Chapter 93 Sustainable Development

The emperor was silent. A servant beside him smiled and arched his hand at Sun Shao: "General Fuyi is really bold. It's a daughter to take action. It seems that this expedition has gained a lot."

Sun Shao took a look at the waiter unexpectedly. Although the waiter looked not small, he looked very young, that is, sixteen or seventeen years old. Although he put on a sanctimonious appearance, he still couldn't hide his childishness. He smiled to himself and said that which boy dared to interrupt on this occasion? He glanced at the emperor and saw that the emperor was not angry. He pretended not to hear it, so he understood the meaning and smiled: "Xiaolang is extraordinary, but I don't know what to call it?"

"Your Highness has worked hard. I don't know much about the things in the palace. Let me introduce it." Cao Rui smiled and came in side by side with Liu Chan. Liu Chan had a gentle smile on his face and saluted Sun Shao from afar. Cao Rui strode to the emperor and bowed to the emperor: "The king of Wei, the minister, pays homage to your majesty."

Liu Chan also saluted: "The king of Shu and the minister of Shu visited your majesty."

"You two Aiqing came just in time. Just now, my General Fuyi said that he would give me a daughter to help me re-repair the cloud platform. Do you think so?"

Cao Rui and Liu Chan looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The meaning of the emperor is obvious, which is to make them bleed a little. The queen is Cao's family. Of course, Cao Rui can't be subjud by Sun Shaobi, but these days, she may have a little confidence to use force with Sun Shaobi. Isn't it boring to compare financial resources? He hesitated for a moment and said with a smile, "The general returned from the expedition. It is said that the fleet loaded with trophy can't see its head at a glance. It's just a piece of effort for him to repair the cloud platform. I didn't dare to look at it, so I could only talk about it as a foil. In this general's campaign, many barbarians competed to congratulate them. I heard that the barbarians' mansion was not enough to use, which was inconsistent with the name of our great country. I paid 500 gold to help your majesty build the barbarian mansion. Your Majesty, you see..."

The emperor can't laugh or cry. These days, he is really helpless. The emperor wants to beg from the princes, and the princes give some money to specify the purpose. What's the matter?

Liu Chan hesitated for a while: "The small people of Shu are poor, and they can't be compared with the two kingdoms of Wei and Yue. I... I would like to offer 300 pieces of Shu brocade."

Sun Shao smiled, stretched out his finger to Cao Rui and Liu Chan, and said old-fashionedly, "You two little verticals are not honest in front of your majesty. Five hundred gold and three hundred brocades, thanks to you. Don't talk nonsense. You pay as much as I pay, one less money. I will deduct it from your business tax. That's it."

Cao Rui and Liu Chan shrugged their shoulders and looked helpless: "Since the king has opened his mouth, we have to obey rather than respectfully.

The neglected young servant sneered: "Three Your Highnesses, Shi Yun, 'Under the sky, is it the king's land; the shore of the earth, is it the king's minister', the three highnesses to offer the emperor, is it also a bargain?"

Sun Shao's smile was cold, and he didn't look at him. He turned to Cao Rui and said, "Is this one?"

"You see, I was scared by your daughter and forgot to introduce it to you." Cao Rui clapped his hands and said with a smile, "This is the youngest son of Zhong Xiangguo, Zhong Hui Zhong Shiji, a famous prodigy."

Zhonghui? Sun Shaoling flashed and immediately remembered the awesome man who was as famous as Deng Ai, but he didn't expect that he was still a milky boy. In history, he was Deng Ai's opponent, and later he killed Deng Ai, but now I'm afraid it's unlikely. He is still a small waiter, but Deng Ai is the leader of thousands of miles away. The two are too far apart. The Cao family has stabilized on the throne and is working hard to clean up those big families. The families of Yingchuan and Runan have been excluded to varying degrees. Xun Zhong and Chen Han are no exception. Zhong Hui's prominent family can no longer bring him too many benefits. If he wants to be promoted, he can only rely on his own efforts.

