Section 2197 Summary

"You did say something like this. Sometimes these things are not so simple to carry out. We must understand these things. Just like now, we have encountered such a big fiasco, not only us , even the people below us have lost confidence in us. If this continues, I don’t know what will happen. You must have your own ideas. To be honest, after this incident, I feel a little bit I am disheartened, although this kind of thing is normal for me, because my own problems have caused the company to lose so much, it is strange to say, why people from the Western Empire can do what the people from the Southern Empire did back then I'm really very surprised about the things that can't be done. By the way, the financial system of the commercial bank is not bad. This war seems to have cost a lot of money. Pinshu.com (w W W . V o Dtw . c o M)" Li Cong is such a guy, he only thinks of how to remedy things when things happen, and he didn't think of these things at the beginning. Didn't they think about this before? Wu Zuoxi shook his head. It was good to make Li Cong realize his mistakes. He didn't say where Li Cong was wrong, because he felt that he didn't need this at all. Li Cong himself understood these things very well. Yes, even if what I said is right, Li Cong doesn't need any explanation here. Talking to smart people has such benefits. This is the situation in front of me. It may take a long time for others I came to explain it to them, but for Li Cong, this is absolutely unnecessary. He can understand these very well, and now he still knows the financial system of the commercial bank. It is already very good. It is estimated that the emperor of the Western Empire has not asked about their financial system, and he has another thing to say about the Western Empire.

"I told you a long time ago that many things don't need to pursue success, and now we don't really want to pursue that, but there is still one thing that needs to be resolved now, although it is the matter between us and the Western Empire. It's resolved, but there is something that needs to be changed, that is, our relationship with the Western Empire. Our people in the Western Empire have sent back a message. They still want us to make some concessions. The three provinces are nothing to them Yes, but the important thing is that we will definitely station our troops there. Three provinces with more than one million square kilometers can support us to build millions of troops, which is a huge threat to them. So they want to talk to us about some economic issues. This year, a cold wave broke out in the northwest of the Western Empire. Tens of millions of people were starved to death. If this problem cannot be solved, their losses will be even greater They hope that we can give them some benefits in exchange for these three provinces." Wu Zuoxi knew that the people of the Western Empire would not be so talkative. Now that the fleet on the river has come out, their force is the main condition for them to come out, but It is also a very good thing that the people of the Western Empire did not take any action against them. They would all do such a thing. After Li Cong heard this, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart. Damn, dozens of people If all the provinces need food from Lao Tzu, it is not a small amount. Your calculation is really good, but if you don’t do this, it will not be so easy for the three provinces to develop , Since this is the case, just give it to them. Li Cong nodded, and Wu Zuoxi was relieved. He was really afraid that Li Cong would not agree to this matter. If this was the case, the war might continue.

"Don't look like that,

In fact, things are not as bad as you think, just pay some food. We already have a lot of food. According to the information given to us by the Western Empire, we have done research, and there are at most thirty people there. Hundreds of millions of people need our food, and we only need to give them a month’s supply. The Western Empire didn’t give it to us for free. Some slaves in their country can be sold to us. By the way, you may What I don’t know is that when the Western Empire captured the land of the Southern Empire, it captured about 20 million Vietnamese people. These people were not recognized by the Western Empire and neither by the Southern Empire, so their lives were very miserable. For those who are poor, these 20 million people are the price paid by the Western Empire this time. If it is based on five taels of silver for a slave, it would be 100 million silver. Although it is not directly proportional to the food we paid, how much is a harvest Yes, we are about to build a large-scale defense system for those three provinces. These people are also very needed, at least for now. They can help us do a lot of things, and we don’t even have wages You don’t need to give them anything, you just need to give them a meal. This is the advantage of using slaves. Maybe you don’t like such things, but now who can tell whether these people are good or bad, they It was like this in the past, and the Yue people are really pitiful. "Wu Zuoxi said Yue people. Li Cong had never heard of this before. Most of the planet is a feudal society. How can there be people living in a slave society? Since it is so backward , Naturally, they are no longer the opponents of these people outside, and it is for this reason that they all do things like this one by one.

