Daliang put away the shipbuilding drawings given by Xu Man, thought about how much he had left, and then replied: "No problem, I'd better give you a 30% discount, but the artillery may not be able to equip you with the artillery for the time being. I now have some things that I need to go to Songjiang. The cheap artillery will be solved when I come back."

Xu Man said: "We have sloop escorts. The artillery on the merchant ship is not a necessity, so it's okay not to install it for the time being."

"Then I'll be fine."

Daliang, who made another money, handed over the drawings to the shipyard, bid farewell to Xu Man and quietly returned to his "Black Fire".

The Skeleton Soldier and other warships have entered the dock for overhaul. Sidney and his four captains practiced naval combat tactics with models on the combat chart of the Blackfire Captain's room.

When he saw Daliang coming in, he knew that he had something to discuss with Sidney, four captains of the brig salute him and left here.

However, before Daliang could ask about the expansion of the Black Fire Fleet, Sidney was shocked by Daliang.

"Sir, I have no money, when will you replenish the Black Fire Fleet's funds?"

Just kidding, I made 500,000 yuan in a ship of spices, and 200,000 of them were directly transferred to the Black Fire Fleet’s account. How long has it been? I still want you to pay for the shipbuilding. Now you ask me the other way around, are you corrupt?

Seeing Daliang's expression abnormality, Sidney took out a bill and said: "Since I accepted the Black Fire Fleet, in order to enable the fleet to form combat effectiveness faster, each gun group would fire 100 shells every day. The Black Fire Fleet had a total of 144 artillery pieces. The gunpowder and shells required for each gun were worth 50 silver, which cost 7,200 gold every day. We conducted this training for three days, spending 21,600 gold. From now on, each gun would fire 20 shells every day to maintain the artillery level of the gun group, and consumed a total of 17,280 gold. In the battle against the troops transport fleet, our first fleet produced an average of 150 shells per artillery piece, which cost a total of 6,044 gold. We spent only one shell to consume, and we spent 44,924 gold."

Looking at the consumption of shells, my eyes became dumb. Be good, the fire here and there are obviously throwing gold into the sea. It took only a few seconds to fire nearly 45,000 gold shells.

It hurts so much, it hurts…

However, this huge daily training cost cannot be reduced. You sweat more before the war and less blood during the war. In the battle against the troops transport fleet, the Black Fire First Fleet can fight against the enemy fleet's cannons and still not lose to the formation because of the huge training cost before the war.

Think about the city at the entrance of the stone cave, what was the zombie that had just touched the cannon, and a total of five cannons were shot and four were blown up.

Therefore, the daily consumption of fleet training must not be reduced, and the pain is so painful... bear it.

Going down there are various daily consumptions, food, fresh water, wooden barrels, and ropes, which cost nearly 5,000 gold.

The ship's previous maintenance and minor repairs were another 10,000 yuan expenditure.

Some other small expenses are fragmented, and Da Liang is lazy to watch.

Then there is the list of this overhaul.

A three-masted warship and four two-masted warships were all severely damaged, and the maintenance fee alone was as high as 30,000 gold.

Other peripherals such as sails that need to be replaced are another series of expenses.

And the real focus is artillery.

All 120 iron smoothbore guns must be replaced. The price of 600 gold for one cannon is 72,000 gold.

The Navy is indeed not something that ordinary people can play.

Daliang looked at the list and felt that he was too big. No, no, money can't be spent like this, especially the artillery. 600 gold is obviously the price used by the Pudong Fleet to cheat adventurers. Brother is a captain of the Pudong Fleet. The fleet's injuries were all for Shangjiang City. Brother repairing the ship was paid for by himself, so he couldn't continue to cheat on the artillery.

"I'll go to Joyce to talk about artillery matters. I'll give you all the ship drawings, and I'll give them to you..." Daliang gave all the shipbuilding drawings obtained from Joyce. Then he looked at the 50,000 gold coins given by Xu Man this time, and took out a part of them to Sidney: "I'll give you another 25,000 gold. You can build one or two merchant ships and the Black Fire to form our transport fleet, and start the material circulation route of Shangjiang City-Flying Chen Island-Black Fire Led. The Black Fire Ledger is building a large amount of things."

Sidney put away the drawings and gold coins and agreed, "I understand, sir."

Daliang said again: "The Black Fire Fleet is always consumed like this, it is not a long-term solution. After the fleet is overhauled, you will immediately organize the fleet to rob at sea. The privateer order given to us by the Pudong Fleet is almost moldy. In short, the Black Fire Fleet must rob and train troops while robbing, so as to be self-sufficient in daily energy consumption as soon as possible, and have a small amount of surplus to compensate the new ship."

"Yes! Sir."

Leaving the Black Fire, Daliang walked into the Pudong Fleet Admiral's Office again.

After seeing Daliang, Joyce stood up from behind her desk and asked the servant to bring a set of clothes and armor: "You are here just in time. The transport team of the gravel camp is ready to set off. This is the sacrificial robe and crusade armor. You and Julian immediately change to join the troops there, remember what I have assigned you, and use your mind to observe the secrets of the dungeon."

Daliang put away his clothes and armor, and said, "Leave the matter to me, don't worry. But I still have some small things to do, otherwise I will inevitably be uneasy even if I go to the dungeon. If I miss something, wouldn't I let my trust be disappointed?"

Joyce asked, "What's the matter?"

"Sir, my Black Fire Fleet has entered the Pudong Fleet military port and undergoes overhaul. But the artillery sold to me by our Pudong Fleet is too expensive, 72,000 gold! I don't have that much money... I think like a shipyard, you should give me an internal purchase price. No matter what, my fleet is repaired, it will serve the Pudong Fleet."

Joyce chuckled and said, "Don't think I don't know what happened to the ten sloops you just picked up and the five sloops being built. How much money you have lost to me? You should know that I don't care about shipbuilding. Do you still want to continue selling artillery from my Pudong Fleet?"
Chapter completed!