In fact, why didn't Su Yonglin himself covet the huge amount of finished warships, shipbuilding materials and shipbuilding craftsmen?
His missing eyes turned green.
A large number of craftsmen were recruited throughout Shandong and Hebei, and high-level technical talents were hired with high salaries, but the income was still very limited.
The best craftsmen and technologies are all in the center of the Jin Kingdom, and there are very few among the people.
All the people can find are ordinary craftsmen, and those who can make weapons or even innovate weapons are under the control of the Jin Dynasty court.
The outstanding weapon craftsmen Su Yonglin obtained through his battles were basically official craftsmen found in the weapon departments of important cities, and there were almost no private craftsmen.
However, if you ask about the living standards, political status, and daily treatment of these weapon craftsmen, you will always get some similar replies. It turns out that their treatment is very average, even poor.
This can probably represent the attitude of feudal rulers towards science and technology.
Su Yonglin once naively believed that feudal rulers were fools, frogs in the well, and mentally retarded people who had no idea what science and technology could bring to them. Why not support such a good thing?
Later he discovered that things were not that simple.
If you think about it carefully, technological innovation can always bring different changes to the world, and when human beings face different changes, they are always more afraid than excited.
If technological innovation is good for you, you will be happy to accept it. If technological innovation is not good for you but will bring harm to you, you will of course oppose it with all your strength, hoping to maintain technology in the most beneficial situation for you forever.
Feudal rulers probably thought so too.
Rulers pursue stability more than anything else. Once they emerge from chaos, they hope to maintain stability forever, maintain peace and prosperity, and avoid further disputes.
In order to meet such fundamental needs, scholars used the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Rules and the concept of superiority and inferiority to construct a blueprint for a super-stable social structure, which controlled all aspects of society and made everything stable, and then sold this set to the rulers. , making the ruler very happy.
There are no variables in this ultra-stable social structure. The biggest variable is the transformation of production relations caused by the development of science and technology.
The development of science and technology is a huge uncertain factor and an extremely uncontrollable dynamic factor. In order to maintain an ultra-stable social structure, the ruling class is naturally hostile to the development of science and technology.
If they could, they hoped the world would never develop.
Of course, when force majeure such as foreign invasion occurs, they still need science and technology to arm their army, and they will be forced to develop science and technology. However, in order to suppress the greater uncontrollability caused by the development of science and technology, the social status of technical talents must also be reduced.
The ancients were not ignorant of the benefits of technological development. How could those outstanding people who are one in a million not see the benefits of technological development?
However, just because they were so smart, their thoughts suddenly jumped to more distant places——
Will the people who have mastered these advanced production tools have more thoughts than they should because their productivity has been greatly improved and their lives have become richer?
Will it affect the dynasty of my family?
Everything must stop when it reaches this level, so technological innovation ends here.
The Southern Song Dynasty relied on civilization and orthodoxy. It claimed to be technologically advanced and prosperous. However, it was surpassed by Mongolia in all aspects such as economy, military, science and technology, even being beaten, crushed, and finally tragically subjugated.
This story tells Su Yonglin that science and technology are the primary productive forces.
Therefore, while recruiting craftsmen for large-scale shipbuilding, Su Yonglin also made clear the preferential treatment for craftsmen who mastered various technologies, so as to attract more outstanding craftsmen to serve the Liberation Army.
Not to mention how good the treatment was, it was definitely more than what they received under the rule of the Jin Kingdom, and their social status was also improved.
Next, when capital becomes more abundant, Su Yonglin will reform the craftsman system on a large scale, improve their social and even political status, and let them work hard to lead a wave of technological revolution.
Many technological innovations should not wait until the middle and late Ming Dynasty. What should be done can be carried out now. He is still waiting to arm himself with science and technology to crush the Southern Song Dynasty.
Craftsmen, craftsmen, Su Yonglin thought about the skilled craftsmen under Wan Yanliang and salivated.
Despite this, the first criterion for this battle is to completely destroy the Jin navy. Use all available weapons. Hit as hard as you can, burn as hard as you can, and use all your strength to be ruthless. Yes, sink them into the sea and never be reincarnated!
On June 30, the Su family navy set sail, starting from the southern bay of Cangzhou and heading north along the coastline.
The number of sailors dispatched was 4,000, and there were also 500 elite cavalry from the Huben Battalion sent out with the ship for landing operations to break the enemy's camp.
The base camp for the construction of the Jin Kingdom Navy was in the coastal area of Daxing Prefecture, probably also in the coastal area of Tianjin. Of course, at this time, the area was still vast and sparsely populated, and it was not as prosperous as the later [Nine Rivers at the bottom of Tianjin Wei, three floating bridges and two passes] .
The Jin people built large companies in coastal areas, placed construction teams of more than 30,000 people here, transported large amounts of wood and other shipbuilding raw materials from everywhere, built warships here, and built a large-scale navy. .
