In order to find out Xiong Xin's foundation, the First Emperor stayed in Wuzhong for three more days.

In three days, Xuanwu Guard carefully investigated all the officials, civilians and even the gentry who had come and go with Xiong Xin.

Judging from the gathered information, Xiong Xin did not lie.

Although his family is poor, he has thousands of bamboo, wood, bamboo and bamboo slips. There are more than 200 newly published paper books over the years, and there are several large pieces of Daqin Metropolitan News. There are also dozens of volumes of various cloth edicts covered with the seal of the King of Chu. There are even jade pendants engraved with the characters Chu and the characters Heart. Based on these analysis, Xiong Xin is undoubtedly a descendant of the Chu royal family, and there is also a woman in his family, about thirty years old, with beautiful appearance and elegant conversation. Although she is wearing a coarse linen coat full of patches, she is definitely not a woman from an ordinary family.

After receiving this news, the First Emperor indeed summoned Chen Xu, Meng Yi and several officials from the Ministry of Rites who accompanied him to the headquarters to explain the matter clearly, and arranged for someone to send Xiong Xin's family to the capital. After the tour returned, the Ministry of Rites would hold Ziying's wedding.

This incident soon spread across the headquarters.

Xiong Xin and the girl's identities were officially revealed, and all the young men and entourages were dumbfounded and suddenly realized.

Soon the news came out of the headquarters again, and it spread throughout Wuzhong a few hours later.

This marriage was made by Chen Xu, the Grand Tutor, the Left Prime Minister, the Marquis of Qinghe and the disciple of the Immortal Family. In a while, it would spread to the world with the business traveling from south to north and the Southern Business Daily, and the world would inevitably shake.

...

At the end of May, Emperor Shiqi traveled from Wuzhong and continued south.

Stayed in Hangzhou for five days, inspected the Hangzhou Silk Factory, visited the West Lake, visited the Hangzhou River Port, crossed the Qiantang River, climbed Kuaiji Mountain along the way to worship Emperor Yu, and squeezing the southeastern tour to commemorate the mood of this tour, and then continued to travel. It was already late June to arrive in Juzhang.

Juzhang Port is an important harbor node that inherits Gusu's Xiatong Fujian and Guangdong and Guangxi, so it is huge in scale. It is also the first large harbor that the First Emperor saw during his tour.

The first phase of the Juzhang Harbour project will build ten docks that can be docked by large sea boats. All of these docks need to be excavated and landfilled on the beach. The height of the dock must be at least three meters high to ensure that the springboard of the sea boat can basically be flush with the dock after entering the port, so that the people and cargoes can be convenient for the up and down.

In other words, all harbors will raise the coastline three meters high as a whole, and the length of the entire harbor is ten miles long. Once the third phase of the project is completed, this beach will become a neat and beautiful concrete coast. In addition, the supporting offices, various museums, warehouse repair shops and carriage factories and other ancillary facilities will almost recreate the scale of a county town, or even be even larger.

Once the port is completed, Ju Zhang will become an emerging port commercial city, which will attract a large number of people from all walks of life to gather here. Once the scale effect is amplified, it will be no exaggeration to become a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands or even millions in the future.

The huge scale and lively harbor construction are naturally amazing, but China has had manic factors for infrastructure construction since ancient times. Not only the Great Qin, but also other princes, just like the Great Wall, Qin, Zhao, Yan, and even Chu, Wei and Han in the Central Plains. As for the construction of city walls, it is even more common, and any county can live in tens of thousands of people.

As for the super project of the Qin Dynasty, it must be the Mausoleum of Mount Li by Emperor Qin Shihuang. Now that it is about to end, there are still more than 200,000 prisoners working in it. Various facilities cover hundreds of miles in a radius, so it can only be described as shock.

Therefore, even with such a large-scale scene at Juzhang Harbor, Emperor Shi and the accompanying official Qing Hou only expressed their surprise slightly, and the more excited ones were a group of young men.

Because, except for Hu Hai, they were almost the first time they went out far and saw the vast blue sea for the first time.

What excited them even more was that they finally saw the huge sailing boat for the first time.

"Look, what a big sea boat!"

Shortly after the parade arrived at Juzhang Harbor, a group of people followed Emperor Shin-chan to inspect the harbor, a huge sea boat was coming from the southeast with the wind and waves.

The huge hull, the high mast, the whistling black dragon flag and the huge sails rolling in the wind made the big ship look full of momentum, which immediately made a group of young men scream excitedly.

"Gusu, is it the Gusu trading company I mentioned a few days ago?" Emperor Shi Huang was also very interested and raised the telescope in his hand to carefully watch this new type of sea ship.

"That's right, Your Majesty, this is a cargo ship from the Gusu Trading Company in Wuzhong. It travels regularly between the Huangpu Port and Juzhang, Ye County and Panyu Port in Wuzhong. It also delivers and carries passengers and sends some letters. The imperial edicts and officials almost always travel on their ship..." The magistrate of Juzhang, who was following him, quickly spoke.

"What a big ship, this one is probably twenty feet long!"

"Twenty feet are still the smallest. According to the officials of the Ministry of Works, Langya is now building a large ship worth forty feet!"

