Chapter 362 What incense?

Although the Shanghai Naval Academy nominally expanded its enrollment by 10,000 people, all major naval divisions sent officers and men to come for training, but in fact there were 12,000 people in this class, and Fu Han was busy all day and night without touching the ground.

However, seeing that the six-month queue training has been completed, and he is about to enter the live-fire training of muskets and artillery and the actual maneuvering training of the battleship at sea, Fuhan is a little anxious, the battleship and weapons have already been prepared, but the instructors are greatly insufficient, the instructors were originally configured according to the scale of 5,000 people, and the queue training and ordinary teaching are not a big problem, but once they go to sea and live ammunition training, they can't keep up.

Now after the comprehensive capture of the South Seas, the two fleets of the North Ocean and the South Sea are still pressed in the South Seas, and everyone knows that there will inevitably be a sea battle in the South Seas in the coming year, and the trainees who are now training in the academy are preparing for the South Sea War.

When Fu Han was anxiously scratching his scalp, news came that the Fourteenth Master had led the fleet back to Shanghai.

Yinzhen led 4,000 navies and 30 large and small warships to hurry back this time, hoping to bring out this batch of recruits as soon as possible by bringing out the old and the new, and at the normal sailing speed, the warships of Western countries should arrive in the South China Sea around June next year, which is determined by the monsoon, and there should be no big problem with the veterans passing on, helping, and bringing them in one to two for half a year.

Liuchun Garden, Yinzhen first saw Fu Han, Fu Han is the Manchu Eight Families after the Fucha clan, 26 years old this year, steady, cautious, patient and trivial, is also a famous minister, his grandfather is the Minister of Parliament Mi Sihan, his father Musca is also the Minister of Guard, and is in charge of the firearms battalion, awarded the general Zhaowu, can be described as a prominent family.

After he sat down, Yinzhen asked, "How is the situation of the new students now?" ”

Fu Han groaned slightly, and then replied calmly: "Back to the dean, the quality of this batch of students is much higher than that of the previous two sessions, and the literacy rate is as high as 20 percent. ”

Yinzhen nodded slightly, this situation was expected by him, when the navy was formed, many Han people, all of them were from white to the fourth or fifth rank, Lin Wei and Fu Anding were awarded to the generals, which greatly stimulated the nerves of those big wealthy families.

The overseas division and the discovery of Australia have greatly increased the importance of the navy, and anyone with a little vision can see that the navy will usher in greater development, and participating in the navy can be said to be the most speculative undertaking of the Qing Dynasty at present.

Fu Han continued: "In another ten years, the basic training such as the queue will be fully completed, and it will be transferred to the battleship control training and musket and artillery live-fire training at sea. ”

"Now is not the time to relax." Yinzhen smiled and said: "Nanyang is eaten by us alone, Western countries will not be reconciled, the Qing Dynasty is now the economic center of the whole world, spices, silk, cotton, raw silk, porcelain and tea and other commodities are necessary for Western countries, they cannot give up trade with the Qing Dynasty, let alone give up their vested interests."

The First World War in the South Seas is only a matter of time, it is expected to be between May and June next year at the earliest, and now it is November, which is half a year of training, and I plan to lead the new students to the South China Sea after the beginning of the year, and by the way, to suppress the pirates in the South China Sea, and to suppress the thieves and train the troops. ”

"Yes." Fu Han got up excitedly and saluted, he went to Nanyang at the beginning of the year, and this hard life is over. ..., "Well, go get busy, and call Zheng Qinghai in by the way." Yinzhen smiled and picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Zheng Qinghai and the rest of the people were guarding in the wing room outside, and when Yinzhen heard him, he immediately walked in quickly, and said on the spot: "Slave Zheng Qinghai asks for peace to the Fourteenth Master." ”

Yinzhen smiled slightly, stretched out his hand casually, and said, "Seeing that you are still in good spirits, it seems that Luzon is selling well, sit, sit down and say." ”

After Zheng Qinghai thanked him, he sat down calmly, and then said: "Back to the Fourteenth Master, Luzon's sales are not satisfactory, and only 20 million is earned. ”

"Huh?" Yinzhen raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise: "It's not easy to sell?" ”

"The price of cabbage, how can it not be easy to sell, it is really too little land in Luzon." Zheng Qinghai said with a smile: "The average price is one or two dollars per mu, but no one cares about the uncultivated wasteland. ”

Yinzhen bowed slightly, and then said: "It's better if it doesn't sell, and after a few years, it won't be at this price." ”

