Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1739 Aiding Korea and Fighting against the Japanese ([-]) Inventory of the Navy of the Japanese Kingdom
Gao Yushi had a fleet in Japan, and the emperor actually knew about it.Not only that, but even Gao Wushi left a small number of armed servants (Lu Shi) in Japan, and the emperor also knew about it.However, there is a difference of understanding here.

On the issue of the fleet, Zhu Yijun has never regarded the fleet of the Maritime Trade Alliance as an armed force.In his eyes, Jinghua's maritime force is only counted by the serious warships newly built in recent years, so there are not many ships in total.According to the information he obtained, there is only one battleship in the Jinghua Kanto Squadron of the Maritime Trade Alliance, and the rest are all armed transport ships, so the combat effectiveness may be very worrying.

It may be that the word "transport" in the armed transport ship is too misleading. Anyway, in Zhu Yijun's mind, that squadron can probably fight pirates, and it has nothing to do with them in serious combat.There is no need to analyze how big this misunderstanding is.

On the issue of Master Lu, Zhu Yijun received the information at the beginning: "Da Situ left his family Ding [-] in Misaki City near the sea, as a mysterious aid for his in-law's Narita Clan Yusheng City."

In other words, Zhu Yijun only knew that Gao Wushi left 800 armed servants in Misaki Castle, and the purpose was to embolden Narita Kai's natal family and Narita clan's Yusheng Castle.

There is one thing to say, if it was a few years ago, Zhu Yijun would have felt that the family army of 800 people was very powerful, but due to the large scale of the Ming Dynasty's war against the Yuan Dynasty, a full 60 troops were dispatched, which led to The emperor actually became less sensitive to numbers after the war.

There are only 800 people, so what can they do? No wonder they can only embolden the Narita family!This made Zhu Yijun obviously underestimate this so-called Lu division, thinking that it was just sending some people over to help the Narita family look after their homes, at most adding some defenses to Misaki Castle, the main anchorage of the Sea Trade Alliance in Kanto, Japan Power, the rest of what is big can be ignored.

But in fact?The Japanese believe that the strength of the Jinghua Squadron is "more than [-] giant ships, nearly [-] elite soldiers with iron cannons, a strong city, and a large cannon, which cannot be lightly defeated."

In fact, this estimate is relatively accurate in terms of the total number of people, because although the regular troops sent at that time, that is, the Marine Corps, were only about 800 people, there were many naval personnel, the most important of which were the accompanying personnel of the [-] armed transport ships. .

According to the establishment of the Jinghua armed transport ship, each armed transport ship has a capacity of 180 people, and 5400 ships are 300 people. In addition, the flagship of the Kanto Squadron "Left Wing Light Cavalry" has a capacity of about 6000 people, which is close to [-].

In addition, due to long-awaited predictions, Luo Yuan believed that he would either need to rebuild Misaki Castle or deploy defenses directly on the island of the city, so he also transferred more than 1000 Jinghua infrastructure design craftsmen and strong labor with the approval of Gao Pragmatism. , in fact the entire fleet brought about 9000 men.

It's just that the Japanese don't know the actual number of crew members on each ship, so the estimate is a little bit lower, but it doesn't hurt too much.

As for the combat effectiveness of these people, ask Toyotomi Hidekatsu who broke four ribs back then, he must have a better say.

Zhu Yijun didn't take the Kanto Squadron as a big deal, but instead asked Gao Wushi about the main force of the Japanese navy, hoping that Gao Wushi could give him a more accurate judgment on the strength of the Japanese navy.

This point of high pragmatism is actually a bit difficult to say clearly, because looking back now, the so-called "main force of the Japanese Navy" may have been built by Jinghua for them!
At the beginning, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took the initiative to ask Jinghua for a secret discussion, hoping to exchange Yusheng Castle for Ninja Castle, and asked Jinghua to stop supporting Odawara Castle. For this reason, he sent his younger brother Toyotomi Hidecho to meet with Luo Yuan, and it was very successful. Some terms of cooperation.

Toyotomi Hideaga mentioned a big business in the meeting, and on behalf of the Toyotomi family, he formally proposed an arms purchase 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."

It's a pity that Commander Luo rejected him cleanly, saying: "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. thing."

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

Because most of the Japanese naval forces were upgraded by recruiting pirates, they are used to using smaller ships, and they still don’t have the idea of ​​​​"giant ships and cannons", so they think it is not cost-effective to replace all of them with Jinghua-style armed transport ships, so He proposed two plans to customize warships, hoping that Jinghua can design and build a batch for them.

According to the plan proposed by Toyotomi Hidecho at that time, 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 custom-made warship is the new-style Guan-ship. The requirement is the opposite of the new-style Anzhai ship. It is to strengthen the defense on the basis of maintaining its speed, and it is better 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.

Jinghua can use the common Fuchuan in Ming Dynasty (there are many kinds, choose two of them) and slightly improve it to meet the needs of Japan. The only thing to consider is the price.

Before Luo Yuan went to Japan, Gao Yushi personally taught him the opportunity, and then granted him quite a lot of authority, including the authority of arms trading.

However, the authority Gao Pragmatism gave him was not to allow him to trade, but to tell him what he could not trade.Gao Yushi's original words at the beginning were "I can't teach others what is important to me".

However, this is the first time for Luo Yuan to take on a heavy responsibility, so he was afraid that there might be some misunderstanding in his understanding, so he asked "what is a heavy weapon".Gao Wushi replied: "The strongest and newest equipment in the garrison is the heavy equipment." Now Luo Yuan felt relieved.

