In the Battle of England and the West that occurred nineteen years later, the Invincible Fleet sent by Spain had 128 large warships, more than 3,000 cast artillery, tens of thousands of skilled sailors, and nearly 20,000 elite naval soldiers.

Although the British did not have as many giant ships as Spain, it far surpassed the Spanish in terms of number. They had 197 warships and 6,500 artillery units!

The Dutch, the sea coachman who played the lead role in the coming seventeenth century, truly defeated Spain and dominated the ocean for a hundred years, had hundreds of shipyards in the capital Amsterdam alone, and hundreds of ships could be built at the same time. At its peak, the Dutch naval ships were almost twice as many as those of the British and French navies!

The French, who were aware of it, also devoted all their shipbuilding, so that they did not miss the feast of dividing the world.

In the future, a standard maritime power will have at least a dozen first-class battleships, more than a hundred third-class battleships, hundreds of cruise ships, and frigates. In addition, daily training, maintenance, wartime losses, shipyard construction, related supporting facilities and affiliated factories, it will definitely be a super huge industrial system.

In short, the navy is a money-burning machine. Players in the Age of Discovery can all use the power of the whole country to build their own super fleet, otherwise there will be no chance.

Because only the sail battleships can defeat the sail battleships, until the ironclad ship appears.

Can Mr. Zhao skip the wooden shell battleship and go directly to the ironclad ship?

Of course that would be fine, but the answer is to miss peaches...

That is the forefront of the fierce competition, but it still took 300 years to complete this path!

Iron-clad ships are the human industrial crystals that were born after a rapid advance in several heavy industry categories such as metallurgy, mechanical processing and manufacturing, shipbuilding, steam power! Don’t think about it without completing the industrial revolution or even the second industrial revolution!

Even if two industrial revolutions have been completed, it still requires a little accumulation, step by step improvement, and time accumulation and progress to create a real iron-clad ship.

Although Zhao Hao knows the correct development direction and can even outline the process, it can only shorten the time and cannot omit every step of industrial evolution.

It’s not that Zhao Hao boasted that the chance of building an ironclad ship within fifty years is probably lower than the chance of winning the first prize of the Welfare Lottery.

Because that means that he promoted the Ming Dynasty with his own strength and completed two industrial revolutions!

Is this something that a person can do? As long as Mr. Zhao is still an individual, don’t have such daydreams, okay?

So his goal was to see the first ship of the "Awesome" class ironclad ship named "Young Master Zhao" launched before his death, and he would have no regrets in this life.

If he wants to compete with the great powers in his life, he must use the whole country to build his own super fleet, and there is no other way.

But the Ming Dynasty was poor, and Mr. Zhao could not use his own country to power, so he had to use his other country to power.

The object of his bloodsucking is Japan.

In addition to normal trade, we also need to directly grab the mines of Daming people!

Zhao Hao told his generals that they would set sail from Shiroyama to the Mishima of Japan 400 miles east. Yes, there are only three islands in Japan now. If you ask which Japanese, you won’t tell you that there are four islands...

Then, along the coastline of Japan, 800 miles north, it is Japan's largest silver mine, Ishimi Yinshan, which produces 38 tons of silver annually!

"Thirty-eight tons? How many taels are this?" Wang Rulong calculated with his fingers.

"One million taels." Jinke's ability to calculate and understand the new weights and measures is obviously above Lao Wang.

"Yes, the total annual output of Yinshan in Japan is 200 tons of silver. The output of Shijian Yinshan accounts for nearly one-fifth of it." Mr. Zhao wiped his saliva and said leisurely: "If Jiangnan Group comes to mine, I am confident that I will double the annual output!"

"That's two million taels!" Wang Rulong immediately said with great joy: "Then you don't have to worry about the money for building a ship!"

"Young Master, is Shi Jian Yinshan within the range of our naval gun?" Jin Ke asked calmly. Since Shi Jian Yinshan's production is so high, the owner will definitely be regarded as a forbidden item.

"Ten miles away from the sea, our cannons are still not able to be fired at present." Zhao Hao sorted out the red silk on the straw hat. In fact, even if the range of the cannons is enough in the future, they still cannot be fired because the silver mine is in the mountain.

"What is the strength of the vassal lord who controls Yinshan?" Jin Ke asked again.

"It's so sloppy." Mr. Zhao put on a straw hat with some guilt, thinking that I've played with him...

Since thirty years ago, I learned the refining technique of the ash blowing method from the Ming Dynasty, Shi Jian Yinshan has greatly increased the production of silver, which naturally has attracted the competition among the daimyos.

Among them, the Ouchi family in Yamaguchi, the Niko family in Izumo country, and the Maori family in Hiroshima are the strongest. Seven years ago, Mori defeated the Niko family and became the new owner of Ishimi Ginyama.

The Maori family thus gained huge wealth and increased their strength dramatically. They quickly became the largest Western Japan power that ruled the ten countries, with more than 1.2 million stones. They are currently one of the strongest princes in Japan, and can even defeat Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga.

