Chapter 255 Imported Minerals

Wang Qin thought about it silently and felt that what the Haihan man surnamed Shi said was reasonable. Considering the current market price of Haihan products, it was very kind to leave a thirty-day delivery period. As for only half of the deposit being refunded, it didn't matter.

It's easy to say, after all, Haihan people also said that as long as they are willing to continue to order, the deposit paid last time will still be valid.

"Do you have a product catalog list?" Wang Qin braced himself and continued to ask.

"Yes." He Xi next to him responded and handed a thick book to Wang Qin.

Wang Qin took it and flipped it through. Inside were colorful pictures of products. Each page was a product, with a brief description and product number below. This was a result of the Ministry of Commerce's search for a few time-travelers with art skills.

The product albums produced by hand drawing are sandwiched in laminated photo albums and serve as external displays.

Wang Qin finally got the treasure. He slowly flipped through the pages one by one and couldn't put it down. However, Schneider and He Xi were not so patient and waited for him to slowly choose. There were still seven or eight people lined up behind him.

Customers are waiting to negotiate, time is money!

At that moment, He Xi coughed dryly and said: "Actually, these products are currently out of stock. If Boss Wang wants them in stock, just look at the last three pages."

Wang Qin raised his head and said: "Since there is nothing to sell, why make this album?"

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

The Guangdong Office will contact the base camp through the radio every day to confirm orders and the goods that the base camp can provide, so as to revise the catalog of promotional products for the next day. Originally, the goods displayed today were basically in small quantities, but before Wang Qin

More than half of the items have already been ordered by a large trading house from Chaozhou. Many products have been purchased directly, but the product catalog has not had time to be revised. This can only be blamed on Wang Qin who arrived a little later - he

If I had insisted on not leaving yesterday, I would have been in front of that person.

Wang Qin turned to the last three pages and saw that they were all daily necessities such as matches and soap. He couldn't help but feel a little frustrated. Whether these things are good or not, sales are definitely not a problem, but the profits are far less than that of glass products and silver mirrors.

In comparison, the price of a trip to Yazhou is a bit high.

"Then can I reserve the next batch of goods in advance?" Wang Qin still asked without giving up.

"In order to prevent our Haihan products from being monopolized by a certain firm, we currently do not provide reservation services and only sell spot goods." Schneider explained: "If we allowed reservations, then 'Furuifeng' would have already sold out next year's goods.

It’s all booked.”

Earlier, someone within the Ministry of Commerce also proposed to directly carry out futures trading in order to attract more merchants to purchase Haihan products in the shortest possible time, but this proposal was ultimately rejected by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee believed that in

At present, the financial system is not perfect and the productivity level is still relatively backward. It is a radical risk to carry out futures trading. Once there are problems in the supply chain of goods that affect the delivery time, it will have a negative impact on the current financial and commercial system.

It will cause a devastating blow. Judging from the current market trend, Crossing Group is not worth taking such a big risk to gather popularity and wealth. Of course, if all conditions mature in the future, futures trading will also develop with society.

It came into being as the times require. After all, the first futures exchange had appeared in Europe as early as the 16th century. Crossing Group was not a pioneer in history in this regard.

Wang Qin also had to admit that what Schneider said was reasonable. All merchants in Guangzhou knew that "Fu Ruifeng" had a close relationship with the Haihan people, and "Fu Ruifeng" itself was also very powerful. It was not uncommon for one company to have a monopoly.

It may happen - in fact, this was the case in the first few months when Haihan goods appeared on the Guangzhou market. But Haihan people don't seem to intend to put all their eggs in one basket, so they announced the location of Victory Port to the outside world.

, let the merchants go to Victory Port to purchase goods on their own.

Seeing Wang Qin's silence, Schneider guessed a bit of his thoughts, so he took the initiative to persuade: "Boss Wang can organize the supply of goods by himself and transport some goods with price advantages to Victory Port for sale. If they are the materials we need, just

Even better. Boss Wang can look at the last page, which is the various materials we are currently purchasing."

Wang Qin turned to the last page after hearing this. The shopping supplies listed by the Haihan people were all raw materials or semi-finished products, many of which were minerals, which he was not familiar with. And the various agricultural products and seafood where the Haifeng was located

, but none of them are on the Haihan people’s shopping list.

"Most of the minerals and ores listed above are not familiar to me. What should I do?" Wang Qin couldn't help but feel a little anxious. He finally met the Haihan people. Now that he didn't buy what he should have bought, what can he do?

Since I don’t have anything to sell, is this business already dead before it even started?

