Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1193 Preparations
"Then the only way to destroy the corpses of people and ships at sea is to take away those that can be disassembled, and the ships will have to be discarded."

"But don't think it's so perfect. It's easy for you to kill and silence, and the participating navy and marine soldiers can guarantee that everyone will keep their mouths shut? Besides, it's a pity that the big Galen ship with a large capacity is gone." Ma Qianju turned to Cai Jinkou : "What does 23 pesos do to our finances?"

Cheng Dong opened a small notebook and replied: "This income can greatly increase our precious metal reserves. We now need to import a large amount of bulk commodities, especially in terms of food imports, and the export of industrial products cannot fully compensate for foreign trade for the time being." deficit, so the more income from silver and other precious metals, the better for us. Especially for the promotion of circulation certificates in the future, it is bound to mint a large amount of silver coins as reserves.” He is very sensitive to the matter of reserves.

Qian Shuiting said: "I personally think it's okay to let the Spaniards know. In terms of the Spanish's naval strength in East Asia, they can't compete with us. Secondly, after we seized the ships, it was equivalent to cutting off Zheng Zhilong's important role. Economic source. The Spaniards in the Philippines are extremely dependent on trade with China. It can be said that they can’t stay in the Philippines for a day without the import of Chinese goods and labor. As long as we replace Zheng Zhilong’s position, the navy controls the trade with the Philippines The governor has no choice but to hold his nose and accept the debt and we continue to trade—by the way, this operation was originally a one-shot deal that took into account Zheng Zhilong, and in the long run trade is more profitable than robbery."

"It's a pity, I still plan to grab it for more than ten years." A veteran sighed.

"Those who establish and maintain world order will benefit the most. You only need to look at the United States in old times and space to know." Qian Shuiting said.

As for the impact on battles and shipping, it will not be too great. The navy and merchant fleet have been on hiatus since July. Except for a small number of ships maintaining normal shipping on regular routes, most shipping has come to a complete stop. Both ships and sailors are plentiful.

As for dispatching formations, Qian Shuiting's plan is to form a mixed formation with two Type 901 gunboats and Feiyun. The mobility and firepower of the 901 were the key to victory. The one-way voyage required a thousand nautical miles, and the time was tight, so it was impossible to use sailboats that required a lot of time.In addition, search and pursuit on the sea also require high speed and good handling capabilities.These are things that sailboats cannot do.

As for Feiyun, it mainly provides navigation and meteorological services for the formation.This is very important for the fleet that wants to go deep into the labyrinth of waterways in the Philippine Islands. Secondly, the sea search radar on it is of great significance for searching for targets.

These costs are not too big for the Senate and the Navy, but as a modern sailing ship brought by the old time and space, Feiyun will still make people feel very sad.

But to get 8154% certainty in this matter, the joining of Feiyun is indispensable—unless the Navy is willing to allocate an [-] cruiser to replace its role, then the diesel consumption is unacceptable to the Planning Institute.At least Feiyun can use half of its sails and half of its engines.

Chen Haiyang looked at the map, pondered for a while, and said: "I suggest that the route is as follows. After the formation departs from Hainan, head east, pass through the Balintang Strait, bypass Luzon Island, go south, and reach the east mouth of the San Bernardino Strait. , and then start the search. Such a route is far away from the main merchant shipping line, and it is not easy to be found. It does not pass through shallow waterways with complex hydrology along the way, so it is relatively safe. However, if you want to enter the Philippine Islands in July, the possibility of encountering a typhoon is very high Big. You must know that our navy has never conducted long-distance blue water voyages. It was a big event for our navy to sail out of the first island chain.”

"We didn't find any record of a typhoon in July 1632. Besides, if there was a typhoon, the two ships would have arrived in Manila. Our ships are stronger than them."

"I'm afraid typhoons can be verified by querying historical data. The generation of typhoons is random." Some people expressed dissatisfaction with Qian Shuiting's remarks.

"The Feiyun has a weather radar, which can provide a certain amount of early warning—in case of a typhoon, take shelter in time, and in the worst case, at least it can guarantee people's safety."

There wasn't much heated discussion that followed.Xiao Zishan saw that the heads of the industrial and agricultural departments wanted to speak at first, but when he heard that there would not be enough boats to participate, he obviously relaxed and began to whisper to each other for small meetings.Not bad, it's really rare that this meeting has not gone wrong.

"I said Cheng Dong, if banknotes are not issued now, it will be useless to keep the silver for the time being, can you transfer it to our industrial port?" Zhan Wuya looked at the silver that has not yet been obtained, "Anyway, the silver is with you There is no interest, and there will be no small ingots, so it would be good to make wires for us. Now the shortage of copper is so severe that the army and navy are robbing it."

