Chapter 226: The Merchant of Death
What is the most profitable business in the world? Everyone has their own different answers. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info (.. Probably most people's answer is generally pornography, gambling and drugs! Arms! Finance! And so on and so forth.
Sun Di is far from cool, and the lonely technique of the rear technique makes trouble
But for Lin Hong, in this world, there is only one thing that makes the most money at any time, and that is monopoly. No matter what you sell, as long as you have a monopoly, it is the most profitable business. Monopoly is the foundation of imperialism, monopoly is the present of imperialism, and monopoly is the development of imperialism.
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Xia Zhijian, whose name is positive, Han nationality, born in 1847, is an orphan and was raised by the Imperial Orphans Foundation of the Chinese Empire. In 1870, he graduated from the Department of Economics of Shanghai Jiaotong University of the Imperial Chinese Empire, obtained a double doctorate in economics and sociology from Jiaotong University, and in 1871, he was funded by the Imperial Chinese Entrepreneurship Fund to establish the "Zhixiang Trading Company" in Shanghai. In 1875, its trading company received financing from the Shanghai consortium and achieved great development; In 1878, the "Zhi Trading Company" actively carried out foreign trade business in the Balkan Peninsula countries and South American countries, mainly engaged in agricultural commodities and agricultural and sideline products; In 1880, the company merged with six other companies and reorganized into the "East Asia Development Group", and its subsidiaries were involved in agriculture and agricultural and sideline commodity trade, industrial machinery import and export trade, navigation, shipbuilding, manufacturing, railway investment and construction, and real estate development, etc., and the Zhixiang Trading Company was one of the branches of the East Asia Development Group, the total assets of this group exceeded 30 million Chinese dollars in 1883; In 1882, Xia Zhijian was elected as a deputy to the National Assembly in Shanghai (a representative deputy), and the bosses of other subsidiaries of the East Asia Group, where his company was located, became deputies to the people's congresses of various regions of China that year.
This is Xia Zhijian's legal identity on the table, for some high-level figures in other countries, they all know what Xia Zhijian is, Xia Zhijian is a businessman, but he is a businessman who sells death. That's right, Xia Zhijian is an arms dealer, and he is an arms dealer in secret. There are many arms dealers in China, but those are people who are on the surface and known to everyone. As I said just now, monopoly is the most profitable business, and Xia Zhijian is one of the monopolists of the Chinese Empire's secret arms.
China is a country that prohibits guns, and ordinary people are not allowed to hold guns, of course, citizens who want to play with guns can go to the city's gun clubs and apply for a gun license, even if they have guns, they have to go through strict political review and character checks, but the colony is the opposite, and the first thing the national customs to go to the colony is generally to ask them if they need to carry a gun. Now that China is a gun-banning country in the world, other countries are not strict about the management of firearms, and firearms are also a commodity, Xia Zhijian is one of the arms tycoons supported by the state, a professional arms dealer.
Why is it called professional? In the past, the empire's arms sales were sold by embassies and legations all over the world, which were not professional, which would cause information leakage and lead to the interception of transactions, and third, it would be difficult for some trade partners to come forward when they had obvious political positions. But with the advent of Xia Zhijian and the Zhixiang Trading Company, and later the "East Asian Bloc", China's foreign arms trade business has become larger and more professional.
And now Xia Zhijian is going to be busy again, because with the entry of a new batch of equipment from the Imperial Army, another wave of banknotes is beckoning to him. In 1884, after three years of development, the Imperial Type 84 rifle (referring to the historical Mauser GE98B rifle) was officially finalized and produced, and the Type 79 rifle originally equipped with the army will be retired and mothballed in batches with reference to the historical Mauser GE98 rifle, in fact, the officials of the General Armament Department under the Imperial Joint Staff Council have told him through secret contacts between them that he will have several more boxes of goods in his warehouse in the next three months. And these boxes of goods are the first batch of retired Type 79 standard rifles of the Imperial Army, about 100,000 pieces, and what Xia Zhijian has to do is to find suitable buyers for them as soon as possible.
