Chapter 1741
Performance Upgrade
Chapter 1741 Performance Upgrade
Although people in this era don't know what a trade surplus or deficit is, anyone who is a little familiar with Haihan's situation will know that Haihan's annual commodity exports are far greater than its imports.Most of Haihan's purchases from outside are various raw materials, and almost all of the exports are mass-produced products whose prices have doubled after deep processing.Relying on the huge annual trade surplus, Haihan has achieved rapid wealth accumulation in just a few years, and thus has enough funds to expand its armaments, build an ocean-going fleet, and continuously open up new colonies overseas.
Today, this business model has entered a virtuous circle. Most of Haihan's trade with other countries is done through these multinational businessmen, and a considerable proportion of the development of new colonies is also dependent on businessmen from various countries. Investing money and manpower, the official is only responsible for guidance, management and security.
This mode of operation has greatly reduced the financial pressure on the official, and driven by the nature of profit-seeking, businessmen will be more proactive than the official in the process of developing new colonies, avoiding the problems caused by the low efficiency of the bureaucratic system. some ills.And for the merchants who participated in this process, this is probably their best opportunity to make a fortune in history. The extremely low operating costs and the relaxed management system of the new colony allow them to obtain A lot of wealth.
Of course, this mode of operation is not without its drawbacks. Haihan Country relies heavily on commerce, especially cross-border trade. Once there are long-lasting trade disputes, wars, natural disasters, etc., it will easily affect the country's economy. Stablize.
In addition, due to the important position and role of merchants in the construction of the colony, some decisions at the national level will inevitably be affected by commercial interests.For matters like the formulation of long-distance freight routes by the Ministry of Shipping, it is necessary to take into account the interests of some large merchants, and adjust the voyage and the arrangement of ports of call along the way according to their actual operating conditions.
However, the work of attracting investment and developing new overseas colonies is more complicated. The government must determine in advance that a group of powerful merchants can participate in the early operations and even go out with the army, and then formulate plans that will allow the region to More businessmen participate in the public investment promotion plan, and during this period, the government often has to make some interest games and compromises with the big businessmen who participated in the early stage. During this period, there are many exchange conditions that cannot be treated by outsiders.
Haihan's cross-border trade has developed to the current stage, and big merchants no longer even regard their own nationality as a restrictive condition. For example, on this occasion today, many merchants from Daming regard Fei Cexian as nothing.Of course, this may also have something to do with the tough attitude shown by Tao Donglai, the leader of Haihan during the banquet last night. Merchants will think that Haihan does not take the envoys of Ming Dynasty seriously, and their business is for the sake of Haihan was running errands, so naturally there was no need to be too afraid of Fei Cexian's existence.
So even though Fei Cexian's face was very ugly at the moment, no Ming businessman would give up the competition opportunity in front of him because he was concerned about his feelings.Compared with this envoy of Ming Dynasty who had a bad nose in front of Haihan's high-ranking officials, it is of course more important to make money. If you have money, you will have social status. Even if you can't get along in Daming, Haihan will give it to yourself. Asylum, there is no need to be afraid of official figures like Daming.
Fei Cexian wanted to stand up and leave several times, but he was reluctant to give up this good opportunity to collect information.After finally surviving the investment promotion process, the official personnel began to clear the venue, and asked the private merchants to leave. Almost all the envoys and official representatives from various countries stayed behind.The reason why this measure is taken is that the next step is the long-awaited sale of weapons and equipment, and this time the sale of weapons is only for the country, and civilians are not allowed to participate in it—at least not in such a situation. Participate publicly.
Even people like Li Nai, who are very familiar with the high-level officials of Haihan, can't stay and watch the competition between countries today.However, he was quite open-minded about it. Anyway, Fu Ruifeng had already taken everything that should be obtained earlier, so it didn't matter whether he wanted to buy or sell weapons.
