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After settling down the family.

Zhou Ming's work focused on another matter.

Crazy recruitment of mercenaries and preparations for war.

And war relies not only on people, not just gold coins, but also requires the preparation of various materials.

For example, the food, grass and meat eaten by personnel and horses.

For example, weapons that need to be consumed during the war,

and other logistical preparations.

In short, preparing for a large-scale war is a huge and systematic project.

To complete all preparations within three months is not something ordinary people can do.

This preparatory project can only be completed by the most talented people.

who?

It can only be Zhou Ming.

Above the palace, King James and all the noble ministers, faced with this task and wanted to recommend candidates, all looked at him invariably.

Why him?

Are there no other outstanding nobles who can do this job?

Maybe.

But everyone knows that it is impossible for anyone to replicate the miracles that this young financial executive has created one after another.

Take Dilo Bank, which has many nobles as shareholders. Who can open a bank with a total deposit of more than 500 million gold coins and hundreds of branches in hundreds of kingdoms within a year or so? , an institution that has made almost no mistakes in various businesses, facing millions of deposit users?

Secondly, who can do it, in only about half a year, comprehensively promote banknotes in the Kingdom of Yadud, and achieve high credibility, and the common people and nobles love to exchange and use them, and it is quickly becoming the most mainstream currency in market circulation.

These things that most people wouldn't even dare to think about, not to mention whether they can do it or not, were all accomplished by this boy, Zhou Ming, in a relatively short period of time.

And there are small loopholes, but there has never been a fatal mistake.

Therefore, the task of "recruiting 100,000 mercenaries within three months" naturally fell on Zhou Ming.

It can be said that it is popular.

So Zhou Ming became extremely busy.

The king also gave him the greatest authority, and he could use almost anyone he wanted.

As for the right to use the 20 million gold coins, it was handed over to him immediately... Regarding this point, Zhou Ming felt that King James was a thief, because 20 million gold coins was only the cost of hiring those mercenaries, not even Including the cost of food, grass, ordnance, if all expenses are added in, the cost of the entire war is estimated to be more than 50 million gold coins.

But King James doesn't care. Anyway, the royal family has already spent 20 million to complete the task. Zhou Ming will handle the remaining number by himself.

Moreover, King James knew that when Leylin didn’t have enough money, he liked to put in money himself. In the past year, he put in at least more than 5 million, without any greetings or IOUs. It was all in vain. Of course, King James I want to see how much money this richest man in the kingdom will put into it this time?

Zhou Ming quickly called King James.

"Your Majesty, for the excess of the budget, I can replenish it from the treasury or use bank loans. But if your Majesty really only provides 20 million, I hope you will agree to my request."

"any request."

"After the war is over, I want to have all the rights to freely distribute the spoils of war in my own hands." Zhou Ming said.

"The right to distribute the spoils?"

"Yes, after the war, whether it is captured property, captured enemy troops, or occupied land, all the rights to distribute these spoils will be given to me."

"this……"

King James is in a bit of a dilemma. Does this guy mean that this defensive war can still be profitable?

But with more than 100,000 people, how much loot can be obtained and how many enemy soldiers can be captured against the 500,000 people in the Soliu Kingdom?

And occupy the other party's land?

How can this be?

However, for some reason, King James still asked: "What if I don't give you free distribution rights?"

"Then please ask the royal family to come up with another 10 million." Zhou Ming said.

"Forget it, as for the loot, you can handle it yourself."

King James shook his head violently, 10 million, how many good things can you buy? Even if the royal family grits its teeth and can get the money, after the war is over, the total value of the spoils will be worth 10 million.

In short, King James felt that once he took out another 10 million, the royal family would definitely lose money.

So he delegated the right to distribute the spoils to Zhou Ming.

"Okay, it's settled!"

Zhou Ming nodded.

However, a verbal agreement was not enough. Two days later, Zhou Ming brought a group of nobles and a "Spoils of War Distribution Agreement" to King James and asked to sign it. With this written in black and white, the king could not cheat even if he wanted to. .

"You kid, you don't even believe what I say?"

Looking at the agreement in front of him, King James was a little angry. This kid didn't believe him and even made up something inexplicable like an agreement.

"The agreement represents trust, and there are so many nobles here to witness it... Your Majesty, please sign it." Zhou Ming held the agreement closer.

"snort!"

King James snorted, took the pen, and signed quickly.

After signing their names, King James suddenly noticed that the nobles brought by Leylin all had smiles on their faces...a smile as if the conspiracy had succeeded.

"What do you guys want to do?"

King James suddenly felt like he was being kept in the dark, and even realized that something was not good.

Two days later, King James received a report: In the royal capital, about thirty noble families were desperately raising money, mortgaging fixed assets, summoning a large number of retainers and knights, and engaging in intense war preparations.

