Chapter 8 Make great benefits

After Yu Xiaotian learned the news, he couldn't help but be stunned. According to the original historical trajectory, Wei Zhongxian should have hanged himself. How could he die now? Yu Xiaotian was confused for a while. Is the history secretary wrong?

But after careful consideration, the historical record of this matter should not be wrong. After all, Wei Zhongxian is a big figure and has had a great impact on the history of the Ming Dynasty. The reason for this situation is probably his appearance, which has had a certain impact on history. Although he has not been able to influence Wei Zhongxian's life and death, Or let Wei Zhongxian hang himself from hanging in his original fate to taking poison to kill himself.

After Xiong Wencan learned the news, he couldn't help looking at Xiaotian again. He didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian, a former pirate, could still see the situation in the middle of the dynasty so clearly. This man seemed to be really energetic. He would either suppress such subordinates them, or it would be better to simply make him. Death will affect his future in the future.

But does he dare to do this? You should know that Yu Xiaotian now has tens of thousands of soldiers in Fujian, and his subordinates are fierce generals, and they are all proud soldiers and tough generals. Even if he gives him a few courage now, he dares not fight against filial piety.

So since such a person can't be suppressed, he can only be caged, which strengthens his determination to rely on Xiaotian in the future. Anyway, as long as he is still in Fujian, he will use Xiaotian well in the future. Even if he is a little arrogant, so what?

What's more, this time he wrote to impeach Wei Zhongxian's party, which is not enough for him to ensure that he can make progress in the future. If he wants to go further in his career in the future, he must make new achievements. If he wants to make achievements in Fujian, then military achievements must be indispensable, and he can only rely on it at present. Relying on Xiaotian.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian's status in Xiong Wencan's mind has risen to the extreme by this time.

Yu Xiaotian is not stupid. Since he can see Xiong Wencan's dependence on him at present, it is naturally necessary to ask for some cheap from Xiong Wencan.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian requested the addition of artillery configuration on the grounds of strengthening coastal defense and preparing sailors, and also required the construction of new warships.

Of course, Xiong Wencan was kind and immediately approved it. At his request, he allocated a large amount of funds from Fujian's military expenses to meet the needs of Xiaotian.

In order to eat these funds, Yu Xiaotian ordered the construction of a cannon in Weitou Bay to produce various Hongyi cannons for himself. In the first batch alone, he obtained 120 Hongyi cannons from Xiong Wencan.

Naturally, he will not let the money flow to other people's pockets. Of course, he will eat most of it by himself, and he will not let others cast cannons for him. Only the cannon he produces can be relieved when used.

It is well known that Hongyi cannons are difficult to cast and expensive. Even if Fujian self-casts cannons, a cannon will cost a lot.

After finally discussing with Xiong Wencan, the Weitouwan cannon finally won the deal at the price of 1,000 taels of silver for a Hongyi cannon.

120 Hongyi cannons came down to hundreds of thousands of white-flowered official silver. Although I dare not say that Yu Xiaotian made a lot of money, at least most of the money still fell into his money bag.

If the money is given to other officials, Yu Xiaotian can guarantee that most of the money will fall into the hands of those officials. Even if these cannons are forcibly allocated to various iron fields and cast, first, it is absolutely impossible to meet the quality requirements, and second, these If the iron field is not done well, it will be compensated for the trousers! Officials will never pay these cannons in full.

As for Yu Xiaotian's request for the ship, Xiong Wencan also met his request. Although Yu Xiaotian initially requested 70 new No. 2 lucky boats, Xiong Wencan pressed it to 30 and build three No. 1 lucky boats at the same time, but for sea wolves, it still saved them a lot of expenses.

And it will no longer occupy the production capacity of the freshwater boat. The No. 2 warship can be built in most of the larger boat houses along the coast of Fujian.

Although warships such as the No. 12 Fu ship do not meet the requirements of Yu Xiaotian, these two warships, at least in the coastal area of China, are still absolute main warships. If they are modified to a certain extent, the ship can also carry a lot of artillery and have a certain combat capability, even if If you can't beat Western gunboats of the same size, at least it has a great advantage against similar Chinese ships.

Even if these ships are not specially modified, these ships are also very important for Xiaotian, because they are not used as war ships, can also be used as troop carriers or transport ships, and even as ocean-going cargo ships. After all, the lucky ship itself is a quite excellent sea ship type, as long as the construction quality is not questionable. Question, it is still very suitable for sailing. In case Yu Xiaotian wants to go north one day, it is inevitable that a large number of transportation capacity will be needed. These ships can serve as good transport ships at that time.

