On the way back to the city to the household, Zhu Jianji asked Li Shunda to go to the imperial palace.

It's a great honor.

However, Li Shunda didn't care, and Zhu Jianji didn't see that this was a gift, and the monarchs and ministers sat opposite each other, chatting about many things about cruisers and battleships.

Although Li Shunda is a technical talent, he is also a state official and cares about politics and war.

Suddenly, he said: "Your Majesty, the cruiser you want can be completed, according to the current equipment configuration, the artillery and machine gun operators in the combat personnel of a cruiser, even if you add a Dongfeng rifle team, plus non-combatants, will not exceed 2,000 people, and in the future, the battleship will be built, because the number of guns on the battleship is almost halved, and it is not equipped with rifle soldiers, the personnel will not exceed 2,000. Even if the South China Sea Fleet is formed and has dozens of cruisers and battleships, it will not be possible to let the soldiers on the battleships go to the landing operation, after all, they are sailors, and the landing operation is afraid that infantry and cavalry will still be needed."

Zhu Jianji nodded when he heard this, "Li Qing's family is planning ahead, this idea is very good, doesn't Dengzhou Shipyard have ten docks, after these two cruisers are built, the next batch will be built with five ships, including two cruisers and one battleship, in addition, two transport ships will be specially built, on the one hand, to transport supplies and supplies, on the other hand, to transport troops and ordnance, when the South China Sea Fleet is formed, at least fifteen cruisers, three battleships, and five transport ships will be needed!"

Li Shunda's eyes lit up, "Is the transport ship like a steam transporter?"

Zhu Jianji nodded, "Almost, for transport ships, reduce the artillery equipment, expand the cabin capacity, increase the width of the battleship to improve its stability, and also increase its sailing speed to ensure the speed of transporting supplies and reinforcements."

Li Shunda smiled, "It's simple."

Zhu Jianji said: "Then after you return to Dengzhou, you will focus on research and development, and strive for the next batch of five docks to start construction at the same time, Guang'an has passed more than half of the five years, and at the end of the ninth year of Guang'an, I hope that the South China Sea Fleet will have the scale of twenty-three steel warships!"

Li Shunda laughed, "As long as the Ministry of Household allocates funds, as long as the Ministry of Industry gives enough steel, it will ensure the completion of His Majesty's will!"

Zhu saw Jile: "Coincidentally, what I lack now is talent, that is, there is no shortage of money and steel."

When they arrived at the household department, the people in the household department who were originally busy flying, especially Chen Xun, heard that His Majesty was coming, and their brains were big, but they didn't dare to turn this master away, so they had to lead their colleagues to meet them.

If nothing else, His Majesty is here to ask for money.

Otherwise, they discussed things in the Fengtian Hall and Wenhua Hall in the morning, and in the afternoon, they personally came to the household department, estimating that the Dengzhou shipyard still needed funds and asked the household department to allocate it.

Sure enough, there were no surprises.

Chen Xun is also refreshing, anyway, one billion taels of silver will be printed, Your Majesty, you want to spend wine and drink as much as you want, whether you can maintain the stability of the monetary system, let's consider this later.

It is important to know that many dynasties, even the richest of the Great Song Dynasty, the annual treasury income is not more than 50 million taels of silver.

As a result, this year, Daming will issue an additional billion taels of Ming treasure banknotes!

And the Daming treasure banknote is now basically equivalent to silver!

Even if the annual income of the Ming Dynasty's current treasury is close to 200 million, this is the total income of five years, and the impact on the monetary system is unimaginable.

So the household department is busy flying at the moment, in fact, everyone is discussing this matter.

There are many opponents.

However, there are also those that are supported.

Because Chen Xun conveyed His Majesty's words, what he said is indeed reasonable, as long as the imperial court takes the corresponding measures in place, it is possible to print one billion taels of Ming treasure banknotes without shaking the current monetary system.

Because the current population and materials of the Ming Dynasty are indeed worthy of these additional treasure notes!

The point is that the population continues to skyrocket.

Especially after the Department of Health and Health deepens the reform again this year, the population growth rate will be faster, or it will not be many years before the population of Daming will go straight

500 million gone.

The Ming Dynasty, 500 million people!

Throughout the history of the past and present, there are very few times with a population of more than 100 million, but the Ming Dynasty has the opportunity to reach the peak of 500 million.

What a glorious time it will be!

Chen Xun immediately sent someone to allocate funds to Dengzhou Shipyard - this is also simple, Dengzhou Shipyard originally had an account in Daming Bank, and directly asked Daming Bank to allocate funds, and then Li Shunda took the money to the Donggong Military Research Institute to buy firepower and heavy artillery.

The whole process can even be simplified, Li Shunda took a bill from Daming Bank to the Donggong Military Research Institute, and the Donggong Military Research Institute took the bill to the head office of Daming Bank and transferred the money to the account of the Donggong Military Research Institute.

None of the bank's money was touched.

But goods and wealth flowed around.

This operation has recently become popular, especially when it involves large transactions, both sides of the transaction are willing to adopt this scheme, and even in the Western states that have begun to make treasure money popular, it can also be operated in this way.

Well......

Daming Bank had long followed the maritime trade fleet and set up branches in Western countries.

That is to say, with a bill on the side of the Ming Dynasty, he can go to the Western countries to bring back a large number of materials, all of which are real money, of course, you can't be short-sighted.

Daming Bank, even many Indochina Peninsula in the war can come to Daming to exchange silver.

It is even more trustworthy to Western countries.

As long as you come to the bank with bills or treasure banknotes, whether it is exchange for silver or gold, as long as it meets the procedures, it will be handled directly, and you will never dare to destroy the national credit of Daming treasure banknotes because of this small profit.

After Li Shunda got the money, he didn't want to stay in the household department at all, so he immediately retired, first went to Daming Bank, and then went to the Donggong Military Research Institute.

Aim to get everything done within three days.

Then sit back and wait for the heavy guns to be signed for the cruiser's needs.

After watching Li Shunda leave with the note from the household, Zhu Jianji thought thoughtfully, "Chen Xun, if you look at it this way, isn't it a bit of a snake to add a billion taels of treasure banknotes?"

Daming's national projects do not require real money to flow at all.

...... with bills Well, similar to a check.

You can do it with a ticket.

Chen Xundao: "Your Majesty, it is still necessary to increase the printing, after all, the corresponding materials are produced between these transactions, then there should be corresponding currency into the market, otherwise the materials will continue to increase, and if the total amount of money remains unchanged, the materials will depreciate seriously, and in the long run, it will destroy the stability of the monetary system, thereby increasing the risk of the treasure money held by the people."

The treasure money is too valuable, and the people have damaged or lost the treasure money because of some trivial things, and it is possible that a treasure note is the life of their family, or to stabilize the treasure money at the current value.

Zhu Jianji bowed slightly, "The current Daming treasure banknote is already a new monetary system, in China, the Ming treasure banknote has basically replaced copper plate and silver, and the household department is ready to introduce a policy, in the future, the price will not be based on copper plate and silver, but on the denomination of treasure banknotes."

Chen Xun thought for a while, "Feasible"

At present, the denominations of Daming treasure banknotes are one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred and one tael, and the monetary system is improving itself under the impetus of the market.

Basically, the rudiments of the price and the denomination of the treasure banknote were linked.

For example, to buy rice, according to the standard of the "Three Series Book", the official price of a pound of rice is between 10 and 15 Wen Da Ming Bao banknotes, which fluctuate depending on the color of the rice, while salt is more expensive, 30 Wen per catty.