Jinhewan is not a country in a substantial sense. It is equivalent to manipulating the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty to seize the markets of various countries and then divide a large piece of cake from it. The larger the Southern Song Dynasty's maritime merchants, the richer the Jinhewan; the richer the Jinhewan, the larger the fleet; the larger the fleet, the more markets the Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants can occupy. This is a game of circles, and the final result is collapse, but this collapse point is still very far away. Before this model fails, the development speed is still very fast. To put it bluntly, it is to plunder others to enrich themselves, then arm themselves with the plundered wealth, and then plunder. When will the earth be snatched away, and everyone will be frightened. If everyone unites to oppose you, Jinhewan will be finished.

Other countries cannot learn this method. They do not have this technical reserve. The main reason is that they do not have this vision, cannot understand what is ahead, and are still groping forward in the darkness. They are incomparable to Hong Tao, a freak wearing an infrared imager.

If a country forced the model of Jinhewan, and wanted to compete with Jinhewan for maritime forces and fight against Jinhewan, Hong Tao would wake up in his dreams. When a country spends most of its resources on building fleets, it will inevitably compress other expenses. The expenses of building a fleet and supporting a fleet are very, very huge. Even in Spain and Britain at its peak, there were not many main battleships, and the rest were small and medium-sized warships, or even armed merchant ships.

When you put most of your national strength into the navy and then plunder enough resources to supplement it, what will happen? Crack... Your country's economy collapsed, the fleet became a bad asset, and like the Soviet Union in later generations, it was dragged down by itself. When your fleet was completely destroyed by a gunfire in Jinhewan, what will happen? Crack... The head of this country was overthrown because you ruined the national economy and the fleet was not saved. What is this not the sinner of the ages? How did the ancients treat sinners of the ages? Overthrow you and then kill you. When encountering people with a larger temper and a smaller mind, they will also involve your family. They will not relieve their hatred if they crush their bones and ashes.

But can you resist learning? This requires a specific analysis of the specific situation. First of all, those small countries can be filtered out. They are not able to learn, just like the arms race in later generations. Only big countries and strong countries are qualified to play this game. You say you are a big country. If you are a big country, you have to buy an extra 100 tanks and you have to borrow a place to park with your neighbors. Is there a need for a competition?

A country that can play the Ocean Navy must meet several conditions. First, you have to have skills, that is, a shipbuilding craftsman. I haven’t heard of buying an arms race, that’s really a fool. Second, you have to have resources. You have to use a lot of wood to build a ship. A dragon shark-class warship is not a keel. Just a boat board that is more than 40 centimeters thick, you have to use hundreds of hundred and century-old woods. A country without a large number of forests can be removed. Third, you have to have a good harbor, but it’s not enough to rely on the seaside.

Large ships cannot be parked on some beaches. The depth, water flow, water temperature, and wind direction must be considered. Fourth, you must have enough manpower. The boat can be built, but the sailor cannot build it, so you have to cultivate it slowly. And no longer, just like before, you can be a sailor by catching a fisherman. As the shipbuilding technology has improved, the crew must also make progress with the water rise, you can't read, but you have to learn basic geometry and mathematical knowledge. People who can't even understand 360 degrees cannot be a sailor.

After arranging the matter for Guangzhou Port, Hong Tao took the fleet and left first. The first stop at Brunei Port. Kong Pei, who set out for a few days, had already used the Haibo and a salmon-class merchant ship to pick up 100 Mamluk soldiers from Malacca Port. These soldiers would follow Hong Tao to go on a walk on East Java Island. Hong Tao felt that relying on the hundreds of marines alone was not enough to destroy the city and capture the village. If these Mamluk soldiers could be forced to fight, the possibility would be greater.

"Compassion, I'll say it again. The artillery deck must be controlled with lights, and there is no spark. You can send me someone around the gunpowder depot on duty day and night, and there is a double post. Who dares to approach without reason? Just shoot the crossbow to death, kill first and then report! Do you understand?" Compassion has been promoted to the first mate on the Jinhe River. This is not only a reward for Cixi's loyalty, but also a due to Cixi's due diligence. But today Hong Tao is a bit abnormal. Since the fleet left Jinhewan, he has said these words to Cixi more than once. Sometimes he himself crawled into the bottom cabin and circled around the three gunpowder depots. As long as he found that a sailor on duty was not on duty, he would be furious.

