In the forty-first year of Haojing (1684), as large ironclad ships became the favorites in the eyes of allies, the Ming Empire had to launch the largest additional shipbuilding plan in order to ensure its superior position in sea power.
The ninth batch of cost plans (1682-1688), which has been implemented, includes one Blücher test ship, one Bismarck aircraft carrier test ship, eight Bismarcks, eight Dingyuan ships, 18 Yoshino ships, and six Lai ships. Yuan, eight Zhiyuan, three Dingyuan supply ships, and three Dingyuan medical ships.
On the basis of the additional construction of the first batch of 20 Yoshinos, eight additional Bismarck and Dingyuan ships will be added. The estimated construction time is seven years.
Among them, four level four ironclad ships will be delivered to the Dutch Navy upon completion, and two level five ironclad ships and two level four ironclad ships will be delivered to the French Navy.
Coupled with the three fourth-level ironclad ships sold to the Japanese, Ottoman, and New Inca Empires, the second additional shipbuilding plan can basically offset the weakening of the Ming Navy caused by previous large-scale export sales.
At the same time, the tenth batch (1688-1695) shipbuilding plan was appropriately revised to significantly increase the number of capital ship construction.
From the original twenty-eight ships, it was increased to thirty-six ships, that is, Blücher, Bismarck, and Dingyuan each had twelve ships.
The total amount of the ninth batch of the second additional plan alone is as high as 140 million silver coins.
Fortunately, the construction time is as long as seven years, and the materials used can be prepared in advance, with an average of only 20 million per year.
In addition to the two shipbuilding plans that have been implemented previously, the total annual average is less than 60 million, which does not put too much financial pressure.
In the early stage, the 130 million silver coins obtained from raiding profiteers can be used for a while. When the assets are gradually cashed out, about 300 million silver coins can be obtained. This is equivalent to covering the entire ninth batch of shipbuilding plan expenses. .
Emperor Haojing also had to thank the profiteers for sacrificing their own egos to achieve the Ming Dynasty's huge shipbuilding plan...
Poirot and Zheng Zhilong were constantly transporting various ores and semi-finished products from various places to the Ming Dynasty. Ibrahim and Che Zaizhen were also doing the same thing.
Many ports in the Ming Dynasty had a large backlog of foreign local specialties. However, only five ports, Penglai, Qingdao, Tianjin, Xiamen, and Quanzhou, had railways.
The railway between Xiamen and Quanzhou is still regional in nature and only interconnects with each other.
If you want all kinds of imported goods to realize their own value, the first thing you need to do is logistics and transportation.
Only by transporting these goods to the factories or companies that need them can they be processed and sold.
For example, frozen tiger shrimp imported from Siam are not only worthless when squeezed in a cold storage, but will also inflate your electricity bill.
The ivory, horns, animal skins, and gems that Zheng Zhilong paid tribute to were all sent to Qianqi Department Store for sale by Emperor Haojing's order.
Except for the dumper father, his beautiful biological mother, the emperor's sister-in-law Zhang Yan, and a group of concubines of the dumper father, Emperor Haojing's wives and concubines can only receive one gem each to make a necklace.
There is no need for other jewelry. If it is made into a ring, it will get in the way when playing mahjong...
Emperor Haojing only had the ring he wore when he married Queen Xue Wanqing and the imperial concubine Liu Xier, and a necklace with six gemstones hung around his neck, symbolizing Kou Baimen and other six concubines.
Other concubines did not have this qualification, and Emperor Haojing did not want to dress up like a merchant selling jewelry.
It would be so embarrassing to show off your wealth in your own backyard and be seen by a fat brother and his younger siblings!
Wives feel insecure if they don’t have enough jewelry, so they can take out their bankbooks and read them every day.
Xue Wanqing and Liu Xier each have 30 million in their bankbooks, and the other six women also have 20 million in their bankbooks. The remaining 20 million is for the family's living expenses and working capital.
The Ministry of Household Affairs still owes Emperor Haojing 100 million silver coins, and another 200 million silver coins is regarded as the family's investment fund. The total annual dividends from the projects it holds can reach 20 million.
The thirty-three young ladies who marry first and the sixty-six young ladies who marry later can receive living expenses of 10,000 silver coins per person per year.
If you feel that staying in the rear residence is not interesting and plan to move on to another high-level career, you can receive a one-time settlement fee of 60,000 silver coins, which is also regarded as a hush money. You are not allowed to disclose the affairs of the rear residence to anyone in the future.
Emperor Haojing only has so much money on his books, and the newly added mines are the bulk of his total assets.
