A certain prince purchases at least 200,000 barrels of oil from Shaanxi every year, worth one million taels of silver.
In order to relieve the pressure on the household department, they were all purchased in the name of Imperial Oil Company.
If it is needed for border security, the company will sell it to the Ministry of Household Affairs at a low price, and the Ministry of Household Affairs will then allocate it to the Ministry of War.
In order to keep the refined oil refining methods confidential, the refined oil products are monopolized by Imperial Oil Company.
In this field, except for a certain prince's own fairy-level chemical industry, there is no competitor regardless of scale.
Huang Taiji spent a huge sum of money to secretly purchase a hundred barrels of airship fuel, but only with the consent of a certain prince did he get what he wanted.
Including the favor fee of 50,000 taels, the total cost was a huge amount of 150,000 taels.
This is a high-tech weapon that can fly. Naturally, the fuel cannot be as cheap as the ammunition of other firearms.
If you want to play, you have to spend more money. As for the effect...
A certain prince just wanted Huang Taiji's heavenly soldiers and generals to fly into the air, and then shoot them down one by one with anti-aircraft cannons. How fast it would be~!
Since both the Ming and Qing Dynasties were preparing for war, the arms race had entered a white-hot stage, and the South needed more.
A certain prince decided to increase Chongzhen's oil purchases for fifteen years to 400,000 barrels, which meant Zuo Maodi pocketed two million taels of silver.
On the one hand, it is to meet military and civil needs, and on the other hand, it is also to consolidate the situation that Shaanxi has already calmed down.
If possible, an additional 100,000 barrels will be added, and flying cavalry will be sent to deliver the letter to Zuo Maodi before New Year's Day.
The silver needs to be escorted by an army, and it will probably take two months to arrive, but it will never be paid on credit.
The Yanchang Oilfield had erected a derrick the year before last, and the kowtow machine had already been transported there and was operating normally.
With the help of semi-modern machinery in oil extraction, it is not difficult to achieve the goal of doubling production.
There are also oil wells in Sichuan, but the production is too low and can only meet the local demand in Sichuan.
Except for Sichuan, the entire Ming Dynasty almost relies on the Yanchang Oilfield for its oil consumption.
Therefore, this unique giant oil field is the top priority of defense.
A certain prince told Zuo Maodi before he took office that even if Chang'an was lost, Yanchang could not be lost.
There were not too many cities like Chang'an in the Ming Dynasty, but also not too few.
But Yanchang Oilfield is the only one in Ming Dynasty!
Anyone who dares to throw it away will be dipped in oil by a certain prince and lit as a sky lantern!
Yanchang and Yulin are both located in northern Shaanxi. Yulin is training intensively and has enough troops to guard the oil fields.
If the military situation is urgent, tens of thousands of regiments can be temporarily recruited to train and assist the army in defense.
As long as Yanchang Oilfield and Yulin Coal Mine continue to exploit, the poverty situation in northern Shaanxi will be greatly improved within five years at most.
The imperial court provided millions of taels of silver to support the government through the Ministry of Household Affairs, and a certain prince asked the Imperial Oil Company to provide no less than a million taels of silver each year.
Either I am incompetent, or the money has been divided up by the moths below, those are the two possibilities.
The latter is the most likely. A certain prince originally gave Zuo Maodi Shangfang a sword. Anyone who dared to commit crimes from the civil and military officials below him would be killed first and then punished.
In the first year after taking office, Zuo Maodi killed more than 80 people. This has not been uprooted, so it can only serve as a warning to others.
In the second year, over a hundred were slaughtered, and in the third year, a hundred and fifty were slaughtered.
Before and after, no less than 4,000 family members were sent to mine.
The reason for the increase year by year is that the imperial court sent too much money, and these moths couldn't control their mouths and began to eat as much as they could.
One of them is in charge of northern Shaanxi, and the other is in charge of the overall situation in Chang'an, which reduces the situation that Zuo Mao, the first man, is unable to do anything at all.
As long as there is no more chaos in Shaanxi and the Great Northwest does not hold back the imperial court, a certain prince will have no worries and his chances of winning against the Emperor Taiji will be much greater.
Spending huge sums of money to purchase oil every year is not a loss. In addition to hoarding supplies for war preparations, basically defenders everywhere need oil to stabilize city defenses.
With hundreds or thousands of barrels of oil, Huang Taiji's braided soldiers did not dare to approach easily before they demolished the city wall. Otherwise, whether they were generals or minions, they would all be turned into barbecue!
Refined oil products are in short supply, and kerosene used for lighting accounts for more than 95% of total sales.
