Duke of Herrington

Chapter 160 Money-making plan!

Even if it is overloaded, it can't handle the operation of its own chamber of commerce!Definitely not enough!If you want to eat the food market of the entire empire, relying on the Ted family will be exhausted!
Right now, he needs people, lots of people!In addition to the caravan, there must be enough guards.

"Why don't you ask Baron Tomato?"

Now, besides this person, he can't think of other candidates!Besides, this money-making business can't be given to outsiders cheaply, so why not bring Baron Tomato along!
He is the only ally in the alliance. Pulling him to make money together can also promote the friendship between the two parties and enhance the relationship between the two parties.

When you have an idea, you must act immediately, lest you have long nights and dreams!

So Ted immediately took out the walkie-talkie and called Baron Tomato: "Hello! Is this Ben West?"

At this moment, Baron Tomato is eating watermelon while blowing on the air conditioner, sitting in the living room, playing chess with his ancestors, leisurely, very comfortable!
Hearing the intercom ring, Ben West burped, threw the watermelon rind into the trash can, wiped his hands with a disposable paper towel produced in the north, and then picked up the intercom!

Surprised with his unique cheerful tone: "Yo! Ted! I'm blowing the air conditioner in the room, are you okay?"

What Ted was most afraid of was that no one answered his call. However, Ben West was not a hypocritical person. He would not wait for the walkie-talkie to call out three times before responding. He sighed, stretched his waist, and expressed his thoughts Come out: "Of course there is something! I want to ask you to borrow some carriages and carts"

Hearing that the 'advanced' Earl Herrington actually needs such a traditional means of transportation, Baron Tomato thought he was going to make a movie: "Huh? Don't you have a truck? Why do you need these backward things?"

Ben West is not an outsider, and Ted doesn't need to keep it secret from him, so he said truthfully: "Technology must be kept secret, try not to let outsiders know! Our strength is not enough to win the entire empire!"

Hearing that Ted was here in Versailles, Baron Tomato smiled knowingly, and didn't open his mouth to complain about this "love the people" and "overly cautious" person.

If it were Ben West, he would challenge the entire empire with one-thousandth of Ted's strength.

However, they have been in Buddhism for thousands of years, and unless they are more than 9% sure of fighting or something, they will definitely not attack at will.

Tomato Baron picked up a glass of watermelon juice, took half a sip, and after thinking for less than three seconds, he had an idea: "What you said makes sense, the truck I ordered will arrive tomorrow, and fortunately the old tools you mentioned I didn't use it to chop wood and light the fire, or it would be funny!"

Hearing that the things were still there, Ted breathed a sigh of relief, and gradually cut to the topic from 'sweeping wool': "Hey hey, since there are, I have a business to make money, to gather the wool of other nobles! I don't know if you have not interested?"

The Baron Tomato has never heard of this kind of hidden meaning, and he doesn't know the specific meaning: "Does the noble family raise sheep?"

Ted covered his face and tried his best not to laugh out loud: "This is a metaphor, through reasonable business means, to earn other people's money!"

Ben West can't understand other things, but 'make money', even a fool can understand!And he will never refuse such good things: "Oh, just to make money?"

"Correct!"

"Then of course I will follow!"

"Then how many people can you send out there? I need a lot of people to transport and protect."

Ben West has seen Ted's tricks a long time ago. If he said he made a small profit, it would mean that the warehouse was full!Ordinary money making means more!

In order to be able to "eat a big meal" with Ted, he directly reported the maximum number of people that can be dispatched: "30 people, if your Sun God Cult can operate, we will have 2000 million civilians!"

This idea is very good, but the work of "flickering" has just been promoted, and it is not realistic to get them out, and it will take at least 2 months. Besides, most of them are honest people who like to live and work in one place. run around.

But this is only for now. When the transportation is developed in the future, they can reach any corner of the empire within a day, and they will like to travel. After all, Homo sapiens is a migratory animal!

After thinking about it, Ted still vetoed the plan: "Them? Not yet, I'm going to play a big ticket this time, and these people have to have their own jobs to do. The factory has been built, and I will also Build railways and roads, pay them salaries and supplies with work-for-work! Only with their help packing food can we dump a lot of goods! In secret, use Steve's name to fight against them!"

Make a fortune with a muffled voice, and then strike hard!Should be fun to implement!

Ben West also thinks so: "It makes sense! Then we will invest part of it first, and then let the people in the church join after your church is done! Ship things out batch by batch!"

Ted put down the happy water in his hand, and heard that Ben West and himself wanted to go together, and couldn't help but brows: "That's it! Perfect!"

Problem solved, it's time to act!

"When do you want someone?"

