The arrival of the big ship made Zhao Xin have more ideas, he knew that in the Dinghai Navy, there was no special recruitment of personnel belonging to the sea, so he walked up and briefly asked the personnel in charge of the fleet.

Soon, a man dressed in the costume of a military attache in the Northern Song Dynasty ran over quickly, not in full armor, but it looked a little heroic.

This officer is the officer in charge of the entire fleet, and he came temporarily, and Zhou Zhi, an eight-rank military attache belonging to the Haizhou patrol battalion, has been working on the fleet, and now, for the time being, he is helping to set up the navy and form a naval army.

30 big ships, even if it is the Huainan East Road, it is not easy to get together, after coming to the Dinghai Navy, there is no work at first, and several temporary missions, mainly between the Dinghai Navy and Haizhou, responsible for sending the victims to the Dinghai Navy.

At present, there are almost 250,000 people concentrated on this small island of the Dinghai Navy, and they are all slowly concentrated through this fleet, and they play a great role when the personnel are dense.

But now, with the gradual reduction of the number of victims, the previous agreement with Huainan East Road may be more than 300,000 people, but the disaster is reduced, not everyone is willing to stay away from home, plus the vicinity of Hongze Lake, as well as Haizhou, has also resettled almost tens of thousands of people, 250,000 is already the limit.

When the victims are not coming, the big ships are useless, and now, it is more about carrying out sea transportation.

Dinghai has money, to be precise, Zhao Xin has money, through the blacksmith workshop, he has earned nearly 10 million yuan, and there is no shortage of money and grain, but Huainan East Road has just been hit by a disaster, and there must be problems with the purchase of grain.

At the beginning, because there was no mention from Zhao Xin, they were nearby and bought in Haizhou, but a large number of personnel were concentrated, and the Dinghai Navy had money, and the price of grain in Haizhou began to rise.

At the beginning, the increase of one or two percent did not alarm the upper echelons, but at this time, the price of grain rose almost doubled, which suddenly made Haizhou miserable, and even alarmed Haizhou's officials.

After some investigation, I knew that it was the Dinghai Navy's doing, so I didn't do anything, but through official channels, I informed this side.

At this time, Ding Haijun knew about this result, and they were not qualified to deal with it, so they quickly notified Zhao Xin.

After Zhao Xin found out, his thought at that time was that if something was not notified, there would be a problem, and there would be more food than Jiangnan, so go to Jiangnan to buy it.

In this way, the procurement of grain for the navy was shifted from Haizhou to Jiangnan, and by the way, a batch of grain was also purchased to stabilize the grain price in Haizhou.

Because of the establishment of the Ding Navy, the food crisis caused by the emergence of sea ships has solved this problem, and this huge fleet has been solved.

30 large and small ships, the largest ship with 3,000 materials, a total of more than 75,000 materials, one-time, can transport 75,000 stone of grain, which is a huge number.

It is not very far from the grain production area in the south of the Yangtze River, even if it takes more than half a month at a time, but a simple stone of grain can be reduced by 30%, and a lot of money can be saved.

The total amount of grain in the south of the Yangtze River does not exist, just like the Dingjun, casual purchases will rise, not to mention 250,000 people, even if it is 2.5 million people, it is impossible, there is the granary of the entire Northern Song Dynasty.

After most of the victims were sent to the Dinghai Navy, Zhou Zhi left 4 medium-sized Fu boats for traveling between Haizhou and the Dinghai Navy, and the rest were put into the grain purchase and transportation, no, 2 days ago, a new batch of grain was transported to the Dinghai Navy and was being unloaded, and after three or four days, it would start again.

In the vicinity of the big ship, there is also a large amount of manpower, which is being carried on the big ship, and the loaded grain is sent into the granary.

The fleet was responsible for transporting grain, Zhao Xin was very satisfied, this was a little different from his plan, but he trained sailors in advance, he did not intervene in these, but just told Zhou Zhi that he was ready to expand the scale and recruit a group of sailors from his channel.

When Zhou Zhi asked about the scale, Zhao Xin just said lightly, the more the merrier, the first batch of sea ships, more than 3,000 materials, is the scale of one hundred.

100 scale sea vessels, Zhou Zhi was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that Zhao Xin's handwriting would be so big, Dinghai, a level of the same level as the Huainan East Road transfer envoy, there must be channels, he still has some connections in the navy, waste some effort, contact some robes, there are still not many problems.

After coming to the Dinghai Navy, his rank is actually rising, originally in the navy, he is responsible for logistics and transportation, in charge of only two sea ships of about 800 materials, now it has been improved by 15 times, this is already a very high salary, in the future, with the expansion of the Dinghai Navy, it may reach 130 ships, which has never been expected.

But what Zhou Zhi didn't expect was that this was just the beginning, 3,000 materials, or even 5,000 materials, this was just a large ship in the sense of the Great Song Dynasty, converted into tons, it was less than a thousand tons, the sea was boundless, and the huge area and deputy manager were enough to accommodate the terrible warship.

Maybe now, Zhao Xin can't make a giant ship of more than 100,000 tons, but three or five thousand tons, or even a future ironclad ship, is not impossible.

The navy, from the very beginning, is the focus of the navy, and only in the ocean can Dinghaijin plug in its wings and achieve tremendous development.

The Northern Song Dynasty had a naval army, but it was never the focus, most of them were coastal patrols, and even many shore ports did not have this patrol.

In the entire Northern Song Dynasty, there were not many people begging for a living on the ocean, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was another circle.

Through Zhou Zhi, just recruit some basic personnel, and in the future expansion of the navy, the eyes will also be set on recruiting a large number of experienced personnel on ships in the entire canal water system.

The Northern Song Dynasty of China is one of the most developed dynasties in river transportation, relying on shipping related personnel all year round, up to millions, among them, recruiting a certain number of personnel, these are enough to open the entire era of shipping.

These are put aside, the shipbuilding industry is also one of the key aspects of the future development, but now, the focus of the entire shipbuilding industry is placed in the Yangtze River Basin, where is the focus.

If you want to go to the ocean, you must enter the shipbuilding industry, with the card system, and the foundation of steel, to improve the shipbuilding industry, this is a certainty, the two can be built, than the current sea ships, twice as much, or even more large ships, it is only a matter of time, but now the development of the navy is a thousand things, it takes time, and everything is not in a hurry.