Blackstone Code

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

There are many religious festivals every year, and every time this kind of festival comes, people start to prepare gold utensils and send them to nearby temples for blessing.

Poor people can’t afford good goldware, but they have to give it away—if they want to have a good birth, then the annual festival is the time to show it. People don’t have to be rich, but they can’t live without it, even if it’s painted with gold paint utensils.

Sometimes some priests will also guide people, saying why the rich are getting richer and the powerful are stable, because the gold utensils they sacrifice are more in line with the wishes of the gods.

This has also created another local phenomenon that foreigners can never understand. Once a major religious festival comes, some crazy religious families will sell their children, daughters, wives and houses to raise gold to create a gold offering. Sacrifice to the gods to express your piety.

This kind of thing has been a little less common in recent years, and the arrival of foreigners has indeed changed some things, but this phenomenon still exists in society, especially for the elderly. When they are about to lose their family rights, they will will do so.

He sold all the things he could control in exchange for gold and sacrificed them to the gods and then started wandering. Among the old people living on the streets, many of them were like this except those who were driven out by their children.

Their purpose of doing this is to please the gods, so that they can have a good pregnancy after death.

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

The temple will entrust these things to some people, or simply handle them by themselves, extract the gold, and melt it into gold ingots or gold cakes.

Because they lack special tools, the process is not so perfect, and there are profiteers adding things to the gold, the purity of these products is not very high.

Among them, copper is the most added. As long as this thing is handled well, it is really not easy for a group of priests who have not taken chemistry class to find out.

Lynch shook his head, and threw the gold cake back on the small gold mountain. He walked to the side of the gold mountain, looked at these gold bars and gold cakes covered with big holes and small eyes, his eyes were in a daze for a moment.

The current price of gold in the Federation is very stable, not very high. Thanks to the continuous financial and economic decline in the past few years, the prices of precious metals such as silver and gold have been steadily increasing, and the price of gold has risen to 37 yuan. One ounce, and the price of silver unexpectedly rose to one yuan and seventy-one ounces, and the cent unit was not included in the statistics.

One ton is equal to more than 32,500 ounces, and the price of a ton of pure gold has exceeded 1.3 million.

Lynch looked at the gold, and silently calculated in his heart, there are at least over ten million wealth accumulated here!

But it has more visual impact than 10 million banknotes in front of people. Since gold is discovered by people, they have firmly attracted people's attention!

Lynch gave a price that he thought was appropriate, "About 1,000 to 15 million federal soles."

He thought that the high priest would show that he was so rich, but what Lynch didn't expect was that the high priest was also stunned.

"This... so many?" The high priest seemed a little at a loss about the number, "The number in my heart is... a little less than the one you said."

He originally planned to say a lot less. He thought that there might only be about three to five million yuan here. Of course, this is also related to the behavior of the Preton Trading Company in these years. The price of their recycled gold is not in line with the international gold price.

At the same time, Nagalil is actually rich in gold deposits, which is why the high priest felt that these things would not be too expensive.

Lynch nodded, and he picked up a gold bar casually. Because the abrasive tool was not clean enough during pouring, and the solution itself had many impurities, a circle of pores formed on the back of the gold brick. The small pores were about the size of soybeans, and the large ones Being able to stick your fingers in actually reduces the value of visual inspection.

"Transportation, re-purification, labor costs, these additional expenses have to be deducted from its value, there are also some security costs and the bank's insurance business."

"If so much gold is privately collected, it is easy to have accidents and can only be stored in the bank's vault. These are also fees."

With a bang, he threw the gold bars back. Looking at the falling gold bars and gold cakes, Lynch sighed, these people are so fucking rich!

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

The more mature and advanced the overall social structure and mechanism are, the more balanced the distribution of wealth among the various classes should be. People's ideal social structure is that the top and bottom are the same in terms of wealth and social obligations, and power will vary due to the division of labor. Rely on.

The more it develops in this direction, the more advanced the social system will be, but Nagalil's current situation is different. The high concentration of wealth and power only brings about the slow death of society, and the rulers firmly control power. And wealth is equivalent to depriving ordinary people of their freedom.

Ordinary people cannot gain material and spiritual promotion and enjoyment such as wealth, power, and status through labor or other means, and they will lose the motivation to work hard.

They would rather lie in the sewage and wait for death than stand up and find a job to fill their stomachs. Of course, not having a job opportunity is another problem.

But anyway, so much gold was piled up here, and looking at it, Lynch's mind was taken away from the ragged people outside waiting to cast a good tire.

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

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, then nodded vigorously, "Yes, I'll leave it to you."

Lynch nodded, "I will arrange people to deal with these things as soon as possible, and I will definitely do what I promised you, for the sake of our friendship and the money!"

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

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

Originally, he didn't plan to do this. If the gold can only be exchanged for a few million federal sols, Lynch will share one share, and his sons will share one share. In the end, each son may only get a million or so federal sols. .

But it was too much, and he had to add some restrictions. You must know that sometimes too much money can make people lose their lives.

After walking out of his back garden with the high priest, Lynch had a general intention with him. Lynch would use the money to set up a foundation, and the shares would be held respectively by Lynch and the children of the high priest, equal to white Give Lynch some money.

The foundation will be entrusted to the "Blackstone Capital" company for management, and 60% of its income will be reintegrated into the foundation as capital increase every year, and the remaining 40% will be distributed according to the equity dividends.

The entrustment period of this agreement is ten years. Within ten years, no one can cash out. It will be done after ten years, and the trusteeship will end.

Generally speaking, the children of the high priest have ten years to adapt to the society there. After ten years, they have fully integrated into the federal society. Money has complete control.

Before that, they had to listen to Lynch.

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

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When he said his decision, his children, including Rika, couldn't help but put forward different opinions, which roughly meant that the high priest didn't need to do this.

Facing these children who were arguing and wanting more autonomy and control, the high priest became more certain of his thoughts.

When these people were not so noisy, he shook his head with a smile, and while skillfully replacing the incense core in the incense burner, he asked softly, "Is it all finished?"

The words that have been accumulating power for a long time made these children regret that they were too impulsive just now, and they all lowered their heads, not daring to speak again.

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

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

"It's such a sad situation that we all hate him but can't live without him, kids."

"Whether it's me, Drago or those idiots from the central government, they can't do anything against Preton. It can even be said that as long as Preton is unhappy, we only need a few months to return to the primitive society middle."

"But it's such a powerful person, a person we can't fight against, who was easily dealt with by the Federation!"

A chattering 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 Federation, they can just find a reason to take everything you have, and then let you disappear from people's sight, no one will care about you barbarians from a barbaric society, you must have someone You have to be able to provide shelter for you so that you can survive."

"Lynch is a good choice. I heard that he has a good relationship with the king...the president of the federation. This is enough for him to guarantee your safety, and no one will kill you for spying on your wealth."

The high priest looked at these children and sighed silently. In fact, he also put a layer of protection on these children, that is himself.

He chose not to go to the Federation with these children, and he had two thoughts.

First, he wants to use the power in his hands to reap some benefits, such as the inheritance of the high priest. At that time, the priests and chief priests of the temples below will be crazy, and a large amount of gold will gather to him, and he will have a second sum of money.

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

In order to make better use of his power and influence, the federal people will definitely take good care of him and his family, and will not throw him away until they think he is worthless.

All this is for the children.