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Chapter 1475 The real big deal

“…My dearest sister, I hope you can explain to Temujin Khan the difficult situation between me and the Kingdom of Egypt and let him understand who the real master is in the world today?

The two world empires of the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty currently dominate all the oceans in the world, with three independent continents, one of which is slightly smaller than Europe, and the other two are larger and richer than the entire Europe. Their population has exceeded 80 million, and they control 90% of the world's gold and silver. The steel produced each year also accounts for 90% of the world's steel production. Their naval fleets are spread all over the world, with the largest displacement even exceeding 20,000 stones and 60 powerful artillery guns.

So I cannot disobey the will of the head of the Great Zhou Republic and the emperor of the Eastern Song Empire. Therefore I can only be forced to join the Anti-Temujin Alliance. But with my personality and reputation, I guarantee that the Egyptian army will never reach east of the Sinai Peninsula.

Not only that, Egypt can also secretly sell weapons and gunpowder from the Great Zhou Republic and the Eastern Song Empire to the Great Mongol Kingdom.

Since the Great Zhou Republic and the Eastern Song Empire will soon issue a weapon ban on the Great Mongolian. Therefore, in the future, Egypt will be the only country that can provide high-quality gunpowder, steel and other military products to the Great Mongolian... Ensure fair prices!

As for Mo Qisi, your dearest sister Sophia.”

This is a handwritten letter written by Queen Sophia I of Egypt to the Holy Majesty of Light in the autumn of Christmas 1215.

This letter was sent to Moqisi of Ray through Alexander's Order of Light.

Later, the letter was collected in the archives of the Great Hall of Light in Temujin Castle (Constantinople), and was published 400 years later.

This also allowed people to understand the truth about the "Anti-Temujin War" that changed the world territory.

Now, this handwritten letter from the Queen of Egypt is in the hands of Temujin, the Great Khan of Mongolia and the Persian king.

Temujin was not in his new capital, Rai, at this time, but in Jerusalem, the holy city of Christianity near the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

Jerusalem belonged to the Dashi Empire before the Battle of Rai, but is now occupied by Temujin.

Temujin occupied not only the city of Jerusalem, but also the land of the entire Kingdom of Jerusalem. So he has now opened the passage to Egypt.

With his order, 50,000 Mongolian troops would enter the Sinai Peninsula. It would not take long before they could reach Alexander...

But at this moment, he received two letters from Alexander at the same time.

One of them was a letter from the Queen of Egypt, which he was holding in his hand, sent by the Saint of Light Mo Qisi.

Another letter was sent by an "Aggressive" class battleship to Jaffa, a port city near Jerusalem.

That was the letter from Wu Yachen, the Admiral of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Great Zhou Republic. In the letter, Admiral Wu told Temujin: The Sinai Peninsula is now protected by the Great Zhou Republic! If Temujin dares to invade, he will face serious consequences!

The serious consequences are not empty words!

Because after submitting the warning letter with a sampan, the "Aggressive" class battleship violently bombarded the shore defense turret in Jaffa with 20 18-pound long cannons on the port side, causing serious losses to the turret in Jaffa.

At the same time, Temujin also received a report that the four "Ning Ship" battleships of the Eastern Song Navy drove into the Arabian River and sent land soldiers to occupy Abadan Island...

Temujin could not take the powerful army of the Western Song Dynasty to heart, because it was impossible for the Western Song Dynasty to rely on farming to reach Persia. It was impossible for 100 years!

However, the navy of the Great Zhou and Eastern Song Dynasty could send tens of thousands of troops to Abadan Island within a few months and then go north to capture Awashi Mansion.

"Mu Huali, what do you think?" Temujin threw the letter from the Queen of Egypt on the table, and then looked at his confidant Mu Huali.

"Great Khan," Mu Huali said with a smile, "If you want me to say, let's not enter Egypt, what's the best in Egypt? It's just a little fertile in the lower Nile, and there's sand everywhere else... It's not good to be an enemy of the Great Zhou Dynasty for Egypt!"

"I know this! I am not stupid!" Temujin shook his head, "I'm asking you what you think of the Great Zhou and the Dong Song? What do they want to do? While organizing an alliance to deal with me, Sophia also asked me to sell weapons to me. What are these profiteers thinking?"

