Although they still felt that the number of 500 ships was too large, Chu Yi finally agreed to cut it by half. If they bargained again, if Chu Yi was unhappy, they would really have no choice.

Yang Yiqing looked at each other with Jiao Fang and other cabinet masters, and only heard Jiao Fang bow to Chu Yi: "Please ask the general manager to put the overall situation first. We do not agree with the general manager's move to build a navy, but there should be a limit, otherwise the national treasury will be difficult to support, so we will dissuade the general manager."

Hearing Jiao Fang's explanation, Chu Yi smiled and said, "You are all pillars of the country. I can understand your thoughts. It's just that the great rise of the navy is the general trend of the future. Anyone who blocks it will be scolded by future generations after all!"

Chu Yi was able to say this, as long as he was not a fool, he could realize Chu Yi's determination to open the sea and vigorously develop the navy.

When the morning court dispersed, several cabinet masters stayed. After all, the matter involved in building another 500 ships is in all aspects, and it requires the joint cooperation of various departments and government agencies. Otherwise, building another 500 ships would be just empty talk. If you want to implement it in practice, you naturally have to cooperate with several officials.

Zhu Houzhao looked at Chu Yi with a smile and argued with the cabinet masters there, but he was outside the matter and was a bystander.

Anyway, he is not good at these things, so it would be better to wait until Chu Yi discusses with several cabinet masters and then make a decision.

Gu Dayong stood beside Zhu Houzhao and poured tea for Zhu Houzhao, and said softly: "The chief manager really knows astronomy and geography. Even if he is involved in the way of erudition, he is afraid that no one can surpass the chief manager in the court's civil and military affairs!"

Zhu Houzhao nodded deeply. Others didn't know it, but he knew it very well, but Chu Yi had learned it. Otherwise, he would not have appointed Chu Yi as the prince's tutor. It was precisely because Chu Yi had all his talents that few people in the court could do so.

If ordinary officials were faced with several cabinet masters, they would have been stunned for a long time. However, Chu Yi was arguing with several cabinet masters, and instead made the cabinet masters speechless.

Only Chu Yi could hear him say to Yang Yiqing: "Mr. Yang, I am willing to recruit another 50,000 navy!"

Since we are going to build another sea ship, then these ships must be managed by someone, so it is obviously inevitable to expand the navy.

However, Chu Yi had previously planned to expand the navy and recruit 100,000 navy. If we add the navy soldiers recruited by Cheng Xiangwu before, it would be as many as 120,000.

If Chu Yi recruits another 50,000, the navy can reach nearly 200,000 by then, which is definitely an astonishing number.

Although the Ming Dynasty claimed to have millions of soldiers, fools knew that the so-called millions actually meant the guard soldiers in various places that were not much different from ordinary farmers.

The millions of guard soldiers in the world may be worth a total of 100,000 soldiers.

The Ming Dynasty was able to take action in the nine border areas, nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses, including the Beijing Camp, Tengxiang Four Guards Camp, and the two were only more than 300,000.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty's population of more than 100 million, according to the proportion of military and civilians in the feudal era, even if the Ming Dynasty supported millions of troops, it was not a problem. Of course, it is another matter to say how long it could last. However, if it was really a militaristic military force, it would be easy to arm the army of 20 to 3 million.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the ward system indeed provided the Ming Dynasty with a steady stream of soldiers, with a large number of two or three million, especially these soldiers were able to be self-sufficient, which made Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang very satisfied.

By the time of righteousness, the system of the garrison had already collapsed, and millions of the garrison soldiers were completely abandoned, as if they were useless. Not only did they not play a role in defending the country, but they became a major hidden danger to the country.

The only soldiers who can fight in the entire Ming Dynasty were actually border towns. The two parts of the Beijing camp had a total of about 300,000. Now that Chu Yi is expanding his army again, compared with the size of the Ming Dynasty, a mere 50,000 people are really nothing.

What is particularly important is that Chu Yi proposed the reorganization of the garrison not long ago. Although it has not yet been implemented, the people present can be said to be people who hold the real power of the Ming Dynasty, so they naturally know it very well.

Yang Yiqing, as the Minister of War, also knew one thing in his heart that once the garrison was reorganized, except for the soldiers who could fight, the rest of the elderly, weak, sick and disabled were all distributed to the land. Except for the military households, they were allowed to be transferred to the civilian households. The remaining soldiers in the Ming Dynasty were only more than 300,000. Even if Chu Yi did not mention expanding the army, Yang Yiqing would still ask for it.

