After listening to Zhu Hongsan's order, Zhang Jiayu was shocked and said: "Lord, the price of our iron products and salt is already one percent lower than that in the north. If the price is lowered, all the iron and salt factories in the country will definitely go bankrupt, so will a larger number of displaced people be formed? ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect this Zhang Jiayu to have this kind of economic brain. But he couldn't tell him that it was to bankrupt those merchants in the north, and Zhu Hongsan now found that as long as he put on the name of righteousness, he didn't feel guilty at all.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Yuanzi, you know that the Manchus occupied the north, if we don't collapse the northern economy, these steel and salt will be owned by the Manchus, and we will have to spend more efforts to defeat the Manchus." As for the bankrupt merchants, Daming will remember them. ”

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said: "Give the Ministry of Commerce another order, don't want silver and copper money in the north, and only exchange grain, iron ore, and coal for our iron products, salt, sugar and other industrial products." ”

This strategy was thought up by Zhu Hongsan in a flash of inspiration. Zhu Hongsan thought about it again, and now he should really get some means of economic warfare. The Manchu savages had no idea that this currency could be of such a great use.

Zhu Hongsan first asked Zhang Jiayu to go down to write orders, and he sat here and tried to recall the poor economic theories he learned by watching movies and television in later generations and surfing the Internet.

Zhu Hongsan has been in this era for more than 20 years, and many memories of his previous life have been blurred, and it took him a long time to come up with a few dry strategies.

The first is the dumping, which uses its own semi-industrial products to crush the handicraft industry of the North. Although Zhu Hongsan's factory cannot be said to be very advanced, it is undoubtedly much more advanced than the handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty.

The second is to use the monopoly to drain a large amount of grain from the north after squeezing out the handicraft industry in the north.

The third and second articles were carried out at the same time, that is, a large number of inferior Chongzhen Tongbao and Shunzhi Tongbao were produced, and the bad money was used to drive away the good money, so that the Manchus would be financially bankrupt.

Zhu Hongsan looked at his three articles, and said with a smile in his heart, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty can still hold on to these three articles, it is really God bless my Great Qing.

After Zhu Hongsan finished writing, he handed these three articles to Zhang Jiayu and asked him to form a document and send them out. Start doing it now.

Zhang Jiayu looked at the short three strips of paper, the hairs on his body stood on end, his family used to be a small businessman, and he knew that some small craftsmen could hardly resist large price fluctuations.

Every time the price of raw silk fluctuates, a large number of weavers will go bankrupt, and it is also the norm to sell children and daughters. Zhang Jiayu heard that Zhu Hongsan was ruthless before, but he heard about it, and he saw it today.

With this order, a large number of merchants in the north went bankrupt, and I don't know how many people will die, and the king of Chu will say "the Ming will remember them" is over. Zhang Jiayu thought about it, sighed and went down to write the order.

Zhu Hongsan's order indirectly caused the bankruptcy of tens of thousands of merchants in the north and the displacement of millions of craftsmen. But this order did not want silver from the north, and could only barter goods, which caused the prices of goods to skyrocket. In the end, in order to raise war materials, the Manchus exchanged agricultural products for Zhu Hongsan's cheap ductile iron, salt, and sugar. This is even worse for the north, which is not a grain-producing region in the first place.

Of course, after the war, Zhu Hongsan put all the basins on the heads of the Manchus, and they couldn't say anything anyway.

After all, it takes time for economic warfare to produce results, and now Zhu Hongsan is managing thousands of opportunities every day, and it doesn't matter if he arranges this matter and hands it over to the Ministry of Commerce.

Now that everything is on the right track, there is no need for Zhu Hong to do everything. After finishing his work in the office, Zhu Hongsan suddenly remembered that the three experimental ships were back, and he should go to the shipyard to see how the effect was.

Zhu Hongsan came to the shipyard after he left the house, and now there are seven or eight thousand people working in the shipyard. As soon as I entered the gate, I saw the behemoth in the dockyard in the distance.

This big guy is the 800-ton cruiser, and this guy does not adopt the unique shape of the Chinese Fuship, but adopts the shape of the Spanish galleon common in the South Seas.

Yan Qingshan has not been idle in the past few months, sweeping several ship-making factories around the Pearl River Estuary, in addition to grabbing some raw materials, he also got a lot of craftsmen.

