More than twenty ships finally returned to the shore after sailing for less than three days, and by this time, only seven ships were still intact.

The surviving owners sold the remaining seven ships, paid them along with their fortunes to the shareholders who had bought shares, and gave some compensation to the crew, and then found a quiet place to settle themselves. After all, there was such a big accident this time, and he couldn't escape the blame.

It's a pity that a large number of orphans and widows, although the shipowner's Huaxia Chamber of Commerce shares were left to them, but they were suddenly knocked down from the sky, and this blow was not small. The owner's wife committed suicide by swallowing gold soon after, leaving two and a half children to live alone in this world.

The Daily newspaper reported the news, from the ship's owner's triumphant deviation from the course to the arrival of a storm. A group of sailors suffered more casualties than they knew about the new ships, and in the end only seven ships had returned. This article was also commented on by His Majesty the Emperor: Don't underestimate the sea!

Since then, the People's Republic of China, which was originally in full swing and eager to sail with his family, has finally cooled down as if a basin of cold water has been poured on it.

For people in Shaanxi and Shanxi, the sea or something, that decisiveness is not something they can afford, so many crew members from Zhejiang and Fujian, such a good ship will have an accident, so they landlubbers, don't join in this fun. Sichuan and Yunnan are similar, but they are not extinguished so completely, and there are still a few people who fantasize that their luck will be better than others.

Instead, the Burmese governors bought seven ships, recruited the rest of the crew, and tried to sail for once.

They took their last failed voyage as a lesson, fulfilled the instructions in the textbook perfectly, and even if they were a few days late, they still reached Malacca, and then completed the first deal, and returned to their homeland with a smile on their faces.

Rao is like this, and still has not set off the sea fever again.

One is that everyone does not have much confidence in conquering the sea, and the other is that the two fleets are gradually saturating the market and continue to operate the sea trade, even if the whole ship sells spices and spices, it will not make much money. Spices, in particular, are not sold well in the Republic, after all, the nobility here is not so extravagant. Or maybe their extravagance is already reflected elsewhere, not in the use of spices.

In the Tang Dynasty or the Northern and Southern Dynasties before that, the families of celebrities and scholars liked to smoke their clothes with spices to make themselves fragrant. Therefore, the spice market is still very good, but here in the People's Republic of China, as long as you spend a silver coin, you can buy a good bottle of perfume, and the taste is mellow and not flushed. For a hundred taels of silver, you can buy a bottle of unique perfume, which is a real limited edition luxury.

It is precisely because of Zhang Hongbin's supermarket system that the trend of luxury has been far away from the normal scope of China, so the route of traditional spices and other things in China has begun to narrow, and at most they are sold to cities outside the Republic, and there may be some sales.

When the market is saturated, prices naturally drop. The caravan is not a bandit army, so naturally there is no way to directly kill and rob on the shore, give them ten guts, at least at this stage, they still don't dare. Since the profit is not high, it is better to continue to operate the original workshop, and the profit is higher than that of Haimao, who will waste time Haimao?

Things ended perfectly, but if he could, Zhang Hongbin really didn't want this qiē to be exchanged for blood.

Speaking of both ends, with the reform of salt administration and political zhì, now the Ming Dynasty has also perfectly realized the administrative reform of the two parties and one emperor. Jinyiwei and Dongchang were also directly renamed the National Security Bureau, Dongchang is responsible for internal, Jinyiwei is responsible for external, and the division of labor is clear. The ruling party is still dominated by the remnants of the old forces, but after the last rebellion, they have converged to a limit. As for the supervisory party, it was left to the representatives of the local petty bourgeoisie, the working class and the peasant class.

However, the Ming Dynasty has not yet opened up the wisdom of the people, so the representatives of the workers and peasants are still the local small landlord class and the petty bourgeoisie.

But even so, a situation of opposition between the three powers has been formed, and a good balance has been maintained under mutual supervision.

At this time, the second and third treasure ships were also completed and began to sail into the sea. At the same time, there are more than a dozen common Fu ships in the Ming Dynasty, but they are not an improved version, but the design of the three masts or even the three masts makes the Fu ships also have the ability to sail in the ocean.

You must know that in the past, for the sake of offshore waters, even if the coastal ships were allowed, they were not allowed to exceed two masts.

Originally, the navy had only just undergone some simple training, and even many of the navigation techniques came from the textbooks issued by the Republic. As for the maritime ...... How can it be so easy to hand over what someone else eats? It's not good to use strong, otherwise others will fool with fakes, and you will lose money.

The fleet of thirteen ships was originally trained off the coast of Shandong, just to familiarize themselves with the offshore, and then next year began to get used to ocean voyages, and finally in the second half of the second year, they began to try their first ocean-going trade.

However, not long ago, Chongzhen received the news that the fleet of the republic had looted a lot of wealth and returned.

As a king who was so poor that he was dying, he was naturally very red-eyed. Seeing that others have just gone to the sea, and as a result, there is such a harvest, didn't their own group of troops be formed a month earlier? Then you can also sail into the sea, right?!

After beckoning Li Luo, Chongzhen decisively asked: "Does our fleet have the ability to sail in the ocean?" ”

Li Luo knew why Chongzhen asked that, so he could only answer truthfully: "If you slowly go south along the coastline, then the ocean trade will not be too troublesome." But our people are still too inexperienced, and the information in our hands is also some superficial knowledge, if we encounter any danger, it is very likely that we will not be able to deal with it. So if you want to really go on an ocean voyage, it's better to go over next year. ”

"That's right...... Okay, let's train well......" Chongzhen was a little helpless, but he could only do this first.

Treasure ships are not easy to build, and it is true that they cannot be taken out and risked casually. Chongzhen was also depressed, where did Zhang Hongbin buy such a good material, he only needed to assemble it, and it didn't need to be processed. Unlike myself, it took more than three years of preparation to have this scale.

Not long after, when the news of the second naval fleet returning to the republic with wealth spread, Chongzhen was really not calm.

"Really, there's no way?" Chongzhen called Li Luo over again.

"If you really want to go to sea, it's not impossible...... But there are risks...... "Li Luo also said very cautiously.

"How much is the risk?" Chongzhen tried to ask.

"It's not 100% safe to go to sea, but we still have less experience, so if we go to sea rashly at this time, even if we sail in the near sea, there is a high probability that there will be 30% danger. If you encounter the Zheng family's fleet in Jiangnan and there is a battle, the danger will increase to 50%. If we stay away from the sea, the danger rises to more than 75%. Li Luo seems to have prepared this number for a long time.

"Our firearms are much more powerful than those of the Zheng family...... Besides, the navy has been in the army for so long, and only by constantly burning money can not be exchanged for wealth, there are already people from the military department who have protested to me, Aiqing, do you see if it is ......" Chongzhen is not wrong, some time ago, the people from the Ministry of Finance and the military department did protest.