When the Western Empire wants to expand its own navy, they usually talk about it. In fact, their real actions are not very big. This is mainly due to two reasons. One is
It is because of the financial situation of the Western Empire that they no longer have that much money. Although they have taken a series of measures, the navy is definitely a money-burning business, just like the warships they equip now.
, the above twelve war crossbows plus the ship itself cost about three hundred thousand silver each. This was only when a series of things such as wood did not rise in price. If the price of just one of them increased,
If so, it is absolutely impossible to get this price. The other is the performance of the Western Empire's navy in the war. They did not expect such a thing to happen. In their opinion, such a thing is simply impossible.
Appeared, but the actual situation did occur, and it was very powerful. People from the Cao Family Trading Company could say that their warships were useless. Although they did not want to admit this, but in fact? This
They have to admit this, because their first naval opponent was the people from the Cao Family Trading Company. They spent so much money to get this thing out, but what did we get in the end? It can be said that
We got nothing, and all we got in the end was humiliation. Moreover, the people in the Western Empire felt that the navy was not as good as making giant crossbows. This thing created a lot of difficulties for the people of the Cao Family Trading Company.
, it all costs money anyway. Summit novel. Why can’t we make something that is relatively useful to us? If it’s useless, then even if we get it, the people in the Western Empire all have brains, no?
You might do some stupid things.
In fact, for the navy of the Cao Family Trading Company, the navy of other major empires are not very impressive. I know how much combat effectiveness they have. Li Cong knows this matter best. You can use it.
It is simply impossible to fight against us with such Gula's things, but we can't give our things to you. In the past, you didn't have the expenses of the Navy. Maybe you didn't rely heavily on Cao Cao for financial matters.
People from the family business. But now you should all understand that Li Cong also has a plan to let the navies of the Southern Empire and the Eastern Empire have such a conflict. He thinks that the navies of the two empires
The combat effectiveness is quite close. Anyway, I am in a period of recuperation at this time. I should let you start a war. But now the Southern Empire has been repaired enough by myself. If the navy of the Southern Empire is fighting with the Western Empire,
If we get up, there may be a lot of uncertainty about things. Maybe if the Eastern Empire gets angry at this time and sends its own army, the Southern Empire may be destroyed. Although the borders between their two empires are not very close.
Big, but now the entire Southern Empire is in a mood of defeat, while the Eastern Empire has almost recovered. Although it lost a lot of money due to the Cao Family Trading Company in the past few years, the Eastern Empire
The area is relatively large, and for this reason, its recovery speed is also very fast. The other three empires are no match for him. If this is the case, the Northern Empire should be dragged into the water. Li
They had been staying in the house for a long time, just to see if they could extinguish their anger. Neither the Northern Empire nor the Eastern Empire were injured.
Both of their empires basically suffered no losses. When the other empires were fighting, they were all busy developing, especially the Northern Empire, which had never encountered any major incidents from the beginning. Besides,
, the Cao Family Trading Company in the Northern Empire also has a relatively good relationship with them, and they do not want to occupy the wealth of the Cao Family Trading Company like other empires. It’s just that when you don’t count against me, I have to count against you.
Recently, some powerful forces within the Northern Empire have also spoken out, saying that the Northern Empire should now be able to make other empires take a step back. Their strength is already very strong. Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Li Cong.
, whatever you want to say is your own business, and it has nothing to do with us. But there is another question, why did you people change your tone after the quarrel? You people started to pay attention to other things.
Something has happened, for example, the Cao Family Trading Company has delayed the development of your Northern Empire. Li Cong has seen it clearly before. None of the four empires are his friends. If he wants to rise, although his allies are
It is very important, but it seems that I will always be their enemy, and these people do not regard themselves as their allies. Most of the reasons why the Northern Empire retreated in the first place was because they received huge benefits.
In their view, the people of the Western Empire are fools. Although you have gained a lot of territory, you have also suffered a lot of losses. Just look at you now and you will know that although our Northern Empire has a territory of no more than
There has been no expansion, but we have not suffered any losses and have gained a large amount of interest, which is much better than you.
According to information from the Cao Family Commercial Bank’s intelligence department, the principal amount plus interest that the Northern Empire will repay to the Cao Family Commercial Bank this year is about 16 trillion taels of silver, of which three trillion taels of silver belong to the Northern Empire government, and the rest are from private individuals.
