The Thunder of the Gallop Fund

From the mouth of Rudolf Schultz, a priest of the Goddess of Wealth and Commerce, Landen once again heard about his family's Gallop Fund. From Night-Kirin City's records, Landen knew that this fund had been formed three hundred years ago after integrating the entire Finance Department's deposits, loans, bonds, and stocks—a superfund worth three hundred million Gold Coins.

Over these days, Ben Kaul, Alexei Zhuoqin, and Richie Red Dragon had successively told him some of the Gallop Fund's history, and Landen had roughly pieced together how that money had gone from the Finance Department's few million in surplus back then into a fund on the scale of three hundred million, and how, under inflation that was almost zero, it had become today's market value of nearly two billion Gold Coins.

First, after the Night-Kirin City Finance Department brought all its cash and notes to the imperial capital, the Imperial Capital Finance Department was also busy dealing with the war against the devil race and had issued a large batch of bonds, so the Night-Kirin City Finance Department happened to take over a huge sum of imperial war bonds.

At the same time, the fleeing Gallop Family had also summoned armies in various places to restore the Gallop Plains. This army had only just assembled near the imperial capital when it was urgently requisitioned by the Imperial War Department and sent to the southern front to resist the Fallen Devil Race. All the expenses the empire used to requisition them were also paid in war bonds, and the cash in the hands of these Gallop Family members was forcibly converted into war bonds as well.

At last, after the war ended, the Imperial Finance Department and the War Department discovered, awkwardly, that the entire campaign against the Fallen Devil Race had