After the inspection of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, Lin Ziran has a clearer understanding of the current industrial technology capabilities of the Daheng Empire, well, only limited to national defense-related industrial technologies.

It's not so good, it can't keep up with the level of the world powers, but it's not that bad, no matter how you can hang the tail of the first echelon, in some areas, especially in rear-loading rifled guns, it has a certain advantage over other countries.

Of course, Lin Ziran didn't know at this time that the Krull Kingdom on the other side of the sea had already imitated and developed and further improved the rear-loading guns on the side of the Daheng Empire based on the powerful industrial strength, and came up with a 300 mm and 30 times caliber naval guns.

However, their naval guns and the new generation of warships under construction are still under secrecy, and the outside world has no way of knowing.

With such a barely improvisable technology, coupled with Daheng's own strong heritage and industrial scale, Lin Ziran does not have to worry about national defense construction, relatively speaking, there are more things to worry about in civilian industry.

I didn't feel much before, but after comparing some imported products, Lin Ziran found that the civilian industry within the Daheng Empire was really rubbish.

For example, the most basic and important light industrial product of our time: cotton!

In the past, Lin Ziran thought that the cotton cloth produced by Daheng was okay, but when he compared the cotton cloth imported from the Krull Kingdom, he was a little desperate.

Compared with the cotton cloth of the Krull Kingdom, the cotton cloth produced by home is the same as the hand-woven homespun cloth.

People's soft and comfortable, their own thick and hard.

The most important thing is that the imported cotton cloth of the Krull Kingdom, if you put aside the ultra-high tariffs, the CIF price is only about one-third of that of your own cotton!

The price gap is simply impossible to look at.

It doesn't matter that the previous Daheng feudal towns have to play trade protection policies, if this is not trade protection, Daheng's own civilian industrial products can not compete with imported goods at all, and the price and quality are very different.

And what does this mean?

It's that people's manufacturing processes are better, and at the same time, their production efficiency is higher.

In this case, Lin Ziran is also more determined to have an idea, that is, to continue to formulate trade protection policies unswervingly!

Moreover, they are not two commodities of the same kind, and they must be fully protected, otherwise, the reunited Daheng Empire will completely become a dumping ground for industrial commodities of several other industrial powers.

Even if the trade protection policy is adopted now, imported goods still occupy a certain market in the Daheng Empire.

Taking cotton cloth as an example, although domestic cotton cloth occupies more than 90% of the market, there is still about 10% of the market occupied by imported cotton cloth represented by the Krull Kingdom, and the occupied cotton cloth market is a high-end market.

Then these imported cotton cloth are subject to ultra-high import tariffs, but the rich people in China will still choose to buy clothes made of these imported cotton cloths.

This has to be said to be a very embarrassing thing.

Cotton cloth is only one of them, many other civilian goods are in a similar situation, thanks to trade protection policies, domestic goods can occupy the vast majority of the market, but the high-end market is almost occupied by imported goods.

Correspondingly, the commodity exports of the Great Heng Empire are difficult to describe, except for grain and weapons, the export value of other commodities is very low.

And this is also another idea that strengthens Lin Ziran, that is, relying on grain products, developing the grain processing industry to expand the export market and get more profits.

The second is to seize the opportunity of upgrading the breech-loading rifled weapons of the Blue Star countries and continue to expand arms exports.

Otherwise, there will be a huge deficit in the import and export trade of the Great Heng Empire, resulting in a large outflow of funds.

In such a general environment, Lin Ziran convened the three major arms companies, the personnel of the army and navy, and the relevant people of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Beijing to conduct special discussions on the issue of arms trade.

During the meeting, Lin Ziran emphasized a number of points.

First of all, it is necessary to stabilize and expand the traditional market.

Secondly, it is necessary to actively explore new markets.

Actively expand arms exports, earn more funds for the empire, promote the development of the defense industry, and contribute to national defense construction, and at the same time, it is also necessary to balance the balance of power in some regions through arms exports, and cooperate with the foreign policy of the empire.

Steadily expanding the traditional market, the focus is on the Orr Kingdom.

Lin Ziran emphasized many times in the meeting that the big financier of the Orr Kingdom must be firmly grasped in his hands.