Although the Jin people are not good at water fighting and are not very good at water fighting, they are still wealthy and have abundant capital. It is not difficult to build a considerable naval army.
As long as Wan Yanliang is willing to spend money and dares to spend money, it is possible to build a naval army larger than that of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Of course, a technical and experienced force such as the Navy cannot win with large numbers. It still requires tactics and experience.
If the tactics and tactics are not in place and the experience is not in place, no matter how many naval forces there are, it will be like delivering food to the enemy, giving a large amount of equipment to the enemy in vain, making the enemy stronger.
Just like what happened when the Jin navy was defeated by the Southern Song navy.
Su Yonglin found out that the main person in charge of the entire Jin Kingdom construction camp was Su Baoheng, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and the person in charge of security work was Xu Wen, the capital water supervisor. The identities of the two people were also similar.
So Su Yonglin learned that his descendant with the surname Su was originally a Han from the Liao Kingdom. His father had stayed in Xijing of the Liao Kingdom and surrendered to Wanyan Zonghan. Su Baoheng was promoted by Wanyan Zonghan, and now he has the status of Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
And that Xu Wen is even more interesting.
He was originally a Song general from Shandong. When Zhao Gou fled south, he accompanied Zhao Gou and made great contributions. However, later because Kong Yanzhou and Li Cheng, both northerners, betrayed the Southern Song Dynasty and defected to the puppet Qi Dynasty, the Southern Song government began to suspect Xu Wen is also suspected of betrayal.
In addition, he had always been good at fighting and had made many achievements that aroused the jealousy of his colleagues. Some people gossiped in the court and accused him of betrayal, which made the court send people to attack him. Frustrated, he crossed the sea and defected to the puppet Qi to serve Liu Yu. Later, he followed the trend of Jin Guo.
Under the command of the Jin Kingdom, he made meritorious service on many battlefields against the Southern Song Dynasty, so he did well in the Jin Kingdom.
After Wanyan Liang ascended the throne, as a Han Chinese, he also gained Wanyan Liang's trust. This time the Jin Kingdom was preparing to build a naval expedition to the south. As a veteran with naval warfare experience, Xu Wen was appointed to the position.
It is said that he is quite happy that he will go to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Su Baoheng was nothing. He had no military ability. He was just a pure administrative bureaucrat. Because of his status as Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he was in charge of naval affairs.
Xu Wen is a veteran and has experience in water warfare, but it is not enough for the general to have experience. In water warfare, not only the general must have experience, but also the officers under his command must have experience.
Xu Wen obviously does not have this condition.
A few days before the navy was dispatched, Su Yonglin ordered the troops on the front line of Xiongzhou Bazhou to launch a slightly stronger attack, threatening Waqiao Pass and Yijin Pass, in order to attract Jin Ting's attention and Wan Yanliang's attention. This side of Xiongzhou Bazhou is not the navy camp.
On the day when the navy was dispatched, the war in Xiongzhou and Bazhou was in full swing.
No one in the entire Jinting expected that Su Yonglin actually used the plank road to secretly infiltrate Chen Cang, and went directly to the navy.
It was dawn when Su Yonglin's navy appeared on the vast sea.
Sun Tzu Yi calculated the time very well. The whole army sailed on the sea at a certain speed, and it was roughly dawn when it arrived at the outskirts of the Jin Army's navy camp.
Before arriving at the water camp, Sun Tzu Yi chose a coast that was convenient for landing, put down the five hundred cavalry on the boat, assigned guides to them, and asked the guide to lead them directly from the land to the water camp of the Jin army, copying their On the way back, try to intercept more craftsmen.
Then the navy continued to advance and went straight to the Jinjun water camp.
The wind was not strong that day, and there was not a single Jin Army ship patrolling the entire naval camp. It was as quiet as if there was no one in the entire camp.
The watchman on the watchtower vaguely saw the densely packed Jinjun navy warships arranged neatly in the water camp. The number was staggering, as if they could not be seen at a glance.
Sun Tzu Yi rode on the flagship and conveyed orders in flag language. He ordered all warships, big and small, to cock their crossbows, set up their rockets, and wait for the order to launch.
The navy soldiers quickly installed it and the loading was completed quickly.
Sun Tzu Yiduo left some time for the crossbowmen to reload and aim better, and then ordered the warships to be divided into three teams and approach the Jin army's water camp from different directions.
Sun Tzu Yi led one team, and deputy generals Kong Zhende and Zhou Mancheng each led another team. When the fleet approached a certain range outside the water camp, Sun Tzu Yi ordered three loud arrows to be fired into the sky.
That was the call to attack.
The fuse of the gunpowder barrel was ignited, and the crossbow shooters on the navy warships picked up their sledgehammers and hammered down hard. The thick rockets roared out, piercing the sky, and headed straight towards the people in the water camp. The Jin army warships left.
