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After a heated quarrel, Li Wei angrily signed a trade agreement for 1,000 naval guns.

According to the content of the agreement, the price of each naval gun is 20,000 taels, and the total value of 1,000 naval guns is 20 million taels of silver, and the 20 million taels of silver will be offset by 300 large merchant ships, 200 medium-sized merchant ships, and 20,000 slave craftsmen in the shipyard.

After the last meeting with Li Wei, Xiao Ming drew up this agreement, and Li Wei sent someone to Lin'an for 800 miles according to Xiao Ming's wishes.

Then the King of Chu asked people to bring the news, so that Li Wei had no choice but to agree to Xiao Ming's conditions on the basis of reason, and Li Wei naturally told Xiao Ming about this bottom line.

Therefore, the quarrel in the governor was just a play played by Xiao Ming and Li Wei for the king of Chu, because after getting the agreement, the king of Chu may have sent the housekeeper of the palace over out of anxiety.

"Envoy Li, we have suffered a loss this time, if it weren't for the sake of the people of the same Dayu Kingdom, we would definitely not sign this agreement, after all, a thousand naval guns will seriously affect the production of our own artillery." Pang Yukun is still acting.

Li Wei snorted coldly and said: "There are 30,000 large merchant ships and 10,000 medium merchant ships, you Qingzhou will really reduce the price, and we will lose money by selling the merchant ships at this price, hmph, let's go." ”

With that, Li Wei left the Governor's Mansion in a menacing manner.

When Li Wei walked by, Pang Yukun suddenly laughed, he looked at Xiao Ming, who had been sitting in the inner room, and said, "Your Highness, how is this play performed by Xiaguan?" ”

"Yes, yes, the king of Chu shouldn't be able to see the flaw now." Xiao Ming walked out of the inner room with a smile.

Pang Yukun continued: "Now that the agreement has been signed, it is time for Li Kaiyuan to bring the merchant ships back, and now that there are so many merchant ships, the Chamber of Commerce should stop complaining about the lack of ships." ”

"Having said that, but we can't be complacent, these five hundred ships are only less than one-tenth of the fleet of the King of Chu, we still have to continue to work hard, and the reason why this king wants to change merchant ships this time is also to free up the shipyard to build warships, without warships, no matter how many merchant ships there are, they can't go to sea."

The further he went, the more Xiao Ming found that his strength was insufficient, in modern times, the Dutch at the peak of the sixteenth century once owned 15,000 merchant ships, but there were often 2,000 merchant ships docked in the docks alone.

Compared with these maritime powers, his own family background is really not enough to stuff people's teeth.

It is precisely because of this that Xiao Ming is so frantically recruiting shipbuilders from all over the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and he wants to build Dengzhou into a new world shipbuilding center.

Pang Yukun nodded, now the Dutch are rampant on the sea is not good news for Qingzhou, because the Chamber of Commerce is planning to transport goods from the sea to the south, and now the route is cut off by the Dutch, which is also not good for Qingzhou's trade.

"Li Wei said that the Dutch have a total of twelve warships, all of which are three-deck warships, and we have a total of fifteen warships under construction now, so we should be able to win in terms of numbers."

"This king is not sure."

Xiao Ming frowned, the Dutch had rich experience in naval warfare, and he was not sure if Yue Yun could defeat the Dutch with his fleet.

However, there is one thing he has an advantage, he understands the tactics of the sea in this era, and he will not make the same stupid mistakes as the king of Chu.

Moreover, this naval battle is only one part of the war, and the most important thing is that he will send the Qingzhou army to land on Ryukyu Island and drive away all the Dutch on the island.

As long as the Ryukyu Island was occupied, the Dutch fleet, which had lost its supplies, was basically finished.

After all, they had arrived on Ryukyu Island from the Netherlands, and the Dutch relied on the supply of the colonies, and without a supply point, the Dutch could only starve to death on the ship.

Now the war is already in preparation, just waiting for the completion of all the Galen ships at the Dengzhou shipyard.

After chatting casually with Pang Yukun, Xiao Ming left the palace and headed for the workshop area outside the city.

Now he is most focused on the development and refinement of basic industries, without fine industrial division, the difficulty of producing the same industrial product will increase exponentially.

The most realistic example is the flintlock pistol, which takes two months to make by a craftsman, and the final flintlock pistol can be assembled in just one hour after the barrel, stock, and movement parts are refined.

Therefore, with the increase of industrial types, Xiao Ming needs to refine the industrial classification.

This time, he went to the workshop area to settle this matter with Chen Wenlong, splitting the equipment division and the steel workshop.

"Your Highness."

Chen Wenlong had been waiting for Xiao Ming in the workshop area for a while, and at this time he summoned the supervisor in the workshop area to wait for Xiao Ming's order.

Xiao Ming nodded and said to Chen Wenlong: "Since they are all here, now let's talk about this industrial refinement, in the future, the steel workshop will only be responsible for the production of steel, springs, briquette furnaces, iron pots, etc. will be dismantled and produced by a special workshop. ”

Chen Wenlong nodded, and he recorded Xiao Ming's words together with the other supervisors.

After a pause, Xiao Ming continued: "What workshop needs what lathe, you choose by yourself, such as this spring, the spring workshop in the future can directly get spring steel from the steel workshop, and then process the spring steel into all kinds of springs, gears, and connecting rods in the spring workshop. ”

"As for the steel mill itself, it also needs to be refined, and the production of each type of steel is in charge of a specific craftsman, not one craftsman is responsible for five or six kinds of work at the same time, but it needs to be specialized."

“……”

Xiao Ming said sentence by sentence, everyone was busy recording, after all, this is another big change, the former workshop area is like a mother, and now it is about to divide into branches and leaves.

In addition to the key steel workshop split, Xiao Ming talked about the split of the glass workshop, mirrors and other goods that need to be processed independently of each other, and the chemical industry with three acids and two alkalis was ordered by Xiao Ming to be split as soon as possible.

These chemicals are already dangerous, and mixing them together is even more dangerous.

At the same time as requesting the dismantling of the workshop, Xiao Ming also specifically demarcated the workshop area, dividing the chemical, steel, and light industries into different areas, and required the categories of items produced to be hung in front of the workshop, and all the workshops were enthroned and registered in the government for unified management.

In addition, the workshop should also establish its own management system, and each workshop should establish its own research room to continuously update the products, and send people to the Bowen College regularly to learn relevant knowledge.