"How much do these ships cost?"

"Back to Your Majesty, this kind of big ship, each ship is equipped with eight Hongyi cannons, each Hongyi cannon uses more than 3,000 catties of copper, and the cost is about 1,200 taels, and the thousand-jin Franc machine [Franc machine is a giant musket] is much cheaper, about 300 taels each, these cannons alone are 22,000 taels, plus the battleship itself, other firearms, etc., the cost of each ship is about 50,000 taels, five, a total of 250,000 taels." Qin Yaozu pointed to the Dafu boat and said.

“…… This kind of smaller warship is much cheaper, about fifteen thousand taels is enough, ten, at about 150,000 taels, and the horse clipper is even cheaper, five thousand taels is enough, and the construction cost of this fleet is about 410,000 taels. Qin Yaozu continued.

"Wait, how can your artillery be so expensive? The cost of each Hongyi cannon is 1,200 taels? "Yang Reform feels that there is a problem, if I am not mistaken, the price of copper is about 100 yuan, even if it is 4,000 catties, the copper is only 400 taels of silver, plus the casting cost, each door should be between five or six hundred taels of silver, this guy's quotation is really not generally high, and he regards himself as a Kaizi!

Qin Yaozu's quotation came according to the quotation in the War Bureau, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, this Hongyi cannon is difficult to cast, usually to build a qualified cannon, and several will be scrapped, so the price of this casting is high." ”

"Well, I know, let's remove this cannon first and don't count it, just calculate the price of the ship, and I'll talk about the cannon later." Yang Gai was really dissatisfied with this cannon, the price was too high, and decided to find his own cannon casting consultant Sun Yuanhua to ask if he had time, to see how much the cannon cost, and now the price he gave himself from his arsenal was a bit outrageous, which definitely hindered the popularity of the cannon.

Qin Yaozu was dumbfounded, if you don't build a gun, can this battleship still be called a battleship? But I agreed.

"Yes, Your Majesty, remove the cost of this cannon, the cost of each ship, it is much cheaper, only about half the price, about 250,000 taels is enough."

"Yes, I see." Yang Gai felt that the cost of this ship was so high, it was caused by this artillery, and decided to reduce the casting price of artillery, otherwise, there would be no way to popularize artillery, and there would be no way to build more warships.

"Big companion, place an order for Zheng Huaizhong, and tell him that the fleet will be rebuilt like this, and the ship type and ship sample will be made according to this." Yang Gai said.

"The slave obeys." Wang Cheng agreed.

This shipbuilding matter is not over, this cannon casting matter is not solved, the power of the battleship is always very limited, Yang Gengai wiped his forehead, and felt that this matter is really troublesome, wave after wave, endless.

…… Qin Yaozu left, packed his luggage, and went to be his fishery admiral.

"Companion, that Sun Yuanhua cast cannon, is there any news now? I don't know what happened? Yang asked again.

"Back to Your Majesty, the slave and maid don't know, so I'll send someone to ask." Wang Chengen agreed.

Yang Gengai looked at the sky outside, it was not early, thought about it, and said, "Forget it, I'll talk about it later, I'm really tired today." "Yang Gengai originally planned to go to Guozijian today to take a look and cheer up those Jinshi who are about to go to the front line of disaster relief, but now it seems that he can't go today. Today's day is not early.

"Yes, then Your Majesty, but do you want to go back to the palace to rest?" Wang Chengen asked.

"Well, go to Kunning Palace." Yang Reform decided to get off work, this is a limit to dealing with political affairs, and he doesn't want to die before he gets old.

Kunning Palace.

Zhou Wan'er had already gotten the news and was waiting for the emperor to come over, and when she saw that the emperor's chariot had finally arrived, she hurriedly came over to pick up the driver.

After a salute, Yang Gai took Zhou Wan'er's hand and said, "Wan'er, I'm tired today, you have to give me a good massage to loosen your muscles and bones......"

Zhou Wan'er was happily led by the emperor.

Yang Gai went directly to the bed, lay down, and waited for Zhou Wan'er to pinch his back and massage him. Zhou Wan'er gave Yang Reform a massage lightly, Yang Reform felt a little weird, the massage was not powerful, but it was really tiring, and some people didn't care about massage, and they were in a daze and had a family affair with their queen.

