After Zheng Zhiguan left, Xia Nan convened a meeting of military and logistics management personnel. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Three months is not short, it is not long, and turning his face with Zheng Zhilong is definitely the most important thing at present, and it must be deployed as soon as possible.

Van Bommel, who had just stated three days earlier that he was playing for the summer south, was also in attendance. Although it was not uncommon for similar military councils to be held in the Netherlands, the phenomenon of big men dominating the direction of the councils was not only found in the East, but also in Europe, where instructions were usually given by the king or the council and carried out by those below. The lively discussion of the military meeting of the Qiongzhou battalion and the depth of the participation of the crowd greatly surprised the former captain of the East India Company.

Xia Nan briefly explained the current situation: "...... That's the way it is, I want the silver anyway, and I don't plan to give the cannon. Zheng Zhilong was able to pay for the goods in advance, and sent someone to urge the goods, which shows that he attaches great importance to this batch of artillery - the Dutch have been defeated, Liu Xiang's men have been wiped out by us, from Fujian to Guangdong, except for the Qiongzhou Battalion Navy, there is no sea power that can shake the Zheng family, so it is self-evident who he is in a hurry to install this batch of artillery against......"

Sima De smiled coldly: "Who else can you deal with?" It's our Qiongzhou camp. On the side of the couch, how can we allow others to sleep soundly, as soon as the red hair collapses, Zheng Zhilong can't tolerate us, but I didn't expect it to be so fast! ”

William explained: "Although this day will come sooner or later, I guess the reason for Zheng Yiguan's acceleration is the excellent performance of our patrol ships in Liuluo Bay. The Zheng family's fleet drove high and low in the battle, their performance was nothing short of shit, and if we hadn't joined the battlefield in time, it would have been difficult to say whether we would have won or lost this battle. ”

Van Bommel as a newcomer who has just joined, originally adhering to the principle of "ten thousand words, not as good as one silence", to understand the team, did not plan to speak, but when it came to this topic, as a party and victim, he couldn't help it, and said in broken Chinese: "That's it." If it weren't for your intervention, we could have slowly grinded Zheng Yiguan to death, and the outcome of the war would have been rewritten......"

Xia Nan said: "Anyway, it's a matter of time or time, and it's not bad to turn your face early and start fighting early." However, we must be well prepared and not fight unprepared battles. Mr. Sun, you are in charge of the equipment logistics, what is the situation at the shipyard and the arsenal? ”

Sun Yuanhua said: "The shipyard is now starting to build six ships at the same time, including four 1,000-material warships and two 2,000-material warships, which are expected to be launched in a month and a half." Originally, there was a huge ship of 3,000 materials, and the keel and ribs were paved, but in order to hurry the work, all the manpower was transferred to this side; There is no problem with the arsenal, after the construction of Changhua, the iron ore is smelted on the spot, which is much faster than the speed of transferring ore from Yazhou back to Lingao for ironmaking, and the raw materials supplied to the arsenal are endless, as long as the wages are sufficient, there is no problem in providing enough naval guns. ”

A 1,000-material warship is the Wuxiang-class with a displacement of 500 tons, a 2,000-material warship is a warship with an estimated displacement of 1,000 tons, and a 3,000-material warship is the mobile sea battery that Charles said, the flagship of the flagship.

Xia Nan thought for a while and asked suspiciously: "The original design and construction of the big ship of these two thousand materials seems to have started when I came back from Shandong, why hasn't it been built for almost a year?" ”

Sun Yuanhua explained: "That's right, when this big ship was built, I just followed the general you back to Lingao, almost a year. According to Mr. Cha, the shipyard manager, the construction period of such a large warship in their place is more than two years, or even three or five years, and one year is really not a long time. And because of the shortage of money in the middle of the way, and it took a lot of time to search and buy suitable wood to lay the keel, it was delayed until now. ”

Liu Quan, who manages the flow of funds from Tiannan Commercial Bank, also attended the meeting as part of the logistics system. He added: "General, our stall is too big, and just paying the salaries of thousands of people in the land division and sailor division is a big expense; The shipyard is even more of a gold-swallowing beast, just buying a century-old tree from Fujian to use it as a keel and then transporting it back is a sky-high price, not to mention the silver money spent on hundreds of cannons on a few new ships, if it were not for the 300,000 taels of silver sent by the Zheng family in time to buy cannons, these big ships would not have been built and launched...... The subordinates thought about it, there is no source for open source for the time being, so they can only find a way to throttle, and the shipyard and arsenal have nowhere to start, so how about lowering the salary standard? Each person is less than a few dozen taels of silver, and thousands of people are also more than ten or two hundred thousand taels a year, which is really a lot. ”

"No way!" Xia Nan categorically vetoed this proposal, "The army is the foundation of my Qiongzhou battalion, without the army and navy, the Qiongzhou battalion would not have achieved what it is today." I can sit in the position of a general, the Qiongzhou battalion can control the Qiongzhou Mansion openly, and the governors of Liangguang dare not touch me, these are all spelled out by the army with a knife and a gun. Why are they willing to pin their heads to their belts and risk their lives to fight? It is because there is enough money to ensure that the family has no worries about food and clothing and lives a decent life. As for the navy, not to mention, as long as you go to sea these days, there is danger, and fighting at sea is even more life-threatening, and it is understandable to have more money, and now it is about to fight with the Zheng family again, how can it be possible to reduce the salary, isn't this to lower morale and self-destruct the Great Wall? ”

Seeing that Xia Nan's attitude was very resolute, Liu Quan was a little frightened, and knelt down in a hurry: "My subordinates are not thoughtful, please don't blame the general." ”

Seeing this, Xia Nan slowed down his breath and raised his hand to signal him to stand up: "How many times have you said that the Qiongzhou camp is not a bow and worship, you get up and speak." I'm just talking about things, and I don't mean to blame you. Besides, you don't mean anything else, you just want to be loyal to your duties and want to save me money, I'm very pleased, how can I blame you? ”

Liu Quan wiped the cold sweat on his head, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, stood up and said respectfully: "Thank you for your understanding, General." ”

"But what you said about opening up sources and reducing expenditures is worth pondering. Although the Zheng family's 300,000 taels of silver was a timely rain, it was just a windfall, not a long-term solution. Xia Nan asked, "Can the current silver support the battle with the Zheng family?" ”

Liu Quanmo calculated for a moment and replied: "With these 300,000 yuan, the big expenses have been dealt with, and the rest are small heads, and the flow of cloth shops and wineries can be supported, if there is no war, it can barely be supported, but if it starts, it can't be taken care of, not to mention the salary of the army and the wages of craftsmen, even the operation of the school will have problems." ”

In the summer, the south has a headache, "the cannon goes off and the gold is ten thousand taels", the Qiongzhou battalion is the army with the highest degree of firearms in the entire 17th century, the generation difference advantage in weapons is huge, and the consumption is much higher than that of the opponent, where to find silver?

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