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"Hurry up and move everything on the ship!" the merchant shouted happily, while the crew members still maintained a high degree of vigilance. What they thought should happen didn't happen. On the contrary, what they thought shouldn't happen happened. This businessman actually made his first sale here
"Hurry up!" the businessman shouted again hastily. At this time, the crew members realized that the first slave exchange business in the colonial era was completed.
The practice of merchants exchanging developed and civilized handicrafts and industrial products for slaves is indeed a clever approach. First of all, it stimulates the entire production demand, because this has such a far-reaching and continuous stimulation of production demand that it can promote industrial development.
Secondly, they have developed a new market based on the needs of the entire industry. The demand of the entire market is not very large from the current point of view, but it is indeed a market, and the entire market needs to be viewed from the perspective of future development. The demand of an indigenous market is not It is very big, but if there are more such markets, the demand will be much greater
The last point is that businessmen avoid the use of force, which is a simple single method of violence. Force brings only brute force, and the merchants of Chu State use commercial methods to make this force brute force flexible and flexible. Chu State businessmen can get what they want. In fact, wars often broke out between the Vietnamese and other indigenous people in the south. Such wars will inevitably lead to the existence of a large number of prisoners of war. This is a potential supply demand.
On the other hand, when merchants from the state of Chu can take the opportunity to return, they sell their slaves to the state of Qin, and after getting the money, they quickly buy some commercial supplies and return to the natives by boat. In this way, a good business cycle is formed. The profit earned will be more than [-]%. It can be said that this is a profiteering industry, and the huge vibration brought about by this profiteering industry will bring new changes to the future development.
The individual actions of Chu merchants found a big market, but the struggle between Chu and Qin over the Yangtze River became very fierce.
"Block them, don't let them come over, hurry up!" a soldier of the Chu State Navy shouted loudly. The sailor was standing on the boat and shouted loudly.
"Get out of the way, hurry up and get out of the way!" Qin's armed merchant fleet shouted arrogantly with a loudspeaker
"We are the ships of the Qin State, get out of the way!" The armed merchant ships of the Qin State shouted extremely arrogantly and loudly also began to ignore
The reason why Qin's armed merchant ships did this was because they showed various dissatisfaction with Chu's taxation. After approaching Chu's horses, under normal circumstances, Qin's armed merchant ships could not approach Chu's horses because Chu's The waterline of the horses is generally very shallow because they are all wooden hulls, while the Qin State has iron-clad hulls, so the ships of the Qin State can only rely on small boats to transport their goods to land.
But in this way, the state of Chu has an opportunity to take advantage of. Qin's armed merchant ships cannot provide effective protection for its own small boat transport team. At the same time, the local small ships are unwilling to deal with Qin. The situation of Qin's armed merchant ships is very bad.
In addition, the local officials of the Chu State deliberately made things difficult. On the issue of taxation, the local officials of the Chu State are probably the first to use local trade protectionism. They actively levy high taxes on the merchants of the Qin State. There are so many names that the Qin State merchants are not willing at all. Doing business in Chu State, on the contrary, although Chu State merchants also collect taxes, compared with the high profits they get, they are quite easy. This comparison naturally arouses the dissatisfaction of Qin State merchants.
But the businessmen of Qin State are not the kind of people who are slaughtered by others. They began to actively think of ways. With a strong martial spirit, Qin people first thought of brute force. They began to directly confront the local government of Chu State. They deliberately began to avoid Chu State. The local government's taxation is similar to today's smuggled imports
They actively look for people like local ruffians to organize small boats to complete transactions on the water, and those ruffians are still happy with such harvests. The purpose of Qin people's money is to let them help them sell their goods and at the same time they can sell money Qin merchants The price given was far lower than the price that Chu merchants themselves imported from Qin.
As a result, goods from Qin State flooded the local market of Chu State almost between yiye. This impact is cheap and high-quality goods with dumping characteristics. In order to make a quick profit, they always leave the goods at a low price. This impact is very obvious.
