"Have the goods been inspected? How about it?" Tian Xiaochuan asked while making tea in an office of Sucheng Port Authority.

"It's not so good. It can be seen that it is used very frequently. Maybe it's completely scrapped if it can't be fired." Wang Zhaoli knew that Tian Xiaochuan was asking about the artillery that was installed. In fact, he didn't have much hope. The artillery of the East Coast Army was retired from the army and sent to the militia after being troubled by those guys for a few years and then resold them. The situation would definitely not be too optimistic. But there is no way, the conditions are that, brand new artillery is very expensive and they can't afford it. These artillery that are nearly scrapped is almost the price of scrap iron, and at least two or three hundred shells can be fired, which is already good.

"What can I do if I don't have money?" Tian Xiaochuan shook his head and smiled mockingly: "I remember when I was a pirate, I always felt that I was rich and very rich. But now I have been building a state system, why has I become poor all of a sudden? Even the Port Authority has such a good and humble yamen, and the tea used to entertain guests is so terrible."

"Hehe, the Minister of Logistics and Materials is not easy to do? People who care about your money are everywhere. I have been working hard in the past few months. It's still the Minister of Defense An Yi." Wang Zhaoli smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then said with a bitter face: "It's all tea leaves. Damn, Lao Liu embezzled public funds, right?"

Tian Xiaochuan laughed gloatingly when he heard this: "I really don't know that the firewood and rice are expensive if I don't do it. Now I really realize that our ancestors and fathers have created the greatness of the East Coast. This formation is not something that ordinary people can do. A grass-roots team like our Dasu, only tens of thousands of people, they build docks and dig canals, and they also need to develop businesses, open schools, and prepare for wars. Sometimes I doubt that being a national leader is really as happy as a pirate?"

After hearing this, Wang Zhaoli smiled and said nothing. Tian Xiaochuan could only listen to what he said. Can Wang Zhaoli not know where he came from? Among these founding fathers, the one who is most active in the founding country was Tian, ​​right? This guy is simply the highest contact person sent by the General Administration of Information of the East Coast in the Great Soviet Kingdom. Just like Pu Xiaoshuang who was addicted to being a horse bandit in the north, they are all good birds.

Of course, Wang Zhaoli's origin was not so clean. In fact, he was also an external staff member of the State Administration of Intelligence in his early years, but after working hard for so many years, his feelings for the pirate group were deeper, and he was very helpless about the East Coast using them as tools. But in reality, there was no way! The Great Soviet State had to rely on the East Coast to provide assistance, otherwise such a grass-roots regime would be in a few years and would have been scattered. How could he have such a bright future now?

"By the way, after the vacation is over, I have to send a boat to Xinjing Port to receive a batch of wheat. The food in the country is insufficient, so I have to replenish it as soon as possible." Wang Zhaoli suddenly said again.

"You still have food trade with the Free State?" Tian Xiaochuan was a little surprised: "If I remember correctly, we already owe them a lot of food payments, right? They dare to sell us food. How big is this kind of heart!"

"Ahem!" Wang Zhaoli seemed to be choking by tea, and he said awkwardly: "I owe some. The messenger of the Free State still lives here and goes to the Ministry of Finance to collect money every day. However, Air Canada is guaranteed this time, and the situation is different from before."

I don’t know what to do, most of the countries along the Caribbean coast have a dilemma of insufficient food. I won’t talk about the Governor of New Spain. I’ll never talk about the tropical products that have been planted, and I’ll still import food from the Governor of Peru. I won’t talk about the small islands on the Caribbean Sea. Sugarcane, coffee, and cocoa plantations are endless, and I’ll still import food from North America. Even the Huaiyuan Island, the East Coast people, was able to self-sufficient in food in the past few years, but after the great development of industry, I had to import food from the East Coast local area. In fact, if it were not forcibly stipulated by the central government, they would rather purchase the only grain nearby that was slightly more abundant, but instead, the free state kingdom that was once looked down upon by many people.

The country is still mainly based on agriculture, with some offshore fishing, animal husbandry and timber processing industries, but the scale is not very large, just a decoration. It seems that because it was "consecrated" by the East Coast people in South Africa, the agricultural planting technology of these descendants of the Black Eight Banners of South Africa is quite good, and their grain output has increased year by year. Now it has become a net exporter, robbing many British North American colonies.

The founding of the pirate forces in Sucheng was still short. Although they spent a lot of effort to dig a lot of irrigation canals and rectify some farmland, the problem of hunger always exists, so they have to purchase food from outside for emergency treatment. Well, on credit, okay, sometimes they will pay some money, but in the eyes of Liberty, the reputation of the deadbeat cannot be lost.

