Great Ming National Teacher

But it is said that Spain sent troops to attack France the year before last, once approached Paris, and was finally defeated by France. This time, it bought 21 ironclad warships from Ming Dynasty, and rushed back day and night, but in August of that year, the Spanish navy was defeated by the French navy. , When the armored fleet returned home, the main force of the Spanish navy was fighting with the Dutch navy, and it had suffered heavy losses.

With these ironclad ships joining the battle, the original defeat was immediately reversed. The sea sharks traveled fast, and the artillery fired far and powerfully. The largest sailing warship in the Netherlands was broken into pieces. One shot at the bow can smash a small ship, and one shot at a large ship will cause a big hole that cannot be repaired. Whoosh, whoosh, a round can blow up and burn a small fleet.

Europeans are all confused!In any case, they could not imagine where Spain got so many powerful warships. At first they thought they were made by Spain, but soon the warships bought by the Dutch arrived, and everyone knew the origin of these warships. The Dutch bought more ships than the Spanish, and the situation was reversed immediately. The muskets and cannons bought by both sides were thrown into the battlefield one after another. The Spanish distributed them directly to the soldiers to replace the original backward flintlock guns. The Dutch kept some of them for themselves. , and others are sold to other countries.

The two sides opened up their posture and continued to fight. The Netherlands had six more sea shark ships than Spain, but Spain originally had more warships. After months of shopping, they sank one killer whale ship and seven sea shark ships. The shark ship, at this time another patrol Yaksha and ten sea shark ships added by Spain arrived, and gained the sea superiority in one fell swoop, repelling the Dutch navy, annihilating the French navy, and fighting the British navy. Two months later , an additional killer whale ship from the Netherlands, and ten sea shark ships loaded with guns and ammunition came from the east...

Li Yunya and Zhu Youjian counted the money at home until their hands were soft. The white silver, the golden gold, and the boatloads of wheat, rice, cotton, wool, spices... were continuously transported to the country. Zhu You, who was used to poverty Excited that he couldn't sleep at night, Jian put his arms around Li Yunya's waist and said, "Let's slow down the construction of the loach ship and build more sea shark ships."

"No." Li Yunya kissed him on the face, "If that's the case, it will delay our process of attacking Japan. Even if we sell a little less money, our established steps cannot be disrupted."

"Oh, forget it." Zhu Youjian couldn't hide his disappointment in his words.

Li Yunya scratched his nose: "Don't be unhappy, to earn this money, we have other ways, you can outsource part of the place to my shipyard."

Zhu Youjian was surprised: "Didn't you say that the manufacturing technology of national weapons must never fall into private hands?"

"Yes, but not all weapons are on a warship. We can outsource non-weapon construction to private shipyards. For example, the hull part, the manatee ship I built is also made of iron, but the armor is not thick and the steel quality It’s not enough. For example, the decoration between the various cabins, the connection of the power system, etc., can all be completed by private shipyards. After the general completion, they will be pulled to Dalian, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places for final assembly. Down for a long time."

Zhu Youjian said: "That's fine, but at present, only your two private shipyards are capable of manufacturing large ships of more than [-] tons, and the others are not good. This time, you have to make a lot of money again!"

Li Yunya opened his mouth and bit his ear, and said with a hot breath, "Not all of mine is yours! Now I will give you some of my most precious things..."

The next day, Zhu Youjian asked the equipment department under the Ministry of National Defense to handle this matter. Li Yunya also greeted the heads of his two shipyards. What is the two of them doing together on the land of the Ming Empire? , is basically a matter of course.

Li Yunya has two shipyards. One was originally in Dalian, Liaoning Province, and the other was in Juji Island, Chaonan Province. Later, the state-owned shipyard began to expand and blossomed everywhere. Li Yunya took the initiative to give up this factory in Dalian and hand over the site. For the country, I moved to Yangzhou to build a new factory, and got a large amount of relocation compensation. Yangzhou has a developed economy, and now it has trains, water and land transportation are very developed, but because it does not rely on the sea, it mainly builds slightly smaller merchant ships, but That's only compared to the large shipyards on Geoje Island. The Yangzhou factory is still relaxed and happy to manufacture ships of [-] tons like the Sea Shark.

The Daming state-owned shipyard now has five major shipyards in Dalian, Tianjin, Shanghai, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou. Most of them are building new types of warships. The remaining production capacity is to manufacture old-fashioned warships for export. A Sea Shark ship is launched every month. , a killer whale ship in two months, and a patrolling Yacha in four months. With the participation of two shipyards from Li Yunya, four sea shark ships, one killer whale ship, and two shipyards can be launched every month. A Yaksha ship can be launched in a month.

But even so, the supply is in short supply. Europe is red eyed, and the war is not only in Europe, but also spread to Asia. In order to compete for trade routes, for colonial resources, and to cut off the other party's connection with Europe, the Dutch and Spain came from From the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean, and from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, there is a fleet of the Ming Dynasty in the north of Taiwan. They dare not act recklessly, but they have done it more than once in the South China Sea. They bought them all and used them to arm the aborigines in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and other places, and beat them to death in the vast wilderness.

