Ang Lee wanted to personally lead the main force to attack Zhancheng. He wanted to show the untactful monarch of the Tang dynasty the power of the Tang dynasty and let them understand that the tiger's whiskers of the Tang dynasty could not be touched.
Although this was suspected of bullying, the Ring Kingdom did not do it properly. They charged a 100% tariff. This was simply robbery, open robbery! In addition, in addition to these, they would also charge all kinds of exorbitant taxes for other reasons. They completely regarded the merchants of the Tang dynasty as lambs to be slaughtered at will.
Pirates terrified the sea merchants and made them avoid them like the plague. These local tyrants with legal status made it impossible for the sea merchants to avoid them. They could only stand still and bear the brunt of the slaughter.
When the world saw that the sea merchants made a lot of money, they were full of envy, jealousy, and hatred. However, they could not see the hardships that the sea merchants had experienced. Among all the sea merchants who had been in the sea, only a few could be envied in the end. Most of the sea merchants had gone bankrupt and disappeared from the world's sight forever.
The profit of being a sea merchant was high and there was a chance to make a fortune. However, the success rate was really not high. Only a few people could make a fortune in this way, while most people could only suffer the fate of failure.
Many people would hate the rich. They felt that the wealth of the rich came too easily, while they could only get a very small income by working hard.
However, they did not think that the high income of others was either because they had outstanding ability or because they had paid great risks. There was no such thing as a free lunch in the sky. The poor were not willing to take risks, so of course, they could only be poor.
There were poor people in ancient times, and there were also poor people in later generations. There were poor people in any era, both ancient and modern. The poor people were either timid or incompetent. Moreover, they were very cynical and thought that their great talents had been buried by the times.
In the future, the wages of the ordinary working class were very low, but the pitiful people could have an income that was thousands of times higher than theirs. As a result, many working class people were quite dissatisfied, thinking that these people's wages were too high and too unreasonable. However, they did not know how many pitiful people there were. Only a very small number of successful pitiful people could obtain an extremely high income, and those numerous ordinary pitiful people only had a few percent of the income of the ordinary working class, and were even poorer than the ordinary poor.
But these poor people, who were even poorer than the poor, had been working hard. They were not afraid of taking risks or being ridiculed. They believed that one day they would stand at the top, and their income would be thousands of times higher than that of ordinary people. In order to achieve this great goal, they were willing to endure extremely low wages.
They were not afraid of failure, suffering, or ridicule. Although only a few people could succeed in the end, as long as they tried, they would not regret.
The probability of success was always very low if one wanted to do something big, especially for the sea merchants of the Tang dynasty. The elimination rate was more than 90%. Out of ten people who chose to be sea merchants, nine of them would quit the business, and only one could barely stand firm.
What Ang Lee wanted to do now was to eliminate all kinds of unreasonable threats on the sea trade route, make it easier for businessmen to succeed, reduce the elimination rate of sea merchants, and let more people be engaged in the sea business industry. Thus, he could use business to maintain the prosperity of the Tang dynasty.
Everyone knew that wealth was created by the working people. It was the hard working people who created all kinds of materials in the world. However, few people knew that the real driving force for the growth of wealth was commercial exchange.
Without the continuous development of business, it was difficult for wealth to grow. That was to say, only continuous commercial exchange could stimulate the continuous growth of wealth.
If no one was willing to buy the materials created by the working people, they could only rot in the field. In this way, he would reduce the output next time, and in this way, the wealth created by the working people would be reduced.
If the supply of the products he created could not meet the demand, and there were many people urging him to buy, he would definitely expand the scale and increase the output. In this way, the wealth he created would naturally increase.
To give a better example, there were three relatively independent villages in the world, each with a hundred households. They all lived in isolation from the rest of the world.
The people in the first village learned how to grow mulberries, raise silkworms, and weave cloth to make clothes. The second village had a large amount of grassland where they could raise goats on a large scale. The third village had the most natural soil for the growth of tea trees.
