2226 Section 2193 Debt

"I believe you. Although I know that you may also lie to us, we people have no other way. Just like you said, we really have no choice now. I hope you won’t do anything to us. I surrendered to the things you said." A soldier threw a dagger in his hand and said, speaking of which he already has this thing, which he brought from his home, those from the Western Empire. All the equipment has been thrown away along the way. As far as the eyes are concerned, they thought about such things before, but they didn't expect that they would do it. They all knew exactly what the consequences were. At this moment Their lives are someone else’s, it’s definitely not his. Some people next to him seem to follow him at ordinary times. At this moment, seeing him surrender, all of them are in their own hands. Threw away his weapon, and then followed this guy out. A group of people began to tentatively pass towards the Cao’s Army’s army. Each of them didn’t know where they were tomorrow, although there were still Many officers were yelling to them, but the guy who spoke just now didn’t even look at his previous boss, because he knew that at this time he couldn’t turn his head at all. This is the same as a path of no return. No matter what he is, he is no longer a person inside and outside. Li Yun glanced at this guy appreciatively. This time the incident is successful. The people of the Western Empire will definitely be hit hard. For Li Yun, the Western Empire is nothing. Yes, conquering such a huge empire is like that, because he knows that there may be better things in the future. He doesn't care about these things now, he cares about Li Cong's views.

Li Wei came here because he wanted his grandfather to affirm himself. It is more important to get his grandfather's affirmation than these so-called conquering an empire. In his eyes, grandpa needs to learn everything by himself. , I admired my grandfather, and now he is basically half of the success of this matter.A large number of people began to enter directly through the two passages opened by the Cao’s House of Business. They all need to be checked on the way. These people were all soldiers from the Western Empire just now. No one is sure that they really let go. Their weapons became the captives of Cao's business.Many people may hide some weapons. If there is any bloodshed in the past, these people will definitely be the ones killed in the first place, but fortunately such things did not happen, when the Western Empire’s stronghold When the gate is closed, it is estimated that the most central among them will also be shaken. They are already abandoned by the Western Empire. They will never think about what the Western Empire will give them. Now they What I want to do is to see what the people of Cao's House of Business will give them, and all of their future lives will be connected with the people of Cao's House of Business.They all know that their family members are still in the Western Empire, but since this war is a small-scale war, it is impossible for the Western Empire to expand such a war. By then, everyone in their family can still do it. It's safe and sound, let's talk about it.If the family members of the soldiers who surrendered were shot, many people in the army would come out to make trouble. Could it be that we bleed on the battlefield, and in the end our family members didn’t even have a security guarantee. This kind of empire followed suit. What's the point? This is the greatest eccentricity.

The person who spoke just now called him Nan Ge by everyone around him, and he was also the little leader of these dozens of brothers.Normally, they are basically together. Although he is not an officer, some officers will not come to take care of this guy's affairs. Sometimes his words are much better than some officers, just like now. Again, this guy chose to surrender.The people under his staff followed without hesitation. They all had their own ideas. Brother Nan would not treat them badly. They were all like this before, and they are the same now.Following Nan Ge through the cavalry division of Cao's business, along the way, they saw that the cavalry were neatly arranged. These people were still their enemies at the moment, and they have become their comrades at this moment. Now, everyone can’t believe this. For them, these people are sometimes really amazing. Just like now, hundreds of thousands of them have surrendered, but some of them None of them got up and cheered. They didn’t have any other actions. They kept the same as before, picked up their crossbows and pointed them at them. After the first cavalry division, they moved to the larger one. It’s on the open space. Here, thirty of them are divided into a group. No matter how you do it, as long as it is a small team of thirty brothers, then each person will receive a number plate. This is what they used to be. You all know that the people at Cao’s Commercial Bank seem to have such a number plate. This seems to be something called an ID card. Everyone is unique. Such a thing is your lifeblood. It will be very troublesome if you lose it.

