Section 2128 Redemption

"Hehe, it costs 500,000 taels of silver a week, and it's just going out to deceive people. This price is really not low, but I can still afford this price. I can see that the people on your side are all He worked hard, there is no problem with money or anything, the most important thing is that it can be put into use as soon as possible, now that this thing is manufactured, what do you think I will use it for?" Li Cong looked at Bai Er and said, this At that time, the two of them had already walked out of the place just now. After hearing Li Cong's words, the followers of Bai Er hurried out one by one. Although they were all people who had taken the genetic medicine, Sometimes it’s better not to know something. The best way to keep a secret is to know as few people as possible. They are all people who work at the bottom, and there is nothing wrong without them, so They all understand what their situation is, and it is better not to hear such words. It is a conversation between high-level people. It is better not to listen to people like them. Bai Er was also puzzled when he heard Li Cong's words. Aren't these things intended to create magicians? The idea of ​​creating magicians is naturally an invasion of the magicians union. It can be said that so far, there is a little bit of mystery on the entire continent that is the people of the magicians union. If it weren't for their tight organization and the fact that magicians are too rare, people from the Cao's House would probably be able to get in, but now all the people who get in are doing things like servants, so there is no news at all. . watermark ad test watermark ad test

"Boss, I don't quite understand what you mean. Didn't you tell me before that we have encountered a bottleneck in all aspects of development now? We have no way to expand. Now the only way is to deal with magicians People from the trade union have attacked, but the magician union has such an iron law. That is, if you are not a magician, no matter how smart or important you are, you are a peripheral member, and you will never be able to enter their core area. Now is it possible? Has it changed to another purpose?" Bai Er's mind was also wandering very quickly. But he still felt that the gap between himself and Li Cong was too great. Li Cong didn't know what Li Cong was thinking, just like the base in front of him. When I heard Li Cong's idea at the beginning, my first thought was that the boss's brain seemed to be abnormal, and he even thought that he could create a magician. Could this be produced in batches? If so. How can the magician guilds of the four empires sit on an equal footing with the royal families of the four empires? Look at the master magicians outside, which one is not the one who puts his nostrils in front of him? An absolute noble, even those in the royal family are not in their eyes, because of what? There is only one reason. Because he is a magician, one of the rare magicians in the world, that one reason is enough, as for some other things, there is no need to say it at all. This is where the arrogance of magicians lies, and it is also the source of their self-confidence.

"Hehe, in fact, you should be able to guess it, but if you haven't guessed it, I'll tell you that it's okay. Up to now, our Cao's Commercial Bank is just like what you said, we have reached a bottleneck , many times the expansion we want to continue is either inappropriate here or wrong there, and I also feel that the people below are also a little confused. They are all fighting for the future of Cao's firm, but now they have They have reached their goal, and even surpassed it a lot, so many people don't know what to do. What I have to do now is to give them a direction.

Although the main forces of our Cao's Commercial Bank have also extended to some places such as the county seat, generally speaking, some of the forces in the county seat are very large, and they are all powerful local stocks. Looking at it, it’s not very good, but if they all unite, even some large-scale forces in the province may not be their opponents. After all, they are all local snakes, but if we can organize it, the If all these scattered things are united, I believe it will have a great impact on the major empires, but you can't come to the door and talk about it with others, it can only be discussed after the people on both sides have a relationship. Yes, it is not so easy for ordinary people to have a relationship with them, but if a magician appears at your door, it will be completely different. Who doesn’t want to have something to do with a magician, even if it’s just seeing It's something that can be praised once, not to mention that people will come to your house to make friends with you, so you can't find yourself happy. "Li Cong expressed his thoughts.

