Yang Song sat in the living room of the monarch's mansion and asked Li Jing: "Pharmacist, tell me, how many warships should Xia Kingdom build to build?"

"Your Majesty! If you want to say it is appropriate, there is no exact measure. I can only say that the more you have, the better." Li Jing sat in Yang Song's lower right head, clasped his fists at Yang Song, and gave an answer that was not considered an answer.

Yang Song was very helpless about Li Jing's answer. After all, he had always been directly responsible for the military aspects, so he turned to Liu Ji and asked: "Bowen, by the end of this year, how many people can the country have?"

"Return to the emperor, it is June 8th of the 11th year of the Heavenly Revelation. I learned from Director Xun Yu that the country has a population of 6 million. According to my estimate, the country's population can reach 7 million by the end of the year." Liu Ji sat in Yang Song's lower left head, bowed to Yang Song, and reported in detail the growth rate of Xia's population.

"A seven million population, even a percentage of the military-civilian ratio, is enough to expand the military power of Xia to 70,000." Yang Song thought to himself: "The army's 42,000 people can have more than 20,000 people."

Thinking about the number of troops, he calculated the number of naval personnel today. Each of the three destroyers had ninety crew members, a total of 270.

There are 300 six frigates, each with fifty crew members; there are 900 three supply ships, each with 300 crew members.

This is the total number of warships owned by the Xia Navy. There are 1,470 soldiers. In addition to the commanding officers' regiment and clerks, there are only 1,500 people in total. It is calculated by the number of people, just like a battalion of the army.

In other words, there is still 26,500 people left for the quota of 70,000. According to the current scale of the navy, more than 17 can be built.

Seventeen, there are fifty-one destroyers and one hundred and two frigates. With such a huge scale, Yang Song doesn't know how to resettle them.

"In stock, how many new warships are needed?" Of course, Yang Song cannot build all of these "small" warships now.

Shen Kuo just took a rough look around the library. Now that he would answer such a meticulous question, he would definitely not be able to answer: "Your Majesty atones for your sins, I don't know. I will check it now." As he said that, he was about to get up and rushed to the library.

"Okay, you go first, it's best to copy the basic data of these warships together." Yang Song thought for a while and agreed to Shen Kuo's actions.

Yang Song really wants to know the approximate number of these new warships now, so he can also make plans for the next action.

"Yes, Master." Shen Kuo bowed to Yang Song and hurried out.

Yang Song continued to ask: "Pharmacist, does the Army need to expand?"

"Your Majesty! There are one regular brigade, cavalry brigade, city guard brigade, and conscript brigade in the army. Including the imperial guards directly under the emperor, Shenji Camp and Jinyiwei, there are a total of 42,000 people." Li Jing first reported to Yang Song the number of troops currently in Xia State.

"This number has not changed for more than two years. The country has no war, and there is no threat outside the pass, and there is no need to expand its army." Li Jing said this and hesitated for a moment and continued: "It's just that the army has not been on the battlefield for many years, and it is still unknown how much combat power it has."

"This is a problem." Yang Song heard that the army's combat effectiveness had not been tested, especially after the expansion, which added so many new recruits. It is still unknown how much combat effectiveness he and Li Jing and other senior executives are not sure.

Yang Song was a little worried and asked Li Jing: "Pharmacist, what can you do to solve this problem?"

"Return to the Lord, combat power can be improved by training and exercises, but there is only one way to test combat power." Li Jing had a serious face, clasped his fists at Yang Song, and said, "It can only be tested in actual combat!"

"Practical combat?" Yang Song asked in confusion: "You said just now that there is no war in our country now, how can we carry out actual combat?"

"Your Majesty! I suggest..." Li Jing stood up and folded his fists and was about to say something to Yang Song, but Shen Kuo ran in.

"Jun... Lord, I am back." Shen Kuo gasped for breath as soon as he entered the door. Looking at his sweaty face, he looked like he was sweating and was not breathing. He must have been running and coming back.

Less than half an hour later, Shen Kuo actually came back and forth. Even if the library is next to the monarch's mansion, there is no need to work so hard.

Yang Song looked at Shen Kuo in surprise, and even Li Jing wanted to say nothing, he hurriedly asked Shen Kuo to sit down and said, "Save it, slow down, sit down first and rest before saying it."

"Mr. Xie, I have rested." Shen Kuo stopped for so long and was already angry. He took out a notebook from his arms, turned a page, bowed to Yang Song, and said, "I have copied the basic data of the warship."

"Then just talk." Seeing that Shen Kuo had nothing to do, Yang Song asked him to continue reporting.

"Yes, lord." Shen Kuo bowed his hands and looked at the notebook with his head down, saying, "The frigate requires fifty crew members, with a full load displacement of 260 tons... The destroyer needs 120 crew members, which is different from the ones designed and built by the country before. In addition to the external dimensions, the destroyers in these drawings are the same in terms of the number of naval guns, but the internal design is more reasonable, and there are many things worth learning from."

The three destroyers built before were designed and built by Xia Guo. As the president of the Academy of Sciences, Shen Kuo was also involved.

However, what Yang Song did not expect was that the drawings of the system reward were almost the same as those designed and built by Xia Guo. The same size and the same number of naval guns were only more reasonable in terms of crew members and internal layout.

The destroyer built by Xia Kingdom had only ninety crew members. During the battle, they could only operate the naval guns on one side of the warship, and could not allow the naval guns on both sides to fight at the same time.

Yang Song remembers that it seemed that the structure of the warship could not withstand the reaction force of firing at the same time on both sides. The destroyer produced by the current system has 120 crew members, and it seems that he can fight at the same time.

"Cruiser ships require 180 crew members, and a full load displacement of 1,200 tons..." Shen Kuo reported the basic data of various warships one by one. (Detailed introduction is included in the relevant works)

Half an hour later, after listening to Shen Kuo's report, Yang Song was not at all calm, especially when he learned that the largest super battleship had a full load displacement of 5,700 tons and 110 powerful artillery, he wanted to build it immediately to see what kind of battleship it was.

But Yang Song was still very calm and knew that this was too urgent.
Chapter completed!