Gu Junxun took a boat upstream and arrived in Jiangning on the second day of November.
In addition to the accompanying female family members, Zhao Qingshan led the entire division of the Jinghai First Water Battalion. The fleet did not anchor at Hekou Town, but turned into Longjiang Lake to the west of Moling County.
The imperial court officially recognized the status of the Jinghaihai Camp as the replacement for the Ninghai Zhenshui Camp. In addition to the food and salary provided by the Xuanfu Envoy Department, the admiral's workshop provided armor, and the Longjiang Shipyard under the Jiangning Ministry of Industry also provided various warships.
According to the total number of warships of various types in Ninghai Zhenshuiying, Longjiang Shipyard used to provide one-eighth of the warships of various types every year to ensure that the warships in Ninghai Zhenshuiying could be replaced in batches every eight years. The Jiangning Ministry of Industry had approximately A total of 10,000 taels of shipbuilding silver should be earmarked for Ninghai Zhenshuiying.
Officials are corrupt, and Jiangning's Ministry of Industry is not immune. Even if Shuiying sends personnel to supervise construction, it is normal for them to collude to cut corners and cut materials. In addition, the generals of Shuiying in Ninghai Town often secretly sell good ships for profit, so that The overall quality of the Ninghai Zhenshuiying warships before and after the bloody battle of Jiyang was not even as good as the ships built in batches by the She family in a hurry for the East China Sea pirates.
Lin Fu didn't want to settle the old scores. Even if the officials became corrupt, it was a fact that Longjiang Shipyard gathered the best shipbuilders in the country. The accumulation of technology and a large amount of material reserves in the past two hundred years made Longjiang Shipyard one of the few companies today. One of several yards that can build large-scale offshore sailing warships.
Ninghai Zhenshui Camp has five battalions of regular soldiers. The first and second water battalions of Jinghai, excluding auxiliary soldiers, have about 3,000 soldiers. If the required warships are calculated in terms of carrying capacity, the total carrying capacity It's also quite rare.
However, the Jinghaihai camp needs to be mainly based on sea-going ships, and the standards of materials, structure, strength, and resistance to seawater corrosion far exceed that of inland river warships.
The auxiliary ships of the inland water camp do not even use keels. If even a small sentinel ship is built without adding keel material, a slightly larger wind and wave can directly break the hull into pieces. The main warships must use high-quality materials. For a strong watertight bulkhead structure, both sides must also be reinforced with aniseed materials of the same specifications as the keel.
In this way, even if Longjiang Shipyard provides Jinghai Camp with warships with the same total capacity and built to the standards given by Lin Fu, the cost will be three to four times that of Jiangning if the officials do not take bribes from it——Jiangning Naturally, the Ministry of Industry could not suffer this loss, so it only agreed to build warships for the Jinghai camp based on the total allocation of 10,000 taels of shipbuilding silver.
The cost of each Jinhai-class warship is more than 15,000 taels of silver. The total amount of 10,000 taels of silver is only enough for the Jinghai Camp to purchase more than half of the Jinhai-class warships or two and a half Jiyun-class warships. .
Ninghai Zhenshui Camp suffered little war damage, so it is more than enough to replace a batch of ships in eight years; Jinghai Haiying Camp needs to establish a solid defense line on the Shengsi Islands. Frequent naval battles will greatly increase the consumption of warships.
During the two raids on Daheng Island, nearly 40% of the warships in the Jinghaihai camp were stranded, and nearly half of the warships were damaged and could not be repaired and reused.
Based on this estimate of the intensity of battle damage, the shipbuilding allocation must be increased to at least 100,000 taels per year to ensure that the Jinghai camp will not have its combat effectiveness weakened by frequent naval battles.
Yue Lengqiu has left Jiangning for Linhuai, preparing to lead the Huai army north to suppress the civil unrest. Wang Tian, the Xuanfu envoy, and Yu Xinyuan, the newly appointed Jiangdong inspector, also went to Pingjiang Prefecture and Danyang Prefecture respectively to inspect local combat readiness and supervise the strength of the two generals. Gather south to prevent Dong Yuan's hastily established defense line in northern Zhejiang from being penetrated by the She family. The situation was so urgent that Lin Fu still stayed patiently in Jiangning. It was a trivial matter for him to bring Gu Junxun back home to visit the family, mainly because he had to talk to the Jiangning Ministry of Industry. Negotiate over the repair of warships.
