"Everyone...this ballistae cannot defeat the artillery of the Tang Army, but not all ships of the Tang Army have artillery..."
Wang Jing only said this.
Everyone present was obviously stunned, as if they had come back to their senses and suddenly realized something.
Just like Wang Jing said!
Although the artillery of the Tang army was powerful, and with Li Tang's current steel output, producing more artillery was just a piece of cake. But... it was difficult to move these artillery pieces onto the ship.
Currently, the Tang Army only has artillery on its big black iron ships, and this kind of big black iron ship... is a rarity even in Li Tang.
Except for this big black iron ship, I have never heard of any other ships equipped with artillery. In other words...
If everyone guessed correctly, it is very likely that this artillery can only be installed on big black iron ships.
Regardless of whether you guess right or wrong, this artillery... can either only be installed on a large black iron ship, or, even if it can be installed on a wooden ship, it must have great limitations and risks.
The conjecture of Pei Ji, Cui Baihe and others is actually correct. After all, artillery is a thing whose barrel will heat up violently as long as it is used, and once a wooden ship catches fire, it will be a disaster in minutes. The risk is indeed not small.
And because of the structural strength of the wooden ship itself, it is no joke that it is subject to restrictions. Just like the destroyers of later generations, it is absolutely impossible for a vertical launch system to appear on a wooden ship - it is too easy for the missile's tail flame to ignite the hull.
Not even missiles, just those huge phased array radars. Because of their extremely high power, the temperature is no joke. Even steel hulls have to consider heat dissipation issues, let alone wooden ships.
Although the artillery is not like the phased array radar that needs to be turned on frequently and continuously, and it does not have the temperature of the missile tail flame like the vertical missile launch system, but in times of fierce battle and danger, the high temperature of the barrel is also real.
It is also certain that people are afraid of fire.
Thinking of this, everyone around Wang Jing suddenly felt that this was surprisingly good... Thinking about it, how could something as powerful as an artillery machine be used without various restrictions? And as long as there are h
Restrictions...hehe, Li Tai only has so many black iron warships, there are only a few in total anyway.
Everyone can't avoid its sharp edge, but what can Li Er do? As long as they avoid these warships made of black iron and equipped with artillery, the remaining sea merchants... Hehe, in front of these eight-legged crossbows,
That's not like a fat sheep to a tiger or a wolf... Thinking about it this way, Pei Ji and others also understood Wang Jing's intention. It is true that these evil things cannot defeat artillery, but...
It was not bought to be used as a weapon, but to be used as a productivity tool!
Rather than treating it as a weapon, but looking at it as a productivity, the Eight-Li Sitan Cannon is much more comfortable, because many of the maritime merchants of the Tang Dynasty are quite well-armed, and these hard-core people are really hard to make even if they make less money, or even lose money.
The ship must not be damaged, and must be equipped with sufficient armor. Against this kind of player, Wang Jing and others, even if they have the regular warships of the Southeast Asian countries, there is nothing they can do.
And now... with the Eight-Lifted Ballista, doesn't this method also exist? And...
Although ships carrying sufficient armaments and military personnel are often difficult to crack, and there is a high probability that the ship owner will sacrifice a certain amount of profits, these maritime merchants are not fools, nor are they fools. Equipment
Quasi-warships equipped with super-standard armor and weapons and super-standard military personnel often transport commodities with high value density.
For example, silk, high-end porcelain, exquisitely crafted swords, and finely polished kitchen utensils, such as Zhangqiu iron pot.
Of course, these products are not without substitutes, but in comparison, the craftsmanship is much higher. And China’s current craftsmanship...
In terms of craftsmanship, although China’s craftsmanship is still handicrafts, any craftsmanship... in the final analysis is actually handicrafts. Craftsmanship is not a kind of technology or knowledge. It is something that can be improved immediately when picked up, but can only be accumulated slowly.
s things.
Logically speaking... China is richer than overseas, and in other words labor costs must be higher - the masses must also share in the fruits of economic growth.
Although the level of craftsmanship is higher than overseas, and overseas countries... when they imitate something similar to China's products, the craftsmanship may indeed not be able to keep up, but logically, the disadvantage in this regard is included in the price - quality
It's not as good as it is, but it's also cheaper.
And...the magnitude of this price gap should be said to exactly correspond to the magnitude of the process gap.
But...things are not that simple.
In Datang's industry, although there was still a lot of craftsmanship...
But thanks to some incredible magical influence, Datang's industry already possessed a unique passive skill: the accumulation of craftsmanship.
In other words, Datang currently has countless factories of various kinds, and these factories are not simply mechanical coexistences. Instead, technological progress has occurred in one or two places. In a short time, this progress will be forced either way.
Or it spreads out to factories everywhere.
In the final analysis, craftsmanship is a kind of data. This is because in modern times, there are no unique secret recipes, but there are still business secrets. In addition to time-sensitive business secrets, there is also a lot of useful information in other aspects.
This directly led to the rapid progress of Datang's technological level. Although there has not yet been a formal industrial machine industry, the accumulation of technological level has been greatly improved compared to the past, especially the improvement in yield rate...
And the yield rate is the key to improving the reputation of products. Today in Datang, merchants have begun to become famous all over the world because of their high yield rate, and they have successfully reaped the dividends brought by this fame. Of course...
There are some reasons why some people use "invisible hands" to intervene, but in general it is in line with business logic, and this has naturally attracted the attention of many businessmen - a trend is taking place in China's industrial and commercial world.
surge.
As for these products overseas, it is not easy to arouse brand effects belonging to merchants, but as we all know...confession is the product of successful love, not love is the product of successful confession. The generation of brand effect, in the final analysis, is the product and business level.
After all, this is not an era in which the information industry is completely controlled by merchants and merchants have unlimited power of interpretation. Reputation is still the most important thing. Therefore...
Similar to silk, the value of finely processed swords is far higher than that of similar products. And the value is far higher than that, which means the value density...