Section 2289 Labor Force

They also understand that the two sides are now torn apart, and even the thinnest layer of relationship is gone. Basically, there is no need for diplomatic rhetoric. People have said so, so why should I say that? It is to build some bases around their naval base, and just keep an eye on them. There is no other way.

Although the people from the four empires are also looking for some suitable places to build naval bases on the entire continent, what makes them feel very painful is that they found that the places they selected were all selected by Cao's firm. If they want to continue to build a coast guard base there, they have to pay more money and energy to choose places than others. For them, this is an intolerable attitude. They want to choose the place selected by Cao's House It is very difficult to establish a naval base, unless it is a full-scale war with Cao's business. Otherwise, it would be impossible. They don't want to go to war and want to occupy other people's places. Such a thing depends on how they do it. First of all, the Eastern Empire sent a huge team and hoped to cooperate with the Cao family. People work together to build a naval base, they can even provide some funds and other things, but Cao's merchants directly rejected their idea, what are you kidding, our people have almost built the place here, and now we have to To use this base with you, what qualifications do you have to use this with us? After receiving the rejection from Cao’s House, these people began to do some excessive things, such as some raw materials you need. They are forbidden to Cao’s House. For export, in terms of personnel, they have also stipulated that domestic labor cannot work for the people of Cao's firm. Of course, it is possible to work in your own country, but it is not allowed to leave your own country. They have promulgated the most stringent fugitive law, which means that they will not issue you a visa. As long as you leave the scope of the empire, then You will no longer be a member of the empire, and you will become a fugitive when you come back here in the future. This matter has indeed brought huge troubles to the Cao family firm.

First of all, the people in the Cao's Commercial Bank simply couldn't find enough labor. This person also fully considered this when doing this. They have advantages that the Cao's Commercial Bank cannot possess. I want to go to Cao's house to make money. But they all still know which empire they belong to. If the imperial government doesn't recognize them, it doesn't matter if they make money, they are ordinary people without status, just like those people. Their descendants will all be a slave. This is very scary for these people. Although Cao's House paid him relatively high, but if he had nothing to do, who would leave his hometown and relatives to a strange place, Cao's House introduced the naval base, which is simply impossible. In the past, if people from a great empire did not promulgate this law, they would be very willing to earn the salary of Cao's House of Commerce, because the salary of Cao's House of Trade is better, the food is better, and the wages paid are even higher than others. It’s much better. People in their family also support them to do this, but now it’s completely different from that time. Now the imperial government has strictly prohibited this kind of behavior. If you insist on going, that’s okay. You can sign an agreement directly with the imperial government. In the future, half of your profits will be handed over to the imperial government, and then you can work for Cao’s House, but it’s simply not good to go there. It is possible that although Cao's house offers a high salary, half of it should be used to pay taxes, so that your income will be no different from working at home.

Why do you have to leave your family and go to work in a remote place? This is something a fool would do. As long as he is a person with a normal IQ, he would not consider such a thing. Huge problem of labor shortage erupted

Although you can buy a large number of slaves in several empires, the number of slaves is limited. Even if you buy all of these thousands of naval bases, it is impossible to complete the construction as scheduled. A naval base requires tens of thousands of slaves. It took six years for the slaves to be completed. Now you can only buy about a few thousand slaves in a naval base, and the slaves are tortured to the point of skin and bones. Letting them do this kind of heavy physical work is simply too much. It is to kill him, it is impossible without half a year to recuperate. When Li Cong was here before, she knew that there would be such a shortage of labor one day, so she made a lot of preparations , such as buying a large number of slaves and doing other prisoner-of-war activities, but the results achieved so far have been used. The Cao’s House has a big problem. The current labor of the Cao’s House is all used for road construction. Even if all of them are transferred, there is no way. The amount of work this time is really too large. On the other hand, if you look at the other big empires, they can easily recruit a large number of laborers in their own territory with administrative orders. Although Cao's House can also recruit large laborers in the Southern Empire, these laborers are unwilling to leave their hometowns. As long as they are unwilling, you are forcing them to transport them over. When you are working, I will give you a small amount. It will be a big deal. In the end, you will find that the gain will not be worth the loss. You must make them feel willing. For this matter, the senior management of Cao's Commercial Bank can It was said to be a headache, but in the end they didn't find any useful solution, they could only wait silently for Li Cong to come back to solve this matter.

