Chapter 171 Attack on Japan

In fact, the modern industrial revolution has completely cut off the way for many small craftsmen to eat, forced these original small craftsmen to transfer to workers, and then entered factories to work, promoting the process and development of the times. This process is a cruel and bloody process, but it is also A stage of pain that human beings must go through.

Only through the industrial revolution can promote a large number of industrial products to enter the market, reduce manpower consumption, and produce greater surplus value. Historically, Western countries have also produced a large number of goods through the industrial revolution, resulting in excess of their goods. After they could not consume themselves, they had to focus on more The vast outside, and then through various means, whether by force or commercial means, are sold to more countries and regions to earn more profits for them, which led to the reshuffle of the whole world.

In history, it was precisely because China walked too slowly that it finally became the fat meat divided by the great powers. The wealth accumulated by several dynasties returned to those great powers in a very short time.

Now Yu Xiaotian has already made up his mind to change this history and take this step ahead of schedule. Only in this way can Chinese people become the real leader of the world and completely stand on the top of the world in the next few hundred years or even thousands of years.

Now he can be said to have taken this step, but the current step consumes a lot of capital, manpower and material resources, and the production capacity does not satisfy him. However, in time, he believes that if he is given another ten years, at least the industry on Taiwan will enter a brand-new stage. Maybe even a steam engine may be made under his push.

As long as the steam engine is built, it completely means that the Chinese will be the first to enter the industrial era. At that time, who can compete with it?

Think about when Chinese people drive steam engines as power warships and various steamships to travel across the sea around the world, those European countries guess that they can pee in their pants. At that time, he just grab them. Now they still look awesome Western caps. At that time, the Lun ship will completely become scum in front of the Chinese steam-powered warships.

Yu Xiaotian felt that he wanted to laugh secretly, so over the years, he has spared no effort to expand various factories and build various water storage reservoirs to provide power for these factories.

Although his industry is not satisfactory now, the efficiency he produces has made him look at Asia, and there is no rival.

The original cannon has now expanded into a huge arsenal, which could only be cast into a cannon a few days ago. Now many cannons can be cast in a day. If it hadn't been for the fact that he didn't need so many cannons for the time being, this huge arsenal alone could provide him with more than a thousand cannons in a year. Daming concentrated the strength of the whole country, and there were much more cannons cast in a year.

Therefore, at present, the main product of this gunfield is not cannons. Usually, it mainly manufactures some blanks of heavy machinery parts, or some iron turbines and other products, and also takes over some large land castings. Instead, it is artillery production. Now it has become a sideline, and only one or two more are produced every day. Artillery is used to equip the army.

In addition, since the hydraulic mill was successfully developed, Sea Wolf has now been able to roll steel plates or iron plates of various thicknesses.

In the past, when the barrel was produced, it was all up to craftsmen to manually beat the iron billet into iron pieces and then wrap it to form a barrel. Now this labor-consuming and laborious process has been eliminated. Now the finished steel plate can be used directly on the other side of the gun. With a simple winding machine, it is heated and rolled into a barrel, and then The craftsman only needs to forging and welding the joint, and then he can send the bolting gun until it is sent to the last process of pulling the rebar.

Over the years, the whole gun has basically developed from a fully manual barrel to a semi-mechanized production level, and the output and quality of * have been greatly improved, which also provides a solid foundation for the next step of competing for the world.

This time, he went north to suppress the rebellion, which has thoroughly tested the combat ability of the Yu family army, and also thoroughly verified the practicality and power of the firearms in their hands. Yu Xiaotian has already had a clear idea. This time, he has made a plan to continue to expand the production capacity of guns and produce more * to equip them to the Yu family. Medium.

At that time, once he leads his troops to the north, then the Yu family army will take action, and it will be amazing. Any army that dares to stop him will be completely swept into the garbage.

A few days ago, when he arrived in Danshui, he had instructed his men there to expand the production capacity of guns, build a batch of gun-making machinery, change a hydraulic factory under construction into a new gun, and double the production capacity of *, so that 15,000 of various types* can be produced every year, so that in three years Come on, he can equip a new army with a strength of 40,000 to 50,000.

