In fact, the people in the four empires are very clear that they are just playthings of the Cao Family Trading Company now. The people of the Cao Family Trading Company have already controlled them economically. If they continue to let the people of the Cao Family Trading Company develop, they will be in trouble in the future.

Life is not that easy, but do they have any other options? When they chose to borrow money from the Cao Family Trading Company, all avenues were blocked by the Cao Family Trading Company.

It was impossible for them to find any other way, so in the end they could only accept this reality. Just like now, they would continue to borrow money from the people of the Cao Family Trading Company. Other than that, they had no choice but to accept the reality.

There are other ways. Such things make them feel uncomfortable, but there is no other way. The people of the Western Empire are still different from the Eastern Empire. They do not need to consider the threat of the current war. Apart from

In addition to getting a loan, you also need to get another thing, which is more than 30 islands with an area of ​​more than 1,000 square kilometers within a thousand miles of the Western Empire. The largest one has nearly two dozen islands.

One hundred thousand square kilometers, this place has been occupied by the people of the Cao Family Trading Company. Although they have also begun to explore some places overseas, unfortunately they do not have that luck. When their fleet went to sea, the Cao Family Trading Company

People have already occupied it. If you want to use force to occupy it, you have to see if you have the ability. If your navy is very strong, you can see your ability in everything, but the navy is not of much use.

This thing would be fun. Just like now, how capable are you to do this? Facts have proved that you don’t have much ability. If you really have that ability, you will definitely not come to Cao Cao.

The people from the Cao Family Trading Company negotiated. The people from the Western Empire have been very prosperous in the past few years. They went around telling others how great they were, and they beat the people from the Cao Family Trading Company so hard that they couldn't hold their heads up. For

The people of the Cao Family Trading Company have never said anything wrong with their statements. In fact, every one of them strongly agrees with this statement. Some senior executives of the Cao Family Trading Company often stand up and say that their power is indeed

Not so good. The people in the Western Empire are indeed much better than them. If you say this little, no one will believe it, but if you say it more, there will be many people who believe it.

.Just like now, the people in the Western Empire feel that this thing is true.

This temporary condition imposed by the Western Empire made Li Cong immediately angry. He really didn't want to say anything about this unreasonable request from the Western Empire, because if he agreed to this matter, Wu Liu's efforts in the past two years would be in vain. Cao Cao

The blockade system that the people of the Cao Family Commercial Bank spent hundreds of billions of money to establish is of little use. The last time it was launched, it was because the supplies could not keep up, so the people of the Cao Family Commercial Bank were in the West.

The empire's outer sea began to look for some places suitable for itself as its own supply base. In the past few years, the construction has been very good. Although I dare not say how huge the role it will be, Li Cong dared to say that if this time

If your luck can still be that good, you can definitely get help from here, and the results of the last war will not happen. Of course, this matter is not absolute. People from the Western Empire have also set up in their own territory.

There are many defensive positions. They also absorbed the experience from the last time and began to build some giant crossbows in key areas of some rivers. Such things are very expensive, but they are still affordable for the people of the Western Empire.

, the people in the Cao Family Trading Company have also figured out where these giant crossbows are. It can be said that many people in the Western Empire are doing very good things. The place chosen by these people can be said to be a great threat to the people in the Cao Family Trading Company.

Yes, if Li Cong wants to continue a war with the people of the Western Empire, he must also consider their actions. It is because of the establishment of these strongholds that the people of the Western Empire raised objections to the people of the Cao Family Trading Company.

Of course, they did not bring nothing. The Cao Family Trading Company proposed to station troops in the western region of the Western Empire very early on, but the Western Empire's court has always rejected this matter.

The difference between the Cao Family Trading Company's escort team and the army is that the escort team can only appear at the regiment level. No matter how large it is, it is not allowed. If it is a garrison, it can exist as a whole division. The Western Empire agrees that the Cao Family Trading Company's army can be present at the regiment level.

