So in the end, although Wang Jing and others knew that it was true that Li Er was working on a project called "Submarine", they did not know that this was Datang's Tianzi No. 1 military project in recent times.
Although the quality of Wang Jing and Pei Ji's gang has improved a lot nowadays, they get the information not from the intelligence channels they spend their own money to obtain, but from public channels. When people say that so-and-so is "well-informed", they usually mean that
This person has great connections and knows all the news - this is how Wang Jing and others got the news.
If it were Wang Jing and others from the past, they might have paid more attention.
After all, this is a bit of a curiosity.
But.
This situation is similar to many public services in later generations. In fact, you can directly go to the official government website to get it, and you can also see the notice directly. However, most people often feel that the information obtained through this channel is not valuable, and they must go to the third party.
Look for any "connections" among the three parties... In the older generation, it is common to give gifts to friends, treat them to a meal, and then ask about the situation.
For the younger generation, of course, the first thing to do is to see what the big guys you follow think about it.
To sum it up, it’s just those few words, darkness under the lamp.
The key point is that Wang Jing, Pei Ji and others learned about the existence of submarines through normal channels, but at the same time, they did not learn about it from their own military intelligence system.
This means that after Wang Jing and others heard about this crucial piece of information, even if they had extra interest and attention for a while, there was no other information to corroborate it to help them obtain the information.
What reliable conclusion can be drawn!
Information is a resource, but it is never necessarily a high-value resource!
The reason is simple, information is just information, but intelligence must be some kind of "conclusion"!
However, this time Wang Jing and others were unable to obtain this kind of evidence from the military intelligence system that they invested heavily in and worked hard for various reasons, so in the end, their views on this somewhat novel news were just novelty.
After a while, there was no more unnecessary attention.
However, despite not being able to obtain this small piece of information and accidentally slipping over, Wang Jing and others still made huge profits from the pirate activities in the past few months and nearly a year.
This is real money!
With such a huge profit in hand - the profit itself is nothing, but everyone has been making profits for such a long time, so it is natural to continue to expand this model in the next step!
Just in these few months.
Wang Jing, Pei Ji Group is expanding its sea trade revenue.
Datang is busy with the progress of the submarine project.
What no one noticed was the change in public sentiment along the coast of the Tang Dynasty.
The whole thing revolved around these invisible things at the beginning, exactly what the maritime merchants on the coast of China expected. As the maritime trade activities became increasingly rampant and the court became busy with its own affairs, the pirate activities
With frequent successes, new equipment for the imperial court is also being released.
But there is no doubt that all of this is not entirely free of cost.
Maritime merchants along the coast finally significantly reduced their investment, that is, the frequency of overseas trade, due to the continued frequency of pirate activities, and many merchants began to sell off their ships. Even at the same time, these merchants who went to sea to engage in trade
In response, the businessmen who opened factories also began to close factories and lay off workers because of the increasingly continuous and even more stable trend of trade.
Although the economic activities of these maritime merchants and factory owners have increased risk expectations due to the emergence of pirates, the losses they have suffered are not large, because they only need to stop trading to completely escape the risk!
Although the benefits of trade are gone, for them, everyone can still make a profit by speculating on other things...
The simplest thing is, of course, just to return the farmland in various places to the path of the five surnames, Qi Wang and others.
Of course, the fifth surname Qiwang was hammered away by the imperial court. Doing this still makes people worry about whether there will be any additional changes in the future? But the fifth surname Qiwang got out. After all, it was a few years ago. Since it is not the case now
In the past, a small land annexation was not a big deal. And more importantly, in addition to land annexation, Datang now engaged in maritime trade and factories, which had already gathered a large urban population.
Although the urban population does not farm and does not need fields, they also need a place to live...
At this time, the houses in various cities are naturally in high demand, and if you start directly, you will see a lot of money visible to the naked eye.
Everyone is making a profit, at least on the road to profit.
But there are still some people in China after all.
These people do not have the conditions to ensure that they can make a profit under any circumstances.
The voices of these people were bound to go unheard. Although Li Erlian took the initiative to make changes to the art style of the palace, it could be said that he was unprecedented in trying to appease these people.
After all, Li Er is not from this generation. No matter how wise Li Er is, he cannot hear the real voice.
As time went on, not only Wang Jing, the Five Surnames and Qiwang Group, and the pirates raised by these people, but also the merchants who continued to make profits after the Tang Dynasty opened the sea, did not hear these voices, and even Li Er did not hear these voices.
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Although Li Er knew from the memorial that the recent pirate activities in the Tang Dynasty had not only undermined the Tang Dynasty's long-term development strategy, but also caused serious damage to the economic activities of the Tang Dynasty in the immediate future.
Rather than the small number of people who were directly plundered and harmed, there were more people who were affected by frequent pirate activities and merchants and factory owners who had reduced their economic activities and directly lost their jobs. At the speed of light, the whole family was drinking from the northwest wind.
Although this population is quite large, Li Er really doesn't pay that much attention, because the farming industry in the Tang Dynasty is still very developed, and the activities of pirates have not been able to damage this kind of place - this is a completely inland area.
This is a purely land-based activity, because the large-scale construction of fertilizer plants and water conservancy projects has made rapid progress compared to tens of millions of years ago.
Because of this situation, at least there is no shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty. There are Changping warehouses in all major states and counties, and they are obviously running well - starving to death will definitely not happen.
Therefore, Li Er naturally did not notice the panic among these people.
The key lies in Li Er's perspective. As long as nothing happens to Chang Pingcang, how can the established population be hungry? But the actual situation is,
These people are not organized.
This means that even if these people cannot afford to eat, Changpingcang’s procedures will refuse to provide them with help.
So in this whole matter, apart from Li Er, the people who are most concerned about submarines are these ordinary people!
