Chapter 148 Getting Money

Frederick finally moved his troops, and the Pope's letter of help was the best excuse. Perhaps, even without that strange letter of help, Frederick's army, who was ready to go, would not be able to put away his minions.

The arrow was on the string and had to be fired. The seemingly calm interior of the Holy Roman Empire also had many unstable factors. Frederick needed to rely on foreign wars to divert everyone's attention.

Originally, Frederick summoned Baizhou to discuss the issue of sending troops. First, he asked Baizhou's troops to cooperate with the army's operations and head south to the Alps and enter the Apennine Peninsula; second, he hoped to use Switzerland to allow the soldiers of the empire to enter Italy from two directions at the same time.

Of course, Frederick knew that with the combat power of the Western Qin tribe alone, it was absolutely impossible to continuously create miracles when he went south to fight again. Even if he could, it was what Frederick wanted, because he knew that the Western Qin tribe needed to recuperate at this stage, rather than to move troops again.

What Frederick wants is a dog, not a wolf that will backfire.

This dog is enough to be fierce and doesn't need to eat too strongly, because it needs a dog to bite people instead of decorating the storefront.

In any aspect, it is not harmful to the Holy Roman Empire to squeeze out every bit of combat power of the Western Qin clan.

But this happened to happen. After the Duke of Switzerland was assassinated, he was "unhealthy and had a headache". It was impossible for the Western Qin people to send troops to assist in the war. Frederick had to lead his nobles of all sizes and big men to lead the heavy troops south as planned.

At the same time, after hearing that the Holy Roman Empire had launched troops south, Charles VII of France also carried the banner of regaining lost lands. The Iberian Peninsula was in full swing and it was impossible to have the energy to go north. Burgundy was still in civil strife, and Philip was exhausted and busy dealing with Joan of Arc's offensive and could not take care of himself. As for Western Qin, even their dukes were not energetic now (this is the end of your deceiving my property), and he did not put it in Charles VII's heart at all.

It has to be said that in this particular historical time, the entire Europa was in war, and Switzerland, this place of four wars, had achieved rare stability.

In terms of time, the wars launched by the Western Qin tribe were like medicine twists on powder barrels. They ignited the beacons of the entire continent, but they were the first to return to peace.

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Bai Zhou once again sent away the "good intention" sent by the Count Zurich - after seeing the tools brought by this famous doctor, Bai Zhou could hardly imagine that his profession was a doctor rather than a plumber or a butcher.

Meng Zhi laughed foolishly. This was the seventh doctor he had driven out in the past month.

At the beginning, Li Jin did this task. Originally, this old man was in the concept of a gentleman not speaking and not acting, and also held the great ideal of communicating the concept of Eastern and Western medicine, but in the end, there was no result.

Li Jin was well versed in health preservation and was considered to be strong, but after all, he was old and inevitably was at a disadvantage when he performed all martial arts with the "quack doctors" in his eyes. Then, this important mission was handed over to Mengzhi.

Mengzhi did not disappoint his mission. Every doctor was respectfully invited in, and then threw it out violently (Bai Zhou said that he had a headache, and these doctors were going to perform craniotomy on him, without anesthetics. Let Mengzhi just throw them out, which was considered to be a very favorable gift to the nobles who sent these doctors).

In this era, it is too easy to pretend to be sick, especially for those Western medicine practitioners who do not know what to look, listen, ask and touch.

Fiola finally woke up a few days ago. Li Jin said that if the dagger was lowered by two inches, then her life would be hard to save. Fortunately, the injured were not an important position, and among the soldiers of the Western Qin Dynasty who were accompanying him, some of them understood medical principles, were lucky enough to save their lives.

Fiora doesn't need to be disguised. If it's okay, it's okay. Although her body is inevitably weak, she comes to Baizhou's "patient bed" every day to visit her.

After this window was pierced, the relationship between the two people could be described as a thousand miles a day, as if oil was added to honey. Even if he stopped this big nerve, he would be embarrassed to avoid it when he saw Fiora visiting the disease.

