open sea

Chapter 356 Shipwreck
In Chen Mu's eyes, the most important thing is politics. Military, economy, and culture are nothing more than extensions and methods of politics.

When the military, economy, and culture of Luzon are all in the hands of Daming, then where is Luzon?

Li Yuxi is very capable. Less than half a month after Zhao Shizhen told him to go looking for booksellers and papermakers, the boat from Guangzhou arrived at Macheng Bay with the people Chen Mu needed, and soon opened a paper shop in Manila. Distilleries and printing workshops, with the support of Nanyang Yamen, hired manpower and purchased raw materials with extremely high efficiency.

Zhao Shizhen was a little busy, and took the captain of Jinyi, who had not found anything in the inspection, to find suitable books in the book mountain shipped from Daming, and sent them to the printing workshop, so that the craftsmen arranged the movable type boards, checked for omissions and filled in gaps, and quickly melted the missing movable types. lead out.

The first set of books printed by Macheng Printing House was the Three-Character Classic, which was somewhat different from the Three-Character Classic of the Ming Dynasty. It added some loyalty and brainwashing such as "respecting the heaven and honoring the emperor", and promoted it in the societies built by various tribes near the capital. Kailai, although there are still very few students at this time, only the children of rich and noble families in Luzon can start school.

This is because the country's taxes have not yet been determined, and there are too many restricted remote mountainous areas. The leaders of some tribes are still considering whether to honor Suleiman as king, and the progress is relatively slow.

However, the work of measuring the number of acres of land in his hands is about to be completed, and there are more fields than Chen Mu imagined.

There are more fields to be reclaimed than imagined. All in all, Luzon still has a good future.

If the tax is set in the future, if possible, Chen Mu would like to take advantage of the fact that each tribe has a large population and a small country with few people, to pick up a group of children from the Guangdong Nursing Home to go to school with the local children, and implement free education borne by the Luzon State tax .

"The world's most famous printing families are in Wuxi, Suzhou, and Changzhou. They don't use wooden movable type, but lead or copper."

On the way to the port, Zhao Shizhen mentioned that printing is so precious. After all, before he met Chen Mu, he could barely be regarded as a special writer for the capital's lace tabloid. , copper, each has its pros and cons.”

"Wooden movable type is different in size when exposed to water, but it is cheap and easy to make, and the printed characters cannot be printed; lead movable type is good at printing, but it is easy to make mistakes; copper movable type is the best, but the cost is high, and only the capital and Jiangnan can do it." Use copper."

"Other places, even if they have this technology, they don't have the capital."

Chen Mu nodded, watched the craftsmen making movable type, and got a general idea of ​​the process. He walked out of the printing workshop and said to Zhao Shizhen: "The cost is one aspect. The style of writing in the south of the Yangtze River is more popular than that in other places, and it is also richer. Demand If the quantity is large, the cost can be less considered, even if copper is used, it will cost much.”

"In Guangcheng, a hundred catties of cooked copper is only ten taels of silver, and even a thousand catties of movable type is not used at all. It is because the natural development of technology is too slow, and the transportation is limited by the large land."

The technology of this era is like gunpowder. Fujian uses granulation, Guangdong uses powder, and even two adjacent guards. The composition and power of gunpowder are very different.This county can make steel, while other counties can only burn iron. Because of the distance and traffic conditions, the progress of natural technological exchanges is extremely slow.

It is also because of the slowness that a craftsman may live in a small world with a radius of one hundred miles all his life, which will inevitably lead to technological monopoly.

"Power can promote technology. I can make Guangdong military households use Xu Erjin's gunpowder, but I can't do anything about culture and most technologies. If these things are forced to go, many people will starve to death."

Chen Mu paced forward, glanced at Zhao Shizhen, pursed his lips and did not speak.He had wanted to do this a long time ago, and wanted to compile a book like Tiangong Kaiwu at this time. He has greater power than Song Yingxing. If he implements it with his power, he can completely let the Daming has a completely new look on the technical level.

But Zhao Shizhen can't do this. It's no problem to ask him to compile information on all countries, but the promotion of technology needs to be ruthless.

He is too young, although he does things neatly, but after all he prefers to play around with technology geeks. It is not a problem to make a big firework and play with firecrackers, but it is not good for him to push this matter.

Since there was no one at the moment, Chen Mu didn't think about it at all. He raised his eyes to look at the port, and said with a smile: "It's a coincidence, the warship just entered the bay!"

Nanyangwei's newly built warship arrived. Last night, Chen Mu received a letter from Sun Ao on Chenlai Island, saying that the warship rested on Chenlai Island for a night and would be able to enter the port this afternoon.Chen Mu was looking forward to these six thousands of big shark ships. With them, Chen Mu had the confidence to put Salcedo back and ask for debts.

Six red-and-black lacquered shark ships entered the port with incomparable momentum, and the flags on the ships were unfurled, accompanied by a banner army of thousands of households. After abandoning the forecastle and stern, they all adopted double-layer artillery decks, and their combat capabilities were extremely high. Weak, but there are [-] cannons on each side of the ship, and the artillery combat capability is very strong.

This type of warship was named Chihai class by Chen Mu.

The Chihai-class battleship is defined as having more than a thousand materials and less than 45 materials. It is equipped with 150 to [-] artillery pieces and [-] to [-] sailors. In addition, there are grape bombs and a small amount of chain bombs, which belong to the gunboat with extremely strong combat effectiveness.

The disadvantage is that there are too many things on the ship, there are not many places to store food and sundries, the combat radius is not large, and long-distance combat needs to be supplied by grain ships.

Chen Mu's positioning for the Chihai Ship is that it will be the main battleship of Ming Dynasty for a long time before the Guangdong Shipyard has a good understanding of the San Pablo.

He is very clear about his own advantages, so he never planned to spend a few years building a large gunship like a twenty-three meter long boat and treasure ship when the technology is not yet comprehensive. The boat didn't fit his needs.

If fighting the Spanish fleet, especially in the case of fighting against partial divisions, he would prefer to choose to use a smaller ship, more artillery, and use two or three ships to directly sink the enemy's large ship instead of one To many.

He has more manpower, more productivity, and even more resources. Not to mention that the Nanjing Ministry of Industry is still helping him build ships, even if it is only in Guangdong, it may not be slower than other countries to start shipbuilding with all its strength.

This is his advantage.

Six large warships docked in the bay, and the garrison on the shore had already rowed a dozen small boats to pick them up. Chen Mu rode Baimei and looked at the warships on the shore with binoculars.

In the field of vision, a lean old man in the Cantonese Banner Army, wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, tremblingly disembarked in a small boat, carrying a broken bamboo basket and carrying a few fish. When he saw Chen Mu with a cheerful expression, he straightened up. He patted the mud on the coir raincoat with his body, and walked quickly.

The old man came to look for him, and Chen Mu knew it when he saw his expression, so he specially asked his servants not to stop him, so he got off his horse and asked, "Mr., are you in a shipwreck while fishing?"

"Shipwreck? Old man Hai Rui."

The old man looked down at his rolled-up trouser legs and the straw sandals on his feet. He wanted to hand over the fish to the servant, but found that the servant was looking at him with his nose. He simply put the fish on the back basket and put it on the ground. : "Is Chen Shuai, the Minister of Nanyang, currently? In Hai Rui, Qiongshan, I was ordered by the emperor to cross the official shogunate."

"At Chen Lai Island this morning, I caught two fish for Chen Shuai."

In the bamboo basket, two fish were bouncing around feebly, their eyes were like those of a male donkey who stood there in a daze.

(End of this chapter)