The iron mines in Australia, the gold mines in Central Asia and Tangnu Ulianghai, and Zheng Zhilong's mining in South Africa have a total value of 20 billion silver coins.
There are also millions of slave miners dedicated to Emperor Hao Jing. When food prices are low, it is not difficult to feed these slave miners.
Emperor Haojing did not need to pay cash to buy grain. He only needed to exchange the novel products produced by his factories with grain merchants like Yu Songyi.
The other party is very happy to do this kind of transaction, because until now, you have to queue up to buy novelty products in large quantities. This is equivalent to jumping in line directly, and jumping in front.
Similarly, Emperor Haojing also encouraged merchants at the port to barter with foreign businessmen, which not only saves logistics time, but also reduces inventory at the port.
Foreign businessmen are particularly welcome to purchase grain, whether it is unprocessed, biscuits, noodles, or instant noodles. As long as they are willing to barter, they are given the green light.
Zheng Zhilong exchanged 400 shiploads of ores and semi-finished metals for 200 shiploads of compressed biscuits and instant noodles. When he returned, he also brought 300 shiploads of novel products.
This time they also took away about 30,000 fellow Fujianese, most of whom took steam-iron merchant ships to South Africa.
These are cheap labor and the main source of military strength, but Zheng Zhilong cannot afford to lose them.
After the number of steam-iron merchant ships reached a certain scale, they could transport eighty to one hundred thousand people at a time.
In addition, Emperor Haojing also encouraged Ming businessmen to open factories and develop mines in newly acquired territories, such as Moscow.
Kursk has the largest iron ore in Europe, with reserves of 50 billion tons, which is also among the best in the world. The disadvantage is that it is very close to Braid's territory.
Emperor Haojing has ordered Chen Yonghua, who has been rotated over, to lead three brigades to be stationed on the Bryansk, Orel, and Kursk lines to ensure the safety of the southern flank.
Businessmen developing the Kursk iron ore will be given full tax exemption for the first ten years and a preferential treatment of only 10% tax for the second ten years.
Emperor Haojing did not intend to use precious transportation resources to transport low value-added items such as iron plates. Opening a steel factory near the mine would solve the problem.
If you dare to come looking for death, that's just right. The Western Expedition army has not fought for several years, and some generals and officers are worried about having no military exploits to gain!
Now that we have tanks, airplanes, and machine guns, we just need the braided cavalry to rush over and fight...
Because Northland is so large, the number of aircraft transported to the area has reached two hundred.
But this was far from enough. Emperor Haojing believed that the air force stationed in the North should have at least a thousand aircraft.
In the western region, it is used to detect enemy situations and support the defense and attack of ground troops.
In the central and eastern areas, it was used for searching to find disoriented troops and trapped caravans.
The land along the Wanli South Line that runs through the North can support at least two to three hundred million people, which is approximately equal to the current population of the entire Ming Dynasty.
Under the strong support of Emperor Haojing, the imperial court is moving northward at a rate of at least five million per year, with the goal of digesting this fertile land as quickly as possible.
There is no need to put "rich" in quotation marks, because although the temperature in this area is not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, the food is only harvested once a year.
However, underground resources are extremely rich. After solving the two major difficulties of manpower and transportation, large-scale development of the area can burst out huge value.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, settlements in the North were divided into five levels.
The number of village-level settlements is 100 households, the town-level settlements are 1,000 households, the county-level settlements are 10,000 households, and the prefectural-level settlements are 100,000 households.
The first two levels are the number after concentration, and the last two levels are the total number in the area.
There are also 100,000 households in city-level settlements, but they are large towns, where Jumin lives concentratedly.
Each city must reach a scale of 500,000 people, which is convenient for management, construction and protection, and can also create scale effects.
People in hierarchical settlements hardly participate in agricultural labor and mainly work in the secondary and tertiary industries.
According to the plan, all the areas extending from the upper reaches of the Black Water to the middle reaches of the Volga River will become settlements of the Ming Dynasty.
Strive to build 300,000 village-level settlements and 10,000 town-level settlements within 20 years.
Sixty cities with a population of more than 500,000 were built, bringing the urban population of Northland to 30 million.
This will promote the urbanization and industrialization process of Northland, promote the economic development of Northland, and completely digest the area.
As long as you don't do evil, you can live freely in the Northland. Whether you fish, farm, or even cut down trees and sell firewood, you can support yourself.
The three northern provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan have the most people moving northward, while Shandong and Beizhili are the provinces that export the most people to the northeast.
Due to the distance, the treatment in the northern part of Yimin is better than that in the northeast. The best is to go to the area west of the Ural Mountains.
