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Chapter 1061: Strong Ships and Cannons Contribute to the Coast Guard

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

    A bronze cannon can weigh over a thousand kilograms, while a heavy one can weigh up to two or three thousand kilograms.  The Longqing Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty weighs one cent and three cents and contains 950% copper.  The materials alone for a heavy cannon cost two to three hundred thousand dollars. Who can withstand this?

    If you add any number of cannons to the ship, the price of the cannons will be much higher than the price of the ship.

    In comparison, human life is so cheap, so no matter the officers, soldiers or sea masters, they know that bronze cannons are good, not easy to explode, and will not hurt people when they explode, but no one is willing to spend this unjust money, and they can't afford it.  .

    Only Mr. Zhao, a fool with a lot of money, is willing to give the soldiers a sense of security.

    Oh no, he's not the only one.  In the same year, there was also a Hanhan in Western Europe who also decided to equip all his fleets with bronze cannons.  Her name was Quin Elizabeth, and her purpose was to compete with the Spanish Armada.

    This makes Mr. Zhao look less naive.

    Of course, even if you want to be extravagant, you must have the strength!  The Ming Dynasty is a country short of copper. Ask the army and the sea masters, can they get so much copper?

    In fact, there are copper mines in Tongling, but they all belong to the imperial court.  All the copper mines in the Ming Dynasty belonged to the imperial court, and Mr. Zhao could not get involved at all.  So he could only think about copper coins and bronze utensils.

    ¡°However, large-scale acquisition of copper coins and copperware will inevitably cause copper prices to skyrocket.  Believe it or not, with the keen business acumen of Ming businessmen, you can spend several times more money on one cannon?

    Therefore, Mr. Zhao almost did not buy copper directly. Instead, he relied on Jiangnan Bank, a big weapon, to issue small-amount silver notes to absorb copper coins on the market.

    People have a simple understanding that they are more assured of small-denomination banknotes, as if they cannot be cashed out, the loss will not be too great.

    And in daily transactions, copper coins do have the problem of being bulky and low-priced. Traditional coins weigh 13 kilograms, but are only worth one tael of silver. It is very inconvenient to circulate or store.

    Therefore, once small-denomination silver notes were introduced, a large amount of copper coins were withdrawn from circulation.  The effect is much better than large silver tickets!

    Especially after defeating Hengtongji and expelling it from Jiangnan, the people became even more convinced of the strength of Jiangnan Bank.  Hengtongji tried its best to seize the right time, place and people but failed to make a run. Who else can defeat Jiangnan Bank?  Jiangnan Bank can be said to be invincible in the world!

    The copper coins on the market soon became noticeably less, and they were gathered from all directions into the bank of Jiangnan Bank.  Then Jiangnan Group used the silver premium to purchase these copper coins, transported them all to Xishan Island, melted them, and then re-decomposed them to refine bronze!

    Moreover, there are many temples in Jiangnan, and almost every county has a bell-casting master. With an order, Mr. Zhao hired two hundred skilled bell-casting masters from Wuhu, Suzhou, Nanjing and other places to cast the smelted bronze into five pieces.  Hundreds of cannons!

    How else to put it, war is about logistics and financial resources?  Mr. Zhao has the world's richest Jiangnan at his back, and the resources he can mobilize in a short time can make Queen Elizabeth think about giving up her virginity.

    If you try to start in another place, it will be difficult to build fifty doors!

    Of course, this is also inseparable from the strong support of Miss Xueying. Without this talented girl in the middle of planning, Jiangnan Group cannot operate efficiently and mobilize the entire Jiangnan resources for my use.

    The moment the cannon roared, Mr. Zhao remembered that he had not seen Xueying for more than half a year and missed her.

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    After the artillery fire, the military exercise ended successfully, and the medium and large warships lined up to return to Hong Kong.

    The Marines landed on Niudao Beach in small boats to retrieve the shells fired by the artillery.  Solid cannonballs ranging from ten pounds to five pounds are all made of iron.  No matter how rich Mr. Zhao is, he can't just give it up after the fight is over.

    According to regulations, after training on shelling land targets, more than 70% of the shells must be recovered to be considered qualified.  Recycling 80% is considered good and 90% is excellent, which are all recorded in the assessment results.

    Qi Jiguang is originally a detail-oriented person, and he met Mr. Zhao, a guy who believed that management without quantification is unscientific. It is not surprising that the army, oh no, the police force, trained by two Virgos, is so perverted.

    Mr. Zhao invited all the guests to Hong Kong for a luncheon.  When they got off the review ship and stood on the dock looking up at the fortune ships, they truly felt what it meant to be as tall as a building and truly understood their own insignificance.

    In fact, it was also the first time for Zhao Hao to see his main fleet.

    These twenty thousand-material Dafu ships come from the orders he placed with Longjiang Bao Shipyard and Suzhou Shipyard a year ago.

    At that time, he placed an order for 200 thousand-material sea-going ships at two official shipyards in one go.  The first batch of ships was built in March,Really kowtowed.

    "Get up, good boy!" Mr. Zhao smiled as soon as he saw him. That bright smile from the heart showed that the eldest nephew had made great achievements again.

    Being able to make these bronze cannons, my eldest nephew must be the first to take credit!

    At the end of last year, after the research center received the task of making copper cannons, Zhao Shizhen and Zhang Jian formed a research team, with several cannon-casting masters recruited from the Ordnance Bureau, and several Franco-made bronze cannons, as well as  Mr. Zhao gave several drawings that looked like ghost drawings.  It took half a year to complete the development, testing and finalization of three types of bronze cannons, and also formulated process specifications for standardized production.

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