Bailang issued an order to clean up the canal customs, ordered the Ministry of Accounts to audit the accounts, and even spread the word that grain would be transported by sea. Therefore, the shipbuilding in Jiangnan and Shandong was planned. The shipbuilding in Jiangnan was scheduled to be located on the Wusong River in Songjiang Prefecture and the Huangpu River - Huangpu.
The river is deep enough and a shipyard can be built here. Bai Lang knows very well that China's modern industry started from the Jiangnan Manufacturing Administration, and it is necessary to move up to Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture.
This city is naturally a center of trade and industry. As long as the Ming Dynasty carried out large-scale maritime trade, Shanghai County would be the core city of course - here is an extremely developed inland shipping and canal connection, with the help of the Yangtze River waterway, it goes deep into Huguang, Sichuan, and the Ming and Han Dynasties.
Most of the goods from the eighteen provinces can be concentrated in this city through developed water transportation and transferred to sea transportation, reaching all directions. To the north is Japan and Korea, and to the south is Guangzhou and Southeast Asia.
This place is also a place where literary talents gather. Suzhou Prefecture and Songjiang Prefecture are both imperial examination highlands. Songjiang Prefecture in particular had the largest number of Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty. As a result, the power of the officials and gentry here was actually not as strong as other places in Jiangnan - both
Gentrification has taken place, and not a lot of land is occupied. They mainly rely on trade to make money. Besides, everyone is very good at exams, so why do you dare to occupy a large piece of land? "It's fragmented, but the local officials are very troubled." Bai Lang is too.
funny.
Being an official in Suzhou and Songjiang is a nerve-wracking job. "There are a lot of unscrupulous people in Wu" is not just a cover. There are many scholars, and there are actually quite a few rascals in the market who are famous. Once something happens, it will
You dare to besiege the county government office and make it impossible for your county magistrate to step down. Over the years, these unscrupulous people have resisted and evaded taxes in various ways. Being able to collect 70% of the tax has been counted in the evaluation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Bailang is not afraid of these unruly people. Anyway, there are many idle people in this place, so they can be thrown into factories to work. There are coal and iron mines in Nanzhili. The education level is also high, and the commodity trade is developed. It is really a natural germination place for capitalism.
This needs to be protected well - capitalism is better than the current feudal bureaucracy, which colonizes the white-skinned pigs before they advance.
The Ming Dynasty has the strongest national power in the world. Even so, Bailang couldn't accomplish the feat of conquering Europe from land. It would be good to be able to colonize Southeast Asia and the archipelago on the sea. North America is a place that is hard to imagine at the moment. The technology he has at hand is very good.
It is difficult to achieve large-scale colonization - shipbuilding technology needs to be further improved, and mathematics also needs to be able to calculate latitude and longitude relatively accurately. This is not something he can just take out a ready-made sextant.
Let Bailang do it alone? It's not that he will be exhausted, but that he will be bored to death. This person just wants to fight and kill people, and start the research and development process with a click of the mouse. If he is allowed to really engage in research and development, he is overthinking. "Still.
Let history develop naturally." The policy of going south has also been decided. First, we will deal with Southern Zhili along the canal, and then turn around and go west to deal with Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei, from Hanzhong to Sichuan. As for Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Fujian, that is
Last.
After the eighteen provinces of Han were settled, they would then go to the northwest to follow Uzbek - presumably there were not many people left at this time, and the group of Mongols in Central Asia could not stop the Ming Dynasty's troops.
"Building a navy, these guys will definitely embezzle a lot of money. And I think that the traditional Chinese offshore sand ship style ships are not suitable for ocean warfare, nor are they suitable for ocean navigation." Question
Come on, there are not many huge trees suitable for use in mainland China at this time, and the wood used to make the keels of large ships can be said to be non-existent at the moment - Bailang does have superheated steam drying technology, but there is nothing he can do without big trees.
Do you want to use metal to cast the keel? Bai Lang remembers that many sailboats in later generations used box-type keels, with lead water cast in the middle. It is not like using big wood to make the keel today, so the ship can be built big and long. Shipbuilding
This kind of thing still requires a combination of Chinese and Western. Many Chinese technologies are still very useful, and Western designs are also advanced. The Ming Dynasty was able to build treasure ships back then, but the drawings are still there now. "It's somewhat outdated, and it's really not that
It’s a big piece of wood.”
Bailang didn't think about a sailing battleship with 60 or 70 cannons. He only planned to build a fast battleship with 20 to 30 cannons - then he planned to use percussion-style rear-loading cannons or front-loading cannons. As long as
It is not difficult to obtain sulfuric acid and nitric acid, and it is not difficult to produce mercury fulminate in small batches. It is not difficult to produce lead azide in a simple laboratory type - but the cost will be relatively high. By then, wax-sealed copper flash caps will be available, and with this
The gadget means that the breech-loading gun is ready for service.
Needle firing and other things can be prepared, and metal fixed-loading ammunition can also be used - but without the most basic industry, these things are extremely expensive and the speed of replenishing equipment will be very slow. "We still have to get it from the United Coal and Steel Co., Ltd.
It's a pity that the green mountains and green waters are here." Bailang sighed. This time, instead of calling the three battalions, about 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Shandong began to go south, Bailang went to the south of the Yangtze River.
This time he brought the queen and the concubine with him. He originally asked the queen mother if she wanted to see the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, but the queen mother said that she would not go. She would look after the grandchildren for the son of the emperor. Of course, as his uncle, Prince Lu would not go to the south of the Yangtze River either -
-Although the fat man expressed with tears that he actually wanted to go, the look from my mother made Prince Lu obediently accompany the Queen Mother. Bai Lang led his team of secretaries and led an army of tens of thousands south along the canal.
It can be said that the whole journey was a whirlwind. Everywhere we went, there was bound to be an audit. The old hands from the household department who were lucky enough not to be cut off began to do the accounting, while the people from Jinyiwei and Dongchang were responsible for clearing the land and dividing the land.
The amount of tax is determined at the local level. It is useless to say that a family with a well-educated family has three Jinshi. No matter how much land you have, you have to pay taxes, and you have to serve as an official - only you and your wife are exempted from being an official.
There is no such grace as the late emperor gave to his old ministers. Those who dare to cry, then Bai Lang will ask them whether they will go with him or the late emperor. Along the way, Bai Lang has ruined the reputations of many people, but no one dares to call them a fool.
I rebelled.
This group of scholars is not as courageous as the Cao Gang and the soldiers of Cao Yun. After Bailang abolished several Caoguan and abolished a considerable number of Caoding, those people really dared to make noise and gather people to cause chaos. They gathered together to fight against the enemy.
The towns on both sides of the canal were set on fire and looted. As for Bailang's military formation, they did not dare to attack. Bailang sent light cavalry to pursue him. He himself often led hundreds of soldiers to chase and hunt. How could the imperial army fight?
But these rabble?
Immediately, there were a lot of killings. Among the surrendered Caoding and Cao gangs, Bailang ordered all of them to be sent to the border areas, and some were sent to Shandong shipbuilding and mining as coolies.