Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 319 The house next door is calling.

A dozen days later, outside Dagukou, Bohai Bay.

Seven giant steam and steel ships are moored on the sea, surrounded by hundreds of wooden sail warships and armed merchant ships, including troop carriers.

This is the Beiyang Navy based on "the pre-dreadnought era, with Sihai as the main force".

During the First World War, the Sihai was already in the phase of elimination, but in this era, the behemoth with a displacement of 15,000 tons can be called a deep-sea behemoth.

That majestic and terrifying 305MM twin turret, even if it only has four barrels, is enough to make everyone who sees it feel swayed.

A barrel is more than ten meters long, which is far beyond the reach of the Fran machine guns or red cannons of this era.

The size and hugeness of the giant ship and cannons showed their ferocity on the ocean for the first time.

In the past, whether it was the Nanyang Navy or the Beiyang Navy, in training, they could only control destroyers and cruisers of about 5000 tons at most.

The people controlling the Sihai at this moment are a group of evil-proof eunuchs and female officials and maids in Bauhinia City.

Invite me to let Obai and Xuan Ye see the giant ships and cannons...

"But an expedition south is enough to make many people understand many things. The trend is unstoppable. This trend is even greater than last year when they evacuated the capital one after another."

After all, he was the father-in-law who raised Shen Wan and gave it to Wang Shouliang to eat seafood set meals. The value of Aozhongtang's current use is not small.

The gun is fast from seven steps away, and the gun is accurate and fast within seven steps.

Everyone who participates and watches will clearly see the general trend of the world.

The wages of avarice is death.

During this time, the evil-doing eunuchs and palace maids who control the Sihai are not only practicing martial arts, but their salaries and salaries have increased significantly, and Browning M1906 pistols are standard equipment.

Because you don’t have the equipment!
In addition, Wang Shouliang personally distributed wages to every household, and cooperated with the southward guard of the luxury fleet to preside over the righteous path of the Chinese and overseas Chinese in Luzon Island.

The Manchu and Mongolian tribes who returned to the outside of the Pass and the Horqin Grassland simply cannot support the enjoyment level of the colorful world in the mainland. For the new generation of Manchu and Mongolian nobles or athletes born in the capital and Zhili.

Shen Wanjiao smiled and nodded, "Then do I want to recruit a group of Manchu guards like Sister Qi? Such guards don't have to protect me on a daily basis, but they can also attack cities and ponds on the battlefield. It feels meaningful."

Wang Shouliang ate a grape and smiled, "In public, he must have saluted you. Even if the Qing court still exists on the surface, he is still the Qing court's Ao Shaobao, Ao Zhongtang, and the leader of the Bordered Yellow Banner."

Just a monthly salary of 10 silver dollars, which is the same as the new army standard, is enough to cause a great divide between the Horqin tribe and the Manchus! !

"But, the trend is unstoppable."

That is the standard of living and treatment, which suddenly fell from the peak of feudal civilization back to the semi-slave era.

When he arrived at the place, he would also ask Bo Wengkuo to recruit a group of Mongolian guards belonging to Aqi.

"Still calling him Amma?"

There is really no need for this group of guards to guard the royal city and the imperial city. They are just listed under the name of Concubine Qi and go to the battlefield with other Zhao Ting's new troops to kill enemies or colonize overseas.

Not to mention that Wang Shouliang is already a congenital martial arts master. If we talk about Obai's Dacheng Henglian, he can withstand Mauser 98's pointed bullets within ten steps without being injured.

Wang Shouliang joined the Beiyang Fleet and went south to attack the Spaniards on Luzon Island. In addition to the accompanying temporary commander of the Xuanwu Guards and the temporary admiral of the Beiyang Fleet, Yao Xizhi, he also sent people in advance to invite Obai and Xuan Ye. Come and watch together.

