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In the past, shipping in Ming Dynasty was all inland waterway shipping, relying on canals and general waterways, but now it’s different. Zhu Youjian pays attention to long-sea shipping, and with the current hot spot Nanyang, everyone knows the benefits of long-sea shipping.

If the goods from the Yangtze River can be transported to Nanyang, it must be profitable.

Chapter 6 Eleven: The needs in Zhu Youjian's mind

When Zhu Youjian wanted to make a plan, he naturally didn't just talk to the people in Jiangjunshan, but technology is after all the primary consideration for a future traveler.

First determine the development direction of science and technology, and then promote the development of the industry in specific locations based on the development experience of later generations.Therefore, the development of Shanghai has become an inevitable choice.In fact, Zhu Youjian can also choose Guangzhou as a special zone.But Guangzhou can only target the southeast, not as good as Shanghai can cover the entire Yangtze River Basin.

Judging from the experience of later generations, before the Opium War, the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou served as the only window to drive the entire export, and the inland goods had to cross the south of the Lingnan to reach Guangzhou manually.In the end, a large number of Guangxi pickers who relied on their feet to survive were supported.

However, after the Opium War, the gates of Shanghai were opened, and the water transportation of the entire Yangtze River Basin developed. These foot forces in Guangxi suddenly fell into a difficult situation, and then they were instigated by a scholar named Hong. Learned history.

Having such experience beforehand, Zhu Youjian would rather not open up Guangzhou for the time being, but also let the Yangtze River shipping develop.The cost of sea transportation has a natural advantage over land transportation, so why create a group of people who rely on their feet for a living.

Another question is that the water transportation throughout the Qing Dynasty in the official history was forced out by the sea ban policy.Is the canal good or bad for China?Anyway, it did not play a positive role in the ideology of the entire nation.On the contrary, it makes more people afraid of the sea and self-enclosed.

Since Zhu Youjian crossed, he has never dredged the canal.Zhu Youjian believed that there was no need to dredge the canal at all. At first, it was because the north had not been recovered, but now that the north has been recovered, Daming also has the ability to transport grain to the north by sea.

Where sea transportation cannot reach, roads need to be built.There is a slogan in later generations that is very correct, "If you want to get rich, build roads first!"

The development of infrastructure is the need of commodity economy circulation. Without roads, there would be no commodity circulation, and naturally there would be no commodity economy.

However, the Ming Dynasty does not yet have enough technology to develop railways, and the current roads still have to rely on horse-drawn carriages to operate, and horse-drawn carriages need the support of a large number of horses.

"Huang Zongxi, please tell Fang Yi, let her find a way to find rubber tree seeds from the Spaniards, it doesn't matter how much it costs." When talking about roads, Zhu Youjian first thought of rubber tires.

All technologies are accumulated, and roads are also a technology that needs to be gradually improved and accumulated.Don't think that once the cement comes out, you can build highways. Daming doesn't even have rubber tires. Does it need highways?

No, what Daming needs now is rubber tires. Only when these things appear can the road develop in real time.

Nanyang is in our hands, and of course rubber will be planted in Nanyang.As for oil, does Daming have the technical reserves to develop internal combustion engines?No.

After returning to China, Fang Yi no longer took charge of the Tiandihui, but Zhu Youjian gave her another task, which was to participate in Jiuer's East India Company.In name, Fang Yi is the person in charge of the Department of External Affairs. In fact, her department is the spy department of the East India Company. The main task is to collect global business intelligence and find all kinds of people and things for Zhu Youjian.

People, there is no need to talk about it.The target is of course the European countries that are already at the beginning of modern times.As for things, such as rubber in the Americas, apples in Europe, and specialty technologies from various places, etc.

What Zhu Youjian wants is the world's technology and specialty products, not all of them, but most of the Ming Dynasty must be in his own hands.

"Rubber seeds shouldn't be a problem, but I'm afraid it will take some setbacks for the improved seed war mentioned by the emperor yesterday." Huang Zongxi is now very motivated, and his main task is to help Zhu Youjian formulate national development policies. He, Gu Yanwu and others have been studying I want to find some references about laws and systems from the documents brought back from Europe.

