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Blackstone Code - Chapter 469

Published at 15th of March 2024 07:15:43 AM


Chapter 469

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In nagariel, the high priests are definitely the richest, but also the most low-key group.

There are many religious festivals every year. When it comes to such festivals, people begin to prepare utensils and send them to nearby temples for blessing.

The poor can't afford good gold, but they can't afford not to give it away - if they want to have a good baby, then the annual festival is the time to show. People can not be rich, but they can't do without, even gold painted utensils.

Sometimes some sacrifices will lead people to say why the rich are getting richer and richer, while the powerful have stable power, because the gold objects they sacrifice are more in line with the wishes of the gods.

This has also caused another local phenomenon that foreigners can never understand. Once it comes to major religious festivals, some crazy religious families will sell their children, women, wives and houses to raise gold to create a gold sacrifice to the gods to express their piety.

This kind of thing is a little rare in recent years. The arrival of foreigners has indeed changed some things, but this phenomenon still exists in society, especially the elderly. When they are about to lose their family power, they will do so.

After selling everything at their disposal in exchange for gold sacrificing to the gods, they began to wander. Many of the old people living on the street are like this except those driven out by their children.

Their purpose is to please the gods so that they can have a good baby after death.

The religious fanaticism of the whole people makes the temples in each region a huge gold collection institution. From gold lacquer to gold wrapped vessels to pure gold vessels, a huge number of these things flow into temples everywhere every year.

The temple will entrust this part of things to some people, or simply deal with it by itself, extract the gold and melt it into gold ingots or gold cakes.

Because they lack special tools, the process is not so perfect, and the existing unscrupulous merchants add things to the gold ware, the purity is not very high.

Copper is the most added. As long as it is handled well, it is not easy for a group of sacrificial priests who have not taken chemistry classes to find out.

Lynch shook his head and threw the gold cake back to XIAOJINSHAN. He went to Jinshan and looked at these gold bars and gold cakes with big holes and small eyes. His eyes were in a trance for a moment.

The current gold price of the Federation is very stable and not very high. Thanks to the continuous decline of Finance and economy in recent years, the prices of precious metals such as silver and gold are steadily increasing. Among them, the price of gold has risen to 37 yuan an ounce, while the price of silver has unexpectedly risen to 1.71 ounce, and the currency unit is not included in the statistics.

A ton is equal to more than 320500 ounces, and the price of a meal of pure gold has exceeded 1.3 million.

Lynch looked at the gold and silently calculated that there was at least tens of millions of wealth here!

But it has more visual impact than 10 million banknotes in front of people. Gold has firmly attracted people's attention since it was found by people!

Lynch gave him a price he thought was appropriate, "about between ten and fifteen million federal sols."

He thought the high priest would show that he was so rich, but to Lynch's surprise, the high priest was stunned.

"This... So much?" the high priest seemed to be confused about the number. "The number in my heart is less... Than what you said."

He had intended to say less. He thought there might be only about 35 million here. Of course, this is also related to the behavior of Preston firm in recent years. The price of their recovered gold is not in line with the international gold price.

At the same time, nagary is actually rich in gold minerals, which is why the high priest thinks these things will not be too expensive.

Lynch nodded. He picked up a gold bar. Because the abrasives were not clean enough during pouring and there were many impurities in his own solution, a circle of pores were formed on the back of the gold brick. These pores were small in the size of soybeans and large enough to plug his fingers in, which actually reduced the value of visual inspection.

"Transportation, re purification, labor costs, these additional expenses have to be deducted from its value, as well as some security costs and bank insurance business."

"If so much gold is easy to happen in private collection, it can only be stored in the bank's vault. These are also expenses."

With a bang, he threw the gold bar back. Looking at the falling gold bar and gold cake, Lynch sighed that these people are too fucking rich!

Of course, this is also normal. This is the characteristic of backward countries. Wealth and power are more highly concentrated in the hands of a few people than in developed countries. This is also one of the manifestations of unreasonable social structure.

The more mature and advanced the overall social structure and mechanism, the more balanced the distribution of wealth among all classes. People's ideal social structure is that the top and bottom are the same in terms of wealth and social obligations, and power will rely on different division of labor.

