In fact, the kind of economic control that the United States has on Earth is just a more flexible colonization method when the population is insufficient. Although it cannot be said that it is not clever enough, compared with its own colonization method that relies on population advantages, the side effects are still greater.
Some of them, after all, are not from my race, and their minds must be different, and they will never let you exploit them peacefully.
Many times those countries being exploited by the United States dare not speak out in anger. Once the military strength of the United States weakens, other exploited countries will pounce on the United States like enemies, and those previously seemingly powerful forces will fall like dominoes.
If it collapses, the seemingly powerful United States will collapse in an instant.
The Chinese collar model does not have this problem. The advantage of population gives Fang Xiaoyu more choices. The Chinese can rely on the number of immigrants to directly change the demographic structure of the occupied areas and completely annex these areas into their own territory.
At that time, you can choose how to develop and build at will. When new areas are built, they can become the mainland of the Chinese territory just like their previous territories. Relying on this snowball-like occupation method, the entire world will become Chinese.
The world, and these are our own people, as long as there are no big mistakes in the policy, these lands will always belong to the Chinese.
The court meeting ended, and Xia Houying was about to return to the harem when the old eunuch who was close to him suddenly stepped forward and whispered: "Your Majesty, Fang Xiaoyu requests to see you alone."
"Oh?" Xia Houying was a little surprised. He asked to see him again just after leaving the court. Xia Houying said: "Ask him to wait for me in the side hall."
"It's the Emperor." The old eunuch accepted the order. "This little guy is really interesting." Xia Houying smiled and shook his head and walked towards the side hall.
Seeing the emperor coming in, Fang Xiaoyu immediately stepped forward to salute. Xia Houying asked: "Is there anything important for you to ask for an audience alone?" Fang Xiaoyu smiled and said: "Wei Chen is here to present a new gun to the emperor." Xia Houying said: "
What? Is it your new work again? Then I want to take a look." Firearms cannot be brought into the palace casually. Xia Houying immediately asked the old eunuch to go outside the palace to get the gun from Fang Xiaoyu's people.
Two long ebony boxes were placed on the main hall. Xia Houying asked strangely: "Why are there two boxes?" Fang Xiaoyu pointed to a more ornate box and said: "In this box is the gun presented to the emperor for his own use. In addition,
One is for ordinary warriors."
The old eunuch immediately stepped forward to open the gorgeous box and took out the rifle inside. As soon as the gun was taken out, it immediately shone with dazzling brilliance. The entire gun was plated with gold, and the handle and handguard were made of fine sandalwood.
The cheeks and hands are covered with sapphires, sparkling in the sun.
Fang Xiaoyu even installed a whole piece of artificial crystal on the last part of the gun butt. To be honest, this artificial crystal is not valuable. It is just made by Fang Xiaoyu adding lead when making glass. However, there is no artificial crystal in this country.
In this era, natural crystals were very valuable and difficult to carve. Artificial crystals were more crystal clear than natural crystals, and Xia Houying, who was used to seeing treasures, took a breath.
Fang Xiaoyu pointed to another box and said: "The gun inside is for soldiers. It is roughly the same as the one used by the emperor, but it uses cheaper materials. Please ask the emperor to move it to test the gun." Xia Houying nodded.
He said: "Well, that's right. Let's arrange the garden according to your instructions."
When they came to the Royal Garden, Fang Xiaoyu found a guard of his own. The guards around Fang Xiaoyu were all selected from the best of the best from the Iron-Blooded Army, especially this guard named Qiu Rui, who was the number one under Fang Xiaoyu.
Quick shooter. The tester for the Imperial Guard was Xia Houhuan, the commander of the Imperial Guard. This was specially arranged at the suggestion of Fang Xiaoyu in order to compare the advantages and disadvantages of the two types of guns.
Holding the revolving breech-loading gun that Fang Xiaoyu had modified before, Xia Houhuan sneered at the seemingly ordinary gun in Qiu Rui's hand. He was very confident in the revolving rifle in his hand, even though he didn't even know it had ammunition.
From his point of view, only guns with wheels have the fastest firing rate. Without wheels, other guns need to be fired and reloaded once, so he thinks he has won.
Xia Houhuan is the emperor's nephew and has served as the commander of the Imperial Guard for almost ten years. Therefore, he is very familiar with the emperor and will not be restrained even if the emperor is behind him. He loaded the bullet skillfully and said to Qiu Rui: "Boy, you
We’re doomed to lose.”
