Liu Chengzong had never seen the shipbuilding budget of the Marshal's Mansion in the Navy Yamen.
After all, Zhou Tongzhi was thrown here. In just two years, there were all kinds of boats on the huge Qinghai Lake, which would never delay the military activities of the Marshal's Mansion.
This time I went to the Navy Yamen and took a closer look. To be honest, shipbuilding is not a simple matter.
In the Navy Yamen dockyard, a horse-carrying ship for Longju Island is about to be built. According to Zhou Zhouqiang, the prototype of this horse-carrying ship is a sentry ship used to patrol coastal defense in Shandong.
The length of the ship is six feet and seven feet, the width is one foot and eight feet, and the depth is six feet. The ship's plank is two and a half inches thick. It is equipped with a war shed and a small boat, which is used for short-distance and fast patrols on rivers.
This ship is used to transport war horses between the Navy Yamen and Longju Island. The cargo space inside the ship must be considered, so the ship structure is not used in the design. It has two masts and four oars. It does not consider carrying arms for combat, but fisheries are placed at the stern.
equipment.
It was such a simple cargo ship, using dozens of large fir trees, 2,780 kilograms of iron nails, 1,300 kilograms of grass roots, and 7,000 kilograms of lime.
Most of the material processing is not carried out in the Navy Yamen. The relatively rough ship plate processing is outsourced to Mongolian carpenters in Haibei County... In fact, their main business is lumberjacking.
Some materials that require fine processing are processed by the Juerwan Industrial Bureau. Only some large pieces that are difficult to transport require the Ordnance Bureau to send several craftsmen and apprentices to the Navy Yamen for manufacturing.
As a result, the Navy Yamen was only responsible for the design and assembly of the ship, which required 1,500 workers and cost 45 taels of silver.
If this was a ship built by the imperial court, the cost of this ship would be forty-five taels.
Because all the materials used in shipbuilding are within the scope of taxation, the cost is only the craftsman's labor and food money.
The shipbuilding of the Marshal's Mansion is more like the shipbuilding of private merchants or pirates in the Ming Dynasty. The materials either mobilize manpower to harvest and process them, or they go to Xincheng or even Hehuang to purchase them. According to the market price, the materials are three hundred and sixty taels of silver.
The total cost of the whole ship was 405 taels of silver. Five hundred shipwrights and eight or nine arsenal craftsmen worked for a month, and ten boats could be launched.
Arsenal craftsmen are seconded here and are mainly responsible for making anchors.
Take this ship for example. It has five anchors. The largest one is called the house anchor, which weighs 500 kilograms. It cannot be cast and must be forged. The anchor body and four claws need to be forged separately and then joined together by forging welding.
From military craftsmen to naval yamen manufacturing.
In fact, Batur Hutaiji has been fascinated by the forging and welding of anchors by the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau. The blacksmith Tatar who paid tribute to Oirat can make the best swords, spears and arrow clusters, and can also draw metal wires to make arrows.
Hard-to-wear chainmail...but they can't fight such a big thing.
Maybe the blacksmith Tatar can make iron anchor rods and iron anchor claws?
Batur Hutaiji didn't know that he had never seen the blacksmith Tatar knock out such a big thing, let alone how to glue these two large iron blocks weighing two to three hundred kilograms together?
The blacksmith of the Marshal's Mansion built a two-story wooden scaffolding on the forge. Eight apprentices pulled the iron chain to hoist the heavy iron anchor claw. Four apprentices hammered it continuously with heavy hammers below. The master blacksmith sieved it finely.
The yellow mud was sprinkled evenly on the fracture, and the apprentice pulled the blower beside him. Every time a handful of yellow mud was sprinkled, the fire became more intense.
He looked at Huetaiji with fascination, and his face was full of doubts: "Why can iron be stuck with mud?"
Dai Daozi didn't know either, and even if he knew, he didn't know if he could tell him. He could only turn to Liu Chengzong for help.
