Heading north to Quanzhou, because it was the typhoon season, Yi Xiaoge's fleet took three weeks to arrive at the port of Quanzhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Unlike Guangzhou, there are fewer merchant ships here, but the degree of development is second only to Guangzhou, because there are large and small official and private shipyards along the coast.

Because of the rich forest resources and excellent harbors, Quanzhou, Fujian Province has formed the largest shipbuilding concentration area in the whole Ming Dynasty, where the most elite shipbuilders and shipwrights in China have gathered.

During the Ming Dynasty, China's shipbuilding technology far surpassed that of the West, and the representative works of peak technology included the treasure ships and fortune ships used by Zheng He in the civilized world to go to the West. It is said that the largest treasure ship at that time was more than 140 meters long! It is more than forty meters longer than the current heart of the world, which is considered the largest courage level!

The closer he got to Quanzhou, the more excited Yi Xiaoge became, in fact, the reason why he actively opened up new routes was also the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Super Cattle Batch and the shipbuilding drawings of the Super Cattle Batch.

When the system prompted him to discover Quanzhou Port, Yi Xiaoge ordered Luo Meng to move forward at full speed.

Cheng Ye, the governor of Quanzhou Port, who had already learned the news by land on the shore, waited for a long time, and when he docked at the port, there were dragon and tiger lion dancers and drummers to welcome him. Yi Xiaoge is also vain, and Yi Xiaoge, who is destined to be home in his bones, almost didn't hold on to this kind of pomp for a while.

The first thing he did when he went ashore was to ask Cheng Ye to take him to the official shipyard to check. The largest official shipyard in Quanzhou is called Wanfu Shipyard, which is a large-scale shipbuilding base created by His Majesty the Emperor himself and invested a lot of money, manpower and material resources.

When Yi Xiaoge entered the shipbuilding base of dozens of square kilometers, he was shocked by the spectacular scene, dozens of dry docks laying keels were scattered with thousands of boatmen, and countless horse-drawn carriages were transporting neatly cut timber into the site.

"It's!" Yi Xiaoge exclaimed.

Governor Cheng Ye hurriedly said: "Gongzi Yi, this is the shipyard personally run by His Majesty today, and what is currently being produced is a variety of ships such as treasure ships, horse ships, grain ships, and war ships prepared for Lord Zheng He's southward voyage to the West in the year after tomorrow. This is only part of what you have seen, and there is another part of the flat-bottomed treasure ships that are being made in Jinling and will be completed by the end of the year! ”

"Lord Zheng He!" Yi Xiaoge suddenly realized, it seems that Zheng He, a seafaring hero, is finally about to start his first voyage, which is more than a hundred years earlier than Columbus, Magellan and da Gama, the pirate navigators.

"My Ming Dynasty's shipbuilding skills are even stronger than those of the West!" Yi Xiaoge sighed.

"Oh? Really? Cheng Ye couldn't hide his pride when he heard Yi Xiaoge say this.

"Of course!" Yi Xiaoge said: "The ship I am on now is called Courage, and it is already the largest sailing ship in the Western world!" ”

"It seems that our dynasty's shipbuilding skills are already among the best in the world, and Your Majesty will be very happy if he learns about it!" Cheng Ye said with a sigh.

Seeing those keels that were more than 100 meters long, Yi Xiaoge's heart was itching, what a magnificent picture it would be if it was completed, how could he get shipbuilding drawings?

Yi Xiaoge thought for a while and said to Cheng Ye, "I don't know if I ask Your Majesty to order this kind of treasure ship, will I agree?" ”

"Order a treasure ship?!" Cheng Ye was shocked: "The treasure ship is an official ship, which involves the safety of our dynasty, and besides, Yi Gongzi has just returned from overseas, if the treasure ship is sold to you, I am afraid that Your Majesty will worry that the shipbuilding skills will be lost overseas and plagiarized by others!" ”

Cheng Ye said this, as if he felt that what he had just said was not appropriate, and added: "This official is not suspicious of Yi Gongzi's loyalty to the monarch and the country, after all, there are many foreigners around you, and it is difficult to keep someone with ill intentions!" ”

Sure enough, it is still difficult, it seems that unless it is to gain the trust of the emperor, it is more difficult to get the treasure ship drawings or even shipbuilders than to ascend to the sky, which is not something that can be smashed with money.

Yi Xiaoge continued to visit the other facilities of the shipbuilding base, and had to admire Ming Chengzu again for being really willing to spend his blood, how much money would it cost to do it.

After resting in Quanzhou for a few days, Yi Xiaoge and others arrived in Beijing, where the Yongle Emperor had just moved the capital (Zhu Di changed Beiping Shuntianfu to Beijing) via the prosperous Jinling (Nanjing), which lasted more than a month.

Yi Xiaoge had just arrived in Beijing in the fifteenth century, and not long after the emperor had just moved here, a large number of southerners had moved here, and for a time the merchants were like water, extremely prosperous and lively. Yi Xiaoge was arranged by the officials of the Ministry of Rites sent by the emperor to rest at the post station, and was summoned by the emperor a few days later.

Yi Xiaoge was the only one who met the emperor, and he asked Qin Feiyan and Luo Meng to wait at the post station. is about to meet the emperor who took the throne of his nephew in the name of Qingjun, Yi Xiaoge said that it was fake not to be nervous, although it is a game, but the AI level of this game, especially the incident in Guangzhou Yihong Courtyard two months ago, makes Yi Xiaoge still have palpitations.

The Imperial City of Beijing has just been completed, and all the palace buildings are magnificent, showing the subtlety of ancient Chinese architectural art. Yi Xiaoge entered the palace almost in the mood of travel, and waited at the outer gate of Fengtian Hall for nearly four hours.

