Section 1933 The Transportation Network Is Completed

The airship can be sent quickly on the earth, but the pilot cannot be sent, so everything must be done by Li Cong himself. Li Cong also read some news reports from the Western Empire. , the transportation network on the side of the Western Empire developed quite rapidly under Dai Lin's guidance, coupled with the formation of ground freight, if the Western Empire has a leader in the transportation industry now, it is probably Li Cong's, and it is precisely because This reason made Li Cong's status in the Western Empire rise sharply. In the past, Li Cong needed to discuss some things with Prince Yulin, but now, things are not so simple. Prince Yulin seems to be no longer his own food. , the last few times, Prince Yulin has prepared some different gifts for the things that Prince Yulin sent to the past. This kind of thing has never happened before, and the things that he sent to the past have never come back. This is definitely the first time that something like sending a gift back has happened. Not only did this surprise Li Cong, but even Dai Lin, who often had contacts with Prince Yulin, was also a little surprised. m

Prince Zheng has basically replaced the original position of Prince Yulin. The influence of Prince Zheng in the royal family can be said to be unprecedented, because only one person from the four empires has become a tenth-level fighter. This makes the royal family of the Western Empire Among the royal families in several other countries, they are able to lift up their own face. Among other things, this point is also very powerful. It can be said that Prince Zheng has contributed the most, although Prince Zheng Li Cong didn't quite agree with some of Li Cong's ideas, but Prince Zheng believed in Li Cong very much. This also allowed Prince Zheng to obtain a very rich income. This did not coincide with the birth of a grandson of Prince Zheng. Dai Lin took this opportunity to send some very good things to Prince Zheng's mansion. The expensive Prince Zheng is also a little sideways, and Li Cong seems to be really generous in his shot.

"My lord, it's better not to refuse this gift. In fact, we didn't get these things on purpose. You also know that our young master's master is a great alchemist. These elixirs are nothing to the lord. The prince also accepts it." Dai Lin said with a smile. Dai Lin is actually not very clear about the things that were sent this time. The total value of some things such as gold, silver and treasures is only tens of millions of taels of silver. He was just able to enter the threshold of Prince Zheng's house, but Prince Zheng looked at the box. The black ball in the picture was immediately stunned. Dai Lin was also considered a ninth-level fighter. But he didn't know what this thing was.

"Hehe. Xiao Dai, you don't know what this is. You should say that, but I have to say something more. This thing is Xueshen Pill, which is the best healing medicine among the fourth-grade elixirs. To be honest, my battle with the black magic pharmacist has caused a lot of physical problems until now, and now I can only use 60% of my previous ability. If I rely on my own breathing at home, at least It takes more than 30 years to recover 10%, but this little snow ginseng pill can directly restore my injury to 80% of my strength, which can be said to save me 60 years of time. In the past sixty years, how much wealth can you say I can create? Besides, after using this snow ginseng pill, it will be very beneficial to practice in the future. This thing can be said to be needed by anyone who has been seriously injured like me. , Such things can’t be measured in silver.” Prince Zheng really liked this gift from Li Cong, but Prince Zheng has lived for countless years, so he must know that accepting this thing means The significance of this will be inseparable from Li Cong in the future.

"Snow Ginseng Pills? This junior really doesn't know this thing, but I have heard of this thing in some classics. It is said that it is made from snow ginseng that has been in the frozen forest for tens of thousands of years. I don't know. Is it the same as this one?" Dai Lin was also surprised when he heard this, and he was a little confused when he saw this gift list at the beginning, and felt that Li Cong was really too stingy in his actions. Now it seems that This is really not stingy. It is estimated that if all the gifts from these people outside are added up, it is impossible to have the precious medicine in front of me. This is definitely the most precious gift.

