Henry has many shortcomings, but as a king, he also has his greatest strengths - he does what he says, and he does it.

Ever since that day he and I decided on the strategy of building the French navy on the British naval model, he was like a child who couldn't sit still, jumping up and down to help me help him build a complete naval system.

But where can this matter be rushed? A 100-year navy, a 100-year navy, that is, to build a truly powerful navy, it will take at least a few decades or even a hundred years.

But Henry obviously couldn't afford to wait, so he dragged me to ask me to draw up a long-term and short-term naval upgrade plan for him.

From my point of view, let's get it. Even though I knew that Elizabeth I was calling me, I didn't mean to see her immediately.

After all, we are only in a cooperative relationship, and there is no clear role of the monarch and minister, so I naturally don't have to take her too seriously.

I made three suggestions to Henry - of course, it was limited to the naval domain, and I didn't care about anything else, and I couldn't control it.

1. Establish a naval academy to vigorously train naval personnel, and at the same time spend money to attract naval personnel from other powerful countries and save training costs.

Second, take the form of joint venture with private capital to speed up the construction of the shipbuilding research institute and improve the efficiency of technology update and iteration.

3. Encourage civilian caravans to have their own fleets, and the state will support them, including financial, technical and military support.

As long as these three points can be achieved, a wave of enthusiasm for building a fleet from the bottom up, and the market will be enlarged as much as possible, and many things will fall into place.

As for how to do it, I don't know, I was about to hide, but Henry grabbed me and gave me a difficult task!

"In view of Qilan's special talent in navigation, your extraordinary experience, and your combat experience, I have decided to appoint you as the first president of the French Maritime Academy, the first naval academy!"

"Poof!" A mouthful of tea squirted out of my mouth and flew nearly two meters away!

Henry's gaze followed the water column away, then retracted, and said with a smile: "So you agreed, right!" ”

"Me!" I choked on a mouthful of water and couldn't speak, so he took my hand and pressed my handprint in the "ordained" column of the letter of appointment......

I really want to cry without tears. So far, it seems that it can be done, and if it doesn't work, it must be done!

Along with this, there is also the status of Duke of the French Empire, as well as the honorary captain of the "Glory Fleet......

In that case, then I have no way out, so stay and work with Henry to make this mess.

The site of the École Française Maritime was chosen in Nantes, which is also the best port on the Atlantic coast. The inauguration of the academy was close to the harbor, and the air was filled with a gentle smell of the sea.

This was originally a barracks, a barracks for the navy, but now it has been converted into an academy, which has its own unique advantages, but it also needs to make some modifications.

For example, in the past, everything here existed for combat, but now, since it is a maritime academy, it needs two parts, military and civilian, plus law, economics and other contents and disciplines, and it is not only military content.

Therefore, I also suggest that Henry can find some more professional people to build this academy together.

After all, both Britain and the Netherlands are not only developing their navies on the way to rise, but also arming civilian ships.

In other words, they are merchant fleets when they trade, and they become fleets when they fight, which can be switched at any time.

Only this model can make a country's maritime development long-term. After all, the navy is mainly attritional, and it is unrealistic to rely on the inland economy to support the navy.

Only by making the sea itself alive and the business turning around, can we truly achieve the purpose of self-improvement and benign development.

Henry understood what I meant as soon as he heard it, and said that he would try to find new and suitable candidates as soon as possible, and continue to enrich the academy. But at present, the Naval Academy must be opened first, in other words, the entire academy pursues the policy of military first, and the purpose of all is to build a strong navy!

According to Henry's arrangement, I was solely responsible for the renovation of the entire college.

This full responsibility includes both the overall design planning and the customization of the details, as well as the construction and fit-out.

This really makes my head scratch, where can I go to find designers and engineers who understand the local situation in France?

Fortunately, the wise and beautiful Queen Margot, to be precise, reached out to me in time after hearing about it, recommending me the best designers since the Renaissance, as well as the best supporting construction team.

After fully expressing my gratitude to Queen Margot and giving her a complete set of fine porcelain from Jingdezhen as a thank you gift, I sent someone to contact Youxi, who was rooted in Amsterdam, and asked her to send a set of models of the latest warships and merchant ships as much as possible. Even if there is no finished product, there must be a model.

Of course, I also responsibly told this little witch of business that, in view of my great friendship with Henry, the port of Nantes will be completely open to our own Chamber of Commerce, where we will enjoy the same privileges as the Royal French Navy fleet!

Youxi immediately came to Nantes with someone in person, and when he saw me, he was excited not to want it, especially holding Arashi's hand and going around her big belly again and again!

