Section 2123 Sanctions

On the saber side, Ersha's skills are indeed no joke. He solved the bandits here in a few strokes. Everyone in the village is very grateful to him, and Ersha also sent a lot to the bandits. Those who are rich, have thousands of taels of silver. When this guy brought the people and money from the village to his village, they were surprised to find that there were some people who were more bandits than bandits in the village. The local army of the Southern Empire.

The army of the Southern Empire is divided into the local army and the forbidden army. The forbidden army is rarely seen in places like them. These local troops are the ones you see the most in normal times. These people don’t usually come to such a place. My cousin came from a small village, and my cousin took a look at these troops. They are still on the mountain at this time, and have not returned to the village. The last time the local army came here was several years ago. They are too poor, and there is no way that any powerful people will take a fancy to this place. Their coming here can only show one thing, that is, they have caused trouble in the city. "Fiction" novel chapters are updated the fastest

"Second idiot, you can't go back. They are already here. Take these people to the place where the bandits were just now. You can clean up there. I'll go back and see if I can get rid of everyone in the family." Come out, take the money with me, I’ll make some money and I’m sure I’ll be able to get by, isn’t that guy also giving money to the local army, I don’t believe they don’t love money.” Cousin glanced at the people below Said, this kind of thing is probably done like this, there is no other way but to do this, fortunately they got a lot of money just now. If they don't have this money, they can't even do anything about it. They don't need hundreds of local troops just to catch one person, right? Although the cousin was puzzled, he would not be able to come back if he went down by himself, but he would not be able to live in the mountains with these people. Ersha is different, he has his own abilities and a kind heart , They can live in the mountains, he glanced at his fiancée, this is really a lot of hardships.

"Cousin, that's not okay. They didn't come here because of the money. If you go down to Keneng, you won't be able to come back. You see, some of them are in the village, but they are starting to search. Let's take a look on the mountain. No. Anyway, if they can't find us, they won't do anything to other people." Ersha glanced at the bottom and said. What he thought was that he might as well go down and have a look when it got dark for a while. If the King of Assassins was here, the hundreds of local troops below would really be no match for them. He could make all the people below lose their heads without knowing it. This is his ability, but now he doesn't have such ability, but he can't let his cousin just go there and die, can he? Now the saber has begun to slowly awaken, and he always feels a little pleasure when he encounters a murder. Such things make him feel very helpless. On the one hand, he feels that he is a Good guy, but on the other hand, he felt that he didn't seem to have so much bloodthirsty, which was really a bit contradictory.

"Okay, why are you like a girl? Now it's not time for us to choose. Don't you look at what time it is now. If they can't find a few people in the village, we Even in the mountains there are not many good days,

Besides, there are our relatives in the village. I have to go back. It’s useless for me to stay here. Anyway, I have some connections over the years. With your money, it’s still possible to save my life anyway. You Remember, no matter what kind of situation you encounter, you can only go back if I come to you in person, otherwise" when my cousin wanted to say something, he was directly knocked out by Ersha, and my cousin still wanted to say something. He thought he could be a hero once, but this time he didn't become a hero or something, and was directly killed by Ersha. I haven't been through the door yet, but these girls are all extroverts, Ersha patted his head silly.

"Second idiot, is there something wrong with your brain? Why did you hit him?" There are those people with poor brains who have been looking at this side, and it's nothing wrong.

"If I don't knock this guy out, he will have to go down and be killed by those people later on. Okay, just like what my cousin said, you all go to the mountain behind and don't come back. I'll go down and see Look, even if there is something to do, it’s useless if there are too many people. How much of my ability is still possible. Didn’t I kill those bandits? You just go there honestly, and I will tell you the news Yes, after you go back, don’t come here to inquire about the news. If they really find out, our life will not be so easy. Maybe these guys will search the mountains one by one. It's not easy, okay, I'll go first." The guy glanced at his cousin who was lying on the ground, and the elder sister shook her head at him, expressing that it was all right, and he opened his mouth again, revealing A piece of white tooth, down.

