I Became the illegitimate son of a duke - I Became the illegitimate son of a duke chapter 103

103 – Banking (1)

“This table summarizes the recent price changes for buildings and land in Dijon and the surrounding area. I had to research all the documents from a few months ago. Sorry for taking your time.”

“Sorry, of course, such work can’t be finished quickly. Rather, I’d like to commend you for researching all of this in less than ten days.”

“That’s too much praise.”

I’m not exaggerating, I’m serious.

I thought it would take more than a month, but how did you finish this in 10 days?

You have to find out all the changes in the price of the huge city of Dijon and surrounding buildings and land.

I went through all the paper documents and listed the price changes in chronological order, and if there were no documents, I would have had to go to the site where the buildings and land were sold to find out the past price.

What, I’m scared. How did you do it?

‘Let’s see…’

In the report Leclerc handed over, land prices and building prices were listed at intervals of 3 days at the shortest and 10 days at the longest. Explains the meaning of

For example, the day the civil war broke out in the Holy Empire, or the day when the establishment of the Archdiocese was announced, events that could affect real estate.

‘Certainly, looking at the table, prices in the Dijon area continue to rise.’

Was I too sensitive?

Looking at this real estate price table, the current price increase is understandable.

The land purchased for the construction of the factory raised the value of other land and raised the price. It caused inflation because it was using manpower.

When I see real estate prices rising like this whenever such incidents happen, I can’t help but think of the word self-employment.

‘See, college is like that too. After announcing the university like this, the price went up sharply…?’

What is this?

“…Leclerc.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“The number 14 in the table of this report, which means the establishment of the university, is the standard. Is this based on the date I ordered the establishment or the date the university was announced?”

“That… Is based on the date the university was announced. The establishment of the university has been secretly ordered by me since long ago, and the scope is too wide based on the date of the order.”

But what is this?

Why did building prices soar before announcing the establishment of the university?

If you look at the report, real estate sales prices do not blindly go up like a mountain. So, after some major incident, real estate prices are jumping up like stairs.

The establishment of the university should have been normal, but the price rise in the form of a staircase has come before the announcement of the establishment of the university.

Of course, the price went up even after the announcement, but the important thing is that the price rose sharply without any reason before the announcement.

‘This tells only one thing.’

A spy inside the palace and some daring bastard outside the palace are playing with money together.

“Leclerc, what has the intelligence agency been doing lately?”

The Information Agency is an organization that organized and created Rotaring’s old-fashioned information collection system.

I was able to make it quickly because I used the existing information network of the Principality of Burgon, but as long as the substance is the same, the performance is there.

It will change if time passes and the know-how at work is fully passed on to the next generation.

“…The Intelligence Agency is currently working on Rotaring’s counterintelligence, especially Dijon’s counterintelligence. Due to the intensifying chaos in the Holy Empire, more foreigners are entering Rotaring’s country, which in turn is wasting time on counterintelligence. We had no choice but to spend more money on it.”

I see, then let’s put aside the possibility of playing pranks abroad.

No matter how similar their abilities are to the past, they are concentrating all their capabilities on counterintelligence, and it is very difficult to invade from outside Dijon.

‘There was no reason for that in the first place.’

In order to find the culprit of an incident, the first thing you need to do is put the person who has a reason to commit the incident as a suspect.

A foreign power? The Holy Empire is in full swing, so there is no time to care about this place, and Caroling is also participating in the civil war of the Holy Empire, so it is the same.

Conclusion, the culprit is in Korea.

In particular, we need to investigate those who roll a lot of money to do this.

“Leclerc, thank all the bureaucrats working in Dijon. Especially in this part, the bureaucrats who are likely to have found out about the establishment of the university when prices jumped up before the announcement of the establishment.”

“I will do that right away.”

First of all, we have to get rid of the bureaucrats who would have cooperated with them.

…………

“You really don’t know?”

“Yes, yes… I don’t know why I am here…”

Damn, damn, damn…!

If caught, it’s the end. That means my head will be cut off on that pig slaughterhouse.

I have to catch it somehow.

“Hmm…”

The eyes are so scary.

They said that a person in a position to kill me looks scary no matter what he does, and he was right.

“Hey.”

“Yes… The auditor will be fine.”

