Law of the Devil

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Chapter 201 [Acting]

(Two in One chapter, there will be more at night, ask for the ticket ~)

Philip, Dewey's favorite disciple under the Blue Sea Gate, has enjoyed Dewey's great trust over the years. In Dewey's view, Philip is young and steady, has real talent in his chest, has a better understanding of the situation in the Northwest, is also extremely admirable to himself, and never looks down on himself because he is young.

Had it not been for the fact that Philip was too young and had little qualifications, Dewey would have appointed him Governor of Dessarong.

But even though Phillip is not now governor's title, Dewey has actually handed him almost everything. Whether it's building a new city or financial food, Philip is almost in the big picture.

After all, Philip was a disciple of the Blue Sea Gate, and after being summoned by Dewey, he first questioned the messenger and learned that the Duke was talking to someone from the Northwest Army.

Northwest Army?

Philip laughed coldly and just after autumn, the Northwest Army sent someone to ask for the money. Fortunately, Dewey and Philip already had a countermeasure to this, and now he's not too busy, taking what he was prepared for, which is why he came to see Dewey.

Philip's place of work was in the Governor's Palace, and just moments later, as he pushed the door in, Dewey was still chatting freely with that General Dorothy, and Philip came in and saluted Dewey, and Dewey introduced him.

Dodoro was nice to the young man who walked in, and he meant no disrespect. After all, in recent months, after the arrival of this young duke in the northwest, the Northwest Army has also observed the Duke of the Emperor for a long time, knowing that this young man named Philip is now almost Dewey's right arm. Almost all the decrees of the Governor's Office come from the hands of this young man. Dewey, the young duke, doesn't care about anything, just makes some decisions, and all the rest is left to this Philip to do. Although this guy is only named Dewey's associate, he can actually be half the governor.

“Philip, General Dodoro is here today for the fall military spending, and the quarterly financial revenues should have been reported, right?” Dewey smiled softly.

“Yes, my lord.” Phillip immediately turned over a booklet he had brought and handed over a piece: "My lord, this is the autumn revenues of Desarrollo...”

Dewey pretended to bring it over and looked at it with a suspicious look on his face: "This, Phillip, is the number wrong? ”

Philip is serious: "My lord, the numbers are correct. ”

Dewey coughed and slowly threw this thing on the table in front of General Dodoro: “General Dodoro, this is Tessagon's autumn financial revenues… a total of 71,000 gold coins, of which 46,000 gold coins are from agriculture. Well, according to your practice, if the Northwest Army takes 40%, it should be...”

“18,400 gold coins.” Philip has reported the numbers quickly.

Dodoro's complexion changed: “How much?! ”

“18,400 gold coins.” Philip repeated with no expression on his face.

Dewey grinned and sighed: “Alas, this number seems to be missing... the Northwest Army general's gate is at the brink of the country and his hard work is high... Let's see, I'll add some more privately, just a whole number: 20,000 gold coins! ”

He pretended to be generous here, but Dorothy next to him almost got his nose crooked.

The condoms on his face vanished into thin air. “Duke, am I listening correctly? Are you sure this number is correct? ”

“Absolutely.” Philip replied first: "The Governor's Office has just checked the agricultural taxes collected everywhere...”

Dodoro's face rose red and a little bit of reason suppressed the fire. He didn't even look at Philip, but turned to look at Dewey and said, “Duchess! Though the province of Dessardines has become infertile, it is ridiculous to say that there is a province, nearly a million people, with only 70,000 gold coins in a quarter! ”

After a pause, Dorothy's eyes caught a bit of anger: “In the spring and summer seasons, there are still more than 200,000 earnings each season, and autumn is the season of agricultural land harvest. According to previous years, there should be at least 300,000, right? This kind of joke is too big! ”

“General Dodoro!” Philip's face suddenly sank, his voice cooled down, his eyes narrowed, and he faded: “Please pay attention to your words! You are talking to an Imperial Duke!! ”

