Stimulated by Chile, the Argentines also deeply felt the increased pressure on their coastal defense, so they quickly made the same move to purchase ships.

Especially when they learned that the Chileans had taken out loans to pay part of the money, they also wanted to purchase large-tonnage warships through loans.

Naturally, the Reich would welcome requests from the Argentinians, whether it was a loan or the sale of warships.

Intensive arms sales and financial loans allowed the empire to penetrate deeper into South America.

Therefore, after the negotiation of one side, the empire reached a relevant agreement with Argentina, and the Argentines took out a loan of one million yuan, and then paid a part of the cash themselves, and then purchased an ironclad ship.

Interestingly, this ironclad ship is based on the Admiral Colenque class of the Chileans, or the battleship purchased by the Argentines is the original design prototype.

The design tonnage of this battleship reached 4,800 tons, which was somewhat larger than the 4,200 tons of the Chileans, and although the layout of the guns, the number of main guns, and the caliber were the same, the power and protection performance were much better.

The ship reached a speed of thirteen knots, and the armor was made of the most advanced steel armor in the empire, which was built by the Qingdao Naval Shipyard.

Of course, after the performance is advanced, this price is naturally more expensive, and the price of the ship has reached 1.4 million yuan, which is 200,000 yuan more expensive than the Chilean battleship.

The contact reached an order for foreign trade warships of the two countries, and the total amount exceeded five million yuan, which made the relevant enterprises in the empire smile.

Linde Machinery Co., Ltd., which provided the power equipment, Shanghai Shipyard, Qingdao Naval Shipyard, which built the hulls, and Royal Arms Company, which provided naval guns. Jiangnan Mining Company, North Coal and Iron Company, etc., which provide shipbuilding steel and armor, in addition to more upstream enterprises. They are able to share a lot of benefits from it.

These two warship orders also represent that the export of warships of the empire has crossed a major threshold. In the international market, it competes with the United Kingdom, France, Italy and other countries.

This will give great impetus to the industrial development of the empire, especially the heavy industry, which is closely related to the defense industry.

Taking advantage of this, the Pacific Trading Company profited from selling more 1864 Linde rifles and steel breech-loading rifled guns around the world.

Many countries that could not afford to build their own rear-loading guns chose to buy the 1864 Linde rifle to improve the armament of their armies.

In addition to some typical small countries and weak foreign countries, even the Ottoman Turkey, which is known as the "Manchu Qing of Europe", also purchased a large number of 1864 Linde rifles.

Although the Ottoman Turks have declined, they still maintain a large territory and the external environment is very harsh. Many European countries want to pounce on it at any time, especially Russia and Turkey have a grudge that has lasted for hundreds of years, starting from 1676, basically every ten or twenty years for more than two hundred years to fight such a large-scale war, on average, nineteen years to fight that one.

Sixteen years have passed since the last Ninth Russo-Turkish War, the Crimean War, and according to the inertia of history, it will not be a few years before a new round of war breaks out between Russia and Turkey.

In this case. Naturally, Ottoman Turkey will not relax, but is always ready to fight Russia.

After entering 1870, metal bullet breech-loading rifles set off a wave in Europe, although Ottoman Turkey was ignorant and backward. However, this does not mean that we cannot see the changes and progress of the world's military technology.

Soon they were trying to buy the relevant technology or finished weapons, and they looked to the British and the Germans. However, the new rifles of these two companies are in a state of fresh mass production, and they have not even been able to meet their own reloads. It is not possible to export it on a large scale.

In addition, when the Turks tested it, they also found that the Martini-Henry MK1 rifle had many flaws. So he quickly abandoned the rifle and turned to Germany for it.

And while they were talking with the Germans, the 1864 Linde rifle from China appeared in front of them.

For the 1864 Linde rifle, most people in other countries have heard of this name, why the British and Germans served the metal bullet rear loading rifle, is not it influenced by the 1864 Linde rifle.

However, China has always strictly banned the export of the gun, and has done its best to keep it strictly military, which the Turks naturally want to buy but can't buy.

Now the Chinese have come to the door and said that they can supply a large number of 1864 rifles in a short time, and as long as the Turks can afford the price, 100,200,000 will not be a problem.

