Shipbuilding is a problem, and Bailang's idea is to go hand in hand - for coastal navigation and inland navigation, flat-bottomed sand boats can be used, which have a large cargo capacity. But for ocean navigation and combat, they must use pointed boats with keels.
For bottom boats, we have to go to Sichuan and the Northeast to find large domestic logs, which are extremely inconvenient places to transport. Moreover, the wood has to be dried in the shade, and it takes less than two years to get it done.
Even if Bailang knew about the overpressure steam drying technology, it would be useless. China is short of large wood for shipbuilding. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt spliced keel technology. If possible, Bailang would actually like a metal keel, but there is no such thing. Steam engines are not possible now - in
Before the coal-iron complex could be rolled out on a large scale, there was no prerequisite for a steam engine. Many parts had to be made, including gears and crankshafts.
These all require at least hydraulic machines, and since the Huangpu River flows quite fast, it should be fine - at least it can be used to drive a drilling machine to drill gun barrels and bores.
Those maritime merchants in Zhejiang and Fujian used to evade taxes on a large scale, and their wealth was measured in tens of millions. These people are both maritime merchants and pirates, and now they are being beaten on land - what Bailang wants is their wealth, and as for the issue of channels
Not much. There is a huge demand for Ming products these days. Even if all these Ming merchants are killed, a new group of people can easily restore the original channels.
Therefore, Bailang can be said to have bloodbathed Zhejiang and Fujian - the maritime merchants and local wealthy families who failed to board the ship in time and escaped were almost wiped out by him. Among the local officials in the two provinces, most of them were officials in other places.
As long as you can still live if you return the stolen goods, the local officials are finished. They are dragged out in groups and beheaded. The corpses are even thrown into the ditch dug out casually and then buried. They are also scattered around.
Add some koji soaked in warm water and some lime to speed up the decay.
It would be better for everyone to die soon.
Bailang made a big fortune. There is not much land in Zhejiang and Fujian. The land tax cannot be collected much, but commercial tax can be collected. Bailang is planning to list a government-run commercial bank in Shanghai County and issue guide prices to let those small businessmen
He goes to various places to collect goods and then sells them to several large merchants, including government-owned enterprises, and the tax is withheld by these large merchants. He is not going to ask small merchants and farmers who sell tea and handicrafts to collect taxes. He collects the tax.
is an indirect tax.
By this time, he had been out of the capital for more than nine months - this emperor had set a precedent since Yongle by not being in the capital for such a long time. This Wanli's martial arts was also far superior to that of Yongle, probably only as good as
Taizu almost drove out the Tartars, but Bailang swept across Mobei and completely defeated Mongolia. Unlike Yongle, who attacked with half a million troops every time, Bailang's largest army was more than 30,000 troops.
Bailang didn't kill all the merchants. He also wanted to form the Ming Dynasty navy, and this navy must be doing business while fighting pirates. The first step was to build a Western hull with Chinese sails, and then equip it with about 20 cannons.
Fighting - the six-pounder cannon is probably not powerful enough, as is the twelve-pounder cannon, so Bailang prepared a sixteen-pounder long-barreled cannon for them. It was also a breech-loading type.
Let the blacksmith hand-make the interrupted bolt breech, and the shells will spin and add the bullet holder anyway. In this way, the accuracy and power are guaranteed. That is to say, this is used for naval guns. The six-pound field guns equipped in large quantities take into account the production speed and cost.
Just use a simple front loader. In the future, field artillery should uniformly use twelve-pound guns. The problem lies in road accessibility - as long as there is a road, the guns and ammunition can be quickly maneuvered by relying on draft horses.
This time the rebellion in Zhejiang and Fujian was also defeated by the artillery of the Shenji Battalion. The cavalry's final charge was just to clean up the mess. Although the six-pounder gun was not powerful enough in Bailang's view, its range and accuracy were actually
As for the current champion of East Asia, it can effectively fire small artillery shells into the ragtag array from almost a kilometer away, and basically defeat them after four or five rounds.
Bailang did not advance further into the two lakes in Jiangxi. Instead, he led his troops back to the capital after handling the local government affairs. He received a lot of first-hand intelligence here in Zhejiang, that is, the Japanese invasion of North Korea was imminent. He really could not kill him.
There are few large sea merchants, but there are also many small and medium-sized sea merchants who have come forward to support the government. However, there has not yet been a large pirate force at sea to unite against the government on land, so Bailang can still receive information.
"Has Hideyoshi Taira united Japan?" Bai Lang remembered that this monkey could only say that he was the biggest daimyo in the world, and that others were surrendering - just like that, there were still many more independent guys. Now this
This guy gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, just to prepare to cross the sea and attack North Korea. Bailang also remembered that this guy also wanted to conquer the whole of Asia. Maybe he didn't take him as the Ming Emperor seriously at all?
If you want to say that Hideyoshi Hideyoshi knew nothing about Bailang's achievements, it shouldn't be wrong. After all, there have been many businessmen and monks traveling between the mainland and Japan over the years. The news of Bailang's defeat of Mongolia and his cruel and cruel government should have been spread long ago.
Only in Japan. However, this monkey came so confidently
"Qi Shuai is in good health, let him be the chief soldier, let Yang Hao be the chief soldier, and let the Ministry of War discuss the other personnel with the cabinet." Bailang had already issued an imperial edict on his way back, and Qi Jiguang would be the commander-in-chief.
The commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and a total of 40,000 troops mobilized from the three major battalions entered North Korea. Bailang was ready to let the Shenji Battalion go. As for him not going, it would actually be more humiliating for him to go in this war.
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The king of Korea was just regarded as the king of the county and the Ming Dynasty's dog. It was enough for Qi Shuai to go. In the end, Yang Hao was appointed governor, and Wu Jinglue led an army to prepare - Japan was only gathering troops now and had not yet begun to cross the sea.
Later in the evening, Wanli Bailang returned to the capital. As usual, he did not go to the Forbidden City but to the Xiyuan Garden. The large garden was named Wanchun Garden and was about to be completed. Bailang waited for the palace inside to be "dry" before moving into it.
.From then on, the emperor would spend most of his daily time in Wanchun Garden-Xiyuan. As for the Forbidden City, he would only go there when the imperial court was gathering.
The establishment of the city's Bosi, Jianghai Customs and Weaving Institute has made everyone in the imperial court busy - there is a lot of oil and water in it, and everyone wants to fish for it. Bailang is actually quite relaxed about this.
Well, his psychological expectation is 10%, so he still needs the supervision of Yushitai to work hard. Bai Lang thinks that if he kills 10% of the officials in these departments every year, it is a victory for the supervision department.
