2161 Section 2123 Sanctions

On the Sabre side, Er Shao’s ability is indeed not a joke. The bandit here was solved in a few clicks. The people in the village are very grateful to him. Er Shao also posted a lot from the bandits. Fortune, there are several thousand taels of silver. When this guy took the people and silver from the village to his village, they were surprised to find that there were some more bandits than the bandits in the village. That is The local army of the Southern Empire.

The army of the Southern Empire is divided into the local army and the forbidden army. The forbidden army is rarely seen in places like them. The most common ones are these local army, and these people will not be like this. Coming from the small village, my cousin took a look at these troops. They are still on the mountain at this time. They have not yet returned to the village. The last time the local soldiers arrived here were many years ago. Too poor, it is impossible for anyone with rights to look at this place. Their coming here can only explain one thing, that is, they caused trouble in the city.

"Second silly, you can't go back. They are already here. Take these people to the place where the bandits just now. You can clean it up there. I will go back and see if I can get everyone in the house. Come out, bring me these silvers, and I’ll take care of it. I guess I can go. Isn’t that guy also giving money to the local army? I don’t believe they don’t love silver.” The cousin took a look at the people below. Said, this kind of thing is probably done, and there is no other way besides doing this. Fortunately, they got a lot of silver just now.If they don't have these talents, they might not even have a little way. It doesn't need a few hundred local army to just arrest one person?Although the cousin's heart is doubtful, he also knows that he might not be able to come back when he goes down, but he has no way to live in the mountains with these people. The second silly is different. He has his own ability and heart. They are also kind. They can live in the mountains. He glanced at his fiancée. This is really hard.

"Cousin. This can't work. They may not come here because of money. If you go down, you may not be able to come back. You can see that some of them are in the village but they start to search. Let's take a look on the mountain. Anyway, if they can't find us, they won't do anything to other people." Er Shao glanced down and said.What he thought was that he would go down and have a look when it gets dark for a while.If the Assassin King was here, the hundreds of local troops below are really not their opponents, and he can make the people below all lose their heads without knowing it.This is what they are capable of, but now he doesn't have such a skill, but he can't let his cousin just go to death, right?The saber now has begun to slowly awaken, and he always feels a little bit of pleasure when encountering a murder. Such things make him really feel very helpless. On the one hand, he feels that he is a Nice, but on the other hand, he felt that he didn't seem to be bloodthirsty so much, which was really a bit contradictory.

"Okay, how can you be like a woman? Now things are not the time when we have a choice. You don't see when it is now. If they can't find a few people in the village, we Even in the mountains, there are not many good days. Besides, there are our relatives in the village. I have to go back. It is of little use for me to stay here. Anyway, I have some contacts over the years, plus yours. The money is still okay to save your life anyway. Remember, no matter what the situation is, you can only go back if I come to you personally. Otherwise..." When the cousin wants to say something , I was stunned by Er Sha, my cousin still wanted to be a hero, but this time I didn’t take it as a hero, but I was killed by Er Sha, this guy is really not easy to start. Yes, the eldest sister on the side gave Ersha a silly look. Although she hadn't closed the door yet, the girls were all extroverts. Ersha touched her head a little silly.

"Second silly, is there something wrong with your brain? Why did you hit him." There are those people with poor brains who have been looking at this side, don't know what's wrong.

"If I don't stun this guy, he will have to go down and be killed by those people later. Okay, just as my cousin said just now, you all go to the back mountains. Don't come back. I will go down and watch. Look, even if there is something, it’s useless if there are more people. I can still do as much as I can. Aren’t those bandits all killed by me? You just pass by and I’ll tell you the news. Yes, after you go back, don’t come to inquire about the news here. If they are really found out, our life will not be so easy. Maybe these guys will search the mountains one by one. It’s not much better, let’s go, I’ll go there first.” This guy took a look at his cousin who was lying on the ground. The eldest sister shook her head at him, saying that it’s okay, so he opened his mouth again and revealed it. A white tooth went down.

