Copper coins, copper is money, and money is copper!

A bronze cannon is lighter than a thousand kilograms, and the heavier one can reach two or three thousand kilograms. A Longqing Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty weighs one cent and contains ninety-five percent copper. A heavy cannon costs 200,000 to 300,000 yuan per material. Who can withstand this?

Just a few cannons are given on the ship, and the price of the cannon is higher than that of the ship.

In comparison, human life is so cheap, so whether the official army or the sea lords know that bronze cannons are good, they are not easy to explode, and they will not hurt people if they explode, but none of them are willing to spend this in vain money and cannot afford it.

Only a fool like Mr. Zhao who is stupid and has a lot of money is willing to give the soldiers more sense of security.

Oh no, he is not the only one. In the same year, there was also a fool in Western Europe who decided to install all of his fleets with bronze cannons. Her name is Quin Elizabeth, and her purpose is to compete with the Spanish Invincible Fleet.

This makes Mr. Zhao seem less stupid.

Of course, if you want to be extravagant, you must have this strength! The Ming Dynasty is a country that lacks copper. Ask the government army and the sea lords, can they get so much copper?

In fact, there are copper mines in Tongling, but they are all from the court. All copper mines in the Ming Dynasty are from the court, and Mr. Zhao could not get involved at all. So he could only make copper coins and copperware.

However, large-scale acquisition of copper coins and copperware will inevitably lead to a surge in copper prices. With the keen business acumen of the Ming Dynasty, can you spend several times more money on one cannon?

Therefore, Mr. Zhao almost did not buy copper directly, but relied on the Jiangnan Bank as a big killer to issue small amounts of silver notes to absorb copper coins on the market.

The people have a simple understanding that they are more at ease with small amounts of money, as if they cannot be cashed out, the losses will not be too big.

Moreover, copper coins do have bulky and low prices in daily transactions. The money has always weighed 13 kilograms, but it is only worth one tael of silver. It is inconvenient whether it is circulation or storage.

Therefore, once a small amount of silver notes was launched, a large amount of copper coins were withdrawn from circulation. The effect was much better than that of large amount of silver notes!

Especially after defeating Hengtong Ji and expelling him from Jiangnan, the people firmly believed in the strength of Jiangnan Bank. Hengtong Ji was determined and could not run the money with the right time, place, people and others. Who else could defeat Jiangnan Bank? Jiangnan Bank can be said to be invincible in the world!

The copper coins on the market soon became significantly smaller and gathered from all directions into the bank's bank's bank. Then the Jiangnan Group purchased the copper coins at a premium in silver and transported them all to Xishan Island. After melting, they were redecomposed and refined!

Moreover, there are many temples in Jiangnan, and almost every county has a master of bell casting. With the order of Mr. Zhao, he hired 200 skilled masters of bell casting from Wuhu, Suzhou, Nanjing and other places, and cast a total of 500 guns of the bronze refined!

Otherwise, what is war is about logistics and financial resources? Mr. Zhao is leaning against Jiangnan, a world-class wealthy person, and the resources that can be mobilized in a short time can make Queen Elizabeth have the idea of ​​giving up her virginity.

If he starts in another place, you can try it. It will be difficult for him to build fifty goals!

Of course, this is also inseparable from the strong support of Xue Yingmei. Without this talented and beautiful girl planning, Jiangnan Group could not operate efficiently and mobilize the resources of the entire Jiangnan for my use.

The moment the cannon roared, Mr. Zhao remembered that he hadn't seen Xue Ying for more than half a year, and missed her.

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After the artillery was fired, the military exercise ended successfully, and medium and large warships lined up to return to port.

The Marines took a small boat to land on Niudao Beach to pick up the shells fired by the artillerymen. The solid shells were as big as ten kilograms and five kilograms, but they were all made of iron. No matter how rich Mr. Zhao was, he couldn't just finish the battle.

According to regulations, after the training of shelling land targets, more than 70% of the shells must be recovered to be considered qualified. Eighty% of the recovery is considered good and 90% of the excellence is recorded in the assessment results.

Qi Jiguang was originally a detail control, but he met Mr. Zhao, a guy who thought that management would be unscientific without quantitative management, and was trained by two Virgos. Oh no, the police force is not surprising.

Mr. Zhao invited all the guests to the port to attend the luncheon. When they got off the reviewing boat and stood on the dock and looked up at the big blessed boats, they truly felt what it was like to be tall and truly understood their own insignificance.

In fact, this is the first time Zhao Hao has seen his main fleet.

These twenty thousand-profit ships were from the orders he placed at Longjiang Bao Shipyard and Suzhou Shipyard a year ago.

At that time, he placed an order for two thousand sea boats at two official shipyards in one go. The first batch of ships was built in March, but first, the hull had to be left to stand for several months so that all parts of the wooden structures were fully combined. Second, the size of these ships was obviously prohibited in the inland river and could only be hung in the name of the Caojiang Censorate Office. It was necessary to wait until Mr. Zhao obtained the license for grain transportation and was qualified to build a sea boat, and Uncle Wu dared to transfer the property to him.

So it was not until July when Chen Huaixiu led his men back to Jiangnan that he completed the procedures at two shipyards in Taicang, Nanjing, and happily brought 80 large-scale ships with thousands of materials.

