Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 707, War Bonds
Li Gang and the others were secretly happy to know Zhang Fei and the others' intention to come!
It is difficult for the navy to increase its military expenditure, but you can't say anything about replacing battleships!
Give some small battleships that are in disrepair and cannot keep up with the times to Liu Bei and others in exchange for some start-up funds, so that he will not be able to build some larger and more advanced battleships.
Since Daqian occupied Youzhou, Daqian's pace of building a navy has not stopped. At the beginning, they built some small ships, mainly to transport struvite from offshore islands and catch fish in the sea.
And now these transport ships are no longer up to date. He has long wanted to replace these ships, but unfortunately no one has taken over. Unexpectedly, he finally found Zhang Fei, who was taken advantage of.
So Li Gang sent people to find Zhang Fei and told him clearly: "Daqian's warships are important weapons of the country and cannot be loaned out, so don't talk about your intention to borrow the fleet."
"But our navy still has a group of warships that are about to be retired. Basically, they are about a thousand stone in size. They are also equipped with more than 10 20-pound cannons. If you have a need for warships, we can sell them to you at half price."
Zhang Fei asked with interest: "How much do these warships cost?"
Li Gang immediately calculated to Zhang Fei: "A thousand-stone battleship costs at least 1 million yuan. This time we are decommissioning a total of 36 warships, which is 36 million yuan. There are a total of about 400 cannons on the battleships. These are all A 20-pound cannon with a base amount of ammunition. One artillery plus a base amount of ammunition will cost you 200,000 yuan. 400 guns will be 80 million yuan. I will get you some supplies and sail the ship to your territory. This way , seeing that Liu Bei is opening up territory for the entire Daqian civilization, I will suffer a little loss, you pay 120 million, and this fleet will be yours!"
Zhang Fei immediately shook his head and said: "It's too expensive, I can't afford it, I can't afford it!"
Just kidding, even if Liu Bei had half a big man at his disposal, he would have to think for a long time if he wanted to spend so much money to buy a fleet. Not to mention, what he is doing now is second-hand goods, and of course Liu Bei can't buy it. It's more than 100 million yuan. It's hard for Liu Bei to come up with 10 million yuan now, let alone more than 100 million yuan!
Instead, Zhao Yun said: "If you can rent a large warship, we will rent it for half a year. If the entire fleet can reach a carrying capacity of 300,000 stones, we are willing to spend 100 million yuan to rent it for half a year!"
The fleet of 36 ships looks like a lot and has strong firepower, but it cannot transport many troops to Tianzhu. For them, the transportation volume of the fleet is the key!
Li Gang said with an ugly face: "You cannot rent such a warship, you can only buy it if you want it!"
Li Gang is going to be pissed to death. Liu Bei, your ability to make money is too bad. After leaving Daqian and working hard for more than a year or two, you can't even get out 100 million. I thought it was easy for us in Jizhou back then. After collecting billions of dollars, he still wants to rent a fleet to conquer the world. It is simply embarrassing for a big man!
Their first meeting ended on bad terms.
After Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun returned to where they lived, they were not angry because of the failure of the rental fleet.
On the contrary, Zhang Fei said with some excitement: "It seems that Daqian wants to decommission a batch of warships. This is our opportunity! We should be able to continue to lower the price."
Zhao Yun thought and said: "The price of the battleship is not too high. It seems that we can still cut the price a little. However, the price of a cannon is equivalent to one-fifth of the price of the battleship. This price is a bit too expensive. If we have less Purchase some artillery and use most of the money to purchase battleships and transport ships. To meet our needs, we need about 100 transport ships, and each transport ship must be able to transport 300 people and supplies."
Zhang Fei smiled bitterly and said: "Not counting artillery, just 100 warships worth more than a thousand stones will cost 100 million. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to come up with this money!"
Now Liu Bei can say that except for an empty land and millions of savages, there is nothing else. One hundred million dollars is an astronomical figure to Liu Bei now, and the money Liu Bei prepared for them is about this Figures, this is all Liu Bei's property.
Zhao Yun thought for a while and said: "In this situation, we still have to buy battleships even if we don't buy artillery!"
