It's not that these maritime merchants are stupid, knowing that Chu Yi is not easy to provoke and they have to go against Chu Yi one by one, but they are simply reluctant to make that terrible profiteering, for the sake of profiteering, even if they know that Chu Yi is a cannibal tiger, they have to be the one who slaughters the tiger.

It is not unusual for the Gu family to have saved millions of family property by smuggling in maritime trade for a hundred years, and although the Qin and Han families are not as good as the Gu family, they are also the maritime merchant families in Fujian, so it is reasonable to say that the two families have confiscated millions of family wealth.

Cheng Xiangwu was not excited about those gold and silver things, but nearly 100,000 mu of land, if you add the 50,000 mu of fertile land of the Gu family, it adds up to 1340,000 mu of land.

If all these fertile fields are rewarded to the officers and men of the Jing Navy, the Jing Navy will have a quota of 10,000 yuan, and even an ordinary soldier will be able to obtain at least 10 acres of fertile land, which is enough for the Jing Navy to work hard.

Looking at Chu Yi, Cheng Xiangwu said excitedly: "Please also ask the overseer to give the army a certain number of acres, and the last general dares to guarantee that as long as the acres are given, an elite army can definitely be trained within half a year." ”

Cheng Xiangwu stared at Chu Yi with burning eyes.

Chu Yi nodded slightly and said, "Since this is the case, this governor ordered that Tian Mu be rewarded to the officers and soldiers in the army in the name of the Son of Heaven." ”

Cheng Xiangwu immediately bowed down to Chu Yi and said: "The last general and the lieutenant general of the army bow to thank the Son of Heaven for his great kindness, long live Your Majesty, long live the Governor!" ”

Chu Yi waved his hand and said, "Okay, you just need to help the master train the army." ”

Cheng Xiangwu arched his hand and said: "I will live up to the expectations of the overseer!" ”

Cheng Xiangwu left, and Fang Li, Qi Hu, and Gu Bing walked into the camp tent and saluted Chu Yi.

Fang Li said to Chu Yi: "Governor, the Qin and Han families have been confiscated, and there are more than 500 descendants of the two families, and they are now imprisoned in the military camp, just waiting for the Governor to be released." ”

Chu Yi nodded and glanced at Gu Bing and said, "Gu family master, do the three of you have shipyards?" ”

Ships are definitely the foundation of maritime commerce, and it is okay for small maritime merchants with only three or two ships to make a small fuss, but maritime merchants such as the Gu family, the Qin family, and the Han family have dozens or hundreds of ships, and they are afraid that they will not be able to meet the loss of ships at sea by purchasing them alone, so Chu Yi guessed that the three families have their own shipyards.

Gu Bing was slightly stunned, nodded and said, "Back to the Governor, the three of us have our own shipyards in Xiamen Port. ”

Chu Yi chuckled: "If this Governor orders you to merge the three shipyards into one, and then provide enough materials for shipbuilding, how many ships can the shipyard launch in a year?" ”

Gu Bing took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "How much can be launched, Gu doesn't dare to deceive the overseer, after all, it depends on what kind of big ship the superintendent builds, but the time required for merchant ships and warships to build ships is different, even if it is a merchant ship, it is divided into sizes, there are no specifications, Gu really doesn't dare to judge." ”

Chu Yi said with a smile: "But it was the governor's negligence, in this case, the governor ordered you to set up the Xiamen Shipyard, you are the director of the Xiamen Shipyard, and the official is the seventh grade!" ”

Slightly stunned, Gu Bing reacted, his face showed a bit of surprise, and he bowed respectfully to Chu Yi: "Gu Bing bows to the Lord of the Governor!" ”

With a flick of his hand, Gu Bing got up.

Chu Yi looked at Fang Li and said, "Fang Cai Ding Wu Boyan confiscated the wealth of the Qin and Han families this time, and got five million taels of silver, but is this?" ”

Fang Li nodded and said, "The specific geometry of the property is still in the statistical accounting, but it can be roughly determined that it is at least five million taels." ”

Chu Yi slowly took two steps and raised his head and said: "One million taels of silver will be used as the salary of the Jing Navy for the next two years, and the remaining four million taels of silver will be used to purchase the raw materials needed for shipbuilding and put them into the Xiamen shipyard. ”

Gu Bing gasped and said in horror: "Overseer, if you want to build such a fleet, if there is only one shipyard, I am afraid that it may not be able to be built in ten years, and millions of taels of silver are not enough for shipbuilding." ”

Chu Yi nodded and said, "This Governor naturally knows this, this Governor will build a few shipyards in the coastal areas, and at the same time activate several shipyards in the interior, in the past, Emperor Chengzu could build Zheng He's treasure fleet, why can't this Governor build a huge fleet that surpasses Zheng He's fleet?" ”

At this time, the Western Navigation prevailed, on the vast sea, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands and even the future empire of the sun never sets, are crazy to develop the navy, if the Ming Dynasty is closed to the country again, do not catch up, I am afraid that it will not be many years, the Western warships will appear in the coastal land of the Ming Dynasty.

You must know that even now, there have been traces of Westerners' warships along the coast of Daming, and the Francophone cannon was also introduced to Daming at this time.

