The content of the text is Apocalypse 362, and the text 362 The gunboat test begins↓↓↓

At the beginning of July of the eighth year of the Apocalypse, in addition to Shandong and Northern Zhili, the coastal provinces of Daming needed to guard against the spies of the Jurchens, and the other four provinces of Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong all posted notices, announcing that anyone who was willing to go to sea to do business or engage in fishing seafood could register and apply for Tianqi Fengyun locally, and the premise was that the applicant should set up a private or joint-stock company under the name of the Big Iron Company, accept the supervision and management of the Big Iron Company, and pay a certain management fee, which had the advantage of allowing the cooperative units of the Big Iron Company to go to the joint activities, while also reiterating that the ban on private individuals remains in force.

Those who do not accept the imperial decree and continue to go to sea without permission are all regarded as collaborators and enemies, and in addition to confiscating all the ship's equipment and income, they must also be held accountable, and after finding out whether there is any backstage and hostile force support, they will be fined and confiscate all their family property. For example, if your total assets are 1 million taels, then you can get a maximum profit of 200,000 yuan a year, and if you are engaged in industrial activities such as shipbuilding and ship repair, the maximum profit limit is 50%, and you can earn up to 500,000 yuan a year, and all the excess will be confiscated.

For example, after earning 200,000 yuan in commercial activities, the court can continue to earn some more, and the court can levy an additional tax of 40% or even half on the excess part, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of merchants and increase everyone's income. Apocalypse rejected this suggestion after discussing with Liu Zongzhou and Gao Panlong of the Supervision Yuan, which means that if you don't earn enough to earn the share you should earn, you are lazy and you should be unlucky, but if you want to earn more, either you bully others and make others earn less, or you raise prices to make the people more money, no matter which of these two situations must be resolutely opposed.

Apocalypse specifically explained that there are only two ways for a company to make more money, one is to increase the total assets and increase the share that it is allowed to earn, and the second way is to apply for registration and the two companies take turns, otherwise, if you make enough, please rest on the side and let others come. Everyone thinks about it, everyone earns and eats, and everyone eats, and it's not good for others to be hungry and you eat alone, so they agree to this article and stop making irresponsible remarks. Of course, in order to cooperate with the retirement system to be implemented in the Northern Huangzhuang, Tianqi also publicized that the workers and shipowners each contributed some money to pay pensions when they paid money, but the propaganda did not force the implementation of this concept so that everyone could have this concept.

If you want to make more money, you have to increase your total assets, everyone didn't understand this article very well at the beginning, and they all thought that there was no reason for the emperor to ask for this, and the money of each company had to be used for comprador equipment and circulation operations anyway, and it was impossible for others to show you how much money they had. But the next order of the apocalypse made everyone understand that bragging also has to pay a price, he required each company to deposit a certain amount of security deposit in the name of the big iron company in proportion to the total assets, saying that these deposits are all the funders' own, one is to give compensation after the accident, and the other is to punish the offender's money.

In the past, when something happened to the owner's family, someone in the family would give the crew a certain amount of compensation, but when the shipowner's family was ruined, everyone only had one breath to recognize the apocalypse. Now the apocalypse requires a certain amount of funds to be temporarily withheld as a deposit, which is not only to avoid the loss of family members and money after the crew crash, but also to relieve the worries of the shipowner, no one likes people crying at their door all day long to ask for money, everyone wants to understand the truth and has no objection, only asks not to deduct too much so as not to affect the normal operation.

For those who are still living together, Apocalypse declares that as long as they are willing to surrender to the court, they can recruit peace and will not be guilty of their past crimes. He also pointed out that there are two ways in front of the pirates now, one is to enter the navy as a soldier after being recruited by the imperial court, and use the ruthlessness he used on the common people to deal with other pirates and foreign invaders, which can be regarded as atonement for his past behavior. The second is to accept Zhao'an, and those who are tired of fighting and killing are allowed to return to their hometowns to farm, and those who are willing to do business can form a company to register with the big iron company and accept management and constraints like everyone else.

For those who are unwilling to accept the imperial court's recruitment, Tianqi asks the sailors on the southeast coast to slowly exterminate them, and there is no need to ask them to be wiped out in a short time, but only ask the sailors to increase their combat ability in the battle with the pirates, which can be regarded as growing in the battle. In this way, those pirates who are unwilling to submit to the imperial court, even if they become the whetstone of the imperial court's sailors, so that the imperial court's sailors continue to gain combat experience and become stronger, and finally can expel the red-haired ghosts who occupy Taiwan, these pirates can also be regarded as people of the Ming Dynasty to make a little contribution to the country.

In order to ensure that the opening is the only opening, the apocalypse asked the southeastern sailors to focus on cracking down on smuggling. Because these normal companies accept the constraints of the big iron company, what routes are taken every day must be marked and notified by the government to the sailors, who can be recognized at a glance by those who take the wrong route or go to sea without permission, and it is also convenient for the sailors to catch the smugglers, and it is also convenient to recognize those pirates who pretend to be merchants to fish in troubled waters.

It is very embarrassing that the sailors can't defeat the invaders, so they can't beat the pirates and go to clear the internal strife if they can't beat the foreign enemy, but the pirates are all ghostly and don't make people breathless, and now they have been downgraded to an anti-smuggling team, which makes the officers and soldiers of the southeast sailor division extremely dissatisfied and have a strong desire to improve their strength.

