And now the amount of foreign trade import trade has also carried out explosive growth, in addition to the people will buy people's livelihood related commodity machines, the number of materials purchased by the imperial court at the national level is amazing, the official purchase of various technologies, machines, goods, a wide variety, but raw and cold, as long as it is better than China, are purchased regardless of the cost, last year from Austria-Hungary imported a complete set of heavy cutting machine tools, worth 500,000 taels of silver, equivalent to 250,000 German marks, Directly pulled this factory on the verge of bankruptcy back from the border of death, and paid 200,000 taels of silver to buy all the manufacturing methods of this set of equipment, a set of equipment that may be common in Western Europe was sold at such a good price, which simply made the rest of the countries look red to death. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There is such the most expensive military equipment, warships naturally needless to say, since France lost the ocean-going navy, there are no more military ships to export, only some civilian ships can be sold to China, Germany has replaced France's position in arms sales to China, in addition to the large-scale sale of warships, but also sold a lot of German-style cannons, muskets and other armaments used in army operations, so that China's weapon models are varied, and several important countries have corresponding military interests in China.

Although Germany has increased its arms sales to China, it still has a very strict watch over some core technologies; if it were not for the tremendous progress made in the research and development of weapons for the next generation, and the technology of the previous generation would never be sold, China certainly does not want to continue to buy ready-made armaments, and likes to master the technology by itself, but at present, this is still in the midst of arduous negotiations, and it will take time to grind how to progress.

Government procurement occupies a large proportion, and this procurement is smashed down by hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars at once, quickly and in large amounts, and without delay, the businessmen's own procurement behavior alone or in a very small amount is far from being comparable with it, and of course it is very popular with European and American countries.

The amount of imported goods is getting higher and higher, the number of types is increasing, this is all visible, but the number of exports is by no means ambiguous, in the second year after the Sino-French War was pacified, the number of exported goods exploded, the customs merchant ships exported from all over the country are endless, the South China Sea is full of merchant ships, compared with Europe, it is more necessary to take into account such as the minimum wage or many requirements of the workers, the remuneration of these primitive workers in China is extremely low, whether it is high-end Chinese luxury goods, or cheap handicraft products, Are invincible in European countries, the only and other countries are difficult to compare is mechanized production of industrial products, the current industrialization efficiency of China is not high enough, exports are difficult to compete for European local enterprises, but we have a very powerful queen mother in the Qing Dynasty, she came up with an excellent way to help these industrial products more at a preferential price to obtain international competitiveness, this is a later story, not for the time being.

So the growth of imports is still not as good as the growth of exports, but this surplus, within the acceptable range of all countries, has not reached a terrible number, of course, this situation is the Empress Dowager Cixi is painstakingly maintained, because she knows that if she only eats and does not spit out like Pixiu before, it will be beaten by the world's powerful countries, then the purchase of warships and ordnance and other related technologies or goods can reduce some of the deficit, so everyone should understand, Why do future generations of leaders need to go out and scatter money often, there is no way out.

However, compared with the automatic purchase of the people, the money bought by the imperial court is paid by the treasury! The money paid by the treasury may not be able to be fully recovered in the customs duties on import and export goods, so the treasury will become more and more nervous and short of silver because of the increasing amount of money such as the purchase of warships. This is why the Empress Dowager Cixi thought it was important to introduce a new currency.

But obviously, now the Empress Dowager Cixi doesn't want to continue to buy warships, this is to save money, and secondly, she is not willing to continue to spend money to buy the satisfaction of various countries, "Our things foreigners like, but foreigners' things, our court likes more, and it is not very balanced here, what you said before is good, spending too much silver to go to foreign countries, it can't play much role." Empress Dowager Cixi said.

"Empress Dowager Shengming," Yan Jingming said, "Nanyang statistics are very clear, there are about 3,000 people working directly for the shipyard in Mawei Port, and the steel and coal industries radiated are even more incalculable, 10,000 taels of silver are invested in it, but I am afraid that 100,000 silver will not even bring more than the benefits, this is the same as if we want to smash silver to build railways and repair official roads, this silver is taken out, but it is just a ready-made thing, and no livelihood can be stimulated." ”

Empress Dowager Cixi nodded, "This is an economic account, Li Hongzhang probably didn't think about it, but the political and diplomatic account, he should see it very clearly, the pressure here is not ordinarily big," the Empress Dowager waved her armor and said idly, "He can't see through it, but he doesn't know how much he can do?" ”

Yan Jingming didn't answer, he never spoke on matters he didn't understand, this was his characteristic, and it was also an aspect of the Empress Dowager Cixi's praise for him, "This matter will inevitably be reflected at the Berlin Conference in the future, and I am afraid that there will be more difficult things between countries at that time." The Empress Dowager Cixi thought for a while, "But I don't know what progress has been made over there, okay," she raised her eyebrows, "Yan Jingming, you kneel down, the matter of the new currency, there can be no delay, I need a fast and steady plan to ensure that the issuance of the new currency must be successful, this matter, you and Hu Xueyan to discuss together, I know you don't look down on Hu Xueyan, but as an errand officer, it is necessary to unite as one, remove all the disadvantages, and integrate all the advantages, so that you can get the best results, you are the most rational, I should understand this, but I think that Li Hongzhang's Beiyang errand is very difficult," the Queen Mother showed a hint of a playful expression on her face, "It seems that he has offended you, the king of Yama, and he and Hu Caishen are endless mortal enemies, and he has offended the two gods of wealth of our Great Qing Kingdom, I don't know how he is going to spend money in Zhili?" ”

"Anyone who knows my personality knows that my favorite thing to do is to ask others to carry the black cauldron, some people say that I will carry the black cauldron, and I will send you to death, but I don't think so, I like underground people to carry the black cauldron, if they carry the black cauldron, I will not let them go to death." (To be continued.) )