In fact, they guessed wrong this time. They really caused a lot of things in the county town, but that matter is basically nothing. Even if the person has money, the most often they are sent out. The people in this army definitely cannot be dispatched. Each of these people in the army is very precious. Unless it is a war, or your background is very tough, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to appear in the army. People from here are here to help you with your private work. If this is found out, it’s a matter of losing your head. No one can bear the responsibility. They come here because they have something to do with the Cao’s firm. That’s for conscription. The Southern Empire has already decided to wage a full-scale war with the Cao’s merchants. It must be enlisted. The current number of soldiers feels a bit insufficient. Large-scale enlistment is needed. What they didn't expect, it happened to be with them, and they all thought it was their own business, if it was usually a matter of personal preference.You can go or not, but if you don’t go, if you don’t go, the people above will have a lot of things to say to you. If you have to go, otherwise it’s unpatriotic. It may be impossible for people to fight against Cao’s house, but it’s okay for them to put a hat or something on you. This is what they are best at.

This small mountain village was very quiet before, not to mention the people in the army.Even those government officials in the county town didn't come here much.It is because this place is not the object of people's attention at all, and there is no useful thing to go out here, but now the order of the court has come down, as long as it is people in this age group.As long as you are not disabled.I have to go to the army.The imperial court stipulated that the army should be expanded by 2 billion. This means that one of the 100 people in the Southern Empire must be a soldier, and this proportion is not very high.That’s just one percent, but it’s not quite the same as before. They have done things to this level. Of course, many people are unwilling to go, so there will be polysaccharides everywhere. You run everywhere. No problem, but your family members are not so lucky. As long as they are caught, the day will be difficult. If they are not beaten, they have to be killed. Soldiers are not willing to do this. If this is not the case, they may be killed. This is also the task that was pressed down, isn't it?They are also forced to be helpless.

Now the more than 200 people in the village have started to call people according to the names on the roster. How can they find ten people? Ordinarily, there must be more than 30 people in the village of more than 300 people. Now there are only three points. One of them, they definitely won't leave, and the whole village is unclear, but they didn't find the person they were looking for. The guy who brought them also said that most of the people in this village may be there. Hunting in the mountains, they usually take a long time to come back, so the commander in the army decided. If they go back, it will definitely waste time. It's better to stay here in Takeshita, and look at the people here. I’ve gone somewhere. If I can come back, it’s best. I just take it with me. But if I can’t come back, the old, weak, sick and disabled people in this village will see it, and they have to be called. All of them are beautiful.

This is just one aspect. In fact, the large-scale conscription within the southern empire has already begun, but the frontline area is a bit more intense. Now they know that the soldiers are their lives, and all of them want to hurry up. He strengthened his army. The imperial court directly gave the warlords below a lot of rights, so that they could instantly strengthen their power to resist the attack of the Hell Cao’s house, but there would be a bad side. , That might expand the power of these generals. In the end, it’s not easy to watch them. At that time, the end will not fall. It is not a good thing for the Southern Empire. They may eventually Those who revolted, by that time...

The court of the Eastern Empire, at this moment, the envoys from the Western Empire and the Northern Empire are already here. They all started to discuss this matter. They need to discuss an effective plan. This time they saw the strength of Cao's firm. , I also saw the decay of the feudal dynasty. If they can’t make progress, in the next hundred years, they may be eaten by the Cao’s merchants one by one. This is absolutely possible, Cao What the people of the family firm can do, and what Cao’s family firm showed this time can be seen. They are no longer satisfied with one place. What they want is to occupy the land. What does this show?It shows that they are going to establish a country. If the guess is correct, the fifth empire on this continent will appear, and there may be four empires. Then one empire will have to be destroyed. The people of the southern empire must also They came to participate in this matter, but the people of the three empires closed their doors to discuss this matter. They had other plans, or they might sacrifice the Southern Empire in exchange for a certain amount of time. In short, this meeting was very secret.

