Chapter 1741 Performance Upgrade

Although people in this era do not understand what a trade surplus and deficit are, anyone who is slightly familiar with Haihan's situation knows that Haihan's annual commodity export volume is much greater than its import volume. Most of Haihan's purchases from outside are various products.

raw materials, and exports are almost all mass-produced goods that have been deeply processed and the price has increased several times. Haihan has achieved rapid accumulation of wealth in just a few years by relying on its huge annual trade surplus.

As a result, there was enough funds to expand armaments, build an ocean-going fleet, and continuously open up new colonies overseas.

Today, this business model has entered a virtuous cycle. Most of the trade between Haihan and other countries is completed through these transnational businessmen, and a considerable proportion of the development of new colonies relies on businessmen from various countries.

After investing money and manpower, the official is only responsible for guidance, management and safety.

This mode of operation has greatly reduced the financial pressure on the government, and businessmen, driven by their profit-seeking nature, will be more proactive than the government in the process of developing new colonies, thus avoiding problems caused by the low efficiency of the bureaucracy.

There are some disadvantages. For the businessmen who participated in this process, this is probably their best opportunity to make a fortune in history. The extremely low operating costs and the loose management system of the new colony allow them to make money in a very short period of time.

You will get a lot of wealth.

Of course, this operating model is not without its drawbacks. Haihan State relies heavily on commerce, especially cross-border trade. Once a long-lasting trade dispute, war, natural disaster, etc. occurs, it will easily affect the country's economy.

Stablize.

In addition, due to the important position and role of merchants in colonial construction, some decisions at the national level will inevitably be affected by commercial interests. For matters such as the Ministry of Shipping's formulation of long-distance freight routes, the interests of some large-scale merchants must be taken into consideration.

interests, and adjust the voyage and port-of-call arrangements along the way based on their actual operating conditions.

The investment promotion and development work of new overseas colonies is more complicated. The official must determine in advance a group of powerful businessmen who can participate in the early operations or even accompany the army, and then formulate plans to allow them to rule the area after they achieve control.

More businessmen participate in the public investment plan, and during this period the government often has to make some interest games and compromises with the large businessmen who participated in the early stage. During this period, there are many exchange conditions that cannot be explained to outsiders.

Haihan's cross-border trade has developed to the current stage, and large merchants no longer even regard their own nationality as a restriction. For example, on today's occasion, many merchants from Ming Dynasty treat Fei Cexian as if they are nothing. Of course, this

Perhaps it has something to do with the tough attitude shown by Haihan leader Tao Donglai during last night's banquet. Businessmen would think that Haihan did not take the Ming envoys seriously, and their business was all for Haihan.

If you are running errands, there is no need to be too concerned about Fei Cexian's presence.

So even though Fei Cexian looked very ugly at the moment, no Ming chamber of commerce gave up the competitive opportunity in front of him because of concerns about his feelings. Compared with the Ming envoy who was frustrated in front of the senior officials of Haihan,

Of course, making money is more important. If you have money, you will have social status. Even if you can't survive in the Ming Dynasty, Haihan will give you protection and you no longer need to be afraid of official figures like the Ming Dynasty.

Following Bai Kesi's teasing, everyone in the audience burst out with good-natured laughter. Schneider unceremoniously made a fist gesture towards the stage, indicating that he was not convinced by Bai Kesi's words. Of course, this kind of ridicule was purely

It's a joke. Both parties have worked together for many years and know each other well, so they won't take this matter seriously.

But joking aside, everyone sitting here knows the importance of arms sales projects. Regardless of whether they buy it or not, whether they can buy it, and how much they can buy, for the sake of national security, they must

Understand the detailed status of each public arms sale by Haihan.

How many weapons and equipment Haihan sells every year? Only Bai Kes probably has the most accurate data. In order to maintain the balance of force among countries in the region and also stimulate consumption, Haihan will be held irregularly every year.

There are several open arms sales activities. The reason why they are irregular is because in addition to big events like the Spring Fair and Autumn Fair every year, Haihan will also temporarily hold some small-scale or limited-participant sales when the situation requires it.

arms sales activities, such as the bidding held in Sanya last September for Malta and the Netherlands, were of this nature.

By making the number of weapons and equipment sold by Haihan public, each country can roughly calculate the armed level of its immediate neighbors and adjust its own national defense strategy. Of course, this is only Haihan's official statement to the outside world. In fact, it will still find ways to stimulate competition between countries.

