In the morning of this day, Zhang Hao was in a daze. Many people looked at Zhang Hao, full of questions. Minister Zhang, you were distracted the whole time today. Did you encounter any problems?
This is not like you! In the past, you were very excited. Even the Queen would listen to what you said.
Today it was... cooked?
Zhang Hao didn't pay attention to what everyone was discussing this morning. His mind was completely occupied by Liu Xinyu's words in the imperial study room and he was shocked.
Liu Xinyu didn't say it clearly, but she blocked the left and right and only said to herself. The meaning couldn't be more obvious.
However, this matter was really not urgent. Zhang Hao did not answer on the spot, and Liu Xinyu did not ask further questions. But since Liu Xinyu asked this question, it also proved that the queen had made up her mind.
During the entire morning court, Zhang Hao only listened a little bit, but it was Liu Xinyu who rearranged the economic blockade.
This time, with Zhang Hao’s advice, the economic blockade arranged by Liu Xinyu became more ‘modern’.
Regarding the greedy Kingdom of Taihua, Liu Xinyu adopted a very clever method of exchanging resources for elixirs! Do you want the elixirs from the Kingdom of Qixia? OK, exchange resources for them!
Under Zhang Hao's guidance, Liu Xinyu realized that there are actually a lot of spiritual stones! But some medicinal materials and precious spiritual materials are rare. If I have more here, you will have less there, and the national strength will be affected!
And since it is raw material, the price is naturally pushed down hard.
As for the price of the elixir, it appears that the price remains unchanged, as does the tariff; however, because it requires the use of resource transactions, the value has been increased invisibly.
However, in order to maintain the face of both parties, Liu Xinyu said: During the transaction process, some spiritual stones can be used for transactions, but the proportion must not be higher than 50%.
As for the country of Qingyun, it does not accept spiritual stones at all, but only resources. The price of elixirs... they have increased the tariff a little, not much, really just a little: doubled! This is what I learned from Zhang Hao. But the translation
It is no more than 20% tariff. After all, industry and commerce these days are still relatively simple.
But even so, the Kingdom of Qingyun has nothing to do. The Kingdom of Qingyun is a completely landlocked country. If you want to do business, there are only three options: the Kingdom of Qixia, the Kingdom of Taihua, and the Kingdom of Shaoze!
Needless to say, the Kingdom of Qixia, the Kingdom of Shaoze and the Kingdom of Qixia are currently on their honeymoon; the Kingdom of Taihua...the two countries have brainstormed, and the Kingdom of Taihua has killed less than half of the elites of the Qingyun Kingdom.
The hatred is gone.
After all the calculations, Qingyun Kingdom can only purchase elixirs from Qixia Kingdom.
Of course, there is another 'Land of Changlin' to the southeast of the Qingyun Kingdom, which is the Xuanzhen Sect. But now there is a back and forth between the Xuanzhen Sect and the Dayang Group, as well as the Qixia Kingdom. As a result, the Xuanzhen Sect only symbolically sells some low-priced goods.
It's a cheap pill, but it's a drop in the bucket.
As for the current Ocean Group's largest export products, various types of machine tools, various types of steam turbines, steel, excellent bearings, etc., they are also open to surrounding countries.
Liu Xinyu has realized that holding back and not selling is not a good national policy. The best national policy is to sell it in exchange for the enemy's resources, and at the same time suppress the enemy's market, economy, technological research, etc.
Because it involves a completely new concept of economic warfare, today's morning meeting was very lengthy, and only senior officials of third rank or above were left in the final critical discussion.
Finally, Liu Xinyu concluded, “We will sanction other countries, but the premise is that we cannot harm our country’s interests.
The essence of why we impose sanctions on other countries and go to war is for national interests. This is the fundamental starting point.
Okay, that’s it for today. If there are any questions, we’ll discuss them later.”
Everyone looked at each other in shock. This morning was so weird. The Queen suddenly changed her usual strategy. Zhang Hao was distracted the whole time, and everything seemed so weird.
Zhou Jue's eyes were the brightest. He kept glancing between Zhang Hao and Liu Xinyu, always feeling that something happened between them. But he was too embarrassed to ask about it.
After the morning meeting, Zhang Hao left the palace as if he was on the run, immediately got on the train and returned, closing his eyes to rest. When he opened his eyes, he had arrived at the Zhang family, and Zhang Hao was still inspecting the properties of the Zhang family and Dayang Group with a somewhat erratic expression.
The hottest industry right now is none other than machine tools. However, the technology of machine tools belongs to the Zhang family, not Dayang Group.
Today's Dayang Group is more like an industrial complex, with each family (shareholder) under it having its own business. But except for Dayang Group, almost 70% of the interests of the other shareholders come from Dayang Group.
At this time, Zhang Hao was wandering around the Zhang family and Dayang Group's properties like a ghost. He seemed to be inspecting, but in fact he went berserk...
Finally, Bai Yutang discovered something was wrong with Zhang Hao and came over to inquire.
"Ah..." Master Zhang sighed, "It's nothing, I encountered something bad myself."
Master Zhang waved his hand and left gracefully.
After returning, Zhang Hao simply went into seclusion. The outside world... was too annoying.
Zhang Hao retreated, but Oasis Bank of Ocean Group once again popularized the War Bonds issued more than a year ago. Some of the one-year bonds had already expired. After recalculation, Oasis Bank took back all the bonds.
War bonds, redeemed promises.
