Chapter 2292 Flying Guards

For the people of the current four empires, they don't know the role of these naval bases at all. In their view, although the naval base is very important, it will not be able to trap their hands and feet. In their view One of the ways to come to these naval bases, which is Cao's House, is that we will find a solution in the future. Although you are very good at solving the problem now, can you still be so good in the future? Can you maintain the current situation? In this state, we feel that it is impossible. In such a long history on this continent, many people wanted to overthrow the rule of the four empires, but in the end they failed to do this. Why? It is because the power of the great empire is already deeply rooted on this continent, and it is absolutely impossible to follow your temperament. Although you are very good for the time being, will you continue to be like this in the future? From the perspective of the top leaders of the four empires, this is impossible. There have been many forces like Cao's House in history. They are all very large. They were very powerful when they couldn't get in. Well, they are not that powerful anymore, and they are all starting to decline slowly. As long as you show any signs of decline, we will definitely seize that opportunity to kill you. The four empires have been archived for such a long time. The danger they are really worried about comes from the Warcraft Mountains. Historically, a large number of Warcrafts rushed out and killed tens of billions of people on the entire continent. This is what they are most worried about. They are worried that the masters in the Warcraft Mountains really don’t want They rushed out desperately, and that's when their danger really came. Besides, there is nothing else to worry them about?

It is very difficult for them to solve the Warcraft Mountains, and it is also an impossible thing. It is not that they have not attacked the Warcraft Mountains in history. I remember the people from the Four Great Empires who lost thousands of years ago. A joint army was assembled, known as the Hundred Thousand Army, and the number of the Hundred Thousand Army was only 100,000. Many people would say, can these 100,000 people be able to solve the Warcraft in the Warcraft Mountains? ? That is simply impossible, but one hundred thousand people is not an ordinary one hundred thousand people. Many people should know that these are very powerful people, and the lowest level among them are some other seventh-level fighters or seven-level fighters. Level Archer. In addition, the rest of the people are all eighth-level fighters and above. Of course, the most numerous of them are seventh-level fighters. It is impossible for others to have so many. From their point of view, the monsters in the Warcraft Mountains are very powerful. As long as there is a wave of beasts, they will lose a lot. In other words, several relatively large military bases of Cao's House in the Southern Empire are all around the Warcraft Mountains. They all felt that the people from Cao's House had a brain problem. Although they all have solid defenses. The alchemist's defenses are aimed at people, if it is against these monsters, it probably won't be so powerful. There must be a lot of things that will happen. If there is such a beast horde, it is estimated that the military strength of Cao's House will be greatly lost.

In their opinion, it would be a very good opportunity to deal with Cao's House of Commerce at that time, although now Cao's House of Trade is already very powerful in various places, and their troops have already reached the four major imperial counties The level of the city, but what's the point? Is it really possible to occupy a county by relying on those troops? Of course, it does not mean that there is no possibility at all, but it is also in some areas where the ruling power is relatively weak. If it is really some very powerful areas, it is impossible. They are all under the direct jurisdiction of the people within the royal family. It is absolutely impossible for such a place to fall to the Cao family firm.

Because some of the policies currently implemented by the Cao's Commercial Bank have made the upper-level people of the four empires feel that they are not very suitable, but ordinary people are very willing, such as the so-called policy implemented in the area ruled by the Cao's Commercial Bank The personal income tax, which is the poll tax they implement here, is nothing to them, but one problem that makes them uncomfortable is, how can this tax be collected according to their own income? This kind of thing has been practiced in the four great empires for many years. Many people think that it is only at the same level. Millions of rich people only need to pay 3 taels of silver a year. This is the so-called poll tax, which is also a very important part of the tax source of the entire Eastern Empire. This is very important for those super rich. It's easy, three taels of silver a year is not a good thing for an ordinary person, they may go in with two months' income, although it is not so serious to them, they are also It is affordable, and they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this thing before, but when the tax collection policy of Cao's Commercial Bank spread, they still felt a little uncomfortable. Can do that? The tax collection policy of the Cao’s House of Commerce is like this. People with an annual income of less than ten taels of silver are basically not required to pay taxes. Such people can still receive part of the relief from the Cao’s House of Trade every year for free, because Cao’s People from a commercial firm feel that they need help, which means that low-income people don’t need to pay taxes at all, as long as they can support themselves, the government is indeed collecting money from you. Those who don’t have much money, these people account for about 10% of all ordinary people. After all, there are not many poor people, but these people also need to pay taxes in the four empires, and the government will not Regardless of whether you will starve to death or not, this is something you have to do. In addition, there are some taxes stipulated by governments at all levels, which almost account for 50% of these people’s annual income. Only they know what kind of life they are living, and they can only eat some useless things for every meal. Good food has never appeared on their table. These people also endured it. After all, they have been here for so many years, but it was different later. Why can’t our government be the same as the people in the Cao’s House? People said that such people are simply not needed. Pay any taxes, because they may have problems even taking care of themselves. If they are asked to pay taxes, they will simply let them die. This is simply impossible. If they are asked to do this things. It's your fault. Although these people are all living at the bottom of the society, and no one pays attention to their remarks, this is always a bad phenomenon. If there is any fight with the people from Cao's House of Commerce in the future. It is estimated that these people may stand on the side of Cao's firm. It's all possible.

