No matter what dynasty in history, local officials stationed abroad are not allowed to enter the national capital without being summoned, otherwise it will be a capital crime.

Zheng Chenggong, as the governor of the Ming Dynasty, garrisoned Fujian all the year round, and under normal circumstances, he could not enter Beijing privately.

However, when Zhu Youzhen appointed him as the governor of the Ming Navy, he gave Zheng Chenggong the privilege of entering and leaving the capital at any time as long as he had something.

Hearing the emperor ask about the Daming Water Division, Zheng Chenggong sighed softly, and then reported to Zhu Youzhen the current situation of the Daming Water Division.

The Ming Navy was once the world's first naval division, and after a hundred years of pacification of the coastal Japanese invaders, due to the all-out efforts to deal with the Eastern Invasion and the Liukou, the naval division gradually declined.

Now there are many warships in various ports, but they are all old-fashioned warships, and many warships are in disrepair and can no longer be used.

Because of the huge number, it is still very easy for Zheng Chenggong to select 300 ships.

At present, there are about 20,000 people in the navy, and 10,000 people patrol the oceans in various places, and they form the Daming Naval Patrol.

The 10,000 people who really had combat power were concentrated at the Quanzhou Naval Base in Fujian, and in the days when there was no naval battle, the sailors were training and starting a business.

Zheng Chenggong knew that the Ming Dynasty was now short of food and there were hungry people everywhere, so in order to repay the emperor's kindness, he divided the sailors into two batches for training.

When the first group trained, the second group went to the sea to fish and make sea salt.

During the second group of training, the first group began to fish and make sea salt.

At that time, there were so many catches in the sea that they often couldn't pull up even if they went down the net, and they were often full of fish and shrimp.

Each boat can harvest tens of thousands of catties a day, you must know that the fishing nets at that time were very simple, but I don't want to be so advanced now.

Zheng Chenggong ordered some to be eaten by the surrounding residents, and the rest was developed and then dried into dried fish for storage.

This time, Zheng Chenggong entered Beijing by water, and thirty large ships were filled with dried fish and sea salt as his gifts to the emperor.

Zhu Youzhen's original intention was to let Zheng Chenggong form a powerful Ming navy, but he went to fish and dry sea salt to create benefits for the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty is very poor now, and the people also need to solve the problem of food and clothing, there is no threat at sea, and there is no war in the navy.

For Zhongzheng's successful ideas and practices, Zhu Youzhen can understand.

But that wasn't his original intention.

"I thank Aiqing for my kindness on behalf of the people, but I also want to build an invincible armada, and I will allocate 10 million taels of silver to the household department.

Money and money are not a problem, you look at this picture, just try your best to build it according to the way it looks on this picture, and I will ask the Ministry of Industry to fully cooperate with you. ”

Zhu Youzhen took out a battleship manufacturing drawing that he had exchanged from the system and asked Zheng Chenggong to come and watch it.

Although it was the most rudimentary ironclad battlearmor and the most primitive steam power, Zheng Chenggong was still extremely shocked by this kind of battleship.

Now in 1644, in 1679 the prototype of the steam engine appeared in France.

With the system, it shouldn't be too difficult for Zhu Youzhen to build a junior ironclad battleship.

There are drawings, the Ministry of Industry also has advanced iron-making technology, and Zhao Shizhen is also working overtime to develop firearms and artillery.

Once the steam engine and ironclad ship were successfully developed, they were absolutely invincible at that time.

Seeing such an advanced thing, Zheng Chenggong lay on the ground excitedly and kowtowed to Zhu Youzhen again and again.

For him, who is proficient in naval warfare, Zheng Chenggong knows how much impact this guy will have on the current navy after he comes out.

"Emperor Xie"

"The emperor can rest assured, Weichen will do his best to complete it, and immediately after he goes back, he will gather the world's skilled craftsmen and make every effort to create an invincible sailor for the Ming Dynasty."

