This time, Cha Shu is ruthless, the Imperial Navy Division and the Fujian Navy Division have merged strongly, with Zhu Jie's support above, no one can stop it, and there are four towns in Nanjing and Qin Mufeng around him, no one dares to jump out and do it against Cha Shu, Qin Mufeng's four towns in Nanjing are not vegetarians.

The two naval divisions together, with a strength of more than 40,000 troops, plus 10,000 army battalions that can be used for amphibious operations, the total strength of the imperial navy will exceed 50,000, even if it is Cha Shu and Qin Mufeng, they have never really been in charge of such a strong force, after all, the four towns of Nanjing are originally one, Qin Mufeng has outstanding prestige, no one dares to argue with Qin Mufeng, but the imperial navy is different, this is from two completely different systems, it is inevitable to fight openly and secretly, and everyone wants to safeguard the interests of their respective systems.

Originally, the imperial court also planned to let Zheng Haotian serve as the commander of the Fujian Navy Division, but now this deployment has been canceled, Zheng Haotian and Yang Geng served as the governor of Tongzhi at the same time, and he was in charge of naval affairs, 40,000 troops, and formed five large battalions, each with 8,000 people, and more than 200 naval warships, even so, the warships were still not enough, after all, the Fujian Navy Division cut off more than half of the warships in one go, and the soldiers in the imperial Navy Division were all young and strong because they had just been formed, and they were almost not more than thirty-five years old. In addition to navigation experience and combat experience, the indicators of the imperial navy division in all aspects have even surpassed the soldiers of the Fujian navy.

Cha Xuan, Zheng Haotian, and Yang Geng personally sat in the Chinese army camp, and the remaining four battalions were led by eight generals, a total of 32 sailor battalions, each with 1,000 soldiers, one Tianzi main battleship with more than 2,000 materials, two main battleships with 1,500 materials, four other 1,000 materials and below escort warships, and one troop carrier.

It's just that now the Imperial Navy, even if the two naval divisions are combined, there are absolutely not so many ships, according to the establishment determined by the check, the main warships of more than 2,000 materials alone will need 40, and the 1,500 warships will be 80, which is already 120 ships, and the two naval divisions together will only have more than 80 ships, among which the warships of the Fujian Navy Division will have to be refitted, after all, the number of artillery of the main warships of the Fujian Navy Division is too small, and the most important thing is that the caliber is too small, and the power is seriously insufficient.

The generals in the two major sailors were all deployed to various sailor battalions, and Shi Lang among them was directly promoted from the garrison to the general, which was really promoted to three levels in a row, which was really surprising.

"Master Inspector, this, this, is the establishment of our navy too huge? With the addition of the Marine Battalion, there are 50,000 people, and our warships have become seriously insufficient due to the forced withdrawal from the establishment, how can this be done? ”

Zheng Haotian asked with a wry smile.

Cha Xuan sneered: "Brother Haotian, do you still think that we will lay off the staff first, prepare the warship, and then recruit people again?" The soldiers of these sailors are rare elites, as long as they are young and strong, they will feel distressed when they go to a governor! If there are not enough warships, then let them go to other warships for training and wait for new warships to be built! ”

"But!"

Zheng Haotian hurriedly said: "Master Supervisor, now the speed of shipbuilding in Longjiang Bao Shipyard can't keep up at all, the emperor still wants us to supervise the construction of more than 3,000 super battleships, with the current ability of Longjiang Bao Shipyard, supervise the construction of two super battleships a year, then the rest do not need to be built, two super battleships, already our dock has been occupied, our dock is not enough at all, even if we give up supervising the construction of super battleships, we can supervise the construction of the main battleships in a year, only four or five, at this rate, It will take at least five or six years for us to fill this hole, and that's not counting the ships that may be lost in the war......"

Cha Xuan frowned and replied: "This is not a problem we have to worry about, what we have to worry about now is how to improve the combat power of the navy as soon as possible, and let the Ministry of War solve the matter of the warship to the Ministry of Industry, they can't solve it, then we will find the emperor for a way, at most until the end of the year, the emperor will patrol the navy, and when the time comes, we can't get a result that satisfies the emperor, so wait for the thunder!" ”

Zheng Haotian's expression was stunned, his face was bitter, and the stall was too big, it was not a good way to make trouble like this......

Yang Geng on the side hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Master Inspector, the lower official has a proposal, I don't know if I should say it or not......

"Nonsense!"

Cha Xuan glanced at Yang Geng, and said dissatisfiedly: "Lord Yang, you are now in charge of naval affairs, this navy is good or bad in the end, you have your share, and I am not the only one who will be thundered at that time, no matter whether the proposal is good or not, you just have to say, this is the foundation of your future life, what else should you not say?" ”

Yang Geng gritted his teeth and replied: "Master Inspector, although the Imperial Naval Division and the Fujian Naval Division have now merged into a navy, but the lower officials think that in the future, we will still have to separate families, at least it is impossible to concentrate all our main fleet in Songjiang Mansion, which is too far away from the southeast sea, once something happens in the south, we can't deal with it at the first time, and the same is true for the north, once the north encounters a pirate raid, or an attack by the fleets of Western countries, we are too far away, how to deal with it?" Of course, the threat from the north is relatively small, but the forces of the West in the South Ocean will attack our Fujian or Guangdong at any time, so Xia Guan thinks that sooner or later this Fujian will become the first choice for a fleet to be garrisoned. ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

Cha Xuan was shocked, this strategy, the emperor faintly mentioned it to himself, but that was a matter of the future, definitely not now, I didn't expect that Yang Geng actually saw the clue, this guy is really not ambiguous.

Yang Geng then replied: "Master Inspector, the meaning of the lower official is very clear, since Fujian is still an important coastal defense town, then we can't give up Fujian's strong shipbuilding capacity, although the shipbuilding capacity of Longjiang Bao Shipyard is strong, but, after all, it is built on the Longjiang River, close to the Yangtze River, and the scale of the dock is limited, but if we move the shipyard to Fujian, Fuzhou or Quanzhou, it will be different, we are near the sea according to local conditions, not to mention the warship of 3,000 materials, even if it is a warship of 5,000 materials, as long as our craftsmanship can keep up, the design can keep up, It can be built, at least the dock can be guaranteed! Moreover, in Fujian, where are there shipbuilders with exquisite craftsmanship, and even the soldiers in the original Fujian Navy Army have brothers who are proficient in shipbuilding! ”

(End of chapter)