The greater the stimulus, the more favorable it will be for the Manchu and Mongolian tribes to obediently march north to attack Siberia, the Arctic Ocean, and the Bering Sea.

As long as Obai's army is willing to go north, he would not mind supporting Obai with a batch of Mauser 98 and Browning M1906 pistols.

"The Qing court did not pay allegiance to our Zhao country..."

With superb internal strength and top-notch physical skills, concubines such as Long Er, A Ke and Shen Wan can go on expeditions with the army. The female disciples of the Dragon God and palace maids who possess internal strength are still the main sailors.

Before the flood of mechanization, the emergence and sweep of the bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, and truck industries, the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry carried Mauser 98 rifles, bows and arrows, and mounted their horses as horse cavalry corps, which was of great significance.

When the fruit plate came closer, Shen Wancai smiled sweetly and said, "Your Highness, how do you think I will face that adoptive father later..."

Wang Shouliang smiled and nodded, "Okay, when Obai comes, you can talk to him in private. He will definitely understand that this is a strategy to divide the Manchus."

Wang Shouliang was still looking at the sea view when he saw Shen Wan walking quickly on the stable deck carrying a fruit plate. She was walking steadily and efficiently. She was already a master of practicing divine movement and had achieved a certain degree of success.

The times are different, the background is different, and the information she receives is also different. Shen Wanhe's character and style in the story that originally belonged to her have also changed drastically.

The Tsar colonized the Far East and fought against the Qing court for the first time. It broke out in the ninth year of Shunzhi in 1652 and lasted until now. More than ten years later, the city of Nerchinsk was built for ten years, and the city of Yaksa of the Qing court was also destroyed. Repeated encroachments.

This was much more exciting than when he entered Obai's house from time to time and made Obai feel threatened by death.

"In public, he pays homage to you, Concubine Shen. In private, it doesn't matter if you call him Amma."

With Wang Shouliang's current internal strength cultivation and his abnormal physical fitness, the power of a slap is more terrifying than a small-caliber picric acid bomb. There is no doubt that Obai will be reincarnated and torn into pieces with a slap.

Countless Manchus who want to get rich and enjoy themselves will only spontaneously and diehardly believe that she is Manchu Princess, and the future princes and daughters will also have Manchu blood.

This special attribute was established to conquer and incorporate the Mongolian tribes.

That kind of industrial generation gap can't be learned even if you steal it.

On the other hand, even if Obai holds a Mauser rifle, he can't break Wang Shouliang's defense by firing with all his strength.

There are terrifying existences such as martial arts and internal skills, and there is no shortage of literate and educated court ladies and eunuchs in the Forbidden City. These can be put to good use.

Under such a general trend, there is actually no difference whether Shen Wan is a Han girl or a Manchu princess.

The four guards in the capital plus the new army from all over the world, nearly 30 troops, all possess Mauser 98 rifles, known as the current Yongping fast rifle. Only the Royal Ordnance Factory controls the manufacturing and maintenance capabilities.

Today, more than ten days later, Alatanqiqige, who lives in the West Palace of the Forbidden City like Shen Wan, has asked his sister Bo Wengkuo to set off for Horqin Grassland.

No matter how to use Shen Wan and Alatan Qiqige to integrate the Manchu and Mongolian tribes in the Northeast and Horqin Grassland, and how long it will take to achieve this goal.

Shen Wan nodded happily and looked at the deck area. No one dared to look directly at this place, and then excitedly took Wang Shouliang's hand, "Your Highness, I want you to help me practice!"

If you want to be rich, you must first build roads. Highway and highway construction cannot stop.

This is true practice!
Only when you become a master of martial arts can you understand the difference between masters and ordinary people in all aspects. For example, at night, you can see things with the help of moonlight and starlight.

Not to mention how fast it is to run ten or twenty miles in one breath without feeling tired.

You are working as a coolie at the dock and carrying sacks. These are magical effects that ordinary coolies cannot chase and can only look up to. Wang Shouliang traveled through time for a year and only collected five of them, including one survivor from Shunzhi.

