Yang reformed the giant thunder, and this Wang Chengen also wanted to be Zheng He.

"Omemate, I heard you right, right? Do you want to be Zheng He too? Yang Gengai looked at Wang Chengen in surprise.

"Back to Your Majesty, the slave maid also wants to share your Majesty's worries, this Your Majesty is extremely reasonable, thinking about the Ming Dynasty, the same place, how can you afford to raise several times more people? Slaves and maids are willing to set up a boat for Your Majesty, travel far abroad, and find a place for Your Majesty and His Majesty's people to settle down. When Wang Chengen said this, he was also very excited, and his original white face was flushed with a hint of flush.

"Uh...... This, let's talk about it later, hehe, if I become strong towards coastal defense in the future, I don't care if Otomo leads a fleet out to slip away, hehe, it can be regarded as Otomo going out for me to play prestige, but now, I can't do without Oban! Let's talk about this later, and besides, this ship hasn't landed yet, by the way, last time, what Zheng Huaizhong said, didn't he say that he was looking for a man-made ship? How's it going? And I remember, what happened to the people who summoned Sun Yuanhua to Beijing, as well as those Western priests? Any news? Yang Gengai remembered that some time ago, he was preparing to build a big ship, recruited Sun Yuanhua to Beijing, and those Western priests, who were preparing to build Western sea ships, and also asked Zheng Huaizhong, the "Ministry of Industry Shangshu" of the inner court, to prepare to build Chinese sea ships.

"Back to Your Majesty, this matter of Zheng Huaizhong, the slave and maid are not very clear, but I heard that he has searched everywhere for craftsmen who can build ships, and even sent people to the south to collect, it is estimated that there should be a bit of an eyebrow, this Sun Yuanhua and those Western priests, the slave and maid estimate that it has been one or twenty days, and it should be soon, Your Majesty waits again, it is estimated that it will not be said, it will be to the Beijing Division." Wang Chengen, the chief housekeeper, is very competent, the emperor forgot, and he basically remembers everything he can't remember.

"Well, that's good, then hurry up and find Zheng Huaizhong, my mood is more anxious than my partner." Yang decided to immediately ask the "Ministry of Works" in his inner court, how was the shipbuilding matter, and he wanted to build the ship immediately.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Chengen hurriedly went to find someone.

Qianqing Palace, Warm Pavilion.

Zheng Huaizhong hurried to the Qianqing Palace, and was even more overjoyed when he heard the emperor summoning him. This step is right, this back step is right, once he has the right temper of the emperor, the emperor summoned himself twice in three days, and he suddenly stood out from the twenty-four yamen of the inner court, as if he became the emperor's new favorite, very proud, in the palace, it can be regarded as the group of people who walk sideways. The things that the emperor explained, he worked hard, he was busy, and he felt extraordinarily energetic.

"Slave maid Zheng Huaizhong knocks to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Zheng Huaizhong looked excited, and kowtowed to the emperor flatteringly.

"Well, Zheng Huaizhong, get up, how did you do last time when I asked you about shipbuilding? I heard that it is a bit eyebrow-raising? "Yang Gengai also can't wait to build a ship, the obstacles of the navy have been basically cleared, and all that remains is to continue to invest money in the navy.

"Back to Your Majesty, slaves and maids are running for Your Majesty's affairs every day, this is indeed a bit eyebrow-raising, congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty."

"Hehe, don't say anything nice, don't say it's useless, let's talk about this shipbuilding, what's the situation?" Yang Reform doesn't want to listen to others fart and talk nonsense.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister found some craftsmen who can build ships, according to them, this sea ship, especially giant ships, warships, this has to be found in the south, it is said that in Fujian, Nanjing, over there, there are ships that can be built in the north, but three or four hundred materials, the big ones are only seven or eight hundred materials, this kind of ships are mostly merchant ships, most of them are flat-bottomed sand ships, and it is also comfortable to walk in the north side of the ship, but to walk on the rough ocean, it is not possible, especially to build the treasure ship of the eunuchs of my dynasty Sanbao, the kind of giant ship warship, I have to go to the south to find a man-made ...... "Zheng Huaizhong is also a master who is willing to work hard, and when it comes to shipbuilding, he is also the head, and his understanding of shipbuilding is far stronger than that of Yang Reform."

