Chapter 2193:

"I believe you. Although I know that you may also lie to us, we people have no other way. Just like you said, we really have no choice now. I hope you won’t do anything to us. I surrendered to the things you said." A soldier threw a dagger in his hand and said, speaking of which he already has this thing, which he brought from his home, those from the Western Empire. All the equipment has been thrown away along the way. As far as the eyes are concerned, they thought about such things before, but they didn't expect that they would do it. They all knew exactly what the consequences were. At this moment Their lives are someone else’s, it’s definitely not his. Some people next to him seem to follow him at ordinary times. At this moment, seeing him surrender, all of them are in their own hands. Threw away his weapon, and then followed this guy out. A group of people began to tentatively pass towards the Cao’s Army’s army. Each of them didn’t know where they were tomorrow, although there were still Many officers were yelling to them, but the guy who spoke just now didn’t even look at his previous boss, because he knew that at this time he couldn’t turn his head at all. This is the same as a path of no return. No matter what he is, he is no longer a person inside and outside. Li Yun glanced at this guy appreciatively. This time the incident is successful. The people of the Western Empire will definitely be hit hard. For Li Yun, the Western Empire is nothing. Yes, conquering such a huge empire is like that, because he knows that there may be better things in the future. He doesn't care about these things now, what he cares about is Li Cong's views.
Li Wei came here because he wanted his grandfather to affirm himself. It is more important to get his grandfather's affirmation than these so-called conquering an empire. In his eyes, grandpa needs to learn everything by himself. , I admired my grandfather. Right now, this thing about him is basically half of the success. A large number of people began to go directly in the two passages opened by Cao’s house. They all need to be checked on the way. , These people were soldiers from the Western Empire just now. No one can be sure that if they really put down their weapons, they became captives of Cao's House of Business. Many people may hide some weapons. If there is any bloodshed in the past, these people will definitely be killed in the first place, but fortunately, such things have not happened. When the big camp gate of the Western Empire was closed. It is estimated that the most central among them will also be shaken. These are the people who have been abandoned by the Western Empire. They will never think about what the people of the Western Empire will give them. What they want to do now is to see what the people of Cao's Commercial Bank will give them. All of their lives in the future will be linked to the Cao’s family members. They all know that their family members are still in the Western Empire, but since this war is a small-scale war, it is impossible for the Western Empire to If you expand this kind of war, your family can still be safe and sound. Besides, if the family members of soldiers who have surrendered are shot, then many people in the army will come out to make trouble. Bleeding on the battlefield, at the end of the day, our family members didn't even have a security guarantee. What is the point of such an empire chasing after it? This is the greatest renunciation.
What I said just now is called Nan Ge by everyone around him. He is also the little leader of these dozens of brothers. Usually they are all together. Although he is not an officer, some officers will not come. Regarding this guy’s affairs, sometimes his words are much better than some officers, just like now, this guy chose to surrender, and the people under his men followed without hesitation. They all According to his own ideas, Nan Ge will not treat them badly. It used to be like this, and it is the same now. Following Nan Ge through the cavalry division of Cao's Commercial Bank, they saw the cavalry along the way. They are all arranged neatly. These people were still their enemies at the moment. At this moment, they have become their comrades-in-arms. Everyone can't believe this. For them, these people have It was really amazing when I was in, just like now, my hundreds of thousands of people have surrendered, but none of them got up and cheered, that is, there was no other action, and they kept the same. Looks like, picked up their crossbows and pointed them at them. After passing the first cavalry division, they arrived on a larger open space in the back. Here, thirty of them were divided into a group, no matter what you are. It’s fine, as long as it is a small team of thirty brothers, and then everyone gets a number plate. They all knew this before. The people at Cao’s house seem to have such a number plate. This seems to be something called an ID card. Everyone is unique. Such a thing is your lifeblood. If you lose it, it will be very troublesome.