There were fifty divisions stationed in the thirty-five provinces in the western part of the Western Empire. It seemed that they would suffer a lot, but Li Cong felt that if he removed all those defenses and gave them all those islands, he would

You will suffer a lot. You must know that you also need those things, but if you really compare, the islands are more important to you. If the Western Empire occupies those islands, you will not even have the chance to attack them in the future.

Li Cong is also very clear about this kind of thing. This is no small matter.

The thirty-five provinces in the western part of the Western Empire are all very important places, but if Li Cong wants to give up the outer islands, this bargaining chip is still not enough. Besides, these thirty-five provinces are basically

Half of them are under the control of the Cao Family Trading Company. Besides, you have stipulated the number of troops to be stationed. Even if I have any other ideas, I have to consider them. Li Cong and Wu Zuoxi also discussed this issue.

After a while, Wu Zuoxi thought that the people of the Western Empire should be very tough and would not give in on this issue. However, Li Cong thought that the people of the Western Empire were strong on the outside and capable on the inside. They also had fresh memories of the last war. They

It is impossible to do other things. It was indeed the people of the Cao Family Trading Company who failed in the last war, but the people of the Western Empire should also remember very clearly what a heavy price they paid. Although the official people of the Western Empire

It is said that those people are willing to give their precious lives to the empire, but Li Cong himself knows that the Western Empire went through a lot of trouble for those blood gold, and in the end the royal family gave up part of themselves.

The gold was exchanged for silver, and this was considered a good thing. If such a thing had happened in the past, it would have been impossible. When will the royal family take silver from their own treasury? They all take it from inside.

, it can be said that each of the royal families of the four empires has a lot of gold and silver treasures, but they just don’t take them out. Li Cong is also aware of this. It can be seen from this aspect that in fact, the Western Empire

The government is also in a financial crisis, but they just don't say it, but we will investigate. In the end, Wu Zuoxi also felt that what Li Cong said should be reasonable, but after all, this guy had been the prime minister of the Western Empire.

Therefore, his opinions should also be considered. In the end, Li Cong chose a compromise option, allowing people from the Western Empire to occupy half of the island. As for other requests, all other requests were rejected, and the loan was also reduced by half.

The annual interest rate has increased from 10% to 12%. Naturally, the people in the Western Empire will not agree to such a thing. Each of them regards the people from the Cao Family Trading Company as their enemies.

I started clamoring with Li Cong at the negotiation table, but what Li Cong is least afraid of is the threat from these people. Now you can't do anything to me, unless you want your government to have no credibility, directly talk to Nan

The imperial government will also ban everything in the Cao family business. In that case, your credibility will be over in the future, and no one will mess with you.

The two sides began to be in a stalemate like this. Naturally, the people of the Cao Family Trading Company did not have so much time to talk nonsense with the people of the Western Empire here, because they still had a lot of things to do. The first thing was that they had to receive the people who came here.

Many experts, and the negotiations with the Eastern Empire will also continue. The Eastern Empire finally agreed, but the people from the Eastern Empire proposed to purchase the warships of the Cao Family Trading Company. In the past, the Eastern Empire insisted on their own

Although the people from the Cao Family Trading Company have recommended their own warships several times, they are not very interested in building their own warships. Such things have made the people from the Cao Family Trading Company less interested. Who knows?

This time they actually came to the door by themselves. These things were all built on the earth and rty planet. It can be said that the cost is really pitiful. If they were sold, the profit would definitely be hundreds of times. The Western Empire proposed

Purchase large warships of 750 tons and 1500 tons. Of course, what is sold to them does not have any artillery or anything, only some empty mounting points. This allows the people of the Eastern Empire to install their crossbows or small

Trebuchets, the main force in naval battles in this era still use this kind of thing. They all know that the artillery of the Cao Family Trading Company is a good thing, but the people of the Cao Family Trading Company will not sell it at all, and they will be defeated.

When they were all destroyed, they all felt very helpless. However, if they did not develop such warships, they would have nothing in the future. Instead of having nothing, they should develop such old-fashioned warships.