"Nanjing? Fujian? Zheng Huaizhong, are you talking about the place where Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Guarantees, built a treasure ship in the past? Yang Gengai also didn't know where the eunuch Zheng He of the three guarantees was building a ship, only knew that it was estimated to be the south, probably Nanjing, and remembered that there was a documentary before, saying that Zheng He's fleet set off from Nanjing.

"Back to Your Majesty, exactly, Your Majesty, to build thousands of giant ships, warships, this is still Nanjing, Fujian is in line, as Your Majesty said, I am the eunuch of Sanbao is building ships in these places, the ship is really big, it is said to be able to accommodate thousands of people, standing on the ship and looking down, as if standing on the high city, known as the giant city on the sea......" Speaking of shipbuilding, it must be related to the overseas mission, as soon as I said this, this Zheng Huaizhong's Harry son continued to flow down, and began to talk endlessly.

"Stop......! Wait, Zheng Huaizhong, I asked you if you were shipbuilding in these places, and you answered the same way. Yang Reform is also a little afraid of this little "neurotic" "Ministry of Works", said that something else is okay, when it comes to shipbuilding, envoys, it is a bit fluttering, in this regard, although Yang Reform is a little opinion, but also feel that he needs such a fanatical yearning for shipbuilding, people who go to sea to help themselves do these things, if you meet a lukewarm guy about these things, it is called unlucky, such as those Confucian scholars, let them go to shipbuilding, send overseas, this is more uncomfortable than killing them.

“… Yes..., yes...... Yes, the slave obeys the order......" Zheng Huaizhong immediately stopped, only to realize that his face was hot, only to realize that he did not pay attention to the object when he spoke, only to find that the emperor had a good temper.

"If I rebuild the treasure ship of the three eunuchs, or the giant warship, do you think it is possible?" Yang Reform has been more entangled in this issue, and when later generations talk about this treasure ship, they will say one sentence: If the data is lost, a genuine treasure ship cannot be built. Yang Reform is not sure how big this treasure ship is, saying that it is big, I am afraid that others will laugh at it, say it is small, I am afraid that it will not reach the height of history, and I am in a dilemma, now I think about it, this problem is still left to the "professionals" to do, I am the emperor, not the engineer.

"Back to Your Majesty, can, can, can, why can't? To put it disrespectfully, the ship that the eunuch Zheng He can build can be built by the slave maid Zheng Huaizhong, the eunuch Zheng He can also be built by the eunuch Zheng He of the three guarantees, and the slave Zheng Huaizhong can also be sent to the West for His Majesty. "Zheng Huaizhong is a mind to build ships, and then to the West, as soon as he speaks, he will compare with Zheng He in his words, and the words will be brought to this side, looking forward to His Majesty the Emperor handing over this errand to him.

Yang Reform Ju Lei, this is another eunuch who wants to be Zheng He, Yang Reform listened, and glanced at Wang Chengen, Wang Chengen blushed a little, and stood there motionless. The idea of these two "crashed".

"Can it be built? Are you sure? Yang Gai didn't worry about this anymore, and decided to leave it to those who were willing to do it, and just pay attention to the progress himself.

"Back to Your Majesty, it is true that it can be made, there is no reason why the things that could be made one or two hundred years ago cannot be made now, and the people of one or two hundred years ago were not born with it! Your Majesty, do you say yes? Zheng Huaizhong is very confident.

Yang Reform nodded, this statement makes sense, there is no reason why this thing that could be made two hundred years ago cannot be made now, and people one or two hundred years ago were not born with it.

"Since you're so sure of this, then I've given you the task of rebuilding the giant ship and the battleship, do you understand? I guess you still don't understand, I'll tell you about this matter, don't worry, you are also the head of the ministers of the twenty-four yamen of the inner court, I am already preparing to go on an expedition to the Ryukyus, so I will need more than a dozen warships, this, I am ready to hand it over to you to build, you have to start work as soon as possible, at most give you a year, you have to build the ship, I need it urgently, understand? "Yang Reform is also ready to be the shopkeeper who shakes his hands, and he is not ready to dream of going back to the future to get information, tired!

