Qianqing Palace, in the study of Emperor Hongzhi.

Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Tong Zhong, the head of the cabinet, are still blowing their beards and staring at each other, arguing in the court, and there has been no result, and there will be no result.

In this kind of thing, it is actually a crying child who has milk to eat.

In the past, the court was poor and had no money, so there were no big projects and projects related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

In the past, if there was any big project or project, it would be strongly opposed by the ministers.

First, there is no money, and second, it may be more likely to be a waste of money.

For example, in the past, Emperor Hongzhi wanted to build a new Shangqing Palace for the Shangqing Palace on Longhu Mountain, but this matter was strongly opposed by the ministers, and finally had to be terminated because of the emptiness of the imperial treasury.

If you want to build a big project without money, you need to requisition tens of thousands of ordinary people in the form of forced labor, and at the same time, all kinds of materials needed will be collected and transported in various places.

The amount of work is huge, and it is true that it costs people and money, and it is not fake.

And often there is no benefit to the people, what benefits do you say the construction of the Shangqing Palace can do to the people?

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is beneficial to the country and the people, has overthrown the Great Sui Dynasty, and countless people have only seen that the construction of the accompanying Grand Canal has cost huge manpower, material resources, and financial resources, but they have not seen that the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is still benefiting both sides of the river and the north and south of China.

This time, the situation of the imperial court to build a cement road was different.

Everyone has seen the benefits of building cement roads, and the principle of building cement roads has long been set, and all the costs, materials, manpower, etc. are supported by the imperial court.

This is great, it means that the people along the way do not have to be conscripted, they have money to get and money to do things, and it is good for themselves to repair the road.

Everyone naturally wants to fight, and they all fight fiercely.

"The two Aiqing don't have to fight back and forth, it's just a year earlier and a year later."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the two of them, and even wanted to laugh.

I had never seen these old ministers blowing their beards and glaring at each other before, and their faces were red and red-eared.

"Yes~"

The two hurriedly replied respectfully.

"This is an excerpt submitted by Liu Jin, the head of the household department, on the establishment of the Ming Royal Naval Academy and the establishment of the Ming Royal Navy, let's take a look."

Emperor Hongzhi took a piece of the note in his hand to Xiao Jing and said.

"Daming Royal Naval Academy?"

"The Ming Royal Navy?"

When everyone heard this, they immediately came to their senses.

Just fighting for the cement highway is a trivial matter, this fight is still in the pot after all, as Emperor Hongzhi said, either this year or next year.

However, the establishment of the Royal Naval Academy and the Ming Royal Navy is a major national event, which needs to be discussed and discussed.

Starting with Liu Jian, the first assistant of the cabinet, Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, Liu Daxia, Zhang Mao and others took turns to read it one by one, and they all read the notes written by Liu Jin very quickly.

In the middle of the song, Liu Jin believes that the current territory of the Ming Dynasty is not only limited to the land of China, but also has begun to expand around the world.

And with the development speed of Daming, it will involve a wider area in the future.

At the same time, Liu Jin also pointed out that the future world is the ocean-based Age of Discovery, and the Ming Dynasty should be aggressive, occupy a broader land overseas, and open up more living space.

However, the expansion and interests of the Ming Dynasty overseas were greatly threatened.

There are a large number of pirates and thieves along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, in all parts of the South Seas, and even in the oceans of the world, who plunder the passing merchant ships and kill the people of the Ming Dynasty.

What is more important is that overseas, there are still many countries and civilizations that are arrogant, wantonly provoking the prestige of our country and harming the interests of the Ming Dynasty.

In distant Europe, the maritime power of these countries has developed rapidly, and in the future, it will be a strong opponent of the Ming Dynasty on the ocean.

Therefore, in order to protect the interests of the Ming Dynasty overseas, for the continuous expansion of the Ming Dynasty overseas, and in order to conquer more land, the Ming Dynasty must have a maritime power that has always been strong enough to conquer the four seas.

This is the need to build a navy.

At the same time, Liu Jin also pointed out that the navy is different from the land army, and the navy is more dependent on weapons and equipment, and at the same time, it also has higher requirements for the professionalism of naval personnel.

It requires powerful warships and artillery, as well as specialized personnel to be able to navigate the seas and operate artillery against the enemy.

In the war at sea, the opponent has already been killed with artillery when they are far away, and there is no need for each other to use swords to fight each other.

This is the biggest difference between the Navy and the traditional Army.

The Navy must be professional.

This is the inevitability of the development of the war.

Just as the war with later generations gradually developed into a contest of air power.

Fighter planes, missiles, these are all high-tech things, professional things, and illiterate wars are all slowly withdrawing from the stage of history.

