According to Liu Mang's idea, since the cannon can be made, then build more, let's have a thousand or eight hundred guns, and if the enemy pulls them out and bombards his mother, he won't believe it. What city can resist it? The bombardment of these three thousand respect guns.
But it is obvious that Liu Mang's idea is good, but the reality is very basic. Just like Liu Mang's wealth left by his cheap father-in-law who searched for most of Yangzhou, he can't stand the consumption of Liu Mang.
To know a three thousand cannon. The cost alone is 900 gold, and other aspects such as gunpowder, frame, and projectiles add up to a higher price.
If you build one thousand or eight hundred gates, let alone one thousand gates, then Yangzhou will go bankrupt.
Who can afford one million gold? Fortunately, Mi Zhu and others and Liu Ye and others dissuaded Liu Mang, otherwise Liu Mang would really want to play like this.
In the end, I made a compromise, and I didn't get 1,800 cannons, but there were still 150 cannons for the 3,000 cannons. Even if only fifty additional doors were added, Mi Zhu would leave crying. Fifty doors are worth 50,000 gold. None of them can be reached.
Naturally, these three thousand giant cannons cannot be used as army cannons, because they are too heavy, and at least two or three horses are needed to pull them, so they were replaced by thousands of small cannons. Thousands of small cannons and five hundred pieces. For this kind of thousand small cannons, it is enough to pull a war horse with a carriage. One cannon ran away, and finally a carriage was made. This speed doesn't need to be much, just being able to keep up with the large troops. For a thousand small cannons, Liu Mang pulled out 200 of them to form an artillery unit. This artillery unit is not luxurious, it is really made of gold from top to bottom, and each cannon is worth 350 gold. , a cannon needs a horse to pull and it costs thirty gold, and a cannon needs a lighter. Three loaders and one cleaner make up four people, two hundred small cannons make up eight hundred people, plus heavy armored footsteps who become guards, Liu Mang mobilized a scale of two thousand people, the number one in the world. An artillery unit was thus formed.
"My lord, what about the remaining cannons?" Xu Shu thought that these cannons were used for city defense, and the three thousand giant cannons were hard to move, so it would be absolutely useful to fix them on the city wall. Condescending also increases range. But I didn't expect that Liu Mang didn't all equip Yangzhou city with 3,000 cannons. Even the small cannons of Qianzun were not all taught to the army. "What?" Xu Shu was obviously taken aback. One hundred three thousand cannons and three hundred thousand small cannons were all given to the navy? He, Xu Shu, heard right. Why does the navy need these cannons. Don't they have bed crossbows
"Yuan Zhi, of course you heard it right, these cannons were originally designed for warships!" Liu Mang said to Liu Ye beside him, "Zi Yang, please take out your blueprint and teach it to our Master Nei Xiang, Let our Master Neixiang give you a budget before you can build warships!"
Regardless of whether it is the manufacture of warships or cannons, it is impossible for Liu Mang to decide on his own, so these are all for Xu Shu's purpose, so that Xu Shu can deduce how much money Yangzhou can spend. Liu Mang's unwillingness to be alone is not because he wants to allow his subordinates to perform more freely, but because he doesn't want to be too tired.
"These warships?" As soon as Xu Shu saw this blueprint, he was a little dizzy, because the information marked on the warship in front of him really shocked Xu Shu.
"These eleven masts?" Xu Shu saw that there were eleven masts on the sails above. Looking at the comparison on the side, the size of this warship should be about 1,500 tons, which is bigger than Liu Mang's current ship. It is about five times larger than the main warships in use.
"How can a warship of this size navigate the inland river?" Xu Shu asked Liu Mang in surprise.
"This ship is not meant to be used in inland rivers. He is a real sea-going ship!" Liu Mang's previous Galen ship was not a sea-going ship in the true sense. Practically speaking, they just wander slowly along the coastline when they go to sea, how dare they go to sea.
"Sea boat?" Xu Shu was even more confused, what kind of sea boat are you doing if you have nothing to do? "My lord, we have enough boats now!" You should feel at ease fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains and the North, instead of going to sea.
"The small boats in Gan Ning's hands are at most canoes, how can they be called sea boats! This is what I want." Liu Mang asked Gan Ning to send people to explore the undiscovered Taiwan and Hainan. Yes, but this ship went out, and after a few ships sank, a Yangzhou navy was lucky and was pushed back by the tide, only to know that their small boats were thrown by the waves when they walked halfway. It sank, and no one of us even thought about living and went to feed the sharks.
That's why Liu Mang wanted to build this ship. The blueprint that Liu Mang gave to Xu Shu is the blueprint of the Haijunquan. This warship is an outstanding sailing warship that the Europeans conquered the sea. Its displacement is 1,500 tons, its total length is about 70 meters, and its draft is between 5 and 5 meters. The speed between six meters is about ten knots.
It is impossible for Liu Mang to completely imitate the military-class warship, after all, it is a work of art. The original loading of the military power level should be a warship with one hundred cannons, twenty 60-pounder guns, eight 30-pounder guns, 32 18-pounder guns, and 44 9-pounder guns.
Liu Mang's warship can't meet this requirement. He only has 3,000 cannons, 100 pieces and 3,000 small cannons. Just around nine pounds.
"What is the cost of this warship?" Xu Shu looked at Liu Mang and asked, he didn't believe that the lord would not estimate it when he took out such a thing.
