With the rooster crowing, Guo Shao woke up from his sleep. If chickens are not raised in the palace, it is because eunuchs are imitating the rooster crowing.

Guo Shao opened his eyes and was stunned for a moment, because there was a "strange" woman lying beside him, with her smooth naked shoulders still outside the quilt. He came to his senses after a while. This woman was Lu Qiongxian. The scenes and sounds of last night were like a spent disk and they poured into his mind sporadically.

She curled up and was still sleeping. The women seemed to dislike each other, but Guo Shao felt that although Lu Qiongxian had a bad reputation, she was still very cute when she fell asleep, with some pity.

Guo Shao turned to look at the window. It was not very bright yet. However, the eunuchs crowing was very accurate, more accurate than the real rooster crowing. &~,∽.⊕↑.≧p;

He gently pulled the quilt, covered Lu Qiongxian's naked shoulders, and then put the corner of the quilt under her to compact it, and got up from the wide big bed.

At this moment, a lazy voice said, "I don't want your Majesty to be the most powerful person in the world, but he is a careful and gentle person."

Guo Shao turned around and said, "I have business, so you can sleep for a while."

This girl always says things that make people love to hear, and the foolish monarch must like such people, such as the former King of Southern Han.

At this moment, she said quietly: "You will leave after sleeping, it is always sad at this time... Your Majesty, will you still look for me?"

Guo Shao didn't say anything, he was the least willing to make promises. He picked up a purple round-neck robe and put it on. At this time, Lu Qiongxian got up in a coat and came over to comb the bun on Guo Shao's hair.

She whispered, "I feel that my bones are all scattered when I get up."

Guo Shao smiled and said, "I think you are a praising word."

He prepared, washed up, had breakfast, and took a bus to Jinxiang Hall. From the inside of Jinxiang Hall, the layout inside was very complex... as if there were countless corridors, courtyards, and houses. If ordinary people could enter here, they would definitely get lost.

But facing the front of the outside, the halls are grand and square, with a very simple layout. This Jinxiang Hall alone, also called Guo Shao, feels like the politics of the dynasty. It is grand and even dull on the outside, but the back is incredible.

Today, Guo Shao did not discuss politics with the ministers, nor did he meet the dynasty. He first came to the study and asked someone to take the memorials and files during the war.

When I opened the file, I saw Fu Jinzhan's administrative layout that combines the waste materials of the gunpowder workshop with the farm. Guo Shao felt a little turbulent in his heart when he saw the elegant and neat little calligraphy.

Fu Jinzhan flashed in his mind, fingers that smoothed his clothes, and what he saw helped him to do in detail and seriously. Even the purple robe he was wearing was sewn with stitches and threads. Guo Shao had no warning and felt unspeakable in his heart.

He exhaled and continued to look at what was on the table.

At this time, he found that something very important was not done. Last time he issued an order on the front line to equip new bronze cannons on the Jiaolong Army warship, but it has not been successful yet.

There are many drawings below. Guo Shao looked through them and said, "Come here, summon Han Tong, Zan Jurun, and Li Xin to the East Palace to see me."

"Abide by the order."

After waiting for a long time, two eunuchs at the door opened the wooden door, and the three of them walked up, bowed with fists and said, "I will be ordered to meet you, and your Majesty will live forever."

Guo Shao raised his sleeve and waved it, and said straight: "We have also obtained the shipbuilding structure of the Dashi merchants, but if the sea ship does not install cannons, how can there be an advantage in water war? Still fighting with swords on the side, it will be useless no matter how far it sails."

Guo Shao thought to himself: Naval battles cannot form an absolute advantage, how can we fight Dongdao? If we can't fight Dongdao, where can we get huge military expenditures for gold, silver and coins?! Now, the cost of fighting is extremely high. A battle to balance the summer is so smooth. After returning to the reward, we settle the score and we lose money to grandma's house.

The soldiers only knew that the emperor was kind to him, but now they were rich all over the world. The brothers’ treatment could not be even less than before, but they didn’t know where the money came from... Most of the taxes were physical, but the expenses required a lot of cash; now they were essentially the consequences of the recruitment system.

Guo Shao knew from the file written by Jinzhan that the treasures of the inner treasury now robbed from the palace treasurys of various southern countries. Guo Shao also knew that in recent years, wars were actually too frequent.

He didn't care about it and made his statement first: "You must bring the cannons onto the warship!"

Han Tong turned to look at Li Xin, and Li Xin bowed: "Your Majesty calmed down. The most different thing about the big food ship and the Central Plains ship is that the hull is long and long, and it is a sail, which is convenient for long journeys on the sea; but the shipbuilding skills are really not much better than those of the Central Plains ship.

The disadvantage of the big food ship is that it is too small. The copper cannon is too heavy. According to Your Majesty's wishes, you must set up cannons on both sides. If there are only five cannons on one side, it will weigh ten thousand pounds, and the hull will almost overturn when it is fired, and it will never be able to bear it.

The craftsmen and others tried every possible way to build a wooden rail gun mount for the cannon, which was concerned with iron chains. When the cannon was fired, the cannon body moved back along the wooden rails and used iron chains to buffer the impact force. They wanted to reduce the rear shock force, but found that it still couldn't... The only way is to have a big ship!"