Only in this way can we create enough enthusiasm for purchasing and allow countries to take the initiative to bid for the weapons and equipment manufactured by Haihan.

Haihan uses military exercises, military parades, and even foreign wars to show the outside world the power of its weapons and equipment almost every year, and such publicity methods have indeed achieved excellent results. The performance of Haihan weapons is in

The Far East is already recognized as a first-class level. Even if the performance is deliberately reduced, the monkey version of the equipment used for arms exports is far better than the weapons manufactured by various countries.

Although Haihan's weapons are very expensive, there are many classic examples of using these weapons to win on the battlefield over the years. Military generals from various countries are still flocking to the weapons and equipment produced by Haihan. Cooperation with Haihan is relatively early.

The Annan State's elite troops are now basically fully equipped with Haihanized equipment, and their combat effectiveness is no longer inferior even to that of Western colonial countries.

And precisely because of the purchase and equipment of a large number of Haihan weapons, Annan has now become the strongest country in the Indochina Peninsula. Although the land area seems to be less than that of Siam and Myanmar, in terms of military strength, there is probably no country in the entire Indochina Peninsula.

People can match it. If the civil war in previous years had not caused too much damage to the national strength and it was still in the post-war recovery stage, Annan might have launched a large-scale foreign war long ago.

After Zheng Zha arrived in Sanya this time, he had already made a trip to Tiandu Industrial Zone in advance to get a general understanding of the export weapons that Haihan would launch this time, so that he could prepare in advance. Regarding the Zheng family who is currently in charge of the power of Annan Kingdom,

As far as the family is concerned, the national finances are not good enough to buy as much as they want, so they have to make some trade-offs and choose weapons and equipment suitable for their own use within the budget.

The first weapon displayed by Baikes was the rifle, Haihan’s flagship product for military sales over the years. Currently, Haihan’s export rifles still include the most primitive matchlock gun, although its performance is in the eyes of many Haihan military generals.

It has already been classified as being eliminated, but for foreign armies that do not have such a large military budget, this is still a cheap and easy-to-use individual weapon, but it is more troublesome to operate than a flintlock gun.

However, on an occasion like today, the time of the attendees is precious, and Baikes will not take out low-end weapons such as matchlock guns to demonstrate to buyers. The rifle he took out is the export model 1633 type flint.

The improved version developed on the basis of the rifle was temporarily named the 33A rifle by Haihan Ordnance Industry.

"Everyone, although it seems that the appearance of this gun is not much different from the previous Type 33A rifle, in fact, this Type 33A rifle incorporates the latest achievements of our country's military technology."

At the same time that Bai Kesi began to display weapons, an assistant behind him removed the large map of the Far East that had been used as the background wall during the investment meeting just now, which made many people uncomfortable, and then opened a new background. But this time

The content is not a map, but several technical features of this rifle, written in very eye-catching lines on the background.

"You have also seen that behind me are the characteristics of this 33A rifle. Light! Accurate! Reliable!" Bai Kesi raised the rifle above his head with one hand: "I will explain to you next.

These are exciting improvements!”

"We used the latest steel on this rifle and improved the original structure. The barrel is thinner than before, the hammer is smaller than before, and useless and bulky parts have been removed without affecting its use.

, reducing the size of the butt. After such modifications, the weight of the entire rifle is half a kilogram lighter than the Type 33!"

"Friends, what is this concept? This means that soldiers equipped with this rifle can carry twenty more rounds of ammunition if the load remains unchanged." Bai Kesi was afraid that the audience would not understand the significance of this, and also

He added to them: "According to our past actual combat statistics, twenty rounds of bullets can kill at least two to three enemies in a battle. If it is an excellent soldier who can skillfully use a rifle, this number can be at least doubled!

"

Of course, Bai Kesi will not explain that a considerable part of the statistics he published come from a limited number of elite troops. Not all troops can have such combat performance. As for you buying it back and not achieving such a record, then I'm sorry.

, the gun must be fine, but your people are not.

Bai Kesi said with a serious face: "In order to make this rifle lighter, our Haihan Ordnance Industry spent a year and a half improving more than 20 processes before finally getting this satisfactory result. I think this little

The changes are enough to improve the combat effectiveness of the armies of various countries."
Chapter completed!