Bai Er on the side digested this thing in the fastest time, which took about five minutes. If Wu Zuoxi came, this time may be shortened a lot, but what Li Cong pursues is that he cannot Putting all apples in one basket, now Wu Zuoxi has entered the core layer, even better than people like Bai Er. Many large-scale decisions are made by him, so Li never I am going to continue to hand over this matter to Wu Zuoxi. Although there is no sign of opposing him from now on, it is hard to say about this matter in society. If I leave everything to him, this guy will The power that can be controlled will be great. People have their own rights and interests. If it really grows, if it is not pruned properly, there will definitely be some tragedies. Li Cong wants to grow it now. What he did was not to give Wu Zuoxi that chance, and not allow such a person to rebel against him. Of course, Li Cong also hoped that Wu Zuoxi would not have this idea in his life, otherwise he could not blame himself.

Bai Er quickly understood what was going on. It turned out that Li Cong wanted to use these fake magicians to become the stepping stones of the major families, and tie them all to the chariots of the Cao family firm. The people in the commercial firm will lose part of their profits, but they can also quickly separate their own people. Now they need people on their side. If they can hand over some less important transactions to these people, then there will be more If a magician is the guarantor, there must be no problem, but Bai Er saw Li Cong's eyes and felt that he had seen it somewhere, as if he was a beast.

"Boss. Only you can come up with this plan. If this thing can really be done, our power will penetrate more quickly in the major empires. At that time, we will not only have some power on the surface. Some dark forces will also develop. Sometimes these forces can help us a lot. For example, a capable person in a county is nothing. But if they all gather together, they are probably the county magistrate I won't offend them easily, you mean we want to develop some unofficial forces? Use magicians as a cover to matchmaking. Create an underground network that can compete with the government?" Li Cong's plan was fully told, and these things were compiled bit by bit. It can be said that if all Li Cong's lies are completed, it will definitely bring Cao's House to a higher level. At the time, it was these seemingly insignificant forces, but if they were all connected, this would be a huge cake. Now Li Cong is aiming at this huge cake, but before that, he still needs to control the cost well. Looking at the ledger in Bai's second hand, Li Cong also feels that the cost of this base is a bit high . Although the future is very bright, if you can control it a little bit, it will be better.

"Basically the whole plan is what you said, but there are some places that need to be treated differently, and some local laws must be complied with. If we can't follow some local trends, our plan may die prematurely. Yes, sometimes these things are very important. By the way, tell me about your situation here. If it is mass-produced, how long will it take to provide me with the first batch of magicians? What I want is just now That kind, I can't see that it is a man-made magician, and I believe those people in the Magician's Union will definitely not be able to see it. How much money has been spent on this one since it came in, I have to have something in my heart. Number, we must know that we will definitely train a large number of magicians in the future, and we have to conceal the identity of a magician for them. Now it can be said that there will not be a magician in the entire empire for a year. It's hard to come out. If we appear so many at once, it will also arouse others' suspicion. If someone with a heart investigates, this matter may be exposed at any time. At that time, our Cao family The business will have fun. At that time, the magician unions of the four empires will look at us. No matter how we explain it, it will be useless. I feel that their combat effectiveness is stronger than the four empires. This war In the future, we will not be afraid of people from the Four Great Empires, and they will understand our power, but we should be more careful about the Magician Union." Li Cong thought of some horrors inside the Magician Union Characters, I'm actually a little scared in my heart. These guys are all indistinguishable. Who knows their real strength. Some people haven't shown up in society for a long time. This one One's hidden strength is very powerful.

Speaking of expenses, Bai Er is not someone who has never seen money before. From the beginning of Li Cong's business to the present, we have never seen how much money is. Any first-level manager of Cao's Commercial Bank has hundreds of billions of dollars in his hands. The money is flowing, and now the money in his hand is in the trillions, but this plan is so money-consuming, which he did not expect. He first took out a ledger, first of all, there are more than 300 people here, each The salary Moonlight gave them was 30 million taels of silver. After the money was given to them, they would do nothing and have to give some things to their families. Sometimes the cost would increase, just like this month The money on them alone is 40 million taels of silver. When Li Cong saw this figure, he felt nothing. It’s still as much money as a month. Besides, these are all magic apprentices, and none of them belong to simple characters. Only one out of a hundred thousand people will come out. Such people give people some relatively expensive salaries. It's nothing, if you give them the salary of ordinary people, it's no wonder they don't leave, but what Bai Er said next made Li Cong no longer have such thoughts, and he also felt that spending money is really great, this It was the first time that Li Cong felt that spending money was a problem, and this had to catch up with Xiao Ao who was eating money back then.