"Wait, what's the matter with the Vietnamese people, why no one wants them? Then what do they usually use?

Identity survived? Wasn't it all in the territory of the Southern Empire in the past? As far as I know, there are hundreds of ethnic groups in the Southern Empire

Yes, why would they not accept this nation? "Li Cong said strangely, he was also thinking when he was talking.

For other questions, if these people can be collected and regarded as their own army, can they be compared with the current one?

Some people have higher combat effectiveness, because on the battlefield, single-celled people have always had the strongest combat effectiveness, because they don't have other

His thoughts, it seems that his own people can really rise quickly, this opportunity he must never give up,

Wu Zuoxi over there knew what this guy was thinking when he saw Li Cong's eyes. Of course, he himself was in Lee

When I talked about these things from the front of my face, I also had the same thought. It's just that it is difficult to gather all these Yue people together.

It's not that easy, because they haven't had a good place to recuperate from ancient times to the present.

There are all Vietnamese people. If their numbers are added up, it is definitely an astonishing number, and it is because of this

In the same way, the talents of the Four Great Empires did not allow them to be together. Because they only know their people. no country at all

concept, such a person can still regard them as a good person? A nice national? Unless our brains are

There is a problem, if it is not like this, we will not do such a thing. Think of each one now

These things are here. Neither are they fools. Of course they understand how to do things, they don't want the Yue people to build

If they want to build a big country, their life will not be so easy in the future. Absolutely not.

"I guess you don't understand anything about the Yue people, I'll just tell you, the Yue people are one of the people on the whole road.

Ethnic groups, their number is estimated to be around 30 billion, but these people are not so powerful, even

It can even be said that they have been bullied by others, mainly because they will not accept some new things, so they also

There will be a lot of people bullying them. There is a gathering point for them in the area we occupy. Most of these people

The capital was taken away by the people of the Western Empire, I think we will start a series of pruning projects in the three newly occupied provinces

, This requires a lot of manpower to do this, so it is up to them to help. If the Yue people organize

It would be good to become an army, but they will not do anything to people of their own nationality, and they will not care about it

It's not that they will kill their heads, and it is for this reason that people from the four great empires don't want to get in touch with them. What the royal family thinks is all

It is good for some people to listen to them, but these Vietnamese people don't have that kind of thinking. All they think about is their own nation

How can the people of the four empires be willing to make them stronger? If these tens of billions of Yue people are all together

If so, it is estimated that the empire they formed is very powerful. "Wu Zuoxi's succinct and concise

The matter was told to Li Cong, and Li Cong thought that these people are the same as those Jews on earth, and these people are all

There is no place in the world that is our own, but they are all very smart, it seems that I have to try how these people are doing

, that is, because of their national unity, many people are unwilling to buy slaves of the Vietnamese people. In their opinion

These people are definitely not easy to use, and it is very good that each of these people thinks very well.

"This is something that can be used. Tell the Western Empire that we will agree with them. These Yue people

If they still have a lot, we will buy from them, there is absolutely no problem, as long as they have me,

We will all get it, just do it right away, don't be too slow, and this time it will be for all of us

The Jianghe escort boat is going to be refitted. I will let the people in the technical department do the specific things. You just need to cooperate.

, You are right, there are indeed too many problems in this war, and now we need to find out a little bit,

If we can do these things well, I believe that such a thing will not happen next time, and there is me

We have developed a new super serial crossbow, I believe such a thing is very useful to us, if we do

If it is good, it can be said to be very good in the future. Of course, you can also put forward your own opinions. "

Li Cong walked out while talking. After experiencing a failure, he didn't want to continue to lead Cao's House

, I am not in a very good mood now, if the whole Cao's firm is still led by myself, the south will be a teacher,

It's better for me to be honest and take a rest for a while, anyway, I can live a good life now that Cao's firm is gone

Let's talk about the day. The biggest thing recently is the aftermath of the war with the Western Empire. Apart from this, there is nothing to do.