"Excuse me, Boss Wang, is your company from Huizhou Haifeng?" Schneider asked. The greeting card Wang Qin submitted before clearly said "Huizhou Haifeng", so he asked this question.

Wang Qin nodded and said: "Exactly."

"Check Haifeng's products." Schneider nodded to He Xi.

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

"Haifeng is still a bit ahead of the curve." He Xi said to Schneider with a smile: "Local tin, lead, and zinc are all available. Among them, tin ore has the largest reserves, and the quality is good. Even the ore can be purchased directly."

Tin is not a rare thing in this era. As one of the hardware, tin utensils are widely used among the people. However, Chuanchuan Group plans to import tin ore not to use it to make tin utensils.

The military industry department has been clamoring for mass production of bronze cannons, but due to the lack of mineral resources, they can only stay at the sample stage and cannot be mass-produced. The raw material bronze required for casting bronze cannons is essentially a copper-tin alloy. Bronze

The casting performance and heat dissipation capacity are much better than cast iron, and the difficulty of casting weapons is much less than cast iron. In addition, bronze artillery has low carbon content and is not easy to cause sparks, and is also superior to cast iron artillery in terms of safety.

The most important thing is that under the same caliber, in order to prevent the barrel from exploding, the cast iron artillery must lengthen and thicken the barrel, while the bronze artillery can make the barrel thinner and shorter due to its material advantages, so that the weight of the barrel becomes

Lighter, both army guns and naval guns can benefit a lot from this technological progress. Under the current situation of insufficient steelmaking scale and steel processing level, bronze guns are obviously an excellent choice for the military industry department.

In addition to weapons, bronze can also be used to make wear-resistant parts and corrosion-resistant equipment, such as various mechanical bearings and various containers for chemical industry. These industrial uses even far exceed the military field.

Tin brass, known as "Navy Brass", requires tin and zinc, two minerals produced in Haifeng. Because of its strong corrosion resistance, this alloy can be specially used to manufacture ship parts - such as shipping.

The Ministry plans to wrap the entire part of the warship below the waterline with copper, and the material required is this kind of tin brass.

In addition, the papermaking and printing project jointly constructed by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Information Industry has now entered the development stage of printing technology. Several centuries have passed since the invention of movable type printing, and the technology has been very mature. However, wood movable type, clay movable type and

Pottery movable type has been eliminated in the course of history. Lead movable type, which was widely used in later generations, was created by the Germans in the 15th century. This type of lead movable type is actually an alloy of lead and tin.

As one of the important external strategies of Chuanchuan Group, cultural export has always received the focus of the executive committee. In order to reflect the high-end image of Haihan culture, the quality of printed matter must greatly exceed that of competitors of the same era, such as lead movable type

The equipment must be in place at the first step. The executive committee has spared no effort in this regard. In order to allow the metallurgical workshop to produce qualified lead-tin alloy as soon as possible, almost all the tinware on the market in Yazhou has been looted - of course most of them are still

The profits were given to the military industry department to make bronze cannons.

The Executive Committee prioritizes cultural export even before military export, closely following the export of commodities. In the Executive Committee’s vision, this kind of cultural export is not just for the Ming Dynasty, but should be based on the world.

From a cultural perspective, it is launched to all countries and regions. Some more radical people even claimed on the forum that the "four great inventions" should redefine the world - let us travel around the world with a compass and conquer everyone with artillery.

An inch of land, and then record all this with pen and paper, and print it into books to be passed down to 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 the proposal. And Schneider also said that if this supply can remain stable in the long term, then Haihan will import ore every month.

They all set aside a certain share of glass products for him to ensure that the "Haifeng" would not be shorted on the return trip after transporting ore from Huizhou Prefecture to Victory Port. This kind of treatment even exceeded that of some merchants who set up shop in Victory Port - although

With the advantage of purchasing channels, when the supply of goods is tight, they still need to obtain the supply of Haihan goods through bidding.

Although Schneider and He Xi kindly invited Wang Qin to stay for lunch, Wang Qin declined their kindness. After receiving such good preferential terms, he had no intention of staying here any longer and wanted to take a boat back quickly.

The Huizhou government needs to organize the supply of goods. From now on, you only need to run back and forth from Haifeng to Shengli Port once a month, and the profit will be worth the income from running four or five times in a row to Guangzhou - and there is no need to go to Guangzhou again.

The damn shipping company pays expensive tariffs. This is really like what boss He said, making money right away.

