Urban Sims

Chapter 650 War Preparation
After settling down the family.

Zhou Ming's work focused on another matter.

Recruit mercenaries frantically and prepare for war with all your strength.

And war depends not only on people, not only on gold coins, but also on the preparation of various materials.

For example, the grain, grass and meat eaten by people and horses.

For example, the weapons that need to be consumed in the course of war,

and other logistical preparations.

In short, preparing for a large-scale war is a huge and systematic project.

And to complete all the preparations within three months is not something ordinary people can do.

This preparatory work can only be entrusted to the most talented people.

Who?
It can only be Zhou Ming.

Above the court, King Jaime and all the nobles and ministers, faced with this task, when they were about to nominate candidates, they all looked at him in unison.

Why is he?
Are there no other outstanding nobles who can do this job?

Maybe there is.

But everyone knows that it is impossible for anyone to replicate the miracles that this young chief financial officer has created one after another.

Take Dillo Bank, which has many nobles as shareholders, who can open a bank with a total deposit of more than 5 million gold coins in a year or so, and have hundreds of branches in hundreds of kingdoms? , In various businesses, facing millions of depositors, an institution that has hardly made any mistakes?

Secondly, who can do it? In only about half a year, banknotes are fully promoted in the Yadude Kingdom, and they have a high reputation. People and nobles love to exchange and use them. They are quickly becoming the most mainstream currency in the market.

These things that ordinary people don't say whether they can do it, but even dare to think about it, were all done by Zhou Ming in a relatively short period of time.

And there are small loopholes, but there has never been a fatal mistake.

So the task of "recruiting 10 mercenaries within three months" naturally fell on Zhou Ming.

It can be said to be popular.

So Zhou Ming became extremely busy.

The king also gave him the greatest authority, and he could use almost anyone he wanted.

As for the right to use the 2000 million gold coins, it was also handed over to him immediately... Regarding this point, Zhou Ming felt that King James was a thief, because the 2000 million gold coins were only the cost of hiring those mercenaries, not enough Including the cost of food, grass, ordnance, if all the expenses are included, the cost of the entire war is estimated to exceed 5000 million gold coins.

But King James didn't care, anyway, the royal family had already given out 2000 million and completed the task, and Zhou Ming would settle the rest by himself.

And King James knew that when that boy Leylin didn't have enough money, he liked to put in money by himself. In the past year, he put in at least 500 million yuan, without any greeting or IOU. It was all for nothing. Of course, King James I want to see, how much money will this kingdom's number one local tyrant put in this time?

Zhou Ming quickly stopped King James.

"Your Majesty, I can supplement the excess from the treasury or borrow from the bank, but if your majesty really only takes out 2000 million, I hope you will agree to my request."

"any request."

"After the war is over, I will have the right to freely distribute the spoils in my own hands," Zhou Ming said.

"The distribution of loot?"

"That's right. After the war is over, whether it's the captured property, captured enemy soldiers, or occupied land, the right to distribute these spoils is all given to me."

"This……"

King James is a little bit embarrassed. Does this kid mean that this defensive war can still benefit from it?

But with more than 50 people, how many spoils can they get and how many enemy soldiers can they capture against the [-] people in Suoliu Kingdom?

Still occupying the other side's land?

How can this be?

However, without knowing why, King Jaime still asked: "What if I don't give you free distribution rights?"

"Then please ask the royal family to contribute another 1000 million." Zhou Ming said.

"Forget it, for the loot, you can handle it yourself."

King James shook his head violently, 1000 million, how many good things can you buy?Even if the royal family can afford the money, after the war is over, the total value of the loot is worth 1000 million?

In short, King James feels that once another 1000 million is spent, the royal family will definitely suffer.

So he delegated the distribution of spoils to Zhou Ming.

"Okay, that's it!"

Zhou Ming nodded.

But the verbal agreement was not enough. Two days later, Zhou Ming took a group of nobles and a copy of the "Politics Distribution Agreement" to King Jaime and asked to sign it. In this way, the king can't cheat if he wants to. .

"You kid, don't even believe what I say?"

Looking at the agreement in front of him, King James was a little angry. This kid didn't believe himself, and even made up such inexplicable things as an agreement.

"The agreement represents trust, and there are so many nobles here to witness...Your Majesty, please sign it." Zhou Ming held the agreement closer.

"Humph!"

King Jaime snorted, took the pen, and signed quickly.

After the signatures were signed, King James suddenly noticed that the nobles brought by Leylin all had smiles on their faces... a smile as if the plot had succeeded.

"You guys, what the hell are you trying to do?"

King James suddenly had a feeling of being kept in the dark, and even realized that something was wrong.

Two days later, King Jaime got a report: In the capital, there are about [-] noble families who are desperately raising money, mortgaging fixed assets, and summoning a large number of retainers and knights to devote themselves to intense war preparations.

