Episode 76 19. Lyon Guild (4)
At that, Benjamin snorted.
It was completely incomprehensible to him.
“How do you know that? What are you?”
Not even a licensed banco contractor, and distrust and disbelief in a young kid’s assistant who belongs to such a banco contractor.
And resentment for hindering his business.
Those things came together and turned into a strong dislike for Rockefeller.
So no matter what Rockefeller said, he couldn’t hear it.
“Let me tell you something. you mean It really is nothing.”
It was a very disappointing remark, but Rockefeller still had an expressionless face.
“He’s just a blue kid who knows how to roll his head strangely. I don’t know anything about this floor.”
“Do you really think so?”
“Then what would you do?”
Rockefeller was a bit frustrated.
“Isn’t it something you can try at least once? Maybe what I said was right. Giving people interest even at the cost of a small loss may be the foundation for playing with bigger money in the future.”
Benjamin still had a negative attitude.
“Hey, haven’t you heard what I just said? you are nothing It’s really nothing. Your thoughts and past events were just coincidences.”
“… … .”
Rockefeller thought, narrowing his eyes gently.
The person in front of me right now won’t listen to anything he says.
“then… … What do you want?”
Guildmaster Benjamin immediately responded.
“What do you want? It’s simple. The business you are running now. If you deposit those gold coins, stop paying interest in return for this nonsense.”
Benjamin’s words continued.
“I just thought it was Carter’s idea. So I sent a letter to Carter. Then I got this reply.”
Benjamin took the letter he had had with Carter from his desk drawer and laid it down roughly on the desk.
“It turned out that it wasn’t Carter’s idea, it was some fearless kid who didn’t know the subject and was ignorant. I dare you to keep me in this place! No matter how much church property is coveted. But if you do something like that with interest as bait, do you use it? It was such a stupid thing to do.”
Benjamin shook his head openly.
It meant denying Rockefeller and everything he had done.
“I am one of the biggest lenders here in Lyon, and at the same time I represent the thoughts of all the banco dealers in the Lyon Guild. I dare say that.”
Benjamin raised his index finger again and pointed it at Rockefeller.
“You are completely wrong. Even if it’s wrong, it’s too wrong You’ll never make money that way. Rather, it only fuels market confusion. God pays interest instead of gold coin storage fee. I don’t know how I got this crazy idea.”
From Rockefeller’s point of view, it was terrifying.
Until now, a person with such a tight front and back has been sitting in such an important position.
‘If you are the Lyon guild leader, you must be one of the two power leaders who control the gold coins of the empire. A person who was so inflexible and completely blocked in the front and back was taking the place.’
Rockefeller thought.
I thought that the reason why the level of finance here is so savage may be because the guild leader of such a low level is occupying an unsuitable position.
‘It’s pathetic and it’s even pitiful.’
How could such a person occupy that position?
‘It must be the power of origin. Because it’s from the Lyon family, not anywhere else.’
“What if I say I won’t bite the business?”
Even though I already knew the answer, I asked just in case.
Again, the answer that came back was exactly what Rockefeller had expected.
“You’re not going to bite me? Whoa, good guts. Then it’s very simple. You Carter Banco can no longer be with us. Simply put, it’s a departure.”
Being expelled from the Lyon Guild sounded like a voice that his trust in Carter Banco might be shaken.
It was one of those things that should never happen.
‘If you don’t like that, you have to join the Black Label Union… … .’
At this point, it was unclear how the representative of Black Label Union would come out.
Perhaps that representative also had the same thoughts as the head of the Lyon Guild, which was completely clogged up front and back.
Paying a small amount of interest to customers who entrusted them with gold coins was a rather unusual idea for banco companies at the moment.
‘I don’t know what kind of reaction they will get, but it doesn’t seem to me to go that way.’
In addition, Rockefeller looked good to the Lyon guild chief and needed a special permit from the imperial family.
To become a goldsmith.
‘It hurts my head.’
“It’s a departure… … okay.”
The Lyon guild chief opened his mouth with a confident tone.
“I know you don’t have much of a choice. What kind of banco trader in the world can continue to do business without being part of a guild? Of course, it would be possible to continue business without belonging to a guild. Instead, it will remain forever as an insignificant Banco located on the outskirts. People will not trust Banco, who has been expelled from the guild.”
Rockefeller thought.
‘It’s not easy to choose either of the two.’
sure thing is.
It was because there was no answer sheet given, so it was not possible to make an easy decision at this place.
Here, if the guild leader did what he wanted, Bishop Berkis had noticed.
“I am very sorry Prince Benjamin, but it is very difficult to give an answer right here. So can you give me a little more time to think?”
At that, Benjamin snorted again.
“What did you say now? You want time to think?”
His expression rotted.
“Are you sane right now? There’s nothing more to think about, so I’ll give you time here.”
Excited, but from his point of view, Rockefeller’s current business had to be stopped somehow.
Because of that incident, the church’s funds were drained and the money was not paid for the storage of gold coins.