"Everyone, I am the commander of the Cao Family Commercial Bank in charge of this operation. From now on, you people will be the new guards of the 2nd Mixed Army. You people will stay here for the time being to do some logistical work and wait for our Cao family. After the ship of the firm arrives, you can leave here. Where to go, the people on it will naturally make arrangements of their own. Of course, if there is someone who doesn’t want to be in our army, it’s okay. You will not go back to the army of the Western Empire. We can all pay you the tolls and go home. But we still hope that you can stay, because you will not have a good life when you go back. Yes, the people of the Western Empire will definitely regard you as traitors. Even if you all return to your hometown, your life will not be easy. Your family will feel that you are traitors, even your descendants. I won’t be optimistic about you, so it’s better for you to stay. When your salary is paid, give your family more money to go back, and this matter can be solved. Now everyone has a place to sit down. , We have dinner." A guy stood on a high place holding a big loudspeaker and said, this is how Cao's firm has placed them, and they can only temporarily take charge of some logistical matters, if they are allowed to go directly to the battlefield. , That's still not possible, who knows what will happen after they get the serial crossbow, it is better to be more careful in many cases.Many soldiers thought of going home when they heard that they could let themselves go home. To be honest, they didn't want to be here. No matter who they were serving as soldiers, they were all on the battlefield after all.Why do such a thing?Is it bad to go home?

Soon they arrived at a place to eat, good guys, how could this thing be so fragrant, it’s meat porridge, I don’t know what these people used to eat, anyway, when they see these things, they are better than seeing their mothers. It’s no wonder that the Western Empire’s entire empire’s economy is not as good as that of the Southern Empire, let alone the Eastern Empire, so it’s impossible for things like these supplies to compare with these two empires. of.They also understood this very well, but if it were just like this, according to the silver given by the empire, it would be no problem for them to eat meat a week, but these generals would not think so.In their opinion, many people cannot eat meat once in a few months. Can't they still live a life, and each one is still living very well, what's wrong now?It is already a very good thing to let you eat this, and now you are still picking it up here, these generals are making their own decisions and directly deducting half of the food expenses of these people.So don’t talk about eating meat once a week, you can’t even see it for half a year. The generals can’t help it. In peacetime, they don’t have much oil and water at all, so they can only eat empty space and drink soldiers’ blood. The soldiers have not eaten meat for a long time.Now that they smelled such a scent, they rushed in desperately. There were steamed buns and fine grains. They usually ate coarse grains.There is no fine grain at all. The imperial court purchases all fine grains, but when it reaches their mouths, this thing becomes coarse grains. There is a difference of five cents per catty of grain, if it is too much. If so, it's a lot of money.

Just like them, there are at least three generals in charge of these people. If these people eat a catty of food in two days, they can get five cents from a soldier in two days, 75 cents a month. Money, 200,000 soldiers are worth more than 10,000 taels a month. This is just a matter of eating. These 200,000 soldiers can extract more than 100,000 yuan a month from all aspects. That's why their life is so moist. Otherwise, relying on their salary of more than 10,000 taels a month, it is estimated that their current life will not be able to live even a week. The soldiers know these things, but what else can we do?If the people from the Supervision Institute come down, these generals will have a way, just carry the money and go there. When those people collect the money one by one, naturally they won’t say much, but they will also talk about the soldiers below. Those who can’t keep up with nutrition and need more silver. His Majesty also feels that the soldiers on the front line are too bitter. At this time, the special silver has come down. It is for this reason that these people are all one by one. There is also more money to take. After they take it, naturally they can’t swallow it alone. These people in the Supervisory Court also have to divide it up. This is why the money from the top is increasing every year, but The soldiers’ life has been like a day for ten years, and there has been no improvement at all. When the meal started, Li Wei said that he would cook for these people according to the standards of two soldiers in the Cao’s house. Knowing that these people would definitely eat a lot of it, as he expected, on average everyone ate at least four steamed buns, and the meat also ate more than half a catty.

