After listening to Liu Jin's words, Zhang Mao also nodded thoughtfully, and finally had a general direction in his mind.

Then he thought for a while and said: "This navy warship, according to the current cost of the Tianjin shipyard, wouldn't a battleship cost more than 200,000 taels of silver?" ”

"Even if there are ten warships, it will cost more than two million taels of silver?"

"I have a sea frontier of 10,000 miles, plus these large and small overseas seas, these ten warships are useless at all, how to say that at least a few hundred warships are needed."

"In this way, the silver for the purchase of naval warships alone will be tens of millions of taels?"

Zhang Mao calculated slightly, and suddenly couldn't help but shake his head: "If you want more silver, Your Majesty will definitely not agree." ”

Emperor Hongzhi's internal money finally puffed up, and it cost tens of millions of silver to go out at once, and Emperor Hongzhi would pull him out and sell it.

"Tens of millions of taels of silver are definitely needed, but it's not a lot in a year and a half."

"It can be built in ten or eight years, and if you calculate it in one year, it will be enough to take 10 million taels of silver."

"Besides, this Tianjin shipyard is its own shipyard, the price can definitely be cheaper, where do you need more than 200,000 taels of silver, a few tens of thousands of taels of silver is enough."

"The ships in this navy are not as big as possible, and ships of various types, sizes, and functions must cooperate with each other and form a fleet to maximize their combat effectiveness."

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately smiled and shook his head.

Lao Zhang, this silver is not spent like this, not to mention the silver in the internal treasury of Emperor Hongzhi, not the silver of the Ming treasury.

"Judging from the current situation of our Ming Dynasty, we need at least three fleets, which can be turned into the Bohai Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, and the South Sea Fleet."

"The Bohai Fleet is used to compliment Tianjin and Jingshi, and at the same time governs the Yellow Sea region, while the East China Sea Fleet governs the East China Sea and the vast areas around Korea, the Wa Kingdom, and Yuxi."

"The Nanyang Fleet is to be stationed in the Nanyang to deter the Nanyang and expand in the Nanyang region at the same time."

"For each fleet, it is enough to have twenty capital warships, two hundred medium warships, and a few small warships, and it is only sixty large warships, and each one is given 50,000 taels of silver, which is only 3 million taels of silver."

"As for large and small medium-sized warships, small warships, etc., although these are huge, the cost is also cheaper, a few million taels of silver is enough to get it, and in a short period of time, it is almost enough to prepare 10 million taels of silver to build a battleship."

"Of course, this is just the warship, as well as the corresponding artillery, muskets and other weapons and ammunition, and it is estimated that millions of taels of silver are at least needed."

"Counting the construction of the Navy Military Academy, the recruitment and training of personnel, the moon ringing, etc., it will be at least 20 million taels of silver to be invested in the early stage."

"As for the future investment, it depends on whether our opponent is strong or not, if we want to dominate the world and run rampant all over the world, this strength may be a little insufficient."

"Especially after we occupy the Golden Continent and Australia, and also enter South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, this scale will expand at least several times in the future."

Liu Jin roughly calculated, and suddenly couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

This navy is so expensive~

The Ming Imperial Military Academy and the new army only cost Emperor Hongzhi a few million taels of silver in a year, but this is enough for Emperor Hongzhi to raise a strong army.

However, this navy, just by calculating, seems to be too expensive, and at the beginning of this shake shook its head tens of millions of taels of silver, and the maintenance and maintenance of the subsequent ships, daily training expenses, operations, etc., are probably also astronomical.

Will this Hongji Emperor be able to agree?

Even though these industries purchased by Liu Jin for Emperor Hongzhi were very profitable, the profits were divided into tens of millions of taels of silver in a year.

But this silver can't all be used to support the army, this is the emperor's internal money, and it is still necessary to save some silver for Emperor Hongzhi every year.

The overhead is too great.

"Can Your Majesty agree?"

After hearing this, Zhang Mao frowned and said after thinking about it.

"Let's take it up to Your Majesty first, if it really doesn't work, we can only build it slowly year by year, and this year, we will build the Nanyang Fleet first."

"When the time comes, let's go to Nanyang to grab it first, and then talk about it, if we don't clean up those countries like that, they will still think that our Ming is easy to bully."

Liu Jin was also not sure in his heart, so he thought about it and said.

"Well, that's all it can be~"

Zhang Mao nodded and said.

Soon, the British Gong Zhang Mao drafted a detailed plan for the construction of the Ming Royal Navy and the Ming Royal Military Academy and sent it to Emperor Hongzhi.

Qianqing Palace, in the study of Emperor Hongzhi.

