After Wu Dapeng happily sent away the group of middle-aged intellectuals, he went to talk to Wanshida alone.

Wanshida was busy working on his Magna Carta-class ironclad ship, and he was tired and anxious...... The technology for making wooden ships has matured, and even Korea and Japan can build seagoing ships of more than 2,000 tons.

But the ironclad ship is a completely new product, and for Zhang Laoshi, he has only heard Wang Defa's family say it a few times...... Others, he had never heard of!

If he hadn't made a model first, he would never have dreamed that there would be such a sea ship in the world!

When Wu Dapeng arrived, Wanshida was there and Director Zhang Laoshi was studying the counterweight of the whole ship...... If it's a big wooden boat, the counterweight is very simple, and if it is found to be unsuitable, it can be changed on the spot at that time!

However, this is a big guy with rivets!

Everything has to be researched in advance...... In the distance, hundreds of selected shipbuilders were walking back and forth on the dry dock, and the sound of rivets could be heard clearly.

Hehe, go and smash it slowly, I heard that there are nearly 10,000 riveting points in the whole ship......

When Wan Shida saw Wu Dapeng coming in, he waved him to sit on the sofa first, then turned his head and continued to compare with Zhang Laoshi on the drawings.

Wu Dapeng didn't care, he sat down comfortably, poured tea from Wanshida's teacup, and drank to himself.

He didn't have a big deal, he just wanted to talk casually.

After Wanshida finished studying with the factory director Zhang Laoshi, he made a mark on the drawing...... Zhang Laoshi, the factory director, rolled up the drawings and clamped them under his arm, and then left.

Before leaving, he also said hello to Wu Dapeng, and Wu Dapeng owed a debt on the sofa, which was regarded as a return gift.

Wu Dapeng said: "After the successful construction of ironclad warships, the construction of ironclad merchant ships will begin...... We can go to North and South America, and when I think of the beautiful scenery there, the countless Indians running back and forth, and the endless resources, my heart can't sink. ”

Wanshida took out a new teacup from the tea cabinet and said, "If you can't sink it, you have to sink it...... It will take at least a year and a half for the ironclad warship, and I suspect Hadron is too optimistic.

It will take another year to two years for the ironclad merchant ship, and again, everything has just begun. ”

"Damn, you're talking about that guy again......"

“…… Big Bird, this is an era that pays attention to the spirit of commerce, and the Great Song Dynasty government is still a normal government, but we can't help but guard against the shortcomings of the spirit of commerce. ”

"I know, I know so much! I'll immediately put together a report for the "Liuqiu Times" to publish, and it will definitely spark discussion! ”

"About what?"

"The reasons for the defeat of Carthage......

"That's a great example!"

"Well, we have to use our brains all day to brainwash others...... Of course, it must conform to the law of historical development, otherwise our descendants will suffer a few stubble sins, and in our time, we will try to kill all those evil genes! ”

Well, for now these are just ideas, and they have to be realized slowly.

Here's one thing:

Around the 8th to 6th centuries BC, Carthage began to expand into the interior of Africa and took control of most of the Phoenician colonies in North Africa.

At the same time, Carthage also advanced into the western Mediterranean, occupying the southern coast of Spain and its nearby islands, Sardinia, Corsica and western Sicily, and began to dominate the western Mediterranean, controlling the western and eastern sides of the Mediterranean with Greece.

Rome established a republic in 509 BC, and in the process of expanding into the Mediterranean, it went to war with Carthage for resources from 264 BC to 146 BC, known as the Punic Wars.

The Punic Wars were fought three times between ancient Rome and Carthage, two ancient slave states, for dominance of the western Mediterranean.

The Punic Wars, which lasted 118 years, ended with the fall of Carthage.

During this period, the Romans were tenacious, courageous, and never give up, while the Carthaginians were weak-willed, greedy for life, afraid of death, and afraid of war.

The war that lasted for more than 100 years brought great losses to both warring parties, especially Rome suffered many major defeats and setbacks, and was on the verge of despair several times, but the Romans showed amazing willpower and endurance, with the quality of tenacity and tenacity, and survived the difficulties again and again.

When they were defeated in the First Punic War, they relied on the people's initiative to donate money to rebuild their fleets when the treasury was empty and the tax rate was extremely high.

When Carthage wanted to win peace talks, the Romans pursued the principle of "never compromise in the event of defeat" and insisted on fighting to the end.

In the Second Punic War, Rome lost several battles in a row, but they never fell apart as Hannibal imagined, but became more and more courageous.

In two battles on the Po Plain, 30,000 Romans were killed, but they vowed to fight Hannibal again, and the citizens enthusiastically joined the army, quickly forming 13 legions.

The Battle of Cannae killed the Romans in the war by one-fifth of the country's young men, including a large number of noble children. It is said that Carthaginian soldiers took rings symbolizing nobility from the hands of Roman fallen soldiers, and filled three large baskets; Of the 300 seats in the Roman Senate, 177 were vacant after the war due to the death of members of the Senate.

But the Senate demanded that the grieving women of the city be kept shut up, forbid to mention the word "peace," and not to ransom the captives, believing that mercy in times of crisis would lead to evil, and that harshness, though short-term painful, would be beneficial to the public in the long run.

After repeated ravages by the Carthaginian army, the Roman economy was on the verge of collapse, and it was forced to increase taxes at home and borrow heavily from abroad, and the public life was poor, but the people rushed to the battlefield without hesitation.

On the other hand, the Carthaginians, because of their affluence and comfort, were generally greedy for life and fear of death, and if they could buy mercenaries, they would never want to live a military life themselves, believing that it would be a waste of money-making time.

The Carthaginian man was calculating, they could accurately calculate the value of a human life of each nation to a single digit, they thought that the life of a successful Carthaginian merchant was too precious to be sacrificed, and that the war was just to find the Spaniards or Gauls instead, and that war was like commercial speculation, and that war was nothing more than to open up new markets.

The key to fighting a war is money, and the more money you have, the more mercenaries you can buy, and the better your chances of winning, and that's it.

Because of their greed for life and fear of death and fear of war, they only lost a few battles at the beginning of the Roman expedition to Africa in the First Punic War, and the dead were all foreign mercenaries, so they desperately wanted to sue for peace with Le Gulus, who had less than 20,000 troops.

After the Romans defeated the Carthaginian fleet for the first time by relying on their own ship skills and ramming tactics, the Carthaginians could no longer bear the hardships and burdens brought by the war, and took the initiative to sue for peace with Rome, in exchange for short-term peace on the condition of ceding land and paying huge sums of money, but in fact, the Romans suffered far more than them at that time, and they had exhausted their financial resources and could not afford even a new defeat.

At the beginning of the Third Punic War, they blindly tolerated it, but the Romans obeyed their orders, conspired with the tiger, and abolished their martial arts, which directly led to the destruction of the country and the extinction of the nation.

The birth of the legendary hero Hannibal and the bloody battle with Rome for supremacy in the Mediterranean leveled the capital of Carthage, slaughtering or selling its entire subjects into slavery......

The spirit of fair and free commerce, the rise and fall of civilization and the uncompromising struggle of life and death...... The story of Carthage is so intriguing......

The weakness of the business spirit is too obvious...... Ironclad battleships alone are really not absolutely reliable.

Thank you for the reward from the book friend Australian Lao Wu...... I've been too busy with personal matters these days, and I'll be back to normal tomorrow, forgive me. 8)