Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 479 479
In the Dahua Empire, within the Imperial City, within the Zhou Mansion of the Minister of Officials, a middle-aged man in a Chinese robe was sitting on the first seat, squinting his eyes and waiting for the person in the guest seat to speak.

The middle-aged man sitting on the guest seat put down his tea bowl, and after deliberating for a while, he said, "This matter of the Tang Kingdom will be difficult to handle without your care, Mr. Shangshu."

This person is a well-known merchant in the Dahua Empire, with a family fortune of one million and a millionaire, he can definitely be regarded as a prominent figure.The restaurants he runs are all over Dahua, and he is also involved in gambling and other industries.

Shangshu Zhou Qiang was in the prime of his life, deeply trusted by His Majesty the Emperor, holding a lot of power and being cautious.

He waited for the guests who came to explain their intentions, showed a vague smile, and declined: "Your Majesty is unwilling to admit that Tang Guo replaced Zheng Guo and easily overthrew our vassal state. This matter makes Your Majesty very unhappy. "

Everyone knows that there are many vassal states around the Dahua Empire, and Zheng State is one of the weaker and more obedient ones.

Zheng Guo had suffered a disastrous defeat in the war against the mirage country before, and it was already devastated, but it was replaced by Tang Guo within a few days.

How can this not annoy the emperor of the Dahua Empire?One of his vassals was wiped out, and the country that replaced it seemed to have no intention of paying tribute.

The middle-aged man on the guest seat asked puzzledly: "But... is it really necessary to declare war? The treasury is empty and the soldiers are slack. If something really goes wrong, will the empire lose face?"

He is not a member of the government, so he can see the Dahua Empire from another angle that others cannot see.

The current Dahua Empire is not as powerful as it seems, and it is also suffering from internal and external troubles.The only scarier thing is that the empire is still vast.

"The problem is, who dares to persuade His Majesty now?" Shangshu Zhou Qiang smiled wryly, shook his head and picked up the teacup.

The middle-aged guest said indifferently: "I don't think it has anything to do with it. I heard that Tang people have been active in the imperial city recently, and they will think of a way."

Tang Mo also didn't plan to start a full-scale war with the Dahua Empire before he was ready, so he was still planning to spend a little money to settle this matter.

It's just that Zhao Kai, the emperor of the Dahua Empire, is getting angry, and even thinking of using the army to help Zheng Guo restore the country, so the Datang Group can only bypass the emperor and plan to work hard on the courtiers of the Dahua Empire.

On the other hand, buying the emperor's concubines seems to be a good way, at least a good choice.

We are all human beings. As soon as he heard what his party members said, Zhou Qiang realized what the people of Tang State were thinking: "Pillow blowing? Hehe... It's not impossible, but if you accidentally step on the prince's heir , I am afraid that the gods will not be able to save them."

The guest was stunned for a moment, and then asked worriedly: "These Tang people, are they so ignorant?"

"It's hard to say, it depends on whether they are smart or not." Zhou Qiang put down his tea bowl and said with a smile.

The party members on the guest seat immediately laughed, and said very firmly: "Smart must be smart."

"I knew you came this time, you must be a lobbyist." Dazed for a moment, Zhou Qiang stretched out his finger, and Yaoyao nodded.

The smile on the guest's face also couldn't be hidden: "No way, the price they offered is really... full of sincerity."

"Hahahaha! Then how are you going to convince me, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials?" Zhou Qiang raised his eyebrows and asked.

"It's actually simple, here." The middle-aged man smiled and took out a receipt from his pocket, and pushed it to Shangshu Zhou Qiang.

Zhou Qiang frowned slightly, then picked up the receipt, and couldn't help shivering slightly after seeing it.

What appeared in front of his eyes was a contract of sale. This contract of sale belonged to a famous singer in the capital. Many princes and ministers had their own ideas, but he did not expect that the other party would actually send this contract of sale to him.

"It's a big deal." Putting the deed of sale back on the table, Zhou Qiang smiled, glanced at the middle-aged man on the guest seat, and asked, "I know Mingyue Tower is your property, and the goddess Shu Xiaoxiao It's a pillar that you carefully cultivated... How much did the other party give to make you give me your love?"

"A car production line." The middle-aged man did not hide anything, and said truthfully: "Our Dahua Empire's first, and destined to be the most advanced... car production line!"

