Chapter 716: Daheng Business Delegation Visits

Daheng's unique abundant agricultural and mineral resources make the Daheng Empire say that although there is still a certain distance from the three major powers in terms of industrial technology, but in terms of average living standards, the Daheng Empire is definitely stronger than them, and it is much stronger!

Since the unification of the Daheng Empire, thanks to the abundant agricultural resources, most people have lived a very good life, and in other countries, they belong to the decent middle class!

Middle- and high-income families, which account for more than 60 percent of the total population, are not meaningless, and behind this is a good standard of living.

This is why the empire still encourages study abroad......

Because if the empire doesn't encourage it, not many Daheng people are willing to go out to study.

Studying or working abroad means that under the same income level, the standard of living will be greatly reduced, everyone is not stupid, it is good to go to school and work in China, why run out and suffer.

The implementation of many policies is to enhance Daheng's scientific research strength and enhance all aspects of technology.

However, these are all time-consuming, in a short period of time, in order to solve the Krull Kingdom's restrictive export of high-end equipment, the Daheng Empire is also preparing for three hands, on the one hand, it is to send a delegation to the Krull Kingdom to negotiate to see if it can ease relations and resume imports.

At the same time, a delegation was sent to the two major industrial powers, Valia and Kokkel, to seek alternatives.

Finally, it is also a sneaky use of third countries to import these high-end equipment by indirect methods!

In May of the tenth year of the Qiansheng Dynasty, the empire's Western Continent trade delegation officially set off to the Kekel Empire and the Walya Empire, and in addition to officials, there were also a large number of business representatives.

The delegation's visit, in fact, the Walya Empire and the Kekel Empire took the initiative to invite them over!

They also knew that the Krull Kingdom had unilaterally imposed technical restrictions on the Great Heng Empire, and now the Great Heng Empire was looking for suppliers of similar products all over the world.

If they can take the opportunity to win these orders, it will be a large order of hundreds of millions every year.

How could they let go of such an opportunity, so as soon as they heard that there was a conflict between the Great Heng Empire and the Krull Kingdom, they immediately invited the Great Heng Empire to send delegations to visit and investigate.

In the past, these high-end equipment orders have always been monopolized by the Krull Kingdom, and they can't get it if they want to, but now that the Krull Kingdom is dying by itself, they naturally want to take the opportunity to grab the order.

As for technical restrictions and the like, the Krull Kingdom felt that the threat of the Great Heng Empire was getting bigger and bigger, and began to restrict the export of high-end technical equipment to the Great Heng, but they didn't have to worry about this problem.

The Great Heng Empire is far away from them, and there is a kingdom island in between, and there is no hatred conflict in history, and there is no conflict of interests now.

On the contrary, they still have a lot of common language with the Great Heng Empire when it comes to fighting against the Krull Kingdom!

The hatred and direct conflict of interest between the Krull Kingdom and the Walya Empire and the Kkarl Empire are much more powerful than the hatred and conflict of interests between the Krull Kingdom and the Great Heng Empire.

When it comes to historical hatred, the Krull people have fought a lot of wars with the Walians and the Kehr people in history, and they are basically the same as the Daheng and Orissa, who have fought each other for hundreds of years.

A few decades ago, in order to compete for the international market, a serious conflict broke out between the three kingdoms of Krull, the Walia Empire, and the Kkarl Empire, which were the first to complete industrialization, and the historical contradictions, directly triggered a large-scale war between the Krull Kingdom and the Walya Empire.

In this battle, the navy of the Krull Kingdom defeated the navy of the Valia Empire with an absolute advantage, and then it was an undeclared war and directly attacked the navy of the Krull Empire, and in the end, only the navy of the Krull Kingdom was left.

This proclaimed the era of the king of Krull Kingdom to dominate the world!

These hatreds are not much worse than the hatred between the Great Heng and the Olisa Empire!

In recent decades, the Walia Empire and the Kor Empire have relied on the advantages of the continental countries and the western continent itself for development, and although they lagged behind the Krull people in industrial development, they did not lag too far behind.

These three kingdoms are still the current first-echelon industrial powers on the Blue Star, and the Gafia Empire, the Daheng Empire, the Orissa Empire, and the Orlan Kingdom behind can only be regarded as the second echelon.

These three countries are also each other's biggest competitors!

Their conflicting interests are almost all over the world, even on the side of the Great Heng Empire.

In recent years, the Daheng Empire has vigorously promoted the development of industrialization and purchased a large number of advanced machinery and equipment, which has caused fierce competition between the three countries.

In the past few years, the Valya Empire and the Kekel Empire have actually attached great importance to the market of the Daheng Empire, competing for more orders for their own industry and commerce, but the results are not too great.