In addition to the total number of silver coins for shipbuilding every year, there is another issue that the two sides are arguing about.
Previously, in order to strengthen the Jiangning defense force and restrict the development of the Jiangning Left Army in Chongzhou, Yue Lengqiu ordered the Longjiang Shipyard to be the Ninghai Zhenshui Camp, and Jiangning Water Camp built an additional batch of high-quality warships. Now that the Ninghai Zhenshui Camp has been disbanded, this
The extra batch of high-quality warships that were built have not yet been delivered, but after Yue Lengqiu ignored Jiang's defense affairs, the Jiangning Ministry of Industry did not dare to make things difficult for Jiangning Water Camp, which was just around the corner, but refused to deliver these warships to Jinghaihai
camp.
In the past few days, Lin Fu had been busy over these two matters. He was almost sitting on the bench with Xu Huaidong, the minister of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, and Liu Yugong, the left minister of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry, and the matter did not make any progress.
The officials of the Sixth Ministries of Jiangning were commonly known as "Lingshou Officials". Their actual power was far from comparable to that of the officials of the Sixth Ministries of Yanjing, but their official positions were not low. Lin Fu was promoted like a rocket, and was made a county viscount. He had two special orders to reward merit, but in
In the eyes of Xu Huaidong and Liu Yugong, Lin Fu still had no qualifications and was just a stupid kid who got up through some luck. Even Gu Wuchen was not qualified to discuss his qualifications in front of them.
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Gu Junxun came to Jiangning on Lin Fu's boat, the Jinhai. Gu Yingxiu, Liu Yue'er, Xiaoman and other female relatives also took the boat to Jiangning to relax. Song Jia and She Mingyue did not come together in the end, mainly because She Mingyue could not figure it out.
Happy knot, Song Jia couldn't leave her alone in Chongzhou.
Lin Fu had a meal at the left servant of the Ministry of Industry in Jiangning before noon, and came to Hekou Town in the afternoon. When he saw the boat coming, he went to the dock to pick it up in person.
In Lin Fu's view, this was a very common thing, but in the eyes of outsiders, it became a matter of praise. Gu Junxun also did not expect that Lin Fu would come to the pier to pick her up in person. There were people watching on the pier, their pretty faces were slightly red.
A little embarrassed.
Also coming with me was Ge Siyu.
The dredging of the Salt River is in full swing. As the chief engineer for the dredging and transportation of the Salt River, Ge Siyu cannot escape easily, but it is not Ge Siyu who wants to break the foundation of the Jiangning Ministry of Industry.
Yu can't.
Lin Jingzhong also reserved the thatched cottage for Lin Fu. Gu Junxun and others came over and were not busy living in the city, but rested in the thatched cottage first. Lin Fu invited Ge Siyu to talk to the bamboo hall where Zhao Shuhan usually lectured on general studies. Zhang Yubo also
it's here.
"Xu Huaidong, how is the progress at Liu Yugong's place?" Ge Siyu asked.
"Water can't be poured in..." Lin Fu said.
"Longjiang Shipyard is under the control of Liu Yugong. He is not good at anything else but only good at yellow and white things. Back then, he blackmailed the old man, and the old man was so angry that he stayed behind closed doors." Ge Siyu said.
"I have prepared yellow and white things. I don't dare to be stingy at such a critical moment. I have prepared twelve standard Jiangning government-made gold collars. I also promised to return to him eleven percent of the shipbuilding silver that he allocated.
," Lin Fu smiled helplessly and shook his head, saying, "The water still can't get in..."
"This is strange," Ge Siyu frowned in confusion, "Could it be that someone is causing trouble secretly?"
"..." Lin Fu had also suspected it, but there were probably too many people tampering secretly, and he couldn't guess who it was. Except for Gu Wuchen and other figures, and except for the people in Chongzhou County, Lin Fu had almost no enemies in Jiangdong County.
