Chapter 10 Visitors from Luzon
"Don't worry, the Group Research Institute judged that during the 25th Five-Year Plan, the people's demand for porcelain will rise rapidly." Zhao Hao said confidently: "And as long as we do not impact the domestic market, the domestic porcelain price should rise instead of falling."
"That's it..." Everyone nodded slowly, and Yue Yunpeng suddenly asked keenly: "What do you mean is we want to attack the foreign market?"
"Yes, it is to use dumping tactics to completely destroy the competitor's ceramics industry!" Zhao Hao said with a heavy emphasis: "Although this will have a temporary impact on our profits, it is a long-term solution."
"So that's it." Everyone suddenly realized.
Most of these Chaozhou representatives have studied "Elementary Economics" at Jiangnan Technical Institute. They know that dumping refers to the manufacturer of a certain commodity. In order to gain a monopoly position in a certain overseas market, they sell goods to the market at a price lower than the marginal cost, and wait until the competitors are expelled from the market before they monopolize high prices.
"Our main opponents are three, Annan's blue and white porcelain, North Korean white porcelain, and Japanese pottery. You don't have to worry about the last two. If Jiangnan is destroyed, you will concentrate on killing Annan's blue and white porcelain!" Zhao Hao took a sip of the Phoenix Dan Tong they brought and smiled: "Of course, you don't have to lose money, that would be too dogmatic."
The crowd in Chaozhou hurriedly put down their chopsticks to wash their ears, and some people even took out their small notebooks.
Chaozhou Porcelain Industry's export porcelain has been relied on the group and has been exported for more than a year. In addition, there are countless Chaoshan overseas Chinese outside Shanghai, so they can naturally grasp the pulse of the international porcelain market.
What shocked them was that in maritime trade, the largest share of the Ming Dynasty is not the porcelain produced by the Ming Dynasty, but the blue and white porcelain produced in Annan!
Obviously, although the Ming Dynasty's strict maritime ban policy was full of loopholes, it still caused the number of exported porcelain to plummet, which led to a huge gap in the huge porcelain market.
European countries, Southeast Asian countries, the Tianfang Cult world led by the Ottoman Empire, and even the South American continent have strong demand for exquisite Chinese porcelain. Seeing that the Ming Dynasty shipped too little, Annan took the opportunity to vigorously absorb the Yuan Dynasty craftsmen and develop the blue and white porcelain industry. It has occupied the empty market of the Tian Dynasty for nearly two hundred years and has earned astronomical profits!
Now that Annan and South are confronting each other, Mo Chao and Li Chao are fighting fiercely. In order to pay high military expenses, the two dynasties have made every effort to increase the production of blue and white porcelain and have also fought a price war, which is much cheaper than the exported porcelain of the Ming Dynasty.
This has no effect on Jingdezhen's porcelain, because they are taking the high-end route of high quality, high price, and low quantity, and the two sides do not constitute competition. However, it will cause the export porcelain produced along the coast of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.
The quality of these exported porcelains is not as high as Jingdezhen and the price is more expensive than Annan porcelain. What can I use to compete with others for the market?
Zhao Hao learned from his mistakes and ordered Baolu of Tang to conduct a two-year investigation on Annan porcelain, and found the fatal shortcomings of Annan porcelain.
"According to the group's investigation in the shopping malls in Shenglong and Qinghua," Mr. Zhao smiled and revealed: "There is no blue material in the entire Annan area!"
"How is that?" Everyone gasped, and for the first time they heard about this information.
The so-called "green material", that is, blue and white material, is a color material used to fire blue and white porcelain. Use a pen to draw patterns on the raw embryo, and cover it with transparent glaze and fire it through a kiln to obtain blue and white porcelain. Without blue material, there will be no blue and white porcelain. Moreover, because this color material is basically used, the demand for blue material is extremely high.
"Then where did they get the green material?" The question was former peddler Gutian Le, now the chief raw material purchaser of Chaozhou Porcelain Industry. As an employee who won the Excellent Contribution Award, he also attended the group conference.
Originally, he did not have the say, but first, his professional habits made him particularly sensitive to such issues. Second, the 711 representatives of the group represent the interests and will of all employees of the group and have the right to question or make suggestions to all departments and companies of the group on anything.
Everyone, including himself, thinks he is qualified to ask questions.
"One is to import 'Zhu Ming material' from Yunnan, and the other is to import 'Su Maliqing' and 'Wu Mingyi' from Persia, these three kinds of green material." Zhao Hao also answered seriously:
"So we must stop them as much as possible and obtain green materials from these two channels." Zhao Hao said slowly: "The group has listed green materials as a ban on shipment and prohibited any ship from transporting them to the Indochina Peninsula. As for Yunnan, the group will take a two-pronged approach, one is to persuade the government to ban exports, and the other is to acquire all Zhuming Mines at high prices. These work began last year."
"How effective?" everyone asked expectantly.
"It is naturally impossible to completely prevent them from obtaining green materials." Zhao Hao smiled faintly and said, "But the severe blockade has increased the price of green materials in Annan several times - only in this way can someone be willing to take risks and smuggle green materials for them."
"In this case, won't the cost of Annan blue and white porcelain berries be high?" Yue Yunlang, chairman of Chaozhou Porcelain Industry, asked hurriedly.
