Xue Juzheng came to admonish, he prepared a belly of words, wanted to talk to Chai Rong, and thought of a lot of excuses to debate with Ye Hua, but when he saw this secret report, he didn't even have the slightest thought.

All that remains is to keep shaking your head, how can this be, how can this be?

Three thousand sailors, hundreds of warships, just can't help fighting?

If Wu Yue was really such a waste, there were soldiers from the Great Zhou sitting on the boat, and when he met the Southern Tang Naval Division, he would not be captured without being tied! It seems that Wu Yue is really not worth cooperating!

"Xue Xianggong, you are in a hurry, what's the matter?" Chai Rong asked in a deep voice.

Xue Juzheng also came quite quickly, "The old minister thinks that since the imperial court is afraid of the Jiangnan Navy, shouldn't it also build a large number of warships and prepare for the Sailors?" ”

"This is natural!"

Chai Rong bowed his head, "Xianggong Xue, how much money can you allocate now to support the water master?" ”

"Your Majesty, the military budget of the imperial court has not been sufficient, the old minister thought about it, and if he scraped together from everywhere, he should be able to come up with a million yuan, but I don't know if it is enough?"

Chai Rong glanced at Ye Hua and asked what he meant.

"Your Majesty, building warships and training sailors are all projects that cost a lot of money, and they are much more expensive than raising cavalry and infantry. If all of it has to be borne by the imperial court, I am afraid that if all the military expenses are taken out, it may not be effective in the short term. ”

"Then how is Ye Qing going to develop a water master?"

Ye Hua said with a smile: "Shui Shi and Shui Kou, one person has two names, if you don't rob it, are you still called a water master?" Ye Hua's bandit logic made Chai Rong and Xue Juzheng dumbfounded, Ye Hua, this kid is really speechless!

"Your Majesty, on the vast sea, if you don't rob me, I will rob you, this is no way. Moreover, if you commit a crime at sea, you will directly destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, and no one will be able to find out. ”

"Gentleman cautious, gentleman cautious!" Xue Juzheng shook his head and said: "The prince of the imperial court, benevolence, righteousness and might, representing the Great Zhou Tianwei, how can he do the thing of robbing the house?" ”

Ye Hua disagreed, and said in his heart that the navy has not been a vegetarian since the day it was born! How about Zheng He's fleet, which claims to preach the power of heaven and spread benevolence? Although the history books record the glorious, cordial and harmonious good deeds, but in the local area, it is said that ten countries were killed by Zheng He.

Of course, these ten countries may not be very big, and perhaps in Zheng He's official document to the imperial court, it was only written that ten village bandits were exterminated, and when the officials who revised the history saw it, they simply ignored it.

But no matter what, the sailor is meant to kill and rob, so there is no need to suspect it!

"Xue Xianggong, the rectification of the forbidden army has been quite effective, General Zhao and General Han are trying their best to ask for war, and they can't go south, what do you think should be done, do you stay in the capital?"

Of course, he couldn't stay in the capital, in fact, Xue Juzheng was worried.

Chai Rong received the military power of each section, gathered the world's elite soldiers, and selected good generals for training, which was a good thing, and he fully supported it. But the problem is that one or two hundred thousand proud soldiers and fierce generals are gathered in the capital, and the training is good, and I can't imagine what these guys will do when they are idle.

The army has always been a bear child with excess energy, and if you don't find something to do for them, you will only cause trouble for your family.

"What is Master Hou's plan?"

"Miao Ce didn't dare to say, I thought that I should send people and horses to take turns to go north to capture slaves and fill the labor gap, otherwise someone will call again."

There are pros and cons to everything, and it is indeed not an empty phrase.

In the case of Juntian, the enthusiasm of the common people for land is unprecedentedly high, and many people have left the city to return to work in the fields.

Not to mention others, there are a lot of temporary workers in the Champions Square, and there are more people running in the mines and cement factories with poor environments. With land farming, who wants to do dirty work and exchange their lives for money?

So now the city of Da Zhou is clean, there are no rogue thieves, and there are no beggars and homeless, but many workshops and workshops are also short of labor.

Faced with this situation, Ye Hua felt that there was nothing to worry about.

The lack of workers can force some bosses to raise wages, otherwise, like the Southern Tang Dynasty, the world is full of idle people, just give a few steamed buns for money, and take people away, then it will be even more troublesome!

However, there are many dirty and heavy jobs that are very damaging to the body, and it is better to let the slaves fill them.

Ye Hua already planned to let the forbidden army go out of the front line of the Great Wall in batches to arrest people and act as laborers. Ye Hua has already set a goal, to capture at least 100,000 people.

Zhao Kuangyin and Han Tong are all gearing up, they really like it too much.

Instead of going to the south of the Yangtze River, it is better to go north, and the vast grassland is the favorite battlefield of the Great Zhou soldiers. And they swept the steppes and harvested abundantly.

War horses can be used directly, cattle are sold to farmers, sheep are used for meat, and most importantly, people!

At present, in Youzhou and other places, several huge slave markets have been formed, and the slaves captured from outside the Seychelles are used as laborers, some of the women are sent to factories, and some are sold to singles in the mainland.

Even children are useful, because the Great Zhou Dynasty completely abolished slaves, the concubines in the family have become mercenary, and the workshops and trading houses are not allowed to use child labor, and the smart merchants can only hit the idea on the foreign slaves.

They buy children, as long as they give them something to eat and train them for a few years, they can help with things, which is very cost-effective.

