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Calves whispered: "Our power is well known to the world, and the power of Seris, except for us Spaniards, is not very clear in the whole of Europe. ”

Cai Xin also lowered his voice: "Soon, the whole world will know what kind of power Seris has." ”

"It's the power of the sea," Castillo stressed. ”

Cai Xin nodded: "It's the power of the sea." ”

Summer has arrived, and the scorching sun makes people's hearts restless.

At the mouth of the Pearl River, at the Whampoa Shipyard, a large ship of at least 3,000 materials in the dock has completed the hull part, and the craftsmen are busy on the deck.

Xiao Sheng, who was already the founding candidate of the country, was dressed in a short fight, covered in dirt and sweat, standing by the dock, shouting to the workers not far away: "Hurry up!" Hurry up! ”

The man in the short coat standing on one side persuaded: "Don't rush anymore...... You, a naval commander, ran to the shipyard to squat in the pit, guarding the shipbuilders every day, and said that it is not a shame to go out? ”

Xiao Sheng didn't look back and said, "Your Majesty, it's not you who are urging me, how can I urge them?" ”

Then he was excited, not annoyed, but excited: "Thirty battleships, thirty cruisers!" When you gave the order last year, I really wanted to touch your forehead and see if you were crazy. ”

Standing next to him was Li Shi, who had just inspected the battleship under construction with Xiao Sheng, so he was dressed in a short suit. This class of battleships is a modified design, and the names of the ships are all famous generals of the past dynasties, and they are collectively referred to as the "Shengwu" class. Compared with the previous battleship, the size has not changed much, but the ship type has been improved, and a lot of fast genes of fast Jiao and wind chasing ships have been added. Hull structure, protection and artillery are the focus of improvement, looking at the bow stern and belly protruding from a lot of semicircular gangways, you can see that rear-loading rifled guns have been widely used.

was blocked by xiao sheng and said a mouthful li shi just smiled bitterly yes crazy last year when he reported the navy budget in the political hall. The ministers in the government hall also said that he was crazy.

The Navy budget has tripled from 5 million to 15 million, while the Army has increased by 30 percent from 12 million to 16 million.

Although it was possible to confirm it at the time. The treasury revenue in the fifteenth year of the Holy Dao will reach 90 million, an increase of nearly 20 million over the fourteenth year, which is almost a reversal, but the emperor threw all the overcollected to the army, and returned the bulk to the navy.

It's not Li Shi who is crazy. It's a country of Britain and China.

At the beginning of last year, when the emperor made a decision, Li // the fastest text update.shumilou.No pop-ups, no ads// I felt that another round of high-speed expansion of Yinghua had begun. In the second half of the year, the signs could not be more obvious, with the Treasury's estimated revenues significantly exceeding expectations. By this year, that is, in the sixteenth year of the Holy Dao, the annual revenue of the national treasury will stabilize at more than 100 million, and it is expected to increase to 120 million taels.

Such drastic changes originated from Jiangnan, after Jiangnan was integrated into Yinghua. Lingnan and Jiangnan are like chemical synthesis, producing more heat.

Nowadays, the two new economic circles of Jiangnan and Lingnan have seen their own embryonic shapes, industrially. Lingnan is dominated by heavy industries such as steel, shipbuilding and machinery, while Jiangnan is dominated by light industries such as textiles and food. Lingnan's technology and capital rushed to the south of the Yangtze River, integrating the excellent light industry resources of the south of the Yangtze River, including cheap and massive raw materials, high-quality workers and management talents, so that the productive forces of the south of the Yangtze River, which had been suppressed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, suddenly exploded.

In just a few years, thousands of cotton weaving factories have been opened in Jiangnan alone, with hundreds of thousands of cotton weaving workers, small factories using pedal spinning wheels, and large factories directly on steam engines, with a monthly output of nearly 10 million cotton cloths. The price of cotton cloth was quickly suppressed, and even the cotton weaving industry in Guangzhou began to decline, and textile factories either moved to Jiangnan or switched to special weaving products, such as canvas.