In order to build Zheng He's fleet, Cheng Zu spent tens of millions of taels in more than ten years, and Chu Yi wanted to build a fleet that surpassed Zheng He's fleet, and the amount of silver he had to consume was probably one or two million taels.

This is indeed an extremely large and astonishing investment, even if it is Cheng Zuna, it took more than ten years to build such a behemoth-like fleet on the sea, which is equivalent to investing one or two million taels of silver every year.

And Chu Yi obviously didn't have the patience to wait for more than ten or twenty years, he wanted to build a sea fleet in two or three years, which meant that he would have to invest one or two million taels of silver in two or three years.

When Chu Yi expressed his ambition, all the people in the big tent showed a sluggish look on their faces, if it weren't for Chu Yi's calm expression, they would all wonder if Chu Yi was talking in his sleep.

Tang Yin, who rarely spoke, couldn't help but speak at this time, and looked at Chu Yi with a worried face and said, "Overseer, that's as much as one or two million pieces of silver, I'm afraid that the princes of the court will not agree at all!" ”

If it is really according to Chu Yi's plan, it means that almost three or four million taels of silver will be invested every year, and above the court, the civil and military officials will definitely not agree to invest so much gold and silver in shipbuilding.

Fang Li squinted his eyes thoughtfully.

Gu Bing's face was shocked, he really didn't expect Chu Yi to have such great courage, but he was also worried about Chu Yi.

A large fleet is not only built, but also more terrible is the post-maintenance, which can be said to be more amazing than the investment in shipbuilding, and years of maintenance are even enough to rebuild a fleet.

Chu Yi waved his hand and said, "Since this governor dares to think like this, he naturally has a way to raise enough funds to build such a fleet. ”

Saying that, Chu Yi looked at Gu Bing and chuckled: "As long as such a fleet is built, I think the Gu family master should know the huge profits at sea that can be harvested by the time." ”

Gu Bing sighed lightly and nodded slowly: "If the Overseer can really build such a fleet, supplemented by elite soldiers, the harvest will far exceed the investment. ”

Chu Yi knew better than anyone what amazing benefits he could reap from having a large and powerful fleet in this era.

Dongying's Iwami Silver Mountain, American silver and many mineral deposits, and even overseas trade, it can even be said that if it is more ruthless, many small countries overseas, all the way to the past, the wealth of one country after another, how amazing it will be.

Of course, this is not Chu Yi's ultimate goal, the reason why he has to build a huge fleet is that on the one hand, if the Ming Dynasty wants not to take the old road, he must choose to open the sea to compete with the West, and more importantly, Chu Yi wants to lead the fleet to overseas countries.

He wanted to see if he could gain luck if he could affect the small countries overseas, and if he could harvest the luck, Chu Yi would not mind destroying those small countries overseas.

Fang Li squinted, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, Tang Yin couldn't help frowning when he saw it: "Fang Li, the Overseer's move is too crazy, you are highly valued by the Overseer, why don't you persuade the Overseer to think twice!" ”

Fang Li glanced at Tang Yin and said with a slight smile: "It's nothing more than raising tens of millions of taels of silver, it may be difficult for others, but for the Overseer, it's really not that difficult." ”

Looking at the strange divine light flickering in Fang Li's eyes, Tang Yin was not a fool, and suddenly reacted, and his heart was full of waves.

Today, the Gu, Qin, and Han families have as much as seven or eight million taels of silver, and they only need to find a few maritime families to copy their homes.

Even Tang Yin felt that Chu Yi didn't need to take the initiative to find the trouble of those maritime merchants, and those maritime merchants themselves would send the handle to Chu Yi's hands.

At this time, Tang Yin thought of the Lin family, when Cao Shaoqin interrogated Lin Guangwen before, Tang Yin witnessed it as a clerk and listened to the plan of the Lin family in Zhejiang against Chu Yi.

The Lin clan is the real maritime merchant family, plus the large and small maritime merchant families gathered around the Lin clan, once these people do something wrong, Tang Yin can imagine how much suppression those maritime merchant families will face by Chu Yi.

When the time comes, it is just a matter of waiting for leisure, with the wealth of these maritime merchants, let alone tens of millions of taels of silver, I am afraid that it will not be a problem to double it again.

Tang Yin sighed lightly in his heart, maybe Chu Yi's actions to raid his family and exterminate his clan seem ruthless, but in fact, none of those who were raided and exterminated were wronged, they were all moths of the country, and it was beneficial to the country to kill them, otherwise there would not be a small number of loyal officials among the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and China who were willing to support Chu Yi.

Gu Bing looked at Chu Yi, his face showed a little hesitation, obviously he had something to say, but he had scruples.

Seeing this, Chu Yi turned to Gu Bing and said, "Does the Gu family master have anything to say?" ”

Gu Bing took a deep breath and bowed down to Chu Yi and said, "Gu Bing is brave and begs the Overseer to only punish the direct relatives of the Qin and Han families. ”

Cao Shaoqin's eyes narrowed and he couldn't help but stare at Gu Bing, and Gu Bing suddenly had a feeling of being targeted by a poisonous snake.

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