Among the merchants coming in and out of the Guangdong Office in these days, there are many merchants like Wang Qin. The cargo handling capacity in the mainland is much stronger than that of the limited states and counties in Hainan Island. In just two or three days, the Guangdong Office

Therefore, all the inventory produced by the base camp in the past half month was sold out. Various sources of goods that had to be purchased at high prices in the early stage or had no way to find access now have a wider range of choices. Of course,

The most important thing is that the reputation of Victory Port has spread. All that is left is word-of-mouth among businesses in various places, and the free port image of Victory Port can be slowly established.

December 13, 1627, the fifth day of winter in the seventh year of the Great Ming Dynasty.

After the lead ship hoisted a flag and showed its identity to the Yulin observation post, a fleet of eight Dafu ships slowly sailed into Victory Port. This is almost the current operation of the Black Earth Port-Tushan Peninsula-Shengli Port.

The main force of the shipping mission on this route to Hong Kong. This collective dispatch is because the immigrants provided by North Vietnam have been gathering on the Tushan Peninsula for nearly half a month, and North Vietnam is obviously not willing to keep feeding these immigrants who have been sent.

For this reason, the "outsiders" to Haihan repeatedly urged Haihan to send a ship to transport them as soon as possible. So the Black Earth Port Authority adjusted the flight schedule and dispatched eight large ships at once to take all these people away.

Returned to Victory Port.

Gu Kai, the top leader of the Black Tu Port Management Committee, personally took charge of escorting the fleet. This was also the first time he returned to Port Victory after participating in the colonization operation in July. Of course, the reason for his return was not just to escort the immigration fleet.

What's more important is that the end of the year is coming, and all units stationed abroad have to send people back to participate in the year-end summary meeting, and they also have to report their work at the plenary meeting of the Executive Committee. Within this week, Schneider and

Maliko from the Cliff Office will also return to Victory Port on behalf of his own unit.

Accompanying Gu Kai back to Victory Port, there was also a platoon of rotating militiamen. Their replacements were a group of new recruits who had recently joined the army. The first task these rookies received after joining the army was to station three troops in Black Earth Port.

The month is also a moderate test for them.

A large number of family members who had been notified by the executive committee in advance came to the pier to greet their relatives, including Gu Kai's relatives, Tao Donglai and the foreign girl Ruisha. In order to avoid causing public onlookers and confusion, Tao Donglai

He also specially greeted Raisa in advance and asked her to "not kiss passionately on the pier." However, despite this, the long-lasting hug between a man and a woman who had been separated for several months still attracted the attention of the public. Finally, Tao Dong came

I had to step forward to persuade them to leave - if they continued to hug them, the trestle leading to the pier would be completely blocked by onlookers.

Tao Donglai also stepped forward and gave Gu Kai a brief but strong hug, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I feel a lot more energetic these past few months since I've been out!"

"It's true that I got a lot of tan!" Even after several days of rough seas, Gu Kai seemed to be in good spirits: "There are too few people in Heitu Port, and the people below don't know anything.

They all have to be taught step by step, and there is almost no time to stay indoors and enjoy the happiness. When I come back this time, I will propose to the executive committee to increase the post allowance for the staff stationed in Black Earth Port!"

"There's nothing to consume in that place, so it's useless if you increase the allowance." Tao Donglai knew he was joking, so he responded with a smile.

Tao Dong came to look behind him and couldn't help but ask: "Didn't Qian Tiandun say he wanted to come back with you? Why didn't he see anyone?"

"We originally planned to come back together, but there were some temporary changes. He has to stay on the Tushan Peninsula to handle things." Gu Kai responded: "It seems that something happened over there in North Vietnam. A commissioner was sent to Tushan a few days ago.

The peninsula is waiting to meet with our military chief. However, I never ask too much about military matters, so I will probably have to wait until Qian Tiandun sends a telegram to find out what the specific matter is."

Tao Donglai didn't pay much attention to the news and asked Gu Kai and Raisa to go back and rest for a while. He himself went to the immigration ship parked on another pier to check on the status of the North Vietnamese immigrants arriving in Hong Kong.

Unlike the group of North Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong in October, the proportion of prisoners of war among this group of immigrants has been reduced a lot. Among the more than 1,100 immigrants, there are only less than 200 prisoners of war and dozens of

Among the prisoners, the rest are almost ordinary people, mainly war refugees, which saves the Ministry of Civil Affairs a lot of trouble in settling these immigrants.

"Is the North Vietnamese side showing kindness this time or something? They no longer treat prisoners of war as subjects to deal with us." Ning Qi murmured, while watching the security guards escort the immigrants on the ship according to their status.

Gather at the scheduled venue and check the immigration information you have in hand.
To be continued...