Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1589 Taking Chestnuts from the Fire ([-]) Toyotomi Military Purchase
It may be because Sakai-cho is too close to Osaka Castle. Toyotomi Hidecho insisted that the Maritime Trade Alliance's garrison in Sakai-cho should not exceed 38.He also said "very intimately" that 1000 of the [-] people are planned to be a standard infantry association of the Maritime Trade Alliance, and the remaining about [-] people can be the family members and servants of the officers of the association.

Well, for the Maritime Trade Alliance to have fewer troops stationed near Osaka Castle, Toyotomi Dainakuto Hideaga really devoted himself to the point of dying.

Luo Yuan had been arguing with him for a long time, but in the end he couldn't get enough of this "professional aide", and finally agreed reluctantly, with five thousand as the upper limit for the number of troops to be stationed.

Regarding this result, Toyotomi Hideonaga's attitude was a sigh of relief, while Luo Yuan's face was stinky but he was secretly happy.

Why are you still happy?That's because among the three places that Gao Yushi had made up his mind before, Sakai Town was originally ranked first, and Gao Yushi also knew Sakai Town's sensitivity, so he confessed to Luo Yuan that "the garrison should strive for more than one mark."

The standard is directly one level lower than the association, and there is not a small difference in the number of people in a standard and an association.The establishment of a town in the Jinghua Department is two associations per town, and one association has 38 officers and soldiers; each association has two bids, each bid has 750 officers and soldiers, and Ma Biao has slightly fewer officers and soldiers, which is 110 seven; Each standard is divided into three battalions, each battalion has four companies, each company has three rows, each row has three sheds... and so on.

The reason why the two standards form an association is only 510 people, which does not seem to have reached the total number of an association, but that is because the association also has a guard company, artillery directly under the headquarters, scout cavalry, and engineers directly under the association.

The request given by Gao Pragmatic is to strive for a standard for the garrison as much as possible, which probably means trying to garrison [-] troops. This number is less than half of what Luo Yuan actually won. Luo Yuan is of course happy now—even if the master finally only Send a bid, but the upper limit given by the Toyotomi family is not a bad thing!What's more, no matter how he looked at it, he didn't think that the master would not be willing to let more people in Sakaimachi.

After discussing this big issue, Luo Yuan originally estimated that Toyotomi Hidecho would be about to mention the relationship between the Maritime Trade Alliance and the Hojo family, but who knew that he had miscalculated—the next thing Toyotomi Hidecho mentioned was actually a sum of money. Business, big business.

On behalf of the Toyotomi family, he formally proposed arms purchases to the Maritime Trade Alliance!
That's right, it is the well-known military purchase: buying warships, buying artillery, buying muskets, buying gunpowder... He even wants to introduce some production lines-of course he doesn't know the word production line, but his expression undoubtedly means this:
"Construct one of the necessary facilities and tools for us to build related warships, artillery, guns, etc. If you need to teach and train craftsmen, please send someone to guide you. We are willing to pay the corresponding cash for this." Then he added One sentence: "The price is negotiable."

If Gao Yushi was here in person, he probably wanted to praise Toyotomi Hidetomi's vision in his heart.People hundreds of years ago had far-sightedness than some comprador entrepreneurs in later generations. They didn't think about "making is worse than buying". They had to introduce production lines and train industrial workers when they came up. One of the main members.

However, even if Gao Pragmatic is not there, Luo Yuan will never agree to this proposal.Commander Luo rejected him cleanly, and said: "I'm just the commander of the Kanto Squadron, and I rarely get involved in specific business matters, but as far as I know, all our factories in Jinghua only sell products, and have never sold production technology, etc. .”

Toyotomi Hideaga was obviously disappointed, but having said that, disappointment is disappointment, and it was actually within his expectations.

In fact, the deal he proposed just now was not made by him alone, but an idea that came up after Toyotomi Hideyoshi was persuaded by Ishida Mitsunari, Nagatsume Masaka and others.When Hideyoshi told him about it, he also agreed, so there was the above scene.

But they all know that this idea has a low chance of success, so they have a backup plan.The backup plan is very simple. If the production line is temporarily unavailable, there is nothing to do. It is also good to buy some finished products in case of emergency.However, these finished products are "customized services" and must be discussed with Jinghua in detail.

Take warships as an example. In the past, Jinghua only sold armed transport ships to maritime merchants in the Ming Dynasty. Because of the high level of pragmatism and emphasis on the standard (this is from cost considerations, including two aspects of production and maintenance), Jinghua's armed transport ships are all of the same specification. , very uniform.

Of course, there are also certain "customized services" specifically, but this kind of customized service is relatively simple, mainly because of the difference in the amount of guns loaded, which can be divided into four types: standard loaded guns, medium loaded guns, small amount of loaded guns, and no loaded guns The [-] armed transport ships ordered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi were the lowest standard unloaded gun models. Of course, that was mainly because Gao Yushi refused to sell him guns.

