Chapter 387 - Pull Investment
The purpose of the government's existence is to seek the happiness of the people, but many times, power is often held by a small number of people, and in the most ancient times, the Chinese gave power to Dayu for the purpose of governing the Yellow River, and then this power could no longer leave.
Later generations of China formed a Confucian foreign exchange culture that is difficult for outsiders to understand, that is, blindly thinking about outsiders for good and Chinese for bad, since many years, natives and foreigners have disputes, and it is always Chinese who suffer, which has caused natives to be basically the eighth class of people in their homeland.
And when Chinese go overseas, they will always be second-class citizens, and the reasons here are varied.
But one thing is certain, European and American countries do not have so many moral shackles, and they have no psychological burden on plundering and slaughtering overseas to replenish their own blood, while China's thousands of years of natural hypocritical Confucianism has always made it difficult to tie its hands in foreign wars, which is almost fatal for a big country.
After Luo Yonghammer returned to the imperial capital, he went directly to contact the foreigners.
The foreigners in the imperial capital are divided into three places, in the imperial capital university hall, there are already a few missionary people, preparing for the start of school, of course, maybe it is a secret agent, in the cultural area, the Protestant and Catholic churches are open at the opposite door, harmonious to the explosion, and the third is naturally the commercial area.
These foreigners are found in all countries, and they can be called the scum of their own countries, but when they come to China, they all claim to be earls and viscounts, and then they ask the Chinese government to give them mansions made of gold, thousands of women, and how many acres of land according to the customs of the past years, otherwise they will be punished by God.
Of course, on the commercial map of the imperial capital, these foreigners have poor strength, and they often have the idea of repaying their debts, and from time to time they take out a bunch of glass balls, claiming that this is a legendary gem, and asking for a house or something.
Basically, in this era, the so-called businessmen from Europe who come to China are all scum.
Of course, scum also has the benefits of scum, for Luo Yonghammer, that is, for any Confucian student, any evil deeds that sit down can be forcibly explained, even if it is a slaughter of the city and a betrayal of the country, can't Yan Shenggong be proudly explained.
I am corrupt and incompetent, and I am shameless in betraying the country, but I am a scholar.
It has to be said that this has aroused the interest of many foreign businessmen.
"But I also see that this place is very powerful, the people here have more advanced weapons than us, and those powerful sea vessels, it will be difficult for us to convince the Council to invest in you until we know your strength."
Luo Yonghammer was excited, and said: "This is not difficult, the so-called weapons, aren't they just some strange tricks, those things, where can they be compared to benevolence and righteousness, don't you also make those firearms." ”
The secluded white man naturally refused to expose his own shortcomings, in fact, the firearms they wanted to sell to these barbarians at the beginning became a laughing stock as soon as they arrived at the port, and the exquisite Mauser rifle was shocked at the beginning, and asked to buy it on the spot, and when they heard the price of the export version of the Mauser, their faces turned green, they were here to make a fortune, not to give money.
In the past, the use of white-skinned faces to conduct intimidating business, or direct force of slaughter, did not work, even a few missionaries who were allowed to preach in the imperial capital, and then hoarsely demanded that God's people should not be humiliated, would not be restricted, that they should carry weapons ashore, and that they also demanded extraterritoriality, but they were all rejected.
But look at it, just in the port, how smooth the roads in Tianjin are, how much marble is used, those houses are so spacious and bright, and those large and small ships, carrying a huge amount of wealth and people who want to get rich come and go, also make the blood of these pirates disguised as merchants boiling, it's simple.
However, the reasonable demand for the concession port was scolded, and the little thing that demanded the concession in Tianjin was also refuted, and it was not permissible to collect taxes on these sea vessels in accordance with God's will.
Such a seaport that is making money every day is not touched, so that these merchants who can only go around the house are beating their chests, but it is inevitable that they will naturally conduct a military "assessment" to see if they can take this port.
