Chapter 776: Capital is working

The production of weapons actually requires a whole set of virtuous cycles. Only demand can continue to produce. Moreover, the more wars there are, the importance and value of weapons can be reflected.

Qin's military production was not supported by Qin Jun's family. Instead, many armies are needed to provide such business opportunities, not only Qin Jun, but also Zhao Jun, Yan Jun, and Han Jun. And all kinds of large and small business organizations, individuals, and so on. Only these different needs can enable these huge military enterprises to operate. Coupled with the hard demand for weapons in war, it is impossible for the country to let its soldiers fight with absolutely backward weapons. Therefore, the arms industry is an industry that needs to make money to carry out a virtuous circle.

The strong development of the arms industry can promote the application and further development of a country's overall science and technology. Shang Wen's initial thoughts were also based on this point. Perhaps Qin's senior officials fully realized this point, especially the understanding of King Qin. He believes that Qin's arms industry can only continue to export arms industrial products. In order to maintain a strong military equipment advantage. Because some economic data is in front of King Qin.

These data show that according to Qin’s financial situation, if Qin’s national financial capacity and royal family income alone are used to produce such a large military industry, then Qin’s military production enterprises will be able to produce such a large military industry in less than half a year at the current scale. It is very likely to shrink by one-third within time, and then it will continue to shrink at a rate of 10%. This consequence will bring very serious consequences. Related companies will also turn to the civilian market or withdraw from the arms production industry.

King Qin was shocked at the time. When he asked the reason, he realized that it was impossible for Qin's fiscal revenue to be used for this huge arms production, and the country could not be in a state of war for a long time. In this way, the demand for war will gradually shrink, and similarly, Qin's production will gradually shrink. So since Qin’s financial situation does not allow it, why has Qin’s military production continued to grow in recent years?

The answer is that Qin allowed the export of arms. These arms exports have brought a lot of business opportunities and industry profits. Because it is not difficult for Qin's factory to process these weapons. Even some newly established small workshops can produce flintlock parts. These parts can be mass-produced according to certain standards. Moreover, some workshops have introduced related small machine tools, especially after electricity has been widely used in industrial production and machine tool production. This makes Qin Guo smaller and smaller in machine tool production. As a result, some small workshops in Qin State also began to introduce machine tools for production.

As a result, Qin's arms and industrial products were exported to other countries on a large scale, and these countries had large-scale military orders. For example, in the state of Chu, although the weapons that the Chu army got were old-style rifles that the Qin army had retired, these rifles were enough to arm the Chu army. There is also the South Korean army, they are working hard to approach the Qin army, so in terms of weapons, the South Korean army has always been the fastest to catch up. Although the army of the State of Zhao was completed by the payment of the State of Yan, their weapons have after all completed a preliminary update. In addition, there are a lot of various needs. There is demand for the slave trade. The demand for combating water theft, the demand for the nobles to protect themselves, and so on. These have brought huge arms orders to the Qin State military industry.

And some small companies, especially small processing workshops, also have their demand positions. The later maintenance of these weapons is especially the replacement of some parts after they are worn out. These are all provided by these small businesses and small workshops. Because the things produced in large factories are more expensive, and the things produced in these workshops are cheaper.

The benefit is not only that other countries have supported Qin's military industry enterprises, but also stimulated the further development of Qin's small and medium-sized enterprises. Moreover, the technological competition between these enterprises also led to the advancement of Qin's military technology. Under normal circumstances, military technology represents the overall level of science and technology in this country. This is the current situation in Qin State.

The prosperity brought about by the arms trade increased Qin's fiscal revenue, and it was part of Qin's overall fiscal revenue. Military industrial enterprises and those associated small enterprises contribute as much as 3%. The prosperity of military industrial enterprises provided a rich source of tax revenue for Qin's finances. These taxes are enough for Qin to cover the next year's fiscal expenditure. The State of Qin can also continue to rely on the huge contributions brought by these prosperity funds. Continue to implement a low tax rate of 1% and related tax exemption policies to further stimulate the economic development of Qin State. These have injected strong fresh blood into Qin's economy.

After profoundly analyzing these things, King Qin boldly allowed the continued export of Qin's weapons. It also ordered people to set up a special royal institution to investigate the market share of Qin's weapons in various countries. Special reports on some new situations.

In fact, King Qin’s worries are very necessary, because according to data collected by some commercial newspapers, other countries are advancing in the direction of independently developing new weapons.