Liu Chengzong laughed and said: "I asked you to look at the ship, and you actually fell in love with blacksmithing. That's not yellow mud, it's called Chenbihui."
In fact, it is the soil scraped from the corner of the old house, because forge welding is not like casting. The blast furnace for casting pig iron is sealed and reflected, so the temperature in the furnace is higher; the heat source for forging is only the furnace fire, and small items of forge welding can still be in the furnace fire.
Burn it red and use white copper powder to bond it.
However, large items like iron anchors cannot be burned completely red in the fire, and it is difficult for the ventilation of the fire to keep the fire power at a suitable temperature, so oxygen must be burned locally to increase the temperature.
The corners of the old house have become damp, and the scraped soil contains nitrate. The role of the old wall ash in this process is to act as an oxidant, which continuously increases the temperature in the section, softens the iron, and forces it to fit together.
Liu Shizi didn't want Batur Hutaiji to become a master blacksmith, so he asked Dai Daozi to pull Hutaiji, who was sweating profusely from the heat, away from the forge, and to the shore to point to the horse-carrying channel in the dock.
: "What do you think of this boat?"
Batur Hutaiji looked at it again and again, shaking his head at Dai Daozi: "No, no, this ship can't do it."
Liu Chengzong was very surprised: "Why not? Do you think this boat can't beat the centipede boat?"
Then Huitaiji muttered a lot of words, and Dai Daozi frowned with confusion on his face. After a long while, he said to Liu Chengzong in a dumbfounded voice: "Master Handsome, he said this ship is not bad, but it is too bad..."
They can't build such a big bullock cart and can't pull it away."
Liu Shishi opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but felt that the profound Chinese language was so pale and feeble at this time. After a pause, he took a deep breath and said: "It is relatively small in the boat, and it uses three hundred pieces of wood."
, almost 100,000 kilograms, are you sure you want to drag it back?"
Boating on dry land is not a new thing. At Hukou Waterfall, in the past, during normal business transactions, the empty boat was unloaded upstream of the waterfall, pulled to the ground and bypassed the waterfall, and then the empty boat was launched into the water to load the cargo and sail.
But how far is that?
What's more, Qinghai Lake is surrounded by mountains, so pulling the boat out is nothing more than a fool's dream.
Huitaiji's face was also full of helplessness: "What should we do? It can't be demolished, right? What a pity."
Liu Chengzong smiled, looked at the bustling dock, and asked people to move a few chairs. He and Batur Hutaiji sat by the lake and asked: "If we trade, I can provide Oirat with warships, muskets, and artillery."
, as well as various fine and expensive utensils, what can Oirat provide me?"
Batur Hutaiji was not sure. He said: "If you trade here, Oirat can bring not much. If the commander can find a way to receive goods in Suzhou, Oirat can bring a lot to the commander."
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He explained: "From Tianshan to Suzhou, after passing Hami, there was no water for four days, so it was difficult to walk; but from Hami to Wulan Mountain, except for Huaidan, there was no water for eight days and no food for eight days.
Eat."
This is indeed a problem. Even if the Marshal's Office spreads pasture land to Guidan and Golmud, the conditions of the local trade routes are still not as good as those of Gansu.
However, the Gansu issue was already within the consideration of the Marshal's Office, and Liu Chengzong didn't mind that much. He just asked: "If we are in Huaidan, what can Oirat provide; in Suzhou, what can Oirat provide?"
"Then there's no need to worry, we can send things directly to the sea."
Batur Hutaiji said: "Persian brocades and silks, all kinds of leather, Bukhara sheepskin and fox fur, gemstones, indigo. As for Oirat, the distance is so long that it is difficult to transport living things..."
He thought for a while and added: "Every year, there are two to fifty thousand sand fox and yellow fox skins, fifty thousand ermine skins, two to forty thousand sheep skins, three thousand snow sweeping skins, and one thousand wolf skins.
