It’s not these silly merchants who know that Chu Yi is not easy to provoke, but they insist on opposing Chu Yi one by one. Instead, they are reluctant to give up the terrible huge profits. For huge profits, even if they know that Chu Yi is a man-eating tiger, they still want to be the tiger-slaughtering person.

It is not uncommon for the Gu family to save millions of property by smuggling through maritime trade for a hundred years. Although the Qin and Han families are not as good as the Gu family, they are also a large number of maritime merchants in Fujian. Therefore, it is reasonable to say that the two families confiscate millions of property.

What Cheng Xiangwu was excited about was not those gold and silver things, but nearly 100,000 mu of land. If the 50,000 mu of fertile land were added to the Gu family, it would be 130,000 to 140,000 mu of land.

If all these fertile fields are rewarded to the soldiers of the Jinghai Army, the Jinghai Army will have a fixed quota of 10,000, and even an ordinary soldier will be able to obtain at least ten acres of fertile fields, which is enough for the Jinghai Army to work hard for it.

Looking at Chu Yi, Cheng Xiangwu said excitedly: "I would like to ask the Supervisor to give the soldiers in the army a mu of land. I can guarantee that as long as the fields are given, an elite army can be trained within half a year."

Cheng Xiangwu stared at Chu Yi with bright eyes.

Chu Yi nodded slightly and said, "Since that's the case, I ordered Tian Mu to be rewarded to the soldiers in the army in the name of the emperor."

Cheng Xiangwu immediately bowed and fell to Chu Yi and said, "The last general and the soldiers in the army thanked the emperor for their great kindness. Long live Your Majesty, Long live, Long live, Supervisor Thousand Years!"

Chu Yi waved his hand and said, "Okay, you just need to help the supervisor train the army."

Cheng Xiangwu bowed and said, "I will definitely live up to the expectations of the governor!"

Cheng Xiangwu left, Fang Li, Qi Hu, Gu Bing and others walked into the tent and bowed to Chu Yi.

Fang Li said to Chu Yi: "The two families of the Supervisor, Qin and Han have been confiscated. The two families have a total of more than 500 direct descendants. They are now detained in the military camp, just waiting for the Supervisor to make a decision."

Chu Yi nodded and looked at Gu Bing and said, "Master Gu, do you three families have shipyards?"

Ships are definitely the foundation of maritime merchants. It would be fine if there were only a few small maritime merchants with three or two ships. However, maritime merchants like the Gu family, Qin family, and Han family own dozens or hundreds of ships. Just purchasing them alone would probably not be able to satisfy the loss of ships at sea. Therefore, Chu Yi guessed that most of the three companies had their own shipyards.

Gu Bing was slightly stunned and nodded, "Go back to the governor, our three families have their own shipyards at Xiamen Port."

Chu Yi chuckled and said, "If this governor ordered you to combine 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 pondered for a while: "How much can you go into the water? Gu dared not say anything to deceive the supervisor. After all, it depends on how big the supervisor is building. The time required for the merchant ship and warships to build ships is different. Even merchant ships are of different sizes and there is no specification. Gu really dares not judge."

Chu Yi smiled and said, "But I am negligent. Since this is the case, I will order you to form a Xiamen Shipyard. You are the chief officer of the Xiamen Shipyard and the seventh rank official!"

A little stunned, Gu Bing reacted with a look of surprise on his face, and bowed respectfully to Chu Yi: "Gu Bing thanks the governor!"

With a slight stroke, Gu Bing stood up.

Chu Yi looked at Fang Li and said, "Just just now, Wu Boyan confiscated Qin and Han families' wealth were worth 5 million taels of silver, but that's the case?"

Fang Li nodded and said, "The specific geometry of property is still in statistical accounting, but it can be roughly determined, at least five million taels."

Chu Yi took two steps slowly and looked up and said, "A million taels of silver were used to transfer to Jinghai Army's salary for the next two years. The remaining four million taels of silver were used to purchase the raw materials needed for shipbuilding and put them into Xiamen Shipyard. I hope that the Gu family leader can build a fleet of thousands of sea ships for our supervisor."

Gu Bing took a deep breath and said horrifiedly: "Supermaster, if you want to build such a fleet, if you only have one shipyard, you may not be able to build it in ten years. Millions of silver patterns are not enough to build a ship."

Chu Yi nodded and said, "I will naturally know this. I will build several shipyards on the coastal areas and start several inland shipyards at the same time. In the past, Emperor Chengzu could build a fleet of Zheng He treasure ships. Why can't I build a huge fleet that surpasses Zheng He's fleet?"

At this time, the Western voyage was prevalent, and above the vast ocean, Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, and even the future empire, all madly developing naval forces. If the Ming Dynasty locked its country in a closed door and did not catch up, it would be a long time before Western warships would appear on the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

You should know that even now, there have been traces of Western warships along the coast of Ming Dynasty, and the Franco-cannons were introduced to the Ming Dynasty at this time.