‘I tried to finish it as good as possible.’
“This is not a person. I’m sure he’ll be a very tight-knit person. I must have misunderstood the person.”
Rockefeller spoke right away.
“It won’t take long. I will come back right away and give you an answer.”
As I listened, it seemed that he wanted to talk to Bishop Berkis.
“Are you saying that now, you want to talk to Bishop Berkis?”
“you’re right. It’s just that the bishop’s eyes are showing to be bitten. I also want to run the business on my own terms, but the church is not a very comfortable place, is it? Let’s go and convince the bishop.”
“What if I can’t convince you? I don’t think it’s going to work at all. It’s not easy to convince that yangban, because the front and back are more tightly closed than I thought.”
Who is talking to whom?
“First of all, I try to solve it through conversation. Give me a little time.”
I didn’t even want to give you time to think in the first place.
Having said that, even Benjamin decided to squeeze his own patience.
“Good. Just give me three hours from now. If you don’t reply within this time, then your Banco can no longer belong to the Lyon Guild. Be mindful. Banco not belonging to a guild will lose trust from everyone. So you must hurry.”
“Yes, I will keep that in mind.”
After finishing the conversation, Rockefeller came out of the guild headquarters and narrowed his eyes and fell into thought.
‘It’s time, I barely earned it… … .’
It didn’t seem like much would change if he went to see Bishop Berkis like this.
It was because Rockefeller had fully anticipated how he would come out of the church after that.
‘Even Bishop Berkis won’t give up on that easily. It would be much better to get interest than to pay for gold coins. In the end, you have to choose between the two.’
Choosing one here meant that his relationship with the rest he had abandoned could be seriously damaged.
‘Neither of the two can be easily thrown away. Maybe we’ll start a war with one of them.’
whatever it is
Rockefeller decided to go back to Bishop Berkis to discuss the previous conversation.
At the Cathedral of Lyon, which returned quickly, Rockefeller was able to meet with Bishop Berkis without difficulty.
In a private meeting with the bishop alone.
Rockefeller got lucky.
“When we first met, I became aware of what you were concerned about.”
“Have you met Benjamin?”
“Yes, this is the way I met the Lyon guild chief.”
“Hmm… … I know roughly what you’re going to say.”
Benjamin Guild Leader was the person who had the most fuss about whether it was a scam to receive interest if you entrusted gold coins.
“Even though we are from the same family, we reveal too much money. It should be revealed in moderation.”
Bishop Berkis continued.
“No, of course it’s good if people from the same family do well. He’s secretly wanting to see the church’s fortunes shrink. Of course, as a member of the church, I want to protect the property of the church, but this guy is trying to take it away, so can we get along well?”
“In my heart, I only want to protect the church property as if it were mine.”
“How would you like Benjamin to be like you? But no. He only knows money. I’m thinking of keeping the church’s property in a local bank and stealing gold coins anyway. If I wasn’t from the same family, I’d send him to hell.”
Bishop Berkis frowned openly.
“I mean. I hate him. Even if they are from the same family. Isn’t this too much to do?”
Still, the arms are bent inward.
Rockefeller smiled kindly instead of joking around.
“So what did he say? It’s obvious, but let’s hear it.”
“He told me to cancel the interest-giving business to the church immediately.”
“what? Did he say that?”
At this point, I had a rough idea of which side Rockefeller would stand on.
‘Anyway, the road I have to go is a continuation of struggle. It will never be an easy road. Because you will have to press down on the many established establishments.’
“Yes, you said so. So I’m thinking about it myself.”
Bishop Berkis raised his voice.
“What worries! Are you worried about that while you own church property?”
“It’s not like that, but he threatened to kick me out of the Lyon Guild if I didn’t withdraw the business. It was a little ridiculous. However, I am also in a position where I need the halo of the Lyon Guild to become a goldsmith, so I cannot easily decline the offer.”
“haha!”
Bishop Berkis frowned.
“You too should stand on the side of the church and protect the church’s property! Are you afraid of what the guild leader said and are you going to look hateful to me and the church?”
“But it’s a situation that I can’t help but push too hard on that side. Expulsion from the Lyon Guild is effectively an ultimatum to quit the Banco job.”
“Uh-huh! Even if you didn’t think so! No matter what anyone says, you must protect the church’s property unconditionally. This may be a command from God to you. No one has ever thought of that before, didn’t you only think of it and propose it to the church? He said that he would use the power of God to borrow the wealth of the church.”
Bishop Berkis spoke immediately.
“And if you want to go to heaven after you die, you must have the church property. I shouldn’t have listened to what the Banco guild leader said. Would you use it if you were swayed by such things?”
As Rockefeller had previously envisioned, Bishop Berkis was also uncompromising.
Knowing that anyway, Rockefeller began to shake his head.
‘Yes, it was decided. By sticking to this side.’
“Then I will take care of the property of the church, so I would like your Excellency to help me.”