This kid, Li Wei, has already been affectionately called the second boss by the people of the Cao's firm, but now the second boss is also frowning, and he also feels a headache about what happened to the Cao's firm. The advantage that others have is that they have a lot of money in their hands, but sometimes it doesn’t mean that you can get things done because you have a lot of money. Just like now, you have a lot of money and it’s easy to send it out. But people don't want your money. What can you do? In the end, there is no other way. People don’t want to leave their hometown. This kind of thing is really difficult to handle. It’s up to you, right? This is not necessary. People just want to stay in their hometown and be an ordinary citizen. What can they do? The best way is to get a large number of people from other places and establish a teleportation array with the earth. It is also a very impossible thing to say, the labor force on the other side of the earth is not enough.

We don't have that much labor in our hands. But you don't have that much money in your hands. Since everyone can't live a good life, it's better not to live together. In the end, let's see who we are at a disadvantage. Since the senior management of Cao's Commercial Bank has already confirmed this idea. He did so immediately. In the end, it is you or us who suffer the most. Just take a look at the last moment, and maybe we are still on the side of the good, and you are the one that suffers. These things are all possible. Regarding the reactions of Cao's House of Commerce, people from the Four Great Empires did not expect that they had an agreement with Cao's House of Commerce for loans. If Cao's House of Commerce really If you kill this thing, then you really don’t know how to cooperate with them in the future. The senior management of the four empires also went through a period of time. We will be the first to make changes in this matter, we just have to wait. Anyway, the places where we are waiting to go to build naval bases are not in our hands. If we are strong enough to take those over. There will also be strong resistance from the Cao's House of Commerce. Our current capabilities simply cannot deal with them. It is better to stop them with silence. This is an idea of ​​the top management of the Four Great Empires. For any violent reaction, the most fearful thing is that you don’t move anything. Come and watch us. This is the biggest resistance. I didn’t expect that the people from the Great Empire really went the right way this time. Let the people from Cao’s House I really don't know what to do. If the real second shopkeeper said, if you stop lending to them, you will lose your reputation. If the Cao's Commercial Bank does business on the road in the future, many people will think for a long time Now, whether we should cooperate with these treacherous people is a question worth discussing.

The conveyor belt on the earth is also a very helpless thing to say, he can only send 3,000 people at a time, and these 3,000 people are people with high IQs. They come to sit and do mental work to help Li Cong establish a staff There is no problem with the Department of Defense. The thing is that it is no problem to let them directly bring some officers in the army. It is a huge waste to let them do some manual work. If they really go to build a naval base , then the cost of sending them over will not be able to keep up. This is absolutely impossible. Even if Li Cong is here, he will not let them do this. The idea of ​​high-speed labor on the earth is directly rejected. It was rejected, and the population on the other side of the earth is not so large. Even if there are a lot of idle labor over there, there are still a lot of labor gaps over there. The people from that side were brought here, causing a lot of troubles on the earth. A phenomenon of labor shortage, how should this matter be resolved? We cannot cause conflicts over there just because of the conflicts here. What we need now is to resolve the conflicts instead of transferring them to other places. The senior management of Cao’s Commercial Bank I have tried my best to search for some slaves all over the continent, but the results are still insignificant. The guy from the second treasurer has now made a major decision. Since you issued such a decree to let We have no way to build a naval base, and we have to fight back against you. First of all, in terms of loans, don’t you need us for many projects? Now we also need funds. We can even tear up the agreement with you without part of the interest, so that You don’t have the funds to start this project. It doesn’t matter if you want Brother Naval Base, as long as you have money. If you don’t have money, what can you do even if you have someone to use it? Can you build it?

