"I believe it's a deal that's good for both of us. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" After signing the agreement, Su Liangxing, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tang Dynasty, shook hands with Baron Robinson and greeted.

"That's right, that's right." Robinson also tried his best not to show any unpleasant expression on his face.

2 million pounds, equivalent to more than 14 million Tang yuan, the Tang people bought more than 4 million square kilometers of land, that is to say, the price per square kilometer is only more than 3 millimeters. Although the land around Hudson Bay is not much different from Alaska, and even Datang is unlikely to develop this area for decades, it is still extremely significant. Not only did the Tang Dynasty get the land around Hudson Bay, but the Tang Dynasty's sovereignty over all the land west of it was recognized by the British. Datang also got an entrance to the Great Lakes.

The vast interior of North America, although claimed by many countries, actually has no control over these areas, not even a single fortress. More typical is the Louisiana region, which is now nominally Spanish, but the French are more influential. The French were a few trading posts and a small number of immigrants in the middle and lower Mississippi River, and nothing else.

As long as the Tang Dynasty can send immigrants into the north of the Central Great Plains in an endless stream, even if Spain claims sovereignty over this place, it is useless, in fact, just like California at the beginning, Spain regarded it as its own, but when it found that it was impossible to send heavy troops to attack the Tang people here, it still swallowed its anger and gave up here. Now the focus of Datang immigrants is still in the three states on the west coast, and the inland transportation is inconvenient after all. It's hard to reach. But. After the end of this land purchase. Datang plans to recruit 30,000 volunteers to colonize the vast inland areas, starting from what Datang is now in the eastern part of Source State (part of Colorado and Utah) and moving eastward to the shores of Lake Subelil, establishing several small colonies along the way, ranging in size from a few hundred to thousands.

These colonies are certainly not as good as the towns in the three states on the west coast, and it is even difficult to obtain supplies. Immigrants were self-reliant, growing crops, raising livestock, and even had to defend themselves against the local Indians. This is not an easy thing to do, and it is true that Datang has to do it now.

Not to mention how Datang prepared to develop its vast inland area, after signing the land purchase contract, the British began to negotiate with Su Liangxing on the purchase of Datang's technology and machinery.

Su Liangxing had also read the British shopping list a long time ago, and he said: "There is no problem with industrial and mining equipment, locomotives and rails, textile machinery, and even iron-making equipment and generators. We can supply these goods to the UK at the same price as we sell them to the rest of Europe. As for how to operate and maintain these equipment accordingly, we will transfer it to your country. ”

On the issue of the transfer of machinery, the British were very stubborn, hoping to purchase a large amount of equipment at the same time as the manufacturing technology of these machines and equipment. In this regard, Tang Ren could only smile, and then said: Love to buy and buy not to buy.

The British originally wanted to ensure the progress of their industrial revolution, and they didn't have much capital to play tricks on the side of Datang. Datang really has no position to teach the British how to make machines and related scientific principles, after all, if it were British, it would not be so. It's like the British would sell the French Jeanne spinning machine before, but if the French asked how to make the spinning machine themselves, the British would definitely have two big-eared scrapers.

However, it is also extremely important for the UK to have these machines. The British have their own accumulation in industry, and although it may take more time, the British will eventually understand why the steam engine produced by Datang is more thermally efficient, how many parts are used to put together a locomotive, and what each part does.

It's not that these Datang don't know, but instead of cherishing themselves with the means of making a fortune, it is better to sell the technology to foreigners two or three generations behind on the one hand, and then use the money earned to develop their own new technology. From too many perspectives, Datang is blessed with unique conditions compared to the European powers. With a population of hundreds of millions from China's homeland, a safe and unthreatened North American homeland and a broad space for development, advanced technology from later generations. If, with so many advantages, you are still worried about the European powers, and resolutely do not export any technological products, you are in yourself limited in IQ. The development of all technologies and commodities has its own demand, just like the local car manufacturers in Datang, in the first few years, they are almost starving to death, and the production line invested heavily in the loan country cannot sell many cars in a year. Later, the rapid development of Datang Land, coupled with the entry of immigrants and exports, made the automobile industry finally slow down and began to make stable profits and further develop new technologies.

Datang itself needs to industrialize rapidly, although the country also has a lot of demand, but only after opening its supply to the world can it effectively obtain the accumulation of raw capital, and quickly obtain industrial assets, social wealth, and even the experience of a large number of workers. The development of industry may be a person's inspiration in the beginning, but in the end it becomes more and more quantitative to qualitative.

