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Han Yanxuan just listened to Mao Geng's introduction to the project of the Kra Isthmus, and immediately became interested.

In this day and age, shortening the range of 1,200 kilometers means huge advantages, one is speed, and the other is safety. The second point is particularly important, take a detour, and on this part of the sea route, everything is possible - the possibility of encountering typhoons, piracy and other risks, but there is no possibility of much wealth, of course, except for being a pirate and robbing others.

As soon as he saw that the Kra Isthmus could build a canal and shorten the voyage by more than 2,000 miles, Han Yanxuan immediately had the urge to catch the Kra Isthmus. During this period of time, the unprecedented success of the Taiwan and Song Dynasty Haimao has made Han's ambitions unprecedentedly inflated, and Han Yanxuan has constantly raised his goals again and again, and he has faintly had the ambition to be the king of Haimao.

"Yi Sheng, since I have seen the treasure land of the Kra Isthmus, I think I have to go all out, don't be polite to those natives, salute first and then soldiers, give them an ultimatum, if you toast and don't eat and drink, hum! Send an army of the Great Song Dynasty over and destroy them! ”

"Lord Han, it's a pity! The right to transfer troops is not in the hands of you, Lord Han, nor is it in the hands of the Guogong. ”

Mao Geng did not forget to remind.

"I mean, you might as well cut it first! I went to tell the Guogong about this matter, and told him that if he occupied this carat isthmus, he would be able to shorten the sea voyage of more than 2,000 miles, control here, and do a little business, so that all the world's goods could gather here, and then scattered all over the world, and in time, it would surely become a prosperous commercial port with Quanzhou. Once the prince understood the importance of the Kra Isthmus, he would definitely be moved and would not ignore it. Moreover, this matter may not have to be reported to the imperial court, Taiwan is here where the national government has the final say, and if it is really requisitioned, six or seven thousand soldiers and horses can be pieced together. When the army has destroyed the barbarians on the Kra Isthmus, it is not too late to report to the imperial court. ”

Han Yanxuan is going to be brutal, if he instigates Zhao Luan, he really can't say whether Zhao Luan's mind will be hot. If Zhao Luan's mind is hot, he will sneak forward recklessly, which is not impossible. Mao Gengxin said that this kind of absurd thing must be avoided as much as possible.

Mao Geng had no choice but to calmly explain to Han Yanxuan that if Zhao Yan did this, even if he was a qiēshun lì, he would also be criticized by the courtiers, and if he didn't get it right, he would leave a mustard in Zhao Yan's heart, and maybe he would fall out of favor from then on.

If you are brutal, it is not cost-effective to calculate political accounts, and it may not be cost-effective to calculate economic accounts. If two muskets can solve the problem, why use tens of thousands of soldiers! Of course, the money for buying land on the Kra Isthmus can save some, but across the ** thousands of miles of waterway, the transportation of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the transportation and supply of grain, grass and soldiers, the money spent will only be more and not less. The most important thing is that it will also affect the normal maritime trade business of Taiwan-Song Maritime Trade, and then affect the supply of raw materials in the Special Economic Zone, and finally affect production and the entire industrialization process. Obviously, it is not cost-effective to calculate economic accounts.

Not to mention what to do in the event of a typhoon.

Although Han Yanxuan is determined to win the Kra Isthmus, he also has a sense after all, and after listening to Mao Geng's splash of cold water, he knows that it is very unrealistic to send troops. Han Yanxuan's passion was frustrated, and his demeanor was a little wilted, but he had no choice but to say:

"I hope your plan works, I'm afraid that even if the chief is killed, those barbarians may not be willing to give in lightly."

"If you don't try, how do you know you can't!"

Mao Geng believes that if it can be resolved peacefully, it will never be abused to use force, and it doesn't matter if you spend more money, the aborigines of this era have not yet developed the habit of opening their mouths with a lion, and the market is limited to any rise, compared to the future market, how can the current market be high! It is hoped that the blood of the chiefs will wake up the natives to the reality that they can make more money with less bloodshed.

Han Yanxuan can only agree with Mao Geng's opinion, well, try it again, it really doesn't work, at that time, I have to go back to my violent demolition path.

