Regarding the payment of annual tribute to the Northern Dan Kingdom, the final results are as follows:
The one hundred taels of silver, as well as other cloth, grain, etc., were privately given to the court by the Lin family, and the court then transferred them to the Kingdom of Beidan.
Baili Tang actually agreed. He also agreed to another request from Lin Taiwei - to issue an order that no one should reveal that the money was actually paid by the Lin family, so as to avoid the Lin family being criticized by the world.
The Lin family sent troops and paid the money, and things were going step by step according to Baili Tang's plan.
If war still breaks out at that time, will Empress Dowager Lin and the Lin family go crazy with anger?
Not only did he lose his wife and his army, but he also got himself into a mess and was not popular with anyone!
The first thing the Wanyan Ada brothers had to do after receiving the silver was to buy grain, oil, and cloth! Coincidentally, the Ministry of Industry had already produced over 500 down jackets!
A modern down jacket that retails for one thousand yuan has a cost (workers, fabric, down, zippers, hats, etc.) of about three or four hundred yuan.
But it was different in ancient times! There weren’t even sewing machines. People had to rely on needles and thread to sew little by little! The production efficiency was incomparable!
Baili Tang asked Song Tian to pay the female workers six taels of silver for each down jacket they made! Originally, he planned to sell each down jacket for sixty-eight taels of silver!
But now the envoys from Northern Dan want to buy, so I'll raise the price to 128 taels per piece. If they want to buy 500 pieces, I'll give them a discount and sell them for 99 taels per piece!
This is a sky-high priced down jacket!
Just like that, Baili Tang had a turnover of 50,000 taels!
They've already placed an order for 2,000 pieces! This time, we'll sell them for a little less, 90 taels each! But they have to pay a 35% deposit first!
The deposit alone was more than 60,000 taels!
It's strange. Why are the people of Northern Denmark suddenly interested in doing business? Aren't they fighting anymore? War also requires supplies, not to mention the severe disaster in their country right now!
Why is Wanyan Ada so tough and aggressive? Actually, it is to scare Baili Tang!
As long as the supplies this time can be successfully returned to Beidan Kingdom... it will give them a respite!
"Brother? Why is it that everything we buy goes up in price? Some prices have doubled, some have increased several times!" Wanyan Agu said depressedly, "One million taels of silver can't even buy five million catties of grain! Those down jackets and ironware cost nearly a quarter of our money! Brother, do you think we can really ship all these things back smoothly? Are the people of Jingguo that stupid? I always feel that Baili Tang deliberately let us do this!"
If you can imagine it, Wanyan Ada can imagine it even more: "I won't be so stupid as to wait until I have purchased all the supplies before shipping them back. I will ship them one batch at a time, and send the important ones first! If any batch of supplies has problems, our cavalry will immediately head south!"
It’s too dangerous to transport them all back together. We could easily be wiped out at once!
"Have you figured out a plan for tomorrow's final match? What if we lose?"
"You don't have to worry about that! If we lose, we lose. Baili Tang is just trying to buy time anyway! Although we don't know what he wants to do yet, he's delaying time to buy us time!"
When they catch their breath, that will be the day to flatten Jing Kingdom!
Baili Tang’s greatest reliance is the Rise of Cobra, whose number should not exceed five hundred!
Since they can't get this technology, their only choice is to destroy them before they become stronger!
The only pity is, why didn't the Lin family's 300,000 troops all go to resist them? When the Lin family army counterattacks, plus their troops, that would be 600,000 troops, plus the 200,000 troops of the Yue Kingdom!
Why worry about the Jing Kingdom not being destroyed?
Now it seems that the Lin family has become the biggest variable!
It disrupted their formation!
Even if the Lin family army had been guarding the northwest and never sent out troops, nothing would have happened. But Baili Tang, this troublemaker...
Then again, even if Baili Tang hadn't thought of this, would Ye Chao, Zhang Dongzheng, and the others have? It was absolutely impossible for the Lin family to remain unscathed in this incident!
If we don't send 300,000 troops, will they continue to be used as decoration like vases?
While Wanyan Ada and his brothers were discussing countermeasures, Baili Tang and his brothers were also discussing countermeasures. You two brothers, you did something under their noses, and you can't hide it.
Transport them separately? Then let's defeat them one by one!
"Your Majesty, the first batch they are transporting is ironware! Should we let them pass safely?" Meng Fang asked.
"Master Zhang, what do you think?" Baili Tang threw the question to Zhang Dongzheng.
Zhang Dongzheng suggested letting them pass without much thought: "Let the first group pass first to avoid alerting the enemy! Besides, they are carrying ordinary ironware, not weapons. Ironware needs to be smelted in a furnace to be forged into weapons they can use! If they are carrying food, clothing or fabric, we absolutely cannot let them pass. They are in great need of these things right now."
Ye Hongxue continued, "What would happen if the disaster victims in their country started causing trouble at this time?"
Everyone looked at her in surprise: "Did you just think of this?"
Haha, I didn’t expect that Ye Hongxue also has moments when his brain isn’t working well!
Beidan State and Yue State placed countless spies in Jing State, and similarly, Jing State also placed countless spies in their place.
After learning about these things, Baili Tang arranged people to carry out it secretly!
For example, the State of Jing no longer imposed higher taxes on its people and even levied personal income tax on its officials. Shouldn't this be widely publicized? Shouldn't people extoll the virtues of the State of Jing?
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