Steel Dynasty - Chapter 424

[Chapter 424 Industrial Refinement]

Qingzhou.

After a heated argument, Li Wei angrily signed a trade agreement for one thousand naval guns.

According to the content of the agreement, the price of each naval gun is 20,000 taels, and a thousand naval guns are worth a total of 20 million taels of silver. The two million taels of silver will be used to build 300 large merchant ships and 200 medium-sized merchant ships. There were 20,000 slave craftsmen in the workshop as compensation, and both the merchant ships and the slave craftsmen were sent by Qingzhou to be responsible for the selection.

Xiao Ming had drawn up this agreement after the last meeting with Li Wei, and Li Wei sent someone 800 miles to Lin’an in a hurry according to Xiao Ming’s wishes.

Then the King of Chu sent someone a message, asking Li Wei to argue that he had no choice but to agree to Xiao Ming’s conditions. Li Wei naturally told Xiao Ming about this bottom line.

Therefore, the quarrel between the governors was just a play played by Xiao Ming and Li Wei for the King of Chu, because after getting the agreement, the King of Chu sent the palace steward over, perhaps out of worry.

“Envoy Li, we have suffered a loss this time. If it were not for the sake of being fellow citizens of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, we would not have signed this agreement. After all, one thousand naval guns will seriously affect the production of our own artillery.” Pang Yukun is still acting.

Li Wei snorted coldly and said: “A large merchant ship is thirty thousand taels per piece, and a medium-sized merchant ship is ten thousand taels per piece. You guys in Qingzhou are really good at lowering prices. We will lose money by selling merchant ships at this price. Hum, let’s go.”

After that, Li Wei left the Governor’s Mansion angrily.

When Li Wei walked by, Pang Yukun suddenly laughed. He looked at Xiao Ming, who had been sitting in the inner room, and said, “Your Highness, how was the performance of the official performance?”

“Not bad, not bad, now the King of Chu should be There is no flaw left.” Xiao Ming walked out of the inner room with a smile.

Pang Yukun continued: “Now that the agreement has been signed, it is time for Li Kaiyuan to bring back the merchant ships. Now that there are so many merchant ships, the chamber of commerce should stop complaining about the lack of ships.” “

Having said that, we can’t Complacency, these five hundred ships are less than one-tenth of King Chu’s fleet, we have to continue to work hard, and the reason why the king wants to change merchant ships this time is to free up the shipyard to build warships. There are no warships. “No matter how many merchant ships there are, they can’t get out of the sea.”

The further he went, the more Xiao Ming found that his strength was insufficient. In modern times, the Dutch at their peak in the 16th century once had 15,000 merchant ships, but they were often crowded at the docks. Two thousand merchant ships docked.

Compared with these maritime powers, my own wealth is really not enough for others.

Because of this, Xiao Ming was so crazy about recruiting shipbuilding craftsmen from all over the Chongqing Kingdom. He wanted to build Dengzhou into a new world shipbuilding center.

Pang Yukun nodded. The Dutch’s rampage on the sea is not good news for Qingzhou, because the Chamber of Commerce is planning to transport goods from the sea to the south. Now the route is cut off by the Dutch, which is also detrimental to Qingzhou’s trade.

“Li Wei said that the Dutch have a total of twelve warships, all three-decker warships, and we now have a total of fifteen warships including those under construction. In terms of numbers, we should be able to win.” “

This king. Not sure.”

Xiao Ming frowned. The Dutch had rich experience in maritime combat, and he was not sure whether Yue Yun could defeat the Dutch with his fleet.

But one thing he has an advantage is that he understands the maritime tactics of this era and will not make the same stupid mistakes as King Chu.

Moreover, this naval battle is only part of the war. The most important thing is that he will send the Qingzhou Army to land on Ryukyu Island and drive away all the Dutch on the island.

As long as Ryukyu Island is occupied, the Dutch fleet that has lost its supplies will basically be doomed.

After all, they traveled thousands of miles from the Netherlands to Ryukyu Island. The Dutch relied on supplies from the colonies. Without the supply points, the Dutch could only starve to death on the ship.

Now preparations for the war are already underway, and they are just waiting for the completion of the Galen ships at the Dengzhou Shipyard.

After a casual chat with Pang Yukun, Xiao Ming left the palace and headed for the workshop area outside the city.

Now he is most focused on the development and refinement of basic industries. Without fine industrial division, the difficulty of producing an industrial product will increase exponentially.

The most realistic example is a flintlock gun. It takes two months for a craftsman to be responsible for building a flintlock gun. After the barrel, stock, and movement accessories are refined and produced, the final flintlock gun is assembled. It only takes an hour to complete.

Therefore, as the types of industries increase, Xiao Ming needs to refine the industrial classification.

This time he went to the workshop area to settle the matter with Chen Wenlong and split the equipment department and the steel workshop.

“Your Highness.”

Chen Wenlong had been waiting for Xiao Ming in the workshop area for some time. At this time, he summoned the supervisors in the workshop area to wait for Xiao Ming’s order.

Xiao Ming nodded and said to Chen Wenlong: “Since everyone is here, let’s talk about the refinement of the industry. In the future, the steel workshop will only be responsible for the production of steel. The springs, briquette furnaces, iron pots, etc. will be dismantled. A specialized workshop will be responsible for the production. Your equipment department will deploy craftsmen who are specialized in this type of technology. Don’t turn the steel workshop into a hodgepodge. This will not be conducive to the improvement of various products in the long run.”

Chen Wenlong nodded. Together with other supervisors, they recorded Xiao Ming’s words.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: “You can choose which workshop needs which lathe. For example, this spring. In the future, the spring workshop can get the spring steel directly from the steel workshop, and then process the spring steel into various types in the spring workshop. The same applies to springs, gears, and connecting rods. Just talk to the steel shop about what kind of steel you need. “

“As for the steel shop itself, it also needs to be refined. The production of each type of steel is handled by a specific craftsman, not just one craftsman. Responsible for five or six kinds of work at the same time, but to specialize. “

“…”

Xiao Ming said one sentence after another, and everyone was busy recording. After all, this is another big change. The workshop area was like a matrix, and now it is going to be. Differentiate into branches and leaves.

In addition to the key steel workshop splitting, Xiao Ming talked about the splitting of the glass workshop, mirrors and other products that require post-processing must be separated independently, and the chemical industry of three acids and two alkali was ordered to be split as soon as possible by Xiao Ming.

This chemical is already very dangerous, and mixing it together makes it even more dangerous.

While requiring the splitting of workshops, Xiao Ming also specifically delineated the workshop area, dividing chemicals, steel, and light industry into different areas, and required the categories of items produced to be hung in front of the workshops, and all workshops were placed in the house. When the government ascends the throne, the government registers and registers for unified management.

Moreover, the workshops must also establish their own management system, and each workshop must establish its own research room to continuously update products, and send people to Bowen College regularly to learn relevant knowledge.

(End of chapter)