After the show, everything seemed to be calm again.The work of the work, the tired of the tired, the distress of the distress.The only difference was that Panjim’s area suddenly became a construction site.

More and more property was received from the Portuguese governorate and the church, and in addition to leaving a necessary part for the local consumption of Goa, most of which were transported into the island of space and time.For the first time, in addition to the precious metals that were scraped, there were more than a hundred female slaves, more than two hundred Arabian horses, and skilled horse-raise natives.

The curiosity of the fire phoenix was strong, and he took the initiative to stay for a while.Wen Ruolan and others followed Zhou Qingfeng back to Tianjin on the biplane.As for the issue of commerce, it was lost to several financial accounts sent by Xu Bing to handle it.

For the next three months of 1617, Goa, like the back garden and resort area of the Revolutionary Army, took turns to take turns.Zhou Qingfeng is constantly taking the space-time island to go to Goa and Tianjin to deal with various goods.He also brought a large number of manpower to Goa, including a full 5,000 infantry brigade, a 10,000-strong militia development regiment.

Xu also plans to recruit and train 50,000 indigenous people in Goa, using whips and food to teach them how to obey and execute orders correctly.The “Revolutionary Army” needed them to transform Goa in order to better provide supplies for the prosperity of Chinese civilization.Wu Dao temporarily became the commander of the police in Goa, and every day has a headache about how to train the stupid natives.

In order to stabilize and maintain the situation in Goa, Zhou Qingfeng even shipped six 50-ton naval commuter ships recently produced by Jinzhou Shipyard.With the rapid training of naval personnel, Goa will quickly become a naval base.With these high-speed commuter boats, monitoring the waters around Goa is no problem and can effectively stop the coveting of potential adversaries.

Colonization is not something that can be done in a day or two.It is easy to capture Goa, but it takes more detailed work and time to play the role of Goa.However, the benefits of taking Goa were immediate, and when Zhou Qingfeng returned to Tianjin, a large amount of gold and silver he brought back was immediately sent to the Jinzhou Mint.

Tons of gold and silver were resmelted, and Zhao Ze, who was in charge of the mint, watched a large number of gold religious figurines and even jewelry become liquid in the furnace.He punched Zhou Qingfeng and smiled, "The Portuguese will hate you, and their hundreds of years of hard work will be wasted overnight."

"It's more about the Portuguese than I hate."Zhou Qingfeng also laughed at the gold products in the furnace, "Just like those Confucian students in the Central Plains hated me for destroying the Confucian house, and the religious fanatics in Europe knew that I had destroyed all the traces of God in Goa, but we were afraid of a 'crusader'."

Together, not only gold and silver, but also a large number of copper weapons.The Goa-Lithian army was defeated, and almost all the guns were discarded.Zhou Qingfeng ordered all these copper products to be collected and shipped back, even the bronze bells in the church and the brass pipes of the organ were not released.

The organ is known in Europe as the "king of instruments", and its beautiful sound is intoxicating.When the Guard sent people to demolish these large instruments in the church, the white people in Goa cried one by one.This is worse than defeat.Some people want to buy these precious works of art, but Master Zhou feels that "he who lacks copper compared to gold and silver."

The "Revolutionary Army" is now growing in size and controlling more and more people.The conditions for large-scale issuance of banknotes are still immature, while gold and silver coins are used less in daily life, and copper coins are actually circulating on the market.The demand for this is hundreds of thousands of times larger than gold and silver.But let’s not talk about the territory of the “Revolutionary Army,” the whole of China is short of copper.

In order to obtain copper, Zhou Qingfeng even was sunk and ran aground by the Portuguese armed merchant ships that were sunk by himself to catch up, in order to obtain the copper guns above.He also offered high prices on copper ingots, and asked the merchants of Goa to bring him copper.Because copper is an indispensable material in daily life and industrial development.

Dissolved gold and silver and copper are made into thin sheets of thickness, which are then fed into the steam press to make a currency.After polishing and other follow-up treatment, the embryo will be stamped again into a beautiful currency.

Zhao Ze accompanied Zhou Qingfeng to walk around the mint and finally to the coin encapsulation line.Skilled women workers are packing a piece of gold and silver coins.These currencies will immediately become the issuing capital of the bank and invest in the market to solve the current money shortage.

Metal currency will exist for a very, very long time before the process of color printing and currency-specific paper matures.Just because metal currencies have a natural preservation, inflation is not allowed, only contraction.

“How much is there now a money gap?”Zhou Qingfeng asked.

“Big.”Zhao Ze said: "We produce more and more things, whether it is cloth, salt, food consumables, or ships, agricultural tools, artillery, firearms, these industrial products, the number is increasing."This requires money of equal value to be placed on the market to facilitate transactions.

But production is non-stop, and the currency can't keep up, and there is a shortage of about a quarter.We are considering issuing new small-denomination silver-copper alloy currencies because we are really short of copper now.”

“A quarter of that, so much?”Zhou Qingfeng expressed surprise, "It is not enough to count the precious metals I got from Goa?"

"Not only did you get the currency, you got the goods."Zhao Ze laughed, “You traded with the king of Goa with the earth king of Goa with the earth, and you brought back nearly 20,000 tons of rice, cotton and teak in one go.”Coupled with the harvest of our summer grain and autumn grain this year, the food price in the entire Gyeonggi and Liaonan regions is the lowest point in history.Low food prices have led to a significant increase in people's consumption.