"Everyone, I won’t say more about the extra words. Everyone knows the current situation. The latest news is that Cao’s firm has prepared an offensive army of about 6-10 million people. The second line of defense put together by the side is said to be able to defend for three months. Now it seems impossible. Most people already feel that they will fail. What we need to discuss is how to deal with it. This matter. We can’t just sit back and wait. The Cao’s house firm has grown to a point of surprise for us. Before, we should kill them when they moved things. Now it’s the best time. I don’t know how we should deal with this matter.” The Prime Minister of the Eastern Empire said that the current matter is related to the survival of the three empires. Therefore, the participants in this meeting sent by the court are all up to standard, although they may not be able to Immediately declare their position, but general matters can be resolved, and it can be said that they are all ambassadors.One by one is also very reliable.I didn't ask some related households to come in, because they all understood very well that related households are related households, and they are of no use after they come in.Now is not the time to waste time.

"Is the Southern Empire really dysfunctional this time? I don't think it can be like that. Our four empires have existed on this continent for so long. It is said that although those people are missing, we are here. You can still know the news about them. They seem to have all gone to a world of strong men. That place should be on this planet. As for where we don’t know, if we can contact our ancestors, Cao’s family firm It’s really nothing, but what should we do now?” The prime minister of the Western Empire also said that the Western Empire is also good with Cao’s business because of Prince Zheng’s relationship, but when it matters to his own survival, some things are It can be closed, as it is now. The relationship between the Western Empire and Li Cong was not very good at a very early time, but the two sides were deliberately maintaining it. Basically, the relationship has not been as good as before.

that place?When everyone heard this name, their faces showed some respect. That place was a sacred place of their four empires. According to legend, as long as the tenth-level fighters in their empire can go to that place, their history It seems that some very powerful people who appeared on the above have all gone to that place, but there is basically no news about that place. Generally, when the empire is alive and dead, some very powerful people will appear in that place. I know whether it will appear this time. The demon who appeared last time should be the person from that place, but there was no such person in that place last time, which shows that the people there will not care about the devil’s affairs. The demon is not at that level. Indeed, if it is really done, the demon should not be enough to see, but this demon is not enough, Cao's firm should be enough, shouldn't the Cao's firm be killed? What?What is the standard for people there?No one knows what their formal standards are.

"Let’s not talk about that place, what about us? There is no way to decide what the people there are like. We have to use some of our abilities to contain Cao’s commercial firm. All the Cao’s commercial firms in the empire will be closed down. If this is the case, I think the people of Cao’s commercial firms should feel restricted, but in this way, our losses will also be great. I don’t know if we will survive the financial crisis of the empire.” Said the Xiangguo of the Northern Empire. Speaking of the four major empires’ economies, the Northern Empire has the closest relationship with the Cao family firm. Of course, they also owe the Cao family. The country with the most money in the business bank, it would be good if these debts can be completely eliminated. Of course, they must also have to pass this economic crisis. If they can't make it through, this matter can be fun.

"I don't approve of this. Although our Eastern Empire has a relatively strong economic strength, officials from the Ministry of Households and the Ministry of Internal Affairs did a drill. If we really do that, there is a result that is most important. Yes, that means that the credibility of our imperial court is immediately gone. Look at the Southern Empire now. Because the Southern Empire has cancelled all debts with the Cao’s Commercial Bank, no one asks at all about the bonds of the Southern Empire. It’s just like rubbish. Those things are useless at all. We will need to borrow money in the future. Don’t we use that? For us, it’s not worth the gain. The most important thing is Cao’s firm. People in Cao’s house can retreat quickly. Ghosts know how much space they have. Those things can allow their assets to be transferred quickly. Over the years, the people in Cao’s business have gained a lot of money and are wealthier than us. Many, if we close our trade with them. The most powerful one is food. In these years, more than 50% of the food on the mainland has been supplied by people from the Cao’s house. Many of our people are already Farming, I don’t know what is going on on your side. If the grain trade between our Eastern Empire and Cao’s Commercial Firm ceases, we will starve to death at least tens of billions of people this year, so we really are...” Eastern Empire The Prime Minister said helplessly, that economic sanctions are actually useless now. At the end of the day, the people from Cao's Commercial Bank were not doing much harm, but they were all depressed and unclear.These people will lose a lot in the end.This proposal was deadlocked in the words of the Eastern Empire State Minister.

