Chapter 369: What Happened That Night: "What is the use of those sour shows that I want to be powerless?"
”Quan Xu shook his head and said: "Do you think that Liaoning University is the same as those private schools in Jiangnan, teaching and educating people and training them to be officials?"
Joke, am I full?
What I want to build is a university to train high-level technical talents, for example, excellent craftsmen, management talents who can manage, bookkeepers who can pinch and calculate, and senior craftsmen who can make steel and iron!
”Cheng Jingxian was silent for a long time: "That's too much!"
”"Do you know the Liaonan Council?""
Yes!"
Quan Xu looked at Cheng Jingxian and said: "If you take a stake in Liaoning University, you can get a seat in the council, and in the future, you will discuss and sit at the same table with those governors and counties." ”Merchants in the Ming Dynasty did not have such a high status, and the officials in the four states and fifteen counties sent by the imperial court to Quan Xu were, in Quan Xu's eyes, proper tool people, tool men used to improve the status of merchants, craftsmen and soldiers."
Deal!"
To be able to get such a place, for Cheng Jingxian, it is not a loss at all.Sixty thousand taels of silver is just a small amount of money for Cheng Jingxian.With Cheng Jingxian's investment of 60,000 taels of silver, Liaoning University immediately began to survey the terrain and prepare for construction.Quan Xu's deepest feeling at the end of the Ming Dynasty was that there were so many illiterates, and there were so many that they were crazy!
It is not possible to find a single person in a hundred people who can read and write, and it is no wonder that the status of ancient scholars was so high, and they have become rare animals like wild Siberian tigers, can the status be not high?
When the People's Republic of China was founded, Premier He Zhou was stunned by China's illiteracy rate of more than 90 percent, and if these two fathers were brought to the Ming Dynasty, they would definitely feel that the stall they took over was too perfect, and one out of ten people could find one literate person!
Of course, by the time the prime minister and the president died, China's literacy rate had risen to nearly 80 percent.This statistic should be kept in mind: when they took over the country, the illiteracy rate in the country was 90 percent; By the time they died, China's population had doubled, but the proportion of people with education had risen to nearly 80 percent, and scholars were no longer a rare animal.The rapid development of China's economy in later generations did not depend on a single person, but on all Chinese, but all literate Chinese.More than 20 years ago, when Lao Cheng just graduated, he held a college diploma and was still a sweet and sweet spot in the company.In the whole company, Lao Cheng is the person with the lowest education, except for the driver, of course.The development of southern Liaoning is about to reach a bottleneck, that is, it is restricted by talents, and the Jinti Academy has not provided help to Quan Xu, at least the artillery units are now dominated by teenagers who have undergone rapid training for more than a year.Like Hu Renyu, a sixteen-year-old boy, he has become the commander of the whole family army of more than 7,000 people, as for Qi Yuanbi, Yuan Shiqing's baby son Yuan Zongdi Yuan Hutou, has now become a big soldier in the Guards Brigade, and together with Shen Liangcai, he serves as Quan Xu's personal soldier.After Cheng Jingxian invested 60,000 taels of silver, and then like Cao's who often cooperated with Quanxu, Bianzhou Xu's also invested 30,000 taels of silver respectively to obtain half of the shares.A brick was not built, Quan Xu received an investment of 120,000 taels of silver, and Quan Xu had a headache because of the lack of people.Just when Quan Xu had a headache, the Dutch governor in Jilong, Putmans, was the fourth Dutch governor in Taiwan, and he was now very troubled, a month and a half ago, Erwin, the commander of the Dutch combined fleet, led thirteen armed merchant ships to southern Liaoning.As a result, half a month ago, they came back, but they were sent back by the people of Huayang Society, and when they went, there were thirteen armed merchant ships, and when they came back, there was only one lifeboat and seven people left.This is also the general idea of Quanxu.It was also Erwin who took advantage of the darkness under the lights, compared to the thirteen armed merchant ships, the lifeboat was too small, and at that time, this lifeboat was because it was upside down on the sea, and Quan Xu ignored it.So, Erwin and Duncan and seven others were finally rescued, and they drifted on the sea for three days, and were finally rescued by the people of the Huayang Society.Liaonan is not far from Dengzhou, even if it is headwind, it will arrive in three days at most, so on the third day of the incident, Huayang Society sent people and ships to look for it on the route.Fortunately, Elwin and Duncan were found, but both Erwin and Duncan were seriously injured, and after treatment, two more died of their injuries.Fortunately, Erwin survived, except that he was blind in one eye, broke a leg, and had multiple fractures in his shoulder, arm, and especially on his leg.Despite the loss of 150 105mm field guns, the Huayang Society was very happy because they succeeded in leading the Dutch to a head-on confrontation with Quan Xu.The Dutch lost thirteen ships and thousands of men, a loss that they would never swallow.Under the careful care of the Huayang Society, Erwin's injuries were stabilized, and he successfully returned to Jilong on the ship of the Huayang Society.Today's Jilong has gathered seven Dutch third-class warships, and France, Spain and other countries are desperately building first-class or even second-class warships, but the Netherlands, a sea horseman, has a soft spot for third-class warships.They were armed with fifty or even sixty guns, but they were mainly 32-pounder or 42-pounder guns, and even a first-class battleship with a full load displacement of 2,000 tons would be severely damaged by a 42-pounder gun.It is a pity that the hit rate of naval guns in this era is pitifully low, and hundreds of naval guns of European warships firing at the same time may not be able to sink a single enemy ship.What's more, at night, when visibility was very low, in the night battle that day, the Dutch thirteen battleships fired a full five or six hundred guns, and they didn't even have the skin of Quanxu's seal.When Elwin and Colonel Duncan were stabilized, Governor General of Taiwan, Putmans, and Alphonso, the representative of the East India Company, came to meet with Elwin."
