"Ten years?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked repeatedly.

"Back to Your Majesty, this is just an estimate for us."

A craftsman replied respectfully, "Yesterday, when we looked at the map of the first-class battleship, we saw that there were three columns of cannons on both sides of the hull, totaling more than 100 cannons, and the cannons could hit two or three miles away, which required the hull to be extremely strong......

When Li Shanchang heard the craftsman's analysis, he couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart.

A warship with a hundred cannons?!

Or can it shoot a cannon three miles away?

How big is this ship?

For a while, Li Shanchang's heart was shaken, and he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, who he had been following since Chuzhou, again, and suddenly felt that he was unfamiliar and could no longer see through it.

"Ten years is too long."

Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth and said: "You start with the third-class battleship, I will order the Duke of Korea to be the governor of the Ming Navy, and be fully responsible for shipbuilding. ”

When Li Shanchang heard this, he only felt unhappy in his heart, he came to be the governor of the navy?

Navy?

Just to kill the sea cowards?

Xu Da guarded Beiping and commanded hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the north, but he could only be a naval governor?

Even if he is old now, he should not be so despised so much!

When Li Shanchang was dissatisfied, ten craftsmen and officials of the Ministry of Industry knelt down and received the order.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face sank, "I didn't eat breakfast before going out in the morning?!" ”

The people were terrified and pleaded guilty.

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, and Li Shanchang knew that this was what he was beginning to brew.

Who knows, Zhu Yuanzhang just said lightly:

"If a new type of warship can be built within two years, I will allow you to leave the craftsman's class."

As soon as these words came out, the ten craftsmen raised their heads in unison and looked at the saint with shocked faces.

After a while, the craftsman who had just spoken hurriedly kowtowed to thank him, and the other nine craftsmen also kowtowed violently and knelt down to thank the Holy Grace!

“……”

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a complicated mood, remembered Chu Zhen's words again, and waved his hand to let them out.

Only Li Shanchang, Zhang He, and Zhu Shou were left.

"Give tea."

Before Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, the two governors immediately stood up and saluted to thank the Holy Lord.

Li Shanchang was a moment late, and he also stood up and thanked him.

"Why should the good be polite? We are sons and daughters. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile, raised his hand to beckon the three of them to come closer, and ordered someone to lift a piece of cloth on the wall behind him.

A vast map of the territory was displayed in front of the three of them.

Li Shanchang looked up in shock, and couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, this is ——! ”

"The map I got from Chu Zhenren."

Zhu Yuanzhang affectionately climbed his shoulder, led him to the map, and pointed to show him: "Does the good chief know where this is?" ”

"Little Liuqiu?"

"Yes, what about here?"

"Great Ryukyu ...... And the Wa Kingdom! ”

"It turns out that the benevolent is also very familiar with overseas, so I can rest assured."

Zhu Yuanzhang used the wooden stick handed by the eunuch and nodded at Xiaoliuqiu Island: "I will make you the governor of the navy, control all the sailors of the Ming Dynasty, send ships to Xiaoliuqiu to build a political secretary and a guard station, and include Xiaoliuqiu in the territory of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Li Shanchang looked at the map a few times, "Only after looking at this map can you understand why Your Majesty wants to build a navy!" ”

On this map, the overseas countries of the Ming Dynasty have been marked, and the sea area is unprecedentedly clear.

The location of the small Ryukyu Island is too critical, and this island is larger than the Great Ryukyu, nearly half the size of the political envoy.

"Besides, there's guano here, and you send a boat to bring it back."

Zhu Yuanzhang clicked on one of the islands again.

"Guano?!"

Li Shanchang was shocked.

A dignified Korean duke, going to transport guano is not only a great shame, it's just-

"Don't underestimate this guano, Chu Zhenren personally instructed that guano on the island has accumulated over time, and the fertility is not in the directory, and a stone of guano on the island can be transported back to Daming to produce more grain and 100 stones, and some countries in the West are fighting for guano."

Li Shanchang: "......"

It was he who was reckless, he didn't expect the guano on the island to have such a miraculous effect after accumulating over time.

"And!"

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the Wa Kingdom, "I want to level this place and dig up the ancestral grave of the Wako." ”

Li Shanchang has read the history books, and the Wa Kingdom can't even defeat the Mengyuan, and the sea ship is capsized by a storm.

But now that the Ming Dynasty has a new sea ship of Chu Zhenren, maybe it can really be defeated.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be moved.

"I want to be good, you build a shipyard in Yingtianfu."

Zhu Yuanzhang patted him on the shoulder and said to him cordially: "You go to unify the naval division of the coastal guard, establish the Ming navy, build new warships, and equip them with new cannons, not only to completely destroy the Japanese invaders, but I also want the navy of the Ming Dynasty to send an envoy to the Hongmao Fanguo and order them to come to pay tribute every year!"

I want the silver from overseas to flow into the Ming Dynasty and help me complete the apportionment into the mu! ”

The last sentence shocked Li Shanchang and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang.

He seemed to see Zhu Chongba when he was fighting the world.

"Minister, Li Shanchang, will live up to His Majesty's trust!"

South Korean Gong Lee Shanchang respectfully bowed.

"Hahaha, get up."

Zhu Yuanzhang helped him up, and then pointed to the two behind him and said: "I asked Zhang He and Zhu Shou to assist you, and then ordered the Ministry of Engineering and the Ministry of War to supervise the construction of warships for you, and form a navy. ”

Roughly saying his thoughts, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Li Shanchang to go back and write a detailed note.

After finishing, Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded Li Shanchang with three people, each with a mango, Li Shanchang got a slightly larger mango, and the other two were equal.

"Your Majesty, this... Is it the fruit offered by Chu Zhenren?! ”

When he finally saw the real thing, Li Shancheng was shocked.

It's January!

"I bought it from Chu Zhenren."

Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately corrected it, lest one day Chu Zhen's boy come to the Ming Dynasty, and these courtiers regard him as an audience.

Bought?

Li Shanchang accurately grasped the difference, but did not ask much, and after respectfully thanking the reward, he and Zhang He left the Huagai Palace.

Back at Ying Tianfu's house, Li Shanchang ordered the servant to bring the stove, sit by the fire, and roast the mango before carefully tearing the peel to reveal the fresh flesh inside.

The servants around looked straight, and they all said that this was His Majesty's grace to the master, and in the entire Yingtian Mansion, only one of the ministers, the master, was given the immortal fruit!

His son Li Qi and daughter-in-law Princess Lin'an were also there, and Princess Lin'an also said resentfully: "My father gave my younger brothers and sisters fruits, but I am the only one in the Heavenly Mansion." ”

Li Shanchang's action of peeling the fruit stopped.

Princess Lin'an is the eldest princess, and she doesn't have any?!

At this time, the servant hurriedly came in and said, "Your Royal Highness the Princess, my lord, the eunuch in the palace is here, saying that the Holy Lord will reward a fruit for Her Royal Highness the Princess!" ”

"Father rewarded me?!"

Princess Lin'an was full of joy and went out with her husband, and soon came back with a mango that was bigger than Li Shanchang's hand.

Half of it was given to her husband.

The husband and wife ate happily, but Li Shanchang couldn't taste what this mango tasted like.

"You go to the palace tomorrow to give thanks."

Li Shanchang said to the two.

Li Qi was reluctant to go, but after seeing the undoubted look on his father's face, he had to agree.