Then Philip Cold Road said: “As you must also know, we have recently been building a new city in Lan Lan, which is costly, tens of thousands of artisans' fees and daily expenses, all a huge and heavy burden! In addition, in order to initiate the relocation of the people of the Territory to the new city, the Duke issued a tax exemption order at the beginning of the construction of the city! Tax exemption is granted for one year to all those who are registered in a hierarchy and willing to migrate to the new city. The original fiscal revenues of De Sa Banque Province were low, so many huge expenses and tax cuts naturally generated less revenues this quarter, what's strange? ”

Dorothy had come today to test Dewey's attitude. After his arrival in the Northwest, the Duke had not dealt with the Northwest Army. He thought that the other side would work together, but now he is here to play with his own teeth.

Thinking about it, Dodoro couldn't help but get angry. His cousin, the Northwest General, held the military's material power. In the Northwest, here, even Bohan's old fox was polite to him, but didn't expect the child to play tricks on himself.

What about the Duke? The Northwest Army is afraid of nothing!

“Duchess!” Dorojo stood up and said faintly: “I'm afraid your subordinate didn't understand the northwest decree! Of course I know you're building a new city, but by imperial decree, the Northwest Army has the right to cut off part of the agricultural tax revenue for military expenses! Military spending has priority! And before Northwest military spending, local governments must not use agricultural taxes first! And now your staff tells me that we in the Northwestern Army have not yet received military bills, and that he has spent all his money on building a new city, is that what you mean? ”

Dewey looked at this angry fat man and slowly said, "General Dorothy, please sit down. Your anger has no effective remedy for the status quo, or let's discuss how to solve the problem. What do you think? ”

Dodoro “hummed” hard.

Dewey laughed and looked at Philip and said, “Philip, the bill is correct, but the Northwest General's military expenses must not be arrears! Earnings this season, after all, are just a few figures on paper. Just tell me how much you need to pay before you deduct these expenses this season. ”

Philip just pretended to be reluctant: “My lord... if calculated normally, the original income would be about 250,000 gold coins... a little less than in previous years, after all, you exempt many civilians who are willing to move. ”

Dodoro, that's a little less angry, 250,000 gold coins in total, that's about it! Less, but also within acceptable limits. Two hundred and fifty thousand, forty percent of it is also 100,000 gold coins.

“That's not easy.” Dewey immediately makes another gorgeous appearance: “According to the income of 250,000, 40% should be 100,000... then you just have to spend 100,000 gold coins from the warehouse. ”

Philip sighed, as if he were embarrassed, whispering: "But, Duke, we don't have that much money in the warehouse right now. ”

“What!!! ”

Shouted with infinite anger and doubt!

But the problem is, it wasn't Dorothy who made this roar… in fact, he was about to get angry, but the Duke of Dewey roared first.

The Little Duke started the case with an uncovered anger on his face, staring fiercely at Philip: "What are you talking about!! ”

He suddenly dropped all the teacups in front of him on the floor, angry: "Mr. Phillips! Please explain! A province of my house! Even if the province of Desarrollo is infertile, there will always be savings and reserves over the years in the treasury of the Capital Ministry of Finance!! Is it possible that a province in our parish can't even get 100,000 dollars out of its financial resources now!! ”

Dewey's preemptive, loud voice scared Dorothy away.

“Give me an explanation!” Dewey shouted as if he was angry to swallow, "Philip! This is my territory! Is this my Tessa province? Or did you use your position to corrupt the stock in the warehouse!! If you can't explain, I'll arrest you immediately for embezzlement! ”

Philip immediately looked grieved, arguing continuously: "My lord, I have never corrupted a gold coin!! ”

And then this Philip was like a grudge: "My lord, you never care about finances as soon as you get to the northwest, and naturally you don't understand. If you want to build a new city, I will dissuade you. You just won't listen to me... Alas, I can only do everything I can to keep everything working for you, but I also have difficulties! ”

Speaking of which, it was as if he had just made up his mind: "Do you remember when I first got here, I handed you a copy of the inventory report? ”

Dewey seemed stunned for a moment and impatient: “I'm not interested in those things, just take care of them with you. ”

Philip laughed bitterly: "My lord, you are a magician. You are naturally uninterested in these common things, but in the report I gave you, everything has been explained. It's just that report, but you didn't pay attention to it...”

