Dajin Navy, divine soldiers descend from heaven! (Please collect and read)

Xianmen Pass, the residence of the Ming Dynasty Mission.

Lin Zexu, who had just watched the swearing-in ceremony of the Golden Heavenly Soldiers, was sitting in his study room, flipping through a stack of telegrams. These telegrams were all transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, and their contents were related to "

"One Thousand Ships Plan".

After the news of the "Thousand Ships Plan" spread to Europe, it really caused an uproar. Especially after the Ming Dynasty really started to formulate a large-scale shipyard subsidy plan, the British Empire was really anxious - this was about to take action! Although the British Empire

The British government's shipbuilding capabilities are not weak, but the British government's financial resources and heavy industry production capacity are much worse than those of the Ming Dynasty. If you really want to compete with the Ming Dynasty in shipbuilding, sooner or later you will have to spend every last penny in your pocket.

However, the British Empire has also been an empire on which the sun never sets for more than a hundred years. After defeating Napoleon, its national power has reached its peak, and the British also have a trump card in their hands, and that is India!

The population and financial resources of Great Britain are not comparable to those of the Ming Dynasty. The population difference between the two sides is more than ten times! But after adding more than 200 million Indians, Great Britain’s backbone is much harder. Although India is currently mainly

It is an agricultural country, but India has a large population and a large area of ​​arable land. Indian Asans are hardworking and hardworking, and the various lords who oppress the untouchable Asans are particularly good at exploiting and enslaving them. Therefore, as long as the British Empire is more ruthless, it will be more ruthless

, can always squeeze out a lot of wealth from India to compete with the Ming Dynasty in shipbuilding.

In order to maximize India's financial, material and human resources, the British Prime Minister, the Earl of Liverpool, recently announced that he would establish the Hindustan Shipbuilding Company and was preparing to invite the princes of India to invest and open a shipbuilding company in India comparable to the Ming Dynasty Jiangnan Heavy Industry Shipbuilding Company (Jiangnan Heavy Industry).

A subsidiary of a large shipbuilding company. India’s cheap labor force coupled with the shipbuilding technology of the British Empire made Lin Zexu worried!

When Lin Zexu was worried, he heard someone knocking on the study door.

"Lin Zhongtang, the lower official Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Shenshan are asking for an audience." Zhuge Weidao's voice came in.

"Come in!" Lin Zexu put down the telegraph newspaper in his hand and greeted.

The door of the study room was pushed open with a creaking sound, and then Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian were seen coming in one after another. Zhuge Weidao also held a folder, which he placed on the table after entering.

on Lin Zexu’s desk.

Lin Zexu glanced at the folder, and then motioned for Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian to sit down. Then he smiled and handed a telegraph newspaper in his hand to Zhuge Weidao, "Daozi, look at this. The British declared that they wanted to

Let’s build ships and prepare to open Hindustan Shipbuilding Company in India!”

"Really?" Zhuge Weidao took the telegram and read it carefully with the light of a dim kerosene lamp on the desk, and then said with a smile, "Lin Zhongtang, it seems that the British have already started

It’s a good thing that we followed up!”

Lin Zexu glanced at Zhuge Weidao and said, "Taozi, do you know how much Indian workers in Calcutta and Bombay earn per month? How much do our workers in Ming Dynasty earn per month?"

"I know," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "the labor prices in India are a bit cheaper. But our shipyards have good equipment, high efficiency, and new technologies. They are equipped with steel plants, turbine factories, and arsenals. So the cost of shipbuilding is

We must be lower!"

Of course the wages of workers in Ming Dynasty are high!

In a country with leading industry, how can wages not be high?

Moreover, the Ming Dynasty also controlled the supply of cheap labor through land equalization and land restriction - ordinary farmers in the Ming Dynasty had dozens or hundreds of acres of land, and the average annual income of a strong rural laborer who owned land was upwards of sixty or seventy silver dollars.

(Referring to cash income only).

Since the daily expenses of farmers are relatively low and their lives are relatively comfortable, the rural population will not transform into workers without triple their income. Historically, the American imperialists also gave less money, so those European immigrants should go to farming.

, anyway, with the Homestead Law, it is not difficult to acquire some land.

Therefore, workers in the Ming Dynasty had a stable average of 200 silver yuan per year. Shipyard workers, due to high labor intensity and high efficiency of the shipyard, almost had 300 silver yuan per year.