The more it develops in this respect, the more advanced the social system will be. However, this is different in nagary. The high concentration of wealth and power only brings about the slow death of the society. The rulers firmly control power and wealth, which is equivalent to depriving ordinary people of their desires.

Ordinary people can't get the promotion and enjoyment of wealth, power, status and other material and spiritual aspects through labor or other means, they will lose the motivation to work hard.

They prefer to lie in the sewage and wait for death, rather than stand up and find a job to fill their stomachs. Of course, the chance of no job is another problem.

But anyway, there were so many gold piled up here. Looking at them, Lynch's mind took back from the ragged people waiting for a good baby outside.

"Are you sure you want to give these things to me?" Lynch asked again and again.

The high priest hesitated for a moment. He really didn't expect that the gold was worth so much money, but he hesitated for a while, and then nodded vigorously, "yes, I'll leave it to you."

Lynch nodded, "I will arrange someone to deal with these things as soon as possible. In addition, I will certainly do what I promise you. For the sake of our friendship and the money!"

He said these words in a very ugly way, but this ugly way was recognized by the high priest.

"I heard that the Federation is a country that pays great attention to the spirit of contract. Maybe we can sign some contracts to make these things handled more perfectly?"

He didn't intend to do so. If the gold could only be exchanged for millions of federal sols, Lynch would share one point and his sons would share one point. In the end, each son could only get one million federal sols.

But it's too much, so he has to add some restrictions. You know, sometimes too much money can cost people their lives.

After he and the high priest came out of his back garden, Lynch and he had a general intention. Lynch would use the money to set up a foundation. The shares would be held by Lynch and the high priest's children respectively, which was equivalent to giving Lynch some money for nothing.

The foundation is entrusted to Blackstone capital for management. 60% of its annual income will be reintegrated into the foundation as a capital increase, and the remaining 40% will be distributed according to the distribution of equity.

The entrustment period of this agreement is ten years. Within ten years, everyone can't cash out. It can't be done until ten years later, and the trusteeship will be ended.

Generally speaking, the children of the high priest have ten years to adapt to the society there. Ten years later, they have fully integrated into the federal society. Only when they become federates can they get the money that really belongs to them and have complete control.

Before that, they have to listen to Lynch.

After Lynch left, the high priest found his children and said his decision.

When he said his decision, his children, including RickA, couldn't help but put forward different views, which roughly meant that the high priest didn't have to do so.

In the face of these children who are arguing and want more autonomy and domination, the high priest is more sure of his own ideas.

When these people were less noisy, he smiled and shook his head. While skillfully replacing the new incense core in the incense burner, he asked softly, "are you finished?"

The long-standing words made these children regret that they were too aggressive just now. They bowed their heads and dared not speak again.

After fiddling with his incense, the high priest sat cross legged on the bed again and talked about his views.

"Preston is very powerful. He knows a large group of powerful pirates. It is said that behind these pirates is gavra's Royal Navy. With this force, he firmly dominates the import and export trade of nagary."

"We all hate him, but we can't live without him. This is a very sad situation, children."

"Whether it's me, delag or those fools of the central government, they have no way to take Preston. It can even be said that as long as Preston is unhappy, we can return to the primitive society in a few months."

"But such a powerful man, a man we can't fight, was easily cleaned up by the Federation!"

A nagging high priest suddenly talked about these very serious things, which would give people a very absurd feeling, but none of the people in the room had such an idea.

"You are not familiar with the Confederation. They can find a reason to take everything you have, and then let you disappear into people's sight. No one will care about you barbarians from barbarian society. You must have someone who can provide shelter for you before you can survive."

"Lynch is a good choice. I heard that he has a good relationship with the king of the Federation... The president, which is enough for him to ensure your safety and that no one will kill you because of peeping at your wealth."

The high priest looked at the children and sighed silently. In fact, he gave them a layer of protection, that is himself.

He didn't choose to go to the Federation with these children. He had two ideas.

First, he should make use of his power to reap some more benefits, such as the inheritance of the high priest. At that time, the sacrifices and chief priests of the following temples will be crazy, and a large amount of gold will come to him, so he will have a second sum of money.

Secondly, as long as he is still a high priest and has influence, he will have the value of being used.

In order to make better use of his power and influence, the federates will take good care of him and his family until they think he is worthless.

All this is for the children.




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