In order to cover up people's eyes, Hong Tao asked the Weng family, who was in charge of the Imperial Chemical Group, to send a report to himself, the imperial prime minister, to apply for the establishment of a new test site for the trial production of some flammable and explosive products. For safety reasons, the site is located in the forest of the lower reaches of the Milky Way, a few hundred meters away from the petroleum refining plant.

This is Chiguoguo's use of power for personal gain! The Weng family's report had just been written, and before the ink was dry, Hong Tao stamped his seal on it, and gave a special instruction, asking for it to be handled as soon as possible. Then Bush took this holy decree and went around the relevant departments, and this place where the emperor was refining elixir and poison was transformed into a special department with the highest level of secrecy and danger under the umbrella of the Imperial Chemical Group.

“…… It's not a big cannibal glass, and while it doesn't look good, it's so pure that you can barely see any color. Your Majesty, you made this up, right? At the beginning, you said that you lacked an important ingredient, but now you have found it! Three months later, Luo Youde ran back from Jiankang on a traffic boat, he was called back by Hong Tao, and he didn't say anything specifically.

After getting off the boat, as soon as I walked into Hong Tao's office, I was attracted by a small-mouthed, long-necked, big-bellied glassware on the table. I took it in my hand and looked at it over and over for a long time, and squinted at the sky at the sunlight outside the window, and then I reluctantly put it down, and asked about the origin of this thing with a smile, and said the approximate origin in one word.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Lao Luo, I never owe money, and now I will return the money you invested. That's right, this is the glass I burned, you can see the color, I smashed the color, and the colorless and less bubbles were left. At the moment, there is no skilled blow maker. The styling is still a bit unsatisfactory. But this is not a problem, as long as you practice more, I believe that in two months at most, you will have to be square, round, round, and octagonal. I didn't brag about it, did I? At this time, Hong Tao's virtue is not much stronger than the second Laizi on the street. His whole body was shaking, and his two small eyes were squinting at the ceiling. The corners of his mouth were high, and the two scars on his face were distorted, looking like a villain.

"That's, that's, Your Majesty's product, it must be a fine product, how can we lay people come up with it. I wondered if I could do this, don't smash it, sell those scraps to me, and I'll take them to Lin'an to sell. It's still the old rule, you have the majority of the shares......" Luo Youde looked at how Hong Tao looked at it at this time, how pleasing to the eye. Even if he scratches his face and is full of scars, he can say that this is a man's must, and he will scratch his face himself when he goes back.

There was a flask on the table, but in his eyes, it was all money, and it was a lot of money. As for whether the shape is perfect or not, whether there is artistic content or not, whether there are many bubbles, that is secondary. As long as it's transparent enough. If you knead it into the shape of a puddle of, you can sell it for a good price. Scarcity is expensive.

"Do you want to get the United States, this is a product of the Imperial Chemical Group, when will you have your shares, do you want to embezzle state property? Aren't you afraid that Cixi will come to the door in the middle of the night? To Luo Youde's surprise, this time Hong Tao did not laugh with him, but refuted his claim with righteous words.

"That'...... Then why did you call me back from so far away? Luo Youde was a little confused. Originally, he couldn't see through Hong Tao, and since he became the emperor, he can't see through it even more.

"Lao Wen and the Mongols have talked about it almost over, and the port of Jinzhou will not be opened to their deaths, but the port of Mizhou is spitting. The tentative exchanges in the early stage are currently underway. Now we are ready to get our hands on the goods, and my opinion is that sugar, wine, whale oil, candles, soap, soap, perfume, silk, and all kinds of luxury goods shipped back from overseas are open for sale. However, products that involve new technologies, such as steel tools and knives, are not allowed to be sold. This bottle is for you to use for wine, and the wine alone is not perfect, and the grape wine glow-in-the-dark glass. We not only have wine, but also rum, some of which is in glass bottles, where do you say it is better to sell it to the Mongolian nobles? ”

Hong Tao really didn't deliberately recall Luo Youde from Jiankang City to see his own show, in the past half a year, Luo Youde's Huanqiu company has carried out business along the Yangtze River to the Jinghu area, and is about to enter Sichuan, which is his busiest time. There is nothing important, and he will definitely not be called back because of personal factors.

"Doing business with the Mongols...... Except for horses, sheep, and animal skins, there's nothing to exchange, right? Do they have so much money to buy our goods? If you want to change too many Mongolian horses, they don't necessarily agree, right? Luo Youde was skeptical of Hongtao's suggestion.

"That's not necessarily, the treasury is poor, it doesn't mean that the Mongolian nobles are also poor. Mongolian horses don't matter, Martini is raising horses in Cape Town, and I estimate that in a few years, the big horses there will be all over the grassland. We don't want horses, sheep, animal furs, saltpeter, and ore, and we can all ask for them, and after taking them, the useful ones for the empire will be transported back, and the useless ones will be sold to the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, and they will make a profit at each end, and they should not lose money. In addition, in order to express our sincerity, the first batch of rice shipped to the port of Mizhou was more than 100,000 stones, and I don't believe that the Mongol Empire even wanted rice! Hong Tao explained to Luo Youde again according to his own plan.

