Chapter 41 Shipbuilding Plan
"Originally, the emperor meant to agree to raise his hand, but considering that you are not used to it now, each person has a piece of paper. If you agree, please click on it, and if you don't agree, you will make a fork!" Wei Chao said while distributing the paper.
No need to raise your hand, everyone was happy. If you raise your hand to vote, you will offend people. Now you write it on paper, no one knows your opinion, except the emperor, so the speed is quite fast. It can be done in just a few seconds. Wei Chao simply counted it and sent the result to Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao looked at the result in his hand and said with a smile: "Each item has more than eight people agreed, so this matter is decided like this, but this matter is of great importance, so three major scholars, Liu Yiyan, Han Xu and Sun Ruyou
Be responsible for this matter. All the principles are the above eight. As for the details, you can determine them yourself first. As for the personnel, you can go to the Hanlin Academy to find some idle Hanlin. After the draft is released, each person will distribute one. Each person will think about it carefully and then hand it over to the three great masters to revise it. After three times, I will decide. What do you think of this method? All major matters will be handled in this way in the future! But remember, it is better to keep this confidential. I don’t want those veterans in the court to kneel outside the palace every day and wait for me to summon me. They will be dead catastrophe at any time!"
As soon as Liu Yiying finished speaking, Han Xi and Sun Ruyou came out to receive the order immediately. Zhu Youxiao ordered some details and called Wei Chao to his side and said, "Where did you just ask the things you brought from Qianqing Palace? Take them out for you to see!"
After hearing this, Wei Chao immediately picked up a long scroll from the table next to him, and called out several tall Jinyiwei from outside the door, slowly opened the scroll, and suddenly a map full of lines was displayed in front of everyone. When everyone saw that it was the Ming Dynasty Mianyitu drawn by the Ming Dynasty. After the map was completely opened, another scroll was revealed inside. Wei Chao asked two Jinyiwei to open the scroll, and a map with simple lines was displayed in front of everyone, which was somewhat similar to the Ming Dynasty Mianyitu, but very different. Everyone looked confused.
Zhu Youxiao stood up from his seat, walked to the two maps, pointed to the Ming Dynasty Hunyitu and said, "This is the Ming Dynasty Hunyitu hidden in the palace, and it is my Ming Dynasty's treasure. In addition to seeing all my dear friends at the court meeting, my dear friends' understanding of this world is only obtained from those books describing geography. This Ming Dynasty Hunyitu is indeed good, but I want to tell you dear friends that the real world looks like this!"
After saying that, he walked to the map behind, pointed to a figure with red coils and said, "This is what I look like in Ming Dynasty. This place with red circles is convenient for you to be where you are, the capital!"
After saying that, he moved his finger a little upward and said, "This is Liaodong, this is Liaoyang. Originally these were the lands of my Ming Dynasty, but now that Nurhaci's slave chief rebelled in Liaodong, my Ming Dynasty has suffered repeated defeats. Now the large area of land north of Shenyang is no longer a territory under my Ming Dynasty! I will pacify Liaodong within three years!"
"This is the Mongolian Tartars. After the recovery of Liaodong, this is my goal!"
"This is Japan. Those Japanese pirates who harmed our Ming Dynasty's border all come from here! After Liaodong was pacified, the target of the Liao Navy was here!"
Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao suddenly stopped and asked Sun Chengzong: "Sun Aiqing, how is the Pingliao Navy now? I haven't asked about it for a few days!"
Sun Chengzong was just looking at the map and was immersed in his mind when he suddenly heard Zhu Youxiao's words. He was stunned and then stared at Zhu Youxiao in a daze.
Zhu Youxiao understood that Sun Chengzong was distracted, so he said, "Sun Aiqing, how are the Pingliao Navy now?"
Only then did Sun Chengzong understand and said, "Return to the emperor, although I am the position of Pingliao Naval Commander, the cabinet is busy, so I have not yet been to Denglai and Qingdao in Shandong. Therefore, everything about Pingliao Naval Commander Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Yuanhua is in operation. Weichen only arranges work through official documents. Now there are about 36,000 naval commanders and more than 600 ships of all sizes in the Pingliao Naval Commander. Qingdao has newly built by the emperor himself, so it is under construction now. There are not many naval commanders and soldiers.
There are about 8,000 people, among which Denglai's naval training level is good, and Qingdao cannot enter actual combat in a short period of time. This is personnel. In terms of ships, most of the ships in the army are relatively small fire dragon ships and red dragon boats, which lack the main warships. For example, the main warships in the navy, the number of lucky ships with a crew of 64 is relatively small, while the flagship-class warships and three-masted gunships with a crew of 300 are even fewer. Now Weichen has built a new shipyard in Qingdao, and the shipyard in Nanjing has also started construction to build warships."
