"Do you know the details of the military confrontation?" After finally knowing some news, Zhao Qi asked hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, I'm just listening to the words of the merchants who are traveling on the sea. I really don't know the details!" Cheng Xishou shook his head and said.

"Oh, now that Liaodong is in turmoil and has been cut off by land, it is difficult for *** ginseng, Beizhu, and Harrier Eagle to enter our country. You can take a trip to *** when Fusang returns. When the Jurchens are poor, they will definitely go to *** for transactions.

, The price will definitely be very cheap. Let's buy some, as long as it can be shipped back, it will be more than ten times the profit!" Zhao Qi was a little disappointed, but he also saw the business opportunity.

"The prince's order, we must collect more when we return next year!" Cheng Xishou was also happy. Although this prince was young, it seemed that he was not an outsider in business.

"It might be too late at that time. When you go, you can send someone to the *** to buy it first. When you return from Fusang, the goods are ready and you can return home quickly. Otherwise, it will be delayed until July and August and will be launched on the sea.

Storm, that's dangerous. It's better not to do this business!" Zhao Qi smiled and said.

"What the prince said is that the young man has received teaching!" Cheng Xishou replied hurriedly.

"Don't be reserved. I don't know much about these things. I also need to make arrangements by you experts. But next year our fireworks workshop will need a lot of sulfur. You must transport some from Fuso. If the price of copper is right, you can also buy some back.

, In addition, people in the *** are arranged to inquire about the situation in Liaodong and see how they win or lose. We can also make some money from it!" Zhao Qiong said with a smile.

Next, Zhao Qi asked about the fleet and business matters, and Cheng Xishou also talked about his experiences in a foreign country, and the atmosphere became warm. "When you see the joy, bring the things I prepared for Manager Cheng!"

"Yes, Prince!" Jianxi agreed and took out an exquisite box and handed it to Zhao Qiong.

"Shopkeeper Cheng, you have been walking on the sea all year round. These two gadgets may be used!" Zhao Qiong opened the box, took out the objects inside and said, "This is a thousand-mile mirror, you can look at the scenery in the distance, this refers to the north

The needle can tell the direction!" He said and handed it to him.

"Thank you, Prince!" Cheng Xishou said flatteredly. He took it and said, fiddling with it but didn't know how to use it.

"Xifu, take Manager Cheng out and teach him how to use it!" Zhao Qi smiled and called Xifu, asking him to lead Cheng Xishou to study. His skills were not great. Cheng Xishou came back and knelt down when he entered the house. "Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

The prince gave me generously, these two things can be said to be life-saving treasures, and the little one is loyal to repay the prince!”

"Shopkeeper Cheng, there is no need to be too polite. I have already ordered you to customize three large ships worth 2,000 hu. Next year, you can go to sea on a new ship. As long as you do your best, I will not treat you badly!

"Zhao Qi helped him up and said.

"It's hard to repay the prince's kindness for being broken to pieces. I heard that the prince's mansion has started school. My two boys are already at the age of enrollment. I also asked the prince to take it in and let them gain more skills!" Cheng Xishou said, and the prince said.

When everyone talks about this, I have to reassure the prince, so I simply send my son as a hostage.

Next, Zhao Qiong met with the leaders of the three caravans, Sun Erqian, Liu Song and Zhang Que respectively. According to their performance, the prize of the prize was another threatening and tempting, and then the

They assigned next year's mission, and they had to use any means to get back 500 horses that meet the standards of war horses in the mansion, and they could not ask for those who had undergone sterilization!

In the next few days, Zhao Qi was busy meeting with the owners and managers of restaurants scattered around the country, organizing them to visit and study, allowing them to see the good situation in the mansion, understand the current task, understand the prince's painstaking efforts, and finally eat together.

I let them go back after the reunion dinner.

After sending these peripheral personnel, it was already the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. There was a certain rule in the mansion. Everyone in the mansion had already received welfare bonuses, and the workshops also paid wages and rewarded workers. They took the New Year holiday to go home for the New Year, but this year's special

The staff members who were responsible for maintaining public order in previous years also had a holiday this time and were taken over by the royal guards. Zhao Qiong followed the customs to visit the poor and inquire about the suffering of the people, hermits, and those who lived here were visiting the scholars, hermits, and those who retired.

The veteran cadres and sent them condolences.

After all this, it was New Year's Eve. All the people in the palace gathered together to celebrate the Spring Festival, but this year there was more family. These days, as the prince's teacher, he attended almost all the meetings and attended the palace.

As the head of the mansion, I watched him command and handle all the affairs in the mansion in an orderly manner, not like a child at all, and everyone dared not treat him as a child, but now I look at myself.

The student "no matter how high and low" played with the servants, eunuchs, and even the children of the servants in the mansion. He suddenly felt that he didn't know how to view the prince. He thought about Huang Jingchen's conversation with him, and felt that he was also

I understand a lot, and it seems that I should put myself in the right position and make some adjustments to my education methods.

...