This magic apprentice can't become the same as before after drinking those potions, they still need to transform their bodies, and they need about two months. Because their bodies are only magic apprentices, they can only sense some magic elements, but they don't know how the magic elements flow in their bodies. These all need to rely on some drugs to improve. Even some things on Warcraft, they have to drink about 60 times of various drugs within a month. These medicines cost 200,000 taels of silver each time, and these 60 times are worth 12 million taels of silver. This is just one person, and there are more than 300 people here. This is calculated to be 3.6 billion silver, which is also a monthly expenditure. Just now, I felt that 40 million taels of silver was nothing at all, but now the 3.6 billion silver cannot be regarded as nothing, even Li Cong felt that The expenses are a bit high, not because I feel sorry for the money, but because the number of people is too small. On average, one person costs tens of millions of taels of silver, which may have trained seventh-level fighters in the training camp on the fighter side, but here is a fake magician, to be honest. If it really started to fight, the seventh-level fighter could kill all the 300 fake magicians without panting, but thinking about the social effects of those magicians, he felt that this matter is actually not impossible. Things that fighters can't do, these fake magicians don't seem to have any problems.

This is just the beginning, and the next thing will be even more serious. The potion they drank is 500,000 taels of silver a bottle. If they go out to walk in the rivers and lakes, each of them must carry at least 20 bottles or more. , otherwise it might be seen by others, this is another 10 million taels of silver, and they have to send a team to cooperate with them, and the expenses of these people are quite a lot. Li Cong felt tired. It can be said that the price of each counterfeit magician is more than 50 million taels of silver. Originally, Li Cong wanted to mass-produce it, but now it seems that it is not necessary. Just use these 300 to test the water first, good guy, this is a fucking 15 billion silver, if you pull it all, how much will it be, this plan of mine has not brought me any benefits Well, the 15 billion silver is all gone out. I guess I have such courage in this way of investment. It is estimated that even if the emperors of the four empires are changed, they will never spend so much money to complete this. A matter that has no prospect at all. Of course, if this matter is done well, Cao's House of Firms will rise to several levels in the future. Li Cong directly put his expansion plan on hold. It must be seen Only when the effect can continue to increase, Li Cong is going to let Bai Er quickly put these hundreds of people into practice, otherwise, even if the loss is so much, this experiment has to be closed immediately. After spending money, I can't support myself.

"Bai Er, I also didn't expect that the implementation of this plan would be so difficult. If I guessed that there would be no problem with silver in the past, but now our war is not over, and the people of the other three empires are only on the surface. They were frightened by us. If they don’t do other things, it’s no problem for us to support this research. But if we fail on the battlefield, it is estimated that the other three empires will quickly freeze us. In some industries in various countries, if this happens, we will lose our source of income. The large amount of money we earned in the past cannot be moved casually. This is like a river. If it flows every day, we If you take out some casually, you won't see anything, because it will be replenished soon, but if the river is not flowing, this matter will not be so good. Maybe if we take it out casually, our life will be full. But it’s really difficult, so we must be cautious. The development on your side is good. Later, we will see what kind of people these people can help us contact. Let them release ten people every year and let them be in the The Four Empires apply for the photo of the magician, and other people, just pretend to be first. Anyway, the magician union thinks that they are the best in the world, and no one will pretend to be them. If they are found out, there is no way but Killed them all." Li Cong had a trace of appraisal in his eyes, and there was nothing he could do about it, when a superior person sometimes had to think about how to let his own people die every day. To help myself keep the secret, although I don't like to do it, but I have no other way other than this.