I think although Bai Zhou had never had a serious relationship before, he still memorized some of the key points, famous sayings, "apologies", poems, and songs. Speaking of which, no one in this era is on the same order of magnitude as him.

Of course, there is another problem that is not a problem, that is Caiwei. This little maid doesn't seem to mind that Bai Zhou kisses me and me in front of her.

The little maid had a high level of thought, and she looked like I didn't mind being "small", but Bai Zhou felt that she was accumulating the value of sin. When he heard that Xiao Caiwei had already begun to call Fiola as her sister intimately, the value of sin increased upwards in cubic series, but then continued to think deeper, and it seemed that the happiness index also increased upwards in cubic series.

After raising the corpse in the bed for a month, even Bai Zhou felt that if he lay down like this, his whole body would rust. Moreover, Frederick's large army is now making very smooth progress in Italy and he can't use Bai Zhou's troops.

Even if Frederick was hungry and food, Bai Zhou would never pretend to be sick again. Once he was reborn and then he was familiar with him. Bai Zhou was confident that he would definitely be even more vivid when he came to this again.

In fact, Bai Zhou really didn't know what happened to Frederick summoned him last time, but it was just the few, which praised the martial arts of the Western Qin Dynasty and then asked him to lead his tribe members to fight for the Holy Roman Empire again.

If Bai Zhou really saw Frederick, then Xi Qin would definitely not be able to escape this battle. After all, when Xi Qin was temporarily borrowed in Hungary, Bai Zhou conquered Italy when he first met the king of the Holy Roman Empire. This was what Bai Zhou said.

Blindly refusing will only make Frederick feel disgusted towards the Western Qin, and then the Western Qin tribe will not have a good life.

Therefore, I can only delay, whether it is luck or misfortune, this assassination gave Bai Zhou the best excuse - the commander was attacked and no one could command the army.

Because Europe implemented the rule of "My subordinates are not my subordinates", Frederick did not expect him to directly mobilize Western Qin generals such as Mengshan and Weifu through Baizhou, and naturally the matter of Western Qin sending troops was left unresolved.

To put it bluntly, Frederick hopes that the Western Qin will always be in a state of war, and the nerves of the entire nation will always be in a state of war. Such a nation will be a quick knife in his hand. Moreover, because the Western Qin does not have complete logistical support, ordinary people have been in a difficult and bad situation in life. This means that Frederick will use the Western Qin knife as much as he wants, and even don’t have to be afraid of it breaking, as long as it is sharp enough.

Frederick could ignore the economic production of Western Qin, but Bai Zhou, as the prince of Western Qin, could not ignore it.

In the two major battles, the entire Western Qin Dynasty was called the wartime economic system in a nice way, and everything served the war, and the civilians were completely converted into military industry; and in the idiom that was closest to the essence, it was to describe it as a military force. Not to mention anything else, if it were not for the Western Qin people, every family had a pair of crossbows and some weapons that could barely take. If it were only for Frederick's support, the Western Qin soldiers would have to cut down their woods and raise their heads up.

Not to mention food. Before meeting the main force of Burgundy, the surplus grain in the Western Qin was only half a month long. If the goddess of luck had not lifted the corner of the skirt of the Western Qin people, let the gunpowder hit the bull's eye and destroyed the Burgundian command system, this war would have been destined to be a protracted war of attrition. If it weren't for the fight of Burgundy and using Joan of Arc to extort the French people's grain worth tens of thousands of gold coins, the people of the Western Qin now would have to go up the mountain to hunt (or rob).

The war is about manpower, material resources and financial resources. Even if the Western Qin people fight against one hundred, they are naked and hungry, and they are still fartful in this battle.

Although the Western Qin won two consecutive victories, it was considered to have completely gained a foothold in western Switzerland, but next time, as long as the Western Qin people were defeated once, even if it was not a battle-level failure, it would be just a failure of an ordinary battle, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

In a word, the people of Western Qin cannot afford to be defeated.

