Chapter 255： Ocean trade

After the army completed a new round of reorganization, it entered a state of rest.

It is impossible for any army to fight continuously, so the mental state of the soldiers will definitely go wrong.

No one can stand the continuous high-pressure life.

If it weren't for the need to rest, Dudor would not have returned to the north with his army last year, and he might just take advantage of the situation to calm the south.

Today, Dudor is also regretting this decision last year. He did not expect that Wu Changqing would suddenly rise.

Although Wu Jun's combat effectiveness was strong, the loss rate was always much lower than that of the enemy's, but in total, they had killed a lot of soldiers, which amounted to tens of thousands.

Those soldiers need to rest, and war supplies also need to be prepared.

In order to cope with the Battle of Jiujiang, the Weapon Workshop transported all the gunpowder and shells in stock. Now if there is another large-scale decisive battle immediately, they will not have so many gunpowder and shells.

Food needs to be stored, broken ordnance needs to be repaired, and some soldiers who are too seriously injured to return to the battlefield need to be resettled.

In short, there are many troublesome things.

For those soldiers with minor disabilities, Wu Changqing will arrange advanced literacy classes for them to learn some commonly used characters and to be able to read official documents.

These people can be transferred to grass-roots police officers in the future, or grass-roots officials such as village chiefs and town chiefs.

Wu Changqing would not allow the village to be in the hands of the gentry and landlords forever. He wanted to infiltrate every village and every corner of the country.

And this requires a large number of grassroots cadres who can read and understand official documents, are loyal, and have low salary requirements.

These slightly disabled soldiers are good targets. After the baptism of war and Wu Changqing's training, they will be more loyal to Wu Changqing.

Moreover, their salary requirements will not be too high, after all, they are physically disabled. It is already a great conscience that the government can arrange for them.

At least, it is a great conscience compared to other forces.

As for the severely disabled soldiers, those who have family members send them home to subsidize a sum of money.

Without family members, they are placed in a nursing home and supported by the government with money.

Although this is a huge financial burden, it is a super big way to buy the military's mind.

When Wu Changqing announced this series of regulations, the soldiers had spontaneously knelt down and shouted long live.

It is long live, not a thousand live. They all hate Wu Changqing as the emperor, because Wu Changqing can issue more decrees that are beneficial to them.

Where did the soldiers of this era encounter such a good ruler?

After being disabled, he can be supported for life.

This allows these soldiers to have no worries at all, and they can be more brave when fighting.

When Wu Changqing sacrificed this ultimate move, he almost no longer had to worry about being rebelled. Even if an officer wanted to rebel, his soldiers would not agree.

The war temporarily subsided, and Wu Changqing's focus returned to the economic aspect.

Having promised those benefits to those soldiers, he must find a way to earn more money to be able to do it.

Among the many memorials, he saw a secret report submitted by Qin Fen, which said that after Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian imitated him to start ocean trade, it had a little impact on Songjiang's business.

Originally, those Western European merchants had only Songjiang a choice, and Wu Changqing and the others could control the pricing power.

Now, those Western European businessmen have more choices. They can trade with Ningbo or Fuzhou.

Although the cost of goods produced by Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian is much higher than that of Wu Changqing, Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian are not as greedy as Wu Changqing.

Wu Changqing may have to have more than four or five times the profit, but Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian are willing to trade as long as they have one time the profit.

Calculated in this way, it is more cost-effective for Western European merchants to go to Ningbo and Fuzhou for certain commodities.

And this is bound to squeeze Songjiang's market share. After all, the number of foreign merchant ships that can reach China to do business today is limited. There are more ships in Ningbo and Fuzhou, and fewer ships in Songjiang.

Seeing this secret report, Wu Changqing was annoyed to fight.

Compared to Western European businessmen, they should be regarded as a group anyway, and they don't know unity at all.

As long as the prices remain consistent, Western European merchants have no choice but to be forced to trade with them and be made money by them.

But now, being engaged by Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian, not only can they not make much money on their own, but Wu Changqing's profits will also be affected.

Infighting always benefits outsiders.

Wu Changqing couldn't help but think of Japan's competition with China's textile industry in the later Republic of China, which also used its internal disunity to arbitrarily lower prices.

Wu Changqing was upset when he thought of this kind of thing that would rather be cheaper for outsiders and kill others.

If it were not for some influence, he would hate to send troops to the south now, first calm down the south and then talk about it. Keeping them will only become a stumbling block.

Fortunately, Songjiang has many unique products, such as matches, high-quality steel, and cheap cloth. Relying on these commodities, Songjiang is still the most prosperous port.

These are things that are very popular overseas, especially armors and swords made of steel.

Although muskets have been popularized in Western Europe, there are still many places in the world where cold weapons are still used for combat, such as the South China Sea, India, the Middle East, Africa...

In cold weapon combat, armor is very useful.

People with armors only need to protect their necks and heads when slashing, while those without armors must protect their entire body. Basically, an armoured army can slaughter an armourless army.

Jiangnan Iron and Steel Plant only needs one tael of silver to build an armor, while in India, such an armor can sell for 20 taels.

Things that can save lives are so valuable.

In places where silver is produced in Japan, it can even sell for thirty taels.

Its profits are too large for many people to imagine.

Ocean business in this era is so profitable, not to mention that Wu Changqing's products have unparalleled cost advantages.

Today, armor and swords have become their main export commodities, followed by cloth, ceramics, and tea.

Matches and cigarettes are also very popular, but few people can afford them and they are luxury items. So although it is also profitable, the market is small.

Unless Wu Changqing allows these commodities to be reduced in price, this is impossible. He will not reduce prices until local demand is met. Only when the domestic market is saturated, he will allow the price to be sold overseas.

What other commodities are especially needed by the West?

Wu Changqing couldn't help thinking about it. He needed to make more advantageous commodities to scrape global wealth and complete the accumulation of capital.

In the original time and space, the capital for the development of the industrial revolution in Britain relied on the slave trade.

At this time, the black slave trade in the West was in full swing. Relying on the slave trade, the countries of Western Europe are accumulating capital and wealth frantically.

Wu Changqing was not so cruel and couldn't do that kind of thing.

To complete the accumulation of capital, he can only rely on trade to scrape the wealth of the Western European world.

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