None of this news is secret.

Shen Yue felt that this was normal.

It's not that Zheng Zhilong lacks ships to the extent that he wants any ship, or that he has so much silver that he doesn't care about hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, Zheng Zhilong's price can be said to be very low.

A Hongyi cannon costs about 2,500 taels of silver, and six cannons are 15,000 taels. Counting the Furlong guns and guns, the price of the ship is almost negligible.

What Zheng Zhilong lacks is not a ship, but a cannon.

According to the standard equipment of the imperial court, the Fu ships are equipped with two Hongyi cannons, and the five-masted gunboats that imitate the Dutch warships seem to have not heard of them, and even if they do, they are only in Guangdong and Fujian. It was only equipped with 8 Hongyi cannons and 40 Furlong cannons. The Centipede boat, which imitated the Portuguese multi-oared boat, was not equipped with Hongyi cannons.

Zheng Zhilong asked each Dinghaiwei to be equipped with six Hongyi cannons beyond the standard, apparently for the sake of these cannons.

"So, that old guy Qian Longxi lied to us?" Shen Yue asked Yang Shan, and he was also asking himself.

"My lord, this matter is not a lie to us, according to the conditions proposed by Lord Qian Longxi, it is actually beneficial to both of us, 5,000 taels of silver per ship, if it is equipped with cannons, the price of each ship is not low...... Yang Shan said.

In his opinion, one Hongyi cannon at the end and one at the end is already very fierce.

"After watching the Fran robot fight, do you think two Hongyi cannons are enough?" Shen Yue asked, "The Hongyi cannon is difficult to manufacture and costly, if according to their ship configuration, a ship is equipped with thirty or forty guns, how much silver does this cost?" ”

Yang Shan was dumbfounded.

According to this, just with Hongyi cannons on a ship, it will cost 100,000 taels of silver!

"Sure enough, battleships are the most expensive at all times!" Shen Yue was a little annoyed.

When I lost more than 100,000 taels of silver, I felt that I had no place to spend my money......

"My lord, the Hongyi cannon is indeed powerful, but it doesn't need so much at all! Franc cannon, one cost eight hundred taels ......" Yang Shan felt that Shen Yue's idea was unacceptable. "Zheng Zhilong's ship is not equipped like that!"

"Therefore, Zheng Zhilong's so many ships can't beat a Fran machine ship." Shen Yue sighed.

Shen Yue suddenly felt that he couldn't eat twenty ships.

"The ship of the Francophiles, once surrounded, will not be able to run and pull. If the Zheng clan had brought fire dragon boats, red dragon boats, chain boats, etc., they wouldn't be able to run away at all......" Yang Shan reminded Shen Yue.

The Ming warships have a clear division of labor, and the uses of each ship are different.

The different ways of fighting will naturally give the other side a chance.

Shen Yue glanced at Yang Shan helplessly, his own ambition was not understood by the little house sparrow.

Can you carry so many small boats with you?

But I'm thinking too far.

We have to deal with the dilemma at hand.

The problem of artillery must be solved first, and he is unwilling to make artillery by himself, just because the conditions of Daming are too poor.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Shen Yue returned to Dinghaiwei to command the yamen and negotiated with Qian Longxi on the price issue, he agreed to Qian Longxi's conditions, and at the same time, he also proposed that Qian Longxi must help him cast cannons, Hongyi cannons, and he only bid 2,000 taels for each one, and the Fulong machine gun, 600 taels for one door. It's not that Shen Yue picks, but that the work enthusiasm of the military craftsmen is not high, and the scrap rate is too outrageous.

In advance, he was provided with 10 Hongyi cannons and 30 Fran cannons.

In addition, the warship needed to be modified according to Shen Yue's requirements.

The people of Dinghaiwei must also be selected by Shen Yue's people, as for how to select, when the selection is made, the establishment belongs to Dinghaiwei, and the money, food, and military salaries are paid by Shen Yue, and they are also commanded by Shen Yue.

Qian Longxi agreed after some bargaining.

The two men negotiated, which lasted from morning to evening, and finally reached an agreement.

Without signing any agreement, Shen Yue gave the first batch of 20,000 taels of silver for the start-up capital for casting cannons and renovating ships, and then paid the silver while receiving the ships and cannons.

Qian Longxi didn't care too much.

Shen Yue did not stay too much on Zhoushan Island, and returned to Longshan overnight.

"So much?" On the second day, Shen Yue arrived at Xu's house, and when Xu Yaozong heard that Shen Yue had made twenty thousand boats from Dinghaiwei, he couldn't help jumping up, "I spent five thousand taels of silver, and Sun Buren gave me ten big boats." Personnel and guns, there are none! ”

"Brought back?" Shen Yue was also surprised.

Sun Buren actually gave ten thousand warships again, so Sun Tzu is not ready to live?

"Anyway, it's all under his banner, and I'm worried about where we can find so many shipwrights and soldiers! We can't let all our soldiers get on board! Xu Yaozong frowned.

At first, Shen Yue only thought about how to build a ship, only the quantity.

The problem is that they have only one thousand households and two total people, and the establishment is just over 2,000.

A ship with thousands of materials, including shipwrights and soldiers, has more than 100 people, and 35 ships, which has more than 4,000 people.

"My lord, how about we go to the north to recruit displaced people?" Shen Yue asked bitterly in his heart.

"It takes a long time for homeless people to train before they can fight! Besides, how to place it when recruited? It's all dragged with the family. Xu Yaozong said distressedly, and then threw the question to Shen Yue, "This is what you kid wants, you can handle the matter yourself!" ”

"I'll think about it again......" Shen Yue also had a headache.

When I started running out of boats, I wanted more boats.

Now that there are more ships, he is worried about the lack of manpower and even more silver.

Shen Yue was very irritable, these difficulties were not easy to solve, and he didn't have much time.

"It seems that you can really only learn from the British, on the warship, it can be used for naval warfare and transportation, and you can't continue to use the Ming and the Spaniards in this way with melee infantry......"

The Ming warship, the shipwright and the combat personnel have a clear division of labor, and the combat soldiers are only responsible for fighting, not long-range firepower, which makes the power of the warship limited to a very small range, and almost all of them have to fight at close range.

The Spaniards were strong enough to fire, and they were also equipped with a large number of melee troops for the engagement of the ships. At the same time, the infantry on board in the newly developed colony can be used for colonial development, etc.

It's a bit like the Marines on a battleship, except that there are a lot of Marines.

The British did not match the infantry on the ships, and the space on the ships gave way to long-range firepower.

Shen Yue was entangled, this required a powerful warship for ocean-going warfare.

The situation in the Ming Dynasty is different from that in Europe, where hundreds or thousands of people participated in the war, which was a big war.

Look at Zheng Zhilong, thousands of warships under his command!

Young Master Shen even regretted why he didn't do more research on military equipment on the Internet in the first place......

According to the firepower of European battleships, one gets 100,000 taels of silver, and with this amount of silver, he can also equip two, two, what can he do?

The two ships were submerged by Zheng Zhilong's ship in a few minutes, and the Atlantic Ocean was too far for him to grab the gold ships from Spain and Portugal.

"By the way, when will that kid from the Zhao family come back?" Thinking of robbing the silver, Young Master Shen had a flash of inspiration and had an idea, "Aren't the Spaniards too human?" When the time comes, let them stay for themselves as mercenaries and rob the fleet of the Zhao family's return voyage! ”