Guo Shao heard him talk nonsense and almost blurted out: Since he wanted a big ship, wouldn't he enlarge the hull?!

But he is not a shipbuilder. Although he has read a lot of files and learned a lot, it is not a joke to travel across the road. He asked immediately: "Can you turn a big food ship into a big ship?"

Li Xin said: "Reply to Your Majesty, I have asked the master of the shipbuilding workshop. The shipbuilder cannot enlarge it accordingly, the constraints are the keel."

"Character bone?" Guo Shao has heard of this word.

Li Xin said, "The bigger the boat, the heavier it is. The hull must be firmer and the keel must be stronger. With the keel of the big eater, it will fall apart when it is made large.

We can also build building ships, but they are flat-bottom ships, which can be found in rivers, but they are unstable on the sea and cannot withstand great storms."

Guo Shao was in a state of discomfort, and he said he couldn't help. If he had the firearm structure, he could still figure out the combing gun, but the sailing boat... he really didn't know much.

He knew that Zheng He's treasure ship voyage to the West in the Ming Dynasty was very big, but now it was not the Ming Dynasty, so he had no place to get the shipbuilding map of the treasure ship.

"You think of a solution." Guo Shao waved his hand. He couldn't force others to do anything. Even if he was the emperor, he could not tell the ministers: He wanted an aircraft carrier, but he could still satisfy the emperor.

Han Tong and others did not accomplish anything and dared not say much. They immediately said, "I am grateful to you and give up."

At this moment, Guo Shao suddenly remembered Lu Qiongxian. She said that she could find shipbuilding talents?

...

One of the military camps of the Crane Army was very lively. The founding Duke Li Chuyun wore a commoner and rode a horse outside the military camp with several entourages. Li Chuyun looked into the military camp, and the entourage said, "Duke Li, we want to go in and inspect? Let's talk."

Li Chuyun immediately waved his hand and looked down at his dress: "No need, I just take a look."

He turned to an old man and said, "The current Crane Control Army is not the past, but the Imperial Army's infantry are all part of the Crane Control Army."

The old man clasped his fists and bowed, "The soldiers seemed to be receiving military pay."

Li Chuyun stroked his beard and said, "The people from the Ministry of War are sending them out."

The old man nodded with a clear look on his face.

Just then, some soldiers were twisting sacks and holding paper in their hands. Li Chuyun immediately stepped forward and said, "Are you receiving enough military pay?"

"Zhu is foot, but it's all this..." At this time, a soldier looked at Li Chuyun's bearded man, and someone shouted: "Isn't this the founding Duke General Li!"

Li Chuyun smiled but said nothing. Everyone hurriedly held military salutes: "Meet Mr. Li."

"What are you twisting?" Li Chuyun asked.

A soldier opened the sack and said, "Salt, cloth, and this. The officials who paid the wages in the Ministry of War said it was a ticket. When the grain ships from various places arrived in Beijing, they would go to the grain transport ships at the Watergate Wharf with their respective generals to receive the wheat rice with the ticket."

Li Chuyun said: "Don't worry, the court has the trust, and I will definitely receive it."

The troops didn't seem to be very dissatisfied. The entourage asked for a ticket for Li Chuyun to watch. When Li Chuyun saw that there were half numbers on it and he was pressing his finger marks. The Ministry of War's method was safe. The soldiers had to follow their respective generals to draw their own seals. There were numbered tickets, so there were usually no mistakes.

The main reason is that this ticket will be able to be exchanged for real things soon, so there seems to be no need for everyone to resist. As Li Chuyun asked in the first sentence, is it enough to give enough?

Li Chuyun didn't stay for much and left the barracks with his entourage.

Soon, the old man beside him said, "The court seems to have little money."

Li Chuyun nodded and said, "There are hundreds of thousands of imperial guards who rely on military salaries to survive. Once a war is fought, they will have to settle down and get rewards when they come back. This is a rule for decades, and the expenses are really not small.

The official recently adapted the soldiers of Zhubian Town, Liu Renzhan, Gao Yanqi, Zhe Dejiu, Yang Ye, and the four of them alone had a total of more than 100,000 people. With the original two batches of 200,000 guards, the number of guards may be 400,000 in the future.

The guards did not receive military pay, but they were different from the Tang Dynasty's government soldiers. They still needed money, went to war, garrison, and trained all by the central government treasury... There is no way. If the officials want the central government to control the troops in the world, the military supplies must first pay the central government."

The old man said quietly: "As long as you can solve it with money, it is not a critical matter for the court."

Li Chuyun turned his head to look at him, and the two looked at each other and didn't continue.

Li Chuyun said: "What are the great ideas of Mr. Zhong?"

The old man said: "This matter is the fruit of strong and weak branches, and it is too radical. If the soldiers collect quickly, the finances will be slow to take effect, and there will be a shortage of money."

Li Chuyun said: "The official family is like that. If you do things like thunder, do it with great force!"

The old man said calmly: "But the whole world was unified in all dynasties, and the martial arts were not treated like this." He also said, "The Han and Tang dynasties were sealed territory, but it was easy to separatist and civil strife."
Chapter completed!