I want to be emperor

Chapter 505 Landing on the Liaodong Peninsula
And now that the 250 million taels of silver are given, if ten warships are built, then more than 200 million will have to be provided for various infrastructure support, personnel training, and so on.

Adding the two together, that's more than 500 million.

Not to mention more than 500 million, Luo Zhixue has to think carefully about even 50.

50 is enough for the Ministry of Ethics and Education to provide basic education support in at least three or four provinces and build dozens of government-run schools.

And Luo Zhixue also knew that despite the tense situation that the navy said, in fact, the Great Chu Empire Navy is now in the Asia-Pacific waters, and there are actually no real enemies.

Although the Great Chu Empire has conflicts with Portugal, Spain, and the Dutch, and the subsequent conflicts are expected to become more and more serious, at least they haven't fought yet.

Even if there is a fight, it is still relatively difficult for these three countries to threaten the coastal security of the Great Chu Empire in the Asia-Pacific waters. The ships of these countries in the Asia-Pacific waters are basically armed merchant ships, and they are basically all kinds of Eastern ships. The Indian company's armed merchant ships do not have many serious navies from various countries.

Even if a war really started, with the strength of the Chu Navy, they would be able to kill these armed merchant ships in a short time. As for the main force of the enemy's navy coming all the way, it may take several years...

After all, the speed of sailing ships these days is very slow, coupled with the risk of long-distance sailing, it is very possible for the fleet to disappear in a storm on the way...

It is very difficult to go around half of the world to fight the Great Chu Empire.

Even if they really did this, the Great Chu Empire would still have time to urgently build ships, and within a few years, a large number of warships would be produced for emergency operations.

Therefore, it is possible to expand the fleet, and Luo Zhixue agrees, but Luo Zhixue also believes that in a short period of time, we should focus on defensive operations, such as building a large number of Daye-class frigates and cruisers.

In the next three to five years, as long as the absolute advantage in the East Asian waters is ensured, the maritime trade interests in the East Asian waters, especially the interests of Fuso trade and Nanyang trade interests will be sufficient.

Wait until the Great Chu Empire gets rid of its internal affairs, um, that is, after the Dongcap and Mongols are killed, then it will expand the size of the main fleet on a large scale and go to the Atlantic Ocean!
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So after Luo Zhixue carefully read the report, he inquired about the details of the navy, especially the recent conflicts between the navy and the Portuguese, Spaniards, and Dutch.

In the end, he personally made a decision and broke the navy's application for additional shipbuilding funds... 250 million yuan was directly reduced to 50 yuan, which means that only the construction funds for two Jinling City battleships were approved.

As for the Navy's desire to build more Jinling City battleships, it must either wait for additional funds in the future, or the Navy will save money from the annual fixed funds.

If the navy can squeeze money out of the fixed budget, Luo Zhixue won't stop them from building battleships!
Just go!
Luo Zhixue thought that he had broken the navy's application for additional funds... But after Admiral Lu Xingye received the approval of 50 taels of silver, he smiled and said to a group of subordinates: "That's a good saying , Only children who can cry can drink milk, in the future, we should tell His Majesty more about the difficulties of our navy!"

50 taels of extra funds, just by hearing the word "extra", you can tell that the navy doesn't have such a shipbuilding plan, so it's a good thing that it can be applied for, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't exist.

Admiral Xia Qiuyang, the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, also said: "It seems that the scale of the shipbuilding plan can be larger in the future, and the pace can be larger!"

Admiral Xia Qiuyang said while thinking: the report of 250 million taels of silver was finally approved for 50 taels. If a report of 500 million taels of silver is submitted, wouldn't it be possible to approve 100 million taels?

Seeing Xia Qiuyang like this, Lu Xingye chuckled, but he didn't laugh at him, because he thought so too.

Trying to ask His Majesty for money to expand the fleet and increase the strength of the navy is the responsibility of Lu Xingye and many other senior naval officers. There is nothing wrong with it.

Why did he, Lu Xingye, have always been supported by many admirals? You must know that he, Lu Xingye, had never led a fleet to battle except for a few inland river battles in the early days.

But his prestige within the Navy has always been high.

The reason is very simple. The navy is full of talents, but there are many generals who can lead troops to fight. Admiral Xia Qiuyang in front of him is one of them, and Zheng Zhilong, who was born as a general, is also good.

But being able to face the shameless army bosses head-on, whether it's rolling around, slapping the table for threats, or secretly exchanging interests, will ultimately ensure that the navy can get sufficient fixed funds when the army and navy allocate military expenses.

Lu Xingye is the only admiral who can find His Majesty to get some extra funds every now and then.

Without him, Lu Xingye, it would be difficult for the navy to maintain its current scale, let alone expand its scale with large-scale shipbuilding.

In this regard, the navy is also very convinced and supports Lu Xingye's work very much.

That's why Lu Xingye, who has never even seen the sea, was able to become the Minister of the Navy and be included in the Imperial Study.

Until now, in fact, Lu Xingye has never been overseas...

If he was exhausted, he would take a boat and dangle in the coastal waters of the Yangtze River Estuary, and he would still get seasick when the wind and waves were strong!
A minister of the navy who is seasick is almost unimaginable in other countries, but it is very normal in the Great Chu Empire, and even the navy supports him very much.

