"You're not a businessman, bullets still cost money, and you're so stingy. Each gun is equipped with 50 bullets, and even the skin wrapped in the bullets is given away for free! Do you think you're done just buying a gun? What should I do if the gun breaks down in the future? What if you don't use it? So, buying weapons is no better than anything else, this is a system engineering, and the big head is still to come. The money for providing spare parts is by no means cheaper than the whole gun, and the money for providing training services is more expensive. No matter who buys our weapons and services, it must be calculated according to the imperial scale of weights and measures, and the supporting facilities must be built according to the habits of the empire, and over time, others will get used to it, and it will be easy to leave us. "When it comes to how the money of the Mongolian generation, Hong Tao spits lotus flowers in his mouth, and remembers all the bad water that the countries of later generations have figured out, and he doesn't even need to change it, he can directly apply it to the present.

Weapons are goods, but they are very different from ordinary goods, whether they are cold weapons or hot weapons, they have their unique roles, and then require users to have corresponding tactical and logistics systems. Taking the musket as an example, if it wants to form combat effectiveness, it must have qualified soldiers, qualified officers, qualified logistical support, and the ability to coordinate and cooperate with other branches of the armed forces, all of which must be accomplished through training.

If the Southern Song Dynasty was ready to equip musketeers in large quantities, it was necessary to let the army instructors of the Jinhe Empire train their troops, and then these recruits and officers would be branded with a strong brand of the Jinhe Empire, and the units of measurement they used were imperial, the tactical ideas they accepted were imperial, and the living habits they were exposed to were also imperial. This concept is more advanced than this era, and human beings will naturally yearn for and be curious about things that are better than themselves, so some of these soldiers have a good impression of the Jinhe Empire in their hearts.

Don't underestimate this favorability. It will subtly change a person's mind, these soldiers and officers have a great chance of winning the war, and the corresponding promotion should be fast, who dares to guarantee that they will not become a general in ten years? Who knows if they have a big family background behind them? If one-third of the officials in the Southern Song Dynasty could have a good impression of the Jinhe Empire, would it be so difficult for Hong Tao to influence the Southern Song Dynasty again?

Immediate results are certainly pleasant, but the changes are often not profound. The slower, more imperceptible the effect is to penetrate into the bone marrow, and this change is silent, thorough, and difficult to reverse, to use a figurative metaphor, this is the difference between acute and chronic diseases.

Heart attack is fatal, right? It takes more than ten minutes to let a lively soul return to its hometown, but as long as it can be treated in time and does not delay the rescue time, it will usually be rescued, and it can live for many years with a few brackets. But if you have lung cancer. But it's troublesome, it's difficult to be found in the early stage, the patient doesn't feel anything, and when you have a feeling, the hospital also checks it out, and it's usually the third stage. At this time, doctors all over the world can only tell you one thing, that is, you can live for a few months or years, and there is no cure!

"Ahh And so much more? But how to talk to the court of the Great Song Dynasty before they would agree? Wen Nan was directly stunned by Hong Tao's words. Selling a few guns is the same as selling a body.

"It's time for you to go to the nautical school. Times are advancing. It's not enough to just use your previous knowledge. In this way, you go to Li Niang's business department to borrow two graduates of the navigation school to go with you, and it would be better if you could say that Li Niang would go with you. All you have to do is tell them what you want to achieve, and they'll help you with the rest of the details. "Compared with the generation or generation and a half of Jinhewan in Wennan, the second generation of Jinhewan who has just started working is much stronger in these aspects. They may be flawed in life experience, but they are not much less than they are in their own way. And I don't think there's anything wrong with pit foreigners, that kind of righteous feeling, I can't even do it myself.

Just when Hong Tao was busy selling flintlock smoothbore guns to the Great Song Dynasty, a major event occurred in the city of Guangzhou that was comparable to the capture of Tangzhou, even in Hong Tao's eyes. It was bigger than driving the Mongol Empire back north of the Yellow River. Guangzhou's maritime merchants have collectively gone on strike! Most of the merchant ships sailed out to sea, but instead of doing business, they took their families to the ports of Malacca and Kalamba, and they couldn't even find anyone. The city of Guangzhou was plastered with big-character posters, which clearly stated the reasons for the strike and the demands of the maritime merchants.