"Do you think there is very little money?" Sun Shao asked faintly.

Zhong Hui opened his mouth and was about to argue, but when he saw Sun Shao's unhappy eyes, he was shocked and didn't dare to continue to argue again.

"The law of the Han Dynasty, the princes sacrificed with gold, and four taels of gold for thousands of households. I don't know how Wei, Shu and Wu are. It seems that I have never owed one or two taels of gold, right?" Sun Shao said slowly, "You have to be clear that my daughter is not to give, but to help repair Yuntai. Generally speaking, such a thing should not have been done by a vassal state of our country. Is it a little crimity for me to do so? If so, then I am willing to take the blame.

The emperor smiled silently. Who dares to fight with money and treat you? He turned around and scolded, "Ignorant, why don't you apologize to the general?"

Zhong met the emperor and did not dare to say anything more, so he had to salute honestly: "Weichen Meng Lang, please forgive me."

"Hmm..." Sun Shao smiled and said, "Meng Lang can't talk about it. I guess you were probably cheated like the king of Wei. You thought that I had returned from the expedition and gained a lot, so I had this, didn't you?"

Zhong will look at Cao Rui awkwardly and dare not talk nonsense. Cao Rui smiled disapprovingly: "Why, isn't that the case? The soldiers who went on an expedition with the king returned home, but the king's prestige was widely spread. An ordinary soldier can bring back ten gold. Didn't your king of Yue make a lot of money?

Sun Shao smiled. He knew that Cao Rui must be playing tricks behind him. Maybe Liu Chan also played a part. Although he was a little slow to react, Zhuge Liang behind him was not a good role. This time, it was Zong Yu who had just returned from the expedition to accompany Liu Chan. He was Zhuge Liang's concronies, and it was impossible not to combine those situations. Report to Zhuge Liang. In this expeditionary force, two-thirds of the soldiers were reluctant to leave their homeland and wanted land to go home. Some of them took the land, but they also wanted to take advantage of the army's free boat to go home to pick up their families, so the number of people returned to the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu were very large. In order to let those soldiers settle in West Asia at ease, Sun Shao's reward was very thick. He not only paid for settling down and divided the land, but also distributed slaves in order to allow them to cultivate. Those who were reluctant to leave their hometown basically gave each of them a reward of ten gold, and there were many other trophy. These two rewards were almost exhausted. If Cui Qian hadn't found the Gold Coast of South Africa while sailing along the sea and found a big gold mine for Sun Shao, Sun Shao would have almost lost money.

The advantage of this is that almost all the soldiers who went to the expedition are grateful to Sun Shao. Those who are willing to stay in West Asia are at ease and full of confidence in the future. Those who return home are also very satisfied with these wars. Even when the families of the war dead see a rich pension, they will be grateful to Sun Shao's generosity. No one will be great to this time. Whether the war is worth talking about, and on the other hand, I look forward to the opportunity to go out to war with the king of Yue next time.

"I made money, but it's not money." Sun Shao glanced at the people who couldn't hide his jealousy in his eyes and said slowly, "My income will be in the future. If I conquer Persia and open the business road, no one will levy my business tax. In other words, at least half of the commercial tax that was supposed to be handed over to the Persians will be transferred to my hands, and it is not much, and it will be 30,000 to 50,000 yuan a year. About gold, there is a ten or eight years, and I will take back my efforts in this battle, and I will make a lot of money in the future.

The emperor took a breath of cold air, and even Cao Rui and Liu Chan were stunned. On the one hand, he was scared by Sun Shao's income, and on the other hand, he was shocked by Sun Shao's strength. In less than 20 years, he actually accumulated more than 800,000 gold savings. No wonder he dared to launch this war. At the peak of the Han Dynasty, the annual income was about 800,000 gold, half of which was the expenditure of the royal family. In addition to paying the salaries of national officials, the other half could still have about 100,000 gold left every year. All public works and unconventional military expenses had to be spent from the 100,000 gold, so once there is a war, they will often be overstretched. , can't make ends meet. At the time of Emperor Xiaohuan, Duan Yu went to Xiqiang. He spent 800,000 yuan in less than two years. The battle was won, but he left a big financial hole. When it came to Emperor Xiaoling, he was forced to sell his officials.

