"The country needs my help?" Meng Han seemed to be watching a comedy as he looked at the very serious Princess Catherine in front of him. To be honest, Princess Catherine is definitely a beauty, with a delicate face, a pair of majestic phoenix eyes, and a
It looks like he comes from a powerful family, and a slight glare can make people feel vague pressure.
However, this kind of pressure does not exist for Meng Han at all. He can talk to the Elf Queen. Facing a princess of a principality, saying that she is a bit majestic is already a great face.
Princess Catherine has a very good figure. She wears a princess dress, but it cannot cover the curves of her body. It is bigger where it should be and smaller where it should be. Even a long skirt cannot cover the golden section of her long legs and thin waist.
The proportions and her youthful face make people involuntarily attracted to her.
"Your Highness Princess, are you mistaken?" Meng Han looked up and down with admiring eyes for a long time, and then asked with a smile: "I am just a little viscount, strictly speaking
, I am just the mayor of Huangsha Town, how can I help the country?"
"Oh, right!" Before Princess Catherine could speak, Meng Han directly took over the topic: "I think I can still help. I just need to work hard to build my territory, pay taxes for the principality, and do my job well.
Work is the greatest contribution to the principality, right? Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine? In order to support our principality, I paid taxes for ten years at a time. I believe that all the nobles in the principality are not as proactive as me.
?”
What can the Duke be interested in in Meng Han now? Gold coins, and possible masters. However, it is obvious that the possibility of those masters being Meng Han is too small. Everyone would rather believe that they are the secret weapons of the Marquis.
, not Meng Han's. The time for Meng Han's rise is really too short, so short that everyone believes that he has recruited such a master. The rest seems to be only gold coins, or in other words, Viscount Antonio's earnings
The power of gold coins.
After Princess Catherine said something at the beginning, the rest was all taken care of by Lord Meng Han. What he said made Princess Catherine dumbfounded, but there was no possibility of refutation. What he said were all facts.
"The current situation in the principality is very pessimistic!" A sad look appeared on Princess Catherine's face.
"I didn't realize it!" Meng Han spread his hands, then turned around and pointed outward: "The people live a happy life, live and work in peace and contentment, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, how come they are not optimistic? Your Highness, are you being a little too alarmist?
?" It's not that Meng Han is uncooperative. No matter what Catherine said, she is also the daughter of His Majesty the Grand Duke. Meng Han doesn't think that at this point, there is any room for relaxation with His Majesty the Grand Duke. Even if Meng Han wanted to, he probably would.
His Majesty the Grand Duke took it and slaughtered it as a fat sheep without hesitation. There was no other way out.
"It's not alarmist." Princess Catherine shook her head, looked at Meng Han seriously and said, "With internal and external troubles, there is nothing that can make people feel at ease. What you see is just false prosperity."
"However, false prosperity has brought me a lot of gold coins!" Meng Han still had that calm smile, without any tense atmosphere, but in his tone, he was completely dissatisfied with what Princess Katherine said.
Agree: "If real prosperity is exactly the opposite of this, I would rather have this false prosperity. Of course, Your Highness, I never think this is false prosperity, that's just your opinion."
"Because of the appearance of your silk, the principality has become a public enemy in the eyes of all principalities." Princess Catherine finally told the real reason: "The sensation brought by silk and its value have made many surrounding principalities look at it with eager eyes. Our principality
We are surrounded by a pack of hungry wolves, just waiting for us to show a slight flaw, they will bite us hard."
"Then don't show any flaws." Meng Han's lazy tone made people want to beat him up. The same was true for Princess Catherine opposite. However, Princess Catherine took a few deep breaths to suppress the bad breath in her heart.
.
"But you caused a conflict between my father and the Marquis." With an accusatory tone, Princess Catherine said this: "If it weren't for you, the Marquis wouldn't be so determined to fall out with my father. If it weren't for you,
In your auction, the principality will not lose hundreds of thousands of gold coins, and there will be goods worth hundreds of thousands. If it were not for you, the surrounding principalities would not covet the principality's wealth. If it were not for you..."
"Stop! Stop! Stop!" Meng Han said "stop" three times in a row before interrupting the impassioned Princess Catherine. Princess Catherine, who suddenly became excited, even stood up with her finger pointing.
Even if he stopped talking, he still looked at Meng Han a little angrily, with a faint glint in his eyes.
"Your Highness, what you said is a bit excessive, isn't it?" The princess was excited, but Meng Han was not excited. How did he see this Princess Catherine now? She seemed to be someone who didn't understand politics at all, and was deceived.
A silly girl who knows how to protect her relatives actually ran to her own territory with great fanfare, pointed at her nose and said that everything was her fault, and she almost cried after talking about it?
"It's all your fault!" When Meng Han said this, Her Royal Highness Princess Catherine became even more angry, and the tears she had been holding back just now finally fell down.
"Okay!" Meng Han was confused by this strange princess. He sat back and waited quietly for Princess Catherine to regain her composure and sit back down. Then he spoke seriously to the innocent princess.
: "Since Her Royal Highness the Princess has dissatisfaction and accusations against me, then according to the laws of the Principality, I am a noble and can defend myself. Your Royal Highness the Princess, I do not agree with your accusations against me."
"If the surrounding countries covet the principality because of its wealth, I don't agree with this accusation." Anyway, idle time is idle, and it would be good to debate with this eye-catching princess: "First of all, if you are afraid that wealth will attract surrounding countries
Greed, then, is His Majesty the Grand Duke willing to let the principality become a poor country, where everyone lives in poverty, including His Majesty the Grand Duke and the nobles?"
"No!" Princess Catherine is naive, but that doesn't mean she is a fool. Whoever governs a country wants to make the people's lives worse day by day under their rule?
"So, even if I made silk, the taxes I paid to the country from last year to the next nine years will only amount to two hundred gold coins." Meng Han looked at Princess Catherine's slender waist and smiled.
He asked: "Have I greatly increased the revenue of the treasury with these two hundred gold coins, and actually caused the surrounding principalities to start coveting them?"
"But, based on your current income, you shouldn't only pay this small amount of tax." Princess Catherine immediately changed the subject.
"Sorry, Your Highness, that's not what you said when collecting taxes." Meng Han shook his head firmly: "Since I have paid taxes, I cannot collect them again. Besides, without me, in the next ten years, the principality will not be able to
How much tax does Huangsha Town receive?”
Just because I have a profitable property, it cannot be the reason why the principality is coveted by other principalities. Meng Han will never admit this extremely childish statement. If the other party was not the princess of the principality, Meng Han would directly
Just throw her back.
"But, since you already have a silk industry, why do you still need to auction it?" Her Highness the Princess was obviously not someone who would back down easily, and she immediately began to question Meng Han about another action.
"Your Highness, since the silk industry is mine, what's wrong if I sell it?" Meng Han looked at the innocent beauty opposite him curiously and asked confidently.
"But, if it weren't for your auction, how could my father compensate hundreds of thousands of gold coins?" Catherine was already a little anxious at this moment. Meng Han was very reasonable in the previous two questions. She couldn't respond at all.
In a moment of excitement, she came here to argue with Meng Han, but she couldn't get the desired result. Her Royal Highness was also a little anxious.
"This, you want to ask Zunrong Auction House? Since they have already collected the gold coins and have not given them to me for a long time. If I lose them, of course they will be responsible for compensation." Meng Han said as if it was a matter of course: "If they don't default on the bill, just pay them to me."
Give me the gold coins. If the gold coins are lost, it will be my loss, and there is no need for His Majesty to compensate you. After all, you should go to Zunrong Auction House. What's the use of looking for me? It's not my fault?"