Lord Elwyn, are your injuries better?""
I can't die yet!"
Putmans asked solemnly, "I want to know what happened that night?"
”This question is actually what Alfonso wants to know, although it is said that the Dutch are horsemen at sea, but the armed merchant ships are not horse-drawn carriages after all, and the Dutch are small and outnumbered, and they have less than 4,000 people in the whole of Taiwan, one-third of whom are the families of colonial officials.The loss of a thousand men was enough to devastate the East India Company.Erwin closed his eyes in pain, and he gasped: "What the hell, after we traded with the Ming that day, we left Lushun with the one hundred and fifty guns they delivered, and when the wind was down, we sailed about one hundred and twenty nautical miles southwest of Lushun and encountered an enemy ship!"
”"One?"
Alfonso frowned: "Your Excellency Commander, I'm not questioning you, are you sure, just a ship?"
”"Yes, it's just one!"
Duncan smiled bitterly: "And it's smaller than all our ships, about eight hundred tons, no mast, no pulp, their battleships are really fast!"
And the caliber of their guns is also much larger than ours, although this ship is not big, but it is full of eccentricities!
”Alfonso said incredulously: "Then how can you sail?"
”"Our ship has no mast, no sails, no oars, so naturally it can't sail, but they can!"
As the governor of Taiwan, Putmans still knows more about the Ming Dynasty."
Daming has a kind of wheeled boat, which sails very fast, but the boat is small!
Eight hundred tons, I have never seen such a wheeled ship. ”"That's right, since they can build small ones, they can build big ones" Erwin said: "That ship should be a wheel ship, the speed is very fast, every time they launch, it is fifteen fire dragons!"
”Whenever he closed his eyes, Erwin could never forget the whistling rockets, and his face became very ugly: "That kind of fire dragon roars towards our warship, and once it hits the ground, it will explode and burn, and it only takes three fire dragons to hit a ship to reimburse an armed merchant ship, even the Philips is no exception!"
”Although the Philips claims to be an armed merchant ship, in fact, the Philips is almost the same as the main Dutch third-class battleship, with fifty-nine guns, and once it is launched at full firepower, it will be a very terrifying existence.Even in a naval battle with the Ming army, the Dutch used five third-class warships at that time, and in the entire Far East, the Dutch only had seventeen third-class warships, most of which were concentrated in Luzon and Manchurian armor."
Sink a ship in one salvo?
How do they do it?
”"I don't know!"
Erwin smiled bitterly: "That fire dragon, as long as it falls on the ship, it will explode and catch fire, and then the fire will be out of control, even if it falls on the sea, it will burn, the power is greater, more powerful than our forty-two-pound gun!"
”"The Ming is the largest country in the world, and it is not surprising that they have excellent craftsmen who can make fast and powerful artillery!""
Speaking of artillery, I must mention the standard artillery of the whole family army, they are called field artillery, the whole cannon weighs less than a hundred kilograms, although there is no time to test, at least ......"
Speaking of this, Erwin's eyes burst out with a terrifying cold light: "I understand, they attacked us boldly, the purpose is those artillery, and they don't want the artillery to fall into our hands!"
”"So, Huayang Club has set up a bureau for us?
Sent our thirteen ships to this elaborate trap in Liaodong?
”At this time, Alfon said: "Everyone, don't forget, we are merchants, and profit is the standard that merchants use to measure everything!"
The current situation is very obvious, this big country in the East is an almost unlimited market, they have the strength to crush us at any time, and it is very unwise for the two sides to engage in an armed conflict!
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