"Yes, this kid is very shrewd!"

Xu Yifan smiled bitterly: "At least he is much more shrewd than Mu Feng, Mu Feng's guy only cares about the pleasure in front of him, and he doesn't think about anything else, no wonder he has been looking for Lao Cha to work hard......"

Zhu Jie's face was straight, and he said: "Don't talk about this, just get to the point; The strength of every maritime fleet in the Western countries should not be underestimated, Spain, the Netherlands, England, France and even Portugal, their warships are not only large, but also numerous, taking England as an example, now their main warships of more than 3,000 should be more than 100, not to mention the auxiliary warships, I don't know how many, especially the Sea King, that is, their king Charles I spent 40,000 pounds, oh, no, you don't understand, it is almost three or four hundred thousand taels of silver to oversee the ......"

Three or four hundred thousand taels?

Xu Yifan felt that his eyes were dark, wiped it, no wonder he was able to create such a behemoth, it could waste money so much, when the imperial court bought a capital warship from the Dutch, it only cost 100,000 taels of silver......

If he and the emperor ask the household to pay for it and spend three or four hundred thousand taels of silver to build a battleship, I am afraid that Shi Kefa and Huang Zongxi will directly fight with themselves, the emperor can't afford to provoke him, and he will fight to the death for himself, it will definitely not be polite, those two guys will die of slamming the door, and the court will never be allowed to waste money so much!

If these two sentences made Xu Yifan feel black in front of him, then Zhu Jie's next words directly made Xu Yifan sit on the chair.

"Of course, the strongest navy is not England now, the strongest should be the Dutch, England has about a hundred capital warships, but the Dutch should not have less than two ......hundred capital warships."

Two hundred capital warships, all of which are large warships like 3,000 materials, it would be terrible, I am afraid that the Imperial Naval Division and the Fujian Naval Division together are not the opponents of the Dutch main fleet, definitely not opponents, not an order of magnitude at all!

"Also, the most terrifying thing is the strength of the Dutch at sea, do you know how many seafaring merchant ships are registered in our Ming Dynasty? No more than three thousand, however, how many of the Dutch are in the whole world? More than 10,000 ships! At least five times as much as ours! You must know that all the sea ships in the whole world combined, there are no more than 40,000 ......"

Can Xu Yifan not get sick? According to what his boss said, the Dutch are so powerful, the merchant ships of their country alone have accounted for one-third of the world, or even a lot more, more than 200 main warships of more than 3,000 materials, this strength is too different, not ordinarily big, look at the Ming Dynasty, the merchant ships are only less than one-third of the people, and I believe that the scale of this merchant ship is definitely not as big as the Dutch, as for the warships, now the battleships of 3,000 materials, the imperial naval division and the Fujian naval division combined, I'm afraid that it won't be possible to get out even twenty ships......

"Your Majesty, with such a big gap, do you still want to cross the seas? Do you still want to go on an expedition to the East, to the South Seas, or even to the West? Don't be kidding, I'm afraid that if we can't reach the West, we'll be wiped out......"

Xu Yifan was completely frightened, not that Xu Yifan was timid, but that the gap was too big, according to the emperor's words, this is a tenfold gap, and there is a five- or six-fold gap at worst, these gaps can not be smoothed out just by virtue of a momentary blood, not to mention that the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are good at land warfare, once they enter the sea, they will all be numb claws, who has experience in sea warfare? Even if you don't check the bolt, you can't do it......

"Big gap?"

Xu Yifan said with a smile: "Yifan, can you imagine that as early as a hundred years ago, the gap between us and the West is the gap between the West and us?" At that time, our treasure ships had reached more than 3,000 materials, and even reached 5,000 materials, at that time, Zheng He's fleet had more than 100 large and small ships, and more than 60 main warships, all of which were large ships of two or three thousand materials. As long as our monarchs and ministers work together, they are all Western powers, even if they join forces, they can't help us! ”

Xu Yifan is a long insight today, more than a hundred years, from the Ming Dynasty more than ten times the gap of the West, reversed to the West more than ten times the Ming Dynasty, this Nima, in the past hundred years, what have the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty done? Do you know that you eat and sleep every day, eat and wait for death?

"Your Majesty, can I take down the first emperor with a belly? What do these people eat in this Nima! Don't talk about the emperor, even a special person is not worthy of being ......"

Xu Yifan was really angry.

"Shut up!"

Zhu Jie didn't have a good breath and said, "This Nima is so good, these people are still my ancestors and ancestors in name, do you want to even dig up the ancestral grave?" ”

"Ten years,"

Zhu Jie gestured for a moment, and then said: "As long as ten years, you and I are willing to work hard, I will have enough confidence to reverse this situation!" Isn't the gap just made up for by hard work? ”

Xu Yifan took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the minister understands, ten years, that is, ten years, even if the minister is tired to death, he must catch up with the West!" However, it is not enough to boast about Haikou, and the minister found that what we are lagging behind now is not only these warships and artillery, but also ideas, all the concepts and knowledge involved in navigation and naval warfare, which is why you should go all out to promote the ban on opening the sea even if the government and the opposition oppose it, right? ”

"Clever!"

Zhu Jie said with a smile: "Yifan, I like you this point, a little bit is thorough, we have been banned from the sea for more than a hundred years, do not trade with the outside world, the Ming Dynasty has not even supervised the construction of any more than 2,000 sea ships and warships in the past hundred years, and it is strictly forbidden to go to sea to trade, not to mention development, even many shipbuilding processes in the past have been lost, not to mention, Western shipbuilding technology, can not flow in at all, sail against the current, do not advance or retreat." Therefore, I not only want to reopen the sea ban, but also prepare to build two academies in Yingtian and Shuntian, and use all kinds of talents from the Western network, learn from the strengths of others, and help my family's shortcomings! ”

"Your Majesty, this alone is not enough, we need to fill more elites into the sailors, not only to expedition to the east, but also to use all the opportunities and strength to let the sailors go to sea to fight, all the elites in the world are killed from actual combat, if you want the sailors to mature as soon as possible, you must prepare the whetstone!"

(End of chapter)