"Thank you Your Majesty for your trust, the slave and maid will definitely do their best to build a giant ship and warship like Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Guarantees, for Your Majesty, and you will definitely be able to miss Your Majesty's business." Zheng Huaizhong didn't even think about it, and agreed to this matter in one bite, without considering the question of whether there was enough time for this year.

Yang Gai was also frightened by this guy, he just casually said that it would take a year, and he didn't know if this year was enough, but he didn't expect this guy to be so bold, and he agreed to come down in one bite.

"Zheng Huaizhong, you're not lying, are you? Can you really build a giant warship in a year? When the time comes, it will not be built, but it will be broken by military law, and when the time comes, it will be dealt with by military law. ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the slave maid said this, naturally there is confidence and reason, the slave and the maid since the last time His Majesty ordered, let the slave and the maid find a craftsman who can build a ship, the slave and the maid will pay attention, and have already sent someone to the south to search for those shipwrights and craftsmen who can build ships for His Majesty, the slave and the maid will save a month of time to come out, and moreover, the slave and the maid carefully asked the shipbuilders on the seaside, they said, this shipbuilding, or Nanjing and Fujian are the best, according to the slave maid thought, set my best shipbuilding craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, will be able to build ships at the fastest speed, If this cannot complete His Majesty's orders, the slaves and maids will have no shame to see Your Majesty again, and if they can't be made at that time, Your Majesty can only do military law. Zheng Huaizhong said his reasons.

Yang Reform is also sweating, I didn't expect this guy to be a "little white", he doesn't know much about shipbuilding, he said a year, he agreed without thinking, if he said half a year, I'm afraid he would still agree without thinking, in his opinion, the collection of skilled craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, nothing can not be done, this guy, is it still a eunuch? All a fanatic! Yang Gengai was a little worried about whether his shipbuilding would be in vain.

Yang Reform is still worried about whether his shipbuilding plan will be in vain, but Zheng Huaizhong is still talking eloquently: "......, Your Majesty, this is to build ships, especially giant ships, and they have to be built in the south, so the craftsmen will not talk about it, mainly because there are many shipyards in the south, so the ready-made materials are also available, if Your Majesty wants to build ships quickly, you must go to the south, or requisition, or buy ready-made timber from those shipyards,...... No one watched or urged this shipbuilding, and those craftsmen would not be in a hurry, stealing and playing tricks, so the slave and maid begged Your Majesty to let the slave and maid personally go to the south to supervise the construction of the warship, and the slave and maid will definitely build a warship for Your Majesty to expedition to the Ryukyus within a year......"

Zheng Huaizhong, a fanatic of "sailing", actually wanted to go south to supervise the construction of warships. Yang Reform was also surprised, this eunuch ate gunpowder? So frenetic, excited?

“…… Oh! You are right, you want to build a ship, and you have to rush the work, I'm afraid that no one will supervise the construction, I'm afraid it won't work, Zheng Huaizhong, are you really willing to go to the south to supervise the construction of the warship? And guaranteed to be built in a year? Isn't there a place to build ships in the north? Must go south? Yang Gai felt that this guy was reasonable, no one was afraid of this matter, otherwise it might not be possible to build it in two or three years, and his plan to expedition to the Ryukyus would be in vain. There is a lot of wood in the south, so it can be purchased and built nearby, which can save time and cost, but Yang Gengai wants to build it in the north.

"Back to Your Majesty, the slave maid is willing to make a military order for His Majesty, and will definitely build a warship within the specified time, but please also ask Your Majesty to allocate the full cost of building the ship, and allow the slave and maid to use the skilled craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, this shipyard in the north? There are also some, but they are far less famous than several shipyards in the south, and today's Qingjiang Shipyard also builds Cao transport ships, and it can't build giant ships and warships at sea? His Majesty ......, "Zheng Huaizhong is stupid, if you build a ship in the north, when will you have to go?" There is no equipment and place to build a big ship, no technology, and no raw materials, and this procurement of raw materials, let alone a year, even two years, may not be able to be built, at that time, their own heads will roll on the ground.

"So, you can only go to the south?" Yang Reform is also a novice in shipbuilding knowledge.

