Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 520 The rise and memory of the shipping industry

Although emperors can be romantic, they cannot be normal. Everyone has their own mission and responsibility in life, and the same is true for emperors.

After a period of indulgence in Java Island, Zhu Youxiao also had to set sail again, and the next stop was the newly established Taiwan government.

After the Pearl River Delta, Liaodong, and Mobei formed by Macao, Guangzhou, and the coast in the first stage were key construction and development areas, the newly established Taiwan, Java Island, and Siberia were key construction and development areas in the second stage of the Daming Steam Industry Era. area.

Among them, the Taiwan government can be ranked among them, which naturally shows that its status is not low. In fact, in the entire East China Sea, it is indeed an important stronghold connecting the mainland and the vast ocean.

And in this stronghold, because of its fertile soil and many excellent ports, this place can carry a large number of troops and transfer important sea trade materials.

Even, in order to save transportation costs, many emerging steam industry workshops have successively set up factories in Taiwan, so that products can be produced and processed in Taiwan, and then directly packed and shipped to other countries.

In order to meet the needs of ocean transportation, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty asked the Daming Ship Administration Bureau to build a Fujian-Zhejiang Branch of the Daming Ship Administration Bureau in Mawei, Fujian Province, mainly to produce civilian steam ships, so that the steam industry can not only promote military progress but also promote Development of economic activity and scale.

However, Zhu Youxiao did not let the royal capital monopolize the transportation industry brought about by the prosperity of trade, but when he established the Royal Shipping Merchants Bureau to take the lead in leading the transportation industry, he also encouraged the private sector to set up shipping companies to meet the transportation tasks in inland rivers and offshore waters .

Naturally, Zhu Youxiao would not object to private merchants buying and owning steam engines, or even foreign barbarians buying and owning them, because the core technology is still in the hands of the Daming Shipping Bureau, and even if these people get this ship, it is difficult After copying, even if you can understand the principles inside, you can't find suitable materials to meet the same process requirements.

Zhu Youxiao didn't want to achieve the goal of technology blockade by blocking craft products. He wanted to make the progress of the whole world depend on the development of Ming Dynasty through his advanced science and technology, and Da Ming would continue to benefit from it.

From the very beginning when the Royal Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering were established, education was popularized first, the academic system dominated by Confucianism was broadened and extended to multi-disciplinary development, instead of using golden fingers to make guns and cannons at the beginning, it was for the real achievement of Ming Dynasty. The ability to continuously change and improve, even one day without himself as the emperor, he can still enter the electrification and even the information age.

Daming is now at the forefront of the times. Whether it is liberal arts, such as economics and capital operation, or science, such as physics, chemistry, biology, and even various materials and new substances, it has its own set of systems. This is no one in the world now. Comparable to any country, and no country or region has fully reached the level of Ming Dynasty.

Even the West now has a big gap with Daming.

Therefore, although Zhu Youxiao's express instructions stated that there is no need to ban the sale of high-tech products to any country, but because the current conflict between Daming and Western Fan is at a relatively intense stage, in the current Daming, the real increase in steam era The level of prosperity is still the merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

Even in the shipping industry, a large number of newly established shipping companies are dominated by Daming merchants, and the customers of the Fujian and Zhejiang Branch of the Daming Shipping Bureau are mostly private merchants of Daming itself.

When Zhu Youxiao arrived in Chikan City, Taiwan, the area was already crowded with ships, soft sails and hard sails, masts and towering chimneys, like people of different colors in different clothes crowded on the seashore.

Large and small ship repair workshops and all kinds of stores and places for basic necessities of life, food, housing, transportation, and even entertainment are also lined up in and out of the city, which is more than ten times more prosperous than when Daming just took it back from the Netherlands.

In the maritime trade of Ming Dynasty today, the inland river trade and offshore trade are almost all operated by private economy, while the royal capital only controls the ocean trade that is related to the national economy and people's livelihood and the transportation of important materials such as grain and ore in inland river and offshore.

Among them, places such as Macau and Guangzhou are mainly to meet the large-scale ship merchants controlled by the royal capital and the concentration of foreign merchants, and several cities in Taiwan are to meet the trade of private merchants in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao arrived here, he realized that the place was a bit chaotic, but the world was full of smoke and fire, which was also the reason why there were more boats and more people in this area.

Just like the Cao Gang when the water transportation was developed, there are various gangs of various sizes in this area now. Therefore, the new Taiwanese prefect dare not change the status quo easily, because any change will affect the lives of tens of thousands of people.

At this time, Taiwan’s government was no better than that of later generations. Except for the relatively prosperous coastal ports, other areas were basically farming societies or some primitive societies existed. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not stay here for too long, so he set off for Japan. go.

During the period of going to Japan, Zhu Youxiao and others basically spent their lives on the ship. Although it was very quiet, it lacked the beauty of Java Island and the bustle of Taiwan.

Looking at the sky full of stars and listening to the crashing waves outside, Zhu Youxiao's mood became very quiet at this moment.

Now in the entire Daming Sea, there are no pirates or foreign armed forces, so there is no danger in the entire sea area. Warships, war-based ships, are beginning to slow down, while merchant ships that are busy making money are in a hurry. very.

Sometimes Zhu Youxiao can't help but think of the maid who had a lingering love with him in the sea in the resort of Java Island that day.

He misses that unfamiliar but provocative figure and soft skin.

All the maids whom he had been lucky enough to visit in the Royal Resort of Java Island were brought to the ship this time, in order to bring them directly into the palace. After all, no one is sure if anyone here will be pregnant, and it will be easy to do then. good record.

But Zhu Youxiao never found out who was the maid whom he saw that day, and the maid who was lingering with him in the sea that night was obviously still a baby, that is to say, it was impossible for him to bring him along. Go, so Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel a little pity about it.

And Liu Rushi often looked at Zhu Youxiao furtively, and sometimes unconsciously glanced at a place, and even wanted to touch it again, but reason told her that it was shameful to do so.

So Liu Rushi restrained herself, but like Zhu Youxiao, she also missed the stealthy act that night very much.

"Hey, where are you pouring it? Do you want to scald me to death?" Seeing Liu Rushi pouring tea directly onto his wrist, Zhu Youxiao quickly pulled away his hand and asked.

It was only at this time that Liu Rushi noticed that she was distracted, and with a brow, she quickly denied it.

(End of this chapter)