Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 980
After Taichang explained in detail for a while, Carinho and De Sierra left happily.

Next, he will prepare to support the West African Kingdom.

He thought for a while, then simply waved his hand and said, "Come on, come on board with me, let's go to the shipyard and have a look."

After finishing speaking, he dragged Zhu Cihong to the flagship.

This time Zhu Cihong was eye-opening, the river here is as boundless as the ocean, and the hundreds of miles of river bank are all within the scope of Xinma City, and there are so many ships passing by. countless.

The prosperity of this Xinma city even surpassed that of Wubei city.

Because the grid city on the other side of Wubei City is two long columns, not very wide, and most of them are factories, everyone is busy with work, and there are not many people on the street.

It's different here, there are too many people on the streets, and there are more people on the docks on both sides of the tributaries. The porters who load and unload goods are like ants moving, densely connected into black lines one after another.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help asking: "Asuzu, are the people of the Amazon Tribal Alliance doing well?"

A Suzu nodded repeatedly and said: "Men, they are all doing very well, in the past two years, with the help of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Industry of Ming Dynasty, we have developed the rubber business.

Now, except for the old, the young, the sick, and the disabled, almost everyone else has jobs, and the wages are not low. There are many families who have bought centipede boats or even spike boats. "

Well, boats in the Amazon River Basin are equivalent to cars in other places, because the waterways here are too developed.

It's really amazing that the family can afford the Spike Boat.

A Spike is a Spike without artillery. Although the Spike is far behind other warships in naval battles, it can be considered a big ship in the river.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the cargo capacity, it is not a problem for the Spike to pull three to 40 catties.

Those who have wolf tooth boats can earn a lot of money even if they just pull branches for burning charcoal, not to mention that the medicinal materials, wood, rubber, and even food and living supplies here are basically transported by water. It's hard for Ya Chuanna not to make a fortune.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then asked again: "Bozheng, what is the current price of civilian ships?"

Du Linzheng quickly replied: "Your Majesty, the price of civilian ships here is very cheap. We only sell 100 taels of octopus for 500 taels of silver, and 1000 taels of centipede for [-] taels of silver. Spike boats are a bit more expensive, but they only cost [-] taels of silver."

This price is really cheap. At this moment, you can buy ten pieces of ordinary wood for a tael of silver in Daming, not to mention that the ship is not made of ordinary wood.

For example, the deck, at least it must be iron wood, which is several times more expensive than ordinary wood, and even mahogany is used directly as the deck here!
That is to say, the cost of wood alone will account for more than half of the cost, as well as materials and labor costs such as rivets, sealants, waterproof paint, etc., which even add up to more than the selling price.

If the ship is sold at such a low price in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, it will be a loss.

However, it is different here, the wood here is too cheap, one tael of silver can buy hundreds of pieces of wood, this wood does not account for any cost.

If the cost of wood is removed, the shipyard here is still very profitable.

Taichang nodded slightly, and then taught: "Longer, you see, this is to use the advantages of the region to develop the economy and feed a large number of people.

The biggest advantage here is that there is a lot of wood, the wood in the entire Amazon jungle is simply quzhibujin
Don't look at the civilian ships here are almost half cheaper than those in Daming, and their gross profit can still reach about [-] to [-]%.

The cheaper the boat, the more people can afford it, and the more people can afford it, the more boats can be built and more people can be fed. This is the most important thing. "

Uh, how much is [-]% to [-]% of the profit?
The shipyard in Wubei City seems to be able to produce more than 100 ships a year.

This is known as the largest shipyard in the world. It's a big deal if it can build four to five hundred ships a year, right?

Even if four or five hundred ships are all 1000 taels of Spike ships, the gross profit of [-] to [-] percent is only ten thousand taels. How many people can they support?

Zhu Cihong was a little confused.

At this time, the fleet just turned into the tributary where the shipyard was located. He turned the binoculars and scanned it, and he understood it instantly.

Oh my god, how many docks are there?

The right bank of this tributary is almost full of docks and waterways, and the large telescope can't even see the end. There are no less than a hundred docks and waterways he saw!
These docks and waterways are still not empty. There are at least five ships under construction parked in each waterway, and some even have tens of ships parked in some waterways. The docks, waterways and the wood processing factories behind are densely packed. It's human, and I don't know how many there are.

