In the yamen of the Oriental Military Mansion, Bai Yuanjie looked at Chen Mu, sat on the chair and shook his head: "You are really a god, people are not in the capital, the holy family is long, look at Your Majesty, who specializes in writing long letters and wills, you are the only one in the whole world." ”

What can Chen Mu say? He didn't expect it.

In fact, he completely took the little emperor's great effort to move the mansion of Nanyang Weigang to the outside of the Forbidden City, and understood it as the emperor's guilt that he could not give him the title of marquis.

It is likely that the emperor had no idea what would please him.

But Chen Mu felt this intention.

Bai Yuanjie said: "Don't think that the emperor has given you less reward, if it is just a mansion, it is indeed too thin for meritorious ministers, but the emperor gives not only a mansion, but also ......."

"Brother said with a smile, others don't know you don't know, I don't value the name and money, I serve the country, and what I want to do, His Majesty gives me the authority to allow me to do it, I have nothing else to ask for."

Chen Mu shook his head very satisfied, held the customs declaration document in his hand and swayed it gently, and said, "This is the greatest support of the imperial court for me. ”

As the emperor approached adulthood, his pen grew bigger.

Last year, 1,500 ships were sent, Chen Mu thought that it was already the limit, from Majiagang to Changsheng in order to settle those ships and migrant soldiers, who knew that this year would be even more powerful.

According to the statistics on the official document, there are 2,116 ships, but there are not so many people this year, in addition to the first guard of the third phase of Beiyang, there are also the left and right guards of Tengxiang trained by the emperor, counting the sailors and boatmen drawn from Nanyang, more than 20,000 people.

The change in mentality surprised Chen Mu himself, he looked at Zou Zhixian who was sitting below, and said: "With last year's experience, this year the imperial court sent more than 20,000 people, and Chen didn't think it was too much." ”

Zou Yuanbiao feels the same way.

He, the magistrate, even swelled to the point that he said to Chen Mu at the first glance when he saw the official document: Marshal, with 20,000 more soldiers, we can afford to win Changsheng.

What do you mean?

It means that this army does not need to go to Jinchengtun, nor does it need to stay in Majiagang to suffer from cold, as long as they eat the money and food, they will always win.

Actually, it's a lot, too much.

"Brother, is there a mistake in the establishment of this warship, the official document said that His Majesty would leave me 800 ships, and it also said that these are warships."

Chen Mu raised his hand and waved it in front of him, and said: "I have seen all the ships anchored in Changsheng Bay, there are not many warships in them, most of them are merchant ships, and they are green-headed merchant ships, why are they not red-headed ships?" ”

They are all in the shape of a fortune ship, that is, the paint has changed, and more than half of the front faces of fortune ships are green.

"The official document is right, and Your Majesty is not wrong, this time the transfer of Changsheng ships is 800, 300 small ships of 3400 materials, and 356 large ships of more than 400 materials are all merchant ships from the perspective of the South Seas, and only 144 are regular warships."

Bai Yuanjie raised his fingers as he said as he said with the hand on the table, and said: "The battleships are twelve six-hundred-six-car-class fleets, twelve warships of each fleet, the main and deputy flagships are two thousand-and-five-hundred-material Dingjia ships, the main battleships are four thousand-material Chihai-class, and the auxiliary battleships are six four-hundred-material Great Shark-class gunboats. ”

"This idea was not taken by the Forbidden City, it was the Nanyang Military Government's script, the DPRK sent the Beiyang discussion, and finally decided on the fleet regulations, in order to prepare for sea battles, and it is also convenient for you to expand, and the 100 material ships and 200 material ships can be built by Yazhou, right?"

