"Your Excellency is truly a respectable elder who knows how to weigh the gains and losses of a thing. I have to be proud of myself for being able to cooperate with your Excellency."
“People outside say that the two widows of Maple Leaf Territory are the most powerful women in the entire kingdom, but in my opinion, they are still lacking something compared to Your Highness.
They only know how to follow the path of their little husbands, but Your Highness has already embarked on your own path, and I can foresee that at the end of this path Your Highness will be crowned king."
"Thank you for the compliment, sir. They are just a group of women who are willing to believe in the illusory love. Even if they have a lot of money, it will turn into dust in the face of power."
This negotiation was very successful. Although both parties knew that the other party had expectations, the details could not be explained in a few words.
With Elsa and Duke Hill jointly issuing a statement, Princess Elsa and Hill family heir Ivan officially broke off their engagement after consultation due to emotional discord.
Such news did not cause any waves in the aristocratic circle. After all, everyone had already speculated about it, and now that it was confirmed, it was just a sigh.
What really surprised those idle nobles was the second statement from both parties, that Princess Aisha and the Hill family would jointly establish the National Chamber of Commerce that Lin Xingchen had originally proposed.
The conditions offered by both parties were very rich. They clarified the issues of income and distribution based on what Lin Xingchen had originally proposed, and the benefits offered were very considerable.
The nobles who had already benefited from the Aisha pyramid scam joined in frantically, after all, double the profits meant double the happiness.
As Aisha and Duke Hill continued to release favorable news, the nobles, who were blinded by the benefits, could not extricate themselves.
Elsa and others in the royal capital continued to receive land transfer agreements from local nobles, while Avril and Anna, who heard the news, and Princess Lydia who was in the royal capital, quietly began to implement the second step of the plan.
The New Year in the past was always lively and bustling. Although this year was more grand than previous years, everyone who participated in the New Year party knew that something was missing.
"Everyone! Although Lin cannot celebrate the New Year with you this year, I think this is actually a good thing."
No matter how well we performed in previous years, everyone would think it was all Lin's credit. But this year is different. According to the figures given by the statistics department, our revenue this year has doubled compared to last year. This is all our own credit and has nothing to do with Lin.
I think we should cheer loudly, because we have truly achieved the goal of realizing our self-worth. Let's drink to our respective ideals." Avril is a very interactive person, and this year is also worth celebrating. As her various delightful data came out, many people who worked hard for it could not suppress their excitement.
"Here I want to tell you another piece of good news. Yesterday I received a message from the United Chamber of Commerce of the Kingdom of Kurma. They will lend us money in the spring after the New Year, using the entire kingdom's noble land as collateral.
Do you know what this means? This means that our financial industry has been supported by the nobles of the entire kingdom. It is foreseeable that our financial industry will be more prosperous in the near future. "Avril's news was like a group of loud fireworks lit up in a quiet night, which made people afraid and look forward to its blooming.
And just as Evelyn said, after more than two months of campaigning, Aisha and her friends had already taken over 90% of the noble territories in the kingdom.
Aisha used these noble lands and some collateral from herself and the Hill family to formally apply for a loan from the Maple Leaf Bank.
The two parties have already conducted preliminary negotiations on the content of the loan. Generally speaking, both parties have this intention, but have not yet finalized the loan amount and interest rate.
The joint merchant asked for 50 million gold coins for a period of ten years, with an annual interest rate of 5%, and the repayment period must be in installments starting from the eighth year.
However, Maple Leaf Bank gave a different opinion. Fifty million gold coins were too much for the nobles' territories, which were scattered and of mixed quality. Maple Leaf Bank offered thirty-five million gold coins for a period of ten years, with an annual interest rate of seven percent, and gave a very detailed timetable for the repayment date.
In the first three years, no repayment is required and only the interest rate needs to be paid. From the fourth year to the eighth year, the United Chamber of Commerce needs to repay 60% of the principal, and the remaining 40% needs to be repaid evenly every month.
Finally, the two sides agreed to formally negotiate on this issue after the New Year.
For this negotiation, Aisha and Duke Hill, despite the long journey, finally arrived at Maple Leaf Territory on time at the agreed time, the end of January 3110 of the Magic Calendar.
The opponent had such a strong lineup, and the Maple Leafs were not at all inferior. Duke Green personally came to the scene to support and cheer for his granddaughter-in-law.
