As soon as the name of the Chinese Federation Empire came out, the kings were shocked and unable to oppose it.
At the beginning of the New Year, all countries in the Chinese Federation hung up a red flag. Newspapers from various countries publicized it, saying that the flag was called the Star-Moon Red Flag, and it was the national flag of the Chinese Federation Empire. The flag was rectangular and vermilion red. A crescent moon was embroidered in the upper left corner, and a crescent moon was embroidered in the lower left corner.
Surrounded by ten small five-pointed stars, all are bright yellow. The five-pointed stars refer to the ten federal states of Yan, Zhao, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Taiwan, and Malay. And the crescent moon in the middle refers to
There are different opinions about who it is. Some say King Yan, some say saint. But few people think of Jia Cong. This is because everyone feels that it is impossible for King Zhao to give the country to Jia Cong.
In early February, the great hero Liu Tong died of illness at the age of 63. Seven days after his death in Japan, his son Liu Shu Fuling returned to China, and his son-in-law Zhu Tong temporarily stayed in Japan to take over official duties. Although Liu Tong did not have a good reputation, after all, he was one of the four generals in chaos.
He was a member of the capital. Without him, there would be no enfeoffment among the kings, so all countries sent special envoys to express their condolences.
At dusk that day, Liu Shu sent away his guests and was alone in front of the funeral. Suddenly someone came in with a post and said: "General, there is a man outside who claims to be an old friend of the uncle and has come to pay homage to the uncle."
Liu Shu picked up the famous post and took a look at it. The word "Zhou Ji" was written on it. He was pleasantly surprised and said: "We are indeed old friends. Please come quickly!"
Not long after, this person came in. Liu Shu took a look and saw that the chubby boy was now at least slightly fat, and he was obviously in his thirties. He couldn't help but sigh. After looking at each other for a long time, Zhou Ji sighed: "The young man is gone like the wind.
Come back, we are both old." Then he went to worship Liu Tong in front of his soul.
The two went to sit across from each other in the study outside Liu's residence. Liu Shu had just lost his father and was feeling uneasy. Zhou Ji didn't say a word. For a long time, Liu Shu said apologetically: "I didn't entertain you well."
Zhou Jidao: "I know I can't sympathize with the loss of a relative, and I can't express my condolences quickly, so I might as well not say anything."
Liu Shu sighed: "In the past ten years, my father has rarely come back. Sometimes he spends the Chinese New Year in Japan. But whenever he is there, even if he is across the sea, it is good that he is here. Now that he is gone, I don't know this.
It’s good.”
Zhou Jidao: "I once heard someone say that our parents are a curtain between us and death. When they are gone, we have to face death."
Liu Shu was startled: "...Who is so shameless?"
"I don't remember. He's probably an artistic young man."
Liu Shu did not comment. After sitting for a while, Liu Shu said: "Why do you suddenly want to sacrifice my father?"
Zhou Jidao: "I originally wanted to come to see you in the near future, but by chance, Mr. Liu disappeared."
"What's the matter?" Liu Shu asked, "But the tractor you mentioned back then has something to show for it?"
"Tractors were made a few years ago."
"Seriously?!" Liu Shu exclaimed, "Did you really do it?"
Zhou Ji nodded: "It's just that the technology for refining large quantities of crude oil has not yet been solved, so mass production is not possible. The tractor can only be used as a display in the research institute."
Liu Shu frowned: "Although I don't quite understand it, does it mean it can't be used yet?"
"Yeah." Zhou Ji said calmly.
Liu Shu looked at him for a while and asked, "Why did you come to me for something else?"
Zhou Ji exhaled: "Zhou Ji is not my real name, it is a pseudonym."
Liu Shu raised his eyebrows: "Speaking of which, the leader of the Malay Kingdom of Nanyang also has this name."
"I am the leader of the Malay Kingdom under this pseudonym." Zhou Ji said softly, "My name is Jia Cong."
