At work on Monday, at about ten o'clock in the morning, in Chen Xinji's invincible seaview office, he listened to the report of the police chief of Rising Sun City on the Hongmao fan jumping off the building.

As soon as he gave the order, a large number of people broke his leg for him, and he had to work overtime on Sundays and make materials at night.

"The deceased's name is Carter Dupont, British, this is the information registered by the customs, and he is an ocean-going merchant who has entered my southeast province seriously!"

"According to the investigation, before Mr. Carter died, he was selling his goods, and he brought with him a shipload of binoculars, glasswork, and Western clocks."

"Can't sell?" Chen Xinji asked.

"Yes, Prime Minister Wise!"

"His asking price is as high as five or six times the same goods in our southeast province, if it is reduced to the same price as us, we have calculated that the loss is inevitable, and we will lose half of the price!"

"So, he couldn't see it, so he ended himself." So said the Inspector General of Police.

At that time, there was no network for international trade, and it was not a click of the mouse to know the price of the other half of the earth, and Mr. Carter worked hard to cross the storms of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to send goods to Southeast Asia, and then found that he had lost half of his capital...... What a hard work for whom!

Of course, loss is a common occurrence, and it may be the last straw that breaks the camel's back, and Mr. Carter is not allowed to borrow usury to buy goods, and he will not make much money and return to China.

After Chen Xinji listened to the report and waved the director out, his head began to think nervously.

Others can't see the problem, but Chen Xinji has grasped the key to the matter.

In the past, telescopes, glass products, and Western clocks were the best-selling goods exported to the Chinese region, but after the southeastern naval admiral Hong Xuguan sailed around the world to Europe, where he hired a Hongmao technician to make glass and Western clocks at a high price, the price of glass products and Western clocks plummeted.

Chinese scholars regard these technologies as strange and ingenious skills and do not pay attention to them, but private capital still attaches great importance to these things.

The first bell was brought into China in 1582 and dedicated to Governor Chen Rui on December 27 of the same year. In 1601, Father Matteo Ricci came to China and was entertained by Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty. Ritchie paid tribute to an iron bell with a pendant, which sounded four times per hour. The body of the bell is placed in a wooden cabinet carved with a dragon ornament and an eagle's beak to indicate the time inscription written in Chinese characters.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the entry of European missionaries into China and the opening of trade in Guangzhou, Western clocks and watches began to enter China as gifts and commodities.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Western clocks and watches had not only been widely known by people from all walks of life, but also had Chinese people learn clock technology and imitate production. The Portuguese missionary Zeng Dezhao, who lived in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other places for many years, returned to Europe in 1640 and completed a "Travelogue", which recorded: "The handicraft they (the Chinese) admire most is the gear clock." They've built it very well now. Can be placed on the table. If they offer the same price as ours, they can make the smallest. ”

Due to technical reasons, the glaze could not form a breakthrough, and the Chinese could only make Chinese glass at first, that is, glaze.

However, this short board has been overcome by the Chinese using the skills of the Hongmao Fan technician, and it is in the hands of the Chinese!

As for the clock-making technology, the Chinese have also mastered the core technology, not only that, but the most advanced "single pendulum mechanical clock" has been mass-produced by the Chinese.

That clock had a pendulum, and it used gravity to swing and swing there, and the accuracy was better than that of previous Western clocks.

Western-style mechanical clocks are driven by clockwork, and the accuracy is worse than that of single-pendulum mechanical clocks, this time Mr. Carter brought a "single-pendulum mechanical clock", but I didn't expect the Chinese clocks to be better than him, and he couldn't sell them!

The tough Chinese even made pocket watches.

The red-haired fan, who couldn't think of it, was in the twelve-story building, stepping into the air.

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Chen Xinji shook the bell and called the secretary Zhou Xingrui and said: "You are going to do a special topic in the past few days, that is, our trade with foreign countries!" ”

Zhou Xingrui had just passed his thirtieth birthday, was in the prime of life, and was very capable, so he nodded and accepted the task.

He used the information from the Prime Minister's Office and went to the Customs Department of the Ministry of Finance to go through the facts, and both the Ministry of Finance and the Customs Department sent people to assist him, and they checked the information, worked overtime until 3 o'clock in the morning at night, and finally handed over the business to Chen Xinji on Friday morning.

The title of the report is very novel, it is: Chinese Exports vs. Foreign Imports

The name "China" has a long history, and the southeast mansion was mentioned by Yan Changwu, and everyone understands that it refers to the territory controlled by the Chinese regime, including the mainland and Southeast Asia.

China exported a large number of silk, porcelain, tea, sugar, rum, cigarettes, oilseeds, spices, medicinal materials and various handicrafts such as gold wire, gold jackets, magnetic ware, dishes, beautiful lacquer cages, water dishes, inlaid copper, large jars and small jars, mercury, jewelry boxes, colored paper, calendars, gold table paper books, mirrors, combs, glasses, sulfur, Chinese knives, lacquer sheaths, fans, Tang umbrellas to shade the sun, etc.

And the vast majority of imported foreign goods are one, and that is silver!

Of course, there is more to this than that, before that, China imported foreign metals such as copper, iron, tin, gunpowder, cannons, medicinal herbs, amber, linen, precious stones, Arabic spices, Nanyang spices, ivory, etc., as well as glass products, Western clocks.

China's export commodities are varied, of good quality, and in large quantities.

The current situation of imported goods is seriously unbalanced, and only silver remains!

Spices account for the largest portion of China's imports, and the Maritime Silk Road is also known as the "Spice Road".

Chinese love spices, eat and use, sandalwood, agarwood, frankincense, pepper, cloves, cinnamon, fennel, nutmeg, as well as fragrant sweet rosin, sandalwood, dragon incense, camphor, absinthe and benzoin, saffron, yellow tannins, tamarind and other Arabic spices can be found all over China.

With the control of Southeast Asia, the spices used such as sandalwood, agarwood, frankincense, camphor, pepper, cloves, cinnamon, fennel, nutmeg, etc., all became the pockets of Chinese merchants, and the spice business turned upside down, and Chinese merchants exported to foreign countries and made huge profits, while Hongmaofan and Arabs made hard money......

When it comes to the gun business, the gun casting technology of the southeast province has been perfected, thanks to two people at home and abroad, one is Sun Yuanhua, the big bull bull has been in charge of military production for a long time, and the latest achievements include breech flintlock pistol, 12-pounder marching gun, iron cannon casting technology; While casting cannons for the Chinese, this Father Tang also summarized the entire casting process of Western artillery, such as smelting, casting, storage, transportation, performance, preparation of gunpowder and casting of shells, etc., which he dictated and sorted out and wrote a book of high scientific value, "The Essentials of Fire Attack", which was published in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1643).

After the work was completed, it was pirated by the Southeast Prefecture in large quantities, and he did not give Father Tang any copyright fees......

Therefore, now the southeast province does not import foreigners' guns.

In the past, foreigners exported gunpowder as much as they wanted, but after Yan Changwu got over the mainland, it became a large-scale manufacture of gunpowder on the mainland, and it became the world's gunpowder manufacturing center.

Well, the nitrate in gunpowder has to be scraped in the toilet, and there are many toilets in China.

As for glass products, not to mention Western clocks, after being pirated by the Chinese, they immediately seized the market for foreign goods, the quantity is large and the quality is cheap, and the foreign goods cannot be sold, so Mr. Hongmao Fancarter jumped and returned to the earth.

Metal production?

Yes, China's metal output is like modern China's steel production, China alone picks the entire foreign country, and more!

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Chen Xinji looked at the report and commented: "We go our way, so that others have no way out!" ”

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