Chapter 137 – Chapter 137 Taleia
“But it is not much. Not at all.”
“What are you talking about?”
Taleia completely changed her expression as if her crying face was a lie.
“There is a steel bank I use often.”
“Eww… “
And at Jason’s answer, Taleia became teary-eyed again.
The Steel Bank was never to be taken lightly.
It is easy to borrow money, but they were scary people who would liquidate the collateral if the interest was delayed even a little.
Even the name of the Wolf family could not prevent the execution of the Steel Bank.
So Thaleia wasn’t thinking about the steel bank.
“If you pay the interest well, there is no better place than this. And if you take Taleia-sister’s brothel as collateral, you should be able to easily make enough money to keep everything you’ve been doing.”
“Would that be?”
“Have her entourage calculate the money. If you can pay the interest well, the Steel Bank is a very reliable place. Look at me Didn’t you borrow money from there when you were in a hurry to grow your business?”
Thaleia looked at Jason.
Certainly, Jason borrowed money from the Steel Bank and invested well, multiplying his business.
He seemed capable of expanding his salon nationwide.
‘If Jason did it, I can do it too.’
She thought the salon business could be more successful than Jason’s.
“Good. See you then. It would be more effective to meet through networking than to meet without anything.”
“Then prepare a present or something. I will make a suitable seat.”
“If that’s the case, I have something good.”
**
Geoffrey was talking with Demeter while watching and receiving all of the huge Wolf family rolling around in the small hideout.
“Everyone is upset because I’m not here.”
Originally, she thought she would go into hiding until she found the culprit who was targeting her, and then she would come out.
However, as he sees his children doing more, his seclusion continues to grow.
“Everyone is trying to take over the family somehow if my older brother doesn’t come back.”
“Isn’t it nicer to look at than to just live in a mess?”
“Because the light must have gone down.”
Demeter laughed lightly.
“But isn’t there a possibility that the family’s power will weaken if we go on like this?”
Demeter was not young either.
I have seen a lot of the process of the fall of a moderately powerful aristocratic family.
The most common was for children of similar abilities to share the power of the family.
The results were split in two.
There was a case where each other fought to eat the entire family, consuming a lot of Gaman’s power.
Or, there were cases in which several small families were created because each other acknowledged each other’s existence and became independent.
In both cases, the prosperity of the past had disappeared.
“That’s why everyone is hoping that someone clever will take care of the job and eat the entire family.”
Demeter immediately recognized who the bastard Geoffrey had spoken of was.
“Without any help from me, you could easily steal the property of other brothers and sisters. You deserve to eat the entire Wolf family. Actually, it’s the Wolf family. If you take each one of those businesses apart, it’s just a gang of small and medium-sized street gangsters.”
“Not quite like that. The brothel alone eats more than half of the entire empire.”
“Under! Without the name of the Wolf family, it is a business that will soon be attacked by hostile organizations and shrunk.”
Demeter looked at Geoffrey.
He had set aside what his children could eat and what he could live on.
I couldn’t understand Jeffrey, who made his children compete like this to sort out the boulders.
But Demeter knew that she was only Geoffrey’s right-hand man after all.
He knew his place and shut his mouth.
Once again, Jeffrey’s death only strengthened his resolve to make his retirement.
**
Thaleia gathered her entourage.
“I’m thinking of borrowing money from the steel bank.”
“Lady Thalia. Steel banks are dangerous.”
“They’re vicious guys who somehow manage to get the money lent to the imperial family.”
Talearia put on a determined expression, refusing to hear her objections to her decision.
Then her entourage just shut up.
“Good. All I want is to figure out the money I need for my salon extension business and the interest I can afford. Calculate the business conditions in the most efficient way.”
The aides nodded.
Miuna Gouna Thaleia was their boss.
Depending on whether Taleia was doing well or not, their position also changed.
Thaleia drank a cup of fragrant tea.
