Well, although this is the case in the eyes of the Navy, the contradiction between the Army and the Navy is not small in peacetime, and although they will coordinate with each other in wartime, they all belong to the people who want to do it, and sometimes the Navy's warships cannot be allocated, and the Army can only wait bitterly.

In order to change this situation, the army has actually begun to strengthen its own ship transportation and even combat capabilities very early.

It belongs to the Privy Council Logistics Department, and has a large number of transport vessels, but most of these transport ships are civilian vessels, usually escorted by naval warships.

However, the navy's funds were not much, and the warships were limited, and there was often a shortage of escort forces, so the army simply installed artillery in some of the larger transport ships for self-defense.

On several occasions in small-scale battles to seize the islands, the army simply did not greet the navy and ask for cooperation, but directly sent transport ships to carry the army to land operations.

In order to cross the sea for operations, the army even specially ordered several professional transport ships, well, it is said to be transport ships, but in fact they are warships that can carry a large number of soldiers, with fewer guns and more soldiers.

However, the army's development of maritime power is only limited to this, but the development of transport ships and the navy have very big opinions, and they often run to Li Xuan to complain, and Li Xuan also warned the army several times, don't toss around, you are a class of troops on land, what kind of warships are you playing, nonsense.

Forget the meaning of a few ships, if you really want to build an army fleet on a large scale, the first person who disagrees is Li Xuan!

Professional things, or let professional people do it, this is one of the principles pursued by Li Xuan!

In sea operations, let the navy come, and the army should not toss, but now the navy is really a little weak, so Li Xuan also needs to knock one or two.

There are more than 20 professional ocean-going warships, and they can still make those pirates toss so miserably, which makes the governor of Zhejiang unable to bear to complain, it can be seen that the navy must have been lazy recently.

However, for Li Xuan, it is only a slight beating, if it has not improved after the beating, then Li Xuan has to let a few heads of the navy move their positions, occupy the position and do nothing, which is not allowed by Li Xuan.

And Li Xuan's beating also made Bao Yifen feel helpless!

Are there many ships in the Navy? It's quite a lot, but most of them are inland river ships, and there are a lot of more than 20 ocean-going warships, in such a wide coastal sea, there are actually not many!

This will leave a part to ensure the safety of the Yangtze River estuary and the Pearl River estuary, and a part will be set aside for patrolling and escorting ships, and the navy's existing ships will simply not be enough.

But Li Xuan's beating is not unreasonable, the navy that has spent so much money has no way to take pirates, this is naturally unbearable, and when I look back, I still have to discuss a way with my colleagues in the navy, and pirates can't continue to be so rampant.

Pressing the thought in his heart, Bao Yifen continued to report on the affairs of the navy.

There are no other major events, it is worth mentioning that the first battleship of the Navy has already started construction at the Dingsheng Shipyard in Hong Kong, although the construction period is expected to be very long, but it can be regarded as a start.

After hearing this, Li Xuan was also interested, and immediately took a closer look at the construction plan of this battleship.

The design scheme of this battleship was decided very early, and the internal design of the hull will greatly refer to the design of existing cruisers and frigates, and the design concept is not the same as that of cruisers and frigates.

The Datang Navy's division of various types of ships is divided according to their uses, such as cruisers, which are used for ocean-going searches, attacks on enemy transport ships, and at the same time serve as secondary artillery firepower and pilot warships of the main fleet.

The frigate, on the other hand, is much simpler, and its concept is to escort and patrol daily.

There are only battleships, and naturally there is only one goal, and that is for a decisive battle at sea!

Therefore, when it is set up, it is the key to strengthen the protection level of the hull and improve the firepower, but the speed and flexibility are not so important.

The first battleship of the Tang Dynasty, after many revisions to the design, the final plan was a standard displacement of 1,350 tons, a double deck, carrying a full 64 guns, and the number of naval officers on board was also greatly increased, and it was expected that there would be 500 people.

The artillery carried is also of various calibers, the largest caliber of the main gun is a forty-eight pound artillery, this kind of artillery Zhaoqing Arsenal has been overcoming difficulties, began to make a sample gun by hand, and because of the manufacturing difficulties, so the length of the barrel is not too long.

Naturally, there are not many 48-pound naval guns, only two are for show, and the ship's main naval guns will be mainly 24-pound guns.

