It's not that these maritime merchants are stupid and insist on going against Chu Yi one by one even though they know that Chu Yi is not easy to provoke, but they are simply unwilling to bear the terrible huge profits. For the sake of huge profits, even if they know that Chu Yi is a man-eating tiger, they
I also want to be the one who kills the tiger.
It is not unusual for the Gu family to have accumulated millions in property by relying on maritime trade and smuggling for hundreds of years. Although the Qin and Han families are not as good as the Gu family, they are also two of the most prominent maritime merchant families in Fujian, so they are two
It is understandable that millions of family fortunes were confiscated.
What Cheng Xiangwu was excited about was not the gold and silver, but the nearly 100,000 acres of land. If you add the 50,000 acres of fertile land owned by the Gu family, the total would be 1,340,000 acres of land.
If all these fertile fields were awarded to the officers and men of the Jing Navy, with a quota of 10,000, even an ordinary soldier would be able to obtain at least about ten acres of fertile land, which would be enough to make the officers and men of the Jing Navy work hard for it.
Looking at Chu Yi, Cheng Xiangwu said with excitement: "Please give an order from the governor to grant land to the lieutenant general. I can guarantee that as long as the land is given, an elite army can be trained within half a year."
Cheng Xiangwu stared at Chu Yi with burning eyes.
Chu Yi nodded slightly and said: "In this case, I will order the land to be rewarded to the army officers in the name of the emperor."
Cheng Xiangwu immediately prostrated himself and said to Chu Yi: "The last general and the lieutenant general in the army thank the emperor for his great kindness. Long live your Majesty, long live your Majesty, and may your Lord Governor live a thousand lives!"
Chu Yi waved his hand and said: "Okay, you just need to help me train the army well."
Cheng Xiangwu cupped his hands and said, "I will definitely live up to the governor's expectations!"
Cheng Xiangwu left, and Fang Li, Qi Hu, and Gu Bing walked into the camp and saluted Chu Yi.
Fang Li said to Chu Yi: "The Governor, the Qin and Han families have all been confiscated. A total of more than 500 direct descendants of the two families have been imprisoned in the military camp, waiting for the Governor's fate."
Chu Yi nodded, glanced at Gu Bing and said, "Master Gu, do you three have a shipyard?"
Ships are definitely the foundation of maritime trade. Small merchants with only three or two ships can do it on a small scale, but large merchants such as the Gu family, the Qin family, and the Han family own dozens or hundreds of ships.
I am afraid that purchasing alone will not be able to meet the losses of ships at sea, so Chu Yi guessed that the three companies will most likely have their own shipyards.
Gu Bing was stunned for a moment, nodded and said: "Back to the Governor, the three of us have our own shipyard in Xiamen Port."
Chu Yi chuckled and said: "If I order you to merge the three shipyards into one and then provide enough materials for shipbuilding, how many ships can the shipyard launch in a year?"
Gu Bing took a deep breath and muttered: "How much can be launched into the water? Gu dare not lie to the governor. After all, it depends on how big the governor is to build. The time required to build merchant ships and warships is different. Even if it is
Merchant ships are also divided into different sizes, and there are no specifications. Gu really doesn’t dare to judge.”
Chu Yi said with a smile: "But I was negligent. In this case, I ordered you to establish the Xiamen Shipyard. You will be the head of the Xiamen Shipyard, and you will be a seventh-rank official!"
After being slightly stunned, Gu Bing reacted, with a look of surprise on his face, and bowed to Chu Yi respectfully: "Gu Bing thanks the governor!"
With a flick of his hand, Gu Bing stood up.
Chu Yi looked at Fang Lida and said: "I just decided that Wu Boyan had captured the Qin Dynasty, and the Han family's wealth was five million taels of silver. But is this so?"
Fang Li nodded and said: "The exact amount of property is still under statistical calculation, but it can be roughly determined that it is at least five million taels."
Chu Yi slowly took two steps and raised his head and said: "Allocate one million taels of silver as payment for the Jing Navy for the next two years. The remaining four million taels of silver will be used to purchase raw materials needed for shipbuilding and put them into the Xiamen Shipyard.
I hope that the head of the Gu family can build a fleet of thousands of ships for this governor."
Gu Bing took a breath of cold air and said in horror: "Lord Governor, if you want to build such a fleet, if there is only one shipyard, it may not be possible to build it even in ten years. Millions of taels of silver can't be built at all.
Not enough for shipbuilding."
Chu Yi nodded and said, "I naturally know this. I will build several shipyards along the coast and activate several shipyards inland. In the past, Emperor Chengzu could build Zheng He's treasure fleet. Why did I
Isn’t it possible to build a huge fleet that surpasses Zheng He’s fleet?”
At this time, large-scale navigation was prevalent in the West, and on the vast ocean, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and even the future empire on which the sun never set were all developing their navies crazily. If the Ming Dynasty continued to close itself off and did not catch up, I am afraid it would not take many years.
Western warships will appear along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.
You must know that even now, traces of Western warships have appeared along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, and Franconian cannons were also introduced to the Ming Dynasty at this time.
