Chapter 134: The Cabinet
New ships began to appear in various coastal areas, and various seagoing ships began to be built, among which the sand boats commonly used in the coastal sea, the Fu ships suitable for ocean navigation and the sturdy and durable ships were the mainstays, and the volume was getting larger and larger.
At the beginning of the opening of the sea ban, each shipyard and the newly built shipwreath because of the immaturity of the shipwright, most of them can only build about 200 materials of sea ships, but with the improvement of the craftsmanship of the shipwrights in various places, the construction of ships is getting bigger and bigger, starting from 400 materials, to 700 materials and 800 materials, the mast from a single mast to a double masted, and now to a three-masted or even a four-masted, so that the performance of the sea ship is getting higher and higher.
Of course, the leaders among these shipyards are still the shipyards under the Seawolf Group, after Xiaotian went north to control the situation, the shipyards under the Seawolf Group began to set up branches along the land coast.
They now set up two shipyards in Quanzhou and Hong Kong, then a branch in Songjiang Prefecture, and later a branch in Qingdao, when the first year of Chengtian, Yu Xiaotian had just recovered Liaodong, so they immediately ran to Lushun, and established a super-large shipyard in Dalian.
And this step can be said to be very beautiful, because since the Song and Yuan dynasties, China's navigation industry has been developing, a large number of forests in the south have been felled, and then caused ships to sail far away, to the Ming Dynasty after Zheng He went to the Western era, the entire Nanzhili area has been unable to find a big tree that can build a big ship.
Nowadays, with the opening of the sea ban, the south has built large and small shipyards, and the demand for timber is getting bigger and bigger, and now the timber used in shipbuilding in the south is either imported from the South Seas or imported from Taiwan Island, and Hainan is also a timber production place.
However, this still cannot meet the needs of the major shipyards, so they can only harvest timber from Sichuan, and then go to the Yangtze River to discharge timber from the Yangtze River estuary and transport it to the shipyards for shipbuilding.
And the wood also needs a drying time, the shortest wood needs to be dried for three months to half a year, and some hardwoods even need more than two years of drying time before they can be used for shipbuilding, otherwise they will be forcibly used for shipbuilding, and the ship built will not be able to guarantee the structural strength, and there will be deformation and cracking after launching, and a shipwreck accident will occur if it is not done well.
In this regard, the shipyards of the Seawolf Group have a great advantage, they control the timber production of the entire Taiwan Island, and the raw materials can only be used by the shipyards of the Seawolf first, and the excess will be sold to other shipyards for use, and they have mastered the process of wood distillation, and have the technology to build a large-scale wood distillation plant, and the logs harvested can be used in a relatively short period of time through the guò dry distillation and drying process, and put into use as soon as possible.
There is also the most advanced shipbuilding technology of the sea wolf, they use standardized production, prefabricated components, and then the slipway assembly and launching, the ship production process is intensive and simple, the shipbuilding cycle is much shorter than the general ship, generally 400 materials to 800 materials of the standard ship type, from the ship to the delivery, the shortest one month to two months can be delivered.
And the ships they built are also of the best quality, sturdy and durable, strong resistance to wind and waves, strong anti-sinking ability, although the price is high, but it is still sought after by the major maritime merchants, orders like snowflakes fell in the shipyard of the sea wolf, so that the shipyard of the sea wolf in various places, are not allowed to continue to expand the scale, recruit shipwrights.
With the fall of Jiannu, Liaodong returned to the hands of the Han people, and Liaodong is currently extremely full of timber resources, and the transportation is also quite convenient, after the timber is cut down in the mountains, it can be directly transported to the sea through the guò waterway, most of them go to the sea by the Yalu River, and some places can go to the sea by taking the Daling River, the Da Liao River and other big rivers.
Under the reminder of Yu Xiaotian, the Seawolf Group quickly seized the best piece of land in Dalian Bay in the later generations, and mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources, and built a large shipyard there, and built a large number of wood processing plants and drying plants, in less than two years, a large-scale shipbuilding base was built there, and began a large number of shipbuilding launches for maritime use.
In addition, through the introduction of technology, the shipyard of the Seawolf Group has been through guò reverse replication and other means, with a new Western-style shipbuilding technology, and the addition of Chinese shipbuilding methods, improve the performance of the ship, now the shipbuilding capacity is extremely strong, and China currently has inexhaustible manpower, so that they can build the world's strongest warship, and the best performance of the seagoing ship.
Coupled with Yu Xiaotian's BUG, he has mastered the context of the world's ship development history, and knows a lot of newer ship types, and now by the third year of Chengtian, Seawolf Shipyard has been able to build giant sea ships with a displacement of up to 1,500 to 2,000 tons.
These sea ships are basically Galen ships, with extremely strong carrying capacity and navigation capabilities, and looking at the whole of Asia, at least there is no force that can compete with the large and medium-sized navies.
If it weren't for the fact that Yu Xiaotian wanted to dominate the land and compete for the Central Plains in the first few years, he needed to invest heavily in the army, constantly expand the strength of the army, and tilt the limited resources to the army, and now the navy would have already had the ability to go on expeditions around the world.
