Chapter 425

Qingzhou.

After the fierce quarrel, Li Wei angrily signed a trade agreement for 1000 naval guns.

According to the agreement, the price of each naval gun is 20000 taels, and the total value of 1000 naval guns is 20 million taels of silver. The 20 million taels of silver will be offset by 300 large-scale merchant ships, 200 medium-sized merchant ships, and 20000 slave craftsmen in shipyards. Qingzhou will send special personnel to select the merchant ships and slave craftsmen.

After the last meeting with Li Wei, Xiao Ming drew up the agreement. Li Wei sent 800 Li to Lin'an as soon as Xiao Ming wanted.

Later, the king of Chu sent a message to Li Wei, asking him to argue with him, and he had no choice but to agree to Xiao Ming's terms. Naturally, Li Wei told Xiao Ming the bottom line.

Therefore, the quarrel between the governor is just a play played by Xiao Ming and Li Wei to the king of Chu, because after getting the agreement, the king of Chu may have sent the housekeeper of the palace out of worry.

"Emissary Li, this time we will suffer a loss. If it is not for the sake of being the people of Dayu, we will not sign this agreement. After all, 1000 naval guns will seriously affect the production of our own guns." Pang Yukun is still acting.

Li Wei said with a cold snort, "there are thirty-two large merchant ships and twelve medium merchant ships. You Qingzhou can really lower the price. We are losing money in selling the merchant ships. Hum, let's go."

Having said that, Li Wei left the governor's office in a fierce manner.

When Li Wei passed by, Pang Yukun suddenly began to laugh. He looked at Xiao Ming who had been sitting in the inner room and said, "Your Highness, how's the performance of this play of your highness?"

"Yes, yes, the king of Chu can't see the flaw." Xiao Ming walks out of the inner room with a smile.

Pang Yukun continued: "now that the agreement has been signed, it's 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 that the ships are not enough."

"Having said that, we can't be complacent. These 500 ships are less than one tenth of the fleet of the king of Chu. We have to continue to work hard. Moreover, the reason why the king wants to change merchant ships this time is to make room for shipyards to build warships. Without warships, no more merchant ships can get out of the sea."

The more he went forward, the more he found that he was not strong enough. In modern times, the Dutch at the peak of the 16th century had 15000 merchant ships, but 2000 were often berthed in the docks.

Compared with these maritime powers, it's not enough for them to plug their teeth.

Because of this, Xiao Ming was so crazy to collect shipbuilding craftsmen from all over the state of Dayu. He wanted to build Dengzhou into a new world shipbuilding center.

Pang Yukun nodded. It's not good news for Qingzhou that the Dutch are rampant on the sea, 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 bad for Qingzhou's trade.

"Li Wei said that the Dutch have a total of 12 warships, all of which are three deck warships, and we now have 15 warships under construction. In terms of number, we should be able to win."

"I'm not sure."

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

However, he has an advantage. He knows the tactics of the sea in this era and will not make the same stupid mistakes as the king of Chu.

Moreover, the naval battle was only a part of the war. The most important thing was that he would send the Qingzhou army to land on Ryukyu Island and drive away all the Dutch on the island.

As long as the occupation of Ryukyu Island, the Dutch fleet that lost supplies was basically finished.

After all, from the Netherlands to Ryukyu Island, the Dutch rely on the supply of the colony. Without the supply point, the Dutch can only starve to death on board.

Now the war is in preparation, only waiting for the completion of the galleons of Dengzhou shipyard.

After chatting with Pang Yukun at will, Xiao Ming leaves the palace and goes to the workshop area outside the city.

Now what he focuses on most is the development and refinement of basic industries. Without fine industrial division, the difficulty of producing the same industrial product will multiply.

The most realistic example is the flint gun. It takes two months for a craftsman to build a flint gun. After the detailed production of barrel, butt and mechanism parts, the final assembly of the flint gun can be completed in only one hour.

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

This time, he went to the workshop area to decide this matter together with Chen Wenlong and split up the equipment department and the steel workshop.

"Your Highness."

Chen Wenlong has been waiting for Xiao Ming in the workshop area for some time. At this time, he called the supervisor of the workshop area to wait for Xiao Ming's order.

Xiao Ming nodded and said to Chen Wenlong, "now that we are here, let's talk about the industrial refinement. In the future, the iron and steel workshop will only be responsible for the production of iron and steel. Springs, briquette furnaces, iron pots, etc. will be disassembled and produced by a special workshop. Your equipment department will send in craftsmen who are specially responsible for this kind of technology. Don't make the iron and steel workshop a big mess It's not conducive to the promotion of all kinds of products for a long time. "Chen Wenlong nodded. He and other supervisors recorded Xiao Ming's words.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "you can choose what kind of lathe the workshop needs, such as the spring. In the future, the spring workshop can get the spring steel directly from the iron and steel workshop, and then process the spring steel into all kinds of springs, gears and connecting rods in the spring workshop. You can directly talk with the iron and steel workshop about what kind of steel you need."

"As for the iron and steel workshop itself, it also needs to be refined. A specific craftsman is responsible for the production of each kind of steel. Not one craftsman is responsible for five or six kinds of work at the same time, but specialization."

“……”

Xiao Ming said sentence by sentence, people are busy recording. After all, this is another big change. Once the workshop area was like a matrix, now it is going to divide into branches and leaves.

In addition to the separation of key iron and steel workshops, Xiao Ming talked about the separation of glass workshops, mirrors and other products that need to be processed in the later stage, and Xiao Ming ordered the separation of the chemical industry of three acids and two bases as soon as possible.

This chemical is very dangerous. It's even more dangerous when mixed together.

At the same time, Xiao Ming divided the chemical, steel and light industries into different areas. In addition, he required the categories of products to be hung in front of the workshops. At the same time, all the workshops were registered in the government for unified management.

Moreover, the workshop should establish its own internal management system, and each workshop should establish its own research room, constantly update the products, and send people to study the relevant knowledge in Bowen college regularly.

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