Hearing that it is possible to silence these people, Bai Er also feels uncomfortable. These people treat themselves as treasures. But thinking of the highest interests of Cao's House, this is nothing. These people are all like this, even if they are silenced, it doesn't matter, magic apprentices seem to be high-level people in society. But if a large organization like Cao's Commercial Bank is involved, their lives are nothing. Then the two talked about some other things, which are all improvements to this research base. Some of the things Li Cong proposed The methods are also practical, such as allowing these researchers to have a professional title, rather than a simple system like this. You can let them form their own small group and let them be responsible for the public relations project. Besides, you have to give them some financial assistance. For example, rewards or something, although it is impossible for them to go out, the construction on this island must start quickly, at least it must be a good town, otherwise, the scientists here If time goes by, some bad things will happen. It will be my biggest loss to make these people mentally disturbed. I don't want such a situation to happen. These are all things that need to be paid attention to.

On the frontline battlefield, this incident is basically over. In one night, everything is completely different from yesterday. 1.2 million troops of the Royal Guards Cavalry Corps were captured, and 130,000 died 270,000 people were injured. It can be said that this legion has been disabled, and the remaining people are of little use. Other legions also came out to help. More than 500,000 people were killed and injured, and millions were killed. Prisoner, the crown prince himself was injured, probably because one arm was broken, but it doesn't matter, people like the crown prince can get all kinds of good medicines, these things are not good for others Possibly, he could only live his whole life dragging his mutilated limbs, but it was fine for this person. On the third day after the injury, someone from this capital city brought the medicine over, but what followed There is another imperial decree, which generally means that the court feels that the prince's health is not very good, so there is no need to continue to stay in the front line. It is better to return to the capital. The second prince in the capital is already ready. Come here, he will be the new marshal to lead the three armies. For the crown prince, it would be better if both of his arms were broken. This news is the deadliest news for him. The second prince He has always been a powerful figure in the army, and there is nothing he can do about it. There are not many people who understand military affairs among their brothers, and only the second prince has some skills. Others are not good at all. He came out of nowhere.

The prince knew that he had been defeated this time. After returning to the capital, he must not be the same as before. This time, his failure can be said to be very miserable, and he pushed himself to the opposite of most of the gentry. Because a large number of the sons and brothers of the Southern Empire have died, most of them are their most beloved sons or grandsons, and no one wants such a result. They really want this result. From their point of view, some things are like this. This can also make the people of Cao's firm more fully prepared. The coach of the Southern Empire has not yet come. After this failure, they are even more serious. It will not be easy to come out, and Cao's house has no ability to attack. The war may enter a certain stage of stalemate. Without the transportation of the airship, it will take a week for the second prince of the Southern Empire to reach the front line at the earliest. Come, this Cao’s firm can quickly send more than 2 million troops to the front line during this period of time, and can make itself stronger. Although there is still a huge gap with the Southern Empire, but anyway , this disparity can already be reduced by a lot, and most people in the Southern Empire can know that Cao's House of Commerce is also strengthening itself. Of course, Cao's House of Trade also launched a redemption policy, which is those prisoners of war. , you can buy them back with money. If the ordinary soldiers in the past, they would naturally not be able to sell them. The Southern Empire would not buy them back, nor would the Cao Family Firm sell them. . There is also a reason for this, but these people are different. These people are all children of rich families and can sell money.