What, you said that the boss of our navy is seasick, there is no way to do it, and he doesn't know how to command the fleet to go out to sea?

Do you treat dozens of generals who are proficient in naval warfare in our navy as waste?With us here, is it necessary for our Minister of Staff and the Minister of the Navy to go to sea and lead the fleet to fight?
No need at all!
As long as Lu Xingye can ensure that the navy's annual fixed funds are sufficient, he will not be controlled by those bastards in the army.

If you occasionally get hundreds of thousands or millions of additional funds from His Majesty, then you will be the undisputed pillar of the navy, everyone is convinced!

This time, taking advantage of the service ceremony of the cruiser Songjiang and inspecting the battleship Jinling under construction, Lu Xingye found another opportunity to get 50 taels of silver.

No, the navy is very happy.

The next day, I couldn't wait to start thinking about placing orders for the third, fourth, and fifth Jinling-class battleships.

As for why His Majesty only approved two additional funds, but the Navy placed a new order for three battleships.

This is naturally the funds that the Navy tried to squeeze out by itself.

The size of the Great Chu Empire's navy is also quite large, and the annual fixed military expenditure is two to three million.

Moreover, a top battleship often needs a construction cycle of more than three years in order to ensure the quality, which means that the navy can also pay in installments...

At the end of the calculation, an extra 8 taels of silver a year is about the same.

For the navy, if you save [-] here, you can almost squeeze out if you save [-] there.

Besides, if next year's Northeast Campaign goes well, the Great Chu Empire will definitely be able to obtain a large sum of money and seize it.

According to the past tradition, some of the confiscated proceeds in the newly occupied area will be distributed to the military as additional military expenses.

The army has already agreed to the navy. If the navy can make the sea transportation more efficient in this Northeast campaign, and then successfully cover the army's landing on the Liaodong Peninsula to capture Jinzhouwei, and ensure that the sea logistics line is normal, then the Northeast battlefield will be confiscated. The navy can get [-]% of the extra military expenses.

This made the navy very excited. In the past, the military expenditure allocated by this kind of confiscation was basically taken by the army, and the navy could only eat leftovers.

Not to mention [-] percent, not even [-] percent!

In the past two years, the Navy basically could only rely on the annual regular military expenditure and the occasional extra funds obtained from Luo Zhixue.

In the past, in order to obtain the right to distribute the confiscated proceeds, the navy once encouraged the army to land and occupy Jeju Island, for nothing else, just to show their face and increase the distribution of additional military expenses for the confiscated proceeds.

It's a pity that the landing on Jeju Island was nothing. Now the Great Chu Empire didn't even take back the Liaoxi Corridor. Jumping directly to play landing operations on Jeju Island, which can't affect the overall situation, feels a bit like putting the cart before the horse.

Now, the army plans to engage in landing operations on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the navy is naturally willing to cooperate.

According to the results of the discussions in the Yuqian Land and Sea Consultative Conference in June of the sixth year of Chengshun.

In order to better launch the Northeast Campaign in the future and provide a more favorable environment for seizing the Liaoxi Corridor, it is proposed that the army will send landing troops, and the navy will be responsible for covering the landing, maintaining logistics, and subsequent evacuation after possible defeat.

Land and sea cooperation, a wave of landing Jinzhou Wei Liaodong Peninsula.

As long as they can successfully land and gain a firm foothold, then the Great Chu Empire will be able to open up the Liaodong Peninsula battlefield, greatly restraining the troops of the Eastern Captives, and reducing the pressure on the battlefield in the Liaoxi Corridor.

The troops of the Dongbang people are still relatively large. After all, in addition to the troops of the Dongbang people, they also control the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

It really makes them gather all their troops and put them into the Liaoxi Corridor. When the Great Chu Empire attacks the Liaoxi Corridor, it may not be possible to avoid facing more than 20 enemy troops.

Although the Great Chu Empire Army is very confident in itself, it also believes that it can rely on its powerful firepower to push it even if there are 20 troops on the opposite side.

But if there is a better way to reduce the pressure on the battlefield in western Liaoning, it is naturally a good thing.

Anyway, the navy of the Great Chu Empire occupies absolute sea dominance in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. Dongyao can’t even launch a sampan into the sea, and it is completely unable to prevent the sudden landing of the Great Chu Empire, even if it is counterattacked by the enemy’s large-scale forces after landing. , It can also rely on the narrow and complex terrain of the Golden State Guard itself to build a defense line.

Taking ten thousand steps back, if the troops who landed are really unable to fight, then they can retreat directly from the sea, which can effectively control the loss.

Based on the above, the combat plan of the Great Chu Empire's army and navy to jointly land on the Liaodong Peninsula was officially finalized in September this year, and then entered the preparatory period.

In this regard, the Navy attaches great importance to it!

It had been planned early on that Admiral Xia Qiuyang of the Beiyang Fleet would personally lead the team.

Leading some of the main warships and almost all the transport ships of the Beiyang Fleet, together with a large number of civilian transport ships recruited by the Logistics Department, will form a huge fleet of more than [-] ships to participate in the Liaodong landing operations.

(End of this chapter)