The Weapon Tycoon Who Traveled to Great Qin

Outside Karachi.

"Damn it. Our tunnel plan has been discovered." A lieutenant from the 5th Engineer Battalion crawled out of the tunnel and said.

"Boom. Boom." The sound of an explosion came from a distance. A place has collapsed. The situation looks very dangerous.

"Really." A captain of the engineering battalion looked at the smoke from the explosion in the distance.

"What shall we do next? With the strength of the two battalions, it is impossible for us to complete the possibility of taking the city of Karachi. You know, the city has at least 50,000 troops, and they are also equipped with artillery. Guns, I don’t know. Where did they come from?" The lieutenant crawled out and said angrily.

"I don't know where these things came from, but one thing is certain, that is, their condition is much better than ours, which is very unfavorable for us." The captain said helplessly.

"I don't know what's going on above. There is no meaning to shoot out reinforcements. If the Karachi launches an attack, we will be all over. We are engineers, not infantry." The lieutenant complained.

On the head of Karachi.

"It's very dangerous. If it weren't for your reminder, our defense would have been opened up by their blasting technology." General Hasi said to Zhang Si.

"It is indeed very dangerous. However, we still have no way to drive them away. If their threat to us still exists, it will still be very unfavorable to us." Zhang Si said.

"The Yue people have engineers, and we should also set up corresponding engineering units to deal with them. Otherwise, they will pose a great threat to us, which is still detrimental to us." Zhang Si said.

"You are right. But the threat from the engineers can be so severe, and we can also plant explosives under them, before our artillery poses a big threat." General Hasi said.

"Well. Well, we can give it a try, but we must be careful. If we are not allowed to take advantage of it, it will easily pose a threat to us." Zhang Si cautiously suggested.

The use of engineers poses a great threat to siege operations. This is the tactics of the Yue people. They use a large number of engineers to conduct siege operations. They have proven this many times. Now, they also have to deal with the Yue people in reverse. It is not clear to Zhang Si whether the Yue people will have countermeasures in this regard.

State of Zhao, Handan.

"The bond issuance situation is pretty good. I heard that the price of the bond, a bond that was originally a gold coin, rose to three and a half yuan. Such a price is really amazing." The Minister of Finance said to Guo Kai excitedly. To.

"Well, I see. Now when we are not speculative bonds, what we need is the funds that bonds bring us. Without these funds, we can't do anything." Guo Kai said to Guo Ming.

"It's true." Guo Ming nodded. Guo Ming, like Guo Kai, took bribes frantically, because the issuance of bonds has great benefits. The price of new bonds is very low, but the coupon yield is relatively high. Coupled with the operation of the old bonds before, many bankers are positive. The reason for bribing Guo Ming was that they wanted to underwrite more government bonds. They were very optimistic about the prospects of the bonds. Guo Ming couldn't afford to receive gifts.

The same goes for Guo Kai. The government has sold so many bonds and a large amount of fiscal funds are being gathered, but fortunately, winter is about to begin. They couldn't start work all at once, but if they couldn't start work, it couldn't be said that Guo Kai couldn't do anything.

Many former coal mine owners, as well as some factory owners, and bankers’ encouragement, began to actively establish construction companies because they wanted to contract government projects, including railways, highways, water plants, and some street lights. Construction facilities, the appearance of these facilities will bring great profits. In addition, cement factories, glass factories, and some steel processing will have great demand. Seeing such big business opportunities, many people are unable to take advantage of it. Living. They bribed Guo Kai one after another, hoping to get government orders or contract contracts. This is a huge temptation.

"The next thing is to consider the establishment of another department called the construction department. We will build railways and highways. They will build the buildings themselves. Anyway, I can't manage them." Guo Kai said.

"That's right. Prime Minister, now many businessmen want to actively carry out such things, but in terms of funding, do we give them further liberalization, or let the bank actively lend money. Because only when the funds are active, can we go further? Let’s start these projects.” Guo Ming suggested.

"Now that the bank has all the money to buy bonds, how much money they still have to lend out. This is unlikely." Guo Kai said.

"I thought of one thing." Guo Kai said at this time.

"Yesterday, Li Mu gave us a suggestion to the Prime Minister’s Mansion. He said that the armaments are outdated and need to be replaced. The quantity and quality of the artillery we produce is very first-rate. We can export to Qi and let the people of Qi sell these things. . In addition, there are also artillery factories established with the Qi people, and the Chu people can also. Let them export a large number of such weapons. The so-called cannon fire, gold ten thousand taels. Isn’t the money coming? Now it’s time to pay back in spring. It’s very far away. With this kind of time, we might as well let the companies make more money. If they have money, they will have the bank’s funds. Then we can make further loans. I think it won’t take long for the economy to rise all at once. Now." Guo Kai said excitedly.