The second class is the people whose income is between ten taels of silver and fifty taels of silver. These people all need to pay taxes ranging from two taels of silver to five taels of silver every year. They are all people who have escaped poverty, of course. The people in the Cao’s House of Commerce collected so much tax, but they are different from the people of the Four Great Empires. The people in the Cao’s House of Commerce will make a huge notice board after collecting the money, telling them where the money has gone Yes, even every expense is clear, and they also understand their role in this matter, and it is the first time they have heard that they have rights, first of all, the title of taxpayer In the past, they never felt that they would have any rights. These rights are what those officials and lords should do. Of course, people on this planet don’t know what democracy is at all, so Li Cong also They will not be given too much right at once. If this place is really democratized, there may be a lot of problems, because they didn't have so many rights in the past. Let them start doing this in a while, they won't do it, and it will make the whole society messy, but it's okay to just give them a little right, just like now, they are still It feels good, at least I know where my money has gone. Many people who came from the notification area of ​​Cao's House started to yell in their area. Why are there so many people in Cao's House? As for rights, we also pay a lot of water bills every year, why didn't we let us know where the money went? You must know that the gentlemen of Cao’s House are different from you. They eat and drink similar to ordinary people, and there is a powerful supervisory agency. If any evidence against the officials is found, then It is possible to report it directly, and there will be a special person to investigate immediately. The relationship between businessmen and officials is not so good. As long as there is a gift-giving past and it is discovered, the investigation will start. If there is no The so-called power-for-money transaction is fine, but if there is something wrong with this matter, it will immediately let you know that the supervisory agency is terrible. Not only the official position may not be kept, even the businessman may not have it. What's the end, speculators have to do it, why did Li Conghui formulate this policy in the first place? It is because he is also a businessman, and he knows very clearly what these businessmen are most afraid of, that is speculators, if they take away all the money in their family because of one incident, it is estimated that anyone will feel guilty Uncomfortable, since this is the case, then find the least comfortable thing to do. If such things can be done well, each of you can be regarded as honest. This tax policy is the most let Dong The big merchants in the empire were dissatisfied with the next one. People with more than a hundred taels of silver should be considered rich, and they were divided into a class of one hundred taels of silver to ten thousand taels of silver, and then ten thousand taels of silver. Up to one hundred thousand taels of silver, one hundred thousand taels to one million silver, one million silver to ten million silver, ten million silver to one hundred million, and above one hundred million, they need to pay 10% to 10% of their income every year An income ranging from 40 to 100 yuan, this kind of income makes those rich people feel pain, what the hell are you kidding about, you have to charge 4% of the family property that my ancestors left for me all at once Fifteen assets, isn’t this a joke? Why don’t you rob? It seems that only the word robbery can describe your current behavior. Besides, I really don’t know what to say about you. They have their own ideas. First of all, this kind of thing killed them.

