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Soon these people went back to the house. They went back to report to their emperor. They also said that the people in the Eastern Empire were also wondering about this matter. Did the Cao’s business people find some huge gathering spot in the sea? After all, I haven’t gone to sea before, and I don’t know the most external things very well. It seems that the people at Cao’s Commercial Bank have really discovered something terrible. Otherwise, how could they bring so many people, these people? It didn’t look like they had looted them, and they were very serious when doing things, and the Cao’s house firm paid them regularly, which made the people of other empires feel suspicious, and immediately began to investigate. The great nobles under your own hands, did these great nobles sell all the people they closed down? If this is the case, it will definitely be severely punished. It is already related to the foundation of the entire empire. You still have to take these It’s too wrong to exchange things for silver, but when he checked all the great nobles under his hand, and finally did not find any great noble betraying them, they were really a little panicked, especially the Western Empire. The emperors of the Northern Empire are very opposed to Cao's House of Business. They definitely don't want to see the people of Cao's House of Business develop in this way, and just build the naval base on their doorstep?
I don’t know when they started to feel it. In the past, there would always be some people who united the people who opposed Cao’s business. Now this united person seems to have disappeared suddenly. Did you go somewhere? This is really confusing, even if those people just disappeared. There should also be some clues. In fact, the people they think are those on the mainland of the cultivator. Ah, this person used to kill Cao’s plus sign in the cradle, but it’s a pity that they did it at all. Before this matter, they were all caught up by Li Congqi now, and they no longer had the same ideas as before. What they are thinking now is how to obtain those top-quality spirit stones from Li Cong's hands. What they want, if you people from the great empires can also provide those things, we will help you do what you want us to do. It's a pity that you don't have that kind of thing. It’s impossible to provide us with something. Besides, we are all controlled by Li Congji now. Even if you want to give us, we must have the courage. Besides, you don’t even know what it is. thing. Now the people in Cao's house are very kind to these people. After all, Li Cong also confessed when he left. These people are all very useful, and no one can say what they can do in the future, if they can really help Cao's business. You have offended others now. At that time, even if they helped you, they would definitely have a grudge and would not help you sincerely. None of the people in Cao’s business had been with Li Cong for a day or two, and they all knew What should we do with such long-term investments, so one by one is considered okay for these people. When these people see that the people of Cao's Commercial Bank are so good to them, they start to concentrate on doing their own things, mainly research What effect will spirit stones have on this continent?
There is no impermeable wall in the world. Some people understand how much the Eastern Empire has done. These people are not fools. After such a long time, if they have not received any news. If this is the case, these three empires really don’t know what to say about them. Now they have already received some news. Each of these people feels something is wrong. It is said that the people in the Cao family firm have already It’s because there are so many hot money, it seems impossible for them to give up the plan of the naval base. You must know that the Cao’s Commercial Bank has never done anything like this halfway through no matter when it was started. , Even if these people feel that the conditions are not enough, they will make conditions instead of just waiting like this. This is definitely not the way the Cao’s business people do things, although they know that Wu Zuoxi went to the Eastern Empire before. No matter how they would not suspect this matter to the Eastern Empire. First of all, the relationship between the Cao’s house and the Eastern Empire can be said to be the worst. How could they cooperate? The second one is this sea. Now they have a lot of navies on this continent, but the navy of the Eastern Empire is the navy that can threaten Cao’s merchants. In the past, the Eastern Empire was a maritime country. Now This is even more so, because they have already dispatched a new type of warship. If the people of Cao's firm do not deal with them, they will cultivate themselves a formidable opponent in the future. In fact, the Cao's firm has dealt with this problem. People who are not worried about it. The backwardness of a society can never be changed with one or two weapons. This requires the entire society to change. If it is really possible to change with weapons, then this world is early I don’t know how many changes have been made, so even if the people of the Eastern Empire developed weapons similar to them, they would not be afraid, because such a feudal society was a decadent, and the reason why the people of the Eastern Empire could develop So fast is because they made some changes. Without the appearance of Cao's House of Business, they could indeed become kings on this continent. Alchemists are