After all, the goods that the Great Heng Empire needs to import now, in addition to some special products, are mainly some high-end mechanical products, and on the one hand, the products of the Krull Kingdom occupy a great advantage.

Therefore, in the past few years, most of the high-end machinery orders of the Daheng Empire have been taken away by the Krull Kingdom, and only a small number of orders have been obtained from the Walya Empire and the Kekel Empire.

However, now that the Krull Kingdom itself has given up these orders on its own in order to guard against the Great Heng Empire, they naturally want to take the opportunity to eat them.

The business delegation of the Daheng Empire, led by the Imperial Foreign Minister Jiang Wanye, integrated many high-ranking officials from the industrial and commercial departments and the foreign affairs department, in addition to a group of hundreds of business representatives.

Some of these enterprise representatives came out with the delegation and relied on the power of official negotiations to procure advanced equipment, while others wanted to take the opportunity to open up the market and export their own products.

After all, it is international trade, and it cannot be said that the Daheng Empire does not import but not export, otherwise the Daheng Empire will not be able to balance the deficit of international trade.

So the import and export are all done at the same time.

In terms of exports, there are mainly grain enterprises, oil enterprises and mining enterprises, in addition to a number of large textile enterprises and daily chemical enterprises that belong to private capital.

In addition, representatives of arms trading companies were accompanied by the delegation.

After all, although the main purpose of the mission is to go to the two major industrial countries of Kekel and Walya, the missions of other countries in the Western Continent will also go around, for example, the Mongol Khanate will go back to visit one or two.

The Mongol Khanate ordered a large number of warships from the Empire, with a total value of more than 50 million Hengyuan.

The Daheng Empire thought here, since it has started, then the follow-up orders must also be sought, the construction of the navy of the Mongol Khanate can't be said to be 50 million, don't care, if you want to maintain the fleet in the future, you have to maintain it, overhaul, this barrel, cannonball and everything can be bought.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the fleet in the future, it is also necessary to continue to build new warships to replace the old ones.

In these years, the technology has climbed very fast, and in a few years these new warships will become obsolete, and when the time comes, the Mongol Khanate will either carry out large-scale upgrades and modifications, or simply build new ships.

It's all money!

But during this time, the Mongol Khanate has been unhurried, and there has been no negotiation of new warships for a long time, so the imperial arms trading company plans to go over and remind the Mongol Khanate.

Their important opponent, the Orlan Kingdom, had already ordered a batch of 350 mm and 30 times the naval guns from the Krull Kingdom to prepare to expand the fleet.

Several other neighboring countries are not idle, and they are expanding their fleets one by one.

So you Mongol Khanate can't be idle, you see, do you want another battleship, if not, you can get a Bourgil-class armored cruiser, everyone who has bought this ship says it's good.

It's really not good, you can get a few second-class cruisers, large torpedo boats or something.

This business trip, in addition to solving the problem of high-end equipment imports, is more to open the market of the western continent for the domestic industry.

The business delegation of the Great Heng Empire took the flagship cruise ship 'Royal Princess' under the Endless Sea Shipping Company of the Great Heng Empire.

As you can see from the name, Endless Sea Shipping Company is another enterprise that belongs to the Royal Assets Committee, or more simply, it belongs to Lin Shu, who is only a few years old.

Endless Sea Shipping Company, when the eldest daughter Lin Shu was born, Lin Ziran transferred all the shares of the company to her name, and then when the company built a large flagship passenger ship, after application, it was able to adopt the specific ship name of the Royal Princess.

This large ocean-going liner is indeed worthy of this name, with a displacement of 11,000 tons, four huge chimneys, and a very fast speed of 18 knots.

It is the largest, fastest and most luxurious ocean liner built by the Daheng Empire, and like other cruise ships, in addition to carrying passengers, it also transports transoceanic letters and parcels for the postal department, and it is also the reason why modern large passenger ships are called cruise ships.

In addition to commercial factors, there are also certain political considerations for the construction of the ship by the Endless Sea Shipping Company of the Royal Assets Division.

Before the unification of the Daheng Empire, the domestic feudal towns were in chaos, and the shipping companies were scattered and weak, basically only operating coastal shipping or inland river routes, and only a few shipping companies would operate some ocean routes.

However, the ships used are generally small passenger ships of only two or three thousand tons.

The ocean passenger and ocean freight markets have always been dominated by foreign shipping companies, especially those of the Kingdom of Krull.

Even after reunification, the imperial shipping industry has regained a part of the freight market, but the ocean passenger market has been difficult to regain!

It's because the empire doesn't have many ocean-going liners of large tonnage!

You don't even have a ship, what do you use to grab the market?