Now that the Central Plains on land has been completely pacified, the development of the army has reached a certain stage, and there is no need to continue to invest more resources in the army, and the more than 300,000 army forces that the Great China and the DPRK now have are enough to sweep the whole of Asia without any problems.
So Yu Xiaotian finally set his sights on the sea again and began to officially realize his dream, so the entire military expenditure immediately began to tilt towards the navy.
At this time, Yu Xiaotian carried out a considerable restructuring of the ruling structure in the DPRK and China, and officially introduced the cabinet system, setting up a prime minister and six other assistant ministers, of which the prime minister and the prime minister were directly responsible to him for the affairs of the world, and managed the country in accordance with Yu Xiaotian's instructions.
The six associate ministers are respectively responsible for agriculture, education, industry and commerce, military affairs, and judicial affairs, and are under the management of the prime minister.
Of course, Yu Xiaotian currently has power over the cabinet, and he can veto any decision made by the cabinet, revoke orders already issued by the cabinet, and remove any member of the cabinet at any time.
But under normal circumstances, the cabinet has considerable autonomy and can share most of the government affairs for Yu Xiaotian, as long as there is no problem with the general direction, Yu Xiaotian decided to let these cabinet ministers do it, he only needs to do a good job at the helm, let them know what they think, once any of these people deviate, then he can be removed at any time, and take back power.
For the time being, he did not hand over the military power to the cabinet, and only when he mobilized troops, he could only mobilize them with his approval, and the power to start the war was all in his hands, so as to ensure his absolute control over the world first, so as to avoid the situation of losing control of power.
However, the implementation of the cabinet system has indeed liberated Yu Xiaotian from the heavy handling of government affairs, and he no longer needs to get up earlier than a chicken every day to go to the court to listen to the government, and he does not need to review the recitals every night until late at night.
The Cabinet only needs to compile the various government affairs they handle into a briefing every day, and submit it to Yu Xiaotian the next day, and Yu Xiaotian can review the briefing, once he finds that some of the administrative affairs in the briefing do not conform to his ideas, then he can have the right to recall the directives that the Cabinet has issued and revoke the decisions that the Cabinet has made.
He had the right to convene a meeting of the cabinet at any time if necessary, instead of summoning all the court officials to the palace without having to do anything himself, and completely liberated him from these miscellaneous tasks.
After the establishment of the cabinet system, Yu Xiaotian was greatly relieved, and after the end of the last morning dynasty, he went directly back to the harem, covered his head and slept for most of the day, before he got up refreshed.
After a good rest for a few days, his addiction to doing things came back to him, and he recruited the craftsmen who had cooperated with him in making various models into the palace, and sent someone to make him a large drawing tablet and a full set of drawing tools, and began to sway in the imperial study.
By this time, after many years of preparation by Yu Xiaotian in advance, the Great China and North Korea now have a fleet of nearly 100 ocean-going expeditions, and have recruited more than 10,000 sailors for the ocean-going expedition fleet.
The ships of these expedition fleets are all Galen ships that are very suitable for ocean voyages, each newer than the other, constantly improving, although the displacement is not necessarily very large, but the speed of the ship is fast, the hull is built very strong, it is highly armed, and the ship is also equipped with the most complete material storage facilities of this era, which can sail long distances on the sea.
The sailors and captains are also carefully selected, each has a strong adventurous spirit, and is extremely loyal to Yu Xiaotian, and all of them have received training and practice in ocean voyages, and have strong independent navigation ability, which can cope with the ever-changing conditions on the sea.
Over the years, this ocean-going expedition fleet has been sent to various parts of the world in batches to explore places that the Chinese have never visited before, to explore new continents, and to investigate and draw nautical charts of islands and continents found along the way.
By the time of Chengtian's three years, the expedition ships of these expedition fleets had arrived in many places in the world, and the coasts of South and North America had already left their footprints, such as the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, the Gulf of Oman, and the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean, and as far as the island of Madagascar and the Cape of Good Hope, they had also conquered them, and even expedition ships had bypassed the Cape of Good Hope and traveled along the west coast of Africa to Europe according to the guidance provided to them by Yu Xiaotian.
Some expedition ships sailed across the Pacific Ocean, following the charts they obtained, to the west coast of North and South America, and along the west coast of North and South America, sailing in both directions, surveying many places along the way, and drawing a complete chart.
They have even established bridgeheads belonging to the DPRK in coastal areas such as North and South America and Africa, and declared that these places belong to the DPRK.
The most important thing is that according to Yu Xiaotian's instructions, they have already found Australia in the southern hemisphere, and landed on the east and west banks of Australia, and each built two castles, which were named by Yu Xiaotian as Dongao City and Western Australia City, announcing that the whole of Australia became the territory of the Great Middle Kingdom.
(Yesterday I went out to play for a day.,It was originally set to update two chapters.,When I go out, the automatic update is set.,As a result, there was a problem with the automatic update.,This chapter was not updated.,I came back today and found that only one chapter was updated.,So make it up today!) Never trust automatic updates again! Woohoo, I've been pitted several times! )