The head of the family, Maori Yuan, was known as the "No. wise general of the Western Kingdom" and also called the "Warring States God of Scheming". Although the Japanese bragging skills were not inferior to those of the Li Dynasty, Maori Yuan was worthy of the resourceful and talented overlord.

Such a real name, known for its strategy, can mobilize tens of thousands of troops at any time, is obviously not something that the Jiangnan Group can provoke at this stage.

So Mr. Zhao sighed lightly and said, "So Shi Jian Yinshan is not the goal at this stage."

With two years left, Maori Mori was about to travel to the west. Moreover, Maori Mori's eldest son had died, and his second son and youngest son were adopted. The one who took over the Maori family was his grandson Maori Hiromoto.

The child Maori Hiromoto has mediocre abilities and is 108,000 miles worse than his grandfather. It will not be too late to find a stone to find a silver mountain when the time comes.

"Uh..." Wang Rulong's mouth twitched, and his emotions were in vain.

"Then we should make arrangements early and wait for the opportunity to come." Jinke's level is higher than Lao Wang, so it's no wonder he is the master and Wang Rulong is the deputy.

"Yes, there will be a chance soon." Zhao Hao smiled faintly and said without expanding for the time being: "Shi Shi really can't be anxious, so let's put it aside first and do our best to get another golden mountain."

"Jinshan?" The two of them calmed down a lot this time. Wang Rulong asked carefully: "Where is this Jinshan? What is the one owned by Daming?"

"Don't worry, it's much less difficult to take down the Jinshan Mountain." Zhao Hao smiled and pointed to the northeastern sea. "From the location of Shimiji Yinshan Mountain, we continue to the northeastern direction of the coastline by 1,200 miles. There is a Sado Island. The gold mine on the island is even more Niu Boyi than Shimiji Yinshan Mountain. Moreover, Sado Island is 70 miles away from the coastline, and there are no decent forces on the island. There are only ten thousand people in men, women, young and old, and they are divided into several factions, forming a feud."

"Clan fights." The two Yiwu fellow villagers were very kind to this. When Qi Jiguang passed by Yiwu, he witnessed the long-lasting and extremely high-level battle between clans in the local area, and decided to recruit soldiers in Yiwu.

"Not bad." Zhao Hao said lightly: "You only need to send a brigade to firmly control the local situation."

"Since Sado Jinshan is even more powerful than Ishimiji Yinshan, will the Japanese princes allow us to occupy Sado Island?" Wang Rulong asked in confusion.

"Yes." Mr. Zhao touched his nose a little embarrassedly and said, "Because the local gold mountains have not been discovered yet. At present, there are only two silver mountains with very poor climates, and the annual output is only ten thousand 20,000 silver dollars, like a useless rib. Therefore, the Echigo Dragon who was separating the other side has never had the idea of ​​crossing the sea to conquer Sado Island and taking over the island."

"Who is Echizen Dragon?" King Jin was stunned, thinking that he didn't know how good these Japanese princes were. The nicknames were one by one. What is the Fat Front Bear, the No. wise general, and the Echizen Dragon popped up again. "Is there any other tiger?"

"It really is." Zhao Hao couldn't help laughing: "That old rival of Echigo's Dragon, Kenshin Uesugi, is known as the "Tiger of Arcada". The two of them gathered together to fight the dragon and tiger, and their brains were almost out of their way."

"This is much easier. If the 'Road' of Thick Paper Dragon' dares to get fucked with us, we will join forces with that 'Fatty Paper Tiger' to fuck him together. It is guaranteed that he is a dragon and he has to be a dragon." Jin Ke smiled.

"Well, that's right, this is what I think, but I have to be strong by myself." Zhao Hao nodded and said, "We are still stationing troops on the island, building a fort, and then sending a squadron to station on Sado Island to eliminate all invading enemies!"

"Yes!" Jinke Wang Rulong quickly responded with his legs together.

Then Lao Wang couldn't help but ask curiously: "How could the young master know that there is a golden mountain that the Japanese don't know about?"

"Uh, that's it..." Mr. Zhao rolled his eyes, paused for a while, and said in a muffled voice: "This is the power of science."

Then he told the two people seriously why Japan is rich in gold, silver and copper because it was first in the volcanic earthquake zone. Volcanic earthquakes occurred frequently millions of years ago, and various precious metals such as gold, silver and copper in the earth's crust moved to the surface with the magma and the crust. After the magma cooled, a mountain of gold, silver and copper mountains formed...

Through scientific geological research, Mr. Zhao inferred from the location of the existing gold, silver and copper mountains in Japan that Sado Island must have a large gold, silver and associated mine, and it is more than the Ishimi Yinshan.

When the King of Jin suddenly realized that his admiration for the young master had reached a new level.

"Yes, Young Master is a great scientist who can predict earthquakes!" Jin Ke said with sincerity: "In the future, I will be able to return to the field. I will definitely follow Young Master to study science well."
Chapter completed!