In fact, they guessed wrong this time. They really caused a lot of trouble in the county, but that incident was basically nothing. He definitely cannot dispatch the people in the army. Each of these people in the army is very precious, unless it is a war, or your background is very strong, otherwise they will never appear in the army People from the Cao family came to help you with your private work. If this is found out, it will be a matter of losing your head. No one can afford this responsibility. They are also related to the people from Cao's House, so they will be recruited. The Southern Empire has already decided to wage an all-out war with the people of the Cao Family Firm, and it will definitely call for conscription. The number of these soldiers now feels a bit insufficient, and a large-scale conscription is needed. What they didn't expect was that they were going to be with them. They all thought it was their own business. Normally, the conscription would be based on personal preference. You can go or not, but now the national crisis is at the forefront, if you don’t go, the people above will have a lot of things to say to you, if you want you to go, otherwise you will be unpatriotic, those people It's not good for people to fight against keneng with Cao's house, but it's okay for them to put a hat on you. This is what they are best at.

This small mountain village was very quiet in the past, not to mention the people in the army. Even the yamen servants in the county town didn't come much. It's really because this place is not the object of renmen's attention at all, and there is nothing useful to go out here, but now the order of the imperial court has come down, as long as it is a person in this age group. As long as you are not disabled. You have to go to the army for me. The imperial court stipulated that the army should be expanded by 2 billion, which means that one out of every 100 people in the Southern Empire should be a soldier, and this ratio is not very high. It’s only one percent, but this is not the same as before. They have done things to this level, of course, many people don’t want to go, so there will be polysaccharides everywhere, you run around that’s No, but your family members are not so lucky. As long as you are caught, you will have a hard time. If you are either beaten or killed, soldiers are not willing to do this, but if you don’t If so, they have keneng who will be killed. This is also the task pressed down by the above, isn't it? They are also helpless.

Now the more than 200 people in the village began to call people according to the names on the roster, and they found ten people. It is said that there must be more than 30 people in this village of more than 300 people. Now there are only three One, they definitely won't leave, they have caused the whole village to suffer, but they didn't find the person they were looking for, and the guy who brought them here also said that most of the people in this village are in Keneng Those who hunt in the mountains usually take a long time to come back, so the chief of the army decided that it would be a waste of time if they went back, why not just stay here at Takeshita, and see what the people here are like. Where did they go, it would be best if they could come back, then just take them with them, but if they can’t come back, some of the old, weak, sick and disabled in this village will see them, and they have to be called All of them are good-looking.

This is just one aspect. In fact, the large-scale conscription within the Southern Empire has already begun, but the frontline areas are more intense. Now they also have soldiers that are their lives, and everyone wants to hurry up. To strengthen one's own army, the imperial court directly gave some warlords below a lot of rights, so that they can instantly strengthen their own strength to resist the attack of Hell Cao's House, but there will also be a disadvantage, that is Keneng will expand the power of these generals. It is not easy to look at them in the end. It will not be a good thing for the Southern Empire. They may eventually have Keneng who will rise up to resist ,by that time

The imperial court of the Eastern Empire, the special envoys from the Western Empire and the Northern Empire have already arrived here, and they all began to discuss this matter. They need to discuss an effective plan. This time they saw the strength of the Cao Family Firm , I also saw the decay of the feudal dynasty. If they can't make progress, in the next hundred years, Keneng and others will be eaten by the people of Cao's business. This is definitely a matter of Keneng, Cao What the people from the Cao family business can do, can be seen from the performance of the Cao family business this time. They are no longer satisfied with one place. What they want is to occupy the land. What does this mean? It shows that they are going to establish a country. If you guess correctly, the fifth empire on this continent will appear, and Keneng is four empires, that is, one empire will be wiped out. Originally, the people of the Southern Empire also want to They came to participate in this event, but people from the three empires closed their doors to discuss this matter. They had other plans, and some keneng would drop the Southern Empire in exchange for a certain amount of time. In short, this meeting was very secret.

