A certain prince's initial plan was to build the first ironclad ship from the 16th to the 18th year of Chongzhen's reign, and conduct a trial sea trial in one year. After there was no problem, mass construction would be carried out at a rate of eight ships per year.
The imperial navy took half of it, and the rest naturally belonged to Zheng Zhilong. The price given to Zheng Zhilong was only 120% of the construction cost, which was regarded as a reward for his war in the north and south.
Not counting Zheng Laofi's fleet, the imperial court's Daming Navy alone was equipped with twelve armored missile warships, coupled with a large number of wooden warships, which was enough to defeat the Spanish fleet that might come to look for trouble.
But it would have to wait until at least the 22nd year of Chongzhen to be completed, that is, 1649, and it might not be ready for combat until 1652.
If Spain is defeated by France, a certain prince's "Big Orange Fleet" will become a group of idle armed yachts...
Ten years later, a certain prince was not yet twenty-five years old and was about the same age as Uncle Zhengde. As long as he did not fall into the water, he could basically sweep the world.
Why do you think so?
Because the model of the battleship has been built, according to the scale of one to three hundred, the twelve mini battleships are placed on the prepared sea surface sand table, which is really beautiful.
Xiao Feizhai has already used this thing as a background for taking photos.
Zheng Zhilong obtained an identical set of sandbox models because he paid a down payment of five million taels of silver.
While all the rich people around the world use wooden ships to fight their wars, ironclad battleships are the only one.
Uncle Zhali's big wooden ship, if exported, would cost around five to six hundred thousand taels.
In comparison, an ironclad ship only costs three million taels of silver, which is quite affordable.
Although it is five or six times as large as a wooden ship, its combat effectiveness is definitely not the same.
In front of wooden battleships, ironclad ships are immune to damage caused by all physical attacks.
If you hit me, I'll be fine!
I hit you and you sink!
The original purchase price of "Zhiyuan" was less than 900,000 taels of silver. Considering the time difference of more than 200 years, buying 3 million taels is not expensive at all!
Such a good warship, coupled with the epoch-making imperial cannon, would be perfect.
Export ships are not equipped with "Harpoon" anti-ship missiles to avoid being dismantled and copied.
But that will be ten years from now. Things that are uncertain now will be discussed at that time.
There are many things that are uncertain. For example, the Royal Chicken is supposed to be dead, but it seems to be still alive!
After the failed attempt to prevent the Ming Dynasty King from delivering meals to Zu Dashou, he did not launch a third battle, indicating that Huang Taiji did not want to be angered to death.
If this guy succeeds in renewing his life this year, it will be hard to say when he will die...
In any case, a certain prince could still continue fishing with Jinzhou, although the bait was no longer as effective as before.
As the national and military power of the Ming and Qing Dynasties continued to rise, the two sides began an unprecedented arms race.
Our own side already has the ability to mobilize more than 400,000 troops in battle, and a certain prince no longer cares so much about Jinzhou's gains and losses.
Even if Jinzhou is lost, after dealing with the rogue bandits in the south, a certain prince can assemble more than 600,000 troops and, with the cooperation of the Zheng fleet, regain the Western Liaoning Corridor in one fell swoop.
The most urgent task is to overcome the extreme climate of the Little Ice Age, move Henan's disaster victims to surrounding areas, restore production in various places under Beiting's jurisdiction, stabilize the rear, and then slowly make plans.
One of the ways is to send disaster victims from Henan to the Luzon Islands, especially Luzon and Mindanao.
The combined area of these two islands is about the same size as Guangdong and Guangxi, enough to accommodate millions or even tens of millions of disaster victims.
However, it would be Disaster Min's turn to board the ship after the vassal's soldiers, horses and Zi Min had been transported.
The current shipping capacity still needs to be improved. Each ship transports fifty people, and two thousand ships can only transport one hundred thousand people.
It can be overloaded, but this is not transporting slaves. It must ensure that Disaster Min can land on the island alive.
Moreover, the fleet going to the "Northland" still has to set sail as scheduled, three times a year, no less.
A certain prince also did not want to hire Dutch merchant ships to transport goods and people, and for now he still relied on his own strength.
It's nothing more than building more ships. The cost of building a super battleship like Fengzhou is too high and the construction period is too long.
But there is no problem in building bird ships and Guangzhou ships. Launching two thousand ships a year can increase the transport capacity of at least 100,000 people at a time.
Once the goal of transporting one million people to Southeast Asia and Australia every year is achieved, it will take another twenty years.