Because of the isolated environment, the people in the first village only knew how to raise a small amount of mulberries and weave clothes that were enough for them to wear. If there were more, they could only throw it away.
The second village only knew how to raise a small number of goats that were enough for them to eat. As for the third village, it was enough to pick tea leaves that were enough for them to drink. The excess tea leaves were just left to rot in the field.
From this, it could be seen that the living standards of the three villages were not high. The people in two villages could not wear good clothes, the people in two villages could not eat delicious mutton, and the people in the other two villages could not drink tea.
This was caused by the closed environment. At this time, if a merchant appeared and connected the three isolated villages and sold the goods produced by one of the villages to the other two villages, the demand of the village itself would not be enough. This way, they would need to increase the production to meet their own needs, which would also increase their wealth.
For example, the cloth from the first village would be sold to the second and third villages, the mutton from the second village would be sold to the first and third villages, and the tea leaves from the third village would be sold to the first and second villages.
Under the stimulation of trade, the output of the three villages would increase exponentially. With the goal of trading for the specialties of the other villages, it wouldn't take long for the people of the three villages to have cloth, mutton, and tea leaves. The quality of life would be greatly improved.
From this, it could also be seen that trade could stimulate the enthusiasm and necessity of the people's production. The development of trade was the real driving force that could stimulate the growth of wealth.
The Tang Empire had a huge territory, and the trade in various areas could also promote the prosperity of the Tang Empire. However, if more foreign trade could be increased, it would inevitably make the Tang Empire more prosperous. Therefore, overseas trade was indispensable and must be paid attention to.
In order to develop the commerce of the Tang Empire, Ang Lee built a railway that stretched for thousands of miles in the west of the Tang Empire, which greatly promoted the scale of trade on the Silk Road. It made the trade between the Tang Empire and the countries of the Western Regions more convenient and faster, and greatly promoted the continuous prosperity of the business of the Tang Empire.
At this moment, Ang Lee was ordered to go south and open up the Maritime Silk Road. If this prosperous commercial road was built well, it would inevitably surpass the trade route on the land and provide more sources of wealth for the Tang Empire.
Ang Lee was very clear that the future was the age of navigation. Today, with the rapid development of science and technology in the Tang Dynasty, the age of great navigation had quietly arrived. In this case, attention must be paid to maritime commercial activities. It was very important for the Tang Empire to completely open up and maintain the Maritime Silk Road. Therefore, no matter how great the price, the Tang Empire could not give up this road of wealth.
Now, for the sake of its own financial interests, the Ring Kingdom brazenly collected 100% of the heavy commercial tax from the merchants of the Tang Dynasty. From time to time, it imposed all kinds of exorbitant taxes on the grounds of pirate attacks, which seriously damaged the legitimate interests of the merchants of the Tang Empire. At the same time, it also made it difficult for many people of the Ring Kingdom to afford the goods of the Tang Dynasty, causing the sales of goods to be poor and further restricting the domestic production scale.
In order to protect the legitimate rights of the merchants of the Tang Dynasty, Ang Lee asked his subordinates to negotiate and proposed that the Ring Kingdom should not levy such a high tax. However, the Ring Kingdom actually cried that it was poor and refused Ang Lee's reasonable request. So, how could Ang Lee tolerate it?
Zhancheng was the territory of the Ring Kingdom, and it was his own business how high the taxes he wanted to collect. However, now the Tang Empire wanted to establish the Maritime Silk Road and unify all the tariffs on this trade route. The Ring Kingdom must cooperate with the Tang Empire to complete this historic task. Otherwise, it would be a disrespect to the Tang Empire, which was also a challenge to the authority of the Tang Empire.
As a minister of the Tang Empire, Ang Lee absolutely could not tolerate the Ring Kingdom doing this. If he could not even control the small Ring Kingdom, how could he establish the Maritime Silk Road? If most of the wealth fell into the hands of the governments of the countries along the way, what was the point of the Tang Empire?
