Chapter 6 Yulin New Army, Dengzhou Navy Division (2)
Hearing Yuan Keli's words, Zhu Jian was busy helping Yuan Keli on the side up, but he said. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"If Aiqing is still like this, I am ashamed, and I hope Aiqing will not have such thoughts again."
"It's the old minister who is confused."
After the two of them had a shabby, Zhu Jian changed his words.
"Yuan Qing's family, I have heard about Dengzhou's coastal defense and Dongjiang defense, but you have unique opinions, I want to hear what good words the Qing family has?"
In fact, Zhu Jian appointed Yuan Keli to supervise Denglai and supervise the Dongjiang River, in addition to controlling Liu Xingzuo and Chen Jisheng, there should be another point, that is, Zhu Jian heard that Yuan Keli had unique views on coastal defense policies.
But he said that after hearing what Zhu Jian said, after pondering for a while, Yuan Keli was the way.
"Your Majesty, although the minister has some opinions on the strategy of coastal defense, but the empire has long prioritized the land defense line, and the minister is worried."
Speaking of this, Yuan Keli wanted to speak and stopped.
But it made Zhu Jian a little confused.
"Yuan Qingjia, what concerns do you have in your heart, but it doesn't hurt to say it, I can make decisions for you here!"
Hearing Zhu Jian's words, Yuan Keli no longer covered it up.
"Your Majesty and listen to the ministers, I think Your Majesty must have heard that my Ming Dynasty has always been the Jin-Ning defense line as the first priority, whether it is the imperial Jiliao Governor, or the Manchu Dynasty civil and military that has always attached importance to the mountain-Ning-Jin defense line, and despised the Dongjiang line, Your Majesty asked the minister about the coastal defense plan, but the minister was worried that the Manchu Dynasty civil and military were dissatisfied."
Regarding what Yuan Keli said, Zhu Jian understood.
Everything is nothing more than the word 'interests', the Ming Empire has always attached importance to the Jin-Ning defense line, which naturally has more resources invested in the Jin-Ning line, and now when it comes to coastal defense, it is bound to reduce the investment in the Jin-Ning defense line, so Yuan Keli is worried that the cheese of the Jin-Ning defense line will inevitably cause a crowd to attack!
"Is the Yuan Qing family worried about Yuan Chonghuan and Yuan Supervisor?"
"The old minister doesn't dare, the loyal and righteous marquis is brave and loyal, for my talent as a pillar of the Ming Dynasty, how dare the old minister blame Yuan Inspector."
"But I heard that Inspector Yuan has always taken the mountain-Ning-Jin defense line as the first priority, but he despised the defense of the Dongjiang River, not long ago, just because Mao Wenlong was too unruly, Inspector Yuan killed him, I thought that the death of Mao Wenlong was small, but it was the destruction of the Great Wall on the sea that the Qing family had painstakingly operated for many years, could it be that I used Aiqing again, but Aiqing is really not worried, this kind of thing will happen again?"
Looking at the old minister Yuan Keli on the side, Zhu Jian said with some meaning.
"This."
In the face of the emperor's sudden words, Yuan Keli was a little speechless for a while.
Seeing this, Zhu Jian said with a smile.
"Here I and you two, Aiqing don't worry."
"Your Majesty, the old minister is ashamed!"
"Oh, why did Aiqing say that?"
Hearing Yuan Keli's words, Zhu Jian pretended to be surprised.
"A minister is guilty of deceiving the king."
"Where's that?"
"The minister was only to test His Majesty before, which is really a great disobedient crime!"
"Now it seems that Aiqing thinks so?"
Regarding this, Zhu Jian said with a smile.
"When Your Majesty took Sun Taibao as the prime minister, the old minister should have thought that now the old minister and His Majesty have few words, but the old minister understands His Majesty's intentions, and His Majesty is relieved, since the old minister is ordered to patrol Denglai, he will definitely live up to His Majesty's trust!"
At this moment, Yuan Keli's face was solemn and he arched his hand, but he wanted to kneel down and salute.