Eight hundred mink skins, five hundred lynx skins, three hundred leopard skins, and one hundred white rabbit skins."
After that, he raised his head and glanced at Liu Chengzong, and realized that these huge amounts of furs did not seem to be very competitive among the commodities of the Marshal's Mansion, and said again: "If the Marshal can receive the goods in Suzhou, I can let the merchants
Bring the living animals over."
In fact, there are hundreds of thousands of furs every year, which is still competitive for the Marshal's Office. In terms of sheepskins alone, including sheep, goats and lambskins, the total annual trade volume of Coul Bay is about 150,000.<
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Oirat can transport between 20,000 and 40,000 sheepskins over long distances, and one transaction alone is worth 16,000 taels, which is not a handful.
It’s just not as many as Liu Chengzong imagined.
He then asked: "If we could bring living animals here, how many would they have?"
"There are fifty thousand sheep, five thousand horses, and one thousand cattle every year." Batur Hutaiji said: "These things should be worth some money at the Marshal's Mansion... Can they be exchanged for guns and warships at the Marshal's Mansion?
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Liu Chengzong nodded with satisfaction. These things are indeed valuable in the Marshal's Mansion. The annual cattle and horse market in Juerwan Market is only more than a thousand heads, and the sheep market is only 20,000.
One tael each for sheep, eight taels each for cattle and horses, plus the furs, Oirat can provide nearly 200,000 taels of goods every year.
And these 200,000 taels cannot be brought back to Tianshan by Oirat. They must be bought happily in Juerwan.
"Yes, it's enough, even more."
Liu Chengzong said: "I know that Taiji can also make guns. It will be cheaper to use Taiji's own craftsmen to make them. But after all, they are slow to make and they are made in small quantities. I can provide a large number of guns. It depends on how many Taiji wants to buy."
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Batur Hutaiji thought that this was the case, gritted his teeth and opened his hands and said: "We can make five hundred muskets a year, how much can the Marshal's Mansion sell me?"
After saying that, he quietly glanced at Liu Chengzong again, feeling guilty.
Because Junggar cannot make so many muskets in a year, all his muskets come from several blacksmiths from the Tatar tribe who are nomadic near the Ob River. Each small tribe pays him thirty or fifty muskets every year, which is two hundred guns a year.
Up and down.
They began to pay tribute to Junggar with muskets in the forty-eighth year of Wanli. Now, including the seizures from several large-scale conflicts with Tsarist Russian expeditions, the entire tribe has less than 4,000 muskets.
But Liu Chengzong really believed it.
What does Huetaiji think of an annual output of 500 muskets?
A Tatar tribe of blacksmiths with thousands of men, who are busy all year round, can only knock out thirty or fifty muskets in addition to digging iron, forging iron, and making weapons. Five hundred guns a year means that under the rule of Junggar, there are
Ten thousand blacksmiths, Tatars, are roughly equal to the unprecedentedly powerful Tianshan overlord.
In Liu Chengzong's mind, five figures of Oirat gunsmiths with sour noses and sledgehammers appeared.
They took forty-five young Tatar apprentices and worked three days a month to knock out blunderbuss. The remaining twenty-seven days they spent in the workshop drinking kumiss, instructing the apprentices to operate the drill press, and giving themselves two more per year.
Monthly paid leave, and finally handed over five hundred muskets.
The productivity in their minds is not at the same level.
Huitaiji thinks I’m so awesome, why don’t you sell me a gun cheaper?
And Liu Shizi felt that this guy Zungar controlled tens of thousands of strings, and he only had fifty gunsmiths in his hands after a long time.
"The production of weapons by the Marshal's Mansion has always been to supply the Marshal's Mansion's military needs, and they cannot produce too many weapons."
What he said was the truth, so he planned to open a separate arsenal for Oirat to supply foreign trade: "Starting next year, it depends on what kind of weapons you want. The skins are worth about one hundred thousand taels, and the goods are worth another hundred thousand taels. I will
There are two plans."