Don't think that Zhu Youjian plans to use the horses on the prairie to form the cavalry that Ming Dynasty needs in the future. Zhu Youjian's eyes are fixed on the more powerful mixed-breed horses.Arabian horses, Hanoverian horses, Akhal-Teke horses, Frederiksberg horses, etc., Zhu Youjian wanted too much.

For now, Queshan Racecourse has collected many breeds.What is the eldest prince Zhu Cihong doing in Xinyang?That is to cultivate war horses suitable for Zhu Youjian's requirements.

According to Zhu Youjian's requirements, the horses of the Ming cavalry in the future should be about 1.6 meters tall, and their endurance and running speed should exceed those of Mongolian horses.Think about the average height of Ming men in this era, and what it feels like to ride such a tall horse.

The Dongyang horse that Chinese military officers envied during World War II was the product of Japan's emphasis on war horse breeding. Zhu Youjian had no reason to think that he was a time traveler so he gave up improving the horse breed.On the contrary, for a long period of time that can be predicted, horses will still be the main source of power in Ming Dynasty society.

"Buy! You can't use gold for silver, and you can't use porcelain for gold. As long as whoever gives us something, we will get it at any cost." Zhu Youjian gritted his teeth.His mind is full of yearning for the good things in the whole world. At this time, he is a complete "robber". As long as he likes it, he must get it.

"Your Majesty, do you want to buy gold jewelry?" Huang Zongxi asked. According to historical experience, there is no emperor who doesn't like these things. You can see how many real works of art there are by looking at the collections in the palace. Gold jewelry is still the focus of collection. .

"No, I just want something real." Zhu Youjian rolled his eyes and directly rejected Huang Zongxi's words.

Aren't gold jewels real things?Huang Zongxi didn't understand.

Zhu Youjian, who came from later generations, has already stood at the top of his efforts. Of course he knows what is most important to a country.Agricultural production capacity, industrial manufacturing capacity, and war mobilization capacity.These are the rigid indicators of a country's national strength, and everything else is just floating clouds.

A country's military strength is not enough, no matter how much wealth it accumulates, it will not be enough for others to grab.Don't talk about the distance, just talk about the Old Summer Palace.No matter how good the economic development is, it will not be inferior to the opponent's strong ships and guns. Isn't the lesson of the Opium War not enough?

Everything Zhu Youjian did was to develop national power.Only when the national strength is improved, those so-called gold, silver and jewelry can be kept. For example, Midi, the gold in the vault under Midi New York is not his own, but the whole world is willing to store gold there.

why?Why should other people's gold be placed in his home?Not because of insurance.Midi uses the world's gold reserves to support the stability of the US knife, and does not need to spend money on its own.Zhu Youjian also wanted to have this kind of dream.

So it doesn't matter if you want gold or not.

Chapter 6 Twelve: Ming's Xindi Nanyang Province

In Nanyang in 1654, the place name Batavia no longer existed, and the city was officially renamed "Coconut City", and the local indigenous people used to call it "Yejiada".

As the capital of the New Nanyang Province of Ming Dynasty, a complete government department has been established here.Different from the domestic administrative yamen, the yamen here has many new departments established, and it exists as an experiment.The laws and administrative methods here are quite different from those in China.

In addition to the existence of the emperor as the supreme power, Shi Lang, the governor, can't be settled in one word. The reason is that there are too many nobles of the Ming Dynasty who have territories in Nanyang Province.He can't afford to offend most of them, so Nanyang Province actually implements a parliamentary system.

Some people once had objections to Nanyang's system, but Zhu Youjian suppressed domestic public opinion and strongly supported Shi Lang.In order to help Shi Lang stabilize the situation smoothly, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty even assigned his own policy research office to Shi Lang.

After the Ming Dynasty acquired Nanyang, Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that all sea trade should be moved southward to Nanyang.

