Being forgotten is obviously not pleasant, especially when it comes to purposeful, conscious neglect. This is especially true for the crown prince Li Heng, who is now desperate to increase his exposure and attracts attention.

Li Heng was about to do something more, but before he could speak, the officials who stood up to congratulate the emperor for some reason just now still had no intention of retreating.

"Holy Lord, since Hongzhou Shipyard is good at building sea ships, why not hand over the construction of naval warships here, if you want this shipyard to have such a great reputation, the quality of warships will definitely be guaranteed. ”

The meaning of the Southeast Maritime Business Group is also obvious, since it was carried out by Xu Fan, it is impossible to hide, so it is better to simply agree to come down and expose this matter as much as possible.

"I wonder how much it will cost to build a seagoing ship, and how many of the new sailors will be equipped?"

Li Heng tried to speak out again, but was interrupted again......

Li Chen, the head of the household, is old, and his resignation has been approved by the saint, this time the court meeting is the last time Li Chen will go to the court in this life, and the situation in the court has nothing to do with him.

Li Chen is leaving, and the seat of the head of the household is about to become vacant, and now these two waiters are secretly staring at this position!

This time it was the right waiter of the household department, and the left waiter was Wang Jie, who was the person of the right minister Li Linfu, for some reason, in today's changing court, Li Linfu was rarely quiet and didn't say a word. The boss didn't speak, so Wang Ji naturally didn't dare to talk too much.

The right squire didn't have so many scruples, since Wang Yan didn't squeak, this person simply jumped out to show himself, so that the hundred officials and the emperor could remember him.

"Not long ago, the grain shortage has just passed, and the war in the south has been worse, not to mention the tax revenue, but the grain and grass of the army is also a large amount, and the household is not rich now......

The right attendant of the household department put on a look of worrying about the country and the people, but he did not dare to refuse bluntly in his words, after all, the idea of compiling and training the water master was proposed by Xu Fan, and Xu Fan is now the direct leader of the household department.

"Of course, this is going to ask the Ministry of Works......" the man smiled just now.

The emperor and the officials were listening, and when the officials of the Ministry of Works heard this, one of the officials stood up. This man was in charge of the construction of ships.

"Qiqi Shengshang, a thousand-stone ship, now the Ministry of Industry's quotation needs at least a thousand yuan. ”

When the man had finished speaking, he retreated.

Li Longji didn't have the heart to take care of his own son at the moment, and Li Heng's actions today really made him angry! However, the strength that Li Heng displayed today really made Li Longji startled.

Li Longji is not a stupid person, and after the sudden anger was alleviated by the issue raised by Xu Fan, the whole person calmed down again.

At this moment, for this son of his, he obviously can't be allowed to do it brutally.

Ignoring is obviously the best thing to do now.

Even so, Li Longji also calmed down and listened carefully to the discussion of the hundred officials about the sailor, and now when he heard this, Li Longji turned his head to look at Xu Fan and asked, "What does the prime minister think that this sailor needs to be used?"

Xu Fan was amazed by the methods of the Southeast Maritime Business Group, and now that the state affairs are a priority, he has no time to think about it. Hearing the emperor's inquiry, after thinking about it, he replied: "Listening to Wang Shuai's report, among the rebels' sailors, there are hundreds of warships, and this is not counting some sporadic small boats......

"If the imperial court trains sailors, I'm afraid that at least a hundred warships will be needed in the ......early stage!

Hearing Xu Fan's words, the officials of the Ministry of Industry all had a hint of joy between their eyebrows. After all, there is a project and there is a profit!

But just now, the right attendant of the household who was "worried about the country and the people" stood up with a sad face and said: "This ...... Xiangye, although the subordinate officials are not familiar with military affairs, they have also read some military books, and they also know that the war depends on the hearts of the generals, and the soldiers are competent, if anyone has more people and good combat preparations, they will definitely be able to win, and this battle will not have to be fought......"

"The ships of the rebel sailors are probably not all excellent warships, and there must have been looted civilian ships. Our sailors can also allocate a group of civilian ships to listen to the use first......"

The right squire said so much, in short, it means one thing, now the household is short of money, and a hundred warships are 100,000 copper coins, if they are all taken out at one time, the household will really be stretched! Not to mention that Xu Fan also said that it needs to be expanded......

The right waiter has no choice, and he really doesn't want to offend Xu Fan. However, just now I stood up and cried poorly, and now after Xu Fan said the quantity, if he didn't stand up and shirk two sentences, wouldn't he be slapping his own face?

