Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 381 Monopoly Profits

The emperor wants to occupy all the sea areas!
Everyone was shocked when they heard this.

Can this work?
To be honest, even Zheng Zhilong, who was born as a pirate, never thought he could play like this!
What's your expression?
Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help asking: "Can't we seize all the sea areas? There are no people on the sea. The European barbarians are much more ruthless than us. Their goal is to occupy all land, and no matter how many people live there!"

This is how the world is, the strong eat the weak.

When you are so strong that you are invincible, you can bully people everywhere, and you can set rules for others to obey.

Beat anyone who doesn't obey!
That's what European barbarians did, and what they seized was land.

There are people everywhere on the land, and there are countries everywhere.

They don't know how many countries have been destroyed!
It seems that it is not too much for Ming to seize all the sea areas. There are no people in the sea, and there is no need to destroy any country.

When everyone heard this, they all nodded thoughtfully.

Is that right?

Taichang then said domineeringly: "We came up with this method of exploiting marine resources to make money. Naturally, we can't let them get involved. You also know how rich marine resources are, and once you monopolize these resources, the profits will be terrifying. So, this We can't let others earn money, once others flock to it, the huge profits of this monopoly will be gone."

Yup!

If those barbarians from Europe swarmed here and imitated Ming Dynasty's development of marine resources, how much money would they make?
At least tens of millions of taels of income a year!
You know, a few million taels of income in the first year of this year can break people's heads.

Iwami Silver Mine is an obvious example.

At that time, the Ouchi family could only dig out one million taels of silver a year, and the princes from nearby countries flocked to it, and broke their heads in order to snatch the Iwami silver mine.

This year's income is at least tens of millions of taels, so it doesn't make people crazy!

Once people find out the benefits in this, they will definitely do it desperately.

Therefore, Daming must occupy all sea areas and not let others get involved!

No matter who comes, beat whoever comes!
This kind of huge profits must be monopolized!
When everyone heard the words, they all nodded their heads in agreement.

Taichang then pointed to the map and explained in detail: "It is actually not difficult for us to seize all the sea areas, because at the moment there are only a few European barbarians who can build ocean-going ships, and we only need to defeat them.

You see, at this moment, the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal have come to their so-called Far East waters, as well as England and France, and they are just fighting in the European sea.

Is it difficult for us to beat Holland, Spain and Portugal?
Both Spain and Portugal have little strength now, and it is considered good for them to keep their colonies on land.

As for the Netherlands, they are just a small country, so it is not too easy to deal with them.

Now, we are really going all out to conquer Japan, and we have no time to talk to them. When we destroy Japan, it will be their turn! "

Well, it really doesn't look that difficult.

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, when will we start building large fishing boats?"

Taichang said without hesitation: "We started trial production after we thought about the general functions, and started mass production after the trial production was successful."

Mass build?
Zheng Zhilong couldn't help asking again: "Your Majesty, where are we building it?"

Of course, it was built at the Wubei City Shipyard.

Ships cannot be built in other places at the moment, because it is easy to leak secrets if built in other places.

If the European powers learned all the technology of steam engines and ships, the biggest advantage of Ming Dynasty would be gone.

Therefore, ships can only be built in Wubei City at the moment.

The technology of the steam engine and steamship was kept secret as long as it could.

Taichang thought for a while, and then slowly said: "This large fishing boat is built in the Wubei City Shipyard. Anyway, the Dragon Tooth Warship is outdated at the moment. It doesn't make much sense if we build too many. We can directly use it to build Dragon Tooth Warships." Docks and waterways to build large fishing boats.

There are still [-] waterways to build dragon teeth warships, we can divide [-] waterways to build large fishing boats first.

This large fishing boat is not as complicated as the Longya battleship. As long as more craftsmen are recruited, it will definitely be no problem to build twenty large fishing boats a year in the five waterways.

In other words, the [-] to [-] large fishing boats needed in the sea area of ​​Japan can be built in almost two years.