"That's right, that's what you saw. Some people say that the best elixir is actually golden. In fact, from my experience, no matter what the color of this good elixir, it has curative effect and is the best. Okay, just like this snow ginseng pill, not to mention how much snow ginseng is needed, as far as I know, there are only two or three of these fourth-rank pharmacists in the world. Although there have been fifth-rank pharmacists in history, But I can guarantee that there should be no fifth-grade pharmacist now. If you ask such a person to make a move, I think the value is less than a trillion taels of silver, so you must never ask, and these people will not help you. "Prince Zheng's words definitely don't have a half-sentence preface. These things are so precious, especially this snow ginseng. There are at most a dozen of these things every year, and they don't necessarily have to be more than ten thousand years old. You must know that the longer the age of this thing, the better. There is a group of people in the frozen forest. If they find ginseng, they will never mine it. Keep this thing around, and other people will contact buyers in the outside world. If a buyer says what year they want to buy, they just sell the news. When you dig it out is your business. Save the time. If something goes wrong, I can’t afford the responsibility. Snow ginseng worth a hundred years can be worth millions of taels of silver, and a thousand-year-old ginseng will cost more than 20 times. More than that.

Snow ginseng pills need at least ten thousand-year-old snow ginseng for one refinement. There is no way to do it. After all, this thing does not have any other raw materials, so it must be used in a larger quantity, which is only the medicine money for one refinement. It is more than five billion taels of silver. It can be said that this thing is impossible to succeed once. It must be prepared at least three times before it can be successful. Adding the ability of a pharmacist, it will definitely cost trillions of silver. No wonder Prince Zheng felt that this gift was a bit heavy. Of course he knew that he was the only one who had this, and the Great Elder of the Cao Gang naturally didn't have it. Not everyone could have such a treasure.

"In fact, this thing is of no use to us, and we have not been seriously injured. Our young master also has his own ideas for giving this to you. You are the pillar of our empire. If there is a black potion master I still need you, old man, to fight, so you should keep it for all the people in the world." Dai Lin's words really have nothing to say, and the effort of a few words has raised this matter to the height of the survival of a nation. said this. If Prince Zheng doesn't eat it. This is really a bit unbearable. The common people in the world are their own responsibility. Such words are very easy to say among the upper echelons.

"Hehe, no matter what, I have a competitive heart when I am old. I used to think that I would rarely meet opponents. This time I suffered such a big loss from these black potion masters. If I don't get back to this place, it will be a very difficult idea in my heart, I have to settle all these things, and I will accept this thing from you." Prince Zheng laughed said. Dai Lin also nodded with a smile and said, but Dai Lin still felt that Prince Zheng had something to say. How could he be so sure that there is no alchemist above rank five in this world? Also, he said this as if he was dying Speaking of which, although Prince Zheng was greatly traumatized in this incident, it shouldn't be like this. After eating Xueshen Pills, he can recover in a few days at most.

"I heard that your Cao's House of Commerce is doing something online recently. What is that?" Prince Zheng thought of some new information about Cao's House of House that the steward had told him recently.

"Hehe, my lord, this is actually an idea of ​​our young master. Our young master saw that the circulation of goods in the empire is actually at a not very advanced level, so our young master wants to build a system that spreads throughout the entire empire." The transportation network, as if we are in the capital now, if we want to go to other places, we can only go there by ourselves. In this way, it is no problem for capable people, but for some ordinary people, they simply cannot do it Yes, even the communication between county towns and county towns is impossible, our young master is going to use carriages, airships and merchant ships to connect this." Dai Lin briefly talked about this thing, Prince Zheng I understand a little bit, although the expression on the face still hasn't changed, but the shock in my heart can't be expressed in words, this kid is really too smart, such a thing can be thought of, If this is manufactured, it will be of great benefit. It is true that Li Cong can do things that no one else can do, at least he has not seen other people can do this.

"Very good. If this wish can be realized, I think the whole society will undergo great changes." Because there are still many people who want to say a few words to Prince Zheng, Dai Lin didn't say much, and went down .

The transportation network of the Western Empire can be said to be a brand new thing. Many people, including people like Prince Zheng, don't know what it is, but today Dai Lin told Li Cong about the transportation network. Prince Zheng understood what was going on. This thing is indeed a new type of thing, but it has a huge impact on the whole society. In the past, the government had an official station, but it was only able to deliver some letters. Yes, there is still no way for big things, and the official post station basically transports some imperial things very fast, but forget about private things, those things are just transported for you by the way, not only The charges are very expensive, and it is impossible to guarantee you even the safety or something.