When men of school age arrive, they will be given 500 acres of land. They can choose a specific location and a tractor will be given to them for free.
The two brothers went there together, and getting off the bus meant that they had acquired thousands of acres of land.
The local garrison will also send people to take the initiative to teach the people how to live here, and even help you marry a Ocean horse as your wife.
Give away land, give out women, and give out tractors!
To ordinary farmers, Emperor Haojing was the greatest benefactor in history!
Many farmers are unwilling to work in cities because they do not want to be scolded by merchants or factory owners.
If you stay in your hometown, you won't be able to improve your life with the little land you have, so you can only eat enough.
If you want to live a better life and don't have to look at other people's faces and feel cowardly, going to the North is the best choice.
Emperor Haojing believed that even if only 100,000 people were moved to the area west of the Ural Mountains every year, it would be quite successful.
The advertisements published in newspapers and by officials were: Go over there and be a local landlord, and you will be both powerful and blessed!
In fact, after arriving in a certain place, farmers will have to suffer for up to three years, and after three years, life will be good.
For example, people in settlements were starved to death, or local officials failed to report the news.
The imperial court will severely punish him, and the specific method is to show him!
This was the special skill of the executioners of the Ming Dynasty, and Emperor Haojing did not want them to give up this skill of eating.
Once the flags are planted in the most suitable places in the North for human habitation, other places will not matter.
Emperor Haojing's original intention was to let farmers work hard to cultivate the land and have babies, so that the population of the Northland would surge.
Every household can implement the most basic mechanized farming. When harvesting comes in autumn, the government will assign harvesters to harvest for free.
After there is a surplus of grain in the North, it can also be used to exchange for various locally produced commodities.
At present, factories with tens of thousands of people have appeared in Beidu and Jiangnan areas.
Thanks to the cotton supply in the new territory, the largest textile company in Beidu already has tens of thousands of textile machines and can produce 2,000 pieces of coarse cloth every day. The entire Beidu can produce tens of thousands of pieces of coarse cloth every day.
Enterprises that manufacture garments rely on the advantages of sewing machines. Female workers can produce more than one million pieces of garments of all kinds every day.
Although the fabrics cannot be compared with the silks and satins from Jiangnan, they are superior in terms of large quantities and can be supplied to overseas markets in ships.
After obtaining the manganese-chromium metal provided by Zheng Zhilong, the stainless steel industry also flourished.
Zuiliang Stainless Steel Company currently has an annual output of nearly 15 million stainless steel utensils of various types, becoming the leader in the industry.
Thousands of steam forging machines are the company's best helpers. Especially the basin-shaped molds can be shaped at once after forging and water-cooling. The average production speed is very fast.
The entire industry can achieve an annual production of hundreds of millions of stainless steel utensils, but due to the huge market demand, the supply of products is still in short supply.
In order to meet local and overseas orders at the same time, almost all manufacturing factories are divided into three or even four shifts. No boss will have trouble with boxes of silver coins.
As long as the power plant provides power and the wires are not malfunctioning, the industrial area will be brightly lit and lively every day.
Beidu and Tianjin have upgraded from two-line railways to four-line railways, with the purpose of alleviating the previous tight capacity situation.
If the factory is not closed, the train station will naturally operate all day long, and passenger and freight trains will also be scheduled to depart at night.
As the newspaper said, shopping malls are like battlefields, and businessmen must race against time to stay one step ahead of their peers.
While William III was staying at the Dutch Embassy, he was often awakened by the sound of train whistles at night, always looking unhappy.
After learning about the actual situation from the ambassador, I conducted an on-site inspection and was amazed at the operational efficiency of the Ming Empire.
In the Netherlands, only the ports operate 24 hours a day, and they just deal with things at night. If it were not wartime, this kind of scene would not happen all day long.
His visit to the Ming Empire this time gave him a thorough understanding of how the Ming Empire transformed from a debt-ridden country to a global hegemon.
Use funds to develop technology instead of enjoying life like the Spaniards, and then use technology to develop advanced weapons to repel enemies and even achieve external expansion.
The acquired land can be digested through large-scale relocation, so that the local population pressure can be perfectly resolved.
Seeing that Pickle was copying many actions of the Ming Empire, William III couldn't help but come up with this idea.
The Netherlands has done this before, but it is not as thorough as kimchi.
It’s a complete no-brainer, just copy it!
Although if you copy the Ming Empire's model without adapting to your own conditions, you will be acclimatized.
If the execution efficiency is very high, if you copy it year after year, you will be able to gain a lot.
As for face...
Kimchi Shangxia was afraid of poverty before. As long as you can make money by copying, why do you need shame?
