Regarding Zhao Yunkai's remarks, Zhu Youzhen actually still has some dissatisfaction in his heart, after all, there is almost no difference between what he said and what he didn't say.

After all, everyone knows that in the face of absolute strength, everything else is just a small means that will collapse at any time.

But it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to invest endlessly in the issue of the navy, especially now, to put it bluntly, the sailors are still unable to bring certain economic benefits to the Ming Dynasty through the plundering of overseas interests or the guarantee of established trade.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen didn't explain it directly, after all, about the secrecy of the Shandong Sailor, it was a holy decree issued by him personally.

I can't complain about Zhao Yunkai's head.

Zhu Youzhen continued: "I'm afraid this investment in the short term is also huge. What I want to tell Aiqing is that the development of technology will be endless, and you may think that today you are already a great battleship... Tomorrow will be swept into the dustbin of history. ”

Zhao Yunkai was obviously a little puzzled by Zhu Youzhen's words.

It's not that he hasn't seen the warships of the Taixi Kingdoms, even the best and top-level warships compared to these ironclad ships under the command of his own sailors.

I'm afraid it's not worth mentioning.

What's more, when at sea, the new ironclad ship also carried out a test launch, a fully armed ... The sea ships that the Taixi Kingdom called armed merchant ships could not even pass two rounds under the fire of the ironclad ships, and it can be said that they would die!

But even if he didn't understand, Zhao Yunkai couldn't directly refute the face of the emperor in front of him, and said: "The minister understands..",

Then Zhu Youzhen spoke again: "Then according to what Aiqing saw, if you want to explore a development path for sailors that belong to the Ming Dynasty, what should you do?" ”

Zhao Yunkai's face froze.

He turned to speak: "According to what the minister sees, if you want to get out of the true path of a great Ming water master, you must start from all possible links, and the amount of money required will be an astronomical amount."

Zhu Youzhen frowned.

Why is this Zhao Yunkai open and closed his mouth in front of him are some policies that cost money, economic strength is indeed one of the most influential factors in the war, but it is not necessarily absolute...

Zhu Youzhen was a little unhappy, and said: "I think that according to Aiqing's view, the development of the water division requires the imperial court to continuously take out the money to invest in it, so that it can be developed?" ”

Zhao Yunkai hurriedly shook his head.

"Returning to Your Majesty, this is not the case, the minister thinks that there is another problem in the first place, that is, to build a supporting new graduate school as soon as possible, as a cradle of future sailor talents, if all the soldiers are on the ship or into the sailor to study... Now if there is no war, it is not necessary, but once there is a war with the outside world, I am afraid that it will be too late! ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen's expression softened a lot.

Pay attention to talent training. This is indeed the top priority of all problems, Zhu Youzhen immediately spoke: "Now that there are two water division colleges in the south and one in the north in the Ming Dynasty, I have decided to build another one in Tianjin Wei and another one in Guangzhou Mansion to support the construction of water divisions!" ”

"Obey the order."

Zhu Youzhen's heart is as transparent as a mirror, the sailor is spending money, and in essence, it is a competition of absolute economic strength and certain technical differences.

It's just that in terms of these two, today's Daming can be regarded as returning to the top of the world again.

....

There are a lot of things going on this winter, how much is it?

The number of publications of "Daming Monthly" and "Jingshi Daily" continued to jump, and later it reached the point where the number of daily prints could not even keep up with the number of purchases by the people.

Every day in the court something different happens.

Of course, the most eye-catching news today is about the signing of an agreement between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, since the third year of Chongzhen, Mongolia will be divided into three provinces and incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that what is more special is that these three provinces still have a certain gap compared with other provincial capitals of the Ming Dynasty at a certain level, and the first thing is that Zhu Youzhen has set up a Mongolian political secretary on top of these three Mongolian provinces.

And the first batch of officials in the political department were almost a large number of young officials.

With the entry of new students, the students of the first new imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty are about to usher in their graduation moment.

Among these enthusiastic young students, many of them decided to go to Mongolia to become officials without hesitation.

"Rather than staying in the capital, I would rather go to the vast Mongolian steppe to create a prosperous cause for the Ming Dynasty and His Majesty! Give your part! ”

"Why don't you go with us and others to Mongolia and build the Ming Dynasty!"

In the boiling colleges, many students looked quite excited, but another student who was surrounded by people was a little surprised. At the same time, there is some fear.

After a long time, he blushed and said, "Senior! I would like to walk with you! ”

Merely.

After this sentence blurted out, everyone seemed to understand that it seemed to be the wrong target of propaganda, and one of the men in a robe stood up and said earnestly: "Study hard, the senior is waiting for you in Mongolia... As for now, let's stand aside for a while, don't stand in the way of the seniors continuing to promote! ”

Intrauterine.

Huang Liji stepped forward with a copy of the fold in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, this is a partial list of the first batch of graduate students and scholars in Beijing or directly under the university this year, and there is also a petition about the students who want to go to Mongolia to become officials. ”

Zhu Youzhen's head instantly floated with black lines.

What's going on?? These students have just finished their training in the university college, and Zhu Youzhen is still waiting to sprinkle them into the territory of Daming and replace all the old guys who are on the vegetarian diet, but now it's good...

"How many students are going to Mongolia?"

Zhu Youzhen said lightly, originally thinking that since the students have such expectations, if the number is not large... If you go, you will go, and it will be a big deal to put it at the provincial level and no longer send it downward.

Unexpectedly, Huang Liji's face turned pale, and he said: "Back to Your Majesty, there are a total of one hundred and sixty-four people in the Royal Academy of Sciences, and a total of two hundred and eighteen people in the Daming Royal Academy of Management..."

"No way!"

"Resolutely no, don't think that I don't know, how many students and scholars are there in this first batch of new imperial examinations, and hundreds of people have gone to Mongolia so rashly, what should I do with other places in the Ming Dynasty!? No way! ”

Zhu Youzhen rarely completely denied Huang Liji, and let the first assistant of the cabinet take out the Ministry of Education Shangshu on the spot, and he didn't know what to do for a while.