The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor
Chapter 553 Money is rolling in
Chapter 553 Money is rolling in
Pig iron was a scarce resource in the Han Dynasty. It was not that iron ore was scarce, but that private circulation was scarce.
The government has set a limit on how much pig iron the merchants can sell, which means that even though the merchants know that iron is profitable, they are not qualified to get more iron resources.
As long as the court does not delegate power, their profits from selling iron tools will come to an end.
Although now a hole has been opened in salt, allowing many businessmen to profit, the price paid is only to pay more taxes to the court and enrich the national treasury.
But just this slight leak from the imperial court has already made many businessmen salivate.
But this is not enough. Many big merchants in the southeast are still not qualified to sell salt. Their relationships are not strong enough. They cannot reach people in the court and cannot obtain the right to sell salt.
It wasn't until the day of Shangyuan in the first year of Zhenghe that a South Vietnamese businessman approached the Lin merchants in the southeast to discuss cooperation.
Pig iron sales!
Hearing this, the Lin clan members were trembling with fear. This was not a small business. It was illegal to sell pig iron privately in the Han Dynasty.
However, the other party's words silenced Lin. Isn't smuggling illegal?
Yes, this group of businessmen in the southeast are no longer satisfied with domestic interests. Although the relationship between Dahan and North Korea and Japan is hostile, the more so, the more they can smuggle goods and make more profits.
It's just that this behavior is illegal.
But what are you afraid of? With such a huge profit, even if it is illegal, they will still do it!
Of course, the 'South Vietnamese' didn't force Lin. It didn't matter if they didn't do this business. There were too many businessmen in the southeast, and he wasn't the only one who wanted to cooperate.
The 'South Vietnamese' approached four or five merchants respectively. They didn't have so many worries. They knew how much profit pig iron could bring.
The other party even said that if you want wrought iron, that's fine, but it's just more expensive.
This kind of business cooperation can earn enough profits, even if you don’t care about your life, you should do it!
Moreover, such a large stall in the southeast cannot be investigated by just a few imperial censors sent by the imperial court. The forces here are intricately intertwined. Last time, the imperial court also sent people to investigate smuggling, but in the end, they returned without success.
The Southeast Lin family felt the crisis now. It turned out that they were still too conservative. Without saying a word, they immediately found the "South Vietnamese" to start a pig iron business cooperation.
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Nanyue, Southeast City, Sang Hongyangjiang and Dahan Southeast pig iron business were analyzed.
It's just the beginning now, but it has been agreed. According to the market price in Dahan, pig iron will be delivered at 100 cents per pound and wrought iron at 300 cents.
They can own an iron mine and develop it continuously, and they don't know how much money they can get.
Everyone has been worried about the lack of money in the Northeast City of South Vietnam before, but it seems that they are no longer worried now. With a steady stream of money coming in, it is not a problem to continue to develop weapons and armor.
Gongsun He and the others are still thinking of ways to promote the construction of the South Vietnam port. This port may be useless now, but it will be of great use in the future.
Wei Ningze and Lu Chongguo are developing new weapons. The existing Han weapons were developed by Weining. There seems to be no advantage in using the weapons owned by the Han to fight the Han.
Tanks and the like are too ridiculous. According to current science and technology, there is no technology that can support the development of tanks.
But the red cannon is not impossible.
When Weining informed Lu Chongguo of his idea, Lu Chongguo was shocked!
It was really hard for him to imagine and follow Weining's thinking. Cannons... fired at long distances. He understood this concept, just like a catapult.
But there is no need to manually launch it, it can be launched by igniting a fire, and the iron ball rushes to the designated position and explodes... Putting this series together, Lu Chongguo found it incredible.
"Your Highness, how do you ignite and fire?" Wei Ning looked at Lu Chongguo and said earnestly: "Lao Lu and muskets can achieve this. What we need to do is just use bigger muskets."
That seems to be the case.
Craftsmen still know the core technology of muskets.
"Then how do you make the iron ball explode?"
Wei Ning said: "Where is the thunder? Didn't it explode automatically?"
"We just combined the musket and the thunder, which doesn't seem too difficult to understand."
When Weining said this, Lu Chongguo's thinking suddenly became clear. It seemed that this was the case. Technically speaking, this was not unbelievable.
Of course, he only figured this out after Weining solved his doubts.
Of course, the red cannon cannot simply be understood as a combination of fire gun and thunder. There are many key technologies in it.
This was not a difficult task for Weining. He exchanged system points for the technology to develop the red cannon, and handed the disassembled blueprints to Lu Chongguo.
Lu Chongguo was once again shocked beyond measure by Weining. He really couldn't imagine how Weining did it. He just proposed a concept and the disassembled drawings were handed over to him the next day!
This is simply evil!
Regardless of his shock, Lu Chongguo handed the drawings to the craftsmen and asked them to make them as quickly as possible.
Now that there is a large amount of pig iron in the Northeast City, and the iron smelting technology and workshops are mature, it is not difficult to build a red cannon.
Try one by one, even if you fail, it's just a waste of scraps.
This money may be valuable in the eyes of businessmen, but it is not money at all in the eyes of Lu Chongguo. Northeast City lacks everything, and the most indispensable thing is pig iron!
During this time, Northeast City was silently developing new weapons.
The territory of Han Dynasty was also quite uneasy.
The Detective Division hidden in various parts of the Han Dynasty discovered an unusual scene. South Vietnam began to steadily transport iron into the southeast of the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious when he heard the news.
He immediately summoned six ministries from three provinces and held a court meeting.
According to Liu Quyou's intention, all these merchants should be caught in one fell swoop, which was also in line with the psychology of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
But Tian Qianqiu felt it was inappropriate. From an economic perspective, these businessmen had gained a lot of benefits, so he could find a way to get them to cough up more money, and they would also willingly pay more taxes to the court.
Liu Quya felt something was wrong. Pig iron could be used to make armor and weapons. If someone organized a rebellion in the southeast, how would he deal with it?
Tian Qianqiu believes that the imperial court should focus on developing the economy as its top priority now. The pig iron may not be used to make armor weapons, so just let the Detective Department monitor it.
To put it bluntly, if you want to completely put an end to this kind of thing, it doesn't mean that if you kill one or two businessmen, no one will do it.
The merchants in the southeast are intertwined, and they are all involved. If you dare to touch the merchants in the southeast without full confidence, once the commercial tax revenue collapses, it will be fatal to the big man.
Rather than doing this, it would be better to fatten up these merchants and wait until the territory of the Han Dynasty is completely stable before taking away these fat sheep.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was still thinking about one thing: how did South Vietnam discover pig iron? Who is doing this pig iron business?
Without understanding this matter and the purpose behind them, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could not sleep or eat well!
(End of this chapter)
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