Law of the Devil Chapter 201: [Acting]

Chapter 201 [Acting]

Philip, the most promising disciple of Du Wei under the blue ocean, has received Du Wei's great trust these days. In Dewey's opinion, Philip was young and stable, with real talents in his chest, and a good understanding of the Northwest situation. He also respected himself very much and never regarded himself as young.

If it wasn't for the fact that Philip was too young and had no qualifications, Du Wei would have appointed him governor of the province of Desa.

But even so, although Philip hasn't got the title of governor now, in fact, Dewey has given him almost everything. Whether it's building a new city or financial money, Philip is almost in the overall planning.

After all, Philip is a disciple under the Blue Ocean Gate. After being called by Dewey, he first asked the person who came to tell the story and knew that the Duke was talking with the Northwest Army.

Anyone from the Northwest Army?

Philip sneered, and just after autumn, the Northwest Army sent someone to ask for money. Fortunately, Du Wei and Philip had a countermeasure in this matter. At the moment, he was not rushed and took what was already prepared, so he came to see Du Wei.

Philip's place of work is in the Governor's Mansion. A few moments later, when the door came in, Dewey was chatting with General Dodoro at will. After Philip came in, he saluted Dewey and introduced him. .

Dodolo was also very kind to the young man who walked in, and showed no contempt. After all, in recent months, after the young duke came to the northwest, the Northwest Army also observed the duke who came from the capital for a long time. Knowing that the young man named Philip is almost Du Wei ’s left arm and right arm, Almost all the decree comes from the young man's hand, and the young duke Du Wei does not care much. Just make some decisions, and the rest is left to this Philip to do. Although this guy is only an aide to Du Wei, he can actually be regarded as half a governor.

"Philip, General Dodoro is here today for military expenses in the fall. Should fiscal revenue be reported for this quarter, right?" Du Wei smiled kindly.

"Yes, sir." Philip opened the booklet he brought, and handed it over: "Sir. This is the autumn income of Desa province ..."

Du Wei pretended to take a look, and a suspicious expression appeared on his face: "This, Philip, is the number wrong?"

Philip is serious: "Sir, the numbers above are correct."

Du Wei coughed, and then slowly pushed down the object on the table in front of General Dodoro: "General Dodoro, this is the financial revenue of the autumn in Desa ... ... a total of 71,000 Gold coins, of which there are 46,000 gold coins in agricultural income. Well, according to the convention you said, if the Northwest Army draws 40%, it should be ... "

"It's 18,400 gold coins." Philip had already reported the numbers quickly.

Toto's face changed: "How much?!"

"18,400 gold coins." Philip repeated again with no expression.

Du Wei smiled, but sighed on his face: "Well. It seems that the number is a little less ... The soldiers of the Northwest Army are at the edge of the country, and the work is high ... So let me add some more personally, just make up an integer: 20,000 gold coins! "

He pretended to be generous. Todoro was almost so angry that his nose was crooked.

The courtesy on my face disappeared instantly and disappeared, Shen said, "Master, am I right? Is this number correct?"

"Of course it is." Philip replied, "The Governor's Mansion just checked the farm taxes collected from various places ..."

Totoro's face turned red, and there was still a sense of reason to suppress the anger, but he did not look at Philip, but turned to look at Dewey, and said in a deep voice: "Master Duke! Although the province of Desa is a bit barren. A province, a population of nearly one million people, and a quarterly income of only 70,000 gold coins, it would be ridiculous to say it!

Suddenly, Dodoro's eyes burst into anger: "This spring and summer, there are still more than 200,000 income per season, and autumn is the season of bumper farmland, according to previous years. At least it should be It ’s more than 300,000! It ’s a great province. But it ’s a joke of 70,000 quarters. It ’s a joke. It ’s too big! ”

"General Doodoro!" Philip suddenly sank, his voice coldened, his eyes narrowed, and said lightly, "Please pay attention to your words! You are talking to an Imperial Duke!"

