Chapter 1191: Brand new enemy

Shangwen was shocked by King Qin's words. The birth of Qin's new population was actually to prepare for war. Shang Wen is unimaginable. What else would a monarch like King Qin think about besides fighting? Sometimes Shangwen really wondered if he would do something to war madmen that history shouldn't do. Shangwen had doubted. And this doubt has never been dispelled.

Shangwen’s economic conference requires a lot of comprehensive consideration. At the same time, his cabinet is actively discussing the specific details of the issuance of bonds. And after the issuance of bonds and financing. Qin needs to expand on those projects. The Minister of Economy of Qin State proposed an energy development project.

He asked Qin to pay attention to oil and coal. In terms of the energy resources currently available. Qin State occupies an absolute advantage in petroleum resources. It is manifested in its huge advantages in oil production and oil refining technology. Qin State is the only country that has more comprehensive petroleum refining technology. Although there are also some oil refining appeared in Qi. Qin State's oil fields in Yulin, Shanxi Province today. But the reserves there are not many in Shangwen's view. There is also an oilfield storage area near the Shengli Oilfield in Qi State today. But the Qi people there will only refine it more crudely. They can only extract gasoline, diesel, heavy oil and other materials that do not meet Qin's standards. When they need enough to use.

Gasoline and diesel are important reasons for the Qin State to master crude oil. Other materials such as kerosene, paraffin, lubricating oil, and asphalt are only available in Qin State. Other countries simply don't have these things.

Qin's advantages in oil are mainly concentrated in the place of production and technology. In the Central Plains, apart from Qi, Shangwen doesn't seem to have much oil-producing places in his memory. In the final analysis, the Central Plains is a country short of fuel, and Qin’s current car volume and oil production are steadily increasing. If it continues in this way. Sooner or later, Qin will fight for oil. At present, Qin State Oil is located in the Western Regions and the uncontrolled Northeast Plain. There is an area richer in oil. If the State of Qin wants to continue its greater development, it must enter Central Asia and beyond. As for the way to pass there. Shang Wen didn't know it himself. In Shangwen's view, there is too far away.

Another suggestion from the Minister of Economy is coal resources. At present, Qin produces coal in the northern part of the Qin State and the Jiuyuan region. There is open coal there. Shallow coal. They are all very easy to mine coal mines. In addition to these are Taiyuan County and Shangdang County. It is the main producing area of ​​high-quality coal in Qin State. The coal there has very low sulphur content. It is the main source of high-quality coal for smelting steel. And the number is also very large. In addition to the coal used to smelt steel, the rest is used to generate electricity. But at this time, high-voltage electricity has not yet appeared. The electricity there can't be used up by itself. However, electricity consumption in the Guanzhong area of ​​Qin State is very tight. In the Guanzhong Xianyang area of ​​Qin State, a lot of power plants have been built intensively to barely maintain the electricity consumption in this area. But don’t forget. The economy of Qin State has developed more and more, especially in the Guanzhong area. The situation of economic use of electricity becomes more tense. And the growth rate is unusually rapid.

The coal from the power plants of the State of Qin was transported continuously from Shangdang County and Taiyuan County. Trains across the north carry this coal every day. It is also difficult for some rare resources in the north to travel south to the Guanzhong area quickly. The reason is because the coal in the power plant takes up a lot of transportation power.

And Shang Wen has no way of this. Either Qin will increase the railway. Either technically change. Shang Wen can only hope that this high-voltage power transmission method will appear. But this can only be pinned on Qin's university research.

Regarding coal resources, the Minister of Economic Affairs hopes that Qin will pay attention to it. The special requirement is that Qin State intends to reduce part of the output of his own coal mine. Then a large number of these coal mines were imported from Zhao. such. Qin can reduce the mining of some minerals. At the same time, Zhao's coal mining was heavily dependent on Qin's economic development. This is equivalent to kidnapping Zhao's economic pillar.

For such suggestions. Shang Wen can only be considered. Consider it carefully.

On the energy issue. Qin State should actually be three big pieces, oil, coal, and electricity. However, Qin currently uses a relatively large proportion of coal. The combined use of oil and electricity is only slightly against coal. Coal still takes up more than half of Qin's energy.

Energy is one piece. Qin's transportation capacity is also a major drawback. The railways of the Qin State were concentrated in Xianyang. But these railways are all mainline railways. In some important places in the Qin State, there were only a few branch railways. Most railways do not have full coverage. This severely weakened Qin's control ability. The railway and Qin's force control capabilities are directly proportional. The State of Qin needs to strengthen the construction in this area.