The conflict between the two sides can be said to have a long history, and it was definitely not formed in the past two days. The confrontation between the two sides has already appeared on the surface. It was the Eastern Empire that developed new types of warships at this time. After all, those new types of naval warships have not yet known that if they want to form combat effectiveness, it will take longer. During this period of time, the navy of the Cao's House is still the most powerful. Even if all of your ships can be manufactured, it will not be of much use. It will take a certain amount of time to challenge the strength of the Cao's House's maritime supremacy. But after a very long process, Cao’s merchants have already started looking for trouble when your strength is not enough. What can you do? At the beginning, it seemed that the navy was only harassed by them at sea, such as When it was said that your merchant ships were still advancing, we immediately divided the area in front of us into a drill. If you're uncomfortable, you can just rush in. Don't blame me for not telling you, we said in advance that this area is where we practice, which means that shells may fall in this area at any time, if you are not very lucky. This shell hits your ship directly. We will not compensate for all these losses. Because we have told you before that if you come in, your safety will not be guaranteed. Of course, you can also choose a road that is still safe. That is to bypass my sea area. You said that the size of our exercise car is actually not that big. You can run for half a month, and just go around from there. It is unreasonable, you guys If you don't reason with us anymore, we don't need to reason with you anymore. Have you seen the artillery fire behind us? Are they already taken out to try?

This is how the naval officers of the Cao’s House of Commerce explained to others that some merchants in the Eastern Empire were going to be furious. Having said that, if you continue to harass our goods, we will jointly boycott the goods of your Cao’s House. By then, you will not be able to earn a penny on this continent. If anyone dares to buy from your Cao’s House People who do business are to gain the enemy of our entire Eastern Empire, and if we do the right thing, we will kill him. Regarding their naked threat, the person in charge of the Ducao Family Firm in the Eastern Empire also said that he really did not expect that you still have Such ability, if you have such ability, why didn’t you use it before, we can’t stop you from doing this, and we won’t stop it, the premise is that you have such ability, you just do it You don’t need to tell us at all. We can’t help you if you tell us. Our Cao’s House has many factions. We can’t control what the navy wants to do. After all, we are Just a small businessman. It’s not easy to do a good job in our job. It’s okay for you to ask us to send you a message. The tone you use now is threatening me, and everything is wrong. No, if you want to threaten our Cao's House, then you are wrong. If what you want to do will cause something, it is not something we can afford. This guy will go on vacation after answering these words I went there, and no one from the entire firm came out to make general comments on this matter, but those naval warships at sea responded even more. Their exercise area was as large as a dozen provinces. In the past, they ran It can be spared in half a month, and now even if it takes half a year to run around, the maritime trade of the entire Eastern Empire has been paralyzed?

Now it’s not Cao’s House that’s in a hurry anymore. Anyway, they don’t have enough labor force, and the labor force is probably 20% in place. They just start to build slowly. Anyway, 20% Twenty naval bases have been analyzed by the people of the Ministry of the Navy for several days and nights. They have come to the conclusion that among the thousands of naval bases, the wrong two hundred must be selected as the first batch of naval bases to be built. It’s not bad, it can be regarded as easing the crisis for Master Cao’s family. At the same time, they started to build thousands of naval bases. They don’t have that ability. If they really start, they will feel very tired. Their funds and There may also be problems in manpower, material resources and other aspects. Many people were worried when they started to create this plan. It’s different. You have provided us with this condition. We can start building a batch first, and the rest can be done slowly. Anyway, you can’t accept our construction speed, and we will still be ahead of you. If you want If you want to do something tricky, we will accompany you to the end. In fact, at this time, whether it is from the perspective of hardware or software, Cao's firm has completely surpassed the Eastern Empire, and it would be unwise for me to want to jump out of this avatar and confront it. Things, but they are not fools. In the past, they would immediately think of establishing an alliance of the four great empires, but now they have lost confidence in that alliance. As long as they establish such an alliance, they can deal with it at most. In the end, I will still be scolded by those people, and those people don't want to come up with anything. In the end, I still want to get a good result. A very good income, such an alliance is nothing but bullshit?

