In the last month of the year, the three-month captain's training course ended, and following Abbot Zhao's goal of "our journey is the sea of stars", the monks boarded the ship and began their large-scale training at sea.

At the same time, the second Captain's Friars continued to be held, and this time the number of recruits was as large as the first, one hundred and fifty.

However, according to Li Dayin and Lu Xixing, the enrollment time limit for the second training class has been extended by half a month, and it is almost less than 150 people. The reason for this situation is that Abbot Zhao has held five training classes in a row.

More than 650 architectural monks have been trained in four advanced training courses for architectural monks, and more than 950 people have been trained in two training courses for captains and friars.

The vast majority of these monks came from the surrounding areas, and this number accounted for 5 percent of the total number of monks in Nanzhili and northern Zhejiang, and 10 percent of the monks under the age of 50!

That is to say, in Nanzhili and northern Zhejiang, one out of every ten monks under the age of fifty responded to the call of Abbot Zhao to either become an architectural monk or a captain monk.

Basically, everyone who can come is here, and whether the third Captain's Friar Training Course can be opened is a huge question mark.

Li Dayin and Lu Xixing suggested that the working group be discharged to Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangxi, and Guangdong, and the scope of recruitment should be expanded to the coastal areas of the above-mentioned provinces to meet the enrollment needs of the third phase.

In this regard, Zhao Ran agreed.

While deliberating on the shore, the first batch of captain friars also set foot on the first batch of container ships built by the Xinjiang Estuary Shipyard, 16 ships, each with eight to nine captain friars, who have to spend a month rotating to be familiar with the helmsman, sail lineman, gunner, jump helper and other positions.

Sixteen neatly formed cargo ships left the trestle one by one, assembled in a queue on the river, and headed downstream, the scene was quite spectacular.

When the last ship raised its sails, Li Dayin smiled and hugged his fists to Zhao Ran and Lu Xixing: "There are two Lao on the shore, this January, I will definitely train them to mature hands, and when they rush back before the New Year's Festival, let the two of them take a good look at their majestic posture!"

Zhao Ran and Lu Xixing clasped their fists at the same time: "Have a good trip!"

Li Dayin took the wine glass handed by Lu Xixing and drank it all, and boarded the boat.

Originally, it was Lu Xixing who planned to take the trainees to sea, but Li Dayin became more and more interested in building a fleet, and he followed the classes every day for the past three months, and he actually became a "naval battle expert" - of course, on paper.

He took the initiative to ask Zhao Ran and Lu Xixing for help, took over the errand, and became the commander-in-chief of the fleet for sea trials.

Looking at a string of sail shadows out of sight, Zhao Ran and Lu Xixing turned around to look at the completed warships and patrol ships, and inquired about the sea trials that had just ended a few days ago.

During the sea trials, there was a little problem with the two ships, both of which were problems with the watertight compartments at the bottom, which needed to be slightly changed, and the problems were not big.

Yunnan's ironwood has been in place, the drying process has been completed, all piled up in the warehouse, Amber Dao people promised, next year's Lantern Festival after the official start of mass production. It will take about three to four months to complete the construction of the first batch of four warships and six patrol ships, and in half a year, the second batch of orders will be completed, and ten warships and 10 patrol ships will be delivered to the Jimingguan inspection fleet by July next year.

Zhao Ran was very satisfied with the report, and with a stroke of the pen, he paid the second payment for the ship, a total of 100,000 taels.

After the shipyard inspection, Zhao Ran first went to the Jinchuan River, the cable-stayed bridge has become the main passage on the north and south banks of the Jinchuan River, pedestrians cross the bridge once a penny, cars and horses cross the bridge once three wen, compared with the previous boat ferry, the cost is saved by half, and the time is greatly saved.

Some of the boatmen who used to take the ferry by boat were recruited as bridge toll collectors, some were recruited as sailors at Jimingguan, and the remaining boatmen who were unwilling to take this risk were formed into a sightseeing fleet by Shangyuan County to support tourists who took the Jinchuan River by boat.

At the construction site of the Yangtze River Bridge, construction is being started on both sides of the bank at the same time, and at the rate of four piers a month, the approach bridge piers on the shore are being built. Twelve piers have now been built, and hundreds of construction monks and more than 4,000 civil servants are busy with mountains of gravel, clay and sediment, as well as a large number of steel cables and steel plates transported from Taixuanguan.

Such a spectacular engineering scene made Zhao Ran very happy, and as for the steady stream of silver spent, he was no longer distressed.

When there were 400,000 pieces of silver for the charity project, he was extremely distressed for every tael of silver spent, and when there were only tens of thousands left, he would panic inexplicably, and when he borrowed the first amount of silver from the Four Seasons Bank, he would toss and turn at night and sigh, but when he owed 400,000 taels, he was already indifferent.

Don't have enough money? borrow!

For this bridge, he has already spent 800,000 taels, and it doesn't matter if he spends another 800,000 taels, as long as the bridge can be built, the money is no longer in the scope of consideration.

He was busy building great projects and forming an expeditionary fleet, and Rong Niang was not idle, and completely took over the implementation of small silver tickets.

Since April, after the first small amount of silver notes issued by the Four Seasons Bank, Tongda Bank, Huitong Bank and other large money banks have also followed suit, followed by more than ten medium-sized money banks, and 300,000 taels of collateral silver have been hoarded in the treasury of the treasure banknote division.

But this is far from enough, after Rong Niang took over, she discussed a way with Shi Weiming, and issued an announcement inside and outside the imperial city and on the "Junshan Notes" at the same time, starting from the first month of the second year of Longqing, Qian Zhuang who wants to issue small silver bills must accept the qualification review of the Treasure Banknote Division.

There are three conditions for review, including the amount of deposits, the number of stores, and the annual exchange business volume.

Those who do not meet the standards will be disqualified from issuing small silver bills.

Zhao Ran had a busy day, and when he listened to Rong Niang tell him about this policy, his mind was still full of messy things on the construction site, and he didn't react for a while, and he fell on the bed and closed his eyes to recuperate.

While asking Rong Niang to help him massage, he asked: "What do you and Shi Weiming want to do with such a policy?"

Rong Niang rode on his back and beat him on the shoulder, and said: "After the Bao Money Division introduced this policy, what does it mean? It shows that the money banks that can issue small silver bills are all strong big money banks, and the people are not more confident in small silver bills?"

Zhao Ran nodded: "It makes sense, it's a good way." After being comfortable for a while, his mind cleared up a little, and finally he realized what was wrong: "Then what if the review conditions are not met?

Rong Niang said nonchalantly: "If you can't get the right to issue small silver bills, of course, it means that your strength is not good, who dares to deposit silver with them again?"

Zhao Ran got up and said solemnly: "If you cause a run on a group of money banks to go bankrupt, the consequences will be very serious, and you can't do this!"

Rong Niang smiled and said, "Don't worry, it won't." ”

"What wouldn't be......?

"No, there are four seasons money in the pocket, and they will be given a way out. Whether it is a joint venture, a shareholding, or an acquisition, there are many ways. ”

Zhao Ran was stunned and muttered, "It's black, it's so black!"

Rong Niang smiled: "Okay, okay, I promise you, the three parties win-win, the Four Seasons Qianzhuang pays a little more, the Qianzhuang and the people will not be damaged, it will not harm your merits, satisfied?"