Five days later,
Looking at the prosperous city in front of them, Henry smiled and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, arriving early was not a bad thing at all.
And after a few more minutes of travel, the three Agnes family carriages entered the capital city of the Kingdom of Lyon.
"We will first go to the estate in the capital, then I will go to the meeting place tomorrow," said Beatrice as she looked at Henry with a smile on her face.
"Understood young miss," said Henry as he signaled to the coach driver to travel to the estate.
After a few moments, the three carriages turned left and once again began traveling.
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"Thank you, Henry," said Beatrice as she stepped out of the carriage as she looked at the luxurious inn in front of them, even without having visited it before, Beatrice knew that this inn was owned by the Agnes clan.
After this, Beatrice, Henry, alongside another two guards entered the inn, which seemed to be closed for business right now.
The moment Beatrice entered the inn, she saw about fifty carefully dressed people bowing to her.
Suddenly, an old man, who was even better dressed than the group of people carefully walked toward Beatrice as he bowed.
"This old man greets young countess," said the old man as he dared not look into Beatrice's eyes.
"Is that so," thought Beatrice as her gaze turned to the over fifty people bowing toward her.
"Show me the financial situation of the inn," said Beatrice as she skipped over everything else, and got to the main point, her cold voice causing all in the room except Henry to shake.
"I will lead the way for the young countess," said the old man as he kept bowing, even with his frail old body.
"You can stop, I don't need you paralyzed," said Beatrice as she looked at the back of the old man, even she did not have any reason to continue torturing the old man.
After hearing what Beatrice had just said, Henry breathed a sigh of relief, as he did not want to execute a powerless old man.
As the old man straightened his back once again, he let out a silent sigh of relief as the pain slowly disappeared.
"Lead the way," said Beatrice, causing the old man to begin walking towards the stairs behind the group of people.
As the sound of heels walking on the stairs sounded, the group of workers held their breaths, waiting for the demoness to leave, only daring to breathe once they heard her arriving at the third floor.
Looking the countless book and scrolls in the room, Beatrice smiled.
"Place the financial reports for the five previous months alongside last year's report on the table," said Beatrice, her voice now sounding more amiable than before as she sat at the table in the middle of the room.
As if expecting what the young countess had to say, the old man swiftly brought five small and one large book in front of her, before remaining silent, trying his best not to breathe too loudly in front of Beatrice.
"Go sit," said Beatrice, as she pointed to a chair in a corner of the room before not paying any more attention to the old man.
After this, began the longest wait the old man had ever had to endure, every single minute felt like hours of torture, but even still, he did not want this torture to end, as the verdict that awaited him at the end of it seemed even more dangerous.
"It seems you did a relatively good job at managing your employees, but you can punish the one that did exchange your profit for gold coins for the past three months, that person doesn't need to handle the money ever again," said Xu Yue as she looked at the exchange prices for three months ago.
"149 silver coins for 1 gold coin, this price is really too high," thought Beatrice before talking again.
"Keep the silver coins in house for now, wait until a few months to exchange them, you will know why," said Beatrice as she decided not to reveal the news her father had told her to this old man.
"Once that gold mine is annexed, the price of gold will plummet, that would be a really good time to make money, pity I won't be here," thought Beatrice as she closed the financial records with a smile on her face.
Suddenly, Beatrice's eyes turned to the old man.
"What are you waiting here for, you can leave," said Beatrice as she looked at the old man.
"Yes young countess," said the old man before quickly exiting the room, leaving Beatrice and Henry alone in the room, with the two guards remaining downstairs.
"You can tell my father this old man can be trusted, and that our business in the capital is going well," said Beatrice in a cold voice, before Henry could even ask the question.
"Yes young miss, I will relay this information to your father once I return to the estate young miss," said Henry as he slightly bowed.
"Another thing, when the price goes down, tell father to stockpile gold and be more cautious, this next period is not suitable for battle," said Beatrice as she looked at the map of gold mines in the surrounding kingdoms, and the date at which mining had started in them.
Even though he did not know why Beatrice wanted the count to stockpile gold, Henry obliged, he would make sure these messages would make it to her father.
After a while, Henry also retreated from the room, leaving Beatrice to look at a map of surrounding kingdoms.
"This place will really become chaotic after I've left, but things won't be too bad," mumbled Beatrice as she looked at the map in front of her, occasionally, Beatrice would cross out the name of a few principalities off the map, revealing a new, much more centralized map.
"Too bad I will miss so much of the fun," mumbled Beatrice before sitting back down in the chair, as if deep in thought.