Don't look at the territory of the Orr Kingdom, which has a land area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, a population of millions, and other industries, but it can't stand the fact that people have gold!

In this big muoger country, the gold production capacity accounts for more than 40% of the world's production, and the rich are very rich.

Since Lin Ziran occupied Luohai City and started the arms trade with the Orr Kingdom, the Orr Kingdom has successively ordered 300,000 13mm Luo'an III rifles from the empire, 200,000 second-hand modified 18mm Fuyuan rifles purchased for several younger brothers, and more than 1,000 rear-loading army guns of various calibers.

In addition to orders for army equipment, there are also a large number of orders for naval equipment!

The Orr Kingdom has ordered a total of 12 warships from the Empire, including three 3,000-ton shore defense ironclads and a number of small and medium-tonnage ships, all of which are equipped with the latest breech-loading rifled naval guns, new steam engines, and wrought-iron composite armor.

It also included the purchase of rear-loading naval guns for three warships, including the Orr Kingdom ironclad.

In order to get money from the master of the Orr Kingdom, the Daheng Empire took out all the things at the bottom of the box and sold them in one go, especially the core of several core naval guns, including 200 mm 25 times the caliber naval guns, 150 mm and 30 times the caliber naval guns, all of which were put on the shelves, and even the 300 mm and 25 times the caliber naval guns that had just been developed were taken out and peddled in an attempt to get orders for new large-tonnage armored ships from the people of the Orr Kingdom.

At the beginning of the year of the Orr Kingdom, the Orr Kingdom once again sent a military delegation to Daheng to discuss the purchase of a number of capital ships.

The Orr Kingdom was satisfied with the series of warships ordered before, even if the Orr Kingdom ironclad was limited by the hull design, but after the upgrade was equipped with rear-loading naval guns, the combat effectiveness was also improved.

In addition, they are very satisfied with the three coast-class coastal defense ironclad ships, one of which was completed and delivered to them at the end of last year, and the Orr Kingdom Navy is very satisfied with this coastal defense ironclad ship, although it is only 3,000 tons, and the speed is a little slower, but the firepower is strong and the protection is strong.

This coast-class coastal defense ironclad ship is equipped with exaggerated four 200 mm 25 times naval guns, equipped with a thick armor belt, and even reaches 300 mm at its thickest point.

The firepower is amazing, and the protection is strong!

This is the distinctive feature of the coast-class coastal defense ironclad ship.

As for the seaworthiness is not good, the endurance is also very scummy, and the speed is not fast, these are not a problem for the Orr Kingdom.

Because the Orr Kingdom was originally a small country, but it just happened that there were big gold mines in the country, and their army and navy were all based on territorial defense, and they didn't consider ocean warfare at all.

Relying on shore fire protection to carry out coastal defense tasks is the core strategic mission of the navy of the Orr Kingdom.

This is also the reason why they are very satisfied with the coast-class shore defense ironclad ships.

This time they came to the Daheng Empire, they just wanted to expand the scale of warship procurement!

However, this time, they want to purchase not only small-tonnage shore defense ironclad ships, but capital ships.

When the Orr Kingdom explained its intentions, in order to win the order, the Daheng Empire took out all the unification-class armored ships that were still on the slipway, but the Orr Kingdom was still not satisfied, they wanted the main battleships with stronger firepower and better protection.

What they need is a capital ship that can swing at sea and make the navies of other countries fearful.

Although the Unity-class ironclad ship is good, it is still a little worse in their opinion, especially the caliber of the main gun is a little smaller.

So, the empire simply took out the Yonglin-class battleship that was still on the slipway and had not yet been served, but after the people of the Orr Kingdom saw it, they said that although this ship was not bad, it was suspected of wasting tonnage, thinking that too much tonnage was put on speed and endurance.

However, they were very satisfied with the 300 mm and 25 times the naval guns on it, and believed that the newly ordered battleships must be equipped with such large-caliber naval guns.

I can't be satisfied with this!

To put it mildly, even if this naval gun is placed on the entire Blue Star, it is also the top performer, that is, it is secretive, and the 300 mm and 30 times caliber naval gun of the Navy of the Krull Kingdom, which is still secret, can stabilize it.

