In September, after Liu Ye got the news from Yecheng, his face was also a little strange.

Originally, Liu Ye thought that the high price would make Wei State take a long time to prepare, but the news that Liu Ye got was that Cao Cao ordered him to urge Chu State to complete the transaction as soon as possible!

For a while, Liu Ye was even a little nervous, wondering if he had forgotten to write "100 million" when he wrote the letter, so he checked the manuscript again and again......

Although he didn't know exactly what happened, Liu Ye also guessed that there were new policies in Yecheng.

However, since Yecheng passed the letter, Liu Ye did it.

The household department didn't expect that Wei Guo was so rich, and even faintly blamed himself - he would have asked for a higher price if he had known it!

After Bai Tu learned that Wei was in a hurry to make a deal through the letter of the Ministry of Households, he first went to the Ministry of Industry to see the progress of the new ship, and then ...... Notify the Ministry of Households, let Liu Ye go to the Ministry of Rites to talk, and then inform the Ministry of Rites that if Liu Ye comes, let him go to the Ministry of Household to talk.

After all, it will take at least another year or two for the "Pan True Gas Project" to supply energy to large steam engines before it can achieve initial results, and it will only be used in a limited amount after three years.

And at present, whether it is a train or an armored ship, it is only designed on the drawings.

Although Pang Tong used his own tactics to simulate and verify, but if he really wants to build it, it means that thousands of tons of steel consumables are often used - the Chu State no longer takes 120 catties as one stone, but takes 100 catties as one stone, and sets another 100 stones as one ton, which is equivalent to about 2.5 tons in later generations.

As for the unit of volume, take Hu as the standard, separate the concepts of "Hu" and "stone", and take the volume of one stone of water as one Hu.

Even the iron ore traded in Liaodong has been refined and hoarded in Zhouhu now, and the quantity is ...... It was enough to make the major princes who were distressed by thousands of sets of plate armor despair...... At the same time, there are already several large stamping machines, but to build armored ships, even if it is only a few in the single digits, is by no means a situation of a month or two.

Bai Tu didn't mean to break the contract, but at least drag it out until the "one-year" time limit agreed in the contract, and then trade the sample ship - what Wei wanted was actually only a sample ship.

As for the other ships, they will be delivered slowly in three years, and they will be able to be towed until the armored ship is launched in Zhouhu.

And now there is still enough oil-soaked wood, which is enough to build the fourth generation of sea ships, and there is also some progress in anti-corrosion painting, and in the long run, it is not a loss to manufacture the fourth generation of sail wooden ships.

Only a few people know that in fact...... The improvement of the four generations of sea ships of the Chu State was limited, because Pang Tong and other "main forces" all designed steam armored ships at all levels, and the sail wooden ships had been reduced to the "second-line project" of the Ministry of Industry.

But it can still be made, after all, the number of armored ships will not be too much, and sail wooden ships are still a good addition, and ...... It can also act as a smoke screen.

Recently, the Chu State incident that Bai Tu wants to decide is the "crossbow gun dispute" of the Ministry of Industry, which has become more and more intense, and it is time to make a choice!

This decision could not only be made by looking at the report and without much reference to the opinions of the six departments, but decided to take the representatives of the Privy Council to the testing ground at that time......

See for yourself how the two sides compare in terms of practicality!

As for the cost? Directly quantified as the number of equipment, the generals will naturally be able to understand.

When is the "then"?

Just next month, I was mainly waiting for Gan Ning to come back......

In other armies, the generals who are in command of the troops abroad and cannot rush back to Jinling will miss it, after all, it is the same when other generals come to evaluate.

However, in the navy, the only one who can be called a master tactician is Gan Ning.

The one who knows most about naval warfare and warships is also Gan Ning.

Therefore, to decide on the armament to equip warships and arm the navy in the future, Gan Ning's opinion is naturally indispensable......

The first batch of pioneers have arrived in Bozhou, and after initially gaining a foothold in half a year, Gan Ning finally set off and returned.

Compared with the time spent "searching" Bozhou, it took less than a month to return through Zhouhu according to the established navigation route......

In October of the second year of the Chu calendar, Gan Ning returned to Yangzhou with the main force of the navy, and these pioneers were welcomed differently in the port - the folk propaganda has gradually worked, even for the Chu people who have families and land, it is difficult to mobilize their desire to take the initiative to go to sea, but for the pioneers, most of them have respect and even worship.

This also made some young men, even conceal the elders in the family, and sign up for the wasteland army on their own initiative......

However, the Privy Council also stipulates that in principle, only children who have elderly people to support are not allowed to apply.

Gan Ning was also stunned by this welcome gesture, and at the same time ...... Glad that I was prepared this time, I left a gorgeous dress that I didn't wear, so that I wouldn't wear those washed clothes and be embarrassed and conspicuous.

At the same time, people spread out their own exclusive splendid carpets, which is very inconsistent with the values of the show back high-profile luxury......

In fact, the state of Chu rarely publicized the "rich and oily" of overseas pioneering, and restricted the spontaneous development of non-governmental teams, and the participation of wealthy families in the group was also delineated with special development tasks and scopes.

Although this makes it more difficult to mobilize motivation, it is ...... Bai Tu did not dare to let the civil society mess around, after all, far away from the mainland, the supervision capacity of the Chu State would also be greatly reduced.

Baitu has the confidence to take his time, and does not need to overdraw humanity as a driving force for development.

The best partner of mankind, in addition to science and technology, also has the brilliance of humanity and morality, especially after the explosion of science and technology - the technology in the white picture hard drive, one day it will be used up, and even in the information age of later generations, the speed of scientific and technological development will gradually flatten out, waiting for the next "big bang".

For the current state of Chu, Bai Tu does not think that it is a good thing to hurt the people's sense of morality in exchange for development.

The state of Chu now restricts the conditions for civil groups to join the development, and only encourages immigration to the area under the jurisdiction of the governor's palace, which is nominally to protect the people of Chu, but in fact it is the protection of overseas races, and in essence, it is the protection of the fledgling "Chu studies".

Bai Tu also believes that after "Chu Studies" really gain a firm foothold in the hearts of the people, it will also protect the Chu State at the humanistic level.

Far away from the Chu State itself, especially away from the direct jurisdiction of the Governor's Palace, the constraints of "Chu Xue" are even stronger than those of "Chu Law......

Of course, Bai Tu did not deliberately stop Gan Ning's luxury, after all, Gan Ning's glory was what he deserved, and the state of Chu only suppressed and criticized the predatory nature of overseas expansion, but encouraged consumption and encouraged the struggle for a better life for himself, rather than blindly advocating frugality.

There are many people who are not used to Gan Ning's style, but they can't help him, and there are more people who please him now.

Bai Tu had already been waiting for him to come back outside Jinling City......

This is a routine welcome to the returning naval officers, and now Bai Tu has also learned to be smart, and only waits for him in the "city" of Jinling, that is, the first ring.

Before that, from the port to the workshop area, Gan Ning could show off his wealth without worrying about overshadowing the limelight of Baitu.

Of course, in fact, Gan Ning has never had this kind of worry, so he is willing to spend most of the time at sea for the Chu State, but Bai Tu is actively avoiding stealing the spotlight with him in order to "avoid" Gan Ning's limelight.