Ding Yi was very curious about the origin of this person from the West, others couldn't understand the other party's words, but Ding Yi felt that he might have a way. He doesn't know Japanese, but he is very familiar with Western European languages, whether it is English, German or Spanish, he can handle it, even if there is a difference between ancient English, German and modern times, it is always an Indo-European language.

"He Tiedan, take your people, handle the Lightning, and send me to Xiangshan immediately." Ding Yi stretched out his hand to stop the others' words, but said to Ding Ruyu, who took a step forward, "You have to stay here, the fleet is under the control of Ayang, the one on the 002 battleship, you have to be careful that something happens to him." ”

"Don't persuade me, if it is really the people from Taixi Daqin, then the Maritime Silk Road can be reopened, when Zheng He went to the West, the Maritime Silk Road developed to its peak, only a few decades ago, if it can be reopened, silk has a large number of markets, in promoting the process of industrialization, no less than the significance of the Great Voyage that I often mention to you!"

Once Ding is really determined, he naturally has no reason to convince the other people on this boat, but Ding Yi doesn't think it's necessary to do so, because he really has enough reasons to do so.

"To fight a war, there must naturally be war dividends." Ding Yi said patiently to his subordinates on the ship, "But there is always a question of starting capital. What we lack now is this, if we can find out the meaning of this envoy from the west, we can sell silk! Use Ding's looms to produce silk, not cotton! ”

Everyone was speechless when they listened, and Huang Xiaoyang, who usually didn't speak much, all said, "First brother." Litiao Bridge, it's not very good...... that is, I am not very optimistic about Ding Yi's plan to produce silk on a large scale. "Silk is not tied with cotton!"

The Jenny Textile Machine in Wuzhou, after connecting the hydraulic and wind-powered transmission mechanism, the efficiency is really not a level compared to the traditional hand-spinning, of course, it is necessary to pull the gears at the tide to achieve a drive shaft rotation speed close to a constant speed, but this is really two different things from manpower, not to mention that the Jenny Textile Machine was originally a product that appeared almost three hundred years in advance? Cotton cloth from Guangdong, Guangxi. The price has been so low that it has become affordable for the people at the bottom, and for this reason, many poor people have lost a way to make money, weaving.

As a result, a result was not what Ding Yi originally expected. It was the money bank made by Ding's firm, and the lending business in it reached a very terrible point, because the first poor person borrowed money through guò. After the purchase of textile machinery and hydraulic transmission. The quick repayment of loans and the prosperity of others have attracted many people who have no means of living to follow suit; In Guangdong and Guangxi, there are also many people who imitate textile machines without permission, but after several judgments, no one did so soon, not only the punishment of the people who were caught, but also the time when several families of the Chinese people shared a kitchen knife, they could overthrow the Tartars. Even if those few people are arrested and sent to labor reform, to tell the truth. It is not very deterrent, the important thing is that the imitator can not solve the problem of hydraulic transmission, Li Jiangtou, the top craftsman of the Ming Dynasty, plus the fragment theory of modern metal processing taught by Ding, the transmission device is not so easy to imitate, whether it is the bearing or the gear wear resistance dù, not to mention the close to uniform rotation after the guò variable speed gear, which is definitely a technical threshold.

But the current situation is that it can only be done in the low-end market, because cotton cloth is unlikely to sell at too high a price.

Ding Ruyu also said helplessly: "How many silk cocoons can we receive?" And to whom do you want it? ”

The so-called Shu brocade is the first in the world, and the origin of silkworm cocoons is not mentioned in Sichuan, followed by Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in short, it will not be Guangdong and Guangxi. Not to mention the quantity of silkworm cocoons, even the quality is not comparable, the difference in texture, the finished product that comes out is much worse, not to mention the scarcity of raw materials and cannot be produced in large quantities.

"Don't do it in Liangguang." Ding Yi affirmed their statement, and was not unhappy because they refuted, but said with a smile, "Go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to set up a factory, and even sell the hydraulic transmission mechanism!" The threshold of metal craftsmanship is in, not afraid of imitation, as long as the market is guaranteed, silk can also be divided into several grades to sell. "The key to the product is the market and the operation, especially if it can monopolize the entire Maritime Silk Road, as Ding Yi envisioned.

"If this plan can be realized, within a year, at least four Western Sea Fleets of this scale can be equipped with artillery!" Ding Yi used this sentence to shut up everyone, which is something that everyone feels impossible. Because of how much silver is cost, these people who can stand beside Ding Yi have a concept except for Cao Jixiang and Menda.

If you want a multi-layer gun barrel, you have to accept the scrap rate, and then it means more iron and steel, that is, more iron ore, and because of the purchase of Wuzhou Factory, the price of iron ore in Daming is now about twice as high as that of three years ago, and if you want to load all four fleets with artillery, I am afraid that the price of iron ore will be doubled.

This is not only the high price caused by the scrap rate, but also the coefficient of the increase in raw materials, as well as the cost of the construction site for the expansion of large-scale production, etc., as long as you have a little economic mind, you can know that it will be an astronomical number, you must know that Ding Yi has accumulated over the years, and he has built forty-four cannons, and the other four are still copper cannons. Those battleships have more than 100 gun emplacements, not the Guangxi with 24 guns!

