Chapter 775: The Mine That Embarrassmented the Great Heng People
Although there are more than 8,000 tons of them, the cheaply sold Klan-class armored cruiser series accounts for as many as 15 ships, and the other warships with more than 10,000 tons are only six in total.
But even so, it is also a bumper year for the ordnance trade of the Daheng Empire in the last ten years!
In addition to the above-mentioned twenty-one capital ships, the Daheng Empire has also signed a bunch of auxiliary ship contracts with other countries, after all, when they purchased battleships and armored cruisers, they also needed to purchase the same new generation of auxiliary warships to fight with, otherwise one or two capital ships would be sunk by other people's torpedo boats in minutes.
And auxiliary warships are cheaper, so there are more of them.
Last year, a total of nine of the 4,000-ton Anlin-class protective cruisers, reconnaissance models, firepower models, and other models were sold.
And then there were six other disorganized protective cruisers.
Thousands of tons of protective cruisers last year and at the beginning of this year, relying on the two advantages of rapid-fire guns and hardened armor, shouted out the slogan of buying rapid-fire guns and hardened armor to send to the hull, and signed an order for a total of 15 ships.
It's a pity that this thing won't sell after the middle of this year, after all, everyone is not stupid, and the protective cruisers on both sides in the Battle of Beauvois are very scummy, facing the blows of rapid-fire guns on both sides, and they are vulnerable.
And this is actually why the order for the Crane-class armored cruiser broke out this year, because other countries found that the protective cruiser did not work, so they simply put it in place in one step and directly got the armored cruiser, as for the auxiliary ships to be used, what kind of protective cruiser do you want, just get a high-speed reconnaissance cruiser with a smaller tonnage.
So after the middle of this year, among the auxiliary ships of the Daheng Empire, the protective cruisers can't be sold, but the two or three thousand ton reconnaissance cruisers are good to buy, but this thing does not have high requirements for firepower and protection, and other countries can also build it, so although the Daheng Empire has bought a lot here, it is not too popular.
As for the torpedo boats of the A series, they sold well as always!
Although the torpedo battles of both sides in the two naval battles of Beauvo had no effect, it can be seen from the fact that both sides have always avoided night battles and are not close to each other's ports, and the defensive effect of torpedo boats is still very large.
There is also a very popular one that sells mines!
And the booming sale of mines also makes Daheng people extremely embarrassed!
Because the mines of the Great Heng people sold well, because the mines not only sank many ships of the Gaphians, but also sank many of the Great Heng people's own warships and merchant ships......
During the Liej Incident, the navy of the Great Heng Empire dropped countless mines in many ports in the warring seas.
Many of them are drifting mines, which will drift with the current, and at night or in the case of poor visibility, the ship will directly touch it, and then blow it up with a bang.
Originally, these mines were intended to block the ships of the Gafians, but they did not expect that this thing would deviate from the original sea area while floating, and then enter the preset channel that was originally safe, and then bomb the ships of the Great Heng Navy......
In the past, although everyone also used mines, there were basically no explosions, but this time the Lieji incident changed, and the Daheng Imperial Navy used its own warships to advertise its own mines!
A Crane-class armored cruiser was paralyzed by the bombing and crashed on the beach, and was finally forced to scrap, two cruisers, a destroyer were sunk on the spot, and several cargo ships were sunk.
Daheng people used these achievements to announce to the world: My mines are so awesome, I will blow up my own ship if I am ruthless!
This matter is about to be laughed at by the navies of other countries!
In the wars of the last few decades, there have been more mines, and the effect of sinking enemy ships with mines has also been there, but the enemy's warships have not been sunk, but their own ships have been sunk by one vote.
But behind this incident is also a proof that the mines of the Daheng people are powerful!
Therefore, many countries have come to Daheng to purchase mines, and they are still very confident that they will use it after buying it back, whether it will blow up their own ships.
After all, we're not stupid......
Anyway, anyway, this mine can be regarded as a war to fame, and the purchase is quite prosperous!
Naval equipment is selling so well, and army equipment is also selling a lot, and a series of guns and firearms using smokeless gunpowder are all welcome.
Let the defense industry of the Daheng Empire also eat a mouthful of fat, so many orders for foreign trade warships, plus orders for self-use warships, are enough to make the defense industry of the Daheng Empire work overtime for several years.
The export of a large number of ordnance also made the share of high-grade industrial products in the foreign trade of the Daheng Empire in the eleventh and twelfth years of Qiansheng rise rapidly, but this still could not change the export commodities of the Daheng Empire, which were still dominated by agricultural products, primary industrial products and petroleum products.
After all, even if this ordnance is bought, in fact, a large order is only tens of millions, and many large orders are only more than 100 million Hengyuan, which is not a big number for the Daheng Empire, whose total export volume has exceeded 2.2 billion Hengyuan.
In the 12 years of the Great Heng Empire, the bulk of exports are still agricultural products, and the total export volume of wheat, corn and other grains alone has reached 700 million Heng Yuan, not counting cotton and other cash crops and meat and leather products in the breeding industry, the total export value of all agricultural products and related products has exceeded one billion Heng Yuan.
Among the industrial products, although the total export value of semi-processed products has increased, the proportion has only been reduced to only 8 percentage points, mainly concentrated in high-quality anthracite, crude steel and other products.
The bulk of industrial products have been turned into finished products, although these manufactured products are mainly petroleum-related products or low-end industrial products, such as textile products, low-end machinery products and other products.
On the other hand, high-end mechanical products are very few, and the majority is related to the national defense industry.
This point can also be seen that the export trade of the Daheng Empire is not the same as that of several other industrial powers, whether it is the Krull Kingdom or the Kekel Empire and the Walia Empire, the export volume of these three traditional industrial powers is basically based on industrial products, not to mention the export of agricultural and livestock products, they are all imported, and the exported industrial products are also dominated by medium and high-end industrial products, as for the low-end products, they do not export much.
Nowadays, in the international market, the main exports of low-end products are the Daheng Empire, the Olisa Empire, and the Gafia Empire!
And this is also the reason why the relationship between the above three countries is extremely poor!
They are direct competitors in the international market!