In fact, Xia Zhijian can be said to be one of the secret arms dealers of the General Armament Department, he is only responsible for reselling the empire's rifles, and other such as grenades, shells, artillery and even weapons production lines also have their own agents, and they belong to the monopoly class like Xia Zhijian. And this so-called "East Asia Development Group" is exactly Xia Zhijian and their combination. The East Asian Development Group (EDG) is engaged in the trade of agriculture and agricultural products, and in fact everything else is a normal business. Melon grenades are potato grenades of the East Asian Development Group, and muskets are called yam bullets, soybeans, small-caliber artillery are called green onions, and artillery of the caliber and above is called winter melons, and shells are called apples......
Enmity and hatred of the branch of the Sun Xue Institute of cold learning techniques
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Enmity and hatred of the science and technology of Sun Xue's cold learning skills! As Nicolas Cage, the protagonist of the movie "Lord of War", said, the world's largest arms dealer is actually the leader of a country.
"Xiao Xia, so early!" Pushing the door in and talking was a middle-aged man in his forties, his name is Pan Ying, the character is beautiful, the person is as his name suggests, handsome and chic, personable, even if he is over forty years old, he is still a beautiful man, in today's words, he is a middle-aged cadre.
"Lao Pan, it's a joke! With such a big business recently, can I not come early? What about the others? Xia Zhijian said with a smile that everyone knows the reason why they met in this teahouse in Suzhou today.
"Wait a minute! It's still early! Pan Ying sat down indifferently and ordered a cup of tea.
After a while, everyone arrived one after another. There were six men in their thirties and forties. None of them spoke, just silently sipping tea.
"Let's talk about it! What does everyone think? The man who spoke was a man of about forty-five years old, his name was Mo Binkun, and he was considered the leader of the East Asia Development Group.
The enemy is not far away, and the ghost enemy is the enemy to pick up the lonely enemy
The enemy is not far away, and the ghost enemy technique picks up the lonely enemy Yucha, "Lao Pan, don't talk about you, I have 100,000 yams this time!" Xia Zhijian also complained, there was no way to use it before, at most, there were more than 8,000 guns a quarter, and he was really a little sudden.
"Old Mo, what else can we think, the important thing now is to find a buyer. We received so many 'fruits and vegetables' this time that they can't rot in the warehouse! "It was Pan Ying who spoke, he was in charge of selling artillery, and the recovered goods were about more than 300 howitzers and mountain guns with a caliber of 45, which was too large for a private arms dealer like them, you must know that the total number of artillery pieces in the US Army is only a little more than 1,100.
"Lao Pan, don't talk about you, I have 100,000 yams this time!" Xia Zhijian also complained, there was no way that there were more than 8,000 guns a quarter at most, but he was really a little sudden.
"That's it! As you all know, this is a very difficult task, so let's do it! I've already negotiated with the Blackwater Company, and they will eat 3,000 yams, about 5,000 potatoes and eggplants, 20 green onions, and 4 winter melons. In addition, I have contacted the three viceroyalties in Africa, and their foreign legions can probably eat some of them, and you can only rely on yourself for the rest. There are two other pieces of news to inform you, and the good news is that this time we trade our share is four. The bad news is that this time the vegetables are just the first batch. "The Blackwater Company that Mo Binkun said is actually a military outsourcing company established under Lin Hong's bad taste, and the nature of the United States in the future, Blackwater is already a large enterprise with more than 8,000 employees, and Blackwater is currently contracting the counterinsurgency project of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and has been active in the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East. Blackwater was also previously employed by the French to help put down the rebellion in Algiers.
"Okay! I should have no problem smashing it. As soon as Pan Ying heard that the share had risen to forty percent, she immediately stopped complaining, after all, the money had risen.
Xia Zhijian is not a problem, in fact, in the international market, maybe the cannon is not easy to sell, but the rifle is definitely easy to sell, his buyers are never short, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Peru in South America; Mexico in North America; the Balkans in Europe; colonies in Africa; Resistance in Northern Ireland. Of course, the biggest ones are the warlords of India and Egypt in South Asia.
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In general, after the army's equipment is decommissioned, half of it will be mothballed for later use or dismantling, and only a small part of the remaining half will actually be sold by ambassadors and ministers to various countries, and most of it will be circulated on the black market through dead merchants like Xia Zhijian.
In this world, there are basically three people who can sell arms: the death of the national arms company. The existence of the last one can achieve an effect that the first two cannot achieve.
The enemy is not the only enemy, and the ball is blocked by the sun
Forehead! As Nicolas Cage, the protagonist of the movie "Lord of War", said, the world's largest arms dealer is actually the leader of a country.
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