So now Chu Yi asked the Navy to expand another 50,000 troops. Yang Yiqing had no intention of objecting at all. Instead, he said with an agreement: "Master General, why not expand another 100,000 troops?"

Chu Yi couldn't help laughing when he heard this. Chu Yi was not surprised by Yang Yiqing's reaction. Chu Yi knew Yang Yiqing's concerns very well.

After all, even though Yang Yiqing had a good army, his vision was still on the past. He treated the navy as the past navy, and did not separate the navy from the infantry at all.

In Yang Yiqing's view, the navy soldiers were infantrymen, so Chu Yi's expansion of the so-called navy was to expand the number of infantrymen.

Chu Yi shook his head slightly and said to Yang Yiqing: "Mr. Yang, it is enough to expand another 50,000 navy."

Yang Yiqing couldn't help but look a little disappointed when he heard this. He thought that Chu Yi would continue to propose an opportunity to expand the army so that the number of troops controlled by the court could be increased, but he never thought that Chu Yi did not insist on expanding the army.

Not only Yang Yiqing looked surprised, but even the emperor Zhu Houzhao looked at Chu Yi with some confusion. Everyone was ready to speak loudly, but Chu Yi's request was beyond their expectations.

However, Chu Yi's expression turned upright, and he looked at Zhu Houzhao who was sitting there with a bit of solemnity, bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I beg your Majesty to issue an order to expand the army another 200,000!"

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After Chu Yi finished speaking, the important officials sitting there couldn't help but spray out the tea that they had just drunk. They opened their eyes wide and looked at Chu Yi with disbelief.

They just said why Chu Yi had changed his nature, and he didn't even speak loudly. But in this blink of an eye, Chu Yi actually asked Zhu Houzhao to expand his army of 200,000.

That is a 200,000 army from scratch. From recruitment to formation, if the court wants to get a warable soldier, it is unlikely that it will be possible without a 30,000 taels of silver.

Several cabinet masters frowned one by one. Most of these people were civil servants and naturally had a kind of resistance and vigilance towards the army.

The military forces represented by nobles have already shown signs of turning over with Chu Yi's strength. Now Chu Yi wants to expand his army of 200,000. How can this not be shocked?

Yang Yiqing opened his mouth, and a look of astonishment appeared on his face. Even Yang Yiqing was thinking of him, just asking the emperor to increase his troops by 100,000. As a result, Chu Yi was so happy that he could say 200,000, which almost shocked Yang Yiqing.

Zhu Houzhao looked at Chu Yi and said solemnly: "Big partner, do you really want to expand your army by 200,000?"

Chu Yi nodded slowly and said, "When the 200,000 army is formed, it will be the time for the ministers and others to reform the garrison system!"

Zhu Houzhao's eyes flashed with his eyes when he heard this. Chu Yi had told him that the ward system would inevitably be reformed in the future, but at that time, Chu Yi never said when he would wait.

Now Chu Yi has given a rough time, that is, the day when the 200,000 army is formed. If nothing unexpected happens, it will take about one or two years.

The fundamental reason for the Ming military system is the garrison system. Since the garrison system is to be reformed, it is hard to say that it will be counterattacked by the vested interests of the entire garrison system.

Chu Yi is indeed a bad reputation all over the world, even King Pingning captured the Tatar Khan, but if Chu Yi really wanted to touch the interests of some people, someone would go crazy to deal with Chu Yi.

Just like those maritime merchants, don’t they know what the outcome will be if the matter is leaked, but there are still a steady stream of people coming out to deal with Chu Yi.

It’s not that they are stupid, nor that they are not afraid of death. In the final analysis, everything is just driven by interests.

Even Chu Yi cannot guarantee that once the reform of the garrison system is carried out, a group of vested interests will not jump out to oppose it.

The garrison is different from others. No matter how corrupt it is, it is a violent institution after all. Once something goes wrong, the destructive power it will cause is not small at all.

Although Chu Yi has absolute confidence and confidence to calm down all unrest with the troops controlled by the court at present, it is better to make preparations in advance, so the army will be more relaxed and free when the army is in hand.

Yang Yiqing stepped forward and said to Zhu Houzhao for a week: "I will discuss it!"

As for the civil officials, they had a silence. As civil officials, they naturally resisted the expansion of the power of the noble group, and the strength of the noble group was rooted in the army. The expansion of the army meant that the power of the noble group increased greatly.

However, facing Chu Yi and Yang Yiqing, these cabinet masters have no reason to stand up and oppose it.

