Chapter 210 Trade Progress

Seeing You Yihan's familiarity with these numbers, He Xi immediately labeled him a "keyboard strategist" in her heart. This was not because there was any big difference in the numbers You Yihan listed, but because his understanding of U.S. national policy was still different.

It's too superficial. For the national level, whether it is military means or economic means, their purpose is to serve politics and national interests. Maybe external means will affect political decision-making to a certain extent, but that is not You Yihan

This kind of "surrender" is understood.

Clausewitz said in "On War" that "war is nothing more than the continuation of politics through another means." This fully illustrates the essential role of military means in foreign policy. Waging war abroad is either purely

Arms export, these means are not only for the military-industrial complex behind it to gain huge profits, but also to achieve certain political goals. The executive committee's governing policy can be said to be very close to this theory, whether it is economic or

Military methods are all aimed at the long-term interests of the traversal group, rather than simply making money or expanding territory.

If, as You Yihan understands, the country's foreign policy will "succumb" to the interests of the military-industrial complex, then the U.S. arms ban on a certain major country may have long since become a dead letter.

But You Yihan is right about one thing. If more interests can be placed in front of each unit, it will indeed prompt Chuanchuan Group to establish a military-industrial complex to coordinate and manage military projects. The current chaos in military industry development,

The essence is that the internal management system and distribution of responsibilities and powers are not clear and perfect. It is not just the fault of a few units or decision-makers. Fortunately, everyone’s starting point is to do a good job and promote development. These people here

There are no public figures who want to increase their presence by criticizing high-level officials - such people will definitely jump out and accuse "this is all a problem of the system", and the only solution they can propose is to "overthrow the existing system".

system".

Of course, if such a person really appears in the Time Travel Group, the most likely thing that will happen is not that such a loudmouth will become a public opinion leader or a grassroots V, but that he will quickly disappear from public view and be sent to the executive committee.

The black earth port or the exploration team in the mountains do things. Everyone has seen the tricks of street politicians before time travel. Time travel groups do not need clown-like figures to lead public opinion. This is before time travel.

This has been repeatedly emphasized in the collective training, so the members also have a bottom line in their minds. Even the Ministry of Information Industry, which controls the mouthpiece of public opinion, must obey the decision-making opinions of the Executive Committee.

However, even if He Xi did not agree with You Yihan's point of view, he would not immediately refute the other party's statement. Before the second echelon came to Guangzhou, Schneider and He Xi had fully communicated and believed that the executive committee selected them to come to Guangzhou.

The people must have certain working abilities, but other aspects, especially ideological understanding, may not keep the same pace as the Executive Committee. It remains to be seen whether and how these people can be used after they arrive at the Guangdong Office.

Both Schneider and He Xi are good at observing people's emotions. After a short period of contact, they will naturally have a general understanding of these people's thoughts and ideas.

Today's induction banquet provided just such an opportunity. After three rounds of drinks, everyone had relaxed and there were no reservations in the chat. He Xi also had a preliminary impression of these newcomers.

Everyone was chatting while eating and drinking, but Chen Tianqi couldn't drink enough and soon fell into a semi-conscious state. He Xi called two servants over and sent him back to the room to rest. Not long after, Ma Yu also said goodbye and left. She was used to it.

Go to bed early and get up early. It's almost time to go to rest.

After the two men left, the topic slowly turned from the military-industrial complex back to the Cross-Travel Group's expansion policy on the mainland. At the request of everyone, Schneider first introduced the current progress of business activities in Guangzhou.

Because the previous export products had signed an exclusive agency agreement with "Furuifeng", after Schneider came to Guangzhou, there were no other products to sell to the outside world for the time being, so the current business activities are mainly based on the purchase of raw materials.