At the same time, on Juehua Island on the far coast of Ningyuan in Liaoxi in the north, Yuan Keli was leading people to test the cannon on the ship, and he also wanted to find the most suitable plan to strengthen his southeast sailor Tianqi Fengyun as soon as possible. Because of the overall situation, for fear of leaking secrets, the Apocalypse did not let the ordinary soldiers participate, and the Jinyi Guard, who was trained in the Zhongqian Institute, was dispatched nearby to assist Yuan Keli and obeyed his arrangement, among which the leader was Shi Quan, who had made a meritorious contribution to spying on intelligence in the revenge battle of Salhu in Liaodong, and had been lurking in western Sichuan for ten years, and had made meritorious service when doing things for the Apocalypse, and was reported by Liu Qiao, and after Salhu was slaughtered by the Ming army, Shi Quan was successfully promoted to a thousand households.

Shi Quan said that it was a thousand households, but the treatment of thousands of households was not really in charge of thousands of people, usually he was also very humble to people, and there was no arrogance, everyone liked his character and knew that he was the emperor who had made personal merits, and he could still speak in front of the emperor at critical moments, so no one was rude to him. Hundreds of them have been busy on Juehua Island for many days, and they are not afraid of anyone peeping into secrets, and everyone is commanding some craftsmen to nail the wooden planks and nail the wooden cannons, and they all want to see if the powerful cannons can get on the chain ships that are connected together, and they also want to see if the chain ships can resist smashing after being loaded with iron plates.

On this day, seeing that Yuan Keli came to the island by boat early, Shi Quan immediately went up to say hello and said, "Why did Lord Yuan come in person?" If there is any command, let someone send a message, and we will do it. ”

Yuan Keli said: "How are you doing these days? Can anyone be lazy? ”

Shi Quan said: "We know that Lord Yuan is very concerned, so no one is lazy and keeps staring at it, and besides, this is equivalent to being isolated from the world and wanting to have fun and not going, at most I am tired of playing chess and blowing two big words to relieve my boredom." We have done many times to smash the iron plate with the iron lump, all of which are standing on a high place to hold up the iron lump and smash it down, except for the loud sound of the iron plate being smashed into a few small pits, the iron plate itself is not broken‖ the ring ship has just been nailed, it is to dismantle the sides of the two large ships and lay the wooden planks and nails tightly, and the newly cast iron plate is being taken up for trial installation, and it may take several days to install it on both sides and the upper deck in the bow and stern. ”

Yuan Keli thought for a while and said: "Whether you use manpower to smash downward, there is still a gap between the power ratio and the cannonball, or you have to use the cannonball to smash it to see it." Anyway, it will be a few days before the cannon is loaded onto the ship, and I brought two gunners over today, so let's try to open fire and smash the iron plate to see if the iron plate can withstand it. After speaking, he motioned for the two people who came with him to adjust the aim, and asked the other people to lift an iron plate and place it on the sand and gravel in the distance.

The two gunners asked someone to adjust the muzzle of a Hongyi cannon, and after careful inspection, they fixed the cannon, and then turned back to Yuan Keli and said: "Please stay away from adults and others, it is best to open your mouth and block your ears so as not to damage your eardrums, this thing has a big temper and will hurt people if you don't pay attention to it." ”

After Yuan Keli, Shi Quan and others retreated as instructed, the two gunners "bang, bang" and released three guns before smashing the iron plate, and the three guns were smashed to see that the level of these two gunners was okay. Everyone hurriedly ran over to see after hearing a loud muffled sound, and when they arrived at the place where the iron plate was placed, they couldn't help but gasp, only to see that the iron plate was smashed into a big crack, and the stones under the iron plate were broken. ”

Yuan Keli squatted down and looked at the iron plate and said: "It can't be thicker, and if it is thicker and loaded into the ship, even if the ship is not sinkable, it will look too cumbersome, and the reason why the crack will be made this time is because you put the iron plate on the stone, which is equivalent to making the cannonball and the iron plate hard." ”

Shi Quan looked at it and said: "Yes, when the ship is hit by a cannonball, a large part of the force will be transmitted to the seawater, maybe then the iron plate will not be easy to be smashed, if we spread another layer of cotton wool and wood on the iron plate, it can absorb some of the strength." ”

Yuan Keli nodded and said: "Your idea is good, but you can't use cotton wool and wooden boards, because cotton wool is flammable, wooden boards are fragile, and the smashed wooden board fragments will fly around and hurt people. I think that when fighting, you can spread some waste raw silk or hair on the deck, or spread the fire clothes materials that are not afraid of fire, and then you have to test how to make a decision, put the iron plate on the wood and then put it in the water, and we will try a few more shots. ”

When Shi Quan heard this, he immediately asked someone to find a few pieces of wood to put on the iron plate, and then asked someone to carry it to the surface of the sea, seeing that the iron plate did not sink on the wood, Shi Quan nodded with satisfaction, turned to the person and said, "Come and push the cannon forward for a distance, and then try to see if it can be smashed." ”

Everyone moved the cannon to the position designated by the gunner, and was about to dodge the point to let the gunner fire, when someone nervously reported loudly: "Report to Shi Qianhu, stop firing the cannon and the boat is coming!" ”

Shi Quan was startled and hurriedly called the gunner to stop, and walked forward while watching with a telescope, and said, "Who is this?" Did the Jurchens dare to attack by boat? ”