Chapter 124: Recognizing the Master Mode

  The major roads of the Western Liang State were all paved with large bluestone slabs. Post stations were set up on both sides of the official road, and if there were urgent documents to be delivered during peacetime, they could change horses continuously and travel hundreds of miles a day.

  After rushing for half a day, everyone was very tired. Because of the worry about leaking secrets, Kuang Shi Bo and his party did not enter the post station, but rested by the roadside instead.

  She is a beautiful woman full of intellectual temperament, unfortunately her eyebrows always have a kind of gloomy melancholy.

  As the Minister of Finance of the Western Liang Kingdom, Kuang Shi Bo received a flying pigeon letter from Her Majesty the Queen yesterday, asking her to secretly go to the Qingquan Mountain Villa with several capable subordinates.

  The female country of Western Liang, no, the financial ministers of the entire continent are all a group of poor people.

  The maids are all good, they listen to orders, discipline themselves, do not fight internally, and can even tolerate increased taxes. However, they have no resistance to shiny things like gold, silver, and jewels, and they are all quite greedy for wealth. Once something goes into their pockets, they don't want to take it out. As a result, the national law that prohibits melting currency into jewelry has become a dead letter, and the amount of gold and silver in circulation on the market is getting smaller and smaller.

  There was no longer enough currency, causing the price of gold and silver to rise higher and higher, the liquidity of currency to become worse and worse, and the financial ministers of various countries were at a loss as to what to do.

  Kuang Shi Bo spent his days drinking tea and neglecting meals, constantly flipping through historical classics in search of a good method to apply. Unfortunately, when the two masters first arrived in this world, they had collected very few historical classics and materials, and there was no method for conjuring gold and silver out of thin air.

  Someone found a way to use shells and animal skins as currency in ancient times, wanting to promote it, but was brutally destroyed by the beautiful women of the Daughter State. They just lacked innovative ability. People are not stupid, especially when it comes to money-related things, they become even smarter. Shells are easily damaged and difficult to evaluate, so they were quickly abandoned. Animal skin currency can circulate, as a result, girls hunted a large number of wild beasts, and this currency began to depreciate, meat prices also plummeted, causing many breeders to lose their investment.

  If Wu Yuan comes to summarize, it is the economic sprout of capitalism, but uses the feudal society's way to manage, how can there not be a problem?

  Kuang Shi Bo's tenure as Minister of Finance was not going smoothly, the amount of gold and silver in the treasury was decreasing day by day, and the finances were a mess. She had to work with Her Majesty the Queen to implement new economic policies, but they ended up failing miserably.

  No one can produce gold and silver, but the queen wants to make ministers take out the gold and silver in their hands for trading through taxation and other means, which was met with ruthless resistance. Then, she angrily proposed a merger of the two countries to her sister, the king of Dongliang Female Country. As a result, the other party actually said... that she must step down before it can be done.

  Alright, it's clear that the other party doesn't want to merge, and everyone's resources are insufficient, but the domestic ministers have actually started carefully considering this proposal, thinking that Song Jiayu can be sacrificed.

  So, Song Jiayu, who might have been sacrificed, got angry and ran to the Qingquan Mountain Villa to cultivate her mind and nurture her nature.

  Alas, I hope Her Majesty the Queen is not a broken pot... It's a bit of a headache, and Qibao can't help but furrow her brow. She can't think of any reason why she must go to Qingquan Manor now.

  "What's wrong, our Minister of Finance, looking so worried?"

  Suddenly, Kuang Shi Bo heard a mocking voice coming from behind her, and that voice made her jump up abruptly.

  "Qingfeng, how did you end up here?"

  Turning around, the person behind him looked similar to Song Jiayu, with a three-point resemblance. That was Song Qingfeng, Song Jiayu's older sister by one year.

  When Song Jiayu mentioned the Eastern Liang Women's Country to Wu Yuan, some things were hidden, such as the king of the Eastern Liang Women's Country, who was also a Song, named Song Nianlan, and was Song Jiayu's elder sister. The seven sisters of the Song family, with Song Jiayu ranking fourth and Song Qingfeng ranking third, the division between Western Liang and Eastern Liang Women's Country was actually just a family matter.

  Song Qingfeng and Song Jiayu's relationship was not good, it can be described as "like fire and water". Originally, Song Qingfeng should have become the queen of Western Liang, but her sinister younger sister ultimately defeated her older sister and inherited the throne. As for Song Qingfeng? She was always treated by Song Jiayu as a target to vent her frustrations, being suppressed and bullied in various ways, making her life miserable. The world of maids is monotonous, and the maid's code prohibits the existence of yuri, which is considered a waste of resources. As a result, Song Jiayu had no choice but to make teasing her sister a form of entertainment in her life. Of course, if Wu Yuan knew about everyone's scheming and infighting, he would just say it was just "playing house" and office politics, not cruel or bloody at all.

  "Why can't I come here? These two days, I found that my beloved sister seems to want to launch a coup, so this time, not only did I come, but also the elders of the Long House came."

