In fact, in order to build a new type of warship, although there are drawings and materials of predecessors, many areas need to be improved, which requires craftsmen to brainstorm and make various attempts.
This is a bit of a literary statement, and to put it mildly, it's time to spend money.
In addition to battleships, Ye Chunqiu also provided drawings for cruisers, light cruisers, transport ships, troop carriers, and the like.
Of course, Ye Chunqiu's purpose has always been to first make it difficult and then easy, among which the battleship is the most difficult, so simply start here, as long as the first battleship can be built, then the other ships will be much easier to build.
Two and a half million taels of silver, Ye Chunqiu just wanted to build a fleet with three warships, two cruisers and two light cruisers, as well as a number of transport and troop carriers, the number of ships was about thirteen or fourteen, the idea at that time was so, but now it seems that this budget may continue to increase, which means that in the future, this fleet alone may need to cost nearly three million silver.
Such a huge amount is just used to build a fleet, and there must be many people who are scared like Zhu Houzhao, but for Ye Chunqiu, because of this, he feels relaxed.
Because in his opinion, the more the cost of the sailor, it is easy to form a monopoly, in this era, there are very few countries that have the ability to create a sailor, the higher the cost, the more thresholds, and with the benefit of this ship, who can uniquely monopolize the head, it means that the vast sea, who is the master.
Zhu Houzhao was also slightly disappointed, his mood quickly turned cloudy and sunny, and he was looking forward to this battleship in his heart, and discussed some details with Ye Chunqiu, and then said some gossip before letting Ye Chunqiu go out of the palace.
In the bustling town and country, although it is winter, it is still busy in this agricultural season.
It has snowed for a few days, and there is a white expanse everywhere, but the cement road in this town is exceptionally clean, and the snow has already been clean in the morning, and there is no snow, but it is crowded with people every day, and the carriages are crowded.
And here, the major workshops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the construction of Qinhuangdao has stimulated a lot of demand from the Zhenguo government, and because of this, almost all goods are now in a state of shortage, insufficient cement, insufficient steel, and even crystal, wood, all insufficient.
Now the demand in the market is too big and too big, almost all the workshops, all the orders have long been full, so that many businessmen who want goods are blocked in the China Merchants Bureau every day, begging to pick up the goods quickly.
It's just that the demand is too strong.
Sun Qi had a great headache about this, he dealt with these people every day, and felt that he was about to go crazy, but what way was there The construction of Qinhuangdao requires a lot of steel and cement, all kinds of commodities are in short supply, and even many places have begun to build docks, which also need steel and wooden planks, to be honest, just the screws and springs, even if they produce hundreds of thousands of units a day, but now the demand is still not available.
Some private workshops have also been built, even if their goods are worse than those in Zhenguofu, but the business is still very good, Sun Qi hardly dares to go out of the China Merchants Bureau now, because once he goes out, he will be surrounded by countless businessmen outside.
Sun Qi never thought that suddenly, there would be such a big demand, let's just say export now, a large number of Jiangnan private merchants and porcelain merchants need ships and carriages to transport goods to Qinhuangdao, this heavy truck, suddenly in demand.
The only thing Sun Qi could do was to frantically recruit craftsmen and open workshops, but soon he discovered a new problem, the more craftsmen were recruited, the greater the demand, just like drinking to quench his thirst.
In fact, it is also easy to understand, the workers make more money than the farmers, and the real money is in hand, which leads to the fact that the workers are much more decent than the farmers in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation, they need to take the car to work, and a car squeezes more than a dozen people, which also leads to the fact that the carriage is now selling hot, they need to eat out of the restaurant, so the restaurants are lined up, they have no time to sew and mend clothes, so all kinds of garment shops are everywhere, and countless weavers are also recruiting everywhere.
Under this strong demand, new workshops were built one after another, some of which were the property of the town and the government, and some were the investment of some merchants.
There are more and more craftsmen and apprentices here, there are thousands of coachmen here, and at the wharf near the canal, there are countless boats almost blocking the river, and now more and more merchants regard this place as their home, after all, most of the transactions are completed here, so whether it is a businessman from all over the world, they need to stay here for at least half a year, so all kinds of hotels and inns are also prosperous to the extreme, and green houses and tea shops are blooming everywhere.
Behind every industry, to put it bluntly, people are needed, even if they open wine shops, they all try their best to recruit bartenders, but the problem is that the treatment of bartenders is lower, and everyone would rather go into the workshop.
So, many people went to the countryside to recruit people, in order to find people, those people also rose, they now do not buy and sell people, but help people recruit workers, here can not be recruited, go to the poor countryside to recruit, these people with a Beijing accent, and even some simply go to a small county town hundreds of miles away, first dotted the joints, and then began to recruit workers on a large scale, as long as there is no lack of arms and legs, whether he is a man or a woman, all want.
The younger ones can be apprentices, the stronger ones can go to the foot strength, the women can go to the ready-to-wear shop to sew and mend them, and the older ones don't matter Anyway, as long as it is a person, it will be useful in the town and country, and it is strange to say, this town and country are prosperous, and there are really people who are willing to spend money to hire, and there are small workshops that are now rising, because the salary and treatment are not as good as the town and the country, so they are often strong and strong into the workshop of the town and the country, and these small workshops, in general, also know their own situation, and would rather find some leftovers, even if it is the year of the sixtieth year, they are willing to pinch their noses and admit it, who makes it cheap But for ordinary people, even if it is a cheap hired worker, for them, this salary is also quite attractive, many people are willing to go with people's teeth, these people's teeth, they are flamboyant, swaggering everywhere, they can't wait to tout the town and the government to the sky, the name of the town and the country, since then it has begun to spread everywhere. aa2705221: