Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

January 1, 11257 in the Holy Calendar at 0:00 a.m

. Su Xincheng, City Lord's Mansion, Tiantai.

Brilliant fireworks burst into the sky, painting a magnificent painting against the backdrop of the brilliant starry sky.

Su Zheng held a glass of hot milk in both hands and looked at the beautiful scenery ..... blankly

The fireworks are more beautiful than last year, and Sioux New Town is more prosperous than in previous years.

Now Suxin City is brightly lit, and every household is lit up, a thriving scene.

Nowadays, Suxincheng has a nightlife, because candles have become cheaper, every night, every household can light a lamp, and the civilians of Suxincheng are no longer afraid of the dark.

I don't know how long it took, Su Zheng felt movement behind him, turned around, and found that Chris was beating to keep warm.

"Chris, how long have you been here?"

Hearing Su Zheng speak, Chris immediately stood up and said

, "Ah, ten minutes, I'm worried about interrupting your thinking." "

Harm, it's okay, I'm in a daze.

Chris stepped forward with a smile, handed over a blank piece of

paper and said, "Your Highness, look! The correspondent quickly whipped his horse and killed two horses, just to be able to give you this gift tonight

!" Su Zheng took the paper with one hand and looked at it, and then smiled excitedly:

"Haha! So much! Then we are billionaires now!"

This is the summary table of the Rothschild Group's financial statements, which shows the profits and costs of several major industries, and finally summarizes them, and in the bottom corner shows the dividends that the Sus Group can receive.

That's 230 million copper coins

! This is not revenue, nor is it net profit, but the dividends of net income after the funds are set aside for the next step of expansion and development!

In recent months, the Rothschild Group's industry has grown almost exponentially, especially Adelaide has also brought in the acting ruling prince.

The prince not only did not have any resistance to these steam engines, but was also very happy and very actively supported the Rothschild group in the industrialization of the Klar kingdom.

With the absolute support of the royal family, the expansion of the Rothschild group was not hindered in any way, and the royal family also authorized the mining rights of some minerals.

Up to now, almost all the cities of the Klar Kingdom have built industrial factories, and a large number of cheap goods have been produced, which are then exported to the markets of the Xinqiong Empire and the Ziyun Empire.

Especially this month, a large number of cheap and high-quality cloth, furniture and other goods directly hit the markets of the two countries, and even led to chaos in the markets of the two countries for a time.

Of course, there are certain disadvantages to the royal family's involvement, and after the prince saw the production capacity of the steam engine, he directly suppressed Adelaide's idea of expanding the industry to the whole empire, and also sent someone to talk to Su Zheng secretly.

However, he did not directly coerce Su Zheng, his purpose seemed to be just not to let the steam engine attract the attention of the empire, so the condition of the negotiation with Su Zheng was that Su Zheng could not leak the steam engine technology, let alone dedicate it to the empire, and he guaranteed Su Zheng's interests in the Rothschild group in the Kral Kingdom.

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"Shhhhh This money is

interesting...."Su Zheng looked at the account list and found a very interesting income.

The royal family's

orders! The prince not only did not resist the steam engine, but also placed a large number of orders while helping the Rothschild group to expand its industry

! This included a large number of arms purchases!

As early as in the previous conversation with the envoy and between the lines of the letter written to Su Zheng with Adelaide, Su Zheng found that there seemed to be something wrong with the Kingdom of Klar...

According to the information sent back by the spies of the Klar Kingdom, the prince faced the widespread unemployment caused by industrialization, and adopted the method of recruiting soldiers,

and at the same time buying a large amount of grain and grass and collecting taxes.

And now, the royal family's procurement of armaments has further responded to Su Zheng's conjecture.

Chris also sensed the abnormality, so he speculated

: "Your Highness, based on these news, it can be judged that the Clal Kingdom seems to be going to make a big move, maybe it is going to start a war!"

"Is it planning to invade the Purple Cloud Empire?"

Su Zheng asked Chris, who shook his head after thinking for a while and said:

" Impossible, Qiongnanling is a natural barrier, and the two countries have not had any friction for two hundred years because of their existence, even if the Great Qiong Empire was divided decades ago, the Purple Cloud Empire has not invaded. "

Both countries know that this barrier is a very good natural defense belt, which can save a lot of troops stationed, and it is not a cost-effective option for any country to cross the territory of the past.

Moreover, Xinqiong has a war in the east, and Ziyun is also wary of the south in the south, so the two countries are like two brothers back to back.

"The Clair Kingdom only borders the Purple Cloud Empire, it is impossible for the Purple Cloud Empire to invade, and it is even more impossible for the Xinqiong Empire to let Clair invade the Purple Cloud Empire.... Then there is only one possibility for him to expand his army so drastically

!" "He wants to rebel!" After

listening to Chris's explanation, Su Zheng realized the intention of the Clare Kingdom.

Chris continued

: "By the way, the intelligence department has also collected some news from the Clare Kingdom, and it seems that there are a lot of rumors about the Prime Minister of the Empire, such as the Prime Minister is a very powerful magician, and the Emperor of the Empire obeys his orders.....

" Hearing this, Su Zheng was stunned for a moment, and quickly understood the intention of the Clar Kingdom:

"Oh... Hehe... This is spreading the word that the imperial government is controlled by traitors!"

"Who doesn't know that the Xinqiong Empire has always been the prime minister in power, Xingnuo wiped out Daqiong's royal family when he rebelled, and Xinqiong's royal family is a branch of the original Daqiong royal family, it's just that the prime minister played the royal banner, in the end, the existence of the Xinqiong Empire is still because of the prime minister.

"It seems that Krar is going to play in the name of Qingjun this time!" Su

Zheng said after taking a sip of hot milk, Chris nodded deeply

, and then explained to the Prime Minister: "The Prime Minister used to be an extremely powerful magician, but forty years have passed, the Prime Minister has shown his strength many times before, and then he has been staying in Xizhou, without the source of law, his mana has long been exhausted... Especially in the last two decades, the prime minister has never acted again.

"So they watched the prime minister, a magician, run out of oil, and take advantage of the invasion of the enemy country, and plan to rebel

!" "Your Highness, if they rebel, what should we do?" "

Of course it's against the Clare Kingdom! "

Su Zheng's own purpose in industrializing the Clair Kingdom is to directly enjoy the ready-made after the occupation, and once the Clar Kingdom rebels, it will be even more famous.

Moreover, the original expansion plan can be divided into two stages, and after the Clar Kingdom is defeated, you can negotiate with the empire, and you are not in a hurry to continue to expand, and you can still take a breath.

After all, the territory of the empire is not small, a territory of 2.05 million square kilometers, and the area of the principality directly under it is also 1 million square kilometers, with a population of tens of millions.

And the Clare Kingdom, as the largest feudal kingdom of the empire, is only 190,000 square kilometers, which is only equivalent to 1 province, compared to fighting against the entire empire, it is obviously much easier to occupy the Clar Kingdom.

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"Okay, let's wait and see what happens in this matter, and solve the matter in front of us first! Today's fireworks can make Huang Xingbang and them watch it with all their hearts!" As

he spoke, Su Zheng smiled and looked at a newly repaired three-story stone room near the City Lord's Mansion, which was the Suxin Hotel, a place dedicated to receiving foreign VIPs.

At this time, the giants of Huang Xingbang and Huang Qicheng were looking at the gorgeous fireworks in the sky in amazement.