The discussion immediately became lively.

"That would be better than lending us a loan from the Heaven and Earth Council."

"Old Zhan, don't be afraid that I'll put up a sign saying 'There is no copper in the wire, but there is silver', and the wire will be cut off in one night. Hahaha."

"You old-fashioned, don't you know that the electromagnets in Oak Ridge in World War II used silver wires? The shipyards and forges should have electromagnets, which is much more convenient. Anyone who dares to steal silver from the factory is not afraid of eating Minnie. bullet?"

"How do you insulate?"

"Isn't the chemical industry engaged in raw lacquer?"

"It is said that if the silver is kept in the vault, it will lose [-]% every year? Then it's better to take it out and use it first."

"Oak Ridge lost less than a thousandth of a silver when Manhattan was finished."

"Nonsense, we in Lingao don't have the kind of silver soldiers that can be smuggled out with 50 taels of ingot."

"You might as well say Los Alamos blocked the goal with the golden ball."

"The legend of silver soldiers belongs to unofficial history. From my understanding of the Ming Dynasty, this statement may not be true. The analysis of the silver deposit records of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the core journals believes that this kind of thing is very likely to be exaggerated. .”

Faced with the heated discussion that suddenly went off topic, Qian Shuiting was a little at a loss standing on the stage.Xiao Zishan hurriedly stood up to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, this is a matter for the future, we can discuss it slowly. Vest, do you think it is necessary to make some regulations first?"

"If this operation is the most reasonable and legal way, it is that we declare war on the Spaniards - after all, we dispatched regular armed forces. Since it is in a state of war, then capturing enemy ships, confiscating goods and ships is in line with the law of war Yes. As for whether captives have human rights—I tend not to have such an argument in the 17th century.” Vest talked eloquently, “However, the procedures for declaring war are too cumbersome, and we couldn’t send an envoy to Manila in time, so I think we can refer to some historical privateering operations. Drake’s actions at sea are somewhat of a joint-stock company. Referring to his example, I think it is completely legal to initiate privateering operations against the Spanish government in Manila. After all, our elders The court itself also has the meaning of a joint-stock company. The Spaniards once carried out hostile actions against Bopu Port, and our maritime revenge is also legal..." He wanted to continue talking, but Wen Desi stopped him, "very soon Okay, very good, you go to formulate a relevant legal basis document."

"This is no problem. Give me three days, and I will definitely make a clear and well-founded legal document. It fully reflects our respect for the law."

As for the distribution of loot, according to the old practice of the water on board A in the past, the controlled materials are recorded by the Planning Institute, and the non-controlled materials, daily necessities and luxury goods are sold to all the elders by bidding, and the proceeds from the sale of the loot are added at the end of the year according to the proportion of the elders' shareholding. Within the dividend quota of each elder.

The meeting was successfully concluded without any objection from everyone. This matter was considered to be officially "established", and the action code was named "Hunger".

"I didn't expect you to build such a thing." Qian Shuiting was amazed when he saw the "Galen Ship" in front of him.

This is indeed a "ship", with hull, deck, mast, rigging... everything that a thousand-ton Galen should have, it has all, and it is also moored in the bay.

However, it can't move, because the galleon is actually just a full-scale model-officially called a "stationary sea simulation training facility".It was actually built on a row of wooden piles driven into the ocean floor.It is more of a wooden house than a boat.

The key parts of the ship, such as the keel and the ribs, have been [-]% replicated, but all of them are just "similar"-the ship is not processed and manufactured according to the real shipbuilding process, and its purpose is only to use the model of this ship. People provide an intuitive display.

"If you want to talk about this idea, it was your proposal." The training director Fu Sansi led Qian Shuiting onto the deck of the "ship". In addition to the lack of sails, the three tall masts on the deck of the Galen ship were also made. It came out—but it was made of the same material as the "boat", which was spliced ​​out of poor-quality wood, and it would disintegrate immediately if it really wanted to sail with sails on the sea.

The proposal to build this one-to-one training model of a large European ship came from the Admiralty.Although Qian Shuiting's proposal was not approved for two consecutive years, this incident also inspired the veteran officers of the Navy Department: In the future, there will definitely be many such gang-hopping battles aimed at capturing enemy ships.Generally, the structure of small and medium-sized ships is relatively simple, and the navy has physical ships that can be drilled.However, a large ship like a galleon or a Dutch "speedboat" has a displacement of more than a thousand tons, has three or four decks, and has a very complicated internal structure. If you are not familiar with the internal structure of the ship, it is easy to suffer a disadvantage in battle.This is something the Navy is trying to avoid.

(End of this chapter)