In fact, this is a good thing for the people of the Four Great Empires. The basis of their rule is not these so-called poor people, but the basis of their rule is the landlord class, and only these people will bring them a lot of benefits, and what these people want to protect is also the interests of these people, for a while These people have switched roles. They are government officials when they wear official uniforms, and they are businessmen when they take off their clothes. It can be said that they are still like this now, but they are much better than before. For example, a Among the big family. The direct descendants absolutely did not go out to do business. They will all go to some surrounding places to serve as magistrates or something, but some of their concubine brothers and sisters will go to the place where they work to do business, and the money they earn will make this direct descendant rise to Going up to a higher position will give that concubine's son greater convenience. Then let the power of the family expand even more. This kind of thing is very normal in many places. If Li Cong had occupied their place, would they still have the present day? It can be said that the common people have changed their views now, although many people in the government said how terrible the notification area of ​​Cao's House is. But there will be a lot of people coming from the notification area of ​​Cao's House, and they don't feel that there is anything wrong with the people there. If there is such a difference, the relationship between the government and the people is very close. Well, it’s not the same as here, there are people who don’t obey the government’s rule and go up the mountain to become the king of the mountain. The security situation over there is also good. Although the yamen servants here are responsible for the security of this place, But there is only one thing they do every day, and that is to go out and collect a certain security fee from these businessmen outside. If you don’t pay, then this thing will come, some gangsters on the street They will come to this place to show you something nice, and then you will beg these people to collect security fees, and in the end, this is the situation, and they are very supportive of such a situation. Helpless, the adults in the government also know that this is what the government servants below should do. After all, the money given to them is too little. If they don't let them do such things, then they are too sorry for them Yes, just look at their income, it’s really too little, if you don’t let them do such things, then how will you live in the future, even if you want them to do things for you You have to make people full, right? I don't have so much money to give to others, so I naturally have to let them go out to find their own way out. The people at Cao's Commercial Bank are completely different. Each of those guys has their own salary, and they all have their own salary. It's a very high salary. For them, this kind of treatment is nothing. They don't care about such a small amount of money. There is no way, who asked Cao's business to use all the taxes on people's livelihood. Well, of course you will do that. It doesn’t matter if the salaries of government employees are higher. This is their ability. If you also have such ability, then there is no problem. Unfortunately, you don’t have it. Such ability, so what else can we say, you can only be looked down upon by the common people, there is nothing the common people can do about it, in fact, some middle-class people also feel that the social atmosphere on their side is not very good, After the news spread, many people thought that Cao's House was better than theirs. No matter how the people from the government publicized this matter, they just felt that Cao's House was better than theirs. Many, although it is impossible for them to be traitors, they all feel that if the people from Cao's House come to occupy this place, they will have no resistance. For them, whoever rules them is It doesn't matter, as long as it can make their lives better, that's what they think now.

The people from the Four Great Empires also discovered the matter before them in time, and they also thought that this kind of ideological intrusion was very serious, and they also wanted to solve this problem, but such problems were not formed in one day. It is absolutely unrealistic to solve this problem quickly. In fact, they don't know how to solve this problem. For them, it seems that military matters are more serious. in the eyes. When did the affairs of these common people become important matters, and the affairs of those rich families were the most important thing, so what if the ordinary people were making a fuss? Most people will not act out of line, even if there is a part of it, it doesn't matter, the most is to bring a few good people to the mountains to become bandits, that doesn't have any relationship, As long as our army arrives, it will immediately fall apart, for them. No matter what happened to the common people. It is impossible for them to care about it, because they don't think that the threat of the common people will exceed that of the people of Cao's Commercial Bank, and they will feel a little uncomfortable about this matter in the future. Li Wei specially presided over this propaganda war. In fact, sometimes if such a thing happens, it will bring a huge blow to the people of the four empires. Sometimes this blow is more powerful than a military strike. This is what these people can't understand. If they can understand the matter in front of them, it is estimated that there will be no place for us to mess around in the future. They may not understand such things, that is, because of such things, people from the four empires all feel that something is wrong, but they can't find anything wrong, that is, in such a At the time of a collision of ideas, another major hammer came down for the Cao's Commercial Bank. In the Cao's Commercial Bank's ruling area, all people who have registered in the Cao's Commercial Bank's household registration book can be the same as before, regardless of Anywhere in the empire, you can enjoy the policy of 15 cents a catty of grain. Of course, there is also a purchase limit. For example, if you eat 300 catties of grain a year, your purchase amount can only be It is twice this amount. If it exceeds this amount, it needs to be priced according to a local market price. Finally, Cao's Commercial Bank will not let their grain be permanently at that price. It was good news, but they soon discovered that the grain production on this continent seemed to have reached a fatal level, because almost 80% of the large area of ​​arable land was in the hands of the Cao family firm. Moreover, the taste of the grain from Cao’s House is the best. No matter how they do it, it’s impossible for them to produce such good grain. This kind of thing also makes them feel very strange. What's going on here? Why didn't we find such a thing before? If our food is so delicious, will the price be lower? In fact, this is impossible, because other grain merchants produce some low-quality grain. After the news came out, those people in other regions felt uncomfortable. Fifteen cents, but if the weather is not so good in the future, what should I do if the price increases? It will only cost a few hundred cents more every month, but they still feel uncomfortable in their hearts. Said, this should be the same for people all over the world, why can those people in Cao's house enjoy it?

