When Colbert and Ruyter met with a certain new emperor, they both asked if they could purchase the third-level ironclad ship manufactured by the Ming Dynasty, that is, Yoshino.
Regarding this issue, a certain new emperor did not say that he would not sell it, but there were three prerequisites. That is, before 167, Yoshino with a tonnage of up to 4,000 would not be sold to external parties.
Secondly, Yoshino's price will be relatively expensive or very expensive, with a unit price of at least 20 million silver coins. Even if four ships are purchased at a time, the total price will not be less than 70 million silver coins.
Finally, Yoshino's construction technology would not be transferred to outsiders before 1680.
Of course, a certain new king did not say "unless a customer offers a price that he cannot refuse."
If you can directly take out 100 million silver coins, then a certain new emperor will definitely nod in agreement.
But if a bunch of additional conditions are added, it would be a bit uneconomical for a certain new emperor.
Compared with the more than 2,000-ton Zhiyuan, the performance of the Yoshino, which has almost doubled the displacement, is of course very good, but there is still a gap in the middle.
There is no doubt that Ruyter is an expert and simply chose to jump far away in order to save money to buy Yoshino.
Colbert didn't know much about this, but D'Estrès, who was accompanying him, was an expert in this area.
Seven years have passed since the first batch of Yoshinos was launched, but within the next thirty to fifty years, Yoshinos will be the battleships that traverse the oceans.
A 4,000-ton ironclad ship has all-round capabilities that can resist, fight, steal, and run away. It is much better than Zhiyuan, so it is reasonable to think it is expensive.
As for whether buyers can afford it, that's another story.
A certain new emperor also saw that people who buy ironclad ships are basically not short of money. Even if they are short of money, they will try their best to find other ways to make up the payment.
These two main customers inquired about Yoshino's price, and they probably wanted to traffic the English and Spanish people as black people to the Ming Dynasty in exchange for money...
A man needs twenty silver coins and a million men can be transported to buy a Yoshino.
In comparison, Yoshino is not cheap, but its combat performance is also extraordinary.
Transporting four million people here can indeed be exchanged for four Yoshinos. If you purchase wholesale, you can still have some money left!
If both families do this, a certain new emperor will have eight million more miners...
How spectacular it is to dig together!
Through such speculation, a certain new emperor basically understood the tactics of these two families.
This is a desperate plan against an old enemy!
Cruel enough!
I like it!
The Netherlands hated England, France hated Spain.
After the coalition forces land on these two targets and destroy their troops.
The Ming Dynasty King went over to scrape the land, and the other two families began to continue their old business.
This thing is indeed feasible. A certain new emperor didn't think much about it before, but Ruit reminded him.
Letting millions of white-skinned monkeys come to mine will not only prevent them from making a comeback, but also create wealth of millions of dollars for themselves every year. This is the best of both worlds in the true sense!
Of course, it will be a serious test for the transportation capabilities of the Dutch and French fleets.
Even if we use the Sudan Canal, it will only be transported twice in three years.
If there are two thousand merchant ships at one time, and each ship carries one hundred people, it will be two hundred thousand, and two times will only be four hundred thousand, unless the number is doubled.
Moreover, it is necessary to ensure that the white-skinned monkeys transported are in good physical condition, otherwise they will not be able to cash out.
Of course, how to transport it is a matter between the two of them, even if it turns into a sea relay race, it doesn't matter.
The Ottomans had already done this. They caught many fair-skinned and beautiful horses on the Black Sea coast and transported them to the Ming Dynasty to pay for the goods.
Nowadays, almost every wealthy gentry in the northern capital has one or several ocean horses.
You can work during the day and have fun at night. It is very popular!
The best foreign horses, such as those with blond hair, blue eyes, skin like snow, and curved front and back, are not much cheaper than the thin local horses.
Through the trade between war horses and foreign horses, the Ottoman Empire could purchase a lot of weapons and equipment from the Ming Dynasty every year, including ironclad ships.
There is another thing that has become one of the main commodities traded between the two countries, and that is dried fruits!
The climate in the Ottoman territory is very suitable for growing various dried fruits, and these are not afraid of long-distance transportation.
Since there was no war in the customs, the amount of dried fruits imported from the Ottomans has been increasing year by year.
The Ming Dynasty also produced dried fruits, but how can walnuts be as delicious as pistachios?
The little fat house has now become the big fat house, but he still has to eat a bowl of salt and pepper pistachios every day!
A certain fat man who listened very much to the princess believed that he was a vegetarian by eating pistachios...
In view of the fact that he was getting fatter and fatter as he ate and did not like to exercise, a certain new emperor imposed strict weight requirements on him.
