"You are not a business item, and bullets cost money, and they are so stingy. ●⌒,. Each gun is equipped with fifty-ten bullets, and even the skin wrapped in bullets is given for nothing! Do you think it's done by buying a gun? What should you do if the gun breaks in the future? What should you do if you can't use it? So, buying weapons is no better than other things. This is a system project, and the big head is still behind. The money for providing spare parts is not cheaper than the whole gun, and the money for providing training services is more expensive. Do you understand this service by selling services?

?What we earn is not weapons money, but designated standard money. No matter who buys our weapons and services, we must calculate according to the measurement standards of the empire, and build supporting facilities according to the empire's habits. Over time, others will get used to it and can easily be without us." When it comes to the money of the Mongolians, Hong Tao was spitting a lotus, remembering all the bad waters that the countries in later generations have figured out, and they don't even need to change them, and can be applied directly to the present.

Weapons are goods, but they are very different from ordinary goods. Whether they are cold weapons or hot weapons, they have their own unique functions, and they require users to have corresponding tactics and logistics systems. Take muskets as an example. If they want to form combat effectiveness, they must have qualified soldiers, qualified officers, qualified logistics support, and the ability to coordinate and cooperate with other troops. These must be completed through training.

If the Southern Song Dynasty court prepared to equip musket soldiers in large quantities, it was necessary to let the army instructors of the Jinhe Empire train their troops. Then these recruits and officers would be marked with a strong Jinhe Empire mark. The units of weight and measure they used were imperial, the tactical ideas they accepted were imperial, and the living habits they were influenced by were also imperial. After they finished their training, muskets learned, and by the way they were exposed to completely different life concepts from the Song Dynasty. This concept is advanced compared to this era, and humans will naturally develop yearning and curiosity about what they are good at, so some of these soldiers have a good impression of the Jinhe Empire.

Don’t underestimate this kind of favoritism. It will subtly change a person’s mind. These soldiers and officers have a great chance of winning battles, and they should be promoted quickly accordingly. Who can guarantee that they will not become a general in ten years? Who knows if they have a background of a big family behind them? If one-third of the officials in the Southern Song Dynasty court could have a slight favoritism for the Jinhe Empire, would it be so difficult for Hong Tao to influence the Southern Song Dynasty court?

It is of course a pleasure to see immediate results, but this change is often not profound. The slower it is, the more unaware the effect is, the easier it is to penetrate into the bone marrow. This change is silent, thorough, and difficult to reverse. To put it in a vivid metaphor, this is the difference between acute and chronic diseases.

Is a heart attack fatal? It can bring a lively soul back to your hometown in just over ten minutes, but as long as you can be treated in time and do not delay the rescue time, you will usually be rescued. You can live for many years with a few stents. But if you have lung cancer, it will be troublesome. It is difficult to be discovered in the early stages, and the patient has no feelings. When you have feelings, the hospital will also be diagnosed. It is usually in the third stage. At this time, doctors around the world can only tell you one thing, that is, you can live for a few months or years, and there is no treatment!

"Ah! There are so many things to pay attention to? But how can they agree with the Song Dynasty court?" Wen Nan was directly fainted by Hong Tao's words. How could a few guns be sold just like selling one's body?

"You, it's time to go to the navigation school to listen to the class. Times are progressing, and just using the previous knowledge is not enough. So, you go to Li Niang's business department to borrow two graduates from the navigation school to go with you. It would be better if you can tell Li Niang to go with you. You only need to tell them what you want to achieve, and they will help you improve the remaining specific details." Compared to the generations or generations and a half of Jinhewan in Wennan, the second generations of Jinhewan who have just started their jobs are much stronger in these aspects. They may have flaws in life experience, but they are not much less than themselves in terms of cheating people, and they don't think there is anything wrong with cheating foreigners. They feel that they are justified and can't even do it themselves.

Just when Hong Tao was busy selling flintlock muskets to the Song Dynasty, something big enough to be comparable to the capture of Tangzhou happened in Guangzhou. In Hong Tao's eyes, this incident was even bigger than driving the Mongol Empire back north of the Yellow River. The maritime merchants in Guangzhou collectively took a boat to the sea! Most of the merchant ships drove out of the sea. But they were not doing business, but took their families to Malacca and Kalamba Port, and even people could not be found. The city of Guangzhou was covered with big-character posters, which clearly stated the cause of the market and the demands of the maritime merchants.