Ottoman Turkey is not a small country, and the number of troops it has is naturally very large, and other small countries may buy a few thousand, no more than one or two thousand, but Ottoman Turkey's demand for new rifles is hundreds of thousands.

Moreover, the industrial base of Ottoman Turkey is quite poor, and even if it can produce itself, the scale will not be large, so even if they buy a patent and produce it themselves, their own production is still not high, so they will still demand a considerable amount of finished products.

In order to purchase the 1864 Linde rifle, but also to obtain a patent for the gun, and of course, more importantly, to obtain a production line, otherwise they would not have been able to build a patent license.

The Ottoman Turks sent a diplomatic team to the Empire.

For the arrival of the Ottoman Turks, the empire still showed great goodwill!

Why?

Because the enemy of the enemy is the friend, the empire and Russia are the enemy, Turkey and Russia are also enemies, and in the case of the same enemy, it is natural to have some cooperation.

In order to strengthen the cooperation between the two countries, well, the main thing is to strengthen the strength of the Turkish side and add to the blockage of the Russians, Lin Zhe is very happy to approve the technology licensing contract.

As long as the Turks buy the relevant production line from China, then the technology is half sold and half given, and engineers are also sent to Turkey to guide the installation of equipment and train workers.

Of course, the purchase of technology was premised on the fact that the Turks had to place a large order for the 1864 Linde rifle from the Reich.

This time the Turks made a rare show of deep pockets, purchasing 100,000 Linde rifles of the 1864 model, in addition to thirty steel breech-loading rifled guns.

Such a large order for rifles made the head of the Royal Arms Company excited, this 1864 Linde rifle was released for export for less than half a year, but how many orders have been received now?

In total, there are more than 150,000 orders.

This is more than the annual order volume of the military in previous years, and the most important thing is that the orders of the domestic military often keep the price very low, although it will not lose money, but the profit is also limited, for a large enterprise like the Royal Arms Corporation, it will also make a hard job.

However, this foreign trade order is different, and the price is often 10 or even 30 percent more than the price of the domestic military order.

Don't look at it just more than 10 percent, but after the selling price is 10 percent more, the profit will increase several times and several times!

A latest-type 1864 Linde rifle, in 1871, the military's purchase price was 25 yuan per set, this price is not a simple manufacturing cost, but plus the previous research and development and equipment depreciation and other expenses, if it is a simple manufacturing cost, this price must be even lower.

In fact, the earlier 1864 Linde rifle was more expensive, and in 1865 a 1864 Linde rifle was purchased for thirty-eight yuan.

At this price, the enterprise is more than able to maintain about 15 percent of the gross profit, which means that the cost of this gun is about 21 yuan.

If the external selling price is increased by 20 percent, then under the condition that the cost remains the same, the profit of the enterprise can reach about 7 yuan per piece, which is about 80 percent higher than the profit of less than 4 yuan in the past.

In this way, the performance of the Royal Arms Company will become even better.

However, after the business was negotiated, the Ottoman Turkish side offered to pay in silver, which made the Pacific Trading Company quite dissatisfied.

In recent years, silver has continued to depreciate, although there is still a large amount of silver in circulation within the empire, but in order to avoid losses, the gold trading system has always been adopted in international trade.

For this reason, the empire even withdrew from the imperial 'golden yuan' in 1863 in order to distinguish it from the previous silver dollar, which was used as a unit of currency for international trade and a unit of government statistics.

In other words, in the modern empire, the gold and silver standards are mixed, and the exchange of gold and silver yuan changes with the international gold price, similar to France and the United States.

However, as the depreciation of silver has accelerated in recent years, the Imperial Finance Department has begun to shrink the use of silver and promote gold yuan at the same time.

The people didn't do anything, and they naturally knew that the silver yuan in their hands was becoming less and less valuable, so they all exchanged it for gold yuan to keep it.

In the sixties, the gold and silver yuan in the empire maintained a one-to-one exchange ratio, but one was exchanged for silver and the other was exchanged for gold, but after entering the seventies, the international silver production increased significantly, and the key thing was that after the empire used the mixed gold and silver standard, it refused to accept silver in international trade, and only accepted gold or gold standard currency, so that the price of silver continued to fall.

At present, the exchange rate of gold for silver has fallen below 16.5, and it is very likely that it will fall below 17 in the near future.

In this case, the empire's international trade was even less likely to accept silver. (To be continued.) )