Wang Qin thought silently in his heart, and felt that this Haihan man surnamed Shi was also reasonable. (.) With the current market of Haihan commodities, it is already very generous to set aside a 30-day delivery period, as for the deposit is only half refunded, there is nothing to say, after all, Haihan people also said that as long as they are willing to continue to order, the deposit paid before is still valid.

"Then you can have a list of products?" Wang Qin cheered up and continued to ask.

"Yes. He Xi, who was next to him, handed over a thick book to Wang Qin.

Wang Qin took it and opened it, inside was a color pattern of the commodity, each page was a commodity, and there was a brief text description and product number below. This is a commercial atlas specially selected by the Ministry of Commerce to make a hand-painted way by the Ministry of Commerce, which is sandwiched in a laminated album and used as an external display.

Wang Qin has got the treasure now, and he slowly flips through the pages one by one, and he can't put it down. However, Schneider and He Xi didn't have such good patience to wait for him to choose slowly, and there were still seven or eight customers waiting to negotiate behind him, time is money!

At that moment, He Xi coughed dryly and said: "Actually, these previous commodities are out of stock so far, if Boss Wang wants to be in stock, just look at the last three pages." ”

Wang Qin raised his head and said, "Since there is no goods to sell, why do you want to make this atlas?"

"This is also a temporary situation......" He Xi hurriedly explained to him.

Every day, the GDETO will contact the base camp via Guò radio station to confirm the order and the goods that the base camp can provide, so as to revise the promotional product catalogue for the next day. Originally, there was basically a small amount of stock of these goods displayed today, but before Wang Qin, more than half of them had been ordered by a large commercial house from Chaozhou, and a variety of commodities were directly copied to the bottom, and the catalog of goods had not yet had time to be corrected. This can only be blamed on Wang Qin, who came a little late, if he insisted on not leaving yesterday, he would have been in front of that one.

Wang Qin turned to the last three pages and saw that they were all matches, soap and other daily chemical products, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed. These things are good, and the sales are certainly not a problem, but the profits are far less lucrative than glass products and silver mirrors, and the price of a trip to Yazhou is a bit high in comparison.

"Can you book the next shipment in advance?" Wang Qin still asked unrelentingly.

"In order to avoid the monopoly of our Haihan commodities by a commercial bank, we do not provide reservation services at present, and we only sell in stock. Schneider explained: "If we had allowed reservations, then 'Frefeng' would have already booked all the goods for next year." ”

Earlier, some people within the Ministry of Commerce also proposed to directly carry out futures trading, in order to attract more merchants to buy Haihan commodities in the shortest possible time, but this proposal was ultimately rejected by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee believes that it is a radical risk to venture into futures trading when the current financial system is not yet perfect and the level of productivity is still relatively backward. If there is a problem in the supply chain of goods that affects the delivery time, it will be a devastating blow to the financial and commercial system in place, and with the current market winds, it is not worth the risk to amass popularity and wealth. Of course, if the conditions are mature in all aspects in the future, then futures trading will also come into being with the development of society, after all, as early as the 16th century, the first futures exchange appeared in Europe, and the crossing group is not a historical precedent in this regard.

Wang Qin also had to admit that Schneider was right, all the merchants in Guangzhou knew that "Fu Ruifeng" and the Haihan people had a great relationship, and "Fu Ruifeng" itself was also strong, and it was not impossible for a monopoly to appear, in fact, this was the case in the first few months when Haihan goods appeared in the Guangzhou market. However, the Haihan people did not seem to plan to put all their eggs in one basket, so they announced the location of Shengli Port to the outside world, and let the merchants go to Shengli Port to buy goods on their own.

Schneider saw that Wang Qin was silent, and guessed a little bit of his thoughts, so he took the initiative to persuade again: "Boss Wang can organize the supply of goods by himself and transport some goods with price advantages to Shengli Port for sale, if it is the materials we need, it will be better." Boss Wang can take a look at the last page, which is the various materials we are currently purchasing. ”

When Wang Qin heard this, he flipped to the last page, and the shopping materials listed by the Haihan people were all some raw materials or semi-finished products, many of which belonged to minerals, and he was not familiar with them. However, all kinds of agricultural products and seafood in the location of the Haifeng are not on the purchase list of the Haihan people.

"Most of the minerals and ores listed above are not known in the lower part, how can this be good?" Wang Qin couldn't help but be a little anxious, and finally met the Haihan people, now I didn't buy what I should buy, and I didn't have what I could sell, could this business have not started yet?

"May I ask Boss Wang, is your firm from Huizhou Haifeng?" Schneider asked. Wang Qin's previous greeting post clearly reads "Huizhou Mansion Haifeng", so he will have this question.

Wang Qin nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

"Check the products of Haifeng. Schneider nodded to He Xi.

He Xi got up and walked to the other side of the study, there was a screen to cover his vision, Wang Qin only heard a slight crackling sound, and He Xi walked out from behind the screen.

