The Tang Dynasty nobles unexpectedly supported the robbery. .

After all, the Tang Dynasty was established mainly by the Guanlong nobles. The upstarts who started with military merits during the war were inseparable from the word "military merit". Even the bureaucrats from the Kanto gentry in the court said that this was not good, but in fact they also supported the plunder of Goguryeo.

There is also their share of the land in Liaodong, which was bought with real money. Now that the family emblem has been made, how can there be no fief?

Qin loved farming and fighting, and Tang Dynasty also valued martial arts, and both valued military merits.

However, the nobles thought that robbery was not nice. How could our dignified kingly army be called robbery? We are regaining the old borders of the Han family. We are going to fight against the Goguryeo barbarians who violated the prestige of our Tang Dynasty.

We are the King's army, and we are going to revenge the hatred of Chinese children.

Under these banners, whether it is military meritorious and nobles or the children of the gentry, they all feel full of justice.

The business of the shipyard was unexpectedly good. The court had to build two fleets. The Ministry of War calculated that if the court built the shipyard by itself, it would take a long time, and it would require a lot of labor and low efficiency, so it would not be able to build a better ship than Li Ji. Of course, the Li family expressed their willingness to lend its own shipbuilding technology to the court to build ships, but the key was that the court did not have the craftsmen who made this new type of ship.

The new style of soft sailboats are completely different from traditional building boats and ships.

This is a brand new system.

Even the craftsmen who could have built five-story building ships said that they would not build this new ship. To build a new ship, they had to start over.

Li Ji opened a ship academy in Yangzhou, teaching ship design and manufacturing, as well as teaching navigation technology, etc. There are still many students, all of whom train students for Li Ji's shipboard. Li Ji is willing to commission a group of students for the imperial court, but the same thing still takes time.

The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works discussed it and asked about the situation of Li Ji Shipyard. Then they found that instead of building their own ships, it is better to place an order directly with Li Ji Shipyard. They have a complete shipbuilding industry chain, from the logging sawwood drying reserves for shipbuilding wood to the manufacturing of various components, they have special workshops.

Under the assembly line-based shipbuilding process like Li Ji, their shipbuilding time is faster and the cost is lower. Compared to the imperial court opening a factory and building it on its own, it can save a lot of money and a lot of time.

The imperial court built its own ships, and the ships of these two fleets could not be completed in less than three years, and the money spent was several times that of Li Ji. If you handed it over to Li Ji, it would be enough to deliver it in one year.

The Ministry of War chose not surprisingly to place an order with the Li family.

The two newly built fleet leaders are willing to build their own ships and train their crews slowly, but the Ministry of War is unwilling to do this. You can pay the extra money.

Now the court has implemented a budget withdrawal system. Although the Ministry of War holds the budget withdrawal of the Tang army, their money is also obtained from the Ministry of Revenue and the general budget of the Zhongshu. The north and south guards and troops have to spend money everywhere, so they can save a little. What's more, the Li Ji Shipyard has ordered to build warships, which saves more than a little, and several times more.

"Dear Shangguan, this is a warship designed by our shipyard in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of War. According to your needs, the ships we designed, a fleet of eighteen three-masted sail warships, twelve twin-sailed and sloop speedboats, and thirty transport ships."

"The three-masted sail warship we designed is three levels: large, medium and small. The latest artillery and heavy crossbows can be installed on the warships. They have extremely fast speeds, high load capacity and strong firepower. They are equipped with faster and lighter brigs as guard boats, plus sloops as patrols and communication boats, with cannons, muskets, bows and arrows, heavy crossbows, then these sail warships will be the enemy's nightmare, and they cannot escape our pursuit and cannot bear our blows."

"When we meet our fleet at sea, the enemy's ships surrender and they will be sunk. For there is no ship that is faster than the sailing warships we designed, nor is there a ship that is more fierce than his attack."

"The ship's length is three times the width of the ship. It has one to three decks, and many artillery and heavy crossbows can be arranged on the side of the ship."

The shipyard manager was in charge, and at the same time, he cooperated with the design drawings of new warships.

The slender warships, towering masts, the sails spread out across the surface, especially the cannons and heavy crossbows drawn on the side of the ship, the bows and mortars that can fire huge rocks.

Such warships did make the generals of the Ministry of War and the Royal Navy almost drool.

And those troop transport ships are also very beautiful. These ships are wider and have a larger capacity.

A fleet of ships of sixty ships in total, with a full load capacity of 8,000 soldiers. A fleet of only 5,000 people means they can carry 3,000 friendly troops or more spoils.

Eighteen sail warships, three levels, three large ships, six medium ships, and nine small ships. But the trumpets are also very huge, with a captain of at least ten feet long.

Lower side, cross sail, and artillery and heavy crossbows equipped on both sides make these ships an absolute battleship designed for combat.

Compared with tall tower ships, these ships are obviously more suitable for sea combat and are not afraid of wind and waves. They have stronger attack capabilities and faster speeds.

The two fleets had a total of one hundred and twenty ships.

The shipyard promises to be delivered in one year.

"We want this ship!"

The two generals of the newly appointed naval fleet had their eyes wide open and glared at the Minister of War. After seeing these ships, they no longer looked down on other ships. The best warship in the past was the Five-Tooth Building Ship, but now they looked at the tower ship again and felt like a bloated old woman. How can such a ship resist the wind and waves at the sea and chase enemy ships at the sea?

