: Spending money is like flowing water

Obviously, Huang Taiji will not give up North Korea easily. North Korea was determined and planned for a long time before it was finally controlled by him. He would definitely compete with Zhang Zhun repeatedly in North Korea. Even if the entire Korean Peninsula was broken into ruins, the Taurus cavalry would not retreat voluntarily. Therefore, it was very difficult for Zhang Zhun to completely expel the Taurus military force from North Korea. In North Korea, it was completely without a base or a rear, and leaving the huge fleet was even more unfeasible.

Therefore, Zhang Zhun's army can develop steadily, but the navy must develop ahead of schedule. The development of the navy currently mainly relies on spending money. First, spend 100,000 taels of silver to see what the effect is. If the effect is good, then try hard to spend money in it in the future. If millions of taels of silver are spent, maybe a thousand ships will come out.

The second batch of silver, also 100,000 taels, was mainly allocated to military production systems, including iron smelting plants, craftsmen's workshops, artillery factories and other weapons and equipment production units.

To deal with the counterattack of the imperial army, expanding the army and preparing for war is essential. Although the navy is important, the army cannot or lacks. Walking on two legs is the safest. The feeling of a cripple is not good! Before launching a battle against Liaodong and North Korea, Zhang Zhun must first deal with the Ming army in Laizhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture.

Zhang Zhun is not short of people now, but only weapons. The production of the Hu Ben gun must be strengthened, and the output must be increased. Originally, only thirty Hu Ben guns were produced every day, but now it has been increased to fifty every day. To achieve this goal, the entire supporting military system must be expanded. This includes increasing the output of the ironworks and producing more high-quality steel. The craftsman workshop must arrange more craftsmen, and even a new larger and more advanced craftsman workshop is built.

At the same time, the artillery factory under the charge of Sun Qinkai will continue to study more and more powerful types of artillery while stepping up the production of Dragon Cannons. The most important research is of course the Red Cannon. Compared with the Flangji Cannon, the Red Cannon is Zhang Zhun's god of war! A Red Cannon with a caliber of 120 mm has a maximum range of more than ten miles. Even if a grape bomb is fired, it can hit three miles away. This is very beneficial for the cavalry that destroyed the Tartars. Three miles away, a bunch of grapes bombs will be bombed, so how many of the Tartars' cavalry are dead?

Relying on the Hu Ben gun alone may not provide enough firepower and cannot stop the strong impact of the Tartar cavalry. However, with the Red Cannon in charge, this requirement can definitely be met. The Red Cannon, the Folang Ji cannon, and the Hu Ben gun are interwoven into a three-layer firepower network in the distance, middle and near, which can completely crush the rushing Tartar cavalry.

The naval battle that just ended shows that cannons will soon become the main or even only weapon in naval battles. In the face of powerful artillery fire, there will be fewer and fewer jumping gangs and boarding battles. Even if you want to fight with jumping gangs and boarding battles, you need to fight with the gangs and boarding battles. Before the two sides contact, it is very beneficial to use fierce artillery fire to greatly weaken the enemy's vitality. Especially grape bullets and chain bullets, which are too powerful in naval battles.

The grape bombs fired by the Red Cannon have a range of more than three miles, which is equivalent to the solid bombs of the Flang machine cannon. When the two fleets are fighting, the party with the Red Cannon will undoubtedly have a great advantage. Of course, the weight, as well as the recoil of the Red Cannon should also be improved. It is very necessary to reduce the weight and reduce the recoil as much as possible while ensuring the range and power.

The third batch of silver is 30,000 taels, which is mainly used to increase the output of some special materials.

These materials are mainly cement, glass, and coarse salt.

Facts have proved that cement is indeed an excellent building material. The sturdiness of concrete buildings is comparable to that of stone houses. Especially in water buildings, cement cannot be separated from cement. Whether it is used to build a dock, a wharf, or a water conservancy facility, cement is an excellent material. The territory under Zhang Zhun requires a large amount of cement. Six cement kilns have been built in Lingshanwei, but it still cannot meet the needs.

