Chapter 8 is no longer a title

Here, Li Zhen had just sent his wife and children off the boat, and he hadn't returned to his seat yet, so Cheng Chuliang couldn't wait to run up: "Oh, my Royal Highness, you can be regarded as back, do you know that my subordinates are waiting for you, but I have pushed several big orders, and as a result, the Yuezhou fleet has robbed them, so that they can pick up the cheapness - I estimate that if we wait any longer, we are about to lose our lives, if you don't come back, the brothers will starve to death." ”

"Why do you want to settle everything on the head of this palace? Are you sure you took the initiative to push a few businesses and not get robbed of a few businesses? I think you can't grab the Yuezhou fleet at all, right? Regarding Cheng Chuliang pouring dirty water on himself, Li Zhen said that I don't carry this pot, and unceremoniously revealed it: "What's more, this palace has only transferred less than one-third of the warships from the Quanzhou fleet this time, and there are at least a hundred warships in your base, so I don't believe that the big order in your mouth needs a whole fleet to escort together...... Hmph, the blackmail has come to the head of this palace, you are simply bold......"

“…… Your Highness, you are too upright, and it is easy for you to lose my friend if you say that. Cheng Chuliang said very shamelessly. In the past few years, other progress has not been obvious, but he has learned the shamelessness of his Lao Tzu ten out of ten, and he is deeply ashamed of the secret of shamelessness - you reason with me, I talk to you about feelings, you talk to me about feelings, I talk to you about the law, you talk to me about the law, I play hooligan with you...... In short, he can always grasp the initiative of words in his hands, and let people follow his rhythm, which is extremely shameless.

However, in these years, he has always been shameless and can eat well, and it is with this shameless momentum that Cheng Chuliang grabbed a lot of business from Liu Renliang's Yuezhou fleet at the beginning, and made a lot of money, which can be described as rich.

But Liu Renliang is obviously not a vegetarian, but he is known as the first person in naval warfare in later generations, and his sense of smell sensitivity for the development of the navy is far beyond Cheng Chuliang, after being robbed of a few orders, he immediately realized his defects, and then carried out an innovation in the escort technology of the navy - even Li Zhen is not clear about how to reform, but the effect is very obvious, after this reform, the efficiency of the fleet escort far exceeds the past, with this efficiency, he is very large customers, What made Cheng Chuliang envy his drooling was also hateful.

However, this kind of innovation belongs to the internal rectification of the fleet, and Liu Renliang used military secrets as a reason to ensure that the innovation technology would not flow out, not to mention that there were still contradictions between the two sides, let alone provide technical support to Cheng Chuliang, which led to Cheng Chuliang not being able to learn even if he wanted to......

Cheng Chuliang, who knew that there was no way to solve it on the right path, began to think of crooked tricks again - he found Li Zhen, and he was splashing and rolling, and all kinds of shameless means were used, wanting Li Zhen to help him put pressure on Liu Renliang. It's a pity that he miscalculated this time, Li Zhen already knew his temperament, and there were more things on weekdays, so he wouldn't care about such trivial things......

So in this case, the gap between the Yuezhou fleet and the Quanzhou fleet gradually widened, and the Quanzhou fleet has had a very hard time recently, after all, it has been robbed of so many big businesses - of course, this kind of bad time is also relative, in fact, they still have money to make, but it is not as fast as the Yuezhou fleet to make money.

Recently, the Yuezhou fleet has made a fortune, and every time it goes to sea, it has not made more than 10,000 taels (although it is said on the surface that soldiers can't do business, but no one will be held accountable for a little private work), and the money can be described as a lot of money - don't think that it is very rare to earn only 10,000 taels on a trip, you must know that the escort is not all in a fleet.

Under normal circumstances, escort only needs to send a few small warships, after all, this is an escort, not a war, and the deterrence is far higher than the combat effectiveness - not to mention that even if it is a small warship of the fourth or fifth level, the combat effectiveness is not something that those pirates can provoke, if you are lucky enough to send small warships out, and the navy sends a main battleship to help escort it, then the ship owner can simply run rampant on the sea, even if it is really when the crab walks sideways, no one will dare to provoke you, even if you really run into the pirate's lair, The pirates will not dare to attack you.

And a fleet alone has more than a hundred battleships, how many merchants can they escort at one time? The specific Li Zhen does not know, but what Li Zhen knows is that the largest number of one-time escort merchant ships in the Lingnan Naval Region was created by the Yuezhou fleet, and their fleet escorted sixteen merchant ships in different directions and destinations at the same time, and they only sent one-third of the warships under their command on that trip, and the shortest escort formation took only seven days, and the longest one only took a month to go back and forth, and the stupid income of this trip exceeded 300,000 taels of silver......

Think about it, how much money should I make in a year?

It is no wonder that even the Household Department and the Military Department are the most worry-free army, unlike the Army, which knows that when they go to the Household Department and the Military Department Yamen, they cry poor and sell miserably......

In short, the Yuezhou fleet has really made a lot of money during this period of time, because the innovation of new escort technology has led them to become rich people, not only their own brains are full of fat, Liu Renliang is like a local tyrant to buy a large number of various new weapons from the arsenal, with the assistance of new equipment, the combat effectiveness of the Yuezhou fleet is getting stronger day by day.

Even Liu Renliang, who made a lot of money and was a little floating, also applied to Li Zhen to order a super battleship from the Yuezhou Shipyard as the flagship of the Yuezhou fleet, and the basic specifications were as follows: four decks, loaded with more than 120 naval guns, with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons and a crew of more than 1,000 people......

If it is really built according to his order, then this battleship will be the most powerful battleship in Datang, not to mention a firepower salvo, even if it is rammed, it can smash ordinary battleships to pieces. And with this battleship, the entire Yuezhou fleet will also completely distance itself from the rest of the fleet, becoming the first fleet of Datang worthy of the name.

It's a pity that this plan was killed by Li Zhen, because there is no need for this, or the appearance of this battleship is too advanced, such a battleship will definitely be needed in the future, but the power will no longer be a sail, but a steam battleship equipped with a steam engine - after all, the greater the tonnage, the slower the speed of the warship, even if the general sail can bring it up, the speed is definitely not high, only the steam engine is the future of the battleship.

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