How are things transported between private individuals? This needs to be delivered by a special person. Such things are not only a waste of manpower and material resources, but the most important thing is that this time cannot afford to be delayed. The logistics network created by Li Cong can be said to be These problems have been solved fundamentally. Although not many people know him now, everyone will be familiar with this thing soon. Li Cong's transportation network has spread to all places in the Western Empire. It sounds like all the places, but most of the 1054 provinces of the Western Empire are still areas where airships fly over, and the land transportation has not yet started.

The more than 50 provinces in the south have basically opened up land transportation problems, which allowed Li Cong to recruit tens of millions of people as his employees. They all looked at the employee contract in their hands very confused. In the past, people here worked for the landlord's family. Even if they were long-term workers, they were paid when you worked. There is nothing, how can there be such a thing as providing you with pensions, but Li Cong’s enterprise has such a situation, from the day you start working until you are sixty years old, you have Two options, either give you your entire salary. As it is now. You will retire directly when you can’t work anymore, but at that time, the commercial bank will give you one-tenth of your salary every month as your pension. The other is that now you just receive Seventy percent of your salary, the firm will give you seventy percent of your salary when you are sixty years old. Of course, if you can continue to work at that time. All the money will be given to you as well. You will be paid separately for the money you go to work. This kind of thing makes all the staff dumbfounded. They can't believe that there is such a good thing. Many ordinary people are still working when they reach the age of 70. If they don’t work, they can’t do anything. What do they eat?

The new policy has been implemented for four months. During these four months, most people have participated in the first type. It seems that it is impossible to promote the pension system here. Many people do not I believe that at that time, I would no longer create wealth for the chamber of commerce, so how could they still give me money? Moreover, if I deducted 30% of my money every month, this is really a bit much, so I should not try new things like this , do your own work, just take your own money, I don’t understand other things, and I don’t want to try, but most of them have signed another five-year contract with the chamber of commerce , They all feel that it is good to find such a long-term stable job. They are also tenants in the countryside. They have no land. If they work hard here every year, they can leave a few taels of silver every year. Don't just look at the few taels of silver, for them, a few taels of silver is not a small amount of money. If they work hard for the past five years, they may have enough money to buy three or four acres of land.

Living in this society, Li Cong understands what is called a small-scale peasant economy. Although these great empires did not emphasize agriculture and suppress business, the status of merchants is not very high. Of course, it is different from big merchants like Li Cong. Such big businessmen even have a much higher status than some nobles. Most ordinary people either want to take the exam to get fame, or they just clean up a few acres of land in their hometown and live a good life. It’s your own, and doing this is the best thing. Many people think that way, including the employees recruited by Li Congxin. They basically think this way. They have been here for five years. Many people think The most important thing is that this firm manages almost everything. I can save more than half of my salary during the five years here. Such work is definitely possible.

For example, for an ordinary carriage driver, his monthly basic salary is 500 coppers, which is five cents of silver. For other migrant workers, this amount of money is not a lot, but there are still many miscellaneous incomes, basically Everyone on the Internet will have some fixed lines. If you go once a day for a short distance, you will get 20 copper coins every day. If you work 26 days a month, you will get a 100 copper attendance bonus. There is more than one or two taels of silver, and the firm stipulates that those who have worked here for one year can receive an extra one or two taels of silver. The salary for the next year will be increased by 10% on the basis of this year, with a maximum of 50%.

This can be said to be the person with the lowest salary in the entire transportation system, and the price of some high-end ones will be higher. It is said that capable people, if their income is more than three times that of these ordinary employees, there is another reason why they come to Li Cong here is that Li Cong will give some opportunities every year to make them all become first-class fighters Opportunity depends on their work performance. Of course, this will not be revealed to the outside world, just give them some hints. As for how much they understand, it depends on their own brains.

In terms of inland waterway shipping, the Chamber of Commerce has mainly started to get involved in Red River transportation. There are no merchant ships of Cao's House on other rivers. This is not what Li Cong and the others don't want. Even becoming a partner with the Cao Gang is not so easy. Among the millions of ships on the Red River, Li Cong has already obtained one-fifth of the cooperation. Although most of them are contracted, but for Li Cong Generally speaking, as long as it can be driven, it is a great success. No matter how I do it, I can earn money anyway. Some associations along the Red River have also begun to move closer to them. After all, some goods are needed. Smuggled. Smuggling on this land is really too difficult. Inland shipping is the best, but Li Cong did not accept their surrender. It was a terrible thing to mix with these people at the beginning. clearly. It's better to be honest in the beginning.