If you weigh more than 150 pounds, you are not allowed to eat meat, and you are not allowed to eat any kind of meat, so as not to get high when you get old.
So out of helplessness, a fat house began to use dried fruits to replenish the energy lost in the body.
After seeing that the Ottomans actually made money by trafficking the Black Sea Ocean Horses, Little Putmans was also engaged in this trade in addition to serious business. He could make at least tens of thousands of silver coins every year, and it was pure profit.
Western Europe also produces beautiful women, but the quality per capita is obviously not as good as that of the Black Sea. It belongs to the middle level of Europe. The top is the blond hair style of the Black Sea and Northern Europe, and the bottom is the black and brown hair variety of Southern Europe.
Not all women from the West have to suffer hardships. The most beautiful beauties will not suffer hardships anywhere, unless they themselves are willing to live like this.
After most of the beauties came to Ming Dynasty, they lived a life without worries about food and clothing, and many of them were much better than in their hometown.
Basically, you can speak well within three years of arriving in Daming, and you will soon be able to adapt to this extremely prosperous urban life. You will even fall in love with this kind of life and start to enjoy it wholeheartedly.
Because my wife has the advantages of Ocean Horse, and her skin is more delicate and moist than that of Ocean Horse.
Therefore, in the eyes of a certain new emperor, the armored ship is much more attractive than the Ocean Horse!
The Dingyuan test ship will be launched next year, and eight of the vacated shipyards have already begun mass construction of Dingyuan.
The cost of building a test ship is as high as nearly three million taels. Even if it is built in batches, the cost cannot be significantly reduced.
As for whether to install the latest breech-loading cannon, a certain new emperor temporarily rejected this plan.
There is no doubt that breech-loading guns have a much higher rate of fire than front-loading guns, giving them an unparalleled advantage in naval battles.
But its cost and shells are also much more expensive than muzzle-loading guns. A warship must install at least ten naval guns, which is a lot of money.
In bad sea conditions, even the accuracy of the breech-loading gun is greatly reduced.
What's more, during the Sino-Japanese War, both sides used breech-loading guns, but the result was that they fired at each other from a distance of two to three kilometers...
Isn't this too embarrassing? ? ?
Considering many factors, a certain new emperor postponed the equipment of breech-loading cannon indefinitely.
Whether it is army artillery or naval warships, they must continue to use muzzle-loading guns for the time being.
It will also cost a lot of money to re-equip the army and navy at the same time. The top priority right now is to prepare for the expedition to Europe. Other expensive projects can be put aside first.
A certain new emperor had far greater expectations for Dingyuan than Yoshino. Zhiyuan could easily deal with wooden battleships, but Yoshino would have a harder time dealing with Zhiyuan, which had the same type of ironclad.
Dingyuan, which has a tonnage of more than 7,000, is used to deal with Zhiyuan. The reason is very simple, because the two allies are equipped with a lot of Zhiyuan.
That's right!
What I am guarding against is my allies!
Of the eight ships that have been started, four belong to Beiting and the other four belong to Zheng Zhilong.
If there is no problem with Dingyuan's hull, a certain new emperor will build eight more warships of the same class in the seventh batch.
At the same time, construction began on a test ship of the same class as the 10,000-ton armored cruiser Bismarck, which is the PLUS version of Dingyuan.
The construction cost is expected to reach about 4 million taels. On the premise that the speed is maintained at ten to twelve knots, the armor and firepower of the ship will be comprehensively improved.
Jiexuan was already very satisfied with Dingyuan's performance. He did not dare to hope for a larger ironclad ship than Dingyuan. He just lamented that the fourth-level ironclad ship could not keep up with this expedition to Europe.
A certain new emperor could only comfort him with kind words. After all, even Yoshino probably wouldn't be able to use it. A Zhiyuan equipped with a "harpoon" anti-ship missile would be more than enough to hit a wooden warship.
Yoshino is the equivalent of Lu Bu. After the European roads, who dares to step forward and fight? ? ?
The three-decker wooden battleship couldn't stand up to Yoshino for a quarter of an hour before it was turned into a burning bonfire!
If the rocket-propelled black shark mine is launched again, it will be a matter of killing whoever sees it...
A certain new emperor was not optimistic about Yoshino's prospects in the European battlefield, because his opponents would have to be scared away.
If someone who is not afraid of death rushes over, it will help him.
Jiexuan brought four Yoshinos, plus a bunch of Laiyuan and Zhiyuan, which were enough to fight to the death with the British main fleet of hundreds of wooden ships.
All ironclads adopt a compartment design, not to mention the outer layer of armor protection.
Armor is not iron armor, it is an alloy mixed with nickel, chromium, manganese and other elements. A warship using iron armor is a monkey version...