"Everyone, I won't say too much. Everyone knows the current situation. According to the latest news, Cao's House has prepared an attacking army of about 6 million to 10 million people. The Southern Empire's side The second line of defense that was pieced together was said to be able to defend for three months, but now it seems that it is impossible to keneng. Most people already feel that they will fail. What we need to discuss is how to deal with this Things. We can’t sit still. Cao’s House has grown to the point where we’re surprised. We should have killed them when they were transferring things. Now it’s the last time, no How should we deal with this matter." The prime minister of the Eastern Empire said that the current matter is related to the survival of the three empires, so the participants of the meeting sent by the imperial court are all on the basis of specifications, although they may not be able to express their opinions immediately, but General matters can be resolved, it can also be said that they are plenipotentiary ambassadors. Everything they do is very reliable. I didn't ask some related households to come in, because they all knew very well that a related household is just a related household, and it's useless after they come in. Now is not the time to waste time.

"Is the Southern Empire really going to die this time? I don't think that's the case. Our four major empires have existed on this continent for such a long time. It is said that although those people have disappeared, but our here The news is still possible. They seem to have gone to a world of strong people. That place should be on this planet. As for where we are gone, if we can contact our ancestors, the Cao Family Firm is really not a big deal What, but what should we do now?" The prime minister of the Western Empire also said that the Western Empire has the same relationship with the Cao Family Firm because of Prince Zheng's relationship, but when it is related to their own life and death, some things can be closed. Just like it is now, the relationship between the Western Empire and Li Cong was not very good in the early days, but the two sides are deliberately maintaining it. Basically, the relationship is not as good as it used to be.

that place? When everyone heard this title, their faces showed some respect. That place is a holy place of their four empires. According to legend, anyone in their empire who has reached the tenth level of fighters can go to that place. Their history Some very powerful people who appear on the Internet seem to have gone to that place, but there is basically no news about that place. Generally, when the empire is alive or dead, some very powerful people will appear in that place. Will it appear this time? The devil who appeared last time should be from that place, but there was no such person in that place last time, which means that the people there don’t care about the devil’s affairs. The head is not yet at that level. Indeed, if it is really done, the devil should not be enough to watch, but there are not enough devils, and the Cao's House should be enough. Should the people in the Cao's House be killed? ? What standard do the people there have? Their formal standards are nobody's.

"Let's not talk about that place, what about us? There is no way to decide what the people there are like. We have to use some of our skills to curb the Cao's house. Should we All the industries related to Cao's House of Commerce in the empire are closed. If this is the case, I think the people in Cao's House of Trade should feel restricted, but in this way, our losses will also be great. If it causes the entire Will we survive the financial crisis of the empire?" Xiangguo of the Northern Empire said, among the economies of the four empires, the Northern Empire has the closest connection with the Cao Family Commercial Bank, and of course they owe the Cao Family Commercial Bank The country with the most money, if it can get rid of these debts in an all-round way, yes, of course, they have to get over this economic crisis, and if they can't get through, this matter can be played.

"I don't agree with this matter. Although the economic strength of our Eastern Empire is relatively strong, officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have done a drill. If we really do that, there is one result that is the most important Yes, that is, the credibility of our imperial court will be lost. Just look at the Southern Empire now. Because the Southern Empire has canceled all the debts with Cao's House of Firms, no one asks about some bonds of the Southern Empire court at all. , It’s the same as garbage. Those things are useless at all. We will need to borrow money in the future. Don’t we use that? For us, the gain outweighs the loss, and the most important thing is Cao’s House People can retreat quickly, how many space rings do they have, and those things can quickly transfer their assets. The people of Cao's House have gained a lot of money over the years, and they are much richer than us , if we close the trade with them. The most powerful one is grain. In recent years, more than 50% of the grain on the mainland has been supplied by the people of Cao's firm. Many of our people are no longer farming. , I don’t know what’s going on with you, if the grain trade between our Eastern Empire and the Cao’s Commercial Bank stops, we will at least starve to death tens of billions of people this year, so we really are,” the prime minister of the Eastern Empire said helplessly, In fact, it is useless to talk about economic sanctions now. In the end, the people of Cao's House of Commerce did not do much harm, but they were all depressed. These people will lose a lot in the end. This proposal was stillborn in the words of the Prime Minister of the Eastern Empire.