Airship transportation can be said to be the fastest growing one in the Western Empire. Now each of the fifty largest cities in the Western Empire has an airship take-off point. For the dignitaries in these cities, they all like this thing very much. The greatest pleasure in their life is to spend money. It is the dream of many people to be able to fly in the sky. In fact, only they can afford the expensive air freight, just like two counties in a province that are about 500km apart, if you use land transportation to send yourself there, it will cost you five taels of silver and more than ten days at most. The time is enough, but if you use an airship, you can get there in more than an hour, but the price is more than a hundred times that of land transportation, and it costs 1300 taels of silver. This is still a public seat, and some VIP seats are even more expensive. Expensive, you can pay twenty taels of silver for transporting a letter, let alone a person, things can also be transported, of course, all have to be charged according to the weight, the express delivery competition on the earth is fierce, and you can earn money. It doesn't cost much money, but in this place, express delivery is the most violent industry, almost no different from money grabbing. Currently, this is the most profitable one among Cao's commercial firms.

Since the establishment of the transportation network of Cao's Commercial Bank, the first big business that was taken over by Prince Zheng was to transport a large number of tax banks located in the entire empire to the capital for free. The loss is huge, but the advertising fee is completely saved. Everyone in the Western Empire knows that the transportation of Cao's House is absolutely no problem. Leave it to them, this one also made the emperor of the Western Empire very happy. Before this, half of the empire's annual tax revenue had to be transported to the capital, and the remaining half was stored in the warehouses of several big cities. Good guy Yes, the transportation fee alone costs billions of silver every year, and all of it is saved at once, and Li Cong also said that if any problems arise, they will all be compensated.

For them, this may be a very troublesome thing, but for Li Cong, it is not a big deal. Space rings can be used to solve this problem. Now Li Cong can create hundreds of space rings almost instantly. , the space can be up to 300 cubic meters. If you make one alone, tens of thousands of cubic meters will be fine. Each cubic meter of silver is 10.49 tons of silver, and one cubic meter is 204,900 taels of silver. One can hold 300 cubic meters A three-meter space ring can transport more than 60 million taels of silver, which is definitely not a small amount.

For the court, this thing can be said to be difficult to transport, but for Li Cong, this matter is also very simple. Of course, people who do not take genetic medicine are absolutely not allowed to wear this ring. Li Cong doesn't want to take risks if he can have hundreds of millions of silver. At that time, it will be his own, so this seemingly heavy workload business is nothing to Li Cong.

Although Li Cong was very happy to win this deal, some of the finishing touches were done by Dai Lin. It is good to win this deal. You have gained benefits, but some original vested interests have lost a lot For the benefit, people need their own subsidies. It turns out that hundreds of thousands of officials from the upper and lower departments of the Ministry of Household Affairs came to do this work, and there were hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in charge of escorting them on the way to transport them. Now there is nothing to do. At least one million people rely on this job to support their families. Now that the court doesn't need them anymore, they let 800,000 people go home. The remaining 100,000 people are enough to run this business. Only central yet. At least tens of millions of people in the local area have been affected to varying degrees because of this incident, and most of them have lost their lives. They dare not spread this resentment on the court, but they dare to spread this resentment on Cao Cao For Cao's House of Commerce, there have been some people's activities against Cao's House of Commerce from all over the country. Fortunately, Dai Lin made a remedy in time. Anyway, Cao's House of Commerce now needs a lot of accountants, so they are directly I got them to work in a commercial firm, and these people's ability to handle things is still good. If you go outside to find them. It is not always possible to find someone similar to them.

The treatment is even better than before. Naturally, they don't have so many ideas anymore. Although each of them is not happy, they still have to eat. Although they were not treated very well in the past. But how can we say that we are also members of the imperial court? It's a little better now. But they have become businessmen's buddies, but these people only have a little bit of complaints, and there has been nothing in the past for a while. They have to work hard, no matter how much they complain, they can't be eaten, they have to take care of the overall situation, and they don't just talk about it, there are many people in the family who need to eat.

