Ma Tian was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but take a breath. This principle seemed simple, but it was terrible to think about it carefully. Although Ma Tian was a general of the Han Dynasty, he was also very familiar with the situation of the surrounding countries.

If the craftsmen who specialize in making military weapons were not supported by the country, their respective craftsmanship would soon become unfamiliar. For example, how many people would they need to build arrows for the country?

According to the Tang Dynasty's method, without thousands of craftsmen building day and night, so many arrows are not enough, and these arrows still need to be stored continuously.

If these craftsmen did not need to build arrows, what would they do? It was impossible for them to raise so many craftsmen for no reason, either in the Tang Dynasty or Persia. These were just craftsmen. You should know that the number of apprentices working for craftsmen was even larger.

This is a whole system. Think about it, what you spent such a huge amount of money to create is useless and is much worse than the other party, and the other party is cheaper than you. If you are the king, will you continue to support these people?

As soon as Ma Tian's thought fell, Dai Yu spoke directly: "We have carefully estimated all the taxes of the Persian dynasty and the funds of their treasury. To be honest, the treasury of the Persian dynasty is quite rich. After all, Persia has existed for many years, but their taxes are basically inadequate for years, and a lot of wealth is accumulated in the hands of Persian nobles."

"According to our estimates, if the Persian dynasty buys our arrows, if one million arrows are purchased, according to the current consumption, they will save at least about one hundred thousand drachma silver coins per year."

"One hundred thousand silver coins are almost equivalent to 1,000 gold coins, which is already very attractive to Isai. This is not the other armor and weapons we exported. If all of these are counted, at least it can save them about 500,000 silver coins than Persians made by themselves."

"More importantly, once they start fighting with the Arabs, their weapons and arrows will be lost, and they will continue to buy as long as there is any loss."

"For our country, these purchases can first sell a large number of steel products, and secondly, they can support our factories. When the factory profit increases, more workers will benefit, not only workers, but also the transportation industry, railway industry, etc. What's more, we are not losing money. Although our profits are not much, they are also very generous."

"Compared with weapons and equipment, the most important thing we sell on a large scale is the most important thing. Of course, weapons and equipment are also very important. If they fight, we don't mind instigating the Byzantine Empire next to us, or starting to sell weapons to those Arabs."

"Anyway, the more these things are consumed, the better. After this time lasts about five years, we will have a complete experience in Zizhulin Port, Bad City, and several cities near Persia. The train will also extend directly to the front line, and some factories will also need to build enough factories on the front line."

"It's just a very simple thing for you to attack at that time." Dai Yu said quickly.

"At that time, their weapons and equipment were actually controlled by us. It was almost impossible for them to produce them themselves. The less they would fight their weapons and equipment."

Ma Tian looked at Dai Yu speechlessly. To put it this way... You people are really too much. What's the use of dealing with us soldiers like this? But he has to say... These people are too cruel. It seems that these things don't have much problem, but this is a completely outspoken plan.

The point is that these countries seem to be unable to see through such strategies at all, because such schemes are too long and they do not have such deep high beams at all, or rather, this is purely due to the crushing of the times.

I have to say that these people from the Ministry of Commerce are really... all old silver coins.

"Okay, I understand, then you can just negotiate your negotiations directly. I'm here to provide you with guarantees, but for now, you don't seem to need it." Ma Tian shook his head with a wry smile. He was here to provide strategic support for military aspects, but now it seems that he doesn't need it.

"General Ma, you can't say that. If the situation is urgent, it's not clear that you need the Suzaku or the White Tiger Army to play a bad guy." Guo Ming smiled and said.

Ma Tian shrugged his shoulders. Of course he knew this, it was just to let the Suzaku Army pretend to be one of them and directly talk about the battle between the two sides to instigate them. As for why it was the Suzaku Army, it was because the White Tiger Army was too obvious.

Of course, the White Tiger Army is not bad. Just replace the horses. It is impossible for the enemy to discover them as long as the horse is replaced. The White Tiger Army does not have obsessive-compulsive disorder and must have a white horse to fight. But this is already a symbol of the White Tiger Army, so they naturally will not change it casually.

