mechanical court

Yiwen did a good job of keeping the secrets secret, and blocked the fact that he was in control of the Hyperion Development Consortium.In the entire Menesian Empire, only Elulome and her few cronies knew about it—now they were all ordered to keep their mouths shut, and they dared not reveal a single word.

Why not say it?

Now is not the time.

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Ellum stood in front of a huge vanity mirror surrounded by silver candlesticks, illuminating every corner of the bathroom.

She fiddled with the skin care products under the makeup mirror, fumbling from honey, massage oil, lotion, flower petals to eyeliner box, gently picking them with her slender and fair fingers.It was found that the thing in the box was no longer eyeliner, but a simple golden eye.

"..."

Ai Luluomei looked at this golden pupil, her gaze was as calm as a lake, without any emotional fluctuations.With a flick of a fingertip, the eyeliner box closes back on without even doing much research.

Then she left her makeup mirror and walked slowly to the bathtub.

The bathing pool in the dormitory is made of large pieces of bluestone, and the area is so large that ordinary people can call it a swimming pool.The baths are surrounded by white marble columns topped with gold-plated miyi flowers, and the water in the pool is mixed with emulsion, with fresh petals floating on them.

With her back to Tanger behind her, she slowly untied the belt around her waist, and the silver gauze dress fell off.She only wore close-fitting silk underwear, facing the pool water to observe her body.

Ellum looked at herself in the pool, showing a slightly sad smile, and the mirror image in the water responded with the same smile,

A few months ago, she still felt that she was omnipotent, but now she has become someone else's prisoner.What is even more sad is that someone wants to help himself, but he has no ability to resist.

But things are not without a turnaround...

Elleme knew very well that she had lost her ability as a warrior, but her weapon as a woman still existed.Her body curves seemed to have sensed the transformation from a warrior to a woman, and she looked more soft and enchanting than before. Even the most picky man would be satisfied, right?

She took off her underwear, put it together with the long skirt beside the bath, and slowly immersed her body in the carefully prepared water.The perfect temperature, every pore opening to spit out the accumulated depression of these days.

"Aren't you going to take a shower?" Allure suddenly turned her head and said quietly.

Ju looked at her expressionlessly, with a cold gleam in his eyes: "Are you planning to seduce me? I'm sorry, I'm a normal woman."

"Delusion of being persecuted..." Elulomei smiled and plucked those delicate petals: "You shouldn't refuse me, because I will teach you some very interesting things, which will help you please my brother."

"The person who needs to please him now should be you."

The orange turns into a shadow and draws a black line, across a distance of tens of meters, hovering between the makeup mirrors.He picked up the eyeliner box, held it in his hand, and looked at Elle Rose, who was soaking in the pool:

"Master wants you to cooperate with them and agree to all their requests."

"Do I still have a choice?"

Elleme took a deep breath, dipped her back into the pool, and looked at the steamy ceiling through the water, her eyes flickering.

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Royal court, lounge.

Ivan sat cross-legged on the floor, with pale golden light circulating on the surface of his body, and the overflowing golden mist was like smoke, slowly floating upwards.And his consciousness has already sunk into the deepest part of the spiritual world.

There are all kinds of metal statues and mechanical parts scattered around him, as if they were blasted by some explosives, and the damage is almost invisible.

These things are the miniature robots he made, and he originally planned to use them as a basis to create new mechanical life.But after injecting enough energy to activate it, the robot either decomposes into the most trashy metal protozoa, or explodes just like it did just now, lacking sufficient stability.

10 minute later.

Ivan opened his eyes again, and suddenly felt his face was wet. He touched his cheek, and the palm of his hand was full of pale golden blood.He raised his head, a trace of vigilance flashed in his eyes - for him now, bleeding was a warning before his body decayed.

"What's going on here? In the past, even if it was consumed too much, it wouldn't bleed... Could it be because of electromagnetic waves? No, if it was its damage, then Elulome should be hurt more than me. But now The situation was that she was fine and I suddenly became ill."

He looked at the ceiling and thought for a moment, thinking that things would not be so simple:

"...Could it be that my current strength is too great, causing the blessings of the Eucharist to be overwhelmed and unable to continue to coordinate the balance of light and darkness? Thinking about it carefully, it seems that this is the only possibility. If this is the case, I only need to collect enough If the dark energy is strong enough to compete with the light energy, it may be able to contain the disease."

"If you want to accumulate sufficient dark energy in a short period of time, you must hunt and kill fear beasts on a large scale! The demon hunting war is imperative... Those six old things will definitely get in the way, and we must force them to show their prototypes as soon as possible!"

Thinking of this, Ivan dispersed the light energy and shouted to the waiter outside the lounge door:

"Send me an order to have the seven senators come to see me right now!"

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The next day, the Palace of King Quan.

As usual, all the nobles sat back in their seats after saluting to the Sun Throne.

"Ms. Diane, you've done a good job. In a month, the revenue of the treasury has more than doubled. You've done a good job!" Ivan turned his attention to the noble lady of the Bureau of Statistics and Investigation, and showed a rare smile. .

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The latter let out a long sigh of relief.

"keep it up."

Ivan nodded approvingly, then his expression changed, he patted his thigh and said:

"Having said that, I found that there are many blind spots in the empire's taxation. I can understand the high proportion of agricultural tax, but the proportion of commercial tax is too low, right? The empire's annual fiscal revenue is 4000 million debens, of which agricultural tax accounts for the vast majority For some, the commercial tax is less than one-tenth. The agricultural tax is one-fifth tax, and the commercial tax is only thirty-one tax. And books, pens and inks, agricultural tools, silk, cloth, vehicles and boats are all tax-free... Isn’t it too light? ?”

At this moment, all the nobles rolled their eyes, and there was only one thing in their minds - there are such brazen people in the world! ?

The salt and iron monopoly monopolizes the most important necessities of life, the royal bank monopolizes foreign exchange trade, and now it is extending its hand to commercial taxes... How short of money are you, please save some soup for the people below us!

"Your Majesty, the commercial tax should not be too heavy, otherwise it will hinder the flow of goods in the market."

"Your Majesty! Reimposing the commercial tax is equivalent to draining the water in the lake to catch fish. It seems to be effective in the short term, but it will cause predatory damage to the market environment in the long run!"

"Your Majesty! Light commercial taxes are good for people's livelihood, while heavy commercial taxes will increase the burden of life. I hope you will carefully consider the pros and cons."

Now without Mrs. Diane's reply, many nobles with relevant interests stood up, put on a serious attitude of worrying about the country and the people, and tried their best to persuade him not to touch the commercial tax.

However, it was useless, and Ivan would not give up if he made up his mind to cut this piece of meat.

"What are you talking about? Has the commercial tax changed from [-] one to [-] taxes? If this tax is considered heavy, then the [-]th tax for farmers is dead!?"

Ivan didn't care so much, ignored most people's speeches, and turned his attention to Mrs. Diane:

"Daini, this business tax must be increased, but the threshold can be relaxed. Small merchants and hawkers can be exempted from paying taxes, handicrafts pay less taxes, and heavy taxes are imposed on mining, maritime trade, jewelry and other profitable industries. How to do it, you Draw up a plan first, and then talk about it after showing it to me.”

"His Majesty!"

Mrs. Diane raised her head courageously, and was about to argue, but was swept away by those dark eyes, and lost in one round:

"Yes...give me some time."

"very good."

Ivan took a deep look at her and patted his palms twice: