Daheng's unique rich agricultural and mineral resources mean that although the Daheng Empire is still far behind the three major powers in terms of industrial technology, in terms of average living standards, the Daheng Empire is definitely stronger than them, and much stronger.
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Since the unification of the Daheng Empire, thanks to the abundant agricultural resources, most people's lives have been very good. In other countries, they would belong to the decent middle class!
The middle- and high-income families that account for more than 60% of the total population are not meaningless. What they represent is a good living standard.
This is why the empire still encourages studying abroad...
Because if the empire does not encourage it, not many Daheng people will be willing to go out to study abroad.
Studying or working abroad means that under the same income level, the standard of living will be greatly reduced. Everyone is not stupid. It is good to study and work in China, so why should you go out and suffer.
The implementation of many policies is to enhance Daheng's scientific research strength and enhance various aspects of technology.
However, these all take time. In order to solve the restriction on the export of high-end equipment from the Kingdom of Krul in a short period of time, the Daheng Empire also made three-way preparations. On the one hand, it sent a mission to the Kingdom of Krul for negotiations to see if it could ease relations.
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At the same time, delegations were sent to the two major industrial powers of Walia and Kokel to seek alternative solutions.
Finally, they secretly used third countries and adopted indirect methods to import these high-end equipment!
In May of the 10th year of Qian Sheng, the empire's Western Continent business delegation officially set off for the Kokel Empire and the Valia Empire. In addition to officials, there were also a large number of business representatives in the delegation.
The delegation was actually invited by the Varia Empire and the Kokel Empire on their own initiative!
They also knew that the Kingdom of Krul had unilaterally imposed technical restrictions on the Daheng Empire, and now the Daheng Empire was looking for suppliers of similar products all over the world.
If they can seize the opportunity to win these orders, they can easily reach hundreds of millions of large orders every year.
How could they let go of such an opportunity, so as soon as they heard about the conflict between the Daheng Empire and the Kingdom of Krul, they immediately invited the Daheng Empire to send a delegation to visit and inspect.
In the past, these high-end equipment orders had always been monopolized by the Krul Kingdom, and they couldn't win them even if they wanted to. Now that the Krul Kingdom is trying to kill itself, they will naturally take the opportunity to snatch the orders.
As for technical restrictions, the Kingdom of Krul feels that the threat from the Daheng Empire is getting bigger and bigger, and has begun to restrict the export of high-end technology equipment to Daheng, but they don't have to worry about this problem.
The Daheng Empire is far away from them, and there is a Kingdom Island in between. There has been no conflict of hatred in history, and there is no conflict of interest now.
On the contrary, when it comes to fighting against the Kingdom of Krul, they still have a lot in common with the Daheng Empire!
The hatred and direct conflicts of interest between the Krul Kingdom and the Varia Empire and the Kokel Empire are much greater than the hatred and conflicts of interest between the Krul Kingdom and the Daheng Empire.
In terms of historical hatred, the Kruls have fought many wars with the Varias and Kekels in history. Basically, they are like the Daheng and Orissa people, who have been fighting each other for hundreds of years.
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Decades ago, in order to compete for the international market, serious conflicts broke out in the colonies between the three kingdoms of Krul, the Valia Empire, and the Kokel Empire, which were the first to complete industrialization. Coupled with historical conflicts, this directly triggered the development of Krul.
A massive war between the kingdom and the Valia Empire.
In this battle, the Krul Kingdom Navy defeated the Valia Empire Navy with an absolute advantage, and then launched an undeclared war and directly attacked the Kekel Empire Navy. In the end, only the Krul Kingdom was left among the three major navies.
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This heralded the era of global domination by the King of Krul!
These hatreds are not much worse than the hatred between Daheng and the Orissa Empire!
In recent decades, the Varia Empire and the Kokel Empire have been working hard and relying on the advantages of the mainland countries and the Western Continent itself for development. Although they lag behind the Kruls in industrial development, they are not too far behind.
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These three countries are still the first echelon of industrial powers on Blue Star. The Carfia Empire, Daheng Empire, Orissa Empire, and Oran Kingdom that follow can only be regarded as the second echelon.
These three countries are also each other's biggest competitors!
Their conflicts of interest are almost all over the world, even in the Daheng Empire.
The Daheng Empire has vigorously promoted industrialization in recent years and purchased a large amount of advanced machinery and equipment from abroad, which has caused fierce competition among the three countries.
In recent years, the Varia Empire and the Kokel Empire have actually always attached great importance to the market of the Daheng Empire, competing for more orders for their own industry and commerce, but the results have not been great.
