Chapter 141: The Need to Develop a Tank
Tang Mo immediately issued a holy decree and ordered the Ministry of Industry to start developing the tank, the drawings of the tank Tang Mo designed a sketch with his own wisdom, and whether this sketch can make a real tank, Tang Mo does not know, this needs to be studied by the craftsmen of the follow-up Ministry of Industry, and only after research can it be determined whether the tank can really be studied. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Tang Mo is well aware of the power of the tank, once developed, it will inevitably become a powerful weapon of war, which shows the importance of the tank, so the development of the tank can be said to be inevitable.
If you develop a tank, you will immediately become the king of land warfare.
The combat effectiveness of the tank is incomparably strong, which is equivalent to a mobile battery, a mobile fire fortress.
Such a mobile fortress can be said to be the most powerful pillar of an empire, so Tang Mo must study tanks, and only by researching tanks can Daming be regarded as having a super weapon that can compete for supremacy on land.
After the Ministry of Industry received Tang Mo's holy decree, it began to develop tanks, and the tanks developed by the Ministry of Industry almost immediately entered the design stage, with Tang Mo's drawings in front, what the officials of the Ministry of Industry needed to do was only to debate theoretically whether the drawings could actually be made, if so, how to manufacture, if not, then how to improve to build, these are all things that the Ministry of Industry needs to operate in practice.
After a few more days, Jin Feiyan again asked to open foreign markets and sell domestic fabrics.
Tang Mo finally made up his mind and was ready to take the surrounding countries first, and the first place where Tang Mo decided to dump cotton cloth was Goryeo, and now Goryeo has not changed its name to North Korea, and it is still one of the vassal countries of the Ming Dynasty.
Tang Mo first sent an envoy to Goryeo to negotiate the opening of customs, exchange of things, Tang Mo sent an envoy, is a very good knowledge of words and feelings, and the tongue of the orchid female official, after the female official entered Goryeo, met the emperor of Goryeo, under some praise, so that the Goryeo emperor for the opening of the customs matter of the truth, really thought that the Ming Dynasty was to help them get rid of poverty and become rich, so they agreed to the request of the female official.
Ten days later, the two parties negotiated and officially decided to open the customs and allow the two sides to sell cloth and other goods to each other.
In the description of the female official, the Goryeo people could sell their surplus seafood and forests to the Ming Dynasty, and then import cheap cloth and grain from the Ming Dynasty, so that Goryeo had already made a lot of profits.
But having said that, in fact, trade between countries is far from being as simple as the female officials say.
The female official said that Gao Li sold expensive goods on the face and bought cheap goods, which seemed to be profitable, but in fact, the things sold by Gao Li were their own rare resources, even in Daming, such resources were also rare, and they were not rich and noble, and they couldn't enjoy them at all. And the imported things are things that everyone wears, so the sales of Goryeo's things into the Ming Dynasty will never be too good, and they only belong to small transactions, and the goods of the Ming Dynasty will enter Goryeo, which is a large-scale bulk transaction, which will inevitably encroach on the original Goryeo-related industries, completely crush the economic cycle of some civilians at the bottom of Goryeo, and take away a lot of profits and circulation from Goryeo.
The Goryeo emperor did not have the slightest economic common sense, and was fooled by a few words from the female officials of the Ming Dynasty, and deserved to be bankrupt or displaced by their people, the reason for this is that the king himself is stupid, and he can't complain about others.
The treaty port of Daming was located in Huining, which is a city on the east coast of Daming, and the Goryeo people needed to use boats to pull goods to sell, and similarly, in Goryeo, there were also treaty ports, and Ming merchants could use ships to pull goods to Goryeo for sale.
In the Ming Dynasty, several newspapers published the news very early. The newspaper was invented by Tang Mo a hundred years ago, first it was officially and exclusively released, and then gradually opened to the private sector, and now there are as many as seven or eight large newspapers in the Ming Dynasty, and there are more local newspapers, and there are probably more than 100 of them.
These newspapers controlled the trend of public opinion in the entire Ming Dynasty, and Tang Mo set up relevant norms for the behavior of these newspapers, requiring that they should not casually publish remarks that stirred up the people's hearts and could not casually publish remarks unfavorable to the state.
With these regulations, Tang Mo had the means to deal with ordinary private newspapers in the Ming Dynasty, and these regulations were Tang Mo's means.
A lot of the time the means won't be so obvious, and more often than not, the means are a latent one.
