The development of the Dinghai Navy, as far as it seems, is still very small, and even a ship of about 10,000 materials is not even comparable to the largest sea ship in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The excavation of Nanhai No. 1 is enough to prove the shipbuilding capacity of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the ships of about 800 tons, converted into materials, exceed 20,003, which may not be the largest sea ship built in the Northern Song Dynasty.

History has been covered up, thousands of years of loess buried I don't know how much, in the feudal dynasty, Shinong industry and commerce, it seems that workers are higher than businessmen, but in fact, workers are the bottom, the reason is very simple, no matter how lowly the businessmen are, they have money, and they can naturally be praised by people if they are rich, even if they were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang Shen Wansan, didn't he also write a stroke in the history books.

But in history, there are a few craftsmen who can become famous, let alone the creations of craftsmen.

Shipbuilding, this is almost customized, someone needs, someone makes, nothing more than the difficulty of manufacturing, for the Northern Song Dynasty, as long as the problem of keel is solved, it is only a matter of time before it is manufactured.

However, this ship is completely different from the sailing ship here in the Dinghai Navy, not to mention the speed, the basic speed of the sailing ship is more than twice that of the Chinese-style sailing ship, and it is twice as much in this era, which is a great benefit for ocean transportation.

In fact, any transportation, in addition to its own consumption, the cost of time is the most important consumption, the crew's food, salary, these have become the main cost of transportation, in the use of sails, not the use of auxiliary power under the premise, all the consumption of transportation is the cost of manpower, under the premise of using the same personnel, the faster the speed, the more saving.

The emergence of sailing ships also marked the foundation of the Dinghai Navy and the opening of the entire navigation, a real era of navigation, opened in the Northern Song Dynasty, not like Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty went to the Western Ocean, with the help of one port after another, gradually to the distance.

That method was not a commercial method at all, it was promoted by the power of the dynasty.

The bigger the Chinese-style sailing ship, the more demand there is, and Zheng He once is hundreds of ships of all kinds, as well as a large number of soldiers and horses, not how to come with less, otherwise why Zheng He went to Southeast Asia, and could even destroy the country.

The force is demonstrated, but the cost is much higher, Zheng He is for Zhu Di to come to Southeast Asia to show force, and all countries come to the court, maybe they will bring some gadgets as rewards, and they will also carry a lot of precious items, but this thing is not a transaction, regardless of the effect, just like Zheng He got rhinos, peacocks and elephants in Africa several times, what is the value, even if the rhinoceros horn and ivory are worth a lot, but this thing, only ivory and rhinoceros horn, other things, do not have much effect at all.

Commerce is the basis for the non-stop progress of navigation, why Europeans, regardless of life and death, one after another, looking for a shipping route to the East, is not because they come to the East, they can obtain huge profits.

In the East, even if a few merchants, layer upon layer of price increases, silk and porcelain, did not exceed much, at most several times, but in Europe, silk and porcelain, are more expensive than gold, some, even more expensive than gold, a shipload of goods, can obtain dozens of times, even hundreds of times the benefits, even dozens, hundreds, as long as one comes back, you can create a terrible rich, this is the fundamental that stimulates everyone to succeed.

It's a pity that Zheng He went to the West and didn't have this condition, when Zhu Di was there, he didn't know that it was for the idea of the Heavenly Empire that pushed Zheng He to move forward, but after that, he couldn't support it because of the huge cost, not to mention a large-scale voyage like Zheng He, and even the drawings of the treasure ship were put on the shelf.

Perhaps, Chinese-style sailing ships have such and such weaknesses, but the technology that was already regressing in the Yuan Dynasty went through the hiding of the early Ming Dynasty, and China's sailing technology could not be developed, and began to lag far behind Europe, until the later Qing Dynasty, it was even weaker.

This has to be ironic, in the same way, the private trade, because of the wealth of China, has become impossible to travel, a sailing ship from the West, as long as it comes to Asia, to the vicinity of China, can harvest enough goods, whether it is silk, tea, or porcelain, or spices from Southeast Asia, or silver from Japan.

In short, in the whole of Asia, there are too many high-priced products, but in China, the price of imported products is also high, but this high price is only the high cost of transportation, these expensive goods, in Europe is also expensive, which is why, after Britain developed, to launch the Opium War, closed off the country of the Manchu Qing, no desire for foreign countries, but silk, tea and porcelain, with irreplaceability, this thing is scarce foreigners, this is also the original Britain is obviously strong, But there is no way to compare the fundamental reason with China in normal commodity trading.

In fact, this is not a problem in the United Kingdom, there is not much gold and silver in the Chinese dynasties, most of the gold in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period is copper, although the price of gold and silver is expensive, it is recognized, but it has not formed a general equivalent, or gold and silver coins.

The reason is that the amount of gold and silver is relatively small, and even if it is expensive, it cannot afford to hold up the currency plate.

However, after the Ming Dynasty, gold and silver began to enter the circulation field, not because China found a large amount of gold and silver in this era, but because of the large inflow of gold and silver from overseas.

Spain and Portugal, in the Americas, occupied the Americas and acquired innumerable riches, which, supposedly, should have passed through the Atlantic Ocean and returned to Europe, which, in spite of the rough Coast, was much closer.

However, the Spanish and Portuguese gold ships often circumnavigated the Pacific Ocean and entered Asia, and then transported them to Europe, which was equivalent to more than doubling the distance.

The reason why this is the case is because tradition, gold and silver, these things, for Spain and Portugal at that time, are nothing, as the early overlords of the Age of Sail, whether in Africa or in the Americas, they have obtained a lot of gold and silver, this thing really has to be shipped back, not to the little Spain and Portugal, the currency collapses.

