Although she knew something was wrong in her heart, Fang Xuanling still truthfully told what she felt.
It's what you feel, not what you think.
In fact, Fang Xuanling still didn't think about what was wrong with this matter. He only thought that this matter was of great importance. America was a whole continent and the significance was too special. Therefore, since Datang decided to start investing resources, it had to do something
To a foolproof strategy.
Li Er fell silent after hearing this. In fact, these words still made people feel a little uncomfortable. If they were those Confucian scholars who saw that the Tang Dynasty was going to engage in such a great cause, they would probably use such reasons to obstruct it. Among them, they would directly say
Those who resort to militarism are just a handful of people who are not very good at it. Those who are a little good at it will directly tell you what to do. In short, there are problems with this and there are problems with that. Your Majesty, you should pay attention, pay attention here and there.
This kind of thing happened in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. At that time, a minister asked Jiang Chong to write a letter to the Western Jin Dynasty regime to pay attention and stop allowing the Hu people to move inland. If the population structure continues to develop like this, if these Hu people don't stop in the future,
What should I do if I obey my orders? You big men should not be indifferent. The Han people are not dead yet.
As a result, the Western Jin Dynasty court refused to listen at first, and waited and waited. By the time Jiang Chong submitted his second policy statement, the court's response had become "It's useless." That is, I know what you are talking about.
Yes, but now the imperial court can no longer do it, so why don't you keep chattering here, don't you know how to understand the situation when you talk? You don't understand the world at all.
Then the Western Jin Dynasty, which understood human nature and sophistication, moved southward and became the Eastern Jin Dynasty. After that, we will not talk about the various wonderful dramas of the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms.
Li Er is familiar with classics and history, and he built a new empire from the troubled times of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Naturally, he is as sensitive and hateful as burning his butt when it comes to Confucian scholars doing this kind of thing.
For Li Er, if it hadn't been for the good deeds of these thieves, why would I, the majestic leader of the Chinese Empire, have to fake the title of "Khan of Heaven"?
In Li Er's view, the current affairs in the Americas have a higher priority and importance than the issue of the inward migration of the Hu people during the Western Jin Dynasty.
Its significance is only greater than that, but never less!
What if America really did not fall into the hands of the Tang Dynasty, especially the Han people, but fell into the hands of the Romans, or the Xianbei people who fled, or other barbarians, or some tribe in Europe, such as this
For a while, Li Jing often mentioned the brave and fighting Vikings in the military situation, and they were in the hands of the English.
Then it’s really funny to be the emperor. Originally, it stands to reason that I should not be said to be an eternal emperor like Emperor Qin and Han Wu, but at least he should be a generation of British masters. As a result, such a huge strategic interest was lost, and the key country was
All kinds of miraculous progress were almost all made by Li Sheng. The key is that Li Sheng told him that this America existed.
Then don’t I really become a foolish king? How can Mu De do this!
Li Er was anxious at first sight, but Fang Xuanling and these few people were his close associates and people he could trust. Since they really felt uneasy, they really needed to be careful.
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This is going out to sea, so be careful and sail the ship for ten thousand years, and it is true that this matter cannot go wrong. But just when Li Er secretly had a premonition, wouldn't this matter have to be delayed for a long time?
At this moment, Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said slowly, "Your Majesty, the West Lake Shipyard in Hangzhou can currently build three large black iron ships every year. This thing is still too slow, and the price is high. One ship is as expensive as
Twenty wooden boats.”
Thinking of this, Fang Xuanling stopped muttering to himself, looked at Li Er, and said with a somewhat embarrassed expression, "This ship is going to America, and the fleet must have at least twenty large iron ships."
When Fang Xuanling said this, the ministers present were all moved, their eyes suddenly revealed, and they realized what they were worried about just now.
As Fang Xuanling said, this fleet needs iron ships, and a large number of iron ships.
With so many iron ships in use, it would be fine if success could be guaranteed, but if it failed, the loss would be too great.
Twenty iron ships are equivalent to several years of production capacity of the West Lake Shipyard. In Datang's naval fleet, the current total number of steel ships is only a little over twenty. These twenty have all gone to the New World, but Datang can
There are only three iron ships available - is this really a safe thing to do?
This does not include the huge cost of twenty black iron ships. Even if the cost of one ship is calculated as fifteen wooden ships, the total cost of this fleet is still thirty top-grade merchant ships!
If this were to be lost, not only would Datang's vitality be severely damaged, it would also have to take a heavy drink.
The ministers exchanged glances, and then began to nod one after another.
We still have to ensure success in this matter. The price of failure is not unbearable, but it is definitely too painful!
But Li Er heard it.
After hearing Fang Xuanling's calculations, Li Er's face originally showed a look of approval, because Li Er was originally very unhappy with everyone's attitude of lacking martial arts, but now he must seriously consider it.
After thinking for a while, Li Er frowned and asked, "Why do you need twenty black iron ships? This number is probably too large to mobilize a large number of troops."
Of course, the number of soldiers that can be accommodated by twenty large iron ships is not actually that many. The current population of China has indeed not exploded, but the government has good people and people, and the mobilization ability is very strong.
Each of the twenty boats has hundreds or thousands of people, so the total number of people who can survive is only twenty or thirty thousand people, let alone twenty or thirty thousand people. Even forty or fifty thousand people are not considered a heavy force, but these two to thirty thousand soldiers are riding on this
Twenty large iron ships are equivalent to everyone being fully armed.
Even if this configuration is averaged on a per-capita basis, the money spent by the Tang Dynasty on each soldier is more than ten times that of ordinary Xuanjia elites - that is to say, the cost of this armament scale is hundreds of thousands of troops -
After all, with tens of thousands of people and twenty large iron ships, it is impossible to count only the people and the ship. Food, water, and food must also be taken into account. Then the ship must be equipped with artillery, and it may also require a large number of muskets.
Then the food must be easy to preserve, which requires a lot of expensive oils and fats. Moreover, the weather on the ship is warm or even hot at sea, and fresh water is not easy to preserve. Is it necessary to use wine instead of water to store fresh water for drinking?
Not to mention that when the fleet arrives, in addition to setting up camp and dealing with others, it also has to bring a batch of various goods, jewelry and curios, and shelf-stable delicacies and snacks.
After all these calculations, it’s not just a waste of time!