This scale really surprised Zhu Cihong.

Taichang asked indifferently: "Bozheng, how is the output of the shipyard now?"

Du Linzheng said without hesitation: "At the moment, the shipyard has more than two hundred docks and waterways. According to the normal output, at least four thousand octopus boats, two thousand centipede boats, three A thousand Spike warships and a thousand armed merchant ships.

If you go all out to build the Spike Warship, you can build [-] ships a year without any problem.

However, we cannot produce Thor cannons here, so there are not many real Spike warships produced.

This time, Master Sun said that we should quickly build Spike warships for the Navy of the West African Kingdom, so we equipped most of the Spike warships with our own [-]-jin city defense guns. "

This shipbuilding ability is too terrifying.

Hearing this, Zhu Cihong couldn't help being dumbfounded.

However, Taichang's face was calm, because the Xinmacheng Shipyard was originally designed and built with an annual output of [-] ships. After so many years, it is normal that the shipbuilding capacity has only increased by less than double.

He glanced carefully at the Spike warships gathered on various docks.

Sure enough, most of the Spike warships are equipped with city defense guns loaded with ammunition in the front.

The power of this kind of artillery is similar to that of the [-]-jin Thor Cannon, but the speed of loading ammunition is too slow, and the rate of fire cannot be compared with the Thor Cannon.

Of course, such artillery is enough for the West African kingdom.

He glanced carefully, and suddenly had an idea: "Bozheng, how many Spike warships are there equipped with this kind of city defense artillery?"

Du Linzheng said without hesitation: "Because the Thor cannons are delivered in batches, there are only a thousand equipped with Thor cannons, and the rest are equipped with city defense cannons."

More than 3000 ships are enough!

Taichang asked again: "Bozheng, is there a factory in Xinma City that makes artillery vehicles?"

Uh, a cannon car?

Du Linzheng was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Your Majesty, what kind of artillery vehicle are you talking about, is it for ships or field artillery vehicles?"

This really reminded Taichang.

In fact, what the West African kingdom needs this time is not a field artillery vehicle.

Because the wheels of the field gun wheel are too big, and it also has an iron gun mount, which is heavier than the artillery itself. It takes a lot of effort to pull it up the mountain.

Thinking of this, he raised his hand and gestured: "The gun carriage that will be used this time is mainly to pull the artillery up the mountain, the wheels don't need to be too big, just use a solid log, and wrap it with a layer of rubber.

The key point is that the cannon cart should not be too heavy. If it is too heavy, it will be very troublesome to pull it up the mountain. "

Uh, the cannon cart that pulls up the hill?

Du Linzheng thought for a while, and then carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, this gun carriage is not heavy.

Because the artillery has recoil, if it cannot withstand the huge recoil, then either the barrel or the carriage will fly when the gun is fired. "

This is indeed a problem.

Taichang frowned and pondered for a while, then suddenly had an idea: "Aren't the artillery equipped on the Spike warship with a base?

We can separate and fix the barrel and base of the artillery on the two gun carriages, so that it is easy for the horses to run along. After pulling them to the place, we only need to lift the base and the barrel and install them together. "

Well, the work of casting the gun mount is saved.

Du Linzheng said without hesitation: "Your Majesty, if it's this kind of simple cannon carriage, it will be very easy to process.

There are not many other things in Xinma City, but there is a lot of wood, whether it is logs or squares, there are too many to use up.

Moreover, we can also borrow the bearings and hubs from the Spike, and we have a lot of stock for this. "

That's great.

Taichang said excitedly: "How long will it take to process [-] such simple artillery vehicles here?"

Du Linzheng reckoned: "If the emperor is in a hurry, I can order the shipyard to help process all the wood used in the cannon carriages. In this way, almost [-] such simple vehicles can be manufactured in five days." Cannon.

However, this will affect the construction progress of the Spike Warship. "

Uh, I forgot to mention this.

Taichang said in embarrassment: "There is no need to rush to build the Spike Warship, this time I will bring two thousand Spike Warships to go there.

