But it turned out that Leo was sticking his butt out, sweating profusely, dragging a huge table, and just poked his head out of the study. After hearing the Grand Duke's shamelessness and arrogance, he regarded Feiying Company as
If you want to confiscate all those things, your face will turn red in a hurry, and you can't help but protest loudly.
But after he finished speaking, he immediately reacted, fearing that Catherine would blame him for deducting money and raising taxes, which would make him bankrupt. He hurriedly covered his mouth with his chubby little hands. His big, dark, bright eyes couldn't help but stare.
The bones were spinning around, looking alert and alert, but also extremely pitiful.
Although the Archduke kept asking questions angrily, his big eyes still looked at Catherine unblinkingly.
The Grand Duke couldn't help being surprised.
He took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down, and then asked: "Leo, can you tell me why you don't speak?"
Leo thought for a moment, then put down his hand, as if complaining, and said quickly: "My sister won't let me talk~!"
Then he covered his mouth with both hands.
Seeing this, the Grand Duke couldn't help but turned his head and said: "Nicole, what is going on?"
Catherine couldn't help but put her hand on her forehead with a headache, and moaned lowly: "Oh my God, why does he still remember~!" - She was already in a hurry just now to take care of the two people, and completely forgot about Leo's
Ballast.
She didn't say anything, she just stretched out her spring-onion-like index finger and lightly touched her lips, thus lifting Leo's gag order.
Leo then put down his hand, and then said angrily to his father: "I said no, you are not allowed to take away my company like this."
The Grand Duke was stunned when he saw that Leo was like a puffed-up frog, with his hands on his waist, staring at his two big black and bright eyes, his pink and red cheeks bulging high, and he could even
Through the fair and delicate skin, you can see the blue blood vessels underneath.
He couldn't help but hesitate for a moment, unable to believe his ears, and asked tentatively: "You...your company?"
Leo raised his chest and said proudly: "Of course. These things are produced by our Flying Eagle Company. I am the chairman and general manager of the company, and I am also the CEO..."
He paused, touched the back of his head, and whispered, "Although I don't quite understand what these are?"
Then he said loudly: "Anyway, the official is very big, that's all."
As he spoke, he opened his hands widely to show the Grand Duke how big his official position was.
The Grand Duke looked at him in astonishment, then raised his head and looked at Catherine inquiringly. He saw the color on her face change several times, and then nodded softly and imperceptibly.
The Grand Duke immediately became interested.
He sat down again, then beckoned Leo to come to him, leaned forward and picked him up, placed him on the table in front of him, and then asked with interest: "So,
You are really in charge of this company."
Leo first corrected him seriously: "It's Feiying Company, not any other company."
Then, he raised his chin and said, "Of course. This company is my family."
The Grand Duke thought for a moment and said: "I am your father, isn't what's yours mine? Why can't I take it away?"
Leo's face suddenly turned red.
He blinked his big eyes and said seriously: "This is different. Can you wear my clothes?"
The Grand Duke was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that this little guy had already learned a lot of tricks after not seeing each other for a long time. His teeth were sharp and his mouth was extremely sharp.
Seeing that he was silent, Leo continued: "Business is business. It's easy to have trouble if the property rights are not clear. Even if I don't want to do it anymore, I gave the company to you. This is my filial piety. But it belongs to me now."
No matter what, what you are doing is actually robbing. Let’s talk about it later. Isn’t it honorable for Archduke Julius to rob his own son’s business? I don’t believe it. You won’t hide away when others see you in the future?”
The Grand Duke was immediately furious and said: "You..."
Before he could finish his words, Leo had already continued: "Besides, I am not the only shareholder of our company. They invest their money in the company, and I must also be responsible for them."
He paused, looked at the Grand Duke's flushed face, and asked: "Do you want your son to be irresponsible, lose credibility, and be looked down upon by others?"
The Grand Duke's face turned red and his neck was thick because of him, but when he saw his big pure black eyes shining with countless stars, he looked at him without fear.
In the end, this grand duke, who was famous for being able to stop children from crying at night, could only clench his teeth and squeeze out two words from between his teeth: "I don't want to~"
Seeing that the blood vessels in his temples were bulging with anger and almost about to explode in the next moment, Lorraine couldn't help but put away her gloating mood and shook her head in sympathy.
When Catherine saw this, she became furious. She reached out and hit him hard to make Lorraine calm down again.
At this time, the Grand Duke hesitated for a moment, forced a flattering smile on his face, and said: "Leo, my dear little pumpkin. What you said is not unreasonable. But now there is a war over there, and the situation is very serious.
It’s urgent, so why don’t we think about it and give these things to me for use first? How about we settle the accounts later after the war is over?”
Leo didn't take the Grand Duke's concession into consideration at all. He held his two chubby hands in his arms, tilted his head, curled his lips, and replied decisively: "Not so good~!"
"You..." The Grand Duke looked at him fiercely, then took a deep breath, tried his best to suppress the anger in his chest, and said: "The soldiers on the front line are still fighting~!"
Leo did not show any weakness, raised his little head and said: "So what? War has always served politics. You can't put the cart before the horse.