From a commercial point of view, Jiangnan has become the center of the Central Plains and Huguang markets. The shipping industry operating the Jiangnan market also covers North Korea and Japan, squeezing out the status of Lingnan as a shipping hub before, and countless capitals are flocking to Longmen, Wusong, Ningbo and other ports, eager to expand it into a large port no less than Huangpu. …,

However, Lingnan's shipping industry has not been depressed, on the contrary, it has imported massive raw materials and industrial products to Jiangnan, transshipped Jiangnan's light industrial textiles to Nanyang, and at the same time circulated capital to Southeast countries and even remote areas such as Yunnan and Guizhou.

Land and water circulation, urban port infrastructure, and coal and iron mining are the three major background industries of national tax revenue, and consumer goods are the key industries that push up national taxes.

Silk, porcelain, and tea are being revitalized by the expansion of production scale and technological innovation, and cotton, steel, and paper are becoming the new three. The total export value of the top six goods in Yinghua is as high as 50 million taels in the past 15 years, but it is only one-fifth of domestic consumption.

Ding Ge national system, open up the South Seas, promote the steam engine, the foundation laid before, after the integration of Jiangnan, dividends broke out together, so that the Yinghua economy is showing a blowout.

This is a great thing, but there is also a great crisis behind it.

Over eighty years old, the dying old Duan Hongshi is worried, Liu Dan, who has seen through the operation of a country's economy, is worried, and Li Shi is of course also worried.

Jiangnan is full of factories, grain prices have been low, cottage industries have been destroyed by the flood of cheap goods in the factories, and the number of poor people in Jiangnan is increasing. The colonization companies cooperated with the government to recruit immigrants in Jiangnan, and even the destitute and even the bankrupt who were in debt, there was still a way out for them to reclaim overseas. Beginning in the second half of the 15th year of the Holy Dao, Jiangnan finally set off a wave of immigration, and in less than half a year, more than 300,000 people went to the Nanyang Prefectures. Jiangnan immigrants are rapidly overtaking Lingnan immigrants to become the main force of overseas immigrants.

What worries is the market, Yinghua's national income has not generally increased, and capital is pouring rapidly into daily consumer goods, and market capacity has become a big problem.

There are also worries about raw materials, mainly cotton and linen, not that the country cannot provide so many raw materials, but that too much land in the country will be converted into cash crops, and the risk is too high. The so-called cash crops will inevitably face market risks.

If science and technology can take a step further, give birth to more industries and needs, promote a more three-dimensional industrial structure, and make consumption more complex, so that Yinghua can truly enter the modern industrial society, it is still possible to solve these two problems by Yinghua itself.

But from technology, demand to the formation of the market, this process is not achieved overnight, not to mention the railway and electric era. At the same time, the erection of the industrial tide of the Anglo-Chinese was too large, far from being comparable to the situation when Britain was moving towards the industrial revolution, so it ...... Yinghua must once again seek to eat.

Dump a large amount of commercial goods overseas, earn the profits you deserve, and at the same time obtain a stable source of raw materials overseas. Not only is the raw material cheaper, but the risk can also be passed on.

is different from before, this time Li Xi is not forward-looking, creative to seek food, but to act like burning eyebrows. If you can't open a canal to accommodate this industrial tide. This was followed by industrial collapse and economic recession.

And the royal society in the country, and even the "Mandate of Heaven" created by the royal doctrine, also echoed, pushing a country to step out of the Middle Continent and win an "economic living space" in the world that matches the national strength of the British and Chinese.

In the straightforward words of Li Xian's private confidants, Seris wants to go into battle shirtless and establish a name in the world. Compete with the Europa powers!

Compete for the market and raw materials, what do you rely on? In this day and age, it is by force.