obviously impossible now, they are impossible. Will become the king on this continent, there can only be one king on this continent, that is, the talents of the Cao Family Commercial Firm can do it. Although the people of their three empires doubted this matter, they did not think of the east. Go to the head of the empire, protesting such things is just like a child’s play house. It is simply useless. You can see the situation now. At the beginning, if you go to the Cao’s house to protest, how much There will still be people coming to receive you, but now if you are in the past, I'm sorry, there is no such thing at all, we will not interact with you people, if you want to understand some naval affairs, you can. We have an external liaison organization, you can go there and see it. We are a pure commercial organization here. We don't know much about them, and even know much less than you. It is because of the answers of these people from Cao’s Commercial Bank that they began to worry. Although they didn’t have many ships going to sea, there were also some of them. These ships all came back and said that there are some in some places on the sea. The naval base of Cao’s House of Business. At this time, even though they still couldn't see how important those places were. But they understand one thing, that is, all their ships seem to enter and exit from that place, and it is for this reason that they understand it. main traffic. Although there is no such thing to introduce this thing at this time. Alchemy strikes are considered to be high-levels on this planet. If you can't understand this, it will be impossible to continue chasing in the future. No one will talk to you about such a problem, and you can only bless yourself. As for other things, you can only say that you are sorry.
The spy gates of the three empires have also begun to wander around, especially the people of the Western Empire and the Northern Empire. The Southern Empire is very miserable because of the relationship with the Cao’s house, so they don’t want to inquire about this, because The entire empire is managed by people from the Cao’s House of Business, even if it is not, but in some more important places, people who are close to the Cao’s House of Business have that position. In other words, if there is no Cao’s It’s impossible for him to be in that position if the family firm recommends it. Cao’s family firm can be said to be truly powerful in the Southern Empire, but because the people of the Southern Empire still have a lot of resistance to them, so they I still can’t completely regard this place as my own. If I really did that, it is estimated that the most unlucky person might be my own. The power of the people of the Southern Empire is very powerful. It can only be a little bit slowly. If you go too far, you won’t know what will happen in the future. Many people in the Western Empire have also felt it. They don’t. With so many scruples, their ships are beginning to approach the naval base of Cao’s Commercial Company. Although it is tightly blocked, there are no so-called radars in this era, so if you want to pass it It’s still very easy. The spies of the Western Empire paid a huge price, and finally got some news. On the islands in the coastal area of ​​the Western Empire, the Cao’s merchants already had about 30 naval bases. After trimming, their scale will definitely not be small. If all of these bases are established, it is estimated that it will be very difficult for the people of the Western Empire to go into the ocean in the future. Of course, if you do business with the Cao family That said, as long as it is a civilian ship, there is no problem, even if you don’t need to worry about pirates. If you are a warship, then you are really sorry. These warships are not approved by us. Can enter the ocean, this thing is a bit unreasonable, right? The people of Cao’s House of Business didn’t say anything to the scouts of the Western Empire, they just sank half of their ships. There is no camera or anything in this era. Even if it was done by Lao Tzu, even if you guys all ran back. There is no need to be afraid. If you people go back and say, the senior officials of the Western Empire will definitely believe it, but because you have no evidence, so how we do things is our own business, you guys ? It’s something that we don’t have the right to intervene at all. When we come to our place, we must be prepared for loss. However, besides bringing this news back this time, these spies also received another news, that is The artillery of the Cao’s house seems to be much more powerful than before. One shell can sink one of their ships. In fact, this is all because the Cao’s house used armor-piercing shells. Although the ships on your planet are all made of wood, ordinary artillery shells are fine, but because the people of the Eastern Empire are already using multi-layer ships, if you don’t use armor-piercing shells, you would be underestimated. If I did, I found out that it was such an ending. It directly penetrated the bottom of the ship. Some of the crew members did not even have the opportunity to carry water. This power is really a bit stronger. The news that they received directly let the Western Empire Navy The people in the department are dumbfounded. When is the shock given by Cao's House of Commerce a head? When is this, how can there be such a powerful thing to hit us? This simply doesn't want us to survive. Why not let our people have such weapons? They are going crazy one by one, so why don't they have such great ability?
