In fact, the use of rollers in China had already begun in the ancient Qin Dynasty.
For example, the Ancestral Dragon Ying Zheng once went out to patrol Pengcheng and crossed the Surabaya River to seize the tripod of the Zhou Dynasty.
At that time, he had used a roller to take the cauldron.
However, before this, the ancients mainly used fixed rollers!
As the emperor of the empire, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew that the moment the stone began to slide, the simple and crude block in front of him was no longer just a few simple wheels.
Because of these few wheels, the people of all parts of Ming would be able to reduce countless amounts of labor.
One had to know that the fuse that led to the fall of the former Yuan Dynasty was the Yellow River corvee!
Don't say that the stone man had only one eye and incited the Yellow River to rebel!
The uprising of the Red Turban Army, which had made Great Ming successful, had erupted amidst the miserable corvee!
More importantly, along with the manpower, there was also the tax from the Ministry of Revenue.
Da Ming was already short of money, not to mention that Da Ming now had a Golden Hoop Incantation that would be destroyed in two hundred and seventy years.
Zhu Yuanzhang had more things to do.
Especially for the big island in the South Sea.
Zhu Yuanzhang was drooling.
According to Zhu Di's description, a stallion and a few mares would be able to harvest a large herd of wild horses in a few years.
What Da Ming lacked the most at the moment was warhorses.
When Northern Yuan ruled Ming Dynasty, they destroyed the fields and grazed the livestock everywhere, so there was no shortage of horses in the Central Plains.
Especially during Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition, Xu Da could easily send out hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen to fight Wang Baobao to the death. Northern Yuan and Ming Dynasty's 500,000 to 600,000 cavalrymen fought several tough battles in the Central Plains before they could drive this so-called most extraordinary man back to the grasslands.
As the Ming Dynasty was peaceful for a long time, the grasslands were reclaimed into fertile fields. The lives of the people improved, and the Ming Dynasty's national treasury gradually became abundant.
However, the number of Da Ming's warhorses had also decreased.
Especially in this era of cold weapons.
Cavalry against infantry was like a dimensional attack!
Without warhorses, Great Ming could only hide in the south of the Great Wall forever. Only with sufficient warhorses could Great Ming completely resolve the threat of the northern border! Only by solving the problem of the northern border could he release the nearly one million troops that had been amassed on the nine sides.
And now, Da Ming had already found the most suitable place to raise horses.
However, something that made Zhu Yuanzhang even more worried followed.
The place to raise the horses was settled.
But this place didn't border on Da Ming.
Instead, it was isolated overseas and required a large number of ships to travel between the Great Ming and the island.
Apart from that, the pirates on the sea also needed to be thoroughly cleaned up to ensure that the sea route was unimpeded.
Zhu Yuanzhang's original plan was very simple, but when Zhu Yuanzhang's edict was sent to the Ministry of War last night, it almost scared the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue to resign on the spot.
Today, as soon as I enter court.
The two old men kneeled in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.
The meaning was clear.
There was no way to do this!
It wasn't that they didn't want to cooperate unless it was violence.
It was because this matter was really not within their ability!
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't be blamed for being unrealistic. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang's navy was ready-made.
The Great Ming's Bureau of Military Personnel had basically never built warships on a large scale.
In Haozhou, the Chao Lake Navy came to seek refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang. Old Zhu directly picked up a ready-made Chao Lake Navy. From then on, Old Zhu had the second most powerful naval fleet in this era.
Then came the mighty Poyang Lake water battle. The Chaohu Navy defeated the many with fewer people and wiped out the most powerful navy of this era, Chen Youliang's troops.
After Chen Youliang was pacified, Zhu Yuanzhang did not build a single ship. After reorganizing the remnants of Chen Youliang's troops, he had the largest fleet in the world. After all, warships were not like deserters who ran away. There was no place to catch them. The warships could not be carried away or dismantled. Most of them were directly abandoned in Poyang Lake.
After that, Zhu Yuanzhang led his army east and wiped out Zhang Shicheng's troops, filling the last shortcoming of the Ming Navy-the ships.
In other words, all the naval ships in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty were gifts given to them after winning the land battle.
Until this time, when Zhu Yuanzhang really made up his mind to build ships on a large scale.
Only then did the Ministry of War's accounts realize in shock.
A navy ship was actually so valuable!
Taking the treasured ship that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to build as an example, the cost of just one treasured ship was close to seven thousand taels of silver!
This was just a boat, and it did not include the firearms on the boat.
This cost was the silver of the early Ming Dynasty, not the silver that had been inflated several times after the large-scale import of silver at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
During the Hongwu period, the annual revenue of the court was only about ten million taels of silver.
And this was the result of a large amount of rice, grain, silk, cloth, and porcelain being converted into silver.
In reality, the amount of silver that the Ministry of Revenue could earn every year was at most three million taels of silver!
Looking at the memorials sent by the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War, Zhu Yuanzhang's old face turned green with worry. He raised his head and looked at Fu Youwen, the Minister of Revenue in front of him, and asked,
"Is building a boat really that expensive?"
Fu Youwen wanted to die.
How many heads do I have for you to chop off! How would I dare to lie to you!
"Your Majesty, the accounts of the Ministry of Revenue are absolutely true. The cost of building a navy is not cheap to begin with. The Ministry of Revenue really can't fork out such a sum of silver!”
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