Soon these people went back home and reported to their Emperor. They also said that the people in the Eastern Empire were also wondering about this matter. Did the people from the Cao Family Trading Company discover some huge gathering point in the sea? They

After all, I had never gone to sea before, and I didn’t know much about the outside world. It seemed that the people from the Cao Family Trading Company had really discovered something deadly. Otherwise, how could they have gotten so many people? These people

It didn't look like they had robbed them. They were very serious when doing things, and the Cao Family Trading Company paid them wages regularly. This made people in other empires feel suspicious and immediately began to investigate.

Have the great nobles under my command sold out all the people they have isolated? If this is the case, this will definitely be punished severely. It is already related to the foundation of the entire empire. You still have to hold on to these.

It was too wrong to exchange things for money, but when he checked all the great nobles under his command and found out that none of the great nobles had betrayed them, they were really a little panicked, especially the Western Empire and the

The emperor of the Northern Empire has great opposition to the Cao Family Trading Company. They definitely don't want to see the people of the Cao Family Trading Company develop like this and build a naval base at their doorstep?

I don't know since when, they have felt it. In the past, there were always some people who united against the Cao family business. Now the people who unite seem to have suddenly disappeared. What are they doing?

Did they go somewhere? This is really confusing. Even if those people disappeared directly. [There should be some clues. In fact, the people they were thinking of were the people on the Cultivator Continent.

Ah, this person wanted to strangle Cao Jiahao in the cradle before, but it is a pity that they were unable to do this at all. Now they were all arrested by Li Cong, and they no longer have the same strength as before.

I have an idea. What I am thinking about now is how to get those top-quality spiritual stones from Li Cong. That is what they want. If you people from the big empires can also provide those things, what do you want us to do?

We will help you with whatever you want. It's a pity that you don't have that kind of thing. It's impossible to provide it to us. Besides, we are now controlled by Li Cong. Even if you want

We have to have the courage to give it to us, not to mention you don’t even know what it is. Now the people in the Cao Family Trading Company are very polite to these people. After all, Li Cong also confessed when he left. These people are all

It is very useful. No one can say what they can do in the future. If they can really help the Cao Family Trading Company. If you have offended them now, they will definitely help you then.

They hold a grudge and will not sincerely help you. None of these people from the Cao Family Trading Company have been with Li Cong for a day or two. They all know what to do with such long-term investments, so they treat these people one by one.

It's okay. When these people saw that the people from the Cao Family Trading Company were so kind to them, they began to concentrate on doing their own things. They mainly studied what effect the spirit stone would have on this continent?

There is no airtight wall in the world. There are still some people who understand what the Eastern Empire is doing. Speaking of which, these people are not fools. It has been so long. If they haven’t received any news

If so, these three empires really don’t know what to say to people. Now that they have received some news, each of these people feel that something is wrong. It is said that the people from the Cao Family Trading Company have already

With so much hot money, it seems impossible for them to give up the plan of the naval base. You must know that they have never done anything halfway like this no matter what time they want to do.

, even if these people feel that the conditions are not enough, they will create conditions instead of just waiting. This is definitely not the way people from the Cao family business do things, even though they knew that Wu Zuoxi went to the Eastern Empire before.

Well, there is no way they would suspect this matter to the Eastern Empire. First of all, the relationship between the Cao family firm and the Eastern Empire is the worst. How could they cooperate? The second one is, this sea

Although there are many navies on their continent now, the one that can threaten the warships of the Cao Family Trading Company is the navy of the Eastern Empire. In the past, the Eastern Empire was a seafaring country. Now

It's even more like this, because they have already dispatched new warships. If the people of Cao's Commercial Bank don't deal with them, they will cultivate a powerful opponent for themselves in the future. In fact, regarding this issue, Cao's Commercial Bank

People don’t worry much. The backwardness of a society cannot be changed with just one or two weapons. It requires the whole society to change. If it could be changed by weapons, then the world would have been changed by now.

I don’t know how many times it has changed, so even if the people of the Eastern Empire develop weapons that are similar to theirs, they will not be afraid, because such a feudal society is decadent. The reason why the people of the Eastern Empire can develop

The reason why they did so quickly is because they made some changes. Without the emergence of the Cao Family Trading Company, they would indeed have become the kings of this continent. Obviously, it is impossible for the Alchemist now. It is impossible for them.

Will become the king of this continent. There can only be one king on this continent, and that is the people from the Cao Family Trading Company. Although the people from the three empires suspected this matter, they never thought of it.

If you go to the head of the empire, protesting against such things is like a child playing house. It is of no use. Just look at the current situation. If you had gone to the Cao Family Trading Company to protest in the beginning, how much would it cost?

Someone will still come to receive you, but if you go over now, I'm sorry, there is no such thing at all. We will not interact with you people. If you want to know something about the navy, you can.

We have an external liaison office. You can go there and have a look. We are a purely commercial organization and we don’t know much about them. We even know much less than you do. That’s because of the Cao Family Trading Company

This answer from these people made them anxious. Although they did not have many ships that would go to sea, there were some. These ships came back and said that there are naval bases of Cao Family Trading Company in some places on the sea.

