Daming pirates

The modern industrial revolution actually completely cut off the livelihood of many small handicraftsmen. It forced these original small handicraftsmen to change jobs and become workers, and then entered factories to work. It promoted the process and development of the times. This process was cruel.

It is a bloody process, but it is also a painful stage that humans must go through.

Only through the Industrial Revolution can a large number of industrial products enter the market, reduce labor consumption, and generate greater surplus value. Historically, it was through the Industrial Revolution that Western countries produced a large number of commodities, resulting in their surplus of commodities.

After being unable to consume themselves, they had no choice but to look to the broader outside world, and then use various means, whether by force or commercial channels, to sell the goods they produced to more countries and regions, earning them more money.

Greater and greater profits have led to a reshuffle of the entire world.

In history, it was precisely because China moved too slowly that it eventually became a piece of meat divided among the great powers. The wealth accumulated by several dynasties returned to the hands of those great powers in a very short period of time.

Now Yu Xiaotian has long made up his mind to change this period of history and take this step ahead of time. Only in this way can the Chinese become the real leader of the world in the next few hundred or even thousands of years.

Completely standing on top of this world.

Now he can say that he has taken this step, but this step has consumed a lot of money, manpower and material resources, and the production capacity is not satisfactory to him. But given time, he believes that given him another ten years, at least Taiwan will

The island's industry will enter a new stage, and by then, with his promotion, even steam engines may be manufactured.

As long as the steam engine is built, it will completely mean that the Chinese will be the first to step into the era of industrialization. By then, who in the world can compete with them?

Think about the time when the Chinese drove warships powered by steam engines, as well as various steamships, plying the seas around the world. People from European countries would probably be scared to wet their pants. Where would they want to be?

, just go and grab them. Those Western Galenic ships that seem to be awesome now will completely turn into scum in front of the Chinese steam-powered warships.

Yu Xiaotian feels like snickering just thinking about it, so over the years, he has spared no effort to expand various factories and build various water storage reservoirs to provide power for these factories.

Nowadays, although his industry is not satisfactory, the efficiency produced has made him look at Asia and has no rivals.

The original artillery factory has now expanded into a huge arsenal. In the past, it took a few days to cast a cannon, but now many cannons can be cast in a day. If he didn't need so many cannons for the time being, this alone would be enough.

The giant arsenal can provide him with more than a thousand cannons in a year, which is much more than what the Ming Dynasty could produce in a year by concentrating the efforts of the whole country.

So at present, the main product of this artillery casting yard is not cannons. It usually mainly manufactures blanks of some heavy machinery parts, or some iron hydraulic turbines and other products. It also takes over the business of some large-scale castings on land. On the contrary,

Artillery production has now become a sideline industry. Only one or two more artillery pieces are produced every day to equip the navy and army.

In addition, since the hydraulic rolling mill was successfully developed, Seawolf can now roll steel plates or iron plates of various thicknesses.

In the past, when producing musket barrels, craftsmen had to manually beat the iron blanks into iron sheets and then wrap them to form the barrel. Now this labor-intensive and laborious process has been eliminated. The gun manufacturer can now directly

You can use the finished steel plate and use a simple rolling machine to heat it and roll it into a gun barrel. Then the craftsman only needs to forge weld the seams, and then send it to bore the gun bore until it is sent to the final step.

During the process of drawing rifling.

The entire gun production has developed over the years, and has basically evolved from hand-made barrels to a semi-mechanized production level. The output and quality of firearms have been greatly improved. This has also prepared the next step for Yu Xiaotian to strive for world supremacy.

Provides a solid foundation.

This time going north to counter the rebellion has thoroughly tested the combat capabilities of the Yu Jiajun Army, and also thoroughly verified the practicality and power of the firearms in their hands. Yu Xiaotian has already made up his mind. When he comes back this time, he has already made plans.

Continue to expand the production capacity of gunsmiths, produce more muskets, and equip them for the army.

Once he leads his troops in the Northern Expedition, then the Yu family army will take action, and they will have to do nothing but make a surprise move, and completely sweep any army that dares to stop him into the rubbish heap.

When he arrived in Tamsui a few days ago, he had already ordered his subordinates there to expand the gun manufacturing capacity, invest in a batch of gun-making machinery, convert a hydraulic factory under construction into a new gun factory, and increase the musket production capacity.

If it is doubled again, it can produce 15,000 muskets of various types every year. In this way, in three years, he can equip a new army with a strength of 40,000 to 50,000.