After all, the goods that the Daheng Empire now needs to import, in addition to some specialty products, are mainly high-end mechanical products, and in this regard, the products of the Kingdom of Krul have a great advantage.
Therefore, in the past few years, most of the Daheng Empire's high-end machinery orders have been taken away by the Kingdom of Krul, while the Varia Empire and the Kokel Empire have only received a small number of orders.
However, now that the Krul Kingdom has given up these orders on its own in order to defend against the Daheng Empire, they will naturally take the opportunity to eat them.
The Daheng Empire's business delegation was led by the Empire's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jiang Wanye, and included many senior officials from the industrial and commercial departments and the diplomatic department, as well as a group of hundreds of business representatives.
Some of these business representatives came out with the delegation and relied on the power of official negotiations to purchase advanced equipment, while others wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to open up the market and export their products.
After all, it is international trade. We cannot say that the Daheng Empire only imports but does not export. Otherwise, the Daheng Empire will not be able to balance the deficit of international trade.
Therefore, import and export are carried out at the same time.
Important export companies are mainly grain companies, petroleum companies, and mining companies. In addition, there are representatives of many large-scale textile companies, daily chemicals, and other companies belonging to private capital.
In addition, representatives from arms trading companies also accompanied him.
After all, although the main purpose of the mission is to go to the two major industrial countries of Kokel and Walia, the missions of other countries in the Western Continent will also make a round trip. For example, the Mongol Khanate will have to pay a return visit.
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The Mongol Khanate has ordered a large number of warships from the empire, with a total value of more than 50 million yuan.
The Daheng Empire is thinking that since it has begun, it must also fight for subsequent orders. The Mengol Khanate cannot just say that it will spend 50 million to build a navy and ignore it. It must be maintained in the future.
The fleet needs to be maintained and overhauled. Cannon barrels, shells, etc. can be purchased.
In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the fleet in the future, it is also necessary to continue to build new warships to replace the old warships.
Technology is advancing very fast these days, and these new warships will be obsolete in a few years. At that time, if the Mongol Khanate wants to maintain its combat effectiveness, it must either carry out large-scale upgrades and modifications, or simply build new ships.
This is all money!
However, the Mongol Khanate has been taking its time during this period and has not negotiated new warships for a long time. For this reason, the empire's arms trading company plans to pay a visit to remind the Mongol Khanate.
Their important rival, the Kingdom of Oran, has already ordered a batch of 350mm 30x naval guns from the Kingdom of Kruhl in preparation for expanding its fleet.
Several other neighboring countries are not idle either, and are all expanding their fleets.
So you, the Mongol Khanate, can't be idle. You see, do you want another battleship? If not, you can get a Bugir-class armored cruiser. Everyone who has bought this ship has said yes.
If that doesn't work, you can get a few second-class cruisers or large torpedo boats or something like that.
This business trip, in addition to solving the problem of importing high-end equipment, is also aimed at opening up the Western Continent market for domestic industries.
The Daheng Empire’s business delegation was traveling on the ‘Royal Princess’, the flagship cruise ship of the Daheng Empire Endless Sea Shipping Company.
As can be seen from the name, Endless Sea Shipping Company is another company that directly belongs to the Royal Assets Committee, or to put it more simply, it is an industry that belongs to Lin Shu, who is only a few years old.
In Endless Sea Shipping Company, when the eldest daughter Lin Shu was born, Lin Ziran transferred all the company's shares to her name. Later, when the company built a large flagship passenger ship, after applying, it was able to adopt the Royal Princess
No. this specific ship name.
This large ocean liner is indeed worthy of this title. The ship has a displacement of 11,000 tons and four huge funnels. Its speed is very fast and can reach 18 knots.
It is the largest, fastest and most luxurious ocean liner built by the Daheng Empire. Like other cruise ships, in addition to carrying passengers, it also transports cross-ocean letters and packages for the postal department. It is also called the largest contemporary passenger ship.
For the cruise ship's sake.
In addition to commercial factors, the Endless Sea Shipping Company of the Royal Assets Division also had certain political considerations in building the ship.
Before the unification of the Daheng Empire, the domestic vassals and towns were at war, and the shipping companies were scattered and weak. They basically only operated coastal shipping or inland water routes, and only a few shipping companies operated some ocean routes.
However, the ships used are generally small passenger ships of only two to three thousand tons.
The ocean passenger transport and ocean freight markets have always been occupied by foreign countries, especially the shipping companies of the Kingdom of Krul.
Even after reunification, the imperial shipping industry regained part of the freight market, but it has been difficult to regain the ocean passenger transport market!
It’s because the empire doesn’t have many large-tonnage ocean liners!
If you don’t even have a ship, how can you grab the market?