Liu Shu jumped up. After a long while, he stared at the person opposite: "Are you Jia Cong?"
"Um."
"What about Red Bones?"
"My family opened it. Hi Claw is my father, Jia She."
"Malaysian country?"
"mine."
Liu Shu thought for a moment: "Zhao Guo?"
"Have you heard about the excitement in the mourning hall of King Zhao first?" Jia Cong said, "What the four countries said is true. Now this King Zhao is the son of the Zhang family. There are also some internal conflicts in the Zhang family. In short, it is for
To better control the State of Zhao, Princess Zhang of Zhao deliberately taught her nephew to be a dandy who didn’t love power and couldn’t be a leader. Now that guy leads his mother to travel around the mountains and rivers.”
Liu Shu was startled: "He doesn't want Zhao Guo?"
"No," Jia Cong said, "He has neither the interest nor the ability. The trouble is his wife. The two discussed it for half a year and decided not to get along for the time being. His wife wanted to serve as an official in the Kingdom of Zhao as Princess Zhao.
, it seems more difficult right now.”
"Why?"
"Mrs. Yu is talented, but she always feels that she is not an ordinary female official. But she is. No matter the fake King Zhao, Liu Quan or I, they will not give her any privileges. Her expectations are too high, so she is unhappy."
Liu Shu leaned back on his chair. After a long silence, he asked, "Do you want to rebel?"
Jia Cong smiled and said, "Do you believe it if I don't?"
Liu Shu nodded. "What are you doing here?"
Jia Cong excused himself and said, "I want you to join us." Liu Shu narrowed his eyes. Jia Cong said, "Sooner or later, the world will be unified. Do you still want to be a prince for the rest of your life?"
Liu Shu smirked and said, "Are you willing to let me be a prince for the rest of my life?"
"Of course not." Jia Cong said easily, "I announced to the outside world that these ten or so places have been merged into one country, and I am preparing to take over the world. I am the young master of Red Bones, as you know. In this era, fighting depends on
It’s firearms. I sell all the firearms in the world.”
Liu Shu said coldly: "We, the men of the Liu family, are not afraid of war."
Jia Cong held up his cheek and said, "I just recruited people to join the gang because I don't want to fight. It's okay if you don't want to join the gang, just don't blame me for playing economic sanctions." Liu Shu raised his eyes and glanced at him. Jia Cong said seriously.
, "In the past, for the sake of our friendship, I gave the Lu State a lot of policy benefits in various aspects. Since we can't be friends, I can only treat you as an opponent. The most favored nation treatment will not be available to the Lu State in the future.
Already."
Liu Shu stared at Jia Cong for another half day. Jia Cong pursed his lips, rested his chin on his palm, and looked back with a cute expression. Liu Shu suddenly burst out laughing. Jia Cong still looked at him with a slightly cute look. Liu Shu
He shouted: "Just let the horse come over!"
"Okay." Jia Cong stood up, "You are welcome to join at any time." He took two steps outside, then turned back and smiled, "By the way, do you still remember the starting point of the maid next to me?"
Liu Shu immediately said: "Remember, she is not a maid, right?"
"You are discerning! She is the Princess Regent, the mother of my child." Jia Cong smiled brightly, stretched out his hand to make a "V" and walked away.
"Wait a minute!" Liu Shu shouted. Jia Cong stopped outside the door. Liu Shu thought for a moment and asked, "When the Zhao State was in trouble, how did your Yan State quietly send so many troops into the Zhao State?
?”
Jia Cong did not turn around, but shrugged and said: "There are no strong men in the Yan State, and the people all perform their own duties. When there are urgent and major projects, such as sudden floods, soldiers are always used. Do you know how many people we sent to help Zhao Guo govern?
River? How can ordinary strong men be so capable?"
Liu Shu couldn't come to his senses for a long time. "You mean, you are sending officers and soldiers to help Zhao Guo control the river?"
