Mr. Yan seems to have understood.

This time it seems that Da Chen suffered a loss, but because he took the lead in establishing the Chamber of Commerce, it greatly enhanced the industrial and commercial system of Jibei, and at the same time, took this opportunity to break the borders between countries and promote the silver ticket, so on, it seems that Chen Kaizhi made a profit, but in fact, the upstream and downstream of the Chamber of Commerce are all controlled by Chen Kaizhi, as long as the Chamber of Commerce fattened the shipbuilding bureau, if you don't buy the shipbuilding bureau's ship, then the chamber of commerce will have no ships available, once they trade, by the way, the silver ticket of Jibei Qianzhuang will be promoted, Then, the trade of all countries in the world and even overseas people has to be settled with silver bills, and how much benefit is there in this?

Moreover, the Chamber of Commerce will recruit a large number of people from various countries, and Jibei has everything in the world here, and the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce must be located here, and a super chamber of commerce with hundreds of thousands or even millions of employees will bring to Jibei?

After thinking about this, everything suddenly became clear, and Mr. Yan smiled slightly: "No wonder since I came to Jibei, when chatting with that Yang Gong, that Yang openly closed his mouth and kept his eyes to see far, and said that this Jibei is a thousand years of business, and the old minister is sometimes confused, but now after listening to His Majesty's words, I finally understand." ”

Chen Kaizhi said with a smile: "Having said that, if you can't cut off the Yang family, everything will be empty, in essence, I unite the power of the four countries, is to declare war on the Yang family, and then over time, sweep away Xiliang and Shu, as for the other countries, they are tied to me, but sooner or later, they can also be slowly eroded, in this world, there are countless treasures, there are mountains of wealth, there are vast lands, instead of trying to compete with the countries, why not look farther?" ”

Mr. Yan brushed his beard and bowed: "What Your Majesty said is very true. ”

Chen Kaizhi frowned: "The only thing I'm worried about now is Yang Zhengqi who is in Jibei, but I don't know about this person...... How's that. ”

As for the formulation of the detailed rules, after countless days and nights of negotiation, the dust has finally settled.

Immediately afterwards, the Chamber of Commerce was established, and at the same time, various countries have issued decrees, the government is only for the country, the post of the country, in the countries have been eliminated, and now rekindled, its authority, but no less than the cabinet scholars, the head of the Chamber of Commerce with the seal of the four countries, will have the power to control the local states and counties of the four countries, and have the right to make the relevant state capitals of various places to cooperate, and can even appoint the relevant officials of the Chamber of Commerce, and have the privilege of directly playing the emperors of various countries.

As for the Chamber of Commerce, it has a certain military power, such as recruiting sailors, establishing water villages, and training sailors, but in order to prevent the joint sailors from making trouble, it is also forbidden to them.

Fang Wucai seems to have agreed quite happily, this legendary gentleman, and now he has changed, his status is no longer comparable to scholars from all countries, after that, the Chamber of Commerce began to recruit talents on a large scale, in the streets and alleys of Jibei, there are recruitment orders everywhere, not only that, but also in Beiyan and Chu Yue and other countries, it is also a large-scale recruitment.

After all, there are enough funds of 45 million taels of silver, which is enough to squander.

And then, it's time to supervise the construction of merchant ships and warships, but ...... If you want to build a ship, it is not easy, except for the purchase of some ordinary sea ships from Vietnam for training, there are almost no sea ships that can really go to sea.

Instead, it was at the shipbuilding bureau, and I soon came to the door.

The shipbuilding bureau in the development of ironclad ships, now has some clues, they have used small-scale models for countless tests and improvements, has a prototype of the future ironclad ship, naturally, at this time ironclad ships, it is impossible to really do all steel, more, but like the splicing of ship wood and steel, but even so, but because it is too heavy, so it has to use steam power, the steam engine has already appeared, and the steam engine for ships, in fact, the technical difficulty is not high, after all, it is marine, In addition, the oars and blades connected to the steam engine need to be repeatedly demonstrated, and because they have power and are ironclads, they can also be strengthened in the configuration of artillery.

In the gunpowder workshop in Jibei, it is said that a new gunpowder is being developed, which is different from black gunpowder and is said to be more powerful.

Shipbuilding is a multi-party collaborative project, involving metallurgy, gunpowder, machinery, power countless technical problems, under the shipbuilding bureau, under the dozens of departments, separate cooperation, and then after experiments again and again, in order to demonstrate, countless plans have been changed and changed, finally, there is a conclusion.

On the one hand, the cost of this ironclad ship is very expensive, and the shipbuilding bureau's quotation is 940,000 taels of silver, which is enough to make people staggering, and on the other hand, what this battleship will look like, only God knows, because ...... Mr. Fang made the decision after Chen Kaizhi, the shipbuilding bureau and personnel from various countries observed a model ship that was only the size of a canopy boat.