"The sooner the better, it will start at noon tomorrow, and I will find professionals to draw up a few routes according to the map during this period! In addition, we also need a certain escort to ensure the safety of the goods!"

"These are all easy to handle, but when it comes to the guards, what weapons do you plan to let them use?"

"I'm not too worried about this, because all the refugees in the empire have come to us, and there are only bandits and rogues left outside. Although the number is a bit large, I don't think a bunch of mobs will pose a big threat! That's it! I will distribute musket-loading muskets and bayonets to them, and the number of teams we will send will not be small, and there will be planes in the sky to follow them!"

Thinking of the plane scouting, Ted instantly had a solution: "Tell me, I will directly uproot the lairs of those robbers and bandits, what do you think?"

"If you can handle it, our team can expand!"

"Okay! See you at noon tomorrow!"

The lairs of the robbers in the dark age were not too secretive. In order to highlight their powerful influence, they usually chose a high mountain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, or opened a clearing in a certain jungle to build a stockade.

Such a place is difficult to find on the ground, but it is easy to detect from the sky. Ted can also take this opportunity to test the specific power of the aerial bomb and the accuracy of the scope.

In the absence of hostile air fire, the bombing mission is approximately equal to a live ammunition military exercise!
Now, Ted doesn't have enough Air Force pilots, so he can only let the special forces guys work part-time!
so.
"Joseph!!!"

"Huh? Sir? Is there a mission?"

Listening to the voice on the other side of the intercom, Ted slowed down. It seemed that they were doing flight training instead of watching SpongeBob SquarePants.

"There is indeed a mission. I need you to destroy all the bandits' lairs in the empire. We have to seize the empire's market and monopolize it in advance! Ensure the safety of goods delivery!"

This task is roughly equivalent to quelling civil strife. Under the premise of having high-tech weapons, the difficulty is less than or equal to five: "No problem, when will it start?"

"Starting at noon tomorrow!"

"Tomorrow at noon. OK! We can dispatch 10 bombers by then, as long as we have the location and coordinates, we can handle it!"

"Coordinates!" Ted covered his face, and only then did he realize the problem of coordinates!
Aimless investigation is a waste of time and resources, it is better to find out the news first, find the specific location, and solve it all at once!
"I will send you the coordinates as soon as possible! You train first!"

"Yes!"

Sitting on a chair in the office, Ted lowered his head and was troubled by the coordinates. As soon as the CPU of his brain smoked, a guard came to him with a letter.

"My lord, there is an urgent matter, and I need you to come here in person!"

"Say!"

"We have interrogated the prisoner you brought. He claims to be the fifth prince Steve's confidant. You have Steve's personal letter in your hand. I don't know where he stole it. In addition, it comes from the keepsake and confession on his body. Look, he's disguised like that! It's perfect! We had to use some tricks! But his mouth is still very hard"

With the token and the handwritten letter, there is a high probability that what he said is true, but the interrogation department has always been like this, even if it is true, he will have to be beaten up: "Ah, it looks like a disguise? I have to go and see the details Situation! Lead the way!"

"this way please"

When he came to the cell, Ted didn't talk nonsense, but directly dialed Steve's channel: "Steve, are you there? There is a person here who claims to be your confidant. He has no name, only a code name, called' Mole, is he one of yours?"

"Describe your appearance, and let me hear your voice."

"Wheat-colored public skin, brown pupils, deep forehead lines, young and mature, with a not-so-obvious scar on the left chin."

After describing his appearance, Ted turned to look at the dirty man in front of him: "Hey! Say something loudly!"

The man didn't know what was going on in front of him at all, he just looked at the luxuriously dressed man in front of him, and said something to an iron bump?
Looking at this strange thing, he responded subconsciously: "What do you say?"

Ted lifted the walkie-talkie and confirmed to Steve: "Did you hear that?"

"Well, it is indeed him. The child I adopted from the street has been helping me collect information all the time!"

"That's it, fortunately there is no danger, and no one knows his existence!"

At that time, Ted didn't kill the killer, but now he has an unexpected harvest!
Besides, judging from the memorandum report found from the enemy, they don't have a portrait of the 'mole', so this person can be put back and continue to collect intelligence.

With Steve's personal confirmation, Ted opened the cage himself, and handed the walkie-talkie to 'Mole': "Say a few words with Prince Steve!"

The confidant took the luminous iron block suspiciously, and tentatively asked, "Your Highness?"

"It's me! The test just now was an accident, and I will make it up to you!"

After half a year, listening to this familiar voice, this confidant almost burst into tears: "You don't need to do this, Your Highness! I feel much more at ease when I can hear your voice!"

"Okay, let's make a long story short. I want to be the emperor. Earl Herrington and Baron Tomato will help me. You have to use your intelligence network to help our alliance as much as possible! The rest, wait for me When I think about it, I'll come find you again!"