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao was rushing to build warships, he said, "Are these rushing to build warships or the previous lucky ships and three-masted gunships? Didn't I ask the research institute to study the shipbuilding technology!"
At this time, Song Yingxing replied: "Prince, the research on warships in the institute is very smooth. In a few days, a technology for producing civilian cargo ships will be auctioned. Among them, the keel skeleton setting and partition design are very effective. As for the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry, they have long visited the institute to discuss the plan for warship production. At that time, it was agreed to build half of the old-style lucky ships and other warships, and half of them built new warships specially improved by the institute. In the end, the institute also sent Wang Danzi, the emperor's appointed, to inspect the warships, and specifically inspect the production situation of shipyards in various places!"
"Yeah, it's not bad!" Everyone didn't know whether Zhu Youxiao said that Wang Tamsui was good or that Song Yingxing did a good job.
"It's better to do this. I will allocate some more money from the inner warehouse to use it specifically for the Pingliao Navy's capital. Therefore, the production of warships, the training of troops and other construction must be accelerated, and it will come in handy in a few months!"
Sun Chengzong finally smiled on his face. It would be a big deal to say that Zhu Youxiao is not at all now. It would be a big deal to make Zhu Youxiao pay out. Moreover, Pingliao Navy has indeed been troubled by the problem of money for a lot of days. Now that Zhu Youxiao's money has been doing everything easy, he replied: "The emperor's money has solved the urgent needs of Weichen. These days, shipyards in various places have suddenly received such a large number of ship construction tasks, and the materials in the warehouse are not prepared properly. Although the Ministry of Revenue has already allocated materials in various places, most of the materials still need to be temporarily purchased. The purchased silver was still discussing this matter with the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Li Ruhua and the Ministry of Works Wang Zuo yesterday. I wonder how much money the Emperor is going to allocate from the inner warehouse?"
The bank treasury in Zhu You's school's treasury is only more than 7 million taels left. Recently, Zhu You's school has been crazy about making some novel things, so a lot of money has been spent. Apart from the bank treasury, there is guaranteed that there is 500 taels for emergency silver, and only more than 2 million taels can be used. Seeing Sun Chengzong's expression of joy, he knew that he was not strict this time and probably had to make some blood.
"Aiqing Sun, how much money is going to ask me?" Zhu Youxiao knew that what he said in advance would definitely suffer. If he said too much, he would give it to Sun Chengzong for nothing. If he said too much, it would be meaningless. So he asked.
Of course, Sun Chengzong opened his mouth wide. After careful consideration in his heart, he replied with a smile: "Emperor, the gap in this silver was about 800,000 taels, but the emperor wanted to speed up the construction period, so the emperor should have added 200,000 taels, so I think one million taels is enough."
Zhu Youxiao looked at Li Ruhua and was also flirting with him. He was obviously a good guy with Sun Chengzong. He probably had already colluded with his own idea of fighting against his own treasury. He replied: "One million taels is too much. I will be out of my money for you a few times. I think Li Ruhua's beloved is also very short of money. Today, I will allocate one million taels from the treasury, but half of the Navy and the Ministry of Revenue each, and the tax silver in various parts of the Ministry of Revenue will be in place, so the 500,000 taels will be returned to me in the end!"
Li Ruhua was a little depressed when he didn't ask for the silver. Now he suddenly flew over. Although Zhu Youxiao said he would pay it back, it was a funeral to get the silver. Anyway, this solved his urgent need, so he quickly replied: "I thanked the emperor. Weichen will definitely use these silver well!"
Zhu Youxiao smiled and continued, "I know that the Ministry of Revenue's annual income is not much. My silver is also the silver of the Ming Dynasty. Naturally, I need to give it to the Ministry of Revenue. As for the Pingliao Navy, 500,000 taels are enough. Aren't it just a few warships? As for those old-fashioned lucky ships, don't build more old-fashioned lucky ships. In the full battle of Penghu, the lucky ships were not the opponents of the Dutch Red Barbarians. Of course, these lucky ships are very suitable for inland river combat, but you should look farther. The name of the navy is the Pingliao Navy. It does not mean that this navy will only pacify Liaodong and complete its mission. In the future, Liaodong, North Korea, and Japan will be the targets of the Pingliao Navy. As for those new warships, I have also seen them. It is very good, much better than those lucky ships, even if they are much better than the captured Dutch Red Barbarians. I will save some money!"
Chapter completed!