In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 315 Three Fleets
Next, Lin Rui established a naval department under the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, which was located under the fourth department.

The Ministry of Navy will temporarily have three naval fleets and one inland fleet under its jurisdiction in the future. The three naval fleets are the Beiyang Fleet. Their home ports are located in Tianjin, Dengzhou and Jinzhou. Jinzhou is also known as Dalian Bay in later generations.

Then there is the Oriental Fleet, whose home ports are located in Aoshanwei (Qingdao Port) in Shandong, Shanghai County in Songjiang Prefecture, and Ningbo Prefecture in Zhejiang Province.

Finally, there is the Nanyang Fleet, whose home ports are located in Fuzhou, Fujian and Guangzhou, Guangdong.

The Beiyang Fleet was reorganized and expanded based on the Dengzhou Navy before the Ming Dynasty. The Eastern Fleet was based on the Nanjing Navy. The Nanyang Fleet could only be based on the Fujian Zhengjia Navy.

For the time being, Lin Rui only plans to remove three groups of young veterans from the five departments of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and place them in three fleets.

Then while cultivating new naval talents and building a home port, they also built a shipbuilding base and built new warships.

After all, the navy is no better than the army. It cannot be completed in a short time. If you choose to reorganize it from scratch, it will take at least 20 years.

The construction work for the eight home ports of the three major naval fleets will be jointly hosted by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Navy.

As for the construction of warships and corresponding weapons, it is still the responsibility of the royal inner court. The design and development of warships and weapons is presided over by the Baigong Supervisor, and the manufacturing of warships and weapons is managed by the Manufacturing Supervisor.

He planned to establish two royal shipyards first, one in the northeast, at the mouth of the Yalu River, and to choose a geomantic location for construction.

The advantage is that the ancient Cangtian trees on Changbai Mountain can be cut down and transported directly to the shipyard along the Yalu River.

This will greatly save manpower and transportation. After all, the keel required by ancient warships must be an ancient tree that is as thick as several people can hold it. Such large wood is usually located in deep mountains and old forests, and can only be traveled by water.

Therefore, the second shipyard was also chosen to be located near Shanghai County, the estuary of the Yangtze River, which can cover most of the ancient trees in the deep mountains and old forests of the Yangtze River Basin.

As for the inland river fleet, it only needs to form a Yangtze River fleet to be responsible for the security of the Yangtze River from Jingzhou to Shanghai. This fleet is directly under the jurisdiction of the Navy Ministry.

As for other rivers, the garrison towns in each province can form their own small fleets to take charge of security patrols.

Lin Rui only set the tone for these matters. After putting forward many requirements for the new warship, he left them all to the industrial supervisor and manufacturing supervisor. The required funds would naturally be allocated by the financial supervisor and the audit supervisor.

Now that the stall is too big, Lin Rui also understands that he cannot do everything by himself, especially under the communication and transportation conditions in ancient times, so what he has to do is to leave everything to professional departments, and let professional The department needs to find professional talents to complete it. He only needs to send someone to supervise it from time to time and inquire about the results.

Fortunately, the various yamen in the inner court are now quite complete, with a large number of personnel, and tens of thousands of loyal and not greedy ladies to help manage them, which saves him a lot of worry.

Otherwise, the style of the inner court would be the same as before the Ming Dynasty, and I would have to worry about it to death. Even if the matter can be completed in the end, the money wasted will probably increase ten or dozens of times, which is simply unaffordable.

No, after arranging the navy affairs, Lin Rui convened a joint meeting of the inner court supervisors.

Except for the Bureau of Statistics, the Intelligence Bureau, and the Supervision Bureau, which are relatively private, all the main leaders and deputies of the other supervisory bureaus were present.

Such a meeting is basically held once a month in the side hall of Jianji Hall.

In the empty side hall at this moment, if you look around, you can see that almost all of them are women over 30 years old. A dozen leaders of each prison and seven chief and deputy general managers are sitting on both sides of a long square table. Each person has a tea cup and paper. pens and many booklets.

More than 50 deputies were sitting on three sides of the side hall. There was also a small table next to each person, with tea, pens, ink, paper, inkstones and various books on them.Although everyone has participated in this kind of meeting countless times, they are still a little uncomfortable and awkward. A group of little palace maids and little eunuchs are shuttled among them. Those who pour tea are pouring tea, and those who are getting ink are getting ink. They are very busy. Fortunately, Mrs. Lu didn't order someone to invite Lin Rui until everything was ready.

"His Majesty is here!"

"See Your Majesty!"

As Lin Rui slowly walked in from the back door, everyone quickly bowed and saluted, but Lin Rui waved his hands casually, then came to sit on his throne at the front of the table and said: "Everyone, sit down! "

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Everyone then sat down in unison. Looking at His Majesty who was sitting on an equal footing with them, everyone was still a little nervous and still very restrained and couldn't let go.

"Well, as usual, each department will report its own situation first, and the financial supervisor will come first!"

"It's Your Majesty!"

The wife of the Financial Supervisor immediately stood up and replied, then took out the booklet she had prepared in advance and started reporting. Everyone else also pricked up their ears.

"Your Majesty, the financial supervisor's income in the last quarter was more than 3830 million taels, and various expenditures were more than 1230 million taels. So far, the total is more than 7560 million taels."

The financial director only reported the total expenditure and revenue. As for the more detailed financial report, he would submit it separately to the secretary-supervisor later, who would then submit it to Lin Rui.

It can be said that the operations of various departments in the inner court now have some of the appearance of large group companies in previous lives.

For example, each department must prepare a financial report and work report almost every month and quarter. The financial report is audited by the auditor and the work report is reviewed by six deputy general managers.

After everyone heard this, they were only slightly shocked by the huge income and expenses last quarter. Lin Rui also looked calm. He knew that the reason why he was able to earn more than 3000 million taels in the last quarter was mainly contributed by the Kong family.

After the financial supervisor's report, the wives of the other superintendents also reported on the financial and work conditions of each supervisor in the previous three months. Since they only gave a rough outline, it only took an hour in total.

Mainly, the work reports of the Commerce Supervisor, Industrial Supervisor, Manufacturing Supervisor, Construction Supervisor, and Education Supervisor are relatively long.

The Royal Branch of the Commercial Supervisor and bank branches have basically spread to the entire northern counties.

The number of Baigongjian's research institutes is also increasing, and they are becoming more and more dangerous. They are no longer suitable to be placed in the Imperial City.

Therefore, we have planned to choose several open areas outside the city to rebuild, and we also need to distinguish them to separate more dangerous research.

These are the plans that the Industrial Supervisor Baidu has realized and made on his own. Lin Rui has never had any involvement. It can be seen that under Lin Rui's delegation of power, each department has its own understanding and some ideas.

Although these ladies are not great talents, as the saying goes, the three stooges are as good as Zhuge Liang. As long as they are willing to work hard, the results produced by working together will not be worse than those of the so-called great talents.

(End of this chapter)