Emperor Hongzhi carefully looked at the kick-off drafted by Zhang Mao, and nodded again and again while reading it: "Well, not bad, not bad~"

"Loyalty and patriotism, this ideological education should indeed be put in the first place, the same as the Daming Military Academy, this is very good."

Emperor Hongzhi was very relieved and satisfied when he saw this.

As Liu Jin said, this navy is also an army, and it is also a powerful military force, and since it is a military force, it has the possibility of subverting everything.

Therefore, it must be firmly in the hands of the emperor, so as to be safe.

The ideological education of the Ming Military Academy made Emperor Hongzhi feel very relieved, and the Ming army that came out in this way, not to mention whether its combat effectiveness was strong or not, at least it was absolutely loyal to the Great Tomorrow.

Now the Ming Royal Navy also refers to this, which is very reassuring.

"What?"

"Twenty million taels of silver a year?"

However, when he saw the figure of Zhang Mao's application fee later, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but shout.

The number is also too large.

Now the new army of the Ming Dynasty only spends a few million taels of silver on Emperor Hongzhi a year, which is still very easy for Emperor Hongzhi, but when he sees the cost of the navy, Emperor Hongzhi is not calm.

"Immediately announce the British Gong Zhang Mao~"

"Well, call Liu Jin too."

Emperor Hongzhi stood up, walked around, thought about it and made an order.

……

"Your Majesty~"

Liu Jin and Zhang Mao came to Emperor Hongzhi's study and shouted in unison.

"Sit down~"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the two of them, and then took out Zhang Mao's note and said, "This navy costs 20 million taels of silver a year?" ”

"Your Majesty, it's not that it costs 20 million taels of silver a year, but if you want to build the three powerful navies in the plan, it will need to invest almost 20 million taels of silver in the early stage."

Zhang Mao thought for a moment and replied.

Sure enough, there was too much silver invested, and Emperor Hongzhi was not calm.

"You have to invest 20 million taels of silver in the early stage, but what about the later stage?"

Emperor Hongzhi hurriedly asked again.

"If the three fleets are enough to shock the four seas, the investment in the later stage can be less, only the regular maintenance, maintenance, renewal of warships, and the construction of naval personnel and naval bases, etc., a few million taels of silver a year will definitely be needed."

"If the three fleets are not enough to shock the seas and protect the interests of our Ming Dynasty, then we still need to expand the naval force, and the investment will be large."

Zhang Mao thought for a moment and replied.

"This navy is too wasteful."

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but groan.

"Your Majesty, this navy must cost money, because the navy is different from the army, the navy walks the sea, and the warship alone is worth an extraordinary price."

"That is to say, we can build a warship by ourselves, we can buy it from Tianjin Shipyard at a cheap price, if we want to calculate it according to the market price, the price of this warship is more than 200,000 taels of silver."

Zhang Mao nodded and said, he also felt that this navy really spent money.

"If there is a huge investment, plus the regular annual expenses in the later stage~"

Emperor Hongji hesitated.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, this matter will never be lost."

At this time, Liu Jin stood up and said.

"Yes~"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he immediately smiled and motioned for Liu Jin to continue.

"Your Majesty, the main role of the navy is to safeguard the maritime interests of our Ming Dynasty, but at the same time, it can also open up more sea routes and open up more overseas colonies for our Ming Dynasty."

"If nothing else, let's just take Nanyang as an example."

"With the navy, our Ming Dynasty will be able to easily take down the entire Nanyang region, and when the time comes, we will take down an island at will, because Your Majesty paid for the construction of the navy, so it will naturally belong to Your Majesty's industry at that time."

"When the time comes, even if Your Majesty does anything good, lease these islands to major trading houses to build plantations, and you can't rent tens of millions of taels of silver a year?"

"There are also Australia and the Golden Continent, such a huge land, the Golden Continent is not only rich in gold, but also rich in silver in the South Golden Continent."

"When the time comes, these gold mines, silver mines, and the like, will naturally be occupied and developed first by Your Majesty, and it will not be difficult to casually pay tens of millions of taels of silver a year."

"Your Majesty, with the navy, our merchants of the Ming Dynasty can walk around the world with their backs straight, even if they do business all over the world, it is enough to bring ten thousand taels of silver-level wealth to my Ming Dynasty every year."

"And if we don't have a strong navy, our interests will not be protected in the future, and once it arouses the eyes of others, there will inevitably be war at that time."

"As the so-called preparers are safe, the warlike will die, the forgotten war will be dangerous, it is not easy to forget, the king of the world, there must be a reasonable naval force, this is for my Ming Dynasty's plan."

Liu Jin explained to Emperor Hongzhi very seriously that this deal was bound to be profitable, and even pointed out the necessity of building a strong navy.

PS: Let's take a look at the old cow with genuine support~ I'm about to starve to death~