In the dock, the crane under the action of steam power, slowly with a steel cable to lift up the special steel, the steel structure of the crane between the gaps, because the metal skeleton in the process of force gap friction with each other, emitted, creaking sound, here played the heavy metal music.

The North Stygian-class ironclad ship, with a displacement of 14,000 tons, uses two triple main guns, and is armed with a machine gun tower. In the past two hundred years, Qi has built the largest tonnage of ironclad ships, and the official tonnage of Qi was generally about 2,000 tons in the past. In the long history, there have also been periods of building 10,000-ton ironclad ships,

For example, two thousand years ago, during the hegemonic period of the Qi State, in order to promote his own strength and suppress the Wu and Yue countries in the south, he built a 10,000-ton warship with seven main turrets. Of course, only one was built.

And now the empire has ordered a total of seven warships, all of which are large ships of more than 5,000 tons, because the price of the single tonnage of the warship is the larger the single tonnage of the imperial navy in the quotation this year, the cheaper the price per unit of displacement. The price of building four 1,000-ton warships is 1.8 times that of a 5,000-ton warship, and the price of subsequent maintenance in the dock port has a favorable price for large ships.

A few years ago, the upper echelons of the Imperial Navy, in order to cater to the emperor's preferences, also ordered large warships. And the emperor didn't see any twists and turns a few years ago, and Lu Yuan was still very well-behaved at that time, and out of great joy, he agreed to the proposal of replacing many small boats with one large ship.

At the moment, this battleship is the last battleship, and Lu Yuan is holding an acetylene oxygen welding torch at this time, welding the steel structure on the hull. In the process of welding, Lu Yuan used the knowledge of electromagnetic control given by another self (Shang Heng) to restrain the flame with strong magnetic force. And this technique was also taught to other workers.

Shang Heng's spiritual creator class, Lu Yuan is really cultivated here, and Lu Yuan tries to make the social form of this world jump to the social form of Shang Heng's side. However, in the process of this social transition, Lu Yuan will not allow the speed to slow down, and there are a variety of genres under the banner of diversity, in fact, it is a scene of internal friction, Lu Yuan decided to completely separate the spirit control master and the spirit creator at the beginning, the spirit maker makes spirit tools in the spirit creation workshop, and the spirit control master is simply controlling the spirit tools.

The topic came back, back to the big warship in the dockyard, and replacing many small ships with large ships was the plan that Lu Yuan provided to the emperor back then. And when the emperor was in his prime, Lu Yuan was a good nephew, and the emperor didn't have much prevention, and the emperor was guarding against the real power family in the country at that time.

And in the new navy, the money in this place is less, and the armament is also stronger. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with that.

And now Lu Yuan's influence on the fleet is growing. The maintenance and maintenance of large fleets can now be done only by the ports of industrial cities under their own command, and the ports of civilian ships in other coastal ports cannot provide technical support at all. The fleet must be stationed in the nearby military port of the industrial city by the sea. By stationing a major fleet near its own ports, it will have a strong armed guarantee for its commercial activities at sea.

Of course, the people in the temple may have another idea, they think that this large fleet of the empire will be able to control this important industrial city. But the masters in the temple did not know that the Imperial Army and the Imperial Navy were different.

The Imperial Army relied on raiding to maintain morale under strict management.

The Imperial Navy was heavily managed, and occasionally plundered to maintain morale.

The land was large, and the Imperial Army came from everywhere. The march to another place was a strange place for the Army. Therefore, the Army, under the orders of the Warlords, can carry out the role of suppressing the country.

The ocean is bigger, but Navy soldiers don't swim into the sea to prey on mermaids. Instead, he stayed on the ship, and when he returned to the port, the port city was his hometown. As for ordering the navy to suppress its own port, this is a very "metaphysical" order for the navy and the whole of the navy. It is more reliable to say that it is more reliable to open fire at the palace (Russia), or the order for an uprising on the spot is clearer and easier to understand (Germany at the end of World War I).

Almost half of the sailors on these large fleets are married to wives, bought houses, and the babies born go to school in the school, if the emperor orders these sailors to suppress them, let the navy's naval guns be aimed at the city of Lu Yuan! That's where very interesting things happen.

Emperor Hongyang, who has a spy group, also knows that the captains of those powerful warships under his command are now hooking up with Lu Yuan, without him, the military salary given by the empire to the navy is only a quarter of that of the first-line main battle troops in the north, this is the default unspoken rule in the imperial temple, and the troops who do not fight can give less money. The local subsidy given to naval officers in the city is four times that of the front-line main combat troops, and the navy # official certificate can enjoy discounts in some bars and shops. Discounts at school.

In the era of maritime trade, if you want to go out to do business, you have to raise the navy, and who will do business with you honestly without a stick.

In recent years, the overseas Qi country's maritime business has not been done smoothly, as long as a telegram asks the navy to drive out the 10,000-ton warship, pull it to the sea area for military exercises, and use 240 mm heavy artillery to test the military quality of hitting moving targets at sea in front of those naughty international friends, and his future business problems will be solved. Therefore, the relationship between Lu Yuan and the Imperial Navy is that of military and civilian fish.

Your ship is my ship. (song)" On the construction site, Lu Yuan and the workers worked while humming a song, and a few hours later, Lu Yuan put down the welding torch in his hand, and at this time, Qin Cha, who had been waiting for two hours, finally waited for Lu Yuan to walk out of the dock.