"We've been fooled by Cao's House over the years. When we encountered such cheap food, we started to import it. Our own domestic production has dropped a lot. If we hadn't been tempted by this at the beginning If so. Now we don’t need to be controlled by others at all. If this doesn’t work, we will consider the next method. In short, the Southern Empire cannot be broken through the next line of defense again. If that is the case, in the hearts of our common people, they will think that the Cao family The firm is invincible. It will be useless for us to build anything at that time. Now the failed Southern Empire will become ours. All of these are things with keneng. We have to guard against it. We must send troops Can it be done?” said the prime minister of the Northern Empire, originally it was economic aid, but the tax revenues of the three empires that have been obtained by the economic invasion of the Cao’s Commercial Bank over the years have been controlled by the people of the Cao’s Commercial Bank. It’s okay to borrow money to do other things, but if you borrow money to support the Southern Empire, how can the people in Cao’s House agree? At that time, not only would they not be able to help the people in the Southern Empire, but they would put themselves in financial crisis. Whether they could survive on their own side would be a big deal.

"We have already told Cao's House and the Southern Empire that we are all neutral. If we rashly go to support the Southern Empire, it must not be such a simple matter. The people of the Southern Empire naturally hope that this is the case. , but if we are caught by the people of Cao's House, their navy will be idle, and then they will come to our coast for a while, and they will retreat in an all-round way afterwards. What can we do with them? ? After all, we don’t have a navy comparable to theirs. In the vast sea, we must be at a disadvantage. We have to provide assistance secretly. At this time, we see that the Southern Empire must be quite a lot in number. What they lack It is probably something like a weapon, which consumes a lot on the battlefield, and we can also send some slaves in our country to them, so that they can go to the front to undertake some unimportant tasks." Xi The prime minister of the empire thought for a while and said, other people feel that this method is right, it can help the people of the Southern Empire, and it can prevent the people of the Cao family business from becoming very hostile to him. After all, we have not directly participated in this. It's a war, and you can't catch us anyway.

"There is one more thing we can do, and that is to use some obstacles to Cao's House within the territory of our empire. Although we can't close some of their places, we can raise the prices of some strategic materials. That way In other words, Cao's House of Commerce will spend more money to do this, and it can be regarded as indirectly supporting the battlefield of the Southern Empire. Although it may not be of great effect, we have worked hard, and how many people on the battlefield will It has shown some effects, especially the horses of the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. They all want to adopt horses from your two empires. There must be a lot of them. You can build two cavalry legions on a large scale, just say Just go with this slogan. I think the price of this horse will increase by at least 15%. This amount does not seem to be much, but Cao's Commercial Bank purchases between 2 million and 3 million every month. Yes, based on the price of 1,000 taels of silver for a horse, they will spend billions of silver more every month. This method can also be used in other aspects, so that Cao's Commercial Bank will spend tens of millions more every month. Tens of billions of silver, although it’s nothing to the people of Cao’s House of Commerce, can be regarded as a solution we can do.” A staff officer of the Eastern Empire said that their solution can only be to give trouble to the people of Cao’s House of Commerce. It's itchy, the big solution is basically nothing, because that's all they can think of, and the extra billions of silver is really nothing to Cao's house, their silver is better than stones. There are many.

"The other one is road transportation. Their bulk goods are transported everywhere. Not all of them are transported by airships. We can support some more powerful bandits and so on. When they used to Naturally, they don't dare to provoke the goods of Cao's House, but now they are supported by the imperial court? That's how courageous Keneng is. If they don't dare, we will bring their heads. How dare they then? We have all of them. Of course, Cao’s House’s guards are very powerful. We don’t expect them to do much. As long as we can hate some of them in terms of time, it’s enough. After all, these people are mobs. When necessary, we can also let our soldiers dress up as bandits to do this. If the time comes, the soldiers and the bandits will have nothing to do even if Cao’s House of Firms pursues them. At most, we will just lose some soldiers. If there is a delay in one place, then After a while, or destroying a little bit, the sum of the sum is quite a lot. The people of Cao's House will feel some trouble." A guy from the Western Empire came up with such a bad idea from nowhere. Back then, a big empire like theirs would definitely not do such a thing. In their view, this was a low-level thing, but now as long as it is someone who can deal with Cao's house, they will use any method.

