There was nothing too technically difficult about propeller steamers, which were first used on ships in 1840, later than paddle steamers, but not for too long. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

First of all, the brass propeller casting is not difficult.

In the Ming Machinery Factory, the lost wax method casting special-shaped parts has long been a very common thing, in fact, this technology is still continued from ancient times, but it is mainly used to cast bronze ritual vessels, and now bronze is replaced by brass It is just a very simple matter, even those precision patterns on the ritual can be cast, not to mention a brass propeller, as for the casting out of the cast, it is nothing more than pure hand polishing.

Bearings are also not uncommon.

Thrust bearings for rollers have long been used on a large scale in machinery.

The most important thing left is the sealing.

Seals were also invented long ago.

Rubber seals are necessary for many mechanical transmission systems, and the corrosion resistance of natural rubber is indeed poor, but it is not impossible to use, but because it contains protein, it does not have a long life of synthetic rubber, but it is completely fine with a year.

In addition, it is better to use steel for such a boat.

And the first steel-hulled ship of the Ming Dynasty has also been built in Changguo, the difficulty of this thing is nothing more than riveting, rivets are not high-tech, the ship is currently in trial voyages, but the tonnage is less than a hundred, and the ship heading directly to the Americas is probably a few thousand tons, after all, it needs to bring a lot of coal and fresh water. But this is only a matter of construction, not to mention that wooden boats are not unusable, the original propeller ships are actually wooden, but they are all motorized sailboats driven by propellers and sails, such as the Napoleon, for example, the small broken ship that made the first voyage of the Japanese Kingdom to the United States, and there are also iron-ribbed wooden ships that can also be built.

So there's nothing else to do.

However, the problem of coal supply still exists, even the propeller sailing ship is difficult to sail 20,000 miles with its own coal and fresh water, from Changguo, the first station in the Ryukyus, the Ogasawara Islands, that is, the Bird Island marked on the map of the Ming Dynasty is one, and then the former Wake Island one, Midway Island one, and the last one is Honolulu, in Honolulu filled with coal and fresh water should be enough to sail to San Francisco. In this way, it is only necessary to send the navy to occupy these places in advance and set up supply depots, now these are uninhabited desert islands, and there is no question of whether to grab or not, only the Ogasawara Islands are drawn on the map by the Wakoku, but Tokugawa Tsunayoshi has a fart qualification to compete with Daming for this place.

It's against him!

It can be said that there is no difficulty in this hardware, but in this software, or how to fool the people, it is not easy to handle.

Indeed, the most important question for Yang Feng now is not how to go out and rob the colony.

Colony grabbing is simple.

He is now to sail the fleet out of the Strait of Malacca to Ceylon, to Calcutta, to Bombay, and it is only a matter of time before all the European colonists there are bombarded to slag, and at this time the strength of the British East India Company is half as strong as the Dutch East India Company, and the Dutch are bombarded by him and have no power to fight back, and the British will not perform better than them, that is to say, at least around China, wherever he grabs.

But the problem is that it's useless for him to snatch it.

If the common people in the country don't colonize, what's the use of robbing him?

What motivation do the people of Daming have to go out now?

Not enough land?

The land that feeds more than a billion people in modern times is now alive......

The first census of the Ming Dynasty has just ended, in addition to the newly returned Yunnan-Guichuan, there are other provinces that are still under the banner of the Qing Dynasty have not been included in the statistics, leaving the Ming army under the control of Liangguang, Fujian, Zhejiang, Liangjiang, Lianghu, Henan, Anhui, Zhilu, half of Shanxi, a total of 14 provinces with a total population of 65,328,846 people, men, women and children, plus the vast majority of other ethnic groups, adding up to these few birdmen.

There is a large amount of land to be developed in the barren mountains and mountains in China.

In addition, there is no large-scale land annexation, no land endowment is collected, land rents are still ridiculously low, high-yielding seeds are being vigorously promoted, chemical fertilizers are being sold, grain production is increasing year by year, and the common people do not have the problem of hunger and cold at all. In fact, a large number of shanty people who originally lived in the mountainous areas, that is, poor shanty mountain people who were forced to run to the mountains and forests because they were forced to go to the mountains and forests because of the excesses and miscellaneous taxes in the plains, are abandoning their mountainous land and renting public land on the plains, or now the Fahuang land.

As for the lack of money......

Those factories and mines have opened their doors, as long as they are willing to enter the factory, even female workers are recruited, and the wages are not low, not to mention literate and technological, as long as there is a literate person in the family, they can basically feed the family without worrying about food and clothing, do not worry about food and clothing, live in an increasingly prosperous country, enjoy an increasingly beautiful life, who wants to go to those wild places?