What else is there in the gunpowder warehouse? What else can I have? Gunpowder! It’s just that the quantity is a bit too large, twenty tons! There are also more than seventy tons of grenades and heavy oil. If this thing explodes, Hong Tao can’t even think of what physical state he will become, is it a molecule, atom or particle?

Sleeping with dozens of tons of gunpowder is also the first time Hong Tao has tried in his life. Even if his heart is big, he can't sleep these days. It's better than many crew sailors relaxing. Even Wen Nan is better than him. He should eat and sleep without delay. This is the fearlessness of the ignorant people. They don't know what these dark things are like. Even if they talk about them every day, people's understanding must have a process, and even many tragedies are needed to truly understand.

"Master, don't worry, I asked them all to take off all their hair to work. The crossbow arrows I used were all whale bone arrows, and they could not carry any metal at all. In addition, I specially set up a transport group. Except for them who can go to the ammunition compartment, they will shoot whoever shows up, and they deserve it!" Ciqing didn't quite understand why Hong Tao was so nervous, but like his father, he didn't plan to understand at all. Hong Tao said that the coal balls were white, so he thought that his eyes were wrong and should not be regarded as black. He would only try to make himself see the coal balls as white, and not think about whether the coal balls were originally black.

"Sir! Call me sir! Don't learn from your father. You are different from him. You are a child from Jinhewan. Remember this, you are not worse than others at all, and even better than many people. Otherwise, how could you be the first mate and they won't be able to do it? By the way, how was your marriage with Weng Ya? Did your father give the bride gift to the Weng family?" Hong Tao did not object to Cixi calling her master, which was a kind of respect, or a kind of affection. But he didn't want the merciful generation to have this idea. They can respect others in other ways without lowering their identity.

"... Grandma Weng doesn't want to do it. My father said that when I become the captain, I might become..." Merciful, don't say that she doesn't like Weng Ya, she actually likes her in her heart. When Weng Ya was the captain of Jinhe, he almost became Weng Ya's orderly soldier. Except for not being able to move around while on duty, she was always on call, and she was a small follower.

"No hurry, child, in my country, boys can't get married until they are 18 years old, and girls can get 18 years old. You and Weng Ya are still young, and in a few years, Mrs. Weng will agree. If she still disagrees, I will ask you and Weng Ya to stay in a distant place. Just like your brother Bo Jiao, when the children are born a lot before coming back, she will be happy, and if she is not happy, right?" Hong Tao couldn't teach the child well, and it was all wrong to come to him.

"Hehehe... I must treat Weng Ya well. I will stay by my side when I give birth to a baby and will not go anywhere!" Merciful and happy, and quickly expressed loyalty to Hong Tao.

"Your uncle! I'll work for you for a long time, and you turn your head and laugh at me, and disappear from my eyes. I'm upset when I look at you!" Compassion may be like this, and it doesn't mean that much, but why is Hong Tao so awkward to listen to this? This is called the speaker who has no intention. Whoever has the intention is indecent will be indecent!

If you ask Hong Tao why he brought so much gunpowder to travel, it is actually not much. The amount of gunfire is usually one-fifth to half of the weight of the shell, depending on the range, you have to load as much medicine as you want. A 150mm solid bullet weighs 12 kilograms. If you want to fire the full range, you must stuff at least four kilograms of fired medicine. According to the artillery tutorial formulated by Hong Tao, it is four kilograms of medicine cakes. If you carry the launching medicine according to the standard of launching solid bullets, you must bring at least one ton of fired medicine when you bring out a three-ton gunfire shell. Now Hong Tao does not have many solid bullets on his ship, and most of them are hollow flowering bullets. In this way, it can save a lot of fired medicine.

The medicine cake was invented by Bozhu. The Women's Federation has always been responsible for making cork fuses and cork pads for shells. After the artillery this time, the task of launching medicine bags was also handed over to their workshop. Bozhu inherited the genes of the old man Bofu in a habit, that is, saving. She couldn't see any behavior of wasting and wasting good things, so when Hong Tao said she wanted to wrap the medicine bags in silk, she felt heartbroken and tried every means to use it.

Its material replaces expensive silk. She thought about this thing all day without thinking about tea or food. She ran to the south bank of the river to do experiments with the artillery craftsmen to see if using other materials instead of silk would leave too many impurities in the barrel. The test results disappointed her. No matter what material it was replaced, it left more impurities after the silk burned. Some of them were stuck to the inner wall of the barrel and it was difficult to rub it with the cannon brush. For this reason, she lost weight.
Chapter completed!