Zhao Peng followed Zheng Sen to the Nanjing Royal Shipyard of the Ming Dynasty, which was just built not long ago. This shipyard is located on a flat land by the river between Yanziji and Qixia Mountain, about twenty miles away from the city. After leaving the New Army camp, Zhao Peng and Zheng Sen rode their horses to the shipyard. After about half an hour, they arrived at the Nanjing Royal Shipyard of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Hongwu and Yongle periods in Nanjing, there was originally a Longjiang shipyard, but more than two hundred years have passed. After Zheng He’s treasure ship drawings were burned by Liu Daxia, the Longjiang shipyard was also abandoned. Now Zhao Peng has built a shipyard.

When we arrived at the door of the shipyard, we saw a circle of six hundred feