The third year of Dahua’s revival, the first month.

Farewell to the old and welcome the new, and spring returns to the earth.

Hanjing is also entering the most lively time of the year. This year is the year of the imperial examination competition. Tens of thousands of scholars flocked to Hanjing. The countless local dynasties and princes from all over the world that had arrived before the New Year made Hanjing extremely crowded.

The merchants even rushed to the capital, just like the people from the countryside came to the city to go to the market.

From the night of the lunar calendar, the annual Lantern Festival in Hanjing began. Various lanterns were hung in front of every household, and on the streets, there were lanterns, colorful.

Several special lantern night markets are also full of various lantern buildings and lighthouses with magnificent momentum.

Even the emperor took his concubines to take a light cart to explore the night view of the lamp market and have fun with the people.

Fireworks bloom in the night sky, and fire trees and silver flowers bloom in the sky all night.

Dances of dragons and lions, and jugglers from all over the world also arrived in the capital before the New Year. During this Spring Festival, they performed in the streets, which made the envoys and merchants from foreign countries amazed and lingered.

"Rome and Arabs both requested the establishment of a concession in Hanjing, and the cabinet had already refused the Honglu Temple." The cabinet prime minister and the emperor were sitting in a gorgeous float, which was filled with various colored lights, and the entire float was a dragon.

In addition to the cabinet prime minister, there are also the President of Hanlin, the two Speakers of the Parliament, as well as the Director and Privy Council envoy of the Censorate. It can be said that the most core part of the Dahua court is in this car.

Zhang Chao asked them to come and have fun with the people.

But Ma Zhou is a person who can't rest. Even if Zhang Chao usually asks him to walk with him, he always takes the time to report to the emperor for advice. Now it is no exception.

Xu Jingzong, the president of the House of Commons, said disdainfully, "These Western barbarians really dare to think about what the concession is? This is the territory of other countries. Our Dahua can establish concessions in Rome, Arabia, Frank, Aksum, Khasa, Gothic and other countries. That's because they have something to ask of us, but how can our Dahua let them establish concessions on our territory?"

Although the concession is also beneficial, no matter what, it is also on the territory of other countries. If other countries are allowed to establish concessions on the territory of Dahua, then Xu Jingzong believes that this is a loss of power and humiliation of the country.

The Honglu Temple is equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Dahua, and they are basically responsible for diplomatic matters. After asking for instructions from Rome and Arab countries, they immediately refused the concession requests made by the Cabinet.

"It's not uncommon for them to have this idea. After all, Dahua has set up a concession in their place. But the cabinet's reply is correct. We can set up a concession in their place, but they are not allowed to set up a concession in our place. Tell them, hasn't Dahua already asked them to set up an embassy in Hanjing, Dahua, and to have them set up a consulate in other cities?"

The embassy and consulate are actually the territory of other countries in Dahua. In the embassy and consulate, they are equivalent to their own territory, but this territory only has one house.

Dahua has now set up embassies in other capitals of various countries, and has also set up consulates in some important cities. The purpose of setting up embassies is to maintain contact with various countries, obtain the latest news from various countries, and establish a communication channel.

At the same time, Dahua's foreign trade is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more Chinese businessmen doing business overseas. Dahua has great commercial activities in many countries, and the embassy is also a channel to maintain the interests of these overseas Chinese businessmen. Of course, the embassy and consulate are also responsible for intelligence collection and other tasks.

Now Dahua has obtained the right to build a concession in Rome and Arabia, which means even greater. In the future, Dahua will use the concessions of these important cities as its base camps in these two countries. Dahua can also send troops to protect Dahua's merchants and safeguard Dahua's interests.

On the other hand, after these concessions were established, business development would lead to Dahua’s tax collection in the future, which was also a large amount of income.

As the concession develops and the number of military and police increases in the future, Dahua even has the ability to interfere in the local situation. This is also helpful for Dahua.

Anyway, the concession is actually no different from the colonies. If we talk about the difference, it is too difficult for Dahua to obtain a colony in Rome and Arabia, and he will inevitably provoke a war.

Especially it is even more impossible to establish colonies in important cities.

But if the seizure is turned into rent, the situation has completely changed. The concession itself belongs to various countries, but it has been temporarily brought by the Dahua Concession. However, the lease period is long, and after the lease is rented, although they only set a piece of vacant land on the edge of important cities for Dahua to develop, with the attractiveness of Dahua's foreign trade goods, the concession will soon become a prosperous and become an important market.

The development of the concession will receive local support, and it will also have many benefits for the current Romans and Arabs.

