After Yu Xiaotian learned the news, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, it stands to reason that if the original historical trajectory develops, this Wei Zhongxian should have hanged himself, how did he die of medicine now? For this reason, Yu Xiaotian was confused for a while, could it be that the history secretary was wrong?

But think about it carefully, the historical record of this matter should not be wrong, Wei Zhongxian is not a small figure after all, and has a great impact on the history of the Ming Dynasty, the reason for this situation is that it is very likely that his appearance has had a certain impact on history, although he did not be able to control Wei Zhongxian's life and death, but it still made Wei Zhongxian hang himself from the original fate, and became a suicide by taking poison.

After Xiong Wencan learned the news, he couldn't help but be impressed by Xiaotian again, he didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian, a former pirate, could still see the situation in the DPRK so clearly, this person seems to have a lot of energy, and he can either simply suppress him, or simply kill him and pull him down, which will affect his future in the future.

But would he dare to do so? You must know that Yu Xiaotian now has tens of thousands of troops in Fujian, and his fierce generals are like clouds, and all of them are arrogant soldiers, even if he is given a few dares now, he does not dare to attack Xiaotian.

So such a person, since he can't be suppressed, then he can only be encircled, which strengthens his determination to rely on Xiaotian in the future, anyway, as long as he is still in Fujian, then he will use Xiaotian for this person in the future, even if he is arrogant, so what?

What's more, just this time he wrote to the court to impeach Wei Zhongxian and his party, it is not enough for him to ensure that he will be able to soar in the future, if he wants to go further in his career in the future, he must make new achievements, if he wants to make achievements in Fujian, then military merits must be indispensable, and he can only rely on Xiaotian at the moment.

So Yu Xiaotian's status in Xiong Wencan's mind has risen to the extreme by this time.

Yu Xiaotian is not stupid, since he has clearly seen Xiong Wencan's current reliance on him, he naturally has to ask for some cheap money from Xiong Wencan.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian asked for an increase in artillery equipment on the grounds of strengthening coastal defense and rearmament of naval divisions, and also asked for the construction of new warships.

In this regard, Xiong Wencan, of course, was as good as a stream, and immediately gave a reply, allowing him to request a large amount of funds from Fujian's military spending to meet Yu Xiaotian's needs.

In order to eat these funds, Yu Xiaotian ordered the construction of a cannon in Weitouwan to produce all kinds of Hongyi cannons for himself, and only the first batch, he asked for the funds of one hundred and twenty Hongyi cannons from Xiong Wencan.

Naturally, he won't let this money flow into other people's pockets, of course, he has to eat most of it himself, and he won't let others cast cannons for him, only the artillery he produces himself, can be used with confidence.

As we all know, Hongyi cannons are difficult to cast, and the price is expensive, even if Fujian casts its own cannons, the cost of a cannon is definitely a lot.

After finally discussing with Xiong Wencan, Weitouwan Cannon finally ate the deal at the price of 1,000 taels of silver for a Hongyi cannon.

One hundred and twenty Hongyi cannons, down are hundreds of thousands of taels of white flower official silver, although I dare not say that Yu Xiaotian made a lot of money, at least most of this silver still fell into his money bag.

If this money is given to other officials, Yu Xiaotian can guarantee that most of the silver will fall into the hands of those officials, even if these cannons are forcibly distributed to various iron yards and cast out, first, it is absolutely impossible to meet the quality requirements, and second, if these iron yards are not good, they will lose their pants! The officials will never pay the full amount of these guns.

As for Yu Xiaotian's request for a ship, Xiong Wencan also met his requirements, although Yu Xiaotian initially asked for a new seventy No. 2 fortune boats, Xiong Wencan pressed it to the number of thirty, and at the same time added three No. 1 Dafu boats, but for the sea wolf, it still saved them a lot of expenses.

And in the future, it will no longer occupy the production capacity of the freshwater shipyard, and the No. 2 Fu ship can be built in most of the larger shipyards along the coast of Fujian.

Although the No. 1 and No. 2 Fu ships are not quite in line with Yu Xiaotian's requirements, but these two kinds of warships, at least in China's coastal areas, are still the absolute main warships, if they are modified to a certain extent, the ships can also carry a lot of artillery, have a certain combat capability, even if they can't beat Western-style gunboats of the same size, at least against similar Chinese-style ships, still have a great advantage.

Even if these ships are not specially refitted, these ships are also very important to Xiaotian, because they are not suitable for warships, they can also be used as troop carriers or transport ships, and even as ocean-going cargo ships, after all, the Fu ship itself is a fairly excellent type of sea ship, as long as there is no problem with the construction quality, it is still very suitable for navigation, and in the future, if Yu Xiaotian wants to go north one day, it is indispensable to need a large amount of capacity, and these ships can be used as good transport ships at that time.