It's something I need to take care of. Li Cong feels that he needs to practice hard for a while, and the system also has no

After completing this task, Li Cong has stopped exchanging it for a while. This thing is like this, and there will be absolutely nothing.

So partial, if there were no such things in front of him, Li Cong really wanted to study it carefully.

Just like what Wu Zuoxi and the others said, the Yue people not only have no status in the Western Empire. Just to meet those wilderness

Compared with the people who gather points, they are inferior. Because according to the laws of the Four Great Empires, the Yue people did not have any old people at all.

If a normal person kills a Yue nationality, he only needs to pay a certain fine. At once

If you have no money. The government will not arrest you either. Because these people understand very well, the Vietnamese

It can't be regarded as a human being at all, and the farmer's cattle are much more important than him. If you killed a farmer's cattle, it might be

I arrested you, this kind of thing is nothing new in the entire empire, people in the Western Empire heard that Cao Jiashang

The people in the business wanted to buy the Yue people in their territory, and they were dumbfounded. They didn't know what the people in Cao's business thought.

Got it, want to use these people to form an army? Don't be kidding, if you dare to arm these people,

It is estimated that you will be the first one they want to overthrow. These people are not fools, they will only be with their Vietnamese people

Together, if you let them form an army, they will not listen to you in the end, which will definitely give

The people of Cao's House of Commerce brought huge losses, but the people of Cao's House of Commerce are not fools, why would they do that

Woolen cloth? Don't they already know how to master these Yue people? But they don't have time to investigate these things,

It has already been stated in their treaty with Cao's House of Commerce that these Yue people must be handed over to the people of Cao's House of Trade, but

It is absolutely impossible to continue to buy, but although the official did not say anything, the private transaction began

Well, those slave traders don't care about such things, because the profits in this are really not small, they will do it.

In an ordinary city, if you buy a Vietnamese slave, the old man is at most two taels of silver.

Well, if this adult is a mature man, he would probably have ten taels of silver, but the people from Cao's Commercial Bank offered fifteen taels of silver.

The price, 50% of the profit, can be sent directly to any institution of the local Cao's firm, such

Why didn't the matter be done? All the slave traders took the Yue people in their hands to the trading place of Cao's house

Yes, even some people with only a few slaves in their families have passed away. It cost me very little to buy them back then.

For money, now they will do such things one by one. It is indeed possible for them to gather these people together.

Troublesome, but Li Cong has genetic medicines there, as long as he masters some of them, it will be fine.

The most important thing is to master the strong ones among them. Among them, the people mastered by Cao's House of Commerce do one thing

love, other people will definitely go with them, so that even if the people of Cao's House have mastered the Yue people, they

Don't you only have your own nation in your eyes? When most of your nation are doing things with Lao Tzu, you also

If you are not a fool, you will definitely follow along to do things together. By then, the Vietnamese army will be so united on the battlefield

Yes, it must be much stronger than other armies. Li Cong's idea is understandable.

All means to strengthen themselves a lot, of course the people of the Western Empire would not have thought that Li Cong would have such a thing, they wanted

It is not so easy to join your own spies, because there will not be a traitor among the Yue people.

The point is that other ethnic groups are relatively shocked, such a thing can happen without a second ethnic group.

After this war, because the debts of the Western Empire have not been resolved, the Western Empire can only figure out a solution by itself

, the imperial court began to do some things that they did not dare to do before. About 1360 billion debts of the Western Empire will come due this year,

Coupled with the huge interest, the Western Empire needs to pay about 3.02 billion silver to the Cao Family Commercial Bank this year, and this is only the amount of the Western Empire

As for the government, the Western Empire naturally doesn't know where to get so much money. At this time, Cao's House of Commerce

People stepped forward to advise them again. The people from Cao's House of Commerce this time were plotting nothing else but the Western Empire.

