Chapter six hundred and forty-ninth good wealth boy
And because it won't be able to develop it for a while, the empire has been purchasing these advanced large-scale equipment from around the world since last year.
Fortunately, equipment blockade is not popular these days. As long as you can make money, you can basically sell anything. The Daheng people even put their own dome-armored cruisers, 300mm 25x naval guns and other advanced weapons at the bottom of the box. It was sold to the Orians, and now it is selling the coast-class coastal defense ironclads, Princess-class second-class ironclads and dome-armored cruisers all over the world with its relatively successful designs and widely praised by the Orians.
Although these industrial equipment are very important, they are far less sensitive than battleships. As long as the price is right, they can be purchased. If you can't buy them from this country, at worst, they will be sold in other countries.
Although people from many countries on Blue Star hate the Daheng people, they still like their gold coins and food.
In September of the second year of Qian Sheng, the trade delegation sent abroad to purchase various important industrial equipment and also to open up Daheng's commodity exports came back. When they came back, they brought a lot of contracts, the most important of which was with Some companies in the Kingdom of Krul signed orders for some top-notch equipment and reached a package trade agreement with the Valia Empire.
This time they went out and became a good fortune boy.
In addition to purchasing industrial equipment, they also purchased a lot of basic technologies. Just in the Valia Empire, the purchasing group of the Daheng industrial and commercial community spent a lot of money and ordered a large amount of equipment, costing more than tens of millions of dollars.
The Varia Empire is also an old power. It was once the world's most powerful country. Its navy can compete with the Kingdom of Krul. Even though it was defeated by the Kingdom of Krul decades ago, it has a large navy. The capital ship was sunk and a compensation was paid, but after more than ten years of recovery, their rebuilt navy is still the second largest in the world.
Being able to restore the size of the navy to the second largest in the world so quickly would not be possible without some industrial strength.
At least many of the equipment that the Daheng Empire needs now can basically be purchased from them. However, this country has been suppressed by the Kingdom of Krul in recent years and is extremely passive in the overseas market. It is not easy for this country to come to their doorstep. Even though the Daheng people who came here were a little disgusted with the Daheng people, for the sake of gold coins and food, they still smiled and coaxed the Daheng people's purchasing delegation into high spirits, and finally signed thousands of contracts. Wan Hengyuan’s big order!
It is worth noting that only part of the funds for these equipment orders are in cash, and a considerable part is in the form of low prices for agricultural and livestock products.
Although the Varia Empire has a lot of domestic food production, its population density is high, and food has always been in a state of being unable to be self-sufficient. It needs to import food all year round. This is also the traditional food export of the Daheng people after the freight price dropped after the steam engine era. country.
In this transaction, Daheng people paid part of it in cash, part of wheat, corn and other grains, part of cotton and frozen meat products.
This is a package deal guided by the official level and participated by enterprises.
The deal with the Varia Empire is only part of it. The Daheng Empire trade delegation has reached several deals with the Krul Kingdom before, but there is no official level participation, and the Krul Kingdom itself has With its rich sources of agricultural and livestock products, there is no need to import agricultural and livestock products from the Daheng Empire, so orders from the Krul Kingdom are purely for sending money.
But there is nothing you can do to send money. Who wants the goods to be good? Some of the top-notch machinery and equipment can only be bought from the Kingdom of Krul, not from other countries.
For example, a 100-ton super steam hammer and a 5,000-ton free hydraulic press.
There are other seemingly inconspicuous, but high-precision processing equipment as well.
However, although they bought good things, the trade delegation did not sell a single grain or bullet in the Kingdom of Krul. They only gave away money, so this made the trade delegation very unhappy, so some people who originally planned to visit Krul
The equipment ordered by the Er Kingdom turned around and went to order the equipment from the Valia Empire.
The trade delegation visited several powerful countries and spent tens of millions of dollars.
Fortunately, in addition to the iron rooster of the Kingdom of Krul, the trade delegation has also reached some export agreements in several other countries, mainly agricultural and livestock products. In general, a trip out will definitely make a loss, and it is
A loss of tens of millions, but there is nothing we can do about it.
In order to improve domestic industrial technology capabilities, especially manufacturing capabilities, in a short period of time, in addition to increasing efforts to develop equipment and other technologies on our own, it is also necessary to purchase advanced equipment from abroad.
