The cabinet's loan treaty for the Roman Empire was pretty good, with low interest rates and could be repaid in installments. The treaty was quite considerable for the Romans to consider how to get the loan, how to use the loan to buy the ordnance warships they needed, even merchant ships and locked Imperial goods, a package of plans.

The cabinet had considered them all. As long as Herac signed a letter, Rome would get a large loan, get all kinds of required arms, and all kinds of extremely profitable commodities. They didn't need to go to banks to negotiate loans one by one.

There is no need to talk to the bank about loan terms or guarantees, and there is no need to talk to the various ordnance factories and shipyards to negotiate orders.

Everything was formed by the cabinet, and then the banks, military factories, etc. were organized to provide them with a packaging agreement.

Just sign, the others are the best combination plan.

Prince Herac took the agreement and looked carefully one by one. The more he looked, the more he liked it.

Dahua's cabinet is really efficient. How long has he been here and asked His Majesty the Emperor for loans and military purchases? Dahua has already come up with such a good agreement after all his efforts.

It saves effort and is very discounted.

If they go to the UOB or the commercial bank to negotiate, they may be able to negotiate, but it will definitely take more time and the price will not be so discounted.

Herac was very envious of Zhang Chao. It was so easy to have such a powerful cabinet.

"Dear Your Highness Augustus, what do you think the agreement?"

Chu Suiliang asked.

Regarding this cooperation, Zhang Chao's instructions to the cabinet were very clear. This cooperation was very important to the Romans, but also to Dahua. It was not only of great political help, but also of great economic help to Dahua.

The Roman Empire has now become the largest market for Dahua to export, accounting for about 70%. Therefore, the stability and survival of the Roman Empire are very important to Dahua. After all, Dahua and the Romans are very happy to cooperate. If it were a more barbaric guy like Arabs and Persia, it would be much more troublesome.

In the past, trade with the Persians was not very smooth. They relied on their own stuck between the East and the West, so they wanted to monopolize this kind of re-export trade and prevent Eastern merchants from transporting goods directly to the West. They also deliberately lowered the price and then sold them to the West at a high price after the acquisition, making huge trade differences from it.

The majority of trade was made profits, and because of their monopoly, the trade volume was greatly reduced, which caused huge losses to the Central Plains, a major foreign trade exporter.

Especially nowadays, Dahua not only masters the extremely popular products of silk, porcelain, tea, sugar and other goods in the Western market, but also masters the output of spices.

Dahua needs this foreign trade market in the West. Although Dahua itself is now a huge domestic demand market, many things are transported to the West to make more money.

For Dahua, foreign trade is not only as simple as the imperial court collecting more tariffs.

Instead, it involves a huge trade economic system, including navigation and transportation, overseas colonization, production and processing of foreign trade commodities, etc. This involves a huge share of the entire Dahua economic system.

If one day it is said that trade with the West is cut off, then Dahua's economy will not collapse, but it will also suffer a huge blow.

This is also the key to the Tang Dynasty in the past, when it was joined by Rome to deal with the Persians, and now it is joined by Rome to deal with the Arabs.

It’s not because of different beliefs, or because of distant friendship and near attacks, or territorial disputes.

But they are actually stuck between the East and the West, and want to hinder trade between the East and the West, and want to monopolize the big profits of this trade.

In the past, the Romans fought against the Persians for hundreds of years, just for silk and spices.

Now the Tang Dynasty is actively participating in the Western War, which is fundamentally due to the economy.

Of course, there is a huge difference between those who open up the business path by the court. For example, in the late Ming Dynasty, civil sailing was very popular, but the court's attitude was various bans, which resulted in hindering navigation and trade, but the court did not gain real benefits.

For the cabinet, it is actually very easy to organize such a loan military purchase group.

"Dear Mr. Zi, I am very satisfied with all aspects of the agreement. I hope the loan amount can be larger, the repayment period can be longer, the number of arms is higher, and various silk and other commodities also need more, especially raw silk."

Chu Suiliang smiled and said, "It is not a problem to increase the loan number. Our Dahua has four major banks, all of which are strong. If Your Highness wants to borrow more, it is no problem. We can even help Your Highness as a guarantee and get the same discounted interest."

Chu Suiliang was not afraid of the Romans' loans too much, nor was he afraid that they could not pay back the loan, nor was he afraid that they would not pay back the money. Since he dared to loan, he was certainly confident.

Besides, the so-called loan is actually just a name.

No matter how much you have a loan, the money will not be leaked abroad. All the money obtained from the loan is actually strictly restricted. Each loan is actually stipulated in the agreement and is used to pay the fees for the military purchase case.

