Chapter 78
The death of a black dog is like a small stone falling into the water without causing any twists and turns.
Gapasted and Klein were not sent back to the Whitebird, but Rambo arranged two separate rooms and asked them to live in.
Gapas was frightened and had no intention of resisting Rambo's arrangements. He obediently lived in the room. However, after entering, he still expressed from time to time that he wanted to talk to the local noble lord.
Rambo could not refuse, and finally agreed to make arrangements for him.
Rambo didn't know what to do with Klein. At present, Klein was sick, and although there was a risk of contagion, he had to ask some doctors to check it out. After seeing Klein's condition, those doctors proposed some strange treatment methods, and Rambo also did it one by one.
On the other hand, Rambo also sent someone to inform Klein's family and asked them to send someone to understand the situation. In fact, Rambo knew very well that if Klein was really infected with that terrible disease, he would undoubtedly die. An imperial nobleman must die inexplicably, so he needed to inform the other party's family.
Rambo stood on the lookout, looked at the sea in front of him and sighed. These two celebrities with extraordinary identities are definitely two hot potatoes. With his identity, even with the help of the power of the mafia, it is difficult to suppress them.
Now he is just delaying. Once Gapas has to borrow strength from the local nobles, or Viscount Clayin's family wants to cause trouble, he will be very passive.
Once it is not handled properly, he and the mafia forces around him will be hit hard. But in order to execute Eugen's order, he has reached a point where there is no way out.
At this moment, even Lambo, who was extremely wise, felt that a clever woman could not cook without rice.
"Oh, head of the family, where should I find the power of support now?" Facing the vast sea, Rambo sighed helplessly.
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Eugen rested for a night in Ljubljana, and the next day he found the local mayor to explain his identity.
With the king's seal of the letter, and more than a dozen royal knights followed behind, the mayor immediately believed Eugen's statement and respectfully invited Eugen to the local municipal office.
Looking at the shabby hut in front of him, Eugen sighed deeply again. The office of the mayor was even simpler than the hotel he stayed last night. The situation in Ljubljana was too bad.
The mayor didn't think anything was wrong. He took out a large piece of ragged paper from a cabinet in the room and said to Eugen: "Dear Lord, this is the tax and expenditure situation in the Ljubljana area in recent years. Please check it out."
Eugen became the lord here, and he naturally took over the taxes here. Generally speaking, the richer the city, the more taxes it can provide. The Habsburg dynasty that has lasted for thousands of years was established by rich taxes built on huge territory.
Eugen looked at the paper casually, and the various entries on it were listed in a mess, and he didn't understand it very well. However, when he saw the numbers in the bottom row, his eyes lit up and looked up at the mayor and said in surprise: "Oh, the tax revenue here is nearly 300,000 Kielde gold coins a year, which is great."
Seeing Eugen's surprise expression, the mayor did not want to hit him, but finally sighed and said, "Oh, Lord Lord, you are wrong. That number is not income, but expenditure. In the past year, the income in the Ljubljana area has exceeded 300,000 Kild gold coins!"
"What?" Eugen didn't react after hearing this. He immediately asked in surprise: "What do you mean is that in addition to no tax revenue this place every year, it also has to pay 300,000 Kielde gold coins?"
The mayor showed bitterness on his face and nodded helplessly.
Seeing the mayor nodding, Eugen suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted on the ground without standing steadily.
"Oh my God, what a hell is this place I've got. Not only can I get a copper coin a year, but I have to pay 300,000 gold coins. This is so fucking trickery!"
Momo wailed in his heart, Eugen suddenly raised his back and stared at the mayor with red eyes and said, "No, even if the economic situation in this place is not bad, it is impossible to be so bad. Say, are you secretly embezzling all the taxes while there is no lord!"
The mayor is in his fifties and is in poor health. At this moment, he was so scared that he was a little breathless when he was tucked by Eugen's big hat.
After standing there for a long time, he said with a bitter face: "Dear Lord, you don't know. The reason why Ljubljana is like this is because the last lord used the taxes here as collateral to borrow millions of gold from the Jews."
The mayor stopped and continued with a sad expression: "Later, the lord could not pay back the debt, so the creditor came here to ask for the debt. In order to repay the debt, we even sold the original municipal hall. The taxes for each year are used to pay off the debt. Even so, we have to wait five years before we can pay off all the debts."
Every time the mayor said something, Eugen's heart twitched. In the end, if Margaret hadn't helped him, he would have fainted on the ground.
Margaret knew some of these situations, so he explained in a low voice in Eugen, "This mayor did not lie, and everyone knows the situation in Ljubljana. When this land belongs to the royal family, the royal family needs to invest a lot of money in repaying debts every year. I think this place is to get rid of this trouble and reduce some financial burdens."
Eugen was completely depressed, and the royal family buried a thunder for him here. He could not help but curse his mother when the prince put the king's edict in his hand.
"These old foxes treat me as a patch, and they can stuff them wherever there are loopholes." Eugen was crying, but now it is useless to say anything. He can only choose to accept the city and bear its corresponding debts.
The mayor coughed dryly, as if he felt a little embarrassed, so he said in a tone of offering treasures: "Lord, don't be anxious first. In fact, Ljubljana has a very important asset, which belongs to you now."
Hearing that there were assets, Eugen immediately lit up his eyes and grabbed the mayor's rough hand excitedly and said, "Really? Mr. Mayor, what kind of asset is it?"
The mayor smiled mysteriously on his face and said slowly: "That is, a magnificent castle, named Ljubljana Castle."
Chapter completed!