"Haotian, the matter of silver is not a problem for us to worry about, naturally let the emperor find a way, when did he ever lack silver?"

Cha Xuan said lightly, "Lord Yang, your idea is good, however, we are not very familiar with Fujian Province, do you have a shipyard that you like?" ”

Yang Geng hesitated for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "Yes, the best shipyard is in Quanzhou, however, this shipyard is the Zheng family's own shipyard, the scale can be called the first in Fujian, the shipbuilding craftsmen alone are more than 1,000 people, more than two-thirds of the warships of the Fujian Navy Division, more than half of the merchant ships of the Zheng family, are produced by this shipyard, for this shipyard, the Zheng family alone has invested more than one million taels of silver, and has trained a large number of skilled shipbuilding craftsmen, the only fly in the ointment is, It turned out that Zheng Zhilong had always believed in wolf tactics and fire attack tactics, so the Fujian Navy Division did not produce large warships, and the largest scale was only fifteen or six hundred, and the dock had to be expanded, and it was necessary to recruit excellent craftsmen with the ability to design large warships......"

The shipyard of the Zheng family!

Cha Xuan's heart was shocked, this Zheng Zhilong really hasn't lost any money over the years, just a shipyard is willing to throw in millions of taels of silver, what about the rest? The Zheng family's money is even more incredible, rich and rivals the country, it is the Zheng family, and it is really worthy of its reputation.

It's just that now the imperial court has just seized the military power of Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui, and even the Fujian Navy Division has been merged, and now it is about to move towards the Zheng family's shipyard, I am afraid that the emperor will not agree, but it is easy to arouse the extreme dissatisfaction of the Zheng family.

Moreover, the Zheng family's investment alone has exceeded one million taels, and if they want to buy the shipyard without paying out millions of taels of silver, they are afraid that it will not work, and if they rebuild the dock and recruit craftsmen, this expenditure will only cost two million taels of silver.

Can the current imperial court afford it?

"Lord Yang, isn't there any other shipyard for us to merge?"

Cha asked.

"Something else?"

Yang Geng replied: "Master Inspector, of course this is there, but even if there is, what if there is?" In the whole of Fujian, there are not hundreds, but dozens, but these shipyards are either located inland, which is the same as the problem faced by Longjiang Bao Shipyard, or the scale is too small, compared to the shipyard of the Zheng family, I am afraid that even half of the scale can not catch up, or even less than one-third of the scale, such a shipyard, the imperial court bought it, and it is still under construction, compared to buying the Zheng family shipyard directly, it is definitely a good policy......"

Cha Zhu shook his head bitterly, and replied: "In this case, Lord Yang, you come to write, we will first write a charter, and we will complete it tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow we will send it directly to the capital, and, in addition to this matter, we also have to allocate flintlock muskets for the soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division, the emperor's requirement is that at least more than half of the troops of the Navy Division must be equipped with muskets, and all the troops of the Marine Battalion are equipped with flintlock muskets, which is not a small number, together, it will exceed 30,000 muskets, and it is not enough to rely on Nanjing's inventory alone, I need to transfer some of it from the capital again! ”

In two days, after asking the opinions of some of the following admirals, the three of them made a little rhetoric, transcribed the recital, and sent people directly to the capital.

A few days later, Zhu Jie got the recital handed over by Cha Bolt.

After reading the recital, Zhu Jie handed it to Sun Chuanting, and scolded with a smile: "This check, I asked him to train and rectify the navy, he is good, he has other hearts, and he actually went up to the court to build a new shipyard again......

Sun Chuanting's face was full of astonishment, and said: "Your Majesty, although the minister is not familiar with maritime affairs, he still knows something about the shipyard, not to mention anything else, Longjiang Shipyard, how many silver taels did the emperor invest in it in order to revitalize Longjiang Shipyard?" Hundreds of thousands of taels, and now Lord Cha Xuan actually wants the imperial court to build a new shipyard again, is this a joke? Where can the imperial court get so much silver now? ”

Huang Zongxi's face on the side turned green, and he asked the imperial court to build a shipyard? Just kidding, he really doesn't take the money of the court as money, and now he is already poor and wants to be pants......

"Your Majesty, you know, if the Yanhuang Company does not come out of this file, it can still pay dividends of nearly one million taels of silver to the imperial court at the end of the year, and the treasury can barely plug the gap, and now it is impossible for the Yanhuang Company to pay dividends this year, and it is already going to burn high incense if it is not closed, we are too late to deal with the financial gap in the second half of the year, where is there more silver taels to build a treasure shipyard?"

Xu Yifan also frowned, this is too inopportune, I don't know if there is no silver in the imperial court now?

Zhu Jie said indifferently: "Don't be in a hurry to deny, I only ask you to build another Longjiang Treasure Shipyard, for Daming, is the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, or the disadvantages outweigh the advantages?" ”

Xu Yifan hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, there is no doubt about it, you have already told the ministers about the former, now all the powerful countries in the West are working hard to supervise the construction of large warships, the main warships are more than 2,000 giant ships, and even 3,000 giant ships are constantly being built, but the imperial court now only has one Longjiang Bao Shipyard that can barely supervise the construction of warships and merchant ships of this level, how is this enough?" Cha Zhu said that he would build such a treasure shipyard in Fujian, compared to taking this problem into account, supervising the construction of the sea, so that the dock can not be restricted by geography, not to mention the giant ship of 3,000 materials, even if it is a giant ship of 5,000 materials, as long as the technology is mature, it can definitely be built! It's just that this time is a little inappropriate, and the expenses of the imperial court in all aspects are inevitably too great, so happy, but it is a taboo for politics......"

Zhu Jie glanced at Xu Yifan and didn't speak, Xu Yifan was a little anxious, it seems that the emperor is really tempted, this is a big investment!

"Li Yan, what do you think?"

Zhu Jie asked.

Li Yan shook his head with a wry smile and replied: "Your Majesty, the minister is just a secretary of the ministry, this matter is related to the military department, the affairs of the Shoufu, the affairs of the household department, and the affairs of the Ministry of Works, it has nothing to do with the ministers, why do you ...... it?"

"Nonsense, in addition to the official secretary, you are also a cabinet scholar, and all state affairs in the court must listen to the opinions of you people, and you can say anything!"

Li Yan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the ministers didn't have time to read this concerto......

(End of chapter)