Chapter 438: Blackmail

Chunnan's envoys stationed in Dongping are quite a good errand, and the trade between Chunnan and Dongping every year, in terms of Chunnan's procurement of ordnance in Dongping, the envoys will never dare to pluck their feathers, but there are still a lot of other goods, and the envoys can still operate a lot of space. For example, helping those merchants who want to enter the Chunnan market to arrange some local affairs in Chunnan, on the one hand, they can add a business partner to their family and obtain a part of the benefits, on the other hand, the merchants of Dongping will naturally return the favor after making a profit in Chunnan. The envoy was originally a public relations position, and he used a lot of money from the state to constantly organize various gatherings and feed back all kinds of news obtained from the gatherings. Envoys can often hear how many things have been sent by such and such a firm, and where they have arrived, and what interesting new products have been released, or what new technologies have come out of such and such a firm that makes everyone's eyes hot. There are not many kinds of news related to the people's livelihood and military affairs of the country, but there are many that can be fed back to the businessmen who are related to the envoys. Relying on the dissemination and exchange of this kind of news, a wise envoy can get all kinds of silver gifts in a year, and those with political ambitions can rely on this channel to meet many people and establish the most basic friendship and trust.

Basically, the annual envoy to Dongping is now a popular position, and most of them are filled by young talents who have great prospects in Chunnan in the future. On the one hand, it is to broaden the horizons of young people and sharpen their temperament by relying on this position that is not of high rank, but can come into contact with many big names, and on the other hand, it is also to allow people who have not formed habits and twilight in the officialdom to observe and learn the various systems of Dongping. From this point of view, the lord of Chunnan is also a somewhat ambitious person, but the national system and situation are like this, and there are some places where this lord cannot be used. Over the past few years, the energy of internal friction in handling and quelling party disputes and storage battles has increased by a large margin. Of course, according to what Concubine Lian Changling said in private once, young people have ideals and will not make money in this position, after all, they will think about doing something and letting go of an old man, but it is really uncertain. Judging from this sentence, Concubine Lian Chang Ling can be regarded as a bit politically minded.

This envoy is the new champion of Chunnan the year before.,The background is not very high.,The family is barely enough to be relatively wealthy.,It's always been obscure.,There have been no big people who shocked the government and the opposition.,There's nothing to be a traitor.。 This young man named Zheng Zhe finally won the top prize at the age of twenty-nine. Because this guy is still quite capable of doing practical things, after working in the Ministry of Rites for a year, he has achieved remarkable results, and only then was he directly named by the lord of Chunnan to come to Danyang without any backstage. And Zheng Zhe is diligent and diligent, although he can't interfere in the arms procurement between the two countries, and he can't say that he can affect anything, but in terms of contacting non-governmental business cooperation, he can largely put aside the family's ruts, and try his best to do things right and do a good job. Zheng Zhe's style won him a lot of friends, especially the favor of those big merchants and big families in Chunnan and Dongping, but after all, he has no family background, and it seems that it is not so easy to make any eye-catching achievements in the position of envoy.

When Zheng Zhe's butler handed him the simple invitation and invited him to attend the opening ceremony of the Danyang-Dongjiaji-Thunder Cliff airship route, Zheng Zhe's brows furrowed, he didn't understand what was going on. But then the news sent by the spies belonging to different departments of Chunnan surprised him, although he had always heard that Dongping was going to engage in civil aviation, but now, flying is too cutting-edge technology, even the slightest possibility of leaking technology is unbearable, and now, Dongping really wants to put the airship in front of ordinary people?

However, after thinking about it, Zheng Zhe had to admit that this was really quite tempting. People can fly in the sky and overlook the entire vast earth, which is simply comparable to the treatment of those legendary gods. And the fast traffic brought by the flight is even more desirable. The Chunnan army has been thirsting for airships for a long time, and this is an invincible reconnaissance weapon that can make enemies on the ground have nothing to hide. The effect of ground attack has long been proved to be powerful and valuable through several combat examples in Dongping. Even if these aside, being able to directly climb mountains and mountains, several times faster than the winding ground road, makes it impossible for people to refuse this kind of thing.

"Who sent this?" Zheng Zhe asked.

The housekeeper immediately replied: "It's someone from the Kyushu Trading Company, and it's the subordinate of Old Man Song who is in the silk business of Ximen." ”

Zheng Zhe said with a smile: "Old Man Song is definitely not interested in this kind of thing, and he is not important enough to be able to post this kind of post according to his own mind." This is a business cooperated between the Inner Government and the Ye family, a bit similar to the FedEx, the Ye family pays the technology, and the Inner Government pays the money, although the old man Song is worth a huge amount of billions, but the level is a lot worse after all. Somebody wants to see me. I'll write a reply, you can send it to Old Man Song's house in person later. ”