It only took Sun Shao 15 or six years to accumulate 800,000 gold or more, which is obviously a little incredible.

"Although I made some money, I use more money." Sun Shao ignored the surprised eyes of Tianzi and others at all. "This time, in addition to offering prisoners, I just want to talk to you about cooperation. I built a Roman bank in Rome, and I also promised Guishuang to build a bank. Now I need a lot of principal. Are you interested? In addition, I also plan to build a railway in Funan to open up the commercial road between Temu City and Japan. This road may be built for ten or eight years, and the investment will not be small. Once this railway is built, I will need as much coal in Bingzhou.

In the surprise of Tianzi, Cao Rui, Liu Chan and others, Sun Shao told him about his plan. What they didn't understand, he stopped to explain a few words, and the huge plan suddenly attracted them firmly.

Although Cao Rui and others have a high and low IQ, they are obviously not at the same level as Sun Shao in the economy. They are very fascinated by it, but they may not know how many opportunities and risks are contained in it. Sun Shao did not force it, saying that there will be a detailed plan for them to go back and carefully.

Liu Chan nodded repeatedly. The large series of numbers Sun Shao said really made him a little dizzy. He intuitively felt that only his father Zhuge Liang could solve such a thing, and he could not solve it with his IQ.

Cao Rui finally asked a question that everyone wants to ask: "Can doing business make you accumulate 800,000 gold in 15 or sixteen years?"

Sun Shao did not answer him directly and asked, "How much of your financial income has been eaten and drunk, and how much has been reinvested?"

"Investment?" Cao Rui didn't understand at once.

"to put it bluntly, it is to use money to make money and constantly expand the capacity. I have defined it as a snowball of sustainable development."

"Make money?" Cao Rui frowned and said amusedly, "Is it competing with the people?"

Sun Shao laughed. He knew that these people, including the emperor, had how much money to spend, and how much money to save at most, and there was no concept of reproduction. He turned his eyes and smiled, "Then what will you do if you have the remaining money?"

Cao Rui touched his chin. Like his father Cao Pi, he was a relatively luxurious person. Over the years, the economy of the State of Wei was beneficial, but the northern Xinjiang had been fighting a few days ago. There was no war in the past two years, but he built a large number of palaces, and there was no surplus at all. The situation of Shu is slightly better, but their income is limited, and it is estimated that there is no balance. The situation of the State of Wu is similar. As for the emperor, he is the poorest. He uses the three rivers to support a court, and even the payment of salaries is a little reluctant. The Luoyang Palace, which was destroyed by the war, has not been repaired so far. There is no way to invest.

Of course, they don't have the concept of investment. If they don't have enough money to spend, just increase it.

"Like you, we take half of the total tax every year as the private property of the royal family, but I spend up to 10 percentage, and all the rest are used for investment." Sun Shao smiled proudly: "Your Majesty, don't think that Luoyang is broken. My special pastoral city is much more broken than Luoyang. Up to now, I have basically used Fan Man's palace. Bingzhou Club, Jizhou Club and Chengdu are more beautiful than my palace. Don't be fooled by them. They are all rich.

"Aiqing joked, you are also a rich man." The emperor smiled and joked. Of course, he knew that Wei Shu was richer than him, but Sun Shao was poor. Obviously, it was not true. Among the four countries, Sun Shao was the richest.

"I don't say I don't have money, but to be honest, my annual expenses are definitely not as good as yours." Sun Shao said generously, "I want to make money with money, so I can't eat all the chickens. I always want to leave more to hatch chickens. In the future, chickens lay eggs and eggs hatch chickens, so that the snowballs can roll and roll bigger and bigger."

The emperor and others are thoughtful.

