Chapter 577: Thousand-material armored ship is launched, raising and killing pigs is not allowed

In the second year of Zhaowu, June 1st.

Outskirts of Nanjing, Longjiang Shipyard.

Today, the first thousand-material iron-clad warship built by Longjiang Shipyard and Nanjing Shipbuilding Bureau was launched. In order to show the importance to the warship and at the same time to personally understand the warship's condition, Zhu Yuyao came here.

Also accompanying him were Li Yan, Superintendent of the Military Academy, Zhu Dadian, Ma Ke, Ye Tinggui, Assistant Minister of the Military Academy, Liu Linchang, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Song Yingxing, the lieutenant of the Ministry of Industry, and other officials.

Speaking of which, since Zhu Yulao's registration last year, many military industry factories and bureaus have been established in and around Nanjing. The Longjiang Shipyard has been allocated funds to build warships with more than a thousand materials.

After the Nanjing Shipbuilding Bureau was established, it was tasked to cooperate with it to build ironclad warships.

With the strong support of the imperial court and the order to build warships, Longjiang Shipyard itself has a good foundation. In addition, the Zheng family in Fujian Province supports a group of skilled craftsmen who manufacture sea-going ships. It stands to reason that the progress should be quite fast.

It took nearly a year to build an armored battleship. It seemed a bit slow.

After understanding the details, Zhu Yuyao realized that the speed was already quite fast.

First of all, warships with more than a thousand materials must have prepared timber. The Longjiang Shipyard was ordered to build ships. Although the timber can be transported from all over the country, transportation also takes time.

In addition, finding a thousand-material armored warship is not that simple - although the Ming Dynasty has mastered the technology of wrapping steel plates for a four-hundred-material warship, when it comes to a thousand-material warship, many aspects of technology need to be upgraded, and even a small part of the material needs to be upgraded.

Needs to be upgraded.

Material is a commonly used unit in China's ancient shipbuilding industry. Although it originally came from the amount of wood used in shipbuilding, by the Ming Dynasty, it represented the volume of the ship.

According to later research and conversion, one material of the Ming Dynasty ships was equivalent to a displacement of approximately 0.33 tons, so the actual displacement of the thousand-material warship was about 330 tons.

Due to design problems and various needs, the iron-clad battleship being launched actually requires more than a thousand materials and has a displacement of nearly 400 tons.

For a warship at this time, this was already quite large.

To install steel armor on such a large warship, there are not many problems that need to be faced.

Therefore, even with the technical support of Zhu Yulao's descendants, it still took Longjiang Shipyard and Nanjing Shipbuilding Bureau nearly a year to achieve semi-success.

Why is it said to be semi-successful?

Because the steam power of this armored warship is not up to standard - for a thousand-material warship, whether it is a propeller or a steam engine, the problems it needs to face are bigger.

Among them, the problem of the steam engine was solved, but the propeller material, casting and other related problems were not solved.

In this way, it is difficult for the steam propeller to become the primary power source of this warship.

In the end, shipyard craftsmen could only use the steam engine and propeller as auxiliary power, with the sail as the primary power.

As a "hybrid" iron-armored warship, although its navigation is far inferior to the ideal thousand-material iron-clad warship, it is still quite strong compared to the thousand-material sailing warships of this era.

Therefore, Zhu Aona was quite happy to watch the launch of this warship today.

In the end, the ship was named "Jinling" and called the battleship Jinling.

He also ordered that before a breakthrough in propeller technology, starting from the Qinglong Camp of the Royal Forest Army, one ship would be equipped for each town of the Navy according to the serial number of each town in the Navy.

At the same time, we began to build more than 2,000 sailing warships dedicated to naval warfare. We also encouraged each town in the navy to train troops, striving to upgrade the Ming Navy to the Ming Navy as soon as possible.

This inspired some naval generals who seemed to have nothing to do after the Northern Expedition...

As soon as Zhu Yasuo returned to the Forbidden City, Yu Weixin, director of the Telecommunications Department, sent good news.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the radio station of Li Futai in Guangdong that the corruption case of Ding Kui Chu has been basically investigated and the main persons involved have been arrested. At present, only a small number of insignificant remnants are still being pursued."

After hearing this, Zhu Yuyao's eyes lit up and she immediately took the telegram from his hand.