"What the Fourteenth Master said is that there are 20 million, which is enough to support three years." Zheng Qinghai said and asked, "I heard that more than a dozen sea ships have been seized in the South Seas?" ”

"Twenty million, where can it support for three years?" Yinzhen chuckled, but said curiously: "The current sea ships are very easy to sell?" ”

Hearing Yinzhen's words, Zheng Qinghai's heart couldn't help jumping, this money hasn't been covered yet, did it change hands and throw it out again? He said absentmindedly: "It's very sought-after, and the number of Western galleons has risen to 100,000 taels." ”

This price is higher than the price of a new ship, Yinzhen was happy when he heard it, it's okay to let the navy go to the Indian Ocean to play as pirates? Think about it, forget it, this is too much of a blow to overseas trade.

Zheng Qinghai then said: "The consumption of the navy this year is more than last year, and the fourteenth master has invested money in Tianjin, and it is to build roads, and the net expenditure is as high as 11 million, but the income from the sale of Luzon plus the resale of the shares of the trade fleet has also dropped more than 32 million. ”

"No wonder you have a smile on your face." Yinzhen smiled and said: "Don't be too happy, next year, Tianjin, Karopa, Manila and other places will have to invest money, and Australian immigrants will also have five million, and I plan to invest some money in Guangzhou." ”

Zheng Qinghai's face immediately darkened when he heard this, and he hesitated: "Australian immigrants want five million? ”

Yinzhen nodded and said, "In seven years, 50 million has been invested in Australian immigration." ”

"Fourteenth Master, let's go to the Americas to grab a big silver mine." Zheng Qinghai almost groaned and said.

Yinzhen chuckled, "Why did you run so far? There are gold mines in Australia, especially large gold mines! ”

"Really?" Zheng Qinghai's spirit immediately perked up, and his eyes only shone brightly.

"How could I lie to you." Yinzhen smiled and said: "I asked you to come and explain the matter, next year the navy will gather more than 40,000 people in the South Seas, and Australian immigrants will also transit in Karopa, the pressure on food is very great, from now on, you will start to buy grain, organize a fleet to transfer Karopa, in addition, after the beginning of the year, around the beginning of February, there will be a large number of military supplies to transfer Karopa, you don't expect Zhang Yuanlong's fleet." ”

Speaking of business, Zheng Qinghai's expression immediately became abrupt, and as soon as Yinzhen finished speaking, he said solemnly: "Slave Honorable Order, please also ask the prince to show how much you want." ”

Yinzhen calculated slightly, and then said: "According to the calculation of one liter of rice per person per day and three buckets of lunar eclipse, let's prepare 200,000 stones together, and if the price of grain is raised, we will collect 150,000 stones first." ”

"Slave Order." Zheng Qinghai said respectfully.

"Well, let's go, take someone to Jiangning quickly, go to Cao's house and ask, how are the preparations for the flying pigeon biography I explained in the first half of the year? Can I bring it with me in February? Yinzhen commanded casually.

"The minion will ask." Zheng Qinghai said and bowed and retreated.

Yinzhen then summoned the directors of each factory and workshop, and inquired in detail about the output, quality, and inventory of each factory. ..., the output of these two factories is stuck in one problem, rifling can't keep up, not only a large number of new warships and new trainees to equip, but also a large number of smoothed rifling returns, what is even more annoying is that rifling is not a short time to train qualified craftsmen, a qualified craftsman does not know how much barrel to waste, in order to cultivate.

Yinzhen did not have any effective way to do this, this is not a problem that the assembly line can solve, before the industrial revolution, there was no solution at all, only through a large number of training skilled craftsmen to increase production, after a long period of silence, he said to the two supervisors of the firearms factory and the foundry: "Increase the salary of the apprentices and craftsmen of the rifling wire by three percent, and mention sixty percent to the skilled craftsmen, so that the craftsmen can recruit more apprentices and pay more attention to observation. ”

After sending a group of people away, Yinzhen turned into the backyard, Zhang Mengjiao led a few maids and women to greet them with a smile, squatted down and made a thousand blessings, and said: "The concubine welcomes the prince back to the house." ”

Zhang Mengjiao has changed a lot in the past two years, although her personality has not changed much, but she has paid a lot more attention to etiquette, Yinzhen stepped forward to hold her hand with a smile, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for half a year, how can you be so quiet?" ”

Zhang Mengjiao was slightly annoyed and said, "The prince doesn't like it? ”

"If you like it, how can you not like it?" Yinzhen took her hand and said as she walked: "How are you doing in the house this time?" ”

"With the care of Lord Lao, everything is fine." Zhang Mengjiao smiled sweetly.

