Doctor Amnesiac, but not completely amnesiac

Qiao Yelan likes to use this to test cadres.

Of course, the design of the third [Ursula Space-Time Channel Node] is also being carried out simultaneously. Its location is naturally in Casimir, and it is used to connect the smuggling channels between Casimir and Ursus.

Now these are goods from two major empires, and they are serving one Ursus nobleman at the same time - how could this be less of a blessing?

But in Qiao Yelan's eyes, this was just the interest paid by the Ursus nobles.

——It’s not time to repay the principal yet, so you better hold on.

Look at Speaker Islam Witte, who is working wholeheartedly to promote industrialization reforms. This is the attitude of truly paying back the debt to Qiao Yelan - and the price to pay.

"Is everything done?"

"Everything has been arranged. The nobles have realized that things are not going well, but they still hold on to a glimmer of hope, hoping that the Ursus Empire will resume its past purchases next year."

A mocking smile appeared on Kashena's lips.

With Qiao Yelan's guidance, she had seen through the situation of these nobles - they had already had one foot on the edge of the cliff.

Not to mention that disarmament is Ursus' current national policy, and future military procurement is unlikely to continue to expand. Their current situation alone means that the longer it drags on, the higher the price these nobles will have to pay.

Just kidding. When Qiao Yelan first came to Ursus, he specifically instructed Grand Duke Nicholas to turn a blind eye to the nobles' troops when implementing the disarmament policy, and almost allow them to retain their own organization openly and even continue to expand their military.

This extra instruction enabled Nicholas, who proposed the disarmament plan, to gain the understanding of the nobles at the time, and he successfully extricated himself from the political whirlpool of the Holy Eagle Castle with almost no extra cost - now is the time for Qiao Yelan's words to really take effect.

Nicholas completed the disarmament and reorganized the new Sixth Army. In other words, he received the military pay and budget of the three downsized armies, so he was barely able to maintain the situation. With the support of Qiao Yelan, he could be said to be living a quite comfortable life.

However, these nobles, even though they were originally semi-private armies, received little central funding, and even less after the disarmament - and not only did they not disarm, they also took advantage of the disarmament process to absorb a group of veterans, which led to even greater military expenditures.

Others are increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, but they are increasing flow and reducing resources.

They couldn't get the funding, military procurement funds plummeted, and taxes within the territory could not increase sharply in violation of the laws of nature - they would soon have to kneel down and beg Kosche to help their brother for the sake of the empire.

Kosice saw this clearly, but since those nobles still wanted to show her attitude, she was happy to do so.

Anyway, the boomerang was coming soon, so she was not in a hurry.

"Indeed, you can wait a little longer. After all, the initiative of this matter is in your hands. You can manipulate the nobles a little more and gain more benefits."

Qiao Yelan did not deny Kosice's action.

"But did you make any extra preparations?"

"Extra preparation?"

Kasheina directly asked a black snake question mark.

Would it be a bad idea to teach this guy economics? How come he is so poor at his job...

Qiao Yelan sighed with an expression that showed concern for the barbecued pork.

"Do you think that after the nobles discovered that the central fiscal expenditure of the Ursus Empire was shifting from military to civilian use, all they wanted to do was engage in arms smuggling and sell more of the inventory in their warehouses?"

"Uh... they should be planning to do something to shift the empire's future focus back to the military. This way, they can completely solve their income problem."

Fortunately, Miss Black Snake was just a little confused. After Qiao Yelan gave her some pointers, she quickly thought out something deeper.

"So... I can take advantage of their thinking, because they will definitely want to provoke a war between Ursus and other neighboring countries. As long as I show my willingness to return to Longmen, they will definitely give me more support."

Looking at Qiao Yelan's encouraging expression, Kashena spoke more and more fluently.

"Yes, that's right - whether or not I can really take charge of Longmen again, they are happy to see it happen, because it will greatly deteriorate the relationship between Da Yan and Ursus. In their eyes, Da Yan, which has almost never been mired in war or civil strife, undoubtedly has huge wealth."

"They don't care how powerful Da Yan is. After all, they have never really fought against Da Yan. During the Eastern Kingdom War, the noble coalition also avoided the real forces and hid behind Vladimir's Tsar Guards as usual, and never fought against the Da Yan army head-on."

The more Black Snake spoke, the brighter the light in his eyes became.

"Yes, they are definitely eager to go to war with Dayan. After all, Dayan is also a big country. Once the war starts, it will definitely last for a long time. In this way, they can get more and longer-term orders, and their income will be more substantial. In the eyes of the nobles, wealthy Dayan is a fertile land that is very worth plundering!"

Qiao Yelan slowly clapped his hands with a gratified smile on his face.

"That's very well said, Kashena. Now that you have this idea in mind, what are you going to do next?"

"Uh... I'm going to go make some arrangements - you're not leaving anytime soon, are you?"

"Don't worry, I will wait for you, of course. Always."