This may be because the elixir Li Cong sent over has its own use. If it weren't for that elixir, Prince Zheng probably wouldn't be so helpful. Prince Zheng also received the effect he needed. Speaking at the court, now because of Prince Zheng’s words, the court has saved billions of silver and freed up so much labor. Many people thought that Prince Zheng was using power for personal gain. At first, they didn’t think that Cao People in a commercial firm can do things much faster than those in the Ministry of Households, but now it seems that they are doing really well. At this time, Li Cong's income will come. Yes, this is word of mouth. The words spoken in the palace are different from the words spoken by other people. The words of ordinary people may not be credible, but the words of imperial officials are definitely credible. I handed over my transportation business to Cao's House. For a while, Luoyang Migui, the business of Cao's House was immediately full, and many of them still needed to find a relationship to enter, especially for airships and inland waterway shipping. In the past month, many people would not hesitate to send money to the people of Cao's House of Merchant just to have a chance for themselves. In terms of land transportation, due to the price competition of traditional escort agencies, it was not so fast for a while.

Prince Hagen and a few people who wanted to fight against Li Cong have done a lot of bad things during this period of time. They joined forces with some people from the Cao Gang to give Li Cong's inland waterway ships a little bit more power, but they They have suffered enough, they never thought that Li Cong's fleet is all traveling in large formations, and it is not so easy to pretend to be water thieves or something, if they hire experts to commit crimes, they will probably It can be seen at a glance that they also want to use local officials to stop them, but Prince Hagen's power is not that great, and the other three are even less so. Their interception plan took less than a month. Time is a waste of time and money. In the end, Prince Hagen had to say, let's stop this matter. We have no ability to stop the rise of Cao's House of Commerce. Cao's House of Commerce is already a huge monster in the Western Empire.

The rise of the Cao's House of Merchant also allowed their business to rapidly expand. Many merchants in the Western Empire who had ships began to feel depressed at this time. How could they understand the secrets inside the Cao's House of Trade? It runs so fast, it seems to be no different from ours from the outside, but why can they run? When there is no wind, they run faster than us when there is wind. Such a thing It's not logical at all. How did these guys do it? They don't understand this matter, but their reaction is indeed the fastest. Now they are ready to sell their ships, and their ships are all worn out Yes, so they can’t be sold for a few dollars, but their procedures are very valuable. Now the ships of Imperial Shipping are fixed and will not increase easily, so their procedures are all valuable. At that time, there were only a hundred ships for sale, and there were more and more. Dai Lin also felt that the money in his hand was not enough, so he hurriedly asked Li Cong to send him the money.

Good guy, they offer a price of 600,000 taels of silver for a ship. If the ship is good for a million, you can get it, and the hundred and ten ships can be settled. There are tens of thousands of ships, and this amount of money is definitely not a small amount. It's no wonder that Dai Lin didn't have enough money. Li Cong's instructions also came when he bought 5,000 ships. Because we didn't have so many deals, we stopped buying. We bought twice a year regularly, and all If it is purchased through an auction, this auction is not a high price, but a low price. All people who have passed the inspection can enter. The low price is 600,000 taels of silver, and the price is reduced by 5,000 taels each time. . At the beginning, many people felt that Li Cong was joking. They have never heard of such a thing. Most people have been to the auction, but they are all asking high prices, and they have never heard of asking low prices. Even Dai Lin felt that no one would participate in this method. But Li Cong also gave this guy a gesture of peace of mind. These people still have some work to do now, so naturally they are not in a hurry to sell the boats in their hands, but when they have no work, they will have to support nearly fifty people on each boat. At that time, maybe they will sell 400,000 silver, otherwise they will not be able to live. Maybe in a few months, there will be only 300,000, and there may be 200,000. Time and the market have the final say, you are not willing to sell? I don't want to buy it yet.