"No! Absolutely not! A hundred warships cannot be created in an instant, and they must be built in batches, if there are still a few, even if the sailors are trained, they will not be able to use them, and then I am afraid that they will not be able to play the role of resisting the rebels!"

Xu Fan shook his head resolutely.

Li Longji listened, thought for a moment, and then decided: "Then let's come according to the prime minister's wishes!"

"Holy Lord, the matter of this warship is over, but I don't know if the candidate for the chief general of this sailor has any plans in the saint's heart?" Xu Fan hurriedly asked.

"This ......" Even if Li Longji has read military books, he doesn't know much about military affairs, let alone this sailor who has never paid attention to it.

"Is there a candidate for the prime minister?"

Faced with the emperor's inquiry, Xu Fan was about to reply: "It's better to ......"

"It's better to let Chief Manager Wang get it together!" This is not what Li Heng said, Li Heng is the boss of the princeling after all, and he can't rush ahead of everything. Li Heng made a look, and his own junior brother stood up and grabbed the words: "The sailor is also used to deal with the rebels, the army is outside, and the most taboo order is to go out of many doors, according to the minister's view, it is better to let the chief manager lead it together!"

This is what the crown prince Li Heng meant, but he obviously doesn't want Li Longji's heart. The anger just now has not been forgotten, and Li Longji will not have a good face at the moment.

tilted his head and ignored the man, but still asked Xu Fandao: "Is there a suitable candidate for the prime minister?"

Xu Fan originally wanted to recommend his own students, and he had also seen what Xu Chen practiced, and the last water battle on Changshan Island to suppress bandits, he had also heard people mention it afterwards.

Xu Fan is not very familiar with military affairs, and he knows nothing about water warfare. However, the group of water bandits on Changshan Island has been suppressed many times by the government soldiers of Yuzhang County. Yuzhang is a water city, leaning on the big lake, and there are many soldiers in the government army who operate boats to fight. In Xu Fan's opinion, these soldiers who fought on the water were obviously quite proficient in water warfare compared to soldiers who couldn't even swim in other places. But these people have been defeated in front of the water bandits on Changshan Island countless times, which shows that the water combat ability of the water bandits on Changshan Island is definitely not bad. However, these bandits were killed and wiped out at the hands of Xu Chen's group of young men......

Xu Fan couldn't see Xu Chen's devastating battle with his own eyes, and he couldn't accurately assess the water combat ability of Xu Chen's men. However, afterwards, Xu Fan had seen with his own eyes that more than 30 young people under Xu Chen were said to have participated in the water battle, but there was not even a single seriously injured person, at most a few of them had scratched a little skin.

At that time, Xu Fan didn't pay much attention to this, but Huang Xian, who was with him, pointed out this matter, which made Xu Fan remember it deeply.

Anyway, after a battle, almost the entire army was unscathed, and the teenagers under Xu Chen wanted to be proficient in water warfare, in short, in the entire Tang Dynasty, Xu Fan estimated that he could not find a better one.

However, the words that had been blurted out were interrupted, and Xu Fan, who had slowed down for a while, suddenly remembered the nine words Xu Chen said, and the trace of jealousy that had been inexplicably born at this moment, could not be contained from the bottom of his heart......

Seeing that Xu Fan was groaning, others couldn't understand what Xu Fan was thinking at the moment, the princeling official who stood up just now was anxious, and he couldn't care about offending Xu Fan, the prime minister who had never been bad with the prince.

Then he blurted out: "Isn't it that Xu Xiang wanted to recommend his own students? Then the conferment of the ambassador of the Shengzhou system is not in line with the imperial system, and now Xu Xiang wants to fill in the title of the chief general of the first army for his own students? If the lower official is not mistaken, Xu Xiang's student is only sixteen or seventeen years old now, right? Hehe, the young man's worship of the general is a beautiful talk! It is also possible to compete with the ancients for a short time! It's just that I don't know if this young man has this ability?"

This person's words are very annoying, especially with a thick mockery on his face.

Although Li Heng was glad that he blocked Xu Fan's recommendation, he was really not happy about his face.

"This ......" Xu Fan already had distracting thoughts in his heart, but now he was provoked by this person, so he had to shake his head and say to Li Longji: "The Holy Lord should let the generals of the military department choose an experienced general!"

The matter of arranging and training the sailor was thus decided, and the discussion reached this moment, and the great court meeting came to an end. Today's court meeting, turbulent but frequent, is destined to be unforgettable......

