Looking at the booklet in his hand, Xu Ji took a deep breath.≧≯

The current Louchuan Yamen urgently needs to prove the value and significance of its existence to the outside world, especially the court officials.

Since the year before last, someone has been blowing wind in the court.

What to say: Building ships cost a lot of money and are of no benefit to the world. Please cut them off.

Even later, Lou Chuan Yamen developed a fishing project on the Heishui River by establishing the Qilu-Liaoxi-Andong waterway.

This trend has not weakened much.

It even got higher and higher.

Many people feel that since the country is no longer threatened by King Wu, there is no need to go south to fight South Vietnam.

The existence of a huge fleet of ships is a complete waste of manpower and material resources.

The world does not need a huge and powerful building and ship system.

It is entirely possible to reduce most of the combat ships and dismiss the subordinate officers of the ships.

The funds saved in this way can be used on the cavalry units that are more needed.

Some people even said in a weird way, "He who can win on horseback is a man! Building boats is not beneficial to the country, the country, and the country, so it is better to let it go."

Some people even came up with a plan to dismember Lou Chuan Yamen.

The major fleets of built-up ships and their bases were disbanded on the spot, and each port was put in charge of local officials. All built-up ships and warships were refitted and sold to the people.

As for your question, after the building ships are disbanded, who will be responsible for the coastal defense of the Han family? Who will be responsible for transporting supplies between Qilu and Anton? Who will catch the fish in the Heishui River?

What these people say is high-sounding.

Coastal defense? Does the Han family need coastal defense?

Who should we guard against? Who can attack and threaten the Han Dynasty from the sea?

South Vietnam? Minyue? Or the legendary body poison?

The Han cavalry said they were worried about having no place to stretch their muscles!

The transportation, supply and airway maintenance work between Qi and Lu can be completely left to the local "virtuous scholar-bureaucrats and honest officials" along the way.

The court should let the people do this kind of thing.

And the same is true for the fish in the Blackwater River.

How can the majestic Han Dynasty and the majestic country compete with the people for profit? We should let it benefit the people!

There is no need to think about what these guys have in mind.

Although such remarks and discussions never officially appeared in court.

However, this is still enough to make everyone on the building and boat in panic all day long, and everyone is in danger!

Lou Chuan Yamen is actually more guilty than anyone else!

To this day, Lou Chuan Yamen consumes tens of millions of national finances and taxes every year.

The huge fleet roamed the vast sea territory from Anton in the east to Panyu in the south.

In the known world, there is no opponent who can withstand the attack of a building ship in one round.

The Han family's fleet of large ships dominated the world with overwhelming force.

Invincibility is loneliness and original sin.

Does such a large and invincible fleet have the value of continuing to exist?

What is the significance of the existence of Louchuan Yamen?

Just be a fisherman for the imperial court?

Or be a fleet transporting supplies and people?

This kind of thing does not necessarily have to be done in a building.

Even if building ships are really necessary, there is no need for such a huge fleet and organization.

Of course there are no fools in Lou Chuan Yamen.

What's more, with the boom in examinations, in the past two years, a large number of scholars assigned to take examinations have appeared in Louchuan Yamen.

These scholars came from various factions of various schools of thought.

Their arrival further enriches and strengthens Lou Chuan Yamen's administrative capabilities and self-judgment capabilities.

Therefore, now everyone in the Han family knows that they have arrived at a historical crossroads.

The road ahead is full of unknowns.

In the future, Lou Chuan may become prosperous and powerful, becoming a powerful faction that can compete with the current backbone of the Han Dynasty, the "Six Army".

However, there is a greater possibility that you will fall into the abyss.

Just like the "Preparation for Thieves" yamen in the early days of Emperor Taizong's reign, when the world began to stabilize and the number of bandits decreased, the "Preparation for Thieves" gradually lost its effectiveness.

The chief official's rank was equivalent to two thousand stones, and he was filled by Liehou, and his position was comparable to the peak of Jiuqing, but he fell all the way.

To this day, the once-prominent Captain Bei Thief, who held the emperor's festival, could recruit county soldiers, and even mobilize field regiments, and had the power to "act cheaply", became one of the many subordinate officials of the Neishi Yamen.

The rank ratio dropped from two thousand stones to six hundred stones.

At the peak of the officialdom, Shucao's officials had more than a hundred people on the books, turning the Qingshui Yamen into a Qingshui Yamen with only a few dozen people.

There are lessons learned from the thieves and captains of the Yamen.

The panic on and off the boat is certainly justified.

I want Lou Chuan Yamen not to become the second robber and captain Yamen.

Lou Chuan can only prove himself to the emperor, to the world, and to the scholar-bureaucrats of the court and the public.

Prove that it is indeed necessary to exist, and it is indeed necessary to maintain the huge scale it is today.

If we fail to do this, once today's patience is exhausted, we will no longer protect and support the ship.

Then, the Louchuan Yamen, which seems to have endless glory now, will soon be dismembered, fall, and eventually be annexed by other Yamen.

But the dilemma facing Lou Chuan lies precisely in this.

In the entire known world, even if we include the South Vietnamese fleet and the Minyue fleet that have surrendered to Chang'an, even if the fleets of these two countries are exaggerated twice in size, they can probably barely compete with the Han family's fleet.

The birds are gone, the good bow is hidden, the cunning rabbit is dead, and the lackeys are cooked.

This is the unchanging truth in the world.

Without birds, hunters would not need good bows; without cunning rabbits, hounds would only become boiling food in the cauldron.

So, in Lou Chuan's eyes.

It is very important to find yourself a flock of birds that are constantly hunting, and a paradise full of cunning rabbits.

And Longlihou Chen Jiao's exploration and discovery of the Japanese Nu Island is equivalent to opening a brand new window for Lou Chuan Yamen. It is true that in the known world, there are indeed no birds and cunning rabbits that Lou Chuan can hunt.

But in the vast distance of the ocean, in a foreign land thousands of miles away where the water and sky are the same color, it is not necessarily the case.

Apart from that, the legendary paradise of Shendu, which flows with honey and milk and is filled with gold, can be connected by sea.

As long as sea transportation to Shendu can be opened.

Lou Chuan can immediately find and realize the necessity and value of his existence.

At that time, the Louchuan Yamen can pat their chests and shout loudly at the court meeting: "Only my Louchuan can ride on the waves, travel thousands of miles, and reach distant countries, and become the pillar of the country."

The ministers and princes could only nod in agreement in front of the facts.

However, traveling thousands of miles away is not an easy task.

Han ships have never had the experience of being far away from the coastline, going deep into the ocean, and competing with heaven and earth.

He knew nothing about the direction and location of the poison, nor the islands and reefs along the way.

If you want to find out the route to Shendu, it will take at least ten years of continuous exploration into the distance and the investment of countless manpower and material resources before you can gain anything.

But before that, the crisis of building ships still exists.

In fact, it may even be attacked due to the huge investment in exploring the body poison channel.

It is impossible for the emperor, the government, the officials, and the people of the world to watch the ships throwing massive resources into the sea without even hearing a sound.

It is even more impossible for the Qiu Ba of the "Sixth Army" to let Lou Chuan get so many resources to invest in distant exploration.

Therefore, Lou Chuan must find the source of wealth.

And it is an inexhaustible source of wealth.

What better resource to exploit than the endless pods of whales in this ocean?

not to mention……

This is also the key to establishing order in the building's yamen and twisting the building's upper and lower boats into a rope!

Nowadays, since there are no enemies in the Han Dynasty, there is naturally no war.
To be continued...