It can be said that the naval bases that the Cao’s house has trimmed this time all have their own ideas. All the naval bases are not too far away, so that they can support each other. The strength of the alchemist is not the strongest. The alchemist must maintain this ability on the ocean. How did the empire dominate the world when the sun never sets? This Li Wei is still very clear. It is because of people's understanding of the ocean. It’s time to pay attention to it. We must not just go by like this. We need to carry forward the ability of others back then, and for this reason, some ideas now have to be realized, otherwise. You won’t care what you are doing in the future. At present, the requirement of the naval base of Cao's Commercial Bank is that each base must have at least more than 100 combatable warships. It is the kind that can be pulled out at any time, and there must be dozens of shore defense guns around the base, with a caliber not less than 203mm. If it is smaller than this, the shell can not be shot that far, so it can be said to be of little use to the target at sea. Now everyone is very clear that if the navy wants to confront each other, it absolutely needs to use warships. Yes, things like shore defense guns are like a chicken rib. Of course, they are all on the earth, because the earth is used to fight with very powerful artillery, which is different here, even if it is There are no warships in the military port. It is easy to deal with these things. After all, they are all wooden ships. It is not that simple to deal with themselves. These people can feel each one. It is because of the immediate reasons that these people have to build a large number of coastal defense guns one by one. This cannon can be transported quickly from the other side of the earth. People from the Yang family and the Cao family firm Some of the iron ore mastered by the cooperation has been transported in large quantities, and the quality is much better than that on the earth, but some of the infrastructure here needs to be done by people here. Yes, let alone the construction of a naval base, it takes 60,000 people to work continuously for five years to complete. This is definitely not a small project, although there were a lot of road repairs in the past. The project is there, but compared with the one in front of you, that project is simply too useless. Many people can see it. This project can truly reflect Cao First of all, the road construction project last time can be said to be very simple. As long as the cement is delivered and there are people using it there, it’s fine. Many people are very It’s not the same this time. Every military base is different from the others. It takes a year for engineers to design this place. There is no such thing on this continent. There are so many engineers. The people Li transported from the earth this time are basically these people. They belong to the surplus people on the earth, but there is no problem with professional knowledge or something. These people are one by one. People are also very willing to come to this place. It’s a good thing for them to come to this place. It’s just that these people have some problems all over, which makes people feel It’s not very comfortable, but Li Wei doesn’t care about their problems. He just allows them to adapt here. Life on the other side of the earth can’t be compared with here. I want to get here. The kind of life on earth is impossible. Many of the lives here are not as good as those there, but here is also a very huge stage, enough for you to show one by one. In fact, this is just one Many people can't stand the environment here.