"I heard that Gusu shipyard can also be built, but I didn't have time to see it in Wuzhong a few days ago!"

"Don't worry, you can see it when you go to Langya. I heard that the scene is extremely grand, and you can create thirty or fifty points in one breath!"

"God, thirty or fifty items cost tens of millions of dollars..."

A group of local buns and young men were blushing with excitement at the discussion, and Meng Yi and other groups of accompanying officials were all watching the big ship that was whispering to discuss.

Chen Xu had already made the sailing boat six years ago. Nowadays, except for the large sailing boats running on the sea, most of the inland rivers are actually the same sailing boats, but they are much smaller in size and stable in the rivers. Therefore, there are many flat-bottomed boats and wide-boat boats, unlike sea boats with long and pointed bottomed streamlines.

Moreover, the structure of the sea ship is very different from the previous building ships. The size above the hull is very small. Except for the captain's room and the observation room, it is almost all filled with sails of large and small sizes. Therefore, the tall masts and huge sails have particularly visual impact.

The most important thing is that the sea boats are sailing. With the wind at the moment, it is smooth and even on the sea with the turbulent waves in summer. Just as a group of people were watching and discussing, in just two moments, the ship was less than one mile away from the coast. With the sound of the horns, the flags were rising slowly, and the huge sails began to fall, obviously preparing to dock.

"Haha, the big ship is going to dock, I'll wait to go up and watch it!"

A group of young men suddenly became energetic, and they rubbed their fists and palms to head to a dock where the big ship was docked.

"I'm so anxious, this is just an ordinary merchant ship..." The First Emperor slowly lowered his telescope and glared at his sons, feeling a little embarrassed.

Twenty-foot sea boats used to have, but they were all tower boats. The previous few parades were riding on that kind of tower boat. They would sway continuously when they encountered a little storm. If they encountered bad waves, they would be able to cause epilepsy to be caused by violent bumps.

Therefore, when I thought of taking a boat, Meng Yi and other groups of accompanying officials all had their legs and their faces turned pale.

It is not a human to let them landducks who have lived inland since childhood take a boat.

But every time they were asked to take a boat, the First Emperor in front of him was holding a telescope and looking relaxed.

It’s also a land duck, why is the emperor not seasick?

Meng Yi and others were puzzled.

However, although the First Emperor said that it was not worth seeing a merchant ship, he still took the lead in walking towards a repaired pier not far away.

There are only two wharfs in the entire Juzhang. Although there are almost no supporting facilities, they can provide cargo and personnel to and from the cargo ships. It is precisely with this facility that the Gusu Trading Company has opened this regular route. This move greatly facilitates the transportation of goods and personnel communications on the southeast coast. At present, in addition to private business travel, many of the memorials delivered to the court and the imperial decrees issued by the court are transported through this route.

The speed of the ship that lowered the main sail slowly decreased, but it still quickly landed under the push of the side sail, and the trumpet had been blown on the dock. Someone stood on the dock with a flag in hand and commanded the dock. The ship stopped smoothly on the dock.

The sails were lowered, the rudders were leveled, the anchors were lowered, the cables were thrown, the gangways were placed, and the springboards were all skillfully done in one go under the command of the captain.

Just as the ship was docking, more than a dozen trucks and exquisite closed carriages were galloping along the simple road. It seemed that cargo personnel were preparing to take the boat to Wuzhong, but these carriages were soon stopped by the imperial guards guarding the periphery.

"Hey, why don't there be anyone who moves the goods today?"

After the cargo ship was parked, a middle-aged man wearing a uniform with a nameplate of the Gusu Trading Company's management on his chest got off the big ship. When he saw it around, his face was full of strangeness.

When the big ship docked on weekdays, the entire dock was full of people. A large group of dark men rushed up and spitted on the stars and could submerge him. They asked if there were any porters who loaded and loaded goods, but today they didn't see any of them. Apart from the few staff members who commanded the dock at the dock, there were not even passengers who would take the boat on weekdays.

"Hey, let me ask, why are there so few people in the dock today?" The manager grabbed the dock commander next to Pi. He was frightened when he saw it, and quickly let go and said, "Mr. Li, how could you be the commander here?"

"Shh, look over there..." The commander, wearing a sun-shading hat, almost his entire face was covered, with a white face and long beard in his forties. He was an official in the Ministry of Works in charge of Juzhang Wharf. Lord Li turned around and pointed to the group of people who were swaying with a group of younger brothers and whispered, "You are here!"

"Your Majesty... Damn..." Manager Mao's body shook and quickly bowed his eyebrows and thanked him. "Fortunately, Lord Li reminded me that I didn't go to Nanhai Port this time. I didn't expect that I had arrived a few days late when I came back... Thank you a little bit, Lord Li took it to have tea..."

The Maogong pulled out a redemption ticket from his sleeve and was about to stuff it.

Lord Li's face turned black in an instant, and he waved his hand and turned around and said, "Hurry up, Your Majesty just came over to see. The Marquis of Qinghe privately ordered, just say whatever he had, just don't talk nonsense, welcome him quickly, don't point out my identity!"

Lord Li ran away like a firecracker under his crouching nest, and instantly, only the manager and a few dock workers and a group of boatmen who came off the merchant ship were left on the dock.
Chapter completed!