Escort and supervise the fleet in the Ming Dynasty, sailing with the fleets of the Taixi Kingdoms.

After leaving the Red Sea, it entered the Lesser Western Ocean, then followed the traditional east-west route all the way east, and entered the Strait of Malacca twelve days later.

Malacca is the southern gate of Daming, and the fleet has really come to Daming when it comes here.

The royal family, nobles, scholars, and merchants of Taixi, who had been living on the ship for more than half a month, came to the deck again.

In the rather wide strait, large ships pass by from time to time.

Unusually large ships were often seen, larger than the 40,000-ton battleships they were on.

Including oil tankers and container ships with a maximum tonnage of 100,000 tons.

At the same time, these ships encountered the fleets of the Tessie nations, and often had crews standing on deck, waving far away.

George IV was a little excited when he saw this picture, and he also raised his hand and waved it lightly in the distance, and at the same time said to his daughter Charlotte beside him:

"The Ming people on the ship seemed to welcome us very much......"

Charlotte gave an embarrassed but polite smile:

"Father, in fact, there is another possibility, they are greeting the Ming Navy who is walking with us......

George IV's expression suddenly became a little embarrassed, and he didn't know where to place his waving palm.

The fleets of the Ming Navy and the Taixi countries sailed forward along the strait, the width of the strait became lower and lower, and the density of ships around it became higher and higher.

By the time the fleet approached the port of the Lion City, it had reached the point where it was full of ships.

On the routes demarcated by the port authority, various ships of different sizes are lined up one after another, forming a fleet with no end in sight.

At the berths of the port, at the anchorage near the port, rows of ships were parked.

Everywhere the fleet of the Ming Navy went, they were greeted very warmly, and many of the ship's crew and passengers jumped up and waved to this side.

The fleet of the Ming Navy and the ships of the Taixi countries will also dock at the port of Lion City for supplies.

Therefore, in accordance with the radio requirements of the pilot ship and the port, they also sailed into a specially reserved berth to rest and wait for inspection.

The Lion City is the true southern gate of the Ming Dynasty and belongs to the provinces directly under the central court of the Ming Dynasty.

The management system and inspection measures here are much stricter than those in Dashi and Egypt.

The people from the East and West Factory, the people who followed the wharf management, and the people who cooperated with the Honglu Temple, formed a working group and boarded the ships of the Taixi countries separately to start work.

The people of Honglu Temple were responsible for greeting the royal families and checking the list of personnel with the diplomats around them.

The people of the East and West Factory followed the people in charge of the dock to check the condition of the ships and the items they carried.

In the process, the nobles, officials, scholars, and merchants of the Taixi countries were still standing on the deck, very curious and excited to enjoy the scenery of the dock.

The modern docks and cityscapes of the pure and true Oriental City, which he rarely had the opportunity to see for most of them.

No matter what kind of background you come from, you have enough judgment and understanding ability to be among the envoys.

From the scene of the dock in front of them and the situation of the people on the surrounding ships, they can roughly judge that the situation in Daming is much better than that of the Taixi countries.

The docks in the Lion City are very busy and lively, with goods and people coming up and down very frequently and quickly, and the operation efficiency of the entire terminal is also very high.

The berths and shipping lanes are in a state of high busyness, without the feeling of depression that is now on the docks of the Tessie countries.

In fact, even ordinary people who do not have a deep understanding of the state of society can easily feel that the atmosphere of the two places is completely different.

In previous years, the Tessie countries had a similar atmosphere, but it has not been maintained until now.

That's why the contrast is particularly strong now.

After the ships of the Taixi countries were inspected and verified, they received a special navigation certificate issued by Honglu Temple.

After receiving supplies, all the ships set off again one after another, sailing north along the southeast coastline of the Ming Dynasty.

This coastal route is also the busiest offshore route in the Ming Dynasty and even in the world.

When you are in the open sea, you can basically see large ships on the sea, but after you reach the offshore sea and the inland sea of the Ming Dynasty, there are more small ships.

This makes encounters at sea more frequent.

The feelings of the elites of the Taixi countries are more deeply felt the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

The royal families, nobles, officials, scholars, and businessmen of various countries have discussed and sighed with the people around them more than once.

"Don't say that Europa's current situation, even when the market was at its most prosperous a few years ago, it can't be compared with Daming at all......

"Nowadays, the countries of Europa are facing stagnation and even recession, but Daming is still prospering, and the gap between the two sides will become wider and wider."

"If it is said that in previous years, the biggest gap is not only the gap in technology and industrialization, but also the trade barriers between the countries of Europa."

