Mirror Palace in December of the third year of Qiansheng.

Lin Ziran was listening to Ding Quankun's report from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

"Thanks to the substantial increase in our oil production capacity, this year's petroleum terminal products such as kerosene, lubricating oil began to be exported on a large scale, in the neighboring countries and the southern continent, the kingdom island, the western continent, the southwest mainland are the initial construction of the sales network, in the fourth quarter of this year, we have successfully exported 120,000 barrels of kerosene and some lubricating oil and other petroleum products, earning more than 5 million Tang yuan."

"The oil industry has become the fifth largest export industry of the empire, after agricultural and livestock products, mineral products, weapons and industrial products!"

Listening to this data, it seems that this year's oil exports are very awesome, which is the first major export industry, but in fact, this reflects the serious singleness of the export products in the import and export trade of the Daheng Empire.

Because apart from the trade in agricultural and livestock products and primary processed products of agricultural and livestock products, as well as the arms trade, the Daheng Empire really has no other industries that can compete in the international market.

In the import and export trade of Qiansheng in the three years of Qiansheng reported by Ding Quankun just now, the annual export volume of the Daheng Empire was about 600 million Hengyuan, but the total direct export value of agricultural and livestock products reached 400 million Hengyuan.

Just wheat, the Daheng Empire exported more than 100 million Hengyuan throughout the year, accounting for more than 20 percent of the total export value temporarily.

Cotton is also an extremely important export commodity of the contemporary Daheng Empire, with an annual export value of tens of millions of Hengyuan.

In addition to agricultural and livestock products, the second largest export is minerals.

The empire is rich in mineral resources, easy to mine, and many minerals are of good quality, so a large number of mined in addition to self-use also began to earn foreign exchange on a large scale.

In particular, the anthracite produced in the Liangluo area of Nanhai Prefecture, because of its high quality, is very suitable for steam ships, especially warships, after the Liangluo anthracite began to be mined and exported in large quantities, just the Krull Kingdom has placed a number of super large orders, with a cumulative order amount of more than 10 million Hengyuan.

Although they didn't say it explicitly, the people of Daheng also knew that this was purchased by the Krull Kingdom for their own naval warships.

The competitiveness of high-quality coal in the international market is great, and the competitiveness of other mineral products of the Daheng Empire, such as iron ore and other mineral products, is not bad, so the export is okay.

The above-mentioned primary products such as agricultural and livestock products and mineral products account for more than 80% of the total export value!

And this is a data that is quite embarrassing, and even makes Lin Ziran extremely dissatisfied.

With the world's first army, pondering the construction of the world's first navy, and the potential of the world's number one power, the people are clamoring for expansion all day long, hammering the six-nation alliance in the north, and stepping on the two countries in the south; Beat Olisa and challenged Krull's Great Heng Empire, and in international trade, he could only make money by exporting grain and ore.

And if you look at what the Daheng Empire imported, the import volume and the export volume were comparable in the three years of Qiansheng, and it was also more than 600 million Heng Yuan, almost all of which were industrial products.

Among them, the total import value of various types of machinery and equipment alone reached 300 million Hengyuan, accounting for more than half.

The rest of the imported goods are basically high value-added industrial systems, such as high-end textile products, daily products, and even high-end liquor.

This kind of import and export trade structure makes Lin Ziran feel aggrieved no matter how he looks at it!

Daheng people work hard to farm and mine, export for money, and then buy industrial products imported from Daheng to process and produce industrial products!

This time and again, Daheng people will lose a lot!

Look at the Krull Kingdom, this is the expert in playing international import and export trade!

Imported commodities are basically agricultural and mineral primary products, and no matter how poor they are, they are semi-processed products; The vast majority of exports are high-value-added industrial products, and even the textile industry, which is typical of the industrial age, can only be ranked behind in their Krull Kingdom, because their mechanical products (including weapons) are their fist exports.

And Daheng only lives by selling grain and minerals!

The sum of semi-processed products and processed products is only more than 100 million Hengyuan, accounting for about 20 percent of the total export value.

Most of them are semi-processed products related to agriculture and livestock and semi-processed products of the mining industry, such as flour, timber, concentrate ore, pig iron, crude steel, etc.

However, the share of real industrial products is very small, only about 8 percent, and of these 8 percent of industrial products, weapons account for the vast majority, and then a small number of processed products of the agricultural and animal husbandry industries represented by canned food and wine.

And finally kerosene!

How to look at this, how nonsense!

But Lin Ziran is also a little helpless about this, because this is the reality!

It is not that the Daheng Empire has tried to export other industrial products, such as cloth, which is a typical textile product, but the quality is worse than that of people and the cost is higher than others, there is no way to survive in the cruel international market.

It is precisely because it cannot be pushed that Lin Ziran will let the industrial sector focus on the development of related manufacturing industries based on agriculture and animal husbandry and mining, such as canned food, wine, leather, and furniture are industries that Lin Ziran has been emphasizing in the past two years.

It seems to be low-end, and the machinery industry can not be compared, but these industries have great advantages in raw materials and labor costs.

The scale of agriculture and animal husbandry in the Daheng Empire is huge, so it has inherent advantages to use the farm industry to engage in industries such as winemaking, canning, leather, and furniture.

How to say it, regardless of whether the low end is not the low end, first make money and then talk about it, no matter what, it is much better than directly exporting agriculture and livestock.

In addition to relying on these industries in the agricultural and livestock industries, Lin Ziran also focused on supporting some industries with advantages to expand production and export, of which the arms industry is the most important thing.

The current export value of industrial products of the Daheng Empire is basically supported by the export of weapons.

However, the weapons business of the Great Heng Empire is not stable.

Since the beginning of this year, the arms export of the Great Heng Empire has encountered many difficulties, because several powerful countries represented by the Krull Kingdom have successively completed the research and development of their advanced breech-loading rifled weapons and began large-scale production.

Moreover, the arms trade is greatly influenced by politics, and in many cases, it is not possible to sell it at a good price and a good price.

Therefore, in the past year, the empire's arms exports have been affected to a certain extent, so that even the export volume of 50 million has not exceeded 50 million.

In this case, the Great Heng Empire needed a product that could quickly open the international market, earn a large amount of foreign exchange for the empire, and avoid trade deficits.

And since the second half of this year, Lin Ziran, as well as several other high-level officials of the empire, have successively set their sights on the oil industry!