After this area was filled with Ming people, a certain prince had achieved control over half of the Eastern world.
A certain prince would not yet be fifty years old at that time, so being able to digest such a large territory was already considered a feat of immeasurable merit.
The old Zhao family's gang of wretches could use the fleet to transport the remaining troops and people to Luzon Island, so they could preserve their strength and wait for opportunities to counterattack.
According to reported statistics, in the first half of the 16th year of Chongzhen alone, the total number of foreign merchant ships docking at Ming ports was as high as 724.
This was mainly due to the fact that after the French side learned that the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands had signed the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between the Ming Dynasty and the Netherlands, it also signed a similar treaty at the suggestion of the Marquis of Turenne.
At the same time, French shipowners and businessmen are encouraged to go to the legendary Eastern world where gold is everywhere. If they go once a year, they can eat at home for three years.
Because the French shipowners were afraid of being attacked by Spanish warships at sea, they all joined the escort fleet. It was safest to go together.
The same was true for the Ottoman Empire's fleet. Since its Mediterranean fleet could not be mobilized to the Indian Ocean, ship owners were more cautious and only ran once a year.
In the first half of the year, the fleets of the two countries arrived at Daming Port one after another, causing the trade volume to surge, approaching 20 million taels!
Driven by the booming maritime trade, the development of Ming Dynasty's docking ports is naturally changing with each passing day.
The ports are being expanded and docks are being added, and everyone from the company boss to the coolies below can benefit from it.
When a certain prince returned to the court, he inspected the construction of Tianjin Port.
Although the port is completely unusable during the winter, it is operational for nine months of the year.
Winter can just be used to store goods and repair the port's shore facilities. With Denglai's share of the burden, the actual impact is not that big.
A certain prince requested that 20 more piers be built on the existing basis, including 120 berths. Each berth can accommodate Western-style Galen merchant ships of 1,000 tons or 300 tons.
Tianjin is the closest port to Beijing. Shortening the land transportation distance is equivalent to reducing logistics costs.
Merchant ships heading to the south mostly use water transport, but due to the weak wind in the canal, the speed is slow and time-consuming.
Shipping is different. The time from Beijing to Nandu is usually one or two days faster.
It seems that the time is almost the same, but for merchants, time is money.
If you start selling even half a day early, you can get considerable profits.
If there weren't too many rivers between Beijing and Tianjin, frequent bridges would be needed.
A certain prince would give priority to building an intercity railway between the two places, so that goods produced from factories in the capital could be directly loaded onto trains and transported to the port for quick shipment.
Originally, if we went south and took the Wuqing Line, we only had to consider one or two rivers and reach the north of Tianjin.
However, the canal is too close to the Triangle Lake. When it rains and the water rises, it can easily threaten the safety of the railway line.
Whether the Beijing-Tianjin intercity railway is feasible requires further on-the-spot investigation before making a conclusion.
The benefits are obvious. If everything goes well, the goods can be shipped and set sail within one day at the earliest.
Moreover, with the railway, telephone lines between the two cities can also be set up using the railway roadbed, which is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.
The imperial court was very concerned about this railway, and the investment was not large, but the benefits were considerable.
This time Li Shiwen, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, was very positive and had stated many times that the Ministry of Revenue would give priority to supporting railway construction.
However, the minister was at a loss to deal with the threat from the Triangle Lake, which was four or five times the size of the old city of Beijing.
Once the flood inundates the railway and washes away the roadbed, what will happen then?
As a civil engineering expert, Zhang Guowei is very cautious about this, let alone others.
Now, not later, we can build large-scale water conservancy facilities and strengthen bridges to curb the threat of lakes and rivers to railways.
There is no need for a certain prince to take any more care for the time being. Everything will be decided after the argument is completed.
How happy it is to eat ice cream, read newspapers and magazines in the summer, and have some barbecue at night!
Everything was perfect except for the lack of seafood!
Because of the fan, it is currently the most popular new product!
The word "electricity" is missing because you have to buy a generator, which raises the price.
The ones that can be accepted by the public are mechanical ones, either hand cranked or pedaled.
It looks very simple, but it is still a household machine, and it looks great in the living room.
Due to the existence of a large number of disasters, the labor cost of the Ming Dynasty was very low.
It is very economical for the masters to let the servants hand-operate the fans.
Can't the servant just fan himself?
Of course it works, but it’s not classy enough!
In the same way, is it okay to read the text version of "Secret History Beyond the Pass"?
Of course you can, but it’s definitely not as good as the photo version!
Regardless of whether it is useful or not, buying one is always a double enjoyment for both face and body.
