Chapter 321 Scardi
However, it was a bit exaggerated to be named Prince. After cleaning the battlefield, gathering the powerful and powerful, and making a very accurate speech, Skady just silently placed a chair next to his throne to sit for Li Ke, and made Li Ke the new Minister of Finance.
Lobach temporarily managed the remaining army, and even Binosch obtained a position that was not big or small, but had real power.
Of course, the powerful and powerful were unwilling to do so. There was no more place above, so they should be allowed to fill in it. So some of them jointly prevented Li Ke and Biencius from entering the Belmar court and demanded that his excessively "surpassed" chair be removed.
After all, that was the position Scardy had sat when her husband was alive, and now that Li Ke was sitting in, many powerful people who were interested in the position of prince were very upset.
However, when a great nobleman who had forced Scardi and wanted Scardi to sign some unequal treaties felt that he had a great advantage, he shouted at Li Ke in the palace, hoping to use the "general trend" and power tricks to make Li Ke bow his head and retract the murderous sword.
Li Ke smiled and picked up his chair, and the legs of the chair blew his head. Then he put the chair back in place and sat back in a daze.
"I am a rough man and don't understand the court etiquette and your rules, so I will act rudely. Please forgive me."
Li Ke sat there, gave a slight salute to the panicked powerful people below, then leaned on his blood-stained chair and continued to speak.
"Specifically, um... For example, killing the whole family, I always do what I say. If you say killing your whole family, you will never leave a living cockroach and ant for your family. You have to understand this, after all, I am a rough man."
After saying that, he stroked his neck with his thumb.
"So you'd better not let me get too harsh. After all, I'm the Minister of Finance, right? I'll have to be decent. Of course, what you did before and what you can do now, I won't care about this kind of thing. But you'd better remember that this country is still under the control of the Queen, Redel and Best..."
Li Ke deliberately delayed his voice so that Scady could interrupt himself.
"Li Keqing, please be careful."
Scady gently tapped the ground with her scepter, and after making a crisp sound, she also looked angry at Li Ke.
"Her Majesty, I just..."
Li Ke also showed a hint of fear, reluctance, and shock at the right time. Scady was not moved and even said even more harsh words.
“Get out.”
Scardi knocked her scepter again.
"yes."
Li Ke's face twitched for a moment, then he started from the blood-stained chair as if he was running away, and quickly left the chamber, which relieved the powerful people in the chamber. He began to calmly discuss with Skady what to do if the vacant positions were released and the "punishment" of the rebels.
When they finished the first phase of the distribution of interests and allowed Scady to return to his study, Li Ke had been waiting in Scady's study for a long time.
“How is it like being a real-power queen?”
Sitting on the sofa, Li Ke, who was eating fruits there, looked at Skady, who was obviously relieved, and asked him jokingly.
"Not very good...and is this method to damage your dignity really useful?"
Skady sighed, and went opposite to Li Ke. He picked up the red wine that Li Ke had already poured, and then took a sip.
"As long as I make them believe that I am subject to you, then whether they really believe it or not, the interests will be believed. As for whether this is true? They won't care. They only care whether their cake has been passive and whether they can eat the empty cakes themselves... After all, this framework still needs to be retained now, and there are really fewer people in their own way."
Li Ke also picked up his wine glass, touched Skady's glass, and then drank it all in one go.
"And they are all smart people, extremely smart people. So no matter how clumsy I play, they will choose to believe it. And do you believe it? The person who was killed by me today will indeed be killed in his family, but it will never be my move."
He started to say it again, but Scady couldn't help frowning because Li Ke's words were too explicit.
"Where was the official from before you came here?"
"Of course not. I'm just a lustful bastard. It's just that there are a group of fools in my hometown who have put together the ideas of smart people into books and used them as books for us to read, so that we idiots can understand the tricks of smart people, their ultimate purpose and true faces."
Li Ke shook his head and rejected Scady's idea. But Scady became interested in the books in his mouth.
"Can you tell me about the books?"
"Of course, in fact, at this point, no matter how reluctant I am, I can only tell you the contents of these books. But it is not now. The most urgent task now is to solve the food and housing problems of Huttonmar civilians. After all, it is winter. The situation in the knowledge and other situations in the books can only be told to you if they are relatively stable."
Li Ke also sighed a little. He put down the cup and couldn't help but think of the enthusiastic Paladin Angus.
"I have asked them about this, but they are still unwilling to lower the price of food, even if they are deterred by you. The treasury was also greatly damaged when it was occupied by the empire before, and my family is unwilling to support me in this regard... To be honest, I don't know what to do."
When this was mentioned, a sad expression appeared on Scarthy's face.
"It's okay, feed the blood-sucking worms first, and it's the same when we clean up later. We just need to buy a little time."
Li Ke knocked on the table.
"Buy food and materials from them, start the project of rebuilding Huttonmar and the palace, and hand over the food and daily necessities to the hands of civilians in the form of wages. And those women, children and elderly people who are unable to work need you to come forward in person to provide relief to avoid bad public opinion... As for those rebels who died at my hands, do you understand what to do?"
While recalling how people in history dealt with it, Li Ke talked endlessly about his thoughts to Scardy.
"I understand that it is best to provide pensions based on the standard of death. But in this case, the treasury is not enough to support such a plan. Although my personal treasury can also be opened, it is not enough to support such a plan..."