Although they are all produced by the official shipyard and the drawings are the same, the Longjiang Factory's ships are better than Suzhou Shipyard in terms of materials and construction quality. Zhao Hao was not surprised by this, otherwise he would not value Yang Fan so much and wanted him to take charge at the Jiangnan Shipyard.

So Zhao Hao decided to choose half of the best quality ships from the Dafu ship built by the Longjiang Factory as warships, assemble artillery, and head to Danluo Island to join the Guard Area Coast Guard Corps!

The reason why only half of the artillery restrictions is one aspect, the most important thing is that there is too shortage of sailors. These twenty warships have emptied the sailors of Jiangnan shipping. The newly established Royal Marine Transportation of the Ming Dynasty did not have enough skilled people to transport grains and sea...

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However, the lunch was held on the 101 ship, which served as the flagship. Mr. Zhao welcomed Li Chao guests with a sumptuous lunch in this unexpectedly happy black-tailed ship, the spacious and gorgeous top-level tail cabin.

Where did this 10,000-hu black-tailed ship come from? It’s also a thank you to Zeng Yiben, the number one sea owner in Fujian and Guangdong.

Last autumn, the Zeng Demon King, who had been rampant in Southeast Asia for many years, led hundreds of ships of all sizes to invade Guangzhou, killing and looting the people. Finally, the capital was shocked and issued an order to jointly suppress Fujian and Guangdong. Two famous anti-Japanese generals, Guangdong General Yu Dayou and Fujian General Li Xi, mobilized elite naval and army troops from the two provinces to jointly promote the suppression.

The Fujian governor recruited Zeng Yiben's mortal enemy, Lin Daoqian, with his assistance, and continued to disintegrate Zeng Yiben's gangs. Finally, in early June this year, Zeng Yiben's lair in Zhelin was broken down.

Zeng Yiben was very alert. Seeing that something was wrong, he immediately set sail to escape while the night was shining. His subordinates also fled.

The owners and ship workers of Zhelin Shipyard were also frightened. Although they had not participated in the robbery, they had been building Zeng Yiben. When the official army came, they would definitely not let them go, so they discussed rushing to escape.

In the past, they all fled to Guangdong, and they fled to Fujian. However, this time, Fujian and Guangdong jointly suppressed bandits, and Guangdong was afraid that they would suffer. They hated Lin Daogan, who colluded with the government army, and for a moment they felt desperate.

At this time, someone suddenly remembered that the big customer, Manager Tang. Since last year, Manager Tang spent a lot of money to order the black-tailed boat from them, and also lobbied them vigorously to move the boat yard to Jiangnan, and offered an irresistible price. Unfortunately, life is more important, and no one dared to betray Zeng Yiben.

But now is different from the past. Zeng Yiben has already fled in panic. Who can control where they go?

However, you have to sell yourself at a good price. When they asked you for a high price, they didn't want to go there, but now they are running away with nothing, and they will inevitably be looked down upon by the other party.

It just so happened that there was a newly completed 10-hu black-tailed boat parked in the dock. It was a new boat prepared for Zeng Yiben. It was not installed with artillery and sails, so when Zeng Yiben escaped, he never thought of this boat.

As soon as the owner and the craftsmen discussed, they could use this Wanhu Wuwei Ship boat that Manager Tang had sought for. So, the yard worked together, opened the gates and released water as quickly as possible, hung sails and pulled anchors, escaped from Zhelin Bay before dawn, and drove eastward to Penghu.

The owner asked the confidant to take the lead and according to the contact information left by Manager Tang, he went to Penghu to find the warehouse of Jiangnan Trading Company to send a message. The manager Tang Baolu happened to be in Penghu. He was worthy of being the son of Fatty Tang. When he heard that the official army was going to attack Zhelin, he came over quickly, wanting to see if there were any leaks to pick up.

The two sides hit it off, and Paul Tang promised that the original conditions would still be counted and would buy the 10,000-hu black boat for 20,000 taels. Therefore, this car that originally belonged to Zeng Yiben became the flagship of the Danluo Guard District Coast Guard Corps.

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After the luncheon, the itinerary of the Li Dynasty guests ended, and Zhu Jue sent a boat to send them to Jingyi County. Then the matter is the matter of Yin County Supervisor.

Mr. Zhao stood on the deck of the 101 ship, watching them get off the black-tailed boat, board an armed sand boat, and waved goodbye to the guests happily.

Regardless of whether the guests were happy or not, Mr. Zhao was very happy anyway.

When he turned around, he saw Zhao Shizhen, who had been missing for a long time, and ran over with a smile on his face.

"Uncle, you're old!" Qianli's eldest nephew who was sending cannons said, kneeled in front of him, and kowtowed hard.

"Get up, good boy!" Mr. Zhao smiled as soon as he saw him. His bright smile from the bottom of his heart means that his eldest nephew has made great contributions again.

If you can create these bronze cannons, your nephew must remember his first achievements!

At the end of last year, after the research center received the task of making bronze cannons, Zhao Shizhen and Zhang Jian formed a research team, and led several artillery casting masters recruited from the Weapon Bureau. With several artificial copper tributes made by Folang machines, and several ghost-like drawings given by Mr. Zhao, it took half a year to complete the development, experiments and finalization of three types of bronze cannons, and also formulate standardized production process specifications.
Chapter completed!