The emperor opened this small door of education reform for the navy and artillery, and Liu Yu wanted to cheat money from the treasury to engage in education, so he could only do it around these two points.

After inspecting Weihai's military manufacturing industry, which was beginning to take shape, and questioning the Western technicians in the shipyard, Liu Yu wrote a detailed naval development plan.

The level of shipbuilding in Weihai has started slightly.

The French East India Company sent a message that Qi Guogong's visit to Paris caused a sensation.

It was impossible for Qi Guogong's mission to return to China by boat, because it was risky, so he chose to return to China through Russia.

Liu Yu's letters, the presence of Bai Jin and other French missionaries made the King hope to send an envoy to visit the capital by sea.

One is that because of the ban on religion in Dashun, France is not as fanatical about missionary work as Spain, and I hope there will be no misunderstanding.

The second is that France believes that this empire in the East is very powerful, and the contradictions between France and Russia are very deep, and hopes to conclude an ally that may stab Russia in the back. In South and Southeast Asia, France also wanted a reliable ally.

The official affirmation led the French East India Company to send a sufficiently good shipwright and engineer with semi-official support.

France's dry dock technology was far ahead of Britain's, and the design concepts of 74-gun battleships and 28-gun cruisers were also superior to Britain's, just because France had to make a land power country because of its enemies on all sides, so that its navy could not win against Britain with sea supremacy and no land threat.

In the past few years, the money for trade with Japan, if it is only to build ships, it will definitely be able to build more. But most of the money Liu Yu invested in the construction of Weihai Port.

Includes a new type of dry dock for easy repair and cleaning of barnacles from the bottom of the boat; A large-scale wood dry storage warehouse, without perennial dry wood, a battleship can only be used for six or seven years, and the dry qualified wood can keep the battleship alive for fifty years; A talent pool of nearly 3,000 shipbuilders, since they have no money to build warships in recent years, they are building cargo ships.

The wood that has been hoarded makes it possible to guarantee the launch of three to four ships a year as long as the money is in place. The more than 1,000 sailors and more than 300 officers who had been recruited and trained earlier already had a certain combat capability, and it was not a big problem to expand the number of sailors by passing on the help and guidance.

These are small problems, and the real big problem is how to ensure that no one dies in politics.

If you want to ensure that no one dies, the best way is to make the Admiralty independent and become a department directly under the emperor's or the Heavenly Blessing Palace.

Liu Yu didn't want to deal with the group of people in the military government at all, a group of people who didn't even know about the Western countries would not be able to guide the navy, and if the navy wanted to develop in the future, no one in the DPRK and China would be able to do it.

The investment of the navy is too large, and the special trade characteristics of Dashun like a gold-absorbing beast make the navy almost a money-losing goods, because you can collect money while sitting at home, and the navy is losing money. Even if a strong navy is built, the goods still have to be sold to Westerners for silver, and if you want to be strong enough to ship the goods directly to Europe and open European tariffs, it is very unrealistic, at least 40 or 50 million taels.

Fortunately, there is a Japan, and fortunately, the king of Austria could not give birth to a son.

This time, Liu Yu could only open his mouth widely, asking for enough money to give Dashun's navy the ability to defeat the Dutch East India Company and obtain spices before the upcoming War of the Austrian Succession.

Only then can I let the people of the DPRK and China know a little that the navy can really make money.

After thinking about it, he proposed a plan for the Admiralty to run parallel to the five military departments in Dashun.

Dashun changed the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies into the Ministry of the Five Armies, and now there is a Ministry of the Navy, and he is from a noble background, which can just bypass the irritating military government and directly belong to the emperor.

The emperor should be willing to do this, because the emperor built the navy for only two purposes.

One was worried about Liu Yu's terrifying prophecy, and the other was to defeat the Dutch to monopolize the income of the spice trade, and in the emperor's opinion, the latter's money was very important, and it would be beneficial to have less constraints for the time being.

Below the Admiralty, there are three departments: the Fleet, the Naval Commission, and the Logistics and Sailors' Disability and Pension Commission.

The fleet is needless to say.

The Navy Committee is to subordinate the Timber Bureau, the Shipyard, the Jinghai Palace Official Academy, the selection of trainee officers, the shipbuilding order, the Artillery Casting Bureau, and the subordinate practical school education.

The Logistics and Sailors' Disability Pension Committee is responsible for logistics support and subsidies for sailors after they are discharged from the army, which requires the emperor to use the money from the internal funds, such as monopolizing the spice trade, etc., to take out part of it as the disability pension of sailors.

It took five years to put up the entire Admiralty's shelves, and the investment in this was huge.

The timber bureau alone requires an annual investment of 30,000 taels of silver to purchase teak, cypress, and oak that is more than 100 years old in the primeval forests of Baishan and Heishui. Transportation, drying, all need specialized personnel.

The fleet was built at a rate of three fifth-class ships per year, at a cost of 150,000 taels per year.

The cost of building two or three 74-gun battleships in five years averaged 80,000 taels per year.

19 fifth-class ships, 2 to 3 74-gun battleships, it is necessary to ensure enough sailors and seamen, and at least 10,000 sailors are needed.

Ten thousand people are calculated according to two taels of silver per month, plus enough officers, which requires 30,000 taels per Chinese New Year's Eve, which is only a lot more.

Wear and tear and maintenance are calculated according to 20,000 taels per year.

The consumption of gunpowder in training is 50,000 taels of silver per year.

The navy's military uniforms, meals, drinks and other supplies are 150,000 taels per year.

