World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 980 - 452: Found a massive amount of Gold Coins! Wild Suo Lun!_2

Chapter 980: 452: Found a massive amount of Gold Coins! Wild Suo Lun!_2

In the entire Human Kingdom, the courtesan industry is legal. The total number of courtesans in the Rage Wave Kingdom exceeds three hundred thousand.

That is to say, on average, each courtesan has stored eight Gold Coins in the royal city’s bank. (Equivalent to several hundred thousand yuan)

The courtesans are the group with the strongest sense of crisis. They save every penny desperately just so that they can survive after aging and retiring from the industry.

This money truly represents the earnings of their flesh and blood over more than ten years, and it is their hope for the rest of their lives.

If we look at it from a moral perspective, these courtesans are unclean.

However, from Suo Lun’s perspective, this large group of courtesans is an important part of his power territory.

As everyone knows, after receiving their pay, soldiers like to go to the courtesan house to blow off steam.

Thus, over time, they do not view the courtesans with the same disdain as ordinary people do, but instead, they develop feelings for them.

After these courtesans retire, a large part of them end up marrying these soldiers.

These soldiers are brave and strong, and having frequented the courtesan houses, they have an open mind and do not look down on these women.

After getting married, these soldiers may have no money, but the courtesans do have money. The spouses compensate for each other’s shortcomings, and the family remains relatively harmonious.

The disappearance of over ten million Gold Coins from the royal city’s bank also means cutting off these courtesans’ means of livelihood.

It’s not as if every courtesan is luxuriously clothed and makes a fortune daily.

The majority of the courtesans earn less than a silver coin per client and 70% of that goes to the courtesan house.

A few Gold Coins are their savings over an entire career. Once that money is gone, their only option is probably to hang themselves.

Therefore, in a desperate situation, Suo Lun would rather plunder the wealth of the royal elites to pay back these people.

Even after their properties are confiscated, the elites can still live a luxurious life.

But many ordinary people, once they lose their life’s savings, are left with nothing but seeking death.

Holy Priest Ge Li said, "Spread the word among the royal elites, tell them Suo Lun is mad, and he plans to confiscate the properties of the entire kingdom’s nobility by tomorrow morning to fill the national coffers and line his own pockets. And tell them, as the Dragon Temple, we are compassionate and willing to offer them sanctuary."

"Good!" Fang Qingyi said, "This plan is good. Suo Lun’s Forbidden Army surely wouldn’t dare to storm the Dragon Temple to arrest people. Since Suo Lun wants to confiscate the wealth of the elites to cover the deficit, we’ll make sure he can’t confiscate much. Even if he becomes a public enemy, he still won’t be able to cover the kingdom’s deficit."

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Since last night, the entire royal city has been panicked and rife with rumors.

They say the Gold Coins in the royal city’s bank have vanished, and that the national treasury is short by tens of millions. They can’t even pay the soldiers’ wages and officials’ salaries for next month.

Suo Lun has no choice but to confiscate the properties of all the royal city’s elites!

Instantly, the entire kingdom’s elites are terrified but also raging!

As the saying goes, whoever cuts off my wealth, I’ll cut off their lifeline!

Suo Lun is indeed formidable; all the kingdom’s nobility fear him like the plague.

But if Suo Lun comes to confiscate properties, their only choice is to immediately rebel and fight to the end!

So overnight, the royal city’s elites prepare as if facing a great enemy. Every servant, every samurai is up all night, defending every spot with their swords drawn.

Almost all the elites are determined, as soon as the decree to confiscate properties comes down, they will immediately band together and organize armed resistance against Suo Lun’s Forbidden Army to the bitter end.

The royal city’s elites number more than a few hundred families.

These noble families’ samurais, power slaves, and servants, when mobilized together, constitute an army of at least a few hundred thousand.

Including the corrupt City Defense Army, they can muster an army of two hundred thousand.

So, as soon as the decree is announced, it almost means a great battle will immediately erupt within the royal city.

However, this group of powerful clans is without a leader, and facing the sixty to seventy thousand Forbidden Army, they are sure to be utterly defeated.

But once a few hundred thousand people start fighting in the royal city, then Zhi Du, one of the top four cities in the realm nearly a century old, will likely be half reduced to ruins, a complete mess.

Moreover, if these leaderless powerful clans have the Dragon Temple as their support, the consequences are unimaginable.

However, these nobles still can’t believe in their hearts that Suo Lun would really come to confiscate properties.

There has never been such a precedent in history, confiscating the nobility’s Gold Coins to give to the lower classes?

Even if Suo Lun has lost his mind, he wouldn’t do such a thing! Suo Lun is also a member of the top echelon of nobility, would he speak for the benefit of the lower classes?

Moreover, not long ago, the city’s lower classes were still crying out for Suo Lun’s execution.

So, when the Dragon Temple informed these powerful clans to take their properties and seek refuge there, these nobles were verbally grateful, but very few actually entered the Dragon Temple for sanctuary.

Firstly, there was a curfew last night, and they couldn’t move on a large scale.

Secondly, entering the Dragon Temple equates to standing against Suo Lun.

Suo Lun is too formidable; standing against him is too terrifying. If the so-called rumors of confiscation are false, then wouldn’t they be seeking their own destruction by offending Suo Lun for no reason?

In order to prevent Suo Lun from confiscating a single Gold Coin, Fang Qingyi, Yan Ping and others are talking themselves hoarse, but these noble elites just don’t believe them and are unwilling to offend Suo Lun by seeking refuge in the Dragon Temple.

Fang Qingyi and Yan Ping are about to explode from frustration!

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