The first thousand nine hundred and seventy-four chapters, our navy is also a face
Several years ago, the three major arms companies jointly established a specialized trading company called the 'Overseas Arms Trading Company'. They even pushed the empire to formulate relevant laws and regulations and granted the company the only arms export license.
certificate.
After an overseas arms trading company obtains an order overseas, the company will invite bids for the order, and many subsidiaries within the three major arms companies will bid. In the end, the company that wins the bid will be responsible for production, ensuring that the three major arms companies internal
fair play.
In this process, the overseas trading company will also gain a large amount of profit from the price difference, but these profits will naturally belong to the company's three major shareholders. These three major shareholders are also the three major weapons companies, so in the end they still make the money themselves.
If it were not done in this way, the three major weapons companies would engage in vicious competition. This situation had occurred before and had a very bad impact. Finally, after the mediation of the empire's senior officials and the negotiations between the three major weapons companies, an agreement was finally reached.
Establish an overseas arms trading company and grant the company the only arms export license.
However, in order to expand the market, as well as to calm public anger and better establish global sales channels, the three major arms companies recruited many regional agents and integrated all the formerly chaotic arms dealers.
Those who have contact with the indigenous people are still those messy arms dealers.
This model is basically that the three major arms companies are only responsible for production, overseas arms trading companies serve as general agents to build channels, and each arms dealer acts as a regional agent responsible for local arms sales.
As for regional arms agents purchasing weapons from overseas arms trading companies at wholesale prices, how much they can ultimately sell is up to them.
Even if you sell something for a few yuan for hundreds of yuan, the three major weapons companies will not be jealous, nor will they temporarily increase the price.
However, if the business volume of an agent in a certain area is not good, then the overseas arms trading company will definitely need to change agents.
This also makes these second-rate arms dealers always like to cause trouble overseas in order to sell more and more expensive arms.
In the first half of the thirty-eighth year of Xuanping, military supplies accounted for 20% of Datang's exports.
When a large amount of various military supplies from the Tang Dynasty were imported into a certain area, it would easily affect the various local balances. Once the balance was lost, war would easily break out.
Not to mention that some ancient and modern arms dealers, both at home and abroad, are the most inhumane group of businessmen. In order to sell more of their weapons and sell them at higher prices, these damn arms dealers will do a lot of messy things.
Most of the time, if the official power of the Tang Dynasty is not careful, they will find that those damn arms dealers have broken the balance of a certain region, which will lead to the outbreak of war.
Just like in Fusang and Nanyang Peninsula.
Well, the arms dealers of the Tang Dynasty are doing the same thing in India and Africa.
Well, in fact, the Tang Empire has done this or is doing this almost everywhere in the world!
Because although the empire's arms trade policies for the three major arms companies have changed several times in response to arms exports, it is still the same group of arms dealers that actually come into contact with the indigenous people and sell weapons to them.
To a certain extent, these arms dealers also serve the empire's foreign policy. Without official acquiescence, how could they have caused so many messy things? Moreover, once something happened that they could not solve themselves, the military would have to provide
They're wiping their butts.
The arms trade and even the entire empire's foreign trade actually serve the empire's global strategy, especially in Europe.
The empire was counting on Europeans and Tatars to fight to the death.
In this way, when the empire personally goes out to play the Third Western Expedition in the future, it will be even simpler.
But even though the Empire is playing this way, it does not mean that the Empire has to do this. In fact, the Empire can directly launch the third Western Expedition, kill the Tatars, and push the front all the way to the Eastern European plains.
It's just that the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty felt that this was a waste of money, especially now that the new weapons and ammunition were relatively expensive, making it too expensive to fight a war.
Therefore, if we want to slow down, we must at least wait until domestic technology matures and the prices of various new weapons and ammunition come down.
A new 75mm collision fuze grenade costing more than 30 yuan, the Army said it really couldn’t afford to use it...
This is why the Third Western Expedition was delayed again and again.
However, everyone knows that just because the empire is unwilling to fight, it does not mean that it cannot fight.
If you really want to be cruel and willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on military spending, you can reach the Ukrainian plains in minutes.
The people of the empire also know that the empire is very awesome.
Not only is the army awesome, the navy is also awesome. Look at those 10,000-ton battleships, how majestic they are.
But, until the new star appears.
Only then did the people discover that Feng Shipping Company was more powerful than the Navy.
The navy's top main battleship is only over 14,000 tons, but Feng's Shipping Company just built a 30,000-ton ultra-luxury liner.
This is not just a 30,000-ton ship with an empty hull, but it is also a ship with a top speed of 20 knots.
This speed is much faster than the battleships of the Navy. In terms of cruising speed, all the battleships of the Navy cannot match the Nova.
This is embarrassing for the Navy!
The Tang Dynasty Navy has always led the trend of imperial shipbuilding!
The largest and fastest ships have always been naval battleships.
Until the new star appears!
"These shipping companies are really looking for trouble. It's just a passenger ship. It doesn't matter if it's 30,000 tons, but it can even operate at a speed of 20 knots!" In the naval headquarters, a vice admiral looked helpless: "Previously
I also read a newspaper a few days ago, which said that at the speed of the Nova, even the warships of our navy could only eat ashes behind them!"
"Who knows what Feng's Shipping Company is thinking? It costs more than three million to build a passenger ship, which is more expensive than our battleships. They are really a bunch of lunatics!"
"But this is not the key. The key is that public opinion is very bad and has a great impact on our navy!"
"Even those idiots in the army are laughing at our navy, saying that our navy's warships can't even catch up with a passenger ship!"
"Our navy also wants to lose face. It must build a faster warship to suppress these civilian ships, restore public opinion, and make those army idiots shut their mouths!"
At this time, the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Shao Shun, spoke: "There is no need to say more about these words. I called you all here today just to discuss our new generation of fast cruisers!"