Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 722: Big Arms Order
When Liu Bei discovered that the temples in Tianzhu were richer than the nobles, especially the golden Buddhas, which were extremely valuable, he began to focus on these temples. He melted down the Buddha statues in the temples and looted the temples' gold and silver treasures. Liu Bei immediately
He became rich. Not only did he pay off all his debts, but he also had more than a billion dollars in wealth.
But after getting this wealth, Liu Bei and the others have stung a hornet's nest. How much the wealthy nobles of the Han Dynasty hated Xu Wei, now the local nobles and monks hate Liu Bei.
Although Liu Bei only occupied a small local country, what Liu Bei did caused a sensation throughout Tianzhu. The nobles and monks of Tianzhu had not seen invaders before, but they had never seen such unscrupulous invaders.
They all lay down and begged for mercy. Logically speaking, Liu Bei should be appeased now and rely on them to rule this area. But they never expected that Liu Bei actually wanted to dig into the roots of this country and other countries.
Especially for the priests and monks in Tianzhu, Liu Bei's actions angered them even more. You must know that they have always been the top people in Tianzhu. Even if outsiders came to rule Tianzhu, they would still need to cooperate with them for thousands of years.
No one would attack them, and they would still kill them to death, even treating their temples as treasure troves.
This group of outsiders are not even afraid of offending the gods, and what frightens them the most is that these outsiders are extremely capable of deceiving people. They have been shepherding the people for thousands of years, and yet under the bewitchment of these outsiders, they are actually attacking them.
Start with these temples.
It doesn’t matter if outsiders are not afraid of the retribution of the gods, because they know that outsiders do not believe in their gods. But believers are not afraid of the retribution of the gods. These outsiders are simply demons from hell, so good at deceiving people!
If Liu Bei understood the thoughts of these monks, he would definitely tell them with a smile that spiritual satisfaction cannot replace material satisfaction. Although Liu Bei confiscated all the wealth of these temples, the land of these temples was distributed by Liu Bei to the people around the temples.
, and the temples in Tianzhu are also part-time in the loan business. Of course, the interest rates are as high as those of the big men, and people cannot afford to pay them back! But Liu Bei burned all the books of these loan sharks. Faced with such real benefits, the locals
The people can only put Buddha second.
What Liu Bei did, although he won over the local people in a short time, also angered the entire ruling class of Tianzhu. The monks who escaped ran to the Kushan Empire and asked King Bo Diao of Kushan to avenge them!
Several countries near Tianzhu began to form coalition forces to find ways to deal with Liu Bei.
Liu Bei didn't take this kind of thing seriously. What Lei Gong did in the Han Dynasty also caused a sensation. It can even be said that Lei Gong angered the entire Han family, and everyone killed him quickly. At that time, even Liu Bei thought Lei Gong
Death is certain.
But Lei Gong controlled his own destiny by virtue of his strength. He organized all the people of the Han Dynasty and led these people to kill the seemingly powerful noble clan of the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, the seemingly powerful aristocratic group and monk group in Tianzhu now are just a group of paper tigers in Liu Bei's eyes. As long as he can organize the people of Tianzhu and have the support of Daqian, he will definitely be able to conquer the entire country like Lei Gong did. Tianzhu.
Therefore, after learning that the Tianzhu country had begun to form a coalition to deal with him, Liu Bei was not afraid. Instead, he immediately summoned Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, and asked them to take the money and treasures they had obtained from confiscating their homes in Tianzhu and transport them to Jidu to buy artillery and weapons. Armored sword.
After Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping came to Jidu, they threw the list of treasures they brought to Liu He and said: "My lord wants to buy armor, swords, artillery, fleets, and grain and grass. The price is not a problem at all. The price of the goods." The more quantity, the better, and the faster the time, the better!”
Faced with such a large order worth more than one billion, it was beyond Liu He's ability to handle it. He could only report it to his superiors, and then it was passed down to the senior officials level by level.
After Li Gang heard the news, he was really overjoyed. With a billion-dollar deal, he could sell a number of decommissioned warships and use the money to buy new warships. Liu Bei was really his lucky star.
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Wang Ge was also delighted with this windfall. Recently, the Daqian army began to change its equipment, replacing long-haired swords with muskets. Now Jidu has formed its first all-firearms army. The power is beyond compare. He imagined that an army of 10,000 firearms would be enough to suppress the entire desert, allowing future herders to become good at singing and dancing.
That's right, Xu Wei was the principal of the Mechanical School during this period, and he invented later generations of machines whenever he had time, and firearms were one of them. Moreover, Xu Wei got it right in one step and directly evolved into a flintlock gun with fixed gunpowder. It can be said that except for the cone-shaped bullet, which has no primer, it actually has everything. It can be regarded as a musket close to the 19th century.
The reason why Xu Wei did not take out the muskets during the war was because Dagan had an advantage in bows and crossbows, and was more than ten times stronger than Dagan's enemies, so there was not much demand for muskets, and it was even possible. Because of the muskets, the power of Dagan's crossbows is weakened, and the price of muskets is too high, which is not cost-effective compared to crossbows. And now that Dagan's enemies are gone, Xu Wei can naturally use muskets to attack the crossbows slowly. It has been updated.
Of course, although the pure firearms army has strong combat effectiveness, the same reason why Xu Wei did not want to popularize it in the first place is that the price of today's flintlock guns is too high, one costs more than tens of thousands of dollars, and the barrel can only hold hundreds of bullets. It will be scrapped, but the price of the barrel accounts for most of the price of the entire musket. In other words, such an army not only surpasses the all-iron elite in price, but also has higher maintenance costs.
The price is so high that Dagan has such an artifact, but it cannot expand quickly. Especially after Dagan's top leaders have set a policy to reduce the deficit in the next 10 years, the military expenditures left for the military will be even lower, allowing them to The firearms force could only be expanded by 10,000 people every year, and if he wanted to equip the entire Daqian army with firearms, Wang Ge found that it might take him his lifetime.
And now the purchase order brought by Liu Bei allowed him to find a way to speed up the progress. It happened that they could sell the second-hand armor and swords to Liu Bei and the others at a high price, and then use the money earned to update the firearms.
It is because of this relationship that Wang Ge wants Liu Bei to fight hard in Tianzhu. It is best to wipe out all the wealth of Tianzhu for thousands of years. After all, Tianzhu is an ancient civilization with thousands of years of history and its population is not larger than that of Da. No matter what the difference, the accumulated wealth should be enough to pay for the military uniform change!