Lin Weiye thought for a while, "You mean to use the technology of the 18th century to crush the cold weapon army of the 17th century?" However, after the first industrial revolution, that is, after mankind entered the steam age, hot weapons completely eliminated cold weapons, and the Spanish phalanx was used from the 16th century to the early 18th century, and this kind of phalanx still retained spearmen. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info But we can't make steam engines, or that sentence, we don't have that industrial base. ”

"I don't know about modern military history, but I know that the replacement of arquebuses with flintlock pistols was a big step forward, and then the invention of the bayonet eliminated the spearmen, and the troops could be fully firearmed."

Lin Weiye's eyes lit up: "Yes, we can't make bolt-action rifles, but we can make front-loading smoothbore guns, we can't make rear-loading rifled steel cannons, we can make front-loading smoothbore cast iron cannons or bronze cannons, the technical difficulty is not great, and we don't need steam engines and machine tools, and we can indeed maintain our advantage over the army of this era - the advantage is not so big, but it should be enough." ”

"That's right, don't keep thinking about using AK47 against the peasant army and Houjin, just use the flintlock pistol. But......" Xia Nan asked worriedly, "It's not enough to know, it's not that simple to make a flintlock pistol, right?" ”

Lin Weiye patted his chest very heroically: "Leave it to me, as a senior military fan, a hardcore lover of equipment models, I know a thing or two from the British's Brown Beth to France's Charleville, I have never eaten pork and have always seen a pig run, it is nothing more than an arquebus to change the ignition device." ”

Xia Nan Daxi: "You still have this ability?" ”

He didn't know what Brown Beth or Charville was, it should be the model or name of the flintlock pistol, which sounded very powerful.

"Of course, from smoothbore guns to rifled guns, whether it's Brown Beth, Enfield or Springfield, with the right steel and machine tools, I can build it for you, haha......"

Lin Weiye's true colors were revealed, and he blew indiscriminately: "Give me a few shipwrights, and I can also build you a battleship of the British Royal Navy in the 18th century!" ”

Xia Nan looked at him suspiciously: "You still know how to build ships?" ”

Lin Weiye laughed dryly: "I am very interested in the warships of the sail age, and I have also studied in depth the model ...... of the British 'Victory' and the American 'Constitution'."

"Cut." Summer Minami held out her middle finger disdainfully.

After unifying their thoughts, the two had an in-depth discussion on the next development direction. Lin Weiye is an otaku in science and engineering, and he has to go on the horse to build guns and cannons immediately.

Xia Nan felt that relying on the existing salt works and the windfall obtained from the attack on Hujiazhuang was not enough to support the continuous development of the military industry, and making guns and artillery was not simply a matter of building a workshop and knocking a few times, but involved skilled craftsmen, qualified iron ore or pig iron, iron-making industry, and long-term capital investment.

If there is no quality assurance, qualified raw materials and iron-making industry and sufficient capital investment, the guns made are a tragedy, and the Ming Dynasty's bird guns are ready-made negative teaching materials - in fact, the high-quality bird guns were quite good firearms at that time, but because of the lack of military spending invested by the imperial court, officials at all levels of the Ministry of Industry were still greedy for ink, and there was no strict quality control, craftsmen cut corners, and the bird guns made were often blown up, resulting in the number of bird guns distributed to the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but the soldiers were unwilling to use them.

The otaku, who lacked a good reason, was persuaded to accept Xia Nan's plan to keep the salt works profitable at the moment, develop new profit growth points, and at the same time try to mine iron ore.

Xia Nan's vision is to have a salt pan and a new source of income, and after developing iron ore, he will launch a large-scale firearms project. Mining your own iron ore ensures a stable source of materials and puts your destiny in your own hands - pig iron is a strategic commodity in this time and space, and it is difficult to buy enough quantities to make firearms.

When it comes to mining and ironmaking, Lin Weiye is proud, this is his profession. He told Xia Nan, "God still favors us very much, Hainan Island has China's largest open-pit iron mine - Shilu iron mine, and the ore grade is quite high, the average is 51.2%, up to 69%, the iron ore reserves are about 300 million tons, and most importantly, it is open-pit, with our existing conditions, it can also be mined in large quantities."

Xia Nan didn't know much about metallurgy, but he grasped the two key points in Lin Weiye's words - grade and open air. "In other words, Hainan Island has a rich mine that is easy to mine?"

"That's it, to put it simply."

"Where exactly?"

"Our time and space is Shilu Town, Changjiang County, I don't know what it was called in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not too far from Lingao."

“Yes!” Xia Nan shook his fist fiercely, this is probably the most celebratory thing since the crossing.

After determining the general direction and the iron ore matter, the next step is to open up new sources of income. As an outstanding entrepreneur in the old time and space, he has a huge amount of working capital in his hands, and if he does not use it to put into production to become bigger and stronger, it is a tyrannical thing, and the merchants of this time and space use all the money they earn to buy land and personal consumption, or they will be poured into silver ingots and hidden in the cellar, which is incomprehensible to Xia Nan.