Once defeated, the sky collapsed and the earth broke. Bai Zhou had no doubt that if Western Qin was in trouble, the first person to show his weapons to his tribesmen must be the Swiss Germans. Although they were on the same front as Western Qin, they looked like they were only on the Western Qin horse.

In fact, if Burgundy was not so desperate, and had devoted all the troops from the whole country, and were surrounded by evil neighbors, it would have led to a defeat. Perhaps Philip could have recovered his energy in a few years. However, Western Qin did not do it, and there was no such foundation at all.

So, at this time, let Xi Qin fight Italy?

Only idiots or lunatics can agree to do this.

Although Bai Zhou, the wealthy man on the Apennine Peninsula, was also very jealous, he also understood that with the Western Qin tribe, he could only get some money and no benefits there. What's more, according to the history that Bai Zhou knew, Frederick carried out six southern expeditions, one was to show that the Western Qin would still have the opportunity to participate in this essential robbery operation in the future, and the other was to show that Frederick did not do his best in every battle.

Although due to the turning point of history, a nation from the East that has never been recorded in history books has emerged, Bai Zhou still doesn't know what impact the Western Qin will have on the Holy Roman Empire and Italy's national destiny, so he can only wait and see.

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Walking on the Avenue in Bern, you can accidentally step on the feces of an unknown animal, which is really disgusting.

The newly built Twin Cities of Bern is just a prototype, but it has a complete wastewater recycling system, which will not make the entire city feel a strange smell.

Some time ago, almost all the young and strong people of the Western Qin clan were devoted to the war, which led to the fact that the Twin Cities still do not even have a contour.

The seeds have been planted. If the weather is good for the year, there will be a good harvest in autumn. The cypress will not have to worry about the headache all day long before buying some food.

The extra military horses in the Western Qin Dynasty were temporarily placed in the first horse farm near the Belfort Mountains in Burgundy, which was a large grassland. If placed in Switzerland, the cypress would definitely not be willing to use it to raise horses instead of growing crops.

Now the Western Qin tribe has become a farmer and herdsman rather than a nomadic tribe. The importance of horses in life is far less than a strong plowing ox. But horses are horses after all. In the era of cold weapons, they are a strategic resource that will never depreciate (of course, an adult horse will definitely depreciate if it grows into an old horse). Bai Zhou could not make his tribe members give up the tradition of raising horses.

The horse farms in Burgundy have tens of thousands of horses of excellent blood. With a little training and running in, they will become qualified military horses.

This is the only place where the Western Qin tribes stationed in Burgundy - Bai Zhou could not feel at ease to put such a large amount of resources in the hands of others without taking care of himself. For this reason, Bai Zhou sent Joan of Arc five hundred war horses.

At the end of the war, Weifu was finally able to free up his hands and began to teach and train some officials. In this half of Switzerland, Western Qin could not only occupy the upper-level leadership position, and Weifu could not always deal with all the miscellaneous items alone.

For a month after the war, everything was developing in an orderly manner. Until the first day of the second month, when Wei Fu once again reached out to ask Bai Zhou for money, Bai Zhou, a dignified seven-foot man (not so tall yet), couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp.

money

Bai Zhou really wanted to shout to Weifu: Look how much it is worth to sell my clear price as pork.

Some time ago, Xi Qin was in a state of war, and the money matters were always under the control of Wei Fu. Besides, during that period, Xi Qin obviously had a lot of income and little expenditure, so he didn't have to worry about money at all.

But now it is completely different. Urban construction requires money, leveling the land, buying plowing oxen, and supporting the standing army also requires money. These three major items have eaten the Western Qin government tightly.

Not to mention that it is not time to collect taxes, even if it is here, Bai Zhou looked at the huge fiscal deficit and understood that agricultural tax and capita tax alone could not support the development of the Western Qin tribe.

