I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Li Gang and the others knew that Zhang Fei and the others were secretly happy!
It is difficult to increase the navy's military expenditure, but you can't say anything about the replacement of warships!

Throw some small warships that have been in disrepair for a long time and cannot keep up with the times to Liu Bei and the others in exchange for some start-up funds, so that he cannot build some larger and more advanced warships.

Since Dagan occupied Youzhou, the pace of building a navy has not stopped. At the beginning, some small sea-going ships were built, mainly for transporting guano stones from offshore islands and catching fish in the sea.
But now these transport ships are outdated, he has long wanted to replace these sea-going ships, but unfortunately no one took over, he did not expect to finally be taken advantage of by Zhang Fei.

So Li Gang sent someone to find Zhang Fei.He made it clear to him: "The warships of Daqian are the most important weapons of the country, and it is impossible to borrow them from abroad, so don't talk about the fact that you want to borrow the fleet."

"However, our navy still has a batch of warships that are about to be decommissioned. Basically, they are about 10 stone, and they are equipped with more than ten 20-jin cannons. If you need warships, we can sell them to you at half price."

Zhang Fei asked with interest: "How much is this batch of warships?"

Li Gang immediately said to Zhang Fei: "A thousand-stone warship costs at least 100 million yuan. This time we have 36 warships to be decommissioned, which is 3600 million yuan. There are about 400 cannons on the battleship. A 20-jin cannon with a base amount of ammunition. One cannon plus a base amount of ammunition counts as 20 yuan, and 400 guns is 8000 million yuan. I will get you some supplies and drive the ship to your territory. , Seeing that Liu Bei is expanding the territory for the entire Dagan civilization, I suffer a bit, you pay 1 million, and this fleet is yours!"

Zhang Fei immediately shook his head and said, "It's too expensive, I can't afford it, I can't afford it!"

Just kidding, even if Liu Bei had half a big man in his hand, he would have to think for a long time if he wanted to spend so much money to buy a fleet. With more than 1 million yuan, it is difficult for Liu Bei to come up with more than 1 million or even 1000 million!
On the contrary, Zhao Yun said: "If it is possible to rent a large warship, we will rent it for half a year. If the entire fleet can reach a carrying capacity of 30 shi, we are willing to spend 1 million yuan to rent it for half a year!"

The fleet of 36 ships looks like a lot and has fierce firepower, but it can't transport many troops to Tianzhu. For them, the transportation volume of the fleet is the key!

Li Gang said with an ugly face: "Such warships can't be rented at all. If you want to, you can only buy them!"

Li Gang is about to be pissed off, Liu Bei, your ability to make money is too bad, you have left Dagan to struggle for more than a year or two, but you can’t even get a hundred million, think back when we were in Jizhou, it was so easy After collecting and scraping billions of dollars, he still wants to rent a fleet after fighting the world, it's a shame for a big man!
Their first meeting like this broke up unhappy.

After Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun returned to the place where they lived, they were not annoyed by the failure of renting the fleet.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei said a little excitedly: "It seems that Dagan wants to retire a batch of warships. This is our chance! We should continue to lower the price."

Zhao Yun thought about it and said: "The price of the battleship is not too high. It seems that we can cut the price a little bit, but the price of a cannon is equivalent to one-fifth of the price of the battleship. This price is a bit too expensive. If we have less Buy some artillery, and use most of the money to buy warships and transport ships. To meet our needs, we need about 100 transport ships, and each transport ship must be able to transport 300 people and their supplies."

Zhang Fei smiled wryly and said: "The artillery is not counted, just 100 warships with more than a thousand stone will cost 1 million, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the elder brother to come up with this money!"

Now Liu Bei can say that apart from an empty site, there are millions of savages, nothing else, [-] million yuan is an astronomical figure for Liu Bei now, and the money Liu Bei prepared for them is probably this The numbers are up, this is already all of Liu Bei's possessions.

Zhao Yun thought for a while and said, "In this situation, we have to buy warships even if we don't buy artillery!"

Then he said distressedly: "But in addition to warships, we also need to buy weapons and equipment, ordnance and food, no matter how we calculate, the money is not enough, even to maintain the minimum."

