Chapter 812: State Monopoly Destroys Copper Coins
Li Chang pulled off some muscle, chewed it hard, held it in his mouth and said, "We feel that others cannot defeat us in naval battles, and their ships cannot catch up with steam engines. The ship."
"What if it runs aground or the steam engine breaks down, and we are surrounded and beaten, and all the ammunition is used up?" Zhu Wentian shook his head.
"When we go out to fight, all the steam engines on the ship are broken. The craftsmen should lose their heads. We can't use a ship that is too big for the sails."
"More than 20,000 dan" If so, we need more masts, otherwise we can only drive a ship of two thousand tons.
When the steam engine technology matures, we can build a ship that does not require sails and use steel to build a ship of one hundred thousand tons.
After we get the rubber back, we can build an oil-burning ship, which can carry a lot more fuel at a time. Unlike the coal-burning ship, it can’t last long even if it only carries a bunch of fuel. It also needs a steam engine.
Not one, but many. Even if one is so broken, it will be fine. I remember one, I have an impression, and I can draw it."
Zhu Wentian also wanted to build a large ship with a carrying capacity of 10,000 tons. There is a complete set of drawings of a kind of freighter in the library, and the others are just information and thumbnails. Not many people like to study this.
His requirements are not high, just one kind is enough. As long as it is made, the craftsmen will continue to work on it.
He does not have warships. A cargo ship is a warship if it is equipped with weapons. With other shipbuilding technologies in the world, a steel ship with a carrying capacity of 10,000 tons is invincible.
"Once we build a ship, and then there is a sufficient supply of parts, we can continue to ship ships. I have to perfect some welding techniques, electric welding and fire welding, fire welding requires oxygen."
While thinking about it, Zhu Wentian told the director that he decided to mass-produce cargo ships, like the Liberty Ships during World War II. As long as the parts were ready, it took more than four days to build a 10,000-ton cargo ship at the fastest time. .
The Ming Dynasty did not need four days, forty days, or eighty days, no problem. Several more docks could be built at the same time.
Oxygen can only be collected by electrolysis. Air separation cannot be used because there is no low-temperature environment.
After the oxygen and hydrogen are electrolyzed, an air compressor is needed for bottling, which is another difficult thing.
In fact, acetylene welding can be done without an air compressor. Use other means to press the cylinder into the cylinder, such as a one-way valve, like a needle, which presses a little at a time to determine whether it can go in or out.
When you are ready to use it, open the other valve so that there is oxygen under pressure.
Anyway, as long as you are willing to spend money and do not calculate the cost, it is not a problem. Fire welding and electric welding work together.
Welding rods are not difficult to make. There are many formulas for coatings, and no one has collected patent fees yet.
The chief finally finished eating a bunch of meat tendons and looked for toothpicks to pick it out. "If there are more boats, there will be more fish, and the people of the Ming Dynasty will have meat to eat."
"There will be more boats and the Ming Dynasty will have more meat." The industrial structure will be adjusted accordingly, and industrialization will become more and more obvious, otherwise businessmen will not be able to make money from the barbarians in the next few years.Xu Chuhai, they will mess up the market when they go overseas. They will sell foreign goods at low prices and buy them at high prices, which will screw us up.
They can only sell to us, and then we will trade with the barbarians, monopolize them, kill them if they don’t agree, control capital internally and control trade externally.
I really don’t trust those merchants. We control not only sea but also land trade. ”
Zhu Wentian once again emphasized that state monopoly is not possible without monopoly. Once businessmen have more funds, especially if they go overseas to build bases, they will support the Ming Dynasty
For example, water-powered textile machines, The businessman figured out how to do it and went to Tianzhu and other cotton-growing areas to build it. Ming's plan to replace Tianzhu's cotton with cotton cloth was immediately abandoned.
The chief nodded vigorously when he heard this, "Yes, ours." Technology cannot be transferred externally, otherwise why would a special industrial area be created to wait for apprentices to learn, and they must also be controlled, that is, they must live in designated places.