"I mean the accumulation of resources, not a year from beginning to end, as long as the Silk Road can be developed, a year's windfall profits from sea trade is enough, and the time for procurement and manufacturing, that has to ......be calculated separately" Ding Yi touched his nose a little embarrassed, and as soon as he spoke, he also knew that he seemed to be a little too much, so he added, but even so, it was still an impossible task!

Therefore, even what Ding Yi was about to say later, for the mass production of silk and the promotion of the industrialization process in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Ding Ruyu and Wen Fatzi both took a step back, which can be regarded as acquiescing to Ding Yi's actions: If you can really do it, then Ding Yi wants to travel by lightning, and that's fine.

Because even if there is no artillery, the fleet under Ding Yi is enough to dominate the southeast coast, and when he arrives at Xiangshan Mansion, even the remaining troops of the First Ming Division stationed in Guangdong are enough to protect Ding Yi's safety. It's all near the old nest, and it's not far from Zhaoqing Mansion.

So Ding Yi's danger is only whether the Lightning will be the same as its predecessor. The problem of disintegration in the middle of high-speed sailing. And He Tiedan and the old pirates seem to have improved their ability to operate a fast sailing ship like the Lightning under the experience of the previous disintegration, at least this ship has been used several times, and there are no more problems.

"First brother, unless you promise me, don't go at full speed. How fast the boat travels is up to them to poached eggs. Huang Xiaoyang put forward such a condition, and he glanced at He Tiedan. He said to Ding Yi again, "It's not good to imply that the poached eggs have to spread all the sails, otherwise, Brother Yi, I will go first if you make melons." ”

Ding Yi shrugged his shoulders: "Do you think I have suicidal tendencies?" I've been on the boat for so long. There was interference with the command of the fleet. Okay, I promise you, it will be He Tiedan and them who will decide the speed, and I will not explicitly or implicitly say that they should be faster. ”

So Huang Xiaoyang pulled He Tiedan over, Mimi gave another order, and then Ding finally got on the lightning as he wished.

The boat did not disintegrate, and Ding saw the person from the west in Xiangshan County. Typical Greek faces, but to Ding's disappointment. Obviously, he could hear that it was an Indo-European language, but it was still difficult for him to communicate with the other party.

Because the other party spoke Greek, the official language of Eastern Rome, Ding Yi didn't understand it at all.

And then the other party changed to Roman again, and this time Ding Yi was even more like listening to the book of heaven.

To know that the Roman language, which is spoken only by more than 50,000 inhabitants in several valley areas of the canton of Griçon in the eastern Swiss Alps, is classified as an "endangered language", what is the concept of more than 50,000 people? In places like modern Shandong and Henan, it is not surprising that there are 100,000 people in a town, and according to the national average, there are 30,000 people, that is to say, Roman, which is almost the dialect of two towns in China. Therefore, it is a very normal thing for Ding to not know Roman, and the other party does not understand English and German at all, I don't know if Ding Yi's mastery of Cheng dù is too low enough to communicate, or the other party does not know at all, in fact, the Eastern Roman Empire at this time was eroded by the Germans, and it stands to reason that German should be able to communicate.

Fortunately, Ding Yi finally found a language to communicate with this person, and that was French.

Although there are still many problems in communication, because of the differences in grammar and parts of speech between modern and ancient times, at least it is much stronger than pointing fingers, and a word spoken by the other party immediately aroused Ding Yi's interest: "Chrysotriclinium", Ding Yi understands this word, which is about for senior lovers of ancient military examples, few people will be unfamiliar.

This is the meaning of the Golden Palace, and of course, if you wish, you can also call it the Golden Luan Hall of the Roman Emperor.

And when Ding Yi tentatively asked the other party: "Secunda_Roma?" Nova_Roma？ It means Second Rome, New Rome in Latin. This is one of the single-digit Latin words that Ding has mastered, and other than that, "Caesar" is the only Latin he knows.

The other party was extremely excited, if it weren't for He Tiedan, who acted as guards, to stop the Westerner, he would have tried to rush up and hug Ding Yi, even if he was pressed to the ground and cut his hands back, he was also very excited and shouted: "Kōnstantinoupolis!" As soon as Ding heard it, the person who came was from where he expected it, Constantine.

Of course, Latin can communicate, but unfortunately Ding Yi can't, so after Ding Yi asked He Tiedan to let go of this envoy, they could still only communicate in French plus guesses, but soon Ding Yi still understood what he meant: In the history of Rome, it is recorded that there was an envoy from the Han Dynasty who once went to the vicinity of the Persian Gulf, which is in the far east, an incomparably powerful country, and is the source of silk. And to the east, there is a powerful empire in the East, and a few decades ago there was a terrible, ram-like fleet of travel.

So, when Constantine was about to be defeated, at the moment when the Roman Empire was about to fall, he came to ask for help with the commission of the Roman Emperor, Constantine XI, and he said: "My name is Justinia. (To be continued......)

PS: Restore fù normal update, no saved manuscript, no saved manuscript, I want to work hard to write......