From the beginning of the newspaper publishing the news, the merchants who got the news in the Ming Dynasty set off a tide of Goryeo. They swept the goods from the territory of Daming, and then went to Goryeo as fast as possible, doing business, this kind of thing, one step ahead, is several times the profit, one step behind, is to lose several times the profit.
The first batch of Ming merchants who went to Goryeo, they sold cotton to Goryeo, and sold it at a price comparable to that of silk, which made them ecstatic, and directly dumped the goods, even if they sold a large number of goods in a short period of time, so that the sales speed was reduced, and they had to reduce some prices to sell, and they did not hesitate to do so, after all, it is now a race against time, and it is sold out one minute earlier, which is to get an extra point of profit.
After the first batch of merchants sold short, the second group of merchants who went to Goryeo did not have such treatment, when they came to Goryeo, the price of cotton cloth had been reduced to half of silk, but this is also a sky-high price, you must know that in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, cotton cloth has long been in excess of demand, and the price of cotton cloth is only equal to one-fiftieth of the price of silk.
So the second group of merchants also sold the cotton cloth as quickly as possible, and sold out the cotton cloth in their hands.
Cotton cloth has been in the process of price reduction, but the merchants of Daming can't stop at all, you must know that every minute, is the profit in front of you, a little delay, the price of cotton cloth will fall.
The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth batches of merchants came to Goryeo, and a large amount of cotton cloth was dumped into Goryeo.
The merchants of the Ming Dynasty continued to dump cotton cloth into the territory of Goryeo, which greatly relieved the pressure on the cotton cloth inventory of the major workshops in the Ming Dynasty, so that these workshops could start manufacturing cotton cloth at full strength.
For half a year, the Ming Dynasty was dumping cotton cloth in Goryeo, and individual cotton merchants in Goryeo went bankrupt one after another, because the cost of their cotton cloth was already higher than the profit.
After the complete bankruptcy of individual cotton cloth merchants in Goryeo, Daming's dumping continued, but compared to the beginning of the madness, now Daming's cotton cloth exports have begun to stabilize.
Daming cotton cloth dumped in Goryeo, a large number of Goryeo gold and silver through these cotton cloth merchants into the territory of Daming, the total wealth of Daming increased, and what was lost was the original surplus of cotton cloth, Goryeo gold and silver decreased, the circulation of currency in Goryeo decreased, wealth shrunk, many people have cotton cloth at home, as a result, the price of cotton cloth is falling day by day, these cotton cloth has become a useless dead thing in the hand.
Because these cotton cloths have become dead things, the Korean people reacted, they fell into a big trap, with their wealth, in exchange for cotton cloth that can be used for a lifetime, but the cotton cloth is still constantly reducing in price, and the cotton cloth in their hands has become a complete loss.
Although the Koreans had already reacted, they did not have the courage to forcibly close the treaty ports, nor did they dare to go to trouble the Ming Dynasty, so in the end, they had to swallow this breath and these losses bitterly.
Immediately afterwards, Goryeo encountered a new wave of dumping, this time in tea.
Tea is a high-end product that only nobles can enjoy in Goryeo, but with the economic development in the Ming Dynasty in recent years, tea has entered the homes of ordinary people and has become a daily drink.
Seeing that the price of cotton cloth was not high, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty aimed at tea, and even some merchants even made a surprising move to launch the activity of "cotton cloth for tea" in Goryeo.
Those Koreans were allowed to exchange the cotton cloth they had accumulated in their hands for tea at market price.
Tea is expensive, and cotton cloth is cheap, but tea is a luxury drink for the nobility, under the deliberate touting arranged by the merchants, tea has become a fairy tea that can cure all diseases, and whoever does not order tea leaves is simply sorry for the king.
So the Koreans were fooled again, and the remaining wealth in their hands was squeezed again, and there were sick Koreans who went bankrupt just to buy one or two teas, and after they went back, they tried it for a few days, and it seemed to work, so they bought more.
Tea made the Korean people even worse, but they did not realize that the root of all this was the Ming Dynasty, who was depriving them of their wealth, and they were still immersed in the joy of shopping.
After the tea, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty made another strange move, and they actually thought of porcelain.
Porcelain is the national weapon of the Ming Dynasty, porcelain is not only exquisite, can be used as a variety of utensils, but also has a good ornamental effect.