Since the alliance has no effect, what they want now is to do it by themselves, and the people of the Eastern Empire quickly thought of a solution. They can settle this matter with Cao's House. They can even send labor to the people of Cao's firm. But there are two conditions. The first one is the labor we give you. You must build the other three empires on the opposite side of the naval base. It is not allowed to build a naval base within the scope of our Eastern Empire, at least not with these laborers. The second is that 10% of the salaries of these laborers will be handed over to our Eastern Empire government. Of course you You don’t need to give it to us, and you can just deduct it from the money that our Eastern Empire owes you to Cao’s Commercial Bank. These two conditions are also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Cao’s Commercial Bank. The second shopkeeper really doesn’t know how to thank them. I have thought about it for so long, but I never thought of such a solution. I didn't expect that this matter was solved by you. Immediately, the second shopkeeper sent Wu Zuoxi to sign this contract with a prince of the Eastern Empire. , this contract must be a secret contract, and the people of the Eastern Empire also know what kind of consequences will be brought about if this contract is exposed, at least they will immediately become the opposite of the other three empires, right now the Southern Empire It has become a semi-colony of the Cao's House of Firm, but the Nan Empire also hopes to retain its right to speak in terms of the navy. They have already purchased the retired warships of the Cao's House of Trade on a large scale by relying on their own convenience. The seaside of the commercial firm doesn't like these things, but for the Southern Empire, these things are still very powerful. As long as they are properly repaired, they can still play their due role.

At least in the sea, it is still much better than those naval warships manufactured by other empires. Although there are some naval bases built by Cao's firm in the waters of the Southern Empire, how can I tell my master in my current status as the Southern Emperor? Don't build any naval bases at my door, we are very uncomfortable to see these things, you should quickly dismantle these things, unless it is the money they slept in, or there is something wrong with their brains, otherwise it is I absolutely dare not go out and talk about this issue with the people of Cao’s House of Commerce. Now that these issues are far away, let’s go back to the issue of the Eastern Empire. Some very smart people, they can't just do it like this, yes, they have left too many scars for others. Although it can ease the temporary difficulties of the Eastern Empire, in the long run, this thing is worth a fool. It can't be any more stupid idea. As long as the Cao's House completes the construction of other naval bases, it will eventually break ground in the Eastern Empire. Your plan is just to delay it. If you want to make a fundamental change, then it is impossible Even if it is possible, the people of Cao’s House of Commerce will not give you such an opportunity. I really don’t know what the top management of the Eastern Empire thinks. Are they all a bunch of brainless people? This should be impossible, tragedy According to the news they got, these people in the capital empire made it after discussion, and the senior management of Cao's house also discussed it. Time, this is a way for them to delay time. Since you feel that this matter is beneficial to you, we will follow up. Who knows what will happen in the future, maybe this matter will bring us good of income.

This is indeed the case, at least now it seems that the good people have not discovered that this matter is not good for them. What they need to do is very simple, and that is to immediately send a very important person to the Eastern Empire to talk to the Eastern Empire. The high-level executives signed this agreement, because on the day the agreement was signed, a large number of workers could be recruited intensively in several provinces of the Eastern Empire, and the number of workers in the first batch should be around 50 million. The labor shortage can be alleviated in one fell swoop. Now, workers are being recruited for the road construction project over there. After all, these workers are all working with Cao's firm to move them from the construction site here. When it comes to the construction site over there, it’s best to add that it’s a military priority, but for the whole plan, it’s happy there, and all the plans are sold here, and it’s all about delaying by adding any one of the designated plans. He added, saying that this is huge at any time, and now the Eastern Empire has taken the initiative to open this hole. We can recruit a large number of employees within the scope of the Eastern Empire. These people can help us build naval bases in the future, mainly not within the scope of the Eastern Empire, and their 10% son, Cao's House, is not going to let these laborers go, just give them an extra ride. That's it, this journey is a hush money for the Eastern Empire. It can also be regarded as a reward for their activities. Don't underestimate this 10% salary, it's actually quite a lot, 50 million workers are within the salary range of Cao's House. Their success every month means that 0.22 silver arrives in the account, 10 million silver per month, and more than 100 million silver a year. This is just the first batch of laborers. The one that recruits a lot of laborers will be able to absorb tens of billions of silver every year by relying on this. This is a good calculation.