"If you hadn't offended the elves, why would they have delayed paying the gold coins?" This time, Princess Catherine was already a bit unreasonable.
"How could I offend the elves? I saved two elf slaves and brought them a free life. The elves didn't even have time to thank me. How could I offend the elves?" Meng Han looked at the person in front of him with a sarcastic smile.
The innocent beauty also noticed the astonishment on the princess's face, and her heart moved. It seemed that there were some things that this innocent girl didn't know, otherwise she wouldn't have come looking for trouble just by listening to other people's words.
"But you should not collude with the Marquis to fight against my father." As if she felt that her previous reasons were untenable, Princess Catherine changed her reasons and continued to reprimand Viscount Antonio.
"Your Highness, you must provide evidence when you speak." Meng Han slowly took a sip of the tea on the table, raised his head, and squinted at the princess: "Which of your eyes saw that the Marquis and I were colluding?"
"Then what do you mean by giving the silk industry to the Marquis?" Princess Catherine's eyes filled with tears again: "Aren't you obviously helping him expand his power?"
"Please, Your Royal Highness, the Marquis's silk industry was not given to me by me, but sold by me." Meng Han's voice became majestic again: "I auctioned it in front of everyone. Others don't buy it, so what do I have?
The solution? Do you want me, a dignified viscount, to beg them to buy a profitable property?"
"You..." Princess Catherine was startled by Meng Han's suddenly raised voice. Then, when she heard Meng Han's words, she couldn't help covering her face and started to cry.
"Your Highness, I don't know whose nonsense you listened to and came to me to cause trouble. However, I still advise you that an innocent girl like you is not suitable to participate in such things." The princess cried.
, Meng Han actually didn't know what to do. He waited until Her Highness the Princess cried for a while before Meng Han spoke.
As soon as Meng Han spoke, Her Royal Highness the Princess's voice became much lower, as if she was listening quietly.
"If you really know what's going on here, you shouldn't come to me. You should go back to your father and your two brothers to ask what they did to make the principality fall into this kind of situation.
Situation." Meng Han continued, not caring whether he had violated a big taboo by saying this.
"As for me, my goal is very simple. I want to get promoted, get rich, and marry a wife. I have no interest in anything else. What you said about helping the country, I don't have the ability. Even if I did, I would not do anything beyond my responsibilities and abilities.
Things." Meng Han clearly stated his attitude, hoping that this girl could retreat despite the difficulties. In any case, she still came to fight for something for her relatives, and this heart is worthy of recognition.
"You can make money, you can make the principality rich." Princess Catherine stopped crying long ago, looked at Meng Han, and suddenly said in a low voice.
"I can make money, but if the principality becomes rich, other principalities will covet it. I cannot bear this sin." Meng Han did not hesitate to use the reason the princess just accused him to refuse: "In addition, making the principality rich is
What His Majesty the Grand Duke and the Chancellor of Finance want to do is none of my business."
"I can ask my father to appoint you as finance minister." Upon hearing this, the princess immediately cheered up and said immediately.
"Okay! Of course I like the promotion." Meng Han nodded immediately and agreed. The reason why he agreed so readily was because Meng Han knew that such a thing was absolutely impossible. His Majesty the Grand Duke would never appoint a Marquis.
The person here serves as the finance minister.
"Alas!" An inaudible sigh came from Her Royal Highness the Princess's mouth. It seemed that she also knew that this was impossible. However, she was still a little unwilling to give up. She looked at Meng Han, almost begging.
Expression: "Lord Viscount, can't you take the overall situation into consideration? Just help me, okay?"
"If His Majesty the Grand Duke designates you as the heir to the Duke, I can consider it." Meng Han said half-truthfully: "But, even if you are the Grand Duke, why should I help you?"
"What if I am willing to be your woman?" Catherine didn't know where the courage and idea came from, and suddenly raised this question: "If I were to be your woman, would you be willing to help me?"