This model is a scaled-down demonstration experimental type ironclad ship, with a large chimney sticking out of the ship, which is said to be used for use with a steam engine, in addition, there is a coal burning room, an artillery room, a crew room, a bottom room, a command room, an arsenal and a fuel room, etc., in short, everyone stood on the dock, looking at the sea. After all, the shipbuilding bureau can not build a miniature version of the steam engine, the smaller, the higher the requirements for technology and materials and skills, for the time being, it is difficult to make a breakthrough, so in order to make the people on the shore understand more intuitively, the ship can walk by burning coal, the steel model is led by a rope, and then in front, it is a capsized boat to drag it forward.

Fang Wucai's face darkened, he couldn't help but glance at Chen Kaizhi who came with him, and couldn't help but whisper: "Your Majesty, just like that, I want the old man to place an order for the Shipbuilding Bureau, take out millions of taels of silver, and build several ironclad ships at the same time?" ”

The silver has entered the Chamber of Commerce, and the countries have no right to interfere with the Chamber of Commerce, they are only responsible for sitting on the ground and distributing dividends, of course, if there is a major event, the shareholders of the countries will negotiate, and the power of this procurement will naturally fall into the hands of Fang Wucai, and he looked at the sea that was dragged abruptly. The ironclad ship's model, there is a feeling of beating the chest and falling down, even if it is a play, everyone has discussed it in private, but it is good, it has to be like this, this ship model, it looks fresh, and looks at the weight, it is really ironclad, the only point is that the ship is not sinking, and you can still vaguely see the gun hatches all over the hull, but ...... It's just going to go for you?

Chen Kaizhi said in a low voice: "Uncle Shi, please rest assured, I dare to use my head as a guarantee......"

Fang Wucai sighed and shook his head: "Forget it, don't use it as a guarantee, it's right for our uncle and nephew to join forces to get the silver, use the Shipbuilding Bureau, and empty the silver of this chamber of commerce." Anyway...... It's not the first time the old man has done this, next time, even if he wants to make an appearance, he has to do it better, Uncle Shi is also a person with a head and a face, if he doesn't even cheat seriously, someone will poke his backbone. ”

Chen Kaizhi was embarrassed, and wanted to explain that if this ship was really built, it would definitely have unexpected effects, but after thinking about it, it seemed that it was useless to explain, so he said: "How many ships does the Chamber of Commerce plan to order." ”

Fang Wucai was silent for a moment: "How about six?" ”

"I see, ten is enough, I try my best to get the shipbuilding bureau to rush to build two first, as training ships, for the joint sailors to practice, as for the rest, as soon as possible."

"This is more than nine million taels of silver, as soon as the old man took office, the money and grain in the Chamber of Commerce were folded so much, no wonder I am embarrassed." Fang Wu stroked his beard, shook his head, and sighed with emotion: "Let's go, ten warships, that's it." ”

"And what about merchant ships?" Chen Kaizhi continued: "The shipbuilding bureau here has come up with a plan to arm merchant ships, this kind of ship, not covered with iron armor, so the cost is much cheaper, the biggest advantage is the draft, large scale, sail power, enough to cope with the wind and waves in the sea, this is I personally presided over the design, specially made for trade needs, a ship, only 200,000 taels of silver, is enough." ”

Fang Wucai squinted: "To be honest, how much benefit can Your Majesty get from it?" ”

"What do you mean?" Chen Kaizhi raised his face: "Uncle Shi doesn't know that in order to develop these ships, the Shipbuilding Bureau has suffered a huge deficit so far, even if it is selling ships at this price now, it will not be able to make ends meet, barely keeping the capital, and there is no plan to make a profit at all, unless it continues to manufacture in large quantities and share the cost of research and development, it is gradually possible to make a profit, Uncle Shi...... I am telling the truth, and I am not deceiving. ”

Fang Wucai only glanced at Chen Kai coldly, as if he had seen through Chen Kaizhi's heart at a glance, and said lightly: "Don't worry about you, this merchant ship, how many you want, launch one, the Chamber of Commerce will settle the settlement, the old man is old, what hope is there in this life, the age of enjoying Qingfu, but he was pulled to worry about these things, not for his beloved nephew, nephew...... No, Your Majesty, you have to inherit Uncle Shi's love, Uncle Shi's second half of his life, as well as the things after his death, are all up to you. ”

Chen Kaizhi was embarrassed, but he knew that he couldn't explain it, so he simply didn't explain: "That is the case, then...... I ordered the shipbuilding bureau to rush to work, everything was difficult at the beginning, and soon, everything went smoothly. ”

Fang Wucai nodded, he frowned: "Actually, the old man is not worried about the Chamber of Commerce now, but is worried about Deng Jianxian's nephew, but I don't know how he is now, I hope he is safe, after all, as the old man said, the old man is old, and the second half of his life cannot be all bet on a nephew, speaking of which, although the old man is the descendant of the old man, but so far, the old man has not touched his light and taken advantage of him, what a pity." ”