Da Liang put away the shipbuilding drawings given by Xu Man, thought about how much he was still in tatters, and then replied: "No problem, I will still give you a seven-fold discount, but the artillery may not be able to equip you for the time being, I need to go to Songjiang for some things now, and the cheap artillery can be solved when I come back." ”

Xu Man said: "We have dhows to escort us, and the guns on merchant ships are not necessities, so it's okay not to install them for the time being." ”

"Then I'll be fine."

After Da Liang, who made another sum of money, handed over the drawings to the shipyard, said goodbye to Xu Man, and quietly returned to his "Black Fire".

The Skeleton and other ships had entered the dock for overhauls, and Sidney and his four captains practiced naval tactics on the battle charts in the captain's room of the Blackfire.

When he saw Da Liang come in, and knew that he had something to discuss with Sidney, the captains of the four brigs saluted him and left the place.

However, before Da Liang could ask about the expansion of the Black Fire Fleet, Sidney opened his mouth and startled Da Liang.

"My lord, there is no money, when will you replenish the funds of the Blackfire Fleet."

Just kidding, I made 500,000 yuan by hacking a boatload of spices, of which 200,000 was directly hit into the account of the Black Fire Fleet, how long has it been, brother still wants you to pay for the shipbuilding, and now you ask me for money, are you corrupt?

Seeing Da Liang's abnormal expression, Sidney took out a bill and said, "Since I accepted the Black Fire Fleet, in order to make the fleet more quickly form combat effectiveness, each artillery group has to fire 100 shells every day. The Black Fire Fleet has a total of 144 guns, and each cannon requires gunpowder and shells worth 50 silver, which costs 7,200 gold per day, and we have conducted such training for a total of three days, costing 21,600 gold. After that, each artillery gun had to fire 20 shells per day to maintain the shelling level of the artillery crew, which cost a total of 17,280 gold. In the first battle against the troop transport fleet, our First Fleet produced an average of 150 shells per gun, costing a total of 6,044 gold. For the consumption of shells alone, we spent 44,924 gold. ”

Looking at the consumption of a lot of shells, my eyes became stupid. Obediently, the cannon here and there, this is obviously throwing gold into the sea, it has only been a long time, and nearly 45,000 gold cannonballs have been fired.

The flesh hurts, the flesh hurts......

However, this costly daily training consumption cannot be reduced, sweating more before the war and less bloodshed during the war. In the first battle against the troop transport fleet, the Black Fire First Fleet was able to fight against the enemy's artillery and artillery, and it was because of the huge amount of training consumption before the war.

Think about the head of the city at the mouth of the stone cave, what the walking corpse that just touched the cannon looked like, a total of five cannons hit and finally blew up four.

Therefore, the daily consumption of fleet training must not be reduced, and it hurts...... Bear with me.

Below is all kinds of daily consumption, food, fresh water, barrels, ropes, and it adds up to nearly 5,000 gold.

The ship's successive overhauls and minor repairs are another expenditure of 10,000 gold.

Some other small expenditures, bits and pieces, Da Liang is too lazy to look at them.

And then there's the list for this overhaul.

One three-masted battleship and four two-masted battleships were all seriously damaged, and the cost of repairs alone was as high as 30,000 gold.

Other peripherals such as sails that need to be replaced are another series of expenses.

And the real focus is on artillery.

All 120 iron smoothbore guns had to be replaced, and at the price of 600 gold for one gun, this is 72,000 gold.

The navy, as expected, is not something that ordinary people can play.

Da Liang looked at the list and felt that his head was big. No, no, the money can't be spent like this, especially the artillery, 600 gold is obviously the price that the Pudong fleet uses to pit adventurers. Brother Ke is the captain of the Pudong fleet, and all the injuries of the fleet were for Shangjiang City, and Brother Fei took care of himself for repairing the ship, and he couldn't continue to pit Brother on the artillery.

"I'll go to Joyce about the artillery, I'll give you all these ship drawings, and I'll give you ......" Da Liang gave all the shipbuilding drawings he got from Joyce to Sidney, and then looked at the 50,000 gold coins Xu Man gave for this shipbuilding, and took out some of them to Sidney: "I'll give you another 25,000 gold, you first build one or two merchant ships and form our transport fleet with the 'Black Fire', and open up the material circulation route of Shangjiang City-Flying Dust Island-Black Fire Collar, Black Fire Collar is under construction and needs a lot of things." ”

Sidney put away the drawings and gold coins and agreed, "I see, my lord." ”

Da Liang said again: "It's not a long-term solution for the Black Fire Fleet to always consume like this, after the fleet is overhauled this time, you immediately organize the fleet to rob at sea, and the privateer orders given to us by the Pudong Fleet are about to become moldy." In short, the Black Fire Fleet should be robbing and training at the same time, so that it can be self-sufficient in daily consumption as soon as possible, and have a small surplus to compensate for the new ships. ”

"Yes! My lord. ”

Leaving the "Black Fire", Da Liang once again walked into the Pudong Fleet Admiral's Palace.

After seeing the bright light, Joyce stood up from behind her desk and asked the attendant to bring up a set of clothes and a set of armor: "You have come just in time, the convoy of the gravel camp is ready to go, this is the sacrificial robe and the Crusader armor, you and Julian immediately change into the merging forces over there, remember what I told you, and use your mind to observe the secrets of the dungeon." ”

Da Liang put away his clothes and armor, and then said, "Leave the matter to me, you can rest assured." However, I still need the help of adults for a little thing, otherwise I will inevitably be restless even if I go to the dungeon, and if I miss something, won't I live up to the trust of adults? ”

Joyce asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"My lord, my Black Fire Fleet has entered the Pudong Fleet Military Port and underwent major repairs, but the artillery sold to me by our Pudong Fleet is too expensive, 72,000 gold! How can I have so much money...... I think it's the same as the shipyard, you still give me an internal purchase price, no matter how you say that my fleet is repaired to serve the Pudong fleet. ”

Joyce chuckled, "Don't think I don't know what happened to the ten dhow you just picked up, and the five brigs you're building. You should know how much money you have lost to me, I don't care about shipbuilding with you, do you still want to continue to sell the artillery of my Pudong fleet? ”

Da Liang, who was seen to be careful at all, smiled dryly: "I was also forced to be helpless because I was too poor, a large group of soldiers to support, and a more expensive fleet." Today I know how terrifying the consumption of maintaining a fleet is, and I can also deeply understand how much effort it takes to maintain the consumption of the Pudong fleet every day. It's just that my lord, I really don't have the money to buy guns, and without guns my fleet can't go to sea, and I can't go to sea, and I can't rob those ships that are bound for Chongming Island. Now, every merchant ship that stops Chongming City can weaken Joshua's strength by one point. ”