When he went north, although Li Xuan's speed was not slow, he still stopped and stopped, and the threat of the Ming army in the north was still there, so he couldn't go too fast, which led to some accidents, but this time he went south, although Li Xuan brought more people, the speed was still much faster than when he went north.

There are more than 500 ships in the southbound fleet, of course, most of these more than 500 ships are small and medium-sized ships, and the relatively large ships are only more than 100 ships, all of which are official ships of the Tang Dynasty.

There are civil war warships and armed transport ships of the Datang Navy, as well as inland river transport ships of the Logistics Department of the Privy Council, and then there are transport ships operated by the Guards.

More than 500 ships carried tens of thousands of people from the south, in addition to bringing back a large amount of gold and silver from the north.

However, strictly speaking, a lot of the gold and silver in it are no longer official of the Tang Dynasty, but belong to the Royal Bank, because the army went all the way to the north and seized more than 20 million taels of silver, and these silver were directly charged into the treasury.

But the silver that had been deposited into the treasury was deposited into the Royal Bank, so that the treasury got a large pile of cashier's checks, which belonged to the royal bank's gold and silver reserves.

However, although the Royal Bank is not an official institution in the strict sense, as a royal industry, and it is the most special royal industry, it is the only bank with an official background in the Tang Dynasty, shouldering many special missions, including the issuance of treasury bonds, the issuance of paper money, large loans to support local infrastructure, industrial development and other important tasks.

So, no one has ever thought of the Royal Bank as an ordinary bank!

Otherwise, it would be impossible for the military to directly undertake the transportation task of this batch of gold and silver of more than 20 million silver from the Royal Bank.

More than 500 ships of all kinds traveled all the way south along the canal, with a length of tens of kilometers, and after the front fleet arrived at the next destination, the ships at the rear of the fleet were often just starting to set off!

The ship Li Xuan was on was a specially built royal passenger liner.

The design requirements were put forward by the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, the Shipbuilding Department of the Department of Naval Ship Administration of the Datang Navy was responsible for the establishment, the Jiangnan Shipyard was constructed, and the Royal Institute of Technology provided the technical hosting of the whole process.

The overall displacement is not large, only 80 tons, and at the same time, as a typical river passenger ship, it also has the characteristics of shallow draft, because considering the ability to escape in an emergency, so the tonnage is not too large, but its construction level is better than that of warships, and the level of protection is the best in the same tonnage, and it is also symbolically installed two five-pound guns as defensive firepower.

In fact, its ship type is largely based on the Navy's second-class inland river warships.

Of course, as a royal passenger liner, these are not the point, the point is that this ship has an almost epoch-making watertight cabin and many anti-sinking measures, and even a lot of lifeboats, and its first priority is to ensure Li Xuan's safety.

On the contrary, the luxurious decoration of the interior has become an embellishment!

Li Xuan took this royal passenger ship all the way north, and then all the way south, and the whole journey was not as uncomfortable as when he traveled on river boats in the past.

Because there are other rooms on the ship as offices and several conference rooms, Li Xuan can also work on the ship.

Li Xuan is a very busy green person, even if he goes north to conquer in person, but every day there are many twists and turns waiting for him to review, although it is said that the left-behind team of the imperial study led by Liu Bagou has already dealt with a large number of affairs in Jinling City, but many of them are not able to make decisions by Liu Bagou, and Li Xuan must make a decision himself.

In mid-July, Li Xuan traveled all the way south to Huai'an Mansion, and according to the usual practice along the way, summoned the main local officials.

Among the officials summoned by Li Xuan were Chen Lifu, deputy director of the Inspection Division of the Grain Collection Department of the Ministry of Taxation, who was in charge of the tax inspection affairs of Jiangbei Province and North Anhui Province.

And this is also the second time Chen Lifu has seen Li Xuan, the Eternal Sage!

It was the first time to see Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages, up close!

When the Holy Driver left Huai'an Mansion and returned to Jinling City, Chen Lifu still clearly remembered the situation when the Ancient Holy Monarch summoned him.

At that time, he went with the Taoist of Jiangbei Province, the prefect of Huai'an Prefecture and others, and he happened to be located behind the prefect of Huai'an Prefecture.

When he first saw the Ancient Sage, Chen Lifu's first feeling was that he was young, this Holy Son of Heaven, who led everyone to lay down the great country, looked very young, but in fact, Li Xuan, the Ancient Sage, was indeed very young, he was only twenty-two years old this year.