In Chinese culture, to investigate other people's territory and plan how to invade other people's territory is naturally the most unfriendly first act, naturally unfriendly, but in the eyes of Westerners, this is just a daily activity, not worth making a fuss about, and later countries, like the United States, have carried out armament programs against all countries in the world, known as the Rainbow Project, which can be said to be their terrible ambitions.
Of course, as an obvious target, the activities of these foreigners are naturally very difficult, and the sudden appearance of Luo Yonghammer gave them a great benefit and opportunity, Luo Yonghammer returned to the imperial capital, and began to contact everywhere, he quickly thought of something, if he wanted to make it, he would be a traitor.
Cultural traitors, spiritual foreigners, in any era, those are people who make a fortune.
Luo Yong Hammer volunteered, sent his most extreme and crazy hammer fans to help a few Dutch foreign merchants to investigate the port armament, and peeped into the military camp under the banner of reporters, in fact, it was a happy cooperation before, these foreign businessmen were also generous, knowing the truth that they must be given in advance, and they gave these hammer fans a few bones.
These hammer fans naturally boosted their morale, and for a while, they were about to hold Luo Yong's hammer to the sky.
Luo Yonghammer is also proud, the face of foreigners is not easy to do things, but under the banner of doing business, helping to draw pictures, taking the opportunity to reap benefits, this is the wisdom of Confucianism.
I am all for the sake of righteousness, and for the sake of righteousness, I can commit adultery and plunder, and it is okay to do all the bad things!
"Mr. Smith, these investments are worth it, you see, these so-called elders, in fact, are just a group of simple tricks and tricks, they only dare to stay in such an ordinary city, and they don't dare to go south, it can be seen that they are self-aware of themselves, knowing that little tricks and tricks, they will deceive these grass people who have no king and no father, once they face my Jiangnan Shizi, they will collapse in an instant, so as long as you raise the army and kill in, we can develop together."
In Luo Yonghammer's mind, the so-called ability of the elders is just a little bit of the labor reform team, as long as they take Tianjin, when the time comes, with their own full reading of poetry and books, they will definitely be able to be more prosperous, not to mention anything else, this imperial capital is too unpresentable.
Smith seems to be very entangled, their business activities, to be honest, the profits are not as rich as imagined, although the imperial capital at this time can not be called the existence of the world factory level in later generations, but the demand for overseas is really shrinking to the extreme, although some people have received a large order, asking them to go to Baghdad or the Caucasus to buy golden cats to China, and specially marked the requirements, requiring good treatment, original goods, and it is best not to have been touched along the way, the younger the price, and there are many requirements.
These orders, the elders traded directly in gold, stating that the Caucasian girls were worth different amounts of gold according to their "grades", which was also the largest business of these merchants here.
Others, such as southern fruits and spices, are actually not popular, and the elders follow the route of high fat and high oil and water in later generations, that is, they are not interested in these spices and other things.
On the contrary, all kinds of new goods have almost emptied the pockets of Smith and others.
One of his sailors found something that immediately aroused the interest of the merchants, and a large order came down.
Airplane cups.
This occasional elder, who he didn't know who it was, was going to produce something that was going to be offered to his subordinate seamen and sold privately, and as soon as he found out, he was shocked by Smith, this thing was simply too suitable for them, and if it was shipped back to Java, oh no, in fact it was on the ship, and the sailors began to scramble after discovering the "wonderful use" of this thing, and finally each of them had a copy, which could be called a big killer, and almost all their profits were earned.
In fact, this thing has no scientific and technological content, it is nothing more than the leftover material of oil in the North China oil field.
But such a small pink ball, hiding in the cabin at night, letting his full desires be vented, is like heaven.
The legend of Europeans is that women cannot be allowed to get on the ship, otherwise there will be bad luck, in fact, this itself is very sociological spirit, you think about it, a group of strong laborers, there is no problem with health, good food and clothing on the ship, if there is an extra woman, then the cause of all kinds of jealousy will definitely cause the third world war!
