Long Live Money in Anime Crossover

After much deliberation, Odysseus could only conclude that even a genius like Momo admired Artoria's tactical and strategic prowess.

In this light, Artoria is truly... an extraordinary talent!

Odysseus had to admit that the girls around Maume made him feel pressured, because he saw in them the shadow of the once-shining Marianne—the legendary woman who almost single-handedly put his father, King Charles, on the throne and helped him lay the foundation for the empire in its early stages.

One woman like that would be enough to shock the world, and it seems that all the women around Mo Mo are of that caliber.

Ignoring the shocked Odysseus, Momo said, "Karen, Lihua, are you coming with me, or are you going to watch Artoria and the others finish their competition?"

As soon as Mo Mo finished speaking, Jiang Lihua, who was watching Artoria and Jiang Shang's tactical and strategic game through the neural connection device, immediately jumped up and said, "Teacher, can I go somewhere else? Something other than here!"

Although she was seeing countless people and chariots rolling by, what she couldn't understand at the moment was obviously not as important as the interesting scenes outside the Forbidden City.

“Of course, you are my student now. Wherever I go, you can naturally follow me. This is Luoyang, your father’s territory. Is there any place you can’t go?”

"Ok!"

Jiang Lihua smiled brightly and immediately ran to Mo Mo's side, hugging Mo Mo's hand, while Karen seemed a little hesitant.

She didn't know why, but watching the tactical battle between Artoria and Jiang Shang in the scene before her, she felt as if she were being drawn in.

"Kallen, Karen, hurry up and come with us!"

Karen shook her head slightly and said, "Momo... can I stay? Also, I'd like to ask Artoria for advice later, there are some parts... I don't understand."

Momo smiled slightly and said, "Of course you can. As long as Artoria agrees, you can contact her at any time. By the way, you can contact her directly using the neural link device."

"Are you really comfortable leaving her here alone? With the neural link device, she can watch the live stream no matter how far away she is, right?"

CC glanced at Karen and asked Momo.

"Atmosphere, it's all about the atmosphere. Kallen likes this kind of atmosphere and wants to witness Artoria's victory firsthand, doesn't she?"

Karen nodded. Of all the people around Momo right now, Momo was the one she was closest to, while Artoria was the one she admired the most.

"However, CC, you're right. So why don't you stay here and keep Karen company? You hate running around anyway, right?"

CC was taken aback and said, "Me?"

"Yes, it's you."

"You're comfortable leaving me here alone without taking me with you? Aren't you afraid I'll run away? You let a slave roam freely on his own, are you really that careless?"

Faced with CC's question, Mo Mo winked mischievously and said, "Are you willing to do that? I'm the only one who can satisfy your greedy witch."

"Besides, even if you run away, I will bring you back no matter where you are. There is no place in this world that I cannot go."

Faced with Mo Mo's domineering attitude, CC curled her lips and said, "A domineering and shameless man, fine, I will take care of Karen."

CC gave up arguing with Momo, but Karen immediately said, "No, Momo, I don't need her care, I hate her."

"what?"

This time, CC wouldn't stand for it. Her face was full of surprise as she walked straight to Karen's side and said, "Little girl, it's okay if we don't get along, but I was captured by Momo back then because I was saving you. It's fine if you don't like me. But to hate me is repaying kindness with enmity, isn't it?"

CC was always unhappy with Karen's attitude towards her because CC couldn't understand where Karen's dislike for her came from. It was as if this dislike was innate, which CC couldn't understand at all.

"I just hate you, there's no reason why! What are you doing coming over here? Get away from me!"

Although Karen is small, she has a sharp tongue, yet her sharp tongue actually elicits a kind and gentle smile from CC.

"It seems you really need to be taught a lesson, kid."

"Ah, what are you going to do?"

“Nothing,” CC cornered Karen, then pressed his fists against Karen’s temples and said, “Just teaching a clueless little girl some basic manners.”

"Ah, it hurts!"

Watching the two interact so intimately, Mo Mo patted Jiang Lihua's head to comfort her, who was worried about Kallen, before pulling her away. He had achieved his goal—creating a stage for Artoria—and now he needed to attend to his own affairs.

Incidentally, this also allowed the young emperor, who had never left the Forbidden City, to see what the real world was like.

Seeing that Momo had left, Karen seemed to have grown bolder and began to struggle with her hands and feet. However, Karen overestimated her abilities. At only ten years old, she had no ability to resist CC and could only let CC abuse her.

Unable to defeat CC, Karen could only say with red eyes, "You woman... you're nothing but Momo's slave. I'm his fiancée. Don't think you can stay by his side now. When I grow up, I'll make him abandon you, you shameless woman."

CC's eyelids twitched as she heard Karen's words, and she seemed to suddenly realize something.

I see……

CC looked at Karen with a half-smile and said, "I knew from that night that you, who dared to peek at me and Momo being intimate, were no pushovers. And yet you thought of so much. Are you really ten years old?"