They are very upset about such a decision, but the people of Cao's Commercial Bank don't care about your thoughts, because your thoughts have nothing to do with us, and it doesn't matter if you want to buy such cheap food , you can directly join the household registration of Cao’s Commercial Bank, because the household registration card issued by Cao’s Commercial Bank is green, so this thing is also called a green card, and then there will be a series of benefits, except for the food. In addition to welfare, Li Cong also started to build some schools on a large scale in the hundreds of provinces he occupied. There were no schools in this era, and all of them appeared in the form of private schools. There is no unified teaching material. It can be said that all of them are supported by the ability of these teachers in this era. Of course, many people also rely on their own luck. If you have a good teacher, then you can get a good life in the future, but if the person who teaches you is a fool, then you may miss the most important period of your life, because in the future Your own memory is not that good, so Li Cong started to organize the school. There will still be more people in this era, and Li Wei does not have the ability to let all students go to school for free. , it can only be made cheaper for them. For example, those private school gentlemen outside have to pay one or two taels of silver for their studies every month, and here they only charge that much for half a year. This is the reason why many people did not study in the past. One tael of silver a month is such a big expense. It is enough to consume a family for a year. In fact, it is far from that much money. It is because those teachers think that their knowledge is worth so much money that they will charge so much money. It is difficult to say anything about this Li Wei, because this is also a very normal thing. Learning is in this society. Absolutely very good, even he has already paid a monthly salary of ten taels of silver. But still only less than 3,000 teachers were called. This is simply a drop in the bucket for the entire establishment of schools. It is simply not enough. There is simply a huge gap. There are thousands of schools established in hundreds of provinces. This is still just being created. In the future, it may be hundreds of times this number. How can such a small number of teachers be enough, but so many schools have been established, but only a few students have come, which Li never thought of. Most of them came from the family members of the employees of Cao's House. As for the others, they still didn't really believe this, because those old private school gentlemen had already said it out, saying that the professors in this place Some things are simply useless, and it is impossible to obtain anything in the imperial examinations in the future. What Li Wei wants them to teach is some relatively complete knowledge on the earth, and it is definitely not some of the things on this planet. Yes, those things cannot be said to be useless, but for these people, there is really no need to study, and not everyone will go to be an official in the future, even if they are officials, it is time to take exams Those who need these things will throw them away when they finish the exam. There will not be many people who will come to see this thing. They will all feel how useless this thing is. These people have to learn It should be something that is useful to society, and there is basically no need to learn anything that is not useful to society. These people understand this matter, otherwise, what would they use it for? This formed a huge confrontation with some local private school gentlemen. What I have learned all my life turned out to be useless, so I dare not fight against you.

This also gave the people of the major empires an explanation. They are all vigorously promoting the issue of reading. It is useful, but it is not useful at all. This is a matter that directly discredits scholars. Many people really believe in this matter. Li Wei doesn't know what to say for their understanding. In fact, we are We came to help you, we provided people, money and everything to help you live a good life, but in the end, we didn’t accept our favor. I really don’t know what is going on in your mind. If you If we all do things like this, we really don't know what to do with you. Should we just let you be illiterate for the rest of your life? In the past in China, there were a lot of illiterate people. If there were too many illiterate people, it would be a great obstacle to the progress of the whole society. Grasp it well, and even feel that we are all cheating you. I really don’t know what to say to you about such a thing. Anyway, what you think in your mind is different from what we think. If this is the case , in the future, you can decide your own affairs. In the past, Li Wei was not a person who would shrink back in the face of setbacks, but in the current situation, he will die like this. If he really forces them If you enter this school to study, those people don't know what they will say. Besides, why do you think that if you give others a little favor, you will follow me? That is impossible, each of these people is very clear, they will not give up the four empires so quickly, for them, although they are now members of Cao's House of Commerce, but in the future Cao's House of Commerce Being wiped out seems to be a very possible thing, and Li Wei has no way to tell them what they think. Who knows what will happen in the future? You will always say how powerful the people in your Cao's house are, but if the people from the four great empires unite, can't you handle it? This is impossible, just like what the people of the Four Great Empires said, although there have been many people who wanted to deal with the Four Great Empires in history. But in the end, all those people were just a corpse, and there was nothing else left. There are also many people from the Four Great Empires in this region. Although they have a very good relationship with Cao's House now, but what are these people thinking in their hearts, they are probably the only ones who know this. , These people are all obedient and obedient. Many employees of Cao's Commercial Bank are like this. For such a situation, the senior management of Cao's Commercial Bank has nothing to do. After all, what people think in their minds can only be decided by them, and we cannot let them decide. If only we had such a way. This issue may be resolved at a later date. But now they don't have that ability. People who come to see Cao's House of Commerce still have a lot of advantages in this duel. At least many people say that the lives of ordinary people in the area of ​​Cao's House of Trade are better than them. These people don't care much about other things. What they care about is actually very simple things. Many of them have to rely on their own things to do. Many people don't really understand this matter, Dan The teacher basically understands everything now.