In this way, plus the nearly 30,000 army troops he currently has, the military strength can reach 70,000 to 80,000 people. By then, these 70,000 to 80,000 people will be enough to sweep across the entire Ming Dynasty. As long as the logistics can keep up, it won't take long

, he can unify China, and then he only needs to send a small number of elite troops to go north to Liaodong, and he can easily deal with the Jiannu. In that case, he can then build a large number of ships to join the carnival of occupying colonies all over the world.

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As for agriculture, Seawolf currently occupies a large amount of funds. As the number of immigrants increases, Seawolf Group must continue to expand land reclamation and expand new immigrant collective farms.

First of all, these immigrants must be fed. At least they must have a place to live. Then, the immigrants can reclaim wasteland. It is not enough to just reclaim farmland. They must also build various roads, bridges, and various water conservancy facilities for the farmland.

Only by waiting for supporting projects can these farmlands be cultivated effectively.

With the current level of productivity and technology, to do these things, you must invest a lot of manpower and material resources, and use the human sea tactic to achieve results. However, such efficiency is quite low and consumes a lot of money, but currently he has no better solution.

The only way to complete these projects is by using this primitive means, so the investment in agriculture and the overall expenditure of Sea Wolf are quite large.

There is also investment in various infrastructures, which is also quite huge. Yu Xiaotian attaches great importance to the local environment and road issues, so over the years, he has invested huge amounts of money and manpower and material resources every year to build roads and docks.

and the construction of various other public facilities.

In addition, there are many administrative staff, and they spend a lot of money every year to develop wages. If Yu Xiaotian had not been supported by so many industries, these ways of spending money alone would be enough to bankrupt him.

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However, Sea Wolf’s ability to make money is also very strong now. Many people now know that it is impossible to bypass Sea Wolf and go to sea to do business. Yu Xiaotian only controls the coastal areas of Fujian on the surface, but in fact he controls

Almost all important maritime trade routes.

So if he wants someone's product, if he can't get it, then I'm sorry, your goods won't be exported. If others get the goods, they won't be able to sell them. In the end, they can only end up being cheap in the hands of Yu Xiaotian, so

Now, except for Guangdong and Guangxi, some workshops that specialize in sea trade products are temporarily out of control for Yu Xiaotian. There are basically no workshops in places such as Fujian, Zhejiang, South Zhili, and Jiangxi that produce sea trade products.

Tian nodded, most people would not dare to take their goods.

This also provided great help for Yu Xiaotian to monopolize sea trade and earn huge profits, allowing Yu Xiaotian to basically control more than half of the Ming Dynasty's overseas goods.

A few years ago, for export commodities such as raw silk, which are in high demand, the best grade could only be sold for 70 taels of silver per stone. The inferior raw silk from Fujian could sometimes only be sold for 50 taels of silver.

That's pretty good.

However, Yu Xiaotian integrated the market prices and strictly prohibited anyone from selling at low prices. He finally controlled the supply of life and death in his hands. Now the Spaniards and the Dutch want to get raw silk, even the lowest grade.

It takes one hundred and ten taels of silver to get it.

For example, high-grade raw silk, which costs one stone, has now been sold by Yu Xiaotian for one hundred and seventy taels of silver, and it's still up to you whether you want it or not. As long as you say no, you can't get the goods.

Even the raw silk currently produced in Japan and its export route have been controlled by him. On the Ryukyu side, Japanese businessmen must sell raw silk to Yu Xiaotian at a price of sixty taels of silver per stone. Because Xiaotian re-exports

, and then sell it to the Dutch, you can basically double the profit again.

The Japanese businessmen refused, but there was no other way. Yu Xiaotian now sent more than thirty privateers to wander around Japan. When they found the Japanese merchant ships heading to Ryukyu, they immediately attacked them. They didn't care about the ships.

All the cargo was stolen, all the people were killed, and the ship was scuttled on the spot.

Nowadays, when Japanese businessmen go to Ryukyu to do business, they basically work with their heads up. After going to sea, there is a high chance that they will never be found again, and even the ship and the goods will disappear.

However, after these pirate ships of the Sea Wolf robbed Japanese merchant ships, they never shipped goods to Ryukyu. They all brought them back to Taiwan Island, sorted the goods, or repackaged and processed them before reselling them to the Japanese.

People have no clues about them, and there is nothing they can do against them. Even if they are suspicious, there is no evidence, so they can only admit that they are unlucky.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian also issued an order to the smuggling fleet, that is, they must continue to operate along the coast of Japan, go ashore when they feel cold, and rob when they can. Military discipline is not restricted there, and the focus is on robbing women, and

It must be a young woman, no older than thirty years old, pretty is better, as many as you want.

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