After Chen Lifu and everyone bowed together, the Ancient Sage Monarch kindly said to let them get up, and then give them a seat, Chen Lifu didn't dare to sit at first, but he saw that the Taoist members of Jiangbei Province all sat down, so he also thanked him and sat on the side of the chair, but he didn't have the courage to sit on it, and he sat down.

His Majesty pities the courtiers for giving them a seat, which is a gift, but it must not be an excuse for the courtiers to ignore etiquette, let alone him Chen Lifu, and the Jiangbei Taoist on the side is just sitting on the edge of the chair.

Then the kind and benevolent Wangu Shengjun asked them very kindly how they were staying in Jiangbei and whether they were still used to life, and then asked them about their families, saying that it was for the sake of the country, so that everyone could travel for many years, and it was difficult to meet their relatives, which was really ashamed.

At this time, Chen Lifu and several others immediately left the chair, and then bowed down and said, Your Majesty is serious, it is an honor for my generation to be able to serve His Majesty and do things for the country.

Then the Ancient Sage Monarch turned his gaze to Chen Lifu again, and then said: "Lifu, I have heard your name, I heard that you have done a good job in Jiangbei, and you have done a good job in rectifying taxes, not bad, work hard!" ”

A sentence of hard work instantly made Chen Lifu extremely excited, and tears were about to burst out of his eyes for a while: Your Majesty is really a benevolent monarch!

Renjun is above, he has to work harder, only by working harder, can he come to His Majesty's side as soon as possible, give advice to His Majesty, and let His Majesty no longer be confused by those traitors and thieves!

I have this benevolent monarch in the Tang Dynasty, although there are many traitors in the court, but he believes that there will still be many loyal and righteous people like himself.

Immediately, he said: "The minister will definitely redouble his efforts and never live up to His Majesty's high expectations!" ”

Li Xuan, who was at the top, nodded slightly: "That's good!" ”

Subsequently, the busy Renjun was talking to a few other people again, but Chen Lifu didn't pay attention to what he said at all, and at this time he only had the last sentence in his mind to work hard!

Even later, when he said goodbye to the Holy Driver, he was a little confused, and after being sent out in a daze, when he came back to his senses, the Holy Driver's ship had already begun to set sail and continue to go south.

Regarding Chen Lifu's reaction, Li Xuan naturally didn't care at all, and he didn't even remember what this person looked like, along the way, he had seen too many officials, officials from Jiangbei Province, Shandong Province, and Hebei Province, he had seen countless people.

Even officials from northern Anhui Province and Henan Province would come to ask for an audience.

Every day, Li Xuan will meet several groups of officials!

After Huai'an Mansion, and then to Yangzhou, but after Yangzhou, he did not return to Jinling City directly, but changed to the navy's cruiser for his new car, and then went down the river all the way east, to Suzhou, to Changzhou, to Songjiang to inspect.

In particular, Songjiang Mansion is the focus of his inspection!

Because Shanghai County in Songjiang Prefecture is one of the five treaty ports of the Tang Dynasty, and it is the most important treaty port in central China, and it is also an important city for the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises to lay out industries in the Jiangnan region.

Jiangnan Shipyard, Songjiang Artillery Factory and Ammunition Factory under Jiangnan Arms Company are all set up in Shanghai County.

At the same time, this place is also the key support area of private industry, in the support of the policy, in the past year, Shanghai County has emerged a large number of private factories, although these private scale is still relatively small, engaged in the industry is mainly light industry, traditional industry processing industry, etc., but still for the development of private industry in the south of the Yangtze River, has played a very good leading role.

After going ashore in Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, local officials told Li Xuan that although the Shanghai Trade Zone had not been established for a long time, it had developed very rapidly, and many businessmen had come to the city for their convenience.

And has opened many routes, the most important of which is the route from Shanghai to Fusang, many maritime merchants have made money through sea trade, they have made money at the same time, but also brought a lot of taxes to Datang Customs.

In addition, they also said that they have set up an industrial zone on the outskirts of Shanghai County, and the government has leveled the land, built roads and even railroad tracks, and now there are more than 20 enterprises settled down, half of which are enterprises with state-owned enterprises or royal assets, but half are private enterprises, and the development momentum of private enterprises is good.

One of the largest private enterprises in the industrial zone is the textile factory, which employs more than 400 people!

Hearing these reports, Li Xuan felt very gratified, the late development of Shanghai Port, its industrial scale is naturally not comparable with Guangzhou, Lianzhou, the two early development of the treaty ports, even worse than Zhaoqing, but now Shanghai has shown amazing potential, over time, this will definitely become an economic and industrial town of Datang!

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