Bang!

After a gunshot, a hole was shot out of the wooden target 500 meters away.

That's the power of rifled guns, which are much more powerful than smoothbore guns. The lead bullet of the smoothbore gun has greatly reduced its potential energy when it hits 200 meters, and it has almost no lethality.

At a distance of 500 meters, rifled guns still have lethal power against those unprotected targets. At 200 meters, it can produce a devastating effect, while a smoothbore gun can do such a kill, compared to a pitiful 50 meters.

There is too much difference in lethality, but in terms of rate of fire, rifled guns are completely incomparable to smoothbore guns, especially after smoothbore guns began to use paper bullets.

The rate of fire of rifled guns can basically only fire one shot a minute, and a well-trained musketeer is estimated to be able to fire two, which is a bit different from a smoothbore gun.

Again, it's expensive.

With the cutting tools currently used in the Royal Military Factory, the failure rate is very high, and to pull out a perfect rifling, it is completely dependent on the top mechanics to slowly pull out the tools, which is not only inefficient, but also frighteningly high labor costs. After all, the wages of those top tradespeople are rising.

The only way to reduce the cost of rifled guns is to improve the knives.

However, for the time being, there is no need to think too much, the Royal Institute of Science and Technology has only been open for two years, and the mathematics, physics and chemistry courses have not yet been fully completed. The main focus of the academy students is to study, and most of them do not have the computing experience to apply this knowledge to mechanical engineering.

Of course, in just a few years, things will be very different. With the growth of the first batch of mathematics, physics and chemistry talents of the Royal Institute of Science and Technology, various algorithms will be invested in the field of mechanical manufacturing, and at the same time, the research on various tools and machine tools has also been established, and workers and college students are involved.

The industry of this era was extremely low-level, and many times invention did not require too much advanced knowledge. It's more about ideas.

Even in the Western world before the First World War, it was not uncommon for an engineer to independently design a machine tool or something. conAd1(); Not at all like the industry of the twenty-first century. A machine is divided into dozens of specialties.

All physicists, chemists, and mathematicians in this era can be integrated. It is also very normal for these titles to be concentrated in one person.

As long as you master the experimental methods, invest enough funds, and have relevant talents, it is very simple to engage in scientific research or something.

With the foundation laid by Zhu Youxiao now, Daming will definitely enter a period of technological explosion in four or five years.

At that time, the cost of manufacturing rifled guns, as well as their efficiency, should be solved.

However, the Type 03 rifle will still be very marketable in the next ten years, after all, it can be exported and sold to Europeans if it is not used by itself.

Now it is naturally impossible to reveal such things as bayonets and paper bullets to Westerners. So it is still sold before the junior version of the flintlock pistol.

After all, when a product can still be sold, why bother to launch a new product, isn't that a brain pit? Even if you are willing, maybe the customer is not willing!

It's like a Samsung phone that has been a stick for later generations, and the speed at which it comes out is heartbreaking. Some people bought it and pretended to be B and didn't cover it up for a few days, and suddenly the stick launched a new mobile phone, and the mobile phone that had just spent a lot of money suddenly became a backward version. So these people yelled: It's a dog! Lao Tzu will never buy Samsung again.

In order to keep the royal military factory running, so as to accumulate and improve production technology, Zhu Youxiao also worked hard, and directly reduced the export price of flintlock pistols to 20 taels a piece. Profits are still exploding, but in the eyes of Europeans, the price is definitely good and cheap.

The Portuguese are also very sensible. I ordered 100,000 units in one go, and maybe there will be more orders next year. These European barbarians are also fighting back and forth, and they are still bullying weak and small nations all over the world, and there is still a great demand for high-quality arms.

Anyway, for the time being, I can't bully Da Ming, and it's no problem to sell some muskets to Europeans. conAd2(); In a few years, Daming will have better firearms.

But in terms of artillery, Zhu Youxiao was very cautious.

Although those field artillery could not threaten the safety of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao would never export field artillery to the Europeans.

After all, the Europeans did not have any ability to invade China on a large scale during this period, but Zhu Youxiao was eyeing the colonies of the Europeans.

Philippines, Indonesia!

Spaniards, Dutch. They are all enemies that will be faced in the future in foreign expansion. It's not a threat to sell them some muskets, and you can bombard them with advanced artillery when the time comes. But if the advanced artillery also fell into their hands. In the future, the seizure of the Philippines and Indonesia is expected to be a headache.

