Daming Military Empire

Chapter 433 Increase investment

After Zheng Zhilong received 3000 million taels of silver indemnity, he was so excited that he couldn't wait to land in Goa and sent a telegram to Zhu Cijiong, and then Shi Shiran rushed back to Xingcheng Port.

It’s not that he’s open-minded when he sees money, the main thing is that he got the money with his lips, and he can earn 3000 million taels just by arguing with people for a few days. This sense of accomplishment is beyond words. Same, very comfortable.

Zhu Cijiong was also very happy after receiving the news. The 3000 million taels can be said to be for nothing, and the income of the Nordic iron chain is far more than that. It can be said that the occupation of the Mughal Empire and Batavia is due to the Nordic iron chain.

If it weren't for the great powers being pinned down in Europe, let alone Batavia, it would be a question of whether the Mughal Empire could be taken down.

Perhaps Philip IV and Joao IV couldn't figure out why the Ming Empire would so readily agree to lift the blockade of the Strait of Dover. After all, the longer the blockade, the better for Ming. You must know that Spain, Portugal and the anti-Haab After the Fort Alliance was pinned down in Northern Europe, it could be said that Ming was the only powerful country left in the sea, and the colonies could be robbed as much as they wanted.

Zhu Cijiong naturally has his own thinking. Everything is too late. The anti-Habsburg alliance is not really helpless with the Nordic iron chain. If they are really pushed, they will gather all the army and attack jointly by sea and land. Spain and Portugal will not be able to carry it. live.

In that case, although the anti-Habsburg alliance will suffer heavy losses, Spain and Portugal may never recover from a setback. Therefore, it is better for Spain and Portugal to preserve their strength and slowly contain the anti-Habsburg alliance.

You must know that the potential of Britain and France is terrifying. In addition, they still have a cooperative relationship with the Netherlands. Once they are not restrained by Spain and Portugal, they will rise rapidly. By then, Ming will not be worth the candle.

As for the 3000 million taels for nothing, Zhu Cijiong is going to invest all of it in the research and development of precision machine tools, because the reason why Ming Dynasty can develop so rapidly is in the final analysis because of the progress of science and technology. If there is no steam power, how can Daming get so many muskets and cannons? , How can we make so many cheap goods all over the world to make money.

After the development of precision machine tools, not only will the quality of weapons be significantly improved, but more importantly, with precision machine tools, the caliber of the artillery can at least be doubled!
Now it is not the casting problem that limits the caliber of the artillery. Since Bi Maokang and others have developed a split mold, no matter how large the caliber is, they can be cast, mainly because the existing machine tools cannot be processed.

You know, the weight of a six-inch cannon has already reached several thousand catties. If it continues to go up, the weight will reach at least tens of thousands of catties. The existing machine tools cannot process such heavy things at all.

Precision machine tools not only have a significant improvement in processing precision, but also far exceed existing machine tools in terms of power and firmness. There is no problem in processing things weighing tens of thousands of catties.

Twelve-inch giant cannons are exciting to think about. Once fired, a super battleship will be smashed in half. If you build a few such giant cannons and install them on the treasure ship, the enemy will probably be intimidated. Pee your pants!

Now, the Beicheng district of the capital has been basically completed, and the five colleges of machinery, telegraph, electrical machinery, metallurgy, and commerce separated from the Daming Institute of Technology have also been built. The experimental buildings, however, are basically empty shelves, because it takes money to add equipment, purchase materials, and recruit employees, and the budget for the construction of Beicheng District has long been almost spent.

Zhu Cijiong was still hesitating whether to spend so much money crazily. Although he made almost one billion taels in the Mughal Empire this time, the expenses were quite terrifying. It took less than three months. If he spends more than 3 million taels, if he spends it like this, he will be poor as a pair of pants in less than a year!
Now that he had the free 3000 million taels, he no longer hesitated, and directly gave 1000 million taels to each of the School of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Metallurgy for the construction of the experimental building.

Equipment, all with the best, fill up!
For materials, buy as much as you want, if you don’t have any, please ask someone to find it, and specialize in mining to dig!
Personnel, each laboratory building recruits [-] professionals, and the treatment is favorable, allowing them to fully assist Song Yingxing, Wang Zheng, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi in their experiments.

The 3000 million taels were dropped, and the research and development progress of Song Yingxing, Wang Zheng, Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi immediately improved by leaps and bounds.

For example, Song Yingxing, who studies the purification of new elements, has to find ores by himself and develop various auxiliary materials by himself. To crush an ore, he has to go to a cement factory, and to dissolve an ore, he has to go to a foundry. He has a total of ten people. Assistant, how can you get up so fast.

It’s different now. To find ore, just send an assistant to lead dozens of people. To develop auxiliary materials, let several assistants lead dozens of people to develop it. To crush ore, directly match a complete set of crushing equipment to dissolve For ore, just build a small blast furnace without going out, and everything can be done in the experimental building.

Another example is Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi's development of motors and generators. In the past, even a simple motor case had to be cast in a foundry and then processed in a machining workshop.

It’s different now, just build a small foundry for them, recruit sand foundry personnel, equip all the machine tools, and recruit machine tool workers for them, and let people process what they want immediately. The progress is so fast. times.

And on Wang Zheng's side, all the equipment was directly provided for him, and all kinds of professionals were recruited for him. He only needs to guide the research.

Such crazy investment, the effect is also amazing.

Soon, Song Yingxing purified the tungsten. As for the issue of mass production, he just handed it over to his assistant. He then entered the next project, the development of silicon steel sheets.

This tungsten filament is the filament of the earliest electric light bulb. After Zhu Cijiong heard the news, he immediately asked Song Yingxing to organize personnel to develop tungsten filament, and Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi organized personnel to conduct various electrification experiments. The factory immediately started making light bulbs.

With the cooperation of the three parties, the sample of the light bulb was produced very quickly, and Xu Fuyuan, Xia Yunyi and others were amazed by the dazzling light like the sun.

However, I don't know what went wrong, and those that exploded and burned when the electricity was turned on accounted for almost the vast majority.

Nima, anyway, it is impossible for this thing to be put into the market on a large scale in a short period of time. Zhu Cijiong simply asked Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi to continuously increase the size and thickness of the bulb, and equipped all the experimenters with rubber gloves and flat eyes to prevent them from getting hurt. .

Xu Fuyuan and Xia Yunyi organized another crazy experiment, from one as big as a fist to one as big as a head, the problem of explosion and burning was finally solved.

Once the light bulb was made, it made a lot of sense, and from then on the night was almost the same as the day.

Especially for those who turn on the machine tools, when it is rainy, they can hardly see the size clearly, and they can't even light the oil lamp. The oil lamp has weak light and smoke. After several hours of smoking, it can suffocate people's eyes. , Now that there are electric lights, rainy days are no problem at all, and it is even possible to arrange three shifts directly like later generations, and the efficiency has been improved by an unknown number of times.

(End of this chapter)