.Compared with Yazhou and Qiongzhou’s limited supply of goods, the market here in Guangzhou is undoubtedly much larger. Many raw materials that are difficult to buy in large quantities in Hainan Island, such as mercury, tin, copper, etc., can be purchased here as long as they can

If you can afford it, you can naturally find a merchant to sell it. Even if there is not enough quantity to meet Schneider's purchasing needs, the merchant will quickly organize another source of goods.

Some civilian supplies that are relatively expensive in Hainan Island, such as Songjiang cloth, tung oil, etc., are purchased at a much lower price in Guangzhou. Most of these purchased supplies have been loaded with newly purchased supplies.

On a second-hand fortune ship, they can take it back directly when Sun Changmi and the others return to Port of Victory.

The glass products "Furuifeng" shipped back from Victory Port in the early stage are said to have been put on sale in several branches in Guangdong. However, due to the limited quantity of their purchases, most places almost immediately sold them in the first wave of sales.

Sold out. Especially in Shaozhou, Nanxiong, Huizhou and Chaozhou areas east of Guangzhou, the newly appeared glass stationery has received rave reviews. Many people have even paid deposits to Semicolon in advance to place a reservation.

A batch of goods arrived. And there was a wave of collecting Haihan stationery in Guangzhou. This was naturally Schneider's original idea for Li Nai. He only needed to sponsor a few poetry gatherings and pay some public figures to collect them here.

It is of course appropriate to do publicity on such occasions and be sought after by consumers in the market.

As for glass mirrors, there is no need for "Fu Ruifeng" to do any official promotion. It would be unimaginable if the back houses of wealthy businessmen and officials did not have one or two silver mirrors produced by Haihan. Although "Fu Ruifeng"

The price is very high, a two-inch silver mirror costs more than fifty taels of silver, but this cannot stop wealthy people from buying it. Even the one-foot square mirror priced at two thousand taels of silver has been sold out. "Fu."

He Qiang from Ruifeng even came to visit two days ago and asked Schneider if he could sell larger mirrors. It is said that the wealthy businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang liked Haihan silver mirrors very much after seeing them and expressed their willingness to spend a lot of money to buy larger mirrors.

For some mirrors, the specific price is not specified - for some truly wealthy businessmen, money is really just a number, whether it is in this era or hundreds of years later.

As for the new products, matches and soap, due to limited production, they are only sold at the "Fu Ruifeng" store in Guangzhou City. Of course, businessmen like Li Jifeng will not forget to use the sales methods that the Han people in Shanghai call them.

.This is the first OEM product of "Furuifeng" in the true sense. According to the original agreement, all the outer packaging of the soap will be printed in Guangzhou and will be sold under the name of "Furuifeng". In order to ensure this

New products can become an instant hit, and Li Jifeng has invested a lot in this.

The latest product from Haihan, the moisturizing and nourishing soap, can only be purchased by paying a deposit. As for how good this product is, "Furuifeng" promoted it among the public through various channels half a month before its release. The publicity fee

Although it cost a lot, due to the reputation of silver mirrors and glass stationery, the marketing of the new product "Fu Ruifeng Soap" was unusually smooth. And Li Jifeng also came up with another promotion without any knowledge.

As a means, customers who pay a deposit in advance will receive a box of another new product "Haihan Matches" as a gift.

For soaps that have been so hyped by the public that the pre-sale price is as high as five taels of silver a piece, giving a box of matches that cost only a few dozen cents as a gift will not lose money, but will give customers something new.

Feeling. And these customers who will spend five taels of silver to buy soap have strong spending power. After these people have used matches, they will definitely like this convenient daily necessities, and they will definitely come back to buy them after using them.

As for the price of two hundred cents per box, it is really just a drop in the bucket for the wealthy class. While selling soap, they also promote the matches together. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone. Even Schneider learned about this

After hearing the news, I also admired that Li Jifeng did have a certain business acumen and actually knew how to use this method to promote business to target customers.