Dewey, this is what I think of, frowned: “What happened to that report? ”

“My lord...” Philip sighed: "When we took over Texas a few months ago, the entire province was stocked with only 190,000 gold coins! A provincial government, fiscal revenues over the years, years of reserves, a total of only 190,000! ”

“This is impossible!! ”

Still, Dodoro didn't have time to say it again, and Dewey jumped up before him again, his face blushing and his neck roughly waiting for Philip: “One province in the hall, reserves of just over 100,000 gold coins over the years??!! ”

“But that's the truth, my lord. I have a detailed statistical list in my report.” Philip's expression is bitter: “You put all your energy into the great and sacred study of magic, so you ignored these things. Although I have repeatedly warned you, you have not noticed...”

Philip then went on, as if he had been careful and stopping, "This number, of course, is incredible. Who would believe that there is only a tiny bit of stock in a provincial warehouse? However..."

“But what. ”

When he coughed, Philip bit his teeth: "However, until you took office in the north-west, the administration of Dessardines was represented by Governor Bohan...”

This sentence is already obvious!

Dodoro listened to it and could not help but accept it.

Looks like Bohan scraped the land in Dessard province before handing over the land and emptied the whole house... that's a very reasonable explanation.

Dewey and Philip stared at each other, and Dewey was angry, and Philip was grieving. After a long time, Dewey chewed on his teeth and said, "What a Governor Bohan! How dare you play with me! No wonder this old guy was so strange to me when I passed through Mulan City on my way to work. Turns out he left me an empty shell quietly! ”

And then he looked at Phillip with dissatisfaction: "Why didn't you tell me about these things? ”

Phillip immediately put his hands together: “Your energies are focused on the great and sacred study of magic, and I have said it several times, but you have not listened. ”

After a long time, Dewey sighed, then looked at Dorothy with the most sincere eyes, full of apologies: “General Dorothy, I've let you see the joke... and I didn't expect this to happen under my nose. ”

Dodoro only felt a tummy in his throat, but at this moment he didn't know what to say. Looking at Duvi and Philip's performance, he was also a little confused at times and wondered whether they were real or acting.

However, the magician does not like to manage common affairs and is only immersed in his own magic research, which is unusual and seems reasonable. And most of these young aristocrats, they're not academic, so where do they manage their finances?

In that case… it does not seem possible to really blame the Duke in front of us. It's all Bohan the guy...

“Don't worry, General Dodoro.” Dewey immediately looks obliged: “I'll send someone to talk to that Bohan guy right away! Either way, tell him to throw up the money he swallowed me! I'll pay you a penny for the Northwest Army! ”

Dodoro just feels suffocated... spit it out?

How many times has he dealt with Governor Bohan in the Northwest?

When you return the money and pay the military expenses, it's not too far away...

Dodoro immediately said: "But, Duchess, military expenses cannot be delayed...”

Without waiting for Dorothy to finish, Dewey interrupted his words: “General, as you can see, we were fooled by the old man from Bohan. He swallowed all my money, and while I am willing to help you, my men have told me that Texas cannot afford to pay for it now. ”

“But your new city…” Dodoro was somewhat unbelievable. After all, he could afford to build a new city and couldn't afford 100,000 gold coins in the district?

“I know what you're trying to say.” Dewey bluntly said, "Nor do I conceal that the vast majority of my expenses for the construction of the new city are my own. I was discouraged by one of my men at the time, but I really didn't want to stay in this shitty city of Gilliar, so I took out my personal property to support the construction of the new city. It is also true, however, that the Treasury of Dessard does not have enough money. ”

What else can Dodoro say?