Even Ma Shiying, who was setting up a team training program in Guizhou, asked someone to order a thousand oil lamps from a certain father.
Because this and other novelty products are good things to win over the local indigenous bosses.
Ma Shiying was in Guizhou, and Duke Mu Tianbo of Guizhou was in Yunnan. Both of them were expanding their armies with the permission of the imperial court.
It's just that the former is a group training, and its combat effectiveness is at most a minion soldier, while the latter trains regular troops, and its current strength has reached 10,000 people.
Why can Mu Tianbo enjoy special treatment from Xun Guili?
A certain prince had previously granted permission, and Mu Tianbo was ordered to expand the army.
After a certain father saw what happened in the "Curse Water Disaster", he became even more furious, and even read between the lines, intending to conquer it himself.
When fighting against the Donglu, a certain father believed that he could not match Huang Taiji in terms of martial arts.
But to deal with the Burmese bumpkin king, a certain father felt that he still had a good chance of winning!
Emperor Yongli died in Burma. Although it was Wu Sangui who did it, the country king did a lot, especially killing all Yongli's men.
For this kind of hatred between the country and the family, a certain father-in-law, who had been electrocuted by a certain prince and awakened, believed that he must avenge, and the blood debt must be repaid with blood!
The entire territory of Myanmar was considered to belong to the Ming Dynasty, and later it acquiesced to the expansion of the predecessors of the country king.
In the end, I failed to raise a white-eyed wolf that came back to bite Lao Zhu's family!
This kind of thing must not be treated as if it never happened!
Although the Ming Dynasty's situation with braids has improved after several wars, it seems, maybe, it will almost not be wiped out quickly.
However, if Burma should be attacked, we should still fight it, and we must fight it hard until it is destroyed!
Considering that a certain filial son has a lot of military points, it is very possible to buy Min Xin.
A certain father also planned to gain some martial arts achievements by recovering the Ming Dynasty's southern homeland.
Before that, we still need to save more money and food. If we send out troops, they must be mainly Yunnan-Gui people who are familiar with the climate and terrain of Myanmar.
This is the reason why Mu Tianbo and Ma Shiying were able to train troops according to the order. The troops were mainly composed of Mu Tianbo's regular army, supplemented by Ma Shiying's chieftain regiment training.
When the training ground for combat troops in the south is almost complete, and a certain filial son in the north regains the lost land in Liaodong, then a certain father and emperor will go there with 10,000 elites.
If possible, Qin Liangyu's white pole army will also be recruited to accompany him. This can be regarded as one of the five main forces of the Ming Dynasty King's Division.
Not only does it maintain a high combat effectiveness all year round, it is also the only force that focuses on mountain warfare.
A certain father's initial plan was to use more than 50,000 troops, combined with airships and various artillery, to regain the lost territory in the south.
However, a long-term plan is needed at this time. Huang Taiji and his braided soldiers have always been Ming Dynasty's number one confidant.
Before the homeland of Liaodong is recovered, it is impossible to open up another battlefield.
Otherwise, there will be two bottomless pits of military spending, and the household departments on both sides will be dragged down by military spending.
Where there is money, there are people who give money.
The "Ming-Dutch Friendship and Trade Treaty" signed between a certain prince and Putmans has shown great benefits over time.
In the year of the signing of the contract, there were as many as fifty-two Dutch merchant ships docking at the designated ports of the Ming Dynasty, and they were not empty ships. They were fully loaded with rice, spices, seeds, and high-grade wood needed by the Ming Dynasty.
Dutch merchants can obtain tea, silk, and porcelain from southern ports, which are currently the most popular oriental commodities in Europe.
From Denglai and Tianjin Port in the north, you can get a dazzling array of new products, including the unique snowflake candy in the world.
Commodities such as pencils, soaps, toys, sofas, toilets, etc. are all in short supply.
Some curious Dutch businessmen even arrived in the capital from Tianjin, wanting to see with their own eyes this legendary and prosperous oriental city.
After entering the city, I was stunned by the scene in front of me. This place is more than ten times more prosperous than Amsterdam, with a huge flow of people coming and going.
After entering Qianqi Department Store, faced with a huge amount of products, I almost didn’t know what to buy...
After Putmans signed the contract, he wanted to pawn all his clothes in exchange for money to buy novelty products.
After he returned to Batavia, his advice to his business friends was: take all the money you have, and if possible, borrow some more, the more the better!
Many people dismissed this suggestion, thinking that Putmans was exaggerating, and perhaps accepted the other party's benefits when signing the contract, so that he could speak for the Ming Empire.
