When Augustine Leibert looked at the note in front of him depressedly, he finally recalled that he seemed to have really forgotten that he had a debt.
To be honest, he was the prime minister of the Yangmu Kingdom. He dominated the whole kingdom with one hand, and one person was inferior to ten thousand people, so he never thought that one day someone would ask him for debts.
Augustine's rise was so fast that Leibert had an unreal and illusory feeling. He even thought that he had touched the threshold of the imperial prime minister or even the imperial emperor.
Such illusions, such castles in the air, made him forget that everything about him seemed to come from a distant place, from an unknown human being.
Now, it seems that the other party has come to ask for a debt, and he is knocking on the door to ask for a debt. This suddenly reminds him of many things, many, many things!
"My dear Augustine, it is useless for you to worry now, because our first fleet has already sailed to the south water, and nothing can stop the outbreak of this naval battle." The king of the Yangmu Kingdom has been in such a mood recently.
It's quite good, he said with a smile to comfort Leibert.
His prime ministers brought him one glorious victory after another, and his kingdom was now three times its original size!
Defeating the neighboring orcs gave them control of a large amount of pasture. They had more horses and more food, which they could use to expand outward.
After gaining the support of the Cyric Consortium, they are almost invincible, and any country that resists will be easily defeated by them.
What restricts these elves is that their weapon production speed cannot keep up with their expansion speed.
Ever since the defeat of the orcs, the Yangmu Kingdom has been short of metal, and the production of bullets cannot keep up with the consumption of frontline troops.
This kind of thing makes everyone painful and happy, because they have never encountered such a good thing before - as long as their troops have supplies to support the attack, they can win.
The problem seems to be very simple, they just need to desperately expand their production capacity, and the Augustine family does exactly this.
As a result, they did gain benefits - in the past six months, the Augustine family became extremely wealthy, and the Yangmu Kingdom also expanded externally, and relied on the arms of the Augustine family to achieve a complete victory.
They even improved their weapons and created a bunch of weird and messy continuous-firing weapons, which were very useful when fighting enemies armed with Cyric flintlocks on the battlefield.
However, the problem is not without its problems, that is, the expansion of production capacity has been too extreme, and the downstream industry has been unable to keep up.
Steelmaking can be done directly by setting up a blast furnace, but where the iron ore comes from is unknown. The elves really didn't think of giving priority to using steam engines to increase the productivity of the mines, because their other factories also need steam engine equipment.
A bunch of factories are rushing to grab steam engines, which means that the steam engine equipment can't keep up with the output. The elves don't have an electric system to balance the power generated by the steam engines, so they can only put a steam engine in every place where a steam engine is needed.
The efficiency is much worse than Tangmo's power transmission.
The mines can only rely on miners to support themselves. If the manpower is not enough, they will be forced to work overtime. If there is not enough, slaves will be used to mine. In short, the efficiency is extremely low.
Low efficiency leads to insufficient production capacity. The final solution is to rely on the Poplar Kingdom's maritime fleet to purchase large quantities from other countries.
Anyway, annexing neighboring countries brought a lot of money, and it was also possible to exploit the people in the occupied areas, so the Yangmu Kingdom was not short of money, and the purchase of metal ore was very smooth for a time.
But the good times did not last long. As Datang Group and Cyric Consortium joined the metal purchasing team, the international iron ore price was immediately pushed to a staggering level.
Seeing the three companies being divided into Jin Dynasty, Yangmu Kingdom's iron ore procurement can only barely maintain the current situation.
But what they didn't expect was that now, the maritime lifeline they relied on was cut off by a bastard who came to collect debts.
This is not a trivial matter, but a major matter related to whether the entire Yangmu Kingdom can continue to expand and whether it can stabilize the current situation.
What makes Augustine Leibert even more depressed is that this maritime war seems to be inevitable, because the most efficient communication system in the world is not in the Poplar Kingdom.
Telegraphy, an emerging communication technology, was still a super technology unique to the Tang Group, and all command and dispatch in the Yangmu Kingdom could only be accomplished by relying on letters and envoys.
This resulted in a lag in information, making it impossible for some decisions to reach the people executing the orders as quickly as possible.
When Augustine received the news sent from Nanshui, he also received the news at the same time as the 1st Fleet of the Poplar Kingdom that was anchored at the Osa Military Port.
The first fleet of the Yangmu Kingdom has 30 first-class battleships, which can be said to be very large. These expensive battleships have more than 40 cannons and sea fortresses. They were the largest in the world before the emergence of the Datang Group.
