The joking was over. Le Yu looked at Qin Yueshi. "How's Peerless Kill coming along?"
Discussing official business, Qin Yueshi could no longer keep wearing such a sour expression, so she honestly reported, "The research society has received a total of one thousand one hundred Gold Coins in 'loans' so far. I've already handed eight hundred Gold Coins over to Second Brother, but he said that the business environment in Radiance has been mediocre lately, so the monthly interest on those eight hundred Gold Coins is around one percent."
The environment was bad, yet the money could still appreciate by one percent a month? And the stock market, that convenient platform for fleecing the masses, didn't exist in this era. Just where had Qin Yueyang gone to fleece them?
Besides, more than one thousand Gold Coins was beyond Le Yu's expectations. After all, this didn't even include the money his Qin family had gathered through Recompense Ritual. It was actual money that the Imperial Academy's students had lent to Ming Shuiyun.
Le Yu had still underestimated how eager the great clans of this era were to invest. In this half-feudal, half-industrial age of Radiance, there were originally only two ways to increase the value of one's assets: buy land or build factories.
But with war about to break out, trade routes between Flame Capital and the outer districts were constantly being cut off, while many refugees were also flooding into the outskirts of Flame Capital. Whether buying land or building factories, there was a good chance of throwing meat buns at a dog, or spending premium currency on a pig mobile game—once the money was gone, it was gone for good.
At that moment, a unicorn-level opportunity suddenly appeared before them.
The project had been created by Imperial Academy students—its