"SITC is still a bit of a trick. He Xi smiled and said to Schneider: "There are tin, lead, and zinc in the local area, among which tin ore has the largest reserves, and the quality is good, and even the ore can be purchased directly." ”

Tin is not a rare thing in this era, as one of the hardware, the use rate of tin in the folk is very high. However, the Crossing Group intends to import tin ore, but it is not intended to be used to make pewter.

The military industry has been clamoring for mass production of bronze cannons, but due to the lack of mineral resources, it can only stay at the sample stage and cannot be mass-produced. The raw material bronze, which is required to cast bronze cannons, is essentially copper-tin alloy. Bronze has much better casting performance and heat dissipation than cast iron, and it is much less difficult to cast weapons than cast iron. In addition, bronze artillery has a low carbon content and is not easy to rub out sparks, and it is also better than cast iron artillery in terms of safety.

The most important thing is that under the same caliber, in order to prevent the bore from exploding, the cast iron gun must be lengthened and thickened, and the bronze gun can be made thinner and shorter because of its material advantages, so that the weight of the gun body becomes lighter, both army guns and naval guns can benefit a lot from this technological progress. In the current situation of insufficient steelmaking scale and steel processing level, bronze cannon is obviously an excellent choice for the military industry. In addition to weapons, bronze can also be used to make wear-resistant parts and corrosion-resistant equipment, such as various mechanical bearings and chemical containers, and these industrial uses even extend far beyond the military field.

The tin brass, known as "navy brass", requires tin and zinc, two minerals produced by Haifeng. Because of its high corrosion resistance, this alloy can be used specifically to make ship parts, such as the tin brass used in the Ministry of Shipping's plan to wrap all the parts of warships below the waterline.

In addition, the papermaking and printing project jointly built by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Information Industry has also entered the stage of research and development of printing technology. Movable type printing has passed several centuries since its invention, and the technology has been very mature, but wooden movable type, clay movable type and pottery movable type have been eliminated in the course of history, and the lead movable type widely used in later generations was created by the Germans in the 15th century, and this kind of movable type is actually a lead-tin alloy.

As one of the important external strategies of the Group, cultural export has always received the attention of the Executive Committee. In order to reflect the lofty image of Haihan culture, the quality of printed matter must greatly exceed that of contemporaneous competitors, and the equipment of lead movable type must be in place in one step. The executive committee spared no effort in this regard, in order to allow the metallurgical workshop to manufacture qualified lead-tin alloys as soon as possible, almost all the tin tools on the market in Yazhou City were scavenged, of course, most of them were distributed to the military industry department to make bronze cannons.

The Executive Committee prioritized cultural exports even ahead of military exports, closely following commodity exports. In the vision of the Executive Committee, this kind of cultural export is not only aimed at Daming, but should be based on the perspective of globalization and put it to all countries and regions. Some of the more radical thinkers even claimed on the forum that in order to redefine the world with the "Four Great Inventions", let us travel around the world with a compass, conquer every inch of land with artillery, and then record this qiē with pen and paper, and print it into a book for future generations.

Wang Qin didn't quite understand why the Haihan people wanted to import ore through their own trading house, but the price offered by the other party made it impossible for him to refuse this offer. And Schneider also said that if this supply can be maintained for a long time, then Haihan will set aside a certain share of glass products for him every month to ensure that the "Haifeng" will not be empty on the return trip after transporting ore from Huizhou to Shengli Port. This kind of treatment has even surpassed that of some merchants who have set up business inns in Shengli Port, although they have the advantage of purchasing channels, when the supply of goods is tight, they still need to use guò bidding means to obtain the supply of Haihan goods.

Although Schneider and He Xi warmly invited Wang Qin to stay for lunch, Wang Qin politely declined their kindness. After getting such good preferential conditions, he no longer had the heart to delay here, so he had to hurry back to Huizhou Mansion by boat to organize the supply of goods. In the future, you only need to run back and forth between Haifeng and Shengli Port once a month, and the profit will be worth the income from running four or five trips to Guangzhou in a row, and you will no longer have to pay expensive tariffs to the hateful city shipping company.

Among the businessmen who have come and gone to the Guangzhou Office these days, there are quite a few businessmen like Wang Qin, and the cargo throughput capacity of the mainland is far stronger than that of a few prefectures and counties on Hainan Island, but in only two or three days, the Guangzhou Office has completely sold off the little inventory produced by the base camp in the past half month. And a variety of sources that had to be purchased at a high price in the early stage or did not find a way at all now have a larger range of choices. Of course, the most important thing is that the reputation of Victory Port has spread, and the rest only needs to be passed on by word of mouth from merchants around the world, and the image of Victory Port as a free port can be slowly established.

December 13, 1627, the fifth day of the winter month of the seventh year of the Great Tomorrow Apocalypse.

After the head ship hoisted its flag and identified itself to the Yulin observation post, a fleet of eight Daifuku ships slowly sailed into Shengli Harbor. This is almost the main force currently engaged in the shipping mission of the route of the Black Soil Port on the Tu Son Peninsula Shengli Port, and this collective dispatch is because the immigrants provided by the North Vietnamese side have been assembled on the Tu Son Peninsula for nearly half a month, and the North Vietnamese side is obviously not happy to keep using grain to feed these "outsiders" who have been given to the Hai Han, so they have repeatedly urged the Hai Han side to send ships to transport them away. Therefore, after adjusting the flight schedule, the Black Earth Port Authority dispatched eight large ships at one time to pull these people back to Shengli Port in one go.

