After the enthronement ceremony.

As the most important event of the imperial court in the near future, the construction of sea ships is also regarded as the top priority by the imperial court and Zhu Zhanji.

In addition to the fact that the imperial court concentrated all its efforts on the construction of sea ships.

Zhu Zhanji also issued the first decree of the Xuande period after he ascended the throne.

Encourage the private sector to open shipyards.

Within three years, the shipyard is exempt from all taxes, including those within the shipyard.

At the same time, in the Ming Dynasty, several large ports to the sea opened the port division yamen.

All fleets going to sea need to be registered here before they can leave the port and trade with various places.

In addition, the newly opened Hong Kong Department Yamen is required to open a project to attract investment.

There is a foreign propaganda about the preferential policies of the imperial court for the opening of civil sea routes.

And promised to open a straight road within the Ming Dynasty in these ports.

These straights connect to the surrounding large castles.

Helping to distribute goods from the sea to various places in the fastest time.

In short, Zhu Zhanji thought of almost all the practical issues that needed to be considered for those businessmen who were engaged in sea trade in the private sector in light of the actual situation.

And according to these practical problems, the power of the imperial court was concentrated to solve them for them.

Of course, if this is all there is to it, it is still not enough for the imperial court to revitalize maritime trade and strengthen the domestic shipbuilding industry.

After all, whether as a businessman or a contractor, the most important thing for them is to see profits.

Maritime trade was a relatively new trade for them, and even for this era.

They don't know how much profit, how much profit, and what risks there are.

After all, not everyone has the experience and insight of Namabao.

Therefore, if these discounts are just these offers, it is doomed that Zhu Zhanji's expectations will not be satisfied.

After all, Zhu Zhanji wants more than just a showcase.

According to his idea, maritime trade and related industries should be the backbone industry like real estate in later generations.

It is an industry that will be poured countless financial and material resources into the imperial court, and it will become an industry that plays the role of a reservoir in the economy of the Ming Dynasty in the next ten years, or even twenty years.

These alone are absolutely not enough to achieve this goal.

Therefore, in addition to these decrees, Zhu Zhanji still has a trump card that has not been played.

That is to allow those private fleets to open mines outside in the future!

It's like the silver mines in Dongying Shijian, once the imperial court really promised such conditions, then those private private fleet chambers of commerce within the Ming Dynasty could open silver mines outside by organizing their own fleets, or buy silver mines in the hands of those natives.

How much profit is there?

When you go, you will load a shipload of air, and when you come back, you will be full of gold and silver.

Needless to say, just one trip is enough for countless people to eat and drink for a lifetime.

In this case, does Zhu Zhanji still need to force the development of maritime trade-related industries?

When the fleet belonging to the imperial court of the Ming Dynasty came back, what would countless people think after seeing the ship full of gold and silver?

It's definitely going to be red-eyed.

At such a time, Zhu Zhanji told them, you don't have to be red-eyed, there are good things, let's do it together.

But it was impossible for the imperial court to provide them with sea ships.

At that point, if you want to go to sea and load money, you first have to have the tools.

You can't say that you have to prepare a sack for you to collect money, right?

In fact, it's not just the magnates within the Ming Dynasty.

Even ordinary people can do it.

Zhu Zhanji also thought of this.

With such a good thing, how could a person like Zhu Zhanji be willing to let those powerful people with vested interests take all of them.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with the powerful themselves.

Let them take advantage of it for sure.

As long as the imperial court relaxes this condition, the magnates will definitely be the first to eat crabs.

But while the elite class is eating meat, Zhu Zhanji will not just watch them sit big.

It even formed the scholar families that existed in previous dynasties.

The existence of this level is almost equivalent to the capital of the later generations.

Although the emergence of capital is inevitable on this road.

After all, if you want to develop, if you want to develop rapidly, you can't hold the interests in the hands of one person.

The apportionment of interests, similar to the existence of capital, will inevitably appear.

But it is still the same sentence, there is a reward, there must be a system.

