Iron Dynasty

Chapter 320: Painting a Pie

"Hahaha……"

A burst of laughter spread from the office of the chairman of the chamber of commerce.

Many businessmen in the chamber of commerce cast curious glances in the direction of the voice.

This voice is familiar to many businessmen. It is clearly the voice of King Qi, which makes them excited for a while.

King Qi rarely came to the Chamber of Commerce, so the office of the chairman was always empty, and only Li Kaiyuan was busy here, dealing with everything.

Cao Zhengyang looked at Xiao Ming who couldn't stop laughing in the office where the nameplate of the conference was hung.

He was now beginning to wonder if he could complete the task his father had given him.

"Why is Your Highness laughing?" Cao Zhengyang finally couldn't help it.

Xiao Ming stopped his smile, "This king is laughing because you are really brave, if the king of Chu knows that you are standing in front of this king and saying these words, your Cao family will only be destroyed in an instant, you really think that the world is rich , the King of Chu dare not touch you? Wrong! These wealth are only temporarily kept by you, and will eventually fall into the hands of the King of Chu, this pig will be killed when it gets fat."

"His Royal Highness is saying a lot of money, but it's just that His Highness looks down on the Cao family too much. For the Cao family, they never put their eggs in one box. If we don’t go on, there will always be a place for the Cao family to stay, but the roots of the Cao family are in the Great Yu Country after all, if there is a stable place, the Cao family is still willing to stay in the Great Yu Country.” Cao Zhengyang said loudly.

After a pause, Cao Zhengyang continued: "His Royal Highness, looking at the Great Yu Kingdom, the Cao family will naturally not say this to any prince. There is another reason why Cao came to Qingzhou this time, and that is because of the Cao family. The merchant ship encountered His Highness's fleet at sea, I wonder if His Highness knows about Yue Yun?"

"What!" Xiao Ming stood up abruptly, with a dangerous aura on his body.

Zhao Long and Zhao Hu felt Xiao Ming's anger, and immediately drew his sword and pointed at Cao Zhengyang, ready to cut Cao Zhengyang in front of him at any time.

"Your Highness is so excited, it seems that Yue Yun is indeed His Highness's person, but it is a pity that those three battleships were beaten into sieves. I am afraid that His Highness will lose no less than one million taels this time." Cao Zhengyang said slowly.

Xiao Ming quickly calmed down. Yue Yun had not heard from him for three or four months. He had been worried all the time, but he did not expect that he would encounter an accident in the end.

He asked lightly, "What do you want to say!"

Cao Zhengyang had a serious look on his face, and bowed to Xiao Ming again, saying, "Your Highness, the Cao family's caravan is helping Yue Yun to repair the damaged battleship, and His Royal Highness will be able to see his fleet in a month at the latest. This is the Cao family and His Royal Highness. The sincerity of cooperation, I don’t know if His Highness is still satisfied.”

"What do you Cao family want?" Xiao Ming asked with a sneer.

"His Royal Highness's fleet has proved the strength of His Highness, and this is exactly what the Cao family needs. My father believes that His Royal Highness will give the Cao family a different future. This is what the Cao family wants. Of course, if His Royal Highness allows the Cao family to open a bank in Qingzhou. , the Cao family will be more willing." Cao Zhengyang said slowly.

Politics is the exchange of interests, Xiao Ming is no longer Wuxia Amon, "Is this the condition of your Cao family?"

"Yes, Your Highness, we have learned that His Highness is preparing to build a bank similar to a bank in Qingzhou, but His Highness is currently short of money, and secondly, there are too few people who understand this business, and the progress has been very slow until now. To the Cao family, Mr. Cao promises that within three months, each state and county of His Royal Highness will establish a bank." Cao Zhengyang said.

Xiao Ming hesitated. This Cao family is really a lion. This bank is the financial industry of later generations. Whoever does not know the key points of the financial industry in modern times will be fooled by Cao Zhengyang if it is a native of the Great Yu Kingdom.

But it was wrong for the Cao family to hit him. He finally understood why the Cao family was so anxious.

It turned out that the fact that he was planning to build a bank made the Cao family feel the crisis.

It's just that now Yue Yun and the fleet are in the hands of the Cao family. According to Cao Zhengyang, without their help, Yue Yun and the others would not be able to repair the battleship and return.

And now they don't seem to tell the King of Chu about this, they are asking him for a price.

If they don't have a suitable price, the Cao family may give up and stop trying to cooperate with him.

Living in modern times, Xiao Ming is very aware of the power of capital. Now the Cao family is obviously beyond the scope of ordinary businessmen in the Great Yu Kingdom. In his opinion, the current Cao family is looking for a hotbed of capital.

That's why he risked getting in touch with him.

After hesitating for a while, Xiao Ming said: "This king cannot give up Qingzhou Bank, but this king will not prevent the Cao family bank from opening a bank in this king's fief. This is the king's bottom line."

"His Royal Highness is indeed a very shrewd person. His Highness's thoughts are the same as my father's guess. Well, we agree." Cao Zhengyang said.

Xiao Ming snorted softly, this result was a win-win situation for both him and the Cao family.

Originally, Xiao Ming wanted to monopolize the profits of the financial industry, but if he thought about it carefully in this era, it would not work. If he wanted to develop rapidly, he had to take advantage of capital to form his own interest group.

Businessmen will only invest their money in themselves if they have a steady stream of profits from him.

It was in this binding of interests that the East India Company of the West grew.

So from now on, he will gradually build interest groups around him, and let these interest groups continue to provide himself with the capital of war.

For this reason, he can't entangle whose fief these businessmen come from, as long as he can provide himself with materials and money, he can use these people.

After all, in the business field, they use each other and stab each other.

After Cao Zhengyang agreed to his conditions, Xiao Ming changed his words again and proposed a bold plan. He said, "This king has a more profitable business, I wonder if you are interested?"

"Your Highness, please speak?"

"This king is going north to attack the barbarians and recover the lost land in Youzhou. You may have heard that your majesty has promised this king that the land will be owned by this king, but this king is lacking in materials and can't do anything, so he recently decided to ask the merchants We raise materials, according to how much they provide, and return them with profits from future wars, I wonder if your Cao family is interested."

"Profits from future wars? I don't know what those profits refer to."

"Land, barbarian livestock, horses, captives, trade routes to barbarians, etc." Xiao Ming began to draw a big cake, "You think about how much land would be captured by this king in a place as big as the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. Once the barbarians are defeated, the barbarian slaves, barbarian livestock, and pastures are all huge wealth, as long as you give money, this king is willing to be the pioneer."

Cao Zhengyang was stunned, he thought, this King Qi really had a different response.

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