"Your Highness, this is the shipbuilding plan made by the lowly position!"

Du Guqiu took a draft map from the official room and hung it up in the official room of Guo Song, at this time, Du You and Zhang Qianyi were also invited, one of them was in charge of people and the other was in charge of money, and they all needed to come forward.

Dugu Qiu introduced: "The above is the raw material allocation, the wood obtained from Huifu, after several years of drying and drying, can now be used to build ships, but unfortunately, these timber was originally considered to build inland river ships, and there is no keel for sea ships, that is to say, our current material reserves, can only build ships of 2,000 stone at most." ”

Guo Song pondered and asked, "I remember that the ones I got back from Huifu are all towering trees, and they can't be made into keels?" ”

"Your Highness, it's not a matter of length, it's the wood itself, which is basically pine, which is not very suitable for making a keel for sea ships."

Guo Song shook his head, "Dugu Xiangguo will tell me a result first, I want to know, according to the plan, when will we have a sea boat?" ”

Dugu tried to smile a little helplessly: "Your Highness, building a sea ship is a very long process, the time to prepare materials, the construction time, the humble estimate, it will take ten years at the earliest." ”

Guo Song's brows furrowed, it actually took ten years, if he built a huge fleet, wouldn't it take decades? He was disappointed by the result.

Du Gu Qiu had an idea in his heart, and he said to Guo Song: "Your Highness, although we can't build a sea ship for the time being, we can rent a ship. ”

"You mean the Liu family?" Guo Song woke up.

Du Gu Qiu nodded, "The Liu family's fleet has been in operation for fifty years, and they have nearly two hundred ships in the sea alone, as well as a large number of experienced crew members, I have talked to their family masters, and they are also willing to serve His Highness." ”

Guo Song pondered for a moment and then asked, "How many ships are in Hekou Port now?" How much in Minnesota Port? ”

"Almost half for half."

Guo Song was silent for a while, and Du You next to him asked with a smile: "What is Your Highness still worried about?" ”

Guo Song sighed slightly and said: "Although it is possible to rent a ship, it only solves the transportation problem, logistics transportation, personnel transportation, I am not worried about this, what I am worried about is the warship, there are naval troops in Lingnan and Quanzhou, although the number is not much, but it is enough to destroy all the cargo ships,"

This question is indeed very realistic, everyone was silent for a while, at this time, Guo Song smiled and comforted everyone: "Don't think about this matter, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and if the water road is not good, we will take the land route, which is the same." ”

Du Isolated Qiu was ashamed and said: "The humble position is not well thought out, which has disappointed His Highness." ”

Guo Song waved his hand, "I only asked about the sea boat, but in fact, I am more concerned about the establishment of various civilian workshops, such as mining, smelting, casting, textile, papermaking, printing, brewing, tea making, civil ship construction, etc., this is where Dugu Xiangguo needs to bother to work hard." ”

Guo Song said to Pan Liao again: "Only material abundance is the root of the country's strength and people's wealth, so the development of industry and mining is the top priority of the imperial court in the future, such as textile, brewing, papermaking, these can be handed over to the people to do, but mining, smelting, casting, shipbuilding These basic heavy industries must be led by the government, financial resources must be guaranteed, and personnel training must also be strengthened, especially in the states, must be established in accordance with the model of Taixue to establish a professional state school, starting from next year, the imperial examination should restore the old system, and add Ming law, Ming characters, and Ming characters on the basis of the Ming Jing. Three imperial examination items are clearly calculated. ”

The four of them hurriedly agreed, they all knew that His Royal Highness the King of Jin advocated frugality, pragmatism and emptiness, and vigorously developed agriculture, commerce and handicrafts, which was actually a good thing!

.........

In Yuhang County, Hangzhou, there are not many pedestrians on the official road, the river network here is dense, the water transport is convenient, there are not many mules and horses, but every household has a boat, and most of the ordinary people take the waterway, so there are not many pedestrians on the official road.

At noon, the dust was billowing on the official road in the west, and after a while, several people on horseback galloped to the county, and pedestrians dodged one after another, and rode all the way into the county seat.

These horseback riders are from the Jinwei Mansion intelligence point in Huiji County, led by a slightly obese middle-aged man, his name is Yue Jing, he was originally the intelligence leader of Xindu County, that is, the Yue shopkeeper of the Gaosheng Inn in Xindu County, after Hebei was captured, the Xindu Intelligence Station was disbanded, Yue Jing was promoted to a level, and was sent to Huiji County to prepare for the construction of the Intelligence Station, this time they opened a safe inn in Huiji, and several of his former subordinates also followed him to Huiji County.