This message was jointly submitted by Li Yutian, Xu Zhihu, the envoy of Jinyiwei Town, and Jin Bao, the envoy of the Special Affairs Bureau.

The wording is quite simple, but the length is not short. It almost explains the general process of investigating the entire case, as well as the results of the trial.

Because of relevant records in later history, Zhu Yuluo subconsciously paid more attention to the property seized from Ding Kuichu's home - when Ding Kuichu took office, his hometown Guide Prefecture in Henan Province had already fallen, so Ding Kuichu took his family and part of his family property to Guangdong.

Therefore, his family property can be searched in Guangdong.

"Two hundred thousand taels of gold and two million eight hundred thousand taels of silver."

This seems to be more than what was recorded in later history.

Zhu Ailao was stunned.

Hao Guangming also noticed this, thought about it, and explained: "According to relevant historical records from later generations, Ding Kuichu fled in a hurry when the Qing soldiers entered Guangdong, taking hundreds of ships' worth of property with him.

It is conceivable that in that case, it would be difficult for him to withdraw all the gold and silver, and most of the real estate would not be able to be sold.

Although his time as an official in Guangdong is nearly a year shorter than in history, and his power is not that great. But as the environment stabilizes, maybe he will have more ways to make money?

Jinyiwei, when the Metropolitan Procuratorate checks his property, he will inevitably dig deep into the ground and search everything. In this way, it is not surprising that more is seized than recorded in history."

is that so?

Zhu Aelao felt that Hao Guangming's explanation seemed to make sense.

In fact, this issue is not important. What is important is that this time it not only eliminated a corrupt and incompetent country, but also increased revenue for the national treasury.

Simply delicious.

Of course, if other people who colluded with Ding Kuichu and violated the law were included, the money confiscated this time would be even greater.

They were definitely inferior to the Shanxi merchants, and their number was much smaller, but overall, the amount of gold and silver obtained still amounted to more than eight million taels.

If you add in all kinds of jewelry and fixed products, it will definitely exceed tens of millions!

'It's a pity that this kind of thing can't happen often.'

Zhu Yasuo sighed in her heart and reminded herself secretly.

She heard Hao Guangming say that some emperors deliberately raised corrupt officials, just like raising pigs. When the "pig" became fat, they would "kill the pig for meat" or leave it for their son.

For example, take a certain old man with him.

This method may seem clever, but in fact it is destroying the country.

Because the money of corrupt officials does not come out of thin air, nor does it come from formal channels, but through accepting bribes and squeezing the people.

In the final analysis, the practice of "raising pigs" and "killing pigs" will transfer the pressure to the common people.

'This is the way of a foolish king, and I will never follow it!'

Zhu Yuluo firmly refused a certain temptation.

Just like her previous order to investigate salt merchants, she only requested that those illegal salt merchants who harmed the public, enriched themselves, and oppressed the people should be investigated and dealt with.

For salt merchants operating legally, she will give them a way out, even a clear way, even in the reform of the salt policy.

While Zhu Yasuo was deep in thought, Yu Weixin, who had just left and returned to the telecommunications office, came over with a piece of telegram and looked even more excited than before.

"Your Majesty, the Northern Zhili Radio Station has received a telegram jointly signed by Governor Du and Governor Zhang - the Beijing-Tianjin Railway is completed!"

As the director of the Telecommunications Department, Yu Weixin was exposed to telegrams from governors, admirals and even intelligence departments in various parts of the Ming Dynasty every day. Naturally, his horizons were greatly broadened and his knowledge was improved as never before.

Therefore, even though she was born as a palace maid, she now knows very well how important the railway is to the Ming Dynasty, and how significant the completion of the first railway in the Ming Dynasty is.

Sure enough, Zhu Aelao was also full of surprise when she heard the news.

After receiving the message and browsing it quickly, Zhu Yuyao couldn't help but touch her palms and said continuously: "Okay! Okay!"

She had been looking forward to the Ming Dynasty's first official railway for too long.

At this time, she even regretted that she should not have chosen it in Beizhili, but should have chosen it near Nanjing first - that way she could go and observe it when it was completed.

"I wish I could be in the capital right now."

Zhu Yurao cast her bright eyes towards the north.

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