It was easy for the Tang Empire to occupy the Ring Kingdom militarily, but Ang Lee was not willing to do so. He personally led the main force to occupy the city just to demonstrate his power and let the Ring Kingdom know the strength of the Tang Empire. Then, the Ring Kingdom would have no choice but to submit and be an obedient vassal state.
"Big Brother, this is the battle plan I drafted. Please have a look."
After dinner, Li Feiyu quickly formulated a battle plan to attack and occupy the city. After revising it many times, he presented it to Ang Lee.
Ang Lee looked at it and said happily, "Good, this battle report is really good. It shows that you really put in a lot of effort. However, to deal with such a small country, you don't need to go through so much trouble, and you don't need to use force. You just need to show your force. By the way, you need to make them pay the viewing fee."
"Big Brother, you want to subdue the enemy without fighting again!"
Li Feiyu felt that he had suffered a loss. He had been busy for half a day, but it turned out to be completely useless. Although Ang Lee praised him a few times, it was useless. Praise could not be converted into merit, and no matter how much praise he gave, he could not be promoted.
"Yes, Big Brother likes to subdue the enemy without fighting. Now that the Tang Empire has become extremely powerful, it can make people surrender without fighting. Big Brother believes that the King of the Ring Kingdom will definitely voluntarily sign the treaty."
Ang Lee said confidently.
In Ang Lee's view, a small country simply did not have the capital to negotiate with the Tang Empire. Moreover, this small country was a vassal state of the Tang Empire, so it had even less capital to negotiate with the Tang Empire.
As a vassal state, it actually dared to exploit the merchants of the Tang Empire. It really had the guts of a leopard. After the officials of the Tang Empire persuaded it, it actually ignored them. This was unforgivable.
But Ang Lee also knew that as long as he drove the main force to the south, the King of the Ring Kingdom would choose to surrender, and the interests of the merchants of the Tang Empire would be guaranteed.
Of course, Ang Lee would also ask for more benefits according to the situation, such as reparations and stationing troops. He would ask for as much as he could to expand the interests of the Tang Empire as much as possible.
Now that he had a preliminary idea, Ang Lee was in a good mood and went to bed with a smile.
These were all highly nutritious supplements. If they were not consumed after eating too much, it would be unbearable. Nosebleeds were the most normal.
"Alang, the soft beds are ready."
Yun 'er and the beauty, who were wearing underwear, looked at Ang Lee affectionately.
"Oh, you're dressed beautifully, aren't you?"
Li An looked up and saw that Yun 'er was wearing pink undergarments, while the beauty was wearing light purple undergarments. Her full breasts were perky and straight, pushing her undergarments high.
"Alang, I'll serve you to bed."
Yun 'er came over first, and together with the beauty who came forward, she took off Ang Lee's clothes one by one until he was naked.
"How's Alang compared to the geoduck?"
"Hahaha …"
The beauty and Yun 'er couldn't help laughing.
"Alang is shameless, hahaha …"
"Oh, you dare to make fun of me. Come here, Alang, I'll show you who's better."
Ang Lee took the two women into his arms and carried them to the bed.
"Alang, be gentle, it hurts …"
The two women begged for mercy.
Ang Lee said rudely, "Who was the one who made fun of Alang just now? You should be punished, you should be punished."
Ang Lee's punishment was at most twenty seconds. Ang Lee had always been very protective of women. How could he be willing to continue being rude?
"Alang, what are you looking at? I'm so embarrassed! "
Yun 'er and the beauty lay on the bed shyly, allowing Ang Lee to admire them.
Ang Lee frowned and praised sincerely.
"Alang, turn off the lights!"
"Haha!" "Okay, I'll turn off the lights."
Ang Lee laughed and turned off the lights. However, the pink lights were still on, which made it more romantic.
As for the source of electricity, it was naturally the mobile generator carried by the ship. After many improvements, the size of the mobile generator had become smaller and smaller. It only needed a few people to do it. It was very convenient to carry.
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