Qiu Rui didn't speak, just smiled at Xia Houhuan, leveled the loaded rifle to test its center of gravity, took aim again, nodded with satisfaction, and then took the bullets out of the box.
He came out and inserted each bullet head down into the special bullet belt on his waist.
When Fang Xiaoyu saw that both parties were ready, he turned around and said, "Your Majesty, can we start?" Xia Houying nodded and said, "Just one minute, let's start." The old eunuch shouted: "Start."
The little eunuch next to him turned over the hourglass used for timing. After hearing the command, the two men leveled their rifles almost at the same time and started shooting rapidly. Xiahouhuan needed to pull the hammer after each shot, but Qiu Rui also
You have to pull a lever to load the bullet, so the firing rates of the first few shots are about the same for both of them.
But when Xia Houhuan finished shooting six rounds of bullets, the gap was revealed. Xia Houhuan began to swing the wheel, clean the remaining paper casings of the bullets, then loaded the bullets and fired. Qiu Rui shot thirteen in one breath.
Fired bullets, and then used his own quick-shooting skills.
I saw Qiu Rui holding the gun in his right hand, and with a touch of the bullet belt on his waist in his left hand, three bullets went into his left hand. Then his left hand clicked continuously on the loading port like a phantom, and the three bullets entered quickly.
The gun chamber. He did not reload, but fired three bullets, and then repeated the action again, firing bullets three by three, like a short burst of automatic rifle fire. Fang Xiaoyu was also stunned for a while.
The sand in the hourglass quickly leaked out, and the shooting results were very obvious. Although Xia Houhuan was also a skilled veteran, he only fired eighteen bullets in one minute. Qiu Rui relied on this unique skill of shooting from the hand to achieve success in one fell swoop.
It exceeded Fang Xiaoyu's belief that the theoretical shooting speed of a lever-action rifle was forty-five rounds per minute, and reached a high speed of sixty-three rounds.
Xia Houying looked at it and clapped his hands repeatedly: "It's too fast, it's too fast." Then he said to Fang Xiaoyu: "Fang Aiqing, I wonder if this gun can change all my guards?" Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "
Of course, it is possible, but this kind of gun is not easy to make, and Weichen cannot make it quickly."
"It doesn't matter. Take your time. How long will it take to re-equip all my 90,000 Imperial Guards?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "Weichen's workshop can make fifty of these rifles every day. This year, it will be 18,000."
With more than a thousand branches, it will probably take five years for all the Imperial Guards to change their uniforms."
Xia Houying frowned and said: "It is indeed a bit slow. If there is more wear and tear during training, it will take even longer." Fang Xiaoyu added: "Also, the cost of this kind of rifle is relatively high. One rifle costs five hundred yuan to manufacture.
, and bullets are not easy to make. Ten rounds of bullets cost one yuan, and only Weichen’s workshop can make them."
Xia Houying frowned and said: "So expensive?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "I am loyal to the emperor, and I am willing to contribute half of the capital to make guns for the emperor at half price." In fact, the cost of a lever-action rifle is two hundred yuan per gun. Fang Xiaoyu said it was so high because of
If the emperor accepts his favor, anything in the future will be easier to handle. Besides, only he can make bullets. He can make a lot of money just from the cost of the bullets, so there is no need to make profits on the gun.
Xia Houying is not a person who is reluctant to spend money. He believes that the best way to maintain his rule is for the Imperial Guard to be more effective than other troops. He is willing to spend the money, but the cost of each gun of 500 yuan is not low.
, it would cost 45 million yuan to redress all the 90,000 Imperial Guards.
Xia Houying said: "How can I ask Aiqing to pay for it? I will buy these 500-yuan rifles, and then give each gun 200 rounds of ammunition, but the equipment must be faster. So, I will reward you.
How about spending two million to expand the workshop and try to increase the output to one hundred branches per day?"
Fang Xiaoyu secretly stuck out his tongue. The royal family is rich. They can throw away the 45 million yuan for buying guns without blinking an eye, not to mention the 1.8 million yuan for bullets. He even gave himself another 2 million yuan to expand.
Production capacity, this time he really made a profit. In fact, he also thought that the emperor felt a little embarrassed to buy the gun from him at the cost price, and deliberately gave him two million, saying that it was used to expand production capacity, so it was considered to be giving him some profits. Little did he know
This time Fang Xiaoyu's net profit was at least 30 million.