If other parts of the Ming Dynasty need construction, they can be sent there and guarded by the army. If they want to escape, they will get more labor but less freedom.
Let alone making weapons, we just hope to use good weapons to bully people, how can we fall into the hands of the enemy.
Oh, Beiyuan ran away, they have fire guns, and then they will fight others, use the resources there to make a large number of fire guns, and even improve them."
Li Chang said later Frowning, he thought Beiyuan had seen the Ming Dynasty's flintlock guns and would definitely study them.
Zhu Wentian didn't take it seriously, "We already have them, and there are also fire muskets in other places, waiting for our fleet to trade there." , there will inevitably be conflicts. If we use muskets to attack them, they will intensify their efforts to research firearms.
But it’s too late. We are ahead of them for a long time, and they can’t even make primers. We will equip the army with our small artillery cannons, grenade launchers, and grenade launchers. Just their guns that can break the black powder. Hum"
Zhu Wentian knew that Europe had not yet entered the era of queuing up to be shot. In some places, firecrackers were used and there were no matchlocks.
The Ming Dynasty now used flintlock paper shells. The bullets have rifling inside the barrel. When the banknotes issued with silver and gold as collateral are accepted by the people, copper is used to make bullets.
The paper shell bullets are not easy to use. They need copper. , even the cartridge case and bullet are made of copper, and then comes the primer firing, which is the gun now equipped in the village, including the pistol.
"Chief, everyone has to be busy. The next step is the assault rifle, and finally. Durable, cost-effective and easy to operate. "
When Zhu Wentian thought of the AK assault rifle he wanted to build, he did not say that this gun is the best, but that it is the most suitable. This is a magic gun.
" Then why not build a single-shot gun? "Are you ready?" The commander knew that there were drawings of several types of guns.
"Yes, the one with a long effective range and continuous fire is not as good as a specialized sniper rifle even if it can fire single shots."
It is best to kill the enemy five or six hundred paces away first, and then wait until you are close before using continuous fire, mortars, etc. in conjunction.
War is about making money. We must quickly build a ship and then go to the mountains.Mining copper mines on the other side of the country and on the other side of the sea.
Japan also has copper, so exchange it with them. Fortunately, the location where copper is dug on the other side of the sea does not have to cross the dangerous strait. ”
Zhu Wentian was talking about Chile, the country in South America where big cherries are very expensive.
There is no need to cross the dangerous Drake Strait, Mexico also has a lot of copper.
< p>As for using steel cartridge cases and bullets, we don’t have the technology, so it’s not a matter of simply changing materials.“You said it’s a matter of creation, but we don’t understand either. It feels like I’ve been building up this energy before the Chinese New Year, and now I’m finally going all out. ”
Li Chang picked up the skewers of pork tendons and ate them too.
Zhu Wentian ate grilled pork belly without wrapping it in lettuce leaves, nor dipping it in sauce or adding garlic cloves. Eat it directly, you won’t get tired of it.
“Hanhan, do you have something to send to the craftsmen’s homes? They didn’t take much rest during the New Year, they only rested for two days, and some rested for three days. ”
The head suddenly thought of giving subsidies to the craftsmen. The craftsmen worked very hard to make things for the Ming Dynasty. The key is that there is no extra overtime pay, just a fixed amount of money every day.
The craftsmen’s families sometimes help, and they don’t get paid.
“The craftsmen’s families are more important when sending skin care products and children’s snacks. The craftsmen themselves only have to worry about what to eat.
Improve the fishing tools, use a large steam engine boat to lower the hook, and net the net behind it, and go to deeper water to catch shellfish. This is delicious.
If you expect people at the seaside to pick up shellfish on rocks and other shoals, they won’t be able to pick up much. If you want corals, I won’t have the skills to fish for them. ”
Zhu Wentian didn’t know what to give, so he thought it would be good to take good care of the craftsman’s family. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website without anti-theft, free to find books and add books, you can join the qq group 952868558