Moreover, when we have enough Aegis ships, we don't need to rebuild the Dragon Fang battleships.

At that time, all ten waterways will build large fishing boats, and there will be no problem building forty or fifty boats a year. "

It turned out to be the case.

This is great!
Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong couldn't wait to say: "Your Majesty, in fact, we only need to change Zheng He's treasure ship into a steamer, and then install a shield similar to the Aegis ship on the water wheel. Otherwise, we will let Wubei City Is the shipyard starting to build large fishing boats?"

No hurries?
Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "Since we want to build it, we must build it well. What's the use of changing it so casually, can it achieve any fishing functions? Let's discuss what functions the large fishing boat needs before we let the Wubei City Shipyard It’s not too late to start developing.”

After all, he beckoned directly and ordered Cao Huachun to fetch the Four Treasures of the Study, and then he picked up a brush and drew a rough shape of a ship on a piece of white paper.

Immediately afterwards, he pointed to the sketch he had drawn and said, "Think about it carefully, what should be added to a large fishing boat."

Hearing this, Zheng Zhilong pointed to the position of the water wheel without hesitation and said, "Add a guard plate here, preferably a flat thick board. Anyway, this is a fishing boat, not an Aegis ship, so there is no need to put a tortoise shell on it."

Taichang nodded slightly, and then thought about it: "Actually, this guard board can be widened a bit, and a guardrail or something can be added, so that people standing on it and casting nets for fishing will not fall."

Speaking of fishing with nets, Xu Yunchu had an idea: "Your Majesty, I have seen fishermen in the lake use nets to catch fish, and they may not necessarily be the kind of small nets they cast. If there are many fish, they will use them to catch fish. Big net.

That kind of net probably has a radius of tens of feet. Two small fishing boats spread out the nets, one on the left and one on the right, and sweep them through. Each net can catch hundreds or even thousands of catties of fish.

If not, we also prepare some large nets like this, and tie two wheel boats to the guard plates on both sides.

In this way, when there are many fish, we can use two wheeled boats to expand the net bag and go directly to it. "

Well, this proposal is good, and it is easy to build a few more wheels.

Taichang directly drew a small ship shape on each of the four corners of the big fishing boat, and then said lightly: "Then tie two wheel boats on each side, and when there are many fish, the efficiency of both sides can be improved a bit." times."

He thought for a while, then picked up a pen and began to draw on the deck, explaining while drawing: "Actually, fishing with a long line is also good. We can prepare a few more long ropes of hundreds or even hundreds of feet, and hang a few more on them." Thousands of hooks, put down one by one.

However, manpower cannot be used when collecting, which is too laborious and a waste of time.

We can install a large boiler on the deck, install several steam engines, and directly use the steam engines to drive several pulleys to draw in long ropes.

In this way, it must be collected quickly. "

Steam engine?
Hearing this, Xu Erjue couldn't help suggesting: "Your Majesty, since steam engines are installed on the deck, we can also install the kind of hoists driven by steam engines. In this way, it will be much more convenient to get on and off the fish."

Well, that's a good idea indeed.

The hoists driven by steam engines are only available in Wubei City at the moment.

This thing was originally developed to hoist artillery.

After all, cannons cost five hundred catties or even thousands of catties each, and it was too laborious for people to carry them. It would be much more convenient to have a hoist driven by a steam engine.

The same is true for hanging catches.

You know, if a large fishing boat is full, it can catch millions of catties. If it is loaded and unloaded by manpower, it will be very laborious.

Directly install the hoist driven by the steam engine, and the loading and unloading speed will be much faster.

Taichang nodded slightly, and directly said two signs on the deck representing gourds.

Just pack two if you want, it's faster!
Everyone spoke with each other, discussing in full swing, and a large powerful fishing boat was born in Taichang's pen.

Of course, what he drew were only marks representing various functions, and the specific construction drawings had to be drawn by experts such as Wang Zheng.

(End of this chapter)