"Everything is done?"

In the imperial study, Zhu Jie sat on a chair, looked at Li Yan, and asked in a deep voice.

Li Yan nodded and replied: "Your Majesty, everything is done, the Ming Dynasty has given up the exclusive agency of Dongying, and the four Western countries are willing to pay seven million taels of silver for this, as compensation, and the agreement has been signed in the afternoon, waiting for the signatures of various countries to take effect." ”

Zhu Jie slowly stood up, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Li Yan, this is strength, if you don't have strength, you can only be beaten passively, that is, now Daming's internal and external troubles are all swept away, and he holds the two elites of the Tianwei Army and the Tianxiong Army, if it weren't for this, how could we retreat so easily this time?" ”

The corners of Li Yan's mouth brought a trace of bitterness, from beginning to end, the emperor did not participate in this matter, and it was all handed over to himself and Gao Hongtu, why? Aggrieved, the emperor has almost never been so aggrieved, the threat of being blocked at the door of his house to show off his might, and finally having to give in and share the interests of Dongying with other countries, what is seven million taels of silver? It seems like a lot, but it's really nothing compared to the income generated by Dongying every year!

Nest fire, it is really nest fire to the extreme!

I saw Gao Jie yesterday, and Gao Jie pointed at his nose and sprayed angrily together, fortunately, Qin Mufeng is not in Beijing, if this kid is in Beijing, I am afraid that he will be turned upside down!

Li Yan said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, lie down and taste the courage, endure humiliation, now we need such a buffer period, if we have five years, we can wipe out all the forces of the four Western countries in the South Seas, if there is ten years, our naval fleet will be able to surpass the Dutch and the English, endure the anger for a while, what's the matter, a few years later, we will take the Ming Xiongshi to the doorstep of the Western Ocean to show off our might!" ”

"Well said!"

Zhu Jie said in a loud voice, "The ancients said that ten years of life and ten years of lessons, we will not need such a long time to accumulate national strength, reorganize the army and military forces, and after five years, we can compete with the world powers!" ”

Five years, this is the deadline set by Zhu Jie for himself, according to the production rate of more than ten first-class warships and fifteen second-class warships in the Ming Empire every year, five years later, the Ming Empire will once again have a second fleet comparable to the Ming fleet, and the number of warships has reached more than three hundred, although only these warships are not enough to compare with the main fleet of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and there is no super huge main flagship like the King of the Sea of England, but the super firepower on the main battleship of the Ming Dynasty, It can also make up for the lack of combat power.

In five years, even if it can't compete with the main fleet of the Western powers, then it must be enough to dominate the Eastern World and let the Ming fleet go out completely!

Although the main warships of the Western powers have reached a displacement of more than 1,000 tons, such a main warship sent to the Eastern world is still rare, whether it is the Dutch or the Spaniards, most of their fleets are formed by the colonists themselves, although the main battleships are no worse than the main battleships of the Ming fleet, but the main battleships with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons are still too few.

1,000 tons, it is also the standard displacement of the main battleships of the Ming Empire such as today's class, however, for the Ming Dynasty, the tonnage standard of the Ming Dynasty's general warships is completely different from hope, even the Ming himself is dizzy, the concept of material is not a clear concept at all, from the Great Song Dynasty to the present, after repeated changes, even Zhu Jie is often dizzy by those craftsmen, so that Zhu Jie has to reformulate the weights and measures standards of the shipbuilding industry, and forcibly stipulate that a material is the weight of a piece of wood, and the displacement is calculated in tons. The standard displacement of 1,000 tons is equivalent to the displacement of 3,000 materials of wood.

According to this calculation, the 2,500 Tian-class battleships only have a displacement of more than 800 tons, which is just quite the same compared to the main battleships of the Western Fleet, but in the Western Ocean, it has now reached the time of the Anglo-Dutch War, and in the Anglo-Dutch War, the main warships owned by the Dutch are close to 200! England also had more than a hundred ships, and as for the second-class warships, the number was even greater.

Take England as an example, almost all the ships of England's colonial merchant ships are equipped with artillery, and the power is not small, the Ming Empire wants to reach such a tonnage level, there is still a long way to go, giant ships, it is not so easy to say that they can be built, at least, for more than 100 years since the sea ban, the craftsmen, experience, technology, and docks of the Ming Dynasty have almost been lost, if it is not for a large number of Western craftsmen from the South Sea or even the Western Ocean, it is very difficult to build a heaven-class battleship.

However, now Li Yan is not worried about these, the emperor is above, just doing a hundred years of strategic planning, but the implementation of the implementation is he and Sun Chuanting, the two ministers, technology is not a problem, now in the Ming Dynasty Western craftsmen have exceeded 1,000 people, language communication has not been too much of a barrier, there are a few years of development, the Ming craftsmen will also develop, the wisdom of the Han people has never been lost to the Westerners, now the only thing to worry about is wood!

To build a giant ship, the wood needed is not ordinary trees can be used, especially the wood used to make keels and rudders, most of them are iron pear wood, over the years, the wood consumption in the south is too strong, especially the war has hit the southern mountains and forests, so that now the price of domestic timber is often doubled, even if it is doubled, it is often priceless, this is the most fatal.

"Emperor Qi, the rest of the ministers are not worried, but the wood for building ships is a big problem, the beams and timbers for building giant ships in the Ming Dynasty are getting less and less, the price of building a giant ship of 2,000 materials in the past is only 20,000 taels of silver, according to the current trend, I am afraid that after five years, 50,000 taels of silver may not be enough, and we are now in short supply of wood, even if there is silver, there is not enough wood to use......"

There was a trace of worry in the corner of Li Yan's eyes, this is definitely a hidden danger, there is not enough wood, how can the Ming fleet develop rapidly?

Zhu Jie frowned, this is a serious problem, such as iron pear wood, the texture is solid, there is no more than a hundred years, it is difficult to grow, that is to say, in a short period of time, it is almost impossible to change the lack of wood, there is only one way, that is to buy!

"Li Yan, issued an order to Yanhuang Company, there are only two tasks next year, the purchase of shipbuilding timber and grain, the more the better, the climate in the South Seas is hot and rainy, the most suitable for tree growth However, there are a large number of timber production in the Indonesian archipelago, Siam, and Luzon, and at the same time ordered, Liangguang and Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou six provinces closed mountains and forests, and remained unchanged for fifty years, and there is also the north, prohibiting large-scale felling of timber, telling the people, cutting down a tree, and replanting two! Anyway, what we have is silver, and the seven million taels of silver that are about to arrive will be set up and allocated to the shipyard every year to supervise the construction of warships! ”

ps: Add a new chapter today, half past seven, add more on time.

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