Chapter 638
2021-03-09
Chapter 638 Heavy Burden (Part 1)Duke Tywin "voluntarily" put on black clothed and went north to Wall's Nearly a month later, the new Lion Family House Head and Westerlands guardian appointed by Queen, Imp Tyrion Lannister, took the carriage along the Goldroad to the Lions Gate, returning to the capital of the Seven Kingdoms after many years.
His best friend and sponsor, Hand of the Queen, who got the news, went to the city gate to meet him.
"Ai... oh no, Mr. Prime Minister!" Tyrion, who heard the situation from the driver's mouth, immediately jumped out of the carriage, and moved his stiff body while rushing to speak, "Ashamed, my little one words of the lowly carry little weight, limited ability, despite my strong opposition, I was unable to convince my old man to give up sending troops, and I have to ask for your forgiveness!" The new Duke of Casterly Rock City, and the upcoming Master of Coin, the quasi-governor, until this time. There is still a sense of trance like in a dream, for fear that the dream will accidentally wake up, "But I know that your land-grant Army God is tough, so I don't worry about you at all, I'm just afraid that accidentally you will become my murderous father. Enemy, I can't work for you with peace of mind."
"You bastard, you still glib tongue." Igor rolled the eyes at him, said ill-humoredly, "Is war a child's play? This time the Westerlands sent troops to approach King's Landing to compensate for the shock to Queen Your Majesty, House Lannister bought one million more of Golden Dragon's Targaryen national debt,"
"One million more?" Tyrion raised his eyes with wide eyes. The tone of voice, "The Seven is above, do you Chinese people eat eggs by cutting open the belly of a hen, and I don't want to be a Master of Coin anymore, so I'll go home and go down to mine gold mines, and say goodbye!"
Killing chickens to get eggs is not enough, but cutting leeks... but often uprooting them. Igor sneered inwardly and shook his head with a smile: "Okay, okay, no kidding, do you have girls in your car?"
"No—wait, what if there is?" Tyrion answered with a shrug in confusion, "Although I'm on good terms with you, I'm not good enough to want to be a 'commoner' with you."
"What a mess... I just think that we are all characters now, and we shouldn't stand at the city gate and talk about national major events." Igor, who received a negative answer, said as he walked towards Tyrion's carriage Go, open the curtain with confidence, and said as he drilled inside, "Since there is no one inside, get in the car, and let's talk while we're on the road."
There is a faint smell of alcohol in the car, Tyrion Obviously he drank alcohol on the road to relieve his boredom, but seeing that he was not drunk, it was considered that his self-control had improved. After the two of them got into the car and sat down, the carriage was restarted under the leadership of the Prime Minister's Guard. With the slight shaking and the regular sound of the wheels running over the slate, Igor put away his smile and started to color: "Okay, we will later There is an opportunity and time to talk nonsense together, so I won't talk much for now. The Queen will officially appoint you later, and in two days, I will have to lead the army to the Reach. Before that, I have to seize all the limited time, Come and talk to you about your future work.
"So formal? What else can Master of Coin do, isn't it just 'counting copper coins'? "Tyrion laughed, pretending to be relaxed for two seconds, and then suddenly realized that it is not appropriate to use the former king, Robert Baratheon's joke about this position to make a joke of the royal front, so he has to pretend that nothing happened. , "Okay, don't be smart--Mr. Prime Minister, please explain your work. "
"For the Master of Coins you know or hear about, their job is probably 'counting coins', but you're different." Your Excellency is the first Master of Coin of the Second Dynasty of Targaryen, and even has a chance to be... the second Prime Minister after me. After drawing another pie with ease, Igor continued slowly, "You are facing a new kingdom that has been devastated by wars and winters, and is waiting to be rebuilt. Nuoda's country is in ruins and desperately in need of recuperation, but we are still serving a Queen who has a lot of active thoughts and thinks about how to do a major event day and night. You know, money is needed to do a major event, and the king's money cannot be earned oneself but can only be collected from the people, 'for the well-being of the people' and 'building a great cause', these are two contradictions that are difficult to reconcile. The heavy burden on the shoulders of the first imperial court is to solve this problem. "
"Don't you already have a solution - the Targaryen bond." Tyrion followed Igor's words, "speaking of which, the first buyer of Night's Watch bonds is Lannister, and the first buyer of Targaryen bonds is Lannister, you see, my family will support you more." ”
Lannister is by no means the first family to get the bonds of the Targaryen country, but unlike the other worthy princes of the Seven Kingdoms, the latter only got the bonds as a reward, only the Lion Family, According to the secret agreement between the two people outside Golden Tooth, they first took out real gold, white silver and bought the Dragon Family bonds.
