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- In the Anglo-Spanish naval battle that took place nineteen years later, the Armada sent by Spain had 128 warships, more than 3,000 cast cannons, tens of thousands of skilled sailors, and nearly 20,000 elite naval soldiers.
On the British side, although there are not as many giant ships as Spain. But in terms of number, they far surpassed the Spanish. Their warships reached 197 and were equipped with 6,500 artillery pieces!
And the Dutch, the sea coachmen who will play the leading role in the coming seventeenth century and truly defeat Spain and dominate the ocean for a hundred years, have hundreds of shipyards in the capital Amsterdam alone, and hundreds of ships can be built across the country at the same time. At its peak, the Dutch naval fleet was almost twice that of the British and French navies!
And the French, who were belatedly aware of the situation, also spent all their money building ships, so they did not miss the feast of carving up the world.
A standard maritime power in the future will have at least a dozen first-class battleships, more than a hundred third-class battleships, and hundreds of cruisers and frigates. Coupled with daily training, maintenance, wartime losses, shipyard construction, and related supporting facilities and affiliated factories, it is definitely a super huge industrial system.
In short, the Navy is a money-burning machine. Players in the Age of Discovery must work together as a nation to build their own super fleet, otherwise they would have absolutely no chance.
Because the only thing that can defeat the sailing battleship is the sailing battleship, until the ironclad appears.
Can Mr. Zhao skip the wooden-hulled battleship and go directly to the ironclad?
Of course that would be good, but the answer is to miss Taozi
That is the forefront of fierce competition where countries have invested countless manpower and material resources, but it still took a full 300 years to complete this road, okay!
The ironclad ship is the crystallization of human industry that was born after the rapid development of several heavy industry categories such as metallurgy, machining and manufacturing, shipbuilding, and steam power! Don¡¯t even think about it if you haven¡¯t completed the industrial revolution, or even the second industrial revolution!
Even if two industrial revolutions have been completed, it still requires a little bit of accumulation, step-by-step improvement, and accumulation of progress over time to build a real ironclad ship.
Although Zhao Hao knows the correct direction of development and can even outline the process, he can only shorten the time and cannot omit every step of industrial evolution.
It¡¯s not Zhao Hao¡¯s boast. The chance that he can build an armored ship within fifty years is probably lower than the chance of winning the Welfare Lottery jackpot.
Because that means that he single-handedly promoted the Ming Dynasty and completed two industrial revolutions!
Is this something that humans can do? As long as Mr. Zhao is still a human being, stop daydreaming like this, okay?
So the goal he set for himself was to see the launch of the first ship of the 'Awesome' class ironclad named after 'Mr. Zhao' before he died, and he would have no regrets in this life.
If he wants to compete with the great powers in this life, he must use the power of the whole country to build his own super fleet. There is no other way.
"But the Ming Dynasty was poor. Mr. Zhao could not use the strength of his own country, so he had to use the strength of other countries."
The target of his blood-sucking is Japan.
In addition to normal trade, we also need to directly grab the mines of the famous people!
Zhao Hao told his generals that they would reach the three islands of Japan by sailing 400 miles east from Chengshan. Yes, there are only three islands in Japan now. If you ask any Japanese, they will not tell you that there are four islands
Then eight hundred miles north along the Japanese coastline is the largest silver mine in Japan - Iwami Ginzan with an annual output of 38 tons of silver!
"Thirty-eight tons? How many taels is this?" Wang Rulong counted on his fingers.
"One million taels." Jin Ke's arithmetic ability and understanding of new weights and measures are obviously superior to Lao Wang.
"Yes, the Ginzan Mountains in Japan currently produce 200 tons of silver annually. The output of Iwami Ginzan alone accounts for nearly one-fifth." Mr. Zhao wiped his saliva and said leisurely: "If Jiangnan Group comes If we mine it, I am confident that we can double our annual output!¡±
"That's two million taels!" Wang Rulong immediately said excitedly: "Then you don't have to worry about the money to build the ship!"
"Sir, is Ishimi Yinshan within the range of our naval guns?" Jin Ke asked calmly. Since the output of Iwami Ginzan is so high, its owners will definitely be considered forbidden.
"It's ten miles away from the sea, and our cannons can't hit it yet." Zhao Hao straightened the red silk on his straw hat. In fact, even if the range of future artillery is sufficient, it will still not be able to hit it because the silver mine is inside the mountain.
"What is the strength of the feudal lord who controls Yinshan?" Jinke asked again.
"It's quite ridiculous." Mr. Zhao put on the straw hat with a guilty conscience, thinking that I had played with him
Since I learned it from Ming Dynasty thirty years agoUsing the blowing refining technology, Iwami Ginzan greatly increased the production of silver, which naturally led to competition among the daimyo.
??Among them, the Ouchi family in Yamaguchi, the Nizi family in Izumo country, and the Maori family in Hiroshima are the strongest. Seven years ago, Maori Yuan defeated the Nizi family and became the new owner of Iwami Ginzan.
As a result, the Maori family gained huge financial resources and their strength increased dramatically, and quickly became the largest force in Western Japan that ruled the ten countries, with a territory of more than 1.2 million koku. He is currently one of the most powerful princes in Japan, even surpassing Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga.
The head of the family, Mao Liyuan, is known as "the most wise general in the Western Kingdom" and also known as the "God of the Warring States Period". Although the Japanese bragging skills are no less than those of the Li Dynasty, Maori Yuan is worthy of being a resourceful and talented overlord.
