I Evolved The Heavens

"good!"

Yang Yi nodded his head.

He chose to tell Yan Zhen, also hoping to dispel the last doubt in Yan Zhen's heart, so that the other party can assist him wholeheartedly.

For such a cautious person, he must come up with enough hole cards.

Yan Zhen stood up and congratulated him loudly: "Congratulations, prince, martial arts success."

Both sides looked at each other and laughed heartily.

The following conversation was very harmonious. It was mainly Yan Zhen and Yang Yi introducing the Jinghai Navy and the situation in the seven southern provinces and the South China Sea. Many things were top secret, but he didn't have any reservations.

Yang Yijing listened quietly, and suddenly said, "Marshal, since the local naval divisions of the seven southern provinces belong to the commander of the Jing navy, why should they be handed over to the local state capital?"

Yan Zhen said bitterly: "My lord, why don't I want to hand it over. It's just that the royal court pays so much every year. I am already at the limit of maintaining a navy of 100,000 people. In fact, the most expensive thing for navy is not raising soldiers, but rather Build battleships and maintain the late stage.

Take a warship with a hundred people for example, the cost alone would cost thirty thousand taels.

If calculated on the basis of one hundred thousand naval divisions, it would require one thousand warships and thirty million taels of silver.

But in fact, the money spent in this will be more, because the larger the warship, the higher the cost, and the more late stage maintenance costs.

It can be said that the navy is a bottomless pit, and no amount of silver is enough to fill it. "

Yang Yi nodded lightly and said, "I will solve the problem of silver, but I have two requirements: First, take back all the commanding power of the naval divisions in the seven southern provinces, and conduct reorganization and training; second, water All the warships of the division are gradually replaced with armored warships."

Yan Zhen's beard trembled: "Lord, it is not difficult to take back the command of the naval divisions in various places. In fact, the locals do not want to raise them. It is too expensive. But all the warships are replaced with iron armored warships. The silver is hundreds of millions taels, did you take it out?"

We must know that the current imperial government revenue is only thirty or forty million taels a year.

Yang Yi can naturally get these silvers.

He regarded the Qiankun cloth bag as something in his bag, which contained tens of millions of taels of gold and silver, as well as countless grains, weapons, jewellery, etc., enough for the Jinghai Navy to fully change its outfit.

Even if there is no Qiankun bag, he can take a trip in the turbulent flow of the void.

There are countless treasures of genius in the Void Turbulence, and you can get a steady stream of silver if you just get some of them and sell them.

Yang Yi nodded and said, "I will take out the silver. But this battleship can't be purchased out. We choose to build it by ourselves, which will save a lot of money. Come here, ask Yao Yueting Miss to come over."

He finally shouted out.

"Yes, Lord."

It didn't take long before Yao Yueting walked in, still wearing men's clothing, perhaps because she had just taken a shower, her cheeks were delicate and rosy, and her hair was a little moist, like a lotus in the water, delicate and beautiful.

"Master, are you looking for me?"

Yao Yueting came forward and found a place to sit down. She just nodded to Yan Zhen.

Yang Yi said: "I want to build a large shipyard here in the name of the Jinghai Navy to build various iron-clad warships, but there is a lack of shipbuilding craftsmen. Therefore, I hope you can contact your mother and send a batch of ships. The craftsman comes over."

Yan Zhen's eyes lit up, Yinzhou's giant merchants sailed in the South China Sea, and their shipbuilding technology was the most superb.

If you have the support of the Yaochi faction, then building a large shipyard can't be easier.

Yao Yueting's voice was clean and pleasant: "Master, this is no problem. But building an armored warship requires a lot of iron ore and coal mines, but I don't know if there are any nearby? Otherwise, it needs to be transported from outside."

Yan Zhen said hurriedly: "Yao Miss, there is a large coal mine a hundred miles away from our barracks. As for iron ore, I remember there is a small island dozens of miles away, and that small island is full of iron ore. We, the Jing Navy Iron ore was shipped from the island."

Yao Yueting nodded and said, "If this is the case, then it will be no problem to build a large shipyard here."

Yang Yi said, "Yue Ting, I will leave this to you. I have done a lot of research on ironmaking. I will give you a blast furnace construction method for ironmaking, which can produce tens of thousands of catties at a time. High-quality steel."

In fact, he is not good at making iron, but he can deduce it with the mirror of his heart.

"Tens of thousands of catties of high-quality steel at one time!"

Both Yao Yueting and Yan Zhen were shocked.

What kind of blast furnace is this, not only can directly produce high-quality steel, but it can also produce tens of thousands of catties at one time.

As the saying goes, it is said that a hundred steel is made into steel, and the general pig iron needs to be tempered and tempered to become a high-quality steel. This is also the reason why iron-clad ships often cost tens of thousands of taels, and the cost far exceeds that of wooden ships.

Yang Yi smiled and said: "You don't have to doubt, you will know when it is established in the future. The construction method of this blast furnace will be given to you Yaochi faction. I think it can offset the cost of building a shipyard and craftsmen."

Although Yao Yueting doesn't pay much attention to industry matters, she also knows the value of this kind of blast furnace.

She smiled and nodded, like a hundred flowers blooming.

Yan Zhen is naturally also excited. They have ready-made iron ore and coal mines, and now they have shipbuilders and blast furnaces for efficiently refining high-quality steel, so the cost of building iron-clad ships will be greatly reduced.

Discuss the shipyard matters, and then include the local navy matters.

In the end, Yan Zhen said that he would transfer a thousand elite soldiers from all armies to serve as Yang Yi's subordinates.

Yang Yi nodded and said, "By the way, the Yaochi faction will send me a thousand-man iron-clad battleship and ten three-hundred-man frigates. It is estimated that it will arrive in a while, and you will accept it."

Yan Zhen showed joy and nodded, "Okay, Lord."

Yan Zhen left after talking until late at night.

...

Shuaiying.

As soon as Yan Zhen sat down, a middle-aged man wearing a Confucian costume with a folding fan in his hand walked over.

He is quite tall, with a cyan belt around his waist, and an ancient jade hanging from the belt. His eyes were gloomy, and there was no look at first, but the more I looked at it, the more I felt that my own soul was going to sink in.

This person is named Duan Xu, who is also known as Mr. Duan Da, the master of Yunzhou Qihunmen, and Yan Zhen's confidant.

Duan Xu stood in front of Yan Zhen casually and said, "Marshal, how are you talking with Prince Yun?"

With a smile on Yan Zhen's face, he said, "The talk is over. Prince Ming's background is far deeper than we thought. It should be a wise choice for us to rely on him this time."

"Oh, what do you say?"

Duan Xu was curious.

According to their previous plan, they first took refuge in Prince Ming temporarily, but they still kept a hand in secret.

Although Yang Yi has a high reputation in Korea, who knows what the future will be like, it is naturally impossible for them to die in a tree.

But now looking at Yan Zhen's appearance, it seems that he has completely surrendered.

Yan Zhen was very excited to talk about tonight's things, and finally said: "The prince of Ming, the two sages of civil and martial arts, and the support of powerful forces from all sides, if he can't be the emperor, then it's utterly unreasonable."

Duan Xu was shocked, he nodded silently.

Throughout the ages, there have been many literary and military talents, and the most representative one is Hong Xuanji.

But Hong Xuanji was even worse than Yang Yilai.

That being said, it is naturally reasonable for Yan Zhen to take refuge in Prince Ming wholeheartedly.

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