But their plan requires at least mobilizing an army of 3 to break through the small country of Tianzhu.

Zhang Fei thought for a while and said, "I've thought of a way to make money, but I don't know if big brother dares to learn it?"

Zhao Yundao: "What method?"

Zhang Feidao: "Isn't Tianzhu the same as the previous big men, who ruled the country by nobles and priests? We learned from Lei Gong and ransacked all those nobles and priests. They must have accumulated money for hundreds of years. Cut down the nobles of a country. It is enough for us to buy a fleet. I know how rich Lei Gong was when he first started. There are hundreds of cars loaded with gold, silver and treasures. This is just a place in Wei County. Now we want to There are several countries to go to, are you afraid that you will run out of money!"

Zhao Yun was dumbfounded when he heard this approach, but after thinking about it, he thought it was okay. Tianzhu is not a big man, who cares about the life and death of those nobles?

And if this method can be used to gain the power of the people of Tianzhu, it will also be beneficial to their next military operation.

The more Zhang Fei thought about it, the more he felt that this action was feasible.

"We can tell this plan to the big businessmen. It is said that the nobles of Tianzhu offended them very much. The two sides can be said to have a deep hatred. They must be interested in our battle plan. We can issue it from them first. A batch of bonds, raising a batch of funds to buy warships."

Then he clapped his hands and said: "Isn't this the same method that Lei Gong used when he beat us back then? He can use it, why can't we use it!"

So after the two discussed for a while, they wrote their ideas into a letter, and later Daqian Feige Bureau, this letter will fly across thousands of mountains and miles to Jiaozhou, and the people they stay in Jiaozhou will pass the information to Liu Bei.

When Liu Bei got the news from Zhang Fei and the others from Jidu, he was speechless for a while. He actually wanted him to imitate Lei Gong and learn how Lei Gong discovered bonds to fight. It was unreliable no matter what.But it's also their only chance.

He summoned Yuan Ji, Guan Yu, Jian Yong and others, and told them about the problems Zhang Fei encountered in Jidu, and Zhang Fei's thoughts.

Yuan Ji was pleasantly surprised: "General Zhang's suggestion is really a stroke of genius. The nobles in Tianzhu can't stay in the first place. We can use this name to raise funds for the war from big businessmen."

Liu Bei hesitated, "Is this really feasible?"

Yuan Ji said with a smile: "Of course it is possible. Back then, Lei Gong was in Wei County, and he got billions of dollars by just messing around. Now Tianzhu's prosperity is not much worse than that of the big Han back then, and their nobles have passed down thousands of dollars." Over the years, I am afraid that the accumulated wealth is more than that of the big man's family.

For these businessmen, even if they can't break through a country, they can still easily kill the nobles, which is enough to ensure that they get their money back.For these businessmen, this kind of business is a steady profit and can help them vent their anger. Why not do it! "

The next day, Liu Bei invited all the big businessmen here, explained his battle plan, and raised funds from them at 5% interest, and assured them that all the spoils of war would be purchased by them first.

Sure enough, Liu Bei's plan aroused great interest from these businessmen, and they enthusiastically bought Liu Bei's bonds, allowing Liu Bei to easily recruit 5 million funds.

When Zhang Fei and the others got the news of Liu Bei, they knew that they had money, so they renegotiated with Li Gang, expanded the scope of the arms purchase agreement, and started the process of buying, buying, and buying.

The arms purchase agreement between Dahan and Dagan was still being negotiated, and in the Mechanical University, a group of students really crowded into a circle, watching the cast iron utensils in the middle.

And Xu Wei took this cast iron appliance and introduced the principle and function of this appliance to the surrounding crowd.

"This pressure well is a water diversion tool made using the knowledge of atmospheric pressure. You have all read the introduction about dry pressure in high school physics. The air around us is weighted, and the atmospheric pressure is extremely strong. A dozen horses If you put an iron pipe into the underground water source, seal the pipe well, and try to pump out the air in the pipe, a near-vacuum environment will be formed inside the pipe, and then the underground water source will be released. will be drawn up by the vacuum."