The better ones, at least for now, have some defensive capabilities of their own, which is much better than having nothing at all. The price of these two warships sold by Cao Family Trading Company is 750 tons for 300,000 taels of silver, and 1,500 tons for 300,000 taels of silver.

700,000 taels of silver, and 200 ships are sold at one time. If there are less, they will not be sold directly. The speed is 20km per hour. Of course, this is the fastest speed when the wind is favorable. Many people say that this speed is really good.

It's too slow, but there's no way around it. This speed is already much faster than theirs. Of course they want to buy it. The people in the Eastern Empire want to buy some of their own imitations. For the people from the Cao Family Trading Company

I understand, but it depends on whether you have the ability. Many places are equipped with some things on the earth. These things are not found on this planet. Besides, the things we give you can be used immediately in a short time.

It's just something that can be used. If you build it yourself, the cost will be high and it will take precious time. You don't have this thing.

Regarding matters such as the procurement of warships, the Eastern Empire originally needed to carry out some very complicated things. For example, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Military Affairs and a series of departments within the empire had to hold meetings to study for a while, but now there are not so many.

Let me explain, because something happened on the front line. It was originally a trivial matter, but it caused the people of the Eastern Empire to order 500 1,500-ton warships and 1,000 750-ton warships from the Cao Family Trading Company. Speaking of which,

This matter was also done by people from the Cao Family Trading Company. The people from the Cao Family Trading Company announced to the outside world that people from the Northern Empire had done a lot of business with them, so as a gift, they gave the Northern Empire 10 ships worth 3 million.

Two silver warships. These are ten of the 750-ton class. Such a thing is also an unexpected gain for the Northern Empire. The emperor of the Northern Empire feels that it is a bit impossible. It has always been the Cao Family Trading Company.

People make money from us. When can they give us things as gifts? Such things have never happened before, but they will not pursue such things. Are you kidding me?

Giving us things means giving us face. If we still don't know what's good for us, go and argue with others about this. If it's not that there's something wrong with our own brains, what else can it mean? One by one, we should quickly move these ten ships

We drove back. People from the Cao Family Trading Company also sell some weapons. Of course, what they sell are not the weapons used by the people from the Cao Family Trading Company, but the war crossbows they use. As for the giant crossbows,

People from Dongxi Cao's Trading Company won't do it. It's too difficult to make such things. If we want us to do that business, it's better to just kill us. It's too troublesome to make such things, and we don't have that much.

They had to use their time to earn so little money. They all understood such things. The ship couldn't be left naked when they returned. The people from the Cao Family Trading Company installed some ordinary crossbows for them, but this thing

But I can't give it to you. We are also doing business. Ten ships are already good. Those people in the Northern Empire Navy are not greedy. They also know that they can't overdo things, so they pay for it themselves.

They spent about one million taels of silver to arm all ten ships. They did not require the ships to be very powerful. The main thing was that they were afraid that when they passed the Eastern Empire on the way back, the Eastern Empire's navy would directly attack them.

It was stopped. Such things must be prevented. They can do these things.

Originally, this was just a small matter. People in the Eastern Empire also got the news. After all, they were all at the headquarters of the Cao Family Trading Company. Such news can still spread quickly. Of course, this is also from the Cao Family Trading Company.

People have taken action. They want to tell the people in the Eastern Empire this news. It is a very easy thing. Wang Quantai is responsible for the whole thing. At the beginning, Li Li lit the fire in the Northern Empire.

, but everything from now on is all done by Wang Quantai. If he didn't slowly throw firewood into it, it is estimated that the people from the two empires would not fight. They are not fools, and it is easy to

I knew that this matter was not that simple, but later on, some troops from both sides continued to attack each other, which made them all feel very angry. As time went by, this matter could not be solved. When the dead people became more and more

How to solve this problem more and more times? There is no solution at all. We are not fools, but we can't suffer, right? The scale of this war has actually expanded to the road, and now it has reached

It has reached about a million levels, and that’s it. It will be impossible to continue to expand. Although the people of the Cao Family Trading Company have worked hard in many aspects, the scale of the war has always been at this level. I think

It is not so easy to continue to carry out some things. These people are not fools. They all have their own ideas. Since this is the case, I will not talk about other things, but this time Wang Quantai is caught.

