Jinhewan is not a country in the real sense, it is tantamount to manipulating the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty to seize the markets of various countries, and then get a large piece of the cake from it. The larger the maritime merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty, the richer Jinhewan became; The richer the Golden River Bay, the larger the fleet will be; The larger the fleet, the more markets the Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants could occupy. This Nima is a game of traps, and the end result is collapse, but this collapse point is still far, far away, and before it fails in this mode, the development speed is still very fast. To put it bluntly, it is to plunder others to enrich yourself, and then arm yourself with the plundered wealth, and then plunder, when will you rob all the earth, rob everyone else, and everyone will unite against you, and Jinhewan will be finished.

This method can't be learned by other countries, they don't have this technical reserve, mainly because they don't have this vision, they can't understand what lies ahead, and they are still in a state of groping forward in the dark, which can't be compared with Hong Tao, a freak wearing an infrared imager.

If there is a model of the country forcibly fighting with Jinhewan, and wants to compete with Jinhewan for maritime power and fight for the sea with Jinhewan, then Hong Tao will wake up with a smile in his dreams. When a country spends most of its resources on building its fleet, it inevitably reduces its spending on other areas. The cost of building a fleet and feeding a fleet was very, very huge, and even in Spain and England in their heyday, there were not many capital ships, and all that remained were small and medium-sized warships, and even armed merchant ships.

Guess what happens when you put most of your country's power into the navy and then plunder not enough resources to replenish it? Click...... Your country's economy has collapsed, and the fleet has become a bad asset. As in the later Soviet Union. I was dragged down by myself. When your fleet is dried up by a burst of artillery fire at Golden River Bay. And guess what? Click...... The head of the country was overthrown, because you ruined the country's economy and the fleet was not saved, this is not a sinner for the ages. How did the ancients treat sinners through the ages? Overthrow you and slaughter you. If you meet someone with a bigger temper and a smaller heart, it will also involve your family, and you will not be able to resolve your hatred.

But can you resist not studying? This has to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. First of all, those small countries can be filtered out, they have not been able to mechanic, just like the arms race in later generations. Only big and powerful countries are qualified to play this game. You said that you are a country with a big fart, and you have to borrow a place to park with a neighboring country to buy an extra hundred tanks, is there a need for competition?

A country that can play the Ocean Navy must have several conditions. First of all, you have to have skills, that is, shipbuilding craftsmen, I haven't heard that the arms race depends on buying, then you really become stupid and have a lot of money. Second, you have to have resources, you have to use a lot of wood to build a ship, a Jiao Shark class battleship. Not counting the keel, the planks that are more than 40 centimeters thick alone have to use hundreds of hundred-year-old logs. Countries that do not have large forests can be de-listed again. Third, you have to have a good harbor, it is not enough to rely on the seaside alone, most of the seaside cannot moor large ships, the water depth, current, water temperature, and wind direction must be considered. Fourth, you have to have enough manpower, you can build a ship, but you can't build a sailor, you have to train slowly. And it's no longer the same as before, catching a fisherman and becoming a sailor. You can be illiterate, but you have to learn basic geometry and mathematics, and people who can't even understand 360 degrees can't be sailors.

After arranging the affairs of Guangzhou Port, Hong Tao took the fleet and left first. At the first stop at the port of Brunei, Kong Pei, who had set off a few days before him, had already picked up 100 Mamluk soldiers from the port of Malacca with the Haibo and a salmon-class merchant ship. These soldiers will follow Hong Tao around the island of East Java, and Hong Tao feels that the 100 marines in his hands alone are not enough to destroy the city, and if these Mamluk soldiers can suppress the formation, the possibility is very large.

"Mercy, I repeat, the artillery deck must be lit up, and there must not be a single spark! Around the powder magazine, you send me people on duty day and night, double posts, who dares to approach for no reason, shoot directly with a crossbow, first cut and then play! Do you understand? "Mercy has been promoted to the rank of First Officer on the Golden River, which is not only a reward for Cixi's loyalty, but also a deserve for Mercy's conscientious work. But today Hong Tao is a bit unusual, since the fleet left Jinhe Bay, he has said this to mercy more than once, and sometimes he himself has gone into the bilge and circled around the three powder magazines, and if he finds that one of the sailors on duty is not on duty, he will be furious.

What's in the powder magazine? What else could there be, gunpowder! It's just a bit much, twenty tons! In addition, there were more than seventy tons of grenades and heavy fuel oil. If this thing blew up, Hong Tao couldn't even think of what physical state he would become, whether it was a molecule or an atom or a particle.

Sleeping with dozens of tons of gunpowder, this is also the first time Hong Tao has tried in several lifetimes, even if his heart is big, he can't sleep these days, it's better to relax with many crew members, even Wen Nan is stronger than him, he should eat, sleep, and not delay at all. This is the fearlessness of the ignorant, they don't know what the concept of these black things is when they blow up, even if they talk about it every day, people's understanding has to have a process, and it even takes N many tragedies to really understand.