Shen Wan's figure is second only to Concubine Qi.

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One day later, Ao Bai and Xiao Xuan Ye finally arrived. They both brought a group of subordinates and confidants. When the two groups paid homage to Wang Shouliang on the deck of the Sihai, Wang Shouliang pointed at the sea and said with a smile, "Ao Zhongtang. , Xuan Ye, you are all top smart people.”

"You're still a master of martial arts. It's okay to have limited vision before. From today on, it's time to officially look at the sea."

Seeing that the crowd was all submissive on the surface, with expressions that showed that everything King Zhao said was right, Wang Shouliang said again, "The Japanese country across the sea had a lot of riots in the late Ming Dynasty, including Toyotomi Hideyoshi who once invaded the peninsula."

"Now the country is closed over there and no longer causes riots along the Chinese coast, but many people have overlooked one thing. The Japanese country itself is very rich."

"They have a silver mine that has been mined for more than a hundred years. It is still producing tens of millions of taels of silver every year, which is equivalent to our Zhao country's silver dollars, which is tens of millions of silver dollars."

"Can the Japanese country consume so much silver every year?"

What Wang Shouliang is talking about is Shijian Yinshan, which was mined in 1526 and lasted until 1923, a record of almost 400 years of silver production.

In the 30th century, silver production accounted for % of global production. This was despite Spanish, Dutch and other colonists mining silver on all continents at the same time and delivering countless gold and silver to the Ming Empire.

Wang Shouliang is now not sure about the grain production of Shijian Yinshan. After all, this is 1668, the middle and late seventeenth century rather than the early days.

But just giving an approximate number is not enough to fool you, right? Another problem is that even if Iwami Yinshan’s current annual output does not amount to tens of millions of taels of silver, commodities and trade...

As long as Zhao's vast quantities of silk, cotton, ready-made clothes, and even bicycles, lighters, sugar and other industrial commodities that will be covered in the future will hit, it will be over.

These commodities can easily be sold for tens of millions of taels of silver a year.

Therefore, Wang Shouliang's words may be bragging, but it is not an exaggeration to cooperate with business. His words also made Obai and Xuan Ye widen their eyes and couldn't believe it.

Just a Japanese country, so rich? ?

Just the Japanese country... Even when Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded the peninsula at his peak, he was suppressed by one of the three great conquests of Wanli, and more than 80,000 Japanese died.

It was even because of this battle that the Jurchens in Jianzhou began to rise.

Seeing that the crowd was silent, Wang Shouliang smiled again and said, "You think I'm lying to you?"

Ao Bai hurriedly bowed and paid homage, "I don't dare. Your Highness, please don't blame me. I just feel it's too shocking and can't believe it."

In the previous year, Aobai went to the deep mountains and old forests to capture many virgins, deceived a group of Mongolian tribes, and captured many slaves on the peninsula. He had been working hard to prosper and fill the population of the three eastern provinces outside the Pass.

He really didn't expect that a few decades ago, hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers invaded across the Taiwan Strait. To him, it was a major event of the previous generation. He thought it was just overseas barbarians and nothing to care about.

As long as the other person is honest, that's fine.

But how many tens of millions of taels of silver are produced in a year? That would be different, fuck... Suddenly he felt so angry. If he hadn't been standing in front of King Zhao at this moment, Obai would have wanted to find some black pearls to put out the fire.

With tens of millions of taels of silver, the Qing court ruled all of China in the middle and late Kangxi period, and its annual income was only 30 to 40 million taels. The population of more than 10 million in the early Qing Dynasty was even less likely to reach that level.

To put it bluntly, human resources are the basis for creating all wealth.

Xiao Xuanye was also distracted and hurriedly saluted, "Your Highness, don't be surprised. Foreign ministers are also too horrified, but I have occasionally heard Western missionaries say that Portuguese, Spanish and other Western caravans have always wanted to trade with Japan."