Chen Mu smiled, who to underestimate? He said: "What's more, Majiagang was able to build 400 warships by itself last year, but it couldn't make cannons due to lack of iron; It is a bit difficult for Jincheng to make 400 materials, mainly because the wood is still drying, and the materials are almost the same this year, you can try to build a thousand material ships, and three should be launched by the end of the year. ”

"It's no problem for Changsheng to build 400 material ships, but I don't plan to build them, it's not suitable to build ships on the west coast, we still have to build them on the east coast, the canal has not been excavated, even if it goes smoothly in less than five years, it is difficult to repair, and it is estimated that there are 20,000 miles from the west coast to the east coast."

Chen Mu showed a little discouragement as he spoke, but how easy is it to build a ship on the East Coast? There are many paths in front of him, but each one is not so suitable.

"It can be done, the Beiyang fleet transfer this time is to supplement the main warships for you, to form a real Liuding Liujia fleet, each fleet must be supplemented with at least twenty-four warships of 100 to 400 materials."

It is obvious that the addition of the 12 Rokcho-Rokko fleets can greatly improve the combat capability of the Oriental Fleet, but in order to effectively form combat effectiveness, they must have at least three footholds in Europe.

"But the imperial court is also thoughtful for you, you build four hundred warships yourself, and the remaining grain ships and horse ships are supplemented by six hundred and fifty-six warships sent by the imperial court, don't look at the four oceans and think the new ships are good, but these old ships were indeed warships in the past."

Bai Yuanjie's words reminded Chen Mu that the Fu Ship was indeed a warship in the past.

"But I didn't see any guns on board."

Chen Mu nodded slowly, he received the intention of the imperial court, but now the imaginary enemies are European countries, and there are no guns on the ship, how can it be called a warship? Asia's artillery production capacity is not even as good as that of Daming Province, and even if a green eyebrow ship in the shape of a fortune ship can put two Franc machines, he can't build it.

"These boats have a new name, called the jade-faced rakshasa, these boats have been renovated in the north and south oceans, and the draft is deep, according to your drainage method, they are all small boats of 160,000 to 200,000 catties."

Chen Mu doesn't have to calculate in his heart, four hundred materials, the displacement of civilian ships with shallow draft is about sixty or seventy tons, and the warships with deep draft are one hundred and ten tons, he knows very well.

But he didn't understand the reason for the name, if it was a green face, he could understand it, but a vicious ghost name like Rakshasa, Chen Mu really didn't think it had anything to do with the green eyebrow boat.

"The report you sent to the imperial court said that there is fire oil and nitrate in Asia, and there is a lot of nitrate, and there is no shortage of gunpowder if there is nitrate.

Self-detonating ship?

Chen Mu blinked, Da Ming hasn't reached the point of burning bags like this, why do you load two or three thousand catties of gunpowder on each ship and hit others?

The key tonnage is not large, and it is difficult to break others.

As soon as he saw Chen Mu's eyes, Bai Yuanjie knew that he was thinking wrong, shook his head and said: "Don't despise them, although they can't carry the backseat of the heavy artillery, the Nanyang Military Government has installed four twenty-four Vulcan machine arrows on the front and rear of their upper deck, and four launch frame slots have been built in each direction, so that ninety-six rockets that can send a thousand steps can be released in an instant during wartime." ”

"There is fire oil in the arrow, and when it hits the oil tank, it will break, and the arrow will explode and catch fire, and if it touches the ship, it will burn, and the power of one arrow is not great, but three or five hundred steps and seven or eight boats fire a salvo, and hundreds of rockets can not be carried by anyone's sail."

It's a little too crazy.

Don't talk too much about catching up with the sea battle, even if only twenty are released into the enemy ship group, it can cause chaos, and suddenly the sails in front of the battleship group are all on fire, what is it like?

Before Chen Mu had time to laugh, Bai Yuanjie said: "Don't be too happy, Nanyang has loaded each ship with twelve rockets, and the rest depends on how many Vulcan arrows you can make." ”

"It's okay if they can't be built, they can still be used as transport ships."

Bai Yuanjie threw this burden to Chen Mu and said easily: "Take a look at the goods, Your Majesty has sent you everything you want." ”