After hearing Qiao Yelan's promise, Miss Black Snake, who had just returned to Qiao Yelan's side, turned around and ran out excitedly again, obviously going to change her body to cause trouble again.

Seeing her leave, Qiao Yelan lowered his head and looked at the documents in his hand again, immersing himself in the tense and exciting exploitation, no, robbery - nor, the cause of benefiting Ursus.

What’s going on? Why did this guy come back so quickly? He hasn’t finished the preliminary work here yet.

It is true that Qiao Yelan likes teaching and educating people - but when he is doing his serious work, it is actually very unpleasant if there is a char siu who likes to ask questions around him.

Chapter 178: The Miraculous Financial Report of the Tower of Babel

"I believe I have done all the preparations this time. Nothing has been left out. The foreshadowing buried in the intelligence network is quietly waiting for the right time. As long as time passes slowly, the nobles will definitely take the bait."

This time, Kashena made a solemn promise to Qiao Yelan.

Qiao Yelan nodded with a smile, praised Grand Duke Koschei's outstanding work performance, and encouraged Miss Black Snake to continue working hard to achieve better results in the future.

In fact, he had finished his work in Ursus and was preparing to leave for Casimir, so he was too lazy to give Kashena any extracurricular guidance.

"Are we going to Casimir now?"

Black Snake asked impatiently.

She really couldn't wait - she couldn't wait to see how Qiao Yelan would deal with those guys from the Chamber of Commerce.

Although the nobles of Ursus are essentially the same as Casimir's Commercial Federation, she would rather see foreigners being defeated by Qiao Yelan than to see Qiao Yelan scheming against the nobles.

"Yes, I just received news that the personnel I mobilized from Victoria and Leitania have arrived. They have now arrived at the Tower of Babel station in Casimir and are waiting for my arrangements."

“Did you mobilize a lot of people?”

Black Snake was somewhat sensitive to Qiao Yelan's attitude. It was obvious that these people played an important role in Qiao Yelan's plan.

"Of course - it is already the summer of 1079, and the Casimir Knight Tournament, which is held every three years, is about to begin. This will determine which four mobile cities will be able to form a great knight territory in the future, and will give us the best chance to take the lead in the coming era of world trade circulation."

"Babel Tower will certainly not miss this opportunity, especially in today's chaotic situation, this opportunity is even more precious."

Qiao Yelan said nonchalantly, his expression forming a sharp contrast with the content of his words.

After all, it would be ridiculous if the propagandists believed the lies they were promoting.

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The capital of Casimir, the Great Knight Territory, Kavaleriyaki - is a very distinctive mobile city.

Because this city is made up of four mobile cities.

Except for one of the urban plots that serves as the administrative center, the other three mobile urban parts are not always fixed - this is a characteristic pattern formed after the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce.

As Casimir's commerce developed, merchants soon discovered that the larger the mobile city, the higher the economic benefits it could bring, but on the other hand, it would lead to more serious problems - not just involution and disputes, the city's resource supply also became increasingly troublesome.

The splicing of four mobile cities is not only the upper limit of current technology, but also the upper limit of supplies, because even in the central territory of Casimir, the output along the mobile city's circuit route is only barely enough to maintain a city of this size.

Therefore, as the largest mobile city in the Casimir region, whichever company can enter the [Great Knight Territory] will gain an advantage in the next three years.

Finally, under the proposal of Babel Tower, and the enthusiasm of various merchant groups to build their own armed forces, they all agreed to adopt the method of knight competition - they formed their own competitive knight groups, and used the ranking and performance of the knight groups to decide who would get the biggest piece of the pie in the future.

Qiao Yelan had already spread the word in advance that Babel Tower would go all out in this Knight Championship and would definitely win the top three in this championship.

The outside world is still very interested in Babel Tower’s publicity. After all, the importance Babel Tower attaches to this matter must mean that its strategic focus has changed, which is something worth exploring in depth.

Because Babel, who proposed this plan, was not very enthusiastic about the competition and had never taken the Knights Templar he founded seriously. He almost just went through the motions. In the past dozen or so bidding competitions, he had only won the top four a few times.

As the leader of the medical industry in all of Casimir, no, perhaps in all of Terra, Tower of Babel does not pay much attention to trade within Casimir. More than half of their energy and trade are focused on countries outside of Casimir.

This time, contrary to usual practice, he obviously intends to strengthen his own momentum and status in Casimir.

This undoubtedly meant one thing - those rumors that had been circulating before, such as that Babel had suffered a setback in its development of foreign power and had lost a large amount of money, so it was eager to consolidate the situation within Casimir... did not seem to be groundless.

If the common people just treated it as gossip, the members of the Chamber of Commerce were very interested in it.

It’s not like other members of the business association had gone bankrupt before, and as for the remaining parts, regardless of whether everyone was satisfied with the profits or not, at least they were able to make more profits - for the zombies, as long as there were corpses, everyone loved it.

So they put a lot of effort into the overseas investigation of the Tower of Babel.

The news sent back seems to confirm this.