In order to build Zheng He's fleet, Chengzu spent a huge amount of tens of millions of taels in more than ten years. Chu Yi wanted to build a fleet that surpassed Zheng He's fleet, and the silver that he had to consume would be a huge amount of tens of millions of taels.

This is indeed an extremely large and amazing investment. Even Chengzu spent more than ten years to build a fleet of giants on the sea, which is equivalent to investing one or two million taels of silver every year.

Chu Yi obviously did not have the patience to wait for more than ten or twenty years. He wanted to build a sea fleet in two or three years, which meant that he would invest 10 to 20 million taels of silver within two or three years.

When Chu Yi expressed his ambitions, everyone in the tent showed a dull look on their faces. If Chu Yi hadn't had his calm expression, they would have doubted whether Chu Yi was talking in his sleep.

Tang Yin, who rarely spoke, couldn't help but speak at this moment, and looked at Chu Yi with a worried look on his face and said, "Master, that's ten or two million silver patterns. I'm afraid that the court will not agree at all!"

If it is true that Chu Yi’s plan is followed, it means that almost three or four million taels of silver have to be invested every year. In the court, all civil and military officials would never agree to invest so much gold and silver in shipbuilding.

Fang Li squinted his eyes, thinking.

Gu Bing looked shocked. He really didn't expect Chu Yi to have such great courage, but he was also worried about Chu Yi.

A huge fleet is not only built, but more terrifying. It can be said that later maintenance is even more amazing than shipbuilding investment. Years of maintenance can even be enough to rebuild a fleet.

Chu Yi waved his hand and said, "Since I dare to think so, I naturally have a way to raise enough funds to build such a fleet."

As he said that, Chu Yi looked at Gu Bing and chuckled, "As long as such a fleet is built, the huge profits at sea that Jie Shi can get, I think the head of the Gu family should know what he is doing."

Gu Bing sighed lightly and nodded slowly, "If the Supervisor can really build such a fleet and be supplemented with elite soldiers, what you can gain will be far more than your investment."

Chu Yi knows better than anyone how amazing the benefits can be gained by having a huge fleet with amazing combat power in this era.

Japan's Shijian Silver Mountain, American silver, many mineral deposits, and even overseas trade, can even be said to be how amazing it would be if it was a little more cruel and many small overseas countries plundered all the way, and the wealth of each country would be.

Of course, this is not Chu Yi's ultimate goal. The reason why he had to build a huge fleet was that if the Ming Dynasty wanted to not take the old path, he had to choose to open the sea to fight with the West. More importantly, Chu Yi had to lead the fleet to overseas countries.

But he wanted to see if small overseas countries can gain luck, it would be fine if they can't. If they can gain luck, Chu Yi wouldn't mind destroying small overseas countries.

Fang Li squinted his eyes, and there was a smile on his lips. Tang Yin couldn't help but frown when he saw it, "Fang Li, this move of the Supervisor is too crazy. You are highly valued by the Supervisor. Why not persuade the Supervisor to think twice before you act!"

Fang Li glanced at Tang Yin and smiled slightly and said, "It's just to raise tens of millions of taels of silver. It may be difficult for others, but it is really not difficult for the Supervisor."

Looking at the strange divine light flashing in Fang Li's eyes, Tang Yin was not a fool, and suddenly reacted and his heart was filled with turmoil.

Today, Gu, Qin and Han families had as many as seven or eight million taels of silver. Jieshi only needed to search for a few maritime merchants to search the house.

Even Tang Yin felt that Chu Yi didn't have to take the initiative to seek trouble from those maritime merchants, and those maritime merchants would send the handle to Chu Yi.

At this moment, Tang Yin thought of the Lin family. When Cao Shaoqin interrogated Lin Guangwen, Tang Yin, as the clerk, witnessed it with his own eyes and listened to the plans of the Lin clan in Zhejiang for Chu Yi.

The Lin clan is the real maritime merchant clan. In addition, the large and small maritime merchant families gathered around the Lin clan. Once these people have any evil actions, Tang Yin can imagine how suppression those maritime merchant families will face.

At that time, it would be just a matter of scattering the family and extermination of the clan. With the wealth of these maritime merchants, not to mention tens of millions of taels of silver, it would be no problem if it doubled again.

Tang Yin sighed in his heart. Perhaps Chu Yi often raids his house and destroys his clans, but in fact, none of the people who were raided and destroyed were wronged. They were all borers from the country. Killing them would be beneficial to the country. Otherwise, there would not be such a small number of loyal and direct officials among the officials in the court willing to support Chu Yi.

Gu Bing looked at Chu Yi with a look of hesitation on his face. He obviously had something to say, but he was worried.

Seeing this, Chu Yi said to Gu Bing: "Does the leader of the Gu family have anything to say?"

Gu Bing took a deep breath and bowed to Chu Yi and said, "Gu Bing dared to ask the governor to kill only Qin and Han families."

Cao Shaoqin narrowed his eyes and stared at Gu Bing. Gu Bing suddenly felt like he was being targeted by a poisonous snake.

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