Because of the import of Spain and Portugal, the gold and silver exchange ratio in Europe is much higher than that in Asia, and the pure gold and silver exchange is very profitable.

These gold and silver, or exchanged for Chinese tea, porcelain and silk, or spices from the Spice Islands, or, other products, and then shipped back to Europe, the profit can be multiplied several times, which is a double benefit, for the age of sailing, an extra voyage of thousands of kilometers, that is nothing.

Although there is no exact record, it is not known how much silver flowed into China during the hundreds of years of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in short, throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, silver became the most important currency and began to spread throughout China.

You must know that in the Qing Dynasty, the gross domestic product of the whole China was also the absolute hegemon in the world, and the total amount of currency owned by China was terrifying.

China's development is too good, it is a disadvantage for China, especially for navigation, even if China has ocean-going ships and can send goods to Europe, if you don't convince the other party, you don't want to do business.

This is just a traditional, initial stage of business, for Zhao Xin, he comes from the 21st century, to the 21st century, the world's shipping, not tea, silk and porcelain, but something inconspicuous.

When the tonnage of ships continues to increase, the cost of transportation will continue to decrease, and some lower value, but more universal applicability goods can emerge.

Under the premise that the industrialized Dinghai Navy, Taiwan and Hainan Island, which will occupy Taiwan in the future, and even Southeast Asia, will have a growing population and a higher degree of industrialization, the demand for raw materials will become higher and higher, and these raw materials are the focus.

It is true that China has a large land and abundant resources, but it has a history of thousands of years of development, and a huge population, and the consumption of various materials is very huge, so in later generations, commonly used minerals, iron ore, copper ore, and some other metals commonly used in history are not much in Forte in China, and even if there is, the taste is not high.

But around China, there are many places with a lot of minerals, for example, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, which is the continent on the minecart.

As long as these territories are obtained and these minerals are developed, it is enough to support the development of the entire Dinghai Navy for a long time, but among all the materials and resources, Zhao Xin values the most, and it must be solved as soon as possible, and there will always be only the same.

That's right, it's food, people take food as the sky, people live in this world, air, water, and food, all three are indispensable.

Under the premise that there will be no large-scale changes in the overall environment of the earth, there will be no shortage of air and water, and only food will be constrained by population growth and power expansion.

For China, there is never too much grain, and under the premise that there are no high-yield crops from South America, it has become a good choice to occupy overseas, especially the grain from Southeast Asia and India.

Unlike the whole of China, Southeast Asia has a terrible planting potential, located in the tropics, two or even three crops a year, there is no problem, and even the land that has not been cultivated for many years, once planted, it does not take much effort, you can harvest abundantly.

In the entire Northern Song Dynasty, under the premise that there could be no large-scale expansion of land, a large amount of grain was imported from Southeast Asia and even India in South Asia, which would support the development of the entire Northern Song Dynasty.

The most fundamental thing of industrialization is population and territory, population represents more producers and war potential, width represents stronger strategic depth, after World War II, it is possible to rise and become a strong country, only if the population is large enough, the land is vast enough, of course, there must be enough industrial base, so as to have the possibility of development.

A large amount of grain purchased from abroad will further increase the population of the whole of China, and it is the way to develop steadily by using less land and grain to feed more people.

In the early days of feudal society, and even capitalist society, the rulers did not realize the importance of population, especially feudal society, the whole was ignorant and passively developed, and the population, in the eyes of the superiors, was just a number, and only when the industrial society arrived, when the productive forces were further liberated, would they pay attention to the role of people, but at this time, they only regarded people as tools.

The industrialization of the West, in the first era of sheep and man-eaters, bankrupted a large number of yeoman farmers and forced them to move into the cities and become workers.

However, when this group of workers first entered the factory, they did not enjoy the kind of treatment that was later in the capitalist society, and the bonded workers in the middle school textbooks, in fact, were also widespread in the early capitalist society, and they also passed through the initial bonded labor era.

For example, in Britain, during the first industrial revolution, the large-scale development of the cotton textile industry allowed Britain to finally change from opium or other inferior products to industrial products.

First of all, most of the female workers used in the textile industry have liberated the productive forces and allowed women to enter the work, but according to the front-line textile workers, the average life expectancy is less than 40 years old, and many of them have died of illness.

At that time, the society was extremely polarized, the rich could be said to be rich, the rich were deadly, and the millionaires also appeared in this era, and they lived an unimaginably luxurious life.

But at the bottom, with an average monthly salary of less than £5, paid all their strength and life, and their industriousness created terrible wealth for the capitalists, but at the cost of their health and life.

At this moment, the contradiction between labor and capital is the most important contradiction in the entire capitalist society, from the initial resistance to the conflict, in this era, the birth of a revolution from small to large, like a spark of fire.

The ideas of the proletariat also germinated, were born and popularized in this era, which eventually led to the birth of a series of revolutions such as the French Revolution.

It was also after countless conflicts and circling developments, under the blood of countless Linlin, that the labor force was raised to a certain level, and the middle class and welfare benefits in the West slowly appeared, and finally became the mainstream of later generations.

If it weren't for Zhao Xin's crossing, even if the Northern Song Dynasty would not have been defeated by the barbarians and slowly embarked on a capitalist society, it would have also experienced this process.

Zhao Xin's crossing has changed the process of this fixed development, directly from the most fundamental place, to change, the foundation of the Northern Song Dynasty, as well as the cooperation of the card system, directly let the Northern Song Dynasty cross the limit of hundreds of years, directly into a certain height, this is a year or two, once it takes root, let the industrial structure of the Dinghai Navy enter a certain height, it will inevitably change the world.