City Division.

The main responsibilities are: according to the application of the foreign merchant, the issuance of the notarization and public certificate of the sea trade.

Ships that are allowed to go to sea are inspected for prohibited items such as gold, silver, copper coins, weapons, horses, etc.

There is also human trafficking, which is also prohibited.

After the establishment of the Seven Cities Division.

Zhu Yunxi thought about it and decided to change its ownership.

The Municipal Department is no longer subordinate to the local political department, but is directly under the Zhan Shifu.

It is equivalent to the East Palace Straight Tube!

The reason for winning the city is mainly to collect taxes.

The city of the Ming Dynasty was abolished and opened, opened and abolished.

To put it bluntly, the court can't receive the silver.

It's only tens of thousands of taels a year, what is enough?

In the Song and Yuan dynasties, the city could collect millions of taels of silver a year, which was an important part of the fiscal revenue.

Zhu Yunxi referred to the Song and Yuan Dynasty city ship system.

After the ship returned to the port and arrived, the municipal shipping officer supervised all the goods into the warehouse and searched all the crew members to prevent the unauthorized entrainment of the foreign goods.

The shipping goods will be divided, that is, the tax will be collected on the spot.

Precious goods are classified as fine goods, and two out of ten are taken.

General commodities are classified as coarse goods, and two out of fifteen.

For example, a merchant ship brought a shipload of spices from the West, totaling 10,000 catties, and the city shipping department directly deducted 2,000 catties.

The remaining 8,000 catties of merchants can be transported to all parts of the country and sold on their own.

In addition to the lottery points, there is also a foreign tax.

According to the Yuan Dynasty's set of thirty to take one.

For foreign merchant ships that come to Daming to trade, the Municipal Shipping Division should also adopt similar management methods.

In this way, the income of the market company will be very large.

This was done in order to strengthen the imperial court's control over overseas trade.

Whatever comes in, you have to be clear.

The merger of the City Department into the Zhan Mansion was also for better management.

Zhu Yunxi wants to prove to Lao Zhu that he is the best at holding silver!

You see, it's it!

Jingshi, Longjiang Shipyard.

The honor guard of the imperial grandson is here.

Longjiang Shipyard, subordinate to the Longjiang Lifting Division of the Ministry of Industry, specializes in building sea ships and warships.

To the south of the ten mile road, there is also a new Jiangkou shipyard, which is the earliest government-run shipyard in the Ming Dynasty and is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War.

The Longjiang Shipyard was built in about 15 years of Hongwu.

This area belongs to the Jichuan Garrison and is responsible for guarding the Jingshi Waterway.

The predecessor of Jichuan Wei was the Shinjiangkou Battalion, with 12,000 sailors and 400 warships.

From Jiujiang to Nantong, all thieves and smuggled salt sellers were ordered to patrol and arrest them, and to prevent Japanese soldiers.

The scale of the Longjiang Shipyard is huge.

Arrive at the moat in the east, reach the Qinhuai Guard Army and Civilian Pond in the west, arrive at Yifengmen in the northwest, arrive at the base of the right guard barracks in the south, and arrive at the alfalfa field of the Nanjing Military Department in the north.

Longjiang Shipyard is connected to the Yangtze River in the west and has rows of large and small docks.

Most of the docks are about 70 meters wide and more than 500 meters long.

All the big ships are wooden structures, and most of them are fixed with iron nails in the middle, and they can only be built in places near the river without being pulled.

As soon as you enter the shipyard, you will be greeted by huge sea vessels.

Seeing that the imperial grandson looked up, the official of the lifting department in charge of the shipyard hurriedly trotted over to introduce.

"Your Royal Highness, this ship is forty-four zhang long, eighteen zhang wide, four stories high, the ship can hang twelve sails on nine masts, the anchor weighs three thousand catties, and it takes two hundred people to set sail."

Zhu Yunxi converted, about 147 meters long and 60 meters wide.

It's almost time to catch up with a small aircraft carrier.

In this day and age, this sea ship is undoubtedly a true giant!

Ma He on the side asked excitedly, "How many people can this boat hold?" ”

He knew that this time the heavy task of going to the West would be entrusted to him to complete.

The shipyard replied: "This kind of large sea ship can accommodate 1,000 people. ”

Saying that, he invited the imperial grandson to experience it on the boat.

The legendary treasure ship of Zheng He...... Let's go up and have a look.

Zhu Yunxi boarded the treasure ship.

To his surprise, the living facilities inside are complete, not only equipped with toiletry facilities, but also elegant rooms where family members can be carried.

There are also warehouses stocked with plenty of food.

You can even raise pigs, grow vegetables, grow herbs, make wine, and grow bonsai for viewing on the boat.