After the Spring Festival, Zhao Qi first went to the North Mansion to preside over the gun-teaching ceremony for the recruits, and then bombed them all into the wilderness northwest of the horse farm for live-fire shooting. Equestrian training has gone. Now there are too many people, so I won’t be able to train in the mansion.

'Wolf' is attracted, and there are too many people now, confidentiality is also an important aspect. He doesn't want them to go public. Gao Chong is now learning literature from the prince every day, and his butt is so itchy that he can't sit still. Zhao Qi simply hangs it up for him.

After taking the title of Chief Director of the Society, I went to train the Society. He came from a family of military generals and learned a lot of theories with He Qufei. He happened to teach the Society's personnel to arrange troops and arrange troops, even if it was an internship.

Zhao Qi took the time to take stock of his belongings. Now he has accumulated nearly 10 million guan of gold, silver, copper and fixed assets, and more than 50,000 stones of grain, which is considered a rich man. But he entered his private warehouse and transferred it.

The military workshop only produced more than 500 muskets in more than a year. He trained the seed troops and scrapped more than 50 guns. The rest was just equipped for the recruits, and the inventory was almost

Zero, the accumulated bullets are only more than 10,000, and the recruits will probably see the bottom after the training.

After the formation of the personal guards, Zhao Qiong also made a report, requiring the distribution of weapons and armor according to the organization. The Ministry of War was not bad. He allocated weapons and armor for him according to the highest configuration, but Zhao Qiong was depressed at a glance, and everything was

It's a good thing, but unfortunately I can't use it myself. We need to be short, mainly ring-headed swords and short axes, and long-range weapons are mainly large guns, iron axes, iron rods, iron poles, and long-range weapons are of course bows and crossbows.

The main thing is that there are more arrows, and Zhao Qiong didn't recognize it. The armor is an infantry armor, that is, scale armor, iron, strong enough, and the weight is not light, it is more than fifty pounds, which requires

Wearing the chasing enemy, if you can't run for ten miles, you won't need to fight with the enemy. You're exhausted. It's no wonder that the Song Dynasty won many defeats, and it's rare to wipe out the enemy. The horse harnesses were not given at all, and the imperial guards and horses were not even horses.

Riding, that thing is not in stock.

Looking at these things, Zhao Xiao was so angry that he could wear clothes. The clothes were so bad that he was wearing them. Now he was seriously inadequate. He bought them all together and was only enough to maintain normal training. The subsequent quilts and hoods required were also needed.

It is not a small amount. A leather garment factory must be built so that it can ensure supply and accumulate. The production of fine iron in the smelter has now reached a bottleneck, which seriously affects military production. If you rely on purchasing and supplementary services, you are worried that the quality will not meet the standards and will affect the arms.

The quality, and subsequent short weapons and saber production all require a large amount of fine iron, which also needs to be expanded and increased manpower and cannot wait any longer. Who knows when the war will break out?

In addition, bullets also require a lot of copper, sulfur, and tinder. These are all things that burn money. They also need to be purchased in large quantities and maintain a certain amount of inventory. At least they must withstand the consumption of a medium-strength war... Do you want the cannon?

To build, whether machine guns should be made, special forces should be formed, and intelligence personnel should be trained. Zhao Qiong listed a large number of things to do, and he had to do everything, and he had to do it.

Military is the top priority at the moment, just like North Korea's "first-military politics". Zhao Qiong and the general managers of the two major companies held a meeting. While maintaining normal production, they should give priority to supplying production materials from the gun shop and also use machinery.

The excellent craftsmen in the workshop have drawn a group of strengthening the production force of the gun shop, and the vacancy here is filled by the students who graduated from the school. At the same time, the revolver that the gun shop has been trial-producing began to produce normally, and then they found a few of them from the craftsmen.

A good player, assisting the prince in developing new weapons.

As for the relatively simple bullet production process, it mainly relies on the production of fireworks workshops. Zhao Qi asked them to achieve the annual production capacity of 200,000 bullets to ensure the needs of training and inventory. The leather factory was immediately put on the agenda.

The factory was built and recruited workers, and required to be put into production in the middle of the year, and 500 pairs of saddles and leather armor were produced by the end of the year, and provided to the personal guards for use.

Of course, the economy cannot be relaxed, this is a strong guarantee of the military. Due to the emergence of "copycat" agricultural machinery, the agricultural machinery workshop products are unsalable. Zhao Qie decided to change his strategy and adopt price reduction and promotion methods to regain the market.

, squeeze out those counterfeit products.

The glass workshop improves the process, appropriately increases manpower, and uses mold blowing, which can not only simplify the process, but also reduces the dependence on technology, and greatly increases output. However, domestic sales are strictly controlled, and most of the products are used for export trade, and maintain

High profit. The winery is not worried about selling wine, but also needs to increase production. These two profitable products are used to subsidize the workshop's losses, maintain military production, and support his seed troops.

Classes have to be held during the day, and meetings at night to arrange and supervise production to handle big and small things in the mansion. They also need to review the training plan for recruits, worry about their military training, and train guards. Zhao Qi kept spinning like a perpetual motion machine. Sometimes he really wanted to
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