Section 2359: The Compromise of the Magician's Guild

No one thought that such a situation would happen today. From their point of view, today's situation was a bit unexpected. They never thought that the Cao's firm they represented could come up with such a medicine. There are all kinds of strange medicines for magicians, but this is the most basic representative. As long as such things can be made, other things are nothing. None of these people are fools, of course they are. Understand the importance of this thing, now that Cao's House took out this thing, it happened to strangle the throat of the Magicians Union, and the president of the Magicians Union also felt his helplessness at this time, he never thought that The menacing question turned out to be such a result at the end. This kid from Cao's House is really fucked up. You actually have so many ghost ideas. At the beginning, you thought about not reducing the magician's strength. The right is only to reduce the rights of the magician's union, which can win the hearts of most magicians, because usually their connection with the union is in the place where they buy medicine, and there is nothing else. This is also a way for the Magician Union to control them. Now it seems that this way is useless at all. If the Cao's House sells this thing in the future, they will have no way to contact them at all. , This is to force the members of the Magician's Union to admit this matter. It seems that if we don't cooperate with them in the future, people like myself will have no room at all, but if this cooperation starts under such circumstances If so, how can the Magicians Union have a fair position in the future? The premise of this cooperation should be fairness. Now that they cooperate, they will definitely be subject to the people of Cao's House in the future. At that time, they needed to ask him about everything they wanted to do. They were still laughing at the new emperor of the Southern Empire before, but now it seems that the fate of the new emperor is the same as theirs, and it is very Similar, and it seems that his fate is a little better than theirs, at least he was originally a prince. Now that he is an emperor, no matter how uncomfortable he is in his heart, he has risen a lot on the surface. Looking at them again, it is different. Their life will definitely be very difficult in the future. The people of Cao's House may demand them with orders or something. Thinking that my noble magician will be ordered around by these people, I feel extremely sad in my heart. The Magicians Union has come to me. It has been handed down for so many years. No one had ever lost so many rights before. I really didn't expect that all of this would be destroyed in my own hands. Even if I died, I would not be qualified to meet those magicians. It is they who used their own blood to fight for the rights of the magicians today, and they established the glory of the magicians' union. They did not expect that everything would be finished in their own hands. I really can't accept such a thing Yes, but what if you don't accept it. If you don't accept it, it may fall apart in no time. It was even more uncomfortable at that time.

The vice president of the Magician's Union did not expect that the people of Cao's House would have so many ways. From their point of view, the Magician's Union would definitely attack them, but if they knew the tough attitude of their Magician's Union, They wouldn't do anything to the Magician's Union either. After all, such a behemoth can't be easily manipulated. Such a thing is not an easy task for anyone. But now they all know that they were really wrong, and they were wrong too far. In the eyes of Cao's House, the Magician's Union is simply not on the same level as the Four Great Empires.

All of their actions have already shown their attitude, if you cooperate with us in the future. We can also continue to do well, you still exist, but if you don't cooperate with us, I don't think there is any need to discuss these matters in the future, our Cao's House of Commerce will directly announce the two news just now, so Go on, it is estimated that the strength of your magicians union can only be one third. At that time, even if you want to die with Cao's business, you will not have the qualifications. In the end, you can only have nothing to do , and each of you has suffered a major loss. Such a thing is unacceptable to anyone. Both the president and the vice president of the Magician's Union saw the helplessness in each other's eyes. This is the seven inches of the Magician Union. They all caught it. In fact, this is an open secret, but other people have no way to get these formulas. They can only continue to cooperate with the Magician Union. Yes, now that Cao's House has broken this balance, it will be impossible to deal with them in this way in the future, so they can only live by their faces, the president of the Magician's Union said, " I used to say that you people from Cao’s House are great, but I still didn’t believe it. Today’s incident really made me understand your ability to handle affairs well. No wonder the people from Danzong said at the beginning that you are definitely not good. It will be a good match. Since you have taken the lead, I want to know how you will deal with us? What else do you need from our magicians union? Just say it directly. If you can If we do it, we will continue to cooperate. If it touches our bottom line, everything is impossible, and our magicians union will not agree, then we will just die together." Can let the magicians union It is already very difficult for the president to say such a thing, let alone someone like Li Wei, even the emperor of the Southern Empire would not be able to do this step, which can be seen Cao's House has already done a very good job in this job. Li Wei smiled with the others. This proud old guy finally agreed, but Li Wei will not greatly weaken the Magicians Union. Li Wei is very clear about the truth that cutting meat slowly does not hurt. This kind of thing is also a big thing for Li Wei, so be careful.

