"Combined with the ships transporting grain, it can greatly strengthen our strategic determination in the northeast direction."

Zhou Xianyan said this, his eyes scanned the surroundings, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Han Shu said: "Chitose, the construction of the naval fleet is definitely beneficial to our dynasty on the whole, but the lower officials feel that the Japanese are not as good as before, and the treasury of our dynasty is now empty, and building a fleet is a waste of money and labor, but Weichen still supports the Jiaozhou Bay fleet, and Tianjin Wei is not necessary." ”

"Well, that's a suggestion."

Zhou Xian nodded, Han Shu's statement was not wrong, mainly from the actual situation.

"What about the others? What do others suggest? ”

Yan Mingtai said: "The minister supports vigorously building a naval fleet. ”

"Not only Jiaozhou Bay should be built, but also in Tianjin Weilong."

"And Guangzhou."

"After all, there is still a treasure island fleet in the area of Guangzhou, they are beyond the current control of our court, and now the most promising place for our court to directly control is Jiaozhou Bay, prepare a fleet from Jiaozhou Bay, and then unite with Tianjin Wei, and then the two fleets can go south to protect Guangzhou, so as to protect our Ming Hai Bo Anping."

Zhou Xian also agreed with this idea.

After all, he also prepared the plan in the general direction.

The Ming Dynasty really needed a strong navy.

Sun Chengzong also stood up and said: "Master Chitose, the old minister agrees with Yan Shangshu's statement, although the treasury of our dynasty is compact, but national defense is a major plan of the imperial court, and it is related to the safe development of people's livelihood, so it is better to be poor for a while, and it is stronger than weak for a lifetime." ”

Han Shu said: "Sun Ge Lao and Yan Shangshu's suggestion, the minister also agrees. ”

"It's just the next move."

"At this stage, the great trouble of the imperial court is still the emperor Taiji of Liaodong, and the exotic pirates overseas in Guangzhou are a small problem after all, besides, although Zheng Guangsen on the treasure island is coveted, he is attached to the imperial court after all."

"Therefore, Weichen suggested that Chitose issue an edict in the name of the imperial court and let Zheng Guangsen control the situation off the coast of Guangzhou."

"Test his reaction too."

Han Shu's theory is yes.

But at this stage, it is too weak.

If Zhou Xian wanted to take advantage of this to test the Zheng family's side.

Won't come here at all.

In fact, in Zhou Xian's view, no matter how the whole family stands, it can't change the fact that he wants a strong navy.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have come to the Jingshi University Hall today.

Zhou Xian said: "The navy now has the primary significance of containing Jiannu to my Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji wants to attack me to the west, we naturally want to trap his attention in the east, the defenders of Liaoyang are not competent, so we can only rely on the navy." ”

"As for Zheng Guangsen, of course I won't question his position, it's just that the Tianjin Wei incident has exposed the shortcomings of coastal defense, and we can't wait."

Won't question Zheng Guangsen?

It's impossible!

As a descendant of Zheng He, that kid now has an abacus to occupy the treasure sword.

is even more on the side of Guangzhou, relying on the strong ships and guns, and does not take the imperial court seriously.

The reason why Zhou Xian showed his 'trust' in Zheng Guangsen in the court was mainly because Zheng Guangsen had not deviated from the court yet.

Although there is resistance in the heart, it cannot be cherished.

Now Zhou Xian's attitude has been quite clear, the Ming Dynasty wants to revitalize the navy, not only Jiaozhou Bay, but also Tianjin Wei in the future.

Therefore, this discussion actually has a clear theme.

Zhou Xian continued: "Chen Donghua, you should go to Jiaozhou Bay immediately and discuss the preparations with Lu Keyao. ”

Chen Donghua immediately said: "The minister's order!" ”

"Liu Aiqing."

Liu Yizi said: "The minister is here." ”

"I heard that the Portuguese warships boast to be the best in the world, how is it different from our dynasty?"

Liu Yizi said: "Back to Chitose Lord, the Portuguese warships are on par with our dynasty on the whole, only the sails, they use leather sails, while our dynasty uses wooden sails. ”

"Compared to theirs, they are much more flexible."

"Then change it."

"If there is anything advanced that we should learn, it should be widely used."

Zhou Xianyan said succinctly: "Liu Aiqing, if you want to change it, can you improve it?" ”

Liu Yizi paused and said, "There is no problem, the minister can find a way to extract some information from the Portuguese." ”

"With the information, it's faster."

"Okay, I'll leave it to you."

"Preferably at the end of this year, I can see the first warship of the Jiaozhou Bay Fleet appear, do you have any confidence?"

"Chitose Lord, the Portuguese are now stationed in Macao, if we need to improve the treasure map, it will take half a year to go back and forth from Beijing City to that side."

"If you come back and improve it, it will take two months."

"It can be made at the end of the year."

"Okay." Zhou Xian bowed slightly, then turned his head to Sun Chengzong and said, "Sun Zaifu, did you hear that?" It took more than half a year to improve the sails, but during this period, the University Hall had to assist Lu Keyao's side to build a giant warship as soon as possible. ”

"Yes!"

When the construction of the navy was agreed upon from the hall of Beijing Normal University, Zhou Xian asked Hou Lianhui to summon Zhou Guangkai and Yan Taiqing to the Qianqing Palace. When I asked them to come over, the first thing to solve was the expansion of the Currency Administration.

Now the news has been fed back from the Zodiac Week.

The distribution of fertile land on this side of Beijing is nearing its end.

New silver coins also began to circulate in the city of Beijing and the Lianghuai area.

But people elsewhere could not afford to farm.

Therefore, it is also necessary to increase the efforts to lend to them.

Therefore, the Department of Currency Administration should also consider establishing outlets across the country.

Zhou Guangkai has already submitted to Zhou Xian the plan for the preparation of the Currency Administration Department in various places.

The first thing he thought of was to set up a branch of the Currency Administration Department in Henan.

This idea coincides with Zhou Xian.

First of all, this can greatly hollow out the source of Li Zicheng's righteous army.

Let them have land to plant.

If Li Zicheng dares to snatch the land from the people, he will slap himself in the face and cut off his future.

In addition, Shaanxi and Hebei, Shandong are put last.

At least until the Jiaozhou Bay fleet takes shape.

That's four regions.

If each region is subdivided into counties, it is necessary to build at least 40 outlets.

One outlet, you need to match 30 people.

Therefore, in addition to building outlets, Huang Daozhou also had to train 1,200 people.

The Ming Dynasty lacked everything, and even more talent.

Cultivating talent is an extremely difficult task.

But only those gifted with financial convenience are not enough.

It is also necessary to assign security personnel to the outlets.

After all, as soon as the Department of Currency Administration appeared, it directly impacted the money houses of many large private households, and behind those money houses were all big officials in the imperial court.

Yes, you have to watch out for those guys secretly doing bad.

After all, in the Ming Dynasty, it was also common for officials to communicate about the looting of local banks by mountain bandits!

So, too, it's an uphill battle!