Chu Yi has clearly shown that he should take action against the garrison system, and expanding the army is to prevent problems before it happens. If they stand up and oppose it, they will probably be regarded as ulterior motives by the emperor.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes swept across the crowd and finally said, "If all the ministers have no other opinions, the total expansion of the army will be 250,000, and that's it!"

Jiao Fang, Chen Ding and others looked at each other and smiled bitterly.

Yang Yiqing looked happy. As the Minister of War, although with the rise of the nobles, the Governor's Office of the Five Army gradually became tough and had already taken the initiative to run with the Ministry of War, Yang Yiqing was equally happy.

Although he was born into a civil servant, he was granted the title of Duke of Jin for his military merits and was promoted to the ranks of nobles. Even if he did not admit it himself, in the eyes of civil and military officials, he was a member of the nobles.

In a few days, the court issued an order, and the Ministry of Revenue allocated tens of millions of silver, built another 500 ships, and recruited 250,000 soldiers at the same time.

The Huating Shipbuilding Department fire was solved. The Huating County Magistrate, more than a dozen families including the Wang family, Liu family, Zhou family, and other families colluded with Japanese pirates to murder the imperial court. This was a very serious crime. The ten evils were unforgivable and nine families were killed.

On the blue sea, seabirds occasionally flew across the water and picked up fish from the water. Gradually, several large ships could be seen appearing at the end of their sight.

These big ships were hung with the Ming dragon flag, and they were several big ships in a caravan formed by the royal family.

How amazing the interests of sea trade are? It is more intuitive to say that they are not directly involved in it. Chu Yi is naturally clear about the amazing interests of sea trade. He specially arranged for the eunuchs in the palace to form a caravan, which is directly under the charge of the eunuchs in charge of the imperial eunuchs.

Originally, the Imperial Supervision was just an ordinary department responsible for the jewels, screens, beds and other objects used in the imperial front. It was far from comparable to the Sili Supervision and the Imperial Horse Prison. However, since Chu Yi handed over the responsibilities and rights of operating the Royal Caravan to the Imperial Supervision, the status of the Imperial Supervision has soared in the 24th Prison of the Ming Dynasty. It was even only under the Sili Supervision and the Imperial Horse Prison.

The caravan under the Imperial Supervision went out to sea for the first time, but the eunuch Zheng Wen, the Imperial Supervision Commander, was very careful and sent a large number of people to accompany him.

These large ships are the merchant ships belonging to the Imperial Prison. The merchant ships carry naturally silk, porcelain, and tea, which are the most common and best-selling products in the sea trade.

The caravan was in Japan. This time, it was from Japan that returned from Japan. More than a dozen merchant ships carried a large amount of goods. As soon as they arrived in Japan, they won the crazy snatch from local merchants.

These four large ships are fleets full of gold and silver earned and purchased spices and other items returned first.

It is only a few days before the Ming Dynasty in Japan. If you have a smooth flow, you can easily reach the harbour in Fujian.

The person responsible for leading these four large ships was Lu Kang, the foreign surveillance chief of the Imperial Principal. Lu Kang looked happy. You should know that this time he asked for his order to go out to sea was a move. If he was lucky and could earn a lot of gold and silver wealth for the emperor, then the Imperial Principal would inevitably come into the emperor's sight and be valued by the emperor, and he would inevitably be promoted.

It is obvious that the huge profits in the sea trade are too amazing, and they are beyond Lu Kang's imagination. Lu Kang himself did not expect that it would be just tens of thousands of taels of silver, and he actually made more than five times the profit after a change of hand.

Lu Kang was so excited that he couldn't even wait for more than a dozen other large ships to carry rice purchased from Japan, and returned with four large ships loaded with valuable goods such as gold and silver, and spices purchased.

Facing the sea breeze, Lu Kang's face was filled with joy, and the few eunuchs behind him also looked happy.

However, Lu Kang didn't know that since more than a dozen merchant ships arrived in Japan, they were targeted by a group of Japanese pirates. The group of Japanese pirates had been secretly staring at Lu Kang and his group's actions.

At this moment, more than a dozen large and small ships were coming from all directions, as if they were surrounding the four large ships of Lu Kang.

There are hundreds of Japanese pirates, and they are dependent on a famous Japanese name behind them. They are strong and powerful. Even several ships are equipped with several small cannons. Such a Japanese pirate is considered to be powerful among the many pirates and Japanese pirates.

On the merchant ship, a sailor was looking around with the help of the Qianli Miles mirror in his hand. Suddenly, he found a ship that was sailing for them several miles away from the Qianli Miles mirror.
Chapter completed!