Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 596

[Chapter 596 Blackmail Strategy]

“Your Highness!” Yang He came in from the door and bowed to Zhao Xu.

Unlike the usual smiling face, Yang He had a slightly sad look on his face.

When Zhao Xu saw it, he shook his head helplessly.

The powerful families have become self-reliant, and naturally they will no longer allow domestic merchants to communicate with Yanzhou as before.

So during this period of time, the business has a backlog of goods.

Furthermore, as steam engines are put into various industries, Yanzhou’s production capacity is about to enter an explosive period.

Although Black Shark Pirates has opened up the Korean market, the Korean market is too small.

It can only be used as a spare tire when Yanzhou’s business is in desperation, and it cannot absorb a large amount of goods from Yanzhou.

Once the goods cannot be sold, all kinds of workshops must stop working.

In this way, the commercial bank can only distribute monthly money to the craftsmen in the workshop every day, but it cannot obtain profits from the workshop.

If things go on like this, the commercial bank will continue to lose money, and Yanzhou’s industry is bound to be hit.

“Your Highness, you have to think of a way. The workshop doesn’t make money, but it still has to lose money. This is a big trouble. If this continues, what will be used to pay officials and soldiers.” Yang He said.

He was in charge of Yanzhou’s trade and workshop, seeing the workshop withering day by day, it was more painful than killing him.

Hearing this, Liu Fu sighed, “It’s just that Da Song is not the royal family’s final decision, I’m afraid His Highness has nothing to do.”

During this time, he was also worried about this matter.

After all, this is no longer the problem of the commercial bank itself, but it will affect the treasury revenue of the entire Yanzhou, which has a great relationship.

Yang He didn’t speak, but looked at Zhao Xu quietly, like a bitter woman.

The false plague caused severe damage to Yanzhou.

Now the power and clan are self-reliant, which has a greater impact on commerce and trade.

King Yan once said that he would make up for the loss of business. At that time, he absolutely believed in King Yan.

But now it seems that King Yan also stumbled sometimes.

He certainly didn’t expect that after defeating Beidi, when the situation was going well, Da Song would suddenly fall apart.

“Ahem…” Facing Yang He’s wives-like eyes, Zhao Xu’s face turned slightly feverish.

He really didn’t expect that Princess Chun would stir up troubles in Jinling, cause Dasong to split, and make Yanzhou’s business even worse.

If it weren’t for the strong accumulation of the treasury in the past few years, I am afraid that Yanzhou would be over after the battle of Ningjin.

But there is always a time to sit and eat, and he should really think of a way.

In fact, during this period of time, he has been thinking, and has a preliminary idea.

And the solution to this matter was the smallpox plague he mentioned at the beginning.

If Da Song hadn’t fallen apart, his plan at the time was to sell the method of vaccination to the powerful for a big price.

However, judging from the current situation, it is obviously not cost-effective to sell it at a buy-out price, and it is better to use it to blackmail the powerful.   So he said to Liu Fu: “You said, what if the king uses smallpox to scare

the powerful people and threaten them not to obstruct the business exchanges between domestic merchants and Yanzhou?”

The corners of the mouth are also raised.

Yang He said: “Your Highness, this is really a good idea, just to scare them like this.”

Liu Fu nodded slightly, they knew that King Yan would not do evil deeds such as spreading smallpox.

After all, when the time comes, the wealthy and powerful clans will have more ways to save their lives, and the people of Dasong will die the most.

But the powerful people can’t control the character of King Yan. In their eyes, King Yan is heinous.

Maybe smallpox can really be used to intimidate powerful people and force them to open up business.

“You can definitely give it a try!” Liu Fu gave a thumbs up.

At present, there is no way, more effective than this.

After all, facing King Yan’s soldiers and horses, they still have soldiers and cities to defend them, but smallpox is hard to defend against.

In particular, malicious transmission is impossible to guard against.

Zhao Xu nodded, feeling relieved.

He is simply equivalent to mastering weapons of mass destruction.

Although he can not use it, it can deter the enemy.

This is just like nuclear weapons. The country that first developed nuclear weapons at the beginning often carried out nuclear blackmail against other countries in exchange for benefits.

If he can successfully blackmail this time, Yanzhou’s business will be restored.

In other words, even if you fight to the death at that time, business can still proceed as usual.

At the same time, he decided to move out of smallpox, and there was another consideration.

Ross people, Dongying people, and in the future there will be Britons, French people, and Stedam people arriving in Dasong.

Maybe any of them would know how to vaccinate.

At this time, it can be used but not used. When they hand over the solution to smallpox to the powerful family, his smallpox blackmail will be meaningless.

Therefore, he wants to carry out his own blackmail before the method of preventing smallpox is passed on to Da Song.

As for how long this blackmail can last, it depends on luck, but the longer the time, the better.

Even if it doesn’t last long, it will at least allow Yanzhou to sell the backlog of goods first.

However, according to his memory, vaccinia vaccination did not appear until the beginning of the nineteenth century.

In the early days, it was only carried out on a small scale in the country, and then it slowly spread to other countries.

So at this point in time, it is not so easy to meet a Western native in the East who knows how to vaccinate.

After all, this is also the high-end technology of this era.

After discussing this matter, Zhao Xu asked Liu Fu to choose the officials of Honglu Temple first.

In Dasong, Honglusi is the official in charge of diplomacy, which is equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He will let these officials go to Qi State Jinling, Nanliang, and Wu State to negotiate the matter.

Two days later, seven officials set off from Yancheng to their respective destinations.

The first official first arrived at Lucheng, the capital of Qi State.

At this time, Han Zheng, who was enthroned as emperor, was playing chess with Sato Mahisa in the palace.

He was very surprised to learn that a Yancheng official had arrived.

“King Yan actually sent officials to Lucheng, isn’t he afraid that I will kill them!”

Then he asked, “What is he doing here?”

The eunuch who was in charge of the notification took two steps forward and whispered something to Han Zheng.

The chess piece in Han Zheng’s hand suddenly fell from his hand to the board with a “pop”.

“Despicable and shameless, despicable and shameless!” Han Zheng yelled angrily.

Sato Majiu showed doubts, he had never seen Han Zheng lose his temper so much, so he asked, “What’s the matter?”

Han Zheng then told Sato Makoto what King Yan had threatened him.

Makoto Sato’s complexion also changed, and Dongying had no way to resist smallpox.

On this issue, he couldn’t help the Han family.

Han Zheng noticed Sato Mahisa’s expression, his heart sank, and he sat down dejectedly.

Sato Majiu was still a little unbelievable, and he asked: “Could it be that King Yan really has mastered the method of resisting smallpox, and he no longer has to be afraid of smallpox.”

Han Zheng nodded solemnly, “There is no falsehood, King Yan defeated Beidi It just proves that this time, I am afraid that we will have to make a heavy decision.”

(End of this chapter)