Zhu Houzhao almost trembled and uttered the word mine. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He deeply understood how much of a threat could be posed by a firearm that could be ignited from the bottom of the water in an era when iron-hulled ships had not yet appeared and all kinds of wooden boats were floating on the sea.

Tang Fei proudly looked at the rapidly sinking ship on the surface of the water and smiled: "How is it, it's not bad, right?" ”

"How?" Zhu Houzhao took a deep breath, although he had seen the records of mines from the history of the field, but from the bottom of his heart, he really didn't believe it, because what modern technology could achieve, he really didn't want to believe that the ancients could do it, and it was difficult to do it in terms of sealing alone, not to mention the problem of how to trigger it.

Tang Fei's young face flashed with a trace of memory: "When I was a child, I was timid and didn't dare to go into the water, but I liked to play in the water, so my father specially made a big float for me with cow urine foam." ”

Zhu Houzhao suddenly couldn't bear to interrupt his memories, because it could be seen that the lack of childhood eyes made Tang Fei, a genius boy, cherish that unclear memory.

But fortunately, Tang Fei didn't recall it for too long, and soon returned to the point of how to combine childlike fun and technology.

Thinking that he was afraid that Zhu Houzhao would not understand, Tang Fei deliberately said it in detail.

"We call this mine a smooth stream, the shell is made of wrought iron, weighs 4~6 pounds, and contains gunpowder. The incense is set on fire, and the length of the incense can be determined according to the distance of the enemy ship. It is wrapped in ox belly and sealed, and then the disposed sheep intestine is used to lead to the water surface for aeration, and the goose goose feather is used to float, so as not to extinguish the fire. Tie it to a wooden raft, drop it into the water with a stone, float it down the river, incense it to the fire, hit it from the bottom of the water, and shatter the bottom of the boat. ”

Zhu Houzhao was amazed by Tang Fei's design, but had to ask questions. Downstream water mines are obviously more suitable for combat in the river than in the sea where the tide is erratic, and the safety of the use of the current in the ocean is obviously very flawed, and a wave may destroy one's own ship and kill people.

Tang Fei seemed to see Zhu Houzhao's doubts, and said to him: "Flowing with the water is not just about using the water flow as a driving force. ”

Zhu Houzhao suddenly realized that what Tang Fei said was not wrong, if the two sides of the naval battle were in the deep sea where the ocean current was relatively stable, the current could become a tailwind, and as long as there was no big problem with the direction of the wind, it would be enough to achieve the purpose of the operation.

However, this method also has indelible flaws, which are as random as the balloon warfare theory of island countries during World War II in later generations. Anyone who has studied World War II will know that in order to attack the interior of the United States, the island nation once released tens of thousands of high-altitude balloon bombs in an attempt to make them drift across the sea and over the mountains to reach the United States with the monsoon.

The big picture is big, but the gain is small. Tens of thousands of bombs flying from high-altitude balloons caused only six casualties over the vast territory of the United States.

Zhu Houzhao didn't have so much silver to make water floats to play the game of chance.

"Something is good, but it needs to be improved!" Zhu Houzhao encouraged: "But if it is a triggered mine, the effect may be much better." ”

Tang Fei's eyes flickered, he also knew the inadequacy of the flow he had designed, after all, there was too much instability with incense as an ignition device, who could be sure that the length of the incense that needed to be left on the sea with the rapidly changing ocean currents could be so good, this is not a god.

However, Zhu Houzhao was still very happy, seeing that Tang Fei could make such a water weapon that was in line with his great navigation plan, he simply had the urge to immediately cross the sea to capture the US imperialists' mainland, although it was still a barren land everywhere.

After Tang Fei went back, he began to think hard with his team about how to improve the flow of the river and make it more meaningful.

However, Zhu Houzhao began his inspection in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and had a long talk with a person of insight before, and the topic was very simple, but it only included the aspect of commercial tax reform.

Although Zhu Houzhao is now the supreme of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he was just a scholar in his previous life, and his understanding of the society of the Ming Dynasty was fundamentally the experience he heard from the roadside society, and the only thing that allowed him to get his hands on it was his extensive knowledge in later generations and all kinds of propaganda situations beyond the ancients.

So far, he has finally discovered his flaw, and he should not use the behavior model of the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Ming politicians, because that is simply a stupid way to attack the enemy's strengths with his own shortcomings.

Therefore, after hearing some insightful ideas for commercial tax reform, Zhu Houzhao immediately had a new feasible plan.

As a rich land of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan is not only the land of fish and rice, but also the origin of the embryonic capitalism in the legend, and this place is the top priority of the commercial tax reform.

As long as the commercial tax reform in the Jiangnan region can be completed, the Ming Dynasty will basically survive fifty percent on the chessboard.

And in this regard, Zhu Houzhao still has a very good chess hand in his hand. That is to master the Mo family.

As mentioned earlier, the Mo family's power is different from that of the old ship owners, they pay great attention to the development of the interior, so the Mo family's shops are dotted around the range of several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

As long as the Mo family basically accepts the imperial court's commercial tax reform, there is a possibility that Jiangnan will survive fifty percent.

But this is not enough to fulfill Zhu Houzhao's ambitions. No matter how rich a businessman is, he is only the last of the four categories of people, so it is the scholar clan who needs to be treated by Zhu Houzhao.

To put it bluntly, if Zhu Houzhao wants to complete the comprehensive reform of the Ming Dynasty, he must get rid of the scholar group. Moreover, the number of provinces is not influenced by Confucianism to the point that Fan Jin and others can only die reading. is a talent like Yang Shen, who has a more active brain and reads through hundreds of schools.

Not to mention the confluence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, what famous Mohists, Yin and Yang families, soldiers, etc., all need to understand a little, such talents are lively, flexible, and can accommodate hundreds of schools of thought and refine their self-interested words, so that they can accept the values brought by Zhu Houzhao, and can establish and carry forward the economic concepts.

As soon as the cannon sounded, there were ten thousand taels of gold. If the Chinese nation really wants to stand tall among the nations of the world forever, it can only rely on its strong military strength.

Look back a thousand years. Why did the culture of the Han Dynasty spread for thousands of years in the distant Western Regions, and hundreds of years later, the small countries in the Western Regions still uphold the traditions of the Han Dynasty, what is the basis for this, naturally it will not be a group of scholars holding a bookbag for thousands of miles.

As for the Tang Dynasty that followed, it was even more fierce, tens of thousands of elite cavalry swept through the Western Regions, and to do cultural exchanges, you had to bring a fierce warrior who could lift a thousand jun sticks and clarify Wan Liming.

Therefore, the spread of culture needs the backing of strong force, and the formation of strong force needs the foundation of culture. This statement is true, and it can't be wrong.

(To be continued.) )