Jia Cong then turned around: "If you want to complete a big project in a short time, you have to use officers and soldiers. Firstly, civilians don't have that good physical strength. Secondly, they are not as well-trained as officers and soldiers. They can use their arms and fingers like arms. Thirdly, they are probably not enough."
Smart. The officers and soldiers of Yan State are all educated, and they know what to do if the superiors say anything. If they are civilians, many of them cannot understand, and they have to spend efforts to explain and teach them. The Yan State has always sent officers and soldiers to provide disaster relief. Not only
In the Yan State, officers and soldiers from all parts of the Chinese Federation are deployed to provide disaster relief."
Liu Shu squinted at him for a long time: "Didn't you send officers and soldiers into Zhao State on purpose?"
Jia Cong spread his hands and said: "Did I send the flood? Did the Yan State take the initiative to help the Zhao State? That Liu Quan of the Zhao State deliberately wore the same clothes as our Jia Baoyu and pulled us together. The little King Zhao was still very proud.
Show off to me, thinking that your plan is brilliant. It’s clear that the State of Yan is the one who was designed. If it weren’t for the State of Yan, the State of Zhao would have been completely flooded by now." Then he turned around and left.
Liu Shu was inexplicably relieved. He had just suspected that the death of King Zhao was caused by the State of Yan, and Liu Tong died as unexpectedly as King Zhao.
More than ten days later, Liu Qian came to the Liu Mansion in a hurry. "General, Mr. Qu came back from Ping'an Prefecture and said that Red Bones suddenly received an order from above not to sell any more firearms to the State of Lu."
Liu Shu sneered twice: "If you don't sell it, you won't sell it!"
"this……"
Liu Shu raised his hand and burned a piece of paper for his father: "Don't we still have firearms? Why don't we just go to Qi to rob them?"
"ah?"
Liu Shu waved the paper money in his hand and said, "Qi must have firearms." Then he threw the paper money into the fire.
"Uh...yes..." Liu Qian left.
Liu Shu burned a few more pieces of paper, jumped up suddenly, turned around and strode outside.
Liu Shu called for a map and sent scouts to Qi State next door to investigate the firearms warehouse. After seven or eight days of busy work, someone dropped a letter into the west corner door of Liu Mansion through the crack in the door in the middle of the night. The envelope said: Malay
The Zhou Dynasty submitted it to Liu Shu. Liu Shu took a look at the letter and found a few lines of words and a thick stack of orders. The letter said: Ah Shu, are you thinking about grabbing firearms from Qi? I'll give it to you.
Qi State’s order list for the past five years. Looking at the list again, it turned out to be a list of firearms ordered by Qi State. It’s just... Qi State is so shabby? What they bought were the lowest quality products. Lu State had never bought anything like this in the first place.
Poor firearms. What use could these things have if they were snatched away? Liu Shu was so angry that he crushed the letter into a ball and threw it out.
Not long after, his men made up a plan to rob a firearms warehouse in Qi State and presented it to Liu Shu for review. Liu Tong was still in a state of silence, so Liu Shu naturally could not go to rob it himself. After asking them carefully, he told them
Go quickly and come back quickly. The general really went quickly and returned quickly. Everything went well. All the Qi troops guarding the firearms depot surrendered, and the firearms depot was evacuated by the Lu army. But... the people who moved in were actually those listed on Jia Cong's list.
The goods were too inferior and could not be used. Liu Shu was stunned.
A few days later, Liu Qian hurriedly came to see Liu Shu, saying that many factories in Yan State had canceled their orders for raw materials and semi-finished products in Lu State and went to Zhao State to buy them instead. Liu Shu said angrily: "Why!
"Liu Qian sighed and took out a letter. Liu Shu took it and took a look. It turned out to be a letter written by a weaving factory in Yan State to a cotton factory in Lu State. The letter said that he had just received a notice from the government and had been writing to Lu State.
The country's purchase subsidy tax reduction was cancelled, and subsidies were given to Zhao.