It's not that Li Nai has no interest in the arms business, but that he came to Sanya more than half a month earlier this time. He has already used his contacts to go to Tiandu Industrial Zone a few times. He has seen that this time Haihan is going to sell it. Several new weapons for the armies of various countries.As for which country will buy how much, it is not difficult to find out the real news after the meeting. It is really unnecessary to stay here and read it. It is better to go back and drink tea and wait for the news.
Under the leadership of the staff, Fei Cexian's seat was finally moved from the periphery to the front row.Although Daming will not directly participate in this arms bidding, as the official representative of Daming, Hai Han still agrees to let him observe this event on the spot.To use Haihan's usual sales pitch, it's the same thing whether you buy something or not, you can take a look first to find out.
After the adjustment of the meeting place, it became much quieter, and the people who remained were mostly civil and military officials from all over the world. Everyone relied on their identities, so naturally they would not be as noisy as those businessmen.Fei Cexian looked around, and saw that there were only about ten tables left, not even one-fifth of the table just now.However, in terms of the importance and scope of the transaction, it is clear that this event with relatively few participants is the real highlight today.
Schneider had already come down and sat aside, giving up the position on the stage to Beks, who was in charge of ordnance production.For the diplomats in the audience, Bex is also an old acquaintance, because almost all Haihan arms sales orders have to go through him, and all subsequent repairs, maintenance, and upgrades must be done with Bex. This deal.If you want to buy weapons and equipment from Haihan, you must burn incense in front of this great god.
Li Xi was probably the only person present who had never really dealt with Bai Kesi.Beks went to Liaodong to preside over the negotiations among the three countries last year, but at that time North Korea sent Luo Dexian to talk with Haihan.Later, when Li Xi went to Liaodong to observe the battle, Beks had already finished his errands and went south to Sanya.Afterwards, the weapons provided by Haihan to North Korea were sent directly to Seoul via Zhoushan Dinghai Port, during which Li Xi did not have the opportunity to meet Bai Kesi.
However, when drinking at Zheng Zuo’s place last night, he had roughly heard some information about Beks from the Annan people. He knew that this senior official was in charge of Haihan’s ordnance manufacturing and sales. How will the Chinese sell weapons to various countries.
"Everyone, you must have been impatient to wait just now, right? I don't know how you are, anyway, I dozed off listening to it while sitting next to me. I would like to ask the executive committee to put the arms sales link before the investment promotion activities next time, at least In my part, I don't think anyone falls asleep off stage."
Following Bai Kesi's teasing, everyone in the audience applauded the venue and let out good-natured laughter, while Schneider unceremoniously gestured his fist to the stage to signal that he was not convinced by Bai Kesi's words.Of course, this kind of ridicule is purely a joke. The two parties have worked together for many years and know each other well, so they will not take this matter seriously.
But jokes are jokes. For the importance of the arms sales project, everyone who can sit here knows it well. Whether you buy it or not, whether you can buy it, how much you can buy, for the sake of national security, you must also get it. Learn about the details of Haihan's public arms sales.
How many weapons and equipment Haihan sold each year, this is probably only Bai Kesi can grasp the most accurate data.In order to allow the countries in the region to maintain a balance of force and at the same time stimulate consumption, Haihan will hold several public arms sales activities from time to time every year.The reason why it is irregular is that in addition to the big days like the annual Spring Fair and Autumn Fair, Haihan will temporarily hold some small-scale or limited-participant arms sales activities when the situation requires it, such as last September The bidding in Sanya for Mataram and the Netherlands was of this nature.
The number of weapons and equipment sold by Haihan is made public, and each country can roughly calculate the armed level of its neighbors, so as to adjust its national defense strategy.Of course, this is just the official statement of Haihan. In fact, it will try to stimulate an arms race among countries, so as to create enough enthusiasm for buying, so that countries will actively bid for the weapons and equipment manufactured by Haihan.