Five separate factories were built under General Zhu Youjian's factory to produce such old-fashioned guns and ammunition for them. Li Yunya told the Spaniards very proudly and enthusiastically: "I have enough ammunition here, as much as I want. , as long as you can come up with enough silver or materials." At the same time, Zhu Youjian also said the same thing to the Dutchman.

So more and more gold, silver and precious stones, rice and wheat, cotton and wool, spices and medicinal materials, metal minerals... were shipped in. Spain also proposed to use African slaves for debts, but Li Yunya sternly rejected it: "We are civilized A big country, a country of etiquette, resolutely resist this kind of brutal act of disregarding human life, and you will never be allowed to carry out slave trafficking in our country, otherwise you will be the enemy of our country!"

Spain is a shipwreck and has three nails. The Netherlands is in a thriving period. This time, it has won the support of Denmark, Sweden, France and other countries. In fact, the Netherlands is not the right one to fight head-on with Spain. The first three are, and Spain has acquiesced that the northern part of the Netherlands is independent, so there is no need for such a world war, but since they returned from the Ming Dynasty to get ironclad ships one after another, countries have begun to pay attention to him, and spent a lot of money to pull him into the water. Going to the Netherlands and seeking full independence, so they rolled up their arms and sleeves and jumped on the court to fight Spain.

At this time, other European countries also came to their door, wanting to do business directly with China. Some of them already had colonies in Asia, or had a foothold here. The Indian company also sent special envoys to the Mughal Empire, opened up relations, set up factories in India, set up supply bases, etc.There are also the Danes, who had established the East India Company long ago, and the French, who were determined to strive for maritime hegemony, also came here after smelling it.

The flames of war in Europe spread to Southeast Asia, and Vietnam, Laos, Chenla and other countries were all involved, so they sent people to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty. As the suzerain country, this kind of thing cannot be ignored. Zhu Youjian followed Li Yunya's strategy and separated Send someone to Spain and the Netherlands to tell him not to fight at his door, and to urge them to leave Taiwan Island again. This has been said many times, and the two countries don't take it seriously. The bragging edict said that they would personally send troops to maintain the security of all countries. To put it bluntly, they wanted to station troops in various countries.

With the precedent of North Korea, how could these countries dare to allow the Ming army to enter, and they declined one after another. Zhu Youjian spread his hands: "Then there is no other way. Yes, but I can sell you some weapons."

As a result, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Siam, Chenla and other countries came to China to purchase weapons one after another, but they were so poor that they could only exchange for local specialties. Minerals, such as gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, phosphogypsum, etc., can all be exchanged. If you don’t have any, you can grow them yourself, such as rice, rubber, and medicinal materials. I can afford to wait until I plant it again.

What?If you say you can’t afford to wait, that’s fine too. The four major banks of the Ming Dynasty can give you a loan, but they only need mortgages. The only collateral is land. Li Yunya made a lot of calculations, and finally decided to mortgage a hundred acres of land for one tael of silver. , The public price of good land and fertile land in my Ming Dynasty is only five taels of silver. Yours are all mountainous land, poor mountains and bad waters, how much is it worth?You earned a tael of silver for a hundred acres of land!Three-year period, two-point interest, compound interest, the land that cannot be mortgaged at that time will belong to me, Daming, and we will send troops to take it.

Countries are crying and shouting, selling pots and selling iron to buy guns, but guns are not the most costly, what is more terrifying is the bullets behind them. In order to increase the combat effectiveness of these small countries, Li Yunya sold them old-fashioned machine guns. That thing lasts for 1 minute It can fire [-] bullets, and the unit price of each bullet is equivalent to half a stun gun. When the trigger is pulled, with the continuous sound of bang bang, two villages will be wiped out in a short time.

The richest Siam bought a machine gun, which caused great harm to the French who landed, so the French came to buy the machine gun again, but Zhu Youjian did not sell it. That was the treatment of a vassal state, you French If you are willing to become a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty, then you can buy it!

The French were stumped, and went back and sent people to bribe the high-ranking Siamese officials with a lot of money to get rid of the machine gun, but only the gun is not enough, and there must be bullets, and this bullet can only be made by the Ming family, and he cannot directly To buy, you can only buy through a few vassal states, they are richer than a few vassal states, and the amount of buying is getting bigger and bigger, and each of the vassal states also relies on a European country to become a purchasing middleman. So miserable.

But several big countries can't let them form a body to get stuck in their own necks and provoke each other, so they soon started to fight each other again. As the emperor of the suzerain country, Zhu Youjian sent people to adjust, and at the same time stepped up efforts to provide weapons to other countries .

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the total amount of arms sold by the Ming Dynasty was 800 million taels. By the 12th year of Chongzhen, it had risen to 600 million taels. Of course, it included various grains, crops, timber, minerals... and land.