Think about it, will the seafaring powers of later generations also be the same as the great powers of the foundation? The Netherlands was the first country in the world to legalize homosexuality, and Britain's reputation as a so-called "corrupt country" in later generations is not only spread by Chinese, but is well known, and a large number of adult men gather together, basically to have an accident.
Even if it is my Daming, although the pirates represented by Zheng Zhilong are not as long as they have been on an ocean voyage for too long, they also have a lot of habits, and they have a lot of rotten smells, in fact......
The elders would not have imagined that the most important thing for these foreign businessmen was the airplane cup, in fact, it was out of stock all of a sudden, and they had to place an order to understand, although the business was not large, but it was obviously inspired to them, so the types of orders with these people began to diversify.
It's hard to go into detail about these things, but in short, these foreigners were completely blood-sucked by the elders and earned the last silver coin in their pockets, which is pitiful.
If their goods are shipped back to Java or the mainland, they can indeed make a lot of money, and there are also various books, which also make them dumbfounded, as a fist product, why is it that after the initial castration, 100,000 children's books are basically crushing the academic level of Europe at this time, and they are quickly bought by some businessmen who are already considered to be Chinese experts.
Of course, it's only a castrated version.
Although Luo Yonghammer is greedy, he also knows how to measure, although he has made a lot of money, he has not paid any price.
Smith also got enough of it, and the information he got that China was still in the midst of a civil war, and in the past three years, the ruler of the imperial capital here did not seem to have allowed his army to cross the border to the south, and it is conceivable that there must be him because of this, and the opponent may have some kind of weak quality, which makes him happy, but how do you look at it, everyone is very strong, isn't it?
Of course, a sample of the castrated Mauser rifle was bought for a weapon that would have crushed almost any European worker's production, but he wanted more, but the price was almost sky-high.
This is also their biggest grudge, in this game, the only bargaining chip of European merchants is their precious metals, and the rest of the goods, except for some rare mahogany, will also be purchased by some large workshops to make all kinds of fresh furniture, but wood is obviously not a good commodity for maritime trade in this era.
What does a good product look like?
First of all, the cost is not high, the profit is large, and secondly, the transportation is convenient, it is best to be small in size, light in weight, the highest profit per unit weight, but also easy to preserve, high applicability, can not only face a few people.
Other attributes are the best, such as what is the promotion point, the degree of competition, etc.
Although the elders don't have much business talent, but with a pat on the head, there are still some ways, as the road of industrial construction, large-scale dumping of these Europeans to combat their possible industrialization process is also one of the elders' options, but the most embarrassing thing for them is that all kinds of other goods are not as popular as airplane cups!
The elders sold matches, and found that these people themselves did not lack ignition equipment, and at sea, the characteristics of matches that were easy to get wet were still a mistake, as for selling cigarettes in the past, there was no market, and it could not be regarded as a rigid need.
Others, that is, some T-shirts, can also have some market, and the rest, in fact, is not a common thing in this era of insufficient consumption.
The rigid needs of later generations are not in this era, whether it is diet or others, it depends on the consideration of cost.
It's not that there are no pirates who catch women on board, but that means a whole ship will never be at peace.
The airplane cup is definitely the Age of Discovery, although it did not appear, but it is absolutely right!
This thing really entered the vision of modernization is actually made by the Führer, as a suspected traversal, the Führer is extremely talented in animal protection, judicial concepts, and sex market research and development, although in weapon design, and strategy because of national strength and vision limitations, in the end it failed, but as the first person in history to issue a large-scale airplane cup to the army, the military discipline of the German army, at least stronger than the Japanese army, of course, is also a group of two-legged beasts.
Of course, the manufacturing technology of the airplane cup, along with any actual technology, cannot be borrowed, and the university that is said to be able to teach all kinds of knowledge is only willing to accept the official way of European registration.
(End of chapter)