Chapter 418: Guanglong Shipyard
From here, it can be seen that the strength of the Fulong County Navy is actually able to fight against two and still have the upper hand. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Of course, although the Guanglong County Navy and the Haidong County Navy have more defeats, they also have times of victory, and once they win, the benefits will be enough for the two counties to be fattened for two years, which is also the reason why the shipyards of the two counties can still be maintained, and the water armies of the two counties can also purchase new ships in large quantities.
If you really don't get any benefits, and the benefits you get are not enough, the naval armies of the two counties will only be completely abandoned, and where can they fight with the naval army of Fulong County.
Similarly, this is also the reason why Zhang Zhongjun ran out of Fulong County to buy ships in other counties, because the official shipyards of these seaside counties, namely Guanglong County and Haidong County, can still buy a large number of ships. In the same way, only these two counties can buy a large number of slaves who know how to know the sea and ships!
Because there were no slaves in Fulong County, all the slaves brought by the navy and merchants were sold to the government of Guanglong and Haidong counties. Needless to say, after operating all year round, this is a very large chain of interests.
Zhang Zhongjun led a bear man, with the three belongings of the big frog, the little white and the little snake, and under the guidance of the tooth man, he came to the official shipyard of Guanglong County, that is, the place with the signboard of Guanglong Shipyard.
Zhang Zhongjun was also forced to come together to procure with a lot of people, because those bear people, if they didn't take care of them, they would definitely tear down all the hotels where they lived! Let the bear people take care of themselves? If they can have self-control and control, then they are not bears!
Guanglong Shipyard covers a vast area, completely occupies a bay with a range of tens of thousands of acres, the wind and waves are calm and the water depth is deep enough, it is not only an excellent military port, but also a shipyard with favorable conditions.
One only has to look at the abandoned shipyards that dot the bay to see what the Guanglong shipyard was like at its peak. But in the past, it was useless, and now Guanglong Shipyard is relying on the hardships of funding from above.
According to Yaren, there are some masters left in Guanglong Shipyard, and the younger generation, even the sons and grandsons of the masters, either go to the private factory to make money, or go to Fulong County to beg for a living.
Seeing the appearance of the Guanglong shipyard and hearing the introduction of the tooth man, Zhang Zhongjun was a little stunned, would it be too self-righteous to run to the shipyard to buy a new ship? Perhaps it would be more appropriate to buy a second-hand ship from a businessman?
The big frog patted Zhang Zhongjun's head: "Boy, we are not short of money, why are we hesitant to spend money like this? After placing an order in these shipyards, we should go to the merchant to buy an old ship, even if this ship is 100,000 gold? We have a lot of yuanzhu, we can spend as much as we want!"
"Hehe, it's still a senior brother, that's right, you can quickly get old ships and quickly form a fleet, but you also need some new ships, without new ships, a fleet can't grow! So let's book ships in this shipyard now, and then go to buy existing ships!" Zhang Zhongjun said with a smile.
Entering the shipyard, it is estimated that the tooth man notified in advance, so the steward of the shipyard, an old man of fifty or sixty years old, with the same old craftsman, ran over without seeing his teeth, and as soon as he came, he was extremely enthusiastic to hug Zhang Zhongjun, and even those bear people were a little dumbfounded by the enthusiasm of these old men.
After some politeness, the group entered a large room, sat down with the guests and hosts, and then the old steward patted his chest and said: "Lord Tingnan, it is the best decision for you to come to our Guanglong Shipyard to order a ship! Because our Guanglong Shipyard is the shipyard with the longest history in the empire, and our shipbuilding skills dare to be said to be the first in the whole empire! Moreover, our master knows how to build all ships from ancient times to the present! As long as you say it, there is nothing we will not build!"
Speaking of this, the old steward deliberately made a cautious appearance and said: "You are a hereditary nobleman of the empire, so you can own warships, and secretly tell you that our Guanglong Shipyard is actually the best at manufacturing warships! Now those sea ships on the market are all tired of us! So Lord Tingnan, as long as you don't lack funds, you can have a few warships!"
Hearing these words, Zhang Zhongjun nodded with satisfaction, the reason why he was looking for the official shipyard was naturally that the official shipyard had complete information, and the second was that the official shipyard could manufacture warships in an open and honest manner! This is a power that other private shipyards do not have!
As for those private shipyards that manufacture warships for the navy, of course, they are protected by the navy. If you really want to talk about it, they are not legal. At least Zhang Zhongjun went to them to build warships openly, even if Zhang Zhongjun was a nobleman, they would not accept it. At most, it was the armed merchant ship that recommended it.
As for Zhang Zhongjun's direct point out that he wanted a warship, naturally he was rich and wealthy, since he was going to play sea trade, he naturally would not simply play with merchant ships, and would definitely not let go of forming a group of warships to escort merchant ships.
At present, the warships on the sea, except for the naval forces of various coastal counties, are openly owned, and most of them are armed merchant ships restructured from merchant ships.
On the surface, it is a merchant ship, but in fact it is a warship with merchant skins. However, this kind of warship is to bully peers and ordinary merchant ships, and when encountering a real warship, it can only be won by trickery and luck.
Why is there no restriction on warships for the real nobles? Because warships cannot go land, just as the armed forces of the real nobles cannot leave the territory! Therefore, there is no limit to the number at all!
In other words, this warship is the same as the territory armament, as long as you have money, it is no problem to get all the people in the territory to be soldiers, and the same is true for warships, as long as you have money, it is no problem to spread warships all over the sea. The only requirement is that you, the nobleman, must be able to fulfill the obligations of the nobleman, such as guaranteeing an annual tribute.
As long as the annual tribute is guaranteed, and you haven't rebelled yet, then the center won't bother you to do anything!
Hearing the old steward say this, Zhang Zhongjun naturally patted his leg and said that he wanted to order a warship.
The old steward and those old craftsmen immediately took out a large stack of drawings and ship models to choose for Zhang Zhongjun.
In fact, there was no need to choose the result, Zhang Zhongjun picked the top Shenwu battleship as soon as he picked it. That's right, this battleship named after the empire is the highest technology of the official shipyard of the empire for so many years, and it is also the most powerful warship on the water surface of the empire!
And Zhang Zhongjun chose it, not because of its name, but because this Shenwu warship is the warship that can carry the most crew and sail the farthest among so many ship types!
Zhang Zhongjun, who aims to increase the number of manpower, what other battleship can he pick if he doesn't pick such a battleship?
(End of chapter)