.In addition to giving away a bunch of warships worth more than two billion silver coins to the allies of the Holy Roman Empire who were preparing to send troops to the Holy Roman Empire for free.
Emperor Haojing also provided cash support to his allies based on the standard that a brigade could be worth half a million silver coins in one year's operation.
For example, France planned to send six armies and eighteen brigades, and Louis XIV could get the benefit of nine million silver coins.
Although it is directly treated as military expenditure, it can still save a lot of money. If you subsidize more and subsidize less, if you really lose money, then that is His Majesty's own business... The capitals that are preparing to participate in the war can do what they can. If they think the war can make money, then send more troops, and vice versa.
For heads of state like Ibrahim and Poirot who were not short of money, Zhu Cihong took advantage of them and directly converted the money into helicopters and corresponding production lines as gifts to them.
Louis XIV previously acquired one hundred
"Black Hawk" armed helicopters and one hundred
"Condor" utility helicopter, and two production lines. Ibrahim and Poirot also received the same treatment, except that the former sent more troops and could spend no money at all, while the latter sent less troops, so he had to use refined copper and saltpeter to offset the payment.
The export of helicopters was originally scheduled for 1740, but due to the need to win over France to participate in the war, the time was moved forward by about five years.
In this case, Zhu Cixiang followed the trend and decided to directly export these two helicopters to the world.
The unit price of the "Black Hawk" armed helicopter is one million silver coins.
Condor utility helicopters cost twice as much. The production lines of the two helicopters each cost 100 million silver coins. Combined with the huge advantages of helicopters in ground attack, this price is not expensive.
Ottoman and Inca pilots can use the weapons directly after they arrive, because the pilots of the two countries have already begun to receive relevant training in the Ming Dynasty.
Pilots from nine countries: France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Prussia, Venice, Japan, Kimchi, Persia, and Siam, can only come for training according to the time specified in the contract.
However, as long as they can attack from all sides and overwhelm the Holy Roman Empire in terms of military strength and firepower, it doesn't actually matter whether the helicopters obtained by these countries participate in the war.
Taking into account the mountainous terrain of Austria, Zhu Cixiang provided 400 helicopters to the Ottomans at one time so that they could directly enter the battlefield after the year.
The Inca Empire itself was also mountainous, especially the western coastal area, which was almost just a coastal corridor adjacent to the Andes Mountains.
For Poirot, the good news is that after years of hard work, most of the resistance forces in the empire have disappeared.
The few remnants hiding in corners can no longer make big waves. More contradictions and conflicts occur between tribes with inconvenient transportation.
Since there are no strong enemies nearby, the only big country in South America is still its ally. Most of the thousand helicopters ordered by the empire are used to patrol mountainous areas and rainforests.
Two thousand were originally ordered, but considering that he could also improve the military industrial level of his allies, Zhu Cixi proposed that half of them be produced in the Inca Empire.
To put it bluntly, it is the assembly of parts. The engine, propeller, instruments, and body are all made in Daming, even if they are shipped there and stored.
There is nothing wrong with the project itself, the problem lies in the previous
The "Black-footed Albatross" fighter jets were put into production in the Inca Empire. In the early stages of production, the quality of the finished products was really unsatisfactory.
So much so that in the first two years after it was put into production, Inca Air Force pilots refused to fly their domestically produced fighter jets into the sky because more than 20 fighter jets of the same type had been crashed before, resulting in the sacrifice of more than ten pilots.
However, the same model of fighter jets imported from the Ming Empire had no quality problems at all. Poirot could only appease the air force and approved the import of another 100 fighter jets per year over three years.
"Black-footed Albatross". It seems that the number of fighter planes lost is not that many, but a squadron of fighters has been lost in two years, and the annual output of the Inca factory is only forty-eight.
This means that a quarter of the fighters have quality problems of varying degrees. The reason is that the employees are not careful and has nothing to do with the parts imported from the Ming Empire.
This is easy to verify. If parts of these fighter jets are used as organ donors, there will be no problem with other imported goods.
On the contrary, using these parts to build a fighter plane locally, this thing is
"Flying coffin"... After hearing the news, Emperor Haojing couldn't help but think of the story of the Su-30ki introduced by his third brother!
If you calculate it this way, the level of Hindustan Airlines and the Inca Imperial Aircraft Company is comparable!
Due to this existing problem, the Inca Navy, Army and Air Force, when purchasing helicopters, required that they continue to purchase original goods from the Ming Empire within the first five years of local assembly.