Not counting the official school of Jinghai Palace, not counting the subsidies for sailors to retire, and not counting the annual talent training, just to build a one-time fleet, the annual investment will be 800,000 taels of silver.

If we ensure sufficient practical schools, long-term talent reserves, marines and transport ships that do not get seasick, etc., in order for the navy to form a scale, it will need to invest at least 1.2 million taels of silver every year, and it will last for at least five years, and if we want to form a system, we must continue to invest ten years or even longer.

It doesn't seem to be much, how can Dashun also have an annual income of about 30 million.

But the emperor's internal money must not be able to afford it, so he must go to the court and ask the treasury to pay for it, and it is really unpredictable whether this money will be paid or not.

Even if Liu Yu has already made careful calculations, he can only quote such a price, and no matter how low the price is, he can only train a one-time navy.

It's rotten after the fight.

As for spending the money from the state treasury and cultivating a group of quasi-traitors who are completely incompatible with the existing system, this money must also come from the state treasury.

It's just that if the treasury really refuses to contribute enough money, he can only make up for it himself, and this cannot be saved.

It is better to build two fewer battleships, and this money has to be cut out.

The most difficult part of asking for money is that the idea of going to war against Japan and the Netherlands cannot be made public.

If it can't be made public, then anyone in their right mind will oppose this plan that costs people and money.

What are you doing with a bunch of useless warships?

The hardest thing is always internal, not external.

With this question, Liu Yu found his father, who was about to return to Beijing, and hoped that his father, who had been sleeping in the court for many years, would help him take a look and ask if it could work.

However, Liu Sheng didn't even look at the plan drafted by Liu Yu, and asked rhetorically: "If Your Majesty doesn't have the heart to build a navy, why should you let me pacify here?" I'm your Lao Tzu, isn't it because Your Majesty asked me to come, isn't it because I have the heart to build? ”

In the previous exchange, Liu Sheng already knew about the emperor's beating of Liu Yu, and he was not shocked, but felt that it was a good thing to beat it like this, proving that His Majesty really wanted to reuse it.

Liu Yu didn't tell his father a lot of things, and Liu Sheng didn't see it so deeply.

But if you just ask about the emperor's mental skills and the direction of the court, this Liu Sheng sees far more than Liu Yu understands.

He broke through the crux of the matter in one word.

If the emperor didn't have the intention of building a navy, it would be impossible to transfer Liu Yu to the Western Regions at the same time, and let him Lao Tzu supervise here, for fear that someone would mess around.

Liu Yu also thought about this question, frowned, and said: "Father, it costs money to build a navy. Spending money, His Majesty's inner money can't come up with so much money. ”

Liu Sheng was stunned, then he took the piece of music and looked at it, and when he saw the military expenditure of 1.2 million taels a year, he was also frightened.

"So much?"

After scanning the numbers, I noticed the idea of establishing the Admiralty above.

After pondering for a while, he said: "The system of the national dynasty, in fact, as long as Your Majesty allows it, it can always be done. ”

"Zhang Juzheng in the previous dynasty, didn't he say it very clearly? Non-phase also, real photography also. Whether it is this cabinet or the Heavenly Blessing Palace, the power does not come from the Cabinet and the Heavenly Blessing Hall itself, but from His Majesty. Zhang Juzheng knew very well that the Ming Dynasty did not have a prime minister, and he could act, but he stole the emperor's authority, but in fact, he relied on the power of regent. ”

"It's the same with this dynasty. Is the Heavenly Blessing Hall a phase? Your Majesty is in power, if you don't care about anything and hide in the inner palace to alchemy, then the Tianyou Hall can be counted. ”

"Now that Your Majesty has continued to conquer in person, this dynasty has been separated from the military government since the time of Taizu, and the Wuxuan Division has been separated from the government of the military and upgraded to the Wenyu Academy, do you think the Tianyou Hall is a group of ministers? In fact, everything is in His Majesty's attitude. ”

"It's nothing more than that since Taizong Jingxiang counterattacked, this dynasty has been compared to Li Tang, and the public opinion has been humiliated by the previous dynasty, so the scholars have a lot of heroic spirit. This should be clear when you are insulted as a national thief after negotiating with the Rakshasas. ”

"But if you think about it again, if this is not the case, even if the public opinion of the world is bounded by the Great Wall, if Your Majesty has the heart to march north, will he not conquer it? It's nothing more than bearing the notoriety of a Han martial arts. ”

One million taels a year is indeed a lot, but it is not a completely unacceptable range. Liu Sheng made a very clear analysis of the situation in the DPRK and China, and the final conclusion was actually one.

The emperor said yes, then do.

The emperor said no, then no.

No matter how much the court talks about, at most the emperor will be infamy. Weigh between infamy and the navy, and only see which one the emperor chooses.

The Admiralty did not usurp the authority of any existing department, but was a completely new department, so the resistance was actually very small, except that the problem was the 1,200,000 taels of silver per year.

Liu Yu naturally thought about this twist and turn, and asked: "Then in my father's opinion, as long as Your Majesty allows this matter, it can actually be done?" ”

Liu Sheng smiled: "I don't know what you and Your Majesty said, and I won't ask." But I know one thing. Although the navy is strong and the ships are good, if there is no port, it is vulnerable. As long as there is an army stationed in Weihai, the navy will always be His Majesty's. ”

"So you don't have to think about the matter of Takato's good bow, just ask yourself, can this navy bring your majesty a million taels a year in the future? That's the key. ”