In the Taiye Pond of the Imperial City, wheel boats were taking turns to the dock. Tens of thousands of imperial guards had already lined up into several long rows, and the scene of unloading was extremely spectacular.

Buckets of rubber and copper ingots were uploaded from the ship like flowing water, and were soon passed to the area where the long-abandoned Wanshou Palace ruins were located.

At this moment, the ruins of Wanshou Palace have long been cleared, and rubber barrels and copper ingots have been piled up on the huge open space.

At this moment, the Ming Dynasty finally had enough rubber and copper to build weapons and equipment such as warships, muskets and cannons.

Therefore, Taichang decided to take back all the military farms of Tianjin Sanwei and build various weapons and equipment factories on both sides of the Haihe River, including shipyards, gun casting factories, gun factories, etc.

There are also the Ministry of Works’ armor factory, chariot factory, military uniform factory, Wang Gong factory, etc. in Beijing, all of which are moved!

Then, all the craftsmen related to the manufacturing of weapons and equipment in the Ming Dynasty were summoned to create weapons and equipment frantically!

As for the original military households of the three guards in Tianjin, there were only less than 20,000 households in total, and at most about 100,000 people. The young and strong people were directly selected and trained, and they became guards of major factories. They could just give them enough food and salary.

The remaining old, weak, women and children are actually not idle. As long as the factory here starts to be built, they have some work to do, and even if they find some work to do, it will definitely be better than farming.

In the Wenhua Hall Conference Hall, he had just introduced this unprecedented plan, and the important officials of the court were stunned.

They really didn't expect that the first thing the emperor did when he came back was to summon everyone to discuss this.

Therefore, all the factories that manufacture weapons and equipment were moved to Tianjin Sanwei!

Summon all relevant craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty to make weapons and equipment!

Build various super-large factories along the Haihe River!

To be honest, I have never done this in all dynasties.

Just kidding, which dynasty has so much money and food to do such a big thing!

The important officials of the court were stunned for a while, and then Bi Maokang, the Minister of Works, asked carefully: "Your Majesty, I really want to summon all the relevant craftsmen. The minister probably estimated that the relevant craftsmen were more than 500,000. If they added their families, it would be at least one million or even two million!"

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, all those who can be summoned will be summoned, the more people the better."

Now it is time to catch up, so naturally we have to do our best and take our time to do it. We don’t know how many years it will take to catch up with the European countries.

Time is endless!

The European countries have been developing rapidly for more than two hundred years. If the Ming Dynasty wants to catch up as soon as possible, it will have to take an unusual path.

That's why he proposed such a crazy plan.

When Bi Maokang heard this, he was shocked: "Your Majesty think twice. There are nearly two million people. A month-long food consumes at least one million stones! We can't let them go hungry, right? Also, the craftsmen now pay taxes and silver to offset labor. In other words, we cannot call for free as before. As we used to call craftsmen to work, they have to pay wages. More than 500,000 craftsmen have to pay how much wages a month!"

Wage is not a problem. At this moment, the income of Daming Money House and the tariffs at Taicang Port will be more than one million taels a month, and these two items will continue to grow.

In other words, the income from the wages in the treasury can be easily borne, and the taxes in the treasury are not necessary.

The problem is that if you really want to feed yourself, one million stone a month is probably not enough. In other words, 12 million stone a year is not enough!

At this moment, the imperial court's annual land tax revenue was only about 14 million stones even if it was completely replaced with food. Moreover, there were more than 9 million stones to pay for the vassal rice.

It seems that I can only attack the vassal state.

The Ming Dynasty raised these borers for more than two hundred years, so it was time to pay a price.

Thinking of this, Taichang said decisively: "Wage is not a problem. I will find a way to find food. Just call them over to work."

Uh, OK.

Bi Maokang was speechless.

Since the emperor said that there is no problem with money and food, what else can there be?

Minister of War Lu Xiangsheng asked carefully: "Your Majesty, there are many craftsmen in the army who specialize in building weapons and equipment, at least tens of thousands of households, and the total number of people with families is at least 200,000 to 300,000 people. Do you really want to summon them all?"

