Next, Deputy Director Xiao Se and the chief captain finally ended his silent scrutiny, opened his mouth with a light snort, and roared at Wang Qiu and the others with a thunderous and terrifying reprimand, which also made this small and gloomy office seem to be drowned in a storm in an instant:

“…… Comrade Wang Qiu, Comrade Ma Tong, Comrade Cai Rong, Comrade Sonya, and this Miss Sanae Rika...... Recently, you guys have really had a good time, very leisurely, very exciting, and have had a lot of fun playing war games in ancient Egypt time and space, right? Tsk, actually bombarded Caesar and a Roman legion? Isn't it rewarding to torture the ancients with missiles?

However, please don't forget that the state supports you to travel across the wormhole to the otherworld, on the one hand, to save those who are in difficult circumstances and complete the humanitarian rescue mission, and on the other hand, to use the wormhole to collect cheap resources in the other world for the benefit of our organization and the country. Instead of letting you go to a different shijie to seek excitement and squander a lot of public money to play some war game!

So, what did you do in ancient Egypt? Okay! Not counting the previous expenses for the time being, just in the battle of Zuihou in Alexandria, you knocked out more than a dozen large missiles, more than 4,000 high-explosive rockets, and the cost of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, bullets and rocket launchers...... A full 300 million yuan of arms and materials was spent without blinking an eye. That's enough to buy a small warship!

Although those rockets are old and stocked, they can't be used casually! We do things to pay attention to profits! ”

While speaking, Deputy Director Xiao was still knocking on the table with a "bangbang". The horizontal flesh on his face was always trembling, and the spittle and stars splashed on Wang Qiu's clothes. And that murderous look made Wang Qiu feel a lot of pressure for a while.

“…… And what about income? Is that all there is to it? Deputy Director Xiao pointed to the low cabinet next to his desk. He scolded sharply.

-- On the low cabinet to the left of the desk was a pile of shiny gold and silver jewelry, mainly gold bars, ingots, gold coins, silver coins, a small number of natural precious stones, a few pearls of poor color, and a few pieces of gold and silver jewelry in the style of ancient Egypt or Greece......

This is all when Queen Cleopatra was on the march from the border to the capital, indulging in mercenary looting and extorting the nobles and rich people along the way. Thus hastily looting a little property.

While these glittering treasures generally look good and look dazzling, they're also great to put in RPG chests to covet. But if you really sell them in the gold shop, it is estimated that they can be exchanged for millions of yuan.

If this money is used for military expenses to purchase light equipment such as submachine guns, pistols, and grenades, it is estimated that it will be enough to fight more than a dozen exciting urban shootouts. But if you use it to buy missiles and play long-range bombardment...... Well. That's a drop in the bucket.

In view of the fact that there is now a huge deficit in the income and expenditure accounts. Regarding Deputy Director Xiao's scolding and questioning, Wang Qiu, Ma Tong and Cai Rong were speechless.

In fact, if Wang Qiu and the others were willing to spend all their belongings and take out all the money they earned in Japan for the disposal of nuclear waste, as well as the money they earned from dumping modern goods in Central America and the Eastern Roman Empire, it should be enough to fill the hole of 300 million yuan in military spending. And they were ready to do it -- but the problem was that they wanted to get that much money out of the bank and transfer it. It's also very troublesome.

So, as of now. Zuihou, the largest amount of 300 million yuan in arms expenditure, is still hanging on the unit's public account for the time being. And Deputy Director Xiao, who was far away in Beijing, didn't know very much about the solvency of these trans-time and space traffickers, let alone that they had the noble sentiment of filling in the accounts at their own expense, but mistakenly thought that these little hairy people who spent money and spenders wanted the public to pay for it, so they rushed over to question in a hurry.

In short, after Wang Qiu and others expressed their willingness to pay out of their own pockets to make up for this shortfall, Deputy Director Xiao's face became kinder.

But then there is still a question that remains unsolved - how to return the huge investment in ancient Egypt and space?

-- In order to help Queen Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy XIII compete for the throne of Egypt, bombard Caesar and Pompey who came to stir up the situation, and eliminate these two groups of Romans who were rebellious in Egypt, Wang Qiu and others squandered so many missiles and rockets in one go, that they had exhausted their former savings, and even Zuihou had turned over a little of their inner bag.

If there is any fierce battle to be fought in the future, Wang Qiu and the others, who are desperate, I am afraid that they will have to go to the bank to borrow a war loan...... I just don't know what bank would be willing to lend money to the Ptolemaic government of ancient Egypt BC?

To make matters worse, the situation in Egypt at this time was still very unstable, Ptolemy XIII was still entrenched in Upper Egypt to plot a counterattack, the Romans who dominated the Mediterranean were also likely to retaliate, and the priestly group in Memphis was still ambiguous and did not express clear support for the queen's restoration.