Powerful naval warfare weapon.
The 1st Fleet in Osa Military Port has no reason to avoid fighting, so when they call for help from the South River, they will definitely send a fleet south.
And the size of this fleet will definitely not be too small, because at the same time, Nanshui sent news that two warships had been sunk.
Therefore, maybe 10 warships will go south to join the battle. It is estimated that the warship of the Datang Group that came to collect debts must be sunk.
In other words, at this moment, this Datang Group warship might have been sunk.
Thinking of this, Augustine Leibert had to sigh again. He originally planned to hedge his bets, but in recent times, his own side has been making rapid progress, and he has forgotten such things as sitting on the fence.
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After all, my place is booming, and although the preparations for betting on both sides have been completed, I still trust my side more or less.
But with the expansion of Yangmu Kingdom and the continuous arrival of information, he has actually heard about the rising Lobby Group.
A new weapons and arms group that can compete with Cyric is already an existence that the Augustine family has to deal with carefully.
What worries him even more is that if his side sinks the Datang Group's warship, will the feud between the two sides really be forged?
He had even begun to seriously consider whether he should pay back the 100,000 gold coins he owed Tang Mo, and then say sorry or something, and turn the hostility into friendship...
It's a pity that what he doesn't know is that his money may have exceeded 10 million gold coins now, and even selling the entire Augustine family may not be enough to repay it.
Having said that, the main reason why he is depressed now is that it is too late to send a messenger and have a good talk with the people on the ship that came to collect debts.
Because he could no longer catch up with the fleet going south, nor could his men reach the South Water in time to properly communicate with the people on the provocative warship.
"I really didn't know that you have a debt relationship with the Datang Group that I have been hearing about recently." The king of Yangmu Kingdom looked at his most capable subordinate and said, "It seems that the situation is irreversible.
Yeah?"
Leibot lowered his head and replied with some embarrassment: "I'm afraid that's the case, so I plan to prepare and send a team of envoys to the Wright Kingdom to have a good talk with the owner of the Datang Group. After all, it's just business, there is no deep hatred.
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"We sank one of their ships, and they sank at least 30 of our cargo ships! This is already hatred." The king of the Yangmu Kingdom interrupted Leibert angrily.
If a kingdom is blocked by others, has sunk so many ships, and still maintains restraint, then there is basically no need to mention blood and backbone.
This is simply a slap in the face, a declaration of war! Therefore, as the king of the Yangmu Kingdom, Yangmu XI does not intend to just give up.
In Bunas, Tang Mo was looking at all the information about the Augustine family of the Yangmu Kingdom. It was a thick pile and looked very comprehensive.
"Are you really not worried about whether it will be possible to challenge a country with a battleship?" John stood in front of him and asked nervously.
"Why are you worried?" Tang Mo looked at John standing in front of him with a strange look, and asked with a smile.
His warships have absolute advantages in speed, firepower and protection. If they could all be sunk, the Yangmu Kingdom would have unified the world long ago.
Even if the opponent concentrates superior forces and is surrounded on all sides, the armored warship can break through the enemy's encirclement calmly, and even sink all the enemy ships surrounding it.
Moreover, he also has a communication advantage and can command the warship at any time, which is a condition that the enemy does not have. In terms of battlefield coordination, if he has 80 points here, the opponent may only have less than 10 points at most.
Once something goes wrong, he can directly order the warship to return, which is much faster than sending a message.
What's more... he still has two armored ships! If one fails, then he can mobilize three warships, completely making it impossible for the Yangmu Kingdom to sail to the sea!
So Tang Mo didn't care about the battle situation at all, but teased John: "How many fathers do you have? When you introduced yourself for the first time, you said that your father's name was Tural... and then you said yours
Dad is Williams..."
"Um..." John blushed immediately. Back then, he kept talking about cheating without revealing his true identity, but now he was investigated by Tang Mo.
Tang Mo continued to tease John: "Later, I did some research and found out that the current head of the Augustin family is Leibert. Who do you think is your biological father?"
"Okay, I lied to you before... I didn't expect to have such a deep relationship with you." John admitted his previous lies with some embarrassment.
Tang Mo pointed at Leibert in the investigation report and asked curiously: "Then is he your biological father?"
"..." John looked at Tang Mo speechlessly, feeling helpless that he wanted to hit someone, but he didn't dare.
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Finally, the make-up is completed and I am no longer in debt! Hehehehe!