The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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Fast warships are three-sail gunships.The entire gunboat is one size smaller than the large gunboat previously ordered by South Korea.But a bit bigger than a medium warship.This warship is equipped with 32 cannons.The number of cannons is a little less, but the speed is much faster. In addition, the overall hull is streamlined and the weight is reduced a lot. Therefore, the warship is faster than the large warship.Such fast warships have less firepower than larger warships, but are faster.Compared with medium-sized warships, he has advantages in speed and firepower.Moreover, the price is not expensive, one hundred thousand gold can build such four fast warships.Weaponry and personnel training are all handled by the Qin State Shipbuilding Factory.It is worth mentioning that such fast warships are not equipped with ordinary smoothbore guns.Instead, it is equipped with a certain number of rifled guns.Cannonballs also use conical shells.

Although the gunboat is also equipped with a certain number of smoothbore guns, the proportion of the number is relatively small, because the smoothbore guns are easy to operate.The advantage of relatively fast speed was specially proposed by the South Korean side, while the rest of the artillery were all equipped with front-loading rifled guns.Use cone shells.South Korea's request to build such a ship is because their warship thinking has undergone many changes.

"If South Korea wants to build its own navy, it is impossible to have too many warships at the beginning. First of all, when South Korea builds its own navy, Qin must be particularly afraid of South Korea, and South Korea can only use its limited Korean warships. Otherwise, Qin will definitely take measures against South Korea. For example, unconditionally detain South Korea’s other warships under construction.” South Korea’s transport minister said at the cabinet meeting.

Because the establishment of the navy is closely related to maritime trade and transportation.The Minister of Transport specially set up a Water Transport Office, which was actually the early Korean Navy Ministry, because most of the people working here were officers.Although they are from the ROK New Army Army Corps, they manage the ROK's water power.In addition, shipping is closely related to South Korea's maritime trade, mainly because shipping can bring a lot of raw materials, such as timber, which can provide South Korea with a considerable amount of raw materials.These woods give South Korea certain advantages in papermaking and furniture manufacturing, because some woods cannot be obtained by Qin.

"Well. Therefore, South Korea's next shipbuilding plan cannot continue to build ships according to the original plan. South Korea's shipbuilding must follow a rule, that is, the number is small, but it must be refined. Therefore, in terms of artillery, it cannot continue to be equipped with smoothbore guns. And We need to use rifled guns with higher accuracy." The Director of the Water Transportation Department pointed out the key point, and the Water Transportation Department carefully studied the future development of the South Korean Navy. He borrowed relevant books from the State of Qin. Records some of Naofumi's views on the navy.The navy is a special branch of the military, because navigation itself is a comprehensive technical undertaking, so the navy is highly technical.It is precisely this point that the director of the Water Transport Department believes that some new technologies should be boldly used instead of continuing on the same path as before.

"One-sided expansion of the navy will cause a lot of waste of resources. The future navy funds are very limited. The king has already reduced the royal family's expenditures to build our Korean navy. In addition, we have not been able to obtain more maritime trade taxes recently. , which makes our navy unable to continue to expand its own scale. In this way, it will cause our navy to be unable to continue to develop continuously. This is a bad phenomenon for us. In the current situation of limited funds, We want to improve the combat effectiveness of a single warship, and to do so requires increasing a certain amount of funds and equipping the warship with some new technologies," said the Director of Water Transport.

"That's right, we can't be too big. This is what is required of us. The size of the future navy cannot be enlarged. It can only be lean." The Minister of Transport emphasized.

South Korean senior officials, especially Han Shu, believe that South Korea should establish its own South Korean navy, but the prerequisite is that South Korea must create established facts, and the South Korean navy has an overseas naval base before it officially becomes an army. This overseas base has certain shipbuilding capabilities. and ship repair capabilities.In order to facilitate the repair of Korean warships and other merchant ships.

In addition, the South Korean navy must have a certain combat effectiveness. Such combat effectiveness is to be able to withstand a blow from the Qin army, have a certain strike capability, and at least have a chance to fight back.

These purposes are secondary.What is really important is that the establishment of the South Korean navy actually serves the needs of the South Korean economy, and South Korean high-level officials have gradually discovered some strange things, that is, the domestic market, coupled with the extreme shrinkage of the markets of the six countries, such a shrinking As a result, demand is sluggish and light industrial production continues, which will not have enough motivation to promote the country's economic development.