If Zhu Zhanji hadn't figured out how to deal with and restrain them, he would never have opened this Pandora's box.

And giving ordinary people and real civil benefits is one of his countermeasures.

Through the money banks set up by the imperial court, loans were made to private chambers of commerce that did not have upfront silver reserves.

Then help them form a fleet that meets the conditions for going to sea.

Of course, using the rise of private capital to give ordinary people a channel for class promotion to confront the existing magnates and maintain a balance between the two sides is only one of them.

After that, Zhu Zhanji will also use tariffs and other means to restrain him.

In the end, the industry has developed, and the interests of the majority are still in the hands of the imperial court.

After all, tariffs depend on how you decide.

And Zhu Zhanji, who thought about everything next, naturally pretended to act unintentionally, and 'inadvertently' revealed his idea of relaxing the conditions of maritime trade and giving opportunities to the people to the officials of the imperial court.

With Zhu Zhanji's 'unintentional mistake', a storm of public opinion about maritime trade and the opening of silver mines instantly appeared in the entire capital.

Almost everyone is talking about it.

After all, the stakes behind this are too great.

So big that no family can turn a blind eye.

As early as when Zhu Zhanji was still the grandson, after he reformed the system of taxation, farming and purchasing land could no longer let those vested interests, that is, the elite class of the Ming Dynasty, lie down and make money.

Their desire to make money has almost exploded.

Now, at last, they have seen a new path.

It is also the path that Zhu Zhanji leads them to see.

So, after getting the exact news.

Countless people have already begun to prepare for this.

First of all, the first thing is where to go to get a boat.

There is no need to think about the ships of the imperial court, and the people do not have shipyards to build their own ships.

So what to do?

You can only do it yourself.

And, when everyone wants to go to sea, don't you build your own shipyard, isn't that also lying down to make money?

The emergence of a large number of shipyards has led to employment opportunities for countless ordinary people.

When the people are rich, the surrounding economy will be better.

It will also drive the development of other industries.

For example, the land sold by the court.

The construction of a shipyard must have a suitable location.

Almost everything that can be used has been clearly marked by the imperial court.

A large amount of money flowed into the imperial court, which used the money to start building infrastructure around the port wharf.

It has led to employment and economic consumption.

There was more tax revenue from the imperial court.

There is also money for the surrounding infrastructure.

Under Zhu Zhanji's planning, these changes gradually formed a benign economic closed loop.

And every time these economies flowed into a completely new industry and individual, they brought benefits to the imperial court.

So that the imperial court has always been in a dominant existence.

Of course, this is what Zhu Zhanji will do next, and it is also the main major event that the entire Ming Dynasty has done in the past ten years.

But all of this still needs an opportunity to make a formal decision.

That's the advent of a new currency!

If the entire Ming Dynasty is still in an era where silver and gold are the main trading currencies, then the inflow of a large amount of gold and silver will inevitably have a very serious impact on the entire Ming Dynasty.

The simplest is the skyrocketing prices.

And the most direct impact is that ordinary people can no longer afford to buy food.

Although the specific impact will depend on the actual situation, no matter what kind of reaction and impact will occur, it will be unacceptable to Zhu Zhanji.

Therefore, only the introduction of a new currency, after the national uniform currency change.

Everything he had planned before could be officially launched.

As time passes, day by day.

Public opinion, which spread from the capital and began to spread on a large scale throughout the capital, also began to intensify.

Even the King of Han and the King of Zhao had already come to Zhu Zhanji in person.

Ask if it's true.

Apparently.

For that huge profit, even these two princes couldn't sit still.

Not only them, but all kinds of people in the court who have some kinship with Zhu Zhanji began to ask people to inquire about the authenticity of this matter.

All want to eat a bite of meat in this regard.

For such changes, Zhu Zhanji naturally sees it in his eyes.

But that's what he wants.

He is not afraid that someone will want to eat meat.

Or rather, the meat was meant to be eaten by them.

