Before Zhu Hao left, of course, he had to deal with the "afterlife".

Now that the purpose of the shipyard to build ships and go to sea has been achieved, and most of the skilled workers in the shipyard have also been taken away by him, it can be dismantled, Zhu Hao can't create a potential opponent for himself, anyway, the existing ships of the Ming Dynasty are enough to deal with coastal bandits.

The proposal for the dismantling of the shipyard was drafted by the cabinet and approved by Zhu Si very quickly.

It's not that Zhu Si gave up his dream of conquering the four seas, it can only be said that Zhu Si feels that the shipyard is now costing too much, and he wants to save money.

"Your Majesty, it is actually necessary to keep the shipyard, and building a big ship should be of much help to the affairs of Jinghai." Zhang Zuo actually has reservations about this.

But Zhang Zuo was not guarding against Zhu Hao.

In the eyes of ordinary people, just having a boat has a fart? Daming mainly did not rely on ships to guard the territory, did Zhu Hao want to be a pirate and a pirate in the future?

But Zhang Zuo felt that the shipyard that had taken so much manpower and material resources to build before was abolished, and then the emperor suddenly felt that it was necessary to build ships and go to sea, and it would be unrealistic to want to regroup at that time.

Zhu Sidao: "It's better to dispose of it first." Those ships are useless if they are plentiful, but it is better to use the silver in a more tangible place. ”

His so-called "real place" is to help his father repair the mausoleum, repair his ancestral home, and reward the queen and other women he likes, so that he can spend lavishly.

Zhu Si is different from other emperors.

He was not cultivated as a prince since he was a child, he knew the benefits of silver, and he was very picky, and he would fight with the ministers for silver.

When he feels that something is costing more than he actually uses, he will stop it in time.

For example, building trains, and for example, shipbuilding.

"Your Majesty, if Mr. Zhu comes back and sees that the shipyard has stopped......

Zhang Zuo put forward a hypothesis.

Zhu Si frowned: "Isn't this Jingdao himself asking to stop shipbuilding?" Oh, he asked, I allowed it to go back, and he came back to blame me for stopping him? And this kind of reasoning? ”

Zhang Zuo actually wanted to say, could this be a way for Zhu Hao to test Your Majesty's attitude?

At the beginning, I said that we would work together, change the times, build ships and build trains, but as a result, I would ask for it casually, and if you said stop, then Zhu Hao had no opinion in his heart?

was originally worried that Zhu Hao might not come back for a long time after going to sea, but if he knew that the emperor was like this, it was estimated that his return would be even more distant.

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on board the sea.

Zhu Hao was no longer able to get in touch with Daming.

He didn't care what Emperor Jiajing wanted to do after he left, anyway, they shouldn't see each other again in the next few years.

The time of sea sailing is very boring, you can only see a scene, you can't touch the ground with your feet, that feeling is like a helpless duckweed, Zhu Hao's will is better, and the people who go to sea together, with the extension of the time to go to sea, many people begin to have opinions.

"Sir, there were incidents on the three boats a few days ago, and fights occurred from time to time."

Lu Song made a statement to Zhu Hao.

He came back from the head ship, which is also what Zhu Hao said before that he had no defense against Lu Song, and let Lu Song lead the way in the head boat for the first few days, and when he turned around, he also asked him to summarize the news on each ship, exercising the duties of the deputy commander of the fleet, and now he is making a detailed report to Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao said: "Everything is according to the law of the Ming Dynasty. Those who participate in the brawl shall be sentenced to punishment, and those with less criminal responsibility shall be confined to confinement! ”

"Sir, and the sick ......"

Lu Song said in embarrassment.

This is also the biggest problem faced by long-term sailing, that is, if there is an infectious disease, it is easy to infect a boatload of people, especially in this year, people actually do not pay much attention to personal hygiene, and there are thousands of people on a boat, and the place where they usually live is cramped, which is easy to cause the epidemic of infectious diseases.

There is no way around it, because if you want to establish your own power overseas, you must have enough manpower. There are so many ships, so big, how can you not take advantage of the limited space to take more people out?

"Gather sick people in a boat as much as possible, isolate them from others as much as possible, and hope that there will be no large-scale loss of people before they reach their destination."

Zhu Hao is also worried that there will be people on the road who will lose their staff because of illness or something.

Nutrition can keep up, Zhu Hao also knows how to regulate the diet of these people, and knows how to treat diseases and save people as much as possible, but the problem is that this is a long-term voyage, one by one, there are 40,000 people on the boat, these people are equivalent to immigrating overseas together, there are men and women, and even the situation of dragging their families, what happens on the road will not be surprising.

Zhu Hao said: "We must prevent the occurrence of vicious incidents, especially for the elderly, weak, women and children, once someone violates it, we must implement strict laws to set an example." ”

This kind of voyage without hope for a long time, those who commit adultery are likely to magnify the evil in their hearts infinitely because of the environment, and if there is a situation such as adultery and plunder, or even murder, they must be punished canonically.

