Urban Sims

Chapter 648: Gold coins smashed to death!

"The marriage between the two countries cannot satisfy the appetite of Suoliu Kingdom...a woman...a princess cannot satisfy them."

"Once the weather improves and the roads are easy to travel, it is impossible for their 50 troops not to take action."

"Promising the marriage between the two countries will only make the Soliu Kingdom think that we are afraid of a guilty conscience, so we will make more progress and make more unreasonable demands."

"The only way is to be fully prepared and dispel all their unreasonable thoughts!"

Zhou Ming said.

Hearing this, many people were surprised.

"Leylin, what do you mean...reject marriage and prepare for war?"

"In the rebellion last year, both the royal family and the border guards suffered heavy losses. What can we do against the Soliu Kingdom?"

"There can be no more wars! It's just the beginning of spring, and the farmers are busy in the fields. Once they are recruited into the army, it will cause a nationwide famine and many people will die!"

"Young, you are still too young." An old earl shook his head.

Above the palace, there were many voices of criticism.

And the protagonist of the incident... Princess Sivenis, who was hiding behind the curtain, had a smile on her face at this moment, sweet and happy.

She whispered in her mouth: You still care about me.

"Whether we want to fight or not, the initiative is not in our hands, but in the hands of the Soliu Kingdom!"

"If their ambitions don't die, we won't be able to get married no matter how we please!"

"The only thing we can do is to be fully prepared for war!"

Zhou Ming's face was serious, and his tone was frustrating and authentic.

Criticism has subsided slightly.

Many younger nobles nodded their heads. Leylin was right: the initiative is not in the hands of the Yadude Kingdom, and no matter how peaceful it is here, as long as the ambition of the Soliu Kingdom is not dead, war will still break out.

"not to mention……"

Zhou Ming continued: "Even if a war breaks out, will we definitely lose?"

"In my opinion, as long as we are willing to pay a little, we are [-]% sure of victory."

wow~
Now everyone was even more surprised.

"[-]% certainty of victory? How do you have such confidence?"

"Give a little something, what to pay? Is it more than 30 human lives?"

"Mr. Lei Lin, this is a national war that concerns the survival of the country! Please don't watch it like a child's play!"

Criticism has grown louder.

Duke Rudolph even knocked on the floor with his cane, pointed at Zhou Ming and said, "You only know how to shoot empty guns! You are good at making money, but what do you know about war?!"

Some people even complained dissatisfiedly: "Your Majesty the King is wrong to ask someone, but to ask Leylin, a guy who knows nothing about war."

I'm still [-]% sure, can you be a little more restrained in bragging?
"2000 gold coins."

Zhou Ming suddenly stretched out two fingers, and said loudly: "As long as everyone is willing to spend 2000 million gold coins, I can make the kingdom end this war with very slight loss of personnel."

"There is no need to recruit a large number of farmers, and it is not necessary for all the nobles to enter the field. The army of the Soliu Kingdom will not go deep into the hinterland of our country."

"As long as 2000 million, we can buy a victory."

boom!
After everyone heard these words clearly, they entered his rhythm one by one.

The controversy grew louder.

"2000 million gold coins, buy a victory?"

"How do you buy it? Could it be that you took out the money and bribed the nobles of the Soliu Kingdom?"

"Leylin, what's going on in your head, can you finish it all at once?"

King James was also anxious, and asked him: "Leylin, what can you do, tell me quickly?!"

"Your Majesty, don't worry."

Zhou Ming waved his hand and asked King James, "I'll ask His Majesty a question first. If Your Majesty gives an affirmative answer, I will tell you my solution."

"Quickly ask."

"I would like to ask, in His Majesty's heart, is the 2000 million gold coins more important, or His Royal Highness the Princess?"

"Of course my daughter is important!"

King James said angrily, in front of his precious daughter, what is 2000 million gold coins?
"Ding!"

Zhou Ming snapped his fingers, nodded and said, "Very good, Your Majesty, please quickly raise 2000 million gold coins. I will try to hire 10 mercenaries within three months to deal with the provocation of the Suoliu Kingdom."

mercenary?
Now everyone understood Zhou Ming's plan.

Spend a lot of money and hire a large number of mercenaries to participate in this upcoming national war.

In the continent of Azeroth, mercenaries are very common. Many kingdoms with many border wars or internal chaos often spend money to hire professional mercenaries to fight for themselves.

Many adventurers in the Adventurer's Guild also often play the role of mercenaries to make a living.

