Chapter 2539
: Kill the Creditor and You Don’t Have to Pay the Debt
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"Being obsessed with immediate interests and forgetting to think about the overall situation, the interests will eventually backfire on you and become the price of your desire for interests. The Milan family is probably another negative example worth thinking about!" After returning to his resting place, Lu Jun looked at the box in front of him, ignored the gold inside, and shook his head slightly.
I thought the matter would end here, but now it seems that Sima Yi's grasp of people's hearts and his understanding of Parthia are much stronger than before.
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Fengnuo Yunduan, who stayed where he was, looked at Kirkuk speechlessly. He opened his mouth and found that he could not say anything except sorry.
Thinking back on what had happened during this period, Fengnuo Yunduan had the urge to go home and kill those idiots in the family.
Unfortunately, things have come to this point, and the means of compensation have no effect, and his performance has not been shown at all. It can only be said that it is a waste.
"Go home. You take the Milanese raiding army, and I will take the Milanese guards and the power of the Milanese family. Let's go together to meet Vologases V, the emperor of the Parthian Empire!" Kirkuk suppressed his inner reluctance and said the route he was most reluctant to take.
But after saying this, Kirkuk had changed his mindset, restrained his previous ambitions and aspirations, and became like a loyal minister of Parthia.
Fengnuo Yunduan was silent for a moment, then nodded slowly, acknowledging the result.
The reason why I was forced to make such a decision was that I was deceived by my family members.
Moreover, this pit is too big. It is no longer a situation where one can wash away one's actions by simply killing family members or expelling them from the family.
It can be said that the various small nobles who paid a lot of deposits by relying on their reputation, and the real wealth converted from large reserves of silk, are very touching.
When Fengnuo Cloud obtained the right to investigate, in order to get the results faster, it naturally delegated the power.
The consequence of decentralization to other people is that a group of short-sighted guys are blinded by the huge profits and choose the fastest way to get wealth.
With the situation completely in their favor and with legal justification, some people born into Milanese families directly followed the rules that had been established, captured those petty nobles one by one, and forcibly confiscated all their wealth.
It can be said that Fengnuo Cloud, which had not yet reacted at the time, did not stop or prevent such huge amounts of funds in the first place, and was obsessed with the beauty of wealth.
However, when huge amounts of wealth were gathered together, the people of Milan calmed down and thought about it, and only then did they learn the true situation of this wealth from the very few small nobles who knew the truth.
The petty nobles who collected huge deposits by pre-selling silk in large quantities had no idea what restraint was.
Anyway, it is said that anyone with money can buy it, just cite the family crest and the Romans will give money as soon as they open their mouths, so why not pre-sell more?
Their family is not well-known and the Romans do not recognize them. Is it not possible for them to disguise themselves?
Disguising as other great nobles might be a problem, but for the small nobles who have been under the rule of the Milan family for many years, is there any problem in disguising as the Milan family?
It couldn't be simpler.
As for the cost, as long as you run fast, there won't be any problem.
The seven nobles are not united in their alliances. They can collect a large amount of wealth through this method, and then buy land in another noble territory and enjoy the treatment of nobles.
All they needed to do was invest some genuine silk in the early stage, and they would be able to get something for nothing in the later stage. Moreover, the bolder they were, the more ruthless they would be. Who could resist this? In particular, the bolder they were and the more they ignored people, the more Romans came to pay them, fearing that they would pay them too slowly, including some great nobles.
This behavior not only changed the mentality of some minor nobles, but also made them more and more courageous.
Not to mention disguising themselves as the Milan family, these petty nobles would even dare to disguise themselves as other families.
As long as they succeed, the profits will be very high. After careful research, disguising a family and pretending to be a real noble, how difficult can it be in the eyes of those who already have a family and are nobles themselves?
Fortune and wealth are achieved through risk, and this kind of benefit is enough to tempt many people.
For the Milan family, they were indeed very happy at the beginning, because the wealth they gained was indeed a lot. Even though a considerable number of nobles ran away, the harvest was still very high.
However, after understanding the meaning behind the wealth of these nobles, Kirkuk felt even colder in his heart.
It can be said that the amount of silk exceeding 100,000 pieces, even if it is a deposit, is enough wealth to make the empire excited, but these things must be given.
Such a huge amount of silk, let alone the Milan family, even the entire Parthian Empire may not be able to reach this amount in a year.
The possibility of consulting and negotiating with people from the Han Empire was also an attempt by Kirkuk to show its unwillingness to submit to Vologases V.
Now that this attempt has failed, we can only accept the worst outcome.
If there is not enough stuff to repay the supplies, then the only option is to kill the creditor.
Nothing is more perfect than the debt being paid off when one dies.
As for going to Rome to explain the reason, it has nothing to do with the Milan family. To put it simply, Kirkuk himself does not believe such a reason, let alone the Romans.
Even if the wealth was returned, it was not certain that the Roman Empire would accept it. It was easy to imagine what the Romans would think if they had to choose between money of equal value and silk of equal value.
What's more, in their current situation, they don't even know who to return the money to.
Those deposit account books that recorded the deposit had been destroyed when they entered the Parthian Empire. It can be said that they were destroyed completely without leaving any bottom line.
It can be said that under such circumstances, the Milan family is extremely unlucky. The only thing that can comfort people is probably the mountains of wealth.
However, this cold wealth also made Kirkuk realize that their relationship with the Roman Empire would never be the same again.
Whether it was intentional or not, when they were involved in this matter, or when this matter involved them, the breakdown of the relationship was doomed.
"Now we can only do our best to kill as many so-called creditors as possible. Fortunately, those guys are mainly sold to the eastern provinces of Rome, so there should still be a chance!" Kirkuk forced himself to calm down and gave directions for the follow-up situation. (End of this chapter)