Lu Song clenched his fists: "I understand my humble duties." ”

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The voyage continues.

It's late August.

The sea is vast, and dozens of islands have been passed along the way, including Hawaii Island, which can be docked to replenish the water, but Zhu Hao does not allow anyone except the crew to get off the ship.

There is a growing controversy in the fleet, and not everyone is determined to reach the other side, many are clamoring to go back, and some even want to survive on the nearest island.

But because of the experience of the ships led by Lu Bing, Guan Jing and others in arriving in the New World, and because the fleet brought back a large number of gold, silver and jewelry, they were finally able to calm the hearts of most people...... People are thinking that even though the place is farther away, they will be able to mine gold and silver, and by the way, they will be able to conquer barbarian tribes.

There is no mother-in-law who can catch savage women and come back to give birth, and those who come from humble backgrounds can still catch savage men as slaves......

When I go back to Daming, I will return with a full load, and I can live a life of a superior person after I go back, why not fight for the future?

Even if they don't do anything, they can get the most basic money, which is also the money they can't earn in a few years in the Ming Dynasty.

The slightest opposition did not affect the overall situation.

On this day, Su Xigui appeared in front of Zhu Hao with a haggard face, obviously during this time at sea, he was tormented.

"Little master, I'm dying, it's not that I'm sick, it's that I'm ...... There is an indescribable feeling that I just want to jump into the sea, maybe I will be carefree in this life. ”

Su Xigui showed mental illness.

This is also a common situation for the crew of a long voyage.

Not everyone can adapt to this long-term life on the water, their perception of interpersonal relationships has to be changed because of the voyage of the fleet, the logic of the previous life no longer exists, but has become a temporary law of survival, usually can contact just such a group of people, there are so many things to do......

When many people are unclear about their future fate, they will have anxiety, which will then lead to great psychological problems.

Just like someone had reported to Zhu Hao before, someone took advantage of the darkness to jump from the boat into the sea and drowned, and the body was not fished out.

The loss of personnel has occurred unconsciously.

Zhu Hao said: "Su Dongzhu has servants to take care of him, as well as his wife and concubines, and even children by his side, so he is not satisfied?" What do you think about people who don't even have their hands around? ”

Zhu Hao actually wants to say, you Su Xigui is really uninteresting.

Others work hard to run the boat, many people belong to the hometown, and you are taking the people you can with you, so you are still depressed, you can only say that you used to live too much of a life of drinking and drinking, so that you adapt to the kind of high-minded life, suddenly let you be a crew member like ordinary people, you start to be emotional.

"How long will it take for the little master to arrive?"

Su Xigui began to worry.

Zhu Hao said: "Based on the current calculation of walking twenty miles in one hour, it will take another month. ”

"So long?"

Su Xigui was a little discouraged.

Zhu Hao frowned.

Before leaving, I made it very clear to Su Xigui that this time I had to go to sea for 20,000 miles, even if it was a day and night, it would take nearly three months.

However, as far as Zhu Hao knows, the Pacific Ocean is at least much better than the Atlantic Ocean in bad weather, coupled with the ocean currents between 35 and 42 degrees north latitude and the blessing of the westerly wind, it is a great luck to sail in this environment.

"Lord Su, nothing happened on your ship, right?" Zhu Hao asked.

Su Xigui said: "What can happen?" There weren't a few soldiers over there, but the only ones were...... I saw that the women were shining in my eyes, and I was really afraid of what would happen. What should I do if someone riots before arriving at the place after such a long voyage? ”

After all, Su Xigui was not a soldier, and he was most afraid that those soldiers would covet his wealth and the defenseless women and children around him.

Zhu Hao said: "If you have to worry about this, then you will lose the meaning of going to sea." If there is a riot that you are talking about, there will be a chain reaction...... What you can do at present is to put your people in place, set the rules to the death, and don't provoke right and wrong, especially the women around you. ”

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On this voyage, Zhu Hao believes that the biggest problem is the prosperity of yang and the decline of yin.

Before going to sea, there were more than 39,800 people, of whom no more than 4,000 were women, only one-tenth.

Originally, many people could drag their families out, but they were worried that their wives and children would not be able to stand this kind of turbulence, so they would instead come out and work their own, hoping to go back in about a year and make a lot of money, so most people still don't want to make trouble at sea.

But in this kind of long journey, they still have a great desire for the opposite sex, so Zhu Hao also intends to control the ships with women and children with the most self-controlled soldiers in the fleet.

It's not that these soldiers won't be soldiers.

It can only be said that the military law restricts them more, and then the first batch of gunsmiths trained by Zhu Hao before are those craftsmen who drag their families with their mouths.

Because only they are more compatible with their own hearts and know how to protect the interests of the whole team.