Although it is only in February, the temperature has begun to rise, Skade thought to himself, this summer to install the ground energy air conditioning in place, of course, to the benefit of the administrative department, first of all, to solve the problem of copper, the ground energy air conditioning structure is simple, the exchanger or something still needs copper, although the number is not much, but it is non-production x non-essential consumption, the last time the motion on the installation of ground energy air conditioning in the old apartment was also aborted because of the opposition of the enterprise scraping yard, Zuihou only reserved the installation position

Where can I find copper? At present, what they can obtain in large quantities is the Japanese copper bought from Guangdong, and Skaide has a belly of opinions on the Japanese copper imported from Guangdong, and the Japanese copper can be refined to make the price of Japanese copper remain high for a long time, and a large number of purchases in the trade sector are fueling the trend of rising prices of the eldest son, and Skaide feels very painful every time he sees the trade list of Japanese copper

Although the trading price of copper in Japan has fallen this year, thanks to the suspension of trade in the previous year, the decline is not large, after all, copper has always been a scarce mineral in China, and it belongs to the same amount as silver, and it is swallowed up as much

It seems that we can't directly control a few large copper mines," Skader muttered to himself as he looked at the large sand table at his feet

In the hall, the interns of the naturalized people are staking out the sand table, and the lofting process is to use a parallelogram lofting drawing shelf to enlarge each contour line on the contour map to a number of large sheets of paper, and then the naturalized people who are learning to survey and map will dip the dry clay pieces of uniform specifications produced by Lingao with water and spread them on the drawings, and then pile them up layer by layer into mountains and rivers. The shape of the continental shelf on the seabed, the seabed is painted blue, and the forest is nailed out with a pin with a green sè paper strip to represent different tree species x average DBH, and then a simple model is used to mark out the town, Mines and ships and other details in the Japanese time and space, this simple model is made of corrugated paper, because the Lingao paper mill did not manufacture corrugated paper, so the colonial department used cement instead, and later changed to mass production of standard clay mosaics in accordance with the suggestion of Mr. Wen, which can greatly reduce the drying time, because if the next layer is not dry, the top layer will be deformed, and then the colony department and the relevant departments of several elders hold a pin x pen in their hands, "representing a variety of equipment, facilities, The paper card model of the building climbed on the sand table in turn, swinging around, and the building representative of the construction plan was inserted, and the pins pulled out represented the timber resources that could be obtained, and the military personnel prompted the fortification vertical point, and the transportation department used black, gray, and white ropes to mark the future road x the location of the railway, and in the continuous placement, the layout of the entire colony was optimized, and the notes of the colonial department and other ministries took piles of information prompts to answer the questions of the elders at any time, and the other bookkeeper made records

In the next meeting room, there were kvass and food, and the elders who came down from the sand table sat down to drink and discuss while drinking drinks, which used to be the dormitory of the senators... "In the conference room, there will often be an all-night debate on all the details, and the success or failure of the whole operation depends on the cooperation of countless details, all of which have a clerk in this conference room to record the details of the discussion, all of which will eventually be summarized and sorted out after the completion of the model project to form a colonial development plan, which will be copied by the Colonial Department to the relevant ministries for countersigning, and the ministries will also provide their own documents and attachments to prove their countersigning opinions, and then submit them to the Executive Committee through the General Office, if the Executive Committee is ready to use military force or large amounts of manpower, financial and material resources to complete these plans, then prepare a relatively concise and protracted proposal to submit to the Senate for approval, or at least a hearing

The military is also making a large and accurate Hongji sand table, and the General Staff has a large-scale sand table room dedicated to war games, but Skade knows that the military is extremely ambivalent about the development of Hongji, on the one hand, they hope that the final solution of the coal problem can improve the army's equipment and expand the scale to a higher level, needless to say, the navy's stock of butterfly charcoal also directly affects the fleet that is about to be motorized, on the other hand, the army is afraid of the armed conflict in the development of Hongji, which will put a heavy burden on the army, this forward-looking attitude makes Skade very dissatisfied, in his opinion, the army is simply like a typical person who wants to eat meat and is afraid of messing with sāo

