Wang Haiyang's words made other representatives feel surprised, and then envious.
Indeed, among them, only Luzon has the ability to build a city similar to Jidu, even if it is a smaller one.
Their country sells at most some spices, sandalwood, palm oil and other South China Sea specialty products, but they are far behind Luzon, which has copper mines!
They all looked at the Royal Army. If Luzon's proposal was agreed to, after they had money, they could ask the court to support their construction. After all, compared to Jidu, their country was too primitive, even worse than the countryside of Jidu!
Wang Guojun didn't have any special feelings when he heard this. After he became the prime minister, he did not stay in Jidu all the time. Instead, he visited various places in Daqian when he had time. He had seen the prosperity of Jidu and the primitiveness of Jiaozhou.
He understands that those countries in the South China Sea have few poor people, even worse than Jiaozhou, the poorest city in Daqian. It is of course understandable that they want a prosperous and advanced city!
Wang Guojun thought for a while and said: "I can ask the imperial court to organize a group of materials and engineering teams to go to Luzon to help you build the city, but everything must be traded fairly! I want to remind you first that Jidu is so prosperous, and the imperial court has invested in it. With hundreds of billions of funds, you have to do what you can!"
Daqian's development of the South China Sea is to use the South China Sea to supplement Daqian's national strength, not the other way around. Therefore, Wang Guojun attaches great importance to the interests involved. If it can make money, it will also provide a huge market for Daqian's factories!
Wang Haiyang laughed awkwardly when he heard the figure of hundreds of billions: "How dare we build a Jidu in Luzon? We are happy enough if it is one percent the size of Jidu! Money, we have a little bit, the key is Luzon Except for a small amount of cement and bricks, all other materials must be transported by Daqian, and Daqian has built a very large factory in the past few years, and there is not enough materials to meet our needs in Luzon!"
The large-scale railway development in Daqian a few years ago has led to the great development of steel, cement, timber, coal and other industries. It can be said that as long as these basic materials are available, there is no need to worry about selling. In this case, overseas countries such as Luzon Naturally, it is impossible to compete with Daqian’s internal factories!
After Wang Guojun opened his mouth, other people also asked Daqian to help build factories. In recent years, they have sold raw materials to Daqian in the South China Sea to make money. However, because they need to buy Daqian's industrial products and a large amount of infrastructure raw materials to build the country, they have to do this. The country is struggling to make ends meet, so they all want to upgrade the industrial chain and make more money!
Of course, making money is not a big problem, but the biggest problem is that they have no money to buy machines. After all, there are no copper mines, nor gold and silver mines on their land. They have always been unable to make ends meet. Where can they get the money to buy machines? , to upgrade their country's industries, they can only turn to the imperial court for help now.
But Wang Guojun did not dare to agree to so many requests. He reported it to Xu Wei!
Xu Wei thought for a while and decided to ask the money shop to provide loans to various countries in the South China Sea to buy Daqian machinery. Then, after these machines produce products, they can then use these products to repay their debts! These machines are all charged, so what is free assistance? Yes, Xu Wei doesn't want his Daqian to fall into this trap. Xu Wei has seen too much about the fight between rice and grudges!
In this way, all the countries in the South China Sea got what they wanted, and then happily returned to their own countries and began to form armies.
Countries in the South China Sea have formed a maritime coalition and will lead 70,000 soldiers on sea ships to attack Tianzhu by sea.
Xu Wei led 30,000 elite troops from the Western Region to attack Tianzhu.
March of the 19th year of Daqian (AD 220)!
Da Gan formed a coalition to attack Tianzhu. The news soon reached Tianzhu, which caused panic among Tianzhu's senior officials. After all, they had no victory against Lei Gong. Now that Lei Gong attacked them again, how could they not be worried!
On the contrary, Liu Bei was a little excited after hearing the news, and he was eager to have another battle with Lei Gong!
At the same time, he also understood that this battle could be the last battle in his life.
Last year, veteran Huang Zhong died of illness in Tianzhu, and this was like a signal. Yuan Ji, who had followed Liu Bei for decades, Liu Bei's confidant general Chen Dao, and more than a dozen other civil and military ministers all died of illness in this foreign land of Tianzhu. !
This year, Liu Bei also happened to be 60 years old. He was already in his prime. Years of fighting on the battlefield had left him with various problems, big and small. He realized that he might die in Tianzhu at any time.
After having this awareness, Liu Bei deeply felt that his time was running out. He wanted to go on the Northern Expedition. He wanted to return to the land of the Han Dynasty, even if he died in battle!
However, Liu Bei's proposal of the Northern Expedition to Daqian was opposed by the entire high-level leadership. Only a few generals such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Wei Yan agreed that Liu Bei would fight Daqian in the Western Regions!
It is very simple for Ma Liang, Zhao Yun and others to oppose Liu Bei's Northern Expedition, that is, they cannot defeat Dagan, and now they have no chance of winning in the Northern Expedition.
When they occupied Tianzhu and re-established the Han Dynasty, their ultimate goal was to return to the old capital, but this happened earlier because Lei Gong died of illness and there were changes in Daqian, so that they had the opportunity to invade Daqian from the Western Regions.
But now that Lei Gong is not dead, Daqian is still in its prime, with a population of hundreds of millions, tens of billions of fiscal revenue, and billions of grains of food income every year. Daqian is still at its most powerful period, and they have no chance of winning. !
The aristocrats who occupy Liu Bei's base are also opposed to Liu Bei's Northern Expedition. They understand that Tianzhu has no chance of winning against Daqian. They have struggled for more than ten years to gain a foothold in Tianzhu. They don't want to and dare not offend Lei Gong. They just want to develop their family in Tianzhu peacefully!
Under such a situation of opposition from top to bottom, only a few generals such as Zhang Fei and Guan Yu agreed with Liu Bei's opinion, so it was naturally difficult for Liu Bei to advance in the north.
But now that Dagan has formed a coalition to attack Tianzhu, it has done Liu Bei a big favor. Now it is not that he wants to fight against Dagan, but that Lei Gong has sent an army to fight against them. Now they have to fight!
As for the capitulation faction within Tianzhu, after knowing that Daqian formed a coalition to attack Tianzhu because Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor, many people persuaded Liu Bei to abdicate the throne to preserve Tianzhu!
But Liu Bei was the immediate emperor, and he understood that his Northern Expedition was too much, and he even felt sorry for his subordinates. But now it was Lei Gong who attacked Tianzhu, so he could not be blamed for fighting back. He immediately sternly refuted the capitulationists and said that he would Appear on the front line and fight to the death with Lei Gong.