Cruise boats are shuttled by the Grand Canal. I don’t know how many ships are traveling between them. Many busy river sections even have to line up to pass slowly because there are too many ships coming and going.

At this moment, the Ming Dynasty has opened up channels for private purchase of new canal ships, and the shipyards in Nanzhili have also expanded their production scale.

Two hundred ships per month are steam ships, and the price is not expensive, just like the original large canal ship. All the people of the Ming Dynasty registered in the "Facilities and Services Yellow Book" can be ordered on yellow pages.

However, these steam ships can only sail on the inland waterways in the Ming Dynasty, and must not be driven overseas, nor can they be resold from other countries. Once discovered, it is a death sentence!

This limitation is actually nothing.

Because the Ming Dynasty has become prosperous enough now, the people are getting richer and richer, and the transportation of goods from all over the country is even more busy.

As long as you buy a large canal ship, you will not have any business. Even if you just run the canal and transfer the goods between Southern Zhili and Northern Zhili, you can make a profit in one or two years, and the rest will be made.

Therefore, the merchants in the Ming Dynasty were rushing to order large canal ships. The orders from the Nanzhili Shipyard were sent for more than ten months later. The large canal ships produced were even driven to the canal river channel to pick up goods as soon as they came out.

In this way, it will be difficult not to squeeze the Grand Canal.

Because there are many civil sailing ships and oars in this important river channel that runs through the north and south, most of the thousands of canal transport ships from the Atlantic merchants in the Ming Dynasty need to pass through this river channel to transport materials and personnel.

When these two hundred canal transport ships are added every month, there are naturally many ships in the river.

Desera couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion when she saw this scene.

He really didn't expect that a mercenary, a licking blood on the tip of a knife, could live a peaceful life for a few years, and he was in such a prosperous country as the Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, he felt that he was not like a mercenary.

He has completely regarded himself as a member of the Atlantic Business Name of the Ming Dynasty, and has long been integrated into the Ming Dynasty. He even fell in love with the culture of the Ming Dynasty. He likes all the "Four Books and Five Classics", poems, songs and essays, and he loves reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

All of this is thanks to His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

The reason why he had bit the bullet and went to find His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was that he wanted to hire them to fight.

Who knew that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty changed their household registration to the Ming Dynasty, and asked them to join the Atlantic Business Name of the Ming Dynasty, and also asked them to learn the culture of the Ming Dynasty and the language of the Ming Dynasty.

This time, their lives immediately changed drastically.

They were originally very nervous and were always ready to fight with others, and were actually sent to a college that specializes in cultivating literati.

Their daily work is not about standing guard or even going to the battlefield to kill enemies, but instead sitting in school to study.

The first year, they still had a little hard work.

Because His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty said, give them a year to learn the language of the Ming Dynasty.

The language of the Ming Dynasty is not ordinary difficult to learn, especially for mercenaries who only know how to fight, it is simply difficult to reach the sky.

That year, they really forgot to eat and sleep, and they didn't even dare to sleep, for fear that they wouldn't be able to learn.

He even set rules for his subordinates that he was not allowed to communicate in Portuguese before learning the language of the Ming Dynasty.

Every day they ate "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic" and so on.

As the saying of the Ming Dynasty, hard work pays off. In a year, they actually learned the language of the Ming Dynasty.

However, His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty seemed to have forgotten them and did not come to find them at all!

The Atlantic Business Units in the Ming Dynasty didn't seem to dare to arrange errands for them casually.

They were directly sent to the Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences in Jinling City to continue their studies and study the "Four Books and Five Classics".

As for the reason, the "colleagues" of the Atlantic Business Hotel in Daming also explained to them.

The emperor hadn't had time to come to find them at that time, but the emperor would think of them one day.

They need to study the culture of the Ming Dynasty and wait for the emperor's summons at any time.

The reason why they were sent to Jinlingcheng was to make it easier for the emperor to summon them.

After all, Guangzhou Prefecture is too far from the capital.

To be honest, they were all confused at that time.

What if the emperor doesn't look for them?

Fortunately, the salary given by the Western merchants in the Ming Dynasty was not small at all. At the beginning, each person had a salary of ten taels of silver per month and was paid to them on time. Later, their salary even increased to twenty taels per month.

As for the reason, it seems that the emperor said that he would double the salary of craftsmen, increase the income of farmers, and seek benefits for the people.

In recent years, the business of Atlantic Business in the Ming Dynasty has more than doubled, and its profits have even doubled.

Therefore, the Atlantic Business Bureau of the Ming Dynasty also responded to the emperor's call to double the salary to all employees.

They were also formal employees of the Atlantic Business Company of the Ming Dynasty, and they were appointed by the emperor, so their salary would naturally double.

Twenty taels of silver a month, they didn't dare to think about it before.

No one can afford such expensive mercenaries.

Who knows that they just sit in school every day and study and can get so much money in one month!

To be honest, they were all a little embarrassed to take it.

Therefore, they all worked hard to learn the Ming culture, and they all felt sorry for the salary if they didn't.

This is in line with the saying of the Ming Dynasty: There is a road to the mountain of books, and diligence is the way to make a boat without any limits in the sea of ​​knowledge.

They basically learned this lesson, and they almost fell in love with the Ming culture.

At this moment, they were a little bit literary. When they opened their mouths, they were always like what the saying goes.

They even wanted to take the imperial examination to see if they could get a scholar's reputation.

The prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the tolerance of the Ming Dynasty, the peace of the world of the Ming Dynasty, the preferential treatment of the Atlantic merchants of the Ming Dynasty, etc., also made them feel a deep sense of belonging.

At this moment, they really regarded themselves as citizens of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the Ming Dynasty's Atlantic Business and the Academy of Liberal Arts have been spared no effort in education on loyalty and filial piety, and they regard loyalty to the Ming Dynasty and the emperor as more important than their own lives.

They are also ready to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and the Emperor.

At this moment, the emperor finally remembered that they were coming, and the emperor finally summoned them.

They were really excited.

The fleet of the Atlantic Merchant of the Ming Dynasty quickly crossed the North Canal and entered the Tonghui River. After about half an hour, the majestic capital was already in sight.

At this time, Desera couldn't help but feel deeply.

The power of the Ming Dynasty is really shocking. Jinling City is already a big city in the world. Along the way, they don’t know how many cities they have seen on both sides of the canal. Moreover, the prosperity of many places is not much worse than that of Jinling City.

The capital of the Ming Dynasty was even more amazing. Starting from Tongzhou City, the two sides of the Tonghui River were all extremely prosperous in the nearly fifty-mile-long area, and the crowds were even denser than the outer city of Jinling City.

The Ming Dynasty had a population of billions, which was really not a pity. The Ming Dynasty's prosperity and strength had long surpassed that of the European countries.

How lucky it was they to be able to transform from a slave to a fallen country into a people of the Ming Dynasty!

After the Ming Dynasty's Atlantic Merchant fleet detoured the moat and entered the capital, it went through layers of inspection and drove directly into the legendary imperial city.

Immediately afterwards, they entered the palace under the guidance of a team of Jinyiwei and came to a hall.

The current emperor was sitting high above the steps. Seeing this, Desera hurriedly lay on the ground with a group of subordinates, shouting in unison: "Whomage to the emperor, long live my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long live long,

Well, Taichang really didn't expect that he would train a group of mercenaries into a group of foreign scholars.

When he saw these burly men in Confucian robes, he was stunned.

Well, if it were the faces of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, they would be a little more burly and would be nothing strange to wear Confucian robe.

The problem is that the faces of the Europeans are obviously all burly men and wearing Confucian robes, which is really a bit weird.
Chapter completed!