Alinx Palace.
"This is the summary of the recent changes in Ellington?"
There was a thick stack of documents in front of Victor. It recorded all the changes in Ellington from the time Tang En came to Ellington until now. Usually, it was not obvious from the reports, but when all these things were gathered together, it was quite scary.
In just half a year, Ellington went from a small town where the average monthly income was less than 50 silver coins to a city where the average monthly income was more than 10 gold coins. The average income per person had increased by 20 times!
The average income per person was just one aspect. In addition to the income, Ellington's earthshaking reconstruction and the Datang Chamber of Commerce's new magical machines had brought Ellington a great deal of wealth. Now, Ellington's monthly income was more than 10 million gold coins!
What kind of concept was this? In other words, in just half a year, Ellington's circulating funds had surpassed the annual tax revenue of the Irus Empire!
Although circulating funds did not reflect actual profits, Victor was very sure from his previous conversations with Tang En that the profits from these magical machines were very considerable, so much so that it made people jealous!
Currently, many chambers of commerce had already bought the patent rights of the Datang Chamber of Commerce and started to research and imitate these magical machines. Once their products were on the market, every product they sold would bring a portion of the profits to the Datang Chamber of Commerce. Once the scale was established, even if Tang En were to lie down at home, there would be an endless stream of gold coins flowing into the Star Diamond Bank's account.
What interested Victor the most was that Ellington's construction efficiency had increased exponentially after hiring elemental creatures.
No one had ever thought of hiring elemental creatures before, and no one had even done it before. Only mages could communicate with elemental creatures, and all mages were concentrated in the City of Silver.
The magical servants summoned by mages could only help them with some auxiliary work, and could not do complicated construction work at all.
How did Tang En do it? Was this also an ability bestowed upon him by the gods?
In addition, before the winter, Ellington had encountered a food crisis. When a large amount of food was stopped in the market, Tang En used his good relationship with the elves to obtain the support of the druids. In a very short period of time, a large amount of food was produced. This allowed Ellington to safely survive the cold winter without a single person starving to death. This was simply incredible!
Not only were the elven druids willing to help him, but no one had starved or frozen to death during the entire winter!
Including the homeless on the streets!
Although the report stated that there were no homeless people in Ellington, Victor did not believe it. Every city and country had a wealth gap, and homeless people were at the bottom of society. It was impossible to completely eliminate them.
On the other side of the document was a report from various cities in the Irus Empire. According to the report, the number of people who had died of starvation or freezing to death this winter was estimated to be more than fifteen thousand.
And this was already the lowest number of deaths over the years. Because there were no deaths on Ellington's side, the average number was pulled down.
"Amazing, truly amazing!"
Victor sighed. "Apart from him, I'm afraid that no one else can do this."
"I have to admit this."
Even if Aurelia was very dissatisfied with Tang En, she had to admit that he was truly capable.
If it was anyone else, they would not be able to do better than him. No, they would not even be able to do one-thousandth of what he did.
At least, Aurelia did not think that she had enough face to ask the elven druids to help increase the food production.
When Victor heard Aurelia's words, he smiled and suddenly said, "How about you go to Ellington?"
"I … Huh?"
Aurelia suddenly froze and stared at Victor. "Why do you want me to go to that bastard's side? Didn't you see what he did to me!? "
Victor laughed. "That's because he doesn't know that Night Song is you. When dealing with an unknown enemy, of course you have to be more ruthless. From this point of view, he actually did the right thing."
"Father!"
Aurelia stomped her feet in anger. "I'm your daughter! You're actually helping an outsider!? "
"No!"
Victor said very seriously. "Tang En is not an outsider. In fact, you can also see that he is very important to me, to you, and even to the entire Irus Empire. Whether or not the Irus Empire can rise again depends on him."
Aurelia was very dissatisfied. "If brother heard you say this, he would probably think that you want him to be the successor!"
Victor sighed. "You think I don't want to? To be honest, even if I asked him to be the King, he might not be willing. "
Seeing Aurelia's eyes widen, Victor hurriedly said, "I was just saying it casually. Don't speak nonsense. If your mother hears it, she will nag me again."
"You also know that you can't speak nonsense!"
Aurelia rolled her eyes, her princess-like temperament completely gone. "Speaking of which, the rumors in the streets aren't very good recently."
Victor heard this and immediately became serious. "What did you hear this time?"
"Here."
Aurelia took out a scroll from her pocket and placed it in front of Victor.
Victor roughly read through it and immediately frowned. "Tang En is my illegitimate son? Is he the next successor that I've decided on? Princess Aurelia voluntarily gave up her legal right to inherit? What a bunch of nonsense! Can you find the source of the news? "
"It's very difficult. It's all spread through a middleman. I can't find the source, but I can guess that it's definitely one of those guys."
