1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 255 Imported Minerals
Wang Qin thought about it silently, and felt that this Haihan man surnamed Shi was right.Given the current market conditions of Haihan products, it is very kind to allow a 30-day delivery period. As for the deposit, only half of the deposit will be refunded. of.

"Then do you have a catalog list?" Wang Qin cheered up and continued to ask.

"Yes." He Xi who was next to him responded and handed a thick notebook to Wang Qin.

Wang Qin took it and opened it to see that there were colored pictures of the products drawn inside. Each page was a kind of product, and there were short text descriptions and product numbers below.This is a product catalog that the Ministry of Commerce specially found a few people with art skills to make by hand-painting, and sandwiched it in a laminated photo album to serve as an external display.

Now Wang Qin has got the treasure, and he slowly flipped through the pages one by one, he couldn't put it down.However, Schneider and He Xi didn't have the patience to wait for him to choose slowly. There were still seven or eight customers waiting to negotiate. Time is money!
At that moment, He Xi coughed dryly and said, "Actually, none of the above items are in stock so far. If Boss Wang wants stock, just look at the last three pages."

Wang Qin raised his head and said, "Since there is nothing to sell, why did you make this album?"

"This is also a temporary situation..." He Xi quickly explained to him.

The Guangzhou Office will contact the base camp every day through the radio to confirm the order and the goods that the base camp can provide, so as to revise the promotional product catalog for the next day.Originally, the goods displayed today still had a small amount of stock, but before Wang Qin, more than half of them had been ordered by big commercial firms from Chaozhou, and many kinds of goods had been copied directly, but the product catalog had not yet had time fix.It can only be blamed for Wang Qin coming a little later - if he insisted on not leaving yesterday, he would have been in front of that one.

When Wang Qin turned to the last three pages, he couldn't help but feel a little depressed when he saw that there were daily necessities such as matches and soap.Whether these things are good or not, sales are definitely not a problem, but the profits are far less than those of glass products and silver mirrors. In comparison, the cost of a trip to Yazhou is a bit high.

"Then can I book the next batch of goods in advance?" Wang Qin asked persistently.

"In order to prevent our Haihan products from being monopolized by a certain commercial firm, we currently do not provide reservation services, and we only sell them in stock." Schneider explained: "If we allow reservations, then 'Fu Ruifeng' may have already sold out the goods for next year. It's all booked."

Earlier, some inside the Ministry of Commerce also proposed to directly launch futures trading in order to attract more merchants to buy Haihan products in the shortest possible time, but this proposal was ultimately rejected by the executive committee.The Executive Committee believes that under the circumstances that the current financial system is not perfect and the level of productivity is still relatively backward, it is a radical risk to start futures trading rashly.Once there is a problem in the supply chain of the goods that affects the delivery date, it will cause a devastating blow to the current financial and commercial systems. In terms of the current market trend, it is not worth taking such a big risk for the Transit Group to gather popularity and wealth.Of course, if the conditions in all aspects are ripe in the future, then futures trading will also emerge as the society develops. After all, the first futures exchange appeared in Europe as early as the 16th century. Crossover Group is not the first in this respect. History precedent.

Wang Qin also had to admit that Schneider was right. All the merchants in Guangzhou knew that "Furuifeng" had a great friendship with Haihan people, and "Furuifeng" itself was also very powerful. It may happen—in fact, this is the case in the first few months when Haihan products appeared in the Guangzhou market.But the Haihan people don't seem to intend to put all their eggs in one basket, so they announced the location of Shengli Port to the outside world, allowing merchants to go to Shengli Port to purchase goods by themselves.

Seeing Wang Qin's silence, Schneider also guessed some of his thoughts, so he took the initiative to persuade: "Boss Wang can organize the supply of goods by himself, and ship some goods with competitive prices to Victory Port for sale. It’s even better. Boss Wang can take a look at the last page, which is the various materials we are currently purchasing.”

Hearing this, Wang Qin turned to the last page. The shopping materials listed by the Haihan people were all raw materials or semi-finished products, many of which belonged to minerals, and he was not familiar with them.However, the various agricultural and seafood products in the area where the Haifeng is located are not on the Haihan people's shopping list.

"Most of the minerals and ores listed above are unknown to me. What should I do?" Wang Qin couldn't help feeling a little anxious. He finally met the Haihan people. Now that he can't buy what he should buy, can he buy it? I didn't sell it myself. Could it be that the business has gone bad before it even started?

"May I ask Boss Wang, is your business name from Huizhou Haifeng?" Schneider asked.Wang Qin's previous greeting card clearly stated "Huizhou Prefecture Haifeng", so he would ask this question.

Wang Qin nodded and said, "Exactly."

"Check out Haifeng's products." Schneider nodded to He Xi.

He Xi got up and walked to the other side of the study, where there was a screen blocking his view, Wang Qin only heard a slight crackling sound, and He Xi walked out from behind the screen.

"Haifeng is still a little tricky." He Xi said to Schneider with a smile: "The local tin, lead, and zinc are all available. Among them, the tin ore reserves are the largest, and the quality is good. Even the ore can be purchased directly."

