This time, the military purchase orders of Rome and Arab countries are quite large, and they are holding back their fire and fighting a big battle. They have to order a lot of swords, guns, bows, crossbows, armor, even muskets, artillery warships and transport ships, and even Dahua's various food cans, milk powder, meat floss, etc.

Rome Augustus Herak and Arab envoy Ottoman both attached great importance to this military purchase, but in fact, Dahua also attached great importance to it.

In fact, selling silk, porcelain, spices, and tea is not as good as selling arms to make money.

Although the profits of horizontal swords and spears are not very high, such as plate armor muskets, warships and cannons, they make extremely profitable.

For Dahua, a chest plate armor is actually very simple in manufacturing and the cost is even cheaper. However, in the eyes of Rome and Arabs, if this chest plate armor is equipped with the infantry, its combat effectiveness will be increased several times immediately. Even if they order the chest plate armor, they are reluctant to use it for infantry. This is intended to be used to equip a heavy infantry or even to elite cavalry.

After all, Dahua's chest plate armor is made of steel. It seems very thin, but it is extremely strong. It is many times stronger than their ordinary Suozijia.

They would not believe that such a piece of breast plate armor is actually much lower than that of Crazier, and it is easier to produce. This is an incredible thing for them to think of. How can steel plate armor be better manufactured and cheaper than Crazier?

technology.

The technology that Dahua has is beyond their imagination.

This technology is not a certain technology, but a technology of the entire industry. From mining to iron smelting, to steelmaking, to steel rolling, to hydraulic forging, every technology is an epoch-making new technology, and every technology has left the Romans far away.

Every new technology greatly reduces costs and saves time.

The steel-filled steel technology in the Tang Dynasty was already the top technology in steelmaking and forging weapons. The Romans had not mastered this technology, let alone Dahua's blast furnace iron and steelmaking technology. One furnace directly produced several thousand kilograms of liquid steel. The Romans had heard of this, but they had always been listening to it as myths.

A furnace of several thousand kilograms of liquid molten steel.

You know, they are still relying on hand forging and repeatedly forging the iron into steel. The only thing they can produce is a small piece of steel at one time. However, Dahua can directly charge several thousand kilograms of liquid steel in one furnace, and then they can directly roll the liquid steel into steel plate, steel ingots, steel blocks, etc. to obtain a rough blank, which is very convenient for processing.

Hydraulic forging hammers are directly forged and molded by hydraulic power to create a gorgeous plate armor.

A piece of chest plate armor can be at least ten times the huge profit.

These days, it’s not as good as making money by doing anything.

Although silk is also profitable, you need to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms, reel silk and weave a piece of silk, which has a long cycle. It is up to the whole people to raise silk and weave silk to form a huge silk output.

Silk is actually a labor-intensive industry and its added value is not high.

But the ordnance is different. Dahua's ordnance has unparalleled quality, price and quantity advantages. Looking around the world, no one can compare with it.

In this era, Dahua's military industry is definitely a high-tech industry, with a monopoly advantage of technology and a complete independent pricing power.

The added value of the product is quite high.

The Royal United Steel Company now has more than half of Dahua's steel production. Dahua's Ordnance Supervisor purchased steel from United Steel Company, processed and produced ordnance, and went in and out, from steel plates to chest plate armor, knight armor, lord armor, and even cord armor. If calculated by weight, the value of each kilogram of steel immediately increased by more than ten times.

Especially the full-body plate armor such as Knight Armor and Lord Armor have higher value. Lord Armor is even more expensive due to exquisite manufacturing and tailor-made factors, and the added value is increased by more than a hundred times.

But even so, it is still very popular.

Dahua's muskets and cannons are now very popular among both countries.

Because artillery is very sharp and fierce, whether it is siege, defending the city, or fighting in the field, Dahua used to ban the sale of these firearms from both countries, and at most it was given some as gifts. But this time, Dahua opened firearms for sale.

To put it bluntly, in fact, it depends on who will use the firearm.

For Dahua, there is no need to worry about imitating the muskets and cannons to the Romans and Arabs, because they do not have the technology now.

Dahua's cannons use cast iron cannons and cast iron cannon body technology. They are not of this level, whether it is cast iron or drilling. If they are imitated with bronze, of course, it may be possible to successfully imitate it, but without Dahua's technology, the output and performance cannot be guaranteed.

A cannon was cast for thousands of kilograms of copper, but it would explode if it could not be fired for a few cannons. It would take a long time to cast one, and it would not be able to form mass production capacity. Then, this kind of thing could not be equipped with an army except for decoration, and it would be useless.

And the firearm has the most important thing, of course, gunpowder.

First, they do not have the technology to produce gunpowder, and second, they do not have the ability to mine large amounts of saltpeter sulfur, etc. Dahua sells them muskets and cannons, and cannons to continue selling them ammunition.

"Do we still need to reduce the performance of this batch of ordnance, especially firearms?"

On the carriage, Speaker Xu Jingzong asked Zhang Chao.