The production of cement requires a large amount of money to be invested. The current cement production has not yet been marketed and is all used within the plan. This is an industry that only has input but no output for the time being. Therefore, Zhang Zhun asked Liu Hang and others to study specifically to see when cement production can be marketized and allow powerful merchants to intervene.

As an important source of economic resources for Zhang Zhun, glass should also be appropriately increased production. In addition to being used for money, glass is mainly used to improve its own equipment. For example, using glass in certain places on warships can better observe. At the same time, the craftsmen brought by Chen Lingfei from Jiangnan are constantly making Thousand Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile Mile

At the same time, research on scopes is also underway. Since you can make a scope, the technical difficulty of scopes naturally does not exist. Under the current technical conditions, a scope with too high magnitude may not be able to be used, and a four-fold scope is barely possible. After being equipped with a four-fold scope, the sniper can be more than 80% sure and hit a target of about 200 meters, even if it meets the requirements. Of course, if the quality of the scope is higher, it will naturally be better.

The cost and efficiency of salt drying in seawater can completely replace the manual salt cooking method. The newly built salt farm in Xiahezhai Qianhu Institute can provide tens of thousands of kilograms of fine salt every month. However, the salt drying in seawater requires the construction of a large number of salt drying in seawater, which requires a large amount of cement, ceramic tiles, red bricks and other materials. These require extremely high early investment. Therefore, it is not possible to spend money in it. High investment and high output.

The fourth batch of silver is also 30,000 taels, mainly used to build naval docks, forts, training bases, civilian docks, gantry, roads, warehouses and other equipment and facilities.

It is necessary to plan ahead of time for the Navy Pier in Partridge Bay. After Xue Zhidie's shipyard has put down 100,000 taels of silver, all kinds of warships, including sword-tooth ships, may be like dumplings, and in the next year, they will be launched into the water. Without enough berths, they will not be able to dock so many warships.

How many berths are planned for the first phase?

A total of fifty!

Are there many fifty berths?

There are really not many.

Not much at all.

Xue Zhidie's shipyard originally had nine docks, and nine ships could be built at the same time. After a large amount of silver was smashed, the number of docks might exceed 30. In other words, thirty warships might start construction at the same time. Once the production of materials is scaled, the efficiency is absolutely amazing. The same is true for shipbuilding. During World War II, the Essex-class aircraft carrier in the United States came out like dumplings. In just a few years, dozens of ships were released, not to mention ordinary warships.

In fact, after receiving direct support of 100,000 taels of silver, Xue Zhidie really boarded twenty-one docks. In this way, the number of docks in the shipyard has really increased to thirty. Thirty warships can be started at the same time. Moreover, these docks are all designed in advance, and all can build ships with a displacement of up to 600 tons. In other words, for a long time in the future, these docks can meet the needs.

The craftsmen brought from Jiangnan were also distributed. As mentioned earlier, Duan Changfa and Yin Dafu both became foremen. As for those fools, they could also do some heavy work. When they were full and were taken by someone, their work efficiency was not bad. Because they only knew to work blindly, unlike other craftsmen, who often wanted to be lazy and needed supervisors to watch.

The most important thing is that when Zhang Zhun held a military competition, he attracted the attention of many interested people. After two military parades, Zhang Zhun fully demonstrated his military strength and gave the people a strong sense of security. Many people from Aoshanwei and Lingshanwei have relatives from other places, and now these relatives have tried to move here. The most obvious one is the nearby Dasongwei, with at least thousands of people coming. Many families in Laizhou Prefecture are also willing to make a living on Zhang Zhun's territory. Many of them have entered the shipyard to work and can earn at least one or two taels of silver every month.

After Zhang Zhun occupied Xiongya, there was a huge advantage that he could obtain a large amount of wood from the nearby Wulong River. There were Laiyang and Qixia counties on the Wulong River, and the surrounding areas were all mountainous and a large number of wood. In other words, there was a large amount of wood here. Wulong Bay, which was the exit of Wulong River, was an important timber distribution center, and there were a large number of wood merchants collecting wood here.

