Zhu Yuanzhang finally left Shanghu County.
Although he did not make any promises to Li Jin, Zhu Yuanzhang already had different views in his heart and on the issue of going to sea.
Zhu Yuanzhang's previous attitude towards going to sea was that the harm outweighed the benefits, the gains outweighed the losses, and he couldn't see what useful things could be obtained from the sea.
After Li Jin's guidance, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have opened the door to a new world.
If enough gold and silver can be plundered from the Japanese islands, the Ming Dynasty will temporarily escape from the economic crisis.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely send Xu Da north again to clean up the Mongols hiding in Mobei eating sand.
Even though these Mongolians were so poor that they were eating sand, in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, only dead Mongolians are good Mongolians.
As long as these Mongolians are still alive, they are disrespectful to him, Zhu Yuanzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang still knew too little about the ocean, and he felt that he should supplement his knowledge about the ocean.
There is no denying that Zhu Yuanzhang was a gifted emperor.
From the illiterate people who started the army to the throne of the emperor step by step, he became a proficient at playing with the emperor's mind.
What is even more admirable is that Zhu Yuanzhang has been studying hard during the process of starting his own business.
After he founded the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's literary talent was even comparable to that of the Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, or even exceeded it by many.
And this is what Zhu Yuanzhang achieved while killing people and taking out his spare time. Objectively speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang is indeed a genius.
The really scary thing about a person is not how talented he is, but how high his talent is, and how extremely self-disciplined he is.
Crazy plundering everything that can make him stronger.
When Zhu Yuanzhang was studying, he often summoned knowledgeable people and asked them to teach him the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as various books he thought were useful.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was surrounded by Chen Youliang to the west, Zhang Shicheng to the east, Fang Guozhen to the south, and the Mongolian army was pressing down on the border to the north.
But Zhu Yuanzhang still studied whenever he had time.
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely self-disciplined during that period. He was either killing people with a knife or studying with books.
It was this kind of self-inflicted self-discipline that allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to finally defeat Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, defeat the Mongolian court, and create the current Ming Dynasty.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang wants to expand his knowledge of the ocean. It will not be long before Zhu Yuanzhang will have a general understanding of the ocean.
After Zhu Yuanzhang really began to understand the importance of the ocean, he didn't know what changes would happen to the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhu Yuanzhang left, Shanghu County returned to its usual busy state.
The current framework of Shanghu County has basically been completed. Even if Li Jin is not in the county government, Shanghu County can still operate as usual.
Naturally, for small cases, police officers from the police station will mediate. If the mediation fails, they will be reported to the county government.
Li Jin also arranged a county magistrate in the county government office. This magistrate acted like a judge in later generations and was responsible for conducting trials.
The county magistrate was instilled by Li Jin with a lot of knowledge about conducting trials according to law and evidence, and he was able to basically complete what a judge should do.
Of course, if a major murder occurs, Li Jin still needs to judge it in person.
In addition, there are daily political affairs, but these political affairs are handled by the chief secretary of the county government.
Li Jin has already set the rules and regulations, what to do and which department to go to.
More than 90% of these trivial political matters can be resolved according to procedures.
There is only a small part that requires Li Jin to make a decision, but there is no need to be so anxious about this kind of thing, and you can accept it even if it is two days late.
Li Jin has been running around the naval base and shipyard these days.
He went to the naval base because the Yiwu soldiers had just joined the army, and Li Jin needed to strengthen his relationship with these people.
As for shipbuilding, after these few months of crazy shipbuilding, more than a hundred warships have been completed.
These warships are docked at the port of Shanghu County and can no longer be accommodated.
Wang Dahai from the shipyard rushed to Li Jin and asked Li Jin if he wanted to continue building ships.
After checking the warships produced, Li Jin found that the quality of these warships was better than the previous batch, and decisively asked Wang Dahai to continue production.
However, instead of rushing to build this kind of Galenic ship warship, we began to build Fu ships for carrying people and cargo.
