Wang Chenjin asked in surprise: "Why do you need so many ships? I'm going to tell you that the court did not open a sea in Shanghai. If the maritime merchants are illegal maritime merchants according to the king's laws, they are just illegal maritime merchants, but the court cannot control it. If it is large in scale and is impeached, it may be difficult to explain."

Li Guodong smiled and said, "The court's laws are not constant. Now the Ming Dynasty court is worried about internal and external troubles, with thieves inside and Jiannu outside. How long can the court last? To put it bluntly, maybe soon, the Ming Dynasty will become the Eastern Jin and Southern Song Dynasty again. At that time, if the court does not open the sea, will there be a way out?"

"How could the Ming Dynasty become the Eastern Jin and Southern Song Dynasty?"

"Wangxian Zun, have you ever seen Tuibei Tu?"

Wang Chenjin shook his head: "The officials never believed in that thing."

Chen Yujie said, "Wangxian Zun, I think the Tuibei Tu is very credible! Li Chunfeng had predicted that the empress surnamed Wu ascended the throne, and indeed Wu Zetian ascended the throne as emperor; he also predicted the rebellion between Yang Guifei and Anshi; he also predicted that Huang Chao would cause rebellion, Zhu Wen would rebel against the Tang Dynasty; Yuan destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, established the Ming Dynasty, and Wei Yin would cause rebellion, all of which were predicted, but it could not be solved after the 32nd elephant."

Li Guodong nodded: "The horse is in the door, which means a word "breaking", but it means a thief."

"Then the poplar flowers fall and the plum flowers fall, the five-colored flags come from the north, Taixi and the King of Jinling are gone, and a spring color occupies Chang'an, how can it be solved?" Chen Yujie asked.

"Yang Hua refers to the old man Yang Ge, and Li Hua refers to the thief. Yang Hua falls all over and means that Yang Ge's soldiers are defeated and died; Li Huacan is the old man who is defeated by the Tartars after the thief."

Chen Yujie snorted: "The old thief Yang Sichang and the eunuch party remnants Wen Tiren killed me Donglin Zhongliang. I deserved it, but the students didn't understand that how could the Tartars fight with the thieves? The few times the Tartars invaded, weren't they all invaded the Ming Dynasty and saved the thieves when our Ming Dynasty was about to destroy the thieves?"

"That's because the Tartars had ambition to steal the Central Plains! So they wanted to use the trespasses to destroy our Ming Dynasty. When the trespasses break through the capital, the Tartars will inevitably take the opportunity to steal the Central Plains. The trespasses are not the opponents of the Tres, so they will naturally be defeated. Look at the following sentence, the five-colored flag comes from the north, and the eight flags of the Tres have four colors. In addition, the officers and soldiers of the surrender of the Ming Dynasty have another flag, which is the Five-colored flag; Taixi Jinling King's energy is exhausted, and it is the Tartars who have captured Nanjing and Nanjing surrenders, so I'm sure that it is already a blessing that the Ming Dynasty can be as secure as the Eastern Jin and Southern Song Dynasty!"

"Impossible! How could the Ming Dynasty be destroyed by the Tatars again? If the Tatars really come to Jiangnan, Chen will definitely form a rebel army and fight the Tatars to the end!" Chen Yujie said indignantly.

In real history, Chen Yujie was defeated and died, and died heroically.

Li Guodong sighed in his heart: Tuibeitu predicted that the Qing Dynasty had stolen the Central Plains, but I insisted on going against the will of heaven! How could the chiefs steal China!

"Then what is the last sentence of the 32nd Elephant?" Wang Chenjin asked.

"A spring color occupies Chang'an, Chang'an implies the Central Plains. A spring color refers to the orphan and widowed mother, that is, the concubine Zhuang of Jiannu. Huang Taiji has not lived for a few years, and Concubine Zhuang became the empress dowager. To be ashamed, Concubine Zhuang is still my sister-in-law."

Hai Lanzhu is already Li Guodong's concubine. She is the sister of Zhuang Concubine Da Yu'er. Naturally, even if Da Yu'er is Li Guodong's sister-in-law, then when the little emperor Shunzhi saw Li Guodong, he had to call him uncle.

Chen Yujie suddenly laughed: "Wiweibo guards the Central Plains, your sister-in-law and nephew may not be able to attack Jiangnan! The worst result is nothing more than another Southern Song Dynasty. Moreover, we are much better than the Southern Song Dynasty. My Ming Dynasty occupied the port, and if you have the support of the Thai-Western Red Barbarians, you will be able to settle the Central Plains north."

