Qiming 1158

Chapter 348
In fact, why is Su Yonglin not envious of passing through the huge amount of finished warships, shipbuilding materials and shipbuilding craftsmen?
His missing eyes turned green.

A large number of craftsmen are sought throughout Shandong and Hebei, and senior technical talents are hired at high salaries, but the income is still very limited.

The best craftsmen and techniques are in the center of the Golden State, and there are very few folks.

All the people can find are ordinary craftsmen, and those who can make weapons and even innovate weapons are all under the control of the Jin Dynasty.

The outstanding weapon craftsmen that Su Yonglin has acquired along the way are basically official craftsmen found in the weapon departments of important cities, and there are few scattered among the people.

However, if you ask a little about the living standards, political status, and daily treatment of these weapon craftsmen, you can always get some similar responses, and you know that their treatment is very average, or even very poor.

This can probably represent the attitude of the feudal rulers towards science and technology.

Su Yonglin once naively believed that feudal rulers were all idiots, frogs at the bottom of a well, and mentally retarded. They didn't understand what science and technology could bring to them.

It was only later that he realized that things were not so simple.

Thinking about it carefully, technological innovation can always bring different changes to the world, and when human beings face different changes, they are always more fearful than excited.

If technological innovation is good for you, you are willing to accept it. If technological innovation is not good for you, but it is bad for you, then of course, you will oppose it vigorously, and you can't wait to maintain the technology in the most favorable situation for you, forever.

Feudal rulers probably thought the same way.

The ruler's pursuit of stability is more than anything else. Once he gets out of chaos, he hopes to maintain stability forever, maintain peace and prosperity, and stop disputes.

In order to meet such fundamental needs, the scholars built a blueprint for a super-stable social structure with the concept of three cardinal guides and five permanent members and the concept of superiority and inferiority, which controlled all aspects of society and made everything stable, and then sold this set to the rulers. , to the great joy of the ruler.

In this ultra-stable social structure, there are not no variables. The biggest variable is the change in production relations caused by the development of science and technology.

The development of science and technology is a huge uncertainty and an extremely uncontrollable dynamic factor. In order to maintain an ultra-stable social structure, the ruling class is naturally hostile to the development of science and technology.

If they can, they want the world to never develop.

Of course, in the event of force majeure such as invasion by foreign enemies, they still need science and technology to arm their troops, and they will be forced to develop technology. However, in order to suppress the development of technology and bring greater uncontrollability, the social status of technical talents must also be reduced.

It is not that the ancients did not know the benefits of technological development. How could those who are one in ten thousand talents fail to see the benefits brought by technological development?
However, it was because they were too smart that their thinking suddenly jumped to a farther place——

Will the people who have mastered these advanced production tools have more thoughts than they should because their productivity has been greatly improved and their lives have become more prosperous?

Will it affect the dynasty of my family?
When everything touches this level, it must stop, so technological innovation ends here.

The Southern Song Dynasty was self-reliant and orthodox. It claimed to be technologically advanced and prosperous. However, it was surpassed by Mongolia in economic, military, technological and other dimensions.

Therefore, while recruiting craftsmen to build ships on a large scale, Su Yonglin also clarified the preferential treatment for craftsmen who master various techniques, in order to attract more outstanding craftsmen to serve the Restoration Army.

Not to mention how good the treatment is, anyway, it is definitely more than what they got under the rule of the Jin Kingdom, and their social status has also been improved. For the craftsmen, it is enough to give them a more comfortable experience.

Next, when the capital is more abundant, Su Yonglin will also reform the craftsman system on a large scale, raise their social and even political status, and let them do their best to lead a wave of technological revolution.

Don't wait until the middle and late Ming Dynasty for many technological innovations. What should be done now can be done. He is still waiting to arm himself with science and technology to crush the Southern Song Dynasty.

Craftsmen, craftsmen, Su Yonglin was drooling at the thought of those skilled craftsmen under Wanyan Liang.

Nonetheless, this battle is still based on the principle of completely destroying the Jin Kingdom's naval forces. Use all available weapons, fight as hard as you can, and burn as fiercely as you can. Yes, sink them into the sea and never survive!
On June [-], the Su family sailed and set sail, starting from the southern bay of Cangzhou and heading north along the coastline.

The number of sailors dispatched was [-], and another [-] elite cavalrymen from the Huben Battalion went out with the ship for the purpose of landing on the shore and breaking the enemy camp.

The construction base of the Jin Guo Navy was located in the coastal area of ​​Daxing Prefecture, probably also in the coastal area of ​​Tianjin. Of course, at this time, the area was still vast and sparsely populated, and it was not as prosperous as [Tianjinwei at the bottom of the Nine Rivers, Three Pontoon Bridges and Two Passes]. .