"It seems I still need to teach you what the purity of a child truly means!"

"Ah, you wretched woman, just you wait, when I grow up, when you get old, then..."

Hearing this, CC finally laughed triumphantly and said, "When I get old? Too bad, that's impossible. Hmph, I never thought that this would be the first time in my life that I would feel proud of myself for not getting old."

"Karen, I really need to thank you properly..."

"Ouch, that hurts! You wicked green-haired woman..."

Odysseus, standing to the side, clutched his head in exasperation. With Momo around, things were fine, but without Momo, he felt instantly like an unwanted person.

“Um, Miss CC, this is the Royal Stand, after all. Could you please be mindful of the dignity of the Chinese Federation Royal Family? Although it might be inappropriate for me to say that…”

"Since you know it's inappropriate, then shut up. I hate Britannia the most, especially the Britannian royal family. There's not a single good one among you."

Odysseus's face instantly fell, and he decisively chose to shut up. It was only because of his good temper that he didn't get angry at CC's taunts.

In an instant, Odysseus gazed in the direction of Britannia, a long sigh escaping his lips.

I want to go home...

086 Zhu?

"Teacher, teacher, where are we going? Are we going to a fun place?"

Sitting in the car, Jiang Lihua seemed fascinated by everything around her; to her, everything was new and exciting. Unlike in the original story, now Jiang Lihua wanted to leave the Forbidden City for a visit, and instead of being stopped, she would be welcomed by everyone.

After all, kids are great; it's easy to win their favor, and with proper nurturing, you can establish an indelible, perfect impression in their hearts forever—that's what childhood friends are all about. Often, you can't beat your competitors not because you're not handsome or good enough, but simply because you weren't the first.

Ahem, this doesn't mean that Mo Mo wanted to be Jiang Lihua's first. It was all a choice made by Steins;Gate, the Emperor's preparation to get Jiang Lihua and Mo Mo involved without getting too close.

Right now, Mo Mo is simply fulfilling her duty as a teacher, passing on what she considers the best to Jiang Lihua. For example, right now, she's letting Jiang Lihua understand exactly what she has under her command.

"That's right, we'll be going to many fun places, places you've never seen before, and I'm sure everyone will welcome you."

Jiang Lihua's eyes sparkled, as if she couldn't wait any longer. At this moment, Youji said, "Big brother, Li Xingke from behind sent a message saying that we should tell him our itinerary so that he can send the Embroidered Uniform Guard to protect us."

Yuki had a faint smile on her lips, perhaps because she found the current developments amusing.

Mo Mo was strolling around Luoyang with Jiang Lihua, and there would definitely be someone protecting them. Although Mo Mo was at ease with You Ji alone, the Emperor certainly wouldn't be.

Thus, Gao Hai had his chance to make his presence felt, so he dispatched Li Xingke with the Imperial Guards to accompany Mo Mo and Jiang Lihua as their personal bodyguards.

"Tell Li Xingke that we should start our tour from the industrial base in Luoyang."

Mo Mo wasn't just here for a casual look around. Bringing Jiang Lihua along was partly to broaden her horizons and satisfy her curiosity, and partly to demonstrate his position and status as the emperor's representative, inspecting everything in Luoyang that belonged to the royal family.

The economy of the Chinese Federation is currently divided into two parts: one controlled by the royal family and the other by local warlord families. Furthermore, because both sides possess military power, this situation essentially amounts to regional autonomy, resulting in a lack of fundamental legal constraints between them.

Therefore, the entire economy of the Chinese Federation was under a state of monopoly, either by the royal family or by local powerful warlords. This monopoly extended to almost every industry, and the profits of the entire Chinese Empire were divided between these two groups, leaving virtually nothing for the common people.

The direct result of monopoly is the loss of competition in the entire industry, the loss of the driving force for social development, and the prohibition of the emergence of any alternative industries. At the same time, the lower classes lose all channels for upward mobility, and the royal family, aristocratic warlords, and ordinary people become three distinct groups, with virtually no possibility of any connection or overstepping of boundaries between them.

As a result, there was naturally no economic development, and the decline of the Chinese Federation is not hard to understand.

Money, if kept in your hands, is just a pile of worthless paper. Even gold and silver are merely rare ores in your possession. Only by making money circulate, transforming it into capital, allowing capital to create wealth, and letting wealth flow throughout the entire system, can everyone in the country enjoy the benefits of development and wealth creation.

At the same time, in the process of wealth flow, everyone works hard to acquire wealth and thus create more wealth. As long as the wealth created is greater than the cost incurred, the whole society will continue to develop and will be full of vitality.

A qualified system is one that can make the whole society vibrant, and what the Chinese Federation is doing right now is clearly not qualified.

To change all of this in the Chinese Federation, capital must be taken from the hands of powerful warlords, redistributed, and such monopolies must be prevented from happening again. Only then can the flow of wealth in the entire society be guaranteed, allowing the entire Chinese Empire to begin developing anew.