Almost every year, Haihan uses military exercises, military parades, and even waging wars to show the power of its own weapons and equipment to the outside world, and such publicity methods have indeed received excellent results.The performance of Haihan weapons is already recognized as a first-class level in the Far East. Even if the performance is deliberately reduced, it is just a monkey version of equipment for arms sales and exports, which is far better than weapons made by various countries.
Although the price of Haihan's weapons is very high, there have been many classic battles of using these weapons to win on the battlefield over the years, and military generals from various countries are still flocking to the weapons and equipment produced by Haihan.Like An Nanguo, which cooperated with Haihan earlier, the elite troops in its army have basically been fully equipped with Haihan-style equipment, and their combat effectiveness is no longer inferior to that of Western colonial countries.
And precisely because of the purchase and equipment of a large number of Haihan weapons, Annan has faintly become the number one power on the Indochina Peninsula. Although the land area seems to be smaller than that of Siam and Myanmar, in terms of military strength, there is probably no other country on the Indochina Peninsula. People can match it.If it weren't for the fact that the civil war in the past few years had caused too much damage to the country's strength, and it was still in the recovery stage after the war, An Nanguo might have launched a large-scale foreign war long ago.
After Zheng Zuo arrived in Sanya this time, he went to Tiandu Industrial Zone in advance to get a general idea of the export weapons that Haihan will launch this time, so that he can prepare in advance.For the Zheng family, which is currently in charge of the Annan Kingdom, the country's finances are not good enough to buy and buy as they please, so they must make a trade-off and purchase weapons and equipment suitable for their own use within the budget.
The first weapon that Beks exhibited was the main product of Haihan's arms sales over the years - the rifle.At present, the rifles exported by Haihan still have the most primitive matchlock guns. Although its performance seems to be included in the ranks of elimination in the eyes of many Haihan military generals, for foreign troops without so much military budget, This is still a cheap and easy-to-use individual weapon, but it is more troublesome to operate than the flintlock.
However, in today's occasion, the time of the participants is very precious, and Beks will not bring out low-end weapons such as matchlock guns to show buyers.The rifle he took out was an improved version developed on the basis of the export model 1633 flintlock gun, and it was temporarily named the Sansanjia rifle by Haihan Military Industry.
"Everyone, don't look at this gun. It seems that the appearance of this gun is not much different from the previous [-]-type rifle, but in fact this [-]-type rifle incorporates the latest achievements of our country's military technology."
At the same time that Beks began to display his weapons, an assistant behind him removed the large map of the Far East that was used as the background wall during the investment promotion meeting just now, which made many people uncomfortable, and then opened up a new background.But this time the content is not a map, but several technical characteristics of this rifle, which are written on the background in very striking lines.
"Everyone has also seen that behind me is the characteristic of this three-three-type rifle. It is light! Accurate! Reliable!" Beks raised the rifle in his hand above his head with one hand: "Next, I will explain to you These 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 the useless bulky parts are removed, while not affecting the use. , reduced the size of the buttstock. After this modification, the weight of the entire rifle is half a catty lighter than that of the Type [-]!"
"Friends, what is this concept? It means that soldiers equipped with this rifle can carry twenty more rounds of ammunition under the condition of the same load." Bex feared that the audience would not understand the meaning of this, and still He added to them: "According to our past actual combat statistics, [-] bullets can kill at least two to three enemies during a battle. If it is an excellent soldier who can skillfully use a rifle, this number can at least be doubled! "
Of course, Bai Kesi would not explain that a considerable part of the statistical data he announced came from a limited number of elite troops, and not all troops could have such combat performance.As for the fact that you didn't achieve such a record when you bought it back, then I'm sorry, the gun must be fine, it's your people who can't.
Bai Kesi said with a serious face: "In order to make this rifle lighter, Haihan Ordnance Industry spent a year and a half improving more than 20 processes, and finally got this satisfactory result. I think, this small The change is enough to improve the combat effectiveness of the armies of all countries."
