Not only the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, but also another important arsenal in Luohai County, that is, the Luohai Shipyard, he saw that the records said that they were building a 10,000-ton ironclad ship for the Luohai fleet, and he thought that Shao Bing's brain had burned out and spent a lot of money to build a 10,000-ton giant ship.

The result is checked, okay, Shao Bing is not stupid!

This 10,000-ton giant ship was ordered by the Orr Kingdom, the southernmost part of the Southern Continent.

The Luo Hai Navy just came out to buy it, and when it was built, it would go to sea, and then there would be an accident, and the battleship would 'sink', as for why the Navy of the Orr Kingdom had a 10,000-ton ironclad ship when it was interrupted, you ask me, who will I ask......

The Orr Kingdom is a small country with a small area and a small population, but it is rich in gold and silver.

Everyone in this world knows that the Orrs are local tyrants, and they never bargain for purchasing materials, and sometimes they think that your price is low, and they look down on them for deliberately selling inferior goods to them.

Such a small country originally lived a very leisurely life, but on the side is the Orissa Empire, in order to protect themselves, they not only form alliances with several other southern countries, but also purchase all kinds of advanced weapons all over the world.

And other countries are unable to sell them such a 10,000-ton ironclad ship due to the diplomatic pressure of the Orissa Empire, but no one on Daheng's side cares what the Orissa Empire thinks.

Besides, Shao Bing is just a local feudal town, as long as the money is enough, he will not take into account any diplomatic influence, and the 10,000-ton ironclad ship will be sold if it is sold.

Besides, even if the Orissa Empire comes to the door, it is also looking for the Jingzhou Ji royal family, and he Shao Bing has a fart relationship!

In addition, several ironclad ships with a size of several thousand tons were also ordered by other countries, as for the orders from other foreign states, there were no orders, and Luohai County's own order was only one 3,000-ton ironclad ship.

Now he somewhat understands why the previous county guards of Luohai County did not say that they strictly controlled the arsenals of Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, and Luohai Shipyard.

Instead, they allowed the Nanzhou Bank to sell the ordnance of these factories all over the county, even in other prefectures and towns, and even around the world.

Because the production capacity of these factories is so large, that it is too large for just one Luohai County or even the entire Nanhai Prefecture to digest.

It has even reached the point where it is afraid to stop production, because these factories directly employ tens of thousands of people, and there are tens of thousands of indirect employees.

It can be said that in the entire Luohai City, at least half of the population directly or indirectly depends on the ordnance manufacturing trade of these three arsenals!

At the same time, he also learned that even after Shao Bing took over these factories, although he nominally adopted a policy of prohibiting the sale of ordnance, he only banned the sale of ordnance to the feudal towns in the county, and at the same time suspended the export of advanced breech-loading rifled rifles and front-loading rifled guns to the feudal towns of other prefectures.

However, ordinary ordnance was basically released and sold to foreign feudal towns and foreign countries.

However, even if it is a rifled weapon, it is estimated that Shao Bing will not be banned for a long time, and it will not be long before the ban will have to be lifted and allowed to be exported to other prefectures or foreign countries.

Because now it is a rear-loading rifle that has just appeared, and it has its own need for upgrading, and also because of Lin Ziran's threat, Shao Bingcai spared no expense to carry out a comprehensive reload, but these orders cannot be maintained by the two factories for too long, at most a year and a half will have to find a buyer again.

Now, what Lin Ziran sees is a Fuyuan Ordnance Factory that is at the peak of its production capacity, and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, which is also at the peak of its production capacity because of the war.

Seeing such a huge output of these two factories, Lin Ziran was big.

If there are not enough orders and the factory does not open, more than half of the people in Luohai City will go hungry...

After being a feudal town for so long, he knew for the first time that it was a trouble to have too much production capacity of the original ordnance, and it was a big trouble!

Paralysis, who is so stupid to build the entire Luohai City into a city of weapons.

I hadn't found it before, but now that I take a closer look at the industrial layout of Luohai City, Lin Ziran found that many of the industries and businesses in Luohai City are related to the national defense industry.

For example, a few days ago, these arsenals were temporarily closed due to the war, and many other factories in the city did not open.

Now the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau have fully resumed work, and then all the factories in the entire city seem to have resumed work......

This even gave Lin Ziran the illusion that the entire Luohai City seemed to be an arsenal.

Not to mention, it's really not a delusion.

After all, the defense industry in these years is not much different from ordinary heavy industry, and if you want to make guns, you must be inseparable from steel plants, chemical plants, and the like.

In fact, there are a large number of other factories in Luohai City, but the scale of these factories is not large, and they are generally small and medium-sized micro factories with dozens or hundreds of people.

Therefore, most of the large-scale factories that can be seen now are actually arsenals.

In addition, it is also related to the special history of Luohai City.

Luohai City is the most important strategic city of Daheng in the southern region, and during the Heng Olympic War, Daheng was the most important material production and supply base in the south.

In the early years of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, the factories directly owned and under the jurisdiction of the royal family were not assigned to the Nanzhou area until after the civil strife.

Later, Duke Meng had ambition and courage to do things, he tried to unify Daheng based on Nanhai Prefecture, and this ordnance supply was naturally to be prepared in advance and replenished at any time, so it was integrated with other arsenals, merged to form the Fuyuan Ordnance Department, and expanded the production of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau.

Although Duke Meng later died on the road to reunification, there were too many things he left behind that still deeply affected Nanhai Prefecture.

For example, the Bank of Nanzhou was just a bank set up by Duke Meng to raise military expenses, and later after Duke Meng died, it was commercialized and controlled by capital.

These arsenals are also the legacy left by Duke Meng.

It's a pity that for the subsequent successive county guards of Luohai County, these arsenals are a very headache.

The good thing is that it provides a lot of jobs, almost half of the city's population depends on the defense industry for their livelihood, and the tax profits it provides are also quite large, after all, the arms trade is a very profitable business at any time.

In the end, of course, there is no shortage of weapons at home, and you can use whatever you want, and they are relatively cheap, and you can get them at cost price.

But the disadvantage is also obvious, its influence is too great, a little turmoil, half of the city's population has to go hungry, Rao is Shao Bing, a Luohai county guard, did not dare to let these three arsenals stop work or reduce production.

Lin Ziran thought about it, and finally found that the problem was not that the output of these arsenals was large, but that his troops were too small!

Why did Duke Meng expand these arsenals?

It's not for the sake of unifying Daheng.

How many troops does it take to unify Daheng?

Millions, that's a few!

Otherwise, how can you compete with those big feudal towns to dominate the world?

The three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou next door all have more than 100,000 troops.

And states like Dongdingzhou are all small and medium-sized states, and they have not yet been able to complete reunification.

If it is a few large states in the central and northern regions, especially a few large states that have completed reunification, the number of troops is all hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands.

Even if it is regarded as the declining Ji royal family, they still control Jingzhou!

The famous Black Sword Legion has tens of thousands of iron cavalry, and they are still loyal to the royal family, plus a guard corps of more than 200,000 people, and more importantly, several other big feudal towns are afraid of each other, so that Jingzhou can not be lost, otherwise the Ji royal family would have been finished long ago.

Therefore, if you want to unify Daheng, you can't do it without some strength!

Duke Meng created these arsenals in order to prepare for the unification of Daheng, and now Lin Ziran will just use them if he wants to unify Daheng!

Therefore, the overcapacity of these arsenals is not a problem in the first place, but the problem is that they have too few troops!

After perceiving this problem, Lin Ziran carefully considered it for three seconds, and finally decided: expand the army!

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