Book 4: Chapter 17
Asset disclosure is honestly a very time-consuming job that also requires a lot of effort because the job isn’t to just display assets for everybody to view. It requires one to cross-check if the income and expenses between the finance records and income match. You also need to check to see if there are any signs of money laundering. While there’s no point in laundering money in this era, it’s still a challenge to ensure that the two match. It’s not a job you can complete in a single day. For an industry as large as the church’s it could take about a year. In other words, I’ll be able to find out if the church’s income is coming from legitimate sources if I investigate them for one year.
However, I don’t care what sort of corrupt behaviour they’ve been up to. It’s got nothing to do with me, so I don’t care about it. Right now, I just want to see where the church is stashing its piles of copper coins. If I can find it, I’ll be able to repossess the pile of coins that haven’t been approved by the royal family yet.
I don’t care who the church thinks they are. You took coins that haven’t been approved by the royal family. That’s against the law. The only entity allowed to legally tax people is the empire. I’m making this statement after reading up on the empire’s laws.
“So how do you intend to start, your majesty? Our records will be delivered in a few days. I think you will be done checking in about a year, right?”
“No.” I shook my head, looked at him and continued, “I want to see where you are storing your money right now.”
Who gives a toss if you people have a finance issue or not?
He froze up. He looked at me confused, and repeated my question: “Where we store our money? Right now?”
“That’s right. The storage where you are currently storing your money. I want to see the money inside.” I looked at him and smiled casually, “Just let me see it and I’ll be fine without seeing everything else. If there is a problem there then all of your numbers will naturally have a problem. If there is no problem with it, then your other finance related aspects will be fine too.”
“There is no problem, it’s just that I have to remind you that it is still in-work, your majesty, did you forget by any chance?” He calmed down and looked at me as he spoke with a smile. His smile looked like it was hiding a sense of jeering. It seems that he thinks I’m scared which must be why he reminded me.