The Jin people built a large company camp in the coastal area, placed a construction team of more than 3 people here, transported a large amount of wood and other shipbuilding materials from various places, built warships here, and built a large-scale navy .

Although the Jin people are not good at water warfare, they are not very good at water warfare, but they are still rich and rich, and it is not difficult to pull up a considerable size of the water army.

As long as Wanyanliang is willing to spend money and dares to spend money, it is possible to build a navy army larger than the Southern Song Dynasty.

Of course, the technical and experienced arms of the navy are not the ones that can win with a large number, but still need to pay attention to tactics and experience.

If the tactics and tactics are not in place, and the experience is not in place, no matter how many sailors there are, it is equivalent to sending food to the enemy, and giving a large amount of equipment to the enemy in vain to make the enemy stronger.

Just like when the Jin Guo navy was defeated by the Southern Song navy.

Su Yonglin found out that the main person in charge of the entire Jinguo construction camp was Su Baoheng, Minister of Works, and Xu Wen, the Dushui Supervisor, was in charge of security work. The identities of the two were also similar.

So Su Yonglin learned that his family with the surname Su was originally a Han from Liao, and his father went to Xijing of Liao to stay behind and surrendered to Wanyan Zonghan. Su Baoheng was promoted all the way by Wanyan Zonghan, and now he has the status of Minister of Industry.

And that Xu Wen is even more interesting.

He was originally a general of the Song Dynasty, a native of Shandong. When Zhao Gou fled south all the way, he followed him and made a great contribution. But later, because Kong Yanzhou and Li Cheng, who were also from the north, betrayed the Southern Song Dynasty and defected to the puppet Qi, so the government of the Southern Song Dynasty began to suspect Xu Wen is also suspected of betrayal.

In addition, he has always been good at fighting, and he has made a lot of credits, which has attracted the jealousy of his colleagues. Some people are talking about him in the imperial court, slandering him to betray him, so the imperial court sends people to attack him. In despair, he crossed the sea and defected to the puppet Qi to serve Liu Yu. Later, he followed Jin Guo.

Under the command of Jin Guo, he made great contributions on the battlefield against the Southern Song Dynasty many times, so he did well in Jin Guo.

After Wanyanliang ascended the throne, as a Han Chinese, he also gained the trust of Wanyanliang. This time, the Jin Kingdom was preparing to build a water army for the southern expedition. As a veteran with water warfare experience, Xu Wen was appointed to the post.

It is said that he is quite happy that he will go to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Su Baoheng is nothing, he has no military ability, he is just a pure administrative bureaucrat. Because of his status as Minister of Industry, he is in charge of water and military affairs.

Xu Wen is a veteran and has experience in water warfare, but it is not enough for the main general to have experience. In water warfare, not only the main general, but also the subordinate officers must have experience.

Xu Wen obviously does not have this condition.

A few days before the navy was dispatched, Su Yonglin ordered the troops on the front line of Bazhou in Xiongzhou to launch a slightly stronger attack, threatening Waqiao Pass and Yijin Pass, in order to attract Jinting's attention and Wanyanliang's attention to Xiongzhou Bazhou side, not the navy camp.

On the day when the navy was dispatched, the battle in Xiongzhou and Bazhou was in full swing.

No one in the whole Jinting thought that Su Yonglin would actually play with the Ming Xiu Plank Road Darkness Chen Cang, and went straight to the navy.

When Su Yonglin's navy appeared on the vast sea, it was dawn.

Sun Ziyi calculated the time very well. The whole army traveled on the sea at a certain speed, and roughly the time when they arrived at the periphery of the Jinjun Naval Camp was at dawn.

Before arriving at the water camp, Sun Ziyi chose a coast that was easy to land on, released the [-] cavalry on board, and assigned them a guide. In the back, try to intercept more craftsmen.

Then the navy continued to advance and went straight to the Jinjun water camp.

It was not windy that day, and there was not a single Golden Army ship patrolling outside the entire navy camp. It was as quiet as there was no one in the entire camp.

The watchers on the watchtower vaguely saw the densely arranged Golden Army Navy battleships in the water camp.

Sun Ziyi took the flagship and sent orders in semaphores, ordering all the warships, big and small, to put their beds on the crossbow, set up their rockets, and wait for the order to launch.

The navy soldiers quickly carried out the device, and it was quickly loaded.

Sun Ziyi left a little more time for the crossbowmen to better reload and aim, and then ordered the warships to be divided into three teams to approach the Jinjun water camp from different directions.

Sun Ziyi led a team, and deputy generals Kong Zhende and Zhou Mancheng each led a team. When the fleet approached a certain range beyond the water camp, Sun Ziyi ordered three loud arrows to be thrown into the sky.

That was the call to attack.

The lead of the gunpowder cartridge was ignited, and the bed crossbow launchers on the naval warship swung their sledgehammers and hammered them down. The Golden Army ships away.

(End of this chapter)