"I can arrange to arm Junggar with a thousand-man team every year, which means 1,125 pieces of armor and weapons, including 400 muskets, ten 300-jin artillery pieces, and one 1,500-jin artillery piece.
Six hundred waist knives, six hundred hand knives, four hundred spears, four hundred and twenty-five pairs of mail armor, two hundred and twenty-five pairs of cloth-covered iron armor, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five cotton uniforms, one thousand
One hundred and twenty-five leather uniforms."
After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, he said: "These things are fifty thousand taels, which is half of the skins you brought. I can try to provide you with two thousand-man troops every year in three years. If I capture Suzhou
, counting your living creatures, you can provide the weapons of three thousand-man troops."
Dai Daozi looked at the handsome man without changing his expression, and performed a lion's speech right under his nose. His eyes widened, and he stuttered a bit in translation.
As far as these gadgets are concerned, they are all individual soldier equipment. In terms of the productivity of the Central Plains dynasty, individual soldier equipment is the cheapest thing. The largest cost of the army has always been the cost of raising troops.
A soldier who is armed to the teeth has only twenty taels including his war horse, but his salary for a year is almost twenty taels, and including rations, there are still another twenty taels.
He just doubled it and calculated that all the equipment was not worth 20,000 taels of silver. The commander wanted 50,000 taels. Wasn’t this treating Huitaiji as a fool?
In fact, in Dai Daozi's opinion, the most critical thing about this matter is not that Liu Chengzong opened his mouth, but that he and Hutaiji had more separation. It was very clear that Batur Hutaiji was not stupid, but under his rough appearance,
He is the shrewdest person.
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Sure enough, Dai Daozi said to Liu Chengzong with an ugly face: "Commander, Huitaiji wants to ask about the unit price of various equipment."
"Don't be nervous, buy and sell, everyone gets what they need."
Liu Chengzong comforted Dai Daozi nonchalantly, and answered fluently: "Fifty muskets are fifteen taels, waist knives are three taels, hand swords and spears are all one tael, mail armor is ten taels, cloth is thirty taels, cotton and leather jackets are all ten taels, and artillery
It saves trouble, calculate it by the pound, one pound and two taels."
What Dai Daozi didn't expect was that not only Liu Chengzong had this attitude, but Batur Hutaiji also had the same attitude: "Anda, don't be nervous. Ask the commander again if these guns and ammunition can be sent.
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He knew that Liu Chengzong wanted to make money from him. Even without Dai Daozi's embarrassed expression, he could guess that the cost of these things was very low for Liu Chengzong.
But the same thing is that the cost of those skins is also very low for him. He will not collect the skins that the tribes need for their daily life and sell them to Qinghai. Those are the skins that the tributes from the northern tribes give him every year.
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Those piles of useless skins can be exchanged for one thousand or even three thousand troops, and herdsmen skilled in bow and horse skills can immediately become the most elite warriors.
And relatively speaking, except for muskets and artillery, the price of other equipment, after he converted it into cow and sheep leather, was even cheaper than making it himself.
This is equivalent to his tributes providing him with one to three elite thousand-man troops every year.
"Forgot, cannonball."
Liu Chengzong suddenly realized that Oirat did not know how to cast iron and the shells had to be knocked out. He said: "It's easy to handle. For 300 kilograms of cannon, we will send 500 kilograms of shells and gunpowder; for 1,500 kilograms of cannon, we will give 500 kilograms of shells and gunpowder."
Gunpowder, just dispose of it after firing the cannon."
As Huetaiji praised the Generalissimo one after another for his forthright words, Dai Daozi also smiled and nodded.
He has already seen that the weight of this cannon and the shells are completely different from the artillery currently in service in the Marshal's Palace, which means that what the Grand Marshal intends to sell to Oirat is an iron cannon.
The cost of one cast copper cannon is equal to five cast iron cannons. The price of iron in this transaction is one pound and two taels. He has never seen such expensive iron!
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