After the Northern Empire government repays this loan, they will have to pay back hundreds of billions of silver next year. If this continues, they will not have loans from the Cao Family Commercial Bank in a few decades. Of course
, they will return it to the people of the Cao Family Trading Company over the years, and they may also accept some, but in any case, the loan from the Cao Family Trading Company has actually become something that really helps them for the Northern Empire.
The reason why Li Cong encouraged them to take loans in the first place was because he wanted to use debt to control them. Who knew that he would actually help them now? This matter is not very good. How could we do this?
The thing is, if there is no crisis for a large empire, it is very easy to develop quickly, especially like these relatively large empires in front of them. Even if they are injured, they can stand up quickly.
, not to mention these countries that have not yet risen, they all understand very well, so this time the people of the Northern Empire must be involved in this matter, otherwise, in the future, the people of the Northern Empire
People will become more powerful, and people from the Cao Family Trading Company must not get involved this time. The Cao Family Trading Company also needs to do some military business. Naturally, things like serial crossbows cannot be sold, but
Things like grenades can be sold. Anyway, if this thing explodes, there will be nothing. It is not easy for them to imitate grenades on this planet.
Lahasana Port can be said to be the closest port to the Eastern Empire in the southeast of the Northern Empire. In the past, it was basically a deserted place, but now it has become one of the largest cities in the southeast of the Northern Empire. The reason
This is the rise of maritime trade. Although maritime trade has been around for several years, the Northern Empire's own shipping business is not very developed. The ships of the Eastern Empire basically bear more than 90% of the transactions between the two parties.
, among which the people of the Cao Family Trading Company were responsible for 90% of the 90%. It can be said that most of the ocean-going transactions between the Northern Empire and the Eastern Empire were controlled by the Cao Family Trading Company. However,
The Cao Family Trading Company also understands this truth. They cannot make all the money themselves, so they will still release part of the goods regularly. The Cao Family Trading Company has to ask the merchants of the two empires to buy these goods.
When I deliver the goods, you also get the goods from me. After you go out, it is up to you how you want to buy them. For this reason, the Cao Family Trading Company still has a foothold here. In the past, the Northern Empire's
People don't know what a foot world is at all, but now they understand. A foot world means a place rented out on your territory. This place has nothing to do with your country, even here.
If someone kills someone, it can only be handled by people from the Cao Family Trading Company. At first, the people in the Northern Empire didn't understand why, but their coastal governor sold this place for 8 million taels of silver, which was about 20,000 square kilometers.
The rent for the land was two million taels per year. They were right. There was nothing in the past, but now with so much money, isn’t it a profit?
I earn 2 million taels of silver for the court every year, and I can also get 500,000 taels of silver myself. The governor also feels that he has done a very good job in this matter. Basically, other people think the same way, and they all think so.
They are not fools. They always feel that something is wrong about this matter, but they don't know what to say and they can't notice it. If they want to provoke a war between the two countries, Li Cong is ready to start from this place.
, there are many guests from the Eastern Empire who came here with the ships. These people all want to make a good deal. The people of the Cao Family Trading Company are responsible for transportation. The people of the Cao Family Trading Company know how to do this kind of work.
They do it, but the fees are very high. Some local small businessmen have their own ships. They will pick up the goods from the Cao Family Trading Company and these people at sea, and then carry out the next step of distribution when they arrive at the local area.
That is why there is a price difference from the factory price. In fact, this is a very normal business behavior. If there is no profit for people to do business, why do they do this? We are not doing charity.
, in the beginning, these merchants from the Northern Empire and the Eastern Empire could live in peace, but when doing business, one would always take advantage, and the other would suffer, because people from the Eastern Empire often come to this place.
, so they earn more. If you have money, you are the boss. They also bully many people from the Northern Empire here. If you want to stir up trouble, you have to find one of them.
As long as things get into trouble, we at Cao's Trading Company are not afraid of how big the trouble will be. Of course, the bigger the better.
There used to be no people in Lahasana Port. In the past few years, it suddenly turned into a city with a population of three million. It was all built on the seaside, which is far away from the port in the northern part of the Eastern Empire.