According to the high-practical explanation, Luo Yuan believes that the military purchase proposed by the Toyotomi family is generally feasible-because the largest warship they want is not the size of an armed transport ship, and the armament on the ship is of course inferior, at least it is impossible to load the No. [-] gun .

The No. [-] Cannon is currently the largest artillery equipped by the Jinghua garrison and various armed households in the Ming Dynasty. It is generally used for the defense of bastions in key areas, mainly in southern Xinjiang.

Of course, more of them may be installed on warships in the future-only military ships will be loaded, and armed transport ships will not be installed, because the artillery deck does not have enough bearing capacity, and the deck may be damaged when the salvo is fired.Due to the current limited number of pure warships, the "production line" of the No. [-] gun has not been many, and the production capacity is relatively limited.

In Luo Yuan's opinion, the No. [-] cannon is no longer in the highly pragmatic prohibited category, and can be sold to the Toyotomi family—in fact, the Toyotomi family got it from some nobles in the Maritime Trade Alliance. Some, in fact, I'm afraid the difference is not big.

So Luo Yuan asked Toyotomi Hidecho in detail, and the latter said that the new-style Daifuku ship they wanted should be equipped with [-] giant cannons (No. It is impossible for the size of the Dafu ship to carry more than [-] cannons, otherwise, the deck might be shattered if the cannons are fired, and the speed and seaworthiness may be affected, which is definitely not worth the loss.

At first, Toyotomi Hideaga thought that Luo Yuan was just cherishing his own broom and did not want Japan to get more artillery. After careful questioning, he found that Luo Yuan was speaking clearly and logically. Adopting Luo Yuan's opinion, the Dafu ship's gun load was set at eighteen, including six No. [-] guns and twelve No. [-] guns.

In fact, the new small Fuchuan is not small, it is one size larger than the ordinary Japanese domestic ships, and it was finally determined to carry two No. [-] guns and ten No. [-] guns.

Then it's time to talk about price.Although Luo Yuan is not from the shipyard, he has worked all the way from an ordinary technical employee of Jinghua to the captain of the pure warship "Left Wing Hussar", and he knows the cost price and ex-factory price of the ship like the back of his hand.Therefore, he first quoted: the price of a single new-style Dafu ship is 6 taels of Kuping silver, and the price of a single new-style Xiaofu boat is 4 taels of Kuping silver.

Toyotomi Hidecho was taken aback when he heard it, and asked why Luo Yuan was so expensive?Luo Yuandao: "After all, it is custom-made. Jinghua has to redesign it and form a new production system before it can be built. The price is naturally more expensive."

The good one is "a bit more expensive". The armed transport ship is about 28% larger than the new Dafu ship. It carries 5000 guns, including eight No. 6 guns, but the price of a single ship is only 4 taels.He actually quoted a price of [-] taels for a new type of big blessing boat that was significantly smaller than it, and he actually quoted a price of [-] taels for a new type of small blessing boat that was only two-fifths the size of an armed transport ship.

This is not killing people, this is killing pigs!

However, Toyotomi Hidecho had done his homework and knew the price of the armed transport ship in Daming, so he immediately raised a tactful question.However, Luo Yuan's face was not red and his heart was not beating. He said plausibly: "Your Excellency Da Nayan's words are a bit unprofessional. My master is not my emperor. This is a big matter of selling military weapons and neighboring countries. How can you not handle it from top to bottom?" Reason? How expensive is this management, Da Nayan might as well think about the Japanese ministers."

Toyotomi Hideaga was stunned and speechless.You're so right, I'm speechless.However, he finally threw out a trump card, saying: "What if my Toyotomi family purchases in large quantities? This can always be a little bit more flexible on the price, right?"

Luo Yuan has been waiting for the words "mass purchase" for a long time. Hearing what Toyotomi Hideaga said, he immediately asked, "What is a large amount? How much is this large amount?"

Toyotomi Hideaga laughed, and replied proudly: "Your Highness, to be honest, as many of these two types of new Fuchuan Jinghua can build, as much as my Toyotomi family will want!"

In terms of money business, since Luo Yuan did not have the final decision-making power, the two parties could only roughly determine their intentions at that time.In terms of price, the final result of the negotiation was 5000 taels for each new-style big blessing boat, and 3 taels for each new-style small blessing boat.

The price reduction of the big blessing ship is not too big, and it is still maintained at the price of the armed transport ship; but the small blessing ship is indeed too small, and the level of armament is not very good in Luo Yuan's opinion, so the price is compressed a little bit. The price of 4 taels has dropped by 3, and finally [-] taels per ship is actually not cheap.

Of course, Luo Yuan dared to agree to such a transaction. Another key is that the Toyotomi family is a real big buyer. The intention reached by the two parties is that Jinghua will deliver 230 large blessing ships and [-] small blessing ships every year, with a total value of Up to [-] million taels of flat silver!

This "intent" was finally approved by the Maritime Trade Alliance - in fact, Gao Yushi hesitated at the time, but later because of the strong support and approval of the nobles, coupled with the "Vision of the Jinghua Liangyang Fleet Formation in the 20th Year of Wanli" , The strength of the "Kanto Squadron" will also increase greatly, so Gao Yushi finally agreed.

It is precisely because of Jinghua's "vigorous support" that the real core force of the Japanese navy is far from the defective products in the original history, but [-] Jinghua armed transport ships (without original naval guns, but Japan has secretly improved them, and the actual main increase iron sheet skin), [-] Jinghua converted into big blessing boats, and [-] Jinghua converted into small blessing boats.

None of these new warships have appeared on the Korean battlefield, and they are the real killers of the Japanese navy!

Unexpectedly, the main force of the Japanese navy came from Jinghua, Zhu Yijun's expression became serious, and he didn't speak for a long time.
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