Chapter 1023 New Market
Moreover, since the first year of the Tianqi to the sixth year of the Tianqi, although the Haibei Army has won many victories and victories in Liaodong and several other fronts, the Haibei Army is an extremely luxurious tactic. A large-scale battle often costs hundreds of thousands or even millions of taels of silver, and all the losses and burdens are transferred to the people of Shandong. Now Shandong is a little overwhelmed.
In this case, Liu Peng could only focus on economic and people's livelihood construction. Of course, for these generals of the Haibei Army, focusing on economic construction is to better prepare for war. Gu Shanhe had asked: "The governor means hiding wealth from the people, and is preparing to let these rubber chariots play a greater role in peacetime and concentrate on using them in wartime..."
He had changed the so-called "hiding wealth for the people" concept and directly considered the issue of wartime requisition. Wu Menghui had already followed his tone and said: "Yes, the same car is completely different from the role that can be played in our hands and you. Don't worry..."
Wu Menghui was telling the truth. The Haibei Army often only knew how to use the means of transportation in its hands, and even used it at all costs. As a result, after the end of a battle, hundreds or even thousands of mules and horses were often forced to recuperate for a long time due to being exhausted and even unable to return to the battlefield. Dozens or even hundreds of carriages had to go into the factory for overhaul.
However, Wu Menghui knew how to make the car and horse in his hand make the greatest profit in the most reasonable way, and how to run faster without losing horsepower and vehicles. Many times, the horses of the military must be handed over to them for maintenance.
However, Wu Menghui said this today only to monopolize the orders of this batch of rubber car. At least he had to gain all the experience of using and maintaining rubber wheels, rolling bearings and new lubricants before the rubber car was launched in large quantities, so that he could remain invincible in commercial competition.
But the military also had the same idea as Wu Menghui. Ji Jinsi had already protested to Liu Peng: "Governor, you also know that southern Liaoning is a hilly mountainous terrain, and the supply of our front-line troops is a big problem, so even if we are in a state of combat readiness and small-scale war, we still need a large number of rubber ** vehicles!"
He quickly proposed his own solution: "I think this can be done. The rubber carts produced in a single month belong to our military, and the rubber carts produced by both sides are rich in the people. During the war, our Haibei Army requisitioned all rubber carts!"
But he has made a wishful thinking. If we look at odds and even months alone, this is an extremely fair deal. However, with the military's energy, all double-set rubber ** cars can be produced in a single month, and only single-set rubber ** cars can be produced in two months. It is possible that we are even unlucky and cannot produce a rubber ** car in several two months.
Of course, this is just Ji Jinsi's little thought and cannot be made public, but as long as such an agreement is reached, the Haibei Army will definitely gain the upper hand.
However, Liu Peng shook his head and said, "I know that there are indeed great difficulties in replenishing the troops on the Liaonan front line. However, the current rubber ** vehicle has immature technology, high prices and too low domestic production ratio. To equip the troops on a large scale, you must wait until the mass production of domestic rubber!"
Liu Peng finally came to the conclusion, so Ji Jinsi immediately asked Liu Yirong: "Miss Dislike, the governor has handed over the rubber garden in the south to you. Then tell us how many years can we officially cut rubber? Will it work next year? If it doesn't work next year, the year after year, we will always provide us with a batch of rubber carts!"
If Liu Yirong had not had much contact with the military before, she has now become a big celebrity in the eyes of the military, so she immediately replied: "How is it possible next year, and the next year is impossible. Uncle Ji, you probably don't know that if you plant rubber trees, according to my father, it will take at least eight years to start cutting rubber for eight years!"
But as soon as he heard this, Gu Shanhe said immediately: "Governor, are we going to send some troops to the rubber garden in the south?"
Liu Peng laughed: "You guys, are you forgetting that it's time to recuperate? This kind of thing is not suitable for the troops to come forward, but since there is vulcanized rubber, the south side is indeed strengthening its strength!"
Gu Shanhe and Ji Jinsi have already understood that since it is "rest and recuperate", the number of regular troops of the Haibei Army can remain basically unchanged, and even maintain a high training intensity. However, since military expenditures are to be reduced, it is naturally necessary to reduce the scale of foreign garrisons and military operations. Therefore, Li Xiuwei said over there: "Then it is better to borrow the civilian escort force!"
But he also knew that the "civilian guard forces" of the Haibei Army were just in the name of civil force, and the support of the Haibei Army was still inseparable from the support of the Haibei Army. Several of his old officials also held important positions in the civil guard system. The facts were no different from the fact that the Haibei Army came forward directly. However, during the current "rest and recuperation" period, it was a political correctness to let the civil guard forces come forward in daily affairs.