There are even some noble businessmen, they choose the majestic Khitans, or the Murowei people, as the guards, in order to verify the bravery of these people, there are also people who have specially built a competition venue for them to compete.

Similar situations have long existed in the Tang Dynasty, horseback riding, archery, polo, wrestling, and many tricks. Even in the Song Dynasty, there were women's wrestling competitions, and Zhao Zhen, who was known for his kindness, liked it quite much.

The martial Great Zhou naturally would not be so low-level and interesting, they preferred to give the Khitans all kinds of weapons, such as shields, short swords, machetes, and spears, and let them fight in the field, blood splattered, and roaring fiercely...... Every time a warrior cuts off the head of an opponent, he will get a tidal wave of applause, and the stakes of a game can even reach tens of thousands.

Faced with this situation, Ye Hua only has one sentence: remember to pay taxes!

"It is still very appropriate for the army to go north and clear the frontier." Xue Juzheng certainly agreed.

"Since the forbidden army can arrest people, what about the robbery of the sailors? It's all for Da Zhou, right! Ye Hua said with a smile.

Yes, yes, right?

Xue Juzheng was not as sharp as Ye Hua, so he could only say in a sullen voice: "Anyway, the Privy Council can only squeeze out a million budget, and nothing else can be done." ”

Ye Hua said with a smile: "One million guan is enough, Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this money is enough to build a shipyard, so it is better to put it in Jiaozhou, how about it?" ”

"Yes!" Chai Rong said: "It's not enough to have a boat, what about my sailor?" Where are the horses? ”

Ye Hua said with a smile: "Sailors and crews can be recruited along the coast, but how to fight naval battles, we really don't have talents in this area, so that group of pirates in Jinghai is really an excellent candidate, Your Majesty must fight for it!" ”

This is Ye Hua's strength, no matter how far he goes, he can come back to the topic in the end, and he will never be taken off-topic.

Chai Rong was still skeptical, "Can Shui Kou really use it?" ”

"Your Majesty, why don't you invite Han Xianggong over and let him talk about the power of this group of pirates."

"Han Xizai? Is he clear? ”

"I know, of course the old minister knows, speaking of which, the old minister can return to the Central Plains smoothly, or their big boss will make a righteous move!" Han Xizai smiled and introduced to Chai Rong that the leader of the group of pirates who captured Jinghai was surnamed Ren, and his original name was no longer known...... The spirit is very big!

Han Xizai knows more about it, Ren Tianxing was born as a wealthy businessman, inherited the family business in his early years, has tens of thousands of acres of mulberry fields, and is a famous silk merchant.

Later, in order to glorify his family's business, he was not satisfied with just raising silkworms and reeling silk, he also formed a fleet of five merchant ships to sell silk overseas.

In a few years, Ren Tianxing's family business has increased more than tenfold.

It's just that the tree is big, the money is eye-catching, and the court can't stand it, Wu Yue gathered more than 10,000 people to besiege Ren Tianxing's hometown, wanting to eliminate Ren Tianxing in one fell swoop and snatch his fleet.

Ren Tianxing is not only business, navigation, but also a man, and has his good friends in the yamen and the army. Someone risked his life to reveal the matter to him.

Ren Tianxing made a quick decision, took his family and more than a dozen ships, and set sail to sea.

When he did this, he had already prepared a back route for himself and established a stronghold on the islands off the coast.

His home was raided, but Ren Tianxing had no scruples, he let go to expand the team, increase the number of merchant ships, and he set his sights on the Persian merchant ships that came and went.

As early as the Sui and Tang dynasties, these bearded men crossed the ocean and came to the Central Plains to do business, and in Guangzhou, there were about 100,000 at one time, and they almost became a foreign land.

When Huangchao rebelled, invaded Lingnan, slaughtered 70,000 in one go, and the blood flowed like a river, and finally scared the bearded man away, which was also one of the good things Huangchao did.

In recent decades, there have been Persian merchants who have come by boat, and they are very skilled in seafaring and have endured hardships for a long time.

No one else dared to compete with the Persian maritime merchants, but Ren Tianxing, who led several attacks with his hands, robbed the ships, plundered the wealth, and threw the Persian armed merchants into the sea.

In the past few years, Ren Tianxing's subordinates have gathered nearly 10,000 people, and there are hundreds of ships, and his old nest is in the Zhoushan area, and within his reach, he can even enter the Yangtze River and reach the Jinling line.

Even the Yangtze River Sailors of the Southern Tang Dynasty did not dare to provoke these sea bandits easily!

Ren Tianxing often said that the Central Plains has the Son of Heaven, Jiangnan has an emperor, Wu Yue has a king, but Lao Tzu is an overseas Son of Heaven, you have to fight against them, the things on the ground are yours, but the water has to listen to me!

Listening to Han Xizai's introduction, Ye Hua couldn't help but shake his head, isn't this one piece!

"Han Xianggong, according to the secret report, this time it was because of the Yao family who occupied Jinghai, privately issued a hundred dollars, crazy money, the local people were miserable, I heard that it was a teenager who sailed to sea, and when he met Ren Tianxing, he agreed to send troops to save the people! A total of 5,000 people were dispatched, and Wu Yue's sailors in Jinghai were swept away! ”

Han Xizai grabbed his beard and said happily: "It seems that this person did it, he has courage and strength!" Your Majesty, Lord Hou, if this person can serve the Great Zhou, it will not be difficult to cross the river! ”

https:

Genius one second to remember the address of this site:. Mobile version reading URL: m.