Among them, Duke Rudolph was the most active. Not only did he take out 8 million gold coins and hand them into Leylin's hands, but all the Rudolph family's 5,000 private troops were mobilized for intense training that could be described as hell.

"Are these families crazy? Do they really believe Leylin's words and prepare to take a piece of flesh from the Soliu Kingdom?"

King James muttered to himself, he couldn't even imagine it.

…

the other side.

Regarding his own family, the Leilin family, Zhou Ming also arranged many tasks for the family.

For example, the eldest brother Roger and the third brother Jon were both assigned to the army as generals, each commanding about 1,000 soldiers.

The second sister, Ciri, was a woman, so she joined the Rose Legion (the only female legion in the kingdom, with a strength of about 1,000 people) and became a personal attendant of Princess Xiverness.

As for his father Cohen, he assigned him an extremely critical task——

Return to Heihe Town on the edge of the Black Swamp, and do your best to extract oil and refine the gasoline, diesel, and kerosene used by transport aircraft... The more the better, preferably tens of thousands of tons, to satisfy the Hercules transport aircraft during the entire war. flight needs.

In order to achieve this output, Zhou Ming will give him more than 5,000 manpower and a large number of machinery and equipment to complete the oil refining work.

"No matter how long this war lasts, the fuel I provide you is guaranteed to be 100% sufficient!"

Cohen Leylin vowed that there was plenty of oil near the Black Swamp, and it was extremely easy to extract. As long as there were enough manpower, it would not be a problem to increase the production tenfold or a hundredfold.

"good!"

Zhou Ming nodded. In order to save time, he drove his father Cohen to Heihe Town in the Tornado 2.

In addition, the Continental Chamber of Commerce and Industry has also mobilized a large number of manpower from organizations in various countries and sent them continuously to the Kingdom of Yadud to increase the production of "Hercules" transport aircraft and participate in this exciting war preparations that may bring about huge changes. .

…

besides.

In the implementation of the "delaying time" plan, the "fake princess" who played an important role finally found a woman in a remote village in the north of the kingdom after a large number of people searched among the people.

A woman who, after some dressing up, looks very similar to Princess Xivenis.

This woman's name is Isa, she is 23 years old, married, has two children, and her husband is an honest farmer.

When the baron there captured the woman and brought her to the royal capital, he told her that she was going to perform a glorious and great mission.

Isa was stunned.

Then he refused fiercely: "No, no, no, I am not the princess. I can't pretend to be her. I can't read a word. I might be killed!"

It happened that Isa's husband also rushed to the royal capital with his two children. He stood in the street and cried out for injustice, shouting to let his wife go. Every time he saw a noble-looking person, he knelt down, hoping that the kind person would help... ...This young farmer named "Gary" is deeply in love with his wife Isa.

In order to prevent the matter from getting bigger, Gary was arrested by the city defense patrol and thrown into prison together with the two half-year-old children.

Even in order to force Isa to submit, the nobleman responsible for this matter threatened the lives of her husband and two children, saying that if she did not agree, she would kill her husband and children!

Unexpectedly, Isha still refused.

"Kill me, you guys kill me! Don't embarrass my husband and children!"

Isa cried loudly.

This matter finally reached Zhou Ming, who quickly intervened.

"How did you do it? This little thing turned into this?"

Zhou Ming shamelessly scolded the nobleman, not only asking him to apologize to Isha, but also to release all of Isha's family.

Of course, he did not let Isha leave, but arranged her into a palace and lived a life of luxury and lust for half a month.

This half month has been a dream-like life for Isha, a peasant woman.

There are a large number of servants waiting on you all day long.

Enjoy the most exquisite and rare cuisine.

Sleeping on a bed that is bigger than the living room in my hometown.

And when facing the gold and silver treasures in the treasure box that emit various lights and are worth millions of gold coins.

The peasant woman Isa couldn't help but fall.

Not only that, in the past half month, Zhou Ming would spend half a day every day teaching various courses to Isha.

For example, how to please a man?

How to cultivate noble behavior and temperament?

How to improve your style?

And how to turn a wise monarch into a subjugated king, etc.

Zhou Ming taught in great detail, and Isha listened very carefully.

And Zhou Ming assured her: "As long as you strictly follow my instructions, you will never reveal your secret, and they will definitely treat you as a real princess."

"If you are accidentally discovered or are in danger, don't worry, as long as you can contact me, I will definitely rescue you!"

"As for your husband and children, don't worry. I asked someone to give them a sum of money that will last a lifetime."

"Of course, if you still want to be a peasant woman again, I won't force you and let you go home right away."

In front of Isha, Zhou Ming gave her two choices.

"I want to be a princess."

Sure enough, this peasant woman, whose body and soul had been completely corrupted by money, fame, wealth, and vanity, chose to pretend to be a princess without hesitation.

From her decent behavior and cold and calm temperament, Zhou Ming suddenly realized that this woman's role might be no less than that of a hundred thousand mercenaries.