Frankly speaking, Hudson still felt a bit uneasy. Since its establishment, the Near East Development Bank hadn't paid a single penny in taxes to the Kingdom Government.
With no regulation and no taxes, it had grown unchecked and unrestrained, enabling it to establish branches in every city of the kingdom within just a few years.
As of now, one-third of the nobles in the kingdom owed loans to the bank.
Reason told Hudson that if he continued playing this game, he would inevitably become a target sooner or later.
It might appear that he was controlling the lifeblood of the kingdom through economic measures, but this depended on everyone abiding by certain rules.
It's important to note that these debtors were hardly ordinary people; each of them held private armies of varying scales.
If one day these individuals decided the current rules of the game didn't suit them and opted to change the way things were played, the situation would shift dramatically.
