Steel Dynasty - Chapter 909

[Chapter 907 Destruction]

“Hahaha…”

Hearty laughter came from the mouths of Lu Fei and Luo Xin. In their opinion, it was not easy for Lin Youde to be able to lurk in the Merchant Council for so long and also deliver a lot of important information.

After the greetings, Lin Youde’s expression suddenly became serious, and he said: “Now is not the time to relax. The Cao family and his son and the Qinglong King took away a large amount of wealth they collected. This wealth was probably smuggled to the UK a few months ago. “Damn

it

!” Lu Fei cursed, “If I catch this killer, I will skin him and cramp him.”

Lin Youde looked a little regretful and said, “It was my mistake this time, too.” The third person’s secrets were too deep, and many congressmen have been kept in the dark until now.”

“About how many things they transported,” Luo Xin asked.

“After they lost the war again and again, they behaved a little abnormally. They kept asking members to pay money to buy weapons. At the same time, they killed people and searched for gold and silver wherever they went. I estimate that they stole at least one million taels of gold and silver. “Six million taels of silver, and a lot of jewelry and other things,” Lin Youde said, “This is because they don’t have enough manpower to transport it. If they did, they would probably transport more.”

“This is a lot. “

“Lu Fei felt a pain in his body, this is all real money, not things like land and houses.

“Don’t just sigh. It’s probably impossible to chase them back now unless we fight all the way to their territory.” Luo Xin advised: “It’s better to collect the things that can be captured now. There are a lot of big fish in the city this time. .”

Lu Fei immediately became elated and shouted to his division commanders to let them collect the trophies.

After the royal army entered the city, the fighting in Guangzhou came to an end. Large numbers of soldiers surrendered to them. When they arrived at the parliamentary residence, they found that almost all the members of the parliament had been killed.

The angry people and soldiers had already unleashed their hatred on them.

It doesn’t matter to Lu Fei and Luo Xin, anyway, if they fall into their hands, these wealthy families will die, but now it saves them a lot of trouble.

After taking control of Guangzhou City, they immediately paid off the wealth of the members under the leadership of Lin Youde. Now they all understand the truth.

This war is like doing business. The more you fight, the more profit you make. A loss-making war is a heavy burden on the country. Only a profitable war can make the country richer and richer.

During the process of moving south, the existence of the merchant council gave them a reason to clean up the wealthy families. In almost every state and county, the rebellious wealthy families had their property confiscated.

The land was distributed to the people, houses, and shops were sold as much as they could, and all the gold and silver were shipped away. The war fortune made this time was much greater than what they had made from industry and commerce in recent years.

Only then did they understand why the barbarians were keen to go south, because it was a profitable business for them to rob the country of Chongqing, and it was a losing business for the country of Chongqing to attack them.

If things go on like this, Dayu will only lose.

…

February 25th, Qingzhou.

The news of the victory in the Guangzhou War came to Qingzhou with the cheers of the post generals. The post generals with the victory report rode all the way into Qingzhou City, shouting while riding horses.

Arriving in front of the palace, he immediately submitted the battle report to Du Boyuan, the commander of the imperial guards, and the news quickly reached Xiao Ming.

At this time, the officials in the outer palace also heard the news, and Pang Yukun got up and left for the study.

“The city of Guangzhou was destroyed, and most of the members of the Merchant Council died. Now the Merchant Council exists in name only. The only pity is that the Cao family and his son and the Qinglong King escaped.” Pang Yukun looked pity after reading the battle report.

Xiao Ming frowned, “The most disgusting thing is that they also transported a lot of gold and silver jewelry. These three idiots, do they really think that the British will always protect them?”

He comes from modern times, so he naturally knows these robber countries. With their faces, the Cao family and his son took their wealth to Britain, but the British must have taken advantage of them.

“This Britain is really hateful. It is always against our country, Great Chongqing. Now that the Merchant Council has been destroyed, we can take out our hands to deal with them!” Pang Yukun said fiercely.

“This is what I think, but now there is a more difficult problem.” Xiao Ming handed the information Wang Xuan sent back to Pang Yukun.

Just glancing at it, Pang Yukun exclaimed: “The barbarians have taken refuge in Tsarist Russia! How is this possible?”

“Nothing is impossible. The Great Yu Kingdom is changing, and the barbarians are also looking for a way out. According to Wang Xuan, Guandong was lost. After that, the barbarians were also squeezed by the Ottomans in the west. Facing the feud between us and the Ottomans, Tsarist Russia was the only force he could rely on. “Xiao Ming frowned.

In fact, he has been vaguely worried about this matter, but now it has happened to him. Similar to contemporary history, the nomadic people in the north would rather surrender to Tsarist Russia than join in. It can be said that this is the dignity of the nomadic tribes, or it can be said that The wolf’s contempt for a group of sheep may mean that the barbarians will not surrender to the country of Chongqing, which they once turned into a two-legged sheep.

Pang Yukun is no longer unfamiliar with the current situation in the world. He knows that Tsarist Russia is a large country with a population of 46 million, and that this country is good at annexing other countries.

Now that the barbarians have fallen into the arms of Tsarist Russia, coupled with their Cossack cavalry, they will become the most powerful enemy in the north of Great Yu.

“It’s really like one wave after another.” Pang Yukun smiled bitterly and shook his head. Their internal worries had just been resolved, and now foreign troubles followed one after another.

“Hahaha, Pang Shoufen need not worry. The Great Yu Kingdom today is no longer the Great Yu Kingdom ten years ago. We can fight back any invasion at any time, and once the railway between Guandong and Chang’an is built, we can quickly transport troops there. , then both the barbarian cavalry and the Cossack cavalry will lose their mobility advantage,” Xiao Ming said loudly.

Pang Yukun came back to his senses and said with a smile: “What the emperor said is that the old minister was confused for a moment. Since the robbers came to the door, we can only fight with them.”

Xiao Ming nodded and said: “Don’t worry about the north for the time being. Qi Guangyi and Luo Hong are here, and they can’t make a difference for the time being. What is ultimately needed now is to integrate Jiangnan and Jiangbei to unify the world, so that the soldiers from the southern expedition can be withdrawn.”

“Yes, your Majesty, your Majesty has already drawn up a new administrative division plan for Great Chongqing, and is preparing to implement it as soon as possible to achieve the unification of the north and the south.”

“

That’s very good. Now that Guangzhou has been defeated, the overall situation has been decided. The next step is to establish a government office and wipe out the remaining bandits. I will leave a part of the army in the south to cooperate with your management. We must make the south recover as soon as possible. “

When Xiao Ming spoke, he looked at the world map in front of him. He didn’t know that the civil war was over. So how easy it is, now the world’s territory has basically been divided up by the great powers.

The rising country of Chongqing will certainly not be able to escape Thucydides’ Trap in this barbaric era.

This means that a newly rising power will inevitably challenge the existing powers, and the existing powers will inevitably respond to this threat, so war will become inevitable.

(End of chapter)