"The prime minister is right. He is right." Guo Ming agreed.

"Okay. That's it. In this way, let them take action." Guo Kai said excitedly.

Yan State, in the residence of Prince Dan. Prince Dan is holding his cabinet meeting.

"The benefits of the Xiangping Iron Factory can only be regarded as a balance. The people of Zhao Kingdom can produce steel with technology, and we can only produce iron ingots. With these iron ingots, we can only produce some simple daily necessities, such as iron pots. How can these things make money?" Prince Dan said dissatisfiedly.

The way Yan Guo Xiangping’s enterprise operates is very complicated. There are government shares and private businessmen’s shares, but there are relatively few shares. In addition, there are some shares of the nobles of the Yan State. Then the people of Zhao State participated in some, and they all Because they owe money to Qin Guo, the relationship is very complicated, and the specific person in charge, Yan Guo, lacks sufficient flexible funds, and they cannot further introduce new technologies for processing, such as casting horse-drawn carriage parts, or It is cast iron beams. They do not have such technology. Even if they are manufactured, the cost is very high, and the profit is not as much as they consume. This greatly affects the further operation of the enterprise.

"However, there has been a recent payment item, that is, the price of this iron ore has risen. This iron ingot has also risen a bit." Prince Dan said.

"But this is not the way. We should think of ways to find more minerals and sell minerals. We must also have our own place." Prince Dan said.

"Prince, it's not that we are unwilling to do this, but because if we do, we still need a lot of government funds. Private businessmen do not have such a large amount of capital. First of all, the number of banks in Yan State is very small. Qin State Bank I don't think there is a big profit, so they don't do it. As a result, our situation becomes very passive." The Finance Minister said.

"This, it seems we need our government to do these things." Prince Dan said helplessly. Running a country is like doing business, and projects that have not entered will make them extremely embarrassed.

"Prince, our financial situation cannot support this. The only way is to borrow money. I just don’t know whether the Qin government will agree to this. It is the Qin government’s agreement to do this. We still need the bank’s method because we need to underwrite quite a bit. A lot of bonds, these bonds will bring us a lot of funds, but we can't find someone to take over." The Minister of Finance stood up and said.

"Bond?" Prince Dan asked curiously.

"Yes, bonds. Only with a large amount of bonds can we gather more funds and solve our current financial crisis. You must know that Qin State Bank has sufficient funds, but our situation is embarrassing." The Minister of Finance is embarrassed. Speaking of.

The profitability of Yan State is too poor, there are not many minerals, only iron ore, but very few people excavate. The mining efficiency is very low, and the projects only have some ordinary projects. These projects have been monopolized by some merchants and some nobles, such as the manufacture of paper, telephone poles, and some furniture and other light industries. In addition, there are some ceramics. This kind of ceramics is a very crude product, and only exists in Fangshan area. The use is also very limited. It can be said that they cannot tax further.

"This. Okay, let me think about it." Prince Dan waved his hand and said. Regarding Yan Guo's current financial difficulties, Prince Dan was aggrieved.

Tocharo, the border area.

"Is there any movement from the rest of the world?" Tocharo Defense Minister visited the border. A captain stood aside, he was the wisdom officer here.

"Reporting sir, there is no much movement from the rest of the people. They just sent some cavalry to scout. Our people can only hide and shoot to scare them to leave here." The captain said.

"Yeah. Very good, don't cause unnecessary trouble, you know?" the Secretary of Defense said to the captain.

"Yes. It's the sir." The captain hesitated, he didn't understand what unnecessary trouble was. But since the chief said so. He can only follow and execute in this way. The Secretary of Defense is very worried about the state of the border.

They got the news that the people of Qin had confirmed that there was a massive build-up of rest troops at the border of Dawan. He didn't know that this was a false news, but he let the Minister of Defense of Tocharo relieved, because this would show that they were not the main ones. The Dawan people are the main offensive target, and the Dawan people will bear a lot of pressure from the rest offensive, which is a good thing for them.

But this is not worthy of joy. Tocharo still has a big financial crisis. The parliamentarians are still unwilling to levy taxes. They hate war very much, but they hope to provide some weapons during the war to make a lot of money. Some smugglers have begun to become active. , They actively sold some muskets to the Dawan people. A considerable part of them are manufactured by themselves.