However, at this time, the economic minister of the South Korean cabinet noticed a direction, that is, South Korea's maritime trade is expanding rapidly.

South Korea's maritime trade developed very fast, because South Korea discovered an island, coupled with the continuous development of Qin's foreign trade, especially the rise of the slave trade.A large number of Korean businessmen participated in it. On the one hand, they imported a large amount of weapons and other industrial products from Qin.At the same time, the light industrial products produced in South Korea were sold to the colonies of Chu State through the railway and road network. Korean merchants participated in overseas trade just like Chu State merchants. The difference is that Koreans are engaged in timber business, and they specialize in those Chu State. , The wood that Qin does not have, these woods are very good furniture woods, this kind of wood business makes South Korea have a lot of business capital, but these businesses, the South Korean government does not levy taxes on them.

Another piece of news made Han Shu very angry, that is, the establishment of the aristocratic navy of the Chu State. As long as the nobles whose lands are in the Yangtze River, they will set up large and small aristocratic naval forces one after another. Yes, for Qin ships, they will impose some taxes moderately, or exempt them from collecting taxes, because they are afraid of offending Qin.However, if other countries need special approval documents to register Qin's ships, this will give Qin's ships some advantages, but Qin's overseas trade is not large, so the overseas trade is mainly carried out by Chu and South Korea.

However, South Korea did not levy taxes on its own merchant ships, while the establishment of the large and small aristocratic navy in Chu State levied taxes on passing Korean ships, which caused the loss of Korean taxes and the unintentional loss of a large amount of gold and silver. , forcing South Korea to decide to accelerate the establishment of its own South Korean navy to protect the interests of South Korean merchant ships, and the establishment of a navy is actually the establishment of the South Korean Maritime Trade Taxation Office to protect maritime trade, which is to protect South Korea's maritime taxes.Because the development of this area of ​​taxation is enormous.

These are the real purpose of South Korea's establishment of the navy.

The large and small naval forces established by the nobles of Chu State seriously hindered South Korea's taxation, which forced South Korea to speed up the pace of building a navy.

In this context, South Korea once again invested a sum of money to build a fleet of four fast warships again. They are determined to rely on their technology and combat strength to teach some of these noble sailors a lesson.

"Let's fight!" "Quick Crossbow." The gunner on the ship couldn't wait to join the battle.Chu’s aristocratic navy collects taxes on passing ships, and according to the information obtained by other merchant ships, there are many such noble navy, but South Korea has just launched this fast warship, and the training results of the soldiers are not yet known. .This made the captain of the "Quick Crossbow" feel a little tricky.

In fact, this warship was named Quick Crossbow because the crossbow was powerful and accurate, and they prepared rifled cannons, which fit the characteristics of the crossbow. However, such a How powerful is the capability of a warship.The captain himself doesn't even know.

"Our warship has just launched, and we don't know how much combat power it has yet," the captain said.

"If we rashly start a war with them, I'm afraid it will be bad for us," said the captain.

"We can't do it alone, you know, we are a new ship." The captain was under a lot of pressure.Originally they were on trial voyages.However, the appearance of Chu's aristocratic navy stood in front of them. If they want to continue, they must fight this battle.But how sure is this battle.The captain wasn't sure either.

"First scout out the situation, we need to make a detailed plan." The captain said at this time.

"En." The other officers nodded.

Xinzheng, South Korea.

"The important purpose of going to Qin State this time is to sign an alliance. Qin State's poor response means that Qin State's interests have not been moved. We are going to Qin State this time to impress Qin State. Let Qin State think that it is a good relationship with Qin State. There are great benefits for us to sign an alliance." Han Shu said to Zhang Liang.

"Another purpose is to take the opportunity to test Qin's reaction to the South Korean navy. If the reaction is good, we will continue." Han Shu continued.

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"These ministers understand. [Complete Works Download]" Zhang Liang nodded and said.There are many things to do during this Qin State visit, and the signing of the covenant is enough to keep Zhang Liang busy.

"Okay. Pack up and leave as soon as possible." Han Shu said.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zhang Liang nodded.Then he saluted and turned to leave.Han Shu walked back and forth thinking about some questions.There are still many problems facing South Korea.But what worries Han Shu is that Shangwen is still missing.The marching speed of the new South Korean army going to the rescue was extremely slow.This made Han Shu even more worried.