Looking for Fiora to borrow money? Not to mention the things that are not ashamed of face, Bai Zhou really wants to open this mouth. I believe Fiora has nothing to say. But the key is that this is not a long-term solution. If you ask someone to borrow money, you can only deal with it for a while and you can't handle it for a lifetime.

When you are poor, you think of change. In the era of cold weapons, what is the most profitable thing to do?

war

This is a profitable deal. During the Crusades' several times, how many people actually went to the distant East for faith? I believe that most of them were still for wealth.

But the Western Qin can no longer fight the war. Even with this strength, let me ask, which of the surrounding countries can face the Western Qin alone?

If you are poor, you will think of change. In this era when there are very little wealth, what profitable is it?

trading

Bai Zhou still remembers that in the game, compared to trade tax, such as cap tax, agricultural tax, and mining tax.

Wei Fu calculated that if Western Qin maintained its original state to collect taxes in Switzerland, it would be a great success for a 30,000 army. Of course, this was based on everything going well. If there were natural disasters or man-made disasters or foreign invasions, the Western Qin clan would have no extra supplies at all.

Even if the number of troops is reduced, urban construction is a very expensive project after all. The money saved by reducing the size of the army is just a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, the Western Qin tribes must carry out trade.

I won’t mention the barren Swiss properties. Burgundy’s coal and iron are all good things, but this strategic resource is not within the first batch of considerations of Bozhou.

Tea, silk, ceramics.

These three items with strong oriental characteristics appear in the form of luxury goods in the European continent. However, there are many problems among them: tea trees have certain requirements for the growth environment, and the cold weather in Switzerland is not necessarily suitable for the growth of tea trees, and a specific place must be found; and the clay required for firing ceramics is not everywhere. Not to mention the best kaolin for firing pottery, Switzerland may not have it at all; mulberry trees do not pay so much attention, but the question is, how can it be possible to migrate along the way with a large number of silkworm babies?

In other words, even if Xiqin can produce tea, ceramics, and silk, that is the future, not now.

When you are poor, you think of change. On this war-torn continent, what is the best and most profitable thing?

arms

Simple coal mines, iron ore, and wood cannot be sold at any price. Although the entire Europa continent cannot be said to be rich in resources, it can be completely self-sufficient in this era. After all, coal mines, iron ore, and wood are not rare metals.

Raw materials cannot be sold at any era.

But once they are converted into weapons and armor, everything will be different.

Especially at this time, there is no country in Europe that is not in war (Northern Europe is still temporarily calm), which fully shows that the arms business is very marketable and can be said to be in short supply.

Whether it is ordinary weapon armor or excellent weapon armor, Bai Zhou believes that it can be sold at a good price.

Not only iron tools, but also leather armor, bows and crossbows, and even horses raised by the Western Qin tribe are all goods that can be traded by the Western Qin tribe, and the prices are not low (of course, firearms will not appear in the ranks of traded goods, because this weapon is an epoch-making product. Before the Western Qin itself did not have better thermal weapons, Bai Zhou decided not to sell black gunpowder to others).

Of course, when the cat teaches tigers to keep a hand, Bai Zhou still understands this principle, so he will naturally not sell weapons representing the highest craftsmanship level of Western Qin to others. One is that he is worried that they will use "Made in Western Qin" to attack the people of Western Qin, and the other is that they will try to minimize the possibility of stealing their masters. Even if they steal, they will not learn the most advanced technology of Western Qin.

For example, the bows made by the Western Qin people with "six materials" have a range that is greater than most of the bows and arrows on the Europa continent. On the battlefield, the advantage of one meter in the range may determine the winner, let alone the advantage of dozens of meters. Of course, the Western Qin will not use such meticulous craftsmanship. Bai Zhou believes that as long as it grows twenty or thirty meters above ordinary bows and arrows, this kind of bow can be sold at a good price on the mainland.

But there is another question, a very important question, where did Bai Zhou find so many people to build weapons for him?...
Chapter completed!