Yue Jing had just received an order from the Jin Wei Mansion to investigate the condition of Li Si, the king of Zhao, and they set off overnight and arrived in Yuhang County at noon on the third day.

The population in the county town was noisy, so they dismounted and walked slowly, inquired all the way, and soon found the state office.

A few years earlier, Guo Song had helped Han Rong block Zhu Zhu's army from crossing the river, and then crossed the Yellow River from Hanoi to conquer Mengjin, forcing Zhu Zhu to give up the attack on Jiangnan and return to Luoyang.

Therefore, the government in Jiangnan was very friendly to Guo and Song, and when the Queen Mother and the Son of Heaven returned to Chang'an and re-established the new court, the states in Jiangnan also recognized the new court of Chang'an for the first time.

The purpose of setting up an intelligence station in Huiji was not to collect military intelligence, but to collect commercial intelligence on various states and the public and official sentiments in the Jiangnan area.

When he came to the state office, Yue Jing handed the official a name post, "We are sent by the imperial court, please hand over the name post to Meng Envoy Jun!" ”

Hearing that it was an official of the imperial court, the official turned around and ran towards the official office, and after a while, an official who was more than thirty years old quge.xyz came out, clasped his fists and said with a smile: "In Xia Yang Lian, it is the staff of Meng Envoy's account, please come with me!"

Jin Wei Mansion is an internal title, externally they were originally hung under the Su Zheng Tai, and after the Su Zheng Tai is now split into the Imperial History Terrace and the Imperial Tower, the Jin Wei Mansion is changed to be hung under the supervision of the secretary, and the external name is called the Special Investigation Bureau, in fact, this name is also a bit self-deceptive, everyone knows that this special investigation battalion is the Jin Wei Mansion, but it is slightly whitewashed in the name.

The internal security was also hung under the secretary of the province, renamed the Internal Affairs Department, and there was the staff office where Wang Yu was located, these three offices were the three most important special agencies of Guo Song.

The name card handed over by Yue Jing was the secretary of the Provincial Special Investigation Office to join the military, and joining the military was his official position, and he was a six-rank official.

If you understand the organizational structure of the Jin Palace, you will know that this Yue Jing is the local intelligence chief, and the people of the capital may know, but Meng Xiao, the assassin of Hangzhou far away in the south of the Yangtze River, will not know, and he still thinks that Yue Jing is from the capital.

Meng Xiao invited Yue Jing to sit down in the Guike Hall, and asked the entourage to serve tea, Meng Xiao asked with a smile: "May I ask Yue to join the army from the capital, what are you doing?" ”

Yue Jing heard that he had misunderstood himself, so he simply made a mistake and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin heard that His Royal Highness Zhao Wang was seriously ill, so he specially ordered me to visit. ”

Meng Xiao's face changed, he told Chang'an through a pigeon letter ten days ago that King Zhaowang was sick in Hangzhou, how could he come so soon?

He asked again: "Is it true that Yue joined the army from Chang'an?" ”

Yue Jing smiled and said: "I never said that I came from the capital, His Royal Highness the King of Jin cares about the people's situation in the world and sends a lot of people's investigators, and I am responsible for investigating the people's situation in the Jiangnan region." ”

"You are.... Are you from the Jin Palace? Only then did Meng Xiao react.

Yue Jing took out his silver medal and put it on the table, "This is my identity certificate, please don't worry too much, His Royal Highness the King of Jin is not interested in the military intelligence of the Jiangnan region, mainly to understand the people's sentiments and public opinions, as well as business information." ”

Meng Xiao nodded slowly, "What is the aspect of business intelligence, can Yue Senjun reveal a thing or two?" ”

Yue Jing smiled, "It's not a secret, Meng Yuanjun is interested, of course I can say it, for example, last year's bumper grain harvest in Jiangnan, the price of rice in the market fell to 15 wen per bucket, I told this information to Chang'an, and His Royal Highness the King of Jin sent an order, asking me to purchase 50,000 stone of grain in the Jiangnan region in the past two months, as well as 100,000 horses of fine hemp, and then transport it to Xiangyang through the Yangtze River." ”

"I understand, thank you Yue for joining the army for his frank confession, Zhaowang is in Yuhang County, he did fall ill, and his condition is very serious, I asked the best famous doctor to diagnose and treat him, his disease is not caused by a day or two, but long-term blood in the urine, has not been well treated, this time he went north to work, and his condition worsened."

"How bad is it?" Yue Jing asked anxiously.

Meng Xiao sighed, "He hasn't urinated for five days, and he is unconscious, the doctor said that he may have been in these two days, and asked me to prepare for the aftermath for him." ”

Yue Jing was stunned for a long time and said, "Can you let me meet him?" ”

Meng Xiao nodded, "He is currently in the state office, please come with me!" ”