Everyone looked at each other a little bit, you threatened people when you came up, but then you told us that you were here to make money? What kind of development is this...?
But after His Highness the King of Qin said this, they were very interested, because everyone knew that His Highness the King of Qin liked to make money! A city that never sleeps in the Tang Dynasty was sold for more than 30 million yuan! Three treasuries! What is this concept? ! Among them, there are also people who have bought stores in Datang Evernight City.
"Your Highness, don't you know that this business refers to business with the Western Regions?" Among the few people, one of the people turned around quickly and immediately guessed the business Li Ke was talking about. After all, Guangzhou is a treaty port, and almost all the merchants here are because of This is what they guessed.
"Yes and no, to be precise, I am planning to do business with Lin Yi and Zhen Wax first." Li Ke said lightly.
"Do business with them? Zhenwa and Linyi are very poor. They don't have much money. We are so close to Zhenwa and Linyi, and there doesn't seem to be much business to do." Dang Renhong said while sitting at the table. Some are the most anxious, mainly because he is poor! Although he is now the governor of Guangzhou, he is indeed poor, has little money, and has just taken office.
His Highness said that if he could make money by doing business, then he would have the opportunity to participate, so of course he was anxious.
Li Ke glanced at Dang Renhong. This man was found to be corrupt about a few years later. It was obvious that he was indeed short of money. Now that he had just moved to the post of governor of Guangzhou, the corruption must not have come in time, but he was definitely short of money. .
"Yes, Your Highness, Zhenwa and Lin Yi are very poor." Others nodded in confusion.
"You all think so?" Li Ke sighed helplessly and asked.
Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Poor people are poor. Is there any other way to say it?
"Let me tell you a story." Li Ke sighed, and then continued: "There was a businessman who was in the shoe business. One day he went to an island and found that no one on the island was used to wearing shoes. , so the man sighed and said that there was no business here, and then he left here and went to find the next place to sell shoes."
"Soon a second businessman selling shoes came here. After seeing that no one on the island wore shoes, the businessman said with joy, ah, there is such a big market here. It’s all business, and everyone can be a customer.”
"Do you understand?"
Li Ke looked at them and said, this...how could you not understand? What Li Ke said has been so straightforward, that is to say, they think Zhenwa and Lin Yi are poor, but His Highness thinks there is big business here.
"Well, Your Highness, we don't quite understand." Everyone is still a little confused. Poverty is the essence. What does this have to do with having a business? If you have a business, how can you do it without money?
"Hey, there is wealth in their lands. For example, in places like grain, Zhenwa, and Linyi, you can have two or even three crops of rice a year, right?" Li Ke said helplessly, " We in the Tang Dynasty are short of food, so we can buy food at any time without losing money."
"But Your Highness, although these places can achieve two or even three crops a year, the population in these places is not large, so they have even fewer fields to plant, and they cannot produce much food." They said as The locals know these things very well.
"I'm going to talk about this. If the locals don't have enough land, then let them open up wasteland. If they don't have enough land for planting, then let them plant more crops. These are all good things." Li Ke shook his head with a smile. He shook his head and said, "Anyway, I'll just come here so you can make money."
"Besides this, I have one more thing to tell you." Li Ke looked at everyone, and then said: "Tan Guogong, I have a few questions to ask you."
"Your Highness, please speak." The elderly Qiu He, the general manager of Jiaozhou, and Duke Tan of the Tang Dynasty, who are eighty years old this year, are also sitting here.
"If the Tang Dynasty wants to capture Zhenwa and Linyi, how many soldiers will it need?" Li Ke asked directly without concealing his purpose.
At this time, there is no need to worry about some of these people colluding with foreign thieves. In their eyes, Zhenwa and Linyi are both very poor and backward places, even the royal family. They have trade with each other, but in fact It doesn't matter much.
Moreover, the people of the Tang Dynasty were very proud of their identity, so Li Ke was not afraid of them leaking it, because Lingnan Road was their territory. Li Ke's foreign strategy meant that Lingnan Road's territory expanded. Even if those places were not Lingnan Road in the future, it would They also have benefits here.
So no one will leak this kind of thing.
Take down Zhen Wa and Lin Yi? Everyone was stunned. His Highness just said he would do business with these two families, so why would he suddenly want to take them down?
Qiu He pondered for a while, Jiaozhou Prefecture was Hanoi in later generations, Qiu He was at the forefront of facing these two families, and he naturally understood these very well.
"The strength of these two families is average. If we want to take them down, 50,000 elite troops are enough if the logistics are guaranteed. If His Highness can mobilize at least 30 warships, 10,000 to 20,000 elite troops can be mobilized from their fleet at any time. If we land on the coastline, the progress will be faster."
"But one thing is that we need to have elite soldiers. Now the soldiers in Lingnan Road need to be trained, and their weapons and equipment are not enough." Qiu He has been fighting for a lifetime, and his son also followed Li Shimin to participate in the Xuanwu Gate Incident, and is still In Chang'an, both sons are in Chang'an.
Therefore, Qiu He must be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, so there is no need to worry.
"I will prepare for you 50,000 sets of armor no less than the Mingguang Armor." Li Ke spoke directly. After this year's development, Datang's new armor forging speed is getting faster and faster. The industrialized system is completely different from the previous manual system. A concept, and before Li Ke left, he had already given the people in Datang Industrial Zone a task, asking them to work hard to forge armor and weapons.
In addition to scientific research and casting machine tools, all the steel smelted near Chang'an is used to forge armor and weapons, so it is not difficult to provide 50,000 sets of armor and weapons after one year.
"We can capture these two countries at any time." Qiu He was stunned by Li Ke's generosity. Can the Tang Dynasty come up with so many armors now?
What is the concept of fifty thousand sets of Mingguang armor? Just sweep! You must know that due to the hot weather in these two countries, many of their soldiers don't even have leather armor at all. They just wear linen clothes, bare feet, and hold a spear. This is what they call soldiers.