For example, when South Korea established its light industry base, it began to imitate some of Qin’s rifle parts. Like Qi, they were the first to imitate Qin’s simple flintlock rifle. Although the performance of the imitated flintlock rifle was good Some areas are not as good as the rifles produced by Qin State, mainly due to the limitation of barrel materials, but in other aspects, the accuracy and range of bullets after firing are not lagging behind the old-fashioned flintlocks produced by Qin State.

Later, due to the emergence of new rifles and valve rifles, the old flintlock rifle was severely eliminated, especially in the regular army. South Korea originally planned to equip its own army with flintlock rifles on a large scale, but the appearance of the valve rifle killed it. With this plan, South Korea had to stop the production of flintlock guns by itself. Instead, the limited funds were transferred to the purchase of new rifles and machine guns. However, South Korea has not completely abandoned its plan to develop weapons.

On the contrary, they began to purchase a large number of new weapons from the State of Qin, imitated some of the weapon parts, and then installed them on their own weapons for experimentation. It can be said that South Korea’s weapon road originated from imitation.

Unlike South Korea, Zhao Guo also has his own plan to build his own arsenal. Li Mu mentioned this plan in a secret document to the country.

"Our country is rich in coal and iron ore resources. These resources are important resources for the manufacture of steel. With these resources, we can build our own cannons, rifles, and machine guns. But we don’t have large-scale machine tools like Qin’s. The next step is to introduce these equipment from the State of Qin. Only in this way can we embark on the road of independent supply of weapons. Otherwise, our weapons and ammunition will come from the State of Qin. As long as the State of Qin controls the output of weapons, it can kill our necks. "Li Mu has instructed relevant military personnel to carry out specific implementation.

In fact, what Li Mu didn't expect was that Qin's bankers and investors had already built such factory equipment in Zhao.

"Bang, bang." On the edge of a big mountain in the Taihang Mountains in the eastern part of Handan, Zhao State. Prime Minister Guo Kai of Zhao Guo and some of Qin's big bankers and venture capitalists are holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the inauguration of a coal mine and iron smelter.

The salute and the sound of the orchestra resounded throughout the mountainous area. And Zhao Min is also looking forward to this, because setting up a factory here means that their work has been settled, and their land has been sold to Zhao’s prime minister, Guo Kai, and this has become a new place for Guo Kai. industry. In exchange, they can work in factories as workers, and get paid for their labor.

"I said that when Guo Kai was elected as the prime minister of Zhao State, Zhao Min would have a decent job. Get the corresponding labor compensation, and start with this, and life will be better." Guo Kai took pains to prepare. Lots of non-marginal speeches to Zhao Min.

In fact, behind these factories, there is the shadow of Qin State Capital. For example, in this coal mining and iron smelting plant, Qin’s bankers loaned a large part of the funds to Guo Kai to build railways and purchase land containing coal, Dashan, and Qin’s venture capital family, Provide some capital, equipment, and technical support with more than 40% of the shares. For example, there are abundant coal mines and so on. It can be said that all of this is a manifestation of Qin Capital's external expansion.

And Guo Kai is not wary of this, because so far, the Warring States period has not had a kind of argument, or a view of the economy as a strategic security treatment. The reason is that Qin scholars are considering how to seize more markets in other countries and use all the resources they can use to earn money from each country, while other countries are doing everything possible to catch up with Qin, or They are trying to sort things out and observe what is happening around them in order to classify things.

For example, Confucianism is very disdainful of Qin's business style. They believe that if Qin governs the country in such a way, it will quickly calculate Qin, and Qin will soon decline. Because Qin is just a utilitarian, this kind of utilitarian heart is likely to make Qin lose major strategic decisions, and Confucianism has its own views. But Qin does not need this argument at present. They only need to complete their capital tasks.

Just like the coal mining site and iron smelting plant established by Guo Kai. Zhao Guo sacrificed most of the shares, equity, and borrowed a large amount of bank debts to establish Zhao Guo's industrial foundation. The establishment of these things was very risky from the beginning. Because Qin State controlled most of the control rights from it. And Zhao Guo owns very little part.

And there are some unequal clauses in these clauses. For example, take Guokai's iron smelting plant as an example. Qin Guo's investors know how to invest. Moreover, Zhao Guo's management was unwilling to lose his management power, so investors put forward some harsh requirements.

They require iron smelters to complete the listing requirements within two years. If it can't be done, they will increase their share quota from 40% to 60%. Thus. Qin Guo has reason to control the entire factory. This is a risk. It is also an opportunity.