The Weapon Tycoon Who Traveled to Great Qin

State of Zhao, Handan. Guo Kai's Prime Minister's Mansion

"Qi people's appetite is not small." Guo Kai said while looking at the telegram in his hand.

"Prime Minister, I think we must agree to this matter," said the bank minister on the side. Zhao Guo has a special bank minister. In fact, he has a wider jurisdiction. For example, the stock finance matters are under his control. As for bank management, it is more symbolic, because it is Qin Guo who actually controls Zhao Guo Bank. Banks and Zhao State’s major banks all have Qin State Bank holdings. Therefore, his bank minister is actually more of an idle job. But this is understandable to him.

"The prime minister, our current factory conditions all need to be further expanded. For example, the price of coal is rising, and now there are more and more requirements for workers. For example, your technology must be very mature and you need to be more skilled. Skills. If there is too much time to work overtime without processing, the workers can no longer bear it." said the bank minister. As for the processing of overtime at the Zhaoguo factory, the bank minister is aware of it because of the use of new technology.

Some factories have used electricity as a new power source for driving. The use of motors has made it more efficient. The speed of workers has not been able to keep up with the speed of machines. In addition to the large number of orders, many factories have to work overtime. All of a sudden, the physical and mental health of the workers has been greatly challenged.

The bank minister believes that this is a technological revolution. The technological revolution has brought about a substantial increase in productivity. However, most of Zhao’s technical equipment is outdated, and once overtime, workers’ salaries will not increase much. It will reduce their efficiency a lot, but the cost will increase a lot. Therefore, the only way is to use more machines, reduce the use of personnel, and open these old equipment or other factories to other places. In fact, this is a kind of capital expansion, a transfer of capital production methods. The introduction of high-end technology and the release of low-end technology.

In Zhao Guoren's view. Qi has such advantages. First of all, their labor costs are relatively low, and they have a large amount of labor. The second is that their industry is relatively backward, and although Zhao's technology looks a bit backward, there is room for improvement. At the same time, this is advanced enough for the people of Qi. Finally, Zhao's technology also needs to expand, and they need to convert these technologies into funds. It can be said that Zhao itself has its own financial needs. And Qi State is such an investment place.

"You mean, Qi is the place where Zhao Guo will invest in the future?" Guo Kai asked, touching his chin. When thinking about problems, I like this kind of action, because it can give full play to my intelligence.

"Yes, Prime Minister, in this way, our technology can become shares. If the shares become listed stocks, then we sell them for cash. In that case, wouldn't it be that we made a lot of money." The other party said excitedly .

"Yeah." Guo Kai said, patting his thigh. He felt that what the other party said was very reasonable.

"We Zhao Guo should indeed need to expand. I have received a lot of reports. It is said that the efficiency of some factories and the products produced can no longer be very profitable. With taxation, I think it should be possible to do so. "Guo Kai said appreciatively.

As the cost of coal increases, especially the price increase, of course. There are fewer coal mining slaves. The country of Yan also needed slaves to mine iron ore, which led to the increase in the price of Japanese slaves. Coupled with the development of silver mines in Qi, fewer and fewer Japanese slaves came to Zhao. As a result, the price of coal can only continue to rise. Finally, it had to become a cost issue, because the steam engine consumes a lot of coal, and the rise in coal prices has to increase the operating cost, and the cost rises, but the price of the product has not risen, because the technical content of the products they produce is not Very high. As a result, rising costs crush less and less profit margins, which is a disaster for them. Finally, they had to plunge their production into a huge cost war.

And if you want to expand further and give such enterprises the advantage of survival, the only way is to transfer to regions with cost advantages. For example, Qi has such advantages, and some coal has also been found in Qi. If you add their transportation. They have advantages in the cost of overseas transportation, and these are all favorable measures for Zhao Guo to transfer heavy industry.

Chu's armed merchant ship "Beauty." They are anchored on the coast of Sinai Peninsula today. They finally reached the area they wanted to reach, but they were still unfamiliar with it. As for where to reach, where there were ships, there were ports, and there were merchants, they didn't even know.

