Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 657

Taichang is about to be conscripted by the emperor again. The coastal port of Wubei City and the piers on both sides of the Haihe River are crowded with ships, densely packed and stretching for dozens of miles.

Everyone seems to be ready, and all the concubines, princes and princesses have already moved to the God King, and they can set off only after Taichang gives an order.

Taichang never procrastinates in doing things, and always sets out when he is ready, but this time it is different.

Everyone waited for a long time, but there was no movement at all!

What is going on here?
The next morning, Taichang still didn't give the order to go, he didn't even give the order for the ships to assemble.

what on earth is this kind of happenings?
Zhang Yuanfang couldn't help but ran to the Emperor to inquire about it.

At this moment, Taichang was still frowning in thought while staring at "The Complete Map of Kun Yu Wan Guo" in the largest study room in the front hall.

Zhang Yuanfang walked into the study to see the scene, and didn't know what to do.

He waited for quite a while, until Taichang sighed slightly, turned around with his hands behind his back, and when he saw him, he hurriedly bowed and said, "The last general will see the emperor."

This guy, why didn't he say anything when he came in?

You almost startled me!
Only then did Taichang remember that just now, someone outside seemed to beg to see him, so he responded indiscriminately.

Unexpectedly, this guy stood behind him without saying a word.

He froze for a moment, and then asked: "What's the matter, Yuan Fang, what's the matter?"

Zhang Yuanfang hurriedly said cautiously: "Your Majesty, the last general has the courage to ask, when are we going to leave?"

Uh, I forgot to order someone to notify the accompanying soldiers.

Taichang was quite embarrassed and said: "Well, I suddenly thought of a very important matter to deal with. I'm afraid I won't be able to leave today. You go and tell everyone that we will start again tomorrow morning."

Zhang Yuanfang hastily cupped his hands and bowed: "I will understand in the end, I will leave in the end."

Looking at his back, Taichang couldn't help sighing slightly, and then started to pace back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back.

Around Si time, Zhu Youjian, king of Xin, and Zhu Chunchen, Duke of Cheng, came hand in hand.

They all have the imperial court's dispensation, so they don't need to go to court early, so they will naturally come earlier.

Xu Guangqi, Nan Juyi and others couldn't do it, they were all important officials of the court, unless they were not in the capital or were seriously ill, it was impossible not to go to the early court.

This person is not here yet, what should I do?

After thinking for a while, Taichang still recruited four staff generals, and then led them to a huge conference room.

This conference room is also carefully arranged. The huge conference table is covered with glass, and under the glass in front of each seat is an engraved "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu".

As for why it is arranged like this, it is mainly for the convenience of everyone looking at the map during the meeting.

Once the Emperor is on an expedition, it will definitely be going overseas, and it is inevitable to look at the world map during meetings.

In the past, every time a meeting was held, the map was placed facing the direction of the main seat, and what other people saw was either sideways or upside down, and they couldn't even see it when they were sitting far away.

It is a bit inconvenient to discuss things like this.

Therefore, Taichang simply ordered people to carve a version of the latest "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu" with solid wood.

Originally, it was mainly for the convenience of the meeting, and at the same time, it also allowed the relevant civil servants and generals to have such a world map.

Unexpectedly, after this kind of map was released, the response was quite good, and many officials reported that there were people asking for it.

Seeing the business opportunity, the Daming Western Company printed [-] copies and distributed them to the subcolons of the various ministers and states for sale, but they were sold out quickly.

Later, Daming Western Company reprinted it several times, and the sales volume has always been very good.

It has to be said that this was unintentional. A map sold for a tael of silver actually sold hundreds of thousands of copies, earning a few hundred thousand taels.

Naturally, the printed map cannot be as long as Zhangxu, because the longest high-grade rice paper used for printing is only about three feet long.

This kind of map can't be as detailed as a hand-painted map, but it's not a problem to use it as a general reference when discussing.

After Taichang invited everyone to sit down, he pointed to the map and said, "School, when will the sub-colons of the Daming Bank spread all over the major cities and countries in North America? Do you have any plans for this?"

Naturally, there is such a plan. The problem is that there are people with money and boats!