"In addition, we can also borrow a lot from the people of Cao's Commercial Bank to repair some of our projects, so that we can recruit a large number of young people across the country, so that the people of Cao's Commercial Bank can't find help to work Coolies, this can be regarded as dragging them back. At that time, we can give some untouchables the qualifications of ordinary residents. For those people, the qualifications of a commoner are more than thousands of taels of silver. People in the commercial bank have nothing to do except to get money out. We have this advantage because we represent a country. If we want you to be good, you can be good, and if you want you to be bad, you can be bad. Especially for those untouchables, this is what they dream of. For those slaves, what they want is to turn their children into ordinary people. Only a thousand of them have such a chance. It is enough to improve this opportunity, and there is no need to turn so many slaves into ordinary people. This is also a pressure on society, as long as they can see some hope, so that they will choose the imperial court. So what if they have money, not Cao’s business?” The Xiangguo of the Eastern Empire also proposed a method. The one with the greatest combat potential has been suppressed. Although other methods are also effective, they are definitely not as good as the one in front of you. The one in front of you can be said to have an immediate effect.

"Actually, after the war started, there were some situations that were beneficial to us. According to our situation, the turnover of the trading house and the bank of Cao's Commercial Bank have dropped a lot. Many of them saw that the Southern Empire directly canceled it." The business of the Cao’s House of Merchant Bank has been interrupted, which makes many people wait and see. They all feel that the banknotes in their hands are useless. Although they can be exchanged for silver within our three empires, who would travel so far? They I am also afraid that the Three Great Empires will also disqualify the Cao Family Commercial Bank, but we will not do that. If we do that, the Cao Family Commercial Bank will make a lot of money. They have been circulating banknotes over the years. The hard currency is all in their hands, and they will not admit it at that time. In fact, this matter is considered a failure of the Southern Empire, and he himself has lost a lot. We can do this, for example, Limiting the amount of one person's exchange can also have the effect of curbing the popularity of banknotes. Of course, we can't just target the banknotes of Cao's Commercial Bank. If you find an excuse to talk to us about this matter, we can set such a limit on the bank notes across the country. There is only one limit per day. Although it will temporarily affect the economic circulation to a certain extent, it will also affect the Cao family. The paper currency of the commercial bank will have a considerable influence." These people still have a lot of ideas if they want to trip up the people of Cao's Commercial Bank, just like now, they all speak freely.

"However, there is one business that we can't do no matter what we can do. That is the medicine business and wine of Cao's House of Merchant. Those luxury goods are like corals in the sea. In the past, an empire could only There are a few, but now Cao’s House of Merchant sells a lot of those things, as well as Wujin, it’s all because the Southern Empire wanted to occupy it privately at the beginning. If we all communicate with us, that Cao may not be able to get so much. Wujin’s, we can’t stop these things. If heavy taxes are imposed, the Cao’s House of Commerce will immediately pass the cost on to the common people. At that time, they will say that the reason for the price increase is actually the increase in taxation by the empire. The reason. It has nothing to do with them. In this way, the hatred of the renmen will definitely increase to the head of the imperial government, and Cao's firm can still earn a lot of sympathy points. This is not beneficial to us "A group of conspirators discussed how to deal with Cao's firm in the main hall, but what they didn't expect was that. Cao's firm has already started to deal with them. And if they hit them directly, they had no room to fight back.