That is to say, the goods of Qin State between Yiye and Ye are flooding the entire local market of Chu State
"Look, this is the mirror on the surface of the water in Qin State. It looks exactly the same and it's not expensive. It's only three Chu coins." A man with the appearance of a local ruffian whispered to a passing farmer.
"Enhao" the farmer also loves touching the mirror
"Three Chu coins are a bit expensive," said the farmer
"It's not expensive, only three, you need ten over there, it's not as bright as this big one," said the hooligan
"En" the farmer nodded, so he began to take out coins to exchange. At this time, Chu coins are far more expensive than Qin's half taels, and the exchange ratio is between [-]:[-] and [-]:[-]. The economic strength of Chu State lies here, and Chu State’s economy is still relatively strong in lixing. The circulation of its own currency is not very large, which makes Chu State’s currency far more useful than Qin State’s half-two coins in the local area. Although Qin State The half taels of money are also circulated in some places in the Chu State, but compared with the Chu State as a whole, the amount of circulation is simply incomparable.
The deal was completed quickly, the peasants were satisfied, and the ruffians got their own money at the expense of the interests of those Chu merchants. This situation will not happen for long.
Soon the local government officials of Chu State discovered what was wrong with Qin State, and they began to actively arrest those smuggled hooligans
"Stop" a person who looks like a head catcher from the local government of Chu country appeared and discovered the gangster who had just completed the transaction. The whole process was caught by the head-like person in his eyes, now it's time to make a move
"Stop" Hearing such a voice, the ruffian ran away
"Huh la la" the goods in the hooligan's arms fell all over the ground, but the hooligans didn't care about them at all. They still ran away crazily and quickly caught their heads, but they couldn't chase them, because these hooligans didn't know that it was difficult to hide there and catch them.
"Follow me." The head catcher turned around and took away the peasants. The things on the ground were snatched away by the Chu people who came and went. Just such a thing happened. Such things often happen in Chu State. As long as there is Qin This kind of thing keeps happening where the country armed merchant ships
The umbrella of the merchants of the Chu State is the local government officials of the Chu State. The income of those officials is supported by the taxes of the merchants. The merchants of the Qin State are so daring that they do not pay taxes. What is more serious is open force against the tax officials of the Chu State.
The local zhengfu officials of Chu State naturally don't like them. They naturally like those obedient Chu State businessmen. Not only the interests of Chu State businessmen are damaged, but also the interests of Chu State officials are also lost.
In this way, the local government officials of Chu State and the merchants of Chu State began to fight against the armed merchant ships of Qin State with all their strength. It is also the case that the Chu State Navy also entered. The addition of the Chu State Navy Army made the problem begin to become complicated
The water army of Chu State was also in a two-sided situation. Among the corrupted water army, the sailor soldiers even participated in smuggling activities. This situation forced Xiang Yan to vigorously rectify the Chu State water army. The new water army began to replace the old water army. military
However, Qin State's armed merchant ships relying on their own iron-clad ships are not afraid of the Chu State's navy at all, which naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Chu State's navy, especially the new type of navy, which intensified the conflict between the two sides. The joining of the interests of the merchants of the state of Chu gave the Chu state navy a legitimate reason to deal with the armed merchant ships of the state of Qin.
"You are carrying weapons through the waters of Chu State. This is against the laws of Chu State. Now you have to stop the ship for inspection." A junior officer of the Chu State Navy shouted loudly.
"Hmph, what are you kidding?" Qin Guo's chief mate sneered.
"We carry weapons. We are originally armed merchant ships. There is no way to stop the ship." First Officer Qin said loudly to his own people.
"Order our people to fire and shoot to show them some color," Qin Guo's first officer ordered, and Qin's crew actually agreed, and they didn't think about the consequences at all.
"Chu chu chu chu" equipped with a large number of machine guns, the armed merchant ships of the state of Qin used the machine guns to start sweeping crazily. They were making noise to check the ships of the Chu state's armed merchant ships. The ships of the Chu state's water army were not only wooden, but most A boat like a small boat is simply powerless to resist
"Oh" a Chu State sailor let out a scream, he was shot
"Ah" Then there was the junior officer who was shot in the arm and blood kept gushing out.
