1825 My New Daming

Chapter 76: The Great Gold Navy, Divine Soldiers Descend from Heaven! (For collection, for follow-up)

Xianmen Pass, the residence of the Daming Mission.

Lin Zexu, Lin Dashangshu, who had just watched the Dajin Tianbing Swearing-in Ceremony, was sitting in his study, flipping through a stack of telegrams.These telegrams were all transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, and the contents were all related to the "One Thousand Ships Project".

After the news of the "One Thousand Ships Project" spread to Europe, it really caused an uproar, especially after the Ming Dynasty really started to formulate a large-scale shipyard subsidy plan, the British Empire was really in a hurry-this is going to be serious!Although the shipbuilding capability of the British Empire is not weak, the financial resources and heavy industry capacity of the British government are much worse than those of Ming Dynasty.If he really wants to compete with Da Ming in shipbuilding, sooner or later he will have to spend the last penny in his pocket.

However, the British Empire has also been an empire on which the sun never sets for more than a hundred years. After defeating Napoleon, its national strength has become even more prosperous, and the British Empire also has a trump card in its hands, and that is India!

The population and financial resources of Great Britain are comparable to those of Ming Dynasty. The population difference between the two sides is more than ten times!But after adding more than 2 million Indians, Daying's waist is too hard.Although India is still mainly an agricultural country at the moment, India has a large population and a large area of ​​arable land. Be more ruthless, and be more ruthless, you can always squeeze a lot of wealth from India to build ships with Daming.

In order to maximize India's financial, material and human resources, British Prime Minister Earl of Liverpool recently announced that he would set up Hindustan Shipbuilding Company, intending to invite Indian maharajas to invest in setting up a shipbuilding company comparable to Daming Jiangnan Heavy Industry (Jiangnan Heavy Industry) in India. Subsidiaries) of large shipbuilding companies.India's cheap labor combined with the shipbuilding technology of the British Empire made Lin Zexu very worried!

When Lin Zexu was worried, he heard someone knock on the door of the study.

"Lin Zhongtang, I'm asking Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Shenshan to see you." Zhuge Weidao's voice came in.

"Come in!" Lin Zexu put down the telegram in his hand and greeted him.

The door of the study was pushed open, and there was a creaking sound, and then Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian came in one after the other.Zhuge Weidao was still holding a folder, which was placed on Lin Zexu's desk after he came in.

Lin Zexu glanced at the folder, then signaled Zhuge Weidao and Zheng Guoxian to sit down, and then smiled and handed Zhuge Weidao a telegram in his hand, "Daozi, take a look at this. We are building ships and we are going to open Hindustan Shipbuilding in India!"

"Really?" Zhuge Weidao took the telegram, read it carefully with the light from a dim kerosene lamp on the desk, and then said with a smile, "Lin Zhongtang, it seems that the British have already started It’s a good thing to follow up!”

Lin Zexu glanced at Zhuge Weidao and said, "Daozi, do you know how much Indian workers in Calcutta and Mumbai earn a month? How much do my workers in Ming Dynasty earn a month?"

"I know," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "India's wages are a little cheaper. But our shipyards are equipped with good equipment, high efficiency, and new technology, and they are matched with steel factories, turbine factories, and arsenals. Therefore, the cost of shipbuilding We must be lower!"

The wages of workers in Daming are of course high!

As a leading industrial country, how can wages not be high?
Moreover, Daming also controlled the supply of cheap labor through land equalization and land limitation—the average farmer in Daming has tens of hundreds of acres of land, and the average annual income of a strong rural laborer who owns land is above sixty or seventy silver dollars. (Single refers to cash income).

Since farmers' daily expenses are relatively low and their lives are relatively comfortable, the rural population will not turn into workers without triple income.In history, the American emperor gave less money in the same way, so the European immigrants should go to farm. Anyway, there is the "Homestead Law", so it is not difficult to get some land.

Therefore, the average annual average of [-] silver dollars for the workers in Daming is stable, and the labor intensity of the shipyard workers is high, and the efficiency of the shipyard is also high, which is almost [-] silver dollars a year.

At present, the average salary of British workers is about 120 pounds a year, which is 60.00 silver dollars, which is only about [-]% of that of Ming Dynasty.