"Yuanzhi, our Ministry of Industry has already estimated it. The wood is taken locally. It is about 80,000 gold." Liu Ye estimated that it was because Yangzhou had never built such a huge warship. Therefore, all the shipyards have to be dismantled and rebuilt, which is so expensive. If the first ship is built with experience, then the price of one is about 50,000 gold.
"Eighty thousand gold?" Xu Shu even wanted to kill Liu Ye and Liu Mang, but fortunately Mi Zhu was not here, if Mi Zhu was here, he would have fainted from fright.
"Yuanzhi, Yuanzhi. I can tell you that once the military account is built, it will only make a profit. Yuanzhi, do you know where the land is after you leave Jiaozhou!"
"Nanyue!" Xu Shu said that when the Qin Dynasty was about to perish, Zhao Tuo, the captain of Nanhai County, raised troops to annex Guilin and Xiangjun, and then established the Nanyue Kingdom in about 203 BC. In 196 BC, Zhao Tuo proclaimed himself a minister to Emperor Liu Bang of the Western Han Dynasty, and the Nanyue Kingdom became a "foreign minister" of the Western Han Dynasty. About 183 BC, the Nanyue Kingdom and the Western Han Dynasty turned against each other, and Zhao Tuo began to proclaim himself emperor. Minyue, Yelang, Tongshi and other countries all belonged to the Nanyue Kingdom, and the influence of the Nanyue Kingdom expanded to its peak. 179 years ago. The Nanyue Kingdom and the Western Han Dynasty repaired, and Zhao Tuo once again professed his minister to the Western Han Emperor Han Wendi. In 113 BC, Zhao Xing, the fourth monarch of the Nanyue Kingdom, had a dispute with Prime Minister Lu Jia because he requested "inner vassal" from the Western Han Dynasty. Lu Jia killed Zhao Xing, made his brother Zhao Jiande the new monarch, and confronted the Western Han Dynasty. In 112 BC, Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty sent 100,000 troops to launch a war against Nanyue, and destroyed Nanyue in 111 BC, setting up nine counties. The Nanyue Kingdom has existed for 93 years and has gone through five generations of monarchs.
Xu Shu knew Nanyue because Nanyue was finally destroyed by the big Han. It can be said that there are many places in Jiangdong now that were originally the land of Nanyue.
Some of them continued to go south.
"Going south of South Vietnam, there are some small countries like the current Western Regions. Once this channel is opened up, then we can open up the Silk Road on the sea. With these ships, we can make the road I'm afraid we won't have any money when the vassals of the hundred kingdoms make offerings to us!" Liu Mang's words had already moved Xu Shu.
If you tell Xu Shu that there are endless gold, silver and jewels in the south of Nanyue, Xu Shu may think that you are deceiving him, but if you tell Xu Shu about the Silk Road, Xu Shu's eyes will shine.
After Yumen Pass, it is the direction of the Western Regions ahead. Before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who would have known that there were so many small countries in the Western Regions, such as Yelang, Yuedu, Da Yuezhi, Loulan, etc. They are small countries in the Western Regions. Although these small countries in the Western Regions are small, they are rich. If you trade with them, as long as you bring silk, you can exchange for endless wealth.
"Does my lord know about the countries on the sea?" Xu Shu asked suspiciously.
"Never!" Liu Mang also doesn't know much about this area in Southeast Asia at the end of the Han Dynasty. After all, the Han people who can record history books are busy fighting at this time, and have no time to talk to you. Those who are capable are basically monkeys. The class doesn't even have words, what kind of record do you ask him to take, so this paragraph is simply blank.
But Liu Mang was not discouraged. Although he didn't know how cultured the Southeast Asian countries are now, he knew that going south would definitely be beneficial. The positions of those gold mines and silver mines should not change, let alone the There is an India.
"How many such warships will be built?" Xu Shu knew that he could not prevent the appearance of this sea-going ship, so he could only see if he could build a few fewer ships. He was really afraid that Liu Mang's cheap master would order another thousand or eight hundred ships indiscriminately, and it would be over.
"Now even if you want to build more, you don't have the money!" Liu Mang shook his head with a wry smile. "He knows that the warships and cannons have almost wiped out Yangzhou's savings. Let's build three first!"
Liu Mang said to Xu Shu that he originally planned to have three ships, and it happened that there were one thousand guns on one warship, and thirty-three guns on each of the three thousand guns. One hundred and thirty-three cannons, although not comparable to the military power level in history, are enough for more than two hundred years in this park.
"Okay! Only three ships, only three ships!" Xu Shu gritted his teeth and said.
"Naturally, this military power will test the water with three ships first, so that we can build more, and others."
"En..." Xu Shu panicked a little, he heard other words, he was afraid that his lord would build other warships again.
"Don't panic, Yuan Zhi, don't panic, Yuan Zhi, what we're going to build next is not a warship, but a merchant ship!" Liu Mang asked Xu Shu to look at the blueprint below, and Xu Shu's heart settled slightly after seeing this blueprint. The blueprint is also a thousand-ton ship, but this ship is much simpler than the military-level ship, and its characteristic is that it is fat. It is no wonder that a merchant ship is loaded with good-looking goods.
"This kind of merchant ship costs 2,000 tons, and the cost is about 20,000 gold. Let's build three ships in the first batch!" Another 60,000 gold was added.
Xu Shu carefully counted and counted, and now they can't even get 50,000 gold out of their Yangzhou treasury. Fortunately, they have Jiangling as a support, otherwise they would have died long ago.