"Back to Your Majesty, there are many shipyards in the south, and there are huge reserves of wood, so it is convenient to purchase this shipbuilding wood nearby, and it is convenient to requisition! The speed of this shipbuilding is fast, and, Your Majesty, the dock where this shipbuilding is built is said to have a suitable place, and the slave maid begs His Majesty to let the slave and maid use the Longjiang Shipyard used by the Sanbao eunuch Zheng and the ......"

Yes, the shipyards in the north are building boats, that is, building small boats used in the canals, and the material reserves in the south are sufficient. Yang Reform can be regarded as understanding.

Yang Gengai regularly tapped his fingers on the chair, thinker. In the Ming Dynasty, there are not many people who can be trusted, this guy is still a little capable, and he is also a little "familiar" with himself, and he is so enthusiastic about building ships and sailing, and he wants to be a second Zheng He, so he can consider it.

After thinking about it again and again, Yang Gai said: "Zheng Huaizhong, you go to the south to supervise the construction of warships, what I need is one or twenty warships, and the combat personnel may be two or three thousand, as for those warships, this, I still have to discuss, this, you go to the south first, first gather craftsmen, clean up, build a dock, and wait for my will, this shipbuilding silver, but my private money, don't be greedy, in addition, you must also be careful, don't let others be greedy, my money, it is not easy to come!" Do a good job for me, your heart, I understand, after my fleet grows, there will definitely be your share of the credit, after the future, there is also a chance to send an envoy to the South Seas, go to the West, the key is not to miss my business, to be my intimate person, understand? In the future, it is not difficult to be as famous as Zheng He, the eunuch of the three guarantees, and after a hundred years, I will find a place for you in my cemetery, and I will never treat your ...... badly. You are weak in the past, I am afraid that you can't calculate others, big companion, from the inner study, pick some arithmetic, smart, diligent and sensible, follow Zheng Huaizhong over, help Zheng Huaizhong, by the way to learn how to manage shipbuilding, and expand the shipyard in the future, but it can be used,...... In addition, don't let people deceive me, Zheng Huaizhong, I want to build a ship, what I want is good quality and low price, understand, if you want to add silver and increase the price of the ship for three days, you don't want to give me a whole [Hehe, refer to India's shipbuilding in Russia. After a month or two, I will send you the cost of building the ship, tell you the cost of building the ship, and the cost will be reimbursed, and I will send an 'accountant' to supervise the use of the money, and you will pay attention to the account of the money in and out. You get the idea? …… By the way, also, for the shipbuilders, you have to be kind, don't treat them badly, don't ruin my reputation, as long as they are sincere and concentrate on building ships for me, don't give up the money, understand? "Yang Reform is wordy, it's a lot.

Yang Reform also completely figured it out, he is not a small warlord, nor is he self-made, he has to work hard to do his own technology, find people by himself, open his own territory, fight the world, he is the emperor, the emperor has to do the emperor's business, it's okay, he has to make a holy decree, let the people of the world do it for him. On the one hand, he repeatedly tied Zheng Huaizhong with the glory of the queen, promised him to let him go to the West after the queen, promised to make him famous in history, and promised that after he died, he could get a place in his imperial mausoleum to accompany the burial and guard the mausoleum, the purpose of these things was to let Zheng Huaizhong sincerely do things for himself. Yang Reform is also painstaking, and the emperor's methods will be more or less.

Zheng Huaizhong listened, and was about to cry, whimpering, the emperor promised a lot of things, all of which were touching things, and the thing that moved Zheng Huaizhong the most was that the emperor could find a place to give him quickly in the imperial mausoleum, this, Zheng Huaizhong felt that the sky was about to fall, and the emperor was too good to him. "Woo" began to cry.

Wang Chengen stood aside, this promise, he had already gotten it, and it was not uncommon, this, he had already received the emperor's promise, and there must be a piece of land in the future, which was much stronger than this Zheng Huaizhong still needed to be inspected, so he was happy that he was more valued by the emperor.

"Okay, don't cry, let's get ready, the sooner the better. Time waits for no one, understand? Companion, this celebrant is here, you can ask for it yourself, what kind of position do you want? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, this shipbuilding is under the control of the Ministry of Engineering, and the Nanjing Military Department is also in charge of some, but there is no official position suitable for our ministers, the previous ministers built ships on errands, all of which were directly sent by Taizu and Chengzu, and later were not allowed to send envoys to the West. Wang Chengen thought about it for a long time, but he didn't come up with a good position.