. At this time, although they still couldn't see how important those places were, they did understand one thing, that is, all their ships seemed to enter and exit from that place. It was for this reason that they understood

. Traffic thoroughfare. Although there is no such thing to introduce this thing at this time. Alchemist Strike is considered a high-level person on this planet. If you can't understand this thing, you will continue to mess around in the future.

That is impossible. No one will talk to you about such an issue. You can only protect yourself. As for other things, you can only say that you are sorry.

The spies of the three empires also began to wander around, especially the people from the Western Empire and the Northern Empire. The Southern Empire had a very bad relationship with the Cao Family Trading Company, so they stopped asking about it because

Their entire empire is managed by people from the Cao Family Trading Company. Even if they are not, in some more important places, only those who are close to the people from the Cao Family Trading Company hold that position. In other words, if there is no Cao Family Trading Company,

It would have been impossible for him to reach that position without the recommendation of the Cao Family Trading Company. It can be said that the Cao Family Trading Company is really powerful in the Southern Empire, but because the people of the Southern Empire still have a lot of resistance to them, they

I still can't completely regard this place as my own. If I really do that, I estimate that the most unlucky person may be myself. The power of the people of the Southern Empire is very powerful. This matter

You can only walk slowly, little by little. If you go too far, you don’t know what will happen in the future. Many people in the Western Empire have also felt it, but they don’t have it.

With so many scruples, their ships began to approach the naval base of the Cao Family Trading Company. Although it was very tightly sealed, there were no so-called radars in this era on the vast sea of ​​Alchemy Master, so if you want to go there,

It was still very easy. The spies of the Western Empire paid a huge price and finally got some information. On the islands along the coast of the Western Empire, people from the Cao Family Trading Company already had about thirty naval bases.

After pruning, it seems that their scale will definitely not be small. If these bases are all established, it is estimated that it will be very difficult for people in the Western Empire to enter the ocean in the future. Of course, if they follow the Cao Family Trading Company

As he said, as long as it is a civilian ship, there is no problem, and there is no need to worry about pirates. Master, if you are a warship, then I am really sorry for you. How can these warships be used without our approval?

Being able to enter the ocean is a bit unreasonable, isn't it? The people of the Cao Family Trading Company didn't say anything about these scouts from the Western Empire. They only sunk half of their ships. There are no cameras in this era, even if I

Damn it, even if you people all run back, there is no need to be afraid. If you people go back and say what you say, the senior officials of the Western Empire will definitely believe it, but because you don’t have any evidence, how can we

Everything we do is our own business, what about you? It’s something that we have no right to interfere with. When you come to our place, you have to be prepared for losses. But this time, these spies did nothing but bring this news back.

In addition, they also got another news, that is, the artillery of the Cao Family Trading Company seemed to be much more powerful than before. One cannonball could actually sink one of their ships. In fact, this was not possible.

It's because the Cao Family Trading Company used armor-piercing bullets. Although the ships on your planet are all made of wood and ordinary cannonballs are acceptable, the people in the Eastern Empire have already used multi-layered ships.

Okay, if you don't use armor-piercing bullets, you will really look down on you. If you do, you will find that it has such an outcome. It directly penetrated the bottom of the ship. Some of the crew members did not even have a chance to carry water. This power is really great.

After a while, the people in the Western Empire's Admiralty were dumbfounded by the news. When did the Cao Family Trading Company give people such a shock? How could there be such a powerful thing after how long ago?

Come to attack us? This simply doesn’t want us to survive. Why not let our people also have such weapons? Each of them is going crazy, why don’t they have such powerful abilities?

It can be said that these naval bases that the Cao Family Trading Company has built this time have their own ideas. All naval bases are not too far apart so that they can support each other. On the mainland, the Cao Family Trading Company

His strength is not the strongest. Alchemists must maintain such abilities on the ocean. How did the empire that never sets back then dominate the entire world? This Li Li is still very clear. Speaking of which, it is because he has a deep understanding of the ocean.

We must attach great importance to it, and now it's time again. We absolutely cannot let it pass like this. We need to carry forward the skills that others had back then. It is for this reason that some of the ideas now must be realized.

Otherwise, they won't care what you do when you are employed in the future. The current naval base requirement of Cao Family Trading Company is that each base must have at least more than a hundred warships that can fight. It is the kind that can be mobilized at any time.

At the same time, there must be dozens of coastal defense guns around the base, and the caliber cannot be less than 203mm. If it is smaller than this, the shells fired cannot go that far, so it can be said that it can target targets at sea.

It's not very useful. Now everyone knows very well that if the navy wants to have a duel, it will definitely need to use warships. Things like coastal defense guns are like useless. Of course, they are all on earth.

, because on earth they all use very powerful artillery to hit them, but it is different here. Even if there is not a single warship in the military port, it is still very easy to deal with these. After all, they are just pieces of wood.