To put it bluntly, you are fighting to grab things, money, and territory. It is to collect more people's taxes. Otherwise, the Sahara Desert is so big, and you can just send a few rabbits to take over it. Why don't you see anyone going there?
occupied?"
The Grand Duke was stunned and murmured: "War is to serve politics..."
He looked at Leo with an expression of disbelief in his eyes. The little boy with pink makeup and beautiful hair across from him was not his son, but a monster with two heads.
I heard Leo continue to say: "But it is impossible to make a country rich and powerful just by fighting and robbing. In the end, it must be governed by people. Therefore, the higher you are in a high position, the more you must abide by the rules.
Let everyone see hope so that we can live with peace of mind.
I have worked so hard to earn some money, but you are going to collect it from me, and you don’t even write a note? This makes people see it, can you not feel chilled? Can you not run away? Where will we collect the tax then?
go?
So, there’s no way~! Even if uncle comes, there’s no way~!”
As he spoke, he folded his arms in anger and turned his body to the side angrily.
Lorraine thought for a moment and then realized that the 'uncle' he was talking about was the Emperor of the Empire. He couldn't help but feel very lucky that he had found the right manager. If he had found another guy, he might have been scared to death.
How dare you challenge this murderous maniac on the spot.
The Grand Duke hesitated to speak, looked at Leo for a long time, and finally sighed and said very discouraged: "Forget it, I can't teach you now."
Leo couldn't bear to see the Grand Duke's depressed look. He thought for a moment, then touched his fleshy little chin and laughed evilly, saying: "But it's not impossible."
"Huh?" The Grand Duke looked at him in surprise.
Leo shook his little finger and said with a sly smile: "Actually, I can authorize the production of these things to you, and then send the company's technical personnel to provide specialized technical guidance to the empire's factories."
The Grand Duke wondered: "Isn't this the same?"
Leo snorted and said, "Of course this is different. Every time a car is made, we will be given a certain percentage of the profit share."
The Grand Duke couldn't help but became furious. He slammed the table and yelled angrily: "Damn~! I have tolerated you again and again, but I didn't expect you to actually take advantage of your father~!"
Leo remained unmoved at all.
He lost his temper, slapped the table, and shouted angrily: "What's this~! Are you sure that after you send people to make it, those bastard officials will definitely use them all for your military supplies, instead of
To line your own pockets and secretly profit from it?"
The Grand Duke shouted coldly: "If they dare, I'll chop their heads off~!"
Leo said: "Of course they dare. Have you chopped off too many heads in recent years? Have the morals of those guys changed?"
The Grand Duke felt as if he had been hit by an arrow and was speechless for a moment.
Leo continued: "Even if no one dares to embezzle, they still work hard, cut corners, and pass off inferior materials. They delay time and delay the construction period. What should you do?"
"I..." The Grand Duke's eyes widened and he looked at his son blankly. His lips trembled and he wanted to say something, but in the end he couldn't squeeze out a single word.
Catherine watched from the side and was very surprised. She asked Lorraine in a low voice: "Did you teach him these?"
Lorraine smiled bitterly and said awkwardly: "I only mentioned it occasionally and never taught it seriously."
Catherine glared at him fiercely and said angrily: "Just mentioning it occasionally has taught him this. Are you going to teach him seriously and make him as bad as you, with sores on his head and pus on the soles of his feet?"
As he spoke, as if venting his hatred, he stretched out his long nails painted with bright red cardamom and secretly pinched his body a few times. Lorraine could only smile bitterly.
The Grand Duke saw something was wrong out of the corner of his eye and glanced this way. Catherine immediately calmed down and smiled at the Grand Duke, pretending that nothing happened.
The Grand Duke snorted coldly, turned his head, and when he looked at Leo, his expression immediately changed to a pleasant one, and asked: "Then how much profit share do you want?"
Leo was stunned for a moment, then raised his head, put the index finger of his left hand in his mouth, gently picked at his moist and thin lips, and estimated: "You are my dad, of course you are the lowest price. Press
Judging from the market conditions...well...each carriage costs about fifteen gold coins. If you do more in the future, you can get profit rebates. When the market is saturated, there is still room for the price to go down, but it's not big."
The Grand Duke couldn't help being stunned and shouted in disbelief: "Fifteen gold coins for a carriage? Are you going to rob it?"
Leo smiled mysteriously, and then revealed his ultimate killer weapon.
I saw him looking around, then bending down, approaching the Grand Duke, lowering his voice and saying softly: "I'll give you a five percent kickback~!"
The Grand Duke was so angry that his face suddenly turned purple.
He snorted coldly, raised his hand and pulled Leo off the table, then turned his body over, with his butt facing up, and placed it horizontally on his lap. Then, he raised his palm high.
He stood up, pointed at his butt, and shouted: "What did you say? If you have the guts, tell me again~!"
Leo screamed twice in fright, fearing that the Grand Duke would really spank him, so he shouted loudly: "Seven percent at most, no more. Really no more."
After listening to it, Lorraine and the two realized what he had just said, and they were all stunned for a moment.
