Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 87

"You just spent 1 gold coins in a few minutes, boss. You have nothing to say?" Weiss leaned on the carriage and looked at Tang Mo who was about to get into the carriage as he walked out of the tavern.

Beside Tang Mo was the old man Li Ao who had just been subdued.The head of the Silver Fox Tavern is now Tang Mo's housekeeper.

To Tang Mo, Roger is not just a butler, so in a sense, Li Ao is more likely to become the real "butler" in Tang Mo's mansion in the future.

"At least you don't need to spend money when you come here to drink in the future." Tang Mo said as he got into the carriage.

"Ha! That's good news!" Wes helped close the door after Leo got into the carriage.

Sitting in the swaying carriage, Li Ao looked at Tang Mo in front of him, and asked curiously, "Aren't you worried that we will betray you after taking the money?"

"Why?" Sitting in the carriage, Tang Mo looked at the old man Li Ao who asked the question, "Why did you betray me?"

"You run an intelligence network, so you naturally hope to find a qualified master." Tang Mo continued without waiting for Li Ao to answer, "You are full of expectations for the future, and I can give you something that no one else can give you." future!"

"As you can see, I have a fleet and new weapons... You also know that I have a private army and I am also training more talents... I am more powerful than all the nobles and royal families you know and have heard of." Ambitious! My future can go very far, as long as you follow me and support me... I can walk more steadily and firmly." After Tang Mo finished speaking, he looked at Li Ao, waiting for Li Ao's answer: " So why should I worry that a wise man will betray me?"

Li Ao knew that it wasn't just Tang Mo who was convincing him, there were other meanings in this passage as well.Tang Mo was showing his strength, and at the same time showing his future development trend.

In his eyes, as Tang Mo said, he valued the target of his allegiance more, and there was a good and upward trend.

He had no reason to betray Tang Mo, who wanted people to have people, means to have means, money to have money, development to have development, and he was also a criminal.

In fact, in some respects, Tang Mo does have advantages that other nobles did not have: Tang Mo has advanced industries, his own army, and a lot of wealth, and he is willing to develop his own intelligence network—— At the same time, there are not many nobles with so many conditions in the entire Wright Kingdom.

And there are no nobles who are willing to spend a large sum of money to control the Silver Fox Tavern.Rich aristocrats look down on these mud legs, and those without money can't afford to support them...

"So, as you said, I am loyal to you and will never betray you!" Li Ao smiled, and the wrinkles on his face bloomed like flowers.

"Choose some people and go to the fleet to help me keep an eye on it... You don't want those ships carrying your hopes and dreams to be secretly driven away or sunk, right?" Tang Mo leaned against the In the compartment of the carriage, he ordered with a smile.

"I understand. I will find someone to join your fleet." Leo immediately agreed, "Eighty people! All of them have been to sea."

"Let's make up a hundred." Tang Mo closed his eyes as he said that, giving full trust to Li Ao, the intelligence chief who had just joined the Datang Group.

The composition of Tang Mo's newly established "navy" at this moment is indeed a bit complicated. In fact, his navy now consists of four parts, and they are not very familiar with each other.

The largest proportion of the navy is the navy slaves of the elves. These slaves have just been liberated by Tang Mo, have their own identities, and become free citizens. Their loyalty is not bad and they know how to navigate ships.

Yes, Tang Mo didn't intend to let these sailors continue to serve as slaves. He promised everyone that as long as they served on his ship for five years, they could obtain the status of civilians and leave with a settling allowance.

If they choose to stay, these people will become paid and serious sailors after five years, no longer slaves, and enjoy more equal treatment.

This decision made these slaves ecstatic, so at least on the surface, their loyalty to Tang Mo was beyond the charts.

The other part is the recruits transferred by Tang Mo. These recruits are about more than 100 people, scattered on 11 armed merchant ships, responsible for commanding and learning navigation operations.Although they don't understand naval warfare, they have the highest loyalty.

The third part is the recruited sailors. These sailors are average in loyalty, but they don't need to learn how to navigate and sail a ship. Moreover, they have the smallest number, only more than 70 people.

The fourth part is the people from the Silver Fox Tavern. These people were recruited by Tang Mo just now. On the one hand, they are responsible for the internal intelligence control and supervision of the Navy. On the other hand, they are also the sand that Tang Mo mixed into his fleet. Play the role of supervision and balance.

Such a composition constituted a complex fleet, and Tang Mo could not count on its combat effectiveness.He hopes that through training, this fleet can mature as soon as possible, and be responsible for possible maritime transportation and trade.