Among them, Duke Rudolph was the most active. Not only did he take out 800 million gold coins and hand them over to Leylin, but the [-] private troops of the Rudolph family were also mobilized for intense training that could be called purgatory.

"Are these families crazy? Could it be that they really believed Leylin's words and planned to gnaw off a piece of meat from the Soliu Kingdom?"

King Jaime muttered to himself, he couldn't imagine it.

……

the other side.

Regarding his own family—the Leylin family, Zhou Ming also arranged a lot of tasks for the family.

For example, the eldest brother Roger and the third brother Jon were all assigned to the army as generals, each commanding about 1000 soldiers.

The second sister, Siri, was a woman, so she joined the Rose Army (the only female army in the kingdom, with about 1000 members), and became a follower of Princess Syvenes.

As for his father, Cohen, he was given an extremely critical task——

Go back to Heihe Town on the edge of the Black Swamp, and go all out to exploit oil to refine the gasoline, diesel, and kerosene used by the transport aircraft...the more the better, the best is to refine tens of thousands of tons to meet the needs of the Hercules transport aircraft during the entire war. flight needs.

In order to achieve this output, Zhou Ming will give him more than 5000 manpower and a large number of machinery and equipment to complete the oil refining work.

"No matter how long this war lasts, the fuel I provide you is guaranteed to be 100% sufficient!"

Cohen Leylin swears that there is a lot of oil near the Black Swamp, and it is extremely easy to exploit it. As long as there are enough people, it will not be a problem at all to increase the output by ten or a hundred times.

"it is good!"

Zhou Ming nodded. In order to save time, he drove his father, Cohen, to Heihe Town by driving the Tornado 2.

In addition, the Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry has also mobilized a large number of manpower from organizations from various countries, and sent them to the Kingdom of Yadude continuously to increase the production of the "Hercules" transport aircraft, and participate in this exciting war preparation that may bring about huge changes. .

……

and also.

In the implementation of the "delaying time" plan, the "false princess", who played an important role, finally found a woman in a remote village in the north of the kingdom after a large number of people searched among the people.

A woman whose appearance is [-]% similar to that of Princess Syvenes after some dressing up.

The woman's name is Isha, she is 23 years old, she is married, she has two children, and her husband is an honest farmer.

When the baron in that place captured the woman behind the capital and told her to perform a glorious and great mission.

Isa was stunned.

Then she refused fiercely: "No, no, no, I'm not Her Royal Highness, I can't impersonate her, I don't know a single word, I might be killed!"

It just so happened that Yisha's husband also rushed to the capital with their two children, standing on the street crying for injustice, yelling to let his wife go, and kneeling down every time he saw a noble-looking person, hoping that the benevolent person would help... …the young farmer named “Gary” was deeply in love with his wife Isa.

In order to prevent things from getting worse, Gary was arrested by the city defense patrol, and together with the two half-old children, he was thrown into prison.

Even in order to force Isa to submit, the nobleman in charge of this matter threatened the lives of her husband and two children, saying that if she did not agree, she would kill her husband and children!

Unexpectedly, Isha still refused.

"Kill me, kill me! Don't embarrass my husband and children!"

Isa cried loudly.

This matter finally reached Zhou Ming, and Zhou Ming quickly intervened.

"How do you do things? This little thing made it like this?"

Zhou Ming scolded the nobleman with his head covered, not only asking him to apologize to Isa, but also to release all Isa's family.

Of course, he didn't let Isa leave, but arranged her into a palace and lived a life of extravagance for half a month.

For the past two weeks, for Yisha, who is a peasant woman, she has lived a dreamlike life.

There is a large number of servants who attend to the house all day and night.

Enjoy the most exquisite and rare delicacies.

Sleeping on a bed bigger than the living room of my hometown.

And when facing the gold and silver treasures in the treasure box that emit all kinds of light and are worth millions of gold coins.

Isa, a peasant woman, couldn't help falling.

Not only that, for the past half month, Zhou Ming would spend half a day every day teaching various courses to Yisha.

For example, how to please a man?
How to cultivate noble behavior and temperament?

How to improve your style?
And how to make a wise monarch into a subjugated king and so on.

Zhou Ming taught in great detail, and Isa listened very carefully.

And Zhou Ming assured her: "As long as you follow my strict instructions, you can't reveal your secrets, and they will definitely treat you as a real princess."

"If you are accidentally spotted or in danger, don't worry, as long as you can contact me, I will definitely rescue you!"

"As for your husband and children, don't worry, I have someone give them enough money for a lifetime."

"Of course, if you still want to be a peasant woman again, I won't force you and let you go home immediately."

In front of Yisha, Zhou Ming gave her two choices.

"I want to be a princess."

Sure enough, this peasant woman, who had been completely corroded by money, fame, and vanity from body to soul, chose to pretend to be a princess without hesitation.

From her decent behavior and demeanor, Zhou Ming suddenly realized that the role played by this woman may be no less than a hundred thousand mercenaries.

(End of this chapter)