When the new ship was launched, Liu Wencai came to Fuzhou. Fuzhou City is much stronger than Yanping City in all aspects.

Fuzhou City was a port where Zheng He waited for the wind when he went to the Western Ocean, and it was also an important base for the repair of ships going to the Western Ocean. Fuzhou has always had a more developed shipbuilding industry and can build ships with excellent performance. In the first year of Yongle (1403), in May, "the Fujian Dusi was ordered to build one hundred and thirty-seven sea ships". In the following year, "he will send an envoy to the Western countries to build five sea ships." It was built several times later. Most of these seagoing ships built in Fujian were built by Fuzhou, such as the "Recompilation of Fujian Tongzhi": "In the first month of spring in the seventh year (1409) of Yongle, the eunuch Zheng He sailed from Fujian to the southwest and built a huge ship in Changle. Qianlong's "Changle County Chronicles" contains: "During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch Zheng He passed through the Western Ocean, built a giant ship here, and changed Taiping Port. ”

Fuzhou is the political, economic, military and cultural center of Fujian Province in the Ming Dynasty, the market is prosperous, thousands of merchants gather, department stores gather, commodities and goods produced from all over the country can be easily bought here, and most of the people here live in the sea, or do salt and iron business, or sell goods at sea for a living. Although it is in troubled times, Fujian is close to the sea, and the people here are destined to be adventurous and travel in all directions.

Liu Wencai was assigned by Yue Xiaofei to come to Fuzhou, and Yue Xiaofei explained very clearly when he came. The first is to listen to the news of all aspects of Fuzhou, and no matter how big or small it is, no matter how big or small, must be omitted; second, to recruit shipbuilders and acquire shipyards; Third, buy land, buy more land near the river, and also buy land with bad terrain or flooding. In particular, the land near Mawei Town is bound to be obtained.

As for why Yue Xiaofei was so interested in the Mawei District, I believe everyone knows that when we look at the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Mawei in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then think about the Beiyang Fleet, until today China still does not have a navy that can protect its worldwide interests. Some people say that China is a mainland country, and it is still called "mainland" by others today. Yue Xiaofei was not convinced from the bottom of his heart, why should our Chinese fleet always stay in this China Sea, and why should other countries show off their might there in the Pacific Ocean? Therefore, when he arrived in Fuzhou, his long-term goal was to establish the foundation of China's ocean-going navy, and to catch the first train while the sea power struggle in the world of this time and space had just begun.

There are also thirteen or fourteen shipbuilders near Mawei, among which the Sun family of Xinyuan Shipyard and the Ji family of Tonghai Shipyard are the two largest shipyards in the local area. Both of them are famous for making official ships, whether it is a sail car ship, a Daifuku ship, or a centipede ship. In recent years, due to the continuous war, there has been a lot of demand for official ships and warships, and business is still prosperous.

Today is the day of dragon boat racing, every fifteenth day of the new year, the two families will compete on the Ma River, in order to race the boat on the fifteenth day of the first month of each month, not only the two, but also every shipyard will use their strength to eat milk. The reason for this is that this boat race has not only grown the name of the singer, but also hopes that the shipbuilding orders in the second half of the month will also increase significantly, so do you think these shipyards will do their best.

To say that this dragon boat race is a major event here in Fuzhou, not only all kinds of traders come to take advantage of this lively, the villagers of Sixiang also take advantage of this day to come out to buy and sell things, and then lively in the afternoon, until the afternoon when the sky appears red before gradually dispersed. Even the government has to make a notarization, and the province will make trouble for shipbuilding in the past half a month, and then secretly collect the monthly money of each shipyard, so that he will go back satisfied.

The second day of Liu Wencai's arrival here was precisely the day of the dragon boat race, and the shopkeepers of the thirteen or fourteen families got up early in the morning, met and sacrificed Mazu by the river, and stayed by the river to wait for the arrival of noon.

For the convenience of this work, Yue Xiaofei specially got a letter from Wang Shihe, and wanted to borrow this letter from him to make friends with the prefect of Fuzhou City. Now, as before, Wang Shihe went to 10,000 silver from the cost of repairing the city wall.

When Liu Wencai took the letter, he also said in his heart: "It's really a thousand words!" "On the other hand, Yue Xiaofei didn't have any idea." Maybe it's because of Madame. ”

Zou Weiwen, the prefect of Fuzhou City, surprisingly did not arrive at the stands during today's dragon boat race, but was invited by Liu Wencai to the private room of the largest restaurant in Mawei through Wang Shihe's letter.

Zou Weiwen looked at the letter in front of him and put it aside, and said to Liu Wencai: "Lord Wang is in the front, and he still remembers the economic affairs of the official here, so he can be admired again!" ”

"Hehe, when the villain came, Lord Wang said that Lord Zou's economic knowledge is well-known all over our Fujian, and he has repeatedly praised the villain and taught the villain to bring down some Yanping native products. Our boss Yue admires and admires the knowledge of adults very much, and this does not require the villain to bring some personnel and ask the adults to laugh. ”

Zou Weiwen knew that those Yanping native products were all from the hands of the old military camp, and the fan had already made him praise for a summer, and this time Wang Shihe actually sent a Yanping City "running all over the street" Look at the appearance, I don't know how much more comfortable and fast than a sedan chair. However, he also knew in his heart that these were all false, and the bag in Liu Wencai's hand was a real "thing".

You don't need to open it, as long as you look at the side of the silver ticket, of course he knows in his heart that this is the silver ticket issued by the largest "Four Seas Silver Number" in Fujian, you see the special gold edge on the ticket, it is definitely the top silver ticket in the number, and ordinary people can't even see it. There are about twenty in a stack, and these are all silver tickets of a thousand taels, and twenty is not twenty thousand silver. After reading this, it is inevitable that I will have doubts.

"But why did they give me so much silver?"

"Adults don't have to see outside, the villain really has something important to discuss this time, and it can only be done with the help of adults, and please give me advice."

Zou Weiwen arched his hand and said: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, your boss's business is the official's business, and the official's words in this ponytail still count." He said in his heart: "It doesn't matter what he is, as long as they don't rebel, no matter what they do, look at it and don't want to put a large amount of money in the bag in the future, and seek officials for thousands of miles just for money, this is true." ”

Outside at this time, it was already three poles on the day, not only the dragon boats of each family came, but also the stalls and vendors also came out to occupy the space, hoarsely shouting and shouting one after another, and a group of idlers there had already opened a game for today's event to gamble, a group of people thought that they could not talk together, and actually fought.

Liu Wencai glanced at it and said in his heart: "This Zou Governor is a good economist. When he turned around, he saw that Governor Zou's face was as calm as water, and he looked like he hadn't seen it. He didn't talk about it, but just put a cup in his mouth and said, "Drink, drink." ”