In order to welcome the arrival of helicopters, the Inca Navy has already modified the rear parts of many large warships in accordance with the standards of the Ming Empire Navy, so that their hangars can carry at least one or two helicopters.
The three armies of the Ottoman Empire also have a very urgent need for helicopters, and the navy and air force need to patrol many islands in the eastern Mediterranean.
The army has to take care of the mountainous Balkans in peacetime, and in wartime it is also responsible for attacking Austria, which has similar terrain.
Before acquiring the helicopter production line, Ibrahim had already placed an order for 4,000 helicopters. In addition to the first batch of deliveries, the Ming Empire's factories can deliver forty helicopters to the Ottoman side every month after New Year's Day.
The goods do not need to be transported by sea. As long as they are assembled in the factory on the outskirts of Beidu, they can be transported to the east coast of the Black Sea via the Northern Line Railway within half a month.
If the other party needs it, it can continue to be transported directly to the location close to the war zone through the Eastern European Railway that has been completed and opened to traffic and then unloaded.
Whether customers choose sea transportation or land transportation, they can choose according to their own needs. Emperor Haojing is only responsible for helping them deliver the goods.
Then there is the Type 9 heavy tank, a land warfare weapon. Each of the six countries participating in the war, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Prussia, Ottoman, and Inca, can first obtain a battalion of forty Type 9 tanks.
No more will be enough, because this tank was only installed in the Ming Dynasty King Division last year, and the Ming army itself is in urgent need of large-scale equipment, so it cannot be allocated in quantity according to the size of each country's troop dispatch.
After opening up to export sales, countries that can afford this tank, such as the Ottoman and Inca Empire, can place large orders.
For countries that cannot afford it, such as the Netherlands, Sweden, and Prussia, Zhu Cixiang will also provide them with a battalion at a very cheap friendly price, and then stop there.
The cash-strapped head of state, with little military spending, might as well concentrate funds on purchasing helicopters, which are also good anti-tank weapons.
At a time when the fight for air supremacy is becoming more and more important, ground forces are used to deal with the aftermath, and most of the work that should be done has been done by the air force.
To take a step back, the combat effectiveness of heavy tanks is definitely much higher than that of light tanks, and the same is true for field assault capabilities. Of course, they are expensive for a reason.
The unit price of the No. 9 tank is as high as five million silver coins, while the armed helicopter is only one million silver coins each. The latter can also take care of the former.
The reason why heavy tanks are expensive is that the engines, artillery, suspension, and gearboxes are all newly developed. The engines of armed helicopters are the same as those of fighter jets.
Before being attacked across the border, the survival probability of heavy tanks on the battlefield is definitely much higher than that of armed helicopters.
After all, no matter how hard the tank falls, it won't go anywhere. It will just fall down the slope and may cause mechanical failure.
If an armed helicopter falls from the sky, it can basically be sold for scrap... Zhu Cixiang is not afraid that the things he sends out will be copied by others. If the other party really has this ability, he can make weapons of the same level long ago.
France has previously produced two fighter jets with reasonably good performance, but their overall performance is still acceptable.
"Black-footed Albatross" and
"Flamingo". According to the analysis and judgment of the relevant intelligence obtained by the Academy of Military Sciences, the military industrial level of France, currently the strongest in Europe and ranked second in the world, is probably more than 20 years behind the Ming Dynasty.
Specifically, tanks are ten years behind, aircraft are fifteen years behind, battleships are twenty years behind, and combat thinking is thirty years behind.
We can catch up in these aspects, and maybe we can narrow the gap in fifty years.
But in terms of population, not counting slaves and mixed-race people, the number of Ming people in the Ming Empire alone is as high as nearly 400 million.
Including slaves and mulattoes, the population exceeds 500 million. If there had been no large-scale relocation and the people would have stayed where they were to have children and play, the total population would have exceeded 600 million by now.
At present, the Ming Dynasty has had good harvests year after year, and there is a serious surplus of food. No matter how many children the people have, they will not die of hunger. If a family cannot afford to feed their children due to illness or disability of their parents, the local government will provide them with food.
After the child reaches adulthood, it will be deducted from his salary or land harvest, and the entire grain loan will be fully interest-free.
According to predictions by the Academy of Sciences, at the current birth rate, the total population of the Ming Dynasty will reach one billion around 1800.
By 1900, the total population may reach an astonishing three billion! Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty had a large enough territory and enough land that it could afford to feed even three billion people.