At the same time, 14-kilogram artillery, 9-kilogram artillery, and 5-kilogram artillery will also be equipped in large quantities.

Basically, according to the bearing capacity of the hull, it is equipped with artillery as much as possible, and if there is not much large-caliber deployment, medium-caliber will be deployed, and medium-caliber ones will be placed if they cannot be put down, so small-caliber ones will be placed.

In the end, the long-barreled naval guns of various calibers of more than five catties were gathered, and a full 64 guns were gathered, which was twice the firepower of the two cruisers.

And the defense capabilities of the hull are also incomparable to cruisers!

Of course, the construction capacity of the ship is also very great, the naval guns aside, the hull alone is enough to make the shipyard toss for several years, and the cost, the navy did not say how much money will be able to build, but very cautiously gave a budget, well, that is, plan so much first, not enough to add!

And what is the budget for building ships within the Navy? Two hundred thousand taels of silver.

However, some people are very pessimistic that before the Datang Navy wants to get the first battleship, it will have to invest at least 300,000 taels of silver

Because just the construction of the hull and the artillery itself, in fact, it doesn't cost 200,000 taels of silver, but the price of this ship can't be calculated like this, you have to take into account all kinds of research and development costs, and the upfront costs!

Of course, these R&D costs are a one-time investment in the early stage, and then rebuild battleships, or use the new technology developed to build battleships, naturally it will not take so much money.

However, even if the battleship was expensive, the navy also unswervingly promoted the battleship building plan, even after Li Xuan made it clear that he would not allocate special funds for the navy's battleship plan, the navy still insisted on doing so.

Because in the eyes of the Navy, the construction of battleships takes a long time, even if it starts now, it will be at least three years before it can be obtained, which means that the construction funds of this battleship can be divided into three years, which will give the Navy a great buffer time.

In addition, the navy also believes that although the domestic reunification war will continue, the current advantage of the Tang Dynasty is relatively large, and they also know that the army is preparing the Northern Expedition plan, once the Northern Expedition is successful, then the army will not have such a large-scale military operation in the future.

What does this mean, this means that the military spending on the part of the army will be greatly reduced!

At present, a large part of the huge military expenditure of the Tang Dynasty is war funds, if it is simply to maintain the current scale of troops, it will not cost so much money, and it is expensive to pay all kinds of war materials, such as those field artillery, a few hundred taels of silver, but after a few large-scale artillery battles, it will be scrapped, and the same is true for muskets.

Not to mention, bullets, shells and other ammunition are also thrown out like money.

If there is no large-scale war, the consumption of guns and ammunition is very low, and there is no problem with using more than a dozen guns for one artillery, for example, the Guards have not participated in large-scale wars in the past two years, and their equipment attrition rate is very low, and the earliest artillery is still fine.

However, the 1st Infantry Division and the 5th Infantry Division, which were frequently combated, were scrapped and replaced with new artillery in the earliest days.

Although it costs money to raise an army, it costs even more money to go to war!

Once the large-scale war is over, the army's military spending will be greatly reduced, and the navy's life will be correspondingly better.

Unlike the army, the navy is expensive to maintain in peacetime, and if it really fights a war, it will not be much more than the peacetime expenditure.

The Datang Navy has now become a time to raise troops for a thousand days, and the cost of training and maintenance of warships on weekdays is relatively high, not to mention the relatively expensive price of the battleship itself.

And this is also the plan of the navy, now in the past few years, naturally don't expect to be able to get much military spending, but after the Ming Dynasty is killed, the good days of the navy will come, even if it doesn't take much, even if it is an extra few hundred thousand taels of silver a year, it is enough for the navy to expand a new detachment.

After reading the design plan of the battleship and looking at the construction plan, Li Xuan also simply gave the battleship a name, still in accordance with the consistent warship naming rules of the Tang Navy, named after the ship, the first battleship of the Tang Dynasty was named Xingquan by Li Xuan himself.

Xingquan is the land of Longxing of the Tang Dynasty, and its political significance is significant, and it is not humiliating to name the first battleship.

Although he was named by Li Xuan himself, Zeng Ziwen's face was not very good-looking when he said goodbye to Li Xuan and went back, and at this time he still remembered Li Xuan's beating just now!

The matter of piracy cannot be delayed any longer.

Otherwise, if you provoke Long Yan's anger, I am afraid that many people in the navy will be unlucky, including myself!