In the previous several arms sales to Rome and Arabia, although Dahua did not sell firearms, it also sold warships, transport ships, weapons and armor.

Dahua has reduced some performance of these foreign trade ordnances.

It is a weakened version of the ordnance, whether it is armor, swords and guns, or warships, or transport ships.

The so-called foreign trade version of military industry is basically the same product, but the performance has been reduced.

For the same style of chest plate armor, Dahua uses sufficient materials and the best process. However, the exported chest plate armor is not that sufficient, and the weight alone is lighter. This reduces the materials and reduces the process, which greatly reduces labor and material costs.

Of course, the performance of such a chest plate armor has been reduced, but when taken out, it can still be very satisfied with the two countries.

"Exporting weapons must be considered at reducing costs, and the quality is too good, so how can this transaction last for a long time?" The second minister Chu Suiliang said with a smile.

Speaking of cheating people, none of the monarchs and ministers on this car are easy to match. Anyway, even if Dahua's ordnance is reduced by one or two levels, it is still far beyond the self-produced countries and still has unparalleled competitiveness.

"That is, the price we quoted, they can't stop laughing at the time when they can buy such weapons. The firearms are getting more and more careful. We have to keep one hand in hand to prevent these people from selling them to us at that time and deal with us in turn. Especially this Arab, we have a lot of borders with them. It can be said that the three directions of Arabia are bordering us. I always think that we will start a war with them sooner or later, so we have to be more careful in advance." Fang Xuanling also supports arms sales, but he always believes that the expansion trend of the Arabs in recent years has been very fierce.

He believed that the Arabs were by no means good. Now they wanted to compete with Rome, so they compromised with Dahua. But there were too many borders between Dahua and Arabia.

After the Arabs annexed the Persian Sassanid, they now border the Daxia territory and the Hezhong territory in the east and north, while the northern coast of the Red Sea and the Caspian Sea junction in the northwest.

Both are considered superpowers, with such a long border line, conflict is a matter of time.

Fang Xuanling even proposed to implement early policies, joining Rome and others to destroy Arabia first, and divide the old lands of Arabia and Persia with Rome. Even after destroying the Arabs, Persia, which supported a puppet, was stronger than it is now.

However, Zhang Chao did not agree to this proposal in the end.

In Zhang Chao's opinion, there are actually many places around Dahua that have not been cleared, and even the Western Regions and Xindu are not yet stable.

At this time, it is not wise to rush to start a full war with an emerging empire like Arabia.

First of all, even if Dahua has a strong army, it is very difficult to send troops to fight and supply at such a long distance. Secondly, war will affect Dahua's foreign trade.

The most important reason is that Zhang Chao feels that Arabia is indeed very strong now. This emerging empire has extremely strong combat power. It is very unwise to fight with him now. If he cannot defeat Arabia in a short period of time, then the Great Hua Empire may fall into the quagmire of Central Asia.

Zhang Chao believed that he could not defeat Arabs in a short period of time. Since that is the case, let’s change the strategy.

It would be great to let the Arabs fight against Rome with confidence, and Dahua sold arms behind them and continued trade at the same time.

As for whether the Arabs would become powerful, destroy Rome and then turn around to advance east, Zhang Chao would not consider this for the time being, because Rome is not so easy to destroy.

Rome is equivalent to the Great Hua in the East. It is not a single battle. It is the only empire in Europe. The Roman emperor was the sect leader of the barbarians in Europe. Rome still had some appeal in Europe, and the expansion of the Arabs would not receive the support of the barbarians.

Sitting on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, cheering on the way, selling some arms to help you liven up this is what Dahua should do.

"We sell muskets, artillery, warships, transport ships, if they want, we will sell them, but as Fang Gong said, we must reserve them and give them the foreign trade version. In terms of performance, it is enough to cut by 20% or 30%. As for the price, this is the only super weapon, so we must demonstrate the status of these firearms in price."

"Our Dahua's ordnance has always been the best, so the price must be the most expensive."

Zhang Chao's shameless words were deeply recognized by all the officials of the prime ministers.

"We must also hurry up on the matters of the concessions. Since we have obtained so many concessions, we cannot leave them empty. We must establish these concessions and make them our overseas bases, or even money trees. In this way, the court will arrange them and recruit directly, plan the various concessions, and then recruit business groups to build and develop."

"These concessions recruit merchant groups to develop, and they will be fully developed according to the regulations of colonial companies. At that time, one-third of the taxes will be paid to the court. The developed companies can have all the same powers of the colonial companies, can own troops, and can have administrative and judicial powers."

Rome and Arabia each gave Dahua thirteen concessions. The place was far away and the court did not have so much energy to develop at the same time. Therefore, Zhang Chao still planned to use the method of colonial companies to manage and develop these concessions, recruit merchants, and ask them to pay some money to the court, and then they could be authorized to develop these concessions. The concessions were equivalent to colonies owned by these companies.
Chapter completed!