But Dahua doesn't need this, nor will it let go of the concession.

In essence, the concession is still part of power.

Now no one can force Dahua to open up the concession, even more so, Rome is not good, and Arabia is not good.

"This time, the cabinet will be quicker with the loans and military purchases between Arab and Rome. After the New Year, the Dahua banks and the Dazhuang Group will hold a loan talk." Zhang Chao instructed Ma Zhou.

Dahua has already gained experience in lending foreign loans.

Instead of directly using the treasury money to borrow money, they summoned Dahua's private capital to allow banks and big merchant groups to contribute funds. The money was not directly contacted by banks and merchant groups.

It is led by the court and finally formed a loan committee to concentrate the money of each family and then lend it to the two countries. The court will send people to participate in supervision throughout the process and be responsible for subsequent matters. For example, the two countries use concessions and tariffs as loan collateral, but the court cannot allow banks to go directly to the two countries to divide the area or take over the tariffs.

The concessions and tariffs will be taken over by the court.

To put it bluntly, the whole process is actually a bank and consortium that pays the money. The money is controlled by a committee led by the court and sent by the bank and consortium that participates.

The court guarantees that the money can eventually recover the principal and interest.

There was an imperial court operating in it. For various banks and consortiums, it was just an investment. They borrowed money and then recovered the principal and interest in installments, and eventually got the interest.

After all, the loan amounts of the two countries are large and the interest rates are not low. This large loan has a large repayment guarantee, which is quite cost-effective for trading.

The court did not lend directly because the amount of loans was extremely large, and the court did not do business such as deposit and loan than banks.

Of course, although the imperial court did not lend directly, the royal Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the imperial Minsheng Bank would definitely become the leaders of lending by various banks and consortiums.

"I know there is no problem in raising money. The two companies want a lot of money, but for Dahua, this little money is nothing. Each company can get it together. We even have to make some restrictions, so that a certain bank or consortium cannot pay too much money, and it will be evenly shared with the rain and dew."

Zhang Chao looked at the beautiful fireworks rising after the sky and talked leisurely about state affairs. "First establish a loan committee, then an arms sales committee, combine the orders from the two countries, and then conduct an order bid. Bid the orders of these ordnances, warships, etc. so that they can get the best quality ordnance in the shortest time and at the lowest price and successfully complete the order."

Now the imperial court often bids for supplies publicly, and even requires local governments to purchase them in this way to make them more open and transparent and cost-saving.

Although Dahua's military-industrial system is dominated by state ownership, it has now relaxed restrictions on the princes in various places. Even some private merchants can participate in the upstream and downstream affiliated industries of the military industry.

Even if it is the manufacturing of armor, artillery, warships, etc. owned by the Dahua court military weapons supervisor, many of the raw materials, parts, etc. of these ordnance warships are not completely produced by themselves. Now they adopt subcontracting strategies and open bidding. Whoever has the lower cost, faster production capacity, and better quality will use whoever has the best.

Under this system, Dahua's ordnance ensured that the core equipment production technology was in the hands of the court, but after the upstream materials and some parts were released, it greatly improved the production capacity and efficiency, and even saved a lot of costs.

Especially now that Dahua has launched foreign trade and military-related goods sales, Dahua's military-industrial production continues to be booming. The court only retains the most core parts and opens up many non-core parts outsourcing them to the private sector, which makes the court's military-industrial and foreign trade profits boom, and also allows many private businessmen to enjoy this dividend.

Zhang Chao always believed that if the imperial court controlled the upstream and downstream of the military industry system, it would be too large and difficult to manage and the cost would increase greatly. It would be better to only control the most core part, which is conducive to management and cost control.

Arabia and Rome are both competing to buy Dahua's ordnance, why?

First of all, Dahua's weapons are indeed of good quality, sharp swords and guns, and strong armor. Especially Dahua's sailing ships, they cannot even imitate them.

On the basis of good quality, Dahua's military ordnance has many advantages, such as high output and low price. The production capacity and efficiency of Dahua's military industry are really something that no country can catch up with. The ordnance produced under a large military system like Dahua is even embarrassed to be expensive in Dahua's own eyes, but in the eyes of Rome and Arabs, it is too cheap, especially in such a large number of cases.

Good quality and low price!

Anyway, they cannot have such production capacity and cannot keep the cost so low. In this case, both the Romans and the Arabs began to give up on production by themselves and instead chose to buy from Dahua.

After all, buying from Dahua is both cheap and large in quantity, especially the ability to deliver equipment quickly and borrow money to buy it first. In this case, why do they have to work hard to produce it themselves?
Chapter completed!