The little carpenter summoned Wei Zhongxian, Zhang Yong, Gao Shixin and Yan Siqi to ask about the money, raw materials and manpower needed to expand the Tianjin shipyard.

"How much money does a first-class battleship cost?" The carpenter emperor asked with interest. Although he had not made a model of a first-class battleship, he looked at the design drawings drawn by Zhang Yong for him and was very interested in this kind of ship. The three-layer artillery deck, equipped with more than 100 red cannons, plus two 64-pound short-barrel cannons, such a ship is simply comparable to a treasure ship.

The real data of the treasure ship is equivalent to the Dafu ship of about 1,500 to 2,000 tons. In order to build Zheng He's fleet, the Ming Dynasty almost cut off all the iron woods that had been in the past century. There was only one largest treasure ship, and the others were ships below 1,000 tons. The most common one was the Dafu ship of 200 to 300 tons, and the 400 tons were considered very large back then.

According to Gao Shixin's idea, the fleet he wanted to build, except for a 1,200-ton second-class battleship as the flagship, the rest of the main force was an 80-ton third-class battleship. According to the plan, it was planned to build about 40 3-class battleships, more than 100 50-ton fourth-class cruise ships, nearly 200 400-ton fifth-class cruise ships, and another 100 flying scissor privateers.

In addition to preparing to dominate the ocean, there is another intention, that is, if the death of the Tianqi cannot be stopped and King Xin comes to power, then these ships will be the capital for the eunuchs to save their lives. When it is absolutely necessary, Gao Shixin will bring Wei Zhongxian, Zhang Yong and others to take the fleet to expedition to America, and build his own country there.

The British built a 1,600-ton Sea King battleship, which cost 40,000 pounds. At that time, one pound was a pound of silver, called one pound, so the cost of a first-class battleship was 484,000 taels of silver, which did not include the prices of artillery, personnel and supplies.

Based on the average cost of a gun of 500 taels of silver, the price of artillery on a first-class battleship is more than 50,000 taels, so it costs about 540,000 taels of silver to build a first-class ship.

The price of the second-class battleship is much cheaper, less than half of the first-class ship, and the combat effectiveness of the two second-class ships is definitely far more than that of one first-class ship. The third-class ship is even cheaper, about 100,000 taels of silver, which can be equipped with seventy-four cannons. With the cannons, the cost of a third-class ship is 140,000 taels of silver, which means that the cost of building a first-class ship can be built four third-class ships, and the cost performance is the highest in the third-class ship.

But the little carpenter insisted on building a first-class ship, and it must be built in Tianjin, so that two second-class ships would be built.

After Gao Shixin reported the price, the little carpenter was shocked: "Gao Qing, it would cost more than 10 million taels of silver to build so many ships? It's too expensive!"

"Your Majesty, but when we have these ships, we can earn a lot of money back, which is far more than tens of millions of taels of silver!" Gao Shixin replied.

"Ten thousand taels of silver? How long does it take to make it back?" the little carpenter widened his eyes.

"It is impossible to make money back so quickly. It will take at least seven to eight years for us to build these ships. We also need to train sailors. It is almost impossible to earn tens of millions of taels of silver in about ten years." Gao Shixin replied.

"Ten years, that's too long." The carpenter emperor shook his head in disappointment.

Gao Shixin smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I actually have a way. We can build a batch of flying piercing boats first. In just one year, we can build two or thirty boats. We can drive these boats to grab the silver of Hongmaoyi, and ensure that we can grab tens of trillions of taels within two years."

There is no need to doubt that robbery comes the fastest.

To build the most simple flying scissor privateer, you also need to dry wood, but it doesn't matter. Gao Shixin decided to ask Yan Siqi to directly remove a batch of galloping and fast ships, and use the dismantled wood to build a flying scissor privateer.

"Is this possible?" Yan Siqi asked.

Zhang Yong smiled and said, "General Yan, your sailboats have almost the same length and width ratio as those of the scissors, but the structure of the scissors is not very similar. After those ships are removed, just a little trimming of the wood can be made."

"Okay! That's great!" the little carpenter clapped happily.

After leaving the palace, Gao Shixin returned to Beijing to prepare. He was about to go to Shanxi to thoroughly investigate the affairs of the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants. As for Yan Siqi who was recruited here, he was in Tianjin, and Zhang Yong was in charge of the construction of the shipyard in Tianjin, which was very reassuring.