For ordinary soldiers. When they were defeated, they lost those ordinary identities. They can only obediently follow the orders from above to become slaves, and the imperial court here will not pay them any money. Besides, even if they were willing to pay the money, the Cao's House of Merchant would not sell it back, because after they go back and put on military uniforms or something, they may immediately have combat effectiveness. This is absolutely unacceptable for the people of Cao's House, and for people of this era, prisoners of war are of no use at all. Those who died in battle can receive the best treatment, but No one cares about those who surrendered. The Cao’s House would spend money to buy them back every time the war ended, but people from the Four Great Empires felt that the people in the Cao’s House were out of their minds. questionable. How could you do such a thing? Could it be that your brain is rusty? These people all have some emotions of failure. What can they do? Of course, this is what Li Cong said. No one can know more about things on the battlefield than prisoners of war. They can't continue to go to the battlefield for the time being, so they can go to the military academy. In the school, they can teach recruits everything about themselves. He is the most competent officer, and Li Cong often told his subordinates that the most important thing is to be alive on the battlefield, and other things are just floating clouds, what kills one's life to become a benevolent, that's bullshit, everyone is dead, victory What's the use of it, even if it is a failure, but as long as people are or, they can make up for it in the future.

But the people of the Royal Guards Cavalry Corps are completely different. Even if the Southern Empire’s court doesn’t give money to these people, their families will certainly give money. Of course, there will be many of them For the eldest son of the eldest son, these people used to have the right to inherit, but now something happened, and they became prisoners of war. Naturally, they will not have the right to inherit after they go back, but the people from Cao's House of Commerce will definitely not let them just like that If they get depressed, there will definitely be some way for them to regain control of the family. Even if they can't become the heir, they can still cause a huge wave in their family. By then, everything will be over, Nan Of course, the empire couldn't see Li Cong's sinister intentions. These families would definitely buy their own people back for their own face. Of course, they didn't buy them back and use them as good people, just to save face That's it, and what Cao's House did not expect is that they all started bidding one by one. Why did your young master bid 700,000 taels of silver? Why is this one of mine only 500,000 taels of silver? What means? Is it because the people from Cao's House look down on people from our family? How can the people in our family be cheaper than those in his family? Does it feel like we are not as good as their family? The young master in our family is not as good as the young master in their family? This kind of thing almost made them fight one by one. Of course, Li Cong didn't know about these things, and these were things that came later.

Things like redemption did not happen before, but they didn’t buy it like this when they bought it. Generally speaking, for example, when a war broke out between the Southern Empire and the Northern Empire, each of the prisoners from the Northern Empire would also have to pay for it. It was brought to the Southern Empire to sell, and the price was the price of a slave, so it was impossible to be much more expensive. The current redemption has surprised the people of the Southern Empire. They all know that the Cao Family Firm Many people can make money, but they never thought that they would make money like this. They all marked their prices clearly. These young masters used to buy and sell people in the slave market. They never thought that they would be the target of being bought and sold one day, and some of them were not even willing to go back to their homes, because they knew that if they went back, they would not have the same days as before. People who know what it is like to be abandoned by the family, even if they live in the family, those days are not the same as before. Many people may not be able to stand the oppression and become not a normal person. It is because they know this very well that they all don't want to go back, but now there is no other way. They often choose passively, just like now, this matter cannot be decided by them, stay That's impossible, because you are a shining gold. At least 50,000 taels of silver can be sold, and more than one million people have been captured, hundreds of billions of silver. Isn't this money profitable?

Just like a young master of the Earl's Mansion. It was his lifelong wish to come to the battlefield. Unlike those in the family, he didn't have so many intrigues in his mind. The things about these people made him look very uncomfortable. Although he is the eldest son, he is a person of low status in the family, but because he has the support of his father. As long as his father is still there, his status will not change in any way, and his father will also consider things for him, that is, let him have a good experience in the front line, and when he goes back, he will have this experience. He will come to take over the earl's title, who knows that something like this is happening now, he is the same as most people. What he thought in his heart was that he might as well die like this. At that time, he still remembered the situation. Many people didn't know what to do. There were airships everywhere in the sky. That kind of thing on the ground is amazing, he can kill dozens of people in one minute, and that kind of thing directly killed his own horse, and then he didn't have any horses, so he could only follow everyone They ran for their lives together, and the cavalry knew that as long as they lost their horses, their fate would not be very good. The result was exactly the same as he imagined. They were all driven into a large flat ground Here, the tens of thousands of Cao's merchants' troops around them captured people like themselves, as prisoners? This is the most shameful thing for him, but he has no other way, even if he wants to die, it is impossible.