In this way, with the nearly 30,000 army he already has, the strength can reach 70,000 to 80,000. At that time, these 70,000 will be enough to 800, which is enough to sweep the whole Ming Dynasty. As long as the logistics can keep up, it won't take long for him to unify China. At that time, he only needs to send a small number of elite soldiers to go north to Liaodong. Jiannu can be easily solved. In that case, he can build a large number of ships and join the carnival of colonies all over the world.

As for agriculture, it is also the one that Sea Wolf currently occupies a lot of funds. With the increasing number of immigrants, the Sea Wolf Group must continue to expand the wasteland and expand new immigrant collective farms.

First of all, we must feed these immigrants, at least give them a place to live, so that they can cultivate wasteland. It is not enough to reclaim farmland. It is also necessary to build various roads, bridges and various water conservancy facilities and other supporting projects for farmland to effectively cultivate these farmland.

At the current level of productivity and technology, it is necessary to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to do these things and use human sea tactics to achieve results. Such efficiency is quite low and the consumption is also very large. However, at present, he has no better way. He can only use this primitive means to complete these projects, so The overall investment in agriculture and the overall expenditure on sea wolves is also quite small.

There is also investment in various infrastructure, which is also quite huge. Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to the local environment and road problems. Therefore, over the years, he has invested a lot of money and a lot of manpower and material resources to build roads, docks and other public facilities.

In addition, there are also many administrative managers who spend a lot of money to develop wages every year. If it hadn't been for Yu Xiaotian's support of so many industries, these ways of spending money alone would have been enough to bankrupt him.

However, now the sea wolf's earning ability is also very strong. Many people now know that it is impossible to bypass the sea wolf and go to do business. On the surface, Yu Xiaotian only controls the coast of Fujian, but in fact he controls almost all important maritime trade routes.

So he wants someone's products. If you don't get them, then I'm sorry, don't want to go abroad. If others get the goods, they can't sell them. In the end, they can only be cheaper to Yu Xiaotian's hands. So now, in addition to Guangdong and Guangxi, some workshops specializing in making seafood products are still temporarily controlled by Yu Xiaotian. In addition, workshops for maritime trade products in Fujian, Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Jiangxi and other places basically did not have Yu Xiaotian nod, and ordinary people dare not take their goods.

This also provided a great help for Yu Xiaotian to monopolize maritime trade and earn huge profits, making Yu Xiaotian basically control more than half of the overseas goods in the Ming Dynasty.

A few years ago, the best export goods such as raw silk were only sold 70 taels of silver. Some raw silk in Fujian can only sell 50 taels of silver.

However, Yu Xiaotian integrated market prices, strictly prohibited anyone from selling at a low price, and finally controlled the supply of life and death in his hands. Nowadays, if the Spaniards and the Dutch want to get raw silk, even if they are the lowest grade, they have to pay 110 taels of silver to get it.

Like high-level raw silk, the price of one stone has been sold to 170 taels of silver by Yu Xiaotian, and you still want it or not. As long as you say no, you don't want to get the goods.

Even the export routes of raw silk currently produced in Japan have been controlled by him. In Ryukyu, Japanese merchants must sell raw silk to Yu Xiaotian at a price of 60 taels of silver per stone. Once Xiaotian re-exports and then sold it to the Dutch, they can basically make double the profit.

Japanese merchants did not do it, but there was nothing they could do. Yu Xiaotian has now sent more than 30 plundering boats to wander around Japan. When he found that the Japanese merchant ship was going to Ryukyu, he immediately attacked. They did not care about the ship. All the goods on the ship were taken away, all the people were killed, and the ship sank on the ground.

Nowadays, Japanese businessmen go to sea to do business in Ryukyu, basically working with their heads. After going to sea, there is a high probability that they will no longer find anyone, and all the ships and goods will disappear.

However, after these sea wolves' private ships * Japanese merchant ships, they never shipped them in Ryukyu. They all pulled all back to Taiwan Island to sorting or repackage and process them before selling them, so that the Japanese people can't grasp their handle. There is nothing they can do. Even if they are suspicious, there is no certificate. According to it, I can only admit my bad luck.

And Yu Xiaotian also gave an order to the plundering fleet, which is to keep moving along the coast of Japan. They can go ashore and rob them if they can. Military discipline can be unrestrained there. The key point is to rob women, and they must be young women. They must not be more than 30 years old. They are more beautiful and better. How much less.

(See you after 8 p.m.! Brothers, please strengthen your firepower and support it!)