It will be easier to buy a sample first and then develop and imitate it by yourself. Otherwise, you will have to wait and see if you can do it yourself.
The Daheng Empire's trade delegation went around in circles, placing tens of millions of orders, and gained a reputation as a philanthropic boy. By the way, it also stabilized and opened up the export market for agricultural and livestock products.
At the same time, they also received a batch of weapons orders. Although the total amount was not large, only tens of thousands of Luoan III rifles and dozens of army field guns, it was still of great significance because this was their order for Yarog on the western continent.
Orders obtained by the Kingdom.
You must know that it is not easy to obtain such a weapons order in the western continent where there are many powerful countries, such as the Kingdom of Krul and the Valia Empire, as well as the Kekel Empire, the Iboan Empire and other powerful countries.
It is not easy to seize the order from Yarog Kingdom from them.
Although the Yarog Kingdom is currently internally unstable and in urgent need of advanced weapons, and requires immediate supply after signing the contract, currently only the Daheng Empire can actually provide large quantities of breech-loaded rifled weapons at the first time. The Daheng Empire is
Just take out the current equipment and sell it.
But this is still very difficult.
Although the trade delegations to Kingdom Island and the Western Continent have returned, the trade delegations sent to the Southern Continent and the Southwest Continent in the middle of the year have not returned yet. They are still working hard to open up the empire's agricultural and livestock product markets and weapons markets.
And try hard.
At the same time, I also wanted to see if I could exchange some good things from other countries.
The visits of these two trade delegations to various countries actually revealed a very obvious message to various countries, that is, the Daheng Empire has no plans to launch a war with other countries in the near future, but plans to develop its own economy, so don't be blind.
Worried.
This can be regarded as an indirect way for the Daheng Empire to euphemistically convey a peace signal to the outside world under the current situation.
As for directly speaking, this is impossible, this is not in line with the tradition of the Daheng Empire!
The consistent tradition of the Daheng Empire is that it has a very tough attitude towards the outside world, and will hit you if it says it will!
If you ask the Daheng people to lower their profile and express goodwill and talk about peace, foreigners will think that you Daheng people have a conspiracy, and the Daheng people will feel that the upper echelons of the empire are too weak.
Daheng people never compromise!
Unless you really can't beat it
The goodwill that the Daheng people euphemistically and indirectly released through the two trade delegations was obviously felt by other countries. The chief foreign minister of the Kingdom of Krul previously told the officials of the trade delegation that he personally expressed his gratitude to the Daheng Empire for its renewed efforts.
He expressed his welcome and congratulations on the reunification and the establishment of the Lin Dynasty. He was full of hope for Emperor Lin Ziran and hoped that the two countries could work together in the future to work together for the peaceful development of Blue Star.
The personal remarks of the chief foreign minister of the Kingdom of Krul, although they are just personal remarks, still represent to a certain extent the thoughts of the Kingdom of Krul, the most powerful country in the world, that is, they hope that the Daheng Empire will not cause trouble!
As the boss of contemporary Blue Star, the Kingdom of Krul most hopes that Blue Star can maintain the current situation!
Because in this situation, they are the boss and can gain a lot of benefits.
As the best interests of the old order, the Krull Kingdom does not want the situation on Blue Star to change too much. For example, in the struggles of several powerful countries on the Western Continent, the Krull Kingdom will intervene, even through the threat of war.
to maintain a balanced situation among these major powers.
But, whether it is in the Western Continent, the Southwest Continent or the Southern Continent, the Kingdom of Krul has a strong influence.
But only in the central continent, the Kingdom of Krul has a feeling that there is nothing to say.
During the civil strife in Daheng, the Krul Kingdom did not try to intervene in the civil war in Daheng. They actually tried to contact several Daheng towns many times and tried to control the situation in Daheng by controlling these vassal towns. However, the people of Daheng were out of ideas.
Muscles.
These large feudal towns took advantage of the benefits sent by the Kingdom of Krul, but they rejected many of the Kingdom's demands, such as opening up trade.
After several experiences, the Kingdom of Krul gave up.
Now, with the unification of the Daheng Empire, the Kingdom of Krul began to adjust its diplomatic policy and switched to supporting the Orissa Empire.