The person who came to negotiate with Cao's House is also an old acquaintance of his, an old general of the Winter Empire. It can be said that this person didn't come out much before, because she has a very good relationship with the Linghu family. After the family accident, he didn't show up very much. Firstly, he had no hedging, and secondly, his own personal abilities were all in the military. He was not very clear about this kind of political affairs. If he was allowed to go out If he leads troops to fight, then he is absolutely competent. This is the first time he has come to do this kind of diplomatic work, but the order of His Majesty the Emperor of the Eastern Empire has come down, so he can only do this. Wu Zuoxi pondered For a long time, I haven't figured out why the Eastern Empire let this person come to negotiate with him. Is there no one in the Eastern Empire? Otherwise, why would he become such a person who doesn't understand diplomacy to negotiate with him? He felt that there would be some tricks in it, but he discussed it with several people all night, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it. This contract in black and white is not fake, and there is also the seal of the emperor of the Eastern Empire on it. Could there be any mistakes in this thing? As for who comes to negotiate, it is a very simple matter. The content of the contract has already been determined by the two parties through letters before, and whoever brings it is just a form. Well, it is a eunuch who brings this information. As long as the names of both parties are involved, this is something that can be established. As long as someone breaks their promise one day, just take it out and show it to the people of the Eastern Empire. They will know who their emperor is. What a person, if the prestige of the Yellow Emperor is gone, then the empire will be considered collapsed. Cao's firm can do without these things, but will the emperor of the Eastern Empire abandon them? That is impossible. If he dares to If these things are abandoned, then his empire will never last long.

Wu Zuoxi was also afraid that they would change the content of the contract, so he read every word several times from the beginning to the end, and we also took a look at his own residence, just like we discussed with them in the first batch. China recruits 50 million laborers in China, and the rest of the conditions are the same. It seems that I am overwhelmed. The reason why the Eastern Empire will find this old general to show him is his own reason, that is, he does not want to Let the spies of other empires know about this matter. Even if you sign such a contract, you have already given it, and the official will not become such a contract. Many people in the Cao's House of Commerce are recruiting people by region in private. If you make a big fuss Let the people of the other three empires know about it, so sorry, this contract will be postponed, we did not say to tear up the contract, we can only say that we did not ask you to do it for us because of the losses caused by your actions. Compensation is all it takes. I believe you should understand this reason. Even if Cao’s Commercial Bank confirms this contract, there will be a lot of inconvenience in doing things in the future. First of all, you must be very careful. Let this matter be known to the people of the other three empires, even the people of the male empire. Don’t look at the people of the Southern Empire who are obedient to themselves now, but when they know that this agreement may block all their coasts If they get up, they will not agree to such an agreement. It is based on the strategy formulated by the Cao family. If all the more than a thousand naval bases are built, it will be impossible for the faxes of other empires to enter the sea from these key areas. Of course, you can accept Cao Jia. After going to the inspection, he said that you can go out whenever you want. If you listen to Tao to add everything, then these naval bases are useless to you?

