In the past half year, the long-sea shipping capacity of Fanyang Chamber of Commerce, which Yang Kongchan is responsible for, has increased by nearly 100,000 shi, and each increase in shipping capacity represents a huge increase in profits.
In addition to providing a large number of warships to Wang Junlin's navy, the Fanyang County Salt Farm Shipyard invested more than 500,000 taels of Wang Junlin's private money in the past half a year. The total scale of shipbuilding now exceeds 300,000 taels.
stone.
In particular, steel accessories are becoming more and more popular. In addition to the large-scale use of iron nails for riveting, salt farm shipyards have even begun to use large-scale iron castings.
In Wang Junlin's impression, an iron sailboat with the same load is heavier than a wooden sailboat. Actual calculations show that a steel sailboat with the same load is even 20 to 30% lighter than a wooden sailboat.
It is necessary to build a steel-hulled sailing ship. A thousand-stone ship requires 100,000 kilograms of good iron, which is not what Wang Junlin can afford today. After all, although Fanyang County has the final say, it is still under the rule of the Sui Dynasty, and
In order not to make Yang Guang afraid, he tried his best not to pollute the resources of Fanyang County, and all taxes were handed over to the court.
What's more, even with Nie Xiaoyu's existence, low-cost steel plate manufacturing technology has to mature. It will be difficult to truly grow without more than ten years of time to accumulate technology. However, using iron castings to manufacture key components of sea ships can make the ship structure more stable.
The intensity is higher, the technology is not complicated, and the cost is tolerable.
However, with Nie Xiaoyu's presence, the first and most rudimentary iron-making blast furnace was built in the newly built steel plant in the salt field three months ago, which increased the steel-making efficiency by more than five times. According to calculations, such an iron-making blast furnace will not be used again.
Once five are built, Wang Junlin's refined iron output at the salt farm will increase to 400,000 jins per year.
In later generations, this kind of output would only be the annual output of a small private iron workshop, but in today's Sui Dynasty, it is already one-third of the output of the entire Sui Dynasty.
However, according to the budget, every time such an iron-making blast furnace is built, at least one hundred thousand taels of silver need to be invested. The cost is not low. Even Wang Junlin, who is rich and wealthy, gradually feels that the money is not enough, and there is an increasing desire to completely control Fanyang County.
The impulse in the hand.
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In the third month after Wang Junlin returned to Fanyang County, which was the sixth year of Daye, and the sixth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Yang Guang finally couldn't bear it any longer. Regardless of the strong opposition of some ministers, he officially issued an edict to announce the crusade against Goguryeo.
As for the specific combat plan, Yang Guang took care of it all without the Ministry of War getting involved, and he didn't even call the generals and ministers to discuss it.
Yang Guang spent more than a year looking at the map in the imperial study and finally concluded that the conquest of Goguryeo would require 1.5 million people, including 600,000 combat troops and about 900,000 auxiliary troops, as well as recruitment and transportation.
More than three million people worked for grain and grass.
According to Yang Guang's plan, he divided his troops into three routes to conquer Goguryeo. The land was divided into left and right wings, with twelve armies on each wing. The first army on the left took the Loufang Road, and the second army took the Changcen Road, which has always been on the map.
The upper Lelang Road is paved to the Twelfth Army, and the same is true for the Twelfth Army on the right. From the Yuchan Road taken by the First Army to the Lelang Road of the Twelfth Army, there are twenty-four troops, majestic
Swinging, sweeping in like a tidal wave.
In addition, because Wang Junlin had already written a letter to occupy Goguryeo's Daomi Island and Baengling Island, and Zhao Chen, the naval commander of Fanyang County, also wrote a letter, saying that his 30,000 navy troops were elite.
In addition, Yang Guang has always trusted Wang Junlin, because Wang Junlin has never let him down so far, so he established a waterway army with Fanyang County Navy as the main force to cooperate with the expedition against Goguryeo.
What only disappointed Zhao Chen was that Yang Guang actually ordered Wang Junlin to be the main one, with him as the assistant. Although he was depressed, Zhao Chen was secretly relieved.
Although he had been on the battlefield during the Sui Dynasty's expedition to the south of the Yangtze River when he was young, his military exploits for commanding an army were incomparable compared to Wang Junlin's illustrious military exploits. To be honest, he was really a bit embarrassed if he was asked to unite the army alone to fight the war.
Worry.
Although Wang Junlin is now the chief general, in his opinion, he has 30,000 naval troops under his control. How can his military achievements be inferior to his own? Moreover, Wang Junlin still has to act based on his own face. But if he is defeated, he can completely shirk the responsibility of Wang Junlin.
Responsibility.
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Fanyang County Prefecture.
Wang Junlin looked at the map of Liaodong and Goguryeo with a helpless and wry smile on his face.
Based on the map drawn by Nie Xiaoyu himself, he could not find the twenty-four roads that Yang Guang mentioned. The west side of Majingshui (Yalu River) was relatively flat, but after passing Majingshui
, Judging from the map, the mountains over there are close to each other, and the total number of roads that can be walked is no more than three. How the twenty-four armies marched together to move the mountains and fill the sea, I am afraid only the wise and powerful Emperor knows.
"Yang Guang personally led troops to fight when he was young. He didn't want to stay in the palace now, but he made such a low-level mistake of talking about war on paper." Wang Junlin looked sneer and helpless, wondering if he should send troops now.
Quickly send this map to Yang Guang.
But when one considers that Yang Guang, the emperor who loves most face, has the strongest vanity in history, and is the most successful emperor in history, now sends the map and raises objections to the battle plan proposed by Yang Guang, or even completely denies it, he will only bring trouble to himself.
Come and kill yourself.
The reason is ridiculous, but also very simple.
First of all, Yang Guang has officially issued an edict. This combat plan has been handed down to all officials and generals. Not to mention the issue of changing orders overnight, His Majesty, the great emperor, will never allow such embarrassing things to happen to him.
Secondly, this mistake is too low-level. It is so low-level that Yang Guang's character will definitely give rise to angry emotions. Ordinary people will only curse people when angry, and at most they will hit people. But Yang Guang is followed by a murderous intention. This is not
It’s not nonsense. Take a look at the miserable situation of the ministers who tried to dissuade or admonish Yang Guang in person over the past few years. Those who spoke fiercely and those who spoke not tactfully were miserable.
You will know the consequences.
According to the information sent by Xu Jingzong and Shen Guang, Wang Junlin knew that eleven ministers had been beaten to death for admonishing Yang Guang, nine others had been imprisoned, and more than twenty officials had been demoted.
The result of this is that no one dares to tell the truth in the Sui Dynasty. As the saying goes, "loyal words are offensive to the ears, and good medicine is bitter to the mouth." Yang Guang is obviously the person who dislikes listening to harsh words and taking bitter medicine, so if he wants to have someone else
It is almost impossible to give him good advice or give him good medicine.
Throughout ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, no matter how powerful the ruler is, when he starts to act arbitrarily, it means that mistakes will continue to happen one after another, and the development of the country will gradually take a detour, and then fall apart, because there is no perfect person in this world.
History has long proven that "working together" is the way to go.