"Aiqing, don't be like this, I just want to hear the opinion of the Qing family, and I don't mean to blame Aiqing."
helped Yuan Keli up, but Zhu Jian said in a deep voice.
However, he said that although Zhu Jian's inquiry about coastal defense was a little turbulent, Yuan Keli came up with a complete set of established plans for this coastal defense idea.
And its purpose is to rely on Huangcheng Island and Lushun as the base point, expand the land to the east and north to build hundreds of kilometers of the city, recruit and resettle the fleeing refugees, and garrison the islands, step by step to advance the maritime defense, so that the Houjin will curl up on the spot and have no way to peep to the west!
In addition, there is another important point about the coastal defense strategy, that is, to strengthen the control of Korea, that is, because only Korea is under the Ming Empire, the entire Dongjiang River can ensure that it is not exposed to the enemy, and Yiju and other places can ensure the supply of grain and grass for the army stationed on Phi Dao!
However, the key to coastal defense is the need for a strong maritime force.
The Dengzhou Navy Division was built by Yuan Keli, with extraordinary combat power, and Yuan Keli's training was based on Qi Jiguang's 'Navy first learned the method of land warfare', creating a powerful 'Marine Corps'!
It's just that Yuan Keli has resigned for more than four years, but today's Dengzhou Navy Division is no longer the grand occasion of the year, so for Zhu Jian, while appointing Yuan Keli as governor of Denglai, he hopes that Yuan Keli can train a mighty naval division for the empire to gallop on the Yellow Sea!
"Yuan Aiqing, if I want you to restore the grand occasion of the Dengzhou Sea Master within half a year, can the Qing family be sure?"
Yuan Keli was naturally very willing for the emperor to let him supervise the construction of a sea division, but if he wanted to build a great wall on the sea that could be used to fight well, the demand for silver taels was indispensable.
Therefore, Yuan Keli is the Tao.
"Your Majesty, it is by no means difficult to train troops, but it is a huge expense to build new warships, buy artillery, and recruit sailors."
For Yuan Keli's words, Zhu Jian is a little big, since the entry of Houjin, Zhu Jianna has spent nearly one million taels of silver, and now there are only three or four million taels of silver left in the household treasury.
And in his Zhu Jian's own inner treasury, because of a large amount of expenditure in recent days, there are only less than three million taels left.
Zhu Jian understands that at this time, the treasury and his own internal treasury seem to have some inventory, but Zhu Jian understands that if this continues, the cost in the future will be more and more.
The source of the treasury of the Ming Empire is mostly taxes from farmers, that is, the national tax of imperial grain, and the commercial tax in the Ming Empire at this time can be said to account for very little.
And with the increasing expenditure of the national treasury, if there is no other source of taxes, all of which have to rely on the people's imperial grain and national taxes, the consequences can only be that the people are miserable, and the bandits are everywhere, which will inevitably form a death trap!
And this is the last thing Zhu Jian wants to see.
It's just that at this time, Zhu Jian still took out the start-up capital for building the Dengzhou Maritime Division.
"Yuan Aiqing, I first gave you 200,000 taels of silver to prepare funds, but what did Aiqing think?"
"The old minister thanked Your Majesty for the brothers of the Dengzhou Water Master in advance! It's just that Lao Chen wants to know, but the construction cost of Dengzhou Maritime Division in the future is. ”
200,000 taels of silver was a huge wealth for a well-off family at that time, but for an army, if you want to train a standing army, this 200,000 is a drop in the bucket, and it can be said that it is far from enough.
Yuan Keli understands this principle, and Zhu Jian doesn't understand!
At this moment, Zhu Jian had a flash of inspiration in his mind.
Dengzhou? Isn't that the port where Korea, Japan, Ryukyu and other countries paid tribute to the Ming Empire? And Zhu Jian is even more reminiscent of the overall situation of the whole world at this time, and a new route has been opened.
And the great powers that galloped on the New World route were the pioneers of the new sea route - Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, known as the "coachman of the sea"!
Zhu Jian even knew that these Westerners did business in North Korea, so in this case, why didn't Dengzhou open up a commercial port and collect taxes on merchants coming and going?