He was ashamed to ask Dewey to pay for his military expenses privately.

In that case, it would be unreasonable in public or in private.

Yu Bai... are these powerful people, who are not in Tai Lu Te Lu? I've only heard of people who make money, but I haven't heard of people who pay their own pockets to make up for the public deficit! He Dorothy is also a general, a person in the official power circle, such a simple logic is naturally clear. In that case, he was too ashamed to say it.

Yu Gong... paying for military expenses privately? What do you want? To put it seriously, that's the heart test, there is the heart of rebellion!

“Looks like I'm helpless for now.” Dewey sincerely said, "Please take my place to pay tribute to General Rugau, the commander of the Northwest Army, for his deep apologies. But I will do my best to make up for it. I will send someone to Mulan City, Nurin province to see Governor Bohan. I will recover the money anyway and pay the Northwest Army a fair price! ”

Looking at the sincere face of the young man in front of him, it is very difficult for Dorothy to tell if he is really a few minutes off. As to whether Governor Bohan had swallowed the stockpiles of stores in Desachon province before he left, Dorothy could naturally ascertain that the Northwest Army had been operating in the Northwest for many years and that there were still leads. I'm not afraid of Dewey faking it on that point.

To think of it, Dodoro has stood up and his face has become much colder: “In that case, Duchess, I shall leave first, and I shall return to report back to General Lugo about today… As for the rest, it is not for me to decide. ”

Dewey got up without a shelf and sent him out, even before he left, as if he had deliberately said to Dodoro: “Your Excellency, Governor Bohan really pissed me off, but... after all, when I first came to the northwest, he was the elder of the northwest, and ran the business for many years, I don't think he had to succumb so easily, so... I'm afraid it's not enough for me to get this money back, and if necessary, I hope the Northwest Army can put some pressure on him as well. After all... there's your army in there, isn't there? ”

Dodoro muttered for a moment and did not dare to say yes, just to report back to their Legion Commander.

In this way, Dewey temporarily took away the Northwest Army comrades.

Sent the head of logistics for the Northwest Army, Dewey and Philip closed the door, both laughed for a while, and then Philip frowned: "My lord, this will send him away for a while, but I'm sure they'll always come back to the smell when they get back. By then..."

“So what happens then?” Dewey snorted: “It's a fact that Bohan scratched my warehouse, and the Northwest Army would understand if they checked, at least we weren't lying about it. They can't help us either, and our public finances are really tight right now, and there's no money. That is also true. Even if General Lugo, the head of the Northwest Regiment, came, I wouldn't be ashamed to let him pay my own pocket. There are always rules for official venues. The ideal situation is for the Northwest Army to pass the hatred on to that old Bohan... Hmm! How can I feel comfortable if I swallow so much money without giving him any trouble? ”

But then Dewey laughed herself and glanced at Philip: “I'm just angry. The Northwest Army has always been against Bohan, and it's not as good as adding this fire to me. ”

Phillip frowned: “It's just that this quarter is not a bad excuse for Bohan to say that they're asking for money again next quarter. ”

Dewey also felt helpless and smiled bitterly: "Take a step and tell me, it will be a moment.

That damn Temporary Order is a pain in the ass, but Dewey knows, don't expect the Empire Central to have the guts to repeal it now! Due to the presence of the Northwest Army, the center of the Empire also has to be constrained to score. The Regent King came to power, and now his main focus is on stabilizing the situation, unlikely to break with the Northwest Army. It's better to count on the center of the empire than on yourself.

Philip thought about it for a while, and suddenly he said, "Actually, my lord, I do have a note! From now on, the Northwest Army will never take another gold coin from us! ”

(--This is today's update, in addition to today there will be an extra one, ask for the monthly ticket again, the ranking is getting more and more dangerous... I urgently need the monthly ticket support! Dance)

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