Chapter 398: Money can even summon ghosts (2)
We often compare money to blood.
Just as a person’s body dies when blood stops circulating, because it is not supplied with oxygen, a company or a country cannot engage in economic activity and dies when money is not supplied.
Therefore, when the national economy is at a standstill or is about to slow down, the government responds by increasing the money supply through quantitative easing, like transfusing blood to someone who is lacking blood.
So, what would happen if a huge sum of 700,000 gold coins suddenly disappeared from the Sforza family?
“Are you planning to kill me?!”
Although he inherited the ducal position through inheritance, I guess he didn’t win the ducal position through poker or baduk.
If 700,000 gold coins disappear from the Sforza family, the ducal family will die.
Of course, unlike people who are certain to die if they lose 1 liter of blood at once, a family close to a hereditary corporation and local government does not stop functioning just because a lot of money disappears.
But something worse than death would happen.
Losing a few mines, some of the land, and all sorts of economic interests, or rather, if the Sforza family were to become my vassals, I would feel so sorry that I would want to kick the soles of my shoes.
‘Will a disaster happen that would make Germany envious right after its defeat in World War I?’
“Why should I kill you? I’ll just pressure you to pay back 700,000 gold coins. What power would a mere viscount have to take aim at one of the only two ducal families in the empire? I want to live a long life. That way, I can live comfortably with my wives.”