However, Hong Tao did not let the Wen family shipyard build a second whale-class ship. Oh, by the way, after the construction of the Jinhe, Hong Tao set these types of ships to a level by the way, so that they would be more standardized and unified in the later construction.

The earliest explorer was called the sardine class. It can only be used as an offshore training vessel, which can neither be loaded nor suitable for frequent voyages, and is an experimental product.

The Predator and the Whaler are called Exocet. They are fast, lightweight, and can enter inland rivers as well as sail across oceans. But they could not carry large artillery, had a small displacement and could not carry large cargo, could not be considered a battleship and could not be used as a merchant ship. In addition to continuing to be a whaling ship, it can only act as a traffic boat, that is, it can run back and forth between Jinhe Bay and the relevant ports, transporting a small number of people and goods plus passing on messages.

The ships of the Haibo are pure warships, called the Jiao Shark class. They are the main warships in Hong Tao's mind, although there is only one artillery deck and the number of guns that can be loaded is only more than 20, but in this era, it is enough to seize the sea power. At present, there is no super-large-scale maritime armament in the world that can compete with itself, and there are no first-class sail warships with hundreds of guns. That kind of ship is suitable for the big fleet to spray and show off force, and they are not suitable for a real sea power strangulation war. The cost of maintenance and construction is too high, and there are many limitations in use, so it is not suitable for vigorous development at present.

The Golden River was named killer whale class. Killer whales, the largest predator in the ocean, are the same as the Golden River, a first-class sail battleship designed with hundreds of guns. Don't look at the fact that there are only two gun decks at the moment, if necessary, slightly change the internal structure of the ship to reduce the speed. can be added to four artillery decks. Hundreds of artillery pieces were armed. Turn into an active sea fortress. If there are two or three Orca-class battleships, combined with the Jiaosha-class battleships, even if they encounter the Spanish Armada of later generations, they can fight with them.

However, Hong Tao does not think that the Orca-class battleships have a chance to show their talents, and the world has not yet begun the Age of Discovery, and there are no warships that can compete with the Orca-class, and Hong Tao feels that with their own existence, they will never appear. I'm going to strangle them in the cradle! It's not right, it's not a cradle, they don't even have a chance to be born, and in the future, there can only be one kind of warship on the seas of the world, and that is the fleet of the Jinhe Marine Resources Management Company Security Company, and the rest of the fleets are illegal. Whichever country dares to build secretly, it will be hit hard from the sea, you can toss as much as you like on the land, and the sea is honestly obedient, this is the rule!

At present, the Wen family is designing and building another kind of sailing ship. It was named salmon by Hong Tao. Such a ship is not a battleship, but a cargo ship. Pure cargo ship. In fact, it is redesigned on the basis of the Jiaosha class, using a thin keel and partition plate to reduce the thickness of the board and the length-to-width ratio of the ship, and it becomes a thin-skinned, large-filled, seaworthiness, slower horizontal and vertical mixed sail cargo ship.

This kind of cargo ship has a large cargo capacity, more than 500 tons of full load, and the comfort is also very good, suitable for long-distance voyages, moderate speed, except that the number of sailors used is a little more than that of the merchant ships of the Southern Song Dynasty, and in all respects it is stronger than the Fu ship, the Guangzhou ship, and the bird ship. This is also Hong Tao's second gift to the Song people, once this type of ship spreads, it is bound to cause a tide of imitation, fast or slow, sooner or later the maritime merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty will have this kind of long-distance merchant ship. Once they have this kind of merchant ship in their hands that is suitable for long-distance voyages, will they still honestly run merchants in these surrounding countries? Aren't there a few people in it who are interested in interests and daring? There must be, and there is no shortage of bold people in the merchant class!

As a result, more maritime merchants will join the team of the voyage, and they will dare to open up their trade routes to the southeast, northwest and northwest without Hong Tao leading the team. And then? There will be maritime merchants who return home with a full load and get rich overnight. Of course, there must be ships that are wrecked and people who have lost their money. But don't worry, humans have a strange habit of only wanting to see thieves eat meat, and pretend not to see thieves being beaten. As long as there is one example of getting rich and getting rich, it can be praised for many years, and the more you talk about it, the more mysterious it becomes, as if you are a monopoly when you get on a boat. Those examples of unlucky people will be selectively ignored, and even if a few people who understand want to remind everyone, they will be immediately drowned out by everyone's reprimands. This problem is not only common to the ancients, but also not only to the Chinese, but also to future generations and the whole world, as long as there is a crowd, this is a common phenomenon.