So there are some things that you are not willing to sell if you have money.

As for the naval guns. Then it is even more impossible to sell.

After nearly three years of development, the Royal Military Factory also had a lot of progress in manufacturing technology at this time. Mainly thanks to the reward system set up by Zhu Youxiao, the enthusiasm of workers has been successfully mobilized, so that many manufacturing links have been improved and optimized.

Some improve efficiency, and some save materials. The cost of manufacturing a lot of equipment is falling, which is a very good momentum.

The Ming Dynasty, which has been in the third year of the Apocalypse, has also shown a relatively good momentum of development.

The northern provinces were basically stable, and the people were not exploited to extreme poverty like during the Chongzhen period, the thieves in northern Shaanxi were basically pacified, and the horse bandits in Shandong were also suppressed by Yuan Keli. Shanxi smuggling merchants were also exterminated by the imperial court.

At the same time, many poor people in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, and Henan also went to Beizhili and the Liaodong Peninsula to make a living, which alleviated local contradictions to a certain extent.

The economic development of Beizhili is still rapid, and a large number of investment projects have been produced in Beizhili in the third year of the Apocalypse. conAd3();

The first is agricultural investment, a large number of water conservancy facility construction projects, and a large number of private housing construction projects. In order to go public, those private agricultural companies have also invested a lot of money in the construction of water conservancy facilities. As long as it can be listed, those landlords who have joined together can cash out their land at any time.

Then there is infrastructure construction, the local government of Beizhili began to take charge of the economy, coupled with the construction requirements of many public infrastructure, there are many infrastructure construction projects in the local area. Then there is road construction, because there are more and more heavy carriages in Beizhili, and highway investment has become a hot project for private capital investment.

The imperial court promulgated policies. Private businessmen can fund the construction of highways, and after the construction is completed, the investor will collect tolls, of course, the tolls are within the prescribed range. Private traders cannot arbitrarily raise prices.

It is quite reasonable for a heavy carriage to charge a toll of twenty or thirty cents. This is within the range of affordability. It can also allow investors to recover their investment costs.

In order to speed up the construction of highways, Zhu Youxiao ordered the banks to adopt a monetary easing policy. As long as private businessmen are willing to invest in roads, as long as there is collateral, they will give loans. At the same time, it is also possible to use the existing roads to make loans.

At the same time, a low-tax policy will be adopted in the field of highway investment, and private capital will be attracted to highway investment.

This measure really achieved great results in the third year of the Apocalypse, because the economy of Beizhili was prosperous, the transportation industry was becoming more and more popular, and private capital was like a hungry wolf that saw fat, and after borrowing a large amount of money from banks, it threw money into highway construction.

It's a trap. But the bait is very tempting.

The return prospect of the highway is indeed very good, as long as the economy of Beizhili can continue to prosper, a highway toll can last for 20 years, 20 years is enough to recover the capital, and make a lot of money.

But the question is, can these private investors in the road last for 20 years?

Now that banks are lending out a lot, what if they strangle loans in the future? Where will the money come from to repay the loan? At that time, many private assets will undoubtedly go bankrupt overnight.

This kind of trick is a common sense concept for the traverser, but in the Ming Dynasty of this era, this kind of consortium plundering mode has never appeared, and no one has experience.

It's the sixth month of the lunar calendar. The Royal Bank has lent more than 30 million yuan to the road construction fund. Under the hype of Daming Daily, highway investment has become the most promising project.

At the same time, Royal Capital is also investing in highways, and has also invested more than 20 million yuan in funds.

Highway construction extends from Beizhili to Shandong, Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi. Trunk lines. There are private capital and royal capital involved. Various joint ventures are not uncommon, and a large number of people have invested their savings, and the sources of funds are complicated.

A boom in road investment has been successfully created, and the entire Beizhili is full of construction sites, in addition to the main provincial, state and county roads, township roads are also being built in large numbers.

However, there is no toll on the township roads, and the construction is also under the auspices of the local government. The construction funds are also implicit loans, and the roads in the villages are mainly built by levy and forced labor, which belong to the projects used by the local farmers themselves. The government only pays for materials, and the labor is all in the form of forced labor.

