I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

After completing a new round of reorganization, the army entered a state of rest.

It is impossible for any army to continue fighting all the time, and the mental state of the soldiers will definitely go wrong.

No one can stand the continuous high pressure life.

If it weren't for the need to rest, Dodo would not have returned to the north with the army last year, and he might have taken advantage of the situation to pacify the entire south.

Today, Dodo is also regretting the decision last year. He did not expect that Wu Changqing would suddenly rise up.

Although Wu Jun's combat effectiveness is strong, the damage ratio is always much lower than the enemy's, but cumulatively, they have killed a lot of soldiers, tens of thousands.

Those soldiers need rest, and war supplies need to be prepared.

In order to cope with the Battle of Jiujiang, the Weapons Workshop transported all the gunpowder and shells in their inventory. Now if there is another large-scale decisive battle, they don't have that much gunpowder and shells.

Food needs to be stored, broken ordnance needs to be repaired, and some soldiers who are too wounded to return to the battlefield need to be resettled.

In short, there are many troublesome things.

For those soldiers with mild disabilities, Wu Changqing would arrange for them to go into an advanced literacy class, so that they would learn some commonly used words, so that they could understand official documents.

These people can be transferred to grass-roots police officers in the future, or grass-roots officials such as village chiefs and mayors.

Wu Changqing will not allow the villages to be in the hands of the gentry landlords forever. He wants to infiltrate power into every village and every corner.

And this requires a large number of grass-roots cadres who can understand official documents, are loyal, and do not require high salary.

These slightly disabled soldiers are very good targets. After the baptism of war and the training of Wu Changqing, they will be more loyal to Wu Changqing.

Moreover, their salary requirements will not be too high, after all, the body is already disabled. It is already a great conscience that the government can put them in place.

At least, compared to other forces, it is a great conscience.

As for those severely disabled soldiers, those who have family members send them home, and a subsidy is provided.

If there are no family members, they are placed in nursing homes, and the government pays for them to support them.

Although this is a huge financial burden, it is a super trick to buy the heart of the military.

When Wu Changqing announced this series of regulations, those soldiers had spontaneously knelt down and shouted long live.

It's Hooray, not Chitose. They couldn't hate Wu Changqing being the emperor, because when Wu Changqing became the emperor, he could issue more decrees that were beneficial to them.

Soldiers of this era have never encountered such a good ruler.

After being disabled, he can actually be supported for a lifetime.

This allows these soldiers to have no worries at all, and they can be more brave in battle.

When Wu Changqing made this ultimate move, he almost no longer had to worry about being rebelled. Even if an officer wanted to rebel, his soldiers would not agree.

The war has subsided temporarily, and Wu Changqing's work focus has returned to the economic aspect.

Promise those benefits to those soldiers, and he'll have to figure out a way to earn more money to be able to do that.

Among the many memorials, he saw a secret report submitted by Qin Fen, which said that Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian had a little impact on Songjiang's business after imitating him to start the maritime trade.

Originally, those Western European businessmen had only Songjiang to choose, and Wu Changqing and the others could control the pricing power.

But now, those Western European businessmen have more options, they can go to Ningbo or Fuzhou to trade.

Although the cost of goods produced by Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian is much higher than that of Wu Changqing, they are not as greedy as Wu Changqing.

Wu Changqing may have to ask for more than four or five times the profit, but Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian are willing to trade as long as there is a double profit.

In this way, for certain commodities, it is more cost-effective for Western European businessmen to go to Ningbo and Fuzhou.

And this is bound to squeeze Songjiang's market share. After all, the number of foreign merchant ships that can reach China for business today is limited, with more ships in Ningbo and Fuzhou, and fewer ships in Songjiang.

Seeing this secret report, Wu Changqing was angry.

Compared with Western European businessmen, they should be regarded as a group, but they don't know how to unite at all.

As long as the price is consistent, those Western European merchants have no choice but to be forced to trade with them and make money from them.

But now, being engaged by Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian, not only will they not be able to make much money themselves, but even Wu Changqing's profits will be affected.

Infighting always benefits outsiders.

Wu Changqing couldn't help but think of the later period of the Republic of China, when Japan's competition against China's textile industry also used its internal disunity to arbitrarily lower prices.

Wu Changqing felt unhappy when he thought of this kind of thing that would rather be cheap for outsiders and kill his colleagues.

If he didn't have to take into account some influence, he would not like to send troops to the south now, and then calm down the south first. Keeping them will only be a stumbling block.

Fortunately, Songjiang has many unique goods, such as matches, high-quality steel, and cheap cloth. With these commodities, Songjiang is still the most prosperous port.

These are very popular things overseas, especially the armors and swords made of steel.

Although muskets have been popularized in Western Europe, there are still many places in the world where cold weapons are still used, such as Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East, Africa...

In cold weapon combat, the role of armor is very large.

People with armor only need to protect their necks and heads when slashing, while people without armor need to protect their entire bodies. Basically, armoured armies can slaughter armourless armies.

The Jiangnan Iron and Steel Plant costs only one tael of silver to build an armor, while in India, such an armor can be sold for twenty taels.

Things that can save lives are so valuable.

In Japan where silver is produced, it can even be sold for thirty taels.

Its profits are so large that many people cannot imagine.

The ocean-going business in this era is so lucrative, not to mention that Wu Changqing's products have an unparalleled cost advantage.

Today, armor and swords have become their main export commodities, followed by cloth, ceramics, and tea.

Matches and cigarettes are also popular, but these are luxuries that few people can afford. So although it makes money, the market is small.

Unless Wu Changqing allows the price of these commodities to be reduced, which is impossible, he will not cut prices until the local demand is met. Only when the domestic market is saturated will he allow the price to be sold overseas.

What other commodities are particularly in demand in the West?

Wu Changqing couldn't help but think, he needs to come up with more advantageous commodities, so as to snatch the global wealth and complete the accumulation of capital.

In the original time and space, the capital for the development of the industrial revolution in Britain relied on the slave trade.

At this time, the western slave trade was in full swing. Relying on the slave trade, those countries in Western Europe are frantically accumulating capital wealth.

Wu Changqing was not so cruel, he couldn't do that kind of thing.

To complete the accumulation of capital, he can only rely on trade to harvest the wealth of the Western European world.

Therefore, he needs more advantageous products.