"Yes, the Great Ming, the entire Great Ming, two-thirds of the land of the entire planet, all belong to the unified jurisdiction of the same imperial court.

"They use highly identical laws and systems, as well as the most critical currency, and the vast majority of people and goods can move and trade freely."

"Yes, all goods circulation does not require customs duties, the key is that there is no need for import and export related procedures, not only is the market more efficient, the key is that there is a lot of additional administrative expenses......

"The land of Europa is only half of the Ming Dynasty, but it is divided into more than a dozen countries, with more than a dozen laws and currencies, and I don't know how many customs.

"Coupled with the trade protection of various countries, even if the local manufacturers of Europa do well, there is not enough market for them to develop."

"All kinds of basic industries, Taixi countries have to develop their own set of their own, our technical level is low, and we have to waste several times more construction capacity."

"Europa is such a scattered sand, let alone compete with Daming in the future, and the possibility of shortening the distance with Daming is infinitely close to zero......"

The more the elites of the Taixi countries thought about and compared the differences between Shenzhou and Europa, the more they felt that the gap between the two sides was extremely huge.

And then the more desperate and helpless it became.

With a complicated and tangled mood, the two fleets arrived at the real core area of the Ming Dynasty on December 20, the fifteenth year of Ankang.

The southeastern coastline of the Gangnam region.

However, their fleet did not enter the mouth of the Yangtze River, but sailed into the Zhoushan military port as required.

Zhu Jingyuan didn't want their warships to enter the Yangtze River, and he didn't want their warships to wander around in the inland rivers of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the ships of the Taixi countries were required to stop at the Zhoushan Military Port.

The Yangtze River, of course, is the inland river of the Ming Dynasty, which directly belongs to the territory and not the territorial waters, and of course can prohibit any foreign ships from entering.

It's just that if it was in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, he invited others to attend the ceremony and didn't let them enter the Yangtze River waterway, it would be a little weird.

This is just the Taixi people of this world, and it is a great honor to be able to come to Daming.

Of course, no one raised any objections to the arrangement of parking the ship in the military port, and they also felt that it was convenient for them to participate in the parade.

Because the celebratory parade after Zhu Jingyuan's enthronement ceremony was held in Zhoushan Military Port.

It is also a toss to drive the battleship into the Yangtze River and then out again.

Those who participated in the enthronement ceremony of the Ming Emperor changed to a large passenger ship prepared by Honglu Temple at Zhoushan Military Port, bypassing the Songjiang Peninsula and entering the mouth of the Yangtze River.

In the process of going up the Yangtze River to Yingtianfu.

In this golden waterway, the elites of the Taixi countries are even more in the mood to rest.

As long as you have the opportunity, you can find it on the deck, or in the windowed room and living room, you can enjoy and observe the passing ships on the Yangtze River.

and, more crucially, the sights on both sides of the Yangtze River.

The special video and recording personnel brought by the countries of Taixi also cheered up the spirit of twelve, and tried to record everything they saw.

Once again, everyone felt dizzy.

After all, it is home to what is now the largest urban agglomeration in the world, as well as some of the most sophisticated small towns in the world.

The most abundant and comfortable water town in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty is the place where literati and scholars from all over the world are haunted by their dreams.

It is also a global center of science and technology and an industrial mecca.

Whether it's boats and boats on the water, or cars in cities along the river, or trains on the bridge across the Yangtze River.

Or flying planes on the water and in the sky, as well as factories and buildings in the city and huge billboards.

The attraction to the Tessie bureaucrats, merchants, and aristocrats is usually very sufficient.

Many people were first struck by the overall view.

Compared to the cities of Taixi countries, simply looking at these scenes from the river is like coming to another world.

Then I was amazed by all the details.

Including the streets of the city where horse-drawn carriages have completely disappeared, including the ubiquitous airplanes on the river and in the sky.

Including children playing in the city and by the river, as well as on the water.

What shocked them the most was that three extraordinarily small planes flew low over the water not far from the side of the passenger ship they were travelling on.

At this time, the distance was already very close, and Tessie on the ship was able to directly see the looks and expressions of the people inside through the glass cockpit of the plane.

The point is, those people are teenagers.

The three drivers were older, but they were only fifteen or sixteen.

The passengers in the driver's back seat were noticeably smaller, and the youngest looked to be less than ten years old.

Most of them were boys, but there were a few girls, especially the pilot who flew the plane.

When a group of children passed by the fleet, they all turned their heads to look at the boat on this side, all with curious expressions.

Jinyiwei's plane, which was patrolling the air, soon followed.