Li Guodong smiled and said, "It's still Zhongtai's words that are reasonable! The world today is completely different from the Eastern Jin and Southern Song Dynasty. Now we must not only consider the comparison of the troops on the land of China, but also consider the factors of the Red and Mao Yi in the Thais. If we get the support of Hong Mao Yi in the future, it will not be far from pacifying the Central Plains. What's more, there are people from the Rakshasa north of Jiannu. As long as I, the Ming Dynasty, can last for a few more decades, Jiannu will be destroyed. Now Li might as well ask Mr. Chen a question: I know why the Southern Song Dynasty was in a corner, but could be safe for more than 100 years without being destroyed?"

"Although the Southern Song Dynasty was weak, the soldiers could fight and there were capable ministers."

"This is just one of them. To fight, there is a need for money to support it. The Southern Song Dynasty did not lack money! Why was the Southern Song Dynasty not lacking money? They could only support it for more than a hundred years by relying on maritime trade and commerce. So at that time, the court would definitely not oppose opening the sea."

Chen Yujie asked another question: "If the Tang Dynasty opened the sea, I am afraid that the tax revenue of those maritime merchants will increase. How should they solve it if they don't agree?"

"At that time, I'm afraid the court will launch the eunuch party again and sharpen the knife. If we want to avoid the eunuch party from reappearing, the gentry and the court will take a step back. The court will lower the customs tariffs, and the gentry should not find a way to evade taxes." Li Guodong replied.

But he didn't think so in his heart. Once Chongzhen hunted south, Li Guodong would definitely hold the money in his hands. What's the matter if the gentry pays taxes? If he doesn't pay taxes to the court, as long as he can guarantee his own income. If Chongzhen really wants to use a knife against the gentry, Li Guodong would find a way to let Chongzhen aim the knife at the salt merchants and grain merchants to attack the gentry. Those gentry killed more, raided several people's homes, and had military pay. As for the maritime merchant group, Li Guodong would definitely support it vigorously.

The Donglin Party is not dealt with in one-size-fits-all ways. Those who support grain merchants and salt merchants may as well be eliminated; while those who support industry, commerce and maritime merchants will intervene in the investment and use their own business to compete with them to promote their development. Only with competition can there be progress and promote their transformation.

After Li Guodong returned to the county government office, he personally drew a long-term picture of Shanghai County.

"Building a river embankment on the river beach is a spacious avenue behind the river embankment, and commercial streets behind it lead to the riverside avenue. Just how much money does it cost to build this river embankment?" Chen Yujie asked as he looked at the long-distance map of Shanghai drawn by Li Guodong.

"That's a long-term plan. When you make money in the future, you can renovate the beach south of the Wusong River. The first step at present is to renovate the west bank of the lower reaches of the Wusong River and expand the wharf so that the wharf can be docked with a large ship of 4,000 official materials. In addition, a kind of donkey-pulled winch can be built, which can more easily deliver the goods onto the ship and move them off the ship." Li Guodong replied, pointing to the location downstream of the Wusong River.

The location downstream of Wusong River is the Huangpu River north of Baidu Bridge.

The big ship with four thousand official materials scared Chen Yujie: "Can the dock with four thousand official materials be used? That was the big treasure ship in the Yongle period! Who else can we build the big treasure ship of that year?"

Four thousand official materials are equivalent to a displacement of more than 2,000 tons. The tonnage of Zheng He's tonnage of the treasure ship when he voyage to the West was more than 2,000 tons. Unfortunately, the design drawings and sea charts of the treasure ship were burned down by the pedantic Liu Daxia. From this aspect, Liu Daxia is simply a national sinner.

Since the sea chart and treasure ship chart were destroyed, the Ming Dynasty has never been able to build a large ship with more than a thousand official materials.

According to later historical records, Zheng Hebao's ship was 44 zhang long and 18 zhang wide, which is 146 meters long and 50 meters wide. In that case, the displacement was like a light aircraft carrier.

But in fact, the treasure ship is not that long or wide.

You can tell from the reference of the description of the Dutch ship in the Battle of Luowan. The Red Barbarian ship was thirty feet long. In fact, the largest Dutch ship that year was only a few hundred tons, and the exact length was more than 40 meters long.

Based on this inference, Li Guodong suspected that the length of the treasure ship was about 60 meters and the displacement was 2,000 tons, which was 4,000 official materials.
Chapter completed!