There is no corresponding position in this and the inner court, and Yang Reform is also wondering, isn't his inner court quite good? Why isn't there a department corresponding to shipbuilding?

Yes, since there was no one before, for the sake of the level of the cow in his inner court, then he had one from himself, and said, "No?" Then set one, what do you think is better? ”

Wang Chengen also disagreed, and said: "Your Majesty, this should be the admiral eunuch of Nanjing Shipyard." Your Majesty, I don't know how many grades to give for this grade? Wang Chengen quickly got an official position.

"Well, let's call it this name, yes, this is the yamen who specializes in shipbuilding in the inner court, is it a grade? With the twelve eunuchs, this Zheng Huaizhong is also the eunuch of the twelve eunuchs anyway, and in the past, it was not a loss. "Yang Gengai knows six out of seven about the rank and official position of this official, and he doesn't know anything, so he has to listen to Wang Chengen's advice. Make Zheng Huaizhong a level-level "transfer".

"The slave and maid obey, and then go to the decree." Wang Chengen agreed, and as soon as this holy decree was issued, the new yamen of the inner court came out, and the official position of "Nanjing Shipyard Admiral Eunuch" was considered to have come out.

Yang Gengai wished that he would have countless warships at once. Sweep the seven seas and colonize the world. In this way, we can completely solve the peasant problem in the late Ming Dynasty, otherwise, even if we can make money by relying on our countless golden fingers, even if we can raise hundreds of thousands of elite troops, and even if we can forcibly suppress the peasant uprising, it will not solve the problem of the late Ming Dynasty in a positive sense, it will be extreme and bloody. It is necessary to "kill" the total number of people supported by the land in the north until the land can support it, and in this way, the population of the north will probably have to be killed or injured by tens of millions, so that it will be possible to survive the long continuous famine. Yang Reform has not yet been iron-hearted to such a point.

The problem at the end of the Ming Dynasty was actually the problem of the peasants, and if the problem of the peasants could not be solved, the problem of the late Ming Dynasty could not be solved, and it was the peasant rebel army led by Li Zicheng who really overthrew the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was not the defeat of the wild boar skin, the problem at the end of the Ming Dynasty was solved, if on the whole, the peasant uprising was the major event that determined the life and death of the Ming Dynasty, and the key to the survival of the Ming Dynasty, and the wild boar skin was nothing but the trouble of scabies.

Outside the Ming Dynasty, in history, it is not that there is no rise to the Ming Dynasty that threatens the peoples and tribes, and even powerful figures, but as long as the Ming Dynasty is not in chaos, the Ming Dynasty has been taking care of one thing for a long time, even if these tribes and nations that can rise for a while, and even some outstanding figures, they cannot escape the result of being wiped out by the Ming Dynasty.

The problem of peasants, to paraphrase the current words, is the "three rural" problems. In the modern "three rural" areas, the discussion and study is the increase of farmers' income, agricultural growth, and rural stability. Now in the late Ming Dynasty, these three problems are still the same.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the countryside was stable and unstable, and the key was to look at food, and those who did not eat must be unstable.

The problem of agricultural growth, if the same land is to feed several times the number of people, this agriculture does not grow, and there is not much grain in the same amount of land, how can this solve the problem of more and more people in the countryside eating? There will come a time when the upper limit of land supply will be broken. It's also a matter of eating.

The problem of increasing farmers' income, in fact, is to find another way out, not to let farmers hang themselves on a tree, to increase their ability to resist the risk of natural disasters, such as going to the city to work, such as planting cash crops, such as breeding others, etc., is also a matter of eating.

The way out and the key to solving the problem of this peasant in the Ming Dynasty was to give more land for cultivation, and where was this land? Right overseas. Yang Gai believes that the problem of eating for some peasants in the late Ming Dynasty has been solved or can be solved. You can sit firmly on your own country, and you don't have to hang yourself on the coal mountain. Therefore, we must go to sea, we must go all out to build warships, colonize overseas, a series of comes, overseas trade, overseas garrisons, colonies, colonies, colonies, and a huge naval fleet, which is also a must.

(To be continued)