The Port of Jelan Cha is very lively every day.

With the complete occupation of the Southern Song Dynasty by the Mongolian Yuan, the supply of tea, silk and porcelain in the entire East Asia region became extremely scarce, and the only port of Relanzha that could normally supply these traditional goods naturally became the commercial center of the entire East Asia.

In addition to quantity, the quality of hot lamb mask products is also quite high, especially the silk products among them.

Originally, the quality of Shu brocade was famous in the Central Plains, but foreign merchants didn’t know much about Shu brocade.

During the New Song Dynasty, the Qin Mansion exported a large number of new technologies and new technologies to local merchants and workshops, and the government took the lead in integrating workshops and farmers scattered around the country. Although there was no joint-stock company, a huge monopoly giant had already surfaced.

On the one hand, the large-scale aggregation effect reduces costs and on the other hand, it also increases efficiency. Coupled with the relatively fair distribution policy, both the workshop owners and farmers are satisfied with this cooperation model.

The cost is lower, the output is greater, the quality is better, but the price is higher.

The reason is of course very simple, because no one can compete with such a huge Shujin Group.

Of course, this de facto monopoly behavior has also been met with sporadic opposition, but this voice that goes against the mainstream was soon drowned in the tide of business.

As for the various problems caused by industry monopoly, the Qin Mansion also considered it.

First of all, Shujin Production and Trade Group is not a state-owned enterprise. The Qin Mansion is only responsible for tax collection and data monitoring, and does not directly take over the trade, which eliminates the problem of inefficient production.

Shujin Production and Trade Group is composed of countless workshop owners and farmers due to the policy collection. At the beginning of its establishment, all franchisees have been determined to enter and exit freely without any threshold, so there is no situation where the rights of the group are monopolized.

Finally, this huge trading group is technically supported by Qinshi Machinery Research Institute and is responsible for external sales by Renzha Port.

This monopoly method is different from the monopoly controlled by capital. Qinfu has absolute control over this monopoly group - from technology, talents to export channels and policy control, the profits that all parties involved in the Shujin Production and Trade Group can obtain are very generous, but they are controlled within a reasonable range.

As for the huge profits generated by monopoly, they belong to the Qin government's finances, and eventually turned into roads, bridges, power systems, welfare homes, and school funds, etc.

While silk fabrics are well received, the porcelain produced by Qin Mansion is also a popular target for foreign merchants. As for tea, it is a little worse. After all, foreign businessmen also have the alternative to Indian tea.

In addition to the three traditional exports, the export trade volume of cotton and linen products in Qinfu is also increasing sharply. Unlike the high-priced and high-profit commodities exported to Europe, Qinfu's cotton and linen products mainly face the Southeast Asian and Japanese markets.

Since the Qin Mansion began to export cotton and linen products on a large scale, merchants in Southeast Asia have gone crazy - the prices of cloth and garments produced by Qin Mansion are incredibly low, but while maintaining low prices, the quality is far beyond all small handicraft workshops of this era, so that a piece of garments sold by Qin Mansion is even cheaper than local local cloth! Moreover, the fabric is smooth and delicate, and it is far from comparable to handmade products.

Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that various cotton and linen products from Qinfu will be sold well.

As another major export commodity in the Southern Song Dynasty, the iron tool basically stopped during the Qin Dynasty.

The original high-quality and low-priced iron pots, kitchen knives, various iron tools, etc. have all been cut off, and only some high-value-added "tourism souvenirs" like the seedling knives are still being sold.

The reason is not because the Qin Mansion does not want to make this money, but because the Qin Mansion's demand for steel is too terrifying. The railway tracks alone can consume all the production capacity of the Sichuan-Shu No. 1 Steel Plant... This is not enough for my own family, so of course I won't consider exports.

In addition to these traditional export projects, Qinfu has a wide variety of other export products, among which the best sellers are glass, watches, Chinese patent medicines and daily chemical products.

The most unexpected thing here is the Chinese patent medicine - a formula that has passed the modern test and its stable quality, it is very popular once it is withdrawn. It is not only popular in Southeast Asia in the traditional Chinese cultural circle, but many Europeans even regard it as an oriental magic medicine.