Local officials, in fact, the people of Cao's House of Commerce have already started plotting this very early, there is no way to be an empire

while running. What they have to do at this time is to start buying and selling officials. This is also an empire that can get gold quickly

The solution is money. According to the contract with Cao's House of Commerce, if the people of the Western Empire cannot repay the debt on time, they will

Our collateral in the hands of Cao's Commercial Bank will become Cao's Commercial Bank. These mortgages are some of the more important things

. It must not be lost. This is what Cao's firm wants to tell the imperial court of the Western Empire. What they have to do is

It is to let them sell the seat of the city lord of the Western Empire. At this time, the high-level officials of the Western Empire clearly know that this is a huge

Trap. But they have nothing to do, they can only listen to it honestly, if they don't take the money

If they come out, they may lose more. The emperor of the Western Empire still doesn't believe why he owes Cao

If there is so much money in a commercial bank, the tax revenue of the government is not in their own hands. In the past, it was 15 taxes and 1.

Now it seems that the tax will be increased, and it will be adjusted to one-tenth of the current tax, which is not low.

Things like selling officials must be carefully planned by someone. The high-level officials of the Western Empire are not fools.

The emperor of the country organized a special committee called the fundraising committee, and 30% of the people in it accepted Cao's house

The 5 million taels of silver bill, they are naturally in favor of this matter, many people in the court have said

, in fact, if you want to sell officials, it may have too much impact on the entire empire. It's better to just sell some titles.

This thing is an honorary title, but this matter has encountered a large number of nobles including the emperor of the empire.

opposition, officials can be sold, and they all have their own year, as long as nothing happens within this time limit

If you are in love, you can come back sooner or later, but the title is different, and the worst title is also for life

If a jazz title is sold for 5 million taels of silver, then he will be a jazz for the rest of his life.

With a royal salary of 60,000 taels of silver, it will take eighty years to get it back. This ordinary person is

It's an easy job to reach the age of 150, but it's different for an official position, just like

Like a county magistrate, for a three-year term, it is enough to sell 500,000 taels of silver. Within three years, the seat is yours, even if it is

No matter how much you scrape the land, the money will still go back to the court. They also stipulated that why are you in your territory?

Making money is your own business, but it is part of the imperial court, so there must be absolutely nothing missing.

If you don't do this well, you can get out at any time. Li Cong can only pity those who see such a thing.

The common people are dying, and their good days have turned into what they are seeing. They will not have a good time.

The fundraising committee of the Western Empire has a total of twelve people, and among the twelve guys, they unanimously passed the decision on the selection of officials.

Although the new method requires certain exams as before, there is another part besides the exam.

That is the money for the court of the Western Empire. It must not be called out so blatantly. If it is called out like that

If it comes, the common people will probably rise up and rebel. This official doesn't need any talent or anything like that, he just needs money.

That's right, if this is the case, those rich people will definitely go to become officials, so there are some regulations, such as

It is said that as long as you become an official, then business affairs must be stopped, no matter how you do it, these things

Love also needs to be done well, and the exam must be passed. In fact, this is what they put on themselves.

Then a fig leaf is enough. Everyone knows that this matter is not that simple. If you can make this matter

If it is done well, no money will be used. Many people understand that as long as some things are mixed with money, this

It’s not that you can solve it however you want. Everyone understands that if the exam fails,

Just send money online. As long as the money arrives, what else can be done? And the prices are out

up. The 25 officials below the county magistrate are all 40,000 taels of silver for three years, and the county magistrate and county magistrate are all 300,000 taels a year.

Once you buy it, it will last for three years, although there may not be so much oil and water in a county. But some would-be officials

There are very many. Even if they spend such a small amount of money to be a county magistrate, they still have fun. it's not

It's fair to say that such a thing immediately received a huge following in the Western Empire.

