Soon, Wu Mingche jointly signed a letter to the emperor Chen Xu with the generals: The army of Chen Guo is mainly composed of sailors, and the iron armor is bulky and easy to rust when wet, and the paper armor provided by the general firm, after field tests, not only has the defensive performance on par with the iron armor, but also has low cost, light and waterproof, suitable for a large number of equipment Chen Guo's army! A number of generals jointly requested that the waterproof paper armor of the General Commercial Bank be included in the military quartermaster list of the Ministry of War, and that it be ordered and distributed to the troops.

Chen Xu is also an ambitious emperor, hearing that the general firm can actually use cheap paper to make armor that can be defended, personally soaked in water in the court to verify and then pull the bow and shoot arrows, seeing that it really can't be pierced, he shouted excitedly, and also issued an edict to the general firm to start work immediately, mass production of paper armor, and equip the army!

As a result, with the waterproof paper armor, General Commercial Bank became a commercial bank specializing in military supplies of the Ministry of War, successfully breaking the monopoly of Yinhai Commercial Bank on the supply of weapons and military supplies to Chen Guo, and officially became the second largest commercial bank in Chen State!

The crown prince Chen Shubao was even more angry, pointing at Zhang Dai, the boss of Yinhai Commercial Bank, and scolded: "What are you doing as the boss of Yinhai Commercial Bank!" One of the largest commercial houses in the Chen Kingdom was actually suppressed by a general trading house that was established less than a year ago, only half a year after coming to Jinling, and was not a local merchant! ”

Yinhai Commercial Bank is a veteran commercial bank in Chen Guo, and the struggle of several generations of the Zhang family has developed the commercial bank into the first commercial bank in Chen Guo, and the current head Zhang Dai is also a person, since he took the prince's ship, it has been smooth sailing!

In this situation, Zhang Dai also feels very depressed and helpless! Yinhai Commercial Bank has always developed very well in Chen Guo, monopolizing Chen Guo's bulk business, and also managing a lot of official resources, basically the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the people of Chen Guo are closely related to him, and Yinhai Commercial Bank, which controls Chen Guo's business world, is a monopoly, and all the commercial houses behind him can not compare to him!

Half a year ago, a general commercial bank suddenly popped up in Jiangzhou, and Zhang Dai didn't take it seriously at first: it was just a foreign commercial house, the boss Zu Yuan, who was still excluded and driven out of Jinling by the local chamber of commerce in Jinling controlled by himself, such a commercial bank would not threaten him for a hundred years!

As a result, he was careless, and he united with Li An, the new Taishou of Xunyang County, to unify the entire Jiangzhou commercial houses, and also took away many branches of the Yinhai Commercial Bank in Jiangzhou, which suddenly made Zhang Dai change color and prepare to seek revenge.

At this time, the emperor made the prince's nemesis, Xingwang Chen Shuling, the assassin of Jiangzhou, under his protection, Zhang Dai could not retaliate against the general trading house through administrative means, and as a result, he was able to gain a firm foothold.

If administrative means don't work, then use commercial means to defeat the opponent!

Yinhai Commercial Bank, which controlled a large amount of Chen Guo's resources, was ready to restrict the raw materials of the iron workshop of the General Commercial Bank, prohibit iron mines, and coal mines entered Jiangzhou, but Xiao Yao was self-sufficient, and the raw material crisis was resolved by opening a mine in Jiangzhou, and the iron tools produced by the iron workshop were of better quality than their own, but the price was a little expensive.

Later, the general firm was even more open, pulling the banner of King Xing to Jinling, and then produced white sugar that was better than Tianzhu imports, which became a tribute, and was also exported to the two countries of Zhouqi, which was in short supply!

His local business alliance didn't have time to react, so he suddenly gained a firm foothold in Jinling, and the New Year was divided into commercial alliances by virtue of fireworks and firecrackers, and many commercial banks stood on the side of the general commercial bank.

Recently, I heard that General Commercial Bank opened a general bookstore and set up a general paper mill, at first I thought he just wanted to make paper and print books, only a month, but suddenly received the news that he actually made paper armor with paper, and now it has become a military supply, which hurts the foundation of Yinhai Commercial Bank's foothold in Chen State!

Chen Guo spends tens of millions of taels of silver every year to buy and manufacture a large number of military supplies through the Yinhai Commercial Bank, and the Yinhai Commercial Bank has made a lot of money and water in it!

Now the paper armor of the General Commercial Bank has been included in the military list, on the surface, although it is said to form a competitive relationship with the iron armor provided by the Yinhai Commercial Bank, and the generals are free to choose, but everyone knows that the price of paper armor is so cheap, a fool will choose the iron armor!

And the paper armor is just the beginning, you must know that the general trading house also has an iron workshop, the iron tools produced there, but they are all high-quality goods, in case the emperor is suddenly happy, the weapons created by the general trading house are also included in the military list, then the foundation of the silver sea trading house will be shaken, and it is not certain that the deer will die at that time.

"Your Highness is angry, it's not that our Yinhai Firm has not taken action, but that the General Merchant Bank always avoids direct confrontation with us, and can always introduce something new, so that we can't do anything about him!" Zhang Dai explained.

"Don't know where to start? You are the boss of Yinhai Commercial Bank, are there fewer trading houses that you have killed and eaten? Where did all those methods go back then? You can't learn from that Xiao Shilang, make something new, and catch them off guard! Even if you can't make something new, you can send them to copy them and imitate them! Chen Shubao still scolded angrily.

"Your Highness, of course I also thought about learning from them to produce sugar, but now the general sugar mill is built outside the city, and that piece is their territory, surrounded by high walls, and a large number of people take care of it, and strangers can't approach it at all! And they hired a sugar technician from Tianzhu, and for a while, we couldn't go to Tianzhu to find a sugar technician! And I asked all the sugar craftsmen in the Central Plains, and they couldn't turn brown sugar into white sugar like a general sugar mill! ”

"There is also the kind of thing used to produce fireworks and firecrackers called gunpowder, it is said that the formula is only known to Xiao Shilang alone, although we can find out what ore raw materials they have bought, and we have also searched all the ancient books, and asked all the alchemists, and now we only have some eyebrows, guess what kind of mineral materials are probably used, but we still can't make it like the gunpowder made by Xiao Shilang, which burns instantly!" Zhang Dai explained weakly.

He was also very depressed in his heart, so that the general trading house could hire Tianzhu technicians who knew how to make sugar, and the Tianzhu people we found were all monks who could only ring the bell and chant scriptures! And this Xiao Shilang, how can he make this kind of magical thing called gunpowder!

"Then let them develop like this, and become the second commercial bank of Chen Guo in less than half a year, and give him another half a year, won't you completely compare your Yinhai Commercial Bank!" Chen Shubao said fiercely.

Of course, Zhang Dai also knew that the situation was urgent, but he couldn't think of a better way for a while, so he could only comfort: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, now I have ordered someone to speed up the research on the method of making sugar and gunpowder, and there should be good news soon, and that paper armor, we have also made it, but the waterproof is poor, if you improve it again, you can make the same paper armor as them!" Although they have grabbed the first batch of orders now, we will still be able to regain the advantage in this area in the future! ”

"And we also found out that General Motors is interested in opening up the market in Wuxing, but Wuxing is our territory, and the salt gang over there has a good relationship with us! Not as good as us。。。。。。 Zhang Dai whispered in Chen Shubao's ear, making Chen Shubao begin to turn his anger into joy.