If you take this opportunity, aren't you at odds? I will let the people of the Eastern Empire sneak attack on this fleet, and it will also cause the people of the Eastern Empire to lose some money, and let the people of the Northern Empire see the role of this warship. At that time you

No one will be able to see the rubbish made by ourselves in China. By then, our orders will be endless. Li Yin on the rty planet has expanded a lot, and there can be 150 of these ships every day.

With the release of take-out type ships, the navy of the Cao Family Trading Company will not continue to expand after a period of time. However, the shipyards established at the beginning cannot be wasted. Production must continue. Otherwise, then

Do we support all the workers? We won't do such a thing, so we have urged this side several times to ask people here to quickly find some way out. Over there on the earth

But they won't use such backward things. They are used to high-tech products.

The people of the Eastern Empire would naturally not be idle after knowing this matter. One of their eighth-level warriors quickly took the Cao Family Trading Company's airship back, so that they could arrange some containment on the way. In short, they could not let

The people from the Northern Empire drove these ships back, and they had another idea. That was to see how the warships of the Cao Family Trading Company were like. If they were very good, they would naturally order them in large quantities, but

If there is not much use, there is no need to waste your money. They all think like this. I really don’t know what is in their minds. These people are also very fast when doing things.

Yes, when these ten ships from the Northern Empire first entered the territory of the Eastern Empire, they were surrounded by about thirty Eastern Empire warships. The people in the Northern Empire were dumbfounded at that time. They were sure that there were ships three times their size.

There is no chance of winning. Those who immediately start to move forward at full speed and want to go around and escape will be captured if there is no other way. They will never think of being captured until the end. These people start from the beginning

I didn't think I could escape when I was there. It was all said by a sailor on the ship. This is the warship of the Cao Family Trading Company. They are all very fast. This statement directly made the fleet commander think of something.

.Immediately ordered all the useless things to be thrown out, and then opened the full sail and ran out quickly. A miracle happened at this time. Originally, the crossbows of the Eastern Empire were already able to attack.

They arrived, but soon they found that the crossbow could not reach this place at all. These people were cheering happily. They suddenly thought that they could counterattack with this speed, so they used their own speed to start

Looking for the weakness of the Eastern Empire fleet, in fact, if they all continue to escape at this time, they will definitely be able to go back, but these people all want to try this thing's ability, and it is these curiosity that killed them all

, none of them knew how heavy they were or what they were capable of. However, they also carried seven warships of the Eastern Empire into the sea at the beginning. However, they themselves did not suffer any casualties, because the Eastern Empire's

The warships simply couldn't catch up with them, and they only had a moment to attack. Everyone in the Northern Empire knew where the attack point was, but people in the Eastern Empire didn't, so they suffered a big loss.

Yes, in the end, the Eastern Empire had no choice but to ask for help, otherwise it would lose.

If the thirty warships of the Eastern Empire fight against the ten warships of the Cao Family Trading Company, no one will say anything even if the entire army is destroyed, because this is an objective reality. But if they want to fight against the ships of the Northern Empire, they will lose?

Where else could they put this shame, so they could only call for reinforcements. In fact, asking for reinforcements was already very shameless. Everyone was very depressed, but their speed could not keep up with others.

, those people came over and beat them after a while. When they reacted, those damn Northern Empire people ran away again. They felt helpless about such a thing. Although there was a lot of anger in their hearts, there was no place to let them go.

They vented it out, but the warships of the Northern Empire also paid what they should pay. At this time, they should get out quickly instead of waiting here for the troops of the Eastern Empire to come. Now everyone understands that they are with
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