However, it is impossible to get powerful warlords to willingly relinquish their capital.

This is not as simple as taking food from a tiger's mouth; it's about getting the tiger to hand over its heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys. How could a tiger possibly obey?

This cannot be achieved through any reasoning or persuasion.

This is also the reason for the dynastic changes in history. When the people at the bottom are oppressed to the extreme, they will inevitably overthrow those who occupy capital, redistribute all the capital, and make the entire social structure start over, thus repeating the process of slowly moving towards monopoly.

Of course, this inevitable development is not without means of continuation, but there are only two basic means of continuation.

One approach is technological revolution. Through technological revolution, new capital and new wealth sources emerge, and this new wealth is incorporated into social distribution, thus delaying the process of social monopoly. The other approach is to shift internal contradictions outward. If the wealth of one's own country and nation is insufficient for distribution, then one seizes the wealth of others, appropriating it for oneself and incorporating it into the distribution.

The "plundering" here doesn't entirely refer to war with guns and cannons. Often, it's a gentle, smiling approach, where you work hard while they harvest your surplus value. Unless you one day manage to rebel against the rulers' position in this structure, you're destined to be obediently slaughtered.

Of course, there is also the most difficult way, which is to use reform to make capitalists spit out the capital in their mouths and redistribute it. This is a difficult and arduous game and a skill of pulling tiger skin. To put it bluntly, it is to reason with the tiger slowly and gradually, and to use a compassionate heart to influence the tiger and make it spit out its own flesh to feed the lambs below.

However, Mo Mo was too lazy to do such troublesome and thankless things.

Therefore, from the very beginning, the only way to change the Chinese Empire was through revolution. Overthrowing everything and rebuilding from scratch would be the easiest, most worry-free, and most effortless way to do everything according to Momo's own wishes, building a new Chinese Empire and jointly realizing the Chinese Dream.

Even Momo wanted to say, "Gentlemen, I love war."

This is also a more advanced model of war-related business, far more sophisticated than the usual model of hoarding and profiting from war.

Of course, there are some things Mo Mo himself won't say. Also, as proof of his clean-living, pure, and handsome appearance, there are some things Mo Mo himself won't do. Anyway, soon someone will take the initiative to start a war—this is definitely not Mo Mo's fault. Next, someone will definitely jump out to seize the fruits of the revolution and take the blame—this is definitely not Mo Mo's fault either.

In short, Mo Mo was always just an innocent and harmless small-time businessman, and no matter who you looked at it, Mo Mo did nothing excessive.

Mo Mo spent the entire day with Jiang Lihua, broadening her horizons and personally learning about the monopolistic capital in the hands of the old emperor, while also examining the capital that powerful warlords from various regions had planted in Luoyang.

What pleased Mo Mo somewhat was that even if the old emperor wasn't a brilliant strategist, he was at least a truly capable emperor. At least for now, he had consciously preserved a relatively complete industrial system, and the economic and financial system hadn't been completely taken over by local powers.

Moreover, after personally confirming it, Momo discovered that the industrial level of this world was not low, and the petrochemical industry was more complete than Momo had imagined. It was just that due to the suppression of the Sakura Stone system, the energy industry was destined to be excluded from the petrochemical industry, but the refining of oil and the processing of petrochemical products were quite advanced, such as the production of various synthetic materials.

At the same time, thanks to Sakurastone, the steel industry, especially in alloy manufacturing and processing, has reached a level of sophistication that can be described as cutting-edge. After all, it is an industrial level capable of manufacturing various high-grade metals used in Knightmare, and it even has unique advantages compared to the technological level of the Accelerated World.

This has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that if the technology that Momo brought from other worlds is reproduced in this world, there should be no barriers in terms of materials and manufacturing processes, allowing the technology to be quickly transformed into combat power.

The downside, of course, is that it could be imitated by the enemy, who could then develop similar weapons.

However, Mo Mo wasn't worried about the downsides. If Mo Mo could truly change the way this world operated, which was dominated by Sakura Stone, then his goal would have been achieved. As for the enemy learning some of his technology, that was just a minor issue.

As long as we preserve the core technologies, we can resort to nuclear deterrence if necessary. As a peace-loving empire, China guarantees not to be the first to use nuclear weapons.

Yes, once it's used, it's like a whirlwind, leaving the other side no chance to react.

Having confirmed the feasibility of the technology, Momo's next task was to transform it into a physical product as quickly as possible. At the same time, he needed to consider, based on local developments, what kind of weapons and equipment to equip the troops within a limited timeframe to maximize combat effectiveness.

Design blueprints are not a problem; the technology transfer is facilitated by a neural link device, allowing relevant engineering technicians to learn quickly. What is needed is the preparation of the production line and manufacturing process. All Mo Mo needs to do is get started, and the rest will naturally be handled by his subordinates and the secret service agency, the Embroidered Uniform Guard.