After Xiao Tianjian listened, he also understood Fu Deming's difficulties, now that the Dazhong Dynasty is newly established, coupled with the fact that all parts of the country are ruined by the war, there are places where money is to be spent everywhere, but the current Hubu Shangshu is very difficult to do, and the limited funds must be carefully distributed, otherwise I am afraid that if he is not careful, he will be bankrupt like the Ming Dynasty!

However, Xiao Tianjian was unwilling to compromise on speeding up the construction of the navy, because no one knew better than him the importance of the sea to China, and to solve the affairs of the south, it was inseparable from the navy, so after thinking for a while, he shook his head and said to Deming: "I know your difficulties, but no matter how difficult you are, this matter of building sea ships cannot be postponed!" Because it's worth it now compared to the price we will have to pay in the future!

I also know that there are too many places to spend money, and the war against the thieves in the northwest must be guaranteed first, and the next step in the southeast and southwest must also be guaranteed, and as for the farmland and water conservancy, we can't let go! In addition to the repair of the Great Wall in the northern border area, the repair of the city walls in various parts of the mainland can be stopped first, and the limited financial resources can be used on the blade, but we must remember that what is lost cannot be lost now, and the construction of warships must be fully supported!

I did this, and you will understand me in the future! But don't question my decision now, I hope that all of you will go all out to support the construction of the navy! Whether it is human, financial, or material resources, we must give priority to guaranteeing! ”

After Fu Deming listened, he nodded helplessly, and said that he accepted the order, after all, Xiao Tianjian has rarely made mistakes for so many years, and in terms of grasping the future, Xiao Tianjian is much stronger than any of them, which everyone has seen before, and now Xiao Tianjian is trying his best to build a sailor who can cross the sea, he must have his ideas, and there should be nothing wrong with this matter, so he, the shopkeeper, can only handle it according to what Xiao Tianjian said.

This time Liu Jiang was very happy to be the commander of the water division, so Liu Jiang hurriedly came out to thank Xiao Tianjian.

"Don't thank me first, although you Liu Jiang did a good job in the Yangtze River water battle, but it doesn't mean that you can do the same good job at sea, although I don't know the water division, but I also know that the water battle on the rivers and lakes is very different from the sea battle, the water army is handed over to you, you will do your best to build a strong navy for me!" Otherwise, you will live on this river for the rest of your life!

By the way, you can tell me how your navy is doing now! How's the people, the boats, the water camps, doing? After Xiao Tianjian saw Liu Jiang, he immediately beat Liu Jiang.

Liu Jiang shrank his neck in fright, and hurriedly replied: "Qi Shengshang, Weichen will never dare to slack off, now our naval army has a total of 17,000 troops, more than 1,000 warships of all kinds, but most of them are inland river ships, and now they are organized into a water battalion, which is stationed along the Yangtze River, and in addition, in Ningbo and Songjiang Prefecture, Weichen Chen each stationed a water camp to prevent Zhengjiashui thieves from the south!"

In addition, in the past six months, the last general has followed the holy decree to recruit more fishermen from the East China Sea into the army, and has also incorporated dozens of naval warships of the Ming Army in Ningbo, including two No. 2 Fu boats, five Haicang boats, seven sentinel boats, and several centipede ships and more than a dozen other small warships, but most of them are already unusable, and they can only be used to train the navy in the coastal area!

Moreover, the general was still in the coastal area, and managed to collect dozens of sand boats and dozens of old warships, which were also incorporated into the Songjiang Prefecture Water Camp and Ningbo Water Camp, but these ships were in disrepair and could not be used, and more warships urgently needed to be replenished! ”

"How many water armies are being trained in the Songjiang Mansion Water Battalion and the Ningbo Mansion Water Battalion now?" Xiao Tianjian immediately asked.

"Qi Song Sheng, these two water battalions, the last generals have each trained 1,300 sailors, and there are more than 70 ships of all kinds!" Liu Jiang replied immediately.

"Not enough! Far from enough! In addition, the water battalions of Songjiang and Ningbo should be expanded, and you will be allowed to train three water battalions in each of these two places, and in addition, a battalion of soldiers that can be used to fight with the navy on land must be increased, and the total strength must be increased to 10,000 to 15,000 by the end of the year, and within three years in the long term, the number of personnel should be expanded to about 50,000, and as many fishermen as possible who are good at sailing on the sea. Soldier pay can be doubled!

From now on, your navy will be renamed the Dazhong Royal Navy! What we want is not a navy that can only operate by the sea, or can only fight in inland water systems, but a navy that can truly crisscross the seas in the future and can show off its strength on the ocean on behalf of our Chinese! The name of the sailor is not suitable, so it will be renamed the Navy in the future! As for the other soldiers and horses on land, they will be collectively called the army in the future!

As the first officer of the Navy, you must step up the training of your generals in the near future, and strive to be able to use them for naval battles in the future! Before the year, at least I could take down Zhoushan outside Ningbo Mansion to ensure that the coastal area of Zhejiang would no longer be disturbed by the Zheng family's sailors!

In addition, the Ministry of War should set up a naval lecture hall in Ningbo Prefecture to train cadet soldiers for the navy. With a wave of his hand, Xiao Tianjian renamed the Navy Division.

Although the navy and the navy seem to be the same, they are both used for water operations, but in fact, Xiao Tianjian knows very well that the navy does not mean that it is the navy, and the real navy must be able to sail all over the world and fight on the sea, not the name sailor can be replaced.