The establishment of the Second Mixed Army can be said to be temporary. It may also be the largest establishment in the entire Cao Family Commercial Bank, with a total of 800,000 people, plus some officers stationed by the Cao Family Commercial Bank. The number should be at least 900,000. The commander of this army was made by Li Wei. This army was made by Li Wei himself. Li Cong would let him be in charge. It was transferred from the 17th Division of the Marine Corps. About 30,000 people were recruited from the 18th Division and 20,000 people were transferred to the mixed army to serve as low-level officers. Li Cong wanted to see how much Li Yun was capable of. What he had seen before was the skill of his grandson. , This kid is definitely not a simple person to think of persuading surrender. This Li Cong also believes. He feels that he has his own blood. If this guy is a mediocre person, he will not come here on the initiative, no matter what. In other words, there are too many differences here compared to the earth, based on Li Yun's status and blood relationship with Li Cong.He can enjoy his life on the earth, and how can he get the title of a county prince in the end, as long as he has a little brain, this may be the title of a prince.It is also possible to become the Emperor of the Empire. After all, he has the legal right of inheritance, but this guy chooses to come here, which makes Li Cong feel very pleased. At least none of his descendants are those who only enjoy, at least The boy in front of him is competent, but Li never gave the boy time to breathe, and immediately another order came down, let him be the commander of the mixed army, and see how long the army can form combat effectiveness. .Let's also look at how Li Wei controls the army.

Li Yun knows very clearly that the answer sheet he submitted just now, his grandfather should be very satisfied, because if Li Cong is not satisfied with the result, it is estimated that Li Yun will not be qualified to continue the task at all, the second mixed army There are about nine hundred thousand people.This is also the largest organization after the Cao’s family reorganization. Although there are a large number of people, Li Wei believes that as long as a division is selected from the Marine Corps, these people can be quickly defeated. For Li Wei to take over this army, the first thing he needs is not to let them participate in combat training.It is to let them enter their own state and let them find their confidence. Therefore, the first request made by Li Wei and Li Cong is to immediately issue military uniforms to these people. Only uniform uniforms will be issued, and all of them are new uniforms. These people will feel under whose army they are.They are all very aware of such things. Li Cong's internal world already has many such things. After hearing Li Yun's request, they immediately sent this thing down. Of course, this is the battlefield. on.They will definitely not be allowed to start reorganization here. Just a week later, the reinforcements of the four divisions of Cao’s House will arrive. At that time, these people will be able to take those ships back to the base of Cao’s House. Occupied by the Western Empire, more than a dozen counties were occupied. Now it is the base camp of the Cao Family Firm in the Western Empire. The Western Empire has organized tens of millions of troops to attack the dozen or so counties. But the end result was that they suffered heavy losses and did not cause any harm to the people of Cao's House of Business. They began to ignore that side and put all their eyes on Li from here.

These soldiers have also seen this uniform made by Cao’s firm before. This thing was made by Li Congyao’s garment factory on the earth. Although there are people in this world who can make it, but leather shoes and the like The things that do not work, as well as those belts and other things, all are obtained from the earth. This makes some garment factories on the earth a lot of money. Li Cong immediately asked people to give these things. I went, and Li Yun saw that the soldiers who were still wearing clothes were different from the time they surrendered. He immediately started his second step and asked these people to register. He still doesn't know this. People’s names or something, of course, as I said beforehand, this month they can enjoy the treatment of soldiers from Cao’s house, the most important thing is that they can send 50 catties of grain to their families every month. Yes, if the address you registered is wrong or not true, then I’m sorry, maybe you won’t have such a chance in your life, so it’s still very important now. Many soldiers didn’t think about it at the beginning. Those who registered their names, they all felt that the people at Cao’s house might fail. If they really failed, their fate would be over, so they all wanted to wait and see and see the people at Cao’s house. What will happen in the end, but after this order was given, they didn’t do that. They knew what life their family lived in. If Cao’s business had won, they would never have such a chance. This is the biggest tragedy for their family, so these people have started real-name registration, and they all hope that their family can receive the first month's food to improve.