To put it bluntly, it is the Romans who borrowed loans and then used them to pay the arms payments.

The prices of these arms are actually relatively expensive, far higher than the cost, and the profit is extremely high. Military-industrial enterprises can make a lot of money after receiving this order.

Bank loans, the installments given to the Romans, and the interest added up, are actually never cheap.

In short, you make a loan from the Romans, and then you make a lot of money from the military purchase.

The bank's money flowed to various military manufacturers, and the manufacturers then purchased materials from steel factories, timber factories, etc., and those steel factories, timber factories, etc., and then purchased materials from coal factories, logging yards, etc.

This also involves transportation and orders from many accessories manufacturers.

A warship, shipyard, got orders, workers started work, and his canvas suppliers, iron nail suppliers, etc. also drank soup.

A large order from the Romans benefited not only from banks and military manufacturers, but from countless manufacturers in the industrial chain.

If manufacturers have orders, workers naturally have work to do, and even have work to work, so their income will naturally be higher.

When manufacturers make money, the taxes received by the court are also high, and when workers make money, they can also increase consumption. This is a virtuous cycle.

Herac dares to borrow, Dahua will definitely dare to give it to him.

Of course, Dahua did not give the Romans loans to sell arms, but also to stabilize the environment, curb the expansion of the Arabs to the east and north, and ensure the security of Dahua's trust in the border areas bordering them, such as Daxia and Hezhong.

It is certainly not in the interests of Dahua that an overly powerful Arab lies in Central Asia.

The additional conditions for Dahua's loan are the Suez Canal and the Cyprus Island-Leasing Dahua in the Mediterranean.

The importance of the Suez Canal is self-evident, especially after Persia is now occupied by the Arabs. In the past, it was blocked from the way to transit east-west trade through the Persian Gulf. Now it relies entirely on the canal to enter and exit the Mediterranean, which is simply the lifeline of the Romans.

In particular, the Romans finally took advantage of the weakness of the Persians and counterattacked and regained many lost territory. As a result, the Arabs emerged in recent years and took away almost all the eastern coast of the Mediterranean like blood.

Now that the Romans have lost the Syrian region, Armenia is struggling, and even the Asia Minor Peninsula opposite Constantinople is in danger.

At this time, the Romans increasingly needed to rely on the profits and taxes of the oriental trade in goods brought by the canal to support their dangerous situation.

Cyprus is located in the eastern Mediterranean and is the key to the Mediterranean to the west. Especially since it is very close to the Syrian region lost by the Romans, it becomes more and more important.

This island is said to be the hometown of Venus, the god of love. It is not big or small, but it is about a quarter of the size of the island of Ryukotou, so it is not small.

From ancient times to the present, it has been occupied by Xitai, Assyrian, ancient Egypt, Persia and others, and is now controlled by the Romans, but the Arabs are planning to seize the island.

The Arabs have attacked the island many times, and even occupied some island areas and established some strongholds.

It was Zhang Chao's proposal that Dahua proposed to rent Cyprus.

The concession, rather than the territory of Sinai as before, is also a novel proposal. This is also considered to be a relatively novel proposal. This is also considering that Cyprus is already in the Mediterranean and the canals are also more important, the Romans may not be willing to give up easily.

It is also a means to not raise sovereignty, but to get it first in the name of the concession, and then slowly operate it.

After all, whether it is renting a canal or renting a Cyprus, the purpose is to ensure the safety of the canal and ensure the stability of trade with the West.

If this route is lost, then Dahua's merchant ships can only bypass Africa.

This is not a little far away, but in this era, even the Romans only knew that Africa south of the Mediterranean was a continent, but they actually didn't know how big this continent was.

Dahua now sealed Chengqian to the southern end of Africa, which fully demonstrated that Dahua knows Africa better than Europeans. But although he knows it better, it is still too far away around Africa.

In the Horn of Africa, Djibouti, the Suez Canal, the Sinai Peninsula, Cyprus, Dahua's power will become stronger and stronger.

"The lease period is signed for 100 years, and the annual rent is 1 million yuan of Huayuan copper coins."

Ma Zhou smiled and said to Herac, but this million was just nice and would not be given. Because there was an additional clause behind this, Dahua rented the canals of Rome and the island of Cyprus, and paid Rome one million chunks a year.

Dahua stationed troops in these two places to cooperate with Rome in defense and security, so Rome needs to share one million chunk of military expenditures with Dahua every year.

So, in fact, the rent is one million a year, and the Romans cannot get it.

The Romans shared Dahua's annual military expenditure of one million yuan, but they did not really pay.
Chapter completed!