Once upon a time, these guys were all people with nostrils in the sky, and they would not pay more attention to these ordinary people, but Cao's House is a force composed of many ordinary people, and now they want to force these magicians to bow their heads of. These noble mages bowed their heads. Although there is nothing groveling in the words of the president, they have already surrendered. This is beyond doubt, otherwise they would not have said similar things. The vice-chairman of the teachers' union also looked at his chairman in disbelief. In his impression, this guy's stubbornness is unimaginable. Just now, he was really afraid that the chairman would not be able to stand the depression here, and he would just throw it out as a lonely one. There will be more than half of the casualties, but the rest of the people will never die with them. If they try their best to deal with them, the magicians union will not persist for more than half a year. In fact, they said that half a year is a high opinion of themselves . The military intelligence department of Cao's House has also made some plans. If there is really a war with the Magicians Union, two months will be enough. They were powerful in the past, mainly because people thought they were powerful. Yes, but their real situation is not like this, and the actual situation is not so strong, it can be seen at this moment. As long as you find the right way, doing this is still a very easy thing. Li Wei smiled and asked the two presidents to sit down, and then said, "You two, in fact, we don't have any other ideas. Here are some of the conditions we listed. We just hope that in the future, the Magician Union will You can just talk to our Cao's House about the action, and you must also accept the constraints of the law. As for the matter of the magician, we can completely put aside the dispute, and we will discuss this issue in the future. Although the firm has our own sales channels, I think it’s not good for us to do this. In the future, it’s better if we sell it to you at 80% of your sales price. I think you still have 20% of the profit. It's a good business. I heard before that your production is insufficient. This can be avoided at our Cao's firm. Our production is very sufficient. As long as we think about this problem, we can I can definitely do a good job, and I hope you can understand this matter, this is our compensation to you." Li Cong's words also made the two presidents happy, but they immediately understood the sinister situation. Be careful, this is a conspiracy, an absolute conspiracy, give us a cheap price, and we will have 20% of the profit. It was really not easy to find such a thing before, but the consequences of going on like this are very serious. Seriously, we will have nothing in the future, and our people are likely to have major problems. By then, you damn guys can get more things. At that time, if our people don’t want to Produce this, everything is in your hands, but now they will refuse this?

In addition, Cao's House has other things that need to be controlled, such as land. Although it has already occupied the land of the Southern Empire, some of the better cultivated land is in the hands of the Magicians Union. In the past, I said before that the people of the four major sects are big landlords, but they are nothing compared to the magician's union. It can be said that 10% of the cultivated land in the Southern Empire is all in the hands of the magician's union. Here, this is definitely not a small amount. If it is done well, it will definitely be able to further control the food of the major empires. In fact, this is also a safe rule route that Cao Jiashang is walking, no matter what other things are. , anyway, we can do very well here, our food is what you need, if you want to have a full stomach, you have to hang out with our Cao's firm, this is already on rty planet It has been well verified with the earth, but the population here is relatively large. The current grain output of Cao's Commercial Bank accounts for about 30% of the entire continent. This is far from enough, just like this war. , although the food has been used as a weapon, the major empires still have a lot of their own food reserves, and they will not cause too much harm to them. If you can control 70% or even more of the food If they were in labor, they probably wouldn’t be able to fight against themselves at that time. How could they have the strength to fight against themselves when they didn’t have enough to eat? The second condition put forward by the merchant firm is to rent all the arable land of the Magician's Union, which can be purchased or rented. Renting it is the same as renting the land of other major sects. Just give you food according to your current annual income. If you buy it, you have to pay real money. They also know what's going on, the ambition of Cao's House is really big. Although the president of the magician's union didn't want to agree to it, but thinking of the methods of Cao's firm, he still chose to rent out the land, but the contract was a bit ruthless, and it was a contract for decades. Let Cao's Commercial Bank control 50% of the arable land in the Southern Empire, plus some other wasteland planting, it is simply a breeze for Cao's Commercial Bank to obtain the control of the Southern Empire's grain. explain. This kind of thing is very easy, and there is nothing they can't do. It's just that if this continues, those landlords in the Southern Empire who still have land in their hands will feel uncomfortable. Now there are five taels of silver per mu of land. The price is around the same, but after the Cao's Commercial Bank controls a large area of ​​cultivated land, the price may drop even more. At this time, the land will not be sold to the people of the Cao's Commercial Bank. In the future, there will really be times when they will suffer, and this loss will not be small. It’s a lot of money that goes in and out, which will make them feel uncomfortable, but there’s nothing you can do about it. This is a market economy you haven’t seen before. If you understand, you can also come and play this game of.