But compared with these, Zhu Zhanji sees more than just these interests.

What's more, he saw the thriving maritime industry of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Don't look at these people, they all went to those silver mines in the first place.

All I wanted was to go and pull a boatload of gold and silver back.

However, with the gradual change of tariffs and the proportion of new currency exchange with the imperial court.

The profits brought to them by these gold and silver will continue to decline, and eventually tend to a stable.

From a profiteering industry to an industry with normal returns.

At that time, they who have invested countless resources will inevitably change due to the change of the imperial court's policies.

From the simplest porters at the beginning, they gradually began to bloom like later generations.

Transportation, trade, and much more.

And this is also the first big change that Zhu Zhanji brought to the Ming Dynasty.

The Age of Sail begins!

And after having specific means and ways to realize, the industrial revolution is about to begin to shine its light.

Let the sun and moon shine in the sky of the seven continents.

And the next control of the whole world, although it is still far away.

It should be regarded as the model of Ming Dynasty 2.0.

However, Zhu Zhanji is still full of confidence for these.

After all, the various means of the beautiful country in later generations are a standard answer.

Of course, this talent is also inherited from his father's owl.

There is no one in this world who understands the pros and cons better than the owl.

With so much practical experience, Zhu Zhanji did not dare to say that he would not encounter the slightest difficulty, but at least the direction was clear.

There will be no problems with direction selection.

Under the central command of Zhu Zhanji, the entire Ming Dynasty began intensive preparations from top to bottom.

Sea ships are launched one by one.

The construction of the shipyards started one by one.

Treasure ships laden with gold and silver have returned from Dongying.

One after another, government-run money banks began to appear quietly all over the country.

A large number of rubber trees gradually grew and the scale continued to expand.

The Watt improved version of the steam engine on the outskirts of Nanjing was also transported to a secret mansion outside Beijing.

Countless craftsmen have studied and copied day and night.

Half a year.

Since the day Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, the entire Ming Dynasty has been in a state of rapid operation.

In the process.

Under Zhu Zhanji's deliberate promotion, no one in the entire court could be idle.

It is really giving full play to the value of the court itself, rather than constantly fighting in the whirlpool of power and interests.

Countless officials, even for the first time in their lives, experienced this feeling.

Although the vast majority of people don't know what they're doing from beginning to end, they also have vague feelings.

It was as if a great era was about to be born in their hands.

Because everything they have experienced and done has never been seen in all dynasties.

In particular, they saw with their own eyes that the shipload of gold and silver was really transported back to the country as if in a dream.

I saw the mountains of gold and silver that only appeared in dreams piling up in the harbor.

One can imagine how touching such a reality is to them.

Under Zhu Zhanji's command, many things that only exist in dreams are constantly becoming reality.

In this case, under the influence of this great era change, people have chosen to take on their own responsibilities.

began to follow Zhu Zhanji's command and kept moving forward.

This half-year period is unusual for ordinary officials.

The same is true for Zhu Zhanji himself.

He didn't just see a masterpiece being perfected in his own hands.

He also got a feeling that he hadn't experienced in two lifetimes.

His child was born.

It's a daughter.

This is exactly the same as history.

And Zhu Zhanji was naturally ecstatic about the birth of his daughter.

After knowing that Hu Shanxiang did not give birth to a son, but a daughter, as in history, Zhu Zhanji also felt the wonder of all this.

Therefore, as in history, he also gave his first daughter, the eldest princess of the Ming Dynasty, the name Shunde.

At the same time, it also gave the first warship of the new navy of the Ming Dynasty the name Shunde.

The establishment of a new navy also took place within six months.

Naturally, civilian sea vessels should develop rapidly.

However, it is only right that the military must not lag behind, and even be ahead of the civilian population.

So after everything was on the right track, and the first batch of gold and silver flowed into the imperial court, and the imperial court had a steady stream of finances, he immediately ordered Yang Shiqi, who had been idle for a long time and had never led any major affairs, to start building the first new navy of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of chapter)