"Brother Gao, you are leaving the capital. I'm afraid you won't be back so soon when you go to Shanxi? You're too old, so let our family decide with your mother and get your marriage done." Wei Zhongxian looked at Gao Shixin with a smile.

Gao Shixin already has two concubines, one is a lotus picked up from Datong, and the other is Yang Wan, who was given to Gao Shixin as a gift. There are two Mongolian concubines who have not yet grown up and matured at home - Da Yuer and Su Moer, and Yang Ai, who is preparing for the loli cultivation plan. There is also a White Lotus Sect demon lover Ling'er outside, and Xiong Hu, the daughter of Xiong Tingbi, who may be of some interest to him, but the wife of the main wife has not yet passed the door, so this matter must be done as soon as possible.

The next day, Wei Zhongxian asked someone to go to the Zuowei of Tongzhou, to Yuan Hongjun's house, and gave him a betrothal gift.

When a person who was nine thousand years old came to the door, Yuan Hongjun was naturally polite. The matchmaker handed over the appointment letter and the ritual letter, and Yuan Hongjun accepted it in front of countless people onlookers of Shaoxing without saying a word. After receiving the appointment letter and the ritual letter, he handed the matchmaker a piece of paper with Yuan Yue'er's name and birth date written on it.

The fortune teller invited by Eunuch Wei took the birthday of the man and woman in fear. He pretended to roll his eyes and calculated for a while, slapped his thighs very exaggeratedly, and shouted: "The world is made of, and my good friend is natural!"

After Nacai asked Naji about his name, he had three procedures, which made the people sent by Gao's mother and Eunuch Wei dizzy. After Najib came to Nazheng and asked for a wedding to greet him. Of course, Gao Shixin didn't understand these procedures, but there were people sent by Gao's mother and Eunuch Wei to arrange them. Anyway, Gao Shixin was just like a puppet.

Nazheng is also called a big gift, which means that the man and the woman formally give a betrothal gift. Don’t worry about the betrothal gift. My uncle Jiu Qiansui had already prepared all the letters to Gao Shixin. The whole three carts of betrothal gifts were taken by a matchmaker and drove them to the Yuan family.

Inviting a date is to ask a fortune teller to choose the day to get married. The most important day to get married is that it is not a zodiac auspicious day.

Three more days passed, and it was a great day to welcome the bride.

Gao Shixin has been living a very nervous life these days. Including the previous life, he lived in two lives in total. He lived in two lives and had no experience when he got married for the first time. So Gao Shixin was fiddled with like a puppet in these days.

There were two concubines, but according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the wife had not yet entered the house and the concubines had not yet held a concubine ceremony. Therefore, Hehua and Yang Wan cannot be regarded as Gao Shixin's official concubines. They must wait for the wife to pass through the house and then have to obtain the wife's consent before they can formally take the concubine.

The concubines that year required the consent of their parents and their wife. If one of the three people disagreed, they could not take a concubine. Gao Shixin's father was no longer there, so Eunuch Wei was replaced. Fortunately, Eunuch Wei agreed to take a concubine, and Gao's mother had no objection. Although Yuan Yue'er was straightforward and bold, in this era, most women would agree to her husband take a concubine, so there was no problem, otherwise it would be really troublesome, and the two concubines could only be bombarded.

The matchmaker and the big-footed mother put on a big red auspicious suit on Gao Shixin, and two palace flowers were inserted into the black gauze. A handsome groom official was freshly released.

Gao Shixin's appearance was already handsome, and his lips became red and white in his wedding dress, and his teeth were very handsome. He stared at himself in the mirror for a long time, and after a while, he said to himself: "Is it so handsome? No wonder that the top-quality little witch voluntarily sacrificed himself. By the way, I don't know how the little witch is now..."

The five-colored horse and the big red sack. Amid the sound of the suona gong drums and drummers working hard, Gao Shi proudly led the wedding team to the Tongzhou Left Guard.

The crowds were filled with firecrackers, and the people along the way made way to the roadside, staring curiously at the groom who was commanding the Jinyiwei, and whispered to each other from time to time.

Suddenly, Gao Shixin, whose nose was more sensitive than a dog, smelled a familiar fragrance, but the fragrance was not the fragrance of a little demon girl, but the fragrance of a little loli. Looking to the side of the road, he saw a pretty little loli standing in the crowd. It was not the little loli of Xiong Tingbi's family, who was it?

Looking from a distance, Gao Shixin, who had a more sensitive vision than a cat, found that the little loli's eyes were a little red, as if they had just cried.
Chapter completed!