Frandick eventually gave in, and in the face of great strength, he had to accept ten times the high price.

In fact, Yang Cong was also anxious at this time, because there were more and more goods piled up in Yuegang, and if he didn't want to expand sales and shipping channels, many goods would become moldy and deteriorate.

Of course, he had heard the story of the milk pouring into the river, and he would not give up high profits for a small profit, and if Frandick did not accept ten times the high price, he would rather let the goods pile up and spoil than sell them cheaply.

Fortunately, Frandick finally relented,

It's a pity that he only has a few ships, even if the price is ten times higher, he can take away about one million taels of goods at a time, which is converted into the price of Daming, that is, about 100,000 taels of goods, which is still a drop in the bucket for the mountain of goods in Yuegang, Yang Cong has to think of other ways to solve the problem of serious lack of capacity.

Before he could figure out how to solve this problem, news came from Nantai Shipyard that the latest batch of Cangshan ships had been built again, and he had to mobilize people to control these new warships.

This manpower can not be adjusted casually, because the sailboat is difficult to control, the sailboat is more complicated to control than the sailboat, ordinary people can not control it at all, you must have rich experience to drive the Cangshan ship, and the new Cangshan ship is also equipped with a lot of artillery, these guns also need experienced artillery to control.

His original approach was to select elites from the existing men and horses of the Zhejiang Navy Division and the Fujian Navy Division to control the new warships, and then recruit ordinary coastal guards to control the old warships.

In this way, every time he produces fifty new Cangshan ships, he will recruit two thousand recruits, and each time he produces fifty new centipede ships, he will recruit one thousand recruits, that is, to form a fleet, he will recruit a total of three thousand recruits, and if all five fleets in the five coastal provinces are matched, he will have to recruit fifteen thousand recruits.

This guy costs money to recruit new soldiers, and if 15,000 recruits are added to the consumption of weapons, ammunition, grain, grass, and baggage on new warships, the total amount of military expenses he bears will reach almost 3 million taels per year.

Although Dongying's business and the Portuguese business are very profitable at this time, it is not a problem for him to earn thousands of taels a year, but this stall is big, and there are many places to use money, and he not only has tens of thousands of Ming soldiers under his hands, but it is only on the surface, and he still has to support many people in private.

For example, the Yang family's steward and shopkeeper and the employees under his hands, with the development of the maritime business, the number of people employed by the Yang family is also increasing, and these people also have to pay for work, after all, it is impossible for people to work for you in vain.

For another example, the cost of transporting goods on land, although he asked Yu Dayou, Tang Kekuan, and even Qi Jingtong to privately gather his subordinates to transport goods in the name of transporting military supplies, he also had to pay extra wages to others.

You know, he's using the elite of the guard as coolies!

He does have the right to order these elite guards to work, but he also has to be happy, if they are not happy, they will stop doing it, and even go to Jinling or even the capital to complain, then it will be troublesome.

Therefore, these elite guards who transport goods also have to start working, and they can't give less, they must let people taste the sweetness, so that people will be willing to work as coolies for you.

This money doesn't seem to be much, but the accumulation is quite terrifying, and over the course of a year, his various expenses add up to four or five million taels, and these expenses are still growing day by day.

At this time, he has to consider the question of whether this unjust boss is worth it, he took the risk of killing his head to open up maritime trade, and in the end, he can make more than a million taels a year, which is worse than the business of salt introduction, is it worth it?

He suddenly found that this is no longer a question of whether it is worth it or not, if it goes on like this, something will happen sooner or later, because the food and salary of tens of thousands of troops has exceeded what he Yang Jiayan has received, where did this money come from?

This problem, he still hides it for the time being, once he unexpectedly falls from his post, or leaves the southeast to serve elsewhere, how can he hide this matter?

No matter how much he paid the employees of the Yang family and even the elite of the guard who delivered goods to the Yang family, it was no problem, because those were his own private affairs, and it was difficult for outsiders to know how much money he paid.

However, he can't raise so many troops, because this is a matter for the imperial court, and sooner or later it will fall on the head of the imperial court, once he is not the governor of the southeast, who will have the money to support this tens of thousands of troops, if the imperial court can't afford to raise it by then, and ask the Yang family to come out with this money, Xia Yan, Yan Song, and even Jiajing will react, there is a problem here!

The Yang family's share of salt can earn at most two million taels a year, and more than three million taels of food and salary, where did it come from?

Therefore, at this time, not only can he not recruit troops frantically, but he must also find a way to streamline the existing army as much as possible, and reduce it to the number that the Yang family's salt business can easily afford, so that the imperial court will not doubt it.

So, how much is it appropriate to streamline?

He roughly estimated it, and he had the bottom in his heart, if the Yang family's salt was used, it would be the most reasonable to supply the food and salary of the 30,000 army.

At this time, he had about 50,000 infantry soldiers under his command, and about 15,000 sailors, that is to say, the infantry must be greatly reduced to about 15,000, and the sailors and soldiers could no longer be recruited, and these 15,000 men were enough to form five fleets to guard the coastal provinces.

This infantry is better to say, because at this time the pirates and pirates basically do not dare to land, if the provincial naval fleets are fully equipped, the pirates and pirates will be gradually wiped out, so the reduction of the infantry will also be reduced, leaving 15,000 people is enough, and the reduction of the infantry is also simple, just order people to return to their hometown of Tuntian.

This sailor is a bit of a problem, because new warships are constantly being produced, and old-fashioned warships also need to be controlled by people, and if they don't expand, where will they get people to drive so many warships?

Combined with the problem of the lack of capacity in maritime trade, a bold idea suddenly popped into his mind, since those old warships were no longer controlled, then simply eliminate them and trade in the old for the new, can't it?

Is the idea feasible?

Doesn't seem to be a problem!

The original warships of the Zhejiang Navy Division and the Fujian Navy Division were originally old ships that had been used for decades, and there was no problem in transporting some goods or something, but once they went to fight with people, there would be many hidden dangers, not to mention whether they could withstand the bombardment of shells, I am afraid that there would be problems even if they collided with enemy ships a few times.

Moreover, the old-fashioned warships are either not fast or firepower, and they cannot exert any power at all in battle, so to speak, a fleet composed of fifty new Cangshan ships and fifty new centipede ships can easily defeat the dilapidated warships of the Zhejiang and Fujian naval divisions.

In other words, these old-fashioned warships were originally chicken ribs, and after they were eliminated, they would not affect the overall combat power of the Daming Naval Division.

Therefore, this idea of exchanging the old for the new is completely feasible, it depends on how he tells Jiajing about it.