As for the artemisinin titanium cream for treating malaria, these two drugs are not sold to the public because of the high threshold for use and the scarce trade output.

But if you can go to the clinic run by the Qin Mansion in person, even people who are not in the Qin Mansion system can use these two medicines.

Finally, there are products with low export volumes, such as expensive toys such as bicycles, mechanical record machines, as well as luxury goods such as sofas, spring beds, and high-end leather goods.

Overall, although the sales volume of these products is not high, the net profit is not low. Some products have even profits comparable to traditional commodities!

Of course, although the Qin Mansion makes a lot of money, foreign merchants will definitely make more money. After all, merchants come from afar to do business, not to do charity. They will definitely not do business without making money.

New commodities that have never appeared before have created new demands, and new demands have driven new consumption... Then a world where only consumers spend more money will be achieved.

However, there is no need to sympathize with these consumers. After all, they are willing to spend this money, which has better improved their quality of life.

And from another perspective, people who can afford these luxury goods are never ordinary people, but merchants, landlords, officials and nobles.

Originally, wealth would be deposited after it flowed into the pockets of these people, turning into broken copper and iron buried in the yard. Now, it has been circulated due to the stimulation of new demand, and then passed through the Qin Mansion to become infrastructure and people's welfare, which in a sense has benefited the society.

In addition to the unusually prosperous export trade, the demand for the Port of Relanzha is also very strong.

From wood to minerals, from rice, brown sugar to dried fish and dried meat, Qinfu almost always comes, especially the demand for sulfur and saltpeter is astonishingly large.

In addition to these basic minerals and agricultural and animal husbandry products, the Qin Mansion also purchases a large number of commodities with very small demand, such as fruits, oils and various shrimps, crabs and shells. It is basically the case that is harvested in Shanghai and picked in the forest.

These things are easily preserved and transported directly back to Shu. Those that are not easy to preserve are made into dried fruits, canned foods, shrimp paste, and dried goods. These tropical fruits and seafood just fill the high-end food market in Qinfu.

It’s okay to say that the popularity of canned fruits is, but the high-end things that fishermen don’t like to eat are like crab, shrimp paste, shellfish, and jade pillars. In fact, even the port staff at Relanzhe don’t know. Anyway, the capital upstarts who have taken advantage of the Qin Mansion’s wind like to eat them very much.

The unprecedentedly prosperous trade has created a huge demand for cargo throughput, which has led to the expansion of the Port of Lelanzha, with a busy port on one side and a busier construction site on the other.

Such a wonder appeared in this era, not only without any sense of incongruity, but also a kind of vitality and vitality that is difficult to feel in this era.

The construction of the new port has been fully designed and planned from the beginning. Although it is far less majestic than later generations, there are all port facilities such as tower cranes, slide rails, and other port facilities.

The goods that sailors had to roll ashore in buckets from the wooden boards, but now the tower crane can easily be hung onto the ashore.

The popularity of power systems has made the cargo throughput efficiency of the entire port more than ten times higher! However, even so, the ships waiting to load and unload the cargo have been lined up outside the port.

The Saint Laurent is one of these ships waiting to line up to unload the goods.

“What a prosperous place.”

At the bow of the ship, a gentleman in a black dress with meticulous beard and hair was carefully whispered.

“Yes, that’s true.”

The captain next to him agreed.

"pity……"

“…There is no glory of God here.”

Speaking of this, the two looked at each other and smiled.

The Saint Laurent is a British merchant ship, but it did not come here just for business, but shouldered other missions.

"Did you see those port machinery? I'm really curious about what they are driven by." The gentleman in the dress looked curious.

"It will always be no devil." The captain shrugged.

In Datian Port, almost all the British who witnessed the Qianhai Hell were frightened by it.

Especially when they discovered that such a giant could move like the wind without relying on sails, many devout believers were sure that there must be the power of the devil.

It would be fine if this was just a rumor among sailors. The problem was that a priest on the boat sweared to hear the voice of God, proving that it was indeed the power of the devil, and the evidence was the black smoke that emerged with the launch of the ship...

Originally, the pastor's words were nonsense enough, but there were actually people who believed it, and there were still many people!