, "Xu Huaidong and Liu Yugong were rejected, and I will continue to go there; but even if these two roads are opened, there will be variables in the future. In the future, Chongzhou will be the main outlet for the southeastern counties. Only by improving Chongzhou's own shipbuilding capabilities can we
is the key... All the master craftsmen, young and old, who are willing to go to Chongzhou will be given one hundred taels of Anjia silver, and a guest from Chongzhou or above will take their place. Don't be afraid that you won't be able to leave. I'll bring all the Jinghai No. 1 Water Camp over and give them one tael.
Can I still take away the number 100 and his family? They have been snatched away."
Building a dock at Guanyintan was Lin Fu's top priority in taking root in Chongzhou.
In addition to weaving and armor casting, many workshops have been established in Guanyintan in the past year, almost all of which are based on the shipbuilding industry. The shipbuilding yard was officially established in the first half of the year, headed by Sun Jingxuan, who transferred craftsmen from Xihehui
We also recruited great craftsmen from Pingjiang, Hailing and other places. After half a year of development, we have reached a certain scale.
After all, the foundation of Guanyintan Shipyard is too weak. In terms of accumulation, it is far inferior to the shipyard built by the She family in Jin'an. In the early stage, it mainly focused on preparing materials and repairing ships, and also successfully built some small and medium-sized sea-going ships.
When the Ninghai Zhenshui camp rebelled, Lin Fu expected that the status of the Jinghai camp would not be shaken in the short term. He had the idea of directly establishing a foothold in the Jiangning Ministry of Industry.
Without opening the Jinghaihai camp's defense, the Jiangning Ministry of Industry brought the matter to the imperial study room, and Lin Fu had an excuse to defend himself.
When Zhao Shuhan heard Lin Fu's unabashed request for Ge Siyu to come over and help dig out master craftsmen from the Longjiang shipyard, he shook his head and smiled helplessly.
Zhao Shuhan was not a pedantic person. He knew that Lin Fu's behavior of trying to gain leverage was detrimental to Jiangning's Ministry of Industry and the interests of the court. However, Xu Huaidong, Liu Yugong and others had prejudices and refused to build ships for Lin Fu. They really had to stick to their principles.
If this is done, it will only continuously weaken the combat power of the Jinghaihai Battalion, leaving no one to defend the flanks of Pingjiang Prefecture and no one to defend the Jiangkou, which will harm the overall situation.
Hekou teaches compilation and craftsmanship miscellaneous studies. Although Zhao Shuhan is the leader, all Jiangning craftsmen know that this is something Lin Fu vigorously established in Jiangning. Lin Fu is almost a household name among ordinary craftsmen in Jiangning, no better than the few guards at the Jiangning Ministry of Industry.
The mausoleum official is slightly inferior, and coupled with the prestige accumulated by Ge Sihu and his father, the old work officer Ge Fu, from the Longjiang shipyard, it will not be much difficult to lure a group of craftsmen from the same low-income family from the Longjiang shipyard.
Zhao Shuhan knew very well that "to do justice requires not to stick to trivial matters", so he didn't think there was anything extraordinary about Lin Fu's approach. He only complained that officials could not serve the court and the people of the world with all their heart, and they had to be forced to serve the court and the people of the world.
People who want to do something must not take evil paths.
Lin Fu not only wanted to poach people from the Longjiang Shipyard under the Jiangning Ministry of Industry and poach those master craftsmen who were treasured as national treasures, but also planned to bribe the officials in charge of the Longjiang Shipyard and secretly transfer the assets of the Longjiang Shipyard to
Go to Chongzhou. Since Xu Huaidong and Liu Yugong refused to give the ship, it would be easy to transport the wood and other materials needed for shipbuilding to Chongzhou. Especially the old materials necessary for building sea ships, even if Lin Fu came from Sichuan, Jiangxi, Jinghu
It would take three to five years to purchase materials from other places. If you wanted to build a large sea-going ship in a short period of time, you would have to poach the shipyard from Longjiang Shipyard.