"In the past few years, we have all become the Cao's firm. When we encountered such cheap food, we began to import food. Our domestic production has dropped a lot. If we had not been tempted by this in the first place. Now we don’t need to be controlled by others at all. If this doesn’t work, we will consider the next method. In short, we cannot allow the Southern Empire to break through the next line of defense. If that is the case. In the hearts of our people, they will think of the Cao family. Commercial firms are invincible. Whatever we want to form will be useless at that time. Now the failed Southern Empire may become ours. All these are possible things. We have to guard against it. We don’t know if we send troops. Can it?" said the prime minister of the Northern Empire. Originally, it was financial aid, but the tax revenues of the three empires that have been invaded by the Cao Family Commercial Bank over the years are all controlled by the Cao Family Commercial Bank. If you borrow money to do other things, that’s okay, but if you borrow money to support the Southern Empire, how could the people at Cao’s Commercial Bank agree?At that time, not only could it not help the people of the Southern Empire, but it would also plunge oneself into a financial crisis. At that time, whether or not oneself can live is a major issue.

"We are now talking to Cao's house and the Southern Empire. We are all neutral. If we rashly support the Southern Empire in the past, it must not be that simple. People in the Southern Empire naturally hope that. , But if we are caught by the people of Cao’s house, their navy will be idle, and then they will come to our coastal area all at once. Afterwards, they will retreat. What can we do with them? After all, we don’t have a navy that rivals them. In the vast sea, we must be at a disadvantage, and we have to covertly assist. At this time, we see that the Southern Empire must have a lot in quantity, and they lack It is probably something like weapons. The consumption of this thing on the battlefield is very huge. We can also send them some slaves in our country and let them go to the front to take on some unimportant tasks." The prime minister of the empire thought about it and said that other people felt that this method was good, and it could help the people of the southern empire, but also prevent the people of Cao’s house from becoming hostile to them. After all, we were not directly involved. In this war, you can't seize what we might as well.

"There is one more thing we can do, and that is to use some obstructive methods against Cao's house in our empire. Although we can't close some of their premises, we can raise the price of some strategic materials. If this is the case, the Cao Family Chamber of Commerce will spend more money to do this, and it can be regarded as an indirect support for the battlefield of the Southern Empire. Although it may not have much effect, we have also worked hard. It shows some effects, especially the horses of the Western Empire and the Eastern Empire. They both use horses from your two empires. There must be a lot of them. You can build two cavalry legions on a large scale. Just say This slogan is enough. I think the price of this horse will increase by at least 15%. This number does not seem to be much, but the Cao’s family firm purchases between 2 million and 3 million every month. Yes, even at the price of 1,000 taels of silver for a horse, they will spend billions of silver each month. This method can also be used in other ways, so that Cao’s house will pay more every month. Ten billion dollars, although it is nothing to the people of Cao's House of Business, it can be regarded as a way we can do." A staff member of the Eastern Empire said that their solution can only be to trouble the people of Cao's House of Business. It's itchy, the big way is basically nothing, because that's all they can think of. The extra tens of billions of silver is really nothing to Cao's firm. Their silver is better than stone. There are many.

"There is also the problem of road transportation. Their bulk goods are everywhere. It is impossible to transport all of them by airships. We can support some more powerful bandits and so on. They used to At that time, I naturally didn’t dare to provoke Cao’s business, but now they are supported by the court? This may have the courage. If they dare not yet, we will bring their heads. When will I have the courage, of course, the guarding energy of Cao’s house is very powerful. We don’t expect them to do much. As long as they can hate something in time, it’s good. After all, these people are all mobs. Yes, when necessary, we can make our soldiers pretend to be bandits to do this. When the time comes, the family of soldiers and bandits will have nothing to do with Cao's business. At most, we just lose some soldiers. One place Delayed for a while, or ruined a little, the sum total is quite a lot. The people of Cao’s Commercial Bank will feel some trouble.” A guy in the Western Empire didn’t know where he thought of such a Bad idea, in the past, a large empire like theirs would definitely not do such a thing. In their opinion, this is an inferior thing, but now, as long as they can deal with Cao's business, they will use any method.

