Shi Bufan came to the palace again the next day as if he was nothing, obviously he didn't take the fight with the ministers yesterday and even offended the emperor Li Shimin to heart. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and Li Shimin also seemed to have nothing to do, looking at Shi Bufan and pleasant face, as if yesterday's events had not happened at all, and Shi Bufan had blackmailed Li Shimin at all. However, Shi Bufan knew that Li Shimin actually remembered, and it was impossible for Li Shimin to forget this incident. However, Shi Bufan knows that he can only endure it, who makes Shi Bufan's ability irreplaceable, only irreplaceable talents are qualified to blackmail more with the boss. Shi Bufan has this qualification, so naturally there is nothing to worry about.

"Your Majesty, recently I think that my Datang should set up a new academy, and my Datang will definitely destroy Goguryeo in the future, as for the previous plan, unite Silla to destroy Baekje. As for the destruction of Baekje, there must be a naval army, and even a naval army will be needed for the transportation of logistics materials in the future. This navy is an important class that we must have, so I think we should build it as soon as possible. The formation of a naval army is not so easy, and the formation of a naval army is far more difficult than that of the army, so we must prepare as soon as possible, so as to avoid the possibility of temporary cramming. The so-called 10-year army, 100-year navy, perhaps it will take 10 years to form a strong army. However, to form a truly powerful naval army, it may take a hundred years of inheritance. Of course, we can't have a hundred years now, but we must all prepare as soon as possible, otherwise we will definitely not be able to have a navy in time. Shi Bufan said.

Shi Bufan suggested that Li Shimin form this navy as soon as possible, this navy is actually the navy, even Shi Bufan, a liberal arts student in later generations, knows that the formation of the navy is much more difficult than the army. As long as human beings have not been able to get too many things into the sky, and as long as human aircraft carriers have not been able to fly, then the navy will still have to exist. The navy is the most high-tech branch of the military, and this is not only the navy's warships and other high-tech content, but also about the cultivation of naval personnel and whether they are excellent. There are many departments on a ship, and there are people in charge of power, operations, and even people in charge of various departments. It's not so easy to manage when people from so many departments come together. In particular, communication at sea is difficult, and communication at sea is far more difficult than on land. On land, fast horses or pigeons can be used to communicate. But at sea, in the vast sea, the horses could not go to sea, and the pigeons could not find the warships in the sea. This communication and command is also a huge problem, and these are things that need to be taken seriously.

However, the Central Plains Dynasty rarely paid attention to the navy in ancient times, and the navy was often formed for some important tasks, but when the important tasks were over, the navy would be abolished, which was a pity.

"Forming a water army? How much does it cost? Li Shimin asked.

Shi Bufan replied honestly: "My preliminary estimate, I'm afraid it will not be less than 50,000 yuan a year, and I may have to ask a special person to calculate it accurately, this is still just the beginning." If it becomes bigger and bigger in the future, maybe it is not impossible to spend 100,000 yuan a year. ”

"Poof-" Li Shimin squirted out the tea in his mouth and said directly: "Is this forming a water army?" Fifty thousand yuan is enough for me to raise more than 10,000 infantry. How many people can you have when you have just started to form a naval army, more than 1,000 people are good, and you need 50,000? ”

Shi Bufan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, how can you measure the combat effectiveness of the army by the number of people?" The army does not look at the number of people, and the division of labor between the navy and the army is different, so how can there be such a horizontal comparison? “

Many people still can't shake off the idea of measuring the military by their numbers, and this idea can't be completely changed even after more than a thousand years. In fact, the army does not look at the number of people, the number of people is actually the most deceptive means. With the advancement of technology, the number of people is no longer the most important. In later generations, the army actually fought on the front line of only one-fifth of the troops, and the rest of the people were all kinds of long-distance operations, or all kinds of support units. In the XXI century the infantry has been largely eliminated. And in ancient times, this kind of thinking used the number of people to measure the infantry and the navy, isn't this the opposite of the opposite? The navy has always been counted by ships, not by people. The navy pays attention to the "power of the ship" in the battle, not any manpower, and Li Shimin's comparison is obviously an out-and-out layman, even more than the time is extraordinary.