Entering the hall, Zhang Mengjiao smiled and said: "As soon as the prince comes back, he is busy meeting people, but are you worried about the great changes in Nanyang?" ”

"You've been concerned about the situation in the West lately?" Yinzhen smiled, waved his hand and sent all the maids out, and then said, "If you have any opinions, speak them and listen to them." ”

"The prince is now fighting with Westerners, and the concubine body naturally has to do with the situation in the West." Zhang Mengjiao smiled slightly: "The current King Philip V of Spain is the son of the Crown Prince Louis of France and the grandson of King Louis XIV of France. The reason for this, the concubine is not very clear, and I can't figure it out.

But because Philip V inherited the Spanish throne, it caused a war, not between two countries, but two alliances, one side was France, Spain, Bavaria and other small countries, and the other side was the Holy Roman Empire, England, the Netherlands, Portugal and other countries.

The two alliances have been fighting since the forty-first year of Kangxi, and they have not yet decided the winner, this is the news that the concubine inquired from the French missionary, and I don't know if the news is reliable, I hope it will be helpful to the prince. ”

Yinzhen frowned when he heard this, he really didn't know about the things in Europe, but the inheritance of the throne in Europe is indeed not as good as China, it seems that there are a lot of close relatives who are married, so that there are a few idiots, and he likes alliances at every turn, which is also the reason why he is worried about several countries joining forces, if this news is true, then the possibility of Britain and the Netherlands joining forces is very large, and Portugal also has to be careful to guard against it, but Spain has no possibility of joining forces.

However, Britain, the Netherlands, and Portugal do not seem to have many troops in Asia, and now they are caught in the war of the Spanish succession, so it is impossible to think that they will draw much troops to Asia.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but relax, got up and walked over, hugged Zhang Mengjiao and sat on his lap, kissed him on the cheek, and said with a smile: "So well-behaved, what reward do you want?" ”

Zhang Mengjiao now has a deep understanding of Yinzhen's temperament, and after being absent for half a year, he has done everything, and he can't help but glance at the door shyly.

"No one dared to come in." Yinzhen sniffed her neck lightly and whispered, "What kind of incense is used, how can it be so fragrant?" Smelling the familiar body odor on Yinzhen's body, Zhang Mengjiao intuitively softened, snuggled up to him softly and said softly: "The prince has just come back from the country of spices, and his nose is still so smart." ”

"How can spices be as fragrant as you?" Yinzhen said, and stretched his hands in.

Yinzhen stayed in Shanghai for two days, inspected the Naval Academy and various factories and workshops, and then hurried back to Beijing with Yinxiang. Yinxiang left Beijing at the beginning of the year, and now it is the end of the year, although he does not want to return to Beijing, but this year Kangxi fell into the water in Tianjin, such a big event, he will not go back to Beijing to ask for peace.

When the two of them led a group of guards to Tianjin, it was the seventh day of December, and they were encountering heavy snowfall, seeing the heavy snowfall, Yinzhen couldn't help but think of Tianjin Port, this winter the port is frozen, isn't it delaying training? How did Wuge deal with this?

Arrived at the Naval Academy, which had only been half-finished, the sixteenth elder brother Yinlu, who heard the report, ran out with a surprised face, and shouted from afar: "Fourteenth brother, thirteenth brother, didn't you go to the South Seas?" How did you rush back? ”

Yinzhen immediately greeted him a few steps, and said with a smile: "How far is Nanyang?" A month back and forth is enough. As he spoke, he jumped off the horse, glanced at the empty academy, and said curiously, "Why is there no one?" ”

Yinlu said depressedly: "Wu Ge even dragged the ship to Weihaiwei for training, but the emperor Ama did not allow the sixteenth to go to sea with the ship." ”

Yinxiang also dismounted at this time and greeted him, and said with a smile: "Sixteenth brother, are you still happy in Tianjin?" ”

"Brother Thirteen, let's change the two, I want to go to Nanyang for a spin in my dreams." Yinlu said with a salivating face.

"I have no opinion, do you ask the fourteenth brother if he agrees?" Yinxiang chuckled and said: "You can be content, how many people envy you for coming to Tianjin." As he spoke, he stomped his feet and complained: "Sixteenth brother, you don't want to be authentic, so you plan to gossip with the two brothers like this?" ”

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