The British wanted to buy ten locomotives and 100 carriages, as well as half of the rails produced by Datang, and the other half they intended to build themselves. They were ready to lay a railway from London to Manchester, while their main rivals, the French, had already begun similar works, and their former colony of the United States, and even some short-distance railways had already begun to open to traffic.

In terms of transportation, the British also plan to buy hundreds of cars, and Datang mainly sells cars, but also has trucks with a cargo capacity of about one ton, and these trucks are also exclusively for export, and their technical level is much behind the large trucks used by Datang itself. It is not much more advanced than the truck invented by Daimler in the other plane.

If you buy a car, you naturally have to buy fuel, not to mention that Britain can't produce crude oil, even if they can extract oil from the North Sea, they can't refine oil into gasoline. So Britain also needs to buy a lot of petrol and diesel from Datang.

Iron-making equipment is also a major part of the British's purchase, and the British's pig iron output is very low, and even the annual output of the whole country is not as good as the annual iron output of a medium-sized steel mill in Datang. After the inspection, the British thought that Datang's iron-smelting equipment was better and more efficient, so it decided to purchase Datang's products in large quantities. As for the open-hearth and blast furnaces for steelmaking, then don't think about it, the Tang people will never sell to the British.

The rest of the machines with special purposes, such as spinning machines, sewing machines, printing machines, machine tools, etc., are relatively numerous. In terms of machine tools, the lathe sold by Datang to the British is actually the lathe invented by the British Roberts in the future with a four-stage pulley and a back wheel mechanism to change the speed of the spindle. Together with a series of other machine tools such as milling machines, boring machines, planers, grinding machines, etc., the British industry will have a very significant improvement in machining accuracy and complexity. For example, they may be able to manufacture weapons such as rear-loading rifled guns, which they previously had difficulty machining.

However, considering that the mainstream machine tools of the Tang people are now three-axis machine tools with motor-driven gearboxes and gearboxes, the gap between the products sold to the British and the things they use is basically a hundred years.

The British sometimes don't know what they want, and at this time representatives of the Datang Ministry of Industry came out to "help".

"This is a steam mill invented and produced by our Datang, which can directly grind wheat and other grains into flour, which is labor-saving and low-cost, do you need it?"

"Yes!" Robinson nodded directly.

"This is the mixer we developed for mixing cement, you bought a lot of cement, do you need this?"

"Yes!"

"This is our drill hole brazing for geological exploration and engineering."

"Yes!"

"This is our Datang specialty food, pancakes and fruits, with eggs, do you want a set?"

"Yes!"

Eventually the British found that the total value of the equipment had reached £2.2 million, more than they had paid for the sale of Rupert's territory, but Robinson was not worried. Some of this equipment itself was purchased by the big British capitalists, such as the steel tycoons who wanted to get new iron-smelting equipment, and some wealthy people who wanted to invest in railways, all of which could be directly monetized and even brought some income to the British government.

And finally, and perhaps the most important of Robinson's procurements, is the military procurement agreement. The British have been able to manufacture rifles similar to the SC-2, and with Datang's new processing equipment, they will definitely be able to mass-produce similar weapons themselves. What Britain needed most was steam ironclad warships that could protect its sea power and trade.

The price of the Glory-class cruiser bought by the French was as high as 5 million Tang Yuan, which was obviously unacceptable to the British, but the modification contract negotiated by the French and the Tang was preferable. Britain also had a lot of sail warships, and the combat effectiveness formed after modification would not be much different from that of French warships. The French Navy asked for the conversion of thirty steam ironclad frigates, and the British were even more thorough, and in order to ensure their sea power, they directly asked for the transformation of 50 warships. This included 10 steam ironclad cruisers of more than 3,000 tons, and 40 steam ironclad frigates, and after the renovation was completed, the British Royal Navy was also ready to abandon the sail warships and use the steam ironclads in full.

The British also proposed that all modifications must be completed in Britain, and that all steam engines, spare parts and artillery required for the modification should be provided by Datang, and Datang's engineers would direct British shipwrights in Britain to complete the work. The armor used in the ships was built in Britain according to the standards issued by Datang engineers. Even so, the total cost of refitting the fifty sail warships has reached as much as 12 million Tang Yuan, not considering the cost of Datang engineers going abroad for business, and the cost of materials such as steam engines and weapons alone is almost more than 2 million Tang Yuan. Note that this price is still the list price and not the actual production cost. (To be continued.) )