Chapter 5

Gu Junxun took a boat against the current and arrived in Jiangning on the second day of November.

In addition to the accompanying female dependents, Zhao Qingshan led the whole division of the Jinghai First Water Battalion to come, and the fleet did not anchor in Hekou Town, but turned into Longjiang Lake in the west of Moling County.

The imperial court officially recognized the status of the Jinghai Sea Battalion as a replacement for the Ninghai Town Water Battalion, and in addition to the Xuanfu Envoy to provide food and salary, and the workshop under the Admiral's Mansion to provide armor, the Longjiang Shipyard under the Jiangning Ministry of Industry will also provide all kinds of warships.

According to the total number of warships of various types in the water camp of Ninghai Town, in the past, the Longjiang Shipyard provided one-eighth of the number of warships of various types every year to ensure that the warships of the water camp in Ninghai town could be replaced in eight years, and the Ministry of Industry of Jiangning should allocate about 10,000 taels of shipbuilding silver for the water camp in Ninghai Town every year.

Officials are greedy, and the Jiangning Ministry of Industry is not exempt, even if there are water battalions to supervise the construction, it is the norm to collude together to cut corners. In addition, the generals of the water camp in Ninghai Town often secretly sold good ships for profit, so that the quality of the water camp warships in Ninghai Town before and after the bloody battle of Jiyang was not even as good as the sea ships built in batches for the Donghai Kou in a hurry by the luxury family.

The old accounts before, Lin Jian didn't want to go over, even if the officials were corrupt, it was a fact that the Longjiang Shipyard gathered the best shipbuilders in China. Nearly 200 years of technology accumulation and a large amount of material reserves have made Longjiang Shipyard one of the few shipyards that can build large-scale offshore sail warships.

The water battalion in Ninghai Town has five battalions of soldiers, and the first and second water battalions in Jinghai do not count the auxiliary soldiers, and the soldiers are also about 3,000 people.

However, the needs of the Jinghai Sea Battalion are mainly seagoing vessels, and the standards of materials, structure, strength, and seawater corrosion prevention are far higher than those of inland river warships.

The auxiliary vessels of the inland water camp do not even use keels, and if the boaters who go to sea and even small sentinel ships are not built with keel as the main material, the slightly larger wind and waves can directly break up the hull. The main warship should adopt a high-strength watertight compartment structure, and the two sides should also be reinforced with large materials of the same specifications as the keel.

In this way, even if the Longjiang Shipyard provided the Jinghai Battalion with warships with the same total load and built them according to the standards given by Lin Tie, the officials would not be corrupt from them, and the cost would be three or four times higher than that - the Jiangning Ministry of Industry naturally could not suffer this loss, and only agreed to build warships for the Jinghai Battalion according to the total amount of 10,000 taels of silver allocated for shipbuilding.

The cost of each Jinhai-class warship is more than 15,000 taels of silver, and the total amount of silver allocated is only enough for the Jinghai Battalion to purchase most of the Jinhai-class warships or two semi-Jiyun-class warships.

The battle damage of the water camp in Ninghai Town was not large, so it was more than enough to change a batch of ships in eight years; The Jinghai Battalion wanted to establish a solid defense line on the Shengsi Islands, and frequent naval battles would greatly increase the consumption of warships.

During the two storms on Daheng Island, nearly 40 percent of the warships in the Jinghai Battalion were lying in the nest, and nearly half of the warships were damaged and could not be repaired and reused.

Based on the estimation of the intensity of the war losses, it is necessary to increase the allocation of silver for shipbuilding to at least 100,000 taels per year to ensure that the Jinghai naval battalion will not be weakened by frequent naval battles.