Xin Wang Zhu Youjian said quite sophisticatedly: "Father, every branch of our Daming Bank has to prepare enough principal, that is, gold ingots, silver ingots, gold coins, silver coins, and copper coins, and we have to recruit enough money. Manpower, and then organize the fleet or ship it with the fleet of the Daming Western Company.

We have already planned, the principal has almost been raised, and the manpower has been recruited. The problem is that there is no fleet that frequently travels between Daming mainland and the Americas, and this business cannot be carried out.

After all, the business of the bank is all about money, so we have to supervise and check at all times. If we can't check the accounts every month, there may be problems. "

Uh, isn't there a fleet of ships regularly traveling between the mainland of Ming Dynasty and the Americas?

Taichang asked directly: "Chunchen, hasn't the semi-colon of your Daming Western Company opened to America? Don't you need regular deliveries there?"

Zhu Chunchen hurriedly explained in detail: "Your Majesty, the branch of our Daming Western Company has already opened to America.

However, now we have our semicolon in the capital of Eastern Yin.

Because of the expedition to the prairie beyond the Great Wall last year, there were too many captives that needed to be transshipped. We couldn't even guarantee the regular delivery of goods from several provinces outside Daming, let alone organize the fleet to go back and forth on a regular basis.

This year's campaign on the grassland beyond the Great Wall is still going on, and our focus is to cooperate with the Nanyang Navy to seize the Western market. We are afraid that there will be insufficient merchant ships, so the business in the Americas has not been launched. "

Well, to put it bluntly, it is still a problem with the ship.

At this moment, the Daming Navy seems to be invincible, but in fact the number of ships is not very large.

The ships of the Daming Navy are invincible because of their relatively terrifying combat power. In terms of numbers, the number of ships of the Ming Dynasty at the moment is far behind that of the Netherlands.

The Dutch already had more than [-] ocean-going ships, but now Daming's ocean-going ships are not even a fraction of them.

Because the Daming Navy only has a total of more than a hundred Aegis ships and dreadnought ships at the moment. As for the Dragon Tooth battleships, they are all eliminated. After building dozens of ships, they are not built.

There are also armed merchant ships and large fishing boats, both of which were built in large numbers only three years ago.

At this time, the Daming Western Company will have a total of 300 armed merchant ships and more than [-] large fishing boats.

The number of the remaining Spike warships and water transport ships is relatively large, but these cannot be regarded as ocean-going ships, and they cannot sail alone on the ocean at all.

And at this moment, there are only more than 3000 Spike warships and water transport ships combined.

In other words, the total number of Ming ships that can go to sea is less than 3000, including more than [-] Spike warships and water transport ships that can only hang on both sides of ocean-going ships.

Why is this so?
There is no way, Ming has been asleep for too long, and the nearly 200 years from the Yongle Dynasty to the Taichang Dynasty are basically wasted.

Moreover, at the beginning of the Taichang Dynasty, it was still a mess. At that time, not only Jiannu was rampant in Liaodong, but also rebels in the northwest, chieftain rebellion in the southwest, and party disputes between the court and China.

It took several years for Taichang to save the dying Ming Dynasty. After that, Daming slowly developed and had a shipyard.

Calculated in this way, it has been less than eight years since Daming started to develop new ships.

Moreover, in the first few years of these eight years, there was only one shipyard in Wubei City that could produce ocean-going ships.

Dongpan Shipyard was built three years ago, and Nanzhili Shipyard was built last year.

At the moment, there are only three shipyards in Daming that can produce ocean-going ships.

To be honest, Daming's shipbuilding ability is really not good at the moment.

However, at this moment, Taichang can't desperately build a shipyard.

Because the Naval Research Institute is currently developing a new type of ship, and the current ship is estimated to be eliminated in a few years.

He can't order people to desperately build ships that are about to be eliminated!

It can only be done now.

Thinking of this, Taichang sighed slightly: "The ships are not enough at the moment, but the Daming Western Company and the Daming Bank can't just focus on one place or only develop in one direction, the business in the Americas still needs to be done, We have to plan well."

(End of this chapter)