"So you see, the most important source of this child's problem is here. She wants money, lots and lots of money, and always hopes to have a lot of money to satisfy her strong insecurity."

"But this time, your majesty, look, you directly said that you would take back her most profitable revenue. Doesn't this mean that her biggest spiritual support has been directly destroyed by you? She is like this.

It’s not incomprehensible to do such an emotional thing.”

Meng Lang breathed out slowly and said: "Is this really the case? However, I don't want to do anything to her at all. As long as she can come to the capital, she can still have a lot of wealth and obtain

Everything she wanted."

Natalie shook her head slightly and said with a very clear expression: "Dear, girls may not be as rational as you men in doing things. We girls are often more emotional when doing things, and we may not be able to think about it so much.

For a long time, I feel that if you hurt me now, then I must resist you. And it is precisely because of this kind of emotion that many times, girls like us will have certain things that you don’t let me do, but I just want to do it.

Doing something to deliberately go against your emotions."

Meng Lang took a deep breath, then shook his head helplessly.

The queen smiled again and said: "So, for Ariel, don't always make things so big. This child needs someone to coax, and I'm afraid this person is not you, but her

Her lover should come and coax her until she is happy."

His Majesty the Emperor tilted his head slightly and said slowly: "What do you mean...?"

Natalie smiled again and said: "Do you need to say more? Of course, let your precious brother coax her as soon as possible, and then get her pregnant as soon as possible and give birth to the blood of our royal family. As long as you have a child of the royal family,

Then she will definitely not have that kind of insecurity anymore. As long as the insecurity is eliminated, everything can be solved, right?"

After hearing the Queen's analysis, Meng Lang began to shake the red wine glass in his hand again and thought about it carefully.

After a while, he drank all the red wine in the glass, stood up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window again, looked at the rain outside, and said slowly -

"Natalie, your judgment about your sister...I am not questioning how long you have known her, but I feel that the Ariel you are talking about may not be the Ariel Garcia I know.

.”

Natalie was stunned for a moment and said slowly: "What's wrong?"

Meng Lang slowly exhaled and continued: "If she is really just a girl who has no future plans and just wants to take one step at a time, then the problem is really simple now. Well, you should know

She led the civilians who knew nothing to defeat the knights of the light, right? Although I was very surprised that the light was captured, it was not as surprised as what she did next.

matter."

The emperor once again pointed at the envelope on the table and continued -

"The lord of Lagoon City in the Marginal Province is a Viscount named Norris Paxus. He is a small character. This small character also had a close relationship with Ariel before. They tinkered with the elemental machines and made money together."

"Perhaps it is because of this reason of making money together that after the troops led by Guang Zhongguang arrived, he showed an attitude of not cooperating but not opposing. This kind of performance is obvious.

expressed disgust."

"This battle report came from the Marginal Province ten days ago. It says that the viscount from Lagoon City has decided to join forces with Ariel and join the rebel camp."

In response to this, Natalie's face finally showed a hint of panic, she covered her mouth and exclaimed: "How... could this happen? If you put it that way... isn't marginal province...?!"

Meng Lang slowly exhaled: "Yes, once Laohu City is lost, the Marginal Province will be lost. The reason why the entire Marginal Province collapsed so quickly is that Ariel defeated my thousand with only a hundred people.

The battle between famous knights obviously had the effect of fueling the situation."

"According to the battle report, what defeated the Knights of Light in Light was a very novel elemental spear. This spear has an unimaginable shooting distance and super destructive power. The defensive magic and armor used by the general army can't be used in this kind of spear."

The weapon seemed to be completely defenseless before. Now, many people are speculating that your good sister has dedicated herself to the devil and turned into a terrible witch, using her beauty and body in exchange for this terrible thing from the devil.

Weapons. Some even say..."

After a slow pause, Menglang continued -

"Some people even say that she has become a signal that the devil is about to reappear, and what she dedicated is the devil who was sealed a thousand years ago. The sealed devil used the witch's hand as a medium to start trying to get involved again.

This world extends its claws to all countries on the entire Golden Continent, killing all life."

If these words were spoken by a drunkard in a pub, Natalie would definitely laugh them off.

But now, these words are spoken from the mouth of her husband... who is now the emperor of the Blue Bay Empire. You can imagine how much weight they carry.

Natalie covered her mouth again, hesitated for a moment, and then said with a slightly frightened tone: "Dear... you... don't really believe this ridiculous rumor, do you?"

Meng Lang put his hands behind his back and sighed slightly: "It doesn't make sense whether I believe it or not. The key question is whether others will believe it."

"Thousands of years have passed, and we humans have almost forgotten the existence of the Demon King. But now, the terrifying combat power has once again reminded people of this terrifying existence that cannot be studied in detail."

"Whether Ariel is a witch or whether she borrowed her power from the devil is not important."

"But she won the war, which is important in itself."

"Now, I don't know when this damn drought will end... This has also caused various large and small uprisings to continue throughout the empire. Before this, the farmers were fighting on their own, and there was no centripetal force.