Then he said distressedly: "But in addition to warships, we also need to buy weapons and equipment, ordnance, food and wages. No matter how you calculate it, the money is not enough, even if it is to maintain the minimum, it is not enough."
But their plan requires at least 30,000 troops to attack the small country of Tianzhu.
Zhang Fei thought for a while and said: "I have thought of a way to make money, but I don't know if I dare to learn it?"
Zhao Yundao: "What method?"
Zhang Fei said: "Tianzhu is not like the Han Dynasty in the past, where the country is ruled by nobles and priests. Let's learn from Lei Gong and confiscate the houses of all those nobles and priests. They must have money after accumulating hundreds of years. If they behead the nobles of a country, It’s enough for us to buy a fleet. Lei Gong was very rich when he first gained power. I know that there were hundreds of cars loaded with gold and silver. This was just Wei County. Now we want to We are going to several countries, why are we still afraid that we will have no money?"
Zhao Yun was dumbfounded when he heard this approach, but after thinking about it, he thought it was okay. Tianzhu is not a big man, so who cares about the life and death of those nobles?
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And if they can use this method to gain the strength of the people of Tianzhu, it will also be beneficial to their next military action.
The more Zhang Fei thought about it, the more he felt that this action was feasible.
"We can definitely tell the businessmen of Daqian about this plan. It is said that the nobles of Tianzhu have offended them severely. The two sides can be said to have deep hatred. They are definitely interested in our battle plan and can issue it to them first. A batch of bonds to raise a batch of funds to buy battleships."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Then he clapped his hands and said: "Isn't this the method that Thunder God used when he hit us? He can use it, why can't we use it!"
So after the two people discussed for a while, they wrote their thoughts into a letter. Later, the letter would fly over thousands of mountains and thousands of miles to Jiaozhou, and the people they stayed in Jiaozhou would pass the message to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was speechless for a while after receiving the news from Zhang Fei and others from Jidu. He actually wanted him to imitate Lei Gong and learn from Lei Gong's method of discovering bonds to fight. It was unreliable no matter how he looked at it. But this was their only chance.
He summoned Yuan Ji, Guan Yu, Jian Yong and others, and told them about the problems Zhang Fei encountered in Jidu, and gave Zhang Fei's thoughts.
Yuan Ji said in surprise: "General Zhang's suggestion is really a stroke of genius. The nobles of Tianzhu cannot be retained. We can use this name to raise funds for war from the merchants of Daqian."
Liu Bei hesitated and said: "Is this really feasible?"
Yuan Ji said with a smile: "Of course it is possible. When Lei Gong was in Wei County, he made billions of dollars by just messing around. Now Tianzhu's prosperity is not much worse than that of the Han Dynasty, and their nobles have inherited thousands of dollars. Years ago, I am afraid that I have accumulated more wealth than the rich family of the Han Dynasty.
For these businessmen, even if they cannot conquer a country, they can still easily kill a noble family, which is enough to ensure that they get their money back. For these businessmen, this kind of business is a sure profit. You can also help them vent their anger, why not do it!"
The next day, Liu Bei invited all the Daqian merchants here, explained his battle plan, raised funds from them at 50% interest, and assured them that all the spoils of war would be purchased by them first.
Sure enough, Liu Bei's plan aroused great interest among these businessmen, and they enthusiastically purchased Liu Bei's bonds, allowing Liu Bei to easily recruit 500 million in funds.
When Zhang Fei and others got the news from Liu Bei and knew that they had money, they renegotiated with Li Gang and expanded the scope of the arms purchase agreement, starting the buying and selling process.
The arms purchase agreement between Dahan and Daqian is still being negotiated, and in the Mechanical University, a group of students actually crowded into a circle and looked at the cast iron equipment in the middle.
Xu Wei took this cast iron utensil and introduced its principles and functions to the surrounding crowd.
"This pressurized well is a water diversion tool made using the knowledge of atmospheric pressure. You have all seen the introduction to high pressure in high school physics. The air around us uses weight, and the atmospheric pressure is extremely powerful. More than a dozen horses If you connect an iron pipe to the underground water source, seal the surrounding area of the pipe, and then find a way to extract the air in the pipe, a near-vacuum environment will be formed in the pipe, and then the underground water source will It will be pulled up by the vacuum."