Especially when the Orissa Empire sent troops to the Kingdom of Dana and the Kingdom of Cassi to assist these two countries in their military defense, the Daheng Empire naturally expressed strong protest, but the Krul Kingdom overtly and secretly
They all support this behavior of the Orissa Empire and believe that this move will help maintain peace in the central continent.
It is impossible to fall out with the Daheng Empire directly, but by supporting the Orissa Empire to cause trouble for the Daheng people, curb the Daheng people's exaggeration, and even start another Heng'ao war, this is what Krul has done in the past year.
The most obvious diplomatic adjustment of the kingdom in the central continent and the southern continent.
In order to allow the Orissa Empire to deal specifically with the Daheng people, the Krul Kingdom even took the initiative to lower their support to the East Coast Four Nations Alliance, so as to avoid the East Coast Four Nations Alliance from bringing too much pressure to the Orissa Empire.
However, this also gave the Daheng Empire an opportunity to intervene in the situation in the Southern Continent!
As the four countries on the east coast approached the Kingdom of Krul to purchase new army weapons and warships, the lions opened their mouths. The four countries on the east coast urgently needed to find a second strategic supporter.
When the Daheng Empire's trade delegation arrived for a visit to the four east coast countries, the four east coast countries expressed goodwill one after another.
Based on the concept that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, the diplomatic relations between the Daheng Empire and the four east coast countries quickly heated up. Soon the Kingdom of Io, one of the four east coast countries, sent a trade delegation to visit the Daheng Empire.
Their delegation was called a trade delegation, and the banner they used was to negotiate with Daheng on the export of agricultural and livestock products in order to stabilize and protect food security.
But, although the Io Kingdom is short of food, the four east coast countries are not short of food as a whole. These four countries are all coastal countries and have a lot of coastal plains, especially the Kingdom of Weiland, one of the four countries.
Although it is a country, its food output is very high, and it is a food supplier in the Four-Nation Alliance.
Therefore, even if the Io Kingdom is short of food, it can still be solved to a certain extent within the Four-Nation Alliance. Even if there is still a certain gap, it is enough to just import some. There is no way to send a trade delegation to the big country.
Heng discusses the import of agricultural and livestock products.
You must know that this delegation is personally led by Prince Harant, the second heir to the Kingdom of Io.
Their intention is already quite obvious. They are not just here to import food, but also to test the Daheng people on behalf of the entire four-nation alliance to see if they can seek the support of the Daheng Empire.
Recently, the Kingdom of Krul has switched to supporting the Orissa Empire, which has made the four east coast countries extremely dissatisfied, especially during the critical period when the Orissa Empire continues to expand its military preparations and equip itself with advanced breech-loading rifled weapons on a large scale. Even if they
We know that the Orissa Empire's move was to deal with the threat from the Daheng Empire, but the four countries on the east coast also felt a huge threat.
Although the four countries along the east coast and the Orissa Empire are mortal enemies.
During the Heng'ao War, the four countries on the east coast stood firmly on the side of the Orissa Empire for the overall benefit of the southern continent. However, after the Daheng Empire withdrew, the four countries on the east coast and the alliance of the three countries on the west coast did not hesitate to surrender to the Orissa Empire.
The Lissa Empire took a stab at it, which directly led to the Orissa Empire's Cochelia Province becoming the Kingdom of Cochelia.
In the following decades, the Orissa Empire and the Four East Coast Alliance fought several times, and the most recent war was five years ago.
Under such circumstances, how could the Orissa Empire's continued military expansion and war preparations make them not afraid?
What if the Orissa Empire continues to expand its military and prepare for war against Daheng, and then turns around and launches a war against their four-nation alliance?
By then, will our own army units still equipped with front-loading weapons be able to resist the Orisa army that has been equipped with breech-loading rifled weapons?
Disaster!
That's why they are so eager to order breech-loaded rifled weapons from the Kingdom of Krul.
But on the one hand, the Krul Kingdom is to support the Orissa Empire in its fight against Daheng. On the other hand, although their weapons production is not large, there are many places where they need to be supplied. In addition to their own use, they also need to supply to several important allies.
Weapons, such as the Kingdom of Oran, the Ansia Empire, etc.
It is impossible for them to supply too many advanced weapons to the four countries on the east coast in a short period of time.
Therefore, the four countries on the east coast found the Daheng Empire!