Then Philip said coldly: "Presumably you also know that recently we are constructing Loulan New City. The cost of constructing the new city is huge. The cost of tens of thousands of craftsmen and daily expenses are a huge and heavy burden! In addition, in order to mobilize the people in the territory to move to the new city, the Duke of the Lord issued a tax exemption order at the beginning of the city! Anyone who is registered in the hierarchy and is willing to move to the new city with his family can be exempted from tax for one year. The original financial income of Desa Province It ’s not much. With such a few huge expenses and tax cuts, the income of this quarter is naturally less. What ’s weird.

Totoro was here today to test Du Wei ’s attitude. After the little duke came to the northwest, he has not dealt with the northwest army. He thought that the other party had cooperated well, but now he is driving, but playing with himself. Kind of molars.

Thinking of this, Doodor couldn't help but be more angry. His dignified Northwestern army general had great power over the legion. In Northwestern China, who didn't give him a little face, even the old fox of Bonham was kind to him. Angry, but did not expect this little child to dare to play with himself.

Duke? What about the Duke? What the Northwest Army is afraid of!

"Master Duke!" Dodoro stood up timidly, and said lightly, "I think your subordinate may not have clarified the laws of the northwest! I certainly know you are building a new city, but according to the laws of the Empire, The Northwest Army has the right to intercept part of the income from agricultural tax land as military expenses! Military expenditures have priority! And before the Northwest Army military expenses are paid, local governments must not use agricultural taxes first! Now, this staff member at your place told me: We The Northwest Army has not yet received military expenses. He has spent all his money on the construction of the new city, does that mean! "

Du Wei looked at this angry fat man. Slowly: "General Dodoro, please sit down. Your anger does not make up for the status quo, or let us discuss and discuss such a solution, you see?"

Dodolo gave a strong hum.

Du Wei smiled, looked at Philip, said calmly: "Philip, although the account is correct. But the military expenses of the Northwest Army officers must not be in arrears! The income this season, after all, it is only on paper Just a few figures. You only need to report this quarter before deducting these expenses, and report it to me. "

Philip then pretended to be reluctantly: "Sir ... if you calculate it normally, the original income is about 250,000 gold coins ... a little less than in previous years, after all, you have saved a lot of people who are willing to move. Taxes for civilians. "

Totoro's anger was slightly flattened. The total amount of 250,000 gold coins is almost the same! Although a little less. But within acceptable levels. For 250,000 yuan, 40% will have 100,000 gold coins.

"That's not easy." Du Wei immediately made a bold look again: "On the basis of the income of 250,000, 40% should be 100,000 ... then you pay ten from the warehouse. Thousands of gold coins are just fine. "

Philip sighed, as if a little embarrassed, and whispered: "But. Lord Duke, we don't have so much money in the warehouse now."

"What !!!"

A roar, with infinite anger and doubt!

But the problem is that this roar is made. It wasn't Doodor ... In fact he was about to get angry, but the Duke Dewey roared first.

The little duke shot up, with an undisguised anger on his face, and stared at Philip fiercely: "What did you say!"

He suddenly dropped the tea cup in front of him on the ground, and said angrily, "Mr. Philip! Please explain! I'm a dignified province! Even if Desa province is a bit barren, but in the treasury of the Finance Department of the capital , There are always savings and reserves over the years !!! Can't we be a dignified province, and now we can't even get 100,000 out of the financial funds! "

Du Wei's preemptive attack. The voice was so loud that it shocked Doodor.

"Give me an explanation!" Du Wei shouted as if angry to swallow people: "Philip! Is this my territory! Is this our province of Desa? Or do you use your power to embezzle? I have stored in the warehouse !!! If you ca n’t explain it, I will arrest you immediately for corruption! "

Philip was immediately aggrieved, and repeatedly defended: "Master, I have never corrupted a gold coin !!!"

Then Philip seemed to be grieved: "Sir, you never cared about your finances as soon as you arrived in the Northwest. Naturally, you don't understand. You want to build a new city. I dissuade everything. You just refuse to listen to my opinion ... 唉, I can only do my best to keep everything running for you. But I also have trouble! "

At this point, he seemed to be determined: "Do you remember when I first arrived here, I gave you a report of the storeroom inventory?"