"Everyone, I am the commander of the Cao Family Commercial Bank in charge of this operation. From now on, you people will be the new guards of the 2nd Mixed Army. You people will stay here for the time being to do some logistical work and wait for our Cao family. After the ship of the firm arrives, you can leave here. Where to go, the people on it will naturally make arrangements of their own. Of course, if there is someone who doesn’t want to be in our army, it’s okay. You will not go back to the army of the Western Empire. We can all pay you the tolls and go home. But we still hope that you can stay, because you will not have a good life when you go back. Yes, the people of the Western Empire will definitely regard you as traitors. Even if you all return to your hometown, your life will not be easy. Your family will feel that you are traitors, even your descendants. I won’t be optimistic about you, so it’s better for you to stay. When your salary is paid, give your family more money to go back, and this matter can be solved. Now everyone has a place to sit down. . We have dinner.
A guy stood on a high place holding a big loudspeaker and said, this is what Cao’s firm has placed on them, and they can only temporarily take charge of some logistical matters, if they are allowed to go directly to the battlefield. , That’s still not possible. Who knows what will happen to them after they get the serial crossbow. In many cases, it’s better to be more careful. Many soldiers think of going home when they hear that they can let themselves go home. To tell the truth They don't want to be here, no matter who they are serving as soldiers. After all, they are all on the battlefield. Why do such a thing? Is it bad to go home?
Soon they arrived at a place to eat, good fellow, how could this thing be so fragrant, it was meat porridge. I don't know what the food these people used to be. Anyway, when they saw these things, they kissed them more than when they saw their relatives. It is no wonder that the economy of the entire empire of the Western Empire is not as good as that of the Southern Empire, let alone the Eastern Empire. Therefore, it is impossible to compare these supplies and other things with these two empires. They are also very aware of this, but if it is only like this, they will eat one meal a week according to the silver given by the empire. Meat is still okay, but these generals don’t think so. In their opinion, many ordinary people can’t eat meat once in a few months. Can’t they still be able to live a life, and each of them is still very good. Not bad, what's wrong now? It’s already a very good thing to let you eat this. Now you are still picking it up here. These generals will make their own decisions and directly deduct half of the food expenses of these people, so don’t say eat once a week. You can’t see the meat even for half a year. The generals have nothing to do. In peacetime, they don’t have much money at all, so they can only eat empty money and drink blood. These soldiers have been in the army for a long time. I haven’t eaten any meat anymore. Now I can smell this kind of smell, and I rushed over all of them desperately. There are all steamed buns and fine grains. They usually eat coarse grains, there is no fine grain at all. Yes, all the food purchased by the imperial court is fine grain, but when it comes to their mouths, this thing becomes coarse grain. There is a difference of five cents per catty of grain. If this is too much, it will be a lot. What about the money.
Just like them, there are at least three generals in charge of these people. If these people eat a catty of food in two days, they can get five cents from a soldier in two days, 75 cents a month. Money, 200,000 soldiers are worth more than 10,000 taels a month. This is just a matter of eating. These 200,000 soldiers can extract more than 100,000 yuan a month from all aspects. That's why their life is so moist. Otherwise, relying on their salary of more than ten thousand taels a month, it is estimated that their current life will not be able to live even a week. The soldiers know these things, but what else can we do? If the people from the Supervision Institute come down, these generals will have a way, just carry the money and go there. When those people collect the money one by one, naturally they won’t say much, but they will also talk about the soldiers below. Those who can’t keep up with nutrition and need more silver. His Majesty also feels that the soldiers on the front line are too bitter. At this time, the special silver has come down. It is for this reason that these people are all one by one. There is also more money to take. After they take it, naturally they can’t swallow it alone. These people in the Supervisory Court also have to divide it up. This is why the money from the top is increasing every year, but The soldiers’ life has been like a day for ten years, and there has been no improvement at all. When the meal started, Li Wei said that he would cook for these people according to the standards of two soldiers in the Cao’s house. Knowing that these people would definitely eat a lot of it, as he expected, on average everyone ate at least four steamed buns, and the meat also ate more than half a catty.