.Under such circumstances, the Imperial Army can easily suppress them."

"But now that there is a force that can confront the imperial army head-on, then the resistance forces will obviously find a backbone and start to gather towards the marginal provinces."

"There is nothing scary about weak ants. What is really scary is that these weak ants have found their queen."

"And now, Ariel Garcia undoubtedly has the potential to become an ant queen."

"I admire Ariel's intelligence very much, but if such intelligence cannot be used by me, but is used to resist the empire, then it would be... such a pity."

Now, Meng Lang's face flashed with a little loneliness and regret. It was obvious that he was very reluctant to give up, but he was reluctant to give up but could not give up. With such a hesitant and entangled mentality, he could only do nothing.

He sighed——

"Of course, it's not that uncomfortable for Ariel to control the entire Marginal Province. Even if she now owns three cities and fifteen villages in the entire Marginal Province, as long as they cut off their access and consume them bit by bit, eventually

One day I can defeat her."

"What really makes me feel a little...scared is that she did something very incredible."

Natalie had never seen such a scared expression on her husband's face before.

Even when facing the most ferocious monsters or on the battlefield, she believed that her husband would never show fear. Even if the Demon King came in person, her husband would rush forward without hesitation and use all his strength.

I'm going to stick a sword in that demon king's chest!

But now, her husband... showed a scared expression...

"She did...what?"

Natalie swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked.

Menglang slowly exhaled and said: "According to the information I got, she canceled the currency settlement method of the Blue Bay Empire, and instead redesigned some light pieces of paper to replace the gold coins. In other words, she is now

The foundations of my country are being dug."

Natalie didn't know much about economics, but judging from the expression on Meng Lang's face, she knew very well that this was definitely a very serious matter.

At that moment, she gently hugged her husband's arm and said slowly: "Banknotes...? Use pieces of paper as money...to spend? How is this possible? Who would think that light paper can buy things?"

Menglang nodded: "At first, I thought I was just fanciful, but then I asked the Minister of Economic Affairs and found that this kind of thing does not seem impossible. In particular, our country has actually already done research in this area.

, and has also published related books to provide a theoretical basis."

At this point, Natalie rolled her eyes and immediately thought of something, and said in surprise: "Could it be that! That book on theoretical basis...is...!"

Menglang smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, it is Ariel's teacher - Connor Conservative. This guy has always been doing research in Lao Teng Shu. He seems to be deaf to what is happening outside the window and only knows how to do academic research.

guy."

Having said this, Meng Lang walked to his desk, picked up a book on it, shook it, and said: "There are many works on conservative studies. In the past few decades as a scholar, he has written many major and minor works.

There are more than a dozen books, and the number of papers dedicated to explaining his research results is no less than a hundred. Of course, there may be many things in them that are useful, but there are also many things that seem to be of no use at all, and they are simply a matter of ignorance.

It was written by a scholar behind closed doors and based on whims.”

"So, his academic research basically did not play much role, and the content was too much and too complicated. Many people, including me, thought that someone would have to wait until he died before someone would sort it out.

All the contents of his works, let’s finally give a final conclusion to his knowledge.”

"But I didn't expect that among all his imaginative academic research, there would be a few that seemed feasible and were poaching me."

After saying that, Meng Lang casually threw the book in his hand on the table and continued -

"According to this book's idea of ​​paper currency, once the currency no longer uses metals such as gold, silver, copper, and iron and instead uses paper, it can save the country a lot of coinage costs. And because the currency is no longer heavy,

metal, then the amount of money carried by people will increase, and it will be easier to trade bulk goods. After all, we cannot imagine the concept of someone taking out 10,000 gold coins for trading at one time, but if it is

As for banknotes, maybe only ten pieces of paper are needed to solve the problem."

"If the transaction of bulk goods can become more convenient, then commercial trade will become more convenient and faster. Once the circulation speed of money is accelerated, taxation will increase accordingly and jobs will naturally increase. It can be said that paper money

The benefits it brings are far beyond simply using gold coins, and even worse."

"I think that for Ariel, her business has increased dramatically in the past year and a half, and traditional currency is definitely no longer able to meet her transaction needs. Therefore, customizing banknote rules will obviously be able to improve her business.

The better you do, the more money you make.”

Natalie slowly put down the hand covering her mouth, and her eyes slowly lit up. After Meng Lang finished speaking, she immediately asked: "Well, dear, if there are so many benefits to minting banknotes... then we

Why not do this? With the strength of our country, wouldn’t it be easier to handle this kind of thing than a small marginal province?”

Speaking of this topic, Meng Lang couldn't help but have a wry smile appear on his lips again. He shook his head helplessly and said slowly——

"This involves the only shortcoming of paper money compared to metal currency. And this shortcoming... unfortunately, is fatal."

"Huh... after hearing this news, I also asked my economic ministers whether paper currency can also be implemented in the empire?"
To be continued...