Cao's firm also has its own methods for the other three empires. When the war started, the decision-making leadership of Cao's Commercial Bank had already thought of this. The people from their three empires would definitely not just stay so honest, and these people would definitely want to do some small tricks behind their backs. So it is necessary to keep them from being idle, so that the actions of the people of Cao's House in the Southern Empire will not be affected. It is right to think about it this way. If you blindly defend, the matter may not be resolved. Only the first attack will happen. Disrupting the enemy's deployment is the most defensive method. Before they even walked out of the main hall of the Eastern Empire, Cao's firm's counterattack has arrived. Didn't you say that food is your biggest shortcoming? , now I will make a little noise for you.

This morning is the same as other mornings, the sun still rises at the original position, everyone still wakes up at the original time, one by one goes out to do their own things, few people will notice Cao's House The sign hanging outside the grain store, because they basically buy grain for a month at the beginning of the month or at the end of the month. After all, no one will buy this thing every day, unless it is those who do Small workers receive money once a day. If Keneng has money, he can buy it for a month at once, so they go there every three or two days, and then they come to the county to do business like their cousin. When they are in the country, they buy it whenever they come, and they don’t pick any special days. In their opinion, any day is the same. This is because the grain of Cao’s House has never changed. The price is the official price of 15 Wen every day. No matter what happens, there is no price increase or price reduction. This is one of the reasons why other grain stores can’t do it. When there is a bumper harvest, they can reduce the price. Yes, but they can only check the price with Cao's Commercial Bank. If it is lower, they will have no profit. When the year is not very good, they still need to increase the price, but if you exceed 15 Wen When the money is a catty, basically no one will come to you to buy grain. Over the years, not many grain stores in the four empires have closed. The grain of the Southern Empire can still pass this year, mainly because This kind of thing is distributed in various branches of Cao's Commercial Bank, and it is not very valuable. They didn't take it with them when they retreated. They got a lot of food, but it was only half a year. What would they do if they ran out of food? In fact, Cao's House of Firms wants to maintain its current posture. After half a year, the Southern Empire will come to take the initiative to seek peace. They can't let their tens of billions of people starve to death. In that case, the territory of the Southern Empire will become hell's.

An old man who was strolling on the street was about to go to the most lively place in the city to listen to storytelling. It was said over there that the war between the Southern Empire and Cao's House had already begun, and those storytellers got it from others. After a little news, I started to show off. Although most of what I said was not true, it was already very important for people in this era. They also like to use this way to get some news. Sometimes , many people stay there for a long time, what they want there is to be able to discuss something together, it seems to be able to show that scholars like themselves care about national affairs, so that those who cannot read will If you think highly of yourself, what's wrong with being rich? But you are uneducated.

The old man inadvertently glanced at the notice board of Cao's House. If there are many people, he would go over and read it. The feeling of talking to a dozen people without talking is absolute, but today he almost didn't I can see my eyeballs, mother, what? price increase? Food prices have risen, but food has been at this price for several years, and everyone is familiar with it, what? Because of the tense war with the Southern Empire, grain transportation is not coming in, so the sales volume is limited every day, and the price is increased to 20 yuan a catty, and each person is limited to ten catties a day. As for when the price will return to the original price, that must be done. This price can only be resolved after the war with the Southern Empire is resolved. Not only the grain business, but other goods related to the Cao's business have begun to increase in price. As for those luxury goods, the price has increased even more , some just doubled directly, but those are nothing to ordinary people. Anyway, rich people have plenty of money. Spending 1 million taels of silver and 2 million taels of silver is no different to them, but it is nothing to ordinary people. It’s different. Although it’s only a price increase of 5 yuan, many families who used to eat white noodles every month have changed their main business. At least one person in a family of four will eat some mixed noodles. Otherwise, this month There is Keneng who will not be able to make it through.

The old man saw the limited sales above, this is not a joke, and now he doesn't go there for a stroll, the things Mr. Storyteller said don't seem to have much to do with him, it's the food that has something to do with him I don't care what Cao's house is doing with the Southern Empire, but if I can't buy food, I will starve. This is an urgent matter, and we must do it quickly. If you don't say anything, you can see this matter. The old man hurried home to get the bag with sudu twice as fast as when he came here. At this time, there are many people who have seen the news like him (to be continued continued...)