The people of the Eastern Empire didn't waste their time at this time. They didn't even think about it at some naval bases off the sea, because they all knew that it was impossible. How capable are we? We don’t have the skills of Cao’s Commercial Firm. They have already calculated a naval base. It doesn’t count those warships. It’s just a base, which requires hundreds of millions of dollars. It may even be higher. If the naval base is established according to the standards of Cao's Commercial Bank. At least two billion dollars is needed. If this is one or two, it is still no problem, but now it is one or two? That's not enough. According to the information they have obtained, Cao's firm will build more than 1,025 naval bases. From now on, these 1,025 naval bases will become huge nails on the sea, as long as they exist. The sphere of influence of the Cao Family Commercial Bank, they can do whatever they want, at least they don't have the ability to stop it, and the other three empires are even more impossible. Relying on others is also something that is not very realistic. At this time, it's better to rely on yourself. Just like now, the people of the Eastern Empire are already ready. All they need to do is to gather all these people. Then do something you can do in your own coastal location. It would definitely not be going out to find trouble with people from Cao's house. That is simply a waste of your own resources. You must know that any resource at this time is very terrible, if you are wasting it at this time. So in the future, don’t think about returning all of them. It’s simply impossible. The Eastern Empire also has a plan of its own. In addition to the loan from the Cao’s House of Business, they have also received approximately 350 billion silver, to build a very good coastal defense line. They knew that after the defense line was established, it would be impossible to resist the attack of the Cao’s house, because the Eastern Empire’s navy needed too many defenses. If you want to To protect all places, it would be impossible for this investment to be increased tenfold. Don’t the people of the Eastern Empire want to protect their empire, but this war is really too expensive. It’s called all being contested, but they don’t even know it. Such things are normal on Earth. Basically, many opponents are not killed on the battlefield, they are all killed in such an arms race. Now, the Eastern Empire has already begun. They don’t know what their purpose is for doing this. They just don’t let themselves be idle. They also know that wasting time is shameful, so why don’t you think about it? Money is also not a good thing. What they are doing now is not wasting time, but their money is wasted a lot. The Eastern Empire is different from the other three empires, that is To a certain extent, the other three empires already believed that Cao’s family firm was the biggest power. Alchemists and the others didn’t think that way. In their opinion, the most powerful strength on this continent was that of their Eastern Empire. As long as they have such an idea, they don’t know what to say. At least they have no way to solve this problem. The Navy is a new class of arms, and they think they can catch up with the people of Cao’s business. , But why don’t you think about it, the people at Cao’s Commercial Bank have done this for a long time. It’s impossible for you to catch up with others at the beginning. Another one is, You people in the Eastern Empire are also a bit scared. They all knew about the last conflict. Tens of millions of troops were dispatched. In the end, even a fraction of them didn’t come back. They were either killed by the Cao’s business. After being killed by the people of the Northern Empire, they felt very uncomfortable in their hearts, but the people of the Northern Empire asked us to help in the past. How come we were the most energetically killed by their people later.
It is for this reason that the relationship between the Eastern Empire and the Northern Empire is not so good. In fact, this is also a normal thing. We came to help you. Later, it was you who chased us. If you change you If we do, we will do the same. No one knows who failed in this matter, but one thing is certain, that is, the people of Cao’s house firm definitely took a lot of advantage. Look at them. It looks like you can understand that each of these people are doing things very well. In the end, they have achieved benefits from both sides. It is simply impossible for other people to have such treatment, of course. People’s treatment is so good, but it’s also because of their huge power. We don’t have such a huge power. We can see things like this very clearly. Even though these people from the Northern Empire are doing something wrong with the Eastern Empire. The people at is not very polite, but they also know that at the end of the matter, it was the people from Cao’s firm that were instigating it. If it weren’t for them, it is estimated that the current result would definitely not be what it is right now, but you know it. What can be done? Do you want to go up and do something to the people in Cao's firm? Let’s not mention that the army has already been stationed in your county. Even the current navy does not eat dry food. If it is really noisy, this matter is really not easy to handle. These people also understand their affairs very well, so they don’t say anything. Since you are all If we don't mention this matter, the people at Cao's Commercial Bank naturally have no need to raise this matter.
