Chapter 424 Industrial Refinement

Qingzhou.

After a heated argument, Li Wei angrily signed a trade agreement for a thousand naval guns.

According to the content of the agreement, the price of each naval gun is 20,000 taels, and the total value of 1,000 naval guns is 20,000,000 taels. The 20,000,000 taels will be used to build 300 large merchant ships and 200 medium-sized merchant ships. There are 20,000 slave craftsmen in the workshop, and both merchant ships and slave craftsmen are selected by Qingzhou dispatched personnel.

After the last meeting with Li Wei, Xiao Ming drew up this agreement, and Li Wei sent people 800 miles to Lin'an expeditedly according to Xiao Ming's wishes.

Afterwards, the King of Chu asked people to bring news, and asked Li Wei to argue that he had to agree to Xiao Ming's conditions again. Li Wei naturally told Xiao Ming about this bottom line.

Therefore, the quarrel in the governor was just a play that Xiao Ming and Li Wei played for the king of Chu, because after getting the agreement, the king of Chu may have sent the housekeeper of the palace specially out of anxiety.

"Envoy Li, we have suffered a loss this time. If it weren't for the sake of being a citizen of the Great Yu Kingdom, we would definitely not have signed this agreement. After all, a thousand naval guns will seriously affect our own artillery production." Pang Yukun is still acting.

Li Wei snorted coldly and said, "One large merchant ship is 30,000 taels, and one medium-sized merchant ship is 10,000 taels. You Qingzhou will really lower the price. We are at a loss by selling the merchant ships at this price. Hmph, let's go."

After all, Li Wei left the Governor's Mansion aggressively.

After Li Wei passed by, Pang Yukun suddenly laughed. He looked at Xiao Ming, who had been sitting in the inner room, and said, "Your Highness, how is the performance of the lower official?"

"Yes, yes, the King of Chu should not see any flaws now." Xiao Ming walked out of the inner room with a smile.

Pang Yukun continued: "Now that the agreement has been signed, it is time for Li Kaiyuan to bring back the merchant ships. Now that there are so many merchant ships, the Chamber of Commerce should stop complaining that there are not enough ships."

"Having said that, but we can't be complacent, these five hundred ships are less than one-tenth of the fleet of the King of Chu, we must continue to work hard, and the reason why this King wants to change the merchant ships this time is also In order to free up the shipyard to build warships, without warships, no amount of merchant ships can go out to sea.”

The more he went forward, the more Xiao Ming discovered that his strength was insufficient. In modern times, the Dutch at their peak in the sixteenth century once owned 15,000 merchant ships, but only 2,000 merchant ships were often docked in the dock.

Compared with these maritime powers, his own wealth is really not enough for others.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ming is so madly searching for shipbuilding craftsmen from all over the Great Yu Kingdom. He wants to build Dengzhou into a new world shipbuilding center.

Pang Yukun nodded. Now that the Dutch are rampant at sea is not good news for Qingzhou, because the Chamber of Commerce is planning to transport goods from the sea to the south, and now the route is cut off by the Dutch, which is also bad for Qingzhou's trade.

"Li Wei said that the Dutch have a total of 12 warships, all of which are three-deck warships, and we are now building a total of 15 warships. In terms of numbers, we should be able to win."

"This king is not sure."

Xiao Ming frowned, the Dutch have rich experience in maritime combat, and he is not sure whether Yue Yun can defeat the Dutch with his fleet.

However, he has an advantage. He understands the tactics of the sea in this era and will not make the same stupid mistakes as the King of Chu.

Moreover, this naval battle is only a part of the war. The most important thing is that he will send the Qingzhou Army to land on Ryukyu Island and drive away all the Dutch on the island.

As long as the Ryukyu Island is occupied, the Dutch fleet, which has lost its supplies, is basically finished.

After all, it was a long way from the Netherlands to the Ryukyu Island. The Dutch depended on the supplies of the colony. Without the supply point, the Dutch could only starve to death on the ship.

Now that the war is in preparation, only the Galen ships in Dengzhou Shipyard are all completed.

After chatting casually with Pang Yukun, Xiao Ming left the palace and went to the workshop area outside the city.

Now he is most focused on the development and refinement of basic industries. Without precise industrial division, the difficulty of producing the same industrial product will increase exponentially.

The most realistic example is the flintlock gun. It takes two months for a craftsman to build a flintlock gun. After the detailed production of the barrel, butt, and movement accessories, the final assembly of the flintlock gun. It only takes an hour to complete.

Therefore, with the increase of industrial types, Xiao Ming needs to refine the industrial classification.

This time, he went to the workshop area to settle this matter with Chen Wenlong and split the equipment department and the steel workshop.

"Your Highness."

Chen Wenlong had been waiting for Xiao Ming in the workshop area for a while. At this time, he summoned the supervisor in the workshop area to wait for Xiao Ming's order.

Xiao Ming nodded and said to Chen Wenlong: "Since all are here, now let's talk about the refinement of the industry. In the future, the steel workshop will only be responsible for the production of steel, springs, coal ball furnaces, iron pots, etc. to be dismantled. It will be produced by a special workshop, and your equipment department will assign craftsmen who are responsible for this type of technology to settle in, so don’t make the steel workshop a hodgepodge, it will not be conducive to the improvement of various products in the long run.”

Chen Wenlong nodded, and he and the other supervisors recorded Xiao Ming's words.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "What kind of lathe is needed in the workshop, you can choose by yourself, such as this spring, in the future, the spring workshop can directly get the spring steel from the steel workshop, and then process the spring steel into various types in the spring workshop. Springs, gears, and connecting rods are all the same, and what kind of steel do you need, go directly to the steel mill to discuss."

"As for the steel mill itself, it also needs to be refined. The production of each steel is carried out by a specific craftsman. It is not necessary for one craftsman to be responsible for five or six kinds of work at the same time, but specialization."

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Xiao Ming said sentence by sentence, everyone was busy recording, after all, this was another big change. The former workshop area was like a mother body, but now it will be divided into branches and leaves.

In addition to the key steel workshop split, Xiao Ming talked about the split of the glass workshop, mirrors and other commodities that need to be processed later, and the chemical industry with three acids and two alkalis was ordered by Xiao Ming to split as soon as possible.

This chemical is already very dangerous, and it is even more dangerous when mixed together.

While requesting to split the workshop, Xiao Ming also specifically defined the workshop area, dividing the chemical, steel, and light industries into different areas, and required the types of items produced in front of the workshop door, and all workshops were in the government. Ya ascended the throne and recorded unified management.

Moreover, the workshop must also establish its own management system, and each workshop must establish its own research room to continuously update the products, and send people to the Bowen College regularly to learn relevant knowledge.