Just when the Zhu Su and Zhu Biao brothers were choosing their inner servants, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, convened the officials of Zhongshu Province, the Six Ministries and the Dadu Governor's Mansion to discuss a major event.

"Your Majesty...... Want to train an elite navy? The banner man of the Qingliu faction, Sincerity Bo Liu Bowen was stunned, and he couldn't wait to rub his ears to check if there was something wrong with his ears.

Behind him, the officials of the military department and the household department were even more surprised, looking at each other.

"Not bad. Let's think about it, this sea frontier is also my Ming territory. How can you dispose of it at will. ”

"Although there are one or two Japanese rebellions, how can I abandon the sea and frontier because of a few Japanese emperors?"

"Please, please think twice!" The military department Shangshu straightened his knees and knelt directly to Lao Zhu. "The Northern Expedition is newly defeated, Yunnan is not peaceful, and Tubo and the West are also ready to move, so it is really not appropriate to provoke another war."

"In addition, there are many coastal areas in Daming, and there are coasts everywhere, and it is not as good as the north to rely on. If you gather troops in one place and take the initiative to attack, the sea is vast and there is nowhere to find the enemy, not to mention, if the enemy takes advantage of the weakness, it will be a moment, and it will become a big disaster! ”

"And the Japanese are only one or two outlaws, and their country hangs alone in the vast sea, if our army is to conquer it in a large number of boats, it only takes one or two storms, and there is a danger of annihilation of the whole army."

"It's a quagmire! Your Majesty! ”

The secretary of the military department cried blood.

"Hmm." Lao Zhu hesitated. He didn't know that although the Ming Dynasty is now powerful, there are still barbarians in the west and south, Meng Yuan in the north is still eyeing the tiger, and it is good if the coastal area in the south does not add to the chaos, and it is really not the time to take the initiative.

But the "divine seed" that Zhu Su said was like a carrot hanging in front of Lao Zhu's eyes, tickling his heart.

"We don't want to start a war, we just want to train a navy and explore the path of the sea for us...... Lao Zhu tried to persuade these ministers, but he couldn't tell the matter of the "god seed", if he did, those ministers would definitely think that he wanted to learn from Qin Shi Huang and go to find Penglai Immortal Mountain.

In two days, the prophecy that I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will die will begin to circulate in the court.

Therefore, I had to choose to be unreasonable. Lao Zhu waved his sleeves and said strongly: "I have made up my mind!" Needless to say. ”

Seeing that the emperor began to call him "I", the ministers also understood his determination. The military department Shangshu glanced at the household department with a puzzled face. Asked him with his eyes: Your Majesty is training the navy, do you pay for it?

The household department has a fart money, and the household department Shangshu, who had just replaced Haiyuan for a few days, looked helpless, walked to the side of the military department with a bitter face, and knelt down towards Lao Zhu with a "snap".

The two old men knelt side by side, and the meaning was obvious.

I can't do it!

This is really not the two of them giving the emperor eye medicine, the new Hubu Shangshu finally survived the sea abyss, and the family was still blowing and playing last night, how can they have the courage to disobey the emperor as soon as they take up their posts?

Really, this work is really beyond the power of the imperial court. Instead of waiting to be killed for not doing a good job, it is better to be directly masturbated by Lao Zhu to the end now!

Lao Zhu is a handsome talent on land, but he really doesn't understand the twists and turns on the water. At most, the army on land signs some poor people, and they will be considered an army if they send some rice and noodles as military rations, scrape together some ordnance, and send a good general to train for a few days.

But how can it be so easy for an army on the water? That's got to build a ship! The emperor still wanted the kind of ship that could go to sea.

It must also be made tall and thick in order to withstand the wind and waves. God, where is it made of wood, and all the boats are made of silver!

This can't blame Zhu Yuanzhang for being unrealistic. After all, today's Daming Water Master is actually a ready-made pick-up.

In the past, when he was still in Haozhou, the Chaohu sailor came to Lao Zhu, and Lao Zhu directly picked up a ready-made and prepared sailor. directly owned the second-ranked naval fleet of this era.

It is precisely with the Chaohu Water Master that Lao Zhu has the capital to compete with Chen Youliang on the water. Otherwise, Lao Zhu's subordinates don't even have a few decent boats, and what kind of water battle will they fight in Poyang Lake!

After Poyang Lake defeated Chen Youliang with fewer victories and more victories, Lao Zhu directly incorporated the remnants of Chen Youliang's sailors, and in one leap he had the most powerful sailors of this era. Later, Lao Zhu destroyed Zhang Shicheng again, and directly incorporated Zhang Shicheng's sailors who could go to sea with sea ships.

It can be said that today's Daming Sailor has never built a boat by himself, and he relies on fighting to absorb it. Lao Zhu himself didn't know how much money the ship burned, so it was natural.

It wasn't until the founding of the People's Republic of China later, when the Ministry of Household calculated the assets of the imperial court, that they knew that every boat in this sailor was ridiculously expensive!

That's it, most of the boats are just walking around the river, and the existing sea boats are a little bit offshore.

If you want to go to sea, you have to build another big ship!

Lao Zhu's purpose was the American continent, and from the map, the distance was terrifying, so he ordered the military department to build a treasure ship that was even larger than the existing sea ships.

The military department and the household department have just gotten together, and a rough estimate is that only one boat will be smashed into at least eight thousand taels of silver!

That's it, it's just the money for a single ship rack, not counting all kinds of supplies, equipment, weapons, military salaries, and so on. The silver in the Hongwu period was not the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the large-scale import of silver caused serious inflation.

At this time, silver was still very purchasing power. At this time, the imperial court was still mainly taxed by collecting grain, silk, cloth, porcelain, etc., and silver accounted for only a small part.

But even if the grain, silk, cloth, porcelain, etc. collected in a year are all converted into silver, it will be more than three million taels at the top of the sky!

What about playing? Take all the money to the water maker, do you want to transfer this court?

Listening to the bitter water poured by the officials of the household department and the military department, Lao Zhu rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, raised his head suspiciously, and asked:

"It's just a matter of building a few boats, and it's really going to be so expensive?"

"Your Majesty! How many heads does Lao Chen have, dare to lie to you with this? "Tobe Shangshu almost cut his heart on the spot.

"The imperial court is in trouble now, and it will never be able to take out this amount of silver, Your Majesty!"

"Hmm......" the old Zhu's face sank like water. He didn't expect that it would cost so much just to send a few ships across the ocean to try to verify the existence of "America" and "God Seed".

Before, he still felt that Daming was rich and rich, and he would never have to worry about lack of money, but he was just short of food.

Now he suddenly felt that Da Ming was still too small. Family background...... It's not thick enough!

I need to buy some more money...... The old farmer Zhu Yuanzhang thought with a headache.