This army is undergoing rapid changes. People at Cao’s House of Business will say that Li Wei is really capable when he sees all this. Li is also very happy when he hears others praise his grandson. , It’s just that the recent situation also makes Li Cong unhappy. The old emperor in the Southern Empire has already blocked some of the Cao’s firm. This guy just doesn’t stand up and doesn’t want to subdue the Southern Empire and the West. Those territories of the empire, in his view, are now an opportunity.While the outside world knew that the Southern Empire was still in chaos, he would not stand stupidly. In his opinion, if he were to go out now.That's what a fool did. The most he needs to do is to stay there honestly and never let himself go out to confront the Western Empire, because at this time, whether he is facing the Cao family firm or facing the Western Empire, he You will feel powerless. At this time, it’s better to be an ostrich and wait for the war between the Western Empire and Cao’s Commercial Firm to end. At the end of the day, if the people of the Western Empire can’t hold on, then you can dispatch troops quickly. .Bring back the lost territory. At that time, you can share the huge cake of the Western Empire with the people of Cao’s House of Business. If the people of Cao’s House of Business failed, then the Western Empire would not want to occupy its own land. , You just keep it.There are not many of them anyway. I can still take care of them. The other is that the people at Cao's Commercial Firm had already failed at that time. Of course, he would not wish to swallow Cao's Commercial Firm wishfully, but Cao's Commercial Firm. The rights acquired in the Western Empire a while ago can be directly recovered, and the Cao Family Commercial Bank is newly defeated and will not reject his own ideas.Unless they are crazy.

There is such an opponent Li Cong really feels a little helpless, this guy's brain is really fast, if I had known that he was playing such an abacus, I guess I would not do so much. In fact, Li Cong may feel it now, starting with some things in the beginning.Maybe this old guy was doing the calculations, and he even became a piece of his chess piece. Although the people of Cao’s house made a lot of money in this matter, it also caused the economic strength of the Southern Empire to drop a lot, but The fact is a tactical victory was achieved.However, he encountered a strategic failure. I didn't see that the people in the Western Empire still had this ability. This was my most depressing thing, but now everything has started, and he can't end it so easily. , So it’s very simple to solve some of my own things now, that is, to win a victory here, let the Western Empire conclude something similar to the Southern Empire, and then let the old guy in the Southern Empire be more honest, mainly Let the old guy see that he can win two empires. This kind of ability is definitely not something you can calculate. At that time, he will go to the southern empire again with his victorious army. It seems that he signed the one before. The contract doesn’t seem to be of much use to you. It’s okay. We will sign a better contract with you. At that time, it seemed that the Southern Empire didn’t have much ability to talk to our Cao’s business people. That is when the Cao's House of Commercial Firm fully grasped the Southern Empire, the old emperor's heart would be very uncomfortable, it's best to be like this, but there are good aspects and bad aspects.

In the worst case, Li Cong also thought that the war here must end within one month. If it can’t be over within one month, the Cao’s family’s army will be dragged here, although the Cao’s family’s people have already He worked hard throughout the Western Empire, but the Western Empire is a big country after all. He can send troops from all over his empire. At the beginning, those people would push back and forth. When the generals received the Emperor’s Majesty They didn’t dare to delay any longer when they were ordered by the empire. Besides, they already saw the hope of defeating Cao’s firm. If they didn’t call for reinforcements at this time, the empire would eventually take Cao’s firm. If they are defeated, their life will come to an end at that time. As long as the people of Cao’s house are trapped here, the possibility of final failure will be very high. Then they will not be able to gain any benefits in the Western Empire. The army of Cao’s House of Business will take off the hat of the victorious division. They capsized the ship twice in the hands of the army of the Western Empire. This is also what the people of the Western Empire want to pursue. In their view, they lose some people and What is money? Those are not very important things. They can all be discarded. The most important thing now is to win the war against Cao's firm. Only in this way can you truly stand up. , Became the second largest empire after the Eastern Empire. In the future, some cooperations with Cao’s family firm will be much better than now. For example, those debt problems are a very good thing. At that time, can Cao Do the people in the firm forgive some debts?The Western Empire is indeed making this calculation, because they have been overwhelmed by the debts of Cao's Commercial Bank for ten years.