The people of the Magician's Union don't understand anything. They also clearly know that land is what they depend on for survival. If they sell a small amount, it will be no problem, but if they rent all of them to skilled people, this will be a big problem. In the future, their economic lifeline It is also possible that those injured in the Cao's House of Commerce will be controlled. It is because of this that the people of the Four Great Empires are not the opponents of the Cao's House of Trade. Now the same thing has happened to the Cao's House of Commerce again. For them, the matter before them is really not easy to handle, but in the end they have reached an agreement, and the Cao's House of Commerce has taken over, and all the magic The arable land of the division union, some shipping, and some other transactions are worth hundreds of trillions of silver in total. Of course, it is impossible for the Cao's House of Merchant to directly give them such a large sum of money because of the war. No one will Those who doubt the credibility of Cao's House, as long as they want to make money, most of the money in the world may belong to them. He left with the vice president directly, and the rest is Li Wei and some of his subordinates celebrating, taking down the Southern Empire and driving away the emperor, it can only be regarded as half completed, and now it is considered The entire Southern Empire was taken down. Although there are some other large forces in the Southern Empire, those people are not my opponents at all. If they want to mess with themselves, they will probably suffer in the end. It's still theirs. I guess they all understand this matter, so they won't mess around. This is also the reason why the people of Cao's Commercial Bank can come to the present. For them, this matter is a record-setting event. , But for other people, this is not a good thing. First of all, the Magicians Union has now stepped down from their altar, and their previous privileges will be eliminated in the next few months. The reduction is completed, and they still have to express their consent, and they are still very happy to agree to this matter. For them, this matter in front of them is really unacceptable, but now you have to accept such a thing, otherwise In other words, if the Cao's House really turns against them, it will be impossible to do other things. The people in the Cao's House don't have a good temper, and it's their own who pissed them off in the end. Adults don't know how he returned to his room. This guy just felt that he had no strength at all. He did such a thing by himself, which can be said to be the most useless and most in the history of the Magicians Union Zang Liangxin's president is now, but what can I do if I don't do that? This society is different from the past. If I don't know how to change it, I guess the Magician's Union may become a thing of history. This It's definitely not a joke. This kind of thing is real and exists in reality. Now they all understand what's going on. The thing is indeed difficult to handle.

The vice president is also not very comfortable in his heart. What the Magician's Union needs now is to find its own influence from other places. In the past, the magician potion could be said to be the most available thing for them to take out, but now such a thing has become a weapon for others to deal with themselves, and they still use it very well. There was no chance to fight back, and many deacons in the Magician's Union also watched the two presidents come back with a dark face, although several people wanted to know what was going on. But after seeing the face of the president, they all shut up honestly. If such a thing is really said, it is estimated that the final result may be fatal. These people are not easy to get along with. It is possible to vent this anger on their heads. They are just running errands for others. It is better not to do such things, otherwise, there is really no way to live. pass. Now what they think is to just look at everything here honestly, and they don't care what it looks like in the future, anyway, someone will take care of this matter in the end, as long as they follow others That's right, on the second day, the army of Cao's House had already arrived in the area where the Magician's Union was located. These damned guys said 24 hours, and they really came in 24 hours. Many magic apprentices and their families were surprised, because the land under their feet had not been visited by government officials for many years. The Magician Guild has its own knight order and its own army to maintain law and order. It never needs outsiders to come in to do anything. Even if a murderer comes in, you have to go back and wait patiently. We don't give people words to you. No matter how powerful the rules are, it is useless. This is such a tyrannical lease. People from the Southern Empire have been here for hundreds of thousands of years, so they don’t care about this time. There is also a lot of conflicts in the Magician's Union. But in the end, they basically didn’t get any cheap ones, but the people in the Southern Empire suffered a lot. You must know that there are many masters among the magicians. What they want to do, they can’t restrain them. There are many, I didn't expect that the people of Cao's House would not care about what they thought at all, and brought people in directly, and then stationed their own people in these places, and they didn't feel how serious this matter was. It's too much. For them, the matter in front of them seems to be the way to do it. This makes other people feel very surprised. Where did they get the right to come here? What about? Don't you know where this is? If it is not done well, it will cause a huge conflict. We know that the army of your Cao's House is very powerful, but our Magicians Union is not easy to be bullied, is it? We all have dignity too.