But after seeing the goods loaded in the cabin of every warship in his fleet and studying them carefully.
Everyone came to a completely unanimous point of view, that is - the commander was right!
If it’s not true, then why does everyone still want to add snowflakes to their coffee?
From this point of view, it doesn't matter if we lose the trade routes of the Japanese Empire. With the newly opened routes of the Ming Empire, we can make more than ten times more money than before.
In the words of the prince of the Ming Empire, Putmans was the first to eat crabs.
There was no need to transport the goods to the mainland, and they were carved up by a group of merchants in Batavia.
Some businessmen who did not get the expected share also felt that Putmans still had some goods that had not yet been sold.
Within three days, the merchant ships and warships in the Batavia port were all ready to set sail.
In order to avoid having an empty ship when we went there, we also specially consulted the commander.
After loading enough goods needed by the Ming Empire, they set off happily.
The fact that the Ming Empire was able to lift the maritime ban and allow both sides to trade was great news for every Dutch merchant who owned a merchant ship.
Everyone has been waiting for this moment for so long, and now it is finally here.
The unhappiness of losing the territory of a large official was immediately wiped away by the huge profits brought by trade.
Even the supreme council must obey the drive of interests.
In front of tens of millions or even tens of millions of silver coins, the small and big officials are not worth mentioning at all.
In the past, the cooperation between the East India Company and Zheng Yiguan was very unstable, and the goods purchased were also very limited.
Many businessmen were skeptical about direct cooperation with the Ming Empire.
But Putmans' triumph undoubtedly marked a new and good start for both parties.
Putmans had to embark on this old road again because he was sold out of all his goods by merchant friends in Batavia in a quasi-robbery manner.
Relying on his personal relationship with the prince of the Ming Empire, Putmans was full of confidence in the second shipment.
If the Bohai Sea freezes, it will be difficult for the fleet to reach Tianjin. It will either have to dock in Dengzhou, or it will have to go to the port under Zheng Yiguan's jurisdiction, or to many ports in the south of the Ming Empire.
The goods stored in Dengzhou are usually transported from the capital to Dengzhou via Tianjin Port before December of the Western calendar. The open sea here will not be frozen and trade can be carried out all year round.
If you cannot catch up this time, you will have to wait until the end of February next year, after the Bohai Bay thaws, before the route from Batavia to Tianjin can resume normal operation.
Putmans came to Denzhou with fifty-two merchant ships, which may not seem like a lot, but this is almost all the merchant ships that the East India Company currently operates in the waters north of the Philippine Islands.
If it hadn't been reported in advance, the Dengzhou defenders would have thought that the Western Yi were coming to attack the city when they saw the huge armed fleet...
There are not many commodities stored in Dengzhou, which is far from meeting the needs of the Dutch fleet.
To make it fair, Putmans divided all goods into fifty-two portions.
After the benefits are shared, everyone has no objections.
Waiting here for three months is undoubtedly a waste of time and a waste of business opportunities.
The fleet could only go south to Qiantang to purchase tea, porcelain, and silk from there. After all, the trip was not in vain.
By the time we returned the next year, the fleet had expanded to nearly two hundred ships.
Even boat owners operating in South African waters came over with money after hearing the news.
From Batavia to Tianjin, it will take at least half a year, and even faster, four or five months.
With great luck, he can only do business three times a year, so every ship owner cherishes this hard-won opportunity.
Arrive in Tianjin, enter the warehouse, and after checking the quality and quantity, as long as you have enough money, just clear the warehouse and buy it all!
There are many novel products that can only be purchased in this place in the world, so why are you hesitating?
If you can buy the product you like, it means that your initial investment has increased in value by more than three times!
In the second year, the East India Company had begun the process of division of labor and cooperation.
The route from the Ming Empire to the mainland of the Netherlands was divided into three sections.
The first section is from the Ming Empire to Batavia, the second section is from Batavia to South Africa, and the third section is from South Africa to the mainland.
All three stages are very profitable, because even the second stage in the middle can transport goods to India, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire.
The merchant ships returning from Europe will also be filled with German mercenaries needed by the Ming Empire, so they will not lose money on empty ships.
Last year, the trade volume between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands soared to more than 10 million taels, and a certain prince's products naturally contributed a lot.
It is expected to double this year, as the news spreads wider and more Dutch businessmen will come to buy.
Ming Dynasty will become the factory of the world, allowing more poor people to find jobs and support their families.
Even if you have land, you may not be able to make much money. You can only save money by renting out your land and working in the city.
A certain prince feasted on his meal and let the people drink the soup. This is considered a kindhearted person!