After talking, Xu Wei assembled the pressure-bearing well, and then used iron rods to continuously press out the water in the wooden basin.
Everyone was surprised when they saw this scene. This was not the first time they had seen this kind of scene. In fact, pressurized wells are very common in Daqian, but few people have thought about the principle of this in depth.
Speaking of this group of students, they were unlucky. Xu Wei followed the custom of his own world and gave them a summer vacation. However, he did not expect that overheated investment would cause inflation. In order to solve this problem as soon as possible, Xu Wei could only increase the cost of mining ore. The number of grinders and other equipment to increase the quantity of cement, coal, ore.
At this time, the machinery factory lacked a group of skilled workers. At that time, Xu Wei thought that of course the 3,000 students he recruited did not know how to make steam engines, but they were almost the smartest people in the world. , learning skills is definitely much faster than ordinary workers.
So they were unlucky. They entered the school 2 months early, but did not touch the textbooks. Instead, the teacher took them directly to the machinery factory in Daqian, starting from the simplest grinding parts. He also told them that this was to let them adapt to the steam engine first. parts so that they can better understand the operating principles of steam engines. These students also believed it and honestly drove screws in the machinery factory!
However, they did not disappoint Xu Wei. As expected, most of them were able to adapt to work in the machinery factory within 10 days, and they did not even propose improvements to the production process and improve production efficiency based on their own work steps!
With the addition of these 3,000 smart craftsmen, the machinery factory can operate in three shifts to increase output. The output of various machinery has more than tripled.
Of course, these jobs also made these students complain, and few of them worked so hard.
Xu Wei made this group of people work hard for two months, and he also had to give them a little sweetness so that they could see hope.
So when he had nothing to do, he would bring some tools to teach these students. After two months, these three thousand students had listened to Xu Wei's lectures, and today it was Xu Wei's turn to lecture Zhuge Liang's class.
Zhuge Liang asked curiously: "Why is our ordinary water not attracted to high places? Does it have to be in a vacuum environment? And if a dozen horses cannot pull it apart, then we are also living in such a huge environment. In a power environment, why didn't the atmospheric pressure crush us to death? Even though Liang was strong, he didn't think he was stronger than a dozen horses. Not to mention a dozen horses, even five horses were enough to cut Liang into pieces. !”
Zhuge Liang's words caused everyone to burst into laughter!
Xu Weidao: "Because atmospheric pressure is the weight of air, and air is everywhere. It is both outside and inside your body. If the internal and external pressures are equal, it is equivalent to you not bearing the weight of atmospheric pressure. This is why we There is no reason why we feel this power in our daily life, but it is real!”
Xu Wei's name has confused many people. For them, atmospheric pressure is an extremely abstract concept. It is difficult for them to imagine what atmospheric pressure is. If they cannot understand it, it will naturally be difficult for them to understand the principles Xu Wei said.
Xu Wei thought for a moment and said, "Everyone has bathed in the river, right?"
Many students laughed and said: "Washed!"
Xu Weidao: "When you were suffocating your whole body in the water, did you feel that your chest was depressed and dull?"
"Yes, and the deeper you go, the more boring it gets!"
Xu Weidao: "This is the pressure that water puts on you. It's just that water can't be everywhere, and it can't enter our bodies, so it puts a huge pressure on our bodies, and the deeper we dive, the deeper we dive. The more water there is on the body, the greater the pressure!"
After comparing it with water, most of the students finally understood it a little bit!
Then Xu Wei asked his assistant to bring two semicircular copper balls and said: "In order to let the students understand the power of big dry pressure, we used tools to do an experiment!"
"These two semicircular copper balls were specially made by the teacher for this experiment. The concave and convex spaces between them can fit together perfectly to form a real round ball. A leather tube is used to block the concave and convex spaces, even blocking the entry of air. There are also several valves for air inlets and outlets!”
Then Xu Wei asked Zhuge Liang to come up and assemble the copper balls with him.
"Although the copper ball is assembled now, because there is air inside and air outside, and the internal and external pressures are equal, the copper ball has no other force except the friction brought by the leather tube, and can be easily pulled apart!"
After saying that, Xu Wei pulled the two guards of the bronze ball, and as expected, the bronze ball was easily pulled away!