When he came to Haizhou, Lin Fu's main intention was to take advantage of the huge military supply market of the Northern Army to promote the rooting and development of new industries in Haizhou. He spent a lot of money in Haizhou to do some auxiliary and promotional work.

For example, he established a high school and built the country's first museum in Haizhou with his ideas, so that people can see the world at home without traveling far.

Although to the north of the Yihai defense line, Yanhu's defense line construction in northern Shandong was also intensively and increasingly perfected, Lin Fu didn't care much about it. In Lin Fu's deployment, no matter how perfect Yanhu's defense line construction was, it was impossible to withstand it.

A powerful army supported by a new industrial system.

Lin Fu is the one who spends money. He gets excited when he thinks about how to spend money. Lin Mengde is the one who manages money. Thinking about spending money naturally gives him a headache. Unexpectedly, he made a special trip to Haizhou and the Privy Council will give him two more votes next year.

Lin Mengde was not in a good mood after giving 100,000 silver dollars to Haizhou.

Lin Mengde wanted to cheer himself up, not to dispel Lin Fu's interest, but thought of other things, and asked: "I heard in Jiangning that the Fuhuo giant crossbow was quite effective in Haizhou. Will the warships be assembled in the near future?"

If the Ministry has this plan, it is better to tell it earlier so as not to catch the Privy Council off guard..."

"The money is spent on building a museum, and there is no benefit in sight, so the dream makes you anxious; at this time, he is rushing to equip the fire-subdued giant crossbow, look at his quick and easy temper..." Lin Fu turned around and teased Lin Mengde with Gao Zongting.

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Lin Mengde smiled awkwardly.

"Meng Degong is eager to win the battle," Lin Fu teased Lin Meng De casually, but Gao Zongting wanted to cover it up for him and said to Lin Meng De, "There is still a possibility of the Fuhuo Crossbow exploding. It should be made of iron.

It’s not pure enough yet, so several ironworks have been asked to send people to do this, and it will take some time to test; if all copper materials are used, the cost will be too high..."

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter," Lin Mengde said, "Each giant fire-burdening crossbow weighs more than a thousand kilograms, and one hundred of them only costs about one hundred thousand kilograms of copper. The Privy Council can allocate extra..."

"But what my lord wants is that each of the newly built Jinhai-class warships will be equipped with forty to fifty fire-fighting crossbows. Is the Privy Council still willing to let go?" Gao Zongting asked with a smile.

Lin Mengde was stunned for a moment, a little stupid, and asked in surprise: "How can we spread the cloth so densely?"

There are only eight Lin Zhengjun-class warships, scorpion crossbows, and bed crossbows. All of them are equipped with submersible fire crossbows. The density will be increased six to seven times, which will indeed make Lin Mengde stunned.

At present, the copper material collected by the Privy Council every year is only about one million kilograms, which cannot meet the requirements of the Mint.

Lin Mengde thought that he would be able to squeeze out more than ten or two hundred thousand kilograms of copper next year, which he thought was quite generous, but he did not expect that he could only equip two Jinhai-class warships.

Lin Fu spread out a drawing on his desk and asked Lin Mengde to look at it: "This is the drawing of the new Lin Zhengjun-class warship. Don't bite your tongue after reading it..."

The Huaidong battleship currently uses the scorpion crossbow and bed crossbow as its main long-range weapons.

The Scorpion Crossbow is a projectile weapon and needs to be mounted on the unobstructed deck above. However, the Bed Crossbow has been set up in the cabin, with a crossbow port on the side to attack enemy ships. It no longer takes up space on the upper deck. It is just the Bed Crossbow and the Scorpion Crossbow.

The range was very limited, so naval warfare tactics could not break away from the traditional scope. Therefore, Lin Fu did not go crazy and set up crossbow ports densely in the lower cabin of the warship.

The blueprint that Lin Mengde was asked to look at at this time was the latest warship designed by the Huaidong Shipbuilding Department, and only the blueprint existed.

The upper deck of the new warship is still a traditional sea sailing ship, with five giant masts standing tall and a total of forty-two sails. However, below the deck, two layers of crossbow cabins are added above the water, and the sides are equipped with crossbow ports.

The crossbow ports are densely packed, with at least fifty or sixty on one side.

The complicated drawings made Lin Mengde dizzy, and he did not dare to ask the cost of such a battleship.

Every upgrade of the Huaidong warship, as Huaidong's chief steward and the person who takes out the money, Lin Mengde is naturally involved in it personally. He knows that such a warship cannot be built without five or six million silver dollars; if it starts next year
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