Du Wei seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then impatiently said, "I do n’t have any interest in those things, just let me handle it for you."

Philip smiled bitterly: "My lord, you are a magician, you are naturally not interested in these common things, but in the report I gave you, everything has been explained, but that report, but you Just not paying attention ... "

Du Wei seemed to remember something, and frowned, "What happened to that report?"

"Master ..." Philip sighed: "When we took over the Desa province a few months ago, the warehouses in the entire province only had 180,000 gold coins! It has been a stately province for many years. Fiscal revenue, years of reserves, only a total of 180,000! "

"This is impossible!"

Still, Doodor did not have time to speak again. Du Wei jumped up before him again, and blushed and waited for Philip with a thick neck. ? !!! "

"But this is a fact, sir. There is a detailed list of statistics in my report." Philip looked bitter: "You have devoted all your energy to the study of great and sacred magic, so you ignore these things. I have reminded you again and again, but you haven't noticed ... "

Then. Philip seemed to be cautious, and kept on saying, "This number, of course, makes people feel unbelievable. Who would believe that there is only such a small amount of stock in a stately warehouse. But ..."

"But nothing."

Coughing, Philip gritted his teeth: "But before you took office in the Northwest, the administration of Desa Province was always performed by Governor Bohan ..."

This sentence is already obvious!

Dodoro listened. Can not help but secretly accept this statement.

It seems that before handing over the site, he cleared the land in Desa Province before leaving, and evacuated the entire house ... This explanation is very reasonable.

Du Wei and Philip stared at each other like this, Du Wei was angry, and Philip was aggrieved. After a long time, Du Wei gritted his teeth and said, "What a governor Bochham! He played for me so much! Huh! No wonder when I passed Mulan City on my way to office, this old guy had such a strange attitude towards me. He turned out to be silent Leave me an empty shell without talking! "

He then looked at Philip dissatisfied: "Why don't you say these things early!"

Philip immediately spread his arms: "Your energy is devoted to the study of great and sacred magic. I said a few times, but you didn't hear it."

After a long time, Du Wei sighed, then looked at Dodo with the most sincere eyes, and said apologetically, "General Dodo. Let you see the joke ... I didn't expect it to be on my eyelids. This kind of thing happened underneath. "

Totoro only felt the words in his throat, but he didn't know what to say at the moment. Seeing Dewey and Philip performing, he was also a little confused, and didn't know whether the two were real or acting.

However. It is quite common and plausible that a magician does not like to manage common things and is only absorbed in his own magic research. And most of these young aristocrats are inexperienced, where can they manage what finances?

So it seems ... It really doesn't seem to blame the duke in front of him. It's all the guy from Bohan ...

"General Doodoro, please rest assured." Du Wei immediately said in an undeniable expression: "I will immediately send someone to talk to Bohan that guy! In any case, I want him to throw up the money that swallowed me Come out! At that time. I will definitely give you a lot of military expenses in the Northwest Army! "

Totoro just felt a stun in his heart ... spit it out?

He has been in Northwest China for many years, and he doesn't know how many times he has dealt with Governor Bohan. He knows how powerful Bohan is. If the money is in Bohan's hands, can you make Bohan out of you?

When you have to pay back the money and pay the military expenses, that is not in the foreseeable future ...

Dodolo immediately said: "But Lord Duke, military expenses can not be delayed ..."

Dowie didn't wait for Dodo to finish. He interrupted his words: "General. You also saw that we were played by the old guy from Bohan. My money was swallowed by him. Although I would like to help you, my men have told me , Now the province of Dessa is really unable to pay this military bill. "

"But your new city ..." Dodoro was a little unbelievable. After all, he could have the financial resources to build a new city, and couldn't afford the 100,000 gold coins?