Tin is not a rare thing in this era. As one of the hardware, tinware is very popular among the people.But the time travel group intends to import tin ore, but it is not for the purpose of making tinware.

The military industry department has been clamoring for the mass production of bronze cannons, but due to the lack of mineral resources, they can only stay at the sample stage and cannot be mass-produced.The raw material bronze required for casting bronze cannons is essentially copper-tin alloy.Bronze has much better casting performance and heat dissipation than cast iron, and the difficulty of casting weapons is much less than that of cast iron.In addition, the low carbon content of bronze artillery is not easy to rub sparks, and it is also superior to cast iron artillery in terms of safety.

The most important thing is that under the same caliber, in order to prevent the blasting of the chamber, the cast iron artillery must lengthen and thicken the barrel, while the bronze artillery can make the barrel thinner and shorter due to its material advantages, so that the weight of the gun body becomes Lighter, both army guns and naval guns can benefit a lot from this technological advancement.Under the current situation of insufficient steelmaking scale and insufficient steel processing level, bronze cannons are obviously an excellent choice for the military industry sector.In addition to weapons, bronze can also be used to manufacture wear-resistant parts and corrosion-resistant equipment, such as various mechanical bearings and various chemical containers. These industrial uses far exceed the military field.

The tin brass known as "Navy Brass" requires tin and zinc, two minerals produced by Haifeng.Because of its strong corrosion resistance, this alloy can be specially used in the manufacture of ship parts. For example, the Ministry of Shipping plans to wrap all parts of warships below the waterline with copper skin. The material required is this tin brass .

In addition, the paper-making and printing project jointly established by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Information Industry has also entered the development stage of printing technology.Several centuries have passed since the invention of movable type printing, and the technology has been very mature. However, wooden movable type, clay movable type and pottery movable type have all been eliminated in the course of history. Lead movable type, which was widely used in later generations, was in the 15th century. It was created by the Germans, and this kind of lead type is actually a lead-tin alloy.

As one of the important external strategies of Time Travel Group, cultural output has always been the focus of the executive committee.In order to reflect the lofty image of Haihan culture, the quality of printed matter must be much higher than that of contemporary competitors, and the equipment such as movable lead type must be in place in one step.The Executive Committee spared no effort in this regard. In order to allow the metallurgical workshop to produce qualified lead-tin alloys as soon as possible, almost all the tin wares on the surface of Yazhou City were searched out—of course, most of them were distributed to the military industry department. The bronze cannon went.

The Executive Committee even prioritized cultural export ahead of military export, closely following commodity export.In the long-term vision of the executive committee, this kind of cultural output is not only aimed at Daming, but should be based on the perspective of globalization and distributed to all countries and regions.Some radicals even claimed on the forum that the "four great inventions" should redefine the world—let us walk around the world with a compass, conquer every inch of land with artillery, and record all this with pen and paper , and printed into books handed down to later generations.

Wang Qin didn't quite understand why the Haihan people imported ore through their own trading firm, but the price offered by the other party made him unable to refuse the proposal.And Schneider also said that if this kind of supply can be kept stable for a long time, then Haihan will set aside a certain share of glass products for him every month to ensure that the "Haifeng" will not be damaged after transporting ore from Huizhou to Shengli Port. Return empty.This kind of treatment has even surpassed that of some merchants who have set up warehouses in Shengli Harbor. Despite the advantages of purchasing channels, when the supply of goods is tight, they still need to obtain the supply of Haihan goods through bidding.

Although Schneider and He Xi kindly invited Wang Qin to stay for lunch, Wang Qin politely declined their offer.After getting such good preferential conditions, he has no intention of delaying here any longer, and has to take a boat back to Huizhou to organize the supply of goods.From now on, you only need to run back and forth from Haifeng to Shengli Port once a month, and the profit can be equal to the income from running four or five times in a row to Guangzhou-and you don't need to pay expensive fees to the hateful shipping company. The tariffs, this is really like what the boss He said, he made money while standing.

Among the businessmen who have entered and exited the Guangzhou Office these days, there are many merchants like Wang Qin. The cargo handling capacity of the mainland area is much stronger than that of the limited counties and counties of Hainan Island. So I sold all the stock that the base camp had produced in the past half month.And a variety of sources that had to be purchased at a high price in the early stage or did not find a way at all, now have a wider range of choices.Of course, the most important thing is that the reputation of Victory Port has been spread, and the rest only needs word of mouth from businesses around the world to slowly build up the image of Victory Port as a free port.

December 1627, 12, the fifth day of the winter month of the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty.

After the leading boat hoisted a semaphore to identify itself to the Yulin Observation Post, a fleet of eight Dafu boats slowly sailed into Shengli Port.This is almost the main force currently engaged in the shipping mission of the Black Earth Port-Tusan Peninsula-Victory Port route. This collective dispatch is because the immigrants provided by the North Vietnamese side have been assembled in the Tushan Peninsula for nearly half a month. And the North Vietnamese side obviously didn't want to keep feeding these "outsiders" who had been given to Haihan with food, so they urged Haihan to send ships to transport them away as soon as possible.Therefore, after adjusting the flight schedule, the Port Authority of Heitu Port dispatched eight large ships at once to bring the group of people back to Shengli Port.

