The trade relations between the Great Heng Empire and the advanced countries such as the Krull Kingdom and the Walya Empire were relatively stable and harmonious, but the trade relations with other countries were not very friendly.

The trade conflicts of the Gafia Empire are just ordinary, and the Olisa Empire has an even greater conflict with the Empire.

The two countries have been in conflict for hundreds of years around the Endless Strait, and the Heng Olympic War 60 years ago has made the two countries still unable to forget their hatred.

Now the Orissa Empire still controls the Endless Strait, which is a natural waterway connecting the middle of the central continent and the southern continent, and the strategy is extremely high, and the ships of Daheng need to detour through the Endless Strait to and from the east and west coasts of the country.

In the same way, the Olissa's own ships connected the east and west coasts, and they also had to pass through this strait.

This strait is of great strategic value to both countries.

Fortunately in peacetime, the width of the Endless Strait is also quite wide, even if the sea areas on both sides belong to the territorial waters of other countries, but the middle channel part still belongs to the high seas, plus this place is an extremely important strait, and the Orissa Empire does not have the courage to blockade it, so in peacetime, the ships of the Daheng Empire can pass, and warships are no exception.

But once the war broke out, then the ships of the empire could not pass, which meant that the east and west coasts of the empire lost convenient sea passages, and could only go all the way south, detouring the southernmost point of the southern continent, not to mention the long distance, and it was also very risky during the war.

An endless strait is destined to make it impossible for the two countries to live in peace.

Aside from the historical grievances between the two countries caused by the Endless Sea Strait, there is also a huge conflict between the two countries in international trade.

The Olisa Empire is actually similar to the Gafia Empire and the Great Heng Empire, all of which are the world's first-echelon powers, but there is still a big gap in industrial strength, especially technical ability, compared with the Krull Kingdom, the Valia Empire, and the Kekel Empire.

The three major countries of Krull, Valia and Kekel are the first-class industrial powers on the contemporary Blue Star, with advanced technology and strong strength.

The five countries of the Great Heng Empire, the Olisa Empire, the Gafia Empire, the Ibean Empire, and the Oran Kingdom belong to the backward industrial countries, and the industrial scale is good, but the technology is not good!

Therefore, the degree of overlap of industrial products between these five countries is relatively high, and in addition to relying on a number of their own characteristic products in international trade, they basically rely on low-end manufacturing.

There is a lot of competition between them.

Among them, the Olisa Empire thinks that it is a historical grievance, coupled with the fierce contradictions between the two sides in recent years, and they are shouting war every day, so the trade conflict is also huge, and the trade market is basically not open between the two countries, and the few open ones are also taking targeted punitive tariffs.

This kind of conflict has basically no other possibility of quelling than using war to quell it.

Aside from the Olisa Empire's market, which is almost impossible to enter, the market of other countries can still be fought for by the Daheng Empire.

But other countries are not stupid, and if they want to open their markets, the empire will have to pay a certain price, unless it is forced to agree by means of war.

Unfortunately, the current long-distance projection capability of the Daheng Empire is still a little worse, although the strength of the navy is already okay, and it boasts that it has entered the top ten in the world, but it is still far from being able to compare with the traditional maritime powers such as the Krull Kingdom and the Walya Empire, and there is no overseas base, resulting in the navy being unable to deploy over long distances.

This is also why the Daheng Empire has only carried out a few gunboat diplomacy over the years, not because the Daheng people don't want to do this, in fact, with the character of the Daheng people, if they can drive the warship to the door of someone else's house and force the opponent to open the market, they will definitely not negotiate with the opponent and obtain the market in the way of interest exchange.

Due to many factors, this has led to the fact that in the past two years, the Great Heng Empire has frequently shouted the slogan of open door and free trade in diplomatic occasions.

However, for the time being, few countries have taken the slogan of open door and free trade of Daheng people!

Therefore, if we want to expand the share of international trade and exports, we still need to continue to work hard.

Fortunately, the internal market of the Daheng Empire is large enough, and its internal demand is enough for the industrial system of the Daheng Empire to complete technological upgrades.

If the domestic market was not large enough to maintain its own industrial development, like several other countries, I am afraid that the character of Daheng people would have declared war on the outside world a long time ago.

The internal market is large enough, and at the same time, there are basically all kinds of resources in the Daheng area, so in the early stage of the industrial development process of the Daheng Empire, in fact, the dependence on the external market is not large.

In the early years, the general industrial goods of the Daheng Empire were basically not exported, but the internal market was still able to develop a complete set of industries.

But now it is different, with the gradual increase in the scale of the secondary industry of the Daheng Empire, the number of employees is increasing, although most of the industrial products are still mainly sold inward, but the proportion of international trade has gradually increased.