As for where to order the ship, Yu Xiaotian also made a request that the silver money should be allocated to him. He chose to order the ship, and then he would pay according to the situation.

This incident has also caused a lot of turmoil in Fujian officials, because the government has always ordered ships and built its own system of weapons, and few of them allocate money directly to military generals, which are controlled by military generals for customization.

Because many people want to get benefits from this matter, Yu Xiaotian obviously cut off some people's way to get rich.

So the officials who were not involved for a while expressed their opposition, believing that Yu Xiaotian, a general, really stretched out his hand too long.

Xiong Wencan is quite difficult in this matter. If you follow what Yu Xiaotian said, it will obviously offend many people and violate the tradition.

However, Yu Xiaotian ran to Fuzhou City in person. According to reason, Li Chen's advantage of doing so is that the ship is what he will use in the future, and it is a matter of life for his soldiers. He can't be a little careless.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian also reported the situation of some of the previously captured warships to Xiong Wencan in detail. Although Fujian officials have also ordered some warships before, these warships have cut corners to varying degrees, or replace new materials with old ship materials dismantling old ships. The quality of ship construction is very problematic, some After the ship was put into the water, it kept leaking, and once it went to sea, someone had to keep draining.

If some ships can't even reach their destination, they may sink because of water leakage. Because of quality, many ships dare not encounter strong winds and waves. If the wind and waves are slightly larger, they may overturn.

In fact, the main reason for this situation is that Xiong Wencan is also very clear that the officials in charge are eating and getting cards. The boss of the boat can't get the full amount of shipping money at all. Naturally, he has to find a way to reduce losses. It is normal to cut corners. It would be really strange if the ship made in this way can be of good quality. This is also After capturing many official warships, Yu Xiaotian chose only a small number of the reasons for the retention of ships.

Yu Xiaotian made it clear to Xiong Wencan that these boats are the sharp weapons that he will guard the sea of Fujian for Xiong Wencan in the future. If he does not hand them over to supervise in person, he cannot guarantee that the thief will come out in the future.

Xiong Wencan heard it well. This is a matter involving his official career, so he finally tried his best to dissuage the public and hand over the matter to supervise it in person. No one can interfere. The money can be handed over to Yu Xiaotian and directly controlled by the governor's office. After the ship's shopkeeper passes the verification, he can follow the procedures issued by Yu Xiaotian to the patrol. Fuyamen settles the settlement, which ensures the interests of the ship and reduces the intermediate procedures.

Although there are still many people who are angry about this, they have nothing to say, because the money is controlled by the governor's government, and it is not given to Yu Xiaotian. If they want to find faults, they can't find it. Everyone knows that if they jump out and continue to find faults at this time, it is to find Xiong Wencan's fault.

Xiong Wencan will definitely get over such a large amount of shipbuilding expenses. They will undoubtedly fight with the governor to grab money. To put it bluntly, it is to seek skin with the tiger, which will offend Xiong Wencan, so even if they are unhappy, they dare not fight with Xiong Wencan.

Next, Yu Xiaotian sent people to find some shiphouses to order shipbuilding in these boats, and directly build the deeply modified ship type, so that it can be loaded with more artillery than the original and have stronger firepower.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian sent supervisors to each ship's house, who are responsible for supervising the whole process of shipbuilding, especially in terms of materials, which must meet the requirements. This is a bit like the military representative sent by the later military to the military factory, but in this era, they are called supervisors. Most of these people are craftsmen drawn from the sea wolf's boathouse, or It's the old guy who retreated from the fleet. Naturally, they won't worry about the quality of the ship if they supervise the ship.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian has issued standard ship samples, and all shipyards are built according to standard ship samples, resulting in natural uniform shape and similar performance, which has a good effect on large-scale maritime formation operations in the future.

In addition to naval affairs, Yu Xiaotian also strengthened the construction of the army. In the past, the land division of the sea wolf was mainly equipped with * due to resource constraints and combat methods. * hands accounted for a large proportion, but the personal protective armor for soldiers was very insufficient.

In the past, the sea wolf could only equip the soldiers with some leather armor as much as possible, and even the iron helmets were unevenly equipped. It could only be solved by using rattan helmets and iron pieces. Although this was not bad compared with the equipment level of most officers and soldiers in Fujian, Yu Xiaotian was not satisfied with this.

(S greetings to the brothers who have been or are in the army today! Thank you for your hard work, brothers! In addition, shout, monthly ticket! I want a monthly ticket!)