This move is not only a show of loyalty, but also the new dynasty and the richest man in Westeros. The benefit is tied, and the Queen's huge cash shortage is instantly relieved - after all, small rewards for the middle and low-level nobles and low-level soldiers and piecemeal expenditures for purchasing supplies are all impossible to use bonds to carry out. Then Instead of promoting bonds, it's creating panic.
"I remember this feeling. "Igor lightly nodded with a smile, fumbled around in the carriage, and quickly found a bottle and a glass," but if you think the Targaryen bond is the same as the Night's Watch bond, it's just a 'money-making' expedient, get together the first pot of gold emergency, that would be a big mistake. Remember that financial hegemony I talked about outside of Golden Tooth? What is financial hegemony? ”
He poured out a little wine, raised his head and drank it, moistened his throat before continuing calmly: “Occupy an absolute dominant position in the transnational financial system, arbitrarily overriding his own will and ideas.” Above other countries, the rules that are beneficial to oneself will be enforced in the entire known world, and the entire world will be invisible to pay seigniorage to oneself... This is called financial hegemony! Compared with this ultimate goal, the iron treasury should be the creditor of the whole world, and let the whole world work to repay its interest, which is only a paediatric department. And the Targaryen National Bond is the sword to achieve this ultimate goal! ”
Here again, a familiar feeling.
Tyrion's hair and ears stood up at the same time.
He knew that this foreign man wanted to He's acting cool, and the worst thing is, he can always turn the bullshit he blew into reality.
When Igor told him about the principles of finance and explained the details of the fundraising "scam", he just thought it was a I'm listening to the story, but in a blink of an eye, the other party has become a Hand of the Queen all the way, and holds the power to decide the policy direction of the entire Seven Kingdoms. Now, no matter how obscure and incomprehensible what this guy said, oneself has to make every effort to memorize each and every one of them. One word!
"As long as the Targaryen bond survives and is recognized like the Night's Watch bond, we have the ability to print a piece of paper, stamp a stamp and exchange it for currency or even use it directly, and if Going a step further, Targaryen bonds can also replace the bulky gold as a settlement tool for large transactions between regimes and powers... You have been running Lannister Bank in the Westerlands for several years, up and down the Seven Kingdoms, should not someone understand this better than you. What are you doing? ”
Golden Dragon on paper, credit international currency, transaction settlement tool?
Just thinking about these words for a while, an electric shock-like horror hits the back. Back, Tyrion's entire upper body seemed to be paralyzed, unable to move even a little bit. Having been the head of a bank for several years, he is not only no stranger to these ideas, but even oneself thought about it without Igor mentioning it...different places This is: in oneself's dwarf head, these concepts are just ideas that came out of the Consciousness Sea by chance while doing mental gymnastics, but in the eyes of the black clothed Prime Minister in front of him, they are realistic goals and ideals!
"I see you get it. "Looking at the stiff appearance of my oneself dwarf friend, Igor sipped his smile. "But I have to pour a pot of cold water. What I just said is just an idea and a general direction. Whether it can be realized in our lifetime depends on our ability. . We need to ponder and work together on the details and execution. After all, when we jointly launched the Night's Watch bond, we didn't copy the bond and put it on the counter of the office, and someone sent the money, right? ”
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(end of this chapter)