The sales of salt, the export FMCG that Chuanchuan Group attaches most importance to, are also relatively smooth. Although "Furuifeng" has brought more than 10,000 kilograms of salt from Shengli Port back to Guangzhou, "Furuifeng" is not stupid enough to just

Instead of selling these private salts in one place in Guangzhou, they shipped them to various places. Together with Li Po and Li Nai, they went to lobby salt merchants in various places to demonstrate their supply capabilities. After these private salts were distributed equally to all parts of the province,

The distribution to each town is only about 100 kilograms, which will not have a significant impact on the market. Currently, Li Po and Li Nai are still doing marketing promotions in other places, and it is estimated that it will take at least one or two months before they can return to Guangzhou. But "

"Fruifeng" has placed an order with Schneider in advance, hoping that the next ship to Victory Port can transport at least 50,000 kilograms of refined salt. Judging from this move, the marketing promotion done by the Li family in Guangdong should have achieved certain results.

progress.

Finally, there is another major export item of arms. Last time, after Li Nai visited the military base in Victory Port, he ordered two hundred Type 27 matchlock guns, ten of them, under the strong promotion of Tao Donglai and others.

The large order of 6-pound cannon and five 12-pound cannon, totaling more than 13,000 taels of silver, can be regarded as a good start for the military industry department. However, due to insufficient stock of matchlock guns last time, only a hundred were delivered. Later, Li Nai

After spending some time in Victory Port, I handed over fifty more guns when I left. The remaining fifty guns were shipped to Guangzhou this time. The last order can be completed tomorrow.

According to Li Nai's original plan, this batch of arms was to be transported to Fujian and sold to the "Eighteen Zhi", a large pirate group that was at war with the Ming army. However, the Executive Committee directly intervened in this sales direction and asked "Furui"

"Feng" can only sell this batch of arms to armed forces other than the "Eighteen Zhi" in Fujian - such as the opponent Xu Xinsu, the leader of the "Eighteen Zhi" Zheng Zhilong, is currently deliberately trying to get rid of.

The reason why the Executive Committee intervened in this matter was also for long-term planning considerations. After the death of the great merchant Li Dan, Xu Xinsu inherited his property in Xiamen, Fujian, and became a thorn in Zheng Zhilong's side. In 1626, he was forced to

Under pressure, Xu Xinsu defected to Fujian Commander-in-Chief Yu Zigao, and sent all his pirates to the Navy, and he also held the title of Commander-in-Chief in the Navy. Of course, one Commander-in-Chief was not the other Commander-in-Chief,

Xu Xinsu, as the largest maritime merchant in Fujian at this time, needed money and people, but there were hundreds of ships going out to sea to fight, and his strength was much stronger than that of Luo Mou, an officer of the same rank who was far away in Yazhou.

After becoming an official businessman, Xu Xinsu became the only trade middleman between the Fujian local government and the Dutch. He also seized this opportunity and took over almost all the Dutch East India Company's business on the southeast coast in a contracting situation. This was obviously

This greatly hindered the "Eighteen Zhi" who wanted to control the entire waters of the Taiwan Strait. Zheng Zhilong wanted to destroy Xu Xinsu so as to take full control of the maritime trade business on the southeast coast, and Xu Xinsu also wanted to destroy Zheng Zhilong's pirate gang and regain control of the sea.

That part of Taiwan's industry that was "illegally occupied" by Zheng Zhilong after the death of his friend Li Dan. Under this situation, the two sides have been constantly fighting in the waters of the Taiwan Strait since 1626, with each other winning and losing.

According to "Fu Ruifeng", it is obviously more realistic to sell arms to "Eighteen Zhi", because it is very troublesome for the Ming army to purchase arms. First, they have to report to the Ministry of War, and then several departments argue back and forth over the budget.

It may take until the year of the monkey to get approved. But buyers like "Eighteen Zhi" can pay cash immediately after taking a fancy to it, which is more than ten times more efficient than the Ming army.

