After Huang Taiji led the army to retreat to Liaodong, it took two months to reward and punish the aftermath, and quickly stabilized the already precarious situation in Houjin.

Then, in front of the children of the Eight Banners, Huang Taiji staged a drama of self-punishment and self-punishment in front of the Eight Banners, while thinking and planning how to restore the national strength and national strength of the Jurchens in the future, how to kill Dongjiang Town entrenched on the side of the couch, and then how to conquer Korea again, and even one day, to conquer the Ming Kingdom.

Huang Taiji lost this game and lost a large number of elite people, but he was sincerely unconvinced.

In his opinion, the Ming relied too much on firearms, too much on the fortified city, and as for the people and horses, they were not as elite as his Eight Banners disciples, as long as he had the cannon to attack and break the city, one day he would go south to the Ming Dynasty again, and it would not be a problem to win.

However, when the heavy artillery in Huangtaiji's heart had not yet been drawn, the large warship that Emperor Chongzhen had been thinking about for a long time on the side of the Ming Dynasty finally started construction in the huge dock of the Dagukou Shipyard in Tianjin Prefecture.

The biggest difference between this Chongzhen Emperor and his previous life is that he is not so short of money in his hands.

Especially after copying a large number of traitor businessmen represented by the Fan Yongdou family this time, Emperor Chongzhen had a lot of silver in his hands.

With such a large sum of silver, Emperor Chongzhen certainly would not learn from the misers, and let them lie in the silver vault or cellar and continue to sleep.

Seventy percent of them, Emperor Chongzhen deposited them in the Huangming Jingshi Bank.

In addition to the head office of Jingshi, there are also the nearest Taiyuan branches, as well as the new branches of Datong, Xi'an, Luoyang, Guihua, Dongsheng, Rehe and Tianjin opened by the World Bank in the past six months.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was the major shareholder of the Huangming Jingshi Bank, he did not have to worry about everything.

Because in addition to Emperor Chongzhen, Hubu is the second largest shareholder of Jingshi Bank, and Dingguo Gongfu is the third largest shareholder of Jingshi Bank.

In addition, Empress Yi'an's maiden family, Empress Zhou's maiden family, Concubine Tian's maiden family, as well as Gong Yonggu, the commander of Jinyiwei, and Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch of Dongchang, etc., are all shareholders of this Jingshi Bank.

Not to mention the board of directors of the Huangming Jingshi Bank, which was carefully selected by these shareholders, not a single shareholder of all sizes is a good stubble who is easy to fool.

Especially on the issue of money, on the issue of profit dividends, if anyone wants to fool any of them, they are asking for trouble for themselves.

Moreover, in addition to the ministers and officials sent by the emperor to the household department on a regular basis, as well as the board of directors composed of people sent by major shareholders, the entire Jingshi Bank, including the head office of the Beijing Division and its branches in various places, there are also large and small shareholders such as Gong Yonggu, Fang Zhenghua, and Xu Yunzhen, the Duke of Dingguo, who are openly or covertly inserted into the bank.

Whether it is Jinyiwei or Dongchang, of course, they will not miss the opportunity to recruit informants in the branches of the World Bank.

In such a situation of mutual restraint, now the Chongzhen Emperor is very relieved about the Jingshi Bank.

With the branch of the Jingshi Bank in the north of the Ming Dynasty near the nine borders, as well as the large and small silver numbers under the branches, from now on, whether it is the imperial court or the emperor, the military salary and silver yuan issued to the soldiers in the border towns, there is no need to pass through the hands of the household department, the military department and some branches of the two departments in the nine sides, as well as the generals of the border towns.

And the fewer people who are specifically handled, the fewer links, and the military salaries issued by the court or the emperor to the soldiers of the nine sides will not be deducted excessively.

Except for seventy percent of the huge wealth confiscated from the fourteen Jin merchant families, it was deposited in the head office of the World Bank and branches in the north as the emperor and the imperial court in the future to transfer and pay military salaries, land reclamation, silver yuan exchange, and remote access and other purposes, and a considerable part of the rest was invested in various industries by Emperor Chongzhen.