It takes about nearly two years to travel. This is calculated based on the speed of each ship of their two empires. Their fastest speed is only more than ten kilometers per hour, which is definitely too slow. The Cao Family Trading Company
Ships can already reach speeds of more than 70 kilometers per hour, so if everyone in the Cao Family Trading Company wants to make a round trip, it will only take a few months. However, the people in the Cao Family Trading Company all want to give others a bite.
Yes, the distribution center of the Cao Family Trading Company is on a small island about 40 kilometers outside the city. The area is not very large, about a few hundred square kilometers. After the goods are thrown there, the Cao Family Trading Company will use some local
The reason why the ships are being transported to the mainland is so troublesome because they are afraid that there will be many people on the mainland who want to take advantage of them. Although the people of the Cao Family Trading Company have paid great attention to it and their force is also very powerful.
But it doesn't matter to those people. Whatever they want to do will follow their own will. Absolutely no one cares what the people in the Cao Family Trading Company think. If these people do something, they will be very
They are very powerful. They usually do some extreme things. Besides, the government of the Northern Empire doesn't know what they will do yet. So it is okay to have such a buffer zone. Don't look at it, it is just a few miles away from the coastline.
It's only ten kilometers away, but there are hundreds of warships from two squadrons of the Cao Family Trading Company there. With the current ability of the Northern Empire, it is absolutely impossible to defeat them. They can only watch.
There are about hundreds of thousands of people from the Eastern Empire inside Lahasana Port. These people are either some big businessmen from the Eastern Empire or royal merchants from the Eastern Empire. These people are responsible for purchasing some things in the Northern Empire, and then
Let people from the Cao Family Trading Company transport them back. This kind of business has also started to flourish in the past two years. In the past, they would buy the Cao Family Trading Company's goods directly from the Eastern Empire, but in that case the profits would drop by hundreds.
Thirty percent, Cao's Trading Company didn't want to do such a thing at the beginning, but later found that its profits would be guaranteed very well. Anyway, I would just be responsible for transportation, and you would sell whatever you buy.
None of them have much to do with us, and the people at Cao's Trading Company have also opened a so-called insurance business. As long as you are insured, if anything goes wrong with these things, we, the Cao's Trading Company, will be responsible for it. But if
If you don't have insurance, then I'm sorry. You can only be responsible for it. At the beginning, many people were unwilling to do this. They thought that as long as their own people were careful, nothing would happen.
But later, after several incidents happened one after another, they finally understood that this society was really not that good, so they had no choice but to accept this incident, and one by one they began to give advice to the Cao Family Trading Company.
People are insured, and the insurance money each time is not that expensive anyway. We don’t even need people to follow us. As long as something happens, people from their Cao Family Trading Company will take the initiative to give us the money. If something like this happens,
If you don't do it, you really have a problem in your head. This also made some local escort agencies anxious. They had nothing to do, and then they all turned into gangsters.
In the past, this kind of business should be what other people's escort agencies should do. Does it have anything to do with you people from the Cao family business? If you do this, you are destroying our jobs and not letting us have enough to eat. So the local
The escorts teamed up and often caused trouble for some of the merchant ships of the Cao Family Trading Company. If in other areas the government's power could be said to be enough to kill them, it was not possible in this place, although there were already a number of them here.
It is a large city with a population of one million, but according to the imperial court, the establishment here is that of a county. How many people are there in the county? The only thing that can be counted is that there are thousands of government officials. The army of the Northern Empire is here.
There are tens of thousands of people, but they basically don't care about such things. Besides, when those people want to do things, they will give a lot of money to these guys in the army one by one, and take their money.
How could they come out to make trouble if they have money? They all understand such things very well. If they don’t understand such things, it can only be said that they don’t understand anything. These people used to often talk to the government
People who deal with people, so they know this matter better than the people in the Cao Family Trading Company. Since you groups have caused us confusion in the past, Li Cong is also going to start doing this from them. You are going to come
Taking the blame, Li Cong's plan is very simple. It is to use these people to rob some important goods of the Eastern Empire, or to kidnap their more powerful people. In this way, it will be a small matter at the beginning, and the Eastern Empire will
People may not say anything, but Li Cong knows that there will be a good deal next, and then they will suffer. Then they will have fun. If the two empires are in trouble, they will not make a fortune.