Before the officials in Guangzhou could react, most of the maritime merchants in Quanzhou, Fuzhou and Qiongzhou followed the market. They also finished posters and took their families to Nanyang on sea boats. There was a pier that closed their doors and doors. The fools of this large-scale strike could see that someone was commanding the whole scenes behind the scenes, because those posters were not handwritten, but printed on the printing press. Those who are a little more familiar with it can see the clues from above. The big-character posters posted in these cities were exactly the same, from paper to ink.

Indeed, the planners behind the scenes were Wen Hao and his Zhiyin Society. These big-character posters were printed by the printing factory in Quanzhou of Zhiyin News Agency and transported to Guangzhou, Fuzhou and Quanzhou in batches by sea ships. However, his Zhiyin Society alone could not have such a large-scale collective action. The reason why this strike was full of responses is that the real mastermind behind the scenes should be said to be the new chairman of the Strait Company. However, neither Cixi nor Wen Hao had practical experience in this way of struggle, and had not even heard of it before, so they would inevitably make mistakes in many details. Fortunately, they had no experience, and the Southern Song Dynasty court had no experience, and everyone was on the same starting line.

Without the large-scale purchase of goods by maritime merchants, the suppliers in small cities in the surrounding areas will be in a terrible situation, and the goods in warehouses will be piled up and cannot be sold. If they cannot get the payment for the goods, it will affect the funds of the workshops and small suppliers in their hometowns. Then the work that works in these workshops will not be paid, and the family of these work will be greatly affected. Everyone is a grasshopper on the same rope. If there is a problem with the terminal of the industrial chain, no one can escape.

This is the difference between industry and commerce and agriculture. No one is afraid of buying grain when it is harvested. It is a currency itself. But industrial products and raw materials are different. Some people buy them and they are treasures, and they are even more expensive than gold. Once they lose the commercial circulation link, they are waste. It is difficult to keep them at home, and they cannot be eaten or drunk. The more developed the industry and commerce, the more serious the phenomenon is.

In addition to suppliers, maritime merchants also involved another rope, which is the buyer. In the past, the goods shipped by maritime merchants were booked by big merchants from all over the world. Once the sea ships left the port, it was actually equivalent to the goods arrived at the port. The subsequent industrial chain was ready to eat this batch of goods. This large-scale purchase can lower the price, and then these people then transport the goods to the mainland in batches and sell them to local merchants. They are futures merchants of this era, and what they earn is the large price difference between the goods transfer.

Now that the maritime merchants suddenly stop working, who will provide them with goods? This is not a ship or two. In October every year, there are no less than a few hundred large sea boats, and there are more small sea boats. Who has the ability to fill this big hole? The more than a dozen large and Guangzhou ships in the imperial court cannot satisfy the appetite of a large wholesaler. It is a drop in the bucket.

Without purchasers, many stores will lose their source of raw materials, especially those workshops that mainly focus on processing. Without capital recovery, the processed goods cannot be sold, which will cause more workshops, tea farmers, and textile merchants to fall into a dilemma. They cannot make money, and the small workshops below will not get money. This thing is chain-based. If there is a problem in one link of the industrial chain, the entire chain will be affected. The maritime merchants are an important link in the middle of this industrial chain. If there is a problem, the entire industrial chain will be stopped.

The cause of all this was the royal merchant fleet sent by the Southern Song Dynasty court. Since last year, the merchant fleet followed the maritime merchant fleet to the South China Ocean, and took more than ten ships of cargo back from the port of Malacca. They had some friction with Swan's father due to the tax payment, but in the end they paid the tax honestly. Faced with such a murderous demon king, the families and royal relatives of the officials in the Southern Song Dynasty court really did not dare to be stubborn. They could enjoy privileges in the Southern Song Dynasty, but after they left the country, no one was accustomed to it. Especially on the territory led by the Jinhe Empire, everything had to be followed by the law. Even if Hong Tao's warships went to various ports to replenish supplies, they had to pay for the same amount.

After suffering a loss! For these agents of Southern Song officials, paying taxes is a loss! They dare not challenge Swan's father, but they can spread their anger to the maritime merchants. At any time, it is always the easiest to bully their own citizens. How to bully them? They dump low-priced goods in Guangzhou and Quanzhou. Anyway, they also use the money and ships from the court to help their family make money. Whatever makes more money and less money is the most important thing to vent their anger.

This disrupted the originally organized foreign trade market. When the long-distance voyage merchants who returned later arrived, they found that the sales guidance price system they had formulated for several years was completely in chaos. The imperial merchant fleet became the fly shit in the big porridge pot of the maritime merchants, and the whole pot of porridge changed its flavor.
Chapter completed!