The establishment of the Second Mixed Army can be said to be temporary. It may also be the largest establishment in the entire Cao Family Commercial Bank, with a total of 800,000 people, plus some officers stationed by the Cao Family Commercial Bank. The number should be at least 900,000. The commander of this army was made by Li Wei. This army was made by Li Wei himself. Li Cong would let him be in charge. It was transferred from the 17th Division of the Marine Corps. About 30,000 people were recruited from the 18th Division and 20,000 people were transferred to the mixed army to serve as low-level officers. Li Cong wanted to see how much Li Yun was capable of. What he had seen before was the skill of his grandson. . This kid is definitely not a simple person who can think of persuading surrender. This Li Cong also believes. He feels that he has his own blood. If this guy is a mediocre person, he will not come here on the initiative. Compared with the earth, there are too many differences here. With Li Yun’s status and blood relationship with Li Cong, he can enjoy his life on earth, and how can he get it in the end. The title of a county king, as long as it is a little bit brainy. This may be the title of a prince. It is also possible to become the Emperor of the Empire. After all, he has the legal right of inheritance, but this guy chose to come here, which made Li Cong feel very relieved. At least not all of his descendants are those who just enjoy. At least the kid in front of you is competent. However, Li Cong didn't give this kid time to breathe, and immediately another order came down, letting him be the commander of this mixed army. Let's see how long this army can build up combat effectiveness, and also see how Li Yun controls this army.
Li Yun knows very clearly that the answer sheet he submitted just now, his grandfather should be very satisfied, because if Li Cong is not satisfied with the result, it is estimated that Li Yun will not be qualified to continue the task at all, the second mixed army There are about 900,000 people. This is also the largest organization after the Cao’s reorganization. Although the number is large, Li Wei believes that as long as the army is selected from the Marine Corps, it can be very good. These people were quickly defeated. To take over the army, what Li Yun needs is not to let them participate in combat training, but to let them enter their own state, so that they can find their own confidence, so Li Yun and Li Cong proposed The first request is to immediately issue military uniforms to these people. Only uniform uniforms will be issued, and all of them will be new uniforms. These people will feel that they are under whose army they are. It’s clear that Li Cong’s internal world already has many such things. After hearing Li Yun’s request, he immediately sent this thing down. Of course, this is on the battlefield, and they will never be allowed to be here. The reorganization began here, and the reinforcements from the four divisions of Cao’s House of Commercial Company will arrive just a week later. At that time, these people can take those ships and return to the base of Cao’s House of Commercial House. They were occupied by the Western Empire in the past. There are more than a dozen counties. Now it is the base camp of the Cao’s family firm in the Western Empire. The Western Empire has organized tens of millions of troops to attack the dozen or so counties, but the final result is them. The loss was heavy and did not cause any harm to the people of Cao's House of Business, and they began to ignore that side and put all their eyes on Li from here.
These soldiers have also seen this uniform made by Cao’s firm before. This thing was made by Li Congyao’s garment factory on the earth. Although there are people in this world who can make it, but leather shoes and the like The things that do not work, as well as those belts and other things, all are obtained from the earth. This makes some garment factories on the earth a lot of money. Li Cong immediately asked people to give these things. I went, and Li Yun saw that the soldiers who were still wearing clothes were different from the time they surrendered. He immediately started his second step and asked these people to register. He still doesn't know this. People’s names or something, of course, as I said beforehand, this month they can enjoy the treatment of soldiers from Cao’s house, the most important thing is that they can send 50 catties of grain to their families every month. Yes, if the address you registered is wrong or not true, then I’m sorry, maybe you won’t have such a chance in your life, so it’s still very important now. Many soldiers didn’t think about it at the beginning. Those who registered their names, they all felt that the people at Cao’s house might fail. If they really failed, their fate would be over, so they all wanted to wait and see and see the people at Cao’s house. What will happen in the end, but after this order was given, they didn’t do that. They knew what life their family lived in. If Cao’s business had won, they would never have such a chance. This is the biggest tragedy for their family, so these people have started real-name registration, and they all hope that their family can receive the first month's food to improve.
