"Why didn't you see Xiao Su and Jiang Baokun come out for breakfast? Are they still sleeping?" Zhu Ruisheng asked with a bowl of glutinous rice balls in confusion.

Although he left the shaking cabin and came to the comfortable garden building, he did not sleep in. As usual, he got up at the hour of Mao.

The agent's self-discipline and self-control are quite strong, and they cannot even restrain their own behavior. How can they deal with complex environments?

"Prince, these two adults are not in the room. They got up early at dawn and took a few guards from the royal palace and said they were going outside to understand the people's situation." Luo Yi said with a smile.

Zhu Ruisheng also smiled and did not continue to discuss this topic. The civil servants were small-minded and the censors were even smaller. This must have been going out to investigate the crimes of the Han family.

After breakfast, thousands of officers from Southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces sat on the ground in the garden and attended a work meeting chaired by Zhu Ruisheng.

This is the first meeting after arriving in Jiangnan and a preparatory meeting. There is a lot of work to be arranged and it has a crucial impact on the future situation.

"Yongcheng will be the base for Jinyiwei's foreign trade. Silk fabrics, tea and porcelain from Suzhou, Hangzhou and Jinling are concentrated here to load ships. Leaving the land of the dynasty and going to foreign countries, merchant ships may encounter some dangers. For this reason, I decided to set up the Ningcheng Naval Base and form the Ningcheng Fleet."

"The dynasty's navy was indestructible and had no ability to follow the fleet and provide necessary protection. It was imperative to establish a Marine Corps. The soldiers were recruited from coastal provinces. According to the establishment of the Sanbao eunuchs voyage to the West, the first batch was four brigades, each brigade was equivalent to a Grand Commander Guard, and it was organized into the First Marine Division, which was carried out in the beginning of next spring."

"Recently, the task of Hangzhou Qianhu Institution and Ningcheng Baihu Institution is to find a piece of wasteland near the dock, build a military camp of the Grand Commander's Guard, and to secretly survey the terrain on Zhoushan Island, choose a place near the sea, and after the matter in Ningcheng is over, build a naval base and a research and development base for the Jinyiwei."

"Jinling Thousand Household Office and Huai'an Thousand Household Office, Rongcheng Thousand Household Office and Licheng Thousand Household Office in Fujian Province, your task is to supervise the local Longjiang Shipyard, Qingjiang Shipyard, Licheng Shipyard and Tainan Shipyard to build ocean-going ships. The specific requirements will be made until the trade between me and overseas merchants are over and we will get the payment for the goods." Zhu Ruisheng said.

The Ningcheng Fleet is the first fleet of Zhu Ruisheng's Ocean Navy. It is expected that the main battleship is a sail battleship, and the three-layer deck is equipped with hundreds of artillery pieces, with very strong firepower, and the tentative number is ten.

The auxiliary is a sail cruiser, which is equivalent to a future third-level battleship, equipped with seventy-two artillery pieces on the three-layer deck, and the tentative number is twenty.

The number of sail destroyers is the largest, with a displacement of 1,000 tons. The double-deck is equipped with fifty artillery pieces, and the tentative number is fifty, which is also the first to start construction.

With the shipbuilding technology of the Tianming Dynasty, battleships and cruisers may have to be studied for a while, and it may not be able to be built in ten or eight years.

But there is no problem with the destroyer. The size and displacement of the treasure ship are much larger than that of the sail battleship. Although the drawings of the treasure ship do not conform to the structure of the battleship, the technology still exists.

Even a destroyer is a great shock to overseas countries, because even the countries in Europe do not have such large warships, and it will take at least a few decades to wait.

In addition, the fleet also has a large number of transport ships and support ships. The transport ships transport personnel and ammunition and medicine supplies are used for rest for officers and soldiers. The support ships transport fresh water and food, and doctors follow them, which can provide great help to merchant ships.

"You are the Grand Governor, and the land near the wharf has been occupied by major sea merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. It is difficult for us to find a suitable place." Su Chongguang said with some embarrassment.

Of course, there is a golden location near the wharf. In order to facilitate loading and unloading, maritime merchants have long colluded with the government to buy all the land. Moreover, several large families, all enclosed hundreds or thousands of acres of land, and there is no available land at all.

Although the Jinyiwei is a royal guard, he cannot forcibly occupy private land, as he will be impeached by local officials. If he wants to wait for the government to allocate, time is a problem, and the free land must be far from the pier, which is very inconvenient to move.

"Their main destination for sea is not at Meishan Wharf, but at Shenjiamen Wharf. You can test the words of those people first. Maybe one or two taels of silver can be obtained, and even a large amount of funding will be received, and even a lot of money will be received, and even a lot of money will be spent on building barracks."

"No matter how do these maritime merchants are domineering, they have to give us face to the Jinyiwei. They know the significance behind the Grand Commander Guard. Besides, Anyuanyi Shibo is the supervisory yamen of all maritime merchants in Zhejiang Province. They are definitely not their style if they don't even give this effort." Luo Ming said lightly.

The maritime merchants in the Jiangnan area have their own ideas. If they are targeted by royal hawks like the Jinyiwei, no matter how powerful they are in Jiangnan, their lives will definitely not be easy.

The key is that they can't wipe their shits cleanly. It's too easy for the Jinyiwei to make trouble. They can't always ask those relatives to plead with mercy.

The maritime merchants are so rich that a piece of land can win the favor of Jinyiwei. It is really cost-effective. It didn’t cost much money to buy land at the beginning.

"Jinling Thousand Household Office, Hangzhou Thousand Household Office, Rongcheng Thousand Household Office and Yangcheng Thousand Household Office, each receives three lists, and the sources are all secret spies reported to the headquarters in the four regions. The first is the training class list, the second is the Navy Teaching Brigade, and the third is the auxiliary personnel of the Jinyiwei commercial organization."

"The students of the Class A training class will be responsible for supervising officials and generals from all over the country, including merchants and landlords from all over the country, collecting various situations. They are the real eyes and ears of the Jinyiwei."

"Nanzhili recruited 336 people and Zhejiang province recruited 235 people. They must arrive at Jinling before September 20. Guangdong province recruited 280 people, Fujian province recruited 240 people, and arrived at Jinling on October 10. They all received three-day training, and Ge Zhongwen was responsible for arranging the secret places."

"The Class B training class is responsible for the purchase of silk, tea and porcelain goods in each county, and contacts those porcelain kilns, tea gardens and machine owners, including teeth shops and small merchants, to provide supply for overseas trade."

"Southern Zhili recruited 220 people, Zhejiang province recruited 120 people, Fujian province and Guangdong province each recruited 60 people. The cover of these people is related to business. We must arrive in Hangzhou before September 10, and Qian Zhaowu is responsible for arranging the training grounds for three days."

"The Naval Education Brigade of the Ningcheng Fleet is responsible for learning to operate frigates and combat. It will patrol the coastal areas in the future and follow merchant ships to the West. The Bingyuan will draw 3,500 people from the Southern Zhili area, 2,500 people from Zhejiang Province, and 1,200 people from Fujian Province and Guangdong Province respectively."

"The secret records you submitted are all from coastal areas, familiar with the oceans and rivers, and have good water quality. You must arrive in Ningbo City in early October, and train together with the Grand Commander Guard, mainly to strengthen physical fitness."
Chapter completed!