Since he agrees to try the "high-heel plan" first, Han Yanxuan also thinks that it is better not to let Zhao Yan know about it for the time being. At this point, the offensive and defensive alliance between Mao Geng and Han Yanxuan was also announced.

However, Mao Geng felt that Han Yanxuan's affection was obviously not high, and it was obvious that Han Yanxuan actually wanted to firmly control the Kra Isthmus in his hands, but according to Mao Geng's approach, the dominance of the Kra Isthmus was in Chen Liang's hands. This is a great blow to Han Yanxuan's dream of dominating the sea.

Mao Geng thought that as long as the Kra Isthmus was in the hands of the Chinese in the Great Song Dynasty, whoever controlled it would be the same, and perhaps it would be operated by private enterprises, which would be more efficient and more effective.

Of course, you can't chill Han Yanxuan's heart.

"Lord Han, the king of Annan found Chen Liang the day before yesterday and wanted to buy a full set of lead printing machines, I thought about it, and it was not a big deal to sell them to them, first, they didn't know how to make lead characters, and second, the ink was not something they could make in a short time, and they had to rely on us to sell it to them. In my opinion, as long as the price is right, sell it! I have a factory price here, five thousand taels of silver for a set of machines, or the old rules, sold by Tai Song Haimao, how much Lord Han sells, I don't care! ”

The lead word is lead-antimony tin alloy, and the people of Annam don't even know what antimony is, and it must be many years before they want to produce qualified lead characters, so Mao Geng feels that even if the people of Annam buy the lead printing equipment, it is impossible to copy, just sell it with confidence. Of course, the imperial court had issued a ban on the sale of Jin and Fanbang, but Mao Geng believed that if Han Yanxuan went to do some activities, it would not be difficult to cancel the ban.

"Five thousand taels! Fifteen thousand! I said Yi Sheng, your price is too dark. ”

"The problem is, if you sell it to Annan, Lord Han can sell it for at least 10,000 taels of silver, maybe more, 15,000 taels of silver, King Annan will also admit it, Annan is now selling hot coal, and they are not short of money."

Han Yanxuan said that it was reasonable, his eyes lit up, and he said with a smile:

"Okay, just open a sky-high price of 20,000 miles of silver, whether you like to buy it or not! Anyway, there is no other branch of this one! I'm not afraid that they won't take the bait. As for the ban of the imperial court, the money earned by our Taiwan Song Haimao is all earned by the imperial court, as long as the reason is explained to them, I think the imperial court will definitely cancel this ban. ”

Han Yanxuan said this, but he made up his mind in his heart that he would spend more money and do his best to lift the ban through the imperial court, and then he could sell lead printing equipment to make a lot of money. Han Yanxuan is wishful thinking, after selling Annan, and Champa real wax will also follow the trend to buy, Dali, Goryeo and Japan will not lag behind, if Dashi and people in Europe also want to buy, then it can be a big deal.

So far, Han Yanxuan feels that the cooperation with Mao Geng is very pleasant, Mao Geng is only in charge of production, sales are basically all owned by Taiwan Song Haimao, because most of the products are exclusively produced by Mao, the market is in short supply, Han Yanxuan as the general distributor, both beautiful and affordable. Now that Han Yanxuan is so proud, even if the imperial court gives him a real five-grade official to be, no! Even if it is a fourth-grade official, Han Yanxuan may not be happy.

Although Han Yanxuan failed to seize the control of the Kra Isthmus, Mao Geng's construction of selling lead printing equipment still made Han Yanxuan feel very happy.

Han Yanxuan decided that all the money earned from selling lead printing equipment would be used to order shipbuilding, of course, when it was the brunt of the flying clippers, he must order a few more.

If you can earn more than 100,000 yuan by selling lead printing equipment in one fell swoop, you can buy 12 clippers with 8,000 yuan. It's better to fly clippers, the degree is more than doubled, and one can top the original two boats!

In other words, twelve ships can be regarded as the number of group purchases, and Zhao Lian may be able to give a good discount.

If the Taiwan Song Dynasty Haimao had twelve flying clippers sailing like flying in one fell swoop, it would really be able to be called a well-deserved maritime hegemon.

At that time, the flying scissors will come out, who will compete! Han Yanxuan's heart was racing at the moment, as if the dream of being the overlord of the sea had come true.