After the matter of the Magician's Union is over here, the war in the northern part of the Southern Empire is ready to be ignited again. The people of the three empires have built a 3,500-mile-long defense line along the northern border of the Southern Empire. In addition, they can only reach their rear through the Warcraft Mountains. Although Li Wei has a lot of Warcraft to help, it is still impossible for his army to cross the Warcraft Mountains. If the crossing is successful, it will appear directly behind those guys. It is estimated that the enemies on the defense line will be scared to pee, but Li Wei's own army will also lose a lot. There will be huge dangers, no matter what you go in for, there will be no good results anyway, even people at the level of eighth-level fighters, if they go in, if they are not careful, they may be killed. It's not clear, didn't some eighth-level fighters come out after entering? It's because of the reason in front of me. If you don't pay much attention to such things, you will suffer a big loss sooner or later. These people should understand such things. If they don't even understand this If so, then they can really do this job. The coalition forces of the three empires this time are headed by the Western Empire, supplemented by the Northern Empire, and followed by the Eastern Empire. The number of the entire army exceeds two billion. It is the combination of their newly formed army and some old veterans. It can be said that the combat effectiveness is still very strong. They have also been training for a while. Originally, the people in Cao's House were going to rest for two or three months. But if you don't attack now, the more time you give them. Maybe there will be even greater losses in the future. The reason why the people of the Western Empire organized an attack on them so quickly this time is hard to explain. The navy of the Cao Family Firm came here from the Eastern Empire. , Started a violent attack on their coastal cities. If it weren't for the fact that the Cao's firm's army didn't have enough marines, their coastal cities might have been lost. They are all in danger now, and they all understand that these things are not so simple, and now they have started their own actions one by one, that is to start a decisive battle with Cao's house on land, if this battle fails If so, at least a quarter of the war army of the Western Empire will be lost here. You must know that the Western Empire has 1.2 billion troops, and the rest is 500 million from the Northern Empire and 500 million from the Eastern Empire. 300 million, since the other two empires are not as large as the Western Empire. Then the position of the leader is naturally for you to come. The Eastern Empire is basically a soy sauce in this battle. The navy of the commercial firm is still crowded in their minds. If they go back, the coastline of the Eastern Empire will have another huge impact. They can't defend such losses, so no matter how they fight. That's just so many people, don't expect us to continue to get some reinforcements for you. Those are impossible things, we are not brainless people.

This battle will be called the decisive battle of the Western Empire in future history books. Although the Western Empire has carried out several major battles after this battle, including the defense battles of some big cities they said, none of them The scale of the company is larger than this, and the scale was still within the controllable range at the beginning. But they couldn't stand the fact that both sides wanted to defeat the other side at once in this battle, so they just increased their strength, but in the end they didn't win the final victory, which hurt their own vitality. Although there will be quite a few battles after this battle. But it can be felt that both sides seem to be unwilling to contribute in the future battle, as if they have lost their own blood in this battle, which is why they don't attack one The main reason is that on the first day of the battle, it was the people from the Cao Family Firm who started advancing. The previous army encountered the patrol team of the Western Empire. They fired the first shot of the battle. On the morning of the first day, Cao The two cavalry partners of the 3rd Group Army of the Jiashanghang Army conducted routine reconnaissance on the 354 highland ahead. They had already reconnaissance the situation here many times before, and basically there was nothing else. Today, this matter is a little different. First, the two scouts from the Cao's Commercial Company did not come down after they went up, and they didn't even make a sound. This incident made the two company commanders feel strange. They thought it was wrong. It may be that the beasts on the mountain did this thing. If there are such powerful beasts in other places, things like eating soldiers will often happen, but before this 354 highland, there was a Cao's firm. The army is stationed on the mountain, and they have long since killed some game that can be eaten on the mountain, and there has never been a missing person in this place before, so they don't believe it. It will be like this, but sometimes these theories are impossible to explain in the past. What happened to the two people who went up, they all thought at the same time that it might be the army of the Southern Empire. Before, they suspected that the army of the Western Empire was heading towards them, so they came here to investigate. Now that they knew the enemy's ability, they stopped sending people up. The two company commanders Immediately, they ordered their mortars to shoot at several places on the mountain, firing a full fifty rounds of shells. At the beginning, there was nothing at all, but at noon on this day, it finally counted as With the discovery, some people who were hit on the mountain started to shout, and the number of people who could be seen was thousands of people, and there were more than a thousand people in the two companies. They would not do stupid things Yes, if they rush up here, they don’t know how many of their own people will die. They immediately built fortifications at the foot of the mountain, and immediately sent people back to report, saying that the people of the Western Empire have already advanced to this place, let them The headquarters rushed to the reinforcements.