"That's right. Moreover, the two dynasties have blindly expanded their output, which can only significantly reduce the amount of green material, so the quality has also declined sharply." Zhao Hao nodded and said in a deep voice: "So the institute has determined that our quality has far exceeded that of the other party, and we can also provide customization. As long as we keep the same price as Annan porcelain and put it on the market in large quantities, we can quickly squeeze them out of the international market."
As he said that, he raised his hands and said with a longing look on his face: "Then the general collapse of Annan's porcelain industry, and a market with only Ming porcelain appeared..."
In fact, Mr. Zhao has more important goals, such as destroying the economy of Mo Chao and Li Chao, and reducing the difficulty of interference at that time. However, there is no need to tell them.
"Young Master is really far-sighted!" Liu Zixing and others hurriedly exclaimed sincerely. "We are beyond our reach."
"Then do that?" Zhao Hao asked with a smile.
"Do!Do!Do!" Everyone nodded hurriedly.
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After the luncheon, Zhao Hao did not leave immediately, but instead talked to Liu Zixing and his son in the study behind.
There are two dark-faced men in the study room, who have been waiting for a long time.
The two of them didn't expect that the famous little pawn would be so young, and they were a little stunned for a moment.
"Aren't you two paying homage to the young master?" Liu Zixing coughed and reminded them.
"Little man Liu Xuesheng, pay homage to the young master." An older man quickly kowtowed to Zhao Hao, and took the opportunity to pull the darker and more restrained one on the side.
"Little... the villain Xu Zheng, pay homage to the young master." The man also quickly paid homage to Zhao Hao.
"Okay, you two get up and talk." Zhao Hao smiled and held it, lifted the hem of his robe and sat down and said, "Sorry, I can't take it off, and I've only seen you two until now."
"Young Master is so serious. Your name has been passed down to Luzon. If you can meet your master, it will be worth your life." Liu Xuesheng's flattery is very skilled, and he is obviously the one among overseas Chinese who is closely connected with the country.
He was Liu Zixing's cousin. Although his grandfather went to Nanyang and settled in Luzon for a hundred years, the Liu family was very powerful in Chaozhou, so they kept moving closely.
With the help of his own power, Liu Xuesheng made a fortune in the East-West trade and made a fortune in Luzon. He was the vice president of the local Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
Liu Zixing handed over the secret mission issued by Mr. Zhao before.
Liu Xuesheng was indeed capable of doing things. After many investigations, he actually found the person he wanted!
"This brother Xu is the descendant of the former governor of Luzon, Xu Chailao, who stayed in Luzon!" He couldn't wait to ask for credit.
"Okay, great, the sky has eyes, and loyalty has a queen!" Mr. Zhao happily patted Liu Zixing's thigh, making Mr. Liu grin in his teeth.
Who is Xu Chai? He is simply a child without a mother, and he has a long story...
He was the local overseas Chinese leader of the Celestial Fleet in the third year of Yongle, 170 years ago when Zheng He visited the Luzon Islands, and was hospitalized with the local overseas Chinese leader of the Celestial Fleet. Later, at the request of Zheng He, Emperor Yongle appointed him as the governor of Luzon, and took charge of the country's military, political, financial and literary powers until his death in the 22nd year of Yongle and served for 20 years.
It is said that in the past twenty years, Xu Chailao went to the court, followed Shuli, practiced himself, and worked hard to govern, which greatly promoted the cultural and economic progress of Luzon. Unfortunately, after his death, when his descendants asked for the title again, the emperor had already been replaced by Zhu Zhanji. Not only did he ask for the title of memorial to sink into the sea, but even Zheng He's fleet disappeared...
The Chinese regime, which had lost its support from the motherland, was like a tree without roots and was soon replaced by the Luzon Sultanate, established by the Boni Kingdom.
Of course, the Luzon Sultanate was also very bad, and was destroyed by Spanish colonists a few years ago.
Before, Zhao Hao did not interfere in this matter for various reasons, but just ordered people to secretly search to see if there were any descendants of Xu Chai Lao so as to create a claim to send troops.
In fact, it is just an excuse, and it is the same for forging a claim, but it is better to have a real one than a fake one... but it is also limited.
Zhao Hao didn't even check his identity as Xu Zheng, so he asked him directly: "What's the situation in Luzon now?"
"Very, very bad..." Xu Zheng looked at Liu Xuesheng and spoke gradually fluently: "The red-haired ghost killed people everywhere, not only the natives, but also the Han people. Now he escaped and died, and the population of Little Luzon is no longer ten."
Zhao Hao held back his joy and said in a 'righteous indignation': "What, our Ming people also suffered casualties?"
"These red-haired ghosts from the east are different from those from the west." Xu Zheng said with lingering fear: "They kill people and force people to convert to their religion. If they don't believe it, they will kill them on the spot."
"Yes." Liu Xuesheng nodded from the side and testified: "Although the forced conversion is mainly aimed at the natives who believed in the Tianfang Cult, we Han people believed in more gods and did not have one more Jehovah. But they found that they killed too many natives, and for balance, they found excuses to kill the Han people."
"Didn't our Jiangnan Group tell them to scold me? I dare to kill my compatriots, not only will they cut off trade, but they will also have to pay their blood debts and blood debts!" Mr. Zhao was furious.
"Yes, thanks to the support of the young master, they did not dare to openly massacre like they did when dealing with the natives, but they could come to the dark side. As long as they wanted, they could always find excuses to kill people." Liu Xuesheng sighed:
"Before I came, I heard that they would issue a "Chinese Exclusion Act" next year to deport all of us overseas Chinese."
Chapter completed!