Moreover, the combat power of mercenaries is generally not weak, and they have rich combat experience. The combat power of some professional mercenary regiments is not weaker than the elite regular troops of many kingdoms.

It is indeed possible to spend money to hire mercenaries to fight this war and reduce the loss of the country.

but……

One hundred thousand mercenaries.

How could such a terrifying amount be recruited in three months?

You must know that mercenaries are like wandering crows looking for carrion. Where there is war, there will be a large number of them. War is the job of mercenaries, and they will consciously go to places where there are more jobs.

In some peaceful countries with few wars, the number of mercenaries is naturally pitifully small.

For example, in the Yadude Kingdom, do you know if there are 1000 mercenaries active here?
But Zhou Ming asked for a quantity of [-], or within three months, this...

So King James frowned and said, "I can scrape together 2000 million gold coins, but [-] mercenaries will take at least one year to recruit, right?"

"This method won't work. When the Soliu Kingdom destroys us, it will be good if we can gather 2 mercenaries."

"Mercenaries are not good at fighting. We also hired some mercenaries in last year's rebellion. If only a few people died, we would not be able to defend the city well. We kept asking for more commissions, otherwise we would not work hard."

Lubis, a general from the royal family, shook his head and said.

"With a lot of money and good equipment, they will naturally work hard." Zhou Ming said lightly.

"But you can't gather 10 people in three months?"

"I have my own way."

Zhou Ming looked mysterious, and proposed in front of King James: In order to prevent leaks, it is best for only a few nobles to hear what he is going to say next. become very passive.

"it is good!"

King Jaime nodded.

……

At the next secret meeting.

Zhou Ming took out a scale model of a "propeller" transport plane and introduced the performance of this plane:

"This plane can fly 500 miles in one day. When transporting 80 shi (≈200 tons) of supplies, or 1 fully armed mercenaries, it can still fly [-] miles."

"That is to say, with this kind of aircraft, we only need to take off and land 500 sorties, and we can get [-] mercenaries."

"The Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry now has 10 of these planes, all of which are used, and each plane only needs to fly 50 sorties to complete the task of transporting troops."

"In the next month, if the aircraft assembly plant is fully engaged in production, the number of such aircraft should increase by 30 to 50, and delivery will be easier by then."

"So we can recruit mercenaries in fifty kingdoms at the same time. On average, each kingdom recruits 2000 people. This task should not be heavy."

"On the side of Suoliu Kingdom, it will probably take three months for them to complete all the mobilization for war."

"But we can think of ways to delay it, such as pretending to agree to the marriage and sending a fake princess to confuse them. It would be great if we could fight for an extra month or two."

"In short, in this war, we will use gold coins to win a victory!"

Zhou Ming told his complete plan.

As for the "Hercules" transport plane with huge capacity, it was the result of research by the team led by Modov of the Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry throughout the long winter. Zhou Ming also participated and built 10 prototypes. The thought would come in handy so soon.

In addition, with the "Hercules" transport plane, Dilo Bank has opened branches in dozens of surrounding kingdoms. The billions of gold coins stored in these branches can not only be transported back to the Yadude Kingdom by transport plane, but also take out a small section, used to recruit mercenaries.

In this way, it also saves the trouble of transporting gold coins back and forth.

Relying on the combination of the Hercules transport plane + Delo Bank, recruiting [-] mercenaries in three months is definitely not a dream!
"boom!"

King Jaime thumped the table hard, his face glowing red.

"It's only 2000 million gold coins, I'll take it! Kill the Suoliu Kingdom!"

Today's royal family is really poor, and after the pharmacy production plant reopened, the magic potion that represents "gold coins" has been continuously offline, 2000 million gold coins, King James doesn't feel bad at all!

"10 elite mercenaries are enough to fight against the Soliu Kingdom. Their 50 legion, excluding farmers and strong men, 10 elites are not bad!"

"Fake princesses can also marry someone in the past, it's best to delay him for two or three months!"

"What if we took out 1 million gold coins, hired 30 mercenaries, and wiped out the Soliu Kingdom?" There were also nobles with wide-open minds and rich associations.

More nobles, including King James, sighed in their hearts: the feeling of being rich is really good, really good!
In this way, after the response plan was finalized, the high-level officials of the Yadude Kingdom suddenly became extremely calm.

Then, while thinking of a way to delay the time, he was looking forward to it: After all 10 mercenaries were in place, let's see how the Soliu Kingdom was smashed to death by gold coins?
(End of this chapter)