In the Anglo-Spanish naval battle that occurred nineteen years later, the invincible armada sent by Spain had 128 large ships, more than 3,000 cast guns, tens of thousands of skilled sailors, and nearly 20,000 elite naval soldiers.

On the British side, although not as many giant ships as Spain. But in terms of numbers, they far surpassed the Spaniards, with 197 warships and 6,500 guns!

And in the coming 17th century, the Dutch, the sea coachman, who really defeated Spain and dominated the seas for a hundred years, had hundreds of shipyards in the capital Amsterdam alone, and the whole country could start building hundreds of ships at the same time. At its peak, the Dutch navy almost doubled the number of British and French navies!

There are also the French who are late to realize that they have also done everything to build ships, so they have not been absent from the gluttonous feast of carving up the world.

In the future, a standard maritime power must have at least a dozen first-class battleships, more than 100 third-class battleships, and hundreds of cruisers and frigates. Combined with daily training, maintenance, wartime wear and tear, shipyard construction, and related supporting facilities and ancillary factories, it is definitely a super large industrial system.

In short, the Navy is a money-burning machine. The players of the Age of Discovery, all of them can build their own super fleet with the strength of the whole country, otherwise there will be absolutely no chance.

Because only the Sail Battleship could defeat the Sail Battleship, until the Ironclad appeared.

Can Zhao Gongzi skip the wooden-hulled battleship and go directly to the ironclad?

Of course, that's fine, but the answer is peaches......

That's the forefront of white-hot competition that countries have invested countless manpower and material resources, but it still took 300 years to complete this road!

The ironclad ship is the crystallization of human industry born after the rapid development of several heavy industries such as metallurgy, mechanical processing and manufacturing, shipbuilding, and steam power! If the Industrial Revolution is not completed, or even the second one, don't think about it at all!

Even if the two industrial revolutions have been completed, it still needs a little bit of accumulation, step by step improvement, and time accumulation and progress to build a real ironclad ship.

Although Zhao Hao knows the correct direction of development and can even outline the process, it can only shorten the time, and cannot omit every step of industrial evolution.

It's not that Zhao Hao boasts, the probability of being able to build an ironclad ship within fifty years, I'm afraid it's lower than the odds of winning the Fucai jackpot.

Because that means that he single-handedly promoted the Ming Dynasty and completed two industrial revolutions!

Is this something that people can do? As long as Zhao Gongzi is still a person, don't do this kind of daydreaming, okay?

Therefore, his goal for himself is that before he dies, he can see the lead ship of the 'Bull' class ironclad named after 'Zhao Gongzi' launched, and he will have no regrets in this life.

If he wants to compete with the great powers in this life, he must also build his own super fleet with the strength of the whole country, and there is no other way.

But the Ming Dynasty is poor, and Zhao Gongzi can't raise the power of his own country, so he has to raise the power of other countries.

The object of his bloodsucking is Japan.

In addition to normal trade, you have to directly grab the mines of the daimyos!

Zhao Hao told his generals that they would set sail 400 miles east from Chengshan to Mishima, Japan. Yes, now Japan has only three islands, and if you ask which Japanese, you won't tell you that there are four islands......

Then 800 miles north along the coastline of Japan, there 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 that? Wang Rulong counted with his fingers.

"One million taels." Jinke's arithmetic ability and understanding of the new weights and measures are clearly above Lao Wang.

"Yes, the entire Japan Silver Mountains, at present, add up to 200 tons of silver per year, and the output of Iwami Silver Mountain alone accounts for nearly one-fifth." Zhao Gongzi wiped his saliva and said leisurely: "If Jiangnan Group comes to mine, I am confident that the annual output will be doubled!" ”

"That's two million taels!" Wang Rulong said excitedly: "Then don't worry about the money to build the ship!" ”

"Childe, is Iwami Silver Mountain within the range of our naval guns?" Jin Ke asked calmly. Since the production of Iwami Ginzan is so high, it is certain that the owner will be regarded as a forbidden one.

"Ten miles from the sea, our artillery can't hit it yet." Zhao Hao straightened the red silk on the straw hat. In fact, even if the range of the cannon is enough, it still can't be hit, because the silver mine is in the mountains.

"What is the strength of the feudal lord who controls Silver Mountain?" Jinke asked again.

"Savage." Zhao Gongzi put on a straw hat with a little weakness, and said that I had played with him......

Thirty years ago, when he learned the refining technique of the ash blowing method from the Ming Dynasty, Iwami Ginzan greatly increased the output of silver, which naturally attracted the competition of the daimyos.

Among them, the Ouchi family of Yamaguchi, the Niko family of Izumo Province, and the Mori family of Hiroshima are the strongest. Seven years ago, Mori Moto defeated the Niko family and became the new owner of Iwami Ginzan.

As a result, the Mori family gained huge financial resources and increased their power dramatically, and quickly became the largest power in western Japan, ruling over the Ten Kingdoms, with more than 1.2 million koku dominated. He is currently one of the most powerful princes in Japan, and can even overwhelm Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga.