"Car? Is that something new?" Zhou Qiang remembered that there were two other cars in his mansion, both of which were gifts from others.

That thing is really good. It doesn't need to be dragged by horses. It can walk like flying when it is filled with gas, and it is much more comfortable to sit than a carriage.

The only downside is that because the shock absorption effect of this thing is so good, it trembles up and down when passing a ditch, making people dizzy.

Zhou Qiang sat in the car a few times before, but after getting out of the car, he vomited all over the place, and then he threw it aside and didn't use it anymore.

"That's right, it's the new thing! Not only these new things, but also some other good things." The middle-aged man replied: "With these, tens of millions of gold coins are just a number."

"Hiss...really?" Thinking back, Zhou Qiang also felt that this kind of thing could indeed make money.He heard that as long as you get used to riding this kind of thing, you won't feel dizzy, and His Majesty the Emperor seems to have a more luxurious one.

The middle-aged rich man chuckled, with an obscene gleam in his eyes: "I even gave you Shu Xiaoxiao, what do you think?"

Rubbing the contract of sale with his fingers twice, it seemed that he had made up his mind, Zhou Qiang finally nodded his head: "Okay! Tomorrow's court meeting, I'll be your tongue!"

The rich man knew that he had almost done the job this time, so he stood up and said, "Master Shang Shu will definitely not regret it!"

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At the same moment, in the Mansion of Shangshu Chen of the Ministry of Industry of the Dahua Empire, Chen Jing, the old man of Shangshu, was beating on the armrest of his chair.

Suddenly, he stopped his movements, looked at his best friend who came to be a lobbyist, and asked in a long voice, "Are you sure, they will invest in building twenty factories as agreed?"

"Very sure! As long as the Dahua Empire recognizes that Tang State will replace Zheng State, then everything will be carried out according to the agreement." The old man nodded and said firmly: "The Datang Group has not broken the appointment, they will do what they say, and they have Very good reputation."

"It's really a big deal to invest tens of millions of gold coins! These political achievements are counted on the old man's head, and it can indeed make my position under the buttocks stronger, but my old friend, raising a tiger... I will not do it after all. Be sure." Chen Jing, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, said worriedly.

He was worried that his connivance would raise a fierce tiger beside the Dahua Empire, and eventually devour the Dahua Empire...

However, his old friend asked directly: "If you don't help, will this tiger leave?"

This question hits the soul directly, making the boss of the Ministry of Industry a little melancholy, and he doesn't know how to answer it.The tiger Datang had already arrived, so how could he leave so easily?

The only hope now is that the Dahua Empire can cheer itself up and become a stronger existence than the tiger.

But... is it possible for the current Dahua Empire?
After much deliberation and silence for a long time, the old Shangshu Chen Jing still stubbornly sighed: "After all, it is possible to kill the crisis in the cradle..."

In his opinion, there is one last resort, which is to support His Majesty the Emperor, and take advantage of His Majesty's anger to vent his hatred, to send troops to crusade against the Tang State to get rid of this trouble.

But this is very risky, because as the minister of the Ministry of Industry of the empire, he naturally knows the internal and external troubles of the Dahua Empire, and of course he knows that sending troops this time may not necessarily win.

Once it fails, the Great China Empire's control over its surroundings will be significantly reduced, which will accelerate the collapse of the empire. Chen Jing is unwilling to see such a result.

To put it bluntly, if a war breaks out, it will be a war of betting on the fate of the country, the battle of the fate of the Great China Empire!
From the perspective of a minister, he does not approve of betting the fate of the empire on a war, which is too hasty.

Moreover, as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he naturally also came into contact with a lot of information on industrial progress.He is well aware that many new technologies have suddenly appeared in the world today. If these technologies are not thoroughly understood, the Great China Empire may suffer militarily.

So instinctively, he actually resisted such a war.He hoped that the empire could take action when it was more familiar with new technologies and had a thorough understanding of them.Before that, it's best to keep a low profile and pretend to be stupid.

The old man sitting next to him shook his head and said, "It's too late! If a few months ago, when the Tang Kingdom was not firmly established, I, Dahua, used the power of thunder to mobilize millions of soldiers, maybe there is still a chance. Now , I have already grown my wings, so what can I do?"

