Chapter 386 A few people in the Flying Fish fleet, or a dozen people, the Dutch may not send people to negotiate, but there are more than a thousand people, and most of them are Dutch, as for the tens of thousands of slave captives, Quan Xu did not treat them as human beings.These people are contributing their blood and strength to the development of southern Liaoning.From the abnormal behavior of the Dutch, Quan Xu guessed that the Dutch wanted to use force to solve the problem of Liaodong.Quanxu's analysis is that the Dutch were frightened by Quanxu's lion mouth, three hundred taels of silver per ton of steel, such a price is indeed blood-devouring, if you don't consider the value of silver in the Ming Dynasty, even if it is industrial silver, five yuan per gram, then after settlement, each ton of steel is equivalent to 55,000 yuan.Such a price is indeed unbearable for the Dutch, so the Dutch want to use force, which is also their habit, fight first and then say, as long as they win, they will force Quan Xu to sign an alliance under the city.Quan Xu took Yuan Keli to the shipyard at that time to inspect the construction progress of the Sea Shark-class battleship.The result was very disappointing for Quan Xu.Although he has already made a big deal and built eight large warships of 8,000 materials at one time, the problem is that the construction speed of these warships still can't be improved, although the warships are basically close to completion, but unfortunately from the inside to the outside, the tung oil has not had time to brush, and the auxiliary equipment still needs to be debugged for a long time.Without three or five months, it basically doesn't come in handy.Even if you have a ship, it is useless, the sailor unit has not yet taken shape at this time, and with the ship, with the sailor unit, you still need to go through long-term training before you can barely exert your true power.In words that are not bragging, the 105-millimeter field artillery produced by Quanji was used by the Denglai Army, the Datong Army, the Dongjiang Army, the Zunhua Army, and the entire family army.The training time is long, and the cost of training is willing to be paid, and the ship-to-ship battle, in terms of time, will definitely be too late.Yuan Keli stared at Quan Xu and asked, "Dongsheng, you seem to have something on your mind?"
”"Don't dare to deceive the teacher!"
Quan Xu said respectfully: "A while ago, the Dutch sent me a large amount of Fluffant, it is a kind of poison, I was angry, detained the Dutch, after so long, the Dutch did not come to negotiate, I guess, they must be trying to solve this problem by force!"
”Yuan Keli looked at the shipyard and let out a long sigh: "Once a naval battle breaks out, are you afraid that you won't be able to defeat the Dutch?"
”"It's not that I'm afraid, I definitely can't beat it!"
Quan Xu smiled bitterly: "The teacher should also know, where has the imperial court invested in the water master all these years?"
”No way, the navy or sailor is a well-known gold-swallowing monster, it consumes a large number of supplies and a huge number of rigging, canvas, wood, tung oil, asphalt and other materials every time it goes to sea, and the maintenance cost of the warship is even more astronomical, and supporting a large fleet is a huge challenge for any country.Everyone knows that Britain is one of the best maritime powers, spanning five continents and four oceans for more than 200 years, known as the empire on which the sun never sets, and there are rice flags fluttering wherever the sun shines, but I don't know how many people know that after defeating the Spanish Armada, Britain disbanded their navy at the first time?
For a full century, Britain did not expand a single step outward, and it was not until the completion of the Industrial Revolution that it began to dominate the world.In the final analysis, the navy was too capable of eating military spending, and in terms of Britain's national strength at that time, it could not afford to support it at all.What's more, is it Da Ming?
Since Yongle, the imperial court's finances have not been rich, and the scale of the naval division has been reduced again and again, as for the warships, from tens of thousands of large ships to the present, the Ming naval division is the top beam of 400 gunboats.The 400-material gunboat is converted into a load capacity of only 60 tons, not to mention the warships with the Dutch, even the smuggling ships of the Jiangnan maritime merchants are larger than the gunboats of the imperial court.Yuan Keli frowned and said: "The Dutch are good at naval warfare, but not good at land warfare, in order to avoid losses, you can only evacuate the coast in advance now, or build a fort!"
”"That's too passive!"
Quan Xu thought about it, it is not impossible to deal with the fleet of the Dutch, but this method has a certain price.When sending Yuan Keli back to rest, Quan Xu came to the sailor training base in Lushunkou, and Mao Yuanyi, Yang Yanliang and other sailor generals stepped forward to greet Quan Xu.At this time, the number of sailors training was not all in place, and the original plan was to establish 15,000 people, but only more than 8,000 people were in place, and most of them were young and strong.Quanxu's principle is to get straight to the point and get straight to the point."
I'm going to set up a death squad!"
The generals looked at each other, about to fight?
with the Dutch.This kind of thing is not hard to guess.What's more, in their opinion, it was Quan Xu who provoked the Dutch first.Of course, the result is not important, and Jeon Wook is too lazy to explain."
If you want to participate in the death squad, you don't necessarily die, but the risk is very high, and the prerequisite is to think of yourself as a dead person!"