Aurelia shrugged. "You should think about how to explain it to my brother."
"The news has already reached there?"
"It's such an important piece of news. What do you think?"
Victor suddenly had a headache. "This is going to be troublesome."
"Yes, with my brother's personality, if he knows about this news, I'm afraid that his thoughts will really run wild."
Aurelia shrugged. "Why don't you just issue a notice and appoint a crown prince first? Appease the people and my brother? "
"It would be great if it were that simple. Appointing a crown prince isn't such a casual thing."
Victor sighed. "Let's not talk about other things. Even Minister Aubrey and Minister Adrian have their own ideas. Adrian is more inclined to support you. Don't tell me that you don't know."
"Come on, to let a female cat burglar be the queen, are you crazy or is he crazy?"
Aurelia pursed her lips and said, "I won't do it even if he wants me to. I've already told him before that I support my brother's succession. I still prefer to be a free female cat burglar. Sitting in the palace every day and not being able to go out will suffocate me to death."
Victor laughed involuntarily. "You're afraid of taking on the responsibility of reviving Irus, right?"
"That's right!"
Aurelia admitted without hesitation. "The country has already been defeated to this extent. It's too troublesome to rise again. This kind of thing should be left to ambitious men like you. I'll live a free life. By the way, I've already written to the Royal Parliament and the Radiant Church to renounce my right to the throne. His Holiness the Pope has also accepted it. That piece of news is true. "
"Why are you … Alright, your brother will be very lucky to have a sister like you. At least he doesn't have to fight with his brothers."
Aurelia corrected Victor very seriously. "No, no, no. He should be lucky that you're not a stud horse and didn't give birth to so many brothers for him. Otherwise, sooner or later, blood would stain the throne red."
"The fight for the throne is something that can't be avoided in every dynasty. Instead, it's avoided because I don't have time to hunt for beauties? I'm really speechless. "
Aurelia rolled her eyes again. "It's not that you don't have time to hunt for beauties. You clearly have the heart but not the guts. You're being controlled by mother."
Victor was so embarrassed by his daughter that he couldn't say anything. He hurriedly changed the topic. "Back to the topic at the beginning. You should go to Ellington."
Aurelia raised her eyebrows and slammed the table. "I'm not going! I hate that guy to death! "
"Oh? You hate him so much that you drew a portrait of him in your room and practiced throwing knives every day? "
Aurelia blushed. "You're so annoying! How did you know? "
"The maid found it when she was cleaning and told your mother."
Victor smiled bitterly. "There's no need to hate him so much, right?"
"Hate! Of course I hate him! "
Aurelia gritted her teeth. "Since I was young, no one has ever humiliated me like that. Only him! Only him! I must take revenge! "
Victor casually said, "If you want to take revenge, wouldn't it be more convenient to go to his side?"
Aurelia's eyes lit up and her heart palpitated.
"What's more, I want you to go there so that you can learn from Ellington's development experience. If you go, for my sake, he won't let you be idle, right? There aren't many opportunities to secretly learn. When you return to Alinx, whether you want to assist your brother or live a carefree life, it's all up to you. "
Victor smiled and said, "Are you going or not?"
Aurelia's eyes turned. "I'll think about it."
"Don't think about it. I know your decision."
Victor waved his hand and said, "Go back and prepare your things. But I have to remind you. Don't always think about plotting against Tang En. He's not simple. Those plots and tricks you think of won't have any effect on him. Instead, it may cause you to suffer a big loss."
"Humph!"
Aurelia obviously didn't believe it.
Victor smiled weirdly. "Revenge doesn't have to be that way. Sometimes, if you want to take revenge on a person, you can use many ways. For example, you can make the lecherous person unable to get close to other women, make the greedy person unable to earn money, and make the person who likes to enjoy unable to spend a single gold coin … These are all revenge."
Hearing this, Aurelia squinted at Victor and said, "I always feel that you're implying something."
"Well, you can ask your mother about this. She's very experienced."
Embarrassed, Victor didn't seem to want to talk more about this. He directly pushed Aurelia to Olina.
Aurelia smiled brightly. "I seem to know something … Okay, you can continue with your work."
Watching Princess Aurelia leave the room, Victor stopped smiling and stared at the scroll she left for a long time. After a while, he sighed and took out a pen and paper to write a letter. After stamping his personal seal on the ink pad, he put his hand on an inconspicuous pattern beside the desk.
"Master Clark, please help me send a letter to Girard. Thank you."
Although he didn't hear a reply, the envelope on the desk was suddenly swallowed by a space vortex. Victor's face was complicated.
"Your Majesty! Urgent news! "
The guard presented a document. Victor glanced at it and suddenly showed a weird smile.
Casparmy Castle sent troops to search for farmers who fled from the territory without permission?
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