“Then who do you think is the culprit? The one who should have noticed the founding of the University in the period shown here.”

“Yes? This is…”

…It was a big deal.

You guys knew everything.

I suddenly heard that I was being investigated, so at first I thought it was just bad luck, but looking at the documents the auditor showed me, I can roughly guess the culprit.

If you look at the period pointed out by the auditor, it exactly coincides with the time when I knew about the establishment of the university and reported it to Elise.

“I-I don’t know…? I don’t know…”

“Really? Well, okay. If that’s the case, write down on this piece of paper all the people you mainly came into contact with.”

After saying that, the auditor gently held out a piece of paper and a pencil.

You mean to write everything down right in front of your eyes?

‘…Should I write everything down?’

Workmates and friends should write it down without hesitation so that they will not be suspicious.

The problem is, Elise, if there is less of Elise, then Elise will also become a suspect.

That’s no way… I can’t put my lovely Elise in danger.

“N, yes…”

For Elise’s safety, the bureaucrat starts writing down on a piece of paper all the people he interacts with except her name.

Of course, unfortunately for his efforts, the auditor already knew from the testimony of another official that this man was in contact with an unidentified woman.

As a bureaucrat, befitting a man Elise approached and seduced him into a beauty world, this bureaucrat is, to put it bluntly, a savage man with no ties to the opposite s*x.

If no woman’s name is listed on the list he wrote, the official will be classified as a Level 1 suspect that day, but he knows nothing.

A man only thinks of the safety of the one he loves.

…………

“…Meeting Your Majesty. My name is Elizabeth of Rothylt.”

Of course, the bureaucrat’s efforts went to waste in an instant, and he spit out the name Elise after a short but heavy interrogation. Because of that, the vault keeper Elise was classified as a first-degree suspect and was subjected to intense investigations for several days.

Elise used pseudonyms for all transactions, and it is said that she disposed of all the documents she owned in advance thanks to the ‘lover’ planted in the palace. Are doing

Why?

“Precious metal archives… You did something smart.”

Elysée made real estate transactions with precious metal depository documents, literally because a little investigation would quickly expose her.

It is said that all the people who sold the real estate traded with precious metal documents with Roschild’s seal on them, which means that even without the official’s testimony, Elise’s tail would have been trampled on sooner or later.

“Tell me.”

“Your Majesty…! I haven’t committed any crime. It’s a humble knowledge, but I’ve looked through all the laws and found that this is an act that doesn’t violate any laws—”

“Stop it.”

What do you mean b*tch?

Raise her hand and ask for permission to speak from her.

She seemed to know very well that she was doing something dishonest, considering that she used pseudonyms for all transactions and that she had processed all the documents in her possession beforehand.

“The laws of the Kingdom of Rotaring, which inherited the laws of the Burgon Kingdom, strictly prohibit the act of purchasing goods in large quantities to raise the price of goods. Land and buildings are no exception to this commodity.”

Of course, when the law was first enacted, that product was a word used to mean wheat or agricultural implements, but I, who has judicial and legislative powers, say that the word product includes land and buildings. What do you mean by denying it?

“The punishment for such an act can be up to the death penalty. The end is pretty petty for the Rosylt family, who have been firmly in charge of Dijon’s safekeeping for so many years.”

“I-I can’t… Your Majesty, please have mercy… Yes, I can do so many things! I’m good at accounting and I’m very good at handling all kinds of capital. I will stake the honor of the Shilt family and make you rich!”

When the word death penalty comes out, the vault keeper urgently begins to explain his usefulness.

If you see that you have increased your wealth with less risk using precious metal storage documents, you may have talent in that way, but why should I entrust the task of handling money to a person who tried to increase his wealth by digging into loopholes in the law?

“And… And… Yes! I can please Your Majesty in many ways, not just material abundance. For example, like this…”

“…?”

Seeing that my reaction was sluggish, Elise desperately contemplates a different method, then suddenly realizes something.

Elysée twists her body to emphasize the volume of her chest and pelvis and narrow waist, and adjusts the angle of her body with my gaze as a standard while slightly lowering her head.

Since there are soldiers and attendants around, it seems like she can’t speak openly, but I can fully understand what this woman wants to say.

…What is this rag?