A month later, the 152 naval bases of Cao's Commercial Bank were already in operation, and the Eastern Empire also received a loan of approximately 29.5 billion silver. This is also a win-win project. Although the people of the Eastern Empire wanted to obtain larger loans. But Li Wei would not be stupid to give you money directly. We said this very well at the beginning. If we give you a loan of 1,000 taels of silver, you will find a laborer for me. I have to work here for at least 6 years while I guarantee their lives. The agreement between the two parties can be said to be very detailed. Even the salary of these people is very clear. Of course, after 6 years, these people will be some master-level people. The work they do is very good, and it can be regarded as a craft, but this craft is not regarded as anything in other places except that it can be reflected in the Cao’s house, and many people think it. They are not doing their jobs properly. At that time, the people at Cao’s House of Business told them to get out and guess that they would not go out. They were not fools, and they all knew that the people from Cao’s House of Business gave them this good day. If you walk out from here, it would be impossible to get the same treatment in front of you. In the future, besides continuing to work for Cao’s business people, you have no other ideas, although this is considered good. , But I always feel that there is something uncomfortable, but I can’t tell this thing. Since there is no way to say this thing, it can only be a clear recognition of the thing in front of us. Just do it here. The Eastern Empire’s abacus is also good. I hope these people can bring back some of the secrets of Cao’s Commercial Firm when they come back. You must know that this place is a naval base, which is definitely not ordinary. Things, that is, after guessing their thoughts, Li Wei will let the people under him keep all these workers one by one. In the future, there will be more projects of Cao’s Commercial Bank, as long as it is these people. If you are willing to stay, you don’t need to be afraid that you won’t be bothered to eat. Of course, if these people are fooling around, if all the people of the Eastern Empire are frowned upon, then the fish in the sea may not be full. Yes, I will also find some hungry ones. It’s very good to ask you to eat a ton in the past. It’s just that you are the food in the belly of the fish. Just see if you have the ability, everything is like this of.
At this time, the people of Cao’s House of Business have basically obtained information about the construction of the latest battleship of the Eastern Empire. They have already established more than a dozen shipyards in some relatively secret places of the Eastern Empire, with a total investment of more than 10 billion. For the silver, the various expenditures of the military expenditures of the Eastern Empire accounted for 30% of the annual expenditures of the Eastern Empire, reaching more than three trillion silvers. This is impossible in their history. Regarding the matter, counting the principal and interest that need to be repaid to Cao’s House of Business this year, the Eastern Empire’s finances are basically nothing, but the officials of the Eastern Empire didn’t seem to see this. They are still actively following up. Some people in the Cao’s House of Business were discussing the issue of borrowing. At this time, they had nothing in their minds. They were thinking about how to get the money from Cao’s House of Business, even if their ancestral graves were mortgaged. There is no problem, as long as they have money. They just want to build their navy quickly. Because of this problem, the people of Cao's Commercial Bank have been studying for a while, although their theory of debt control is still OK. It continues, and they will not be the opponents of Cao's Commercial Bank in a short period of time. Even if they do not recognize the debt, it does not matter. At this time, if you do not recognize it, it is a temporary problem. We In the future, we will use our weapons to let you recognize this problem. If you still don’t recognize this matter at that time, this is a big problem. The people at Cao’s Commercial Bank have never done a loss-making business. . At the end of the day, the economists all asked Li Yun to immediately terminate the loan negotiations with the Eastern Empire, because they all felt that the current debt was the limit that the people of the Eastern Empire could bear, if they wanted to continue. If you borrow money, I really don’t know what to say about them. At this time, they don’t have the ability. If they want to continue to make money, Cao’s family firm must consider their own risks and things beyond their abilities. He couldn't cooperate with them. Of course, Li Wei agreed with this idea. In fact, there is no alternative. Although it was due to the improvement of talent, the risk of the alchemist was too great. If you are a little careless, you will lose your money. This matter is still very clear. You must not make this thing too bad.