However, Shi Bufan knew that Li Shimin was very short of money, and Shi Bufan quickly had an idea.

"Your Majesty, in fact, this navy army may not have to bear the cost by itself! There are a number of tools that we can use to apportion. Among them, our navy is actually sailing, and we can also undertake the training of navigation talents. In particular, Datang actually not only needs nautical talents for the navy, but also for our people. As far away as I know, in the distant city of Guangzhou, there are actually people who have begun to develop a lot of seafaring, and have already traded with many southern countries. No, the scale is not large at present, and they lack seafaring talent in their eyes. We might as well not only train sailors for the imperial court, but also train navigation talents, so that we can serve the imperial court more after we have talents! Even private maritime merchants can train talents, and private maritime merchants can also send these talents they want to entrust to train for training, but it costs money. Shi Bufan said.

Shi Bufan's method is actually through a part of the civilian personnel training, and then used to subsidize military talents. In this era, navigation was actually dual-use. In this era, there is not much difference between military and civilian seafaring ships, sometimes civilian ships can make cameo appearances on warships, and similarly warships can also be used for civilian purposes. There was not much difference between military and civilian, on the contrary, in the later period of extensive maritime trade, pirates and maritime merchants were actually just a thin line. Taking up arms is piracy, and laying down weapons is also maritime, depending on which one is more risky.

In this way, by charging people for cultivating talents, it is actually a way to relieve financial pressure and even make effective use of resources. In ancient China, few people would have noticed this, and many government things would rather be wasted than used by the people, rather than used in cooperation with the people, which would cause a lot of waste. Shi Bufan plans to train naval personnel, and will also train personnel for the civilian sector, so as to save costs.

"Your Majesty, in the future, we will keep the excellent ones in our navy, and those who are second can be sent to those maritime merchants, or let them fend for themselves. At that time, the private maritime merchants can also pay for our training, so that we can earn a lot of money to subsidize the needs of our navy. In this way, we can save a lot of wealth, so that we can use it as a means of training naval officers, and even we can use the Tibetan army to the people, and by placing those naval personnel in the civilian population, we can re-recruit them when necessary, and a large number of naval troops can also appear. ”

Li Shimin's face is still not normal, because Shi Bufan's method is actually to use the resources of the government to the people, which makes Li Shimin uncomfortable. If in the future, the government's resources are used by the people, then this is not only not a strange thing, but it is normal, and even the higher authorities will encourage this kind of behavior, and effectively use resources without wasting them.

However, in ancient times, it was completely different, and in ancient times, there was some disgust with this kind of use of government resources by the people, and they would rather waste them than give them to the people. It is better to lose than to use it for the people, in order to maintain the nobility and authority of the so-called government. Through this "ungrounded" means to maintain the authority of the government. This is that the ancient government was a ruling government, and the government of later generations was a service-oriented government, and the two concepts were different, so Li Shimin also felt that he was not very satisfied with opening up the resources of the court to the people.

"Your Majesty, if you are not satisfied, then I have nothing to say. But Your Majesty, if our court can get this money, then naturally I won't say anything. We will not lose money in forming a naval army, and if our warships are decommissioned, they can be sold to civilian use. The common people had those warships that had been removed from their armaments, and they could even go to business. At present, we are trading from Guangzhou all the way to the coast, the southern Champa and other areas, so that we can send all kinds of overseas resources in. I won't say anything else, just say that the copper that we urgently need in the Tang Dynasty is probably thousands of miles away from the coast There is an archipelago called Luzon. The copper ore on it is enough for us to use it for thousands of years! Shi Bufan said.

Sure enough, when he heard Shi Bufan say this, Li Shimin's face turned red, and his eyes became "Brother Kong Fang".

"Really, for thousands of years?" Li Shimin rubbed his hands and asked.