After he was defeated, he went to the barracks of Cao's House, where he saw many things that he had never seen before. Of course, they will not get those powerful weapons. The work they do every day is Strengthen the fortifications outside, there is nothing else other than that, the food is still very good, let alone the son of an earl, even the young master of a duke's family is fine, they all have to eat honestly It’s a little better than soldiers, but it’s different here, there’s no miscellaneous noodles at all, what they eat is white flour steamed buns, and the fine clothes and fine foods in the capital seem to be too far away from me. Eating this food and pickles also feels delicious in the world. Compared with those who are already dead, I am living a very good life now, at least my head is still on my head, isn't it? However, their food is still not enough compared to the people in Cao's House. The people in Cao's House eat meat buns and even broth. I heard that they have stipulated that everyone must have it every day. Eat half a catty of meat, and you must finish it, otherwise your physical strength will not be able to keep up. It is said that these things were purchased from the occupied areas of the Southern Empire. Many merchants in the Southern Empire specially gave them to Cao's firm. The army sent pork, they all forgot that this army was fighting against the Southern Empire. In their view, it seemed that the rule of the Cao family firm had been accepted by them, and they forgot that they were a Southern Empire of the people.

These are nothing, the most important thing is the redemption policy made by the people of Cao's House, which makes me feel like a livestock. I have been to the slave market in the capital many times, and I didn't expect that I would do it too. Is it surprising that he became like those slaves? He also thought about this before, but he felt that after his family lost power, he was made like that by His Majesty the Emperor. He didn't expect that it would be the people from Cao's House who made him into what he is now, which made him feel so embarrassed. He saw that the people around him were all the same as him, and they must have the same thoughts in their hearts. I also don't believe that people like myself will become slaves one day. Such a thing would never have been imagined in my dreams, but now it is a fact. He was priced at 1.5 million taels of silver. This money is nothing to me, that is, one year It's just his pocket money. In fact, he feels uncomfortable in his heart. Is he worth such a little money? He saw the old housekeeper in his family. The old housekeeper is his father's confidant. This time his father must have asked him to come. His mother left early, and his father has always been taking care of him. It seems that the people in the family must be Knowing that he was defeated, he would definitely not have a good life after he went back, but he thought that one day he would find the officer of the Cao's firm, the words of that person were still in his mind, did he talk to that man before leaving? Can someone get in touch? It must be difficult to go back by yourself. If we can cooperate with that person, maybe everything will not be what it is now. The power of these people is not small.

One day, as soon as he finished his work, an officer from Cao's House came and said something to him as follows: "You know you guys won't have a good life even if you go back, your family members , your friends, even your wives and children will not treat you the same as before, do you know why? That is because you have become captives. In this society, captives have no status. Do you still want the old days? If you want, the people from Cao’s House will help you. The people here are in the same situation as you. They will definitely have a hard time when they go back. I don’t know if you’ve thought about it, but if you guys unite, it’s a big force. What we do is to give you a platform, and you can unite through us. It’s okay for two useless people Yes, but what about twenty? Who will bully you? You can help one person gain status first, and he will help you later in exchange. In this way, at least half of you will be in the same position as you are now It’s almost the same, besides, our Cao’s firm will still have our people on your territory. If we want to do things, there is no problem, and we can do things by helping you. I don’t know if you have this idea What about it?" That person's words appeared again, he was really tempted, many times such things are very attractive, especially for a prisoner like himself.