"A profiteer, of course, is profit-oriented..."

"Profit-oriented?" Temujin snorted, "Do you really think they are trying to make trouble for a few small amounts of money?"

"This..." Mu Huali was also confused.

Merchants must be profit-oriented... But how can they achieve two world empires by relying solely on profit-oriented things?

"Khan, they must have a conspiracy!" Mu Huali said, "They want to... want to hurt both the Great Mongolia and the Western Song Dynasty!"

"Maybe." Temujin nodded.

This answer is not very reliable, but Temu really can't think of a better answer.

Mu Huali said again: "Since Sophia is willing to sell weapons to us, Khan might as well buy some from Egypt to try... It is always beneficial to give us weapons."

Temujin, who owns most of Central Asia and Persia, actually has a reliable supply of weapons.

However, high-quality muskets, large-caliber siege heavy artillery, light and easy-to-use field artillery, are better products from the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song Dynasty.

As for the output and quality of black gunpowder, it is undoubtedly the best product of Dazhou. Because Dazhou controls the best sulfur production areas and saltpeter production areas in the world, and the gunpowder industry in the Great Zhou Republic started very early, and now several powerful gunpowder factories have been formed to produce high-purity granular black gunpowder.

Although the black gunpowder of the Eastern Song Dynasty is not as good as that of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is no problem to rank second in the world.

Therefore, Temujin could not refuse to be able to buy guns and gunpowder produced by the Great Zhou and the Eastern Song dynasties.

As for what it is better to buy than to make, Temujin would not consider that much. Anyway, the Mongolians under his command only know how to use it, and they have to rely on foreigners to build guns and cannons... If they are not of my race, they must have different ambitions! It is okay to use them, but it is also very dangerous to really support them too strongly!

"Okay! That's it!" Temujin said, "Mu Huali, I have appointed you as the King of the Grand Tutor, guarding Jerusalem, and dealing with Egypt are all under your responsibility.

In addition, Jerusalem is a holy land of Christianity and Tianfang religion. You cannot destroy Tianfang religion and Christian churches, and you should also welcome pilgrimage believers, but don’t forget to charge a suitable tax on entering the city.

In the future, we will be very short of money! So we cannot miss any opportunity to make money."

...

"Sixteenth brother, tell you, what we lack the most here is money!"

After Wu Guohao was twelve years old, he never thought that anyone would be richer than himself, and now he has finally gained knowledge.

Before he was twelve, he didn't know that his family was very rich. Because his father wanted to train him into a soldier, he sent him to Yanjing Army Primary School at a very young age, and even asked him to use a pseudonym.

It was not until he was twelve years old that when he began to study the history of the Great Zhou Republic, he discovered that the Republic Bank, Tianjin Bank and other things turned out to be his family's industry...

But today, he met a group of cousins ​​with mines at home in Guigu, New Washington, United States of North America, and then he realized that he was not the richest human being.

Guigu in Xinhuafu is a valley located south of Xinhua Bay. It was the retirement place for Wuyixin in his later years. Now it has become a place where wealthy people gather.

In the valley, not only are there many luxury houses, but also a large number of commercial banks are gathered. Most of these commercial banks are engaged in the development of gold, silver and copper mines, and some are also banks.

And their masters were almost all descendants of Wu Haogu. They were either descendants of the Yixin Sect or lords of a group of autonomous lords in North and South America.

In short, they are all people who have mines at home and make money while lying down.

"Brother Sixteenth, if you want to make money, you have to look for ore and start a mine." A old man wearing a cotton robe with no gold or silver embellishment on his body, looked at the very simple old man and smiled at Wu Guohao, "There are gold, silver and brass in America. It's really not possible. The saltpeter in South America can be sold for a lot of money. What factory can be opened?"

"Yes, how much money can you make in a factory? It's better to open a brothel and Chuguan to make money quickly! It's easy for gold pickers to make money, and they spend money too much. Going to the East Coast to find Egyptian merchants to buy some white female slaves and bring them back will be several times the profit!"

"It's good to open a bank. Some gold miners are reluctant to eat or use it. After making money, they will remit it back to their hometown. Just the exchange income is also profitable..."