Yue Lengqiu had already left Jiangning for Linhuai, preparing to lead the Changhuai army north to suppress the civil unrest, Xuanfu envoy Wang Tian and the newly appointed Jiangdong envoy Yu Xinyuan also went to Pingjiang Mansion and Danyang Mansion respectively to inspect the local war preparations, and urged the two places to assemble their forces to the south, in case Dong Yuan's hastily established defense line in northern Zhejiang was pierced by the luxury family - the situation was so urgent, Lin Jian still patiently stayed in Jiangning, and it was a trivial matter to take Gu Junxun back to the province to save relatives, mainly to bargain with the Jiangning Ministry of Industry on the repair of warships.

In addition to the total number of silver draws from shipbuilding each year, there is another issue that is at odds with each other.

Previously, in order to strengthen the defense force of the river and restrict the development of the Jiangning Left Army in Chongzhou, Yue Lengqiu asked the Longjiang Shipyard to build an additional batch of high-quality warships for the water camp in Ninghai Town and the water camp in Jiangning. Now that the water camp in Ninghai Town has been disbanded, a batch of high-quality warships built has not yet been delivered, but after Yue Lengqiu ignored the Jiangning defense affairs, the Jiangning Ministry of Industry did not dare to make it difficult for the Jiangning water camp that was close at hand, but refused to deliver these warships to the Jinghai water camp.

Lin Jian has broken his feet for these two things in the past few days, and he almost sat on the cold bench at Xu Huaidong, the secretary of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, and Liu Yugong, the left waiter of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, and there was no progress at all.

The officials of the Sixth Department of Jiangning are commonly known as "Tomb Keepers", and their real power is far from being comparable to that of the officials of the Six Ministries of Yanjing, but their official position is not low. Lin Tie was promoted like a rocket, and was named the county viscount, and twice rewarded for his merits, but in the eyes of Xu Huaidong and Liu Yugong, Lin Tie was still a stunned boy with no qualifications and some luck. Even Gu Wuchen is not qualified to talk about qualifications in front of the two of them.

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Gu Junxun took the Jinhai to Jiangning, Gu Yingsleeve, Liu Yue'er, Xiaoman and other female dependents also came to Jiangning by boat to relax, Song Jia and Hao Mingyue did not come over together in the end, mainly because Lu Mingyue could not solve the unhappy knot, and Song Jia could not leave her alone in Chongzhou.

Lin Jian ate stuffy soup at Zuo Shilang of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry in the afternoon, and came to Hekou Town in the afternoon, and when he saw the boat coming, he personally went to the dock to pick him up.

In Lin Bin's opinion, this was a very ordinary thing, but in the eyes of outsiders, it became a beautiful talk with eyebrows. Gu Junxun didn't expect that Lin Jian would come to the dock to pick her up in person, and there were still people watching on the dock, her pretty face was slightly red, and she was a little embarrassed.

came over together, as well as Ge Siyu.

As the governor of the dredging of the salt river, Ge Siyu could not easily get out, but to pry the foot of the wall of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, Ge Siyu had to do it.

Lin Jingzhong also kept the grass hall for Lin Tie, Gu Junxun and the others came over and were not busy living in the city, but they rested in the grass hall first, and Lin Tie invited Ge Siyu to go to Zhao Shuhan's bamboo hall where he usually lectured on cultivation and miscellaneous studies, and Zhang Yubo was also here.

"How is Xu Huaidong and Liu Yugong going?" Ge Siyu asked.

"Water can't be poured into ......," Lin Jian said.

"The Longjiang Shipyard is under the management of Liu Yugong, this person is not good for others, only the yellow and white things, and the old man was blackmailed to the old man back then, and the old man hated to shut his door and did not come out." Ge Siyu said.

"I prepared yellow and white things, such a key head, I don't dare to be stingy, the standard Jiangning official gold collar prepared twelve, and promised that the shipbuilding silver allocated by him would be returned to him in eleven," Lin Jian shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Still the water can't be splashed into ......."