The people of the Eastern Empire were directly angry when they got the news from Cao's Firm. How can this be done. You have to know that they have invested so much, as if two people are going on a date, I have already prepared everything. All are done in accordance with your requirements, but at the end, you directly called me and told me that this matter should not be carried out. We still have to rest for a while. I feel that we are not How appropriate, just come and do this when there is a chance in the future, and that’s it. People in the Eastern Empire felt that the people in Cao’s house might be afraid that they would not be able to make money, so they immediately treasured them in the internal treasury. Some things were taken out by the people in Cao’s house, but none of the people in Cao’s house were stupid. This matter is not what you say we can do. These things of yours are very valuable. But this thing can’t be done like that. The most important thing is that we can’t agree with what you’re doing. If you just borrow money to drink and gamble, there’s no problem. You can have as much as you want. You are used to form a navy. Will we give it to you? We can only control your navy within a controllable range. If you want to go beyond this control, it is absolutely impossible for our people to agree to this, because we are not crazy, maybe After our money is handed over to you, we will die a lot of people. Don’t tell us about signing some peace agreements. That’s absolutely impossible. In the face of war, these agreements are a little bit. There is no role for this. There are often such things among large organizations. The people of the Eastern Empire finally have no choice. The Imperial Conference has begun, and they hope to get some silver in other places.
"Everyone, you are considered some capable people in our empire. You can basically do everything. I want to ask what should be done about this matter, the Ministry of Households Shangshu, how much do we still lack? Silver?" His Majesty the emperor of the Eastern Empire really doesn’t know what to say. At this time, the first person to ask will always be him. Why is he so unlucky? Many people will be implicated in this matter. It is absolutely impossible to have only one of his own, but there is no way for this matter. Who makes the main topic of today the issue of silver? I just happen to be the one who manages the silver, so I don’t find myself the first to speak. Who are you looking for? I'm so depressed to die.
Hube Shangshu stood up and said, "Your Majesty, our shipyard is already under construction, because it involves a production problem, such as a shipyard for which we spent 1.5 million taels of silver. If we can’t build a few ships. If it comes, then our money can be said to have been squandered, so this thing must be produced before it can be done. What we lack now is the money for manufacturing warships. The new type of warships we newly designed can be said to be very Yes, this thing is ok for us, but the problem is that the cost is too high. The cost of each ship needs 1.7 million taels of silver. This is already the price after mass production. If it is just manufactured When it comes out, the price will be even higher. Now we have manufactured more than 2,000 ships in the first batch, and all of them have been delivered by the Ministry of Yinzi, but they will soon be used up. The second batch of 12,000 ships. There is nothing at all. This part is short of more than 20 billion silver... Finally, after the calculation of the Weichen, our shortfall this year is about 356 billion silver. We are already connected to several large banks in the empire. They have also discussed it, but they can at most come up with less than 80 billion silver." Hubu Shangshu said depressedly. In fact, in addition to the Cao’s commercial bank, there are still many banks in China, but those People are unwilling to do this business, the interest is not much, UU reading www.uukanshu. Com also needs to take up such a large sum of money, but not all the people who open money banks are as wealthy as those from Cao's house. We are all poor people. We are not as wealthy as those from Cao's house. , If we also have so much talent, we would be very willing to do this thing. Unfortunately, we don’t have so much talent. It’s impossible to give you some help, so this is not the case. Find us.
The emperor of the Eastern Empire didn’t know what to say after hearing this. There are several big banks, one was jointly opened by the relatives of the emperor, and this was the largest one in the court. The dozen or so princes are the largest shareholders. These people are the mainstays of the royal family. If you attack them, this matter will not work. The basis of your notice may be problematic. The other is the uncle of the country. My grandfather’s relatives are running it. One of the two major shareholders is his uncle, which is also his mother’s family. The mother is said to have a lot of shares in it, and the other major shareholder is the Queen’s family. Now, it’s very rare that the two generations of relatives unite. Among them, there are some shares of the eldest princesses. This is also unmovable, so there will be the last one, which is controlled by the salt business family. The Cheng family is not easy to provoke. At least it has been established within the empire for tens of thousands of years. It seems that the Cheng family has already been established when there is an empire. It's really troublesome to bring a lot of trouble. (To be continued...)