(End of this chapter)
Although people in this era don't know what a trade surplus or deficit is, anyone who is a little familiar with Haihan's situation will know that Haihan's annual commodity exports are far greater than its imports.Most of Haihan's purchases from outside are various raw materials, and almost all of the exports are mass-produced products whose prices have doubled after deep processing.Relying on the huge annual trade surplus, Haihan has achieved rapid wealth accumulation in just a few years, and thus has enough funds to expand its armaments, build an ocean-going fleet, and continuously open up new colonies overseas.
Today, this business model has entered a virtuous circle. Most of Haihan's trade with other countries is done through these multinational businessmen, and a considerable proportion of the development of new colonies is also dependent on businessmen from various countries. Investing money and manpower, the official is only responsible for guidance, management and security.
This mode of operation has greatly reduced the financial pressure on the official, and driven by the nature of profit-seeking, businessmen will be more proactive than the official in the process of developing new colonies, avoiding the problems caused by the low efficiency of the bureaucratic system. some ills.And for the merchants who participated in this process, this is probably their best opportunity to make a fortune in history. The extremely low operating costs and the relaxed management system of the new colony allow them to obtain A lot of wealth.
Of course, this mode of operation is not without its drawbacks. Haihan Country relies heavily on commerce, especially cross-border trade. Once there are long-lasting trade disputes, wars, natural disasters, etc., it will easily affect the country's economy. Stablize.
In addition, due to the important position and role of merchants in the construction of the colony, some decisions at the national level will inevitably be affected by commercial interests.For matters like the formulation of long-distance freight routes by the Ministry of Shipping, it is necessary to take into account the interests of some large merchants, and adjust the voyage and the arrangement of ports of call along the way according to their actual operating conditions.
However, the work of attracting investment and developing new overseas colonies is more complicated. The government must determine in advance that a group of powerful merchants can participate in the early operations and even go out with the army, and then formulate plans that will allow the region to More businessmen participate in the public investment promotion plan, and during this period, the government often has to make some interest games and compromises with the big businessmen who participated in the early stage. During this period, there are many exchange conditions that cannot be treated by outsiders.
Haihan's cross-border trade has developed to the current stage, and big merchants no longer even regard their own nationality as a restrictive condition. For example, on this occasion today, many merchants from Daming regard Fei Cexian as nothing.Of course, this may also have something to do with the tough attitude shown by Tao Donglai, the leader of Haihan during the banquet last night. Merchants will think that Haihan does not take the envoys of Ming Dynasty seriously, and their business is for the sake of Haihan was running errands, so naturally there was no need to be too afraid of Fei Cexian's existence.
So even though Fei Cexian's face was very ugly at the moment, no Ming businessman would give up the competition opportunity in front of him because he was concerned about his feelings.Compared with this envoy of Ming Dynasty who had a bad nose in front of Haihan's high-ranking officials, it is of course more important to make money. If you have money, you will have social status. Even if you can't get along in Daming, Haihan will give it to yourself. Asylum, there is no need to be afraid of official figures like Daming.
Fei Cexian wanted to stand up and leave several times, but he was reluctant to give up this good opportunity to collect information.After finally surviving the investment promotion process, the official personnel began to clear the venue, and asked the private merchants to leave. Almost all the envoys and official representatives from various countries stayed behind.The reason why this measure is taken is that the next step is the long-awaited sale of weapons and equipment, and this time the sale of weapons is only for the country, and civilians are not allowed to participate in it—at least not in such a situation. Participate publicly.
Even people like Li Nai, who are very familiar with the high-level officials of Haihan, can't stay and watch the competition between countries today.However, he was quite open-minded about it. Anyway, Fu Ruifeng had already taken everything that should be obtained earlier, so it didn't matter whether he wanted to buy or sell weapons.