Duke Griffin made a friendly guest appearance as a spectator. On the last day of January, in the most luxurious hotel conference hall in Maple Leaf Territory, the two sides launched the first land mortgage loan negotiation on the Plano continent.
After heated negotiations, both parties reached a loan agreement acceptable to both parties in order to avoid any further complications.
That is, the Kurma United Chamber of Commerce used land as collateral, and all land pledges were supported by the consent of each owner and a private seal.
The Kurma United Chamber of Commerce borrowed 40 million from Maple Leaf Bank for a period of ten years, with an annual interest rate of 5.8%. The principal does not need to be repaid in the first three years, and 70% of the principal needs to be repaid during the five years from the fourth to the eighth year. The remaining principal will be repaid every six months until it is paid off in the tenth year.
Maple Leaf Bank will pay the other party the required amount in full within three years.
If the United Chamber of Commerce fails to repay the principal and interest in time, the bank has the right to take over the land and factory buildings pledged as collateral, as well as the crops and houses planted on the land, etc.
In order to lower the interest rate, Aisha made some adjustments to the amount and time of repayment of the principal, and Avril finally nodded in agreement.
The two parties completed the signing ceremony under the witness of Duke Griffin, and after the signing, they started a new round of negotiations.
The United Chamber of Commerce will purchase large quantities of various seeds from Maple Leaf, as well as related planting and subsequent production technologies.
Such a deal will bring the Maple Leaf Chamber of Commerce nearly 10 million gold coins in revenue. Although the amount will decrease due to technical problems later on, the annual seed transaction will still be worth several million.
This kind of thing is beneficial to both parties, so naturally an agreement can be reached quickly.
Finally, to celebrate this win-win deal for both parties, Avril organized a grand ball.
The protagonist of the ball today is not Avril and others, but Princess Elsa.
With her status and the wealth she represented, the princess attracted the presidents of major chambers of commerce settled in Maple Leaf Territory.
And Aisha also relied on her skillful social skills to reach verbal agreements with these businessmen who normally would not even look at each other.
Besides, some people think that this princess is the only candidate for the throne, but in the eyes of Marceline and others, this is just Elsa's path to destruction.
After the beginning of spring, it is a busy season for everyone. The owners of the plantations are busy recruiting people or urging the workers to work.
The factories that had been idle for a whole winter finally got back into operation. After the ice and snow receded, caravans from all over the place flocked to the territory, and the Maple Leaf Territory once again awakened from its winter slumber.
At this time of year, everyone is happily looking forward to the harvest, but the owners of the Duke's Castle are a little depressed. The reason for this mood is not because of the missing male protagonist.
Instead, the two pregnant heroines were reluctant to give birth. It had been more than eight months since they became pregnant. Normally, the pregnant women at this time would have been pregnant and ready to give birth at any time.
But Evelyn and Anna's stomachs only grew slightly bigger in the past eight months, and this newly revealed appearance of pregnancy made Green and others worried and frightened for a long time.
After consulting many doctors, they all said that everything was normal. In the end, it was the old servant Arnold who came up with a hypothesis about this abnormal situation. He thought it might be related to bloodline.
After all, Lin Xingchen has the blood of high elves in his body, and even ordinary forest elves can encounter similar situations when they intermarry with other races.
Finding out the reason naturally makes people happy and sad. The happy thing is that the child's talent will not be too bad, but the sad thing is that I don't know when the child will be born, which makes me mentally unprepared.
There are many things that people are not mentally prepared for. With the news brought by the caravan that recently entered Maple Leaf Territory, a large number of tribes began to gather on the grassland tribes. These tribes continued to exploit and extort the passing caravans.
Such things naturally made Maple Leaf Lord very alert. A large number of troops were armed, not only for daily training, but also to deal with the attacks of the grassland tribes.
The discordant scene on the road caused losses to many parties, and countless caravans traveling between Maple Leaf Territory and Sharpnero Empire united together.
On the one hand, they hoped that Maple Leaf Territory would suppress the rebellion, and on the other hand, they kept spreading news in the Sharpnero Empire, saying that if those tribes exploited them too much, they would raise the prices of goods.
The people who were used to enjoying the fine wine, fruits, vegetables, silk and cotton cloth of Maple Leaf Territory became excited all of a sudden, and this scene gave some people who had already made plans an opportunity.