The most important thing we need to build this is to guard against those disobedient people. Obedient people have always been our friends, and we will no longer provide you with some supplies. It will also provide you with some protection. You must know that there are a lot of pirates on the sea these days. In fact, many people know that these posters belong to Cao's firm, but what can you do if you know? Can you find some flaws from these people. Can you find evidence that they are members of the Cao family? Even if you find it, what can you do? Can you go to someone from Cao's House to come out and admit this mistake? That's impossible. Whoever has the biggest fist in this world can do anything. If we can't use our own fists, then we have to endure what these people in Cao's House want to do. Although they have the strength to fight against them now, anyone with a discerning eye can see it. As time goes by, this strength will become weaker and weaker. At that time, even if you want to fight with the Cao family merchants, it will not be that simple. At least the people of the Great Empire can no longer unite. They used to have With so many opportunities, as long as they unite, they can form a fatal blow to the Cao family business. The most feared thing for the Cao family business is that they unite, but they have united several times. They separated because of their own reasons. Why is this? It seems that these people don't know what they are thinking at all, and they don't even know who the biggest enemy in front of them is. What everyone thinks when they unite It’s all for my own benefit, and I want others to pay to keep everything I have. It’s better not to have such a union. Brother Dong, I signed a contract with Cao’s House in advance because I saw that there was no way out for such a union. Instead of waiting for this union to slowly form.

The people of the other three empires did not think of this matter, so they are still waiting for a mysterious organization to contact them and tell them that they can track the empire and some other large forces to unite, so that they can analyze themselves It is also an impossible thing for the powerful forces to unite against Cao's House of Commerce. As for if they are allowed to go by themselves, it is simply impossible. Now, even if every empire concentrates all its strength, it will wage a very powerful all-out war with Cao's House of Trade. They are not opponents. First of all, the military weapons of the Cao's House of Commerce are not something they can deal with. In addition, some of the relatively backward military organizations in their country are not opponents of the Cao's House of Merchant's march. It may be facing failure, and the failure of an empire is okay. If all of them are white, they will see no hope. For them, it is best for the Eastern Empire to take the lead in forming this alliance, because the Eastern Empire He is the most powerful. As long as he is the boss of this alliance, all the things that will be paid for by the money and people will be the affairs of the Eastern Empire. We just need to follow them and cut some benefits, but until this matter A month has passed, and no one from the Eastern Empire has come forward. To be honest, some naval bases of Cao's House of Commerce have already started construction. What happened? Soon some people began to speculate that these people were actually aboriginals from some islands on the sea. These people were snatched by the good people of the Cao family. They just wanted to use these free labor The construction of the map naval base is considered to be a way to escape, but people are not very worried.

After all, there are only so many deserted islands on the sea. If the people on the deserted islands were to complete this task, they would not know that it would take until the year of the monkey. They don’t know how many Huangdao there are, but they do know that the natural environment on it is very harsh. There are so many ferocious beasts, and money to live on it is simply a speculation on one's own life, an irresponsible life starts from there, many of them can imagine that ten people can survive in such an environment One person is enough, Cao's merchants arrest them, this is to break the inheritance of those people, those people can't work for the people of Cao's merchants sincerely, many people also said that if those people are forced If it is true, they may even rebel. In the end, is it happy or Cao's house? If those laborers really rebelled, the people who got into the four empires followed up and made trouble casually. What will be the end result of Cao's house? , I still don’t know the situation. In the end, the Cao’s House of Commerce will definitely regret this decision. They should have hurt the people of the Four Great Empires and slightly reduce the number of naval bases, so that the people of the Four Great Empires can also Just relax the naval base and achieve a balance on the sea. Of course, this is only the opinion of some scholars, and another part of scholars said that Cao’s firm should discuss everything with you. They are now strong and strong. You can do it yourself. Didn’t you see that their economic strength has increased a lot? Even when we went to build this school, it was funded by Cao’s House. Our city is so beautiful, and Cao’s House’s business is everywhere. We can't interfere with anything we want to do. If we want to fight against others, it is simply impossible. Don't think that I am betraying the country if I don't say such a thing. In fact, we are also thinking about the empire, but the direction is different. That's it?

Anyway, no matter how this matter is quarreled within the scope of several great empires, some naval bases of Cao's firm have started work on time, and people from the other three empires have also sent their own people to the Eastern Empire to find out. The diplomatic department did not say anything in the explanation. They are all very clear that if this news is revealed, it will be an isolation for the Eastern Empire. Even if the Eastern Empire wants to form something in the future, it will be impossible. People will not believe the people of the Eastern Empire, they will only believe their own eyes. (To be continued..)