  Song Qingfeng smiled and clapped her hands, and a group of beautiful women emerged from the trees behind her. They were representatives of the Western Liang Women's National Congress, and everyone finally caught up with Kuang Shibao.

  "Then let's go to Qingquan Mountain Villa together. And you first tell me, what does Jia Yu want to do?"

  Song Qingfeng smiled, with an angelic face and a devilish figure. As Song Jiayu's lifelong enemy, she never minded showing her hostility towards Song Jiayu in front of others!

  From young to old, which matter wasn't Song Jiayu suppressing her? She absolutely didn't want her younger sister to have an easy time!

  Wu Yuan sat bored in the room, telling Song Jia Yu how to establish a modern financial system using paper money. In fact, there have been examples of using animal skins and shells as currency in the past, replacing gold and silver transactions with another method is not unprecedented. However, behind the issuance of paper money lies complex financial knowledge, which is a thought storm constructed by countless intelligent humans, not something that maids can create.

  "This is issuing paper money, what are the key points to note?"

  "These regulations are very effective, how did you come up with them?"

  "Meiniang, no, Wu Yuan, I should call you by your real name. Will you serve as my Minister of Finance? I believe you will be very competent."

  After touring the villa, Wu Yuan stayed by the queen's side to help her draft regulations for issuing paper currency. In the meantime, Wu Yuan got his laptop back, but Song Jiayu had no use for it. The fingerprint verification and password input made it impossible for her to enter the system.

  Anyway, no matter how much Wu Yuan admired Song Jia Yu, he didn't tell her the truth about another world. This was one of the key points he had to remember when he left the Great Tang Empire.

  Fortunately, Song Jiayu didn't pursue it further, her attention for the past few days has been focused on the financial management regulations drafted by Wu Yuan.

  It can be said that without Wu Yuan's help, the issuance of paper money would have been impossible.

  The beauties of Women's Country are not innovative, but they are not stupid either. They think and make improvements in small details.

  For example, just like the difference between cold weapons and firearms, maids will try their best to improve the quality of cold weapons because everyone knows that the more they are hammered, the better the effect of cold weapons. The higher the temperature of the flame, the sharper the weapon made.

  The principles recorded in the ancient books, under their study, are even better developed. Even if one day, someone invents gunpowder according to the alchemy methods in the ancient books, and then ignites it, and with good luck, an explosion occurs... Day by day, year by year, perhaps seven or eight thousand years later, the maids will also manufacture gunpowder weapons based on various developments, luck, or efforts.

  Just like a mouse constantly pressing the keys on a typewriter, over time, random clicks could also produce Shakespeare's poems. Creativity and improvement are not contradictory, it's just that the former requires more talent.

  Wu Yuan is now doing is to open a gap in Song Jia Yu's bound thinking, and then slowly pour knowledge into it, so that she can do the following things.

  "I'd never be a finance minister, what good benefits would I get from being your minister?"

  Wu Yuan disdainfully curled his lip, after arriving in the Country of Women he was caught by this woman and became a laborer. These past few days, every day he has been telling her about financial knowledge, even the beauties in the mountain villa have come to appreciate him less.

  "What benefits..."

  Song Jiayu gently stroked his chin and then said in a very serious tone.

  "How can I acknowledge you as my master?"

  "Recognize me as your master?"

  Wu Yuan was taken aback and didn't understand the reason behind Song Jiayu's words.

  "Two masters created us, with the purpose of serving humanity better. The problem is, who should we be loyal to? Or rather, with so many girls already, how can a master determine which one he likes best?"

  Two masters have set up a contractual way for us, that is the ceremony of recognition. As long as a maid has made up her mind, she can enter into a master-slave relationship with her master and from then on, whether in poverty or wealth, health or illness, danger or daily life, she will accompany her master and dedicate everything to him, becoming his most reliable dependence.

  "Ah ah ah, is there really such a good thing?"

  At this moment, Wu Yuan only felt that the world was so beautiful. The two masters were too close to people's hearts, not only creating maids, but also adding administrator passwords, as long as they grasped the key, they would no longer worry about the maid running away with money one day.

  "Yes, Elder Tang, would you be willing to be my master?"

  Song Jiayu's body leaned forward, her soft and long hair flowing down like a waterfall on both sides. Her elegant demeanor was replaced by infinite deep emotions, and her black gem-like eyes revealed endless thoughts and unwavering loyalty.

  "Master, kiss me."

  She called out softly, then pouted her red lips, waiting for Wu Yuan's kiss.

  Faced with such a breathtaking view, Wu Yuan was stunned, and his soul, which had long been tainted by the dust of various things, was stirred up with infinite shock, then...

  "Jiayu sister, let's not mention this matter again. As a Buddhist disciple, how can I have worldly attachments?"

  Wu Yuan pushed her away, his voice and expression stern as he firmly rejected the queen's temptation. It was also at this moment that Wu Yuan finally understood how bitter and reluctant Tang Changlao had been when he said those words.

  If it weren't for another world's tens of billions of people watching, he wouldn't have learned from Old Man Tang!