Tea and cotton cloth are aimed at the ordinary people of Goryeo, while porcelain is aimed at the nobles of Goryeo.
For the aristocracy, what is most important is, of course, face.
So the Ming merchants started from the face and began to find ways to make porcelain enter the aristocratic circle of Goryeo.
First of all, the daimyo merchant gave the Goryeo Emperor a pair of exquisite porcelain vases, these two porcelain vases are amazing, that is the antiques of the previous dynasty, worth 100,000 taels of silver, the Goryeo Emperor saw it, immediately fell in love, and also issued a holy decree to praise the merchant who gave the porcelain, what friendly and kind, respect for the emperor and so on.
In short, because of this incident, the reputation of porcelain spread in Goryeo, and the Goryeo people began to buy porcelain frantically, and porcelain became the object of comparison between the Goryeo people, and a large number of Goryeo nobles began to buy porcelain from the Ming Dynasty.
Fine porcelain from the Ming Dynasty has become a cultural symbol in Goryeo society, and if you visit relatives and friends, you will not see people, but your porcelain.
In such a few months, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty made a fortune again.
Porcelain, cotton cloth, tea, and other three things occupied most of the market in Goryeo, but this was not the end, and the clever Ming merchants once again thought of new ideas, and they thought of grain.
Goryeo was a small country, and its own food was insufficient, so the merchants of the Ming Dynasty sent them food.
A large amount of grain was transported to Goryeo by water, and the Goryeo people began to hoard grain at the end, they no longer had much wealth, but grain was a necessity and they had to buy it.
After a few months, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty began to evacuate Goryeo en masse, leaving behind a poor country.
After Goryeo, Tang Mo thought of the Japanese Empire, a country that would make the Chinese hate their teeth in later generations.
Tang Mo was ready to use the same means to open the door to the Japanese Empire and plunder their wealth.
But something happened that Tang Mo didn't expect, Tang Mo sent eunuchs to the Japanese Empire, wanting to deceive the door of the Japanese Empire, but the Japanese Empire was a belligerent country, and at this time the country was at the stage when the war had just ended, and the envoys sent by Tang Mo were considered spies and then killed.
The two countries fought without killing the envoys, but the Japanese Empire directly killed the envoys sent by the Ming to negotiate, so the Ming people were angry.
At the court meeting, the military department Shangshu directly proposed to send troops to the Japanese empire to teach this arrogant country a good lesson, and if possible, it was not impossible to incorporate it into the territory of the Ming Dynasty and become a province of the Ming Dynasty.
For this suggestion, Tang Mo naturally didn't dare to adopt it easily, this is to start a war, war is not a game, it is a war that will kill people, it will consume national strength, and it will give the enemy country an opportunity.
So Tang Mo decided to send envoys again, and if this envoy was killed again, then Tang Mo would really start this war.
The second time, Tang Mo sent the envoy again, this time no longer a eunuch, but a waiter from the Ministry of Rites.
This waiter of the Ministry of Rites, known to his son Tang Mo, was the one who had almost defiled Tang Moqing's great disciple of the Underworld Mountain.
So Tang Mo actually didn't have any good intentions and didn't die, if you die, you can only blame you for giving birth to a son who is not angry.
What made Tang Mo speechless was that the waiter of the Ministry of Rites sent was killed again after less than a month, and the reason for being killed this time was very interesting, because he was killed because he offended the other party's princess in the Japanese Empire, but this happened to be a very good excuse for Tang Mo to war.
Since you dare to kill my envoy twice, then I have a reason to go to war against you.
Tang Mo began to prepare for war, this time Tang Mo was ready to send a million troops to the Japanese Empire to conquer the land there, Tang Mo did not believe that a million troops could not conquer a small island country.
In order to clarify the purpose of this time, Tang Mo reorganized this unit and called it the "Eastern Imperial Army".
It means the emperor's direct troops marching eastward.
This time, the command of the troops, Tang Mo was still handed over to his own deity, the Qing King Mo Qing.
Mo Qing had already returned to Daming, and after learning that the clone was going to attack the Japanese Empire, he knew that this time he was going to command the army again.
With such an arrangement, anyone can already see that the relationship between the empress and the Qing king is not simple, and some people even speculate that when the empress reaches the end of her life in the future, I am afraid that the throne will be passed to the Qing king, after all, it is said that the Qing king has ascended to the real immortal realm, and he will live with heaven and earth, and will not die easily.