Rely on the pole on that boat?

How can I compare the cannons and heavy crossbows on this warship?

The Minister of War read the data carefully again, and in fact, he could recite the data of these ships as if they were still cheap.

It is much cheaper than building a boat.

What other reasons don't buy it?

"Buy, two fleets, a total of 120 ships in total, and I bought them all."

Hongzhou.

Hongzhou, an important prefecture city in the north of Jiangnan West Road, is later Nanchang. This city located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River has also become very important because it is facing the river.

Li Ji's shipyard has a branch here, but it is not a dock, but a factory for processing ship boards. For shipbuilding, wood is extremely important. You must use high-quality wood. Different parts of the ship must be used for different trees.

For example, the keel needs to be strong and the mast must be straight and lighter.

The bigger the boat, the more important the keel is.

The huge and integrated keel is difficult to find and is not conducive to navigation. Therefore, Li Ji's shipyard actually uses the boat-splitting keel technology, and the masts are actually spliced.

"Split up? Will it be unsolid?"

Cui Jin asked with some concern. In his impression, the splicing was definitely not as strong as the logs.

"This is a misunderstanding of many people. In fact, our splicing technology is quite clever. The splicing keels and splicing masts are better than the whole wood, stronger and lighter. Moreover, with this splicing technology, we don't need to look for extremely rare huge logs to make keels, which greatly improves the speed of shipbuilding."

Li Chao took Cui Jin and a group of nobles to visit the shipyard, and various woods were harvested and transported here. There were also complex processes to be processed here.

There are fundamentally different requirements, and the wood is processed in different ways.

"It's so strange that I even built a special kiln to dry the wood."

"Because the natural air-drying time is too long, and the simple and primitive air-drying method sometimes damages the wood, such as easy to crack, etc. Therefore, we use the most controllable and fastest method to build a drying kiln to dry the wood as needed."

"What's that steamer?"

"It is also a processed wood. You see that many of the boards on the boat are actually curved, and these boards are formed by we steam and pressing."

Cui Jin was amazed at the sight.

I originally thought it was just a timber factory, nothing strange. But after looking carefully, I realized that it was never simple here. Hydraulic sawing machines use river water to easily saw the giant wood and process it into plates or strips.

Then there are air-dried cellars, fixed steamers, etc.

Various trees finally turned into various ships. Looking at the busy scene, he was amazed.

"Sanlang, I want to buy a sailboat that uses that kind of keel. Remember what this kind of ship is called? A great sailboat? How much does it cost? I'm going to buy a few." Cui Jin said.

The great sailing ship was actually the later European Galen sailing ship. It was a relatively classic sea ship. It was pretty good in combat or transportation, and all sizes were good. Li Chao directly copied the ship.

"Sorry, this great sailing ship is out of stock, and this ship is not cheap."

There are three levels of three-masted sailboats. Large ships have a displacement of more than 500 tons, medium ships have a displacement of more than 200 tons, and small ships have a displacement of less than 200 tons.

For a ship, only counts the hull, mast and sail, the cost is generally about one ton of one hundred jin. This means that a great ship must start at least 50,000 jin.

Of course, the Shishi Ship is so advanced and the shipbuilding technology is exclusive to Li Ji, so of course it will not be sold at a cost price. Li Chao sold it very fairly, and it will be sold directly twice.

This means that the world's great power starts at least 100,000 yuan.

"One hundred thousand guan per ship?" Cui Jin, who was about to breathe, had a toothache for seven or eight of his great ships. The Cui family did have money, but they spent three million guan to buy a fiefdom before, and the family used up all their cash, and owed Cui Yan one million.

Three million, four real titles and four territories are different from buying a ship with a price of 100,000 yuan.

“It’s really expensive.”

"Even at this price, there is no goods now. The court ordered dozens of ships in one go, and many of them were also ordered. The orders were already three years later. Even if the scale was expanded, they would not dare to take new orders anymore. They had to do their best to complete the old orders. The only ones that can be sold for the time being are small three-masted ships, one for 50,000 yuan, no discount, and each company limited to one purchase."

"How big is that ship?"

"The boat is nine zhang long and two zhang wide, and has a load of three thousand stones, a draft of one zhang deep, and a three-masted sailboat can carry one hundred and twenty people."

This is a smaller three-masted ship, and the prototype of the ship is Mayflower. However, in this era, it is not easy to carry more than 100 people and can also take a long distance on the sea.

"I'll buy three of them for 50,000 guan." Cui Jin said.

"One purchase limit for each person is limited, and the second purchase limit order will be liberated after everyone gets the first boat."

"Sanlang, you are my brother-in-law, and our Cui and Li family have a different relationship."

"Well, that's right, then that's it. Give you a special treatment and you can buy more. But if you buy the second item, you have to increase the price by 10% and buy the third item, you have to increase the price by 20%. If you want to buy the fourth item, you have to increase the price by 30%, and so on. If you want to buy it, buy it. After all, everyone wants to buy a boat now, and I have to take care of everyone's feelings. It's fair, right?"

Cui Jin was a little helpless, "Do you still need to increase the price?"

"Actually, I suggest you don't rush to buy so many boats at once. Buy one first. You can find a way to recruit enough crew sailors. Otherwise, if there is only a boat but no one, you won't drive away."

Cui Jin was stunned, "Don't you give the crew if you buy a boat?"
Chapter completed!