"In addition, I also want to tell you that the world is so big that it is beyond imagination. I am quite curious and idle. I always want to go to sea to find gold or something. Therefore, I have to fund those who are easy to explore every year, which is also a big expense. However, I think it's worth it. If it hadn't been for the preparation of these ten days, how could I have made such a big profit?

"But now the world is under your control. Do you still want to explore?" Liu Chan half opened his mouth and asked with envy.

"Who said they were all in control?" Sun Shao shook his head repeatedly: "Your son, you're wrong. I've only conquered half of it at most now, and there are more rich places for us to develop. When I was in Rome, I heard that in the west of Rome, there was a wider land full of gold. It was said that the people on those lands had something to do with our ancestors.

"With our ancestors?" Cao Rui smiled and said, "Isn't Your Highness the one who has gone the farthest?"

"It doesn't seem to be." Sun Shao pretended to be mysterious and said, "You know, according to a little information I have learned, those people may be descendants of the Shang Dynasty."

"Shang Dynasty?" Zhong Hui, who had been silent for a long time, finally couldn't help interrupting: "Although merchants are good at business, they don't have such a powerful warship as Yue. How can they go farther than the king?"

"They are not going west, but east." Sun Shao pointed to the east: "They first went north, then crossed a shallow strait and set foot on that rich land. That land is more vast and rich than my big man. If you sow some seeds casually, you can live a relaxed life. It is also rich in gold, diamonds, and pieces of sugar cane forests, which can't be seen at a glance..."

Sun Shao opened his mouth and said it with a nose and eyes. He shook his heart. He couldn't wait to reorganize the army to kill it now. Liu Chan opened his mouth. After a long time, he felt a little dry. He licked some thick lips and said yearningly, "When is the king going to go on an expedition again? "

"Well... you have to prepare for a while." Sun Shao stopped talking and turned around for a week: "Why, are you also interested?"

"Yes, yes." Liu Chan nodded hurriedly.

Cao Rui smiled and said, "Your Majesty, do you still have to prepare for ten years?"

"I don't know." Sun Shao spread out his hands: "This expedition has finished all the family. Let's wait until I recover. By the way, I have agreed with Cao Ziwen that there will be another four-nation coalition and I will go east, and they will go west and attack in two ways.

"The Four-Nation Alliance?" Everyone was stunned. Cao Rui was the most surprised: "Do you still want me, Wei, Shu and Wu, join the army?"

Sun Shao ignored him and turned to salute the emperor: "Your Majesty, I implore your majesty to call Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi and Li Yan as vassals. Persia is too far away from my Han. I'm afraid it's difficult to grasp the overall situation just because of my descendants. Please make these three kings to help me stabilize the newly opened territory.

The emperor had received Sun Shao's letter for a long time, and he was not surprised. He just glanced at Cao Rui and said faintly, "Today, I would like to invite you to discuss this matter. Zhong Hui, take the book of the king of Yue and invite the king of Wei and the king of Shu to have a look.

"Only!" Zhong Hui answered and turned around. Cao Rui lowered his face and looked at Sun Shao with a smile: "No wonder my two uncles didn't even go home. Originally, the king wanted to be crowned for them."

"Isn't it good?" Sun Shao asked, "Does the State of Wei want Ziwen and Zijian to return from victory? Ziwen is easy to do. He was promoted to a general in the court as usual, but Zijian... Hey hey, he is now a general of the State of Wei. What else can you reward him? I helped you solve a big problem. You didn't thank me, but talked to me in this tone. To be honest, I'm a little disappointed in you.

Cao Rui's words were blocked, and his face turned red for a while. Sun Shao said that he had a weakness. If Cao Zhi came back, it was really difficult for him to arrange it. Even if he didn't make him a king, at least he would add his food. Moreover, Cao Zhi has made great contributions and his prestige in the army has greatly increased. It is not so easy to control him in the future.

He originally wanted to get the upper hand, but he didn't expect that Sun Shao didn't hide it at all and directly pushed the problem in front of him.

(to be continued)