In Li Jin's expectation, Shanghu County will inevitably become the world's largest international port in the future.
And here, some things overseas in the future, whether gold, silver, jewelry or population, will definitely pass through Shanghu County.
Li Jin believed that after he mined the silver mines in Wo Island, Zhu Yuanzhang would never turn a blind eye.
As long as Zhu Yuanzhang tastes the benefits from the ocean, Li Jin feels that Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely be unable to control his ambition to conquer the ocean.
By then, opening up the sea will become the most important thing for the Ming Dynasty.
After the opening of the sea, the most lacking thing was sea-going ships. Now in the entire Ming Dynasty, the only one capable of making sea-going ships is the one under his command, Longjiang Baozhou Shipyard.
Now Li Jin not only cannot make Wang Dahai stop building ships, but also wants them to increase their horsepower.
He wants to sell all these sea-going ships at high prices as soon as they open the sea. Presumably Li Jin's shipyard will definitely make a lot of money by then.
Li Jin asked Wang Dahai to continue to expand the scale and production capacity of the shipyard, continue to recruit refugees, and open up production lines.
Don't be afraid that these boats won't sell, just go for it.
How bold a person is, how productive the land is.
If you don't have enough money, tell him that Li Jin will go all out to produce sea-going ships, and then promote Ming Dynasty to make great strides towards maritime colonization.
Later, Li Jin took out the silver he earned with Empress Ma, a total of 300,000 taels of silver, and invested it all in the shipyard.
Poor Queen Ma, she hasn't seen any money back since she cooperated with Li Jin.
But Li Jin doesn't care about this. He knows what will happen in the Ming Dynasty in the future. He also believes in his own vision and will never lose money.
Li Jin was in full swing preparing for the conquest of Japan, and Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally not idle either.
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Go to the study room.
After Zhu Yuanzhang came back, he took out the nautical charts stored in the Imperial College and the sea records of the previous dynasty and the Song Dynasty and studied them carefully.
Not only that, he even summoned Liu Bowen into the study room to study together.
When Liu Bowen came to the study room with his face covered, he saw Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao with their buttocks sticking out, lying on the imperial desk, their brows furrowed, as if they were searching for something.
"I have met the emperor."
Liu Bowen did not dare to neglect and bowed directly.
Zhu Yuanzhang was awakened by Liu Bowen. When he saw Liu Bowen finally coming, a smile suddenly broke out on his face and he said loudly:
"Bowen, you're finally here."
"Come on, come on, show us quickly where the Dragon Tooth Gate that Li Jin mentioned is located."
It turned out that after Zhu Yuanzhang came back, he studied the sea map and searched for a long time, but he could not find the location of Dragon Tooth Gate.
Only the location of the Japanese island was found, but the map on the sea chart was very different from the map seen in Calm.
This made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry. According to the chart he saw from Li Jin, the Dragon Tooth Gate was clearly located in the South China Sea of the Ming Dynasty, but it was not found.
When Liu Bowen heard Zhu Yuanzhang's question, his heart suddenly trembled.
Because the topic Zhu Yuanzhang hated most in the past was about the sea. As long as anyone dared to mention the word sea, he would definitely be reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang.
As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang actually proposed it on his own initiative, which made Liu Bowen feel a little wary and didn't understand what Zhu Yuanzhang was up to.
However, Liu Bowen still consciously stepped forward and started looking for the Dragon Tooth Gate according to his memory.
Liu Bowen was born in a scholarly family, and he passed the Jinshi examination in the Yuan Dynasty.
During the Yuan Dynasty, there was no sea ban, and people were very open-minded about going to sea. There were many books on the market about sea charts and records.
Liu Bowen grew up in this era, so naturally he still had some understanding of nautical charts.
After searching for a short time, I found the location of the Ryuga Gate not far from the island.
"Your Majesty, the Dragon Tooth Gate is here."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked in the direction Liu Bowen pointed, and saw that the location of Longya Gate was marked in the sea near Fujian. This made Zhu Yuanzhang furious.
