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And more importantly, after dumping at such a low price, even if the freight is added, Datang Western Trading Company is still profitable in the cloth business, and the profit is not small.

This is because the production cost of cotton cloth in the Tang Dynasty is very low. After a large number of mechanical equipment, especially steam engine power, was applied to the factory, the manufacturing cost of cotton cloth, a typical light industrial product, became extremely cheap.

The cloth purchased by Datang Western Trading Company from China is cheap, so naturally it can be bought cheaply in India.

What's more interesting is that Datang Western Trading Co., Ltd. will not always conduct low-cost dumping in a certain region.

The low-price dumping in the early stage is to compete for the market and squeeze the local cloth industry. After the local handmade cloth industry is finished, the Datang Western Trading Company will slowly increase the price, and finally rise to a reasonable level.

After all, Datang Western Trading Company is here to make money, not for charity. It has always been dumping at such a low price that even the poor locals can afford to wear clothes. This is not the original intention of Datang Western Trading Company.

Profit maximization is always the pursuit of Datang Western Trading Company!

Relying on industrialized mass production to reduce costs is an obvious feature of the current industrial development of the Tang Dynasty.

This is why cotton cloth seems to have no technical content on the surface, but Datang's cotton cloth is the reason why the cotton cloth made of other countries can be killed.

And this kind of advantage can't be imitated by other countries!

Therefore, the Portuguese have not thought about imitating some of Datang's products over the years, but they are powerless.

However, some things that do not require industrial technology and can be imitated by craftsmen's hand-made production, they still imitate a lot, and Tang boat is a typical example.

The Portuguese began to imitate the construction of Tang Ships very early. At first, they were only built on a small scale in Malacca, mainly for merchant ships, but they were soon applied to the field of warships. Later, this shipbuilding technology was also brought to other countries by the Portuguese. places or even their native land.

After all, the Portuguese are not stupid. They discovered the Tang boat, which is much better than the previous carat boat, and compared with the Galen boat, it has its own merits.

The difference between the Tang ship and the Galen ship is generally that the Tang ship has a fast speed and good seaworthiness, but under the same tonnage, the cargo capacity is less than that of the Galen ship.

In addition, the Tang ship has an advantage that the Galen ship does not have, that is, the hull of the Tang ship is more suitable for arranging artillery, and at the same time has better sinking resistance, and this performance is extremely important for warships, even for contemporary ocean-going merchant ships. It is also very important, because even the merchant ships are all armed merchant ships these days, and they will also carry a large number of naval guns.

After all, the Tang Ship was originally designed as a warship, and later it was used as a merchant ship after improvement.

Because compared with other sailboats of the same era, Tang boats are more suitable for deploying artillery and more suitable for combat.

After the Tang boat was imitated by the Portuguese in Malacca, it gradually entered Europe. Now the Portuguese are building ships in their own country, and they are also starting to build part of the Tang boat.

So today in Malacca, Admiral Chen Pengming, the commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet, can see a large number of Tang ships in the port of Malacca, many of which are warships.

However, although the Portuguese also used many Tang boats as warships, Admiral Chen Pengming had no unnecessary worries.

If it was in the age of sailing, he might still be worried. After all, Tang ship-type warships are more suitable for combat than Galen ships and carat ships, but now, it is already the age of steam.

The pure style battleship is completely outdated!

In the exercise within the Datang Navy, a steam cruiser used steam power to continuously maneuver, seize the wind direction, and finally defeated a small fleet of two sail battleships! !

Although the original exercise was not a live-fire exercise, it was just a simulated exercise, and the results of the exercise were also very accidental, but it is undeniable that the battleship loaded with steam engines has completely exploded its sails in terms of maneuverability. battleship's.

What's more, the Datang Navy also has the advantage of ammunition, that is, grenades!

Datang has been using grenades for many years, not to mention the grenades with external fuzes in the early years, and the grenades with built-in fuzes, after so many years of development, they have already matured and are generally equipped with the whole army. Artillery that weighs more than five pounds can now use grenades with built-in fuzes.

And the lethality of grenades to sailing warships is huge!

The explosive power of the grenade can effectively kill the personnel on the enemy ship, and it can also effectively destroy the superstructure of the enemy ship, especially the mast and sails!