"That's weird," Ge Siyu frowned in confusion, "Could it be that someone is secretly doing something?" ”

"......" Lin Jian also doubted, but it was possible that there were too many people secretly doing things, and he couldn't guess who it was. In addition to Gu Wuchen and his family, in addition to the people and horses in Chongzhou County, Lin Tie is almost no opponent in Jiangdong County, "Xu Huaidong and Liu Yugong's closed-door soup, I will continue to eat; However, even if these two paths are successful, there will be variables in the future. In the future, Chongzhou will be the main outlet to the sea in the southeastern counties, and improving Chongzhou's own shipbuilding capacity is the key...... All the masters who are willing to go to Chongzhou, regardless of the old and young, will be given one hundred taels of silver, and Chongzhou will be replaced by guests. Don't be afraid that you won't be able to go, I will pull the first water camp in Jinghai over, one or two hundred with my family, can I still pick it up? Snatched and snatched. ”

The construction of a dock in Guanyin Beach is the top priority of Lin Tie taking root in Chongzhou.

In addition to weaving and armor casting, almost all of the workshops that have been established in Guanyintan in the past year are based on the shipbuilding industry. The shipyard was formally established in half a year, headed by Sun Jingxuan, and the craftsmen were drawn from the Xihe Society, and the master craftsmen were recruited from Pingjiang, Hailing and other places.

After all, the foundation of Guanyintan Shipyard is too thin, and the degree of accumulation is far less than that of the shipyard built by the luxury family in Jin'an.

The rebellion of the water camp in Ninghai Town, Lin Jian expected that the position of the Jinghai Sea Camp would not be shaken in the short term, and he had the idea of directly rooting the wall of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry - as long as Jiangkou and the eastern sea frontier of Pingjiang Mansion and Hailing Mansion were inseparable from the defense of the Jinghai Sea Camp, the Jiangning Ministry of Industry would stab this matter into the imperial study, and Lin Jian also had an excuse to defend.

Zhao Shuhan heard Lin Lian's undisguised request for Ge Siyu to come over to help dig up the master craftsman from the Longjiang Shipyard, and shook his head helplessly and smiled.

Zhao Shuhan is not a pedantic person, he knows that Lin Lian's behavior of prying the foot of the wall is harmful to the Jiangning Ministry of Industry and the interests of the imperial court, but Xu Huaidong, Liu Yugong and others have prejudices and refuse to build ships for Lin Lian, and if they really adhere to the principle, it will only weaken the combat strength of the Jinghai Sea Battalion, so that no one can defend the flank of Pingjiang Mansion and no one can defend the mouth of the river, and it will damage the overall situation.

Hekou taught the miscellaneous science of craftsmanship, although Zhao Shuhan was the leader, but the craftsmen in Jiangning knew that this was something that Lin Jian vigorously did in Jiangning. Lin Jian is almost a household name among the ordinary craftsmen in Jiangning, no worse than the few mausoleum guards in the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, coupled with the prestige accumulated by Ge Sihu and his father Ge Fu, the old engineer Ge Fu, for two generations, it will not be difficult to pull away a group of craftsmen from the Longjiang Shipyard with the same nationality.

Zhao Shuhan knows that "doing righteousness needs to be informal", so he doesn't think that Lin Bin's approach is out of line, he only complains, officials can't do things for the court and the people of the world, and they have to force people who want to do something for the court and the people of the world to go the wrong way.

Lin Jian not only wanted to poach people from the Longjiang Shipyard under the Ministry of Industry of Jiangning and poach those craftsmen who were like national treasures, but also planned to buy off the officials in charge of the Longjiang Shipyard and secretly transfer the family of the Longjiang Shipyard to Chongzhou. Since Xu Huaidong and Liu Yugong refused to give the ship, it would be possible to transport the wood and other materials needed for shipbuilding to Chongzhou. Especially for those old materials necessary to build sea ships, even if Lin Jian purchased them from Sichuan, Jiangxi, Jinghu and other places, the time to prepare materials was as long as three or five years, and if you want to build large sea ships in a short period of time, you have to dig the wall legs from the Longjiang Shipyard.