"Your Highness, I know that the efficiency of the Ministry of Works cannot satisfy you, but the Ministry of Works is now operating at full capacity, and many officials have no rest." Duan Lun smiled bitterly.
"Why take a break? As officials of the Ministry of Works, you can't even finish the basic things you should do. How dare you take a break? If you can't finish your work, look for problems with your working methods. There is something wrong with your efficiency. This is not a matter of one or two days. You can’t finish the work. Can you sleep? Do you still want to leave a name in history? Become a famous prime minister through the ages? "
"If you don't work hard today, you will work hard to find a job tomorrow!" Li Ke said with hatred.
Duan Lun: "..."
Yan Lide: "..."
Is this...is this a job that anyone can find if they want to? Although what you said, Your Highness, seems to make sense, you cannot ignore our life and death.
"Okay, okay, I won't talk nonsense to you. You go back and send someone to deliver what I want." Li Ke waved his hand and asked them to leave.
After the people from the Ministry of Industry left, Li Ke was a little entangled. It was not easy to choose this armor issue. But after looking at the map and hesitating and thinking for a long time, Li Ke suddenly had an epiphany.
Yes, isn't it good that I sell Mingguang Armor? Why sell other armor? As for the issue of Mingguang Armor showing his identity, is there a problem with this? of course not!
This is not modern, this is ancient times! If you have the ability, Arab, bite me! It will take at least ten years for Arabia to destroy Sassanid Persia alone. This is not modern, and it is not a blitzkrieg.
Do you think everyone is a champion? Besides, the champion's tactics can only be used against countries without cities like the Turks, and are useless against countries with solid cities like Sasanian Persia.
So, sell it openly! If Sasanian Persia really resists the enemy's attack, then Arabia will be anxious, because Arabia was too powerful at the beginning. Not only did it rise from the peninsula and want to invade Persia, but it also started fighting with Byzantium, offending two countries at the same time. countries, and they are two big countries.
The key battle between Arabia and Sasanian Persia, the Battle of Qadisiya, started in October this year and ended in April next year. The six-month war period was enough for Persia to understand the situation, and Li Ke could take advantage of it. At this point, sell enough armor and weapons to the Persians in exchange for large amounts of gold and silver.
By then, even if Li Ke increases the price of the armor several times, Persia will buy it.
And if I sell enough armors and weapons to Persia, and Persia can stabilize the situation and start to push back, it is even possible that I can sell a wave of armors and weapons to the Arab Empire. I am a businessman, what should I be afraid of?
Anyway, can they both offend Datang at this time? It would be good if the Tang Dynasty did not attack them. Besides, there was the Western Turks in the middle. They had nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty, so they had only one choice. They all wanted to buy weapons and equipment from Li Ke to arm themselves crazily.
Both of them have been beaten to pieces. It is impossible to reconcile at this time. There is only one possibility, see who can do it better than the other.
Sell weapons from them yourself, and then mediate between them to form a balance of power, or let Persia bleed the Arabs. It is simply unrealistic to expect Persia at the end of the dynasty to kill the Arabs. The Arabs are now very powerful in combat, so they are sending weapons to Persia like crazy. , hold back the Arabs, bleed the Arabs, and weaken their vitality.
The Arabs, who are also nomadic people, do not actually have a particularly large population. If they continue to bleed, the Arabs will soon fall into a weak state.
Historically, Arabia did not completely annex Persia until 648, which meant that it would take at least twelve years.
With Li Ke, Persia could not persist for a shorter time than it had in history. Therefore, more than ten years were enough for the Tang Dynasty to start from Xizhou, first annex Xinjiang in later generations, and then establish the Western Region Protectorate, directly following the Persia bordered.
At that time, it didn't matter who to support.
As for weapons and armor, in terms of the combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty, the protective capabilities of these weapons and armor will only be that much.
Even if Persia cannot hold on, and the Western Turks are now in a weak position with Khan Tong'eshe, the Tang Dynasty will threaten it. Is it okay for the Turks to send some mercenaries? Send mercenaries to join the war and continue to bleed Arabia.
Even encourage Byzantium behind the scenes to send out some mercenaries. Isn’t the enemy of the enemy a friend?
Li Ke could even encourage Tianzhu and other countries along the way to send troops to fight in Persia. As long as he gave the Tianzhu nobles money, the Tianzhu nobles wouldn't mind sending some Shudra soldiers to fight in Persia, right? Anyway, Sudra is not a human being on the Tianzhu side.
Tsk tsk, element detection! Li Ke's pattern suddenly opened up! Fighting is good. Not only can you do business in weapons and armors, but you can also make a lot of money by buying food from Southeast Asia, Tianzhu and other regions and shipping it directly there!
There is plenty of gold and silver!
Even Li Ke didn't mind telling them the locations of gold and silver mines in Tianzhu and other areas from the resource map in his warehouse and letting them mine them.
Nonsense, what if they run out of gold and silver? Let them mine, they mine, make money by themselves, kill two birds with one stone, and save yourself the trouble of having to mine by yourself in the future?
In this case, the name of the Royal Maritime Fleet of the Tang Dynasty cannot be called. This is too conspicuous. Although everyone knows what is going on, this piece of cloth is still needed. Then call it Datang Business Federation?
Anyway, we are serious businessmen. As for whether the things we sell are serious or not, it has nothing to do with them. Who do you care we sell to?
After thinking about it, Li Ke stood up from his position with excitement. Although he didn't like being an emperor or supervising the country, Li Ke was still very interested in playing this kind of thing because he was in the process of forming a knot. Really changing history.
No man can resist the evil taste of changing history, right? !
Tsk tsk, when the time comes, the boundary monuments of the Tang Dynasty will be buried on all the islands in the Philippines, Malaysia, India, etc.!
This has been my territory of the Tang Dynasty since ancient times!
Li Ke immediately picked up a pen and wrote a note, and then asked Chang Lin to pass it to Tian Meng, asking Tian Meng to hurry up and produce the brand new standard armors now worn by the soldiers! What? Didn't you say you don't produce Mingguang Armor?
You are too naive. Of course, you produced it yourself and replaced it with new steel plate armor for the Xuanjia Army and Yulin Army of the Tang Dynasty. Can't you sell the Mingguang Armor they replaced? This "brand new" armor, whose performance has even been "tested" for them, will not have any quality problems and is too user-friendly.
"Li Tai, let's go. I'm happy today. I'll test your recent martial arts in the school." Li Ke greeted happily.
Li Tai: "..."