Skade knew that a few days ago, Xi Yaya was recalled by the military affairs department, and He Ming, who was by-elected to become the military affairs director at the first meeting of the elders, asked him to preside over a war game deduction in the sand table room of the General Staff, roughly deducing the strategic form around Hongji, and the official report of this deduction had not yet come out, and Skaide was very suspicious that they were running sè" At this time, the phone on his desk rang, and Skaide returned to the office to pick up the phone, yes, what is me, Diao Henan, Buhe, Y people are coming? Okay, put them on the ship first, and then talk about it quickly, and then say three, he put down the phone, and the person who called was Mondstadt, and the Dutch suddenly came to Lingao, which was out of his expectations, and the executive committee and the Senate have always regarded the Dutch people as a big trouble, which is somewhat out of national sentiment, but the ambition of the Dutch people makes them indeed the most threatening opponents in the East Asian sea, not to mention that they also occupy Taiwan's Dayuan Port, which is the territory to be controlled by the future crossing group, and the so-called conflict in terms of criminal interests has a fundamental xìng, but so far no one expected that the Dutch people would take the initiative to ask for trade, instead of murderously pulling the fleet to and Lingao, before that, the army would be Liu Xiangwill not join forces with the Dutch people to attack Lingao, Yiya and even Hongji have made countless deductions, but they didn't think that the other party's purpose was to come to peaceful trade, and in the various memos that Skader piled up in filing cabinets and safes, the Dutch were almost ignored, because the Ministry of Colonization and Trade did not intend to do too much business with the Dutch, because most of the things that the Dutch could provide were not irreplaceable goods, and the British could also transport the goods of Lingao, and the Portuguese could also provide silver, mostly from Japan and Persia

Of course, if the conditions of trade are good enough, it is not impossible to do business with the Dutch people, after all, it is still an export-oriented economy-dominated entity, a large number of imported raw materials, a large number of exports, and when their own capacity is insufficient, a few more bamboos can be delivered to the door of the middleman is also good

However, the relationship with the Dutch and the people belongs to diplomacy, "as usual, it must be decided by the Senate, or by the Standing Committee of the Senate, during the period when the Dutch merchant group stayed on the ship to inspect the weight loss, the Senate Standing Committee of Lingao had a heated debate on how to arrange the Dutch, and the chairman of the Senate who came up in the by-election was Qian Shuiting, and the Feiyun was once cold after the club was established in Lingaojiao Park, and the main members held a meeting to deeply reflect on the shortcomings of the overseas club". A series of activities that the masses like to see, such as pistol shooting, Pei Ji, gradually attracted popularity, and Qian Shuiting also became a person that everyone knew, so in this by-election, relying on the relationship of the masses, "it was good to be in the by-election, which surprised him, because he did not plan to become the chairman of the Senate so soon, and he originally nominated Hailin of the Ministry of Timber Industry, and most of the elders in the Standing Committee believed that one mountain could not tolerate two tigers, and sooner or later they would have to fight with the Dutch people, and the Dutch people were the main opponents among the East Asian Europeans." This line of thinking has not changed, but the Dutch people suddenly crossed the ocean to express their willingness to trade, sign trade agreements, and even establish a certain degree of alliance, according to the current situation of Lingao, there is no need to refuse potential opponents who express friendship, not to mention that the Dutch people do not have any conflict of interest with Lingao for the time being

Even if the Dutch wanted to fight, they probably didn't have troops to send Lingao, and for the time being, they didn't have the ability to organize an expeditionary force to attack Badawi or Taiwan, but Lingao would probably launch an operation against Taiwan in Pingnai, so the Senate didn't want to have any covenant or peace treaty to bind itself, so the final resolution of the Senate was to agree to sign a trade agreement with the Dutch

Skade got permission to trade, he studied the list of goods of the Dutch people, and at present, this goods are still stacked in the warehouse of the docks, except for spices, every chair and thing that the Dutch people bring is useful, and the linen cloth makes his eyes brighten, the linen clothes are much more breathable and comfortable than cotton, and the agricultural department does not promote the cultivation of flax and hemp on a large scale in Lingao, so they only have a small amount of linen, and most of it is still traded with the parishioners

He suddenly thought that at present, the Dutch people are the main countries of trade with Japan, and the Dutch trade with Japan was interrupted after Zheng Zhilong completely cut off China's coastal trade, and now it is the time when the Dutch people have made a fortune on the Japanese route, and if they can buy Japanese copper bars through the Dutch, it is much cheaper than buying them in Guangzhou through the second or even first dealers

As long as the import of copper can be expanded by 3~4 times, it is not a great luxury to install air conditioning in offices and apartments, compared to the consumption of the industrial sector, this can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket, as for the goods exported to the Dutch people, Skaide considers the glass products in the bulk industrial products that are high again, because the price has been low to the point that even if it is profitable to sell back to Europe, so the export volume is increasing, in addition to the pond products, paper is not needed by the Dutch people, they are pure middlemen, whether in Southeast Asia, Neither Japan nor Persia had a great demand for paper@