When it comes to this topic, Lin Weiye's interest has decreased significantly, it is obvious that this is not his interest, and he said casually: "In ancient times, there was no high-tech industry like yours, it was nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation, and it was not so easy to make money." ”

Xia Nan felt that he was also born in the high-tech industry, and he didn't know much about the traditional industry, let alone the traditional industry in ancient times.

In ancient times, eating was nothing more than a restaurant or restaurant, but there was no chain store in ancient times, and no merchant in history opened a restaurant and became a rich man; Wearing is dressing, there was no concept of ready-to-wear in ancient times, they all bought cloth and sewed clothes by themselves; As for living, the ancient inn had the function of both a hotel and a guesthouse, and there was no way to see the money; The last line, the summer south directly passed, this year there are no cars and trains, let alone airplanes, open a big car shop to earn those hard money, who likes to go.

It seems that it was not so easy to make money in ancient times. Summer Nan pondered the fortune artifact mentioned in the old time-travel novel, and what impressed him seemed to be glass. However, glass was still a luxury in the Ming Dynasty, and only a few people could afford it, which doomed the consumer group to be very small, and it was obviously not a good idea to make a fortune on glass at this time node that was about to be in chaos.

In the summer, Nan fell into thought, Lin Weiye was a little bored, and while pulling up the collar and fanning - Qiongzhou is located on the northern edge of the tropics, it belongs to the tropical monsoon climate, and the temperature is relatively high---while complaining that the local clothes on his body are not breathable enough, and it would be nice to change to pure cotton fabric.

Hearing his complaint, a light flashed in Xia Nan's mind, and he keenly captured the information of "cotton", and he said excitedly: "By the way, you can't engage in the clothing industry, you can directly engage in fabrics, and we sell cloth." ”

Lin Weiye was confused for a while, selling cloth, what kind of cloth to sell? Suddenly, the image of the cloth shop owner in the ancient film and television drama who greeted people with a smile and welcomed people and specially received rich families and official wives and young ladies came to mind.

As if knowing what he was thinking, Xia Nan shook his head: "It's not what you think, brother, what is the sign of the beginning of the first industrial revolution?" ”

"The history books are very clear, don't bully me science, the invention and application of the Jenny loom in 1765 marked the beginning of the first industrial revolution."

"yes, I just thought about it. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are not profitable, but no clothes can be separated from cloth, the common cloth in China is nothing more than silk and cotton, and cotton cloth is larger than silk consumer group, cloth can be said to be the most important necessities of life in addition to food - some dynasty cloth can directly replace currency. ”

"But what does this have to do with Jenny's loom?"

"We have all studied history, and the main production areas of silk and cotton cloth in China are in the south of the Yangtze River, but they are all family-style manual production, which is very inefficient and the output is not high. What is the biggest role of Jenny looms? The efficiency of spinning was improved, the output of cotton yarn was increased, the output of cotton cloth was driven, and the cottage industry entered the factory age. ”

"I see, we make Jenny spinning machines, and then weave cheaper cotton cloth, win by scale and volume, and defeat the cotton cloth produced by hand?"

Xia Nan laughed, "My son can be taught, and I am very comforted." ”

Lin Weiye retched a few times: "Please, don't do this."

When it came to technical issues, his interest suddenly rose: "Now the question is, do you know how to make Jenny's spinning machine?" ”

Xia Nan's laughter stopped abruptly, and he said embarrassedly: "No, I'm in business management, you know ......"

"Hahaha", it was Lin Weiye's turn to laugh three times, "Call big brother, brother will show you the way!" ”

Xia Nan didn't care, and opened his mouth to shout: "Big brother, you can build a Jenny machine for steelmaking?" ”

Lin Weiye's pride was overflowing, and two words came out of his mouth - "no".

"Damn, you're playing with me?"

"I haven't done anything about it, but I know the principle, and in middle school, I participated in an interest group, and the teacher showed us a 1:10 model of the Jenny machine. As long as I am exposed to the spinning machines of this era, I can figure it out. ”

Xia Nan gave a thumbs up, "The one who engages in technology is a cow fork, an all-rounder!" Then he gave another thumbs up, "Give a thumbs up to your alma mater, quality education is well implemented." ”

After discussing the development plan, Xia Nan sent someone to call Tan Shan and ordered him to purchase a spinning machine for local women for Lin Weiye to study.

Tan Shan looked puzzled, "What does the lord want this thing for, only the women in the county town have it, and besides, they are all for their own use, and they are not sold in the market."

Ordinary people spin, weave, and sew clothes by themselves, and the only way to buy a spinning and weaving machine is to go to someone else's house, but it is very strange to rush to someone else's house to buy a spinning machine, just like running to an unknown person's house in the old days and space to say that he wanted to buy his spatula.

Xia Nan took out the posture of a leader and waved his hand impatiently, "How to buy it is your business, master, I only look at the results, I think for myself, and the silver will be reimbursed to me!" ”

Tan Shan retreated with a bitter face and slowly figured out a way to go by himself.