However, don't expect to be able to buy this naval gun of the Navy, the Orr Kingdom!

In the end, the two sides finalized that targeted improvements would be made on the basis of the Yonglin-class battleships, and some of the performance that the Orr Kingdom could not use, so as to control the tonnage and cost.

Although the design has not yet been completed, the Orr Kingdom has already stated that if the design is feasible, then this battleship is at least a 2+2 order, that is, two ships will be ordered first, and then two improved ones will be ordered.

In addition to these 2+2 capital ships, they also have a number of orders for non-capital ships, including a total of four large and small reconnaissance cruisers and a number of shallow water heavy gunboats.

The Orr Kingdom is planning to upgrade the entire navy and build a powerful modern navy to protect its gold mines and prevent any foreign ambitions.

During the whole negotiation process, the Orr Kingdom didn't even bargain with the Daheng Empire, of course, this is also because the Daheng Empire is not too black-hearted, and the price is too black, the Daheng Empire is actually using the navy of the Orr Kingdom to research and develop, test and build new warships, plus the battleships of the Daheng Empire are good, but in fact, it is just like that, so the price cannot be too high.

As for the Orr Kingdom, they also know that they are here to be Kaizi, so as long as the price is a little acceptable, they don't bargain too much.

After all, in recent years, in addition to the most advanced weapons and equipment that they could purchase here in Daheng, it was difficult for them to buy advanced weapons represented by advanced naval guns such as 300 mm and 25 times caliber rear-loading naval guns in other places.

Not every great power can withstand the pressure of the Krull Kingdom and the Olisa Empire to sell them these advanced equipment.

Even if some others can withstand the pressure, they may not be able to get these advanced products in a short period of time, and if they can, people are not very willing to offend the Krull Kingdom and the Orissa Empire for the sake of the Orr Kingdom.

Therefore, the military procurement behavior between the Orr Kingdom and the Daheng Empire is a natural and complementary cooperative relationship, and it is not up to anyone to lose.

For the ambitious Orr Kingdom, the Daheng Empire naturally welcomed it, and all kinds of good things were taken out and sold.

For a traditional customer like the Orr Kingdom, it is essential to maintain the relationship and expand the business further.

At the same time, we also need to actively explore new markets!

For example, on the side of the Northern Six Nations Alliance, it didn't say that they wanted to find the Daheng Empire to purchase weapons and equipment, although it was suspected of being a capital enemy to sell them, but if they didn't buy it from the Tang Dynasty, they would also find other powerful countries such as the Krull Kingdom and the Orissa Empire to purchase them.

In any case, they will purchase a large number of breech-loading rifled weapons to complete the technical upgrade.

If it allows other countries to make this money, it is better for the Daheng Empire to earn it itself.

Lin Ziran wants to be able to properly open up the northern market, especially the Lieteng Kingdom, one of the six northern alliances before, has already purchased a batch of ordnance from the Daheng Empire, although the procurement at that time was in Daheng and the unification has not yet been completed, and the relationship between the two sides is still in a good stage.

Now the relationship between the two sides has fallen into the freezing point in an instant, but Lin Ziran instructed that since they have given money, then they will deliver the goods, and even use this relationship to completely open the market of the six countries.

If it works well, the six-country market will be able to place orders for at least hundreds of thousands of Roan-III rifles and hundreds, if not thousands, of rear-loading guns.

In addition, they can also be appropriately promoted and promoted to warships in the future, they are very similar to the Orr Kingdom, they are both defensive navies, and the coastal-class coastal defense ironclad designed and built by the Daheng Empire for the Orr Kingdom is quite suitable for these small and medium-sized countries, maybe they can also flicker, let them order a few large-tonnage ironclad ships.

In short, if you want to become a qualified arms dealer and buy Daheng weapons all over the world, you must have the consciousness of selling weapons to your enemies, and even letting them kill themselves with the weapons they sell.

Even Lin Ziran joked that even if the Olisa Empire took out the money, then the empire could sell them warships.

In addition to the Orr Kingdom and the Northern Six Nations Alliance, there are several other countries on the southern continent that can also be fought for, such as the Central Alliance and the East Coast Four.