Yes, of course!

These military households who specialize in building weapons and equipment are definitely more powerful than those of the civilian craftsmen. They are just specializing in this, so of course they have to be summoned.

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said, "Well, call us all over. The more people we are, the better. We cannot feel sorry for this investment now. The more we invest now, the greater the profits will be in the future. On the contrary, if we don't invest now, we may not only have no profits in the future, but also suffer losses!"

All right.

Lu Xiangsheng could only bow and said, "I understand."

When the cabinet chief Xu Guangqi saw that the emperor had made up his mind to do this, he hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, we can't recruit all the craftsmen in one go, right? After all, there must be a place to live in to attract people. More than two million people can't live in such a big place in the capital! Such a large city is definitely not something that can be built in one or two years. Should we make a plan to build that factory first, then build that factory. When the factory is almost built, there will be a place to live in the craftsmen, and then gather the craftsmen in batches?"

Indeed, Bi Maoliang, a big city that lives about 100,000 people, has summoned 20,000 Tunwei Qingshang for three years and lived in a big city with a population of more than 2 million. Even if he gathered 100,000 Tunwei Qingshang for more than 100,000 Tunwei Qingshang, it would probably take more than ten years.

When Taichang heard this, he thought about it carefully, then nodded and said, "Well, we need to consider this. The most important thing now is the shipyard, the casting gun factory and the musket factory. These three factories must be built first. Liangfu, if the building ship gunboats are developed, how many ships can be built in a year in Haihe Shipyard?"

Wang Zheng estimated: "Weichen has now ordered people to build five docks and open five waterways. If there is enough manpower, it should be no problem to build twenty-five tower ships and gunboats a year."

There are twenty-five ships a year, only two hundred and fifty ships in ten years, and the production capacity of ten years cannot match the production capacity of the Dutch in half a year!

Moreover, according to the Spanish's judgment, the Dutch would definitely call him in just one or two years.

This is not fake. In history, the Dutch fought to the Ming Dynasty in recent years!

Problem, building a tower ship gunboat is too time-consuming. No matter how many docks are built or how many waterways are opened, it is not possible to throw the wood into it. The tower ship gunboat that is comparable to a city tower cannot be built in a few months.

What if, at this time, the Dutch call us?

Could it be that if the navy soldiers were still allowed to drive a small broken boat to fight against others?

No!

This is the era of great navigation, and the key is the battle for hegemony at sea. Navy soldiers are all treasures. Driving a small broken boat to fight against others is simply a waste of talent!

Taichang thought about it himself, then asked again: "Liangfu, how big are the cannons in the Spaniard's tower ship gunboats? Do you see that?"

Wang Zheng estimated: "From the size of the muzzle, it should be a cannon of about 200 kilograms."

Well, it’s easy to deal with the artillery of about 200 kilograms.

Taichang immediately made a decision: "Let's do this, you first order people to build ten dock waterways, and build them according to the size of the canal transport ship. The canal transport ship has a relatively simple structure. Ten dock waterways will be built in half a year, fifty canal transport ships driven by steam engines, right?"

Why have you transformed the canal transport ship again?

Wang Zheng thought for a while, then nodded and said, "As long as there is enough manpower, there should be no problem."

Taichang nodded slightly and said, "Okay, you add a few cannon-mounted platforms to the deck of each ship, and each canal transport ship is equipped with six 500-pound Thunder God cannons, one in front and back, two in left and right. Is it okay?"

Wang Zheng just thought for a while and nodded repeatedly: "No problem."

Taichang then said to Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua: "Menghou, Chuyang, you should also think carefully about how big it is to build 10,000 various artillery and 60,000 muskets a year, and how many craftsmen are needed, and how many craftsmen are needed. Tomorrow, I will give me a clear letter."

Bi Maokang and Sun Yuanhua hurriedly bowed and said, "I understand."

This is now limited to copper production, which is already a limit to development.
Chapter completed!