Eat the whole family? I emptied the storehouse of the Marquis' Mansion and married the crippled

Standing in a corner of the sand table, the Minister of War Hou Shijin heard Ye Jintang praising Hu Chongjin, and couldn't help but complain in his heart that if he was given enough silver, he would be able to quickly recruit soldiers and set up a team.

"Master Luo has a very good eye. He has only known Hu Chongjin for a year, but he already feels that he is a talented person."

While reading the daily training records of the Fujiang Navy in the letter, Ye Jintang sighed, "It's easy to build a navy, but it's still very difficult to turn a navy composed of all newcomers into a maritime hegemon. I hope Hu Chongjin can move faster."

As soon as the news of the opening of Fujiang Port spread, along with merchants from various countries, pirates from all over the world and those jealous island countries would also arrive.

In the past, they had always coveted the fertile land of Tianqin Kingdom. Now, seeing that Tianqin Kingdom is so prosperous, they are jealous to death.

At that time, as long as they see that the Tianqin navy is not strong enough, they will immediately assemble warships to attack Tianqin.

It is precisely for these reasons that the Tianqin State has been in a closed-door policy for many years.

To be honest, Ye Jintang was also unsure at the moment. No one knew whether there would be any developed great powers among the overseas island countries after so many years of development.

The opening of the port brought new vitality to the Tianqin State, but also brought new dangers.

Ye Jintang finished reading the letter in his hand and showed it to other ministers.

While everyone was watching, they also looked at the sand table to see how Hu Chongjin built the navy in Fujiang.

"Your Majesty, Empress Dowager, Admiral Hu has built too many watchtowers. Most of the coastline of Fujiang River has been built, and each watchtower is not small. How much silver must this waste?"

Hou Shijin was speechless. It was not like he had not led troops in battles before. A few watchtowers would be enough. Why was it necessary to build so many? Didn't he have money to burn?

"This watchtower is not built for fun. It seems useless when there is no war, but when a war really breaks out, the watchtower will directly affect whether we can win the battle."

"If there is a surprise attack by pirates, the soldiers on the watchtower can also respond as quickly as possible. Overall, the watchtower is very useful."

Ye Jintang didn't say that except for the Fujiang coastline, watchtowers were built on all the islands in the waters of Tianqin State.

In the past, pirates often attacked fishermen in Tianqin State, which led to the poor development of Tianqin's fishing industry. Dried fish was a luxury for inland people.

In order to improve this situation, Ye Jintang specifically instructed Hu Chongjin not to focus only on the Fujiang coastline, but also to build houses on any island surrounding the Tianqin State so that fishermen would have a place to rest when they went out fishing.

If fishermen wish, they can even move directly to the islands.

As long as there is an island with a watchtower, it will definitely be safe.

Hu Chongjin actually listened to Ye Jintang's words and took the navy to build the islands whenever he had nothing to do. Sometimes when he encountered small islands with strong winds, he would also train his troops.

Most of the news about the opening of Fujiang Port was spread by pirates.

In the past, they could do whatever they wanted to the Qin Kingdom, but now it has suddenly become so tough. Naturally, the pirates and overseas countries are paying close attention to this matter.

"Empress, Admiral Hu may know how to train the navy, but for such a major event as the construction of Fujiang City, the court should send a few people over. It would be inappropriate to leave this matter entirely to Admiral Hu."

The Minister of Revenue Lu Qixian felt extremely painful when he saw the large sum of money being allocated to Hu Chongjin to build Fujiang City. In his opinion, Hu Chongjin was just a military man who had no idea how to build a city.

"Lord Lu, don't worry about this. Building both the Fujiang Port and the Fujiang City are both major projects. Admiral Hu is only building the outer city wall now."

"As for how to build the inner city, this matter still needs the decision of Master Gao."

Gao Jinzhi was the Minister of Works, so matters like building cities and ports naturally had to be finalized by him.

"I have already had people draw up a blueprint of Fujiang City. According to your majesty's instructions, most of the shops and houses in the city will be funded by the national treasury, leaving only a small amount of space for the people to renovate their own houses."

"Well, there is no rush for this matter. Master Gao can take his time."

When Gao Jinzhi heard Ye Jintang say this, he secretly complained in his heart. The Queen's words were just nice words. The female official Liu Yin beside her would go to the Ministry of Works to inquire about the progress every day. She was urging him so much, how could he dare to delay?

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and Ye Jintang often had to take care of the children while taking time out of his busy schedule.

She felt like it was just the beginning of spring, but in the blink of an eye it was summer again.

Both Fujiang Port and Fujiang City have already started construction and are beginning to take shape. At this rate, Fujiang Port will be officially put into use before late summer or early autumn.

Luo Xinchun is simply addicted to shipbuilding. In addition to warships, he also wants to build several large merchant ships this year.

It is not easy to go out to sea, so naturally you have to bring enough goods.

Before the water level in the canal rose, Ye Jintang started planting trees in the space. When the water level rose, she would send 40 boats full of timber to Luo Xinchun.

When Ye Jintang was planting trees in the space, he discovered a characteristic: the trees grew nearly twice as fast on the black soil as before.

In the past, some kinds of precious wood would take a whole day to grow in space to meet the requirements, but now they only take half a day or even an hour to grow.

Ye Jintang looked at the forest with a puzzled look on his face. It seemed that the appearance of the forest was not useless. At least it helped in planting trees.

It would have taken a month to grow the wood, but Ye Jintang finished it in just half a month.

The weather was hot and Ye Jintang didn't have much to do, so he could finally go out and escape the heat happily.

Originally, Ye Jintang wanted to ask Xu Guixiang to go along, but Xiao Mo disagreed. He felt that this was their family's trip to escape the summer heat, and it wouldn't be so perfect if there were a few more people.

At first Ye Jintang really thought that Xiao Mo just wanted to be alone with his family, but when he went to the summer palace, he found out that he had other plans.

In the summer palace, they did not have to attend morning court every day, nor did they have to go to the imperial study to discuss matters regularly. If there was anything to do, they could deal with it after they woke up and had enough fun.

The two busy people suddenly had plenty of time, especially at night. The night is so long that they can't watch the stars every night.

With such beautiful scenery, of course we should have more children.

Xiao Mo is still thinking about the child Ye Jintang is giving birth to for him.

Ye Jintang, who didn't want to have children recently, had made preparations. She took contraceptive pills on time every day. No matter how powerful Xiao Mo was or how hard he worked, nothing would bear fruit.

The two of them spent more than a month in the summer palace before reluctantly returning to Beijing.

As soon as he returned, he had to face endless government affairs, and Xiao Mo was extremely resentful.

So not long after he returned to the capital, Pingping was taken by him to attend the morning court.

The prince is not young anymore and needs some exercise.

But Pingping was only as tall as Xiao Mo's waist, and he was still just a little kid.