"Where is this?" Captain Mao Bei asked Huang Shan on the side.

"Hehe, I don't know about this, but what I know is that we have finally arrived on land." Huang Shan said optimistically.

"This place, look at this place, there are deserts everywhere, no people, nothing. This. How could there be people. Are we wrong? Or else, let's go and see elsewhere." Mao Bei Speaking of worry. He didn't know if he had arrived in the legendary country of love. Anyway, there are deserts everywhere, it doesn't look like it.

"I think we were deceived. In such a place." Mao Bei said worriedly.

"Well. Now that we are here. It's better to wait, maybe we can meet some caravans, they can help us solve this problem, and the Persians help us, go ask Aser, maybe Aser can Help us." Huang Shan said. Huang Shan is very optimistic. In his opinion, since they can reach the land, they can naturally discover something. In fact, they have reached Aiji when they come here, but they are still some distance away from the prosperous big city. , These distances made them feel a little disappointed, after all, they arrived here with hope.

"Perhaps we should look for it in other places. If we can find a city with a small port and find people, we can solve all the problems." Mao Bei said.

"Well, I also suggest that we give it a try. After all, there are not many opportunities like this." Huang Shan compromised. He is now eager to find someone, as long as there is someone, he can solve all the problems.

Over Dawan. The modified reconnaissance airship is light and fluttering. They don't spend too much time in the air. They can carry four five-stone bombs. The effect of such bombing is usually not good, but fortunately, the Peacekeepers have no air defense awareness. Therefore, at the beginning of the bombing, they can also blow up some targets, such as the opponent’s logistics warehouse, and some military camps, etc. It also requires that the other party is not aware of the dangerous targets appearing in the air before it can be achieved.

"Sir, the situation today is very bad." The bomber said helplessly. They dropped the bomb on the logistics warehouse of the Parthian. They saw something like large tents. They thought they could give it a try, so they threw it down. After all, they are not professional bomb-dropping airships, and they have not received such training. Therefore, the bombs thrown are more to kill some hapless resters. Whether they can hit the target depends on their luck in the day.

"Did you not hit the target?" Hu Lin asked.

"No, sir, we are a reconnaissance airship, and it is already a very good thing to be able to drop bombs. These things should be handed over to the bombing airships of the sky army or the army aviation, and let them do such things. After all, we are amateurs." The bomber said helplessly.

"Such things have been done. Forget it. Let's go on doing it, but our bank should still take a look, pay attention to the ground conditions, and pay attention to what we have detected." Hu Lin said. Their mission is to bomb, but Hu Lin thinks they should do something they should have done, such as reconnaissance.

"Sir, I saw a large group of cavalry, they seem to be marching, the target seems to be the south." The bomber said with a telescope.

"Well, record it." Hu Lin said. This was an accidental reconnaissance situation, but unfortunately, their bomb was dropped prematurely. And their accuracy is very poor. But being able to get such a news also made them feel very excited. After all, they turned out to be reconnaissance.

Inside Meng Tian's headquarters.

"Sir, this is a piece of news we got when we returned from the bombing of the reconnaissance airship. A brigade of cavalry went south." The staff officer said.

"What's their purpose, do you say?" Meng Tian asked whether this information was true or false or whether it had been verified, but asked such a question after it had existed.

"This. I'm not sure, after all, the cavalry going south. Their intentions." The staff officer said in confusion.

"Tubao. It's here. There is an important point of our logistics contact. As long as we occupy there, the logistics supplies of the Second Infantry Division and the First Infantry Division will be completely cut off. In this case, the purpose of the rest is nothing. It can be achieved." Meng Tian said.

"What did the sir mean?" the staff officer asked.

"Yes, their strategy is brilliant. They know that if they are simply defensive, they will definitely not be able to stop the northward support, but if the supply line is cut off, the Dawan army will collapse. In that case, who will benefit from the situation?" Meng Tian asked.

"The rest man," the staff officer replied.

"Yes, they are very smart." Meng Tian said.