The grain merchants in the north hate you, many people feel that Tianjin is stuck by you, the northern grain prices will rise sharply this year, and the princely princes in Beijing are in the grain.But you have been transporting food to the north, even more than in previous years, this grain price is not only not rising but falling.A lot of people feel terrible.”

The "Revolutionary Army" began to cultivate water conservancy in Liaonan last year and cultivate farmland.This year, Tianjin also made great efforts to invest in farmland construction.Coupled with the use of a large number of livestock and agricultural machinery, agricultural production has been greatly developed.

Coupled with the entire Liaodong Liaoxi throwing into the construction of slaves, this is equivalent to the forced reduction of the burden of transporting food to the north.The result is that even if it is not transported, the price of food in the north will not rise.Many people who are looking forward to the country's troubles have lost their blood for this.But the low price of food has given the bottom of society a huge benefit, at least in winter, it will not be so easy to starve to death.

At present, the whole territory of North Korea and the vicinity of Goa are being included in the "Revolutionary Army" sphere of influence, of which India's grain production is not small.Next year, these two places will transport food to the Central Plains region, and with rich food, Zhou Qingfeng can open his hand and foot to develop industry and expand the army.

It was funny to listen to what Zhao Ze said, and Zhou Qingfeng also laughed.The two walked out of the mint and turned around and went into the nearby artillery factory.Now Zhao Ze's mechanical department has established dozens of supporting enterprises in Jinzhou, which are the fruits of continuous introduction and training of talents.Although many companies have a particularly low level of technology, it is a process from scratch.

The artillery factory has several different workshops, and the supervisor here is Sun Yuanhua.When Zhou Qingfeng came in, he did not see Sun Yuanhua himself, but saw dozens of senior craftsmen dug up from various bureaucracies in Mingting.These craftsmen are often young, over 40 or 50 years old.They also took thousands of apprentices and grandsons to become the technical backbone of today's artillery factories.

"These craftsmen can be called handy, but lack of theory."We are organizing evening schools for continuous training.The entire machine is doing the same thing.It is to transform the artisan system passed down from teachers to teachers and apprentices into a system of engineers trained in schools.I thought it would take at least forty or fifty years, but now I have your hole, and I think there will be five or six years to do it."

Zhao Ze is both an introduction and a watch, but also a resource.The traversal currently reach an agreement that the talents cultivated by Dongtianfudi are preferentially used by the Ministry of Administration.After all, the Ministry of Administration is the brain of the "Revolutionary Army", and all kinds of development planning come from it.The brain is not good, and the hands and feet are no longer strong.

He laughs at this and does not complain.He looked roughly at several workshops in the artillery factory, where he sorted the categories of army guns, naval guns, and fortress guns.In order to meet the current explosive growth of foreign trade and arms demand, a cast gun workshop is under construction.

Casting is much more economical than forging, and there is no difficulty in the process, especially suitable for large-scale production.And casting also does not need high-quality carbon steel produced by the furnace of the steel plant, and can be cooked with iron.Zhou Qingfeng priced a six-pound cast army gun for a thousand silver dollars, which was too dark.Because from material to labor, the cost of a six-pound gun is less than a hundred silver dollars.

The mold cast in the sand box is placed on the iron frame of the workshop, and the workers carefully pour the smelted red iron water into the mold.The whole casting process is quite fast, as long as the iron and water supply, the casting of dozens of guns in a day is like playing.

The well-casted gun embryo is cooled in the later heat treatment to improve the physical properties, and then sent to the stem machine for fine processing.Finally, with a wooden cannon rack, you can pack and carry to sell money - for every six pounds of small cannon sold, the money you earn can forge two large-caliber battalion guns or a fortress heavy gun for the Guards.

So this arms business is really going to develop.

“How many gun orders did you take?”Zhao Ze asked.

“The Arabs asked for a hundred gates, and the king of the earth in Goa fifty.However, they can't afford to pay so much money, and they have already asked to be paid in kind.I allowed it.”Zhou Qingfeng said.

“It doesn’t seem like much.Casting cannons is very simple, you should make more orders.“Do you want to cut the price and do some promotions?”Zhao Ze suggested.

“Lower the price?”Zhou Qingfeng immediately shook his head, "Now it has not been hit, and when it is fought, the price of arms will only increase."I’m thinking about how to make business in Europe.When it comes to money, the Europeans are really rich.And the mere profit of buying arms is too low, and I think we should provide more after-sales service.”

After-sales is really about making money!

A single gun can sell for a price.

Both Zhou Qingfeng and Zhao Ze laughed.The two went to the last workshop of the artillery factory and saw several large-caliber short-barreled heavy guns being assembled.Zhou Qingfeng had never seen such a gun, and asked, “Who is this prepared for?”Fortress guns?“The gun?”

“No, it’s the gun of our navy’s main ship.Naval guns need corrosion resistance, and it is not suitable for steel at present, so these are all copper guns.The light cannon weighs three tons."

"Three tons of light guns?"Zhou Qingfeng shouted wildly, “This gun is too expensive, isn’t it?”