There are drawings, tens of millions of taels of silver, and the full support of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong is very confident in this.

But these take time, and it's not a joke to say that 10 million taels of silver is a year, and the Ming Dynasty only pays 3 million taels of silver a year.

So after Zheng Chenggong calmed down, his face showed embarrassment.

Zhu Youzhen knew what he was thinking, there was really no shortage of silver now, it had already been prepared, and it had already been transferred to the treasury.

"Haha, I'm not as poor as you think, you will go directly to the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, hand over the sea salt and dried fish to the Ministry of Households, and pull money from the Ministry of Industry."

Zheng Chenggong was so excited that he fell to the ground again, and the emperor gave him too many surprises today.

Zhu Youzhen stretched out his hand to help Zheng Chenggong up:

"Aiqing excuse me, if you go down like this, the gold bricks on the floor will be broken by you, after you go back, you will temporarily form a small-scale navy, and when our army attacks the harbor city, all cooperate with the army siege battle, go!"

"Emperor Xie, my Emperor Shengming."

When Zheng Chenggong went to find the household department, Zhu Youzhen remembered one more thing:

"Someone is coming, the secretary of the Ministry of Labor and the waiter of the Ministry of Labor are going to the imperial study."

"Obey"

The little eunuch agreed and hurriedly went to the Ministry of Works.

After half a pillar of incense, Meng Zhaoxiang and Zhao Shizhen rushed to the imperial study.

"Meng Zhaoxiang of the Ministry of Industry sees the emperor."

"Zhao Shizhen, the squire of the Ministry of Works, see the emperor."

"Excuse me, sit down"

"Thank you, Lord Longen."

Seeing that the two of them were sweating profusely, Zhu Youzhen smiled slightly:

"Is there any progress on what I asked you to do?"

Meng Zhaoxiang:

'Your Majesty, the Ministry of Industry issued a proclamation, calling on skilled craftsmen from all over the country to rush to the Ministry of Industry, and now the scale of more than 3,000 people has been summoned and handed over to Zhao Shizhen, the squire of the Ministry of Industry, to use and dispatch. ”

Zhao Shizhen:

"Back to the emperor, the artillery is still under development, but the new gun carriage has completed the experiment, and Weichen is developing a rear-loading flintlock pistol, which should be able to be tested soon."

Zhu Youzhen is happy:

"Breech-loading flintlock pistols? What is the range and accuracy? ”

Zhao Shizhen:

"It is to open the rear breech, load the copper bullet, close the trigger and pull the trigger to shoot, the loading speed, method and accuracy have been improved.

At present, the flintlock pistols used by soldiers are still front-loading paper-wrapped bullets, and can only be loaded standing up, while reloading ammunition does not have this restriction.

No matter what state it is in, as long as the bolt is pulled and loaded with copper bullets, but the cost of copper bullets is very high, and it is not suitable for my Ming army at present. ”

Zhu Youzhen was overjoyed, and the rear-loading flintlock pistol that Zhao Shizhen mentioned should be equivalent to the original rifle, that is, the engine flintlock pistol.

If it weren't for the stupidity and incompetence of the Eastern captivity, even if the Chinese firearms were not ahead of the world, at least they would not be in sync with the West, and they would definitely not be a few hundred years behind.

Zhu Youzhen laughed happily:

"Okay, very good, if the effect is really like what you said, my Ming army will definitely be equipped, silver is not a problem, in two years the Ming economy will take off, and it will definitely exceed the richness of any dynasty in history."

In addition, the artillery carriage was first equipped with the Qi family army and the Longteng army, if the person I was waiting for came to Beijing, my Ming Dynasty immediately sent troops to Liaodong, and the 1,100 square kilometers of land left by Ming Chengzu could not be missed an inch.

Also, the Ministry of Industry must fully cooperate with Zheng Chenggong to build the Daming Water Division, give you one year, if you can't complete the task after one year, you can all go to the farm to farm. ”