However, the Executive Committee, which is aware of the historical development trend, is very clear that Xu Xinsu will defeat Xiamen next year, and he himself will be killed by Zheng Zhilong. His boss Yu Zigao will also be defeated by the "Eighteen Zhi", and the entire

The Taiwan Strait would completely fall into the hands of Zheng Zhilong. After that, Zheng Zhilong accepted the recruitment of Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian, and also became an officer of the Ming Dynasty Navy.

The Taiwan Strait is an important waterway from the South China Sea to the north. If the Crossing Group wants to expand its power to East China, North China and even Northeast Asia in the future, it must pass through the Taiwan Strait, a transportation artery. And if such a place is controlled by a person like Zheng Zhilong

In the hands of a pirate leader with expansion ambitions, it is not a good thing for the Crossing Group. Among other things, the ships passing there need to pay Zheng Zhilin thousands of taels of silver in protection fees every year. This condition is not good for the Crossing Group.

It is impossible to accept it easily. Moreover, Zheng Zhilong has always been good at playing tricks of annexation. His entire history of success has been accompanied by the uninterrupted big fish eating small fish routine. It is difficult to say whether he will also covet the crossing group in Hainan in the future.

heart.

From a historical perspective, no one in the entire southeastern coast can stop Zheng Zhilong's rise. However, this historical development trend is not a good thing for the Chuanchuan Group, so the executive committee is determined to reverse this trend, at least not to allow Zheng Zhilong's power to expand.

So easy. The current traversal group does not even have enough merchant ships for its own use, so there is no need to organize an expeditionary force to deal with the 30,000 pirates entrenched in the Taiwan Strait. If they go there, they will just deliver food to their door. If you want to find something for Zheng Zhilong

Trouble, then the most effective way is to fund his opponents.

Although the Ming army did not have money to buy arms, Xu Xinsu, as a large merchant, did not lack the money to purchase high-end equipment. And with such a large market in the mainland, Xu Xinsu's financial resources could be said to be endless, and his situation was much better.

In the eyes of the Executive Committee, the sales targets of "Eighteen Zhi" are only ordinary consumers at best, but Xu Xinsu has been officially certified

The "RMB Warrior" is a proper VIP player. To make money, of course, you must first earn this owner who has a richer net worth.

First arm Xu Xinsu and gradually reverse his decline in the fight between the two sides, thereby stopping the trend of the "Eighteen Zhi" family becoming dominant. Only after Xu Xinsu has a clear upper hand will the executive committee consider it.

The arms sales are also open to the "Eighteen Zhi" - the harder the two fight, the more beneficial it will be to the Crossing Group. If both sides fight in a few years, both sides will lose, and then the fully-fledged Crossing Group will go to the Taiwan Strait to clean up the mess.

It will also be easier when you are doing it.

At present, through some channels, "Fu Ruifeng" has reached a preliminary arms transaction agreement with Xu Xinsu. The first batch of artillery and matchlocks have been shipped from Guangzhou to Xiamen by sea, and the delivery is expected to be completed by the end of September or early October at the latest.

Although he did not know the actual price of the transaction between "Furuifeng" and Xu Xinsu, Schneider discovered from his recent contacts with Li Jifeng that the other party had been intentionally or unintentionally trying to find out about the arms production capacity of the Cross Group. It seemed that he should

It was sold at a good price, and we are already planning for subsequent long-term sales.

After the briefing, Schneider concluded with a smile: "As far as the current trade situation is concerned, although our export commodities are not many in variety, they are very profitable, and we have initially opened the trade window in the mainland, and there are also products in Guangzhou.

A certain brand effect. Even based on the current export volume, it is more than enough to support the people in Port Victory with export profits."

Everyone was excited when they heard this. After obtaining a stable income through trade, Chuan Chuan Group could do more things. Chuan Chuan Group imported raw materials and labor from the mainland at a relatively low cost, and then made industrial products.

Selling back to the mainland at high prices and earning high profits, this business model will help Chuanchuan Group quickly accumulate capital and is expected to achieve explosive development in the future.
Chapter completed!