This old man was also an official before, so he naturally has vision.It's a pity that he was sacrificed in the political struggle because he offended someone before, and now he barely has a current job at the sixth rank, wasting time in the Ministry of Industry.

"I heard that there are only 200,000 generals in the entire Tang Kingdom. I, Dahua, dispatched [-] troops. How can there be no reason for success?" Hearing what the old man said, Chen Jing was stunned for a moment, and then puzzled. asked.

The idler old man waved his hand and saw the matter clearly: "It's easy to say, 200,000? If His Majesty can easily raise 200,000 troops, this battle will start last month!"

The empire's military expenditures were already very tight, and there were many new weapons that appeared recently, so the military embezzled military salaries to purchase some weapons for experiments.

These things are obviously not a problem on weekdays, but now there is no extra military expenses to raise troops to fight.

If you want to raise enough military pay at once, you will inevitably have to embezzle other funds. Whether it is the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Rites, which department is willing to spit out the benefits of its own department?

Therefore, Chen Jing patted the armrest of the chair angrily, and complained angrily: "It's all caused by those insects! It's so good, I went to buy it from Cyric again..."

"What's the use of complaining now? Speaking of which, if Mirage hadn't defeated Zheng with strong ships and cannons, and let us see the power of new weapons, wouldn't we still be using Cyric's flintlock guns now? Wouldn't the situation be more dangerous?" The old man shook his head and said.

In his opinion, if he hadn't seen the power of new weapons from other wars in advance, the Dahua Empire would be really dangerous this time.

In a daze, he raised his troops to fight there, and found that the enemy's ships were too strong to beat them. How would it end then?Although Dahua has a vast territory, it can't afford such a toss, can it?
"Oh... But this time, it's really painful to replace with 20 Cyric 1 rifles!" Chen Jing was furious when he thought of those bastards in the Ministry of War who bought 20 rifles in one go. one place.

The old man smiled again, and complained: "The flesh hurts? You are content! Not counting those cannons! Add them all up, and that is the most expensive."

Although compared to the weapons and equipment of the Datang Group, the weapons of the Cyric Consortium can definitely be said to be affordable now, but such a huge purchase is put together, and even the Dahua Empire will have to digest it for a while.

If it hadn't been stimulated by the war between the Zheng State and the Mirage State, or if it hadn't been pushed by the Tang State, the emperor of the Dahua Empire would not have easily agreed to such a huge weapon procurement plan.

Thinking of this, Chen Jing sighed again: "I have submitted the memorial for the construction of the train and railway, but His Majesty has not yet approved it... Presumably, I really have no money."

"It doesn't matter if you don't have money, we just pay for it ourselves!" The old man said.In his opinion, this train is the real artifact, which can connect the vast territory of the Dahua Empire and truly take advantage of its size.

Therefore, he and Chen Jing have the same opinion, that is, even if the country has no money, the Ministry of Industry must start the construction of the railway.

The Ministry of Industry is in charge of Dahua's industry and construction, and there is a lot of oil and water, so it is not difficult for them to raise money.The premise is that the person who pays the money should get more benefits!

Naturally, everyone can reap the benefits of building the railway, so the old man is so confident that he can raise funds.

"It's because of the lack of a loyal and righteous man like you that Dahua has become decadent to where it is today!" Chen Jing sighed again, and then praised his old friend.

"However, if you don't have an old friend to take care of you in the court, the people below would not dare to spend so much money to repair the Laoshizi Railway, so...you are the backbone of everyone." friend, so said.

"I see! The old man understands what to say." Chen Jing closed his eyes and made a choice helplessly.

In the mansion of the Minister of the Household Department, Shangshu Wang Yucai looked at the confidantes in front of him, and sneered: "If His Majesty still has the intention of raising troops to go to war tomorrow... you will know what to say, right?"

"There is no money in the treasury!" A row of ministers and officials from the household department lowered their heads, and their voices were in unison.
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This chapter is very badly written. I wrote it from yesterday to today. I am sorry to ask for leave again... Enduring the abdominal pain and reluctantly writing, everyone will just wait and see, sorry.In the past few days, my health has been very bad. It may be a stomach flu or enteritis. I dare not go to the hospital. I can only take medicine at home and persist. The update may not be stable. Readers, please bear with me.

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