The more maritime merchants have made a fortune, and it is bound to attract attention. In the population of the Great Song Dynasty, how much can maritime merchants account for? Not one in 10,000, is it possible that the rest of the people are fools and can't see that this road can make a fortune? Necessarily not, so a movement to go to the sea to fish for gold will definitely rise quietly, as long as there is this capital, there are this conditions of the Song people, it is estimated that they will stretch out their feet to test the water, as long as a few of them are successful, or that principle, it will immediately be praised as as long as you go to the sea to succeed and make a fortune! Then it is the army that is about to go to the sea to flutter and flutter with the bed board at home, unless the Southern Song Dynasty court bans the sea, no one can stop it!

If this happened in the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, Hong Tao felt that the imperial court would be 100% forbidden by the sea. Why? Because the status of merchants in those two dynasties was too low, the imperial court paid more attention to agriculture, and once commerce was too developed, there were fewer people who farmed the land, which affected the basic policies of the state. Compared with the merchant class, the peasants were obviously easier to manage, and whether the people were rich or not, whether they were better or worse, was never a matter of concern to the dynasties, they only cared about how to sit firmly on the dragon chair. Moreover, the maritime trade of the Ming and Qing dynasties was not taken seriously, and there was no large-scale movement to the sea, and they would still be banned from the sea.

But the Southern Song Dynasty was different, there was no Hong Tao to cross over and toss, the maritime trade of the Southern Song Dynasty was still thriving, Hong Tao came just to add fuel to the fire, to provide more favorable conditions for these maritime merchants, so that they spontaneously yearn for the sea, yearning for the wealth brought by the sea. Once maritime commerce and overseas trade are developed, it will also have a great impact on the inland of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the processing industry and manufacturing industry will inevitably be greatly driven, followed by the financial industry and service industry. As long as these industries are moving, this is a revolution, specifically called the commercial revolution or the industrial revolution Hong Tao is not clear, he is not a philosopher, nor is he a prophet, he can't even calculate what virtue he will be ten years later, where can he calculate what the Southern Song Dynasty is like. But he is willing to stir it up, just the beginning and the end, kill or bury, this is his urine.

In this way, the Southern Song Dynasty court is happy or not, Hong Tao doesn't know, it is estimated that it is bitter, spicy, sweet and sour. On the one hand, the commercial taxes of the imperial court are rising upward, and the treasury is full; On the one hand, a large part of the people, represented by the merchant class and followed by small workshop owners and craftsmen, was not easy to manage. Once people have more money, they will ask for rights, which is inevitable. Then, it is likely that a bottom-up change began within the Southern Song Dynasty, one or several classes rose, and one or several classes inevitably declined.

This kind of change is silent, it belongs to the boiled frog in warm water, and when you really feel it and figure it out, you basically can't control it. Generally speaking, it will not cause too fierce conflicts in the early stage, so Hong Tao is more optimistic. He felt that this change would eventually touch the imperial power of the Southern Song Dynasty, but it would not end in the form of war, but more likely to be a peaceful evolution, where everyone redistributed their interests and rights, and the newly rising class and the inherent class reached a new equilibrium.

This optimism is not only imaginary, but also has a very important external environment to make notes. The Southern Song Dynasty faced foreign invasion! In this environment, it was difficult for the emperors, ministers, and scholars of the Southern Song Dynasty to carry out any large-scale and fierce repression in the country. But then again, if they did that, Hong Tao would have no choice. This is their own death, no one can save them, and they can't let themselves go alone to face the Mongol cavalry! First, I don't have that desire, and second, I don't have that strength.

I want to save this hateful and lovely country, but I can only give it a blood transfusion to make it stronger and stronger. Then give him some medicine to help him fight and fight those viruses and bacteria, so that they are weaker. If the two sides are so good at eliminating each other, maybe this serious illness will be overcome, and the Southern Song Dynasty will not cough.

But! If you want to die yourself, after the blood transfusion, you will go to the great health care, and waste all the energy and energy that you have just recovered; After taking the medicine, he went for a winter swim, and he didn't know how many bowls of dry rice he ate, so Hong Tao felt that even if he was a god, he couldn't save it. Whether or not they can survive depends on the patient's own thoughts, and no one can choose for the patient.

In the past, these were blood transfusions for the Southern Song Dynasty, and now what Hong Tao is going to do is to give medicine to the Southern Song Dynasty! What medicine? Let's start with a pill at the bottom of the kettle!

What do you rely on to fight? From ancient times to the present, it is money that fights in the end! As far as the state is concerned, it is the economy, logistical organization and productive forces that are hit. The Mongols were strong, not only in the use of large-scale cavalry, but also in their ability to learn and use resources. Every time it attacks a country, it learns the advanced technology of the local area for its own use, and then turns the locals into its own army, and then rushes forward with it.

And by this time, the Mongols were no longer a nomadic people in the pure sense of the word, they had learned how to govern the country and rule the people. And because they have traveled so much and seen so much of the market, their leaders are generally smarter than the leaders of any other country in the world and understand what the world is like. This kind of vision has created their later success, and later success has also fueled their forward-looking, which is complementary to each other. (To be continued.) )