At present, the average wage of British workers is about thirty pounds a year, which is one hundred and twenty silver dollars, which is only about 60% of that in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the average annual income of Indian workers, it is probably only a fraction of that of British workers, which is twenty silver dollars. The wages in Ming Dynasty are ten times that of theirs!

However, under the multiple oppressions of the British Empire and various reactionary forces in India, India's labor force is low-cost and low-quality, and almost all workers are illiterate. The drawings that ordinary shipbuilders in the Ming Dynasty can understand will probably have to take a break when they arrive in India.

Engineers from the Dili or Brahmin caste who have received British higher education cannot come to see it in person. The salary of this engineer is probably 8,000 or 8,000 yuan a year. It is hard to say how much these senior engineers have.

Therefore, in Zhuge Weidao's opinion, the Hindustan Shipyard must be a British propaganda war and cannot be true at all.

If you want to play for real...then there will be a lot of interesting things in the future!

If the British really want to fight for low-cost shipbuilding, it would be more practical to open a shipyard in Prussia - Prussia's compulsory education is very good, almost as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, so their workers are of high quality and their engineers are also good, but the wages

Only half of the Ming Dynasty. Still very competitive!

However, if Britain invested heavily in Prussia and made Prussia stronger, it would become the German Empire.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao smiled and said: "The British Hindustan Shipyard is just bragging for propaganda, but this also shows that they have been fooled!"

Lin Zexu nodded and said: "Your group of military advisers and the officials of the Zheng family also think so. They plan to ask Nicholas I to come forward to set the rules for this shipbuilding competition at the appropriate time, so I want to go back

I will go to Beijing to discuss this matter with the courtiers."

As he spoke, Lin Zexu looked at Zhuge Weidao seriously: "Daozi, your military adviser and the officials of the Zheng family may not care about the Hindustan Shipyard, but they will definitely stare to see how Daoguang touches the British.

Tiger’s ass!”

Those old people are still a bit timid - they are all old men, they have been doing well for so many years, and they are used to being stable.

If Daoguang Printing is destroyed, then they will not dare to offend the British Empire. But if the British Empire turns out to be a paper tiger, then they can no longer be afraid.

After all, the current military technology and Ming Dynasty's industrial strength have developed to the point where they can support a global war.

Moreover, the domestic industrial capital of the Ming Dynasty is now increasingly feeling that the market is insufficient - the domestic demand of the Ming Dynasty is certainly not comparable to that of the UK! But with the development to this day, overproduction is still inevitable.

The best way to solve this surplus is to export infrastructure - the Ming Dynasty has now passed the time when it can develop by exporting a large amount of textiles.

To export infrastructure, we need to establish some vassal states that can undertake infrastructure and have enough resources to pay for it... This requires Westerners to hand over some good colonies!

Zhuge Weidao smiled and pointed to the folder on the table, "Zhongtang, this is the preparation plan for the Dajin Navy's heavenly troops that Xiaguan and Zheng Shenshan made together. As long as Daoguang is willing to follow this plan to form the Dajin Navy's heavenly troops, then the British

He can touch the tiger’s butt as much as he wants!”

"Naval soldiers? Use airships to drop bombs on the ground?" Lin Zexu asked while opening the folder.

"Not only dropping bombs," Zheng Guoxian took the question and said with a smile, "but also made the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Dajin jump from the airship in the sky!"

"Jump from the sky?" Lin Zexu was stunned for a moment, "How high should you jump? It won't hurt if you fall, right?"

"A few hundred meters to a thousand meters," Zheng Guoxian said with a smile. "It won't hurt if you fall. I'm carrying a parachute. If the parachute opens smoothly, it will land smoothly and it won't hurt at all. If it doesn't open, it won't hurt at all."

.”

It turns out that Zhuge Weidao's naval heavenly soldiers are naval airborne troops. These are the heavenly soldiers specially prepared for Daoguang printing!

They can directly take an airship and fly behind the British and Indian troops to parachute. Although the only ten airships cannot carry many naval airborne troops at one time, fortunately, they can catch the British and Indian troops by surprise. Especially in Afghanistan.

There are many mountain passes at the border with India. As long as the British troops can be introduced into Afghanistan and then airborne to seize a pass, it will be great fun.

So after confirming that the quality of the Dajin Eight Banners soldiers was good, Zhuge Weidao immediately approached Zheng Guoxian, and then the two took the lead in coming up with the "Navy Sky Soldier Plan" - this airborne force can be used by both sea and land! Zheng Guoxian founded

If you have a resume as an airborne soldier, you can find a senior position in the army's airship paratroopers when you return to China.
Chapter completed!