This move did not make domestic manufacturers earn much money, but it gave birth to a large number of ocean-going traders and the development of the shipping industry.A large number of merchants bought new-style large ships, focused on transporting domestic goods to Southeast Asia, and then traded with overseas merchants.

This kind of business is more profitable than doing business in China, and many thoughtful businessmen are turning their main business to shipping.Because too many people went to Nanyang, the demand for all Ming commodities in Nanyang increased sharply, which invisibly promoted the limited development of domestic commodity production.

The great development of Nanyang is tantamount to a cycle. Although it is a limited trade import and export cycle, after all, it makes Ming's trade start from the inland to the sea.

The weather was very hot, and the construction site in Yecheng was already extremely hot. Delight stepped on the stones with bare feet, and the hot stones made the calluses on the soles of his feet itchy.Sweat dripped down his cheeks. This white-skinned man had already turned a little brown. Except for the color of his eyes and hair, he was no different from the local aborigines in terms of skin color.

On the construction site in Yecheng, all the technical workers are Chinese, and only the Chinese here understand the real technology.The men who did the rough work were local aborigines and some few Dutch prisoners of war.White-skinned Westerners are actually very popular in Nanyang Province, especially oceangoing sailors.As long as you can abide by the laws of Nanyang, you can travel freely in Nanyang with an entry and exit certificate issued by Nanyang Province.

However, Europeans who habitually live a European-style pirate life and do not obey the rules will be arrested by the Nanyang government and then sentenced.Nanyang's laws are harsh, but also very simple.Either hang directly, or serve hard labor, there is no other punishment.At first, there were not a few people who were hanged, but later even fewer people were forced to do hard labor.

The entry and exit certificate issued by Nanyang Province is only suitable for Nanyang, and the northernmost end is Wansheng Island in Daming, and Westerners are not allowed to go north.Wansheng Island is not under the jurisdiction of Nanyang Province, but under the jurisdiction of Daming Qiongzhou.That is the hinterland of Daming.

Dennett has been working for more than a year, if not for his good health, he might have been squeezed out long ago.In such hot weather, he needs to push a small cart called a wheelbarrow by the Chinese to transport sand and cement to the construction site.Mixing cement with sand, adding water, and stirring, Delight has already done this set of work very skillfully.If he hadn't been a general, he could support himself now by relying on this craft.

Those natives were much worse. The technology that Dennett learned in three months, the natives didn't learn after one year.

Dennett found that five aborigines actually shoveled the fool into the cart with a shovel, pushed it two meters away and fell to the ground after filling it, and then went back and forth like this.Dennett resisted the urge to laugh. This kind of thing often happened to the aborigines. They would never learn how to lift the sand two meters away with a shovel.

Dennett has been beaten several times for mocking the stupid way of the natives, and each time he used his good "boxing" action to prevent his head from being beaten into a pig's head by the natives.

"Hey! That foreign devil, someone is looking for you." From a distance, a Chinese supervisor shouted at Denet.

"Me? Looking for me?" Dennet pointed to himself. His Chinese proficiency has improved rapidly. After all, he was also a general, and his IQ is no problem.

"Yes, it's you. The governor is looking for you." The supervisor replied.

Governor?Denet hadn't heard this word for a long time, and he was even confused for a few seconds, as if it was a memory of a distant age.In fact, it was only over a year since he was captured by the Ming army.

Shi Lang's carriage was parked next to the construction site. The beautiful four-wheeled carriage made Delight block the dazzling sunlight with his palm. Even in Europe, this kind of carriage can only be ridden by the upper class.

"Get in the carriage! Your motherland has sent someone to pick you up." Of course, it was not Shi Lang himself who appeared in the carriage, but one of Shi Lang's guards.

"Who will pick me up?" Dennett thought he heard it wrong, thinking that Ming would definitely not let him go casually, and his homeland, the Netherlands, would not forgive him, so how could he come to pick him up, He ruined the entire East India Company.

"You heard me right, the war between Ming and the Dutch is over. You can go home." The guard then explained.

"It's over? Did we win the Dutch game?" Dennett said.