On the afternoon of the first day, a regiment from the Cao's House came quickly, accompanied by two 203mm howitzers. This is definitely a big guy's, because Cao's House has improved some carriages, so now it can also run around with this thing. Of course, it must reach a certain level of traffic. How about it. Carrying this thing is really a huge trouble, but the road here is still possible now, if you continue to go to the Western Empire, you don’t need to bring this thing, even if you really carry it , It was they who made it up for themselves. The road conditions over there were of no use at all. After the regiment came that afternoon, they also took a look. There must be at least 5,000 enemies on the mountain. His regiment is a reorganized regiment, not a reinforced regiment, so there are only less than 4,000 people. The heavy firepower is just some small mortars and mountain artillery. If the two big guys really fight, He eats cannonballs very much. It is estimated that even if all his subordinates go to get cannonballs, it may not be enough. This is what he got to attack the city wall. To deal with the city wall of a county, there is basically no problem with the two gates. But now we are not facing the city wall of a county, but we are facing a highland. If there are more artillery, we can just do a cover bombing. It is estimated that the people on the mountain will be there at that time. I can't stay up there anymore, but it's not the same thing now. Many people on the mountain are not very good now. These people are too scattered. If I bombard the whole mountain for a while, I don’t know when it will be. The order above is to let me take this high ground before dark, so there is no opportunism. . The head of the regiment immediately ordered all the artillery to be used together, so that dozens of artillery pieces and hundreds of grenadiers in the whole regiment were all concentrated, as well as the bombing team, who wanted to enter the bombing team. The team must have two important indicators, which are throwing distance and throwing accuracy. No matter which of these two is achieved, this is no problem. After entering the bombing team, your treatment will be the same as that of a bombing team. Ordinary squad leaders are the same. At the beginning, there were many soldiers who were not convinced, but now you all understand this. He can hold a grenadier at critical times. Even those with great strength can be used as mountain cannons. If you also have such ability, you will be treated the same. There is never any favoritism here. Don’t say too much about the matter, just go back and be your leader honestly. Everything here depends on your own fists. Other things are unreasonable. The team leader requires the first round of fire preparation. It's only good to beat the other side stupidly. This is the first war since the attack on the capital of the Southern Empire. If you can take the lead first, such a show of face is also a big deal. It depends on the brothers under your command. .

The army of the Western Empire on the opposite side also came for reinforcements, but they didn’t come until after the war started. At this time, there were explosions everywhere on the mountain. About 10,000 reinforcements from the Western Empire came, and they all came running. Yes, they don't have as many big carts as Cao's House, so their physical exertion is very serious after coming here. After coming here, they thought they could drink some water and take a rest. Who knew this? The borders were already on the way, and their people went straight into the battle, but the people from Cao's House didn't come up either, so they kept firing on the mountain, although it wasn't very violent, but it also caused a lot of casualties , the original general was killed, and the artillerymen of the Cao’s Commercial Company were the first to deal with the enemy’s chief. If I didn’t give them special care for that obvious sign, I would be really sorry. Theirs, of course, was to kill them all at once, and the result was really good. An 80mm large-caliber mountain gun exploded around the command post, and the shrapnel directly killed several people inside. Killed, they live in just a tent, it can be said that there is no defense measures, it is a normal thing to die inside, after losing their own chief, these people are a bit like fighting on their own Well, you people are not the opponents of Cao's firm if you play 120% of your ability. Now that you are all fighting on your own, it will be even more useless. Soon their army will follow the reinforcements It started to be chaotic together. Many people couldn't find their chief. They haven't looked around since they went up the mountain. Now that their chief is dead, let's see how powerful the army of Cao's House is in front of the mountain. Yes, they had the intention of retreating, but the reinforcements who came did not want to retreat. They also wanted to rush down the mountain to have a close fight with the people from the Cao's house. They hadn't realized that the Cao's family The army of the commercial firm is powerful, and the army on the mountain knows a little bit about it. They are not so stupid to go down. Both sides were very restrained at the beginning, but later it became chaotic. The head of the regiment didn't let his army go up, because they could all feel that this matter is not that simple. If they really go up, they probably won't have any good fruit to eat. I can't even see it. After my people go up, even if my own weapons are very powerful, they are not as powerful as those people. How come they have been up there for a few days, so I asked my people to guard them immediately Go down the exit of the mountain, and then let the artillery hit it violently, and ask the people in the transport team to quickly deliver the shells. If this thing can’t be connected, it’s really possible for these people on the mountain to run away. The mountain is so big Well, it is not so easy to encircle them all, and he also saw that the other party seems to want to rush down, if this is the case, he is really not afraid of you all, just come down. (To be continued..)