"Wan'er, where is the old man now?" The matter of the sugarcane plantation that Yang Reform is concerned about is also a way, and it must not be broken, and Yang Reform can count on this road to accommodate refugees.

"Your Majesty, I just received a letter from my father, saying that he has approached the territory of Guangxi, and he can find a place to settle down and start buying sugar cane plantations." Zhou Wan'er said with a smile, and massaged Yang Reform lightly, saying that it was a massage, but it was better to say that it was a stroke.

Yang Gai wondered that he had been going for several months, and he had just arrived in Guangxi, this guy, the road was too far.

"Isn't it? It's been a few months before you arrived in Guangxi? Yang Reform wailed, this is the middle of May, Chongzhen's first year is almost halfway over, and the old man has only arrived in Guangxi? I still expect this guy to buy sugarcane fields to make money this year, it seems that he is going to beat chickens and eggs.

Zhou Wan'er pretended to be angry, gently pinched Yang Reform, and said: "Where, my father's letter was sent, it took more than half a month, at this time, I am afraid that I have already started to buy land, how could I get to Guangxi, Your Majesty forgot, this day is far from the south and the north?" ”

Yang Gai patted his forehead and said, "Yes, yes, it's the old man, it's wrong." "Yang Reform forgot about this ancient traffic again, if he wrote a letter and said that he entered Guangxi, he should really be buying land at this time. It seems that I, my father-in-law, is still quite positive!

Zhou Wan'er was very happy and gently massaged the emperor.

Yang Gai felt that today was a little strange again, he hadn't had a massage in the past few days, why was his Wan'er's strength so small? It's like stroking, not massaging! Yang reform is strange.

Zhou Wan'er suddenly felt nauseous, and the palace maid on the side immediately took a spittoon and went to pick it up.

Yang Gengai turned over violently, looked at his queen, and said, "Wan'er, who are you?" Yang Gengai remembers what this phenomenon seems to be called!

The palace maid on the side said happily: "Your Majesty, it is the queen's mother who is happy, and the imperial doctor has come today, and I am sure that I am happy." ”

"Ahh Yang Gengai remembered that this reaction should be called a pregnancy reaction.

"Wan'er, is this true? Doesn't that mean I'm going to be a father? Hahaha......" Yang Gai laughed, about to be promoted to become a father, this is the time when everyone should be happy.

Zhou Wan'er was retching, rinsed her mouth with water, and then felt better, and said: "Well, I feel a lot lazy in the past few days, I can't eat, and I often vomit, today the imperial doctor came over and said that there was a ......" In the end, Zhou Wan'er lowered her head, and she couldn't be shy anymore.

"Huh...... Hehe...... Good...... Hehe, I'll be able to be a father soon, okay...... Hehe...... Good things ......" Yang Reform was happy, he didn't know what to say, so he could only replace his excitement with hehe.

"Come on, come on, Wan'er sit, sit...... Since you are pregnant with my son, don't be so tired, pay more attention to rest, don't be tired, come and sit ......" Yang Gai immediately let the queen sit on the bed.

"Tired there? If you are not tired, how can Your Majesty know that it must be a son? What if it's a princess? Zhou Wan'er happily sat on the bed and talked with the emperor about family life, this is not a son or a daughter, this is the best son, no, you have to get vaccinated.

"Hey...... This, hehe, it must be a son, it must be a son! I know ...... this" Yang Gai said with a smile, if I remember correctly, the prince is about to be born, I remember that when I forgot the country, the prince was fifteen or sixteen years old! plus the pregnancy in October, it has been almost seventeen years, and there are still seventeen years of my life in history? If this prince doesn't come out again, when will he wait?

"The emperor ......" Zhou Wan'er was happily coquettish.

"Wan'er, don't move, don't move, it's not good if you move the tire." Yang Reform is meticulously caring.

Zhou Wan'er saw that the emperor favored her so much, her brows furrowed slightly, and said: "Your Majesty, Tian, and Yuan's two sisters have entered the palace a lot, and they rarely see Your Majesty, Your Majesty is free, so let's go and see more." ”

"Go when you're free, go over when you're free." Yang was embarrassed, thinking about it, he still has a lot of women, recently he has been living a tight life, busy and dizzy, there are air control these, his life is gone, and he is still a woman? However, this queen is pregnant, and she really needs other women.

"The tasks assigned by His Majesty to the concubines, the concubines have all completed them very well." Empress Zhou Wan'er began to report her recent work to the emperor, Zhou Wan'er was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old woman at this time, she was still at the most fun-loving age, and she was favored by the emperor, and she could help the emperor do things, so her positive surname was very high.

"Oh, hehe, what have you done?" Yang Gengai asked with interest.

"On the twenty-fifth of last month, the concubines summoned some wives and daughters of the country's eunuchs, talked with them all morning, and later summoned several batches of ...... one after another."

"On the sixth day of the fifth month of this month, the concubines summoned the noblewomen and talked to them about the glass mirror, and they were all envious......

"Every few days, the concubines write to urge my father, asking them to hurry up and hurry to Guangxi to buy land and plant sugarcane, so as to share your majesty's worries...... Your Majesty, did you say that the concubines did a good job? Zhou Wan'er is still at a very naïve age, and when she reports to the emperor, she also looks naïve, counting them one by one, for fear that her credit will be missed.

Yang Gai smiled: "Good, good! Yes, no wonder, Guozijian's business is so good, it turns out that there is also a credit to Wan'er! "The popularity of this country's prison has collected a lot of money.

"Of course ......" Zhou Wan'er was very happy, and she felt very remarkable to be praised by the emperor.

…… At the same time, Guangxi, Leizhou Mansion, a deep mansion compound, is the emperor's father-in-law Zhou Kui's newly bought mansion.

"Dad, I say, we ran for months just to buy some land in this place where birds don't and exile prisoners? Are we eating too much? Zhou Kui's son Zhou Yi complained, Zhou Yi and his father traveled a long way, from the northernmost part of the Ming Dynasty to the southernmost part, according to his father, it was to buy land for the emperor, in Zhou Yi's opinion, what kind of bullshit is this, their family is now also a relative of the emperor, his father and father-in-law, he himself also has the title of this official, the official is quite big, but now, he went to this ghost place to buy land? Not enjoying happiness in the capital is really incredible.

"You shut up for me, if you don't want to, get out of here, go back to my hometown, I will not have you as a son." Zhou Kui was also angry.

"Dad, I'm just talking, just talking, don't be so angry, didn't I just follow your old man? Go back now? Then I might as well not come with you. Zhou Yi saw that his father was angry, so he no longer complained about anything.

"Well, that's good, Ming, come with me to visit the prefect in the palace." Zhou Kui said.

"Meet him? Dad, you are the ruler of the country, much more than his fourth-grade official, and even the official on my back is higher than him, how can we go to meet him? Zhou Yi said.

"What do you know, the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, although your father is the ruler of the country, but, in the eyes of those sour Confucians, I am afraid that it is not a first-class ......, forget it, don't talk about this, we can only come here, we can only worship the temple, it is easy to do things, the things that Your Majesty has explained, it must be done, this is related to the glory and wealth of our family, and it is related to your sister's status in the palace, you cheer up Lao Tzu, understand?" In the Ming Dynasty, this relative, including the princesses of various vassal kings, was a small surname, and was not looked down upon by those orthodox literati.

Zhou Kui saw that his son looked like a hanger, so he got angry.

Zhou Yi said angrily: "What are they?" We are the emperor's in-laws, the emperor's relatives, what is he a prefect? We have to worship him, we are also doing an errand for the emperor, it is a Qin mission, he dares to stop him? provoked the fire, I clicked him with a knife......" Zhou Yi to the end, made a gesture of raising the knife in his hand, and when he saw his father scolding himself, he stopped again and was silent.

Zhou Kui probably trained his son, but he was also tired of training, sat down and drank tea, ready to relieve his son, and said, "Son! I ask you, is your sister the empress of the current emperor? ”

"That's natural, we're the royal relatives of the real brand." Zhou Yi said proudly.

"Then let me ask you again, although your sister is still the queen now, has she ever given birth to a boy and half a girl for the emperor? Gave birth to a prince? ”

"This, Dad, my sister just became the queen, why did she give birth to a prince so quickly? Not that fast. Zhou Yi said.

"You are not a master, you still know that your sister did not give birth to a prince, this did not give birth to a prince, that is, in the future, this emperor, who may it be, if it weren't for my grandson, your nephew, our family's son, what did you say?" Zhou Kui asked.

"This ...... No, Dad, my sister is the queen, there is no reason why the future prince is not my nephew! Zhou Yi also began to feel that this was a problem.

