Not to mention things that had nothing to do with business, the British were quick to talk about their needs. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The East India Company would like to be able to purchase a batch of machine guns and mortars from you to meet the urgent need," Southend said. If possible, we also hope that your company can provide us with tanks. ”

Muhit thought to himself that this British man would dare to think that he would open his mouth to get tanks from them. NORINCO is indeed the largest supplier of army vehicles to Datang, and all the Type 90 tanks are produced from NORINCO. NORINCO even imitated the FT-17 to create a foreign trade tank designed to fool money. This type of foreign trade tank has been exported to France and Germany, but it is obvious that Britain, which has been against Datang for a long time, will not have such good treatment.

The East India Company had a relatively large voice for a long time, and there was no complete subordinate relationship with the British government, and they had the right to purchase their own weapons and wage war on their own, and in fact they did so.

When NORINCO opened such an office in Donghui, it naturally had the intention of doing business with the British, but there must be restrictions on what can be sold and what cannot be sold, and how much it can be sold, and the employees actually have a rough number.

Zhang Qubin took the list handed over by Southend, neither frowned, nor agreed, he casually showed it to Muhit next to him, Muhit stared at it with wide eyes, it was in English.

The British are like this, they come to do business and ask for help, but whether it is their negotiators or the lists and other reports they make, they are all written in English. Mucht maliciously figured out that it may be difficult for a stupid Brit to master Chinese, even if he has studied for many years, he can't speak a three, five, six, seven, or three, five, six, or seven, unlike he was educated in a Chinese school since he was a child, and has a better language environment, although he has a little accent, but he is very fluent.

Muhit also understands English, not too high, but definitely adequate. The list says that the British need 200 heavy machine guns and 2.5 million rounds of ammunition, while purchasing 120 60-mm mortars and 60,000 rounds of ammunition.

After all, this is not an era when the mainstream export products of weapons in the 21 st century are high-tech products, and now they can basically fight a war by pulling a contingent and issuing some rifle ammunition. It may not be possible to fight an army like the Don Army, but it is not difficult to use it in colonial operations.

The first choice of the East India Company is, of course, the British arms company, although in recent years, the British local arms dealers have improved rapidly, especially the Enfield series of rifles has been comparable to the Tang S1. But the British Army had a very low opinion of the machine guns they made, and it was easy to jam and applaud on the battlefield. On the contrary, although the machine guns exported by Datang are not very advanced in technology, they are reliable and stable.

Mortars do not have much technical difficulty, and naturally British goods are not as good as Tang goods, after all, mortars have only been played by the British for a few years and belong to relatively new equipment. The East India Company thought it would be more cost-effective to purchase Datang's mature products. At the same time, the supply of the British mainland was also very tight, and the East India Company was slower to pick up the goods than the army, and the East India Company was not willing to suffer such a loss, so it preferred to find the Tang people.

Zhang Qubin and Muhit confessed and went out of the small living room to discuss. The amount of this business is relatively large in recent years, and Zhang Qubin knows that he and Muhit's authority cannot decide such a large purchase case, and the British are still in a hurry.

Muhit said: "The East India Company has indeed made a big move to buy so many things." ”

Zhang Qubin sighed and said: "Last year (1795), the war in Europe ended, except for the war in Italy now, everywhere else is a song and dance. In particular, the French stopped the war, the revolutionaries finally took power, and they began to colonize on a large scale again. The French sent troops to the Caribbean to suppress the Haitian revolution, and recently moved to the west coast of India, as if preparing to annex Maratha. The British felt the pressure, and perhaps from us, and the British were desperate to expand their colonies, so they were ready to make further moves against Mysore. ”

Muhit had also heard about these things, and sighed: "If the British East India Company makes another move, then Mysore will probably be destroyed." ”

"I chatted with the manager before, and the manager said that the domestic think tanks and strategic departments all believe that the world's colonial activities will enter a peak period, and India will probably be carved up within ten to twenty years. The French mainly expanded in the western and central Maratha, and the victory of the revolution gave them great encouragement, while the British were afraid that the French would occupy too much land, and the British saw the success of the Tang Dynasty and simply attributed it to the large number of overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty, which enhanced the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, so the British also went crazy hoping to expand the colonies. ”

Muchit did not have any idea of the large-scale colonization of the Indian subcontinent by Britain and France, but he was a little envious of Zhang Qubin's better relationship with his manager and his ability to chat frequently. He mentioned: "Britain and France are both fighting in India, and it is impossible for those Indian princely states to stop them, can we Tang Dynasty watch Britain and France carve up India like this?" ”

Zhang Qubin sighed: "Who knows, India has never been a focus of our Datang colonization, everyone knows that Datang likes the kind of uninhabited but rich development potential, there are too many chaotic ethnic groups here in India, and it is troublesome to manage." But I don't think it's possible for the people above to sit idly by, after all, India is also a very oily place. ”

The two no longer discussed the contents of these more than their payroll, and when it came to the issue of business, Zhang Qubin said: "This Southend came with a large sum of gold, and eighty percent of it was looted from somewhere in India. Machine guns and mortars are also counted, our company has sold a lot over the years, although the number is larger, but it should not be too much of a problem to pass, and the price is good to slaughter them. As for the tank, I don't think the manager will let go. ”

"I also think so, if the tanks are sold to the British, then the Indians will probably have more trouble resisting, and the British will destroy Mysore and control the rest of the country in a very short time," Muhit said. ”

Zhang Qubin said: "The Indians are too resistant, and the British can lay down nearly one million square kilometers of land with one or two thousand people, but the country does not want to mix such a good thing." (To be continued.) )