It's not that Li Nai has no interest in the arms business, but that he came to Sanya more than half a month earlier this time. He has already used his contacts to go to Tiandu Industrial Zone a few times. He has seen that this time Haihan is going to sell it. Several new weapons for the armies of various countries.As for which country will buy how much, it is not difficult to find out the real news after the meeting. It is really unnecessary to stay here and read it. It is better to go back and drink tea and wait for the news.
Under the leadership of the staff, Fei Cexian's seat was finally moved from the periphery to the front row.Although Daming will not directly participate in this arms bidding, as the official representative of Daming, Hai Han still agrees to let him observe this event on the spot.To use Haihan's usual sales pitch, it's the same thing whether you buy something or not, you can take a look first to find out.
After the adjustment of the meeting place, it became much quieter, and the people who remained were mostly civil and military officials from all over the world. Everyone relied on their identities, so naturally they would not be as noisy as those businessmen.Fei Cexian looked around, and saw that there were only about ten tables left, not even one-fifth of the table just now.However, in terms of the importance and scope of the transaction, it is clear that this event with relatively few participants is the real highlight today.
Schneider had already come down and sat aside, giving up the position on the stage to Beks, who was in charge of ordnance production.For the diplomats in the audience, Bex is also an old acquaintance, because almost all Haihan arms sales orders have to go through him, and all subsequent repairs, maintenance, and upgrades must be done with Bex. This deal.If you want to buy weapons and equipment from Haihan, you must burn incense in front of this great god.
Li Xi was probably the only person present who had never really dealt with Bai Kesi.Beks went to Liaodong to preside over the negotiations among the three countries last year, but at that time North Korea sent Luo Dexian to talk with Haihan.Later, when Li Xi went to Liaodong to observe the battle, Beks had already finished his errands and went south to Sanya.Afterwards, the weapons provided by Haihan to North Korea were sent directly to Seoul via Zhoushan Dinghai Port, during which Li Xi did not have the opportunity to meet Bai Kesi.
However, when drinking at Zheng Zuo’s place last night, he had roughly heard some information about Beks from the Annan people. He knew that this senior official was in charge of Haihan’s ordnance manufacturing and sales. How will the Chinese sell weapons to various countries.
"Everyone, you must have been impatient to wait just now, right? I don't know how you are, anyway, I dozed off listening to it while sitting next to me. I would like to ask the executive committee to put the arms sales link before the investment promotion activities next time, at least In my part, I don't think anyone falls asleep off stage."
Following Bai Kesi's teasing, everyone in the audience applauded the venue and let out good-natured laughter, while Schneider unceremoniously gestured his fist to the stage to signal that he was not convinced by Bai Kesi's words.Of course, this kind of ridicule is purely a joke. The two parties have worked together for many years and know each other well, so they will not take this matter seriously.
But jokes are jokes. For the importance of the arms sales project, everyone who can sit here knows it well. Whether you buy it or not, whether you can buy it, how much you can buy, for the sake of national security, you must also get it. Learn about the details of Haihan's public arms sales.
How many weapons and equipment Haihan sold each year, this is probably only Bai Kesi can grasp the most accurate data.In order to allow the countries in the region to maintain a balance of force and at the same time stimulate consumption, Haihan will hold several public arms sales activities from time to time every year.The reason why it is irregular is that in addition to the big days like the annual Spring Fair and Autumn Fair, Haihan will temporarily hold some small-scale or limited-participant arms sales activities when the situation requires it, such as last September The bidding in Sanya for Mataram and the Netherlands was of this nature.
The number of weapons and equipment sold by Haihan is made public, and each country can roughly calculate the armed level of its neighbors, so as to adjust its national defense strategy.Of course, this is just the official statement of Haihan. In fact, it will try to stimulate an arms race among countries, so as to create enough enthusiasm for buying, so that countries will actively bid for the weapons and equipment manufactured by Haihan.