Although it has already done enough damage, in order to speed up the acquisition, Li Cong immediately discussed with the royal family of the Western Empire for a long time. The royal family of the Western Empire can obtain an annual consulting fee of 3 billion silver on the condition that one , They want to set up a quality inspection department to test some ships on the river, and let some not-so-good ship owners replace their ships within a time limit, otherwise the empire will take back the license plate, which will put those who hold the ship The boss was frightened. In the past, they hoped to keep the ship to see if it could be sold at a high price in the future. They thought that as long as they could hold it, they could sell it well in the future. Now the empire Such a law has been introduced, and they have nothing to do. If they don’t sell it, they will have to spend at least hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a new boat. If there is a significant return on investment, they will naturally do that, but Looking at it now, there is absolutely no such thing. Although there are not many people in the Imperial Quality Inspection Center, they are very good at making troubles. They are all noble children. They will definitely ask Li Cong for hundreds of thousands of silver notes. For those who do things, Li Cong said that as long as they can exchange a ship for a new one, they will immediately give them 3,000 taels of silver. Such a ship on the Red River must cost a million and one hundred thousand. Isn't this a fortune? Money that is unimaginable in a lifetime, everyone works very hard, not to mention forcing you to sell your sons and daughters, that's the same thing. For a while, these ship owners are all chickens and dogs jump.

These noble children may not be very good at other things. Of course, this matter is not absolute. Look, what they did in the Imperial Prosecutor's Office is very good. Those who participated in the Li Cong auction on the first day The number of people increased from 6,000 to 15,000, and the second auction house had to be opened the next day. In half a year, Li Cong controlled more than 80% of the shipping on the Red River. These noble children It would take at least five years for Li Cong to complete this task without their help, and it may not be so good. Within half a year, the shipping can be as fast as the airship. They are neck and neck, and even better than airships. This is something Li never expected. Those thousands of noble children also have what they need. Among them, the one with the least money has to have hundreds of thousands of silver. There are at least thousands of people who take Li Cong's one hundred thousand silver. These people can be regarded as having established a good cooperative relationship with Li Cong, and each of them can be said to have benefited a lot. I also put in a lot of hard work for the first time. When I was on rty planet, Li Cong understood very well how important it is to bring these noble children into his camp. Now it has really been realized. Very good.

The Cao Gang can be said to be the most damaged organization because of this incident. If it were not for the friendship between Li Cong and the Great Elder before, it is estimated that they might really have a fight with Li Cong. I personally went to the Western Empire to discuss the future with the Great Elder. The Great Elder knew Li Cong, and he knew very well what would happen to this matter. He knew Li Cong's character very well, and he would definitely give himself an explanation. In the past, many court officials came to the Cao Gang to discuss future matters with the Great Elder. They all hoped that they could rely on the Great Elder’s Cao Gang to curb Li Cong’s development of strength, but the Great Elder rejected them. On this day, the senior officials of the Cao Gang saw Li Cong's airship slowly approaching, and they were envious in their hearts. It was said that they were still in the Northern Empire a few days ago, and now they are in the Western Empire. Such a thing was never thought of before. Dare to think, if it is from the Western Empire to the Northern Empire, it will take a few months at the fastest. If it is in the farthest place between the two empires, it is very possible for a few years. Relying on yourself It may be impossible for my legs to go to the other side in my life. Now that I have the airship, I can do this in ten days. This kind of speed is really unprecedented. I can achieve today's achievements , is also someone else's ability.

Things like the Cao Gang can be said to be non-governmental organizations, or they can be said to be an unofficial organization that is close to the official. Now Li Cong's main purpose of coming here is to want the Cao Gang to cooperate with him, and to wipe out the Cao Gang in one fell swoop. It’s impossible. The Cao Gang’s family has a big business. Although there were many problems before, the influence still exists. During this period of time, there are a few opponents of the Cao Gang who want to replace them. No preparations are necessary. They were all dumbfounded, and they didn't know what to do with this matter. They knew Cao Gang, but they didn't know Cao's House, but they all knew Cao Ke's name. It is clear that what two tenth-level fighters can't do, they can do it. Such people are not ordinary powerful, can they provoke them? So those guys started to retreat one by one, and they didn't do anything to the Cao Gang, because now the inland waterway shipping is not in the hands of the Cao Gang, even if they risked one or another to solve the Cao Gang, but in the end they can What happened? You can't get anything, so Cao Ke can be said to be the savior of the Cao Gang. (To be continued..)