After hearing Zhu Hongsan's order, Zhang Jiayu was shocked and said, "Lord, our iron products and salt are originally 10% lower than those in the north. When the price is reduced, the national ownership of iron and salt stations and salt fields will definitely go bankrupt. Will this form a larger number of refugees?"

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect that Zhang Jiayu had such an economic mind. But he couldn't tell him that it was just to make the merchants in the north go bankrupt. Zhu Hongsan now found that as long as he put the name of righteousness, he would feel no guilt at all.

Zhu Hongsan said: "Yuanzi, you know that the Qing Dynasty occupied the north. If the northern economy is not destroyed, these steel and salt will be owned by the Qing Dynasty. We will have to work harder to defeat the Qing Dynasty. As for the bankrupt merchants, the Ming Dynasty will remember theirs."

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "I will give the Ministry of Commerce another order, not to silver and copper coins from the north. You can only exchange grain, iron ore, and coal for our iron products, salt, sugar and other industrial products."

This strategy was thought out by Zhu Hongsan as soon as he saw the light of his spirit. Zhu Hongsan thought about it again and again and thought that he should really use some economic war methods now. The savages of the Qing Dynasty could not even know that this currency could have such a great effect.

Zhu Hongsan first asked Zhang Jiayu to go down and write orders, and sat here to try to recall the pitiful economic theories he learned from later generations watching movies and TV, and online.

Zhu Hongsan has been in this era for more than 20 years, and many memories of his previous life have been blurred. It took him a long time to come up with a few dry strategies.

The first is the dumping, using its own semi-industrial products to squeeze out the handicraft industry in the north. Although Zhu Hongsan's factory cannot be said to be very advanced, it is undoubtedly much more advanced than the handicraft industry in the Ming Dynasty.

The second is to squeeze out the handicraft industry in the north and use the monopoly to take a lot of food in the north.

The third and second articles were carried out simultaneously, which was to produce a large number of inferior Chongzhen Tongbao and Shunzhi Tongbao, and use bad coins to drive away good coins and make the Qing Dynasty financially bankrupt.

Zhu Hongsan looked at his three points and said in his heart that if these three points are used, the Qing Dynasty can still hold on to them. That is really God bless me, the Qing Dynasty.

After Zhu Hongsan finished writing the three items, he handed them over to Zhang Jiayu and asked him to form a document and issue them. He immediately began to learn and do what he wanted.

Zhang Jiayu looked at the three short strips on the note, and his hair stood up. His family used to be a small businessman and knew that some small handicraftsmen could hardly resist large price fluctuations.

Every time the price of raw silk fluctuates, a large number of weaving households will go bankrupt, and selling children is also the norm. Zhang Jiayu used to hear that Zhu Hongsan was ruthless, but all of them were heard of, and today I saw it.

After this order, a large number of merchants in the north went bankrupt, and I don’t know how many people would die. The King of Chu just said lightly that “The Ming Dynasty will remember them”. Zhang Jiayu thought about it and sighed and wrote the order.

Zhu Hongsan's order indirectly caused the bankruptcy of tens of thousands of merchants in the north and the displacement of millions of craftsmen. However, this order did not require silver from the north, and could only barter the goods, causing prices in the north to soar. In order to raise war materials, the Qing Dynasty even used agricultural products to exchange for Zhu Hongsan's cheap ductile iron, salt and sugar. This made it even worse for the north, which was not a grain-producing area.

Of course, after the war, Zhu Hongsan put all the shit on the Qing Dynasty. Anyway, they couldn't say anything even if they succeeded and lost.

After all, it takes time to achieve an effect from the economic war. Now Zhu Hongsan is dealing with a lot of things every day, and he will not care about it if he arranges this matter and leaves it to the Ministry of Commerce for processing.

Now everything is on track, so Zhu Hongsan doesn't have to do anything personally. After finishing his work in the office, Zhu Hongsan suddenly remembered that the three experimental ships were back and should go to the shipyard to see how the results are.

Zhu Hongsan went out and went to the shipyard. Now there are seven or eight thousand people working here in the shipyard. As soon as he entered the gate, he saw the giant in the dock in the distance.

This big guy is the 800-ton cruiser. This guy does not use the unique shape of a Chinese lucky ship, but uses the shape of a Spanish sailboat commonly found in the South China Sea.

Yan Qingshan has not been idle in the past few months. He swept through several shipbuilding factories around the Pearl River Estuary. In addition to grabbing some raw materials, he also brought in many craftsmen.