This army is undergoing rapid changes, and the people in Cao's House of Business will say that Li Wei is really capable when he sees all this. Li Cong was also very happy when he heard others praise his grandson, but the recent situation also made Li Cong unhappy. The old emperor of the Southern Empire had already blocked some of the Cao’s business. Now, this guy just doesn’t stand up, and doesn’t want to conquer the territories of the Southern Empire and the Western Empire. In his opinion, now is an opportunity. He won’t be foolish while the outside world knows that the Southern Empire is still in chaos. Standing out, in his opinion. If you go out now. That's what a fool did. The most he needs to do is to stay there honestly and never let himself go out to confront the Western Empire, because at this time, whether it's facing the Cao Family Commercial Firm or facing the Western Empire. He will feel powerless. It's better to be an ostrich at this time. Waiting for the end of the war between the Western Empire and Cao's Commercial Firm, at the end, if the people of the Western Empire could not hold on. At that time, I could send troops quickly and bring back the lost territory. At that time, I could share the huge cake of the Western Empire with the people of Cao’s House of Business. If the people of Cao’s House of Business failed, the Western Empire would occupy it. We don’t want our own land anymore. You just keep it. Anyway, it’s not a lot. I can still take care of it. The other is that at that time, the Cao’s businessmen had already failed. Of course, he would not have wishful thinking. He wanted to swallow the Cao’s House of Business, but the rights that Cao’s House of Commerce had acquired in the Western Empire some time ago can be directly recovered. The Cao’s House of Commerce is newly defeated and will not reject their own ideas unless they are crazy. Up.
There is such an opponent Li Cong really feels a little helpless, this guy's brain is really fast, if I had known that he was playing such an abacus, I guess I would not do so much. In fact, Li has probably felt it now. From the beginning of some things, this old guy may have been calculating, and he has even become one of his pawns, although the people of Cao’s firm are involved in this matter. A lot of money was made and the economic strength of the Southern Empire declined a lot. However, the fact is that they won a tactical victory, but they encountered a strategic failure. I did not see that the people of the Western Empire still had such a situation. Ability, this is also the most depressing thing for himself, but now everything has already begun, he can't end it so easily, so it is very simple to solve some of his own things now, and that is to get a game here. Victory, let the Western Empire conclude something similar to the Southern Empire, and then let the old guy in the Southern Empire be more honest, mainly to let the old guy understand that he can win the two empires. This ability is absolutely It’s not something you can calculate. At that time, you will go to the Southern Empire again with your victorious army. It seems that the contract you signed before does not seem to be of much use to you. It doesn’t matter. We will talk to you. Signed a better contract. At that time, it seemed that the Southern Empire didn’t have much ability to talk to our Cao’s merchants. That’s when the Cao’s Commercial Firm fully controlled the Southern Empire, it must have been in the heart of the old emperor. It will be very uncomfortable too, it's best to be like this, but there are good aspects and bad aspects.
In the worst case, Li Cong also thought that the war here must end within one month. If it can’t be over within one month, the Cao’s family’s army will be dragged here, although the Cao’s family’s people have already He worked hard throughout the Western Empire, but the Western Empire is a big country after all. He can send troops from all over his empire. At the beginning, those people would push back and forth. When the generals received the Emperor’s Majesty They didn’t dare to delay any longer when they were ordered by the empire. Besides, they already saw the hope of defeating Cao’s firm. If they didn’t call for reinforcements at this time, the empire would eventually take Cao’s firm. If they are defeated, their life will come to an end at that time. As long as the people of Cao’s house are trapped here, the possibility of final failure will be very high. Then they will not be able to gain any benefits in the Western Empire. The army of Cao’s House of Business will take off the hat of the victorious division. They capsized the ship twice in the hands of the army of the Western Empire. This is also what the people of the Western Empire want to pursue. In their view, they lose some people and What is money? Those are not very important things, and they can all be discarded. The most important thing now is to win the war against Cao's Commercial Bank, and that's the only thing. Only then can I truly stand up and become the second largest empire after the Eastern Empire. In the future, some of my cooperation with Cao’s Commercial Firm will be much better than now. For example, those debt problems are a very good thing. At that time, can the Cao’s family members forgive some debts? The Western Empire is indeed making this calculation, because they have been overwhelmed by the debts of Cao's Commercial Bank for ten years.