"Crash over" At this time, the first officer directly issued such an astonishing order, and the sailors of Qin State rushed over directly in their boats.
851 hit the next plane
Boom. There was a loud sound. Qin's armed merchant ship rammed and sank the boat of the Chu State Navy's law enforcement. However, the Qin State's armed merchant ship did not take any measures. For example, rescue Chu who fell into the water. The soldiers of the national water army. But the state of Qin did not. The traditional treaty on the surface of the water has not yet been formed. Moreover, the scale of the entire surface war is not very large. Compared with the scale of the entire land, it is nothing at all. The war on the water has not yet get enough attention.
The line of sight turned to the besieged Qin army again. The difficulty of the besieged Qin army began to decrease, and the difficulty of the rescued Qin army began to increase.
Ding ding ding. The sound of jingling sounded in the Qi army's position. Originally, this sound of mingjin was specially used to withdraw troops. But. Now, it is updated as soon as possible. It has become an air defense alarm sound. The sound is extremely sensitive. In the past, when they heard this sound, they would turn around and leave the battle immediately. But now, this sound has become unlucky.
Damn it. Another air strike. The soldiers of the Qi army cursed loudly. They immediately jumped into the trench they had just deepened.
Hurry up, everyone hides. A Qi army officer shouted loudly. The Qi army soldiers have already moved early.
And in the air, the aircraft of the Qin Kingdom's Heavenly Army is already on standby in the air.
Buzzing. Qin's four planes circled like eagles in the sky.
A Qin pilot pointed down with one hand and then waved his hand. The people behind watched the gesture of the person in front and understood the command of the lead plane.
The aircraft of the Qin State Army cannot be dispatched on a large scale at one time. It is not just a logistical problem. There is also the possibility that large-scale dispatch of aircraft may lead to a stagnation of air support. Not every aircraft is likely to take off quickly. Therefore. The Qin army could only send a small team of planes to bomb every day.
Qin’s aircraft used four planes to form a squadron, three squadrons to form a squadron, and three squadrons to form a battalion. When forming a formation in the air, the Qin army usually dispatched four planes together. But it is different from the latter The mature two-aircraft formation is different. Qin has four planes. Only one is the lead plane. The rest are all wingmen. Such a formation makes Qin's planes suitable for bombing, but not for combat.
Because one person needs the cooperation of three other people. This makes it more difficult to cooperate with the aircraft. The worst thing is that four aircraft seriously lack certain flexibility. Such a configuration is not a clever tactical arrangement. But... it needs to be pointed out One point is that the Qin army is in the sky. It has almost no opponents. This kind of army without opponents naturally grows slowly. And it leads to the fact that the center of gravity of the Qin army's heavenly army is not in the air. It is on the ground. Their priority is not Destroy similar aircraft and airships in the sky. What needs to be destroyed is the target on the ground. What kind of demand will naturally lead to what kind of supply will be provided. Update as soon as possible
Woohoo. Then the plane flew straight down. The lead plane meant to lower the altitude and perform a horizontal bomb drop. The four planes behind quickly followed up. They had already learned how to cooperate with the lead plane in combat before taking off.
Whoop, whoop. The three planes behind also began to lower their altitude. They dropped bombs.
Hide quickly. A soldier of the Qi army ran over from the trench. A soldier in the trench was sticking his head out to check the planes in the sky. The number of air strikes by the Qin army began to increase. As long as the weather permits, the Qin army The planes come every day. And every time they come, they will drop bombs. Then they will leave after a sweep. Although the effect is not very great, it makes the soldiers of the Qi army very frustrated. Especially the daily bombing of the Qin army. It made the soldiers of the Qi army feel a kind of exhaustion. They were very tired of this evasive behavior.
Don't die. The Qi soldier said with a pull.
Can those birds in the sky be shot down? The Qi soldier said.
Don't think about it. People are flying in the sky. We are all running on land. Run quickly. After speaking, the soldiers pulled the Qi army soldier back.
Humming buzzing. The plane has levelled. They're dropping bombs.