"Xuan! Overseas Chinese businessman Yi Xiaoer meets! ”

Yi Xiaoge was also drunk when he heard this name, he was also the emperor of the Xiaoer Empire, and when he arrived in his hometown, he actually became an overseas Chinese businessman, saying that this name was really ahead of his time. But no matter what, it's finally time to see the emperor, Yi Xiaoge took a deep breath and entered the forbidden door outside the Fengtian Palace. Yi Xiaoge sorted out the wording all the way, especially the purpose of his coming here.

When he arrived outside the palace, a eunuch stepped forward and said to him: "To meet Your Majesty, you need to kneel and salute, you need to call yourself a grass people, and you must not talk nonsense, if you collide with Your Majesty, you must be beheaded all over the door!" ”

Test! Am I scared? Yi Xiaoge said speechlessly, anyway, we have watched dozens of costume TV series, if not a hundred?

Yi Xiaoge went in boldly, the decoration of the Fengtian Hall was resplendent with carved beams and paintings, and a red carpet in the center of the hall was spread out in front of the hall. There are two columns of officials, dressed in red, green and blue, official uniforms and gauze hats, all holding wat plaques made of ivory in their hands. The officials all looked sideways when they saw Yi Xiaoge coming in, after all, Yi Xiaoge had short hair, and his appearance in a coat and leather boots was indeed super modern. It looks like the picture is simply extremely incongruous.

On the top of the main hall, a middle-aged man sat on a spacious gilded dragon chair, not angry and arrogant, wearing a golden dragon robe and a golden crown gauze hat with double dragons playing with pearls. The middle-aged man has a beard and a smile on his face.

The atmosphere in the hall was extremely embarrassing at the moment, Yi Xiaoge looked left and right, and there seemed to be no problem, so he said according to the scene in the TV series he had watched before: "Grass people Yi Xiaoer knocked to see Your Majesty!" Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

"Yi Qing is exempt!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Yi Xiaoge secretly said that this set was really useful, he got up and looked at the front of the hall without squinting, it is said that officials are generally not allowed to look directly at the emperor when they are in the court, and they can only look at each other when they are talking to the emperor.

"A few months ago, I was very pleased to hear that my people had returned from overseas with a huge ship, and I could not have imagined that my people had already carried forward their national prestige and established their achievements overseas. So he invited Yi Qing to come, firstly, to understand the world affairs outside today's court, and to commend Yi Qing for his outstanding contribution to promoting the national prestige and opening up the route for our dynasty! ”

The emperor's meaning is too easy to understand, Yi Xiaoge directly translated it to say that he has mixed well in the West and given the country a long face, and now he wants to reward him and let him tell the story of the West by the way. This Yi Xiaoge has been waiting for a long time, no wonder when he first discovered Guangzhou, there was no hint, it turned out that the emperor had to promulgate it himself.

"Yi Qing, you have traveled to many countries, and you have now a prominent wealth, you must have some experience, why don't you tell me about it?"

Yi Xiaoge knew that the emperor would say this, so he told the words he was going to prepare for a long time one by one.

"Your Majesty has won the award, and the grass people are just doing their best! This time, the grass people came from the west and lasted more than a year and four months, and the voyage was more than 7,000 nautical miles. Along the way, there were dozens of port cities in exchange and trade, and the grass people originally carried four Courage-class expedition ships, but they encountered pirates and lost one on the way. Finally arrived at the port of Guangzhou after hardships......"

After listening to Yi Xiaoge's patchwork of the expedition version, Zhu Di said with great emotion: "The sea voyage is difficult and dangerous, and Yi Qing can firmly believe that he has come all the way, providing valuable experience for our DPRK to communicate with the West, and he is really a hero in the world!" I don't know which Yi Qing thinks is superior or inferior to our dynasty and the West? ”

"This ......" Yi Xiaoge didn't think about this problem carefully, according to common sense, it is naturally necessary to say that the Celestial Empire is good, but I am afraid that this is a routine of the system, and after thinking for a long time, Yi Xiaoge said: "After arriving in Quanzhou, Guangzhou, I visited countless workshops and manufacturing divisions. In terms of folk skills, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Our shipbuilding skills are far more advanced than those of the West, and silk, porcelain, and gunpowder are all national treasures! The West is superior to our dynasty in terms of iron tools, agriculture and animal husbandry, astronomy and geography, etc., and each has its own merits! ”

After Yi Xiaoge finished speaking, His Royal Highness immediately had officials to fight back.

"It's really a wild talk, how can Waiyi be compared to the Celestial Empire? My Celestial Empire has a strong military and superb skills, how can it be compared to those barbarians? ”

"That's it! It's just an upstart who has returned from a barbarian trip to the West, and he dares to make a big deal of nonsense in front of His Majesty. ”

This criticism immediately made officials from all walks of life respond one after another and join the army of trolls, Yi Xiaoge was very embarrassed, this system simulated the stubborn temperament of these NPCs vividly.

"Shut up! A bunch of wine bags and rice bags don't know how to learn Yi's long skills to control Yi, but they are arrogant, and Yelang boasts! I thought what Yi Qing said was reasonable! We should carry forward our strengths and make up for our weaknesses, so that we can prosper and govern the country for a long time! Yi Qing, how do you think I can act so as not to be held back by the West? ”

Test! Is this a test of historical politics? Yi Xiaoge was speechless, this TM is too difficult, he really hasn't thought about it.

PS: There is something to do in the morning, two shifts today, and I hope to understand the part-time writing. Next, Yi Xiaoer is about to enter the high-end plot of the Age of Discovery, are you looking forward to it?