Quan Xu looked at the soldiers: "This combat mission is a gamble, if you die, your parents, wives and children, I will raise them for you, and each of them will be rewarded with a hundred acres of land, plus a hundred taels of silver." ”The poor people, mainly the sailors of the sand boat gang and the fishermen in the southern and coastal areas, heard that a hundred acres of land and a hundred taels of silver were shining in their eyes.There is no fear, they are ready to move.This is the sadness of this era, in this bad era, human life is actually the cheapest thing, in the years of famine, a white-faced bun can be exchanged for a yellow flower girl, as for men like them, two or three buckets of food.Quan Xu used a hundred acres of land and a hundred taels of silver, for them, the money to buy their lives was not too little, but too much, they never thought that their lives would be so valuable."
I'll participate!""
I want to participate!""
Count me in!"
As soon as Quan Xu's words fell, all the recruits and soldiers of the Navy Division raised their hands one after another, and their enthusiasm seemed to be not to participate in the death squad to send them to death, but to compete to be the groom.After half an hour of screening, Quan Xu selected 200 people in the sailor training base.Quan Xu looked at the two hundred recruits and said, "If you complete the task and don't die, you will be directly promoted to the second lieutenant of the naval division, with a monthly salary of five taels of silver!"
”"Xie Dashuai!"
In fact, if they have the courage to pick up a knife and gun and serve as soldiers, they have long put life and death out of the way, they are not afraid of death, they are afraid of dying in vain.Like the whole family army, they have a very strange feeling and are very valued.The first fleet of the whole family army soon established their warship, which is the Quanji production Exocet-class catamaran clipper, not to mention the Exocet-class twin-clipper hull ship with a total of 1,000 materials, which can carry about 150 tons, in fact, only fifteen sailors can be piloted.Five people can also operate if necessary.The Exocet fleet consists of a total of ten Exocet ships.Of course, in addition to the main members of the Flying Fish fleet, there are rocket artillery.On the upper deck of each Exocet, one on the left and one on the left and one on the front and one in the rear, a total of four and sixty Shenhuo-2 rocket launchers.These Exocet fleets needed to be at least 800 to 1,000 paces away from the Dutch fleet before they could attack the Dutch ships, but at that distance they were already within the effective range of the Dutch guns.Although it is said that the accuracy of the guns of the Dutch warships is not high, and whether they can hit or not depends on the mood of the shells, the key is that they are not afraid of 10,000, but they are afraid of what happens.If you're unlucky, like the Dutchman's 42-pounder gun, you can beat the Flying Fish into dead fish with a single shot, and even a 32-pounder cannon can cripple the Flying Fish.There was really no way for the Flying Fish ship to install a 130-mm 28-fold smoothbore gun, and a 100-5 mm field gun could, but in the undulating sea, the 100-00 naval guns had no effective target.The Exocet fleet began secret training after the Exocet ships transferred from Dengzhou were in place.Of course, the slaves sent by the Dutch and the Dutch, they are not idle, they are building roads for southern Liaoning and contributing their own strength.If you don't work, you won't have anything to eat, you don't want to die, you can only work.Yuan Keli's arrival and Quan Xu's guess was good, just to urge marriage.Quan Xu is still very decisive in other aspects, but in this aspect, it is a little difficult to decide, he feels that it is very good now, there are two concubines, Erniang and Sanniang.Sanniang is lively, and Erniang is calm.There is no intrigue among other wealthy families in the family, and there are no conspiracies and tricks, which makes Quan Xu feel very comfortable, but the problem is that now, Sun Chengzong is a little anxious.Erniang coaxed her eldest daughter Panorama Mu, four Panorama Gang, as for Sanniang, the left is Panorama Ran, and the right is Panorama Yang, a family of seven, and the four children cry from time to time.Jeon Wook originally wanted to hold a family meeting, but looking at the situation in front of him, he couldn't open his mouth.With a long sigh, Quan Xu could only refuse Sun Chengzong's good intentions.Before Quan Xu could refuse Yuan Keli, Yuan Zongdi came over and said, "Master Quan, there is a group of foreign devils who want to see you!"
”"Foreign devils?"
Quan Xu finally knew who the so-called foreign devil was, it was actually Helena, a Venetian nobleman who had a relationship before.Helena was rescued by Quan Xu when she encountered the storm at the beginning, and Quan Xu also specially checked that the Dandolo family was the royal family of Venice."
Why are you here?""
Of course it's looking for you to do business!"
Helena was no longer as depressed as she had been, and she was followed by at least thirty knightly guards in heavy European armor, as well as familiar faces such as Arberg."
How did you get the money to go back?"
Quan Xu remembered that Helena was trying to borrow money from Quan Xu, but Quan Xu didn't lend it to her, but he didn't pay attention to Helena when he was fighting with Houjin.Later, Helena left a letter and left the town.Just then, an acquaintance appeared behind Helena.Sun Wenying said: "The money I lent her!"
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