In order to avoid unnecessary troubles with the Parthians, the Minister of Defense can only allow the border troops on the border to exercise restraint and take frightening measures. They must also not conflict with the Parthians. Once they annoy the Parthians, they will re-choose the direction of breakthrough. Tocharo became extremely passive, because Tocharo refused to increase financial funds to increase military expenditure. Without military expenditure, their army could not be formed, and they could only rely on the limited army on the border to complete limited operations. This is the current situation facing the Tocharians.

Qin State, Xianyang. Inside the manager's office of a mineral exploration company.

"Manager, we found this in the Korean market." As a project manager opened his palm, there was a diamond in his palm.

"Diamond?" the manager asked in surprise.

"How can there be diamonds in Korea? It's impossible to have this kind of thing. Moreover, this thing is still in its rough state without any processing. Don't they know these things?" the manager asked curiously.

"This is what we need to pay attention to. We found these in their market, but some of them have already begun to process such things. I found out when I was on a business trip in Korea. I bought some myself, but I couldn't Further processing." The project director said.

"This is a major discovery." The manager nodded and said. As the demand for minerals increases, exploration and mining of minerals has entered a fiery stage. The use of explosives has made this kind of development active, but explosives cannot be used on a large scale anywhere. For example, in coal, Zhao Guoren’s crude development model requires a large number of slaves to complete such things. That’s because they have Goguryeo men. Those men are very good consumables. They earn extremely limited money, but they have to pay a price. Coal mine accidents happen frequently, but because the dead are Goguryeo people, they don’t attract attention. In places where there are still some equipment, such as when prospecting, some special drill bits are needed. The earliest Qin people used special metal drill bits. This kind of drill bits mainly used tungsten steel, but it is not easy to cause problems after a long period of exploration. Later, the Qin people found diamonds in the north, mainly from Siberia, but the number was relatively rare, because the Huns in the north could not distinguish the difference between the small stones at all, plus the vast area. The source can only become scarce.

However, with the recent increase in the prices of copper mines and other mineral resources, the main factors come from many aspects. However, the fundamental reason is that the demand has become extremely vigorous and exploration has become more and more, especially the demand for drill bits has become larger and larger.

"We need to figure out the source of these diamonds. If necessary, we can buy them from South Korea. Do you know who gave it to you?" Jing Yi wanted to ask.

"Well, what I know is that there is a fool who thinks they have found some crystal things. The crystal is glass in their eyes. They think it is a work of art, so they sold it to me. However, I don't Know where they are from?" the project director said helplessly.

"Oh. God, you should find out this matter as soon as possible, you must." The manager said in an unquestionable tone.

"Okay. I'll do it right now." said the project manager. He didn't know where this matter started. He didn't know that these stones came from the island of Sri Lanka. Because the islands there produce such diamonds, but most of them are diamonds. People only get them by accident and sell them as decorations. However, they are mistakenly sold by Koreans as glass products. This is a huge error. This kind of error led to the further occurrence of this situation.

In the north, the place where the Xiongnu tribe lives. In a simple house made of wood, there is a stove burning very hot, even though there is already thick snow outside. But the children are learning the knowledge from Teacher Qin Guo with dirty hands and eyes that look full of desire.

"They are studying very seriously." Zhang Mo said through the window.

"Well. With these teachers, the people in our tribe will not be so passive. They can recognize a few hundred words, which is very remarkable." Chief Mo said.

"Well. That's good. However, the conditions are still simpler. The fifty teachers who came, walked more than half of the time, and only these twenty people were left. They are still scattered in many such places." Zhang Mo was helpless. Speaking of. The salary here is not a lot. In addition, the place here is extremely cold. Many teachers are unwilling to come to such a place. Although there are some subsidies for special education, they still choose to leave without hesitation because of the conditions here. It was very bitter, and the professors were all ethnic minorities, especially the Huns. They doubted whether these Huns could learn this kind of knowledge, and all kinds of unfavorable conditions made them leave here.

"This is the situation here." Chief Mo said helplessly.

"However, the situation will get better a little bit, these children at least have knowledge, in the future they will have the opportunity to do a good job." Zhang Mo said.

"Yeah. But we still have very few economic sources here. If we can have a stable job, our tribe and other tribes can still live well. We don't want to be poor like this. I know that the South is very poor. With money, we don't want to go on like this. We hope that with wealth, we can make our own wealth." Chief Mo said in a very contradictory language.

"Well. I can understand what you mean. To make wealth, you should create wealth." Zhang Mo said.