Gulliver's Travels

Why does Flimnap complain about Gulliver to the emperor of Lilliput? because of Gulliver’s cost to the treasury because of Gulliver’s frequent disrespect toward Lilliput because of Gulliver’s desire for his own home because of Gulliver’s performance in t

Why does Flimnap complain about Gulliver to the emperor of Lilliput?

because of Gulliver’s cost to the treasury
because of Gulliver’s frequent disrespect toward Lilliput
because of Gulliver’s desire for his own home
because of Gulliver’s performance in the Lilliput–Blefuscu battle
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....... because of Gulliver’s cost to the treasury

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That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness of his nature. He represented to the emperor “the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent. below par; that I had cost his majesty above a million and a half of sprugs” (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) “and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.”

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Gulliver's Travels