"Ahh Trafficking grain to the Mongols...... Isn't this an enemy? With food, it's easier for them to recover! Maybe as soon as the front foot of our ship leaves, the back foot of the food will become military food. Luo Youde startled Hong Tao's plan, since ancient times, grain has not been an ordinary commodity in all dynasties and generations, but a hard currency. In wartime, it is a strategic material, and it is better than copper coins, gold and silver.

"This is just a stepping stone, hundreds of thousands of stone grains will not restore the vitality of the Mongol Empire, nor will it put the Great Song Dynasty in danger. Last time I used a warship to pit the Mongols, and this time I will pit them again. But you can't use battleships anymore, you have to change the way, and doing business with them is the beginning of digging a hole. This approach is slower, but more thorough. If the Mongolian high-level does not realize it, within ten years, they will really be terminally ill and will no longer have the ability to invade the south. Regarding Luo Youde's worries, Hong Tao had already taken them into consideration. If you want to trick people, you have to be quiet, and sometimes you have to deliberately throw out some benefits to let the other party taste the sweetness first.

Hundreds of thousands of stone grain is a fart, and after years of guidance, agriculture in the Nanyang countries has developed rapidly. The water conservancy facilities and iron farming tools aided by the Golden River Empire are working locally, and food production is increasing every year. They don't have that much population, and the items they trade with the Golden River Empire are mainly grain, except for minerals, timber, and medicine. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of stones, no matter how many times more the Jinhe Empire can take it out in minutes, and it will be delivered to the door, and no courier fee will be charged!!

"Isn't this matter in charge of Li Niang, she didn't do a good job?" As soon as Luo Youde heard that Hong Tao was going to dig a pit for the Mongol Empire, he immediately didn't ask much, Hong Tao is an authority on this issue, and every time he digs it, he will be spiritual.

"Li Niang is mainly responsible for transporting large quantities of goods from the empire mainland and subject countries to the port of Mizhou, but I think that one port of Mizhou is far from enough, and it is impossible for the Mongols to open the port at present. Therefore, I want you to cooperate with Lao Xu to prepare enough goods in Mingzhou, and he will secretly contact Goryeo merchants and transport them to other ports to sell in a circle, so as to have a fait accompli and open this opening from the people. Hong Tao is not satisfied with the speed of digging the pit, he has to use all the strength in his hand to dig the big pit, the faster the better.

"This is easy to do, the warehouses of the original transshipment fleet in Mingzhou are still in my hands, and the Great Song Dynasty has not mentioned how to deal with these warehouses after the fleet is gone, so I don't pretend to know. Store the goods in the warehouse first, and wait for Lao Xu's people to pull them by themselves. Luo Youde thinks that this job is not difficult, it is just a matter of piggybacking.

"No, I'm looking for you to come back because I'm afraid that you will come forward, this matter can only be done by Lao Xu alone, and you have to cut off all contact with him on the surface. Do you know what the Great Song Dynasty has been doing in the past few months? Hearing Luo Youde say this, Hong Tao's brows furrowed even tighter.

"Isn't it paving? Your Majesty's cement is really a good thing, now there is a fast track from Mingzhou to Lin'an, very, very smooth, no matter how heavy the rain is, the feet are still not muddy. It is said that the imperial court planned to build this road all the way into Sichuan and Shaanxi, and it would be much easier to transfer troops, grain and grass along the Yangtze River in the future. Luo Youde thought that Hong Tao was asking him about the movements of the Great Song Dynasty, so he picked out one thing he thought was the biggest event and told it in detail.

"Lao Luo, you let that Zheng Shibo fool you. It's true that they're building roads, but they're not idle at sea. Cixi's news said that the establishment of a royal trading fleet was being discussed in the imperial court, and the Great Song Dynasty was preparing to set up a maritime merchant fleet by the official family, and also to run the route of Dashi. The official conclusion has not yet come out, and if they do, we will be passive, and unless we turn around, we will have to let them run this route. These days, Hong Tao did not waste his work, he always paid attention to the changes in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty, and was even more concerned about the Mongol Empire.

“…… It's a bit tricky...... Your Majesty might as well let Lao Wen go and talk openly and honestly with them, and carefully plan the trade ports between the two sides. It is better to let the imperial court's trading fleet transport the goods back to the north for sale, such as north of Wenzhou, so that the impact on the strait company will not be too great. Luo Youde listened to Hong Tao's words, and he was also a little embarrassed. If the Southern Song Dynasty really used the power of the whole country to seize the Nanyang route, his strait company would become the biggest victim. The price and trading rules that had been established will inevitably be readjusted, and the competition will become more intense.

(To be continued.) )