"Humph! I'm afraid you don't know, at the beginning, His Majesty warned your father in the palace, saying that my family and the royal family are both prosperous and lossy, if the Ming Dynasty is still there, we are still the uncle and uncle of the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming Dynasty overturns, then we are the prisoners arrested by the new dynasty. You say, is it better to be the uncle of the Ming Dynasty, or the prisoner of the new dynasty? Since Zhou Kui was interviewed by the emperor, he suddenly realized that the risk of being the ruler of the Ming Dynasty was very high.

"No, Dad, you said that the Ming Dynasty turned over the altar?" This topic scared Zhou Yi half to death, so scared that even his voice was out of order.

"Shh......h Tap, until now, I told you that it was because we arrived in this Leizhou, remember not to show your mouth. Zhou Kui explained in a low voice.

"I said, Dad, no, how could the Ming Dynasty turn over the altar? This, this is too terrible, this is too unreliable, right? Zhou Yi was frightened, if the Ming Dynasty turned over the altar, their royal relatives would definitely not have a good time.

"Hehe, I thought it was unlikely at first, but Your Majesty did say so, and then I thought about it carefully, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was possible, you think, at the most, I fought against the Eastern Prisoners, did I lose more and win less? There are famines everywhere, the pirates at sea are rampant, they have all hit the shore, and there is a rebellion in the southwest, you say, isn't it dangerous......" Zhou Kui said with a worried face. What the emperor told him at the beginning frightened him and scared him into nervousness, making him feel that everything was about the change of dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.

"I said, Dad, no, although there are rebellions in some places, but to say that the Ming Dynasty overturned the altar, this is too ......" Anyway, no matter what, Zhou Yi does not believe that the Ming Dynasty will fall.

"This is what His Majesty said to me personally, can it be fake? It is dangerous to say that the Ming Dynasty will go down like this again, do you think, if there is no shadow, Your Majesty will say this? That's why Your Majesty asked your father to come to Guangxi to buy land, buy sugarcane land, and turn it into sugar in the future so that it can be sold at a high price, so that the money obtained will be divided with Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty can use this as military expenses to quell the rebellion. Zhou Kui said, thinking of the emperor who had told him about the Ming Dynasty, his neck shrunk and he felt terrible.

"Ahh That's right! But, Dad, you don't really have to run so far, and come by yourself, just send a few people, even if you come by yourself, you don't necessarily have to bring me here, this bird place is too ......" Zhou Yi misses those words in the capital very much, that is a good thing, this Leizhou, obviously can't be compared with the capital, and even with some prosperous rich states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, the whole thing is a place where birds don't.

"What do you know, do you know, your sister has also repeatedly urged, so that my family must share the worries of Your Majesty, urge your father to go down to the south in person, so, your sister is in the palace, in order to get His Majesty's favor, to be able to raise her head, to be favored, to give birth to a prince in the future, to give birth to a prince, my family's wealth, and only for a long time, otherwise, when someone else's son becomes the emperor, what do you think of my family? So, you have to be a pet in the palace for your sister, don't you understand this? Zhou Kui began to educate his son.

"But, Dad, you don't have to pull me to this place......" Zhou Yi still blamed his father for pulling himself to this place.

"You bastard boy, pull you here, it's for your own good, you have to know, in the future, the Ming Dynasty will turn over the altar, and our family will have no place to run, now, I happened to have an errand to the south, in case the Ming Dynasty really can't do it, our family also has a person who inherits the lineage, when the time comes, you will set up a boat and run overseas, your father has thought about it, this is probably the last way out for my family, otherwise, it will be the last one!" Zhou Kui thought about all the back roads and pulled one of his sons over, purely for the sake of running away in the future.

Zhou Yi looked at his father stupidly!

Looking at his stupid son, Zhou Kui also shed tears and said: "Son! Your dad is also for your good! It's also for the good of our family! For today's plan, the first thing is to plant sugarcane for Your Majesty, sell sugar, and raise military funds for Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty can quell the rebellion, and the second is to fix your sister's favor and protect your sister's status in the palace. From now on, I will remain incognito, and the incense of my house will not be cut off, son! Do you understand? ”

Zhou Yi never thought that it would be stupid to buy sugarcane land and have so many twists and turns.

(To be continued)