Valley Emperor

The mainland of the Datang Empire, Songjiang Prefecture, in the headquarters of the Datang Arms Trading Company.

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Several senior officials are gathering in the conference room, and one of them is holding a report: "At present, the reports of overseas branches have been sent back. According to statistics, our company's performance will be greatly improved this year. , whether it is guns or artillery, or consumable ammunition, military supplies, etc., there is a substantial increase, because of the increase in orders, our performance this year will be at least 180% higher than last year."

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"This is still an inference based on existing orders and intentional orders. According to the judgment of our colleagues in the marketing department, our actual orders may be even higher. It is optimistic that our sales this year may reach more than three times that of last year. !"

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"Of course, the increase in orders has also brought us a lot of problems. The intensive arrival of orders has caused some suppliers to be in short supply. Zhenjiang Machinery Company, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Weapons Company, is a subsidiary of Jiasan. The production line of type flasher and flintlock gun is already in full operation, but if you want to deliver the current order, I am afraid that you will have to work overtime until three years later."

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"Although Jiangnan Weapons Company and several other partners of ours have successively promoted the expansion of export equipment, it is still relatively difficult in a short period of time!"

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"At the same time, the three major arms companies have also stated that they will not unilaterally increase production on a large scale because of the surge in orders in a short period of time. They must consider that after the end of this batch of orders, they will expand production. The production line maintenance situation, after all, after the expansion of production, if people are recruited, it is not easy to dismiss."

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"So increasing production will increase production, but the scale is not as large as we expected before, and only 50% of the production capacity will increase at most!"

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"This also poses a certain challenge to our follow-up supply and transportation work schedule!"

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"But it is absolutely impossible for a certain customer to arrive in large quantities in advance, while other customers are unable to supply, especially the supply of the warring parties must be balanced!"

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"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has officially issued a document to us, asking us to cooperate with the various policies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the delivery time and quantity must be carried out in strict accordance with the plan formulated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and fairness and impartiality must be guaranteed. Or the case of special harsh treatment, no discrimination, this is the basic principle of our company!"

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Datang Arms Trading Co., Ltd. has been very busy recently. The high-level meetings are one after another. Facing the sudden influx of large orders from overseas, Datang Arms Trading Co., Ltd. has begun to operate at a high intensity. Domestic suppliers produce, and then deploy the source of goods and transport them overseas, and deliver the goods to customers.

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Every link here can't go wrong. Once it goes wrong, it's not a matter of making money or not, but a matter that will affect the empire's diplomatic strategy.

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Datang Arms Trading Company's overseas market development has always been closely following the changes in the imperial foreign policy. It does not mean that it can sell whatever it wants, and it does not mean that it can be sold to anyone who wants to sell it.

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Every order needs to be approved by the National Defense Security Council.

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The busyness of Datang Arms Trading Company also reflects the complexity and turmoil of the current overseas situation.

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The war seemed to break out all at once.

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Last year, the large-scale wars on a global scale were limited to the western front of Europe, but this spring, the western front of Europe was still hot, while civil strife broke out in the Ottoman Kingdom.

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Immediately afterwards, the Safi dynasty launched a war against the Ottoman kingdom, which was in civil strife.

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This is not the end, the Mughal Dynasty also launched a surprise attack on the Safi Dynasty.

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By summer, seeing that the Mughal Dynasty had already entered the hinterland of the Safi Dynasty, several kingdoms and tribes on the Indian peninsula united and launched a fierce attack on the Mughal Dynasty.

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Until now, in July, from the Indian peninsula to Europe, there are wars everywhere.

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Violent wars are fought every day, which poses a great challenge to the supply capacity of Datang Arms Trading Company.

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After all, it is quite difficult to maintain the supply of materials for the global war by oneself!

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The high-level meeting here just ended, and a large number of guns and ammunition over there were loaded from the port.

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Various military weapons weighing more than 8,000 tons were quickly loaded on the 10,000-ton freighter Nanyang No. 2 under the hoisting of port machinery and equipment.

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The 10,000-ton freighter loaded with military supplies slowly departed from Shanghai Port. When it arrived in the open sea of ​​Guangzhou, two more freighters set out from Guangzhou, also loaded with military supplies and weapons, and formed a small team to enter the Southeast Asia. Bypassing Malacca and finally crossing the Indian Ocean to Ceylon.

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Today's Ceylon Island has become a huge transfer station for export military supplies.

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After the freighter departed from the mainland, it replenished coal and fresh water here, and then set off for various destinations.

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Nanyang No. 2 continued to set off on the second day and went straight to the port of Suez in the Red Sea.

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Although the Suez Canal has not yet been completed, it is worth noting that, in order to build the Suez Canal, it is also the land transportation between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. According to the approval of the Empire, the Datang Railway Corporation built a section of the canal along the canal. Railway, and it is a double track railway.

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At present, there are quite a lot of them, especially those with high timeliness and high value, and materials and personnel that are not very heavy in weight and volume are all transported directly through the canal.

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After all, it is too far to bypass Africa. The long voyage takes too much time, and the shipping cost brought by the long voyage is not low.

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This also led to the Suez Canal Railway, which is the busiest railway in many overseas territories.

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Every day, a large number of trains travel between the Red Sea port and the Mediterranean port, transporting a large amount of materials.

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After the 10,000-ton cargo ship Nanyang No. 2 was berthed at the Port of Suez, the mechanical equipment in the port hoisted and unloaded the cargo on the ship, and then hoisted it onto the train and transported it to the port of Alex on the other end of the railway.

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In the port of Alex, these materials will be hoisted onto the ship again, but they are no longer those 10,000-ton freighters, but some small and medium-sized freighters of several thousand tons or even hundreds of tons, because these goods have more than one customer, and It is the goods of more than ten customers.

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Therefore, this batch of several thousand tons of military supplies will be transported to different places by different small and medium-sized ships.

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Although it took six or seven days for this batch of materials to be transshipped by the Egyptian railway, it was still much less than the time required to circumnavigate Africa.

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Even in order to speed up the transshipment, Datang Railway Corporation has already begun to negotiate with several major domestic shipping companies, so that when shipping companies transport goods, they should use uniform standard cargo boxes as much as possible.

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