In the past ten years, no one knows how much the people of the Western Empire have borrowed from Cao’s Commercial Bank. However, some people have counted a number. It is only in Beijing that the interest to Cao’s Commercial Bank has exceeded every year. One hundred billion silver. At 10% interest. This place in the capital borrowed more than one trillion silver from the people of Cao’s house. The entire empire has no idea how much. The banknotes issued by Cao’s house are already the currency of the whole society. According to the needs of Cao’s house, Only one tael of silver can be issued for one tael of silver. But is this really the case? That is impossible. No one takes one or two silver notes to the Cao's House of Commercial Bank to exchange for silver every night. Then the next day it was exchanged for paper money. In their eyes, this was silver. The banknotes of the previous banks are more powerful. Someone has also launched some runs against the banks of the Cao Family Commercial Bank, but in the end, the people of the Cao Family Commercial Bank can always come up with enough money. So once the Cao's merchants didn't have enough money, but they took out another hard currency, which was food, no matter when. Food is the same hard currency as gold. After that time, some conspirators in the Western Empire felt that it was impossible to compete with Cao's merchants in terms of money, and they all understood that they were impossible. They have that ability, so they are all honest. Since economic wars are not possible, then it is better to have a real war. Just like now, the Western Empire's imperial family intends to defeat Cao. The family firm immediately ended the war and asked the people of the Cao family firm to reduce their annual interest and 20% of their debt.
Although the Cao’s House of Commercial Bank was exempted from only one year’s interest and 20% of the debt, this figure was already very large. The royal family of the Western Empire had its own accounting agency, and they had already calculated the Western Empire’s The total amount of money that governments at all levels have borrowed from Cao’s merchants is an astronomical figure. The total tax revenue of the Western Empire is only about three trillion silver each year, including some other income. It is about five trillion silver, but they have started various projects of about one hundred billion silver across the country. Although most of the businesses of the Western Empire have developed very quickly, they are all established in the Cao family firm. On the basis of borrowing money, the annual interest to bear is a huge amount. According to the calculations of the accountants of the Western Empire imperial family, governments at all levels and some merchants in the Western Empire lent a total of about 411 from the Cao’s House of Business. Trillions of silver, the Western Empire between the merchants and ordinary people is their own business after all, but they need to manage the debts of the royal family, the royal relatives, and governments at all levels. After careful calculation, half of them are These people lent a total of about 200 trillion silver. If calculated on the basis of an average interest of 10%, Li Cong would take tens of trillions of silver from the Western Empire every year, which is eight higher than the Western Empire’s tax revenue. Bai, took away 20 trillion from the government of the Western Empire, which means that they will not be able to pay off the money no matter when it arrives. In the future, they will always need to borrow Li Cong’s money. Because they need to repay the interest, the annual tax can only be enough to repay the interest, and even now they can’t even pay the interest, so they can only continue to borrow.
It is nominally the royal family of the Western Empire ruling the Western Empire, but in reality? They have no ability at all, and it can be said that they have no right to rule the Western Empire at all. They all know what it is like now, and they all know where their money has gone each year. How can I choose? It's all written in black and white. Is the government reckless? It doesn't matter, then the people of Cao's House of Business will let every empire's common people know about this. If the credibility of a government goes bankrupt, what will happen? Besides, these officials usually don't take the money from Cao's house for less. Will they do it absolutely? No, Cao's firm has evidence that they took the money. If you do it in the first year of the middle school, I will do the fifteenth. When the time comes, I will give this to Kampot. What will you get in the end? For the court’s sake, individuals like you will definitely be sacrificed. People will also lose confidence in the court. How long can a government without the support of the people last? This is all within Li Cong’s calculations. It can be said that the four empires have not fallen into such a vicious circle except the Eastern Empire. The other three empires are like this. In the past few years, the royal families of these empires were still They didn't see it, they just saw how fast they developed with the funds of Cao's Commercial Bank. When it came time to pay back the money in the past two years, they understood. This thing turned out to be a huge trap. As it stands now, the tax revenue of the capital is less than 40 billion silver a year, but it needs to repay 100 billion in interest. no way. The remaining 60 billion yuan still needs to be borrowed. The total amount of money has increased again.
