Or he doesn't believe in banks at all and has his cash stored in his mattresses like so many did during the Great Depression. The castle goes up in flames, so does his cash. The idea was to make him self-sufficient. His wealth is not measured in monetary value but in the happiness and...
My Vampire King is loaded but doesn't really see wealth as a necessity since he doesn't deal with the outside world. Mikhail, his sorcerer advisor and Blake his second in command deals with the outside world.
Nah, he's a reader. Hustler is more his speed. Definitely for the articles. He studies to keep his mind from deteriorating. A thousand years is a long time.
He has solar power, no comcast and their rising prices on Skinemax isn't keeping him up at night. He has sent those who wish to learn out for science and agriculture, so he has hydroponics. He also sells horses and clothing made in his castle. His castle is paid off and so his car. The car is...
What if wealth isn't his goal? Self-sufficiency and comfort are. Making sure that his people and their children can live comfortably through any turn of events that happens in the world outside.
Ahh. Yes. I tend to skip over days. Or go too much into detail about a particular one. Books that should be weeks or months in the shaping are done in like three weeks. They lived happily ever after. The End.