Even if he is the emperor, he can't force people to colonize!

What's more, it's better to go tens of thousands of miles away!

We haven't sinned, so why are you banishing us!"

Even exile is not as frenzied as exile for 20,000 miles.

"Your Majesty, the natives of the Americas look about the same as us, but they are a little darker, and they don't know anything, and they are even like the savages, they don't even have iron tools, and most of them hunt with stones, bones, and wooden sticks."

Yang Huai said cautiously.

Yang Feng suddenly smiled, this seems to be a reason.

He put on a serious expression and said: "It's not the same, those are just like us, these natives drifted over when the Yin Shang Dynasty was in the past, remember that before the Battle of Muye, the main force of the merchant army was in the east to conquer Dongyi?" Where did these hundreds of thousands of troops go after the death of King Shang? There is no record in history, right? In fact, they went to sea by boat, and then drifted with the Kuroshio Tide all the way to the Americas, and then went south along the American coastline, and finally developed to the whole of America All their people, their ethnic name Indians were transliterated by Europeans, in fact, it should be the Yin people. ”

"Then why are they like that now?"

Yang Huai said in disbelief.

"After so long at sea, you all died almost a third, how many do they have to die in the end? I'm afraid that even one-tenth of those who arrived in the Americas would have used bronze in the first place, and if those craftsmen who knew how to do it died in the middle of the way, the rest would be some who didn't know anything, and they didn't even know how to smelt bronze, and after a long time, it would naturally become what it is now. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Then we have to help them, I heard that they were killed by the ghosts very badly, especially when the Spaniards just passed, it is said that tens of millions of them died, and the whites in the east are still killing them until now."

Yang Huai said.

"yes, I have to help them!"

Yang Feng said solemnly.

This is indeed a reason, at least this is a reason that can be taken out, recently with his efforts, the narrow nationalism in the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more fashionable, the original common people for the concept of the nation is very vague, but after the Jiashen national disaster and the Ming Dynasty, the concept of the nation-state is gradually clear, including the education in the school is also emphasizing this, especially a large number of alien races are regarded as slaves, which can be seen everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and it is to breed the sense of superiority of the folk nation, in this case, if you emphasize that the Indians are Yin Shang, Now that they are being killed by ghosts, as a compatriot, we should save them, which is at least a reason to use it.

Otherwise, all other reasons are pale.

For money?

A third of the dead sailors brought a boatload of sandalwood, although the sandalwood is quite valuable, but there are also those in the South Seas, why don't you cut thousands of miles instead of cutting those tens of thousands of miles away?

For the ground?

A large area of land in Daming's own territory has not yet been recovered, and it is not nonsense to go to 20,000 miles to grab land!

To dominate the world?

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty suffered from the second disease, and the people of the Ming Dynasty did not have the second disease!

But to rescue compatriots......

This is barely okay, but it's also a relative, although this relative is too far away, far to hundreds of generations ago, but at least it's also a relative, poor relatives are mixed like that, it's not too much to pull a hand, anyway, you can do business by the way, and when the real trade is launched, there will be more people who will naturally go with huge profits to make. It's just that in this case, you won't be able to play scalping in the future, and you can't play if you can't play, it's a big deal to encourage the Indians to scalp the whites, and if the Ming Dynasty drives and instigates the armed forces in the back, let the Indians go to the east to regain the lost land and expel the white ghosts, it should also be a thing worth looking forward to.

These Indians could not have succeeded anyway.

Let them go east, Daming immigrants in the back to engage in development, by the way, with the legend of the Yin people crossing to the east to assimilate the Indians, teach them to relearn the mother Chinese, re-learn the etiquette of the mother country, by the way, you can send the Confucius family and the indoctrination department of those gentlemen, let them take on the heavy responsibility of educating the Indians, anyway, they are also a waste in Australia, just the hundreds of thousands of natives are simply killed.

Yang Feng is now anxious to colonize the Americas, mainly to get ahead of the whites, but it is unrealistic to say how many people he wants to immigrate to, at least at present, there are not many people in the Ming population without pressure, so this is a long-term job, at least there will not be too many Chinese there in fifty years. European colonization of North America, more than 100 years have passed now, and it has only developed to a population of 1 million, and they are still forced to have enough pressure from poverty, and the Ming Dynasty can develop to 1 million in 50 years, so it should be the best choice to drive the tiger and devour the wolf and let the Indians and whites fight.

Anyway, the contradictions between them are irreconcilable.

And the result of the war is nothing more than the Indians being killed by the whites, or the whites being killed by the Indians, and either outcome is the best for the Chinese.

Of course, it would have been better if they had all died together. (To be continued.) )