Born all over the world! This is the small goal set by Emperor Haojing for Zimin! The corresponding annual income level must also achieve steady growth. Not counting the food part, the annual income reached 2.5 billion silver coins last year.
This year it will reach 2.75 billion, achieving the financial goal of 10% annual growth. The annual income in the year after next must exceed the 3 billion mark, and within ten years the annual income will reach 5 billion silver coins!
How to achieve steady growth in annual income? Very simple! Emperor Haojing transferred a large number of slave miners to the mainland, and first vigorously developed the mineral deposits in various parts of the country.
The many mines in the Northeast alone are enough to provide 10 million jobs. Coal mines, iron mines, gold mines, oil fields...anything that can be mined in the open must be exploited vigorously.
The earlier the mining is started, the lower the mining cost will be, and it will only get higher and higher in the future. After a large number of people migrated to the northeastern region, the area has become the largest grain-producing area.
The grain stored in the grain depot can be used to feed slaves, which means a virtuous cycle can be achieved locally.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ming Dynasty currently has about 20 million slaves of working age. This means that these slaves can provide the court with a tax of at least 800 million silver coins every year.
Together with the contributions of slaves of other ages, the imperial court relied on slaves for about half of its annual income.
If more efforts are made to develop the mines, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household Affairs estimate that this year's annual income will exceed 2.9 billion silver coins.
The emperor demanded a ten percent increase in annual income. This is assuming that grain does not need to be exchanged for silver, otherwise the current annual income of the Ming Dynasty would be nearly 4 billion silver coins.
A hundred years ago, this determination would have been unimaginable to Emperor Chongzhen. He must have thought that the imperial court's repeated tax increases could only reach the level of an annual income of 10 million silver, nothing more.
Only a hundred years later, the Ming Dynasty's annual income was two hundred times what it was at that time, which is equivalent to an average annual growth rate of two times, and it has persisted for a hundred years, which is really shocking.
Zhu Cihong asked officials in the court and various places to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, to be down-to-earth and diligent, and to continue striving to increase the empire's revenue to a higher level.
The previous one hundred years were just the process of the Ming Empire's efforts to become a true world hegemon. The next hundred years will be the time for the Ming Empire to take advantage of its advantages in population, land, technology, military, finance and many other aspects to gain the right to speak in the world!
The premise is that everyone in the empire continues to work together, persevere, and work hard, otherwise the fate of the Roman Empire's collapse will still be inevitable.
Is the Millennium Empire considered a ball? Emperor Haojing wants to build the Ming Empire into a ten thousand year empire! In the future, the moon, Mars, even the solar system and the Milky Way will belong to the Ming Empire!
Only in this way can we truly realize that we can shine with the sun and the moon and be worthy of it.
The name of the country is "Ming"! The first step is to become the overlord of the earth! The second step is to upgrade to become the overlord of the solar system! The third step is to become the overlord of the galaxy!
The fourth step is to become the overlord of the Fornax Galaxy Cluster! The fifth step is to crown the overlord of the Laniakea Supercluster!
How about it? Is this pie big enough? If you think it's not big enough, a certain emperor also has the sixth, seventh and eighth steps... The plan is just as the name suggests - "The Eight Steps of the Heavenly Dragon"!
Such a big and ambitious plan would be enough to shock the world to the point of dislocating their jaws three hundred years later!
At present, the Daming Academy of Sciences has begun to use
A large rocket improved from the "North Wind" ballistic trajectory. The warhead part is modified into a crew capsule, and monkeys are used instead of astronauts to fly out of the atmosphere, then return and land on the ground.
Monkeys are not necessarily the ancestors of humans, but monkeys can serve humans to a certain extent. It is a bit unreasonable to ask direct descendants of one's ancestors to serve oneself.
But this thing is not his ancestor, so he can be sent around as he pleases! Except for the previous few failures, the more than ten rockets tested recently have successfully completed their set tasks.
The subsequent models of the "Beifeng" ballistic missile can achieve dual purposes with one bomb, which is a problem that was taken into consideration during the design.
Compared with rockets used for aerospace research, the performance of military models is naturally more stable, which is also the original intention of choosing ballistic trajectories.
After going to the site and watching several launches, Zhu Cixiang believed that within thirty years, Ming Dynasty astronauts would be able to travel in space.
In a hundred years at most, the Ming Empire will be able to plant a flag on the moon!