As soon as the court meeting dispersed, the hundred officials withdrew from the Hanyuan Palace. On the square outside the main hall, Gao Lishi was wearing armor and leading a group of forbidden troops, looking murderously at the hundred officials who were scattered, especially the princelings who were following Li Heng in a group.

However, the officials of the scattered dynasty did not bother to pay attention to them, there were too many things happening in today's court meeting, and for all groups, they needed to get together and have a good discussion.

Walking at the back of the hundred officials, in an inconspicuous seat, several officials in scarlet robes and green robes surrounded an official in purple robes.

This purple-robed official is the one who just said on the Golden Palace that he would let the Hongzhou Shipyard undertake the construction of the naval division's battlefield!

This person is also the person who Wan'an came to Chang'an to see when the Wanjia and the Seven Sects and the Five Surnames were in the war, and this person is the spokesperson of the Wanjia in the court, and he is also the leader of the Southeast Maritime Business Group and the surrounding families of Yuzhang in the court. Only this person can take over the construction of the naval division on behalf of Hongzhou Shipyard.

The Southeast Maritime Group is roughly divided into three major blocks according to the region, one is centered on the source of Hongzhou Shipyard, one is the maritime merchants of Yangzhou, focusing on dumping overseas goods, and one is the most prosperous in the past few years, which is the maritime merchants centered on Guangzhou, but in recent years, the status of Yangzhou has replaced Yangzhou and has been overtaken by Yangzhou maritime merchants. However, this year, Yangzhou has suffered successive disasters and its status has declined, and Guangzhou maritime merchants have risen again.

However, no matter how the two major cargo dumping bases fight openly and secretly, they are all inseparable from Hongzhou Shipyard, the source of sea vessels. Wanjia's power in Yuzhang is too great, no matter how hard the maritime merchants in these two places try, they will not be able to take the Hongzhou shipyard from their hands, and in the end they can only be combined by the three parties to fix the distribution ratio of sea vessels.

Although the profits of maritime trade in recent years have been astonishing, the damage to ships has also been astonishing! The annual output of sea ships at the Hongzhou Shipyard is roughly fixed, which is not enough in the first place, and now it has to undertake the construction of warships of the imperial navy divisions, so that the weight of maritime merchants in various localities this year will obviously decline.

Regarding the purple-robed official's opening to undertake the construction of the naval division's warship, the few people who surrounded him did not have any resentment in their hearts, after all, the shape of the court just now was urgent, Xu Fan was obviously prepared, and this person had been in Yuzhang for many years, and he didn't know how much information about Hongzhou Shipyard and Southeast Maritime Business Group he had in his hands. The decision of the purple-robed officials was decisive and had the least impact on them!

However, although it was acceptable to build a sea ship, the price mentioned by the foreign man of the Ministry of Works made everyone feel as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

"A thousand stone ships with a thousand stones? Hehe, what the hell is the price of this? Now the ship that can go to sea, which one doesn't want to go up to 5,000?"

"That's right! Nowadays, the sea ships produced by our shipyard are made of more than 100-year-old materials, how can we withstand the huge waves at sea without these?"

"Not only that, but now who would want a ship with a thousand stones? With that kind of effort, it is better to build a bigger one! Not to mention the ability to load more goods, the stability is even higher!"

……

These officials, word by word, said that in short, the number of the Ministry of Industry was many years ago, and it was long outdated! And when the imperial court ordered the construction of a hundred sea ships, it would only pay 100,000 copper coins, and the rest of the difference ......

"Okay! Today's events came suddenly, since Xu Fan made a move, we can't help but know each other, he has been in Yuzhang for many years, how can he not know the price of today's sea ships? The reason why he didn't say it just now is that he acquiesced in our approach, and it was also a deal with us, and if we build the warship, he will no longer pay attention to our business. That's the end of it!"

The purple-robed official said loudly.

"But now...... Is this a deficit?"

The man stopped talking.

"Okay! Compared to continuing to cover up the Hongzhou Shipyard, this little money is nothing at all, after we go back, let's take a charter out, this little deficit, a little bit of the family is shared!"

"But today's shipyard has not built thousand-stone ships for many years, so if you want us to use those good materials to build these small boats? That would be even more of a loss......

For this, the purple-robed official did not pick up, to deal with the overall situation, he can come forward on behalf of the shipyard, but Hongzhou Shipyard is not a family after all, the ship construction and raw material supply belong to many families, and the specific division of interests has to be discussed by the family.