The aides put their heads together and calculated the money needed for the business they were now conducting throughout the empire and the interest rate for the steel bank.
It was complicated.
The money needed for the business was flexible, and the interest rate at the Steel Bank varied slightly depending on how much money was borrowed and how it was secured as collateral.
One of the aides cleaned up and reported to Taleia.
“It seems that 300 million gold will be needed until the salon expansion business enters a stable phase.”
It was enough money to wage a war.
“Are you sure?”
“I set it as the criterion of entering the stable zone. If the business goes downhill, all the money invested so far will be lost.”
“Then do it. How do you think I can do it?”
“First, if you take the current business as collateral, the interest will come out hard.”
“That’s out of the question.”
“Then you can take the existing stable brothel as collateral. Although it’s still up to Taleia-sama’s judgment.”
In the end, the final decision had to be made by Thaleia.
She thought deeply.
The salon extension business was bound to succeed.
All he needed was money.
If so, it would be better to pay less interest.
“Because it’s enough to pay it off anyway. Keep the interest rate as low as possible.”
“All right.”
**
Thaleia finally met Stiana Efri, the head of the Steel Clergy’s Palmo Empire branch.
‘It’s a clerical meeting. After all, the word “Steel bank” Sticks more to my mouth.’
If the other clerics made money from treatment, the Steel Clergy made money from money.
It was not at all odd to Tal Leia that she was thinking this.
However, Thaleia did not let this thought out at all.
They didn’t like the word bank very much while playing with money like a knife more than anyone else.
“Welcome. Thalia Wolf. I thought there was nothing to see. Anyone who sees it will see it somehow.”
Stiana was contacted by Jason in advance and greeted Taleia.
“Nothing to see?”
“Isn’t the original brothel business a business where cash is reliable? That’s why I thought he wouldn’t come to our Steel Clergy. But since we’re meant to be like this, let’s make a good relationship. There was also an introduction from Jason.”
Jason was like a VVIP in the current Steel Clergy.
He was also good at borrowing a lot of money and paying interest and principal.
Since she was introduced by such a customer, Stiana thought she would provide Tal Leia with various conveniences.
Taleia must have felt the same, as she laughed and took out her paper.
“What I want is a loan of 400 million gold. Is it possible?”
The amount was only used when the empire went to war.
Taleia asked to borrow it casually, and Styana accepted it as if it were a normal job.
“As long as the collateral is certain.”
“Since I came here through the introduction of my youngest brother, could you lower the interest rate a bit more?”
“I’ll give you 1 percent off. We thought that we would not do complicated bargaining, so we made a big offer.”
1% of 400 million gold was 4 million gold.
That could save you a ton of money.
“Thank you. Then, as for the collateral, I’ve been preparing a brothel business here and there.”
Thaleia was cumbersome to speak in words, so she had prepared a piece of paper in advance.
And Stiana was also comfortable with this.
She looked at Thaleia’s paper.
Almost all the brothel businesses that could be said to be net worth in the empire were listed.
“Hmm. I’ll have to check with the other priests for details. Just looking at it now, it’s pretty good collateral.”
“There are only a few businesses in the empire that can make such a stable amount of money.”
“I think the interest rate will be set quite low. I’ll calculate the exact interest rate for Taleia’s loan, so could you wait a moment?”
“As much as you like.”
Stiana told her outside assistant to give Thaleia her snacks and drinks, then she went out.
And she handed the paper that Taleia had given her to those who specialize in valuing collateral in the Order of the Iron Clergy.
Stiana couldn’t keep her customers waiting, so she quickly returned to her office.
Then, Taleia was eating a snack, she said.
“Oh, and I brought a present too.”
“A gift? In principle, we, the Iron Clergy, do not accept gifts… “
While playing with money, receiving gifts and providing convenience could lead to great losses for the entire Steel Clergy.
So, priests who took bribes were often dismissed from their positions.