Later, due to the war, no one bought the wood, and the locals stopped cutting down trees, which made the forests in the surrounding area grow for decades, and many big trees grew. These big trees now just meet Zhang Zhun's needs. The locals cut down the wood, drifted through the Wulong River to Wulong Bay, and then tied into huge wooden rafts, went out from Wulong Bay, and slowly floated along the coastline to Mawan, which then turned into shipbuilding materials.

According to the most conservative estimate, the timber reserved in Laiyang and Qixia counties alone can build hundreds of large ships. Of course, the keels needed to build large ships are still in short supply. However, what Zhang Zhun currently needs is the Cangshan ship with a displacement of about 70 tons and the sword-tooth ship with a displacement of about 250 tons. The requirements for keels are not that high for the time being.

There is money, food, food, people, materials, materials, technology, and all the conditions required for shipbuilding are naturally running at full capacity. The launch of warships is only a matter of time.

The fifth batch of silver is about 40,000 taels.

The use of this batch of silver is a bit special. Zhang Zhun designated that this silver is mainly used for technological inventions. No matter what field you are in, you can get rewards as long as you develop useful technology. Even if the technology has not been developed for the time being, if Zhang Zhun thinks that this technology has a promising future, he can also give some of the silver in advance as research funds. In order to accelerate the development of science and technology, Zhang Zhun ordered the original Agricultural Science and Technology Development Department to be changed to the Science and Technology Development Department, referred to as the Science and Technology Department, which specializes in gathering various whimsical craftsmen to conduct technical research.

Of course, the general direction of research and related knowledge are provided by Zhang Zhun. When he has time, Zhang Zhun regularly elaborated some basic scientific common sense through his young secretary Xue Ningying to open up everyone's thinking. It can also be regarded as the direction of guiding scientific research. Xue Ningying has a hobby of editing books, so he simply compiled these scattered common sense into two books. One is "Common Knowledge of Physics" and the other is "Common Knowledge of Chemistry".

In these two books, Zhang Zhun scattered the knowledge of physics and chemistry he knew. As for how much others can accept, it depends on the other party's talent. Zhang Zhun did not dare to underestimate the wisdom of the ancients. If the ancients who could even play with eight-legged essays were devoted to research in this area, it would be difficult at all. The key is whether they were so thoughtful. Isn't Song Yingxing an example? Not to mention the old man Xu Guangqi.

Zhang Zhun hoped that someone would make steam engines, thunder mercury and other things. Of course, this was just hope. In fact, Zhang Zhun also felt that it was unlikely. Especially thunder mercury, he didn't even know the principle. The chemical foundation of the Ming Dynasty was very poor and there was no such condition. However, the steam engine could be tossed. When Watt improved the steam engine, that is, forty years later. If there were one or two skilled craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, they could work hard in this regard, maybe the Ming Dynasty could enter the steam engine era ahead of schedule. The arrival of the steam engine era means that the industrial era is not far away.

"Don't be afraid of spending money."

"We can spend a tael of silver now and we can earn more in the future."

This is Zhang Zhun’s basic concept.

Soon, all the money was sent down like flowing water. All relevant systems immediately started to run at high speed. The Aoshanwei and Lingshanwei in the eighth year of Chongzhen seemed to have been tightly wound up and were running non-stop. Of course, these are all funerals. Now it is the last day of the seventh year of Chongzhen, New Year's Eve.

At about noon, Zhang Zhun came to the camp of the Sixth Association Army in Aoshan City.

If you have money, people, and weapons, you will naturally expand your army. After returning from Jiangnan, Zhang Zhun ordered Yang Zhiyuan to be responsible for the establishment of the Sixth Association and Hao Linyong to form the Seventh Association. Each association has five teams, not counting officers, but a total of 250 soldiers. Including officers at all levels, there are about 300 people. The Sixth Association's garrison is in Aoshan City. The Seventh Association's garrison is in front of Xiahezhai.
Chapter completed!