After Xu Wei finished assembling the pressurized well, he used iron rods to continuously press out the flowing water in the tub.

Everyone was amazed when they saw this scene. It was not the first time they saw such a scene. In fact, pressure wells are very common in Daqian, but few people have thought deeply about the principle of this.

Speaking of this group of students, they were considered unlucky, Xu Wei gave them a summer vacation according to the habits of his own world.However, he did not expect that the overheating of Daqian investment would cause inflation. In order to solve this problem as soon as possible, Xu Wei could only increase the number of grinding machines used for mining ore, and other equipment to increase the amount of cement, coal, and ore.

At this time, the machinery factory lacked a group of skilled workers. At that time, Xu Wei thought that the 3000 students he recruited, of course, they did not know how to make steam engines, but they were almost the smartest people in the world. , Learning technology must be much faster than ordinary workers.

So they were unlucky. They enrolled 2 months in advance, but they didn't touch the textbooks. Instead, they were directly taken by the teacher to the machinery factory in Dagan, and started from the simplest grinding parts.And told them that this is to let them get used to the parts of the steam engine first, so that they can better understand the operating principle of the steam engine. These students also believed it, and honestly screwed in the machinery factory!

However, they did not disappoint Xu Wei. Sure enough, most of them were able to adapt to the work of the machinery factory within 10 days, and they have not even proposed to improve the production process and improve production efficiency according to their own work steps!

With these 3000 smart craftsmen, the machinery factory can operate in three shifts to increase production.The output of various machinery has more than tripled.

Of course, these jobs also made these students complain, and few of them worked so hard.

Xu Wei made this group of people work hard for two months, and he had to give them a little sweetness so that they could see hope.

So he would bring some tools to give lectures to these students when he had nothing to do.After two months, these three thousand students have all listened to Xu Wei's lectures, and today it is Xu Wei's turn to give lectures to Zhuge Liang's class.

Zhuge Liang asked curiously: "Why can't our ordinary water be attracted to high places? Does it have to be in a vacuum environment! And with the power that a dozen horses can't pull away, then we live in such a huge In the environment of strength, why didn’t the atmospheric pressure crush us to death? Although Liang has a lot of strength, he doesn’t think that his strength is stronger than a dozen horses, let alone a dozen horses, five horses are enough to dismember Liang’s body !"

Zhuge Liang's words caused everyone to roar with laughter!
Xu Weidao: "Because atmospheric pressure is the weight of air, and air is omnipresent. It is both outside your body and inside your body. If the internal and external pressures are equal, it means that you do not bear the weight of atmospheric pressure. This is why we The reason for this power is not felt in everyday life, but it is real!"

Xu Wei's statement made many people puzzled. For them, atmospheric pressure is an extremely abstract concept, and it is difficult for them to imagine what atmospheric pressure is.If you can't understand it, it will be difficult to understand the principle Xu Wei said.

Xu Wei thought for a while and said, "Have everyone bathed in the river?"

Many students laughed and said: "Washed!"

Xu Wei said: "When your whole body was submerged in the water, did you feel that your chest was oppressed?"

"Yes, and the deeper it gets, the more boring it gets!"

Xu Wei said: "This is the pressure that water puts on you. It's just that water can't be everywhere, and it can't get into everyone's body, so it puts a huge pressure on everyone's body, and the deeper you go, the deeper you go. The more water you have on your body, the more pressure you have!"

After comparing with water, most of the students finally understand a little bit!

Then Xu Wei asked his assistant to bring two semicircular copper balls and said: "In order to let the students understand the power of big pressure, we use tools to do an experiment!"

"These two semicircular copper balls were specially made by the teacher for this experiment. Their bumps can fit together tightly to form a real ball, and a leather tube is used to block the bumps, which can even block the entry of air. A few more valves are the air inlet and air outlet!"

Then Xu Wei asked Zhuge Liang to come up and assemble the copper balls with him.

"Although the copper ball is assembled now, because there is air inside and outside, and the pressure inside and outside is equal, the copper ball has no other force except the friction brought by the leather tube, and it can be easily pulled apart!"

After Xu Wei pulled the two guards towards the copper ball, he pulled the copper ball away easily!