"It's just blocked by the national lockdown. It seems that there is really a lot of money there."

"Otherwise, why would the Western countries travel tens of thousands of miles across the ocean to trade with the Japanese?"

If you can't defeat Zhao Ting, you can't defeat the Japanese and those rotten shrimps on the peninsula? At least in the early Qing Dynasty, in the minds of people like Obai and Xuan Ye, the Japanese side was not much higher than the peninsula.

The Manchus on the peninsula were even more casually captured.

Across the sea, giant ships and cannons... Xuan Ye once again took a look at the giant steel ship Sihai where he and a group of men were standing. It was a behemoth with a displacement of 15,000 tons, and a gun barrel more than ten meters long.

There was also the huge amount of steam engine exhaust that shot straight into the sky, which made him feel a little dizzy.

Wang Shouliang waved to the female officer to bring a few cups of tea, "Japan also has many top-quality coal mines, including the finest anthracite."

"For the steam age, anthracite is the best treasure!"

Ao Bai and Xiao Xuan Ye breathed heavily again and couldn't help themselves for a long time. After all, since modern industries such as power plants, steel plants, cement plants, etc. began to exert their strength, when briquettes and briquette stoves entered thousands of households in the capital and Zhili.

Coal is a steady stream of gold and silver! !
Is the finest anthracite valuable? ? By the beginning of the 20th century, anthracite coal from the island nation was sweeping across China, and it cost only five or six taels of silver per ton to be shipped to Shanghai.

The island countrymen also relied on high-quality anthracite coal to dominate China's coal business for many years. It was not until the rise of Han Yeping and other groups that this monopoly was broken.

Anthracite... In naval battles, the smaller and lighter the smoke produced by your steam power is, the easier it is not to be discovered by the enemy fleet in advance, and the easier it is to seize the opportunity.

In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, the Beiyang Navy in the late Qing Dynasty could only use low-quality coal, and the billowing smoke and dust produced were thick and thick, and the Japanese fleet took the opportunity to outflank it.

Wang Shouliang said over a cup of tea, "The Japanese country now has a population of 10 to 20 million people. Although most of them are short in stature, generals are chosen among the cripples. With a population of 10 to 20 million people, it is no longer a small country."

There are more Japanese people than Chinese people now. They died in the Ten Days in Yangzhou, the Three Massacres in Jiading, the Chicken Crow in Shu Province, the Gengyin Disaster in Yangcheng, etc. There were too many deaths.

Oboi and Xuan Ye looked at each other and could see each other's heartbeat.

More than half a century ago, Japan was able to send 300,000 troops twice to cross the Tsushima Strait in wooden ships and invade the peninsula. It seems...

Today, more than half a century later? ? Without Zhao's giant steel and steam ships, wouldn't it be difficult for their large army to kill the Japanese?

Oboi also controlled 40,000 to 50,000 Manchu and Mongolian elites, both on foot and on horseback.

Xuan Ye has more control and can mobilize more than 100,000 troops. After all, his grandmother is Horqin Dayu'er, who is a legendary existence for the entire Horqin.

Wang Shouliang took another sip of tea, "Ao Zhongtang, I heard that for more than ten years, there have been ghost czars from the north who have been invading the area around Yaksa? If Zhongtang wants to fight back, I can sell you a thousand Yongping guns. ”

"The price of bullets is calculated separately. As long as you have money, bullets will be traded batch after batch."

Obai almost stared down his eyes. Yong Ping quickly fired five shots in a row. Even the thirteen Dacheng-level Taibao could not stop him within ten paces and he would be injured.

With all this, how can a mere ghost czar be nothing? !
Money, he...yes, he doesn't have much money, but Japan has money! !
A thousand new troops with fast guns easily defeated a hundred thousand powerful troops from the early Qing Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)