"In addition, we can also borrow a lot of people from Cao's House of Business to repair some of our projects, so that a large number of signs of young people across the country can be seen, so that the people of Cao's House of Business can't find help. The coolies, this can be regarded as dragging them back. At that time, we can give some untouchables the qualifications of ordinary residents. For those people, the qualifications of a flat-headed people are much better than thousands of dollars, Cao In addition to the money, the people in the home business firm have nothing to do. We have this advantage, because we represent a country. If you are good, you can be good. If you are bad, you can be bad. , Especially for those untouchables, this is what they dream of. For those slaves, they want to make their children a common people. Only a thousand of them have such a chance. As long as we are It is enough to increase this opportunity appropriately, and there is no need to make so many slaves become ordinary people. This is also a pressure for society. Just let them see some hope, so they will choose Regarding the imperial court, not the Cao’s business, what would happen to them even if they had more money?” The Xiangguo of the Eastern Empire also proposed a solution. From the beginning to the present, the method he proposed can be said to be against the Cao family. The firm's combat potential is suppressed. Although the other methods are effective, they are definitely not as good as the one in front of them. The one in front of them can be said to have an immediate effect.

"In fact, there have been some favorable situations since the war began. According to what we know, the turnover of Cao’s trading houses and banks have dropped a lot. Many of them have seen that the Southern Empire directly The cancellation of the business of Cao's House of Commercial Bank has caused many people to wait and see. They all feel that the paper money in their hands is useless. Although they can be exchanged for silver within our three empires, who will go so far? They were also afraid that the three empires would also disqualify the Cao’s business, but we wouldn’t do that. If we did that, the Cao’s business would have made a lot of money. They have all been banknotes in circulation over the years. Those hard currencies are in their hands, and they won’t admit it by then. In fact, this matter is a failure of the Southern Empire, and he has suffered a lot of losses himself. We can do this, for example. It is possible to limit the amount that one person can exchange, which can also have the effect of curbing the popularity of banknotes. Of course, we can’t just target the banknotes of the Cao’s house. If we do this, it is too obvious that it will be given to the Cao’s house. People find an excuse to talk to us about this matter. We can impose such a limit on the national bank notes. There is only one limit per day. Although it will temporarily affect economic circulation to a certain extent, it will also affect Cao Cao. The banknotes of the family firm have made a big impact." These people still have a lot of ideas if they want to stumble on the people of the Cao family firm, just as they are now, they all speak freely.

"But there is one business that we can't do anymore. That is Cao's pill business and alcohol. Those luxury goods are just like corals in the sea. In the past, an empire could only A few appeared, but now the Cao’s family firm sells a lot of those things, as well as Wujin. It’s all because the Southern Empire wanted to occupy the place privately. If you ventilate with us, that Cao might not get so much. Wujin’s, we have no way to stop these things. If heavy taxes are imposed, the Cao’s House of Commerce will immediately pass this cost on to the common people. At that time, they would also say that the reason for the price increase was actually the imperial tax increase. The reason. It has little to do with them. This way people’s hatred will definitely increase to the imperial government. The Cao’s family firm can still earn a lot of sympathy points, which is not beneficial to us. ..." A group of conspirators discussed in the main hall how to deal with Cao's firm, but what they didn't expect was.Cao's firm has already started to deal with them.And they have no room to fight back directly.