This time, in addition to treasure ships, there are four other types of ships in the fleet.

Horse ships used for ocean transportation to transport war horses.

There were also grain ships for the shipment of grain.

There are also ships that carry people and goods.

The most is the warship, escort, if you don't accept it, you will do it.

"Ma He, don't be nervous, this time I will match you with 20,000 horses in the West, and it will be those people who are nervous."

Zhu Yunxi comforted, and then called Jichuan Wei to command Li Bin.

"When the time comes, you will go together, and Gu will equip you with a batch of firearms."

“......”

Ma He and Li Bin glanced at each other, and said in their hearts, "The imperial grandson plans to let us go overseas to destroy the country?"

Zhu Yunxi took out a map from his cuff.

It's a rough map of the world!

"His Royal Highness, what is this?"

Ma He only felt that there were some places that seemed familiar, as if they were around the Ming Dynasty.

But where is the long place on the west side?

And an island the size of the sea?

I've never heard of it!

Zhu Yunxi casually made up: "This is the whole map of the world seen in the lonely dream, you can compare one or two when you go to the West this time." ”

"The whole picture of the world?"

Ma He was shocked, the world is so big?

Zhu Yunxi asked: "By the way, the vast sea, what are you going to use to navigate?" ”

He has been curious about this since he was a child.

Ma He said: "The slave maid inquired about the crew who had gone to sea for generations, and consulted various books, planning to use the sea needle combined with the transoceanic star pulling technique to navigate. ”

To be honest, Zhu Yunxi has never heard of it.

Transoceanic astralism is the process of measuring the height of the stars in a location with a star-pulling board, and then calculating the geographic latitude of the place to determine the specific course of a ship.

It was the most advanced navigation technology of the 14th century.

Ma He added: "The slave maid thinks that he uses Sinan to navigate during the day and keeps the course by watching the stars and water compass orientation at night. ”

Zhu Yunxi nodded, and asked again: "If there are hundreds of ships in the fleet, how can they be connected in the vast sea, especially at night?" ”

Ma He replied without hesitation: "During the day, various colored flags are hung and waved in the agreed way to form the corresponding flags, and at night they are echoed with lanterns. ”

"If it rains on a foggy day, the slave thinks that you can use the gong and the snail to contact you."

Zhu Yunxi said with satisfaction: "It seems that you are well prepared." ”

"His Royal Highness the Taisun handed over this important task to the slave maid, and the slave maid is fortunate to have three lives, so he must do it well."

Horses and began to be grateful.

The two once again set their sights on the world map drawn by Zhu Yunxi.

Ma He pointed to the area around Malacca and said, "The slave maid plans to take the old port of Sriwijaya first as a logistics supply base. ”

"Good strategy! Vicious eyes! Zhu Yunxi praised.

Historically, when Zheng He first went to the Western Ocean, he took the old port on the island of South Sumatra, Indonesia, which was equivalent to controlling the Strait of Malacca.

Soon after, the Old Port Propaganda Division was established and became an overseas "enclave" of the Ming Dynasty.

The Daming Navy set up a city gate and warehouse in Manchurian in the Strait of Malacca, and used it as a transit point for operating in the West.

This time the Ming Dynasty opened the sea, and the imperial court will be the first to go to sea.

Preparations for the trip to the West are intensive, and it is expected that we will be able to leave in two months.

Zhu Yunxi attaches so much importance to it because the next time in the West, the fleet will bring huge profits to the imperial court!

Statistics in Mr. Tian Peidong's "Research on Fiscal Reserves from the Early to Middle Ming Dynasty".

Zheng He's voyage to the West brought huge profits, with more than 727,400 taels of gold alone and 12,760,000 taels of silver, not including the physical value of rare treasures and spices.

Those spices were bought from a number of vassal states in the south for a few dollars a catty, and when they returned to Daming, they sold for dozens of taels and a catty.

And seven trips to the West, a total of six million taels were spent, and it was clear at a glance that he made money and lost money.

In history, the reason why Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, supported the West, was that he knew that it was very profitable.

Every once in a while, he took more than 100,000 horses to Mobei to sweep.

Where did the money come from for war?

Mainly earned by going to the West.

After all, the civil officials and gentry in Jiangnan are not interested in Zhu Di and want to control him economically.

Zhu Di didn't want to open his mouth to ask them for money, let alone be manipulated by them, so he simply started his own business.

The treasury can't come up with money to fight a war?

Lao Tzu himself has money!

The civil officials must be against it, the money has been earned by your royal family, and the loss is the silver of the court!

Zhu Yunxi first closed the market, and then went to the West, which was also the way of the first fat royal family.

Only by saving a certain amount of rich family wealth can we carry out foreign wars unscrupulously.