Besides, this was also an invention of a certain prince who cared about his servants. Most of the servants had to stand when fanning.
A hand-cranked fan can be used while sitting, it is easier to exert force, and you can change hands frequently.
This is the experience gained by a certain prince through Xi'er fanning himself. It is by no means a fantasy.
There is no need for manpower here in the East Palace, just power on directly. It is a veritable electric fan, and the same is true for the Kunning Palace.
A certain prince has not yet planned to provide power to the entire city because the machines at the thermal power plant are not operating stably.
Even if it only provides power to the back house, it is still intermittent. Looking back to the source, it is still a problem with the steam engine.
This is a flaw that cannot be cured in a while, so a certain prince can only pretend that he has not seen it at all.
If you tell the common people this, most of them will definitely not understand.
It is better to light oil lamps. Not only is the cost low, it can also help poverty alleviation in northern Shaanxi...
Besides inviting her sisters to play mahjong, the most important thing for the beautiful biological mother now is that her eldest son will get married next year when he comes of age.
The two daughters-in-law have already made preparations, and the only thing left is to prepare for the wedding.
Feng Quan, the Minister of Etiquette, has already taken care of everything in the outfield.
Zheng Zhilong prepared a red envelope worth up to 6.66 million taels of silver in advance!
In the whole world, only the Marquis of Zhenhai can afford this money.
A certain prince would not use his wedding as an opportunity to blackmail his ministers and nobles. Turning Old Fart Zheng into an order would be considered a red envelope, as this would be mutually beneficial.
Zheng Laofi sent this batch of goods to Batavia by fleet. Even if he had earned back his previous share of the money, he might even be able to make up for it with the interest.
Under the kind reminder of a certain prince, I, the Holy Gong of Dayan, reluctantly "took the initiative" to offer a red envelope of 660,000 taels of silver, as if a certain prince had dug up his family's ancestral graves half a year in advance...
The wedding was scheduled to take place in the winter, because the second meal was to be delivered to Zu Dashou in the spring, and the summer was too hot for the bride and groom to wear their wedding clothes.
One advantage of getting married in winter is that you can eat lobster!
Zheng Zhilong also got a good job, that is, he sent people to catch 6,666 lobsters!
This is the best target. It doesn't matter if you can't catch them. Just gather 666 of them.
A certain prince just wants to eat braised lobster when he gets married. Isn't this request too much?
Besides, the lobster was bought with money, not obtained through plunder...
Slaughtering the natives does not count as killing, and using Mr. Zheng as his master does not count as exploitation!
As a veteran, Zheng Chenggong will pay attention to the people and goods coming from his hometown while continuing to learn skills.
After all, the wedding of your respected master and prince is a huge event, much more important than your own marriage.
The merchants also wanted to congratulate him, but they couldn't think of any good gifts or ideas other than joining the family.
I get all my goods from the prince, and even the shows performed by the young ladies in the general hall were taught by the prince.
To this end, the Chamber of Commerce held several meetings to discuss this matter.
In the end, we decided that it would be more practical to pool our money to place a very large order!
Six million six hundred and sixty thousand taels, the same amount as Zhenhai Marquis Zheng Zhilong.
The merchants also know that the profits of the Prince's products are very high, and at least four million taels of this money will be turned into profits.
But the market was given by the prince, and the products were given by the prince.
If you are not filial now, you will be buried in the grave later...
All festivals are easy to pass, but Tomb-Sweeping Day is not.
Putting Qing and Ming together will kill people!
By sending food to Zu Dashou, the prince once again defeated the captive chief Taiji.
Now, even those who looked down upon Prince X in their bones began to believe that Prince X could really revive the Ming Dynasty.
Those businessmen who gave up their self-esteem at the beginning and chose to hug their thighs often lit incense at home and prayed for blessings.
This thigh is hugged correctly, so correct that the ancestors appear!
When the prince drove away Huangtaiji, the entire Liaodong market belonged to the merchants of the capital.
Therefore, the members of the Chamber of Commerce look forward to the prince's victory over and over again more than anyone else, until he wins the final victory.
Thanks to the overtures from many parties, the amount of orders yet to be delivered by a certain prince has exceeded 15 million taels of silver.
I hope that a certain father will not regard the five million taels of silver that Nanting supports Beiting every year as a red envelope...
Not everyone below would dare to do this kind of thing. Shaanxi Governor Zuo Maodi spent his own money to send 666 barrels of oil to congratulate him!
The reason is very good. After lighting it, I wish myself a prosperous life...
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