Leitania fell into turmoil, and the conflict between the Electors and the Emperor became increasingly prominent.

The internal strife in Victoria became more and more obvious. At this time, they actively resisted all external factors and forces.

And Ursus...well, there's really nothing much to mention here.

This made the businessmen of the Business Federation not only feel happy about the misfortune, but also feel at ease.

It turned out that they were not the only ones suffering from the Great Depression. The Tower of Babel was also obviously greatly affected. At least in terms of foreign trade, they all suffered a devastating blow.

But being at ease doesn't mean they will give face to Babel Tower - everyone is having a hard time now, and whoever can stay in the Great Knight's Territory will suffer less losses in the next three years, and this cannot be given up.

Therefore, when Qiao Yelan's convoy returned to Casimir, they did not receive a very warm welcome.

The first person who came to say hello was someone that Qiao Yelan and Kashena were very familiar with.

Mr. Kane, son of the chairman of Rose News United Newspaper Group.

"It seems like so long since we last met, Mr. Kane, and I can see that you are now on the path you have chosen after your own reflection."

Qiao Yelan looked at Kane, his eyes revealing happiness and relief.

"Thanks to you, Mr. Qiao Yelan, I have had several in-depth conversations with my father. Although he is still a businessman, at least he has begun to try to understand me and is willing to accept my ideas."

Kane looked at Qiao Yelan with gratitude. He always remembered the help Qiao Yelan had given him before.

"Are you coming to the Tower of Babel this time to interview me again?"

Qiao Yelan asked half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"No, to interview you at this time would be to confuse you - most people would misunderstand everything you say and do until they get to know the truth."

Kane shook his head.

He had already verified Babel Tower's actions outside the Upper City. Just as Qiao Yelan said, Babel Tower had been distributing Originium disease inhibitors privately, and many people had benefited from such help.

But as Qiao Yelan said before, there are simply too many people who need help, and with just one business, he cannot help everyone.

Coupled with the involvement of unscrupulous businessmen and black market, the situation becomes even uglier.

If he were the passionate young man Kane of the past, he would definitely rush out and beat up that damn black marketeer, and then write about it in the newspaper and spread it everywhere.

But after accepting his father's teachings, he realized that his behavior would not only fail to help Qiao Yelan, but would even put Babel Tower in an extremely embarrassing situation.

So he was not here to interview Qiao Yelan. After all, in this situation, Qiao Yelan would only answer some "politically correct" words - and this was meaningless to the truth.

At least now, he doesn't want those who don't know the truth to continue to misunderstand Qiao Yelan.

"I am not here to represent any force, including the Rose Press. I am just here as Kane to ask you... do you need my help in private?"

Kane lowered his voice, and it was obvious that even this young man who had already accepted the dark political reality still seemed somewhat uncomfortable and embarrassed when discussing the topic of black box operations with his "like-minded" friends.

Qiao Yelan narrowed his eyes slightly.

"...Mr. Kane, have you heard anything? Or, have you got any evidence?"

"No, Mr. Qiao Yelan, don't worry. If I get any information about the Tower of Babel, I will discuss it with you as soon as possible."

Kane quickly waved his hand.

"This time, Casimir has fallen into an unprecedented trade crisis. Foreign trade has dropped to a freezing point. Too many goods are piled up in warehouses, and shopping malls cannot sell them at a high price. Workers' wages have been cut again and again. Many factories have simply stopped production, and some have even put up signs for sale."

"Babel Tower's business focus has always been overseas. I think the impact this time will be even greater. Otherwise, you wouldn't take this Knight Championship so seriously, right? What I mean is, if you need some help with public opinion, I'm happy to do it for you for free."

This sentence is obviously what Kane really thinks.

The Rose Press has little interest in the Knights' Tournament and is even more passive than the Tower of Babel - because no matter how it changes, it will not affect their status.

This time, Babel Tower turns to Casimir and will certainly use publicity as well, and Bane will definitely ask for a high price - this is also what Kane is worried about.

With his still somewhat rudimentary knowledge of economics, he certainly knew how horribly Babel's charity would consume corporate profits.

If Babel had been able to rely on its domestic base and the rapid expansion of foreign trade to continue to distribute free medicine to the poor while ensuring the development of the company itself, then after this Casimir trade winter, I am afraid that Babel will suffer a heavy economic blow.

After much thought, Kane felt that the only way he could help Qiao Yelan at the moment was to help him save some advertising costs - he now sincerely hoped that Babel Tower could spend every penny wisely so that it could safely survive this Casimir Depression.

"I am very grateful for your kindness, Mr. Kane. As you said, Babel Tower is indeed facing some difficulties now. But I believe that these difficulties are only temporary and a bright future will soon come."

Kane was a little disappointed with Qiao Yelan's words, because these answers were obviously more official and did not seem like a private negotiation.

The Doctor certainly noticed Kane's expression.

"I'm not being perfunctory with you, Kane. At this critical moment, Babel Tower cannot let people think that we have a very good relationship with Rose Press."