In the past ten years, no one knows how much people from the Western Empire have borrowed from Cao's Commercial Bank.However, some people have counted a figure, only one place in the capital, the annual interest to Cao's commercial firm is more than 100 billion silver, according to the interest rate of 10%.This place in the capital borrowed more than one trillion silver from the people of Cao’s house. The entire empire has no idea how much. The banknotes issued by Cao’s house are already the currency of the whole society. According to the needs of Cao’s house, Then only one or two silvers of physical objects can issue one or two silvers of paper money, but is this really the case?That’s impossible. No one takes one or two silver bills every night to the Cao’s bank to exchange for silver, and then the next day, they change into paper money. In their eyes, this is silver. , More powerful than the bank notes of the previous banks.Someone once launched a run on the Cao’s House of Commercial Bank, but in the end, the people of Cao’s House of Commercial Bank were always able to come up with enough money. Just once, the people of Cao’s House of Commercial Bank did not have enough money, but People took out another hard currency, and that was food.No matter when.Food is the same hard currency as gold. After that time, some conspirators in the Western Empire felt that it was impossible to compete with Cao's merchants in terms of money, and they all understood that they were impossible. Those who have that ability, so they are honest one by one. Since economic wars are not possible, then it is better to have a real war.As it is now, the imperial family of the Western Empire intends to end the war immediately after defeating Cao's House of Business, and then let the people of Cao's House of Business to reduce their annual interest and 20% of their debts.

Although the Cao’s House of Commercial Bank was exempted from only one year’s interest and 20% of the debt, this figure was already very large. The royal family of the Western Empire had its own accounting agency, and they had already calculated the Western Empire’s How much money did governments at all levels borrow from the people of Cao's Commercial Bank?It can be said that this figure is already an astronomical figure. The total annual tax revenue of the Western Empire is only about three trillion silver. Counting some other income is about five trillion silver, but they have launched about hundreds of dollars across the country. The various projects of trillions of silver allowed most of the Western Empire to develop very quickly.But this is all based on the borrowings of Cao’s House of Commercial Banks. The interest to bear each year is a huge amount. According to the calculations of the accountants of the Western Empire, all levels of government and some businessmen of the Western Empire The Cao’s House of Commerce has lent about 411 trillion silver, and the Western Empire between the merchants and the people is ignored. After all, it is their own business, but they need to take care of the debts of the royal family, their relatives and governments at all levels. Yes, after careful calculation, half of them were loaned by these people. The total amount is about 200 trillion silver. If calculated on the basis of an average interest of 10%, Li would take tens of trillions from the Western Empire every year. The silver is eight times higher than the taxes of the Western Empire, and 20 trillion is taken away from the Western Empire’s government, which means that they will not be able to pay off the money no matter when it comes. They need to borrow Li Cong's money all the time, because they need to repay the interest, and the annual tax can only be enough to repay the interest, and even now they can’t even pay the interest, so they can only continue to borrow money.

It is nominally the royal family of the Western Empire ruling the Western Empire, but in reality?They have no ability at all, and it can be said that they have no right to rule the Western Empire at all. They all know what it is like now, and they all know where their money has gone each year. How can I choose?It's all written in black and white. Is the government reckless?It doesn't matter, then the people of Cao's House of Business will let every empire's common people know about this. If the credibility of a government goes bankrupt, what will happen?Besides, these officials usually don't take the money from Cao's house for less. Will they do it absolutely?No, Cao’s firm has evidence that they took the money. If you do it on the first day of the year, I will do it on the 15th. When the time comes, I will give this to Kampot. What will you get in the end? ?For the court’s sake, individuals like you will definitely be sacrificed. People will also lose confidence in the court. How long can a government without the support of the people last?This is all within Li Cong's calculations. It can be said that the four empires have not fallen into such a vicious circle except the Eastern Empire.The other three empires are like this. In the past few years, the imperial family of these empires had not seen it. They just saw how fast they developed with the help of Cao’s business. The two years have come. When it comes to money, they understand.This thing turned out to be a huge trap. As it stands now, the tax revenue of the capital is less than 40 billion silver a year, but it needs to repay 100 billion in interest. There is no way. The remaining 60 billion is still required. For borrowers, the total amount of money has increased again.