By the way, as the situation in the Free State becomes more and more stable, the East Coast government has been discussing whether to send the excess Indians and Mestiso people in the country to them in the past two years. It just so happens that the Free State is also very eager for the population. Air Canada has not only failed to transport the Black Eight Banners of South Africa, but also privately detained a lot of people to their plantations, which greatly disappointed the Free State. This time, I heard that the East Coast government was not ready for the Yellow-Black Dividing Line and could not accommodate too many people, so it intentionally exported some to other places, so it came to the door and said it could eat a considerable amount and enrich their national strength.

As a neighbor of the Free State, the Great Soviet Union naturally heard about this. For this reason, Tian Xiaochuan also joked with people at that time, saying that the senior executives of the Free State were really overly obsessed with light-skinned people and tried every means to clean themselves. They were really inferior to their bones.

On the contrary, Wang Zhaoli was very worried about this matter, believing that the Free State has been developing for many years and the political situation is stable. If it can eat a large population and successfully digest it, it will be a leap of national strength. The Great Soviet Union and the Free State are neighbors, and there will definitely be competitive relationships in the future. If the neighbors are too strong, it is not a good thing, although the relationship between the two countries is still relatively friendly. It’s a pity that the Great Soviet Union has a weak foundation at present and does not have the capital to eat too much population. Overall, Wang Zhaoli felt sour about this matter and was not very happy.

"Oh, the iron cockerel Air Canada is so generous, and it actually gives us a guarantee. Then don't pay back the amount of food." Tian Xiaochuan said with a smile: "If we want to fight, we must give some benefits. Sending military instructors and agricultural technical experts to us is not enough. As a large state-owned backbone enterprise, Air Canada should always share the worries of the East Coast at critical moments. It is not enough to rely on national support to earn benefits."

Wang Zhaoli glanced at him and thought to himself that you would get more benefits through the channels of the General Administration of Information. If you can't get money, you can get some medicines, seeds, and farm tools, and you can all solve the urgent problem. Of course, he just thought about this in his mind. Some things can be understood, but it's boring to say it out loud. What's more, although Tian Xiaochuan is not clear about his identity, he is also a person who has made contributions to the Great Su Kingdom. Not to mention other things in recent years, he is really the leader in war, which is amazing. Now he has become the Minister of Logistics and Materials and has also taken a boat to sea in person. This is really a very good level of professionalism.

After all, it's still too poor! Damn, if you really can't survive, just listen to others, gamble through a lot, the whole army pressed over, and ran to Mexico to steal his mother!

Wang Zhaoli still has some understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Mexican colonial soldiers, which is worse than the army they trained. You should know that the Great Su Kingdom started with pirates, and might be a good player in sea combat, but land warfare really does not have that tradition. Just like this, a group of people can despise the Mexican colonial army soldiers, and you can imagine how bad those people are. Years of pampering have exhausted their energy! The only thing that is worrying is probably that their number is relatively large, and there are also some militias in the local area who are willing to fight to defend their homes, which makes the Great Su Kingdom, which cannot afford to die, feel that it is not worth the loss.

But what if they really successfully occupy a wealthy city? Even if it is only a short period of time, it may not be a profitable transaction as long as they successfully transport the spoils. The roundtable board of directors has discussed this issue before, but everyone is a little hesitant about how many people would die before the siege and could not make up their minds. But now the situation seems different. Maybe breaking a big city, robbing tens of thousands of yuan back, and then buying grain transporters (Mestiso people) from the east coast can achieve a virtuous cycle? It seems that we can really consider this matter again!

"Iron Rooster Air Canada will also be bleeding a lot this time." Wang Zhaoli said absent-mindedly: "It is said that they have received a clear order that once a war breaks out with Spain in the future, they will form a considerable armed fleet to assist the East Coast Navy to block the ports and transport personnel and supplies. In addition, they also need to help in instigating Florida's independence, not only to pay for money, but also to provide people. This will affect how much business it will affect. Oh, by the way, I want to laugh when talking about this. I heard a rumor that the white Spanish natives in Florida were ready for the country's name and flag after independence. The country's name is the Republic of Florida, and the system is completely imitated by the East Coast. There is a huge palm tree on the national flag, which is really a bit funny."

"Is these grandchildren so naive? What's so big of rebellion and independence that everyone knows?" Tian Xiaochuan said in surprise. There seem to be some stupid guys who are well-known in Chinese history, but the outcome seems to be very good. What's going on with these native men in Florida? This doesn't look like people who do big things should be!

"A bunch of idiots' hands are not bad things for us. Look, there are three countries in the north coast of the Caribbean, our Great Soviet Union, Free State, and Florida. In the future, there will be quarrels over fishing resources, national borders and trade routes. The stupider the people in Florida, the better they are to us." Wang Zhaoli said.

"Yes, the stupider the better." Tian Xiaochuan laughed and said, "Oh, I want to go there and go for a walk, and I don't know what the situation is now."
Chapter completed!