Sometimes, if you are lucky, if a large-caliber grenade hits the enemy ship, it can basically destroy the enemy's sails and turn the enemy ship into a dead fish that can only float on the sea!

Moreover, some large-caliber grenades and the huge kinetic energy brought by the huge artillery shells can also penetrate the enemy's wooden hull, and then penetrate deep into the enemy ship to explode. Such an explosion is very deadly.

This is why the Datang Navy installed wrought iron armor belts on new warships.

It is because the grenade is too lethal to wooden warships, and adding a layer of wrought iron to the hull can effectively resist the attack of the grenade.

In addition, the steel armor belt is not only excellent for defense against grenades, but also for solid bullets!

With the development of technology, the Datang Navy believes that the steel armor belt is very necessary!

After all, the grenade is not a patent of Datang. After all, this thing can't be kept secret very well. The grenade with built-in fuze is not bad. It is more difficult to produce manually, but the grenade with external fuze is basically There is no technical difficulty.

The Portuguese were also equipped with this kind of external fuze grenade early on, and used it exclusively on their 64-pounder and other large-caliber mortars.

Although this kind of mortar does not look good, it is actually a big threat to the wooden warships of the Datang Navy.

During the rise of the Tang Dynasty, although a strict technical blockade was carried out, so far, the export of any machinery and equipment, high-precision industrial products, especially various types of machine tools and steam engines has been strictly prohibited.

Not only exports are not allowed, but even overseas territories under the control of Datang are not allowed to purchase and use.

One of the most famous ones is the factory ban and the education ban.

So far, the Datang Empire still prohibits the establishment of educational institutions above secondary schools in overseas territories, and also prohibits the establishment of any type of factories without permission. If you want to build factories in overseas territories and order machinery and equipment from China, you must apply to the Import and Export Commission. And get approval, otherwise Duan, even if you buy machinery and equipment, you will not be able to go out.

In fact, the Import and Export Council has never approved any such application!

But Rao is that the Tang Dynasty has established such a strict technology blockade system, but it is still difficult to completely prevent technology leakage.

Whether it is the Portuguese, the Tatars, or even the Spaniards, they can all obtain more or less the technology of the Tang Empire through some illegal channels and even legal channels.

For example, the Tatars, who sent spies, bought almost a full set of textbooks in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, from elementary school to preparatory school, and even some college textbooks that were circulated privately through illegal channels. Channels, such as kidnapping, directly kidnap some technical craftsmen, and then secretly transport them back to the Tatar control area. In the early years, the Gansu Ammunition Factory under the Northern Arms Company had more than ten technicians at one time. Missing, the local police station could not solve the case at all, and later Han Tong accepted the case ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and soon found out the truth.

These more than a dozen unlucky technicians were kidnapped by the Tatars, and they were all taken out of Jiayuguan and into the Tatars' control area.

After all, the border line between the northwest and the north is so long, Datang can block large caravans, but it is absolutely impossible to block the behavior of a few people crossing the border line.

What's interesting is that the main purpose of the various theft techniques of the Tatars is to make guns, and there are also some achievements. At least now the Tatars can make guns and cannons, although they still make arquebuses and guns. Early artillery, and can only be produced by hand.

But at least it solved the problem.

With their own guns and guns, combined with their own huge cavalry advantages, this made the Tatars almost invincible in Central Asia, and they destroyed the Yerkian Khanate and the Kazakh Khanate. Now they are fighting with Timur. The dynasty was lively, and according to the gossip, they were already in contact with the Safi dynasty further west.

Of course, this kind of contact is naturally not a good contact!

The western expedition of the Tatars was never to be a guest at other people's houses, they were to **** other people's homes!

In recent years, the Tatars have been at war with neighboring countries almost every year, and the expansion rate is extremely fast. Although they have the advantage of their huge cavalry, this is also because of the guns and cannons they obtained from the Tang Empire. Technology has something to do with it.

Cavalry are naturally good at fighting in the wild. Even the Army of the Tang Dynasty is afraid of the 100,000 cavalry army of the Tartars!

But they can't conquer the cities of Central Asian countries with cavalry alone!

When they attacked the city, they also used guns!

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