"Master, don't worry, I made them all strip naked and go on duty, and the crossbow arrows they use are all whale bone arrows, and they can't bring any metal at all. In addition, I have set up a special transport group, except that they can go to the ammunition compartment, whoever shows their head will shoot whomever they want, and they deserve to be shot! Compassion didn't quite understand why Hong Tao was so nervous, but he, like his father, didn't intend to understand at all. Hong Tao said that the briquettes were white, and he thought that there was something wrong with his eyes, and he should not see them as black, but would only try to make himself see the briquettes as white, and not wonder whether the briquettes were originally black.

"Sir! Call sir! Don't learn from your father, you are different from him, you are a child of Jinhewan. Remember this, you are not worse than others at all, even better than many people, otherwise how can you be the first mate and they can't? By the way, how is your marriage to Weng Ya? Did your father go to give the urn family a dowry? Hong Tao did not object to Cixi calling himself master, that is a kind of respect, or a kind of affection. But he doesn't want the Compassion generation to think the same way, that they can respect others in other ways and not have to lower their status.

“…… Mother-in-law Weng didn't want to, my father said that when I became the captain, maybe I would become a ...... "Don't look at mercy and say that you don't like Weng Ya, but in fact, you still like it in your heart." When Weng Ya was the captain of the Jinhe, he was about to become Weng Ya's orderly, except for not being able to move when he was on duty, he was on call at all times, and he was a little heel.

"Don't worry, child, in my country, boys can't marry a wife until they are 18 years old, and girls are 18 years old. You and Weng Ya are still young, and in a few years, Granny Weng will agree. If she still doesn't agree, I'll let you and Weng Ya go to a distant place to station, just like your brother Bojiao, wait for a lot of children to give birth and come back, she will be happy and happy, and she will be happy if she is not happy, isn't it? "Hong Tao can't teach children to learn well, and it's all crooked tricks to come to him.

"Hey, hey, hey...... I'm sure I'll treat Weng Ya well, I'll stay by her side when she gives birth, and I'll not go anywhere! "Compassion was happy, and hurried to show loyalty to Hong Tao.

"Your uncle! It's worth it for me to keep you busy for half a day, you turn around and laugh at me, disappear from my eyes, I look at you annoying! "Compassion may be said like this, it doesn't mean that much at all, but why is Hong Tao so awkward when he listens to this? This means that the speaker has no intention of listening to the heart, and whoever has the heart is a loss!

If you want to ask Hong Tao why he travels with so much gunpowder, it is actually not much at all. The amount of charge fired by the gun is generally one-fifth to one-half of the weight of the shell, depending on the range, and how far you want to hit it has to be loaded. A 150mm solid bullet weighs 12 kilograms, and if you want to launch it at full range, you need to stuff at least four kilograms of propellant. According to the artillery tutorial formulated by Hong Tao, it is four one-kilogram medicine cakes. If all of them carry propellants according to the standard for firing solid bullets, they must carry at least one ton of propellant when they are ejected with a three-ton gun. At present, there are not many solid bullets on the Hongtao boat, and most of them are hollow flowering bombs, so that a lot of propellants can be saved.

The medicine cake was invented by Po Zhu, and the Women's Union has been responsible for making the cork fuses and cork mats for the cannonballs, and this time with the artillery, the task of firing the medicine kit was also given to their workshop. Po Zhu inherited the genes of the old man in one habit, that is, saving. She couldn't see all the waste and waste of good things, so when Hong Tao said that she wanted to wrap the propellant bag in silk, she was very uncomfortable and tried every possible way to replace the expensive silk with other materials. I didn't think about this thing all day long, and I went to the south bank of the river to experiment with those artillery craftsmen to see if replacing silk with other materials would leave too many impurities in the barrel. The results of the test made her very disappointed, no matter what materials were replaced, there were more impurities than the impurities left after the silk burned, and some of them were still stuck to the inner wall of the barrel and difficult to rub off with the cannon brush, for this matter, she was very thin.

Hong Tao couldn't bear to watch his daughter-in-law work so hard, so he had to follow her to find a way. With the existence of Hong Tao's brain, the method was quickly found, and it was very easy to use, which not only solved the problem of quantitative and rapid loading of propellants, but also greatly saved costs. What to replace? This time, there was no need for anything, the propellant was mixed with a small amount of cetamine wax and fish bone glue, and put it into a hydraulic press for oil extraction to be squeezed slowly, and the thing that came out was like a rapeseed cake, a very strong big cake. Then the cake was dried, and it became a propellant cake one by one, similar to the Pu'er tea brick. When using, according to the firing range, it is enough to put the medicine cake directly into the barrel, so Hong Tao divided these medicine cakes into three specifications: half a kilogram, one kilogram and two kilograms, and use them with each other to meet all the launch needs. (To be continued.) )