The plan of the Western Empire was originally planned to be completed within three months, but they did not expect such a hot thing to happen. Those rich people in the Western Empire immediately went crazy, what a joke, if you want to run a county magistrate in the past, you need millions of silver, you know how can a county magistrate have dozens of Thousands of people, of course, it will be different if they get out of the imperial examination. The imperial examination still has its own ability, and it can definitely bring a lot of people to the court. It is because of this reason, The people above started to step up to do this thing one by one. The Western Empire has sold about 500 billion silver official positions. Of course, they are all low-level official positions. The people in the Western Empire are not fools. Within the scope of a county, all the former officials have become deputies, or have become consultants or something. Their task is to watch here, and they must not let the empire have any major problems. Although silver is needed, the entire empire cannot be confused because of the silver problem. Besides, the Western Empire did not open up the entire empire's official positions. He just did some experiments in small areas. In this way, so much money was obtained, which surprised many people. Li Cong was not very surprised by this, because people in this era are similar to those on the earth, and they all want to be human beings. People, scholars, farmers, businessmen, although this is relatively backward on this planet, it is undeniable that politicians are better than businessmen at any time, and now these businessmen understand this truth , so each of them thought that they could become officials, and this was what they wanted.

In fact, not only the Western Empire, but the other two empires will also fall into economic crisis because they have to repay the loans from the Cao Family Commercial Bank. Although the situation in the Eastern Empire may be better, it is not much better. The Eastern Empire borrowed money. The total number is relatively large. Of course, the Eastern Empire’s loans were mainly spent on the navy. Now the Eastern Empire’s navy can be said to be the most powerful navy except for the fleet of Cao’s House. The double sails they used The speed of the ships is also very fast, which is already much faster than the naval ships of the other two empires, but it is still very difficult to keep up with the speed of the warships of Cao's House, they are not like that It's a skill, but many people in Cao's House also understand that the Eastern Empire paid great attention to matters in the sea before. It is impossible to stop them from expanding their navy. If we can't stop it, we will do wrong. Just come and make a good fortune. Cao’s shipyard is several times faster than other shipyards because of its assembly line operation. In addition, Li Cong got more or less all of them. Some mechanical problems, so his shipyard received more than 30% of the orders from the Eastern Empire Navy. There are a lot of things, but Li Cong, who has a small profit, is not very willing to do it. Besides, he also needs to give others a way to survive. He can't do everything by himself. This is not in line with Li Cong's life. As a rule, many things need to leave a way for others, otherwise, who will cooperate with you in the future, but he does not leave a way for anyone to control the economy. This is true regardless of whether it is the Three Great Empires or other strengths.

Cao's House also had its own affairs at this time. First of all, Li Cong discovered the current organization problem. Although the organization would become more flexible after simplifying the organization, Li Cong found that some heavy firepower was not enough. Now Li Cong It is planned to add an additional fire support platoon to each company. The entire platoon is divided into five squads, each squad has ten people, and ten people control two super serial crossbows. They must fully support the war when they are fighting. This war has also shown itself. The thing that kills the most enemies is not a cannon or something. That thing is indeed loud and causes fear in the enemy, but the actual effect is not as good as the super serial crossbow. This thing kills the most enemies. So Li Cong asked the people on the other side of the earth to create the second generation of serial crossbows. In the first generation, such a thing could only fire less than sixty crossbow bolts a minute. The second generation uses more advanced technology, not only has a faster rate of fire. And the range is also very good. In the test, it can reach 80 to 100 per minute. If it maintains 80, there is absolutely no problem. If it is 100, it needs to be fired 1000 times and some parts need to be replaced. This is mainly It is also because this thing is not a panacea, and it requires a certain amount of maintenance. No matter what it is, if there is no maintenance, many things cannot be done. They are also very clear about this. For Li Cong to establish People in the military who plan to strengthen the firepower platoon are very much in favor of it. Some people who have participated in the war this time have also seen clearly that they do have many shortcomings in the super serial crossbow, and they are too scattered. , If they can be united, it will definitely not be the current situation, but with this thing, the consumption of crossbow bolts will be very powerful. It seems that we will continue to increase the production of crossbow bolts.