Almost every year, Haihan uses military exercises, military parades, and even waging wars to show the power of its own weapons and equipment to the outside world, and such publicity methods have indeed received excellent results.The performance of Haihan weapons is already recognized as a first-class level in the Far East. Even if the performance is deliberately reduced, it is just a monkey version of equipment for arms sales and exports, which is far better than weapons made by various countries.
Although the price of Haihan's weapons is very high, there have been many classic battles of using these weapons to win on the battlefield over the years, and military generals from various countries are still flocking to the weapons and equipment produced by Haihan.Like An Nanguo, which cooperated with Haihan earlier, the elite troops in its army have basically been fully equipped with Haihan-style equipment, and their combat effectiveness is no longer inferior to that of Western colonial countries.
And precisely because of the purchase and equipment of a large number of Haihan weapons, Annan has faintly become the number one power on the Indochina Peninsula. Although the land area seems to be smaller than that of Siam and Myanmar, in terms of military strength, there is probably no other country on the Indochina Peninsula. People can match it.If it weren't for the fact that the civil war in the past few years had caused too much damage to the country's strength, and it was still in the recovery stage after the war, An Nanguo might have launched a large-scale foreign war long ago.
After Zheng Zuo arrived in Sanya this time, he went to Tiandu Industrial Zone in advance to get a general idea of the export weapons that Haihan will launch this time, so that he can prepare in advance.For the Zheng family, which is currently in charge of the Annan Kingdom, the country's finances are not good enough to buy and buy as they please, so they must make a trade-off and purchase weapons and equipment suitable for their own use within the budget.
The first weapon that Beks exhibited was the main product of Haihan's arms sales over the years - the rifle.At present, the rifles exported by Haihan still have the most primitive matchlock guns. Although its performance seems to be included in the ranks of elimination in the eyes of many Haihan military generals, for foreign troops without so much military budget, This is still a cheap and easy-to-use individual weapon, but it is more troublesome to operate than the flintlock.
However, in today's occasion, the time of the participants is very precious, and Beks will not bring out low-end weapons such as matchlock guns to show buyers.The rifle he took out was an improved version developed on the basis of the export model 1633 flintlock gun, and it was temporarily named the Sansanjia rifle by Haihan Military Industry.
"Everyone, don't look at this gun. It seems that the appearance of this gun is not much different from the previous [-]-type rifle, but in fact this [-]-type rifle incorporates the latest achievements of our country's military technology."
At the same time that Beks began to display his weapons, an assistant behind him removed the large map of the Far East that was used as the background wall during the investment promotion meeting just now, which made many people uncomfortable, and then opened up a new background.But this time the content is not a map, but several technical characteristics of this rifle, which are written on the background in very striking lines.
"Everyone has also seen that behind me is the characteristic of this three-three-type rifle. It is light! Accurate! Reliable!" Beks raised the rifle in his hand above his head with one hand: "Next, I will explain to you These 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 the useless bulky parts are removed, while not affecting the use. , reduced the size of the buttstock. After this modification, the weight of the entire rifle is half a catty lighter than that of the Type [-]!"
"Friends, what is this concept? It means that soldiers equipped with this rifle can carry twenty more rounds of ammunition under the condition of the same load." Bex feared that the audience would not understand the meaning of this, and still He added to them: "According to our past actual combat statistics, [-] bullets can kill at least two to three enemies during a battle. If it is an excellent soldier who can skillfully use a rifle, this number can at least be doubled! "
Of course, Bai Kesi would not explain that a considerable part of the statistical data he announced came from a limited number of elite troops, and not all troops could have such combat performance.As for the fact that you didn't achieve such a record when you bought it back, then I'm sorry, the gun must be fine, it's your people who can't.
Bai Kesi said with a serious face: "In order to make this rifle lighter, Haihan Ordnance Industry spent a year and a half improving more than 20 processes, and finally got this satisfactory result. I think, this small The change is enough to improve the combat effectiveness of the armies of all countries."
(End of this chapter)