The major industries in Gyeonggi controlled or owned by Baohe Company, the Nanyang Company, the Four Hengs distributed along the nine sides, and the Imperial Dongying Trading Company set up by Emperor Chongzhen under the orders of his ministers Zhang Guoyuan and Wang Dehua, as well as Yuan Shu of Jinyi Wei Dongjiang Thousand Households and Thousand Households, all received a large amount of investment from Emperor Chongzhen this time.

Although the Royal Toei Trading Company was located on Phi Island, its trading object was not aimed at Korea, which was regarded as forbidden by the Marquis of Anton, Mao Wenlong, and Mao Dashuai, but Nagasaki, Japan, across the sea from Korea.

The same as the Royal Dongying Trading Company, which received a large amount of gold and silver investment from Emperor Chongzhen, was also located in the Dagukou Shipyard in Tianjin.

Without money, it is difficult to move an inch, such as recruiting real skilled craftsmen, buying good timber suitable for seagoing ships, and clothing, food, housing and transportation for a large number of shipbuilders, and so on.

Each of these requires a lot of investment, and it is difficult to do anything without money.

But with money, there is a way to solve even the biggest difficulties.

From the second year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen listened to Shen Tingyang's suggestion to engage in shipping and even the navy, and decided to build a shipyard first, and after building large sea ships first, he allocated Shen Tingyang one million Chongzhen silver yuan to let him do this.

By May of the third year of Chongzhen, almost a year had passed, and the sea ships built by Tianjin Shipyard had not yet been seen, but the money had already been spent, and there was not much left.

If it had been left in the past and cost the imperial court millions of silver taels, but nothing had been achieved, I am afraid that the head would have fallen to the ground long ago.

However, for Shen Tingyang, the current Emperor Chongzhen has complete trust, so the emperor ignores the impeachment of various officials in the court.

Originally, at the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, one of the major drawbacks in court affairs was that the emperor and ministers were impatient.

Often, a policy has just been formulated, but it has not been implemented for a long time, and it has to be abolished immediately if it does not see results.

Those who implement this policy will be pushed out to take responsibility for the decisions they made in the first place, either by being removed from office or by falling to the ground.

This situation is also what the Chongzhen Emperor needs to try to avoid.

What's more, Shen Tingyang's various ideas have been reported to him, and they have also been approved by him, such as crossing the ocean to Batavia to buy the Dutch's ocean-going plywood ship, and for example, after "spending a huge amount of money" to bring the "Galion" back, another ship board was dismantled one by one.

All these circumstances that led to Shen Tingyang's impeachment by the court's officials were approved and agreed by Emperor Chongzhen, and Emperor Chongzhen naturally could not deal with him for this matter.

However, although Emperor Chongzhen trusted him very much according to Shen Tingyang's performance in history, he was also worried that he believed the wrong person, and seeing that time passed day by day, now even the Navy Governor's Mansion was set up, and the naval warships he wanted had not been built, so he was of course very anxious.

Without a large number of new naval warships, the newly established naval governor's office would have been a joke, and the old sailors of the Ming Dynasty could not only sail along the coast, but also bully the Jurchens who did not have a fleet of sailors.

As for the rest, not to mention dealing with the Dutch and Spaniards at sea, it is difficult to go to Luzon, Ryukyu, and Japan, and it is difficult to say whether you can return safely after you go.

Although Emperor Chongzhen was in a hurry, he also knew that he had no other way than to continue to increase investment.

However, his increased investment did quickly pay off.

The group of Dutch East India Company shipwrights and sailors who followed the Galion from Batavia to Daming, lured by Shen Tingyang's high salary, chose to stay in Tianjin and choose to be employed by the Dagukou shipyard.

At the same time, the Dutch missionary Van Derliet, who had become friends with Shen Tingyang, was also attracted by the high salaries of the Dagukou Shipyard when he stopped in Hojing O and went to Rebarya, and finally came here with some Xiyi craftsmen recruited by himself.