"I know what you want to say." Du Wei said lightly: "I also do not hide, the vast majority of the expenses for the construction of the new city were borne by me personally. At that time, this man of mine dissuaded me, but I really don't want to stay in the ruined city of Ghilar, so I took out my private property to support the construction of the new city. But the Department of Finance of the Desa province is really running out of money, which is also true. "

What else can Dodoro say?

He couldn't be more embarrassed to ask that Du Wei personally pay for military expenses.

In this case, it is unreasonable for both public and private.

Yu Yi ... Are these powerful and powerful people, who is in power when they are in office? I only heard that I was earning money, but I did n’t hear that I took out my own pocket to make up for the public deficit! He is a general, too, and he is a general in the official circle. Such a simple truth is naturally understandable. In that case, he was embarrassed to say.

Yu Gong ... private money to pay military expenses? What do you want to do? It's light to say that you are attracting the military! To put it more seriously, that is to be speculative and rebellious!

"It seems I can do nothing for the time being." Du Wei said sincerely: "Please send my deep apologies to General Lu Gao, commander of the Northwest Army. But I will try my best to make up for this, I This sent someone to Mulan City, Nulin Province, to meet with Governor Bohan. In any case, I will recover the money, and it will be fair to the Northwest Army! "

Looking at the sincere face of the boy in front of him, it was very difficult for Dotoro to judge whether he was real or fake. As for whether Governor Bohan had swallowed up the warehouse in Desa Province before leaving, Dadoro can naturally find out that the Northwest Army has operated in the Northwest for many years, and there are still clues. He was not afraid that Du Wei was cheating on this point.

Thinking of this, Doodor has stood up and looked much colder: "Since then, Lord Duke, I will leave first, and I will go back to report to General Lugo about today's events ... I ca n’t decide. "

Dewey had no stand. He got up and sent him out. Even before leaving, Dewey seemed to intentionally say something to Dodo: "My Excellency, Governor Bonham, this approach really annoys me, but Well ... After all, I first came to the Northwest. He is an old minister in the Northwest. He has been in business for many years. I think he may not be so easy to give in to this matter. I'm afraid it's not enough. If necessary, I also hope that the Northwest Army can also put some pressure on him. After all ... there are also your troops in there, right?

Totoro groaned for a moment, and didn't dare to agree, but said that he would report back to their regiment after going back.

In this way, Dewey temporarily fools the Northwest Army.

The Northwest Army's logistical person in charge was sent away. Du Wei and Philip closed the door. Both of them laughed for a while, and then Philip frowned. "Master, though this will temporarily send him away, but I must go back After that, they can always taste it back. By then ... "

"What will happen then." Du Wei snorted. "Bohan ransacked my storeroom. This is a fact. The Northwest Army only needs to check it to understand, at least we didn't lie about this matter. They also ca n’t help us. Our current public finances are really tight and there is no money. This is also true. Even if General Lu Gao, the head of the Northwest Corps, came, I was embarrassed to let me pay for it myself. There are official rules. The ideal situation is that the Northwest Army passed the hate to the old guy of Bohan ... Huh! I swallowed such a large amount of money without giving him trouble, how can I be in my heart? Comfortable! "

But then Du Wei himself smiled, and glanced at Philip: "I'm just bullshit. The Northwest Army has always been against Bohan, and it is not bad for me to add such a fire."

Philip frowned, "It's just that this quarter is okay to say that next quarter, they will come again to ask for money. This excuse for Bohan is not good enough."

Du Wei was also helpless, and smiled bitterly: "Take a step and say a step. It can be delayed for a while.

The **** "temporary order" is really troublesome, but Du Wei knows that now don't expect the central government of the empire to have the courage to abolish this rule! Because of the presence of the Northwest Army, the Central Empire also had to be a bit jealous. The regent just came to power, and now the main energy is to stabilize the situation, and it is impossible to rashly break with the Northwest Army. It is better to count on the Central Empire than to count on yourself.

Philip thought for a while, and suddenly said: "Actually ... my lord, I have a note! From now on, the Northwest Army will not want to take away even one gold coin from us!"