However, he is still concerned about whether he can get a ship from the Huaxia Kingdom, the warship, Australia is too far, and it is not suitable for the warship that he originally bought back to drive back, and it is impossible for other brothers to let him get more warships, so he can only find a way from here.

"I have three million Chinese dollars here, and some supplies, Dutch spices, wood, salt, sugar cane, and some table clocks, arquebuses, and alkaline noodles, which are worth about three million Chinese dollars, and some Spanish gold coins, Dutch gold coins, about one million Chinese dollars, a total value of seven million Chinese dollars, you see how many warships can be sold to us."

At this time, the attendant took back the data that the entire sailor needed to process, and when he explained to the attendant at that time, he whispered it, of course, he didn't let Zheng Zhi know that those were ships that were less than eleven years old.

However, with Zheng Zhi's wisdom, he would not know that his ship would definitely be old, and it could not be the latest.

He looked at the list, these old warships must be newer and better models than those sold to Lu Guo before, and they are newer and better than those sold to the Zheng family and the third prince, because these are eleven-year-old ships, and at that time, the Huaxia Army has begun to develop the second and third generation sail warships.

It has completely gotten rid of the Dafu ship and the Hiroshi ship, which are only suitable for fighting in the near sea and when the wind and waves are not strong.

Now these old ships are almost the same old type of warships as the Spaniards' Galen galleons, and they are a little more advanced than the Spaniards, that is, the hull is a little slender, the mast height is a few meters higher, and the speed is a little faster, but now it is not so fast, and it is not bad, six knots and seven knots cannot be reached all, but five knots and six knots are about the same, the key is that the maneuverability and defense capability have been improved.

I want to sell it to Zheng Zhi, but Zheng Zhi's money is really not enough, I can't buy a few, the original old ship is less than fifteen years old, Zhang Qiang is almost sold at a price of 30,000 or 40,000 Huaxia yuan, which is almost equal to 27,800 taels of silver, and these obviously can't be sold to them so cheaply, at least 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver, which is almost 70,000 to 767 Huaxia yuan.

Of course, if it is a thousand-ton warship, if it is less than 1,000 tons, 800 tons, it is almost 10,000 or 20,000 yuan, and now these are sold to them at a price of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan.

Smaller tonnage is a few thousand dollars.

Seven million Huaxia yuan, which is almost about six million silver taels, can not be bought.

In the end, Zhang Qiang determined the number of ships to be sold to them, and transferred ten ships from the Second Fleet, ten ships from the Third Fleet, ten ships from the Fourth Fleet, and twenty ships from the other Fifth Fleet, and all the Sixth Fleet were sold to them, and then the remaining ships of the Fifth Fleet were merged into the Fourth Fleet to form a sub-fleet, stationed in Saigon to protect the waters of Annam.

The total number of ships traded reached 497, and even the equipment of the harbor guard, which was converted from merchant ships and some fishing boats, was sold to 500 ships.

There are about 100 of them, which are used to transfer the transport ships and merchant ships of iron ore and guano from Australia from Palawan Island to the seaports of the Chinese Kingdom, as well as their offshore patrols, which are probably less than a dozen nautical miles away for patrol and defense, and the other 300 or so are all warships.

Half of these warships were to be divided into warships to defend Koh Kong Island, so as to facilitate the subsequent landing of Australian troops to support Li Yuanyin and them in Cambodia.

In fact, it is impossible for these ships to be sold at this price without 10 million Huaxia yuan, but in order to let them bear some enemy pressure and make trouble for Du Ge and the Taixi people, Zhang Qiang does not care about this money.

Because of the lack of these warships and fishing boats, merchant ships, there were only more than 2,300 ships left in the navy fleet of the Huaxia Kingdom, and there were also some fewer ships in the navy coast guard, and several new merchant ships to be handed over to the merchants were sold to them.