There is also a loudspeaker shouting at this side:

"Listen to the three planes in front, this is the Jinyi Guard of the Jiangkou Air, now I ask you to leave the river immediately and land at the nearest public airport!"

"Repeat ......"

The passengers on the ships of the various countries of Tessie looked stupid.

King George III of England looked at his daughter beside him, stretched out his hand and pointed to the planes on the river, and asked with an incredible look in his eyes:

"Charlotte, do you see it, there are a bunch of children on those three small planes!"

Charlotte's reaction was quite calm:

"Of course I saw it, and it must have been someone's child who came out on their parents' plane.

"This kind of thing...... Actually, it's quite common......"

George IV and the surrounding nobles and bureaucrats were visibly taken aback:

"Common! How common is this? ”

Charlotte seemed a little reluctant to introduce to the surrounding nobles and officials:

"The children of the Ming Dynasty are not required to work, and it was originally forbidden to use child labor by the imperial court, but now it has become a habit.

"Daming's children only need to go to school or go out to play......

"Daming's aircraft industry has a very high degree of development, with specially designed lightweight small aircraft that can take off and land on grass and river beaches.

"It's easy to operate, it's selling very well, and the price is on par with a regular car.

"The wage standard of workers in Daming has always been relatively high.

"Even if you are an ordinary manual worker, the salary of a person working normally is enough for the whole family to have no worries about food and clothing, and there is still some savings for the children to go to school.

"The lowest level of management, as well as the slightly more skilled workers, skilled workers with enough years of service, can afford to buy a car with a little savings.

"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty is particularly fond of airplanes, and organized the Ming Aviation Industry Association and the Flight Association, and the people also have a very good flying atmosphere.

"Wealthier families in the Ming Dynasty, especially in the Jiangnan area, usually like to live in separate yards and buy two cars and a small plane.

"If you live in a yard by the river or the sea, you usually have your own small steamboat.

"There are more children in the Ming family, and a mother has five or six children or more, even if they generally don't go to work, they can't manage it.

"If it is a royal family, a nobleman, or a family of merit, since the male owner can take concubines, there may be more than a dozen children.

Although the Ming Dynasty strictly forbade young people under the age of 16 to fly planes, cars, and boats.

"There are always children who are extra bold and secretly open their things out to play.

"I used to see this kind of thing in the newspapers, and there were Jinyi guards who caught such bold children and told their parents to claim them.

"This is still caught, and I don't know how many have not been caught......

"Even on the farms downward, some of the fifteen or sixteen-year-olds are used to helping their parents fly planes to spray pesticides......"

Listening to Charlotte's introduction, the expressions of the surrounding Tessie elites varied.

They all knew a little about Da Ming before, but many times they couldn't understand such details and details.

Many of them can't even imagine that there would be such a society in this world.

Many people were stunned for a long time, and they didn't know how to express their feelings and from what angle to express their feelings.

In the end, it was Prime Minister Robert Jenkinson who spoke first.

"I knew that the gap between Europa and Daming was huge, but I didn't expect the gap to be so big.

"From the most striking level of high-end technology, to the scale and depth of industrialization as a whole, and the prosperity of the entire social market.

"The countries of Europa have been far away from the Ming Dynasty.

"The most important thing is the children, especially the children of elite families, who are the future of a country.

"Many of the aristocrats and elites in Europa, in order to avoid dividing the family property because of more children, or spending too many assets to raise children, which led to an overall decline in the class of the whole family.

"Their thoughts and expectations of having children have been constantly lowering......

This, coupled with Malthus's theories, provided theoretical support for these elites, further exacerbating this tendency.

"There are fewer and fewer children of the ordinary nobles and elites of Europa, but there are more and more children of the nobles and elites of the Ming Dynasty.

"This disparity is even symbolic of ...... in a way"

Jenkinson stopped talking about this.

After all, he is the prime minister, and it is better not to say such a public expectation about the future of the entire country and even the ethnic group.

At the same time, the British Naval Commander Nelson continued to look at several planes farther and farther away, and sighed to himself:

"Children are really key, when the children of Europa play in the mud in the fields, mop the floor and screw in the factories, and sell newspapers and flowers on the streets.

"Daming's children may have gone out into the sea and sky in planes and boats......

"How can our children compete with the children of Daming?"

What Nelson and Jenkinson said was not one thing.

It was certainly impossible for the aristocratic children of Europa to go to the fields to play in the mud, nor to turn screws in the factories.

The aristocratic children of the Ming Dynasty...... It is indeed possible to fly out......

But they all expressed the same sentiments.

It's not just that the current gap between Taixi and Daming is huge.

In the future symbolized by children, there is also no tendency to reverse.

(End of chapter)