The starting point of the route is set outside the north gate of Danyang, where there is a large open space, originally built a small scale airship mooring yard, and now, the original camp has been renovated, huge hangars and spacious terminals are lined up, and in the middle, there are more than 20 airships moored. Although there are actually only twelve airships put into operation on this route, today is a bit of a scene, Ye Tao deliberately put his Yunzhou No. 1 and escort flight team here. Naturally, this is also an act of temptation. When everyone saw these five special, beautiful airships moored on the side of the mooring, everyone's eyes straightened. However, the airship used for the route is not simple, it is basically the same as the airship used by Ye Tao before there was a ship like Yunzhou No. 1, that is, there is a little less space for each person, and the price of taking the airship is unexpectedly cheap. The whole journey of this route is two days, on the evening of the first day, stationed at the "airport" in Dongjiaji, the whole airship fare also includes the cost of accommodation in Dongjiaji, a total of 30 silver. However, the fare of 30 taels of silver is limited to the combined weight of passengers and luggage shall not exceed 250 catties, and luggage fees will be charged for the excess part. And this route, tentatively scheduled for two flights a day, both depart in the morning.

No one knows why Ye Tao and Tan Weixin are so familiar with this kind of business, the airship mooring site has a fairly complete ticket inspection and security check link from the beginning, and even the ticket transfer and change system is very complete. The meals provided by the airship during the flight are also exquisite, due to the lack of heating tools on the airship, only cold food and some insulated food can be provided, but the type and proportion of the airship meal, the preparation and supply on the ground, a series of arrangements are very good.

In the terminal building with huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows, Zheng Zhe's eyes were fixed on Yunzhou No. 1 and the Snow Owl airship. This is the new airship that several spies have reported seeing recently, and looking at the sleek and soothing shape, and the pod with a hard frame attached to the airbag, you know that these airships are not the same thing as the airship used to establish this route.

"Mr. Zheng came so early today." A voice sounded behind Zheng Zhe. When Zheng Zhe heard this, he hurriedly turned around and said politely, "Hello Master Suo." ”

It was Soyon who came. Suo Yong has been quite good in the Ministry of Industry over the years, with the good technology and production management foundation laid in the Ye Workshop, he has greatly improved the production quality and efficiency of the factories under the Ministry of Industry in a few years, and the joint R&D team of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War has finally continued to have new products born, and there is no need to always rely on the technicians of the Ye Workshop to commission research. Even the production methods of the workshops directly under the Ministry of Industry are gradually changing, and those operations with little technical content are gradually outsourced to private firms, and the workshops only carry out the core production. The quality is higher, the quantity is more, but the price has dropped significantly. Although he offended some people, Suo Yong gained a firm foothold in the Ministry of Industry and the entire officialdom, and those who knew him, even those who had a disagreement with him, had to admit that Suo Yong was down-to-earth and capable. And Suo Yong and Suo Zheng, the two brothers, one is now a cadre with real power, and the other is the only logistics general in the entire Dongping so far, which is also a good story.

Suo Yong usually deals with Zheng Zhe, but today, Suo Yong is just here to introduce him. He said, "Mr. Zheng, today is my junior brother looking for you. I guess that's a good thing. ”

"Oh?" Zheng Zhe said with great interest: "Ye Jingluo is looking for me? …… Can you tell me what the hell is going on? ”

"Didn't Chunnan always want to buy an airship? You have come to me for I don't know how many times, and I can't be the master when you come to talk about this matter. However, now that the junior brother has His Majesty's permission, he can sell the airship to you. Weigh it up for yourself. Suo Yong said lightly, but there was a faint hint of relief in his tone, as if he had finally settled on his mind. If Ye Tao heard it, he would definitely cancel his senior brother, and he would be an official with skills, which could impress this Zheng Zhe more than he said.

Sure enough, Zheng Zhe said deeply: "Thank you Master Suo for making it complete." ”

Ye Tao briefly exchanged a few words with Zheng Zhe, and then handed the prepared documents to Zheng Zhe. And Liu Yong also stuffed one for Suo Yong. It was the first time that Suo Yong had seen this thing, but when he saw the numbers listed in it, he felt that it was really difficult to remain quiet. He knew the price of the airship, and even if he didn't know, with his deep understanding of the Ye family's workshop, he could calculate the price of the airship. The lowest price of the airships listed in the document is 40,000 taels, but in fact the cost may not exceed 15,000 taels, and the price of 40,000 taels is still the price after dismantling the signal and other devices, and the specific changes are clearly listed on the document. This price also does not include the training of pilots, if Chunnan asks Dongping to train pilots, then the training price of each pilot is three thousand five hundred taels.

If Chunnan accepts all the prices listed in the documents, and Chunnan wants everything that can be sold, the total amount of this military purchase order will undoubtedly exceed two million taels, which is out-and-out blackmail. However, Zheng Zhe's reaction was calm. He did gasp, but after calming down a little, he said very calmly: "Thank you Ye Jingluo and Master Suo for completing it, I will send this document back to Yuhang in the shortest possible time, and I will definitely reply as soon as possible." ”