It is not that simple to deal with the ship's people. Each of these people can feel it. It is because of this reason that these people have to build a large number of shore defenses one by one.

Damn it, this cannon can be transported quickly over there on Earth. Some of the iron ore that the Yang family and the Cao family's trading company have cooperated with have been transported in large quantities, and they are much better than those on Earth.

The quality here is much better, but some of the infrastructure and other things here need to be done by people here. Apart from anything else, the construction of a naval base alone requires the continuous work of 60,000 people.

It will take five years to complete. This is definitely not a small project. Although there were many road construction projects and other things lying around in the past, that project was simply too much compared to the one in front of me.

It's not working, and many people can see it. This project is a big project that can truly reflect the capabilities of the Cao family business. First of all, the last road construction project can be said to be

It's very simple. As long as the cement is delivered and there are people there to use it, that's it. Many people are very aware of this matter. But this time it's different. Every military base is different from the others.

It's different. It only takes engineers a year to design this place. There are not so many engineers on this continent. This time, basically the people Li Cong transported from the other side of the earth are just like these.

People, they are the surplus people on the earth, but there is no problem with professional knowledge and so on. Each of these people are very willing to come to this place. For them, they can come to this place to have a look.

It's also a very good thing, but these people have some problems all over their bodies, which makes people feel uncomfortable. However, Li Li doesn't care that much about their problems, just let them

They just need to adapt here. The life on the other side of the earth cannot be compared with that here. It is impossible to get the kind of life on the earth here. Many lives here are not as good as over there.

, but this is also a very huge stage, which is enough for you to show off one by one. In fact, this is a common problem. Many people cannot stand the environment here.

The people of the Eastern Empire didn't waste their time at this time. They didn't even think about some naval bases in the outer sea, because they all knew that it was impossible. How capable are we? We don't have Cao Cao.

As for the ability of the commercial bank, they have already calculated a naval base. Not counting those warships and so on, it is just a base, which requires hundreds of millions of silver, or even higher. According to Cao Cao, a naval base

If the standard of the commercial bank is established, it will require at least two billion silver. If it is one or two, there will be no problem, but is it now one or two? That is not even a fraction. According to the information they obtained

, the Cao Family Commercial Bank will build more than 1025 naval bases. In the future, these 1025 naval bases will become some huge nails on the sea. As long as they exist, there will be the Cao Family Commercial Bank's sphere of influence. They can do whatever they want.

At least I don't have the ability to stop it, and the other three empires are even more impossible. Relying on others is also unrealistic. At this time, it is better to rely on yourself, just like now

Similarly, the people in the Eastern Empire are already well prepared. All they need to do is to gather all these people. Then do what they can do at their coastal location. It will definitely not be to go out and follow Cao Cao.

The people from the family business are looking for trouble. That is simply a waste of their own resources. You must know that any resource at this time is very important. If you waste it at this time, then don't think about it in the future.

It is simply impossible to bring everything back. The Eastern Empire also has a plan of its own. In addition to the loans from the Cao Family Commercial Bank, they also received about 350 billion silver from the entire empire. They want to build a very good

As for the coastal defense line, they know that after this defense line is established, it will be impossible to withstand the attack of the Cao Family Trading Company, because the Eastern Empire's navy has too many places that need to be defended. If they want to protect all the places,

, it is impossible to increase this investment ten times. Don’t the people of the Eastern Empire want to protect their empire? But this war is too expensive. This is called competition, but they don’t want to.

Just know that this kind of thing is very normal on earth. Basically, many opponents were not killed on the battlefield, but in such an arms race. The Eastern Empire has already begun.

, they don’t know what the purpose of doing this is, they just want to keep themselves busy, they also know that wasting time is shameful, alchemists, why don’t you think about it, wasting money is also not a good thing,

What they are doing now is not a waste of time, but they have wasted a lot of money. There is one difference between the Eastern Empire and the other three empires, that is, the other three empires have already

They believe that the Cao Family Trading Company is the largest force. Alchemy Master and the others don’t think so. In their opinion, the most powerful force on this continent is still their Eastern Empire. As long as they have such an idea, that’s it.

I don’t know what to say. At least they have no way to solve this problem. The navy is a new branch of the military. They think they can catch up with the people of the Cao Family Trading Company in this, but why don’t you think about it carefully?

The people from the Cao Family Trading Company have been doing this for a long time. It is impossible for you to catch up with them from the beginning. Another thing is that you people in the Eastern Empire are also a little scared.

, they all know about the last conflict. Tens of millions of troops were dispatched, but in the end not even a cent came back. They were either killed by people from the Cao Family Trading Company or people from the Northern Empire. Said

They felt very uncomfortable when they heard it, but the people from the Northern Empire asked us to go over and help, but why later on, it was their people who were the most enthusiastic about killing us.

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, but later it was you who hunted us down. What if it were you?

If so, we would do the same. No one can tell who failed in this matter, but one thing is certain, that is, the people from the Cao Family Trading Company definitely took a lot of advantage. Look at them.
To be continued...