Unexpectedly, there were several craftsmen in these factories who had repaired Spanish galleons, and they said that the ships of the Franco-mechanics were very resistant to wind and waves. Going to sea can adapt to all kinds of sea conditions, especially suitable for going out to the ocean.

When Yan Qingshan heard about it, he immediately asked them to experiment with the production of new ships, and as a result, they came up with this big guy who combined earth and ocean.

This large ship has a displacement of about 800 tons, which can only be counted as medium among Spanish galleons, and the largest Spanish galleon can have 1,200 tons, but it is on the American route. The craftsmen had never seen it, but had only heard of it, that kind of big ship was like a castle on the sea.

This large ship has the typical characteristics of Western ships, with a high string, a high stern, a low foredeck, a flat stern, and a protrusion at the bow, like the ramming angle of an oar.

The hull has a distinctly equilateral trapezoidal shape, and this slope extends all the way to the aft tower. The lines of the big ship were graceful, and the stern was surprisingly exquisite, dwarfing its somewhat drab bow.

The ship was thirty meters long and eight meters wide, with a length-to-width ratio of four to one, giving it an advantage in speed. This shape allows it to provide a stable platform for firing cannons, while the towering building also provides fortress-like cover for the ship's soldiers, giving it an advantage in close combat.

The big ship has three decks, the main deck is fifteen medium guns of 1,000 catties, the middle deck is 10 heavy guns, it is expected to use the 2,000 catties of heavy guns that the artillery factory has just developed, the third bottom deck is the cargo hold and ammunition depot, and the upper building is inhabited by 400 sailors.

The big ship had three masts, which was already beyond the imperial limit. The imperial court stipulates that the people are not allowed to build three-masted ships, but now Dongguan is Zhu Hongsan's territory, and what Zhu Hongsan said is the royal law, so how can he care about the decrees of the imperial court.

The sails have not yet been installed, and Zhu Hongsan is ready to use Chinese-style hard sails. Although the hard sail is not as good as the Western soft sail in terms of wind utilization, it is easy to operate and does not require too many sailors.

Of course, the interior of the ship has a Chinese patent, a watertight cabin and a watertight door, which are necessary for naval warfare. In addition, the keel of the ship is cast in ductile iron, and the hull greatly exceeds the wooden keel in terms of solidity and sinking resistance.

The angle of attack of the ship is also cast iron, which can take advantage of the impact. However, Zhu Hongsan did not plan to use this kind of ship to jump to fight, this kind of big ship should be used as a battleship, and the angle of attack was just to prepare for the occasional need.

Zhu Hongsan saw Yan Qingshan jumping up and down on the big boat shirtless, sweating profusely.

Zhu Hongsan shouted below: "Father-in-law, come down, I have something to ask you." ”

Hearing Zhu Hongsan call him, Yan Qingshan reluctantly jumped down and asked, "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, is there something wrong?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Father-in-law, just let the people below do this kind of work, why do you still do it yourself?" ”

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu doesn't know, every ship must be made by the captain throughout the process, so that it can exert its maximum combat effectiveness in naval battles, and if the captain is not familiar with his ship, then it will be a fart naval battle."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "Father-in-law, we will build hundreds of such ships in the future, and you can still watch each one of them here?" ”

Yan Qingshan was dumbfounded when he heard it, hundreds? Isn't that better than the Franc man?

Zhu Hongsan didn't want to talk to Yan Qingshan about anything else, so he came this time mainly to ask about the three ships.

"Father-in-law, how about the three ships that went to sea this time? Are you satisfied? ”

Hearing Zhu Hongsan ask, Yan Qingshan opened his mouth and said, "Of course I am satisfied, those three ships are fast and have strong firepower, which is quite good." ”

"Did you find any shortcomings?"

Yan Qingshan thought for a while and said: "It's not that there are no shortcomings, that is, the artillery firepower is too weak, and the power of the flowering shell is too small. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "There is no way, the heavy artillery has not been produced yet." But when the big ship is launched, it's almost over. On the main deck, there were ten 3,000-pound guns, with a caliber of 25 centimeters, which was three times more powerful than the army guns. ”

"That's a good feeling, and I'll go out and try it when it's built in the future."

Seeing that all Yan Qingshan's thoughts were on the big boat, Zhu Hongsan stopped talking nonsense with him and let him go to supervise the work. Zhu Hongsan walked around the shipyard by himself, and went home when he found that there was nothing to do.