For the remaining ones equipped with city defense guns, you can remove the guns and gun mounts and install them on simple gun carriages.

I will bring [-] cannons and [-] gun mounts first, and then [-] simple gun carriages will be processed here later.

As for the city defense guns, gun mounts and ammunition, you don't have to worry about it, Boya ordered the capital of Xiyin to process it. "

[-] [-]-jin city defense guns were enough to blow the Ceuta defenders out of their way.

For a small city of Ceuta, even if more than [-] troops are stationed, it is just a matter of how many rounds of volleys are fired.

If it doesn't work for a few rounds, then do a few more rounds.

In short, this time we are going to use artillery to smash down the city of Ceuta!

In the next few days, Taichang began to discuss with Sun Chuanting the next step in Africa's combat plan, and Zhu Cihong, accompanied by officials from the Ministry of Industry, took a good look at Xinma City.

In five days, Du Linzheng really processed [-] simple artillery vehicles.

However, when Taichang saw the neatly lined up simple gun carriages, he was embarrassed again.

This kind of artillery cart is only lighter than the field artillery cart, and not as tall as the field artillery cart, but its volume is still very large.

The current Flying Dragon battleship is full of rockets, rockets, flamethrowers, fuel, etc. These 1 big guys can't fit in at all!

Sun Chuanting saw that the emperor was stunned and stopped talking, so he couldn't help asking cautiously: "Your Majesty, what's the matter, is there any problem with this kind of gun carriage?"

Taichang shook his head in embarrassment and said: "This kind of artillery cart is not a problem. The main reason is that the Flying Dragon battleship I brought can't hold so many artillery carts."

It doesn't matter much, does it?

Sun Chuanting said cautiously: "Your Majesty, we can mobilize two hundred armed merchant ships to load these artillery vehicles, so that we can transport more ammunition there.

Moreover, with the cover of armed merchant ships and Spike warships, it will be even more difficult for the European Union fleet to spot our Dragon warships. "

Taichang was still a little embarrassed and said: "Isn't this a waste of time? It would be much faster if I could use the dragon battleship to pull it over."

Hearing this, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but suddenly said: "Your Majesty, this won't waste much time. It's only [-] miles away from the Cape Verde Islands, and it will take three or four days for the Feilong battleship to sail there.

It only took six or seven days for the armed merchant ship to hang on the Spike warship and sail there. "

Oh, forget about that.

Because every time he travels, it's not thousands of miles, whether it's from Wubei City to Xibo Province, or from Wubei City to the Americas, it's tens of thousands of miles at every turn.

For such a long voyage, the Flying Dragon Warship can save at least a month. If you bring armed merchant ships and Spike Warships, the delay will be much longer.

He subconsciously thought that South America was tens of thousands of miles away from Africa.

In fact, it is very close to Africa, especially the new Macheng, which is the closest to the Cape Verde Islands.

Taichang smiled embarrassingly, then nodded and said: "That's all right, call two hundred armed merchant ships and quickly load them. I will lead the fleet to set off tomorrow morning."

Ah!
Sun Chuanting thought that the emperor would arrange for Zhang Yuanfang to lead the fleet there.

Unexpectedly, the emperor would go there in person.

He hurriedly dissuaded him: "Your Majesty, there will always be a battle of millions of people in Africa. It's too dangerous. Otherwise, my humble minister will go over and you can just sit here and take command."

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "You not only want to pay attention to the situation in Africa, but also rely on you to guard the whole of America, you can't go, let me go.

Don't worry, I won't come to the battlefield in person, I will take command from the Cape Verde Islands or Dakar, so that I can save time wasting going back and forth asking for instructions. "

Well, the Cape Verde Islands and Dakar are still very safe. There are [-] soldiers of the Divine Machine Battalion and dozens of Aegis ships there.

If you add the ships brought by the emperor, even if the combined fleet of the Continental Alliance gathers all the warships to attack, it is to deliver food.

Sun Chuanting thought for a while, and said helplessly, "Your Majesty, you must be careful. The Cape Verde Islands and Dakar are safe. Other places are really dangerous."

Taichang patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't take risks."

(End of this chapter)