The two of them talked about it for most of the night, although Sun Chuanting left the court and sat in Tiannan, but there are some things, Zhu Jie still likes to discuss with Sun Chuanting, after all, those who can understand Zhu Jie's intentions are Sun Chuanting, Li Yan and Xu Yifan who support Zhu Jie the most.

The next day, Zhu Jie did not stay much, rushed to Quanzhou again, there is an important matter in Quanzhou, that is, the newly built Quanzhou Bao Shipyard, now Quanzhou Bao Shipyard almost concentrates the best shipbuilding engineers and craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, the latest 3,500 materials of the giant ship is also built here, the second and third are also under construction at the same time, and will be completed soon, Zhu Jie estimated the time, almost, just in time to catch up with the two giant ships launched for sea trials.

And Quanzhou is still the first trade port of the Ming Dynasty, although Songjiang Mansion is now developing rapidly, but after all, Quanzhou is closer to the South Seas, the location is superior, for a while, Songjiang Mansion is still difficult to surpass the scale of Quanzhou Port, in order to be able to further control Quanzhou, even now the location of the governor Shu Xinchen's office has been moved to Quanzhou.

Zhu Jie stood on top of the Quanzhou Bao Shipyard, accompanied by Hu Yanlei personally, in order to complete the transformation of the three treasure shipyards, during this time, Hu Yanlei was very tired, and it was finally done, the future Quanzhou only supervised the construction of warships above the scale of the Tian-class warship, Songjiang Bao Shipyard was responsible for supervising the construction of Tian-class warships, and Longjiang Bao Shipyard was responsible for supervising the construction of ground-class warships and other small warships.

At the same time, with the vigorous development of the Ming trade, now in the south of the Yangtze River, there are several more private shipyards, the most powerful is the Mingzhou Shipyard built by Yanhuang Company, which is specially used to supervise the construction of large maritime merchant ships, and the strength is also not to be underestimated.

"Your Majesty, three days later, these two giant warships will be launched, and now the craftsmen are carrying out the final overhaul and debugging of these two giant ships, if these two giant ships are successfully put into service, the minister intends to supervise the construction of five giant warships at the same time in Quanzhou Bao Shipyard, and in one year, they can all be completed!"

Hu Yanlei said excitedly.

Zhu Jie was also full of joy, and said with a smile: "Hu Yanlei, supervise the construction of five giant warships at the same time, can your craftsmen and materials be supplied?" Can the quality be guaranteed? ”

Hu Yanlei said proudly: "The emperor can rest assured, after six or seven years, now the three treasure shipyards are full of talents, and it is no longer the embarrassing situation of the Longjiang Bao shipyard, not to mention the many Western craftsmen, the shipbuilding craftsmen and engineers of the Ming Dynasty who have grown up are countless, but the minister has taken hundreds of outstanding students from Yingtian Academy in one go, talent and quality are not a problem, the only defect is the problem of wood, the wood is too expensive now, the Dutch are especially stuck in our necks, and the price is sky-high. If it weren't for the fact that there was still some wood coming in from Dongying, it would be even more expensive! ”

Zhu Jie asked, "Oh? How much silver did that giant ship cost? ”

"Together with the artillery and ammunition, all down, fully loaded, it will cost about 150,000 taels of silver......

150,000 taels of silver!

Even Zhu Jie was taken aback, this is really not an ordinary expensive, he remembers that the construction of the Sea King in England is only more than 40,000 pounds, more than 100,000 taels of silver, you know, the displacement of the Sea King is 1,600 tons, nearly one-third larger than the latest warship!

"150,000 taels of silver, so much!"

Zhu Jie was shocked.

"It's not ......"

Hu Yanlei smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, in the first battle of Dongying, although our army won a great victory, but many problems were also found in the naval battle, our warships were too unstrong, not damaged in the artillery fire of Dongying, but were shocked by our own artillery to get a big problem, plus the original old ships, in the past four years, we have a total of sixty warships retired from active service, of course, these warships have been repaired by the Marquis of Xiongwu, reduced the artillery, and changed to ships to escort caravans, but a large number of warships withdrew, We need to add new warships, and in four years, we have supervised the construction of more than 120 warships, and spent nearly 4 million taels of silver......"

In four years, it cost four million taels of silver to build a ship alone, and if you add the military salary of more than two million taels of 60,000 troops of the two fleets, it is tens of millions of taels of silver!

Even Zhu Jie felt a toothache! Sure enough, the navy is a money-burning business, no wonder the Western countries are constantly expanding their aggression, and if they don't invade others, who can afford to raise such a huge fleet? The Ming Empire can't stand it, not to mention other countries, although the strength of Western countries is increasing now, but it can't be compared with the Ming Dynasty by relying on financial revenue alone.

"Build! No matter how much money you spend, you have to keep building! ”

Zhu Jie gritted his teeth and said.

"Your Majesty, we haven't named this new type of giant ship yet, you see ......?"

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice, "I don't care about this, let the bolt decide, check the bolt!" ”

Cha Zhu on the side hurriedly bowed down and said, "Your Majesty! ”

Zhu Jie continued: "In the future, our warship structure needs to be further standardized, the original battleship sequence is too chaotic, next, adjust the system, cancel the current Tian-class, Earth-level titles, and change it to a special warship, a first-class battleship, a second-class battleship, and a third-class battleship, a super-class battleship, the displacement needs to reach 4,000 materials, and it can be temporarily shortage; The first-class battleship is set at the 3,000-material level, and the original heaven-class battleship can be included in it; Second-class warships are more than 2,000 materials and less than 3,000 materials, and ground-level warships can be included; The number of third-level battleships is less than 2,000, and the number of third-level battleships must be controlled in the future, and the giant ship heavy artillery side is the future development direction. The special class battleship is the flagship of the fleet, the first class battleship is the main battleship, and the second class battleship and the third class battleship are the secondary main frigates! ”

"Obey the order!"

Cha Zhu hurriedly agreed.

Zhu Jie continued: "Okay, this treasure shipyard, I have seen it almost, let's go, let's go to the trade port and walk around at will, we will go to the palace in a while, and we are talking......"

Everyone accompanied Zhu Jie to leave the treasure shipyard, to Quanzhou Port, full of cruising merchant ships, since the release of the sea ban, Quanzhou City has become one of the most prosperous trade ports in the world, every day there are more than 100 merchant ships docked at the shore, extremely prosperous!

Zhu Jie couldn't stop nodding, Quanzhou, this is the engine of Daming's development, and how many benefits the prosperous trade has brought to the people of Daming!

"Your Majesty, you have been running around for days, but you have worked hard, it is better to go back and rest first, the minister has already prepared a banquet at the governor's yamen......

Shu Xinchen said with a smile on the side.

(End of chapter)