Town-level roads were also built through forced labor. But the peasants were paid their normal wages. It belongs to the link of giving full play to the value of labor, after all, it is a waste of labor to have nothing to do when the farm is slack. It is beneficial for both parties that the government arranges construction projects so that farmers can earn some wages.

The conscription of the Northern Zhili is now based on the principle that the government does not pay the peasants for the facilities they can use. During the off-season, they were arranged to build roads, schools, toilets and other public facilities. After the construction of these facilities is completed, conscription is sent to the towns to participate in the construction of other projects, and this conscription is paid according to the market price.

There is a certain compulsion in the conscription, but it is not an injury, or some other necessary reason, and the young and strong labor force must go.

Wealth and infrastructure are created by labor, and laziness is often the main cause of a nation's failure.

Because they can get paid for participating in the conscription, they are a little tired, and there is not much leisure time throughout the year, but the court does not let them work in vain, so it will not cause any public resentment.

Because of the construction of a large number of roads, the entire Beizhili has frantically driven employment.

In addition, the scale of the mining and metallurgical industries in Beizhili has expanded again this year, and many stable jobs have also been added.

The scale of industries such as iron and steel manufacturing, textiles, porcelain firing, salt making, and leather has also been further expanded, and the increase in export goods has given the economy of Beizhili the impetus to maintain economic development.

The hot economic situation is still maintained, and the businessmen of Beizhili only feel that this year's situation is too good. The fly in the ointment is that many industries are no longer accessible to them.

Mining merchants in Beizhili were eliminated from the competition due to the increase in tax rates and had to sell their minerals to the Royal Mining Company.

Iron and steel smelting is also a dish of the Royal Iron and Steel Company, and private businessmen don't want to get a piece of the pie.

Grain sales are also controlled by royal capital, and individual retailers can survive, but don't think about grain stores. Beizhili is in addition to the Jimin grain store. The rest of the grain banks were all squeezed out of the market.

There is also the supply of coal and the brewing of wine, which are all markets monopolized by royal capital.

Even high-end restaurants, transportation, pawnbroking and other industries are monopolized by those imperial merchants of the royal consortium. Behind it is Royal Capital that holds a considerable part of the shares.

At the same time, the royal merchants of the royal consortium also have a large share in the fields of building materials, textiles, porcelain, and steel manufacturing.

Even so, of course. There is still a lot of business to be done by private businessmen. It's just that those profiteering industries that make sure they don't lose money are no longer something they can enter.

They can also be engaged in transportation, nothing more than inshore transportation. They can also do land transportation, but the scale cannot be larger, but the market is only a supplement.

They can also do all kinds of retail, low-end and mid-range restaurants, and can also set up factories and workshops to manufacture a wide variety of goods, including steel products. It's just that they have to survive under the strong competition of the royal family. They will not have orders from the imperial court, nor will they have more favorable transportation prices and more favorable prices for raw materials.

If you can do a good job and make a name for yourself in the industry, then congratulations, you will soon be absorbed by Royal Capital as a member of the Royal Consortium, and Royal Capital will inject capital into their joint shares.

How do you look at it, how do you look like a gang of interests that is forming a gang.

Those who were able to enter this interest group were tied to the same chariot. All the merchants who got on this chariot were overjoyed and deeply gratified.

A royal consortium has been formed, a network of people with all sorts of connections. and a consortium with a large capital, which has been successfully incubated in the third year of the Apocalypse.

This consortium has absorbed many elite businessmen, and will continue to attract more private elites in the future. And the businessmen inside this consortium. If their business methods cannot keep up with the times and cannot run the industry well, then they will be eliminated from this interest group.

And any elite businessman who tries to resist this consortium will be easily killed by the consortium. Because the backer of the consortium is the emperor, the tax rate can be easily adjusted. At the same time, the consortium has a lot of resources to raise the price of transportation, it can also raise the price of raw materials, and it can even send people to set fire to the rival industry.

When this consortium is formed, it can continue to attract elite businessmen. and various social elites, this interest group will be stabilized.

It's like in the past when the Ming Dynasty passed the imperial examination. Constantly absorbing elite literati.

A dynasty that constantly replaces fresh blood has enough vitality. When most of the elite literati were absorbed by a dynasty. And when the rebels are just a bunch of illiterate, it is difficult for the rebels to succeed.

The same goes for consortia.

As the elite businessmen of Beizhili were tied to the chariot one by one, the royal consortium was rapidly and comprehensively controlling public opinion and public opinion.

