I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

After some thought, Wu Changqing was surprised to find that he didn't have any products that were too suitable to sell in the West.

It's too advanced, and the people over there still don't need it. For example, if you get a bunch of batteries now, people will only say what kind of thing this is.

A little bit advanced, Wu Changqing worried that it would inspire their people's wisdom and promote their development. For example, when selling a steam engine, the West will definitely pay a lot of money to buy it.

However, after they buy it, they will definitely disassemble and study it. As long as they are given enough time, there will always be someone who can crack the mystery.

The West also has talents, or, because of the geographical location, the scientific and cultural atmosphere there is relatively strong, and there are more scientific talents than China in this period.

If you help them enter the steam era in advance, it will be a big loss. At least, Wu Changqing did not have such a good heart. He even hoped that Western Europe would always maintain a primitive feudal society.

In the future, if the conditions are met, the technological development of Western Europe must be suppressed.

Too advanced and not too advanced products cannot be sold, and backward products are destined to be unable to earn too high profits, just like cloth, they can only win by quantity.

Although the cloth factory in Songjiang, Suzhou, Nanjing, has been expanding wildly, the profit brought by its production capacity is still too little for a force.

Perhaps, they could sell sailing warships to them.

An idea popped into Wu Changqing's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more feasible it became.

If you want to say what the West lacks the most right now, it is undoubtedly ships.

Only with ships can ocean trade be carried out.

And the crew is always in short supply. Those desperadoes may not even know how to swim, and they can go directly to the boat and become sailors.

In order to build ships, the Queen of England even called on the whole country to plant trees, the kind of nanmu specially used for boat building.

It is also by this measure that the number of ships built by the United Kingdom far exceeded that of Spain, and then it defeated Spain in one fell swoop and became the hegemon of the sea, achieving the empire on which the sun never sets.

Ships are a very tight cargo in the West.

As long as it is made, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it, and there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it at a good price.

Moreover, Wu Changqing also has the advantage that he can use the most advanced technology to build the most advanced Galen ship.

At present, there are two main types of merchant ships in the West, one is a slightly backward carat ship, and the other is a Galen ship that can install artillery to defend against pirates.

This kind of ship has a large cargo capacity and strong protective power. It is the favorite ship of current ocean-going merchants.

There are not many shipyards that can build Galen, because it is high-end technology these days.

Moreover, even for shipyards that have mastered this technology, their efficiency is very low, there is no assembly line production, and it mainly relies on the experience of employees to manufacture, and the cost is very high.

But even so, shipbuilding is still very profitable.

Therefore, Wu Changqing plans to vigorously develop the shipbuilding industry. First, it can be sold to Western European merchants to make money, and secondly, it can also be sold to local merchants, encouraging local merchants to go overseas and sell goods directly to Western Europe, without giving foreigners the opportunity to make a difference in price.

In addition to building the Galen ship, Wu Changqing also plans to build a professional sailing warship and sell it to Western Europeans.

Professional warships are not as big as the Garen, but are longer and faster than the Garen.

Because the Galen ship needs to carry as much cargo as possible, the hull has to be built very large. For professional warships, only the combat power is considered. In order to install more artillery on the hull, the hull must be very long.

And because of the higher speed, the hull cannot be made too large.

In a word, professional warships are completely different from ordinary commercial Galen ships, and in a battle between warships and Galen ships, Galen ships have little chance of winning.

At present, there is a very favorable thing for Wu Changqing, that is, the Western naval warfare thinking has not been well developed, so there is no professional warship.

When they fought, the main ship they used was still the Galen ship, which had very weak firepower. To decide the outcome, it is still necessary to rely on the battle.

And professional warships can install a large number of artillery, which can directly blow up the opponent.

What Wu Changqing can be sure of is that the professional warships he made will be very popular in Western Europe.

After all, at this time, the Western European countries are fighting hard to compete for maritime hegemony.

The arms business has always been the most profitable business.

First build sails and sell them to opponents, and then drive steamboats to bully them in the future.

Wu Changqing couldn't help snickering when he thought about that picture. This method was really a bit damaging. He could imagine the pictures of those foreigners who were so angry that they vomited blood when they saw the steamboat.

shipbuilding.

Wu Changqing wrote two words on the paper, and then spent 100,000 technology points in the system mall to light up the manufacturing process of the Galen ship and the sail battleship, and then wrote these processes on the paper.

Subsequently, Wu Changqing issued a shipbuilding order.

In addition to government construction, he also encouraged private capital to enter. Even if it is private capital, he will provide those advanced technologies, and he only receives a little dividend.

The businessmen under his rule made money, and he made money.

In addition to promulgating the shipbuilding order, Wu Changqing also found Wu Yi and gave him an important task to send the navy to Ningbo and Fuzhou for training.

All ships that try to go to Ningbo and Fuzhou for trading will be seized, and all ships coming out of Ningbo and Fuzhou will be seized.

This time, Wu Changqing also

To be a robber.

He wants everyone to know that if you want to do ocean-going trade, you have to go to Songjiang obediently. Otherwise, worry about pirates.

As for whether this would attract revenge from Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian, he did not consider it.

He doesn't care if it will attract scolding from Zhejiang and Fujian businessmen.

He is not worried about whether it will attract protests and boycotts from foreigners.

In the face of interests, these are all clouds. Dare to hinder him from making money, that is to go against him, that is to court death.

"Brother Wu, this task is very arduous. After all, you were on the river before, but this time you are going to sea. However, I hope you can overcome the difficulties. Ocean-going trade is very important to us. Without those trade, we cannot afford to support so many troops. ."

Wu Changqing said that there is a big difference between the sea surface and the river surface, but he doesn't care about this kind of thing and leaves it to his subordinates to overcome. If Wu Yi can't do it, he can only choose other capable people to do it.

He called Wu Yi a sentence, Big Brother Wu. It was for the sake of everyone's uprising together, but he didn't really treat him as a big brother.

This point, Wu Yi is also very clear.

He said: "The subordinate must complete the task of the general. If it can't be done, the subordinate will come to see you."

Today is not what it used to be, and now he is in front of Wu Changqing, but he has always regarded himself as a subordinate.

"Brother Wu is serious, your safety is the most important thing. You can prepare with my note. If you need anything, you can let Dai Zhijun provide it first."

Wu Changqing said.