"The casino is also good, and there are many gambling people among the gold miners. When they pick gold, they come to bet. They will not stop until they lose!"

A group of uniquely rich miners and capitalists are not interested in opening factories or other things. They have gold or silver mines at home. Who can run factories and do manufacturing? Such small money is really hard to make.

"Brothers," Wu Guohao replied with a smile, "What I want to do this time is a real big deal! It is a big deal to fully develop the geographical advantages of North America!"

"The geographical advantage of North America? Isn't it just gold, silver or copper ore?"

Of course, there are only mines in the eyes of a group of miners! Moreover, iron ore and coal mines look down on it. That thing is a treasure of industrialization and is still in the era of factory handicrafts. There is no handicraft in North America, and handicraft products are imported from the old continent. Here we are responsible for digging gold, silver and copper, the three metals are directly currency!

This is equivalent to "printing money", and it is a hard currency that is too hard to be harder.

You can print money, so what else can you buy and sell?

Wu Guohao just smiled bitterly and knew that there was nothing to say with these people, so he smiled and said, "This is the matter. The head of state thinks that the population in North America is still too small and the development speed is still not enough... so he wants to accelerate the development. And 'Temujin Surrounding Net', oh, do you know this?"

I really don’t know... Everyone who has a mine at home is confused.

Who is Temu? Is it a seller or a seller?

Wu Guohao had to patiently tell me the messy things about how Temujin and the Great Mongolian rise, how to attack Xiliang, and how to threaten the interests of the Great Zhou Republic.

As a result, the mine owners still didn't understand very much... What does Temujin have to do with North America? He was a Mongolian man, but he didn't have a navy. Even if he had a Mongolian navy, he could defeat the navy of the Great Zhou Republic? So he couldn't come to America at all!

Wu Guohao didn't know that this was actually the origin of isolationism! This place in America is so good, everything is available, life is very good. And there are two oceans to protect, so the enemy cannot easily come. So I don't care much about the outside world...

However, although these mine owners do not care about the world, they are still very loyal to the Great Zhou motherland. As long as the Great Zhou motherland does not move the mountains of gold and silver in their homes, it is enough.

They have no objection to the merchants who used the gold, silver and copper allowances from the government treasury of the United States of North America to invest on the East Coast of North America.

Anyway, there are a lot of gold, silver and copper in the official warehouse... there are so many flowers! And as more and more gold, silver and copper ores are discovered, the inventory in the North American official warehouse is increasing, and it is almost moldy!

These mine owners who live in "Guigu" are actually "politicians". They are all members of the United States of North America and have the right to vote that can determine the future and destiny of the country.

With their support, Wu Guohao can find Wu Guohua, the commander of the United States.

Wu Guohua is a descendant of Wu Yixin. Unlike the Yoshijiu faction who gradually faded out of the supreme power of the Great Zhou Republic, the Yoshijiu faction is still firmly controlling the regime of the United States of North America. The various mine owners are very satisfied with the rule of the Yixin faction. The classes below the mine bosses are busy looking for mines, mining and making money from gold miners, and no one is interested in the revolution. Moreover, the United States of North America has no foreign enemies, and even the natives of the Yin people are a little troublesome, but it is not a big deal. Their weapons are backward and the population has been reduced too much due to various epidemics, which basically does not pose a threat.

So Wu Guohua, the commander, actually has nothing to do. He only works for one hour every day, handles very little official duties, and then various entertainment and outdoor activities. His favorite thing is to hunt, not to use bows and arrows, but to use muskets.

When it comes to muskets, you might as well say a few more words. This place in North America claims that everyone has a gun! The gun ownership rate is more than 150%, and on average, two people have three guns.

And most of them are good guns, anyway, they are much better than the smoothbore guns used by the army of the Great Zhou Republic. The army has always liked bargains, while the gold miners in North America have to face robbery and indigenous attacks in the market, so they need good guns to save their lives. Therefore, they are not afraid of spending money, so they are of course good things to buy.

However, guns are not produced here in North America. The market sells smoothbore guns imported from the Great Zhou Republic. Why do you have to produce them yourself? Gold, silver, and brass can’t be spent!
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