Liu Qian said: "The State of Yan and Guangdong and Guangxi have a policy. Anyone who buys raw materials and semi-finished products in Lu State, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, etc. can apply to the government for tax reductions with the receipt. This is to encourage the factories of Yan State and Guangdong and Guangxi to do more business with these four places.
Doing business. Unexpectedly, the State of Zhao suddenly entered into a federation with them, and all the benefits given to the State of Lu earlier were now given to the State of Zhao." He sighed again, "I'm afraid these cottons will not be easy to sell. Not only cotton, there are many things that are not easy to sell.
.”
Liu Shu read the letter for a long time and asked, "Don't we have a weaving factory of our own?"
Liu Qian smiled bitterly and said: "Although we also have weaving factories, they are much smaller than those in Yan State. It is impossible to use up so much cotton."
Liu Shu sneered and said, "Isn't it just like the way Guan Zhong banned Lu Jin thousands of years ago?" He threw away his sleeves angrily.
I was annoyed, but there was still no solution. Two days later, Liu Qian came again. It turned out that the preferential loan provided by HSBC Bank to the factory in Lu was also cancelled, and a variety of the latest machines produced in Taiwan that were extremely difficult to buy stopped giving priority to Lu.
For sale, only after fulfilling the orders elsewhere, it will be the turn of the Lu State. God knows how many hundreds of years it will be until the turn comes! Many factories in the Lu State cannot get the goods after giving money, and the money will not be recovered for a while.
Liu Shu took the note and said coldly: "Why can't we get the money back? Shouldn't they be asked to compensate?"
Liu Qian said: "When we first signed the contract, there was a clause clearly written in it: If there are natural conditions and policy conditions suddenly change without warning, the terms of the contract can be suspended or changed based on the actual situation. Our people all thought this was the case.
It was written in a nice way, but it would not be used. Who would have thought that the State of Yan suddenly transferred all the benefits to the State of Zhao. In this way, the other party could use this as an excuse to delay the repayment. But our factory in the State of Lu cannot afford it.
ah……"
Liu Shu was stunned for a long time, wondering what the meaning of this sentence was, and said: "Anyway, someone used word games to trick him, right?"
"Well...it's not that I'm secretive." Liu Qian said, "It's just that their business methods are better than ours. General, what should we do?"
"Do you have any idea?"
Liu Qian smiled bitterly and said: "No. I have a way to solve the conspiracy, but this is an obvious conspiracy. Only conspiracy can deal with conspiracy, but we don't have the ability to play conspiracy."
Liu Shu immediately asked: "What is Yangmou?"
Liu Qian said: "Force." Liu Shu was stunned. "Yangmou just sent troops to fight. Taiwan's firearms have always been the best, much better than those of Lu. I don't know where they bought them.
muskets, Red Bones doesn’t sell them at all.”
Liu Shuwangtian rolled his eyes, rubbed the back of his head and said, "Please step aside first and let me think about it."
"Yes." Liu Qian went out.
Liu Shu's head was as big as a fight. He was originally an ordinary young general who caused trouble by fighting with cocks and horses. Later, Liu Tong's staff encouraged him to go to Beijing to rebel. Liu Shu just thought it was fun. Who knew that Liu Tong's rebellion not only did not cause big trouble?
Unfortunately, the territory of Lu State was gained instead. Although it was a small country, it could still be the overlord of the country. However, Liu Tong was a military general and did not know how to govern the country. Most of the government affairs were decided by his subordinates. In the past ten years, nothing has changed. Nothing more.
It was because the chief staff had changed two or three, and a few years after the founding of the country, Liu Qian and Zhu Tong were appointed. Since the acquisition of these two people, the state of Lu has been very stable. The Liu family and his son no longer need to worry about everything in the court, they can handle everything
It was clean. Liu Shu was particularly free and had nothing to do except drill troops and horses. He really couldn't deal with these tricks thrown by Jia Cong. After thinking for a long time, he wrote a letter to Zhu Tong in Japan asking him to come back soon.