"Yes, with the needs of my Datang, it can be used for at least thousands of years! When the time comes, my Datang will not be short of copper. ”

Li Shimin immediately slapped the table and said, "Okay, go and set up this navigation academy immediately, I approve it!" ”

"Sure enough, Qian Zhuang is brave, and in front of this copper mine, he is actually tempted?" Shi Bufan complained in his heart.

Shi Bufan knew very well that deflation was common in ancient China, and perhaps compared with inflation in later generations, deflation was very serious in ancient times. In ancient times, it was often easy to deflation, because China was not a big country producing copper ore, and copper ore was basically used to mint copper coins, and even copper mines were seriously lacking, and sometimes even the royal bronze utensils had to be melted to cast copper coins in order to cast copper coins. This deflation is often very serious, which forces some imperial courts to mint all kinds of small coins and all kinds of "dang five", "dang ten" and "dang hundred" large denomination copper coins. In fact, the ancient way to solve deflation was to use abnormal inflation to solve it, which is completely two extremes. However, in essence, it is still deflationary, and it is not inflation in the true sense.

When he heard that there were so many copper mines in Luzon, and that copper mines were absolute wealth in this era of the copper standard, Li Shimin's eyes were red. If this Luzon can really be obtained, then Datang will not lack copper ore in the future.

"Your Majesty, even in Luzon, then we need all kinds of merchant ships to transport them back, so it is necessary to train seafaring talents for the people. This kind of dual-use thing can actually be trained together, why do you have to save face, Your Majesty, for the sake of these faces? Shi Bufan asked.

In the face of such huge interests, Li Shimin affirmed: "Since this is the case, then I agreed." ”

In the face of Luzon's huge copper mine interests, of course he agreed. In fact, in Li Shimin's eyes, this naval army was only formed to conquer Goguryeo, so it was just a one-time thing. It is naturally not worth it to destroy the "majesty" of the imperial court for the sake of something disposable. Shi Bufan guessed that Li Shimin actually had in his heart thinking about the idea of forming a naval army, and his thinking was still stuck in the idea of destroying Goguryeo, not really forming a naval army for long-term purposes. In ancient China, there has never been a way to get rid of the idea of forming a naval army with a purpose, and the formation of a naval army is often full of purpose, once the purpose is completed, or the purpose is no longer needed, then no one will invest resources to form a naval army.

However, at that time, it was explained that there were so many copper mines overseas, and even that there might be more resources in the future, and Li Shimin was of course red-eyed. Li Shimin is not the kind of pedantic emperor, in fact, no emperor or even any courtier is pedantic, only to see whether it conforms to his interests and the interests of the interest groups behind him. As long as it is in line with the interests, then they will agree without hesitation, as for what Chinese Confucianism curbs and develops, this Shi Bufan can only say hehe, this Confucianism is back to the blame again. As long as you think about the landlord class as the ruling class in ancient China, then you can roughly understand why China does not like to pioneer, and it has little to do with Confucianism.

However, at present, Datang is seriously short of copper coins, so when Li Shimin heard about such a huge amount of copper mines, wouldn't this bring a lot of wealth to Datang? As long as the ancients saw the wealth overseas, they would go overseas to open up. As for saying that the ancients were reluctant to open up and that they could not see the wealth overseas, that was actually the perspective of later generations to measure the ancients. Everyone in later generations knew that there was a lot of wealth to be gained by opening up overseas, but did the ancients know? The ancients didn't know it, and the thinking of the ancients was used to measure the ancients, and the natural result was that the ancients didn't like to pioneer. The ancient people did not like to pioneer, which was caused by many reasons, but it definitely had nothing to do with Confucianism.

But now that Li Shimin has seen the benefits and some people have seen the benefits of eating crabs, it is natural to encourage them to open up.

"Your Majesty, I recommend Liu Renliang of Xianyang County to serve as the president of this Tang Navigation Academy, and hang the official title of Wailang of the Ministry of Water." Shi Bufan said. (To be continued.) )