Under the guidance of passers-by, Zhu Yuanzhang and the others arrived at another dock.
This pier is obviously much smaller than the one just now, and the boats floating on the pier are all brand new, and they look like they have just been built.
This brand-new ship has a very peculiar shape, like a turtle, and is far less tall than the unique Fu Ship of the Ming Dynasty.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was confused, he heard Zhu Biao pointing to a tall wall not far from the pier and saying:
"Father, look at the words on it, it seems to say Royal Longjiang Treasure Shipyard."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he looked in the direction and found that these words were actually written on the tall wall.
"Royal?"
Zhu Yuanzhang expressed confusion. When did Zhu Yuanzhang open a shipyard again?
Regardless of what Zhu Yuanzhang thought, Empress Ma walked over there quickly.
After Zhu Yuanzhang got closer, he could see the buildings in front of him more clearly.
This is a building surrounded by tall walls on all sides. It is unclear what is inside and what is being done.
But judging from the area enclosed by this wall, the shipyard here should be extremely huge, twice as big as the original Longjiang Shipyard in Yingtian.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked around and found nothing, so he planned to find someone with Zhu Biao and others to ask where the entrance to the shipyard was.
As a result, before anyone could be found, Li Jin came out of a side door of Longjiang Shipyard with a few people dressed as craftsmen, smiling broadly.
After Li Jin saw Queen Ma, he was suddenly stunned, and then said with a smile on his face:
"Madam, you are finally here. Our shipyard is waiting for you to cut the ribbon!"
Queen Ma, however, looked puzzled and said:
“We only have a wall here, not even a signboard, so who are we going to show it to when we cut the ribbon?”
"Madam, you don't know. Now the court has strict control and won't let the news about us building ships and going to sea be spread."
Li Jin explained in a low voice and said mysteriously:
"Our ribbon-cutting is just an internal ribbon-cutting. We only need our insiders to know about it."
"I called my wife here this time just to tell her that our port and shipyard are open for business and ready to make money."
Zhu Yuanzhang heard from the side that Li Jin was doing a good job in keeping secrets, and he suddenly said happily:
"You've finally learned to be smart. The last time something happened in Yingtian City was leaked, it almost killed you."
Li Jin laughed twice and said:
"Every time you take a step, you gain wisdom!"
"You guys should go in with me and have a look."
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately took the lead and walked into the so-called treasure shipyard.
As a result, after entering, what I saw was a wall with a small door set up on the wall and two guards guarding the door.
Li Jin led several people through the four doors, and Zhu Yuanzhang heard the movement inside.
When the fifth door opened, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that his eyes suddenly became brighter.
What appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes at this moment was a huge shipyard. The reason why it was said to be huge was because there were a total of eighteen shipbuilding tanks in it.
Compared with Longjiang Shipyard in Yingtian, it is fully twice as large.
Correspondingly, the scale of the shipyard will naturally be doubled.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw the whole shipyard clearly, he realized that there were no less than ten thousand craftsmen here.
In other words, all the craftsmen Li Jin borrowed from the Ministry of Industry were crammed into this place.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became angry.
The craftsman who built his mausoleum was actually used by this piece of shit to build a ship.
Just to destroy the ship in a few days, even the craftsmen of the entire Ministry of Industry were brought over. This is simply killing a chicken with a sledgehammer.
You must know that the craftsmen used by Zhu Yuanzhang are all the best in the country.
Originally, he wanted to build the mausoleums of himself and Queen Ma majestic so that they could enjoy glory and wealth after death.
As a result, it now seems that Li Jin is all cheap.
Li Jin didn't care whether Zhu Yuanzhang was angry or not. He diligently took Queen Ma around the shipyard and started introducing her.
"This is the test water tank, in order to prevent the ship from capsizing and wasting time."
"Our shipyard has specially designed such a small water tank. After the design of the ship is completed, the model must be made according to the scale."
"Only after the model has successfully passed the pilot test in the water test tank will it be put into the production line for production."
"This is our production line, also called the assembly line."
"Our boats are manufactured in strict accordance with specifications. Whether it is the keel or the sail, there are precise requirements in order to achieve assembly line production."
"There are tens of thousands of craftsmen here and there are nine full-chain production lines. The production lines can complete the manufacturing of all parts of a ship every ten days."
"In other words, if we produce at the fastest speed, we can produce a ship in ten days."
Li Jin was talking eloquently in front of him. Although Queen Ma didn't understand, she didn't realize the seriousness of the matter.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Li Jin was getting more and more outrageous, and even Zhu Yuanzhang felt that producing a large ship in ten days was pure nonsense.
Do you think Zhu Yuanzhang never built a ship? Presumably this is how Li Jin deceived Queen Ma and willingly took out five million taels of silver.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he had to stand up and say something, otherwise Queen Ma would definitely be deceived again later.
"Li Jin, you just said assembly line, what is that? Why have we never heard of it?"
"Are you talking nonsense here again, thinking that we have never built a ship and don't understand this, so you want to lie to us?"
After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Queen Ma specifically, but what he got was a blank look from Queen Ma.
Li Jin heard this and said:
"If you don't understand the assembly line, I can take you in and have a look. Once you see it, you'll understand."
Zhu Yuanzhang followed Li Jin arrogantly. This time, he insisted on exposing Li Jin's scam and asked Li Jin to return the money.
Seeing that Empress Ma was still a little dissatisfied, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that his kindness was just like a donkey's liver and lungs.
He did this for Queen Ma and didn't want him to be deceived.
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was about to say a few words to Queen Ma, he heard Li Jin say:
"arrive!"
Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that he would arrive so soon. He thought Li Jin would choose to delay.
But now that he's here, he will expose Li Jin severely and restore the man's dignity.
Zhu Yuanzhang, full of confidence, walked into the workshop with his head held high. As a result, the moment he entered the workshop, Zhu Yuanzhang fell silent for an instant!