Before the officials in Guangzhou could react, most of the maritime merchants in Quanzhou, Fuzhou, and Qiongzhou also followed suit, and they also posted big-character posters and then took their families to the South Seas on a sea boat, leaving a closed wharf. Fools can see that this large-scale strike is under the command of someone behind the scenes, because the big-character posters are not handwritten, but printed by a printing press. Those who know a little bit can see the clue from the above, and the big-character posters posted in these cities are actually the same, from the paper to the ink.

Indeed, the mastermind behind the scenes was Wen Hao and his bosom friend society, and these big-character posters were printed by the bosom friend newspaper's printing house in Quanzhou and then transported by sea ships to Guangzhou, Fuzhou, and Quanzhou in batches. However, his bosom friend association alone could not carry out such a large-scale collective action, and the real mastermind behind this strike should be said to be Cixi, the new chairman of the Straits Company. However, neither Cixi nor Wen Hao had practical experience in this method of struggle, and they had not even heard of it before, so it was inevitable that they would make mistakes in many details. Fortunately, they had no experience, and the Southern Song Dynasty court was also inexperienced, and everyone stood on the same starting line.

Without the large-scale procurement of goods by maritime merchants, the suppliers in the surrounding small cities would be miserable, and the backlog of goods in the warehouses could not be sold. If they don't get paid, it will affect the return of funds from the workshops and small suppliers in their hometowns, and then the work in these workshops will not be paid, and then the families of these jobs will also be greatly affected. Everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, and if there is a problem at the end of the industrial chain, no one wants to run.

This is the difference between industry and commerce and agriculture, no one is afraid to buy grain when it is harvested, and it is a currency in itself. But industrial products and raw materials are different, some people buy them are treasures, even more valuable than gold, once the commercial circulation link is lost, they are waste, put in the house are too much trouble, can not eat or drink, the more developed areas of industry and commerce this phenomenon is more serious.

In addition to suppliers, maritime merchants are also involved in another rope, that is, buyers. In the past, the goods transported back by maritime merchants from abroad were booked by big businessmen from all over the country, and as soon as the sea ship left the port, it was actually equivalent to the arrival of the goods in the port, and the industrial chain behind was ready to eat this batch of goods. This kind of large-scale purchase can lower some prices, and then these people will ship the goods to the mainland in batches and sell them to local merchants, who are regarded as futures merchants in this era, and make a large difference in the price of the goods.

Now that the maritime merchants are suddenly out of work, who will provide them with the goods? This is not a thing of one ship or two, there are no less than hundreds of large sea ships sailing from these ports in October every year, and there are even more small sea boats, who has the ability to fill this big hole? Relying on the dozen or so large ships of the imperial court alone can't even satisfy the appetite of a large wholesaler, which is a drop in the bucket.

Without buyers, many shops have lost their sources of raw materials, especially those that focus on processing. Without the return of funds, the processed goods cannot be sold, which makes more workshops, tea farmers, and textile merchants fall into a predicament. They can't make money, and the small workshops and silkworm farmers below can't get money. This thing is chained, and if there is a problem in one link of the industrial chain, the whole chain will be affected. And the maritime merchants are an important link in the middle of this industrial chain, and if they have problems, the entire industrial chain will be stopped.

The cause of all this was the royal merchant fleet sent by the Southern Song court. Since last year, this merchant fleet has followed the maritime fleet to the South Seas, and as a result, more than a dozen ships of goods were brought back from the port of Malacca, and there was a bit of friction with Swan's father because of the problem of paying taxes, but in the end they still paid the taxes honestly. In the face of such a murderous demon king, the family members and royal relatives of these officials in the Southern Song Dynasty really did not dare to prick their hair, they could enjoy privileges in the Southern Song Dynasty, but after leaving the country, no one was used to it. Especially in the territory of the Golden River Empire, everything must be done in accordance with the law, even if Hong Tao's warships go to various ports to replenish, they still have to pay money.

Suffered a dumb loss! For the agents of these Southern Song Dynasty officials, paying taxes was a loss! They didn't dare to argue with Swan's father, but they could take their anger out on the maritime merchants, and it was always easiest to bully their own citizens at any time. How to bully it? It is to dump low-priced goods in Guangzhou and Quanzhou. Anyway, they also took the money and boats of the imperial court to help their family make money, what to earn more and earn less, as long as they don't lose money, the most important thing is to be angry.

In this way, it disrupted the originally well-organized foreign trade market, and when the long-distance merchants who returned later docked, they found that the sales guidance price system they had worked hard for several years was completely messed up, and the imperial merchant fleet became a fly feces in the big porridge pot of maritime merchants, and the whole pot of porridge changed its taste.

(To be continued.) )