As for the question of where to order the shipbuilding, Yu Xiaotian also made a request, the silver money should be allocated to him, he chose the shipbuilding to order the shipbuilding, and then according to the situation, he paid for it.

This incident also caused quite a stir in the Fujian government, because the government has always ordered ships and weapons, and they have all been a system of their own, and it is rare for money to be directly allocated to military generals, who control and order them.

Because there are many people who want to benefit from this matter, Yu Xiaotian did this, obviously cutting off the way for some people to get rich.

As a result, the officials who were not involved for a while expressed their opposition one after another, thinking that Yu Xiaotian, a general, was really stretching his hand too long.

Xiong Wencan is quite embarrassed in this matter, if he does everything according to what Yu Xiaotian said, it will obviously offend many people, and it is also against tradition.

But Yu Xiaotian personally went to Fuzhou City, argued reasonably, and strongly stated the advantages of doing this, because the boat is something he will use in the future, and it is a major matter that the lives of his soldiers and generals are at stake, and he can't be a little sloppy.

And Yu Xiaotian also gave Xiong Wencan a detailed report on the situation of some warships captured before, although some warships have been ordered by Fujian officials before, but these warships have cut corners to varying degrees, or replace new materials with old ship materials from dismantling old ships, and the quality of ship construction is very problematic.

If you are not careful, some ships may not even be able to reach the destination, they may sink because of water leakage, because of the quality, many ships do not dare to encounter strong wind and waves, and if the wind and waves are slightly stronger, they may capsize.

And the main reason for this situation, in fact, Xiong Wencan is also very clear, that is, the officials in charge of the affairs eat and take cards at all levels, and the boss of the shipyard can't get the full amount of the ship's fare, so he naturally has to find a way to reduce losses, cutting corners is the norm, if the ships built in this way can be of good quality, it will be really strange, which is also the reason why Yu Xiaotian only selected a very small number of ships to keep after capturing many official warships.

Yu Xiaotian made it clear to Xiong Wencan that these ships were sharp weapons for him to guard the sea surface of Fujian for Xiong Wencan in the future, and if they were not handed over to him to personally supervise, he could not guarantee that the thieves would come out in the future.

Xiong Wencan heard it, this is a matter involving his career, so he finally tried his best to override public opinion, and handed over this matter to Yu Xiaotian to personally supervise, no one is allowed to interfere, the ship money can not be handed over to Yu Xiaotian, directly controlled by the governor's yamen, after the ship's shopkeeper is qualified, he can hold the procedures issued by Yu Xiaotian to the governor's yamen for settlement, so as to ensure the interests of the ship's liao, but also reduce the procedures in the middle.

Although there are still many people who are indignant and dissatisfied with this, they have nothing to say, because the money is controlled by the governor's yamen, and it was not handed over to Yu Xiaotian.

With such a large amount of shipbuilding costs, Xiong Wencan will definitely get some of them, they will fight, undoubtedly to take money from the governor, to put it bluntly, it is to seek skin with the tiger, then Xiong Wencan will be offended to the family, so even if they are unhappy, they dare not get along with Xiong Wencan.

Next, Yu Xiaotian sent people to find some shipyards, ordered shipbuilders among these ships, and directly built the deeply modified ship type, so that it could be loaded with more guns than the original and had stronger firepower.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian sent a supervisor to each shipyard, responsible for supervising the shipbuilding throughout the process, especially in terms of materials, which must meet the requirements, which is a bit like the military representatives sent to the military factory in later generations, but in this era, they are called supervisors, most of these people are craftsmen drawn from the shipyard of the sea wolf, or the old guy who has retired from the fleet.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotianxia issued a standard ship sample, and each ship was built according to the standard ship sample, resulting in a unified shape and similar performance, which has a good effect on large-scale naval formation operations in the future.

In addition to the naval affairs, Yu Xiaotian also strengthened the construction of the army, in the past, because of the constraints of resources and the influence of combat methods, the land division of the sea wolf was mainly equipped with muskets, musketeers accounted for a large proportion, but the personal protective armor equipped for the soldiers was very insufficient.

In the past, the sea wolf could only equip the soldiers with some leather armor as much as possible, and even the iron helmet was not fully equipped, so it could only be solved by using rattan helmets inlaid with iron sheets, although compared to the equipment level of most officers and soldiers in Fujian, this was already good, but Yu Xiaotian was not satisfied with this.

(Say hello to those who have been or are serving in the military today!) Brethren have worked hard! Another shout, monthly pass! I want a monthly pass! ）