Unexpectedly, there are a few craftsmen in these factories who have repaired Spanish sailboats. They said that the boats of Flangers are very resistant to wind and waves. Going to sea can adapt to various sea conditions, especially suitable for going out of the ocean.

After hearing this, Yan Qingshan immediately asked them to experiment with making new ships, and he ended up creating this big guy who combines the country and the United States.

This large ship has a displacement of about 800 tons, and can only be counted as medium among Spanish sailing ships. The largest Spanish sailing ship can have 1,200 tons, but it is for the American route. These craftsmen have never seen it, but they have only heard that such large ships are like castles on the sea.

This large ship has the typical characteristics of a Western ship, with a high string, a high tail building, a low front deck, a flat stern, and a protrusion at the bow, just like a collision angle of a paddle rowing.

The hull is a distinct equilateral trapezoid, and this slope extends all the way to the tail building. The lines of the large ship are graceful, while the stern is surprisingly exquisite, which makes its somewhat monotonous bow pale.

The large ship is thirty meters long and eight meters wide, with a length-to-width ratio of four to one, so it has a more advantage in speed. This appearance allows it to provide a stable launching platform for cannons, and the towering ship tower also provides fortress-like cover for the soldiers on the ship, giving it an advantage in close combat.

The large ship has three decks, the main deck is fifteen medium-sized cannons with one thousand kilograms, and the middle deck is ten heavy cannons. It is expected to use the two thousand kilogram heavy cannons that the artillery factory has just developed successfully. The third bottom deck is a cargo hold and an ammunition depot. Four hundred sailors live in the ship building above.

This large ship has three masts, which has exceeded the restrictions of the court. The court stipulated that the people were not allowed to build three-masted large ships, but now Dongguan is Zhu Hongsan's territory. What Zhu Hongsan said was the king's law, so he still had no control over the laws of the court.

There is no sail installed yet, so Zhu Hongsan is preparing to use Chinese-style hard sails. Although the utilization rate of hard sails is not as good as that of Western soft sails, the advantage lies in the simple operation and does not require too many sailors.

Of course, there are Chinese patents inside the ship, such as watertight cabins and watertight doors, which are essential for naval battles. In addition, the keels of the ship are cast in ductile iron, and the hull is much stronger than those of wooden keels in terms of strength and sink resistance.

The impact of the ship is also cast iron, which can take a lot of advantage in the impact. However, Zhu Hongsan does not intend to use this kind of ship to jump to the gang to fight. This kind of big ship should be used as a battleship, and the impact of the corner is just a need for immediate preparation.

Zhu Hongsan saw Yan Qingshan jumping up and down on the big boat with his shirtless, and was sweating profusely.

Zhu Hongsan shouted below: "My father-in-law, come down, I have something to ask you."

Hearing Zhu Hongsan calling him, Yan Qingshan jumped down reluctantly and asked, "Your Highness, is there anything wrong with Chu?"

Zhu Hongsan said: "My father-in-law, just let the people below do this kind of work. Why do you still do it yourself?"

"His Royal Highness of Chu doesn't know that every ship must be manufactured throughout the entire process, so that the maximum combat effectiveness can be exerted in naval battles. If the captain is not familiar with his ship, he will still have a naval battle."

Zhu Hongsan smiled and said, "My father-in-law, we will build hundreds of such ships in the future. Can you still watch every one of them?"

Yan Qingshan was stunned when he heard this. Hundreds of ships? Isn’t that better than the Florians?

Zhu Hongsan didn't want to talk to Yan Qingshan about anything else. This time he came to ask questions about the three ships.

"My father-in-law, how about the three ships going to sea this time? Are you satisfied?"

When Yan Qingshan heard Zhu Hongsan ask, he opened his mouth wide and said, "Of course I am satisfied. Those three ships are fast and have strong firepower, which is quite good."

"Did you find any shortcomings?"

Yan Qingshan thought for a while and said, "Is it a disadvantage? It's just that the artillery firepower is too weak and the flowering bullet is too small."

Zhu Hongsan said: "There is no way, the heavy artillery has not been produced yet. But it will be almost done when the ship is launched. The main deck has ten 3,000-pound heavy artillery, with a caliber of twenty-five centimeters, and its power is three times that of the army artillery."

"Then the relationship is good, and you will try it out after it is built."

Seeing that Yan Qingshan was all his worries on the big ship, Zhu Hongsan stopped talking nonsense to him and let him go to supervise the worker. Zhu Hongsan himself walked around the shipyard and found that there was nothing to do and went home.
Chapter completed!