Although Scardy didn't know how much money the treasury still had, she knew that it was not enough in any case.
"Is 100 million gold coins enough?"
Li Ke crossed his legs.
"...not enough, Huttonmar's disaster area is too large, and the plundering of the Imperial Army has also caused great harm to the civilians."
Skady shook her head. Although 100 million gold coins were already a huge sum, it was just a huge sum for individuals and families. For a kingdom that was devastated by war, 100 million gold coins could do very little.
"What about the 300 million gold coins?"
Li Ke glanced at the auction house's prices and felt that he was still sure.
"It depends on the specific number of people affected."
"500 million gold coins should be enough, right?"
"………Please don't joke, Li Ke. And this is not a matter of money."
Skady couldn't help glaring at Li Ke. The tax revenue of Belmar in the whole year was only nearly 100 million gold coins. Li Ke's joke was too much. After all, how could he, an outsider, take so much money?
"I'm not kidding. As long as there is a need, I can take out any of the five hundred million gold coins or one billion gold coins for you."
Li Ke waved his finger at Scady, took out a gold coin from his pocket, and showed the gold coin to Scady.
"I'll show you an interesting trick."
After he said this, in Scardy's puzzled gaze, the thumb and index finger of one hand formed a circle and threw the gold coins out of the circle.
Then a scene that made Scardy's eyes dull appeared, and endless gold coins fell from the circle formed by Li Ke's index finger and thumb like running water, and soon covered the floor beside Li Ke.
Skady couldn't help but walk over. The gold coins covered with the floor made her almost fall when she walked, but she still grabbed Li Ke's hand and carefully observed Li Ke's hand to figure out what was going on.
But she returned disappointed. She didn't see any mechanism. And which mechanism could make people carry so many gold coins on her body? Looking at the pile of gold coins gradually as tall as the table, Skady stared at Li Ke's face in a daze.
"Don't look at me like this. These gold coins were not teleported from somewhere in Arad. They have never existed in this world before."
Li Ke was just constantly taking gold coins out of the inventory, but for Skady, countless gold coins appeared out of thin air and then fell on the floor of his study.
This is not a teleportation magic. Skady is very clear about this, because magic will inevitably fluctuate, and there will definitely be sound and light effects. But in Li Ke's hands, these gold coins did appear out of thin air.
She still thinks she has this little bit of vision.
After picking up a gold coin, Skady was sure that it was not a gold coin of his own country, because although the gold coins of Belmar were of high gold content, they were also mixed with a lot of impurities. These gold coins were full of pure gold and did not have other metals like other gold coins.
This is impossible in Arad.
"…Who are you?"
The gold coins fell from her fingers and made a crisp sound on the pile of gold coins.
"Just just an ordinary person."
Li Ke smiled at her, then spread her hands and gently stroked the empty table. Plates of plates made of gold were filled with dishes, and dishes with tempting fragrance appeared on the table.
"Are you a God?"
She looked at the same grapes, the same meat pieces on the plate, and the bread and steaks that even the sauce drips. She couldn't imagine who could do this to the same texture.
Unless these things have a template and are made on site, they will not show such strange consistency.
"Of course not. If I were God, would I still be angry about those idiots?"
Li Ke smiled and stroked Scady's cheek.
"Maybe."
Scardy didn't know what to say, but just stared at Li Ke's face in a daze, feeling that she was still in a dream.
No matter who Li Ke is, as long as he can really turn gold and food out of thin air, no matter what he wants to do, it will be extremely smooth.
But can you really tie him up? He is rich, strong, always has certain insights, and has the ability to act and strong desires. Such a person is really something that a woman who has lost her husband can lock him up? He is not short of beauties around him.
Li Ke’s statement was simply impossible to convince Skady because Skady felt that he could not seduce Li Ke.
So... can I give first? I will be the one who is unfaithful, whether it is Belmar's royal family or my family, they will be shamed. But what is the impulse in my heart? What is the impulse to let go of everything and let the man in front of me control him and let him fulfill his long-cherished wish?
Is this really the only way?
Do I really still love my lost husband?
The more Scardi thought about it, the less strength she had, and Li Ke also found that Scardi, who was holding his hands, was slowly sitting on the ground.
"Are you okay? Her Majesty the Queen?"
He was confused, but his face appeared in Scady's eyes with various expressions: treacherous, sincere, sinister, and bright.
Should I believe him? Or do I have no way out, like those who are afraid of being killed by him, even if I don’t believe it, I can only believe it?
Scady completely lost her strength. She sat on the gold coins, her eyes were blurred by water vapor. The strength of the past was completely gone, but now what appeared in front of Li Ke was a woman who had been suffering misfortune and had been carrying the burden alone, constantly picking up the woman who was not responsible for her.
She was already very tired, especially after suffering such suffering in a short period of time and the various stimulations given to her by Li Ke, she could no longer bear it.
But when Li Ke was about to help her up and calm her down, she suddenly stood up and pushed Li Ke onto the sofa, and her plump body also suppressed Li Ke's actions.
"If you betray me..."
She stared at Li Ke's face and spoke out her last reserve with venting.
"...I will try my best to live and curse you until you die. But I know it's useless..."
After saying that, she pulled her dress open, loosened her hair, and let the flax-colored hair scatter on her shoulders. Then she hugged Li Ke's head in her arms, allowing Li Ke to feel Naka special offer from the royal family.
Chapter completed!