But this time the Toyotomi family proposed to purchase even the model of the warship, because they felt that the armed transport ship was too big, and the various costs were a bit expensive, and they needed a smaller warship.

This matter has to start with the reality of the Japanese "water army".As I said before, the Japanese "water army" is actually just a later name, and the earliest Japanese sea power should be called "pirates".As early as the Heian period, there appeared in Japan an armed robbery group at sea with the same nature as the bandits—the pirates.

In the Muromachi era, pirates were no longer a pejorative name, and the powerful pirate leader was even more proud of the title of "Pirate General". The original military power exists to strengthen their rule.Later, in order to distinguish the difference between the two, the latter was called "water army".

The ships used by the Japanese navy are roughly three conventional types and one special type.The regular order by size is Anzhaifune, Sekifune, Kohayafune.The three types of ships are all single-masted, sails are used for oceangoing, and oars are used for close combat. The hull is divided into three parts: upper, middle and bottom, and the bottom is below the waterline.There is also an unconventional type called an iron-clad ship, but it is too heavy to go to the open sea, and because Japan does not produce enough iron, it is rarely built, so I don't need to mention it for the time being.

Then among the other three types of ships, the first thing to talk about is the Anzhai ship. This kind of ship is large and strong, and uses "turtle bones", but it is much weaker than the contemporary Ming ships other than the Jinghua system. It is comparable to Jinghua's armed transport ships. There is no need to mention the ratio.

There is a police building behind the center of the ship, which is divided into three floors, with one hundred and sixty small oars and eighty large oars.The weapons are large barrels and iron cannons (cannons and muskets), which are the core strength of the regular navy and the core of the naval formation. Large ships over two thousand shi (referring to the load measurement unit, which is different from that of the Ming Dynasty) can be classified as such.But it should be noted that even Japan's largest ship, the Anzhai Ship, is not as big as Jinghua's armed transport ship.

The second is Guanchuan. This is a medium-sized warship. The design concept is to improve maneuverability on the basis of taking into account the defense. The two sides are between [-] and [-] sculls.The weapons are also large cylinders and iron cannons. This kind of ship is the main force of the current Japanese navy.

Then there is the small boat, which is a small ship designed to give up defense and improve mobility as much as possible.Under forty oars on both sides, they are mainly responsible for reconnaissance and reporting in the regular navy.However, because of its lightness and flexibility, relatively high cost-effectiveness ratio, and low technical content, it has become the mainstream ship of pirates and is often used in groups.

Small early boats can be divided into iron gun boats, long-handled boats, strange boats, monotonous boats, fan boats, and military grain boats.Take the [-] stone boats as an example for manning, generally equipped with [-] sculls, [-] sailors, [-] bow helmsmen, about [-] musketeers, and combatants accounted for half of the total number.If sails are used as power, the required sailors can be greatly reduced, and a hundred-man iron cannon team can be used.

It can be seen from the ships of the Japanese navy above that the small early ship can only fight, and basically does not have the carrying capacity; the closed ship can also carry, but considering that the sea ship needs to store the materials needed by the ship to ensure self-sustaining power, Therefore, the carrying capacity of the Guan ship is also relatively limited; if the Anzhai ship does not use combat as the main purpose of sailing, the carrying capacity is relatively larger, but this kind of ship runs slowly, and the carrying tonnage is correspondingly wasted.

Since the Japanese navy is used to using smaller ships, and they do not yet have the idea of ​​​​"giant ship cannon", they think it is not cost-effective to replace all the armed transport ships of the Jinghua standard, so they proposed two plans for customized warships. It is hoped that Jinghua can design and build a batch of them specially.

According to the plan proposed by Toyotomi Hidecho, the Toyotomi family first needs to use the size of the Anzhai boat as a rough standard, and ask Jinghua to design and build a batch of new Anzhai boats. The main requirement is not to reduce its defense and carrying capacity. Significantly increased speed.

The second customized warship is of course the new Guan Ship, and the requirements are the opposite of the new Anzhai Ship, which is to strengthen the defense on the basis of maintaining its speed, and it is best to increase the carrying capacity.

Theoretically speaking, if the shipbuilding technology reaches a certain level, the three standards are nothing more than that if you are strong, I will be weak, and if you are weak, I will be strong. Without maintaining one or two dimensions, you can improve the other. dimension.But the problem is that Japan's shipbuilding technology is quite backward at this time, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in the technical level of the Anzhai Ship and the Guan Ship, so Jinghua is actually capable of upgrading their technology.

This kind of technological upgrade does not even require Jinghua to spend too much effort, because at this moment, apart from Jinghua, Daming's own shipbuilding level can almost meet the requirements of the Toyotomi family - of course this refers to the level of warships of the regular navy of Daming , rather than the products of private shipyards, that is too complicated, and there are some good and bad.