Seeing Lu Yuan, who was dressed in work clothes, the Qincha arched his hand and said, "Your Excellency, the Prince." Lu Yuan paused, rubbed his hands, and said in a simple tone: "You are here, you have been waiting for a long time, do you look at my clothes?" Lu Yuan said politely.

This Qincha also grinned and waved his hand and said, "Don't get in the way, don't get in the way, you are working hard for His Majesty's giant ship, and I am bothering you." ”

After the two sides were polite, the internal affairs envoy took out the edict given by the emperor, Lu Yuan looked at it, frowned, and said, "There are too many for me to take." ”

This letter asked Lu Yuan to take out 10 million silver dollars every year, in fact, this amount is not much according to the gross domestic product, but Lu Yuan knows that His Majesty the Emperor's current appetite must not be boosted and must be suppressed. So the bargaining began.

The Qincha smiled and said, "How much are you willing to give." ”

Lu Yuan gestured his fingers, and the Qincha shook his head and said, "This, I can't explain it." ”

The two sides bargained alternately back and forth, and there was a stalemate, and finally this Qincha released the reserve price of His Majesty the Emperor.

Qin Cha opened the map to show a large area of land to the north, which was a huge disputed territory between the empire and the northern Yan and Zhao, with each side occupying part of the city, of which Qi occupied four, Yan occupied seven, and Zhao occupied two. However, from the perspective of fertile land, Qi has an advantage in regional water sources.

Qin Cha looked at Lu Yuan and said, "Your Majesty said that he can mortgage the governorship rights of the seven northern provinces to you, and allow you to form your own army here to protect the northern border of the empire."

Lu Yuan picked his nose and asked in a puzzled tone: "What does Your Majesty mean by this, it makes me want to tear the soil apart, and besides, these seven northern provinces swallow up a lot of the empire's financial resources every year, and now they are throwing this mess to me, and they are also looking for me for money." What's wrong with me? ”

Qin Cha said with a dry smile: "Your Majesty said that you are well managed. ”

Lu Yuan waved his hand and said, "Leave it to me to run it." But I'm out of money? ”

The Qincha laughed dryly and said, "The imperial court can't allocate the money to operate the northern defense line, if this place is lost, your property will not be safe, the prince." So please share the worries of the country. The Chincha pointed to an industrial city in the north. If that piece of land in the north was lost, there would be a gap in the imperial defenses, and Zhao's cavalry troops would be able to threaten the city with infantry cannons.

Lu Yuan looked at the location of the map and said sarcastically: "It seems that I have been kidnapped." The chaint said, "Where, you are a royal noble." The Chin Cha said with a smile.

Lu Yuan smiled, yes, his own economic and financial resources, as long as the emperor investigates, it will be clear that the annual economic surplus of each city on his side can be found from the public figures, and the finances are also public.

His Majesty the Emperor had apparently calculated how much money he had, scraped a part, and at the same time was throwing away a costly basic plate to cost his own money.

"Seven million a year, and 40 million loans, can't be more. The North River Loop is left to me. The Qincha still wanted to continue to ask for the price, but Lu Yuan muttered: "General Wang, I told me recently that their military uniforms have been torn recently, and I have to go to the cotton textile factory." ”

The Qin Cha was stunned, and then said, "Then the prince, you have worked hard. I will inform Your Majesty of your intentions. ”

Lu Yuan's last sentence seemed to be the answer to the question, but the code word was: "Money can buy other forces." Please don't continue to bargain. ”

After Qin Cha left, Lu Yuan took off his gloves and welder's asbestos suit, and after a while, he sighed and said, "It's still too much, I have to dig a little back." Lu Yuan drove to the center, made a phone call, and began to convene a meeting of the economic managers of the various factories. The purpose of the meeting was to alleviate the economic crisis and regulate prices.

Market price control, which is an invisible means of expropriating wealth, and the goal of this means is controllable.

Here's an example to illustrate the plundering process.

The cost of refining a piece of steel is ten yuan, but this piece of steel is put on the market as a raw material. It stands to reason that everyone buys this material fairly, and this is an absolutely free market economy. But under administrative intervention, the government subsidized the steel to enter the bicycle factory, and the price of raw materials became five yuan. And the tax on the price of raw materials that entered the artillery plant became fifteen dollars. Bicycles are sold to the common people, and the common people use their labor to buy them, and the overall price has not increased, but the artillery is sold to the army, so it is targeted to plunder the military budget.

After Lu Yuan drew up a plan at the meeting, a person in charge of the factory (who is also a spiritual creator) asked Lu Yuan with a little hesitation: "Head, is it too much for us to do this, too obvious." ”

Lu Yuan said: "What are you afraid of, rise, give me a price increase, the emperor is rich now." Also, the plantation landlords in the south are also very rich, scraping them a layer of oil to tell who can do whatever they want in this empire. ”

In the 21 st century, all countries are doing this kind of operation, and countries that are too upright in the 21 st century will not survive.

Of course, Lu Yuan is now playing much more shameless than the countries of the 21st century. Anyway, no one cares about the handover of the old and new regimes, and Lu Yuan is an interest group that takes the opportunity to dump the southern plantations.

The prices of the things that the emperor's old man and the nobles of the southern plantations wanted, as well as fertilizers and explosives, all went up, and his side would use various subsidy economic levers to force the neutrals in the raw material market to their own right. Farmers and miners who supply raw materials for their groups can enjoy contractual subsidies according to the amount of raw materials supplied, and can buy industrial products from the factory at cost price.

Lu Yuan: "Lao Tzu did not directly revolutionize the redistribution of the means of production, which is already very gentle. ”