In any case, although there are no open fires on the entire continent, there are dark fires everywhere. These people are very cautious in doing things one by one. In their opinion, these things today are not so serious. , but many people are very scared, because they all feel this thing, this is the current mainland is more dangerous than when Li Cong was there, in the past, although Li Cong was a very good guy Sharp, but it won't be easy to create some friction. The alchemist is now at the helm of Cao's firm, it seems that it is not the same. This guy is young and vigorous, if he doesn't have any great ability in his hands There is nothing to worry about, but now he has very powerful strength in his hands. If this guy does something a little bit, it will be a terrible thing. Just like now, the army of Cao's House is unprecedentedly strong. Not only did this person not have any place to restrain himself, but he intensified even more. Just when many people felt that the people of Cao's Commercial Bank were about to lose because of school affairs, the military department of Cao's Commercial Bank began to speak, and they all had their own In some ways, these people feel that a lot of things have happened one by one. This guy Li Wei has formed ten guard divisions. In fact, the guard divisions already existed before. The powerful trump card troops are enough, but this time it is different from the previous ones. What makes these troops stronger than others is that they can all be transported by airships. They have their own exclusive airships. This matter directly makes the entire continent The people were dumbfounded. The largest airship of Cao’s House can already transport more than 3,000 people at a time. Each division has hundreds of such airships to transport their personnel and equipment. Such an army directly makes four The emperors of the great empire couldn't sleep anymore. If such an army was thrown directly outside their own capital, what should they do with this matter? If we fight, it is estimated that the army under our hands will not be the opponent of others, but if we do not fight, the result may be surprising in the end. These people will have their own ideas. Everyone felt that things were not that simple. Why did the people of Cao's House form such an army? According to the standard of Cao's Commercial Bank in Gongbu, the price of a super large airship is more than 45 billion silver. You must know that the army of a division needs hundreds of ships. Is there more than 500 billion silver? Is such an army too expensive? Soon the military department of Cao's House of Commerce released a message, saying that other people don't need to think about it. In fact, the people of Cao's House of Commerce formed such an army purely for defense. These troops can be defeated within two years. Arrive at any place on the mainland, and they are all stationed in ten places on the mainland. These ten places can basically reach any place on the mainland within three months. Regarding such a statement, The people of the four great empires panicked even more. There is no safe place on this continent. In the past, if the people of the four great empires wanted to fight, even if they were going at full speed, it would take at least a year. Only time can gather your own army, because this continent is really too big, it is not so easy to gather your own army so quickly, and now such a situation has appeared, Faced with such a threat, the people of the other three empires could not do nothing, and their military departments also started their own deduction. At the end, they came to a conclusion that the ten most important cities in the entire empire must More than ten million troops must be stationed, otherwise they may be quickly killed by the guards of Cao's House. Many people are aware of such things, which means that these people will increase rapidly. Manually.

Now the armies of the four empires have reached the highest level in history. If they continue to expand their armies, some of their domestic labor force may also be insufficient. This is an unimaginable thing, but the four empires The emperor still accepted such a terrible thing. Each of these people felt that their seats were not very stable, and each of these people could see clearly that it was not the monsters in the Warcraft Mountains that threatened them. It's these guys outside, those people from Cao's House, they are the ones threatening us. Without them, it is estimated that such a thing would not have happened. Now they are already a serious threat to us, so we must To do such a thing, Li Wei hid in the dark and laughed, why did he release such news, you are really strong now, but there are people in this world that you don’t know that are being competed, when you are all invested When you go in, at that time you will find that there is still a huge gap with Cao's House, I really don't know what will happen to you at that time? (To be continued..)