This is still a secondary problem. The main problem is that as long as you want to borrow, you have to have your own mortgage. In the beginning, you can use some other things to mortgage, such as land and other things, but what should I do if all such things are mortgaged? At this time, something else is needed, and that is some of your rights, such as the right to tax. Now the tax officers in the capital of the Western Empire are basically Cao's business people, why not use your own people? Because it was of no use at all, the money was taken by the Cao’s merchants directly, and they did not want to stay in their own hands for a day, because if they stay for one day, they will pay hundreds of millions of dollars. Interest, they all know that they are diligent and thrifty at this time, but it is already too late at this time, and there are no such things. The thing about the capital of the Western Empire mentioned earlier, you borrowed money to repay the interest this year, but you still Is there any principal that needs to be repaid this year? And don’t your governments still operate? This requires even more borrowing. The total amount of borrowing will continue to rise every year. Although your taxes will also rise, can it be compared with the total amount of these borrowings? I borrow money every year, and I pay it back every year, but in the end when you calculate this problem yourself, you will feel that the debt is still increasing, and your life is even more difficult. Even the ordinary officials of the Western Empire They were also struggling with this matter, but the people at Cao’s House of Commercial Bank gave them an idea. When your official position can’t go down, you can move to other places. Such things are the most normal thing. If you don’t have money, we can also give you a loan, of course.
The accountants of the Western Empire would calculate this matter, and Li Cong himself would also calculate this matter. He already knew exactly what was going on now. These Western Empire people must have learned from them if they wanted to defeat themselves. They had to follow He negotiated it himself. He had already received information from the intelligence department of Cao's House of Business. The Western Empire wanted to reduce interest and 20% of debt. Is this possible? This is tens of trillions of silver. Back then, the Southern Empire still hoped to use the Wujin Mine to directly repay Li Cong’s debts. I didn’t expect these people in the Western Empire to want to use war to talk to themselves, but this is also true. No problem, just look at what you are doing. Now the beachhead position has been expanded a lot, and his own defense line has been established. At this time, Li Cong has already ordered the assembly of the 203mm heavy artillery. This thing will definitely be able to It brings you good memories. In fact, according to Li Cong’s idea, it would be best to have a 460mm battleship gun, but it’s not that easy to get something like that on land. It was used on battleships. If something like that was mounted on a wooden boat, it would have sunk directly. There was basically nothing within a 100-meter radius of the shot. It’s a pity that such a thing cannot be here. Come, it’s technically impossible. If there is that thing, it is estimated that the walls of the Western Empire can be opened in one afternoon. By then, the people of the Western Empire will have nothing to do if they don’t want to surrender, but now there is nothing. That thing, the 203mm heavy artillery is not bad. If this thing is used well, it will be able to break the walls of the Western Empire at the end. It just uses a little more artillery.
Li Cong will be in charge of the mixed army for the time being. Li Cong has to study the front-line affairs himself. Li Cong has found someone to get the construction plan of the Western Empire’s capital city wall. Such things can be said to be the most important thing in the Western Empire. Things, but the Western Empire has a big business, there must be at least hundreds of people who have seen this thing. Among them, there are likely to be people with very high memories. Such people can definitely take advantage of the temptation of silver. This thing is drawn, don’t think it’s a difficult thing~EbookFREE.me~ If it’s a difficult thing, it is estimated that Li Cong’s eyes are now a blank sheet of paper, so it won’t There is this drawing.
This thing was drawn by the grandson of the minister of the Ministry of Industry of the Western Empire. This guy had a good relationship with the people of Cao’s house before, of course, because the people of Cao’s house often gave him some small surprises, such as The thing in front of me was bought by the Cao’s family for two exotic girls. What this guy likes most is collecting beauties of all races. The Cao’s family of companies know that his favorite is the sea monster. In fact, It’s not a real sea monster, it’s a nation on an island. Their girls are very beautiful, especially their skin, which is as smooth as water. This is something you can’t buy with money, the most important thing. The difficulty is that it is too difficult to get to their island, the distance is too far, in the south of the southern empire, but this is simply a breeze for the Cao family business people, these two girls passed over, this drawing Then I came here. Li Cong has been studying for half an hour. From the amount of materials used at the beginning and the things used for repairing in the future, Li Cong calculated that one of the weakest parts of the city wall, if you use something like heavy artillery The bombardment should also be aimed at such a place, otherwise it may not be able to be bombed. This is what Li Cong is worried about, but all calculations need to be looked at with actual conditions, and verification is now needed. The time was right, Li only needed his army to advance 500 meters from the place he chose, but the big camp was blocked in front of him. (To be continued...)