It turned out that after learning that the Myanmar government might send troops, Liancheng Li had sent people from the General Staff to Mandalay to buy some of the opposition party members and let them stir up trouble at the meeting. As long as they could delay for three months, the money would be worth it.
Those representatives were also greedy for money. As long as it did not harm their interests, they were willing to cause trouble for the ruling party. Although they had already foreseen that they would not be able to stop the army this time, since someone was paying, he did not mind earning a little money to spend.
" Okay, that's all for now. But we need to keep in touch with the members of parliament. Maybe we can use them in the future. It's best if we can rope in their political parties to become our spokesperson for the Myanmar government," Liancheng Li said thoughtfully.
" I don't think it's possible for the larger political parties, but it's possible for the smaller political parties. They don't have any backers, and their attitude towards the Chinese has always been good. If they continue to maintain contact, they may join us in the future. However, we must also give them military support," Gong Ziqiang reported to Li Liancheng as he thought.
" Oh right, Master, we are running out of funds. If we don't think of a way, I don't think we will be able to pay the soldiers next month," Gong Ziqiang reminded Li Liancheng as he flipped through his notebook.
"What…? " It's only been five months. How could the money be gone?" Li Liancheng was surprised.
" Master, why don't you take a look at what we've been doing for the past few months? Which one of them didn't cost money? You didn't even let us ask the local Chinese to distribute the money. It's already good enough that we've used this little bit of money until now," Gong Ziqiang complained.
" What is it? Why didn't I know that we spent so much money? Where did we spend the money?" Li Liancheng asked awkwardly. In the past few months, he had either been inspecting the company or hanging out with a few concubines at home. He never thought that his ideas would cost so much money.
"First of all, we need to pay our own troops and feed our soldiers. We need money, right? Our own arsenal needs money for raw materials, weapons manufacturing, and hiring workers. That's not all. The rewards you give to those soldiers need money too. As for our income, besides a part that we can steal from the homes of those Myanmar diehards, we only have the money that we bring from the mainland. But it's not enough to spend."Now that I don't want to open up new sources of income, I think we should just break up," Gong Ziqiang said, not caring about Li Liancheng's face.
"Then... Then, um... I heard that Myanmar has a lot of copper, gold, and silver. Can we collect these to subsidize the military expenditure? By the way, aren't there a lot of businessmen in Myanmar? Then can we collect commercial taxes? Those agricultural taxes can be set to a certain amount. We can levy taxes on the landowners whose land exceeds a certain limit, like those farmers." Li Liancheng thought for a moment and said," I heard that there are a lot of bandits in some places. They often harass caravans. We can form a caravan to take profits from them.""Is that okay? You see, as long as you think of a way, money isn't a problem." After saying that, he looked narcissistic.
"Ahem…" Gong Ziqiang knew that he was being narcissistic again. He quickly interrupted him and said," What if they don't invite us? Some chieftain armed forces are quite powerful. Even bandits would be defeated by them. Moreover, there are no bandits in some places."
" You're really stupid. Without the bandits, aren't we just bandits?" Looking at the chief of staff in front of him, he felt helpless. He had to ask me to carry out such a thing." When the time comes, we'll see who doesn't let us guard them and who doesn't invite us. The bandits will just rob them. When the time comes, they'll cry and shout to invite us."
"Marshal, is this...。。”Gong Ziqiang said hesitantly. He wanted to ask if it was too dark, but after seeing the indifferent look in the marshal's eyes, he knew that once the marshal decided, it could not be changed. Only he and the others would do this well and try to let as few people know. Even if others knew, they could not find evidence.
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