In history, although the late Qing Dynasty also formed a seemingly very powerful Beiyang Naval Division, Fujian Naval Division, and other naval divisions similar to the navy, but did not defend the sea frontier for the country, Xiao Tianjian wanted not a naval division, but a navy that could really cross the sea, so the name of this navy, he had to settle down first, after all, at present, his subordinates, including these important ministers, do not understand the ocean, and do not pay attention to it, he can only guide these people, and gradually let everyone form an understanding of the sea, for the future Chinese nation, Build a powerful navy.

After listening to Xiao Tianjian's words, Liu Jiang and the ministers were a little dumbfounded, and Xiao Tianjian's handwriting and appetite were a little too big! One mouth changed the naval division into the Royal Navy, and as soon as the upper lip touched the lower lip, the naval division would be expanded to 50,000 troops within three years, although Zheng Zhilong had a lot of naval troops in his hands, but it couldn't reach so many people! What is the use of the big China and North Korea wanting so many naval troops in the future!

So everyone was shocked, but as soon as Xiao Tianjian spoke, now he is a golden mouth, and Qiangang is arbitrary, although everyone doesn't understand it very well, but they can only agree first, but Liu Jiang is very happy, and he once again thanked him.

After saying these miscellaneous things, the time has already reached noon, not to mention the ministers, even Xiao Tianjian himself felt a little hungry, and saw that the ministers were all standing with a sore back and legs, so Xiao Tianjian waved his hand and asked people to prepare a meal in the Fengtian Palace, and gave everyone a seat, and said while eating in the Fengtian Palace.

After hearing this, the ministers also felt fresh, and after thanking him, they all sat down on the chairs brought by the guards, and in a short time the meal was prepared and sent into the main hall.

Although Xiao Tianjian nominally gave a banquet to the ministers, he did not let people send too much wine, and the meal of this so-called banquet was also very shabby, but everyone had a small pot of wine, a pot of tea, and some mixed bread cakes, as for the dishes, it was not much better, each person had a small plate of pickles, a small plate of salted fish, and a bowl of braised pork, which was good.

However, the big guys also know very well that Xiao Tianjian led the army to march and fight all day long, never paid attention to eating and drinking, coarse tea and light rice have long been used to it, and today I can give everyone a small bowl of braised pork, which is already good, and everyone said that they were thirsty and hungry all morning, and they couldn't take care of too much, everyone started together, and the food in front of them was swept away, and even the pot of tea was poured down.

Xiao Tianjian waved his hand to remove the dishes and smiled: "This braised pork tastes good!" Hehe! Come on, come on, this time I came back from the north, and I brought back some good things, so it's good for everyone to refresh! ”

So with a wave of his hand, he sent a pile of things into the main hall, which some people immediately saw were dry tobacco pouches used by the northerners, and some cut tobacco.

In fact, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, tobacco has entered China, and began to be planted in large quantities in China, and many people have begun to learn to smoke, especially in the northerners, and because of the cultivation of tobacco leaves, it occupies the land for growing food, which affects the financial income, so Chongzhen also issued a decree to ban smoking.

This time, Xiao Tianjian led the army on the Northern Expedition, only to find that there were people smoking in the north, and it aroused his addiction to smoking, so he immediately got some dry tobacco bags and became addicted to smoking.

But of course, the tobacco at this time is not as good as the cigarettes of later generations, and it is very rushing, but Xiao Tianjian still has a great addiction to smoking, and he also brought back some tobacco by the way, and he will take it out for the ministers to share it with.

As a result, after a while, the smoke and fire in the Fengtian Temple were burning, and immediately many people began to be choked and coughed loudly, shaking their heads again and again to say that they couldn't stand such a thing, but Xiao Tianjian didn't think about Fu Deming and Li Jinde, who were actually people who had the same interests as him, and the two of them took dry tobacco bags to fill cigarettes skillfully, and then lit them with velvet, and they were very happy to smoke the clouds, and it could be seen at a glance that these two guys should have tried this thing a long time ago, and they must be good at it. Xiao Tianjian was quite angry, he knew that these guys already had things, and he didn't need to endure such a long time of smoking!

The reason why Xiao Tianjian attaches importance to tobacco is because he knows that this thing will contribute very much to financial revenue in future generations, and he does not want to poison the Chinese, but this thing is no more harmful than drugs, and under normal circumstances, after all, the harm is not too great (don't jump out and scold!). I don't deny that cigarettes are a good thing, but this thing is only harmful, and it is not a flood beast! If it were really as advertised, the country should have banned smoking altogether! Unfortunately, Hanfeng is one of the addicts! If there is no smoke in the codeword, it will not be able to come out! Hehe! If this thing is used well, once it becomes an industry in the future, it will at least be a commodity that can be exported for money, and it will be a good commodity to sell to foreigners in the future!

Thinking of this, Xiao Tianjian even thought badly, whether to open up some land in some places, specialize in planting opium poppies, and make opium in the future, relying on the huge ships and cannons of the powerful navy he built later, but also to bombard the doors of Europeans, export a large amount of opium to them, and also harm them hard, but this matter is not in the scope of consideration at the moment, even if it is planted, it cannot be planted in Chinese mainland, at least after India and Asan lay down a colony, it will be planted there, And then export it to Europe, otherwise it will hurt itself if you don't get it right, so it doesn't hurt to smoke a cigarette now.