Zhu Hui had a deep understanding of what would happen to Mo Shanshan, the person who followed him the earliest.
Shanghu County, Yangtze River waters.
Zhu Yuanzhang stared at a building in the distance that stretched straight to the sky, and asked incredulously:
"So...that's a lighthouse?"
"Whose lighthouse can be so high? Is it man-made? It is obviously a mountain, and only mountains can be so high!!"
Zhu Biao and Queen Ma were also shocked. They just felt like they were hallucinating. How could such a tower to the sky appear in the real world.
But if, as Li Jin said, there is a tall lighthouse here, then there is no other place except that place.
"Go and have a look, we don't believe that Li Jin can build a lighthouse into the sky!"
Although Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe it, his curiosity still urged him to have the boat row over to see for himself whether this thing was a lighthouse.
When Zhu Yuanzhang gradually approached, the tall black shadow in the distance gradually enlarged in front of him, and Zhu Yuanzhang realized that this thing was a building.
Because the appearance of this thing is gray-white, just like the high-rise buildings in Shanghai County.
Although he didn't want to believe it, the facts were before his eyes, and Zhu Yuanzhang had to admit that Li Jin really built the lighthouse in the sky.
As Zhu Yuanzhang and others gradually approached the lighthouse, a large number of ships began to appear around Zhu Yuanzhang's ship.
Even before he arrived at the port, Zhu Biao could already feel the bustle of the port, because countless ships were still on the edge of the port.
Looking at the size and volume of those ships, it is obvious that most of them are merchant ships.
"Father, I didn't expect that Li Jin's port would grow to such a scale in such a short period of time. It's really not easy."
Zhu Biao was full of praise for Li Jin. He now felt that Li Jin seemed to know everything and was really a rare genius.
When Queen Ma heard this, she said proudly:
"I forgot to tell you, I also have shares in the port here."
It turns out that Queen Ma invested not only in shipyards, but also in docks.
However, Queen Ma originally thought that Li Jin built the dock to facilitate shipbuilding for the shipyard.
I didn’t expect that the port built by Li Jin would be so lively.
Queen Ma's investment in the port will surely start to make a profit soon.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a little speechless, why did Queen Ma have to get involved.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not refute this time. Zhu Yuanzhang could also see that the port built by Li Jin was indeed something.
Zhu Yuanzhang is still working on this port at this moment, which may be about the same size as Jiangpu Wharf. Compared with Jiangpu Wharf, it can be said that it is the largest wharf and ferry in the Ming Dynasty.
If Empress Ma really invested five million taels of silver to build such a large port, Zhu Yuanzhang thought it might be okay, but it was still not cost-effective.
Until now, Zhu Yuanzhang still feels that Queen Ma has been deceived, and he wants to settle the score with Li Jin, a bitch.
But the moment Zhu Yuanzhang saw the port of Shanghu County, he was completely stunned.
I saw that the port of Shanghu County was like a huge beast, lying at the mouth of the Yangtze River.
In front of this giant beast, Zhu Yuanzhang intuitively felt that the ship under his feet was like an ant, with no sense of existence.
"Is this the port of Shanghu County?"
Zhu Biao felt his scalp was numb at this moment, and asked in disbelief:
"This scale is probably bigger than a city. It can already be called a city, not a port."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the countless ships moored in the port, with their open sails blocking out the sky and the sun.
Each flagpole, like a forest, grows straight upward.
On the shore, there are dense crowds of people, constantly helping with loading and unloading at the port.
But this was only a small part of what Zhu Yuanzhang saw, because the port was so big that Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he would not be able to see the end even if he walked along the port by boat for a long time.
When Queen Ma saw this scene, after experiencing the initial shock, she suddenly became ecstatic, hugged Zhu Yuanzhang and shouted:
"Chongpachi, I'm rich, I'm rich!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked troubled. Just as Empress Ma said, she was indeed going to get rich.
Let’s not talk about the shipyard. For this port alone, if the port can operate at full capacity, the daily income of the port alone will probably not be less than 10,000 taels.
Calculating this way, Queen Ma can make back her capital in just one year, and she can make money in the second year.
And you must know that the port is a semi-permanent building.
As long as there is no major change of dynasty or invasion by foreign enemies in the port here, it will never disappear.
Just relying on such a port, Queen Ma could still count her money until she was weak a hundred years later.
But this was all Queen Ma's investment and had nothing to do with Zhu Yuanzhang, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very uncomfortable.
Zhu Yuanzhang would feel more uncomfortable seeing others making money than losing money himself.
This is just a port. If Li Jin's shipyard can also make a lot of money, then what about Queen Ma's move?
Qin Shihuang ate Sichuan peppercorns and won the prize!
After paying the berthing fee of ten taels of silver, Zhu Yuanzhang let the ship park, and he took Zhu Biao and Queen Ma to the shipyard.
He did not believe that Li Jin could really complete the construction of a shipyard in less than three months.
You must know that in order to develop the navy, he spent nearly five years building a shipyard.
And it's still the kind of shipyard that can't build big ships. Now that Li Jin is going to sea, the shipyard must be more strict than the one he had at the beginning.
How could it be built in just two months?
