On August 13th, the emperor arrived at the Longjiang Shipyard.

Although all preparations have been made, officials of Longjiang Shipyard are still nervous and at a loss.

After all, for most of them, they may not have the chance to be in their entire lives.

The reason why Zhu Cixuan chose to inspect Longjiang Shipyard on this day was of course not a whim, but because the first lucky ship independently built by Longjiang Shipyard will be officially launched on this day.

As the emperor of the Ming Empire, Zhu Cilang certainly had to attend such an important occasion.

Although the Longjiang Shipyard is not as proud as it was when it was first established, it has recovered its aura of seventy or eighty-eight parts. Zhu Cilang was still basically satisfied with it at a glance.

Behind Zhu Cilang are Zheng Chenggong and Song Yingxing.

Zhu Cixuan took the two to inspect together to ask them to give some targeted suggestions on the first lucky ship built by the Longjiang Shipyard.

After all, one of the two is the author of "The Work of Heaven" and the other is the son of the largest maritime merchant on the coast of Fujian.

Zhu Cixuan, surrounded by a group of great generals of Jinyiwei, walked to the dock of the factory behind the manufacturing of the blessing ship. A group of officials and craftsmen fell to the ground and shouted long live.

Zhu Cilang raised his hand and signaled everyone to flatten.

Today he wore a big red dragon robe and a black winged crown, looking very energetic.

Zhu Cilang lifted his robe and took a step forward and said loudly: "I know that Longjiang Shipyard has been abandoned for many years, and it is not easy to restore it to its current scale. This is the result of your hard work, and I feel very comforted. I often wonder why Longjiang Shipyard was abandoned after the opening of the sea during the Wanli period of Longqing. Finally, I figured it out. That was because the court handed over all the shipping to large and small sea merchants and became the hand-off manager! Of course, it doesn't need to build ships by yourself anymore, so Longjiang Shipyard was abandoned."

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what medicine was selling in His Majesty the Emperor. They looked at their eyes, nose and hearts, and they all remained silent.

Zheng Chenggong was extremely embarrassed.

When it comes to maritime businessmen in the Ming Dynasty, who can be bigger than his father Zheng Zhilong?

Since accepting the invitation, the Zheng family has both official, business and enemy, completely monopolized the shipping from Fujian to Japan and Manila.

Even if some small sea merchants want to sell goods, they have to ask the Zheng family what they mean and need to pay a sum of money that satisfies the Zheng family.

As for those merchant ships passing by the Fujian waters, regardless of whether they are from the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu, South China Sea, Dutch, Spanish, or Portuguese, they must pay taxes to the Zheng family.

It was by collecting money to buy roads that the Zheng family was able to earn millions of taels of silver a year and raise a navy with thousands of warships.

Zheng Chenggong knew that the Zheng family's various actions in Fujian inevitably caused displeasure of His Majesty the Emperor, but he did not think of a good solution for the time being.

After all, Zheng Zhilong is his biological father. At most, he can write letters to dissuade him, and it is impossible for him to do too much.

His Majesty the Emperor re-established the Longjiang Shipyard and ordered the shipyard to rush to build a lucky ship, which was somewhat aimed at the Zheng family. This made Zheng Chenggong a little embarrassed.

On one side is the king, on the other side is the father, on the other side is the country, on the other side is the family.

Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve both, so he seems to have to make a choice.

Did His Majesty the Emperor say to him?

His Majesty said that the court was used to being a hand-off manager, so he abandoned the Longjiang Shipyard. So now the court has re-established the Longjiang Shipyard, which means that it does not want to be a hand-off manager anymore.

"I have considered that the court came forward to be responsible for the shipping, but after careful consideration, I found that there were many difficult parts. It was because I decided to establish the Huangming Trading Chamber of Commerce, and the court and the sea merchants worked together to do the shipping matters."

Zhu Cilang paused for a moment and then said: "Since it is cooperation, we naturally cannot push everything to the merchants. The court must build ships, and a large number of ships must be built. At present, there may not be many sea ships belonging to the imperial court in the Huangming Chamber of Commerce, but I believe that in half a year, the sea ships belonging to the imperial court will definitely occupy a large part of it! This is my expectation and also my requirement for you."

Hearing this, Zheng Chenggong's heart thumped.

His Majesty the Emperor still gave face to the Zheng family. In fact, the Huangming Trading Chamber of Commerce was jointly organized by the imperial court and the Zheng family. No one knows about this, but does Zheng Chenggong still know about it?

The letters Zheng Chenggong wrote to his father Zheng Zhilong several times were modified according to the emperor's wishes.

It seems that His Majesty is very dissatisfied with the role played by the Zheng family in the Huangming Chamber of Commerce!

Zheng Chenggong is a smart person, and smart people are good at listening to implicit sounds from other people's words.

There is no doubt that the best proof is that His Majesty the Emperor is beating the Zheng family and he personally visited the Longjiang Shipyard to watch the newly built blessed ship launching the water.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. With the experience of successfully building the first lucky ship, the next second and third ships will be much simpler.

Zheng Chenggong believed that it would not take long before the court would build hundreds of sea ships.

After all, the imperial court has the wealth of the world. If the whole country is working hard to build a sea ship, it will be no problem to catch up or even surpass the Zheng family.

At that time, could the Zheng family still get half of the trade income in the Huangming Chamber of Commerce?

Or, at that time, did the Zheng family dare to get half of the trade income?

Zheng Chenggong found that this was a very headache-inducing problem. Maybe it seems not that difficult now, but sooner or later, it will have to face it.

"I have a wish that in ten years, the Ming Dynasty will have the most powerful naval master in the world. No matter whether it is the Folangji people, the Dutch people or the English people, they will have to surrender to the Ming Dynasty at sea. Under the protection of the Ming Navy, my subjects can go to every corner of the world with confidence."

Zhu Cilang said passionately and raised his fists high.

"In order to realize this wish, I need each of you to do your best. This is not only for me, but also for the court, but for each of you, for your descendants, and proudly shouting that I am a commoner in the Ming Dynasty!"

After saying that, Zhu Cilang took a deep breath and waved his hand and said, "Open the gate!"

At the command of the Holy Emperor, officials immediately passed the order.

The officials who were already on standby ordered the craftsmen to open the huge stone gate in the ship dock of the Houchang.

Once the stone gate was opened, the river water from Longjiang immediately poured into the dock.

Not long after, the lucky ship that had just been built floated up.

Zhu Cixuan was very excited to see this scene.

This is the first large seaship built by the imperial court since he ascended the throne. I hope it is a good start.

After a long time, the dock was filled with river water, and the lucky boat floated up completely.

Zhu Cilang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Tell me my will and float the boat into the river!"

The back factory has a stream leading to Longjiang. Just bring the lucky boat into the stream and you can drive into Longjiang!

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Chapter completed!