After fighting, we have to hold on, without strong enough force, no matter how much enclosure there is, it will only be a flash in the pan.

This controversy is moving the global colonial pattern, and it will inevitably face a strong backlash from the old colonial empires. The military power needed to deal with this pressure is much higher than the military power required to win alone.

200,000 troops, 300,000 volunteers. The army was not a big problem, anyway, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as a predetermined market, no longer needed to be deterred by force, and the army was more used in the century-old strategy of building ideal borders to the north and west. ..., it is still the navy that shoulders the heavy responsibility of making food for the outside world.

Last year, when I inspected the navy, there were six battleships, 37 cruisers, and nearly 100 frigates. Li Shi's instinct was ...... Shabby.

Where are the markets and raw material locations? India, Europe, the Americas, the European powers have carved up mature markets and raw materials, and are making internal adjustments, while cultivating future markets and raw materials. On their territory, Seris's space only covers East Asia.

To rewrite this territory. In addition to diplomacy, the only way to do this is to rely on force.

This is the reason why Li Shi smashed the big pie on Xiao Sheng's head, in fact, the pie that Li Shi threw out was even bigger, he planned to explode sixty battleships within three years, and had the strength to single-handedly challenge any maritime power. But Xiao Sheng did not lose his mind, and after careful accounting, he told Li Xi that whether it was shipbuilding, manpower, or maintenance, Yinghua's current limit was thirty to forty battleships.

This number of capital ships is enough to compete with the British Navy, because no European country can have the strength to put and maintain such a large main fleet in the Indian Ocean, the South Sea, and even the Great Ocean Theater. The reduced capital ship quota can be converted into cruisers, which can be used to cover the sea trade lines and harass the opponent's main fleet and trade lines.

"This also means that the navy will be doubled, at least 30,000 people!"

When Xiao Sheng shouted this, his voice trembled and changed.

Even if it was only ten battleships per year and thirty battleships in three Chinese New Year's Eve, only three shipyards in Yinghua had the technical conditions and infrastructure to build battleships, so Li Xian had to urge Xiao Sheng to personally supervise the start of the shipyard while pushing a number of shipyards in Fujian and Jiangnan to carry out transformation, and even Luzon did not let go of the expansion of the Pulin shipyard into a large shipyard.

The work of promoting a new round of expansion of the shipbuilding industry was generally completed, and Li Shi came to the Whampoa Shipyard to inspect the new battleship with Xiao Sheng.

While Li Shi and Xiao Sheng were busy, in the test artillery field of the Foshan Manufacturing Bureau, Guan Fengsheng and Tian Dayou, who also had gray hair on their heads, were circling a huge artillery with a large number of craftsmen. At this time, there was gunpowder smoke floating in the air, and on the sea in the distance, a column of water had just fallen.

Stretching his arm into the barrel of the cannon and rubbing the rifling, Guan Fengsheng muttered: "No, it will be worn out after three shots, and the five-inch cannon is still unreliable." ”

Tian Dayu said: "The shell is too heavy, and the charge must be more, but the breech deflation is even more serious, so you can only charge more, and then ...... The rifling, of course, wears out quickly. I still have to think about it, I can't use steel, but with such a large diameter, it takes a lot of effort to use steel. ”

Guan Fengsheng sighed: "When will the alchemists in Luofu Mountain come up with a stable firing primer, or like this, the problem of deflation will never be solved." ”

Beating his waist, even his beard was white, Meadson said, "Don't worry...... Relying on three-inch guns is enough, even if the foreign devils drum up our rifled guns, they will not have time to use them in this battle. ”

said don't worry, Guan Fengsheng was in a hurry, and his high-pitched voice suddenly showed the breathtaking aura that he had cultivated since the early days of the iron ore stove: "This is not a simple battle!" Fourth Brother...... Your Majesty said, this is a war that lasts for years or even years! The weapons of guns and cannons must make great progress in the past few years, and we must not fall behind the foreigners again! ”