In the dock, under the action of steam power, the crane slowly lifts special steel with steel cables. The gaps between the steel structures of the crane are rubbed against each other during the stress process, making a creaking sound, and the heavy metal sounds are played here.

The Beiming-class ironclad ship has a displacement of 14,000 tons, uses two triple main guns, and is equipped with a machine gun tower. It is the largest ironclad ship built by Qi in the past two hundred years. In the past, the official ironclad ship of Qi was generally about 2,000 tons. In the long history, there was also a period of building 10,000 tons of ironclad ships.

For example, two thousand years ago, during the reign of Qi State, in order to promote its own strength and to suppress the Wu and Yue countries in the south, only one of them was built. Of course, only one was built.

Now the Empire has set up a total of seven warships, all of which are large ships of more than 5,000 tons. The reason is that this year, Lu Zhuan gave the Empire Navy a warship with a larger single tonnage, the cheaper the unit displacement. Build four warships of one thousand tons, the price is 1,800 tons, and the price of subsequent maintenance of the dock port is 1,800 tons. The price of large ships is discounted.

A few years ago, the upper class of the Imperial Navy ordered large warships to cater to the emperor's preferences. The emperor did not see any twists and turns a few years ago, and Lu Zhuan was still very obedient at that time. Out of great joy, he agreed to the suggestion of changing multiple small boats to another large boat.

At present, this warship is the last warship. Lu Zhuan is holding an acetylene oxygen welding gun and welding the steel structure on the hull. During the welding process, Lu Zhuan used the knowledge of electromagnetic control given by himself (Shang Heng) to restrain the flames with powerful magnetic force. This method also taught other workers.

The spiritual craftsman class in Shangheng was really cultivated here. Lu Zhuan tried to leap the social form of this world towards the social form of Shangheng. However, in the process of this social leap, Lu Zhuan would not allow the speed to slow down. Various schools appeared under the banner of diversification, but in fact it was in an internal friction scene. Lu Zhuan decided to completely separate the spirit control master and the spirit engineer from the beginning. The spirit engineer made spiritual tools in the spirit construction workshop, while the spirit control master was simply the spirit control tool.

When the topic came back, when returning to the large warship in the dock, replacing multiple small ships with large ships was the solution provided by Lu Zhuan to the emperor. When the emperor was in his prime, Lu Zhuan was a good nephew, and the emperor did not have much precautions. At that time, the emperor was guarding against the real power families in the country.

Moreover, in the New Navy, there is less money in this place and the military equipment is also stronger. It seems that nothing is wrong.

Now Lu Zhuan has an increasingly greater influence on the fleet. The maintenance and maintenance of large fleets can only be done by the industrial city ports under his command. The ports of civilian ships in other coastal ports cannot provide technical support at all. The fleet must be stationed in the military port near Lu Zhuan's coastal industrial city. With a major fleet stationed near his own port, his commercial activities at sea will have strong military support.

Of course, the people in the temple may have another idea. They believed that the large fleet of the Empire would allow the Imperial Army to control this important industrial city. However, the Masters in the temple did not know that the Imperial Army and the Imperial Navy were different.

The Imperial Army relied on plunder to maintain morale under strict management.

The Imperial Navy was strictly managed and occasionally did plunder to maintain morale.

The land is very large, and the Imperial Army comes from all over the world. Marines to another place are a strange place for the Army. Therefore, under the orders of the Supervisor, the Army can perform the role of suppressing the country.

The ocean is larger, but naval soldiers will not go into the sea to swim and rob mermaids. Instead, they stay on a boat and return to the port, the port city is their hometown. As for ordering the navy to suppress their own ports, this is a very "metaphysical" order for the navy to go up and down. In other words, it is more reliable to fire the palace (Russia), or the order to revolt on the spot is clearer and easier to understand (Germany at the end of World War I).

Almost half of the sailors in these large fleets have married their wives and bought houses in Lu Zhuan's city, and the children they gave birth to go to school in school. If the emperor ordered these sailors to suppress them, the navy's naval guns were aimed at Lu Zhuan's city! That would happen very interesting things.

Emperor Hongyang, who owns the spy group, also knew that the captains with powerful warships under his command were now standing with Lu Zhuan. It was nothing else. The imperial pay for the navy was only one-quarter of the front-line main combat troops in the north. This is the default unspoken rule in the imperial temple. The troops that do not fight can give less money. Lu Zhuan's local subsidies for naval officers in the city are four times that of the front-line main combat troops, and the naval military # official certificate can enjoy discounts in some bars and stores. Discounts in schools.

In the era of marine trade, to go out to do business, you have to support the navy. Whoever does not have a big stick to do business honestly with you?

In recent years, some places of overseas maritime business have not been smooth. Just a telegram ask the navy to drive out ten thousand tons of warships and pull them to the sea area for military exercises. Use a 240 mm heavy artillery to test the military literacy of the mobile targets at sea in front of those naughty international friends, and their future business problems will be solved. Therefore, the relationship between Lu Zhuan and the Imperial Navy is the relationship between the military and the civilians.

"Your ship is my ship. (Song)" Lu Zhuan and the workers were humming a small song while working. After a few hours, Lu Zhuan put down the welding gun in his hand. At this time, the imperial envoy who had been waiting for two hours finally waited until Lu Zhuan walked out of the dock.

Seeing Lu Zhuan wearing work clothes, the imperial envoy bowed and said, "Your Majesty." Lu Zhuan paused and rubbed his hands and said in a honest tone: "You are here, I have been waiting for you for a long time. Look at my clothes?" Lu Zhuan said politely.