This is still a secondary problem. The main problem is that as long as you want to borrow, you have to have your own mortgage. You can use some other things to mortgage it at the beginning.For example, what should I do if such things are mortgaged?At this time, something else is needed, that is, some of your rights, such as the right to tax. Now the tax officials in the capital of the Western Empire are basically Cao's merchants.Why not use your own people?Because it was of no use at all, the money was taken by the Cao’s merchants directly, and they did not want to stay in their own hands for a day, because if they stay for one day, they will pay hundreds of millions of dollars. Interest, they all know that they are thrifty at this time, but it is already too late at this time.There are no such things. In the case of the capital of the Western Empire mentioned earlier, you borrowed money to repay the interest this year, but what about the principal that needs to be repaid this year?And don’t your governments still operate?This requires even more borrowing. The total amount of borrowing will continue to rise every year, although your taxes will also rise.But can it be compared with the total amount of these loans?I borrow money every year, and I pay it back every year, but in the end when you calculate the problem yourself, you will feel that debt is still increasing, and your life is even more difficult.Although the ordinary officials of the Western Empire were also struggling with this matter, the people of Cao's House of Commercial Bank gave them an idea. When your official position can't go down, you can move to other places. Such a thing That's the most normal thing. If you don't have money, we can also give you a loan, of course.

The accountants of the Western Empire would calculate this matter, and Li Cong himself would also calculate this matter. He already knew exactly what was going on now. These Western Empire people must have learned from them if they wanted to defeat themselves. They had to follow He negotiated it himself. He had already received information from the intelligence department of Cao's House of Business. The Western Empire wanted to reduce interest and 20% of debt. Is this possible?This is tens of trillions of silver. Back then, the Southern Empire still hoped to use the Wujin Mine to directly repay Li Cong’s debts. I didn’t expect these people in the Western Empire to want to use war to talk to themselves, but this is also true. No problem, just look at what you are doing. Now the beachhead position has expanded a lot, and his own defense line has been established. At this time, Li Cong has already ordered the assembly of heavy artillery. This thing will definitely be able to give You bring good memories. In fact, according to Li Cong’s idea, the type of artillery on some battleships would be the best, but it’s not that easy to get something like that on land. Used on battleships, if such a thing is mounted on a wooden boat, it is estimated that it will sink directly. The thing basically has nothing within a hundred meters of a shot. It is a pity that such a thing cannot be here. Technically, if there is that thing, it is estimated that the walls of the Western Empire can be opened in one afternoon. Then the people of the Western Empire will have nothing to do if they don’t want to surrender, but there is no such thing now. The heavy artillery of Angola is not bad. If this thing is used well, it will be able to break the walls of the Western Empire in the end, but it will only use a little more artillery.

Li Cong will be in charge of the mixed army for the time being. Li Cong has to study the frontline matters himself. Li Cong has found someone to get the construction plan of the western empire's capital city wall. Such things can be said to be the most important thing in the Western Empire. Things, but the Western Empire has a big business, there must be at least hundreds of people who have seen this thing. Among them, there are likely to be people with very high memories. Such people can definitely use the temptation of silver. This thing was drawn. Don't think it is a difficult thing. If it is a difficult thing, it is estimated that now Li Cong has a blank sheet of paper before his eyes, and there will be no such drawing.

This thing was drawn by the grandson of the minister of the Ministry of Industry of the Western Empire. This guy had a good relationship with the people of Cao’s house before. Of course, it was also because the people of Cao’s house often gave him some small surprises, such as The thing in front of me was bought by the Cao’s family for two exotic girls. What this guy likes most is collecting beauties of various races. The Cao’s family of companies know that his favorite is the sea monster. In fact, It’s not a real sea monster, it’s a nation on an island. Their girls are very beautiful, especially their skin, which is as smooth as water. This is something you can’t buy with money, the most important thing. The difficulty is that it is too difficult to get to their island, the distance is too far, in the south of the southern empire, but this is simply a breeze for the Cao family business people, these two girls passed by, this drawing Then I came here. Li Cong has been studying for half an hour. From the amount of materials used at the beginning and the things used to repair it in the future, Li Cong calculated that one of the weakest parts of the city wall, if you use something like heavy artillery The bombardment should also be aimed at such a place. Otherwise, it may not be bombed. This is also what Li Cong is worried about. However, all calculations need to be looked at by actual conditions, and verification is needed now. The time was right, as long as his army advanced 500 meters from the place Li chose, the big camp was blocked in front of him.