'Mole' didn't know what happened in the past six months, but it didn't matter. Since Steve took him in and gave him a way to survive, this life belonged to him!
Every minute and every second now, he can breathe fresh air, it is Steve's gift!

And now he told himself that he wanted to be the emperor, and the Mole would definitely try his best to help him realize it!
"Understood! I will do my best! Help you ascend the throne!"

The conversation between the two was very fast, and the tacit understanding for many years made them not need too much language communication, and they could see each other's meaning through the radio.

"See you!"

"Yes!"

Putting down the walkie-talkie, Mole raised his head and looked at Ted: "My lord, if you need information within the empire, you can just ask me! The intelligence network I have formed covers the entire empire!"

The FBI intelligence department formed by Ted is not large enough, it is a bit late to infiltrate now, and there are ready-made ones now!Still my own!No need for nothing!
"So good!"

Ted really wanted to keep this person, and slowly asked for useful information from him, but from the current point of view, only by putting him back can he maximize his role!
"You should have had enough sleep, then I will stop gossiping, after all, you are on your own, so"

It only took Ted half an hour to tell him the news he needed, and he also gave him a walkie-talkie by the way!

Even if the Mole didn't carry his own confidential document book, he has been engaged in intelligence work for many years, and his memory is very good. He can't remember everything, and it is not difficult to write down recent events.

"My lord, there are 6 bandit lairs near here that you just mentioned. I know the addresses, and you can go there first! As for the safe route, it doesn't exist. I only know a safer route. If you have a map, I can point it to you!"

"No problem, come with me!"

On the way to City Hall, Ted pulls a revolver from his bag.

"According to our 'inspection' of you, you don't know how to fight, you are just a powerless person. In order to ensure your safety, I have a side-by-side weapon here! You can use it."

Other types of pistols are not the best choice for the person in front of him.

The revolver is easy to operate and easy to maintain. 6 rounds of bullets are enough to get out of danger and get out of danger. For this kind of informant, it couldn't be more suitable!

Taking over this strangely shaped weapon, Mole played with it in his hand: "How do you use this thing?"

"Well, you tell us the location of the robber's lair first, and then an instructor will teach you how to use these two things! Finally, we will send you back at night, continue to lurk in the empire, and help us find out information!"

The Earl of Herrington in front of him is also a straightforward person. None of what he said just now was nonsense, nor was he hypocritical, and he had a clear goal!
Dealing with such people is very fun!From this point of view, the progress of the subsequent tasks will not be muddled, but will become Li Xuan's arrow!Never look back.

However, there is one more thing!
That's because the mole's got cash and Steve doesn't have enough funds
If you want to maintain such a large network of relationships, even if your informants are beggars, you have to take care of them from time to time.

"Well, Lord Earl, I have used up the funds provided by His Highness Steve. I wonder if you can give me some. I will tell His Highness when the time comes."

The last thing Ted needs is money, especially gold: "Tell me, how much?"

"20"

At this time, the two arrived at the city hall, and when they walked through the corridor to the innermost office, Ted responded: "20 is no problem."

When the door was opened just now, a gust of wind blew by, causing Ted to fail to hear clearly what unit he was talking about, so he opened one of the safes full of gold bricks according to his own ideas, and took out 20 gold bricks and put them on the table.

"Can you carry it? Do you want me to send someone to help you transport it to the place?"

"Forehead"

Mole looked at the 20 10-kilogram gold bricks in front of him, stroked his chin and lost himself in thought.

"Why, not enough?"

"Enough is enough! I just want 20 gold coins, just a small gold brick. I don't know how generous you are."

According to Ted's thinking, recruiting informants should be very expensive, and these are only enough for one month.

After being reminded by the mole, he remembered that the empire was not rich, and everyone bought things with copper coins, while the rich used silver coins, and as for gold coins, only the nobles could afford them.
But they have already been taken out, Ted can only pretend to be B to the end: "Ahem. Then you can take it."

These 10 kg bricks are not only inconvenient to pick up, but also inconvenient to use: "Um, sir, do you have a smaller one, one that is a small piece per kilogram, I will keep 50 yuan as a spare, as a bribe Deposit, and it will be faster and more convenient to obtain information when the time comes!"

"No problem, it's just that I don't have the little one. I will be ready when I send you back to the empire at night!"

"By the way, my lord, can I ask how I got here? The northern border is more than 1000 kilometers away from the imperial capital!"

"You'll know then!"

The Mole has slept all night and has known nothing since he entered the fortress
Ted knew that no matter how he explained, it was better to experience it himself, so he didn't waste time answering.

Because the battlefield to intercept in the south sent a report, waiting to be dealt with by myself!

(End of this chapter)