Chapter 119: Sherman, the magic chariot
However, once the textiles and steel of the Shenglan Empire are dumped into the Kyushu world, it will have a great impact on the existing craftsmen in the Kyushu world.
Originally, men ploughed and women weaved, and the social structure of self-sufficiency would collapse in an instant.
The current Kyushu world has not yet completed unification, and it is impossible to compete with the merchants of the Shenglan Empire, once the social structure collapses, people will subtly accept the values of the Shenglan Empire.
Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, no one knows at the moment.
Behind the merchant ships of the Shenglan Empire, a column of warships sailed to the Eastern Wa Kingdom, which they intended to use as their temporary stronghold.
If necessary, the goods could be dumped into the Eastern Wa Kingdom in exchange for real money.
Not long after, a group of majestic merchants of the Shenglan Empire came to the island, they were wealthy, and another group of people from the Eastern Wa Kingdom hurriedly greeted them, as if they had sent a note in advance.
"Our Shenglan Empire has come to improve the living standards of your Dongwei people."
Before the Diaoyu Island Chamber of Commerce began, these merchants of the Shenglan Empire seemed to have reached a series of trade agreements with the people of the Eastern Wa Kingdom.
If you don't agree, those huge magic warships will launch an attack on the Eastern Wa Kingdom, and these high-end magic warships, the Shenglan Empire will not sell them to several countries in the East.
They only need to sell the low-end magic cannon to the Eastern Wa Kingdom, and they can obtain a large amount of real money, silver, tea, and raw materials, of course, dumping textiles is incidental, and these people in the Eastern Wa Kingdom have low-end magic cannons, which can accelerate the unification process of the island country.
The Shenglan Empire needed a stable Eastern Wa Kingdom to dump its goods.
The greedy merchants seemed to ignore how big the market was, their machines were running at a rapid pace, and they promised their civilians through parliament that there would be bread, magic cars, everything.
The fact is, however, that the workers, tired of the low-interest repetitive work, have begun to form trade unions, negotiate terms with the merchants and even the parliament, and demand holidays and pay increases.
The gap between the rich and the poor widened indefinitely, and the big businessmen desperately squeezed out the small businessmen, resulting in the emergence of big capitalists and monopolies.
And the group of merchants of the Shenglan Empire who came to participate in the Diaoyu Island Chamber of Commerce this time are several monopoly capital giants, who have purchased a large number of warships and hired legions mainly adventurers as a force to conquer the East.
"Ha Yi!" The merchants of the Eastern Wa Kingdom faced the capital giants of the Shenglan Empire, and they knew that there was no room for bargaining.
When hordes of magical warships appeared, all the bargaining was fake, and they even needed to buy a large number of magic cannons to stabilize the interior, otherwise the Shenglan Empire might garrison their Eastern Wa Kingdom.
Under the pretext of helping you stabilize the country, in fact, even the merchants of your own country will not have business to do at that time.
"Look at those warships, I estimate that the always strong Jiangnan Navy Division of Luofu Kingdom will be defeated in three days."
Yang Jian looked at the Shenglan Empire warships in the distance, and frowned, those huge warships, several times larger than the Fu ships, were like walking on the sea, each battleship, there were hundreds of magic cannons, if they fired together, the sailors of the Luofu Kingdom were almost vulnerable.
Once the Shenglan Empire gained sea supremacy, they established a stronghold in the nearby island chain, which could send a large number of land forces to attack the interior.
What's even more terrifying is that these warships can also drive straight along the river, greatly threatening Jiangning, the capital of Luofu Kingdom.
If you go north, you can threaten Dadu.
"Yes, but in Luofu, it seems that no one can wake up at all, don't they understand? I don't think so, anyway, as long as their vested interests are guaranteed, no matter how painful the civilians are, what can they do? ”
Kang Anyu shook his head, he could even see that in the near future, those first-class ministers would turn against him.
The Chamber of Commerce also began very quickly, nothing more than merchants from various countries bartering, and some of them would trade gold and silver, which had always been hard currency, and because of its scarcity, it was very valuable.
The prosperous land, the troubled world is gold, the Kyushu world is already in chaos, and only by holding gold and silver will they maintain control of capital in the troubled times.
Of course, it is not absolute, if you want to control gold and silver, you must have the support of the army, or you must obtain the right to rule.
If you want to truly achieve the sanctity and inviolability of people's private property, you still have to rely on strength after all, and it is always better to be active than passive.
"By the way, Brother Erlang, we don't have gold in our hands, and we don't have silver in our hands, so what can we buy things with?"
When you come to the Diaoyu Island Chamber of Commerce, you can't come for nothing, you have to buy something, Kang Anyu asked.
Yang Jian touched his chin and said, "I naturally have the means!" ”
Like the World Exposition, the Diaoyu Island Chamber of Commerce has a variety of ancient gadgets.
There are all kinds of tea leaves from Luofu, such as Longjing tea, Tieguanyin, Maojian, Pu'er, etc., as well as silk products, which are silk satin.
There are pills and herbs from Qi State, ginseng from Liao State, and kudzu root weighing hundreds of catties, such as Ganoderma lucidum the size of a basin, which are all sold in the Kyushu world, but in the Diaoyu Island Chamber of Commerce, it seems that it is not particularly valuable.
"No, no, no, what's the use of taking such a piece of starch back?"
The giant kudzu, known as auspicious, can be sold for a lot of gold in the Luofu Kingdom, but at the Diaoyu Island Chamber of Commerce, the merchants of the Shenglan Empire don't seem to buy it, and at most take it back as a specimen or put it in a museum.
"These ginseng strains are artificially cultivated, the medicinal effect is not good, and it is not as good as the ginseng of our Shenglan Empire."
Seemingly well versed in bargaining, the merchant of the Shenglan Empire shook his head, squeezing a little profit is a little.
"Whoa!" Hundreds of catties of Maojian tea were dumped in an open field, and immediately many businessmen came around, this kind of fast-moving consumer goods, they were full of comments on the quality of tea, but they all seemed to be dissatisfied.
Before the Qingming Festival, the tender tip has long been looted by the officials of the Luofu Kingdom, and the quality of the Diaoyu Island Chamber of Commerce can only be regarded as average, and the early foreign businessmen did not understand it very well, and gradually, everyone also understood.
The textiles of the Shenglan Empire entered the Chamber of Commerce in boxes and boxes, and the price was very low, even cheaper than the cotton in the Kyushu world.
The magicians of the Shenglan Empire used wood magic to produce a large amount of cotton and flax, and by improving the varieties of cotton and flax, linen and cotton fabrics were almost inferior to silk products.
The price is cheap and the quality is high, and it was favored by the merchants of the Kyushu world at once, but even if there are more textiles, the merchants of the Shenglan Empire only take them out slowly, and make a little more money.
"Hello everyone, I am the Sisd arms supplier of the Shenglan Empire, and the one we launched today is a magic chariot named Sherman, and the magic cannon on the head of the chariot can reach a rate of fire of three hundred and fifty rounds per minute!"
At this time, a bearded merchant from the Shenglan Empire held a cigar and introduced it to the merchants of the Kyushu world.