As for whether Zheng Zhi used these ships to fight the Spaniards or the Dutch, Zhang Qiang didn't care, the reason why he gave so many more ships was to let him attract firepower.

However, dealing with so many old ships at once still makes the sailors of the Huaxia Kingdom have too many gaps, and now sea patrols have become a norm, if you don't patrol so many smuggling merchants will hollow out the Huaxia Kingdom, now the Huaxia Kingdom has not been banned like the Ming and Qing Dynasty, but it is like a forbidden sea, because there is no trade with the West, the surrounding small countries have either been wiped out by the Huaxia Kingdom, or have been in chaos.

Although there are some Nanyang merchants who come to trade with the Huaxia Kingdom, and the Zheng family trades with the Huaxia Kingdom, the goods they trade can also be transferred to the Taixi people through the above two customers, but the scale of this trade is not large, the Zheng family is too far away, mainly in the construction of Australia, Nanyang merchants, mainly Nanyang Han people, and the natives themselves have become trade goods.

In fact, in addition to these two places can still trade normally, there is really no place to trade with them, so the maritime trade envisioned by Zhang Qiang is actually equivalent to a utopian, that is, now, that is, Huaxia, can be self-sufficient, and the Ryukyu Kingdom and the Xinlu Prefecture and Shikoku Prefecture, as well as several states in Southeast Asia can transport raw materials and gold and silver, which further improves the domestic income system and economic system of the Huaxia Kingdom, so that it can be circulated internally.

But the Huaxia country can be like this, but the surrounding Taixi people can't be like this, they have to rely on the Huaxia Kingdom to live a more prosperous life, India Ah San is still a primitive people, the British and Dutch, the Portuguese can not get much benefit, and they have to deal with so many children Ah San harassment and drag, they are eager to start trade, from the Huaxia Kingdom to get more profitable enough goods.

Therefore, they will continue to secretly smuggle goods, or if they can't, harass and intercept the ships of the maritime merchants of the Huaxia Kingdom, doing pirate work, the sailors of the Huaxia Kingdom have to protect these ships, not only to protect, but also to blockade this sea area, so that those ships of the Taixi people can not do whatever they want in this area, they can only sneak around.

Now, with the continuous reduction of the Huaxia army and sailors, the gap is getting bigger and bigger, and these Taixi fleets can steal the air to smuggle, and the loss of the Huaxia Kingdom will be great.

Now there is basically no solution, there is no way, Zhang Qiang is making every effort to rectify the naval division, eliminate the old ships, no matter how fast the old ships are, the speed of the old ships is only six or a little more than six knots, to quickly patrol the entire defense area as fast as fifteen days, half a month, the slowest two months, several fleets have to set off every once in a while, continuous patrols can ensure that no enemy can exploit a loophole in a sea area, and now the old ships have been sold, this continuity has been broken, so that the patrol time has been extended, and now it has become the fastest time in a month, Three months at the slatest.

Although some localities have sent warships decommissioned from the naval division equipped by the coastal naval division garrison to make up for the patrol of the coastal sea and expand the patrol range, it is only like the Jinhua Rebellion period, covering the coastal sea within 100 nautical miles and 100 nautical miles away.

Retired warships can't last that long, otherwise when the wind and waves come, they don't have the speed to return to the port or avoid the wind and waves, they are likely to disintegrate and sink in the wind and waves, because they are very old, originally these ships were because the previous technology was not up to standard, the wood for shipbuilding was not dry, and they were hurriedly put on the shelves for the rapid expansion of the sailors, their life expectancy is about twenty years, and now these warships have been in service for twenty-five years, and there are constant problems.

Sending Zheng Zhi away, Zhang Qiang paid attention to the battle situation on the Shaanxi and Gansu sides in the next few days, the two corps were nervous very quickly, and the militia elite brigade in the rear was dispatched quickly, and many militia and garrison troops were organized to enter Shaanxi and Gansu, and while fighting, they received the government rights over there.

(End of chapter)