Thanks to the representative of the East India Company's directors on the ship, they discovered it early. When the rumors started, the pastor was controlled and quickly admitted that he was tempted by money and status. This made it more and more outrageous... But the problem is that things have become bigger. Many lower-level crew members believe in the pastor's lies, but instead refuse to believe the truth later!

Where can I make sense?

Fortunately, the British East India Company is a commercial institution, and capitalists do not believe in God unless the profits of believe in God are high enough!

After finally suppressing this incident, the top leaders of the fleet felt that they could not contact the Qin Mansion... After all, it seems that they can't bear to eat or defeat them at the moment. Moreover, whether it is the South China Sea or Japan, the Qin Mansion is an opponent that the East India Company cannot avoid, so appropriate contact is put on the agenda... Especially for the British's possible attack on Guangzhou next time, the attitude of the Qin Mansion or Renlanzhe is crucial.

Therefore, another mission of the Saint Laurent trip is to touch the bottom of the Holland Cha - how many warships are there? What is the strength? Whether it has the ability to interfere with the operations of the East India Company in the South China Sea, etc., these are all things that the Saint Laurent wants to explore.

Especially those "devils" who are emitting black smoke!

Unfortunately, the captain of the Saint Laurent and the gentleman in black dress stretched his neck and looked at it for a long time but couldn't see anything.

It’s not their fault. Who made Qin’s technology jump?

In fact, the motor and power system are beyond the understanding of many people, especially when the internal structure is completely invisible under the shell.

If it is a steam engine, black smoke, steam, flames and complex external transmission mechanisms can also give some inspiration, but for electric motors, inspiration does not exist at all!

The motor's complex things are all in the shell. From the outside, it looks like a simple metal barrel. With the wires to transmit energy, everything is quiet and there is no hint. Even if God comes, I can't figure out why this thing can move.

Although there are many ships lined up outside the port, they are all small boats worth hundreds of tons after all. The efficiency of the port machinery in the Port of Gerlandzha is far beyond this era, so the Saint Laurent didn't wait long, and it was soon their turn to enter the port to unload the goods.

Then the captain and the gentleman in black dress found an opportunity to observe the Qinfu port machinery up close... However, they did not figure out how this was done until the unloading was completed.

"Did you see anything?" asked the captain of the Saint Laurent.

"...No." The gentleman in black dress had a blue face. "The only thing that can be confirmed is that... it uses not human power or animal power."

It is absolutely impossible to say animal power. After all, the entire pier is so big that large animals such as mules and horses cannot be hidden. What's more, animals are not humans, so it is impossible to control them without calling or excreting... and the entire port cannot hear any sound of animals, and there is no trace of livestock manure on the ground.

As for manpower, it is even more impossible!

There is indeed a human in the crane, but the fully transparent cockpit allows the driver to clearly see the outside, while the people outside can also see the inside through - there is nothing in the cockpit except a few control levers! And the driver can move tons or even dozens of tons of cargo by pushing the control lever... No matter how you look at it, it cannot be human power, right?

"God, how did these Orientals do it? Did they really sign a contract with the demon?"

Such something beyond common sense in front of him made the captain of the Saint Laurent, who had a firm belief, less determined... By the way, he believed in gold pounds.

“…”

The gentleman in the black dress looked even more serious.

Although he didn't know how the other party did it, he was sure that it was definitely not a devil's contract - if it was, it would be easier to solve it! It was nothing more than selling the soul. What would you tie if you sell the soul when making money?

In fact, the gentleman in the black dress is sure that the other party is using some kind of energy that he is not clear about - because each crane is connected to thick cables, and these cables are connected to street lights (the street lights in Qin's house also take into account the function of a telephone pole). At night, someone will turn on the switches of those street lights...

Just like if you want the oil lamp to light up, you must add lamp oil to the oil lamp. If you want these street lamps in the Qin Mansion to light up, you must obviously add some other fuel to these street lamps.

And that kind of fuel is obviously transported along those black cables.

"I have a way!" the gentleman in black dress whispered.

"What method?" The captain of the Saint Laurent was slightly stunned.

"When there is no one, we will drill into the pipes and see what is flowing inside..."

After the gentleman in black dress said, the captain of the Saint Laurent's eyes lit up: "Good idea!!"

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Chapter completed!