In the territory of Wei State, the cavalry captain of the new South Korean army anxiously waited for the arrival of the reconnaissance results.

"Da da da." With the sound of horse hooves, a new Korean cavalry quickly approached.Then quickly dismounted.

"How is it?" the captain asked anxiously.

"The situation is very bad." Said the new South Korean cavalryman dismounting quickly.

"The road ahead looks flat, but there are low hills on both sides, so it is easy to ambush. When I just arrived in front, there was a battle over there. It seemed that a group of caravans were ambushed." The cavalry controlled his body breath said.

"En." The captain nodded.

"Which country are those caravans from?" the captain asked.

"I don't know." The cavalry said at this time.

"There is no flag on it that says it belongs to that country." The cavalry said.

"However, only we, South Korea, entered Qi through this trade route. Generally, it should be like this." The cavalry deduced.

"We can't launch an attack rashly. Who knows what these bandits want to do?" said the captain of the South Korean new army.

"But we can't just do nothing like this. If we find out that we met our own caravan in Wei and don't help, we may have to go to a military court. Sir." The Korean cavalry said.

"En." The captain nodded, and we can expel them.

"Each platoon mounts the horse, divides the soldiers into three groups, outflanks the left, middle and right groups, just drive them away, don't chase the enemy. Do you understand?" the captain shouted loudly.

"Understood, sir." The platoon leader stood up and replied.The captain nodded, and then quickly got on his horse, and the cavalry company of the Korean new army began to advance quickly in accordance with the battle formation.

A large number of bandits began to appear in Wei State.These bandits mainly came from farmers who went bankrupt due to high taxes in Wei State, or unemployed vagrants. These people had to join the ranks of bandits because of the poor management of Wei State because of their livelihood.Coupled with the continuous expansion of South Korea's trade with the Qi State, this directly induced the rampant banditry in the Wei State.However, Wei State did not manage it at all, and the guerrillas on the border of Wei State and South Korea joined in, which aggravated the security situation in Wei State.

And because the Korean caravan carried a large amount of grain, the grain was transported from Qin State, and they sold it to the Qi army who was in urgent need of grain, and they made a lot of money.Coupled with the presence of ready-made food, especially canned food, this makes banditry even more rampant.Because the direct motivation of many Wei people to become bandits is to solve their own food and clothing problems.It is also for this reason that directly led the Wei people to participate in bandits for food.

"Bang. Bang." "Da da da, boom boom boom." The sound of horseshoes came continuously, and the cavalry of the new South Korean army continued to shoot in this direction.The bandits of the state of Wei who were carrying out the robbery were the cavalry of the new Korean army at first glance.They all turned around one after another, and ran away without caring about anything.

The South Korean new army took the opportunity to expel the opponent, and gave up after chasing for a certain distance. They only need to expel the opponent.Because they knew very well that they would not be able to finish these Wei state bandits at all.

It is precisely because of the rampant bandits that this greatly delayed the support of the new South Korean army, and their support was also very limited.The rescue of the new South Korean army was very slow, because they had to ensure the smooth flow of their logistics supply lines.Without a logistical supply line, they dare not launch an offensive rashly.

"Your Majesty, is this a hasty patrol, isn't it?" Meng Tian said cautiously.

"No, it's not an inspection this time. I want to change into civilian clothes to see how the state of Qin has changed. In order to prevent others from seeing us, we have to dress up in disguise. You can go with the widow too." King Qin said to Meng Tian.And Meng Tian was still at a loss thinking about what to do next?Because King Qin's idea is really too bold.

"Then, Your Majesty, it's better for us to bring more people." Meng Tian was worried about King Qin's safety.

"En." King Qin just nodded.

"Your Majesty, I think that your Majesty should bring more manpower. These manpower can be disguised as mercenaries, so that we can ensure the safety of the Majesty and investigate other areas." After thinking for a while, Meng Tian decided You should make up like this, because only in this way can you bring a large number of people and carry weapons without being suspected.

"En. Just do as you want, and then we will set off." King Qin said.

"Here." Meng Tian clapped his hands and agreed at this time.

On the platform of Xianyang Railway Station, a passenger train bound for the Western Regions is waiting for the departure signal.King Qin had a revolver hanging diagonally from his body, and these were the general outfits of western mercenaries.