¡°Such a real big name who is famous for his strategy and can mobilize tens of thousands of troops at any time is obviously not something that the Jiangnan Group can afford to offend at this stage.
So Mr. Zhao sighed softly and said: "So Shi Jian Yinshan is not the target at this stage."
¡°Anyway, there are only two years left before Maori Yuan is about to travel westward. Moreover, Motonari Mouri's eldest son died, and his second son and youngest son also adopted him. His grandson Terumoto Mouri took over as governor of the Mouri family.
¡°The kid Mouri Terumoto¡¯s ability is mediocre and he is far behind his grandfather. It won¡¯t be too late to try to get a chance to win the gold again.
"Uh" The corners of Wang Rulong's mouth twitched, and his emotions were in vain.
"Then we should make arrangements as soon as possible and wait for the opportunity to come." Jin Ke's level is higher than that of Lao Wang. It's no wonder that he is the leader and Wang Rulong is the deputy.
"Yes, there will be an opportunity soon." Zhao Hao smiled faintly and said without further explanation: "There is really no rush to see the silver mountain, so let's put it aside for now and work hard to build another gold mountain."
"Jinshan?" The two of them were much calmer this time. Wang Rulong asked carefully: "Where is this Jinshan? Does it belong to some shady name?"
"Don't worry, it's much easier to capture the Jinshan Mountain." Zhao Hao smiled and pointed to the northeast sea and said: "From the location of Iwami Silver Mountain, and continuing along the coastline for 1,200 miles to the northeast, there is Sado Island. The gold mine on the island is more powerful than Iwami Ginzan. Moreover, Sado Island is 70 miles away from the coastline, and there is no decent power on the island. The total number of men, women, old and children is only 10,000 people, and they are divided into several factions and fought. feud."
"It's a fight between clans." The two Yiwu fellows felt very cordial about this. It was when Qi Jiguang passed by Yiwu that he witnessed the protracted and extremely high-level inter-clan fighting there and decided to recruit troops in Yiwu.
"That's right." Zhao Hao said lightly: "As long as we send out a brigade, we can firmly control the local situation."
"Since Sado Jinshan is more powerful than Iwami Silver Mountain, will the Japanese princes let us occupy Sado Island?" Wang Rulong asked in confusion.
"Yes." Mr. Zhao touched his nose in embarrassment and said, "Because the local gold mountains have not been discovered yet. At present, there are only two very insignificant silver mountains, with an annual output of only ten thousand taels of silver. If It¡¯s useless. So the dragon of Echigo who ruled on the other side has never thought of crossing the sea to conquer Sado Island.¡±
"Who is the Dragon of Echigo?" King Jin was dumbfounded, thinking that he didn't know the level of these Japanese princes, and they were nicknamed one by one. The bear of Hizen, the wisest general, here comes the dragon of Echigo. "Are there any other tigers?"
"It really does." Zhao Hao couldn't help laughing and said: "The 'Dragon of Echigo' Uesugi Kenshin's old enemy Takeda Shingen is known as the 'Tiger of Kai'. It¡¯s about to be typed out.¡±
"It's much easier this way. If that 'thicker paper dragon' dares to fight with us, we will join forces with that 'fat paper tiger' and do the damn thing together. I'm sure he'll be a dragon even though he's a dragon. Jin Ke said with a smile.
"Well, yes, that's what I think, but you have to be strong to make iron." Zhao Hao nodded and said: "We are still stationing troops on the island, building forts, and dispatching a squadron to permanently station on Sado Island. Destroy all invading enemies!"
"Yes!" Jinke Wang Rulong quickly put his legs together and responded loudly.
Then Lao Wang couldn't help but asked curiously: "How do you know, Master, that there is a golden mountain there that even the Japanese don't know about?"
"Uh, this" Mr. Zhao rolled his eyes, paused for a while, and said in a muffled voice: "This is the power of science."
Then he told the two of them in a serious manner, why Japan is rich in gold, silver and copper because it was originally located in a volcanic and seismic zone. Millions of years ago, volcanoes and earthquakes occurred frequently, and various precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper in the earth's crust came to the surface along with the movement of magma and crust. After the magma cools, it forms a mountain of gold, silver, and copper
Through scientific geological research, Mr. Zhao deduced from the location of the existing gold, silver and copper mountains in Japan that there must be a large-scale gold and silver associated mine on Sado Island, and it was larger than the Iwami Gin Mountain.
Hearing this, Jin and Wang suddenly realized, and their admiration for the young master reached a new level.
"Yes, the young master is a great scientist who can predict earthquakes!" Jin Ke said sincerely: "In the future, when I am discharged and return to my field, I will definitely study science with the young master."
"No one knows the underground things better than the young master." Lao Wang's eyes were filled with stars, and he felt like he was falling in love with someone else. Now, Marshal Qi's image in his heart was not as high as Mr. Zhao's. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)?Scientific geological research, based on the location of existing gold, silver, and copper mountains in Japan, it is inferred that there must be a large-scale gold and silver associated mine on Sado Island, and it is larger than the Iwami Gin Mountain.
Hearing this, Jin and Wang suddenly realized, and their admiration for the young master reached a new level.
"Yes, the young master is a great scientist who can predict earthquakes!" Jin Ke said sincerely: "In the future, when I am discharged and return to my field, I will definitely study science with the young master."
"No one knows the underground things better than the young master." Lao Wang's eyes were filled with stars, and he felt like he was falling in love with someone else. Now, Marshal Qi's image in his heart was not as high as Mr. Zhao's. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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