That body, that face, frankly, I don’t want to be nice @ (there will be no women)”

That’s why he said that if he was handsome, he would give him food and clothes even if he passed by.

If Lee Hwan had been born as a woman, he might have made a name for himself.

It was around the time when Lee Hwan and Vivian were having a drink.

A man wearing a black cloak came in from somewhere and sat down next to Lee Hwan.

“You are here.”

“… … How do you usually wear a cloak?”

“Because it’s convenient.”

He was one of Lee Hwan’s lieutenants, Malacca Coaster.

As a mixed race of white and black, he suffered from racial discrimination in Africa and was sold to a slave trader.

Since then, Malacca Coaster has been loyal to Lee Hwan and has been protecting him like a shadow.

Of course, there is no one in the mercenary corps who fights better than Lee Hwan.

Vivian also placed the glass in front of Malacca.

“You seem to be drinking bourbon today.”

“Me too.”

Lee Hwan immediately filled his cup.

The two of them emptied their glasses, almost as if in everyday life.

About the time the glass was full again, said Malacca.

“The work has been completed.”

“Where, North America?”

“South America.”

Lee Hwan built a fortress in Panama, which he received as a road construction project, and covered all four sides with cannons, but it took quite a while to expand the harbor and build the inner road for that.

However, no other power will be able to overtake Panama now.

A garrison of 20,000 men was deployed in coastal artillery, armed with 1,200 artillery pieces.

In addition, the mortar positions along with the machine gun positions are located like honeycombs along the border between the two Koreas, so even if hundreds of thousands of troops come in, they will never be able to break through.

“From now on, we can build a canal.”

“It is said that a vaccine for malaria has been developed. It is said that malaria can be cured by taking it with a treatment.”

The research hospital developed a treatment for malaria based on the knowledge Lee Hwan passed on, and recently even created a vaccine.

Now Lee Hwan is able to treat malaria, one of the worst problems along with the plague.

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Malacca Coaster mainly serves as Lee Hwan’s lieutenant, but occasionally acts as an informant.

He recently brought together a report on the thoughts of neighboring countries in South America in the form of a report.

“They know we’re going to build a naval base, so there’s a lot of talk from the neighboring countries.”

“Building a naval base… … .”

“It seems that our power is so strong that we are worried about what will happen if we invade.”

“Heh, let’s sell our worries. Do they build roads and there are other peoples who use them to invade?”

“There are many cases of plundering through roads in colonies.”

“Well, it is.”

“Anyway, I don’t express dissatisfaction with those around me, but I am afraid.”

Not long ago, while Lee Hwan conquered the Middle East, the terrifying power he showed seems to have come as a fear to neighboring countries.

Even the same was true for European countries.

“He even said they were feeling a lot of fear in France because we had beaten the Ottomans.”

“… … france?”

“If you come down south from here, isn’t it France? So it’s scary.”

“Heh, the stars… … .”

They were paying attention, but there were no countries that openly demanded that the construction be stopped.

That meant that Eaststellar was scary.

However, there were some who were a little more daring than that.

“I know European financiers are very dissatisfied. It’s very upsetting that each government is giving preferential treatment only to Easterfield Finance.”

“Are you dissatisfied with the preferential treatment? Then they will transport the gold to America.”

“They don’t think about their abilities and just complain about being hungry.”

“They are crazy.”

“But even if they are crazy people like that, shouldn’t the Baron need to rebuke them? Even so, I don’t think it’s a good thing to make enemies in the same industry.”

“Hmm, that’s right.”

“You think you’re showing some generosity.”

Lee Hwan agreed with Malacca’s opinion.

However, Lee Hwan was also well aware that recently European financiers were feeling very dissatisfied, and they were pouring huge amounts of lobbying money into each government.

If the ailment causes a large influx of gold, it will certainly need help from financiers.

Either way, they weren’t people in the same industry doing the same thing.

“Can you line up at each of the banks? secretly.”

“If you work under the water, the line will reach you in a week.”

“Then bring the heads of those banks together. Is it okay to use swarms because they don’t have enough food? You have to give them food.”

Lee Hwan just got a good prey from the British government,

I thought maybe things would be easier than I thought.