Now it is time to "rest and recuperate".
But even Wu Menghui didn't expect the effect of rest and recuperation to be so good. His face was now smiling, and Lin Yalan said to him: "The governor's rest and rest this time is indeed the right one, but it's good. Don't look at the many civil and military officials in Haibei Town, but his knowledge is simply not as good as the governor's!"
It has only been more than four months since Liu Peng mentioned his last time that he was recuperating. It is now September in the golden autumn, and he sees a harvest atmosphere everywhere, and it is a year of great harvest at first glance.
Lin Yalan in the carriage laughed: "Shopkeeper Wu, don't praise our governor! Everyone said that after fighting in Liaodong for so many years, I finally have a chance to take a rest!"
Although there have been some gains on the battlefield, and the settlement and reclamation of Jinfu and the two places in recent years have also been very rewarding, the Liaodong war is a real bottomless pit for Haibei Town. I don’t know how much money and grain are used for the Liaodong war every year, especially when it was last expedition to North Korea, it is said that the Haiyouhui all changed in the face of the weather.
But since everyone knows that there is such an amazing investment in Liaodong, Haibei Town and the Later Jin have become irreconcilable enemies. There is only one winner between the two sides, and no one dares to propose "rest and recuperate", and only Governor Liu Pengliu dares to make such a proposal.
This is also what Wu Menghui admires most. Liu Peng can always make correct judgments at the most accurate critical moment. Just like this rest and recuperation seems to be a very simple thing, but the problem is what if Huang Taiji refuses to cooperate!
If Huang Taiji took this opportunity to launch a full-scale offensive in southern Liaoning, then Liu Peng's wishful thinking will not only be completely disrupted, but may also suffer a severe blow in the battlefield in southern Liaoning.
But the final result was almost perfect. No one expected that Huang Taiji's battle for Ningjin would end in a major setback. It was unlikely that the attack on Liaonan would be launched within a few months, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The frequent wars of several years have made everyone's strings tense. Now that the war has stopped, everyone has found that they have so many things to deal with. Therefore, Wu Menghui's carriage and horse business broke out suddenly. He never thought that so many goods and personnel would have to be transported in such a short time.
Even though he got several new rubber ** cars from the study institute, he was also a real expert and knew how to properly dispatch transportation capacity, he was overwhelmed by a large number of orders every day and had to do everything possible to dispatch transportation capacity every day. But even so, he could only meet two-thirds of the needs at most, and in many cases, he could not even meet half of the needs.
He told Lin Yalan in the car one by one, but Lin Yalan had a different view: "I think Manager Wu's statement is roughly good, but you don't want to say the most important point!"
Wu Menghui asked without shame. He knew that although Lin Yalan had been alone in front of him, he maintained a good relationship with Xu Qiaozhi and Wei Yujun: "Yalan's niece, what is that point?"
Lin Yalan immediately said two words: "North Korea, Mongolia!"
As soon as Lin Yalan said these two words, Wu Menghui couldn't help but slapped his thigh and said, "It's true, why didn't I expect North Korea and Mongolia to be the two places!"
He already understood why his business was so prosperous recently, but it was not because of the new orders in these two places that were particularly thrilling. Although Liu Peng personally fought against North Korea this time, the war expenses reimbursed afterwards were said to exceed million Haibeipiao, which made Zhong Yuzheng look disgraced, but it did open up the markets between North Korea and Mongolia.
Although I don’t know how many of the new orders are because of the two markets of North Korea and Mongolia, North Korea is said to have a population of nearly 10 million and Mongolia also has vast grasslands. As a result, Wu Menghui often hears his old customers talking about orders in these two markets, including raw materials shipped from North Korea and Mongolia markets, as well as the so-called "Dengzhou goods" exported to these places. Anyway, it will be at least two or three times the profit.
Jiangnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Huaiyang, although these are all old markets for Dengzhou goods and under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, they are all at a bottleneck period, and even if there is growth, it is very limited.
However, North Korea and Mongolia have amazing consumption capacity, which are comparable to Shandong's large market. Anyway, a few months ago, at least one out of ten of Wu Menghui's old customers was doing business in these two places. Now at least three or four of his ten old customers are doing business in these two places. And according to their tone, the profits are very considerable. Some people even suggested that Wu Menghui expand the business of Wu's carriage to North Korea and even Mongolia.
Now Lin Yalan wakes up the dreamer with one word, Wu Menghui can't help but scream: "I turn around and order another 100 rubber** cars from Miss Disguise! Well, one hundred is not enough!"
Chapter completed!