Siegfried Otto Lilin -- a young industrialist, a technical wizard, and a business wizard.

In addition to these titles, there should be a label: mean, shameless, treacherous and cunning, a bastard merchant who deserves to go to the bottom of hell to suffer.

Li Lin came with all the means to solve the problem, and at the same time asked the kingdom to give away a small profit in return for him.

It is a very reasonable move, the nature of a businessman is to pursue profits, and seeking profits is as natural as breathing and eating. Acting as philanthropists is not part of their instinct.

A businessman can have no homeland, no king, no faith, no parents, wives and children, and no moral and legal limits...... Not even water and food, but never without profit.

Li Lin's plan had been submitted to Richelieu for review, and the prime minister himself still felt that it was very feasible after repeated deliberations, and it was completely understandable for the young businessman to take advantage of the situation and propose his share of it.

[It's nothing more than some preferential policy tendencies, or purchasing rights and the like.] 】

Accustomed to the flattering smile of the businessman flattering him, and asking for that little bit of profit, Risse left such a judgment consciously, and Mette pinched it for a while.

These two pillars of the country really underestimated Li Lin and V.E Company.

As an extremely pure interest animal, the V.E Foundation Limited is not one of those cats and dogs of the past - when you earn a little money, you can be as excited as a fly that has drunk honey, and the young businessman who still looks like a young man has given the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs a real glimpse of what a "predator" is.

[the right to transport and trade goods to Lapland];

preferential tax policies for the movement of goods within Lapland and Charlemagne for twenty years;

the right to build and operate roads in the territory of the two countries;

Without any concealment or fear, Li Lin made these demands nakedly.

Anyone who knows a little bit about the country's economy will understand what a terrible right it is.

Monopolizing the trade privileges with Lapland, which had long been held by six trading houses in the east and north, was enough to put all the merchants into a collective shock. Charlemagne and Lapland have the right to build roads, and V.E has the right to operate these roads independently!

Why didn't he go to the title of [Minister of Highway Administration] like His Majesty the King to take a look? Whether it was enthusiasm or business ability, Li Lin was better than those who sat in the office all day. It's much better to be a bastard with a paycheck.

Relying on superhuman self-control, Richelieu suppressed his anger until Li Lin got up to leave. When Li Lin's comfortable and cunning aura completely disappeared from the room, a high-priced porcelain vase immediately turned into countless pieces, and Charlemagne's prime minister scolded in hometown slang: "Stinky dung! At the same time, he threw things indiscriminately.

Speaking of which, Prime Minister Richelieu thought that he had a relatively thorough understanding of the nature of a businessman, but it was also the first time that the well-informed Richelieu had seen such a pure profit animal like Li Lin, who had no heart to ask for such a huge return as soon as he came up. A certain kind of Cheng dù was a little scared.

The remuneration that Li Lin wants has gone beyond the scope of business operations, and the things he wants are actually part of the government's administrative power.

The right to foreign trade, the construction of roads, the operation of roads, and some of them to taxation - these are enough to control the economic lifeline of a country, and even shake the country's foundation.

The business scope of V.E company has been involved in people's daily life and work. And the technology is advanced, the quality is reliable, and the price is low. All competitors have already taken a heavy hit. And once V.E gets those powers, they will no longer be able to do so.

First of all, goods need to be circulated in order to generate value. After V.E Company grasps the right to operate the road, it can set up cards to charge for pedestrians and goods passing by. At that time, V.E will only need to adjust the road toll price standard. The carriage merchants and free traders of the whole country will be tossed by him to the point of bankruptcy. As for the stronger competitors, V.E., which enjoys tax exceptions, is enough to launch a massive price dumping war, and anyone who stands in the way will be swallowed to the bone.

Recently, Metternich also heard a vague sign of ominous news - V.E Company is preparing to enter the financial lending industry and develop its own money bank and pawn shop......

I don't know what monopoly capital is, and what is a giant enterprise of the Kang Tseen type. Richelieu and Metternich could foresee a very terrifying future, and what a terrible picture the country might face.

-- Every thing in everyone's life, from birth to death, is produced, transported, packaged, sold, and recycled by a single company, without any commercial competitors. This huge enterprise is so inseparable from people's lives that it cannot be allowed to make any mistakes with this company, and if the company goes bankrupt, the whole society will collapse with it.

Even if the situation may not be so severe, relying on his huge economic influence, Li Lin is fully capable of interfering and influencing the government's decision-making, and constructing a set of oligarchy systems that did not exist in the past -- a new relationship between V.E Company and the state.

Such a prospect is by no means good news, and it is extremely dangerous for Richelieu, who is determined to promote Charlemagne's strength.

The Prime Minister is determined to stop this monster from happening, even if it damages the credibility of some countries. In order to do this, he and Metternich decided to take the risk and launch a modified version of the Continental System ahead of schedule.

First, he got in touch with Castile and Albion and tried to ease relations. Then foreign grain was introduced to alleviate the food shortage at home, and at the same time secretly speed up the subjugation of dangerous organisms parasitic within the country. In order to increase the supply channels and provide insurance, the prime minister also sent secret envoys to the Rus' side to explore the possibility of smuggling grain into the country.

The president of V.E is a crazy gambler, and the only bargaining chip in his hand is to save a considerable window of time until the royal government allocates edible and safe food. In this window period, only V.E can feed hundreds of thousands of hungry mouths.

This bargaining chip is useless in normal times, but in the current famine, it has unparalleled lethality. The hungry people only care about who can provide them with food to prevent them from starving to death, and words such as national righteousness are ordinary to them. In the face of burning hunger, nothing cannot be given up. The same is true for farmland, dwellings, self-esteem and thinking can also be exchanged for a life-sustaining handful of wheat (to be continued. )

PS: Guess the small theater > Li Lin: Yesterday's award-winning book friends are [Little Night God], [Thirteen Cats], [Xiu Wenke], and [Yang Xiao Technical Lieutenant Colonel]!