Chapter 177 Scraping the World's Land
Pu Shougen and Zhao Mingzhuo are representative figures in the entire Huaxia city. One of them mainly operates maritime business, and the other operates industrial. Zhao Mingcheng's purpose of going back this time was to bring his family to Huaxia Island to joke about "wealth shares". That's money. It's the money that the Chinese royal family gave everyone white hair. Even if it's good, it's not money.
With this money, Zhao Mingzhuo believes that the match factory at home can be expanded, but he is already planning to raise money and plans to buy the production design and technology of muskets and ammunition. Compared with the technology of the match factory, the price is outrageous. But Zhao Mingzhuo knows that that thing is a huge profit, as long as he can make ammunition. Those European and Arab kings are fighting all year round, and I don’t know how much ammunition they want to buy.
He knew that the opening of the manufacturing of gunpowder weapons and ammunition in China was a helpless move because the local kings of Europe and the Arab Empire liked war very much. Their desire for ammunition was like crazy. Newspapers often reported that military factories were adding machines and recruiting personnel to expand production scale. However, in the newspapers, there was still a significant gap in arms production.
It is also the arms production in Huaxia Island at this moment. It has supplied all forces except Zhao Xu's family. As long as you think about it, you can understand how big the gap is, the shell of the ammunition, and other equipment. The amount required is probably astronomical compared to the production capacity of Huaxia Island. In desperation, the Huaxia Royal had to sell the ammunition of the "basic export firearm" to private enterprises for production. The fuse was naturally manufactured by the Royal Arsenal.
In addition, the production of ordinary metals such as iron smelting, copper smelting and other civil machinery were all sold out, but most of the investments were still toward arms production. After all, the value of this thing is too great, and the most important sales route is extremely smooth, and even not long after Zhao Fubo returned to China Island from Europe, the so-called ambassadors of the European allies had already settled on China Island, and their most important job was to go to the arsenal to urge goods.
If we follow the analysis in the newspaper, they probably want to grab territories in Europe and Africa, otherwise they would have to do so many weapons and ammunition. But Huaxia Island does not seem to be interested in territories. Their biggest interests are probably talents, materials, beauties, and strong men. In addition, they don’t seem to care about territories.
Of course, countries that have experienced the power of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire will not have the idea of their territory. Generally speaking, they hope that the army of the Chinese Empire will not make their ideas. Thank God.
What Zhao Mingzhuo likes is arms production. What is not exactly the same as him is that Pu Shougeng doesn't think so. He is aware that the machinery manufacturing industry has always been firmly controlled by the royal industry of the Chinese Empire. But now, the production of some civil machinery has been thrown out, such as low-precision stamping machines, forging machines and other primary machine manufacturing industries, and has also used high-priced sales technology to the outside world.
In the future development, the Royal Empire of the Huaxia will master several important industries, such as precision heavy industry that produces industrial mother machines, and the most important military industry that produces artillery and rifles. Of course, the Royal Academy of Sciences. As of now, its profits are the largest in the hands of the Royal Empire of the Huaxia. After all, before all the technical achievements can be sold to the public, the Royal Empire of the Huaxia had already made a huge profit. Then the technology was sold at a high price and adopted an auction method. In fact, the value was greatly improved.
However, the provisions of the "Huaxia Law" of the Chinese Empire are very dead, that is, investments are only allowed based on the number of family members in the Chinese Empire, and no foreigners are allowed to participate in the investment. Once collusion between inside and outside, their property will naturally be confiscated and the main personnel will be killed. As for their immediate relatives, they will be expelled and will be opened from the Chinese tribe.
Despite the harsh conditions, this person is not cheap, and he has a 100-fold huge profit at the bottom. It is estimated that they will do nothing along the way. During the process of returning to the Song Dynasty, Pu Shougen and Zhao Mingzhuo have been discussing this matter. According to Pu Shougen's experience, the trade route on the sea may be the lifeline of the Chinese Empire in the future. Zhao Mingzhuo is obviously trying to do large industry, but that is somewhat different from his goal.
"Mingzhuo, are we doing this? We all add shares to each other. I invest money in your company now. If our fleet wants to expand, then you will also invest money. No matter how it changes, the money will always fall into our hands."
Zhao Mingzhuo was a little dissatisfied with this, because the roads on the mainland are being built. I believe that with more roads, the fewer ship business will be. If that is the case, will there be some losses if investing in maritime shipping?
In fact, this reflects a problem, that is, in this dynasty, the merchants whose eyes were far less than that far away, were like Zhao Mingzhuo, who was still successful in Quanzhou. After seeing the arms industry, they still could not correctly understand the role of maritime transportation in the future. In fact, the beginning of the Age of Discovery was precisely the process of the powerful country starting to compete for world resources and controlling world resources.
This is just like the development of science and technology. The stronger the country, the faster it will develop in this area. The faster it will develop, and the higher the efficiency of the resources occupied and the utilization efficiency of resources will be. This is the true meaning of the Age of Discovery. It is just a means to divide the world's resources. Agriculture, animal husbandry, and talents are all like this. The principle is the only one. Whoever scratches the ground outside, the stronger it will be. The most important thing is sea transportation. Even in the future aviation era, sea transportation will still be unable to be replaced.
"It's so good. Uncle Shi really makes his nephew so grateful. You know that the ammunition technology sold this time is very precious. If we teach us to win it, as long as we take time, it will naturally not be difficult to make a big profit. Think of the local kings, always like to fight, and as long as they fight us, they will make money."
Zhao Mingzhuo's words are beyond words. He always looks down on the monarchs of the European Agricultural Arab Empire. After all, the Chinese Empire is not big at the moment, but only a few cities and islands. However, when the Chinese people talk about themselves, they feel like "I am the best in the world"
Chapter completed!