This is Ming Dynasty's unique secret. When the contract was originally signed, the content only involved the hull, missiles, engines, and bronze cannons, but did not include armor.
When sold externally, it is always claimed to be carburized armor, but in fact it has nothing to do with alloy armor.
A certain new emperor is so shameless, what can you do to me?
Let the dogs bite me? ? ?
Kolbe and Ruyter had no idea about this, and their attention was already focused on purchasing refrigerators.
This thing is a favorite of sailors and is the key to maintaining the fleet's combat effectiveness.
It didn’t happen before, so everyone has been making do.
Now that we have it, we have to purchase it in bulk.
D'Estre believed that no matter how stubborn the old man Sodi was, he would still recognize the importance of refrigerators to the navy.
As for the modification of wooden warships, it is not a big problem, and fire prevention is also very easy. At most, it is enough to bring more soil...
In the early days of the great voyages, tortoises were kept on every ship because they allowed everyone to eat fresh meat at sea!
But most of the time, sailors relied on dried meat because there was nothing else to eat.
D'Estre had heard before that Condé had brought the refrigerator to Quebec, as for commanding the fleet to fight.
That guy knows how to enjoy himself, so he probably won't suffer on the ship unless the flagship is also modified.
The original version of the refrigerator was enough for a family of three, and a certain new emperor had no intention of installing it on a battleship.
The subsequent version is the freezer style. For the navy, the bigger the better.
The issue of fuel consumption is completely out of the question. As long as the generator is still working, it means the refrigerator is running normally.
Everyone can sleep peacefully without worrying about eating rotten meat the next day...
In Beidu, and even in the entire Ming Dynasty, refrigerators are out of stock this year.
The reason is simple. After going south to Myanmar and suffering a big loss from the temperature, he ordered the purchase of refrigerators in large quantities.
Zheng Chenggong is also preparing for his expedition to Europe, and has already placed an order for 3,000 freezers.
In addition, the Ottoman Empire, which mostly covers the Middle East, buys a large number of refrigerators and freezers every year.
A certain Sultan even said before that it is impossible to live in summer without a refrigerator!
The highest summer temperatures in the Middle East can reach 50 or 60 degrees, and the price of a refrigerator or freezer there can be more than fifty times the retail price here in Ming Dynasty.
The annual demand for many vassal kings and general soldiers in the Nanyang region is not small.
It's summer all year round there, and rich people would love to sleep with their arms around the refrigerator every day.
For this part of the money, it can be earned, but it must be postponed, everything must make way for the expedition to Europe.
Priority must be given to meeting the needs of Jie Xuan, Zheng Chenggong and the blame-shifting father. Even if the selling price on the market has doubled, a certain new emperor remains unmoved.
In view of their alliance, a certain new emperor provided Colbert and Ruyter with 500 refrigerators and freezers each.
Being able to work in a refrigerator factory now, even as an assembly worker, is a great honor for ordinary people.
Of course, a certain new emperor would give priority to the disabled veterans who followed him in the Northeast.
Because it is an assembly line production, even those who have difficulty using their legs or even one missing leg can still adapt to the new position smoothly.
The only ones that can compete with it are fan and air-conditioning factories, but since refrigerators can be used all year round, those two are almost useless.
In the north, especially in bungalows in winter, air conditioning is obviously not as effective as a heated kang, not to mention economical, and it is not used during the time of lukewarm spring and autumn.
Rich people who live in bungalows naturally prefer refrigerators. As for whether they can buy them, that's a matter of course...
Colbert and Ruyter also purchased a lot of military food, which could not meet the consumption of the entire army, but could also be supplied to generals and officers.
France is a major agricultural country. After visiting many food factories in the northern capital, it planned to introduce the food manufacturing technology of the Ming Empire to facilitate the French army and tens of millions of French people.
Many of the officers and soldiers who came with the regiment came to the Ming Empire for the first time.
They had long heard that this place was a paradise for gourmet food, and when they walked around on the street, they were overwhelmed by the various tangy aromas.
In addition to three free meals at the residence, you will have to pay out of your own pocket to eat or drink out at other times.
Fortunately, compared to the prices in Paris, the prices here in Beidu are not expensive, and snacks are even cheaper.
Some French and Dutch soldiers who joined the army from the countryside could even get high from eating mixed stew or sesame balls...
Officers like roast chicken, roast duck, braised pork, braised pork rice and other delicacies. Generals prefer hot pot. It is very pleasant to chat while eating.
Some soldiers who fought with Turenne were unwilling to return to their homeland after being discharged, so they simply found jobs at the French Embassy.
Under the leadership of these veterans who can speak Mandarin and are familiar with Beidu, everyone can find the food they like.