As for the average annual income of Indian workers, I am afraid it is only a fraction of that of British workers, which is only 20 silver dollars. Daming's wages are equivalent to ten times theirs!
However, under the multiple oppression of the British Empire and various reactionary forces in India, India's labor force is low-cost and low-quality, and almost all workers are illiterate.The blueprints that ordinary shipbuilders in the Ming Dynasty can understand may have to be seen in India by an engineer of the Kshatriya or Brahmin caste and who has received British higher education.The salary of this engineer might be ten thousand or eight thousand a year, and it's really hard to say how much these master engineers have.

Therefore, in Zhuge Weidao's view, the Hindustan shipyard must be a propaganda war by the British, and it will never be played for real.

If you really want to play...then there will be many interesting things in the future!

And if the British really want to build ships at low cost, it is more practical to open a shipyard in Prussia-Prussia’s compulsory education is very good, almost as good as that of Ming Dynasty, so their workers are of high quality and engineers are also good, but the wages Only a half of Daming's.Still very competitive!
However, if Britain invests heavily in Prussia and makes Prussia strong, it will become the German Empire.
Thinking of this, Zhuge Weidao said with a smile: "The British Hindustan Shipyard is just bragging and publicizing, but it also shows that they have already played tricks!"

Lin Zexu nodded and said, "That group of military advisers in your family and the officials of the Zheng family also think so. They plan to ask Nicholas I to come forward to set the rules for this shipbuilding competition at an appropriate time, so I want to go back to Go to Beijing to discuss this matter with the courtiers."

While talking, Lin Zexu looked at Zhuge Wei seriously again and said, "Daozi, your family's military advisers and officials of the Zheng family may not care about the Hindustan shipyard, but they will definitely stare at how Daoguang touches the British. tiger ass!"

Those old folks are always a little timid—they're all old men, they've been doing well for so many years, and they've gotten used to it.

If Daoguang's printing was smashed, then they would not dare to offend Mao's British Empire.But if the British Empire was a paper tiger, they would have nothing to fear.

After all, the current military technology and Ming's industrial strength have both developed to the point where they can support a global war.

Moreover, the domestic industrial capital of Daming is now increasingly feeling that the market is insufficient - the domestic demand of Daming is certainly not comparable to that of the UK!But until now, overproduction is inevitable.

And to solve this surplus, the best way is to export infrastructure - Daming has now passed the time when it can develop by exporting a large amount of textiles.

And to export infrastructure, it is necessary to establish some vassal states that can undertake infrastructure and have enough resources to pay for it... This requires Westerners to hand over some good colonies!

Zhuge Weidao smiled and pointed to the folder on the table, "Zhongtang, this is the preparation plan for the Dajin Navy and Heavenly Soldiers formulated by Xiaguan and Zheng Shenshan. As long as Daoguang is willing to follow this plan to form the Great Gold Navy and Heavenly Soldiers, then the British He can touch his tiger's ass any way he wants!"

"Navy soldiers? Use airships to drop bombs on the ground?" Lin Zexu asked while opening the folder.

"Not only to throw bombs," Zheng Guoxian said with a smile after accepting the question, "but also let the soldiers of the Golden Banners jump down from the airship in the sky!"

"Jump from the sky?" Lin Zexu was stunned for a moment, "How high to jump? It won't hurt you?"

"Hundreds of meters to 1000 meters," Zheng Guoxian said with a smile, "it won't hurt when you fall. You're carrying a parachute. If the parachute opens smoothly, you will land smoothly without pain at all. If you don't open it, you won't know the pain. "

It turns out that Zhuge Weidao's naval heavenly soldiers are naval airborne troops, which are specially prepared for Daoguang printing!
They can directly take the airship and fly behind the British and Indian troops to parachute.Although the only ten airships can't hold many naval airborne troops at one time, but fortunately, they can catch the British and Indian troops by surprise.Especially at the junction of Afghanistan and India, there are many mountain passes. As long as the British army can be brought into Afghanistan and then airborne to capture a pass, the fun will be great.

So after confirming that the soldiers of the Great Gold Eight Banners were of good quality, Zhuge Weidao immediately approached Zheng Guoxian, and the two of them took the lead to come up with this "Navy Heavenly Soldiers Plan" - this airborne soldier can take everything from land and sea!Zheng Guoxian has the experience of founding the Airborne Corps, and when he returns to China, he will be able to find a senior position in the Airship Airborne Corps of the Army.

(End of this chapter)