But if they need to replace horses for strategic needs, they naturally have no problem. Anyway, there are too many war horses in the entire Han Dynasty, and the war horses comparable to the White Tiger Army are not destroyed, so they naturally have no psychological pressure when replacing them.

"Then do you think Isai is possible to agree?" Ma Tian thought about it and asked.

"There is a great possibility of agreeing, at least they cannot refuse the food. By the way, I forgot to say it just now, this matter is also of great help to our shipbuilding industry." Dai Yu added with a smile.

The construction speed of Zizhulin Port is currently the first among the Han Dynasty. Because the train has been built to Stan City, the distance from Zizhulin Port has been very advanced. The Ministry of Construction has begun to build a concrete road from Zizhulin Port to Stan City. Moreover, there are rivers between the two directly from the upstream to the downstream, so it is helpful for the transportation of heavy objects and large objects.

A simple dock in Zizhulin Port has been built, and a large amount of wood that had been prepared has been continuously transported here. With the help of Lingquan Water, the quality of wood in Dahan is definitely the highest in the world. In just five or six years, many of the saplings planted before have become successful.

Although there is no way to build ships for the time being, the woods that already existed are of higher quality and grow very fast with the assistance of spiritual spring water, so a large amount of wood enough to build ships is continuously transported to the Zizhu Forest.

Currently, two large sail battleships have laid keels and started to be built directly.

Although these two sail battleships were the first ships that the Han Dynasty began to build, they are still very experienced because of their rich theories and their countless models, especially for craftsmen. Many of the tools they have in their hands are magical tools for other shipbuilders at this time.

So the construction of these two sail battleships was very fast, mainly because they had many machines in their hands that were not available in countries like the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the wood is prepared in advance, so the two ships are expected to be launched around the Spring Festival this year, and then they can be completed around March next year.

Although these two sail battleships are battleships, they will not be equipped with a large number of artillery when they are built. Just its size and steel armor that will be covered in the future, this thing is invincible in this era.

So at that time, these two ships are likely to be used to transport goods. Of course, after these two ships are finished, and before they even end, the keel of the first complete steel warship will begin to be laid.

The first steel warship was probably used purely as a transport ship. Because the train was transported directly to Persia and other places, it had to wait at least until the train was built. Moreover, it would take at least three years to build the railway to Bad City, and Bad City was still 1,000 kilometers away from the Mesopotamian River Basin.

It takes at least one to two years to build this thousand kilometers, and you have to take down Persia.

However, the trains from Zizhulin Port and Stan City have been opened to traffic, and the distance between the two sides is very close, so it is very easy to transport a large amount of supplies here. There is also enough supplies on the continental Peninsula that was driven out by He Modu and the others.

With the construction of Stan City and some factories near Zizhuling Port, Zizhulin Port was definitely the first to be developed on a large scale. A large number of ships were built, and the distance from Zizhulin Port to the Persian Gulf or to the Red Sea was not far, very close.

Moreover, when shipping, even in this era, it is more than a train. And shipping can bring more possibilities, because shipping can transport supplies from different places, and you can't rely on that place to transport supplies for trains, right? It's too dependent on trains.

However, all these are related to the overall strategic development of the entire Han Dynasty. Ma Tian is a soldier. He doesn't know these things and doesn't understand them, but he knows that the Han Dynasty will become stronger and stronger.

After the Han annexed Persia, the Han Dynasty will be truly invincible in the world!

After discussing it a few more times, Guo Ming and his team began to explain that they would start building radio stations. It would be impossible for them to build the antenna poles that were so high. After all, they didn't have cement here, and it would be impossible to bring the steel components used to build tall towers.

They just brought steel components as bases, and as for building taller ones, they could only use wood to assist.

But no one in this world knows what they are doing, so they can build high at will, even if they become the tallest building in the city, it doesn't matter.

Of course, they must set up things like lightning rods. There are not so many high buildings in this world that serve as lightning rods, so they can only set them up. Fortunately, lightning rods are not difficult, and they are very simple.
Chapter completed!