In the past, businessmen criticized Zhu Youxiao's collection of commercial taxes, but at this time, there were few mainstream businessmen in Beizhili who would criticize commercial taxes.

Because most of the mainstream businessmen in Beizhili today are new capitalists. It was the commercial tax that eliminated the traditional superior capital and made them where they are today.

It is also the tariff that provides a good space for the development of the manufacturing industry in Beizhili, and the manufacturing industry also supports the foundation of the prosperity of the Beizhili market.

The prosperity of Beizhili today is the result of the capital game. A large amount of future wealth is spent in advance. In the future, there will be more money to fill this hole, and a large number of exports driven by the manufacturing industry will allow Beizhili to obtain the silver that fills the hole.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, the businessmen who should get on the bus have all gotten on the bus, and the royal consortium has extended its tentacles to various commercial fields in Beizhili.

The next step is to compress the market of private capital in these industries, and it has also entered the formal stage of full exemption digestion.

Royal Capital is increasing loans to industries operated by various consortium businessmen, while raising the price of raw materials, adjusting tax rates, and raising transportation costs, and various trump cards are being played one after another.

This is a game of capital with strong alliances, a game of big fish eating small fish.

Under the various suppression methods of the royal consortium, the market share of private capital in various business fields began to shrink. In all industries with high profits and high output value, the share of the royal consortium is rising.

Of course, there are still a lot of businesses to be done by private capital, and some of the returns seem to be very high, such as investing in roads. In the manufacturing, retail, catering, and service industries, only the consortium is left to look down on the soup and hard bones for them to gnaw.

If you don't run a real business, you can invest your money in a listed company, and the long-term rate of return is generally about 10% to 15%.

Although the economy of Beizhili is prosperous, for private capital, that is, small business is easy to do, and it is difficult for business to really grow.

If it is a manufacturing industry, private capital can still do it in the downstream industry. If you want to survive in the middle of the consortium, you need to have two brushes. For these private assets that can survive in the cracks, that is also their ability, and the consortium will not target a certain businessman, but the entire industry. When the industry has fallen, and there are still private businessmen who can achieve a certain level of business, they will receive the attention of the consortium. What the consortium did at this time was to pull these people into the consortium.

Those who refused to cooperate were suppressed and slaughtered as fat pigs.

The entire capital model, very similar to that of the American consortium of later generations, adopts the trust monopoly model, and a terrifying capital monster has been preliminarily born.

Zhu Youxiao created this capital monster, and he also controlled this monster.

An era of capitalism is coming, if the development of capitalism in history washed away the Ming Dynasty, then Zhu Youxiao at this time is to push capitalism to *. Turn yourself into a capitalist and then go and swallow up the capital.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao had already passed the initial difficult period of development, so in the third year of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao also restrained the behavior of copying his home a lot.

It is true that there are many groups that accumulate wealth through unjust means, but it is not entirely reliable to eliminate them from the original sin and carry out large-scale raids. Historically, China has been a nation that is very good at accumulating wealth, but with the change of dynasty and the loss of wealth due to wars, everything has changed back to the same.

This kind of curse-like cycle is actually related to large-scale destruction and raiding, so that wealth cannot be continuously accumulated.

Now that the difficult period has passed, the most correct way to deal with those who have become rich through improper means is to cut off their umbilical cord of interests, prevent them from continuing to accumulate wealth through improper means, and let their wealth flow to the common people through various means, such as various taxes.

On the other side, the wild boar skin, which had suffered a serious military defeat, returned to Shenyang and was not idle. On the one hand, he frantically captured the Jurchens to expand the population and troops, and on the other hand, he began to hook up with the Mongols.

Wild Boar Pi thought about it, and at present, he could only play the 'Shuwu Alliance', and the Mongols became the only existence that Wild Boar Pi could count on at present.

In the past, there were not too many substantive contradictions between the wild boar skin and the Mongolian Lin Dan Khan, but both sides had to show their identity as big men, and no one was convinced by anyone, so there was a quarrel in communication.

In order to unite Mongolia to deal with the Ming Dynasty, the wild boar skin also showed an old face and sent a letter to Lin Dan Khan in a very low-key tone. expressed his willingness to recognize Lin Dan Khan as the boss, and after some twists and turns and flattery, he naturally asked for an alliance with Lin Dan Khan. (To be continued)

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