The prime minister waited for Tang Mo to laugh enough before he said: "Actually, you are already very rich, Mr. Tang. Frankly speaking, you may be richer than the big bosses of the Cyric Consortium."
The Cyric Consortium is not actually the property of one person. Although most of the shares are in the hands of several wealthy families, the shares controlled by each of these wealthy families are actually very limited.
But Tang Mo is different. Tang Mo's Datang Group is his sole property, which makes his wealth more concentrated. However, Tang Mo still doubts that his wealth is actually not more than those people.
Therefore, Tang Mo shrugged his shoulders and defended himself: "I don't have much money. As you can see, steel paving is a big expense."
He was not lying. In fact, he really didn't have much cash in hand - most of his income was reinvested in the construction of his factory.
Now, he has many factories under construction, and they are being built in several places at the same time, which has reduced the money in his hands to a very dangerous level.
Today, Datang Group is building refineries and chemical plants on Heilong Island, as well as pharmaceutical plants and large power plants.
All these constructions require time and investment. In the Vicious Forest, the scale of Tang Mo's Factory No. 2 is also constantly expanding.
The second phase of the railway project connecting Beiling and Bunas is also under construction. Tangmo is planning to build a double-track railway line here to make freight and passenger transportation more convenient.
Coupled with the railway investment, factory investment in other parts of the kingdom, and the participation and investment in some projects, the money in Tang Mo's pocket did not match his status at all.
In fact, the prime minister also knew it. He didn't need to investigate deliberately, he just asked casually, and he knew that Tang Mo had recently spent at least 1 million gold coins for expansion and investment. Tang Mo must be very tight.
So he smiled and suggested to Tang Mo: "Mr. Tang is joking, if you are willing to transfer the railway operating rights from Bunas to the Royal City to His Majesty, the funds you can get back may be unimaginable."
Tang Mo was stunned, knowing that the king seemed to be planning to expand his investment in the railway project. He looked at the prime minister and asked casually: "It seems that your majesty has a lot of money now?"
Recently, the Three Kings Alliance has been vigorously digesting the territories they have annexed. These lands and the people on them need to be resettled and managed, which involves most of the energy of the three kings.
In order to naturalize these newly occupied territories faster, and to give themselves the ability to control these areas more firmly, several countries all thought of Tangmo's railway.
Now, seven or eight railways are under construction at the same time. Several countries are not too anxious to expand their armies. Instead, they are working hard on railways and telegraphs.
Several countries invited Tang Mo to establish telegraph offices in many cities to cover these areas and make them accessible.
Tang Mo also took the opportunity to expand his influence in these areas and at the same time cover his own intelligence network.
However, the expansion of the telegraph system also had another impact: the electromagnetic environment began to become complicated, and Tang Mo had to start dividing frequency bands for telegraphs, and began to popularize more advanced telegraph machines in his troops.
The prime minister did not hide anything, nodded and said truthfully: "In fact, because of your support, he has never been so rich."
The tax reform of the Wright Kingdom may be more comprehensive than that of Susas. After all, Tang Mo provided a new plan for the Wright Kingdom and also supported enough manpower.
Finance Minister Simeone can now be said to be one of the top political stars in the kingdom, and his performance has won the praise of Wright VII.
Wright VII accepted almost all suggestions from Simonyi, and the talents recommended by Simonyi would quickly gain a foothold within the Wright Kingdom.
In return, Simone built a very advanced economic system for the Kingdom of Leyte, and the taxation of the Kingdom of Leyte has never been so efficient.
Because of the tax reduction and efficiency improvement, the Kingdom of Wright quickly conquered the newly occupied areas. The kingdom lowered taxes and appeased the occupied areas. The efficiency is really not very high.
With the support of the graduates of Datang's military cadets, the Wright Kingdom can be said to be prosperous, and Wright VII has completely surpassed his father's generation and became the greatest king since the birth of the kingdom.
These achievements made his prestige even higher, and also raised his dominance over the core areas of the kingdom to a new level.
Tang Mo is not Cyric. He almost never causes trouble. Although his infiltration into the entire kingdom has reached a terrifying level, he rarely exerts his political influence on the Kingdom of Wright.
His weapons are so advanced that he does not need to sell them. The military of the Kingdom of Wright has already purchased and replaced them with weapons and equipment from the Datang Group.
He does not need to use his accumulated political capital at all to implement the political system he wants in the kingdom, because all of these political systems are more advanced and are good governance that the senior leaders of the Wright Kingdom cannot refuse.
