Chapter 439: The weapons business should become bigger and stronger

The weapon signboards that the three major arsenals in Nanhai Prefecture have spent decades laying down cannot be lost.

As before, no matter what the situation, we must stabilize production, supply goods in a timely manner, and be a responsible arms supplier.

In the past, Nanhai Prefecture fought every day, and those feudal towns fought back and forth, but these three major arsenals were still producing steadily.

Now, too, it must be.

Lin Ziran was still counting on the side of the Orr Kingdom to place the follow-up orders earlier.

That's at least 7.8 million rear-loading rifles and 1,500 artillery pieces, plus the oversized orders for related bullets and shells, and the total amount will directly exceed 100 million at that time.

In addition to the Orr Kingdom, Lin Ziran is also counting on selling these weapons to other countries, such as the Orr Kingdom, there are many countries that have money but are not capable of manufacturing advanced weapons, and when the time comes, catch a few and exploit them, the money earned can not only feed the huge arsenal of Luohai City, but also contribute a lot of financial income.

You must know that in this batch of 30 million orders, the net profit is at least more than 20 million, and the profit of more than 20 million is not much less than the kerosene business.

Seeing the final accounts, Lin Ziran sighed!

Sure enough, it is still oil and weapons that are the most profitable, compared to the windfall profits of these two industries, the profitability of other industries is scum!

Therefore, Lin Zi then continued to give instructions to Han Haochuan, who was in charge of trade: to make full use of the technological and production capacity advantages of the national defense industry, actively carry out foreign trade, and provide assistance for the economic development of Nanhai Prefecture!

To put it bluntly, let Han Haochuan continue to find customers to sell arms!

Lin Ziran now has a strong feeling that whether he can unify Daheng or not, he may have to rely on weapons and oil.

As for others, such as the grain industry, the traditional advantageous industry of Nanhai Prefecture, this thing is not unique to Nanhai Prefecture, and many states in Daheng are not short of food, and even produce food.

There are no unique advantages in comparison.

What are the advantages of Nanhai State?

In Lin Ziran's view, it is still an industrial, developed, and heavy industry with the national defense industry as the core.

Because this is not only the national defense industry, in order to build advanced weapons in these years, it is not just a random arsenal, but also a large number of supporting factories, the most basic of which are steel and coal.

Thanks to the huge scale of the three major arsenals, the supporting Luohai Iron and Steel Plant is also large in scale and has good technology, and at the same time, there are good quality and rich reserves of coal in Nanhai Prefecture.

These things are not only used to make weapons, but are also indispensable industries for the development of contemporary industry.

This is also the reason why Lin Ziran did not hesitate to export a large number of weapons, but also to stabilize the production of the three major arsenals.

Stabilizing the three major arsenals is equivalent to stabilizing the production of the entire huge industrial base of Luohai City, and stabilizing this industrial production base will also stabilize the industrial system of the entire Nanhai Prefecture, and feed back for other industries, thereby driving the development of the entire industrial system

When the industrial system continues to grow, it will bring jobs, taxes, consumption, and everything.

This is an important reason why Lin Ziran attaches importance to foreign trade in weapons.

After getting Lin Ziran's instructions, Han Haochuan began to look for other weapons customers again.

Not to mention, he really found a few more customers, and this time he found the same country in the Central Continent, the Lieteng Kingdom, which is an ordinary country located in the northwest of the Central Continent.

The area is small, the money is not much, the industry is not good, and the country is also in the midst of a civil war, and since last year there has been a rebellion within this ordinary small country, and the royal family is looking for all kinds of advanced weapons to arm the army to suppress the rebellion.

However, they are much worse than the wealth of the Orr Kingdom.

Han Haochuan talked with them for a long time, and finally finalized a small list of several millions, and in order to suppress the rebellion, they are now in urgent need of weapons and ammunition, and what they want is stock, but they can't wait for half a year or even a year.

Therefore, Han Haochuan suggested that they purchase second-hand Fuyuan rifles, which are smoothbore guns.

These things have a large number of mothballed stocks in the Yugoslav Navy, especially old smoothbore guns, and the number of mothballed guns has increased.

Taking smoothbore guns as an example, there are more than 2,000 small- and medium-caliber smoothbore guns that have been mothballed, and these are either iron-cast smoothbore guns or bronze cannons that are in very new condition.

As for the more smoothbore guns, the total number is 200,000, these are relatively old Fuyuan muskets that do not have the conditions to be converted into rifled guns, and some of them can only be piled up in warehouses and moldy except for the local patrol police.

When the negotiation team led by Han Haochuan negotiated with the royal representatives of the Lieteng Kingdom, they said that these smoothbore guns were very cheap, and they could even buy one get one free when they wanted it.

However, the Lieteng Kingdom is not stupid, after they saw the rear-loading rifle, they immediately knew that the smoothbore gun was already behind, and there would be money to purchase these things, even if the price was cheap, they didn't want it.

In the end, the two sides reached an agreement, and the Lieteng royal family purchased 50,000 Fuyuan rifles and 30 million rounds of ammunition, and in the case of artillery, they also wanted rear-loading rifled guns, but even if they had money, they would have to get rear-loading rifled guns for at least a year, and even after a year, I don't know if they could get them.

The Southern Navy needs to need thousands of rear-loading guns for its own use, and at the same time, there are 500 in the early stage of the Orr Kingdom, and 1,500 in the later stage, and there are also many large-caliber guns, the technical requirements of these large-caliber guns are very high, and the production capacity is also very low.

The production capacity of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is also gradually modified and increased, even if the normal production capacity is played in the follow-up, but it is estimated that it will take about a year to complete these orders.

At the same time, the front-loading rifled guns were gone, and the captured stocks were basically bought by the Orr Kingdom.

However, if you don't have a rifled gun, you can't do without artillery, the people of the Lieteng Kingdom have seen the 120mm new smoothbore gun sealed by the Southern Navy and produced by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, and said that this thing is not bad, although it is not as good as the rifled gun, but the range is much stronger than most of the current smoothbore guns, and two hundred were purchased on the spot.

In addition to the Kingdom of Lieteng, there are also a few small orders, all of which are from some small forces abroad, and they don't buy much, but they add up to a considerable number.

The follow-up orders such as the Lieteng Kingdom made Lin Ziran very pleased, the arms business was slowly opened, and it had to continue to grow bigger and stronger in the future.

At the same time, he also instructed Han Haochuan that since he had trade relations with the Orr Kingdom and the Lieteng Kingdom, then cleanly let the people of Qingshan Petroleum Company also run over to set up a branch, and then faint and sell kerosene.

The good momentum of the weapons and oil industries has given Lin Ziran some spare money on hand.

What do you do when you have money?

Naturally, it is to purchase more weapons and ammunition to fight!

Now, whether it is the northern front, the eastern front, or the western front, there is a war.

When Lin Ziran was tossing the arms trade, the First Army and the Second Army of the Northern Front, under the command of Xu Zhongshu, had already completed the preliminary preparations and hoarded a large amount of war materials in advance.

Now it's time to start a massive counterattack!