The imperial envoy also smiled and waved his hand and said, "It's not a problem, it's not a problem. You are working for Your Majesty's giant ship, and I'm disturbing you."

After both sides politely made a fuss, the imperial envoy of the internal affairs took out the handwriting given by the emperor. Lu Zhuan looked at it, frowned, and said, "I can't take out too many."

The letter gave Lu Zhuan a total of 10 million silver dollars a year. In fact, this amount of money is not much based on the gross domestic product, but Lu Zhuan knew that His Majesty's current appetite must not be encouraged and must be suppressed. So the bargaining began.

The imperial envoy smiled and said, "How much do you want to pay?"

Lu Zhuan gestured his fingers, and the imperial envoy shook his head and said, "I can't explain this."

The two sides bargained again and again, and the stalemate was in a state of stalemate. In the end, the imperial envoy released the reserve price of His Majesty the Emperor.

The imperial envoy opened a large area of ​​land in the north. This land was a huge disputed territory between the Empire and the northern Yan and Zhao countries. Both sides occupied some cities, including Qi State occupying four cities, Yan State occupied seven, and Zhao State occupied two. However, from the perspective of fertile land, Qi State had advantages in regional water sources.

The imperial envoy looked at Lu Zhuan and said, "Your Majesty said that he can mortgage the governor's rights of the seven northern provinces to you, allowing you to form your own army here and protect the northern border of the empire."

Lu Zhuan clenched his nose and asked in a puzzled tone: "What is your Majesty's intention? It makes me want to split the earth and divide the thorns. Besides, these seven northern provinces have swallowed up a lot of financial resources every year. Now they have thrown this mess to me, and they also ask me for money. What's wrong with me?"

The imperial envoy said with a dry smile: "Your Majesty said you have a good business."

Lu Zhuan waved his hand and said, "It's okay to leave it to me to manage it. But I have no money?"

The imperial envoy laughed dryly and said, "The court can no longer allocate money to operate the northern defense line. If this place is lost, your industry will not be safe. So please share the worries of the country." The imperial envoy pointed to an industrial city in the north. If the land in the north is lost, the imperial defense line will be vacant, and the cavalry of Zhao State can threaten the city with infantry cannons.

Lu Zhuan looked at the location of the map and said sarcastically: "It seems that I was kidnapped." The imperial envoy said: "Where, you are a royal nobleman." The imperial envoy said with a smile.

Lu Zhuan smiled. Yes, his own economic and financial resources, the emperor would be clear if he investigated. The annual economic surplus of various cities here can be found from public figures, and the financial situation is also public.

His Majesty the Emperor obviously calculated how much money he had, and scrapped a part of it, and at the same time he was losing a basic capital to spend his money.

"The loan of seven million yuan per year and 40 million yuan is not enough. The Beihetao District is fully handed over to me." The imperial envoy wanted to continue asking for the price, and Lu Zhuan muttered: "General Wang, I told me recently that their military uniforms have been torn recently, so I have to go to the cotton textile factory."

The imperial envoy was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Then you have worked hard, Prince. I will tell Your Majesty what you mean."

Lu Zhuan's last sentence seemed to answer the question, but the code was: "Money can be bought by other forces. Please don't continue to bargain."

After the imperial envoy left, Lu Zhuan took off his gloves and had a welder's asbestos suit. After a while, he sighed and said, "I'm still giving too much, I have to dig a little back." Lu Zhuan drove to the center, called, and began to convene a meeting of economic managers from various factories. The purpose of the meeting was to alleviate the economic crisis and regulate prices.

Market price control is an invisible means of collecting wealth, and the target of this means is controllable.

The following is an example to briefly describe this plundering process.

The cost of making a piece of steel is ten yuan, but this piece of steel is put into the market as raw materials. According to principles, everyone buys this material fairly, which is an absolutely free market economy. However, under administrative intervention, the government subsidizes the steel entering the bicycle factory, and the raw material price becomes five yuan. The price of raw materials entering the artillery factory becomes fifteen yuan. Bicycles are sold to the people, and the people use their labor to buy it. The overall price has not increased, but artillery is sold to the army, so they plunder military expenditures in a targeted manner.

After Lu Zhuan made a plan at the meeting, a factory manager (also a spiritual maker) asked Lu Zhuan a little hesitantly: "Boss, is it too much for us to do this? It's too obvious."

Lu Zhuan said: "What are you afraid of? Let me raise the price. The emperor is rich now. Also, the plantation landlords in the south are also rich. Scrape them a layer of oil and tell who can do whatever they want in this empire."

Lu Zhuan's operation was done in the 21st century, and countries were doing it, and countries that were too straightforward in the 21st century would not survive.

Of course, Lu Zhuan is more shameless than the countries in the 21st century. Anyway, no one cares about the handover between the old and new regimes, so Lu Zhuan takes the opportunity to overturn the interest groups in the southern plantations.

The old emperor and the nobles of the southern plantation plantation were all going to buy, as well as fertilizers and explosives, and they would use various subsidies to force the neutral parties in the raw material market to their right. Those farmers and miners who supply raw materials to their group can enjoy contract subsidies according to the amount of raw materials they supply, and can purchase industrial products from factories at the cost price.

Lu Zhuan: "I'm already very gentle when I didn't directly revolutionize and redistribute the means of production."
Chapter completed!