In the seventh year of Qiansheng, all kinds of industrial products, including kerosene, weapons, etc., the value of industrial products exported by the Daheng Empire was about 700 million Heng Yuan, which was not low, and it was basically comparable to agricultural and livestock products.

In order to maintain and expand the export of industrial products, the diplomatic activities of the Daheng Empire are now very frequent, and the basic core task of a large number of delegations and diplomats stationed in various countries is to maintain and open up the local international market and open the way for Daheng's goods.

And thus formed the concept of open door and free trade of the Great Heng Empire!

But other big countries are generally not satisfied with this approach of the Great Heng Empire, the market in this world is so big, and the people of Daheng have robbed more of the market, which means that their market is small, which is why the Great Heng Empire and the Gafia Empire have been in conflict in the past two years.

It is also one of the important reasons for the further increase in contradictions with the Orissa Empire.

In September of the eighth year of Qiansheng, the Orr War was still continuing, and after the Daheng Empire and the Mongol Khanate signed a formal contract for the purchase of warships, Lin Ziran presided over a meeting on industrial and commercial development in the Mirror Palace.

During the meeting, Lin Ziran emphasized that all departments should continue to promote the development of industry and commerce.

We should further promote mechanized agriculture and guide enterprises to increase investment in the processing of agricultural and livestock products.

For a large agricultural and livestock country like the Daheng Empire, the agricultural and livestock products processing industry is very important, and it cannot be overstated!

In addition, to further expand domestic demand, although the international market is now large, but most of the industries of the Daheng Empire still need the domestic market to feed, the domestic market is large, so that the industry can achieve industrial upgrading, drive economic development, otherwise do not be like the Gafia Empire, because the domestic market is not large enough, need to kill the head in the international market, even then it is difficult to expand the market, there is no market there is no profit, no profit can not achieve industrial upgrading, thus falling into a vicious circle.

The Daheng Empire is also actively expanding the external market, but the internal market is more important and worthy of the empire's attention.

At the end of the meeting, Lin Ziran emphasized that it is necessary to continue to promote and support the development of the national defense industry, and the development of the national defense industry should not pay attention to scale as in the past, but also to technology.

The armament of the army and navy on the contemporary blue star is being updated too quickly, and the empire's national defense industry must keep up with the trend of advanced technological development, actively innovate and create its own new technologies, and build first-class advanced weapons and equipment units.

In the industrial and commercial development conference to emphasize the development of the national defense industry, which is estimated to be a very special thing in other countries, but in the Daheng Empire, this is a matter of course, because since the unification of the Daheng Empire, the export volume of national defense products of the Daheng Empire has always been very large, in previous years, it can generally be maintained at the export quota of tens of millions of Hengyuan, and in this year, the export volume of national defense products exploded directly!

In just a few months before the outbreak of the Orr War, the Orr Kingdom purchased various strategic weapons worth more than 100 million Hengyuan from the Daheng Empire, including spot warships, shore defense artillery, army artillery, guns and a huge amount of various ammunition.

In addition to guns and ammunition, there are also various types of military supplies such as uniforms, military shoes, tents, sabers, copper whistles, observation balloons, binoculars, canned food, etc.

Just for all kinds of canned military supplies, the Orrs purchased more than 6 million Heng Yuan.

Subsequently, the Orrs reached a batch of order agreements with the Empire, although the subsequent production orders were affected by the war, and some of them could not be continued or postponed, but the amount was still not small.

This year, just the Orr people, just like the empire has purchased at least 1300 million Hengyuan of all kinds of military supplies!

On the other side of the war, the Krull people have also purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of ammunition and various materials from the empire.

At the same time, stimulated by the Orr War, the reputation of the cruisers and torpedo boats of the Daheng Empire rose greatly, and its A series of torpedo boats became famous in World War I, ushering in orders from many countries, taking advantage of this east wind, the four countries on the east coast of the empire signed an arms order worth 1,500 Heng Yuan, including torpedo boats, two armored cruisers and four second-class cruisers.

Subsequently, an order was signed with the Mongol Khanate for a total of 50 million Hengyuan.

Plus bits and pieces of millions.

In the first nine months of this year alone, the empire has already signed orders with various countries for various national defense and military supplies worth 210 million constant yuan!

In this regard, Lin Ziran wants to work harder and take advantage of the limelight of the Orr War to make another wave of ruthlessness!

After all, there are still many countries that are negotiating warship orders with the Empire, and although there are many torpedo boats that come to procure, there are also a few countries that plan to purchase cruisers.

Take the opportunity to sign a few more orders as much as possible.