The head of his family, Mao Liyuan, is known as the 'first wise general in the West' and also known as the 'Warring States God'. Although the Japanese are not inferior to the Li Dynasty in their bragging, Maori Yuan is also worthy of being a resourceful and eloquent overlord.

Such a real name, who is known for his strategy and can mobilize tens of thousands of troops at any time, is obviously not something that the Jiangnan clique can provoke at this stage.

So Zhao Gongzi sighed lightly and said, "So Ishimi Silver Mountain is not the goal at this stage. ”

There are still two years left, and Maori Yuan is about to travel west. Moreover, the eldest son of Maori Motoshi has died, and the second son and second son have also passed out, and it is his grandson Maori Terumoto who succeeds as the governor of Maori.

Maori Huiyuan's ability is mediocre, he is 108,000 miles worse than his grandfather, and it is not too late to seek Shijian Yinshan when the time comes.

"Uh......" The corners of Wang Rulong's mouth twitched, and his emotions were excited.

"Then we should also plan as soon as possible and wait for the opportunity to come." Jinke's level is higher than that of Lao Wang, no wonder he is positive and Wang Rulong is the deputy.

"Yes, there will be a chance soon." Zhao Hao smiled faintly, and said without expanding for the time being: "Shijian Yinshan is really in a hurry, so let's let it go first and go all out to deal with another golden mountain." ”

"Jinshan?" The two of them calmed down a lot this time, and Wang Rulong asked carefully: "Where is this golden mountain, and what kind of daimyo owns it?" ”

"Don't worry, it's much less difficult to take down that golden mountain." Zhao Hao smiled and pointed to the northeast sea and said: "From the location of Iwami Silver Mountain, along the coastline to the northeast direction of 1,200 miles, there is a Sado Island, and the gold mines on the island are more cattle than Iwami Silver Mountain. Moreover, this Sado Island is 70 miles away from the coastline, and there is no decent force on the island, and there are only 10,000 men, women, and children combined, and they are divided into several factions, and they have become feuds. ”

"Clan fighting." The two Yiwu villagers felt very cordial about this, when Qi Jiguang was passing through Yiwu, he witnessed the protracted and high-level inter-clan battle in the local area, and then decided to recruit troops in Yiwu.

"Not bad." Zhao Hao said lightly: "Just send a brigade to firmly control the local situation." ”

"Since the Sado Gold Mine is more powerful than the Iwami Silver Mountain, will the Japanese princes let us occupy Sado Island?" Wang Rulong asked puzzled.

"Yes." Zhao Gongzi touched his nose slightly embarrassed and said, "Because of the local Jinshan, it has not been discovered for the time being." At present, there are only two silver mountains that are very unpleasant, with an annual output of only 10,000 taels of silver, like chicken ribs. Therefore, the dragon of Echigo, who seized the other shore, never had the idea of crossing the sea to conquer and take Sado Island for himself. ”

"Who is the dragon of Echigo?" King Jin was dumbfounded, and said in his heart that these Japanese princes didn't know how level, and the nickname was one by one. What a bear in front of the fat, the first wise general, this pops up a dragon of Echigo. "Is there any other tiger?"

"Really." Zhao Hao couldn't help laughing and said: "The 'Dragon of Echigo' Uesugi Kenshin's old rival Takeda Shingen, known as the 'Kai Tiger', the two of them made a dragon and tiger fight, and their brains were about to be played. ”

"It's a lot simpler. If that 'thicker paper dragon' dares to blow up with us, let's join forces with that 'fattening paper tiger' and fuck him together, and make sure that he is a dragon and has to be coiled. Jinke laughed.

"Well, yes, that's what this son thinks, but you have to be hard to strike iron." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "We are still stationing troops on the island, building forts, and sending a detachment of troops to Sado Island to destroy all invading enemies!" ”

"Yes!" Jinke Wang Rulong hurriedly put his legs together and answered in a loud voice.

Then Lao Wang couldn't help but ask curiously: "How could Childe know that there is a mountain of gold that the Japanese don't know about?" ”

"Uh, what's this......" Zhao Gongzi rolled his eyes, paused for a while, and said in a muffled voice: "This is the power of science." ”

Then he took the trouble to tell the two of them that the reason why Japan is rich in gold, silver and copper is because it was first in the volcanic earthquake zone. Millions of years ago, volcanic earthquakes occurred frequently, and various precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper in the earth's crust moved to the surface with magma and the earth's crust. When the magma cools, it forms a mountain of gold, silver, and copper......

Through scientific geological research, Zhao Gongzi deduced from the location of the existing gold, silver and copper mountains in Japan that there must be large gold and silver associated mines on Sado Island, and they are more than Iwami Silver Mountain.

Hearing this, the two Jin Wang suddenly realized, and their admiration for the son reached a new level.

"Yes, Childe is a great scientist who can predict earthquakes!" Jin Ke was convinced: "In the future, when I return to the field, I must follow my son to study science." ”

"No one knows more about the underground than Childe." Lao Wang's eyes went straight to the little star, and he felt that he was empathetic and not in love. Now Qi Dashuai is not as high as Zhao Gongzi's image in his heart.