This way of getting along made Wright VII very comfortable and made him more confident and bold in developing his political ambitions.
Of course Tang Mo was unwilling to give up his railway management rights, so he suggested: "Since your Majesty is so rich, why not build a railway to connect the royal city with the new occupied area?"
Hearing Tang Mo's question, the prime minister realized that Tang Mo's rail production capacity seemed to have increased, so he asked curiously: "Can you produce more rails now?"
In fact, the production capacity of railway tracks has always been insufficient. On the one hand, it is due to the shortage of raw materials, and on the other hand, it is also due to the shortage of steel mills.
In order to solve this problem, Tang Mo built a new steel plant in Beiling and used local materials to expand the production scale of rails.
However, this meant that Beiling could not fully supply Bunas iron ingots, so Tang Mo had to, like the elves, start using sea transportation lines to frantically purchase iron ore and iron ingots from other regions.
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Recently, the share of the Poplar Kingdom's steel procurement has begun to decrease, and the subsequent effects of many merchant ships being sunk are becoming apparent.
Tang Mo nodded and answered the Prime Minister's question: "The new factory has been completed in Beiling. Count Alice can now provide the kingdom with 70 kilometers of rail tracks every month."
Because of the huge demand, the scale of the factory is also very huge. Today, everyone in the Wright Kingdom has become accustomed to using the word factory to refer to more efficient production units.
After all, the terms "workshop" and "workshop" can no longer reflect the advanced nature of Tang Mo's Datang Group's factories in terms of production.
When the prime minister heard what Tang Mo said, he immediately sighed: "I can be sure now that everyone who knows you will become richer and richer."
In fact, the prime minister's family also had shares in some textile factories built by Tang Mo, creating a large amount of wealth for the prime minister's family every month.
Nowadays, the Prime Minister's family is inseparable from Tang Mo's monthly payment, so the Prime Minister is actually unknowingly influenced by Tang Mo and will make some decisions that are more beneficial to Tang Mo.
Tang Mo thought for a while and gave an answer that was beyond the prime minister's expectation: "Not entirely."
"Huh?" The prime minister looked at Tang Mo curiously, showing a gossipy expression.
Tang Mo, who had no intention of hiding it, immediately explained to the prime minister: "Actually, the Yangmu Kingdom, which has been expanding recently, owes me a large sum of money."
The prime minister immediately stated his position and sided with Tang Mo: "Does the Kingdom of Wright need to exert some pressure? If necessary, we can change our foreign policy towards the Kingdom of Yangmu."
The recent external expansion of the Wright Kingdom gave him great confidence, and with Tang Mo's technical support, the prime minister did not think that the Yangmu Kingdom would be a rival to the Wright Kingdom.
Even the other party has been very strong recently and is also expanding. It has also defeated the Kingdom of Gales and annexed the Seine Plain.
Tang Mo looked at the docked warships and said to the prime minister: "There is no need at all. My armored ships have already blocked the Nanshui Port of the Yangmu Kingdom."
Only then did the prime minister know that Tang Mo had actually started a war with the Yangmu Kingdom. He looked at the cold and powerful battleship and firmly made his own judgment: "They must be very uncomfortable."
"Yes, my next step is to destroy their Osa Port. What do you think, Prime Minister?" Tang Mo asked with a smile.
He was so casual, as if attacking a kingdom's port was a very simple matter.
The prime minister was silent. After about ten seconds, he spoke and promised Tang Mo very solemnly: "If necessary, the Wright Kingdom can declare war on the Yangmu Kingdom."
Unknowingly, Tang Mo had the ability to decide such an important national decision as a kingdom's declaration of war with just one sentence.
Tang Mo was not proud and rejected the prime minister's kindness: "Thank you, but things will definitely not get so out of control."
The prime minister also breathed a sigh of relief, because if he really declared war on a powerful country that was not bordering the country, he would actually be under a lot of pressure.
After confirming that Tang Mo did not need the support of the Wright Kingdom in declaring war, the prime minister became obviously much more relaxed. He smiled and asked, "I want to know how much money they owe you?"
Tang Mo casually answered an inaccurate number: "Not much, about 14 million gold coins. I didn't ask about my finances, it might be more..."
The prime minister was stunned and reacted for a long time before confirming that the numbers he heard were true and valid.
Then, he reacted for a few more seconds before he realized how terrifying this number really was.