Gu Kai, the head of the Black Earth Port Management Committee, personally dispatched to escort the fleet. This was also the first time he returned to Victory Port after participating in the colonization operation in July.Of course, the reason for his return is not only to escort the immigrant fleet, but more importantly, the end of the year is approaching, and all the units stationed abroad have to send people back to participate in the end-of-year summary meeting, and they have to discuss it at the plenary meeting of the executive committee. Debriefing.Within this week, Schneider of the Guangzhou Office and Maliko of the Ya Office will also return to Victory Port on behalf of their respective units.

Accompanying Gu Kai back to Shengli Port was a platoon of rotating militiamen, who were replaced by a group of recruits who had recently joined the army—the first task this group of rookies received after enlisting was to station three For them, this month is a test of some sort.

A large number of family members who were notified by the executive committee in advance came to the pier to greet their relatives, including Gu Kai's relatives, Tao Donglai and the foreign girl Ruisha.In order to avoid the onlookers and confusion of the public, Tao Donglai also greeted Reisa in advance and asked her to "not kiss passionately on the pier."But despite this, the long-lasting embrace of the man and woman who had been separated for several months still attracted the attention of the public, and finally Tao Donglai had to come forward to persuade them to let go-if the hug continued, the trestle leading to the pier would be blocked. The onlookers were completely blocked.

Tao Donglai also stepped forward to give Gu Kai a short but strong hug, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I've been more energetic these past few months!"

"It's true that I got tanned a lot!" Although after several days of rough seas, Gu Kai seemed to be in good spirits: "There are too few people in Heitu Port, and the people below don't know anything. They have to be taught by hand, and there is almost no time to stay in the house to enjoy the blessings. I will propose to the executive committee this time when I come back this time to increase the post allowance for the resident personnel in Heitu Port!"

"There's nothing to consume in that place, and it's useless if you increase your allowance." Tao Donglai knew that he was joking, so he responded with a smile.

Tao Dong came to look behind him, and couldn't help asking: "Didn't Qian Tiandun say he wanted to come back with you, why didn't he see anyone?"

"It was originally planned to come back together, but there are some temporary changes. He wants to stay in Tushan Peninsula to deal with matters." Gu Kai responded: "It seems that something happened in North Vietnam. A few days ago, a commissioner was sent to Tushan Peninsula is waiting to meet with our military chief. However, I have never asked too much about military affairs, so I guess we will have to wait for Qian Tiandun to send a telegram to know exactly what is going on."

Tao Donglai didn't pay much attention to the news, and asked Gu Kai and Ruisa to go back to rest for a while, while he himself went to the immigration boat parked at another pier to check the status of the North Vietnamese immigrants arriving in Hong Kong.

Different from the group of North Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong in October, the proportion of prisoners of war and prisoners in this group of immigrants has been greatly reduced. Among the more than [-] immigrants, there are only less than [-] prisoners of war and dozens of prisoners. Prisoners, and the rest are almost ordinary people who are mainly war refugees, which saves a lot of trouble for the Ministry of Civil Affairs to resettle these immigrants.

"Did the North Vietnamese show kindness this time or something? They didn't treat the prisoners of war as the main body to deal with us anymore." Ning Qi muttered, watching the security guards escort the immigrants on board according to their identities. Gather at the scheduled venue and check the immigration information in your hand.

"Something is not right." Tao Donglai shook his head slowly, and said solemnly: "For the North Vietnamese regime, the value of prisoners of war is the lowest. If there are prisoners of war, they must deal with prisoners of war first, and then prisoners. and refugees at home.”

"You mean... the war situation in North Vietnam may be a bit unfavorable?" Ning Qi was also a very smart person, and he had already understood Tao Donglai's meaning as soon as he heard Tao Donglai's words.

"Qian Tiandun stayed on the Tushan Peninsula this time and didn't come back with the fleet. I guess there are some reasons for this." Tao Donglai guessed: "If the North Vietnamese side is facing a tense situation, then they are likely to These Musketeers in the training camp will be required to graduate early and go to the battlefield."

"How much combat power can a musketeer train for a month or two?" Ning Qi was somewhat disapproving of this: "Although musketeers are easy to train, I heard that the training plan of the training camp has been changed and changed, and it has not been completely followed. Here comes our charter."

"There is such a thing. To put it bluntly, their big boss is reluctant to spend money. Live ammunition training is quite expensive." Tao Donglai couldn't help showing a smile while talking.The trick of the military industry department relying on selling ammunition to make money is equally useful in North Vietnam. To train a unit with a certain combat effectiveness, a large amount of material input is still required. Then drag it onto the battlefield and it can be used as a killing machine.

"I bought tens of thousands of taels of ammunition, why save this money!" Ning Qi was also quite disdainful of the North Vietnam's approach, completely forgetting that he also had a time when he was stuck with the military budget on the executive committee.

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