"Let's talk about it~"

Seeing that everyone took turns to read it, Emperor Hongzhi spoke.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks what Liu Jin said is very true, the territory of my Ming Dynasty is no longer limited to the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the traditional sense, and there is also a huge territory overseas."

"Also overseas, my Daming has extremely huge interests, just Nanyang alone is enough to send me tens of millions of taels of silver wealth every year, and there will be the Golden Continent, Australia and so on in the future."

"A few years ago, the Nanyang countries came to pay tribute to our Ming Dynasty, and my Ming Dynasty asked them to sign a vassal state agreement, and only Luzon signed an agreement in the entire Nanyang to become a vassal state of my Ming Dynasty."

"This Luzon was still subdued by my Ming Taiping Marquis, and he was willing to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty."

"It can be seen from this that the countries of the South Seas are afraid of power but not virtue, and in the future, the interests and expansion of our Ming Dynasty in the South Seas must form a strong navy."

Liu Jian was the first to stand up and take a stand.

It has to be built, and it has to be on a large scale.

Don't ask me why I support it, at the end of last year, the firm in which Liu Jian's family became a shareholder paid dividends at the end of the year, and Liu Jian received more than 200,000 taels of silver.

More than 200,000 taels of silver and those industries under Liu Jin are naturally not comparable, and any one of them will have to complete this performance.

But this is different for Liu Jian.

He used to live on the land rent in his hometown of Henan, and then run some small businesses in Henan, and he couldn't earn much silver a year, and his life was tight.

However, this shareholding firm went back and forth to Nanyang to do business last year, opened a plantation in Nanyang to plant sugarcane, and in less than half a year, it paid dividends of more than 200,000 taels of silver.

The proprietors of the comptoir have said that this year they will increase investment, buy more ships, expand the scale of the plantation, and earn more silver.

This navy was built to protect the interests of the Ming Dynasty, especially overseas, why not support such a thing?

Do you have to regret it after the financial road of Nanyang is affected?

"The minister also supports the establishment of a strong navy~"

"And the minister thinks that I, the Ming Dynasty, should establish a naval base in Nanyang Crescent City, and at the same time send large armies to various parts of Nanyang to deter the Nanyang countries."

"At the same time, we will send a large army to clear the pirates, thieves, and natives in the Nanyang region, and protect the merchant ships and plantations of our Ming Dynasty."

Xie Qian also stood up and took a stand.

is also the same as Liu Jian, the butt determines the head.

Last year, the south opened up Nanjing and Songhu, which can be regarded as opening up the power of the south, and the big landlords, big businessmen, and big families in the south also quickly set up large and small commercial houses in Nanjing and Songhu, and actively participated in the huge feast of Nanyang.

The results are naturally very gratifying.

One by one, they all tasted the sweetness quickly, especially those who couldn't do business overseas before, and they became addicted all of a sudden, and finally understood why some people had to routinely ban the sea before.

It's all about enjoying the huge profits of sea trade exclusively.

Now that everyone can go overseas to make a fortune, the enthusiasm of the southerners has also risen all of a sudden.

Forming a trading house, buying a boat to fish, going to sea to do business, and going to the Ryukyus and Nanyang to establish plantations are all very profitable, and I don't know how many times higher than the income from rent.

After tasting the benefits, it is natural to understand the importance of forming a powerful maritime force, as Liu Jin said, it is to protect the interests of the Ming Dynasty!

That's right, it's to protect the interests of the Ming Dynasty!

The interests of the Ming Dynasty are above all else.

In the past, when we talked about benevolence, righteousness and morality, they were all hypocrites, and a real gentleman should speak directly about interests and the interests of the country.

The pirates in the South Seas are very annoying, and there are also some unpopular pirates along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, the plantations and gold and silver mines in the South Seas will be attacked by the natives.

There are also a large number of ferocious natives on the Ryukyu Island, which threaten plantations and merchant ships, and all need to be cleaned up.

In addition, Daming, large and small commercial firms, which have tasted the sweetness, have almost all formulated expansion plans in Nanyang this year.

Build more plantations, build bigger plantations.

Therefore, it is necessary to occupy more territory and include more islands in the South China Sea into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise how can it be enough for everyone to share.

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that my Ming must build a strong navy to protect my Ming people's people and interests~"

British Gong Zhang Mao also stood up and made a statement.

There's nothing to say about this, I have to say something.

They are the people who make the most money in Nanyang and overseas, Emperor Hongzhi, the crown prince, Liu Jin, the British Duke, the Dingguo Duke, and the Chengguo Duke.

They were the first to go to sea, but also the first to taste the sweetness, to and from the Nanyang merchant ships, to the most is the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company, the Nanyang side of the plantation they are also the most, the largest, a year to earn money do not know how much, naturally is very clear.