In order to build Zheng He's fleet, Chengzu spent tens of millions of taels in more than ten years. If Chu Yi wanted to build a fleet that could surpass Zheng He's fleet, the amount of silver he would have to consume would probably reach 10 to 20 million taels.
So huge.
This is indeed an extremely huge and astonishing investment. Even Chengzu spent more than ten years to build such a behemoth fleet at sea, which is equivalent to an annual investment of one to two million taels of silver.
Chu Yi obviously doesn't have the patience to wait for more than ten or twenty years. He wants to build a maritime fleet in two or three years, which means that he will have to invest 10 to 20 million taels of silver within two to three years.
When Chu Yi revealed his ambition, everyone in the tent had dull expressions on their faces. If Chu Yi hadn't looked so calm, they would have suspected that Chu Yi was talking in his sleep.
Tang Yin, who rarely spoke, couldn't help but speak at this moment. He looked at Chu Yi with a worried look and said: "Supervisor, that's 10 to 20 million grain silver. I'm afraid that the princes in the court will not agree at all.
ah!"
If Chu Yi's plan is really followed, it means that almost three to four million taels of gold and silver will be invested every year. Above the court, the civil and military officials will never agree to invest so much gold and silver in shipbuilding.
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Fang Li squinted his eyes, thoughtfully.
Gu Bing looked horrified. He really didn't expect Chu Yi to have such courage, but he was also worried about Chu Yi.
A huge fleet is not only built, but what is even more terrifying is the subsequent maintenance. It can be said that the investment in subsequent maintenance is even more amazing than the investment in shipbuilding. Years of maintenance can even be enough to build another fleet.
Chu Yi waved his hand and said: "Since I dare to think this way, I will naturally find a way to raise enough funds to build such a fleet."
As he spoke, Chu Yi looked at Gu Bing and chuckled: "As long as such a fleet is built, I think the head of the Gu family should be well aware of the huge profits that can be made at sea."
Gu Bing sighed softly, nodded slowly and said: "If the governor can really build such a fleet and supplement it with elite soldiers, the harvest will far exceed the investment."
Chu Yi knows better than anyone else the amazing benefits that having a huge fleet with astonishing combat power can reap in this era.
Japan's Shijian Yinshan, American silver and many mineral deposits, and even overseas trade, it can even be said that if it were more ruthless, many small overseas countries would plunder all the way, and the wealth of each country would be so amazing.
Of course, this is not Chu Yi’s ultimate goal. The reason why he has to build a huge fleet is that if Ming Dynasty does not want to follow the old path, it must choose to open the sea to compete with the West. More importantly, Chu Yi must lead
The fleet goes to overseas countries.
But he wanted to see if he could gain luck by influencing small overseas countries. If he could gain luck, Chu Yi would not mind destroying those small overseas countries.
Fang Li squinted his eyes and had a smile on his face. Tang Yin couldn't help frowning when he saw it and said: "Fang Li, what the Governor is doing is too crazy. You are highly valued by the Governor. Why don't you persuade the Governor to think twice!"
Fang Li glanced at Tang Yin, smiled slightly and said, "It's nothing more than raising tens of millions of taels of silver. It may be extremely difficult for others, but for the governor, it's really not that difficult."
Seeing the strange light flashing in Fang Li's eyes, Tang Yin was not a fool. He suddenly reacted and felt a wave of emotion in his heart.
Today, the three families of Gu, Qin, and Han have a total of seven to eight million taels of silver. At that time, they only needed to find a few maritime merchant families to confiscate their properties.
Tang Yin even felt that there was no need for Chu Yi to take the initiative to seek trouble from those maritime merchants, as those merchants themselves would hand over the clues to Chu Yi.
At this moment, Tang Yin thought of the Lin family. When Cao Shaoqin interrogated Lin Guangwen, Tang Yin, as the secretary, witnessed and heard the plans of the Lin family in Zhejiang against Chu Yi.
The Lin family is the real big maritime merchant family, plus the large and small maritime merchant families gathered around the Lin family. Once these people do anything untoward, Tang Yin can imagine what those maritime merchant families will face.
How suppressive Chu Yi was.
At that time, it will be easy to confiscate families and exterminate clans. With the wealth of these maritime merchants, not to mention tens of millions of taels of silver, it is probably not a problem to double it again.
Tang Yin sighed softly in his heart. Perhaps Chu Yi's behavior of confiscating and annihilating his family at every turn seemed cruel, but in fact, none of the people whose homes were confiscated and their clans exterminated were unjust. They were all worms in the country. Killing them would be beneficial to the country. Otherwise, all officials in the court would be harmed.
There will not be such a small number of loyal officials among them who are willing to support Chu Yi.
Gu Bing looked at Chu Yi, with a somewhat hesitant look on his face. He obviously had something to say, but he was hesitant.
Seeing this, Chu Yi turned to Gu Bing and said, "Master Gu, does he have anything to say?"
Gu Bing took a deep breath and bowed to Chu Yi and said: "Gu Bing is bold and begs the governor to kill only the direct relatives of the Qin and Han families."
Cao Shaoqin narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but stare at Gu Bing. Gu Bing suddenly felt like he was being targeted by a poisonous snake.
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