At the beginning, war bonds came in different forms, including elixirs, medicinal materials, various magic weapons, etc. And the prices of these things at that time were completely different from those now. For example, black iron, now ordinary black iron is all over the streets.
There is also Pei Yuan Dan, which originally increased in price to seventy or eighty yuan, worth hundreds of spirit stones, but now the price is only 0.5 spirit stones.
At first, everyone was very worried, not knowing how Luzhou Bank would calculate it. As a result, Luzhou Bank converted it into Lingshi calculations based on the value at that time. All the one-year war bonds were perfectly recovered successfully.
For a time, Green Boat Bank became famous.
Taking this opportunity, Green Boat Bank once again promoted banknotes, loans, savings and other businesses, and expanded its business along the railway to the country of Canglan, the country of Shaoze, etc.
Dayang Group is moving step by step towards becoming a capital oligarchy.
Banknotes, this new thing, are gradually turning into the common currency of the fertile continent of the West.
It wasn't until 18 days later that someone finally knocked the jade bell of Zhang Hao's retreat.
Dayang Group's new steel battleships, a total of six steel battleships, have all been tested. They include the 20,000-ton Zhenyuan and five Iron Duke-class battleships.
A few days later, the sea was raging with strong winds. Unexpectedly, it was already winter.
But at this time, there were 14 steel warships on the port. The fourteen warships were lined up side by side, and their majestic momentum made the seashore completely silent.
Dayang Group, Dayang Fleet, a 20,000-ton Zhenyuan, and five Iron Duke-class ships.
Qixia Kingdom, Pearl Fleet, three Iron Duke-class battleships.
Xuanzhen Sect's Weihai Fleet, two of the five Iron Duke-class battleships that sank previously, have been repaired, but the cost is very heavy.
The icy sea breeze roared, rolling up the flags on the battleships. The Ocean Group's Sea Eagle flag, the Pearl Fleet's Phoenix flag, and the Weihai Fleet's Golden Cloud and Purple Sun flag were all buzzing.
Fourteen warships were lined up in a row, each warship was more than 500 meters apart.
The waves were rolling, but the battleship was barely bumping.
On the shore, countless people were observing this unprecedented event.
Of course, smart people may be able to discover that more of these powerful battleships are produced by Dayang Group!
Liu Xinyu is here to bid farewell to the fleet.
The Xuanzhen Sect sent Hong Yunzi as a representative to watch the ceremony and go out to sea with the ship.
The elder of West Kunlun, Dongguo Mingyun, also came. He stood next to Zhang Hao, his face full of emotion and shock. But in his heart, he became more determined to establish a friendly cooperative relationship with Dayang Group!
Now the steel battleships on the entire Fertile Continent are produced by Dayang Group. Other countries, such as Langya Kingdom, can only produce "Black Iron Battleships". Dong Guo Mingyun has seen it, and the technical gap is not even a little bit.
They can't even match the technology of Dayang Group's first-generation warships.
Now, Dayang Group has begun to produce second-generation warships, with a full-load displacement of up to 25,000 tons, like a land on the sea!
More than two hundred meters long! It is completely made of black iron. Dayang Group published a quote in the newspaper for 110 million high-grade spiritual stones!
On the battleship, there were four gods-stage Liu Dingshan, Hong Yunzi, Ming Xuzi, and Fu Yun from Dayang Group.
In addition, the couple of swordsmen and swordsmen, as well as a large number of late Nascent Soul and peak masters, will also go to sea.
This time, I’m going to slay the dragon!
Zhang Hao stood under the lighthouse, and his voice spread loudly. With the help of the additional magic weapon, Zhang Hao's passionate voice spread to every battleship and every corner on the shore:
"A year and a half ago, I left a sentence here: The land ends here and the ocean begins here.
One and a half years later, the total length of the navigation lines drawn on our map exceeds 100,000 kilometers! We have opened more than 20 large and small ports on the Dead Green Sea!"
"A year and a half ago, the country of Qixia was struggling in despair. The national war could not even produce five million high-grade spiritual stones as strategic materials. At that time, the price of a Peiyuan Pill actually increased to fifty low-grade spiritual stones.
And more.”
"But a year and a half later, Dayang Group created a miracle with a net profit of tens of millions of high-grade spiritual stones per ship. The price of Peiyuan Dan was reduced to 0.5 of a low-grade spiritual stone, making it affordable for every common person!
In this short period of one and a half years, the density of cultivators in the country has tripled! In the past, every ten people had a sixth-level Qi refiner, to one in three people had a sixth-level Qi refiner!
These are all miracles and brilliance created by everyone!"
"The Green Sea of Death is nothing more than that! No difficulty can stop us from moving forward."
"This time, we are going to... slay the dragon! We are going to tell all the ocean monsters in the Green Sea of Death that Dayang Group will never compromise in the face of any provocation!
Set off!"
The whistle sounded, and 14 steel battleships slowly started.
At this time, the Zhenyuan, with a full load displacement of 25,000 tons, was in the lead.
This time, all the warships did not carry any cargo, but only ammunition! This time, it was not for trading, just for... slaying the dragon!
Mirage's actions offended all the vested interests, Dayang Group, Qixia Kingdom, and Xuanzhen Sect!
As an astrologer, Zhao Dahe stands proudly on the bow of the Zhenyuan ship, his eyes sharp and firm. This old man who was once depressed is now full of energy. He will lead an unprecedented steel fleet to slay the dragon!
(Two updates today, I have a headache, I’m stuck, I don’t know what I’m writing.)