Fish swimming around the world

Last time, after the two discussed, they decided to gradually intervene in shipping affairs. According to Jiang Fan's deployment, Ba Qing cleverly took advantage of the situation and successfully began to intervene in Zheng's business.

With the Dragon King's indulgence, rampant pirates, and obstacles set by the Chu government represented by Ding Shaoan, Zheng's maritime transportation was quite difficult. At this time, Ba Qing found a third party to provide them with a channel. This channel now makes the Zheng family overjoyed, but it won't take too long before it will become one of the ropes that strangle them.

Jiang Fan was amazed after listening to Ba Qing's detailed layout. It was really wonderful. It played a greater role than his original idea. He was worthy of being a genius in the field of practical operation.

Talking about these seriously, in fact, it is often more interesting than playing.

Jiang Fan made many suggestions on these three major items, and Ba Qing also wrote them down one by one, and also raised different opinions on some issues. Jiang Fan likes this kind of discussion very much. No one will be absolutely right, especially in business. Ba Qing's practical foundation is incomparable to himself, a theoretical expert.

Ba Qing also mentioned one thing. Now her personal industry has been integrated with Mount Li.

But in accordance with Jiang Fan's ideas, the most important cinnabar and mercury industries under his command try to supply the royal family and nobles as tools, and greatly limit the output of alchemy. Although this will undoubtedly reduce a lot of income, Ba Qing no longer cares about these, and also agrees with Jiang Fan that most of those who use cinnabar and mercury to make elixirs are some evil ways or alchemists seeking immortality.

But even so, Ba Qing still monopolized all the cinnabar and mercury markets in the five countries and firmly occupied the throne of the cinnabar queen.

Only in Chu, Xiang Chen and Ying Lu took the largest part of the profit, but neither of them was worried. They used this to open up more trade channels in Mount Li and had already made up for the losses.

As for the three key issues, as expected, they are production capacity, transportation, and safety.

The problem of production capacity mainly exists in three aspects: limited workshops, insufficient manpower, and inadequate technology.

Although the current Lishan has achieved assembly line operation, it is by no means industrialized mass production. Although the advanced tools made by the Gongshu family have greatly improved efficiency, it still relies more on manual labor. Therefore, many things cannot be accomplished overnight, and we can only push them forward as soon as possible.

Fortunately, the manpower will definitely be available within the next year. First, the empress moved a large number of people from barren areas. Secondly, Lishan has never stopped recruiting labor. Then because of the wars in the four countries, many refugees poured into the relatively peaceful Daqin. Under the promotion of the empress, almost all of them were supplied to Lishan.

There is no shortage of quantity, but the only shortage is skilled workers, and most of the time is spent in this regard.

The second big problem is about transportation.

This is directly subject to the transportation conditions of this world. It mainly relies on water transport and carriages. But the cargo capacity of ships in water transport is too low and the speed is very slow. The land transportation is roughly the same, mainly relying on carriages, the cargo capacity is also very low, and the road is simple, which is also a speed problem.

But these are not something that Qin can solve alone. Jiang Fan understands that no matter whether it is the improvement of vehicle and ship technology or the improvement of transportation channels, only when the world is unified can we really start a big plan.

The third problem is safety.

This is a key issue every year. Now Mount Li has completed its fortifications and a strict management system. Although the outside world has never stopped spying, with the Qin outside, the interior is completely closed, and a special management method is adopted, it is almost impossible to launch an attack that can shake the foundation of Mount Li.

In Mount Li itself, the biggest defense problem is probably the confidentiality problem, but fortunately, the assembly line operation and control system have effectively suppressed this.

The real trouble lies in the attacks outside Mount Li. Especially the security during transportation and outside the Qin forces. Last year, we talked about it. There are three major forces that are constantly attacking.

However, there has been a great improvement this year. After all, the three dukes and four marquises have been dealt with, and the Qin State has first cleared the big enemy. Outside of Qin, the four countries openly boycotted Qin, which is inevitable, but through many channels, Lishan products are still popular.

Among them, not only are there many forces such as Ba Qing, Jile, Nangong, Heifan, Cao Zijian, etc. operating, but also the trade treaties signed by Qin, Wei and Jin also play a great role.

And there is another important issue, that is, Lishan will adopt binding output under certain specific circumstances.

For example, when it really doesn't work, it will take out a special product and use its non-replicability and irreplaceability to open the market, but the condition is the binding of other products.

For example, through a certain way of turnover, it is secretly imported. After all, Lishan products are indispensable to many princes and nobles, and even they will help to find a way.

There are many similar methods, so I won't go into details one by one.

In a word, although facing the suppression of the state and aristocratic forces, because of the uniqueness of Lishan products and the sharp and changeable marketing methods, it is difficult for the four countries' market to resist this attack rooted in advanced ideas.

But the danger in secret is the most deadly. The two dark forces have never stopped attacking Mount Li, and even escalated, and many times turned into naked robbery.

Fortunately, the security measures have been continuously strengthened, and the agency plan formulated last year has achieved great results. Although this aspect is very annoying, it can still be resisted.

"According to Miss Shangguan's intelligence, one of the two forces is indeed organized by someone, entangled with all the opposing forces, and the spearhead..."

Ba Qing pondered: "It vaguely points to the imperial court."

Jiang Fan's mind moved slightly: "Is there any evidence?"

Ba Qing shook her head: "We have sent people to track them many times, and dug deep, and even captured many people alive. We found that they came from various countries and even different forces. The similarity was that they were all connected by a single line. After following the clues, we found that there was a hidden line pointing to a big man. Unfortunately, that person was very vigilant and his subordinates were also very powerful. The clues always broke when they pointed to a higher level. But there were several times when the highest instructions that could be found might come from the monarch. In this way, we judged that... there was a force behind the scenes higher than the monarch who organized everything."

Jiang Fan nodded: "Higher than the monarch, the imperial court can obviously consider it, but the evidence is not sufficient."

Ba Qing said: "The reason for this judgment, in addition to the overall situation, there was a clue that suddenly appeared, which allowed us to track down the Princess of Chen..."

Jiang Fan's eyebrows moved. The Princess of Chen was the one who wanted to kill all the people of the Ying family to avenge the Chen Kingdom, and was also the one in the imperial court who was very hostile to him.

"Is the evidence conclusive?"

Ba Qing said: "We found a secret messenger and followed the clues all the way. We could have obtained enough evidence. Unfortunately, at the last moment, the only clue was poisoned to death. Although we are sure that he met the Princess of Chen, we could not obtain evidence. In order to avoid inconvenience, we did not continue to dig deeper."

"You did it right."

Jiang Fan said: "The imperial court is very cautious now, and it is not easy to obtain evidence. It is wise for you to stop in time to avoid alerting the enemy. Report everything about this clue to me when you return."