Therefore, for Queen Cleopatra at this time, hoping to sit on the throne without a war is simply delusional. And if we have to use modern weapons in a war, then military spending will flow like a flood that bursts a levee......

“…… As for the issue of reimbursement of military expenditures, I don't think you should be too worried. Egypt has always been a land of abundance since ancient times, and there has never been a shortage of wealth. It was because I was driven out of the country and left everywhere that I couldn't get much money in return......"

In response to this question, Queen Cleopatra's single-minded doppelganger on this shijie, the zombie shrine maiden Sanae Rika put down the teacup in her hand and replied calmly, "...... After recovering the capital, you can raise money through taxes......"

“…… Egypt? Rich? This young lady from Japan, are you kidding? Please, use your brains, what can be produced in that part of Egypt except sand and sand? How much money can you get for a modern shijie? ”

Deputy Director Xiao snorted from his nose and scoffed at Sanae Rika's statement, "...... Although I am always scolded by others behind my back as a stupid person with muscles in my head, I also know that the so-called 'wealth' in the eyes of ancient people is completely different from the modern people's perception of the word 'wealth'! ”

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Can Egypt be considered a rich country?

Well, this is a very complicated issue -- you know, the concept of "abundance" has had very different standards in different times and in different countries.

Just as the Aztecs did not consider gold as currency, but collected obsidian and cocoa beans into the treasury; The British colonizers of the nineteenth century saw the impoverished India as the most dazzling cornucopia, but the rich Arab countries of the Gulf as barren and useless. Due to the changes in the level and cognitive ability of jishu, the so-called "wealth" in the eyes of ancient people is completely different from the view of modern people.

First of all, in the eyes of the ancients, Egypt must have been a land of abundance, because it was rich in grain, and grain had always been the strongest hard currency in ancient Shijie - under the water of the Nile River, which flooded regularly, the ancient Egyptians had the most fertile arable land in the Mediterranean region, as well as the most abundant crop harvest, and could take out a large amount of surplus grain for export, feeding most of the Mediterranean Shijie civilization.

Therefore, the ancient Greeks called Egypt "the gift of the Nile" and the ancient Romans called Egypt "the bread basket of the Mediterranean". During the Roman Empire, Egypt shipped more than 100,000 tons of wheat to Italy every year to feed Roman citizens.

But the problem is that in ancient Shijie may be called priceless, in modern Shijie is just the capacity of a container ship. It seems that the astonishing amount of 100,000 tons of wheat can be sold in China for more than 200 million yuan, which is not enough to make up for the price of the missiles and rockets that Wang Qiu and the others defeated in one battle -- this is the evil industrial and agricultural scissors difference!

And if you want to scavenge so much wheat from Egypt, you don't know how many farmers will starve to death and how many riots will be caused. Not to mention the Ptolemaic Dynasty of ancient Egypt on the other side of the wormhole, which has just unfortunately experienced three consecutive bad harvest years, and experienced a war, and even the Nile Delta is in a famine, and there is no surplus grain for sale...... Queen Cleopatra is also looking forward to getting some food from modern Shijie to go back to the emergency!

Next, since the way of pouring food from ancient Egyptian time and space does not work, then naturally you can only use your brains on other products.

The problem is that Egypt is just a narrow oasis in the Sahara Desert. Natural resources are actually quite scarce, and there are not even a few decent trees. The bulk goods that are abundant on the banks of the Nile are generally only grain, in addition to papyrus.

As for many other important commodities necessary for human society, they were often not produced in Egypt, or the quality of the products produced was inferior and costly, and it was not as cost-effective as importing goods from abroad - for example, the Egyptians imported copper ore from the Sinai Peninsula, timber from Lebanon, gold and iron from the blacks of Nubia in the south (roughly equivalent to modern-day Ethiopia), spices such as frankincense and myrrh from the Arabian Peninsula, and pepper from the farther East......

Modern Egypt is still rich in long-staple cotton, but it did not exist in Cleopatra's time - cotton is native to India and the Americas, and it was not until the first century A.D. that Asian cotton began to be widely cultivated in Egypt, and American cotton had to wait another 1,500 years...... In the first century BC where Cleopatra lived, Egypt only had relatively coarse linen, which looked very much like a rag, and it would never be sold in modern Shijie.

Zuihou also has some prolific oil wells in Egypt, but unfortunately they are basically all located in the depths of the Sahara Desert far from the Nile, which have been rarely visited by people for thousands of years, and they cannot be exploited at all under the conditions of Jishu BC, and even cannot solve the problem of drinking water supply for oil workers. (To be continued.) )