In this war, Li Cong transported a total of 3 billion crossbow bolts, and there are almost less than 200 million left. It can be said how many crossbow bolts were used. The war calculation department also said that killing a soldier of the Southern Empire almost required It is no wonder that it is only necessary to fire dozens of crossbow bolts. In some wars on the earth back then, hundreds of bullets were needed to kill an enemy. It may be something that can be solved in a short time, and everyone here understands that Li Cong can only be transported in large quantities from some ordnance factories in the south. The problem between the Western Empire and itself seems to be superficial. It's all resolved. In fact, people on both sides understand it very well. Don't talk about the word "resolve". It's because they haven't reached an agreement. If the interior is not so stable, there will be greater turmoil in the future. The Western Empire still believes that war is an important way for them to pay off their debts. It's too difficult. They didn't know how to borrow money to live in the past, but it's different now. Now they borrow money for almost everything, which makes them feel very uncomfortable, but they are already I have fallen in love with this kind of life. Apart from their government, even some people in the private sector have also fallen in love with it, which has caused some false prosperity in the economy. With nothing left, the people in the Cao's House of Commerce may become their masters. The people in the Cao's House of Commerce will not do business at a loss. In this way, as long as there is no money, everything is out of the question.

On the side of the Southern Empire, the turmoil in the capital has subsided, and Li Wei and Min De met again, but now Min De is not as comfortable as before. He is now like a defeated man, This is no wonder, because he has seen the sinister intentions of the Southern Empire, but there is no other way, right? What can he do? He can only wait for the end honestly. If he could have seen it a long time ago, the firm might not have suffered so much loss. The material loss this time is secondary. The main loss is the loss of spirit. This is the most important thing. Many people feel that the people of Cao's House are ashamed. This one can be said to have not failed, but it is not very good for them. It can almost be said that they escaped. Cao's business in the Western Empire is not damaged, which can make Minde feel better. One point, Li Wei has made a lot of limelight on the front line. This kid can be regarded as officially coming to this planet, and he can be regarded as entering the upper class society of this planet, but he still doesn't understand some of the ways of doing things here. In fact, at the beginning, if the people from Cao’s House started to attack from the seaside, there would be very good consequences. When he said it, Min De told him that if the people from Cao’s House were really the same as those in the Southern Empire Otherwise, things may be more troublesome, and the people of Cao's House of Commerce may win at the beginning, but the more they fight, the less stamina they will have, because the people of Cao's House of Commerce do not have a position in the Western Empire, without this In terms of the base, there is no way to provide some things. In the end, everything may become empty, and they will be the ones who fail in the end.

The navy of the Western Empire may be the first department to be destroyed in this war. After the war, the emperor of the Western Empire replaced all the senior officials of the navy, no matter what you did before, but now As long as you are still in the navy, get out immediately. In this war, the navy can be said to be the most useless department of the Western Empire. Many generals have proposed to cancel the navy. They think that the navy is unnecessary. , but the emperor of the Western Empire is not a fool. He knows why the people of the Eastern Empire are stronger than theirs. The main reason is that the people of the Eastern Empire work very hard on the sea, and because of this, They can obtain resources that the Western Empire cannot obtain. In fact, the four major empires have similar populations and areas on the mainland, and the degree of economic development may vary greatly, but one thing is certain, that is, the navy Very important, if you want to go to sea, you must have your own army, otherwise, if you find something in the sea, it will immediately become someone else's. This matter changed after the navy of the Southern Empire discovered a small island It's even more powerful. This small island used to be an uninhabited island, but people from the Southern Empire discovered a gold mine on it, a huge gold mine. Li Cong also visited this small island. There are at least Hundreds of millions of taels of gold, of course, the people from Cao’s House would not go over and snatch it here just for this little money, and this place is too close to the Southern Empire, such a thing will make the Southern Empire Up and down are very disgusted with themselves, and they will never do such a thing, which also makes the people of the Western Empire more convinced that they must expand this matter, they must have their own navy, if they do not have their own navy If so, I later found out that this was not my own.

The most depressing thing about the Western Empire now is how to build a navy without money in their hands. It is the best thing for him to get the money. The Yue people, this is the way they want to make a fortune now. Alright, send them all to the people of Cao's House, let's see how they deal with them, if this can make them live a bad life, these things will be the best. (To be continued..)