Although he doesn't have to seize sea transportation, he can't just sit at home and wait for other customers to come to his door.If there is a fleet of its own, it will obviously be a lot more convenient to sell its own weapons to forces farther afield.

Tang Mo, who had a large amount of money, obviously became wealthy immediately.First, he used 30 gold coins and [-] revolvers to swallow the Silver Fox Tavern as a whole.

Li Ao, the boss behind the Silver Fox Tavern, became another butler of Tang Mo.The bartender who worked exclusively for Li Ao was still called the bartender. He was in the Silver Fox Tavern and became Tang Mo's exclusive intelligence leader.

Buying the Silver Fox Tavern with [-] gold coins is obviously worth the money. If Tang Mo hadn’t gotten along with the elves and created a fleet, Li Ao wouldn’t have sold the Silver Fox Tavern to Tang Mo so cheaply. street.

He is half selling and moving, which is equivalent to an investment.Both parties were full of expectations for this cooperation, so they quickly reached an agreement.

What Li Ao valued was Tang Mo's future development trend, and he hoped that Tang Mo could realize his wish of erasing his identity as a criminal.On the other hand, Tang Mo urgently needed Li Ao's intelligence network, and it was just a matter of convenience to settle some small troubles for Li Ao.

Tang Mo was responsible for supporting the Silver Fox Tavern and its underground intelligence network, and the Silver Fox Tavern provided Tang Mo with all kinds of intelligence.The two sides took what they needed, and Tang Mo also built an intelligence network centered on Bunas and radiating to the surrounding areas.

And Tang Mo, who had mastered this huge information network, was rewarded very quickly - on the second day, he got the information he wanted.

This news was prepared by Tang Mo to deal with the first batch of 700 Cyric flintlocks sent by Alice.

What?Modify these weapons?What a joke, Tang Mo wouldn't even consider such a thing.What he lacks now is time and production capacity, and neither of these two things can be wasted on transforming these outdated Cyric flintlock guns.

If he has hundreds of idle workers, it is obviously a better choice to transform these weapons and find a way to sell them for money.

But now almost all of his workers have important jobs: some workers are producing steam engines and railroad tracks, some are producing K1 fast guns and revolvers, and some are expanding his factory.

And the factory buildings he built with great difficulty are also occupied by a large amount of equipment, ready to be used to produce more advanced equipment.

He also owes the Northridge steam engine, the Northridge needle gun, and the Northridge revolver... He also needs to build more weapons production workshops in advance...

Under such circumstances, how could he waste precious production capacity on modifying these Cyric flintlocks?In his eyes, these things are basically no different from garbage.

Where does he have time to build a production line dedicated to transforming these weapons?And then wasting precious workers doing these pointless things?He would rather let these workers go to make up lessons and study mathematics or other subjects...

Even if Tang Mo used the money from modifying these weapons to expand the production line for producing needle guns, he would still be able to obtain greater profits.

What's more, the cost of transforming the flintlock gun is higher than expected. First, the breech must be cut, and special parts must be produced to transform the tail of the gun into a special shape.

And after this modification, these flintlock guns are barely usable, not as good as the K1 fast guns - for Cyric, perhaps modification is an option, but for Tang Mo, this option never existed.

Because Tang Mo knew that when the Battle of North Ridge came to an end, these weapons might not even be as good as a fire stick, and people would not even look at them if they were thrown on the side of the road.

In Tang Mo's eyes, these weapons only need to keep a few and hang them on the walls of the museum for future generations to look up and remember.

Therefore, he wants to dispose of these weapons and recover the funds as quickly as possible, instead of spending time transforming these weapons.

The result is actually very simple: as Tang Mo expected, in any decaying kingdom, under the circumstances of Wen Tian and Wu Xi, it is very normal to eat empty wages and sell reserves.

The same is true for Bunas. The sheriff here, as early as 20 years ago, may have sold almost all the weapons and equipment of the city defense army purchased in the warehouse.

And those noble officials and gentlemen don't care at all how many guns the city guards in the small towns in the hinterland have left.

As long as the civilians dare not rebel, as long as the city guards still have long swords to bully the old, the weak, and the sick, and as long as there are dozens of muskets to decorate the facade, those high-ranking idiots will not care whether there are enough weapons in the warehouse quantity.

"Looks like it's time to give gifts again." After Tang Mo heard the news from a city guard, he looked at his confidants with a smile: "Come on, let's give a gift to Sheriff Sauron." , send a big gift!"

(End of this chapter)