"Shouldn't I be a grandmother in terms of seniority? Twenty-year-old granny! I'm a real winner in life! Youxi smiled toothlessly.

Everyone laughed. Youxi has been mixing very well in Europe over the years, and with the assistance of Grisca, he has gradually mixed up his own name.

She is said to be the spokesperson for the majority shareholder of the Dutch East India Company, and she has made rare failures in her investments, almost always ending in big profits.

This made Youxi mix up the name of "investment vane", and many people began to follow the trend of investment, and the input-output ratio slowly declined.

So in the past two years, Youxi has easily not made a move, and he will see blood if he shoots. Often, before others can react, she has already rolled up the money and left.

In addition, she, together with Griska and Chen Kui, has made our fleet bigger and bigger, and our North Sea Fleet is now a complete large team with complete escort, business, and exploration, and it can be completely self-financed.

In view of this, I decided to recommend Youxi to the French Maritime Academy to take up the position of the School of Commerce, who knew that Henry was very appreciative after hearing this, and immediately decided to appoint Zhang Youxi, the "investment vane", as the first dean of the School of Commerce, but Youxi was not happy.

"I said Qilan, you asked me to come here as a teacher and teach children, doesn't this delay me in doing business?" Youxi complained.

"Cut! Shallow! "I scoffed at Woohee's claims.

"Tell me, why am I shallow?" Youxi was not convinced.

"Where you operate, the most important thing is connections. You became the dean of the School of Commerce, and the people who came out of here in the future were your students. Such a good opportunity to open up branches and open up the business district, you actually let it go, and it is not shallow? Isn't it naïve? ””

Hearing this, Youxi's eyes gurgled, and he immediately understood what I meant, and said with a grinning face: "I know that Qilan is reliable!" That's it! I will be the dean of this house, and I will live up to the trust of you and His Majesty Henry!" ”

I smacked my lips, not knowing how to praise her. Being able to see the wind and steer the rudder, even if you correct your mistakes, is also a manifestation of your ability.

In addition, as soon as she comes, I can throw all the construction and decoration including the navy and commercial affairs to her, after all, she is most familiar with Chen Kui and Griska now, and it is the easiest to do, isn't it? This is really sleepy and meets a pillow, the right thing, let the right person do it. No problem!

Of course, Youxibiao immediately expressed a high degree of dissatisfaction with my bad practice of "trying to be the shopkeeper again", so as a last resort, I asked Adicon to assist her in the construction of the Naval Academy.

Adicon is not young now, and he is not very interested in teaching more and passing on his rich experience to future generations. The only regret is that the school is in France, not Germany.

Of course, thinking of the current situation of the internal division of Germany, and the reality of the various electors falling against each other, Adicon sighed, accepted this bitter reality, and became the vice president of the Naval Academy with peace of mind.

Before the opening of the Naval Branch, Henri asked me to think of two uplifting sentences as the motto of the Naval Branch of the École de l'École de France.

After thinking about it, I wrote the famous sentence "Please go other ways to get promoted and get rich, and don't enter this door if you are greedy for life and afraid of death"!

Sentences translated into French are somewhat less rhyming, but these Europeans who don't understand anything know what rhyme is?

As soon as this sentence came out, Henry was immediately amazed and shocked!

So the French version of the famous sentence of the Father of the Nation Whampoa was hung at the gate of the French Maritime Academy in Nantes - this is what Henry meant, and his idea was that no matter the peasants, the industry and the soldiers, they should take the national affairs as the first priority.

Although I think business schools are originally made to make money, hanging this slogan is a bit nondescript. But thinking of the supremacy of the divine power of the monarchy under the feudal dynasty, these hangings can be regarded as the past.

As for the naval works, Henry, following my suggestion, hired many shipbuilding masters from England, Holland, Spain, Portugal, and Italy at high salaries, and then selected the best young men to be apprentices to them.

I believe that as long as they are given time, they will be able to understand the existing technology and develop new ship technology!

In this way, I promised Henry that Henry's naval enhancement program was vigorously launched. The whole of western France was strongly attracted, and talents and capital began to gather in this direction, and wealth and administrative will began to slowly exert great effects!

And at this time, as the dean, I was facing two major events at the same time!

The first, Queen Elizabeth I of England sent an envoy to the door, and it was her own niece Isabella. Knowing that I was doing well in France, Elizabeth I could not sit still and sent my closest people to invite me.

Another thing, Arashi is about to give birth! I'm going to be a dad!