Ma Tian was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but gasp, this kind of truth seems simple, but it is terrible to think about it carefully. Although Ma Tian is a general of the Han Dynasty, he is also very familiar with the situation of the surrounding countries.

If such craftsmen who specialize in making ordnance like this are not raised by the state, their respective crafts will soon become rusty, like craftsmen who make arrows for the country, how many people are needed?

According to the way of Datang, without thousands of craftsmen working day and night, so many arrows are simply not enough, and these arrows still need to be stored continuously.

If these craftsmen don't need to make arrows, what are they going to make? Whether it is the Tang Dynasty or Persia, it is impossible to raise so many craftsmen for no reason, this is only craftsmen, you must know that the number of apprentices who work for craftsmen is even larger.

It's a whole system, think about it, you spent so much money and finally created something that is useless, much worse than the other party, and the other party is cheaper than you, you are the king, will you continue to raise these people?

As soon as Ma Tian's thoughts fell, Dai Yu spoke directly: "We have carefully estimated all the taxes of the Persian Dynasty and the funds of their treasury, the treasury of the Persian Dynasty is quite rich to be honest, after all, Persia has existed for many years, but their taxes are basically beyond their means for many years, and a lot of wealth is piled up in the hands of the Persian aristocracy." ”

"According to our estimates, if the Persian dynasty were to buy our arrows, if they were to buy a million arrows, they would have saved at least about 100,000 drachmas a year at the present consumption."

"100,000 silver coins is almost equivalent to 1,000 gold coins, which is already very tempting for Is'ai. And that's not counting the other armor and weapons we export, which would save them at least about 500,000 silver coins compared to the Persians themselves. ”

"What's more, once they start fighting with the Arabs, they will lose some of their weapons and arrows, and they will continue to buy them as long as they have losses."

"And the amount of these purchases for our country, first of all, we can sell a huge number of steel products, and secondly, we can feed our factories, and if the profits of the factories increase, more workers will benefit, not only workers, but also the transportation industry, the railway industry, and so on. What's more, we are not trading at a loss, although our profits are not much, but they are also very rich. ”

"Compared with weapons and equipment, the refined salt, spices, cloth, etc. that we sell on a large scale next are the most critical, of course, weapons and equipment are also very important, if they fight, we don't mind instigating the Byzantine Empire next to us, or to those Arabs who will also start selling weapons later."

"Anyway, the more these things are consumed for us, the better, and after this time lasts for about five years, we will see all the things in Zizhulin Port, Bard City, and several cities near Persia, and the train will already extend directly to the front line, and some factories will also build enough factories on the front line."

"When the time comes, if you want to attack, it's just a simple matter." Dai Yu said quickly.

"At that time, their weapons and equipment were actually already under our control, and it was almost impossible for them to produce them themselves, and their weapons and equipment would be less and less."

Ma Tian looked at Dai Yu a little speechlessly, and said this...... You people are really too good, what's the use of you doing this to us soldiers? But he also had to say...... These people are so ruthless, it doesn't seem like there's much of a problem with these things, but it's a complete ploy.

The point is that these countries don't seem to be able to see through such a strategy at all, because such calculations are too long, and they don't have such a deep beam at all, or this is purely from the crushing of the times.

I have to say that these people from the Ministry of Commerce are really ...... It's all old silver coins.

"Okay, I know, then your negotiations can be negotiated directly, I came here to provide you with guarantees, but for now, you don't seem to need it." Ma Tian smiled bitterly and shook his head, he was here to provide strategic support in the military aspect, but it didn't seem to be needed now.

"General Ma, you can't say that, if the situation is urgent, maybe you need Suzaku or the White Tiger Army to play the bad guy." Guo Ming smiled and said.

Ma Tian shrugged his shoulders, of course he knew this, it was nothing more than to let the Suzaku Army pretend to be one of the sides, and directly talk about the battle between the two sides to instigate it. As for why it is the Vermilion Bird Army, because the White Tiger Army is too obvious.

Of course, the White Tiger Army is not impossible, it is okay to change the horses, as long as the horses are replaced, the enemy will not be able to find out, the White Tiger Army is actually not obsessive-compulsive, and it is necessary for the White Horse to be able to fight, but this is already a symbol of the White Tiger Army, so they naturally will not change it casually.