In terms of water transport. Qin does not ship by sea. Because the country does not support it, and Qin is not very interested in shipping. Therefore, Qin State is a zero in terms of shipping.

However, in terms of water transportation, Qin has large iron-hulled ships. His transportation capacity is eight times that of a wooden boat. The carrying capacity is quite amazing. However, Qin State-owned large-scale transport ships only control part of the Yangtze River transportation channel capacity. He didn't even reach the estuary, just started turning back in the Jiujiang area. This situation is mainly due to the important role played by Chu State Merchant Shipping. Moreover, the cost of wooden boats in Chu State is small. Although the speed is slow, they can give full play to their advantages in numbers. Most importantly, there are almost no transport ships in Chu State that can provide Qin State. They can only stop on the central waterway. Rely on small boats for secondary transportation. The reasons of Chu State hindered the improvement of Qin State in water transportation. If the State of Qin needs to develop the South, it can only adopt a diplomatic approach with the State of Chu. Either force will be used. But the use of force requires money.

Qin's economic situation is improving, and Qin is allowed to make such a profit. But spend a lot of money in war. It will make Qin's economic war worse. Shang Wen finally pulled the economy back. Shang Wen didn't want the war to destroy the Qin State.

Talk about these areas that Qin needs to pay attention to. It is to specifically discuss how Qin State issues bonds and what is the amount of bonds issued. Qin's first few war bond issuances were all through direct issuance. That way is more primitive. Old-fashioned. The government of Qin State directly sells the products to the public. Moreover, a lot of publicity is needed. People can go to Qin's government office to buy it if they need it. But after doing this a few times, the effect is not very good. The reason is that the government does not specialize in selling bonds. Moreover, it takes a lot of energy for the government to sell bonds. More investment will be made.

It happened that Qin's bank rose rapidly at this time. Under Shangwen's suggestion, Qin entrusted a large amount of bonds to Qin's bank. Banks put them on the market through financial means. Because banks need to make a profit, they will always use all means to sell the bonds in their hands. But the Qin government can get the government bonds they got in the first time, accurately and in full. This has solved the problem of Qin government bond issuance.

As for how the bank operates. That's the bank's business. Specific details of operation issues. The government does not need to worry about it, nor does it need to be so strict about it. Everything is left to the market. The government is concerned that the government can get enough money from the bank within a certain period of time. This is what they care about.

This time Shangwen also plans to do the same. Qin State will entrust a large number of bonds to Qin State's several banks to jointly issue. But considering that the market has just recovered. The government decided to control the number of bonds issued for the first time between 500,000 gold and 800,000 gold. Shang Wen is afraid that the market will not be able to accept its huge amount of bonds.

Just when Shang Wen discussed economic issues with his cabinet members. The staff finally realized that their enemy was another ethnic group.

"This is a brand new telegram report. The content given above shocked me." Yang Duanhe handed a telegram report to Wang Jian.

Wang Jian stood on a high place. Below is a huge sand table. The staff is now separated from Wang Jian's mansion. The government's expenses are separated from private expenses in order to monitor every penny spent by the government. The General Staff was placed separately at No. 99 Li Mu Street. That is a twenty-five-story building. The people of Qin State call it the Staff Building

"Let me see". Wang Jian took the telegram report and said. Then he opened the telegram report. Looked at it.

"What do you mean?" Wang Jian looked around and asked Yang Duanhe.

"What they mean is that ours is at war with an unfamiliar enemy. Before, we had always thought that they were together with the Qiang. But judging from the recent prisoners' confession." Yang Duanhe explained with waving his arm.

"The situation is not what we think. They are another ethnic group. The Qiang people we are fighting against are not the same thing at all." Yang Duanhe said at this time.

"It's not the same thing?" Wang Jian asked.

"Yes. The report above reads. They captured a captive. But what the captive said was nothing like what the Qiang said. The tone of voice is different. If they are put together with the Qiang, they will find out. They are even more barbaric. . They are also better at fighting. They are fundamentally different from the Qiang people before.” Yang Duanhe said.

"Why did you only know about this now?" Wang Jian asked.

"I don't know. Maybe there are too many reasons." Yang Duanhe explained.

"Brand new enemies. We don't know them at all." Wang Jian said annoyedly. This is a completely new situation.