The Cao's House of Business had its own methods against the other three empires.When the war started, the decision-making leadership of Cao's House had already thought of these issues. They knew that the people of the three empires would definitely not just stay so honest. These people would definitely want to do some small actions behind their backs.Therefore, they must not be idle, so that the actions of the Cao’s merchants in the Southern Empire will not be affected. It is also right to think about it. If blindly defensive, the matter may not be resolved. Only the first attack will Disrupting the enemy’s deployment is the best defense method. Just before they have stepped out of the main hall of the Eastern Empire, Cao’s counterattack has already arrived. Didn’t you say that food is your biggest shortcoming? It’s done, now I’ll make a little noise for you.

This morning is the same as other mornings. The sun still rises at its original position, and people still get up at the original time. They all go out to do their own things. Few people will notice Cao’s house The sign on the outside of the food store, because they basically buy food for a month on the two days at the beginning of the month or the end of the month. After all, no one buys this thing every day, unless it’s those who do it. Little workers, they receive money once a day, it is impossible to have money to buy one month at a time, so they all go every three or two days, and then like their cousin, they come to the county to do business. They are in the countryside, so they buy it any day they come, and they don’t pick any special days. In their opinion, it’s the same every day. This is because the food in Cao’s house has never changed. The price is 15 cents every day. No matter what happens, there is no price increase or price reduction. This is one reason why other food stores can’t do it anymore. You can lower the price when you encounter a bumper harvest. Yes, but they can only check the price with Cao’s firm. If it is lower, they will have no profit. When the year is not so good, the price still needs to be increased, but you can exceed Basically no one will come to you to buy food when 15 yuan is a catty. Over the years, I don’t know how many food stores within the four empires have closed. The Southern Empire’s food this year can still pass. The main reason is that the Cao’s commercial branches are in various branches, and they are not very valuable, and they didn’t bring them when they retreated. They got a lot of food, but it was only half a year. What should they do if the food is used up after half a year?In fact, the Cao’s family firm wants to maintain its current posture. In half a year, the southern empire will come to actively seek reconciliation. They cannot let their tens of billions of people starve to death. In that case, the southern empire will become Hell.

An old man strolling on the street is preparing to go to the most lively place in the city to listen to storytelling. But there is said that the war with Cao’s house in the Southern Empire has already begun, and those storytellers got it from others. A little news began to show off. Although most of what was said is not true, it is already very good for people in this era. They also like to use this way to get some news, and some At that time, many people stayed there for a long time and didn’t leave. What they wanted was to be able to discuss something together. This seemed to be able to show that these scholars care about national affairs, so that ordinary people who do not read can only If you take a high look at yourself, what's wrong with being rich?But you are uneducated.

The old man inadvertently glanced at the notice board of Cao's house. If there are usually a lot of people, he will go over and read it. The feeling of talking to a dozen people and not listening is absolutely good, but today he almost didn't. Show your eyeballs, mother, what?Price increase?The price of food has risen. The price of food has been at this price for several years. Everyone is familiar with it. What?Because of the tense war with the southern empire and the lack of food transportation, the sales volume is limited every day, and the price is increased to 20 cents per catty, and the purchase limit per person is ten catties a day. As for when the price will be restored to the original price The price issue cannot be solved until the war with the southern empire is resolved. Not only the grain firms, but other goods related to Cao’s firms have begun to increase in price. As for luxury items, the price will increase even more. Some are directly doubled, but those are nothing to ordinary people. Anyway, rich people have money. Spending 1 million taels of silver and 2 million taels of silver is no different for them, but for ordinary people It is not the same. Although the price is only increased by 5 cents, many families who used to eat white noodles every month have changed their principals. At least one person in a family of four has to eat some miscellaneous noodles, otherwise this The month may not pass.

The old man saw the limited sales above. This is not a joke, and I don’t go there anymore. The things that the storyteller said don’t seem to have much to do with him. This food matter has nothing to do with him. It doesn’t matter what the Cao’s family trading firm is like with the Southern Empire, but if you can’t buy food, you’ll be hungry. This is the most urgent thing to do, and you must do it quickly. If you don’t do well, you can see this. The old man hurried home to take the bag twice as fast as he did. At this time, many people like him saw the news.. ......(To be continued...)