Gu Kai, the leader of the Heitu Port Management Committee, personally dispatched to escort the fleet, which was also the first time he returned to Shengli Port after participating in the colonization operation in July. Of course, the reason for his return is not only to escort the migrant fleet, but more importantly, the end of the year is approaching, and all units stationed abroad have to send people back to participate in the year-end summary meeting, and also have to report on their work at the plenary meeting of the Executive Committee. Within this week, Schneider from the Guangzhou Office and Marik from the Cliff Office will also return to Shengli Port on behalf of their units.

Accompanying Gu Kai back to Shengli Port, there was also a platoon of rotating militiamen, who were replaced by a group of newly recruited recruits, and the first task that this group of rookies received after enlisting was to stay in Heitu Port for three months, which was also a big test for them.

A large number of family members who had been notified by the Executive Committee in advance came to the dock to greet their relatives, including Gu Kai's relatives, Tao Donglai and Yang Niu Ruisa. In order to avoid causing onlookers and confusion among the public, Tao Donglai also specially greeted Ressa in advance and asked her to "not kiss on the pier". But despite this, the pair of men and women who had been separated for several months could not let go of the hug for a long time still attracted the attention of the people, and finally Tao Donglai had to come forward to persuade them to continue to hug, and the trestle leading to the pier was completely blocked by the onlookers.

Tao Donglai also stepped forward and gave Gu Kai a short but powerful hug, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I've been out for a few months, but I've been in a lot of energy!"

"It's true that you have a lot of tan!" Although after several days of turbulence on the sea, Gu Kai seemed to be in good spirits: "There are too few people in that place in Heitu Harbor, and the people below don't know anything, and they have to teach everything by hand, and they have almost no time to stay in the house to enjoy themselves." When I come back this time, I would like to propose to the Executive Committee that the post allowance for the resident personnel of Heitu Port will be increased!"

"There's nothing to spend in that place, and it's useless for you to increase your allowance. Tao Donglai knew that he was joking, so he responded with a smile.

Tao Dong looked behind him and couldn't help asking, "Qian Tiandun didn't say that he wanted to come back with you, why didn't he see anyone?"

"Originally, he was scheduled to come back together, but there were some temporary changes, and he had to stay on the Tushan Peninsula to deal with things. Gu Kai responded: "There seems to be something happening on the North Vietnamese side, and a few days ago I sent a commissioner to the Tu Son Peninsula to wait for a meeting with the military chief on our side." However, I have never asked more about the military, so it is estimated that the specific matter will not be clear until Qian Tiandun comes back by telegram. ”

Tao Donglai didn't pay much attention to the news, and asked Gu Kai and Ruisha to go back and rest for a while, while he himself went to the migrant boat parked at another trestle to check the status of the North Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong.

Unlike the North Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong in October, the proportion of prisoners of war and prisoners in this batch of immigrants has decreased considerably, with less than 200 prisoners of war and dozens of prisoners among the more than 1,100 immigrants, and the rest are almost all ordinary people, mainly war refugees, which has saved the Ministry of Civil Affairs a lot of trouble in relocating these immigrants.

"The North Vietnamese side is kind to us this time, and they no longer treat the prisoners of war as the main body to deal with us. Ning Qi muttered, watching the security guards escort the immigrants on the ship to the predetermined venue according to their identities, while checking the immigration information held by the hand.

"Something wasn't quite right. Tao Donglai shook his head slowly, and said with a solemn face: "For the North Vietnamese regime, prisoners of war are the least valuable, and if there are prisoners of war, they must deal with prisoners of war first, followed by prisoners and refugees in the country. ”

"What do you mean...... The war situation in North Vietnam may be a bit unfavorable?" Ning Qi was also an extremely smart person, and he had already understood what Tao Donglai meant as soon as he heard what he meant.

"Qian Tiandun stayed on the Tushan Peninsula this time and did not come back with the fleet, and I estimate that there will be reasons for this. Tao Donglai speculated: "If the North Vietnamese side faces a tight war situation, then they will most likely ask these musketeers in the training camp to graduate early and go to war." ”

"How much combat effectiveness can a musketeer train for a month or two have?" Ning Qi was a little unimpressed: "Although the musketeers are easy to train, I heard that the training plan of that training camp has been changed again and again, and it is not completely in accordance with our regulations. ”

"Yes, there is such a thing. To put it bluntly, their big boss is reluctant to spend money, and live-fire training is quite expensive. Tao Donglai couldn't help but smile as he spoke. In order to train a unit with a certain combat effectiveness, it still needs a large amount of material input, and it is not that each person can shoot three or five training bullets and then drag them to the battlefield to be used as a killing machine.

"Tens of thousands of taels of arms have been bought, why save this money!" Ning Qi was also quite disdainful of North Vietnam's approach, completely forgetting that he also had a time when he was on the executive committee to card the military budget.