Lorraine rubbed her forehead and thought to herself: This kid can't teach him anything. He is really so heartless that he bribed his father. Did he say it to his face?
The princes of the Qing Dynasty, when they went out on business and obtained some money through corruption and abuse of law, they would buy corals, Dongzhu, calligraphy and paintings, etc. and send them to the emperor. How could anyone give money to him in person like him?
Isn't this looking for a beating?
When Leo saw the Grand Duke staring, he was about to shoot him down. He was so frightened that he quickly shouted loudly: "I'm doing this for your own good."
The Grand Duke was stunned for a moment, put down his hand, and then said: "Is it for my own good to cheat my family's money and give them kickbacks? Tell me, let me see what tricks you can come up with today. If you can't come up with it, I will beat you twice as hard."
you."
Leo lay on his lap, glanced back with difficulty, and said: "Dad, please think about it carefully. We have always used special funds for special purposes. Don't tell me that your military expenses are all
Ours. Those are all things we handle well, but they are all taken from the people, used for the people, and are money from the public treasury. How many of them can really fall into our hands?"
The Grand Duke was stunned again and said in a cold voice: "Go on~!"
Leo felt uncomfortable with his knees touching his belly, but he didn't dare to move randomly. He just shook his calves, and then continued: "I'm not doing this for ourselves, okay? You are a noble man, and your hands are
When did you ever have spare money? You have promised me the Aberdeen pony I want for several years. Have you bought it?
My sister, every year she buys a Silis silk dress, she is as happy as if she is celebrating Holy Feast. Every time she buys cosmetics, when you see the bill, it hurts like pulling out teeth. Why? Isn’t it because we do it ourselves?
There’s no money in there?”
Catherine said inexplicably: "After all, why did you involve me in this?"
The Grand Duke pondered for a moment and said: "What you said is not unreasonable."
Leo was immediately overjoyed, shook his little body, and said: "Then why don't you put me down quickly..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard three consecutive sounds of "papapapa". Immediately afterwards, he felt a huge pain coming from his buttocks. He screamed in pain, and big tears flowed out.
.
Then, I felt my body straighten up and be let down.
He couldn't help but pouted, put his hands behind his back and kept rubbing his butt, and shouted angrily: "You have already said what I said makes sense. Why do you still hit me?"
The Grand Duke snorted coldly and said: "You are my son, and I feel unhappy. What's wrong with beating you twice?"
Immediately afterwards, the tiger's body shook, showing the majestic appearance of a local snake. He said: "What? Are you not convinced? Do you want to do it twice more?"
Leo screamed "Ah", then smiled dryly, rubbed his butt and stepped back.
The Grand Duke took a long breath, clapped his hands, and said: "Well, that's right. Beating your own son feels different from beating someone else. I feel much better. Leo, I just saw you dragging a table.
It’s been a long time, is there anything else good you can show me?”
Leo flattened his mouth and didn't want to answer him. But he knew that if this happened, his butt would be unlucky in the end. Therefore, he rubbed his butt and muttered something in a low voice, then staggered over and put the
The large table was dragged out from inside. Finally, he raised his chin like a demonstration and pulled off the tablecloth covering it.
The Grand Duke saw that although he had grown up a lot, he was still a child at heart, as if he wanted to offer some treasure. He couldn't help but feel funny in his heart. He first glanced at Catherine, and then turned to look at the table.
At first glance, he couldn't help but feel like he had a toothache. He couldn't help but suck in the cold air. He seemed to be stunned, and his eyes straightened up, almost flying away.
Lorraine saw something was wrong with him, felt strange, and turned around to look. On top of Nuo's big table, there was a huge sand table model with precise proportions.
In the middle of the model is a huge city, with front land and back sea, mountains on the left and hills on the right. It is the model of the city of Samarkand that could not be conquered for a long time and made the Grand Duke repeatedly defeated and regretted.
Lorraine then remembered that during class, in order to make the sand table deduction data more accurate, everyone had used Catherine's relationship to obtain the latest battle report from the Grand Duke's front.
Then I conducted several deductions. Later, I saw that the theoretical results were almost the same as the actual results, so I withdrew my troops and changed the target. The sandbox was too big, so I simply threw it in the study. I didn't expect that Leo would turn it over.
Out.
Leo looked at the Grand Duke's expression and said proudly: "Old man, take a look, isn't it good? I asked the instructor, and he said you will definitely like it. I thought I would send it to you after a while.
Am I very discerning?"
The Grand Duke suddenly stood up and took a few steps to the sand table. Then he leaned down and carefully observed the unyielding majestic city. He kept saying: "Okay, okay, okay, okay..."
I don’t know if he is saying that the sand table is good, or that Leo has a good vision?
Just as he was leaning over to study the sand table, he heard a voice from outside the door, saying, "Why are there so many people?"
Immediately afterwards, a tall brown-haired beauty walked in and said, "Lorraine, don't say I didn't remind you that your newly written script should be delivered today."
Catherine's heart suddenly thumped. She felt chills all over her body. She started to cry secretly: Why did Luo Linna come here to urge people at this time? What the old man hated the most was the literati.