In fact, even without Jinghua or the Maritime Trade Alliance, the strength of the navy of the Ming Dynasty is not weak in the world at this time. Taking this year as the standard (1590), the comprehensive combat capability can probably be listed in the top five.The strength of design and shipbuilding is not bad. From Jiajing to Wanli alone, there were as many as 21 types of warships in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If you add Fujian and Guangdong, there are even more types.

From a global perspective, with the extensive application of firearms, naval tactics have also undergone major changes. In the early years, Yu Dayou timely proposed a basic principle of naval warfare: "Naval warfare is nothing more than defeating small ships with big ships, and defeating small ships with big guns." Guns; use many ships to defeat few ships, and use many guns to defeat few guns."

It can be seen that Ming's naval battle entered the modern mode very early.In the Jiajing period, more than half of the combatants of the warships of the Ming army used firearms, and in the Wanli period, the proportion reached more than [-]%, which is regarded as a very high degree of firearms in the world.

As for all Jinghua's two ocean fleets being weaponized, that is another matter, and it was not achieved until the bayonet came out.Originally, the Jinghua Liangyang Fleet did not advocate boarding the ship, but in the early years, considering that this situation might still happen occasionally, it was also equipped with the Yanling Saber.Later, with the bayonet, the separate Yanling knife was cancelled, and all the muskets equipped by the fleet were bayonet models.

At this time, the equipment of the Daming Navy was mainly Fuchuan, which was a collective name for a type of ship born in the coastal area of ​​Fujian.The building materials are mainly pine, fir, camphor, and nanmu from Fujian, and there are six types in total.

Fuchuan used in naval battles, especially No. 1560 and No. [-].According to Qi Jiguang, who won several great victories in [-], said: "The lucky boat is as tall as a city, it cannot be driven by manpower, and it depends entirely on the wind. It’s like a cart crushing a praying mantis. Fighting the strength of a ship is not fighting against manpower.” His views on naval warfare are basically the same as Yu Dayou’s, and of course Gao Pragmatism is also basically the same.

According to "Wu Bei Zhi": "Using firearms and waves between the ups and downs may not be able to hit the thief. Even if it is hit, it is not much, but it can be used to frighten the enemy's heart and ears. There are two things to rely on: launch Buddha Langji. Only if you don’t hit the boat, you will have no boats and no fans. One thing. Put fireballs on the bow of the boat. When they meet, throw them from a height, and the fire will burn the thief boat. Two.” From this we can see that Compared with the Japanese navy, the military navy also has obvious advantages in close combat situations such as large ships, high freeboards, and the ability to collide.

Among these great blessing boats, one is known as the Great Fortune Boat, with three towers, a wide bottom and a high bow and tail, which can accommodate hundreds of people.The second is called Fuchuan, and it is slightly smaller than the first, "suitable for common use".

The lucky boat is as tall as a building and can hold hundreds of people.The bottom tip is wide, the bow is raised and opened, the tail is tall, and the draft is about 3.5 meters. The bow of the ship is equipped with a head gun, and the two sides are equipped with 1 thousand-jin Flang machines, 6 bowl-mouth guns, 3 thunder guns, and spray tubes. 20, 60 firecrackers, 10 crossbow arrows, 500 gunpowder crossbows, 10 rockets, 300 fire bricks, and thousands of cold weapons.There were 100 crew members, 64 sailors, and 9 fighters.

Also according to the description in "Wu Bei Zhi", this huge ship has three floors above.There are guard boards beside it, protected by thatched bamboo, erected like a wall, with two sails and masts.There are four layers.The lower floor is equipped with ballast stones, the third floor is where fresh water tanks are placed, and the second floor is where soldiers live.The uppermost floor is a terrace, which needs to be climbed up from the ladder on the third floor. Board wings are used as railings on both sides. People lean on it to fight, and arrows, rocks, and artillery are all fired from a bird's eye view.It is indeed a weapon of naval warfare.

The floors here are different from the Western style used by Jinghua. For example, Jinghua's so-called "two-deck gun" means that there are two decks where artillery can be fired, and it does not count below the deck.

The common disadvantage of these two types of big blessing boats is that their maneuverability is not good. Yijiaoqian must be rescued by sentry boats." ("General Examination of Continuing Documents")
The latter types of Fuchuan are generally not used in open sea warfare, so there is no need to say more here.In short, the first two Fuchuan can fully meet the needs of Japan. The only thing Jinghua has to do is to slightly modify the design to increase their speed.

This is not difficult for Jinghua, because Jinghua has already created the bow of the clipper ship in the era of wooden warships, and also has the technology of attaching copper to the bottom of the ship. The speed increase is completely within its technical level.

The only question now is what price the Toyotomi family is willing to pay.
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