But if they need to change their horses for strategic needs, they naturally have no problem, anyway, there are too many war horses in the entire Han Dynasty, and the war horses comparable to the White Tiger Army are not extinct, so they naturally have no psychological pressure to replace them.

"Then do you think Isai is likely to agree?" Ma Tian thought for a while and asked.

"There is a good chance that they will not be able to say yes, at least the grain. By the way, I forgot to mention it just now, but this incident is also of great help to our shipbuilding industry. Dai Yu added with a smile.

The construction speed of Zizhulin Port is currently the first in Dahan, because the train has been built to Stan City, and the distance from Zizhulin Port has been very advanced, and the Ministry of Construction has begun to build a concrete road from Zizhulin Port to Stan City, and there is a river between the two directly from upstream to downstream, so it is helpful for the transportation of heavy objects and large objects.

At present, a simple dock in Zizhulin Port has been built, and a large amount of timber that has been prepared for a long time has directly begun to be transported continuously. With the help of Lingquan Water, the quality of Dahan's wood is definitely the highest in the world, and in just five or six years, many of the saplings planted before have become talents.

Although there is no way to build ships for the time being, the forests that already exist are of higher quality and grow faster with the help of spiritual spring water, so a large amount of timber enough to build ships is continuously transported to the Purple Bamboo Forest.

At the moment, two large sail battleships have already been laid keels and are starting to be built directly.

Although these two sail battleships were the first ships that the Great Han began to build, they were still very experienced because of their rich theories and the countless models they made, especially for the craftsmen, and many of the tools they had in their hands were artifacts for other shipbuilding craftsmen at this time.

Therefore, the speed of construction of these two sail battleships is very fast, mainly because they have a lot of machines in their hands that countries like Datang do not have.

In addition, the timber is prepared in advance, so the two ships are expected to be launched before the Spring Festival this year, and then they will be completed around March next year.

Although these two sail battleships are said to be battleships, they are actually built, and they will not be equipped with a large number of guns for the time being, and their size alone plus the steel armor that will be covered on the outside in the future will be invincible in this era.

So at that time, these two ships will most likely be used to transport goods, of course, after these two ships are over, and even before it ends, the keel of the first complete steel battleship will begin to be laid.

It is estimated that the first steel warship was purely used as a transport ship, because the train was transported directly to Persia and other places, at least until the train was built, and it would take at least three years for the railway to be built to the city of Bad, which is still a thousand kilometers away from the valley of the two rivers.

It will take at least a year to two years to build this thousand kilometers, and you will have to take Persia down.

However, the train between Zizhulin Port and Stan City has been opened, and the distance between the two sides is very close, so it is easy to transport a large amount of materials here, and there are enough supplies on the Buzhou Peninsula that He Molu and them have beaten out at present.

With the construction of some factories near Stan City and Zizhuling Port, Zizhulin Port was definitely the first to be developed on a large scale, with a large number of ships built, and the distance from Zizhulin Port to the Persian Gulf or to the Red Sea is actually not far, very close.

And even in this era, there are more ships than trains have to transport. And sea freight can bring more possibilities, because sea transport can transport materials from different places, and you can't rely on only one place to deliver materials by train, right? The dependence on trains is too great.

However, these are all related to the overall strategic development of the entire Dahan, Ma Tian is a soldier, he doesn't know about these things, and he doesn't understand, but he knows that the Dahan will become stronger and stronger.

After the Han annexes Persia, the Han will be truly invincible in the world!

After Guo Ming and the others discussed it a few more times, they began to explain that they began to build a radio station, and it was impossible for them to build such a high mast here, after all, they didn't have cement here, and it was impossible to bring the steel components used to build the tower.

They only brought steel for the base, and as for the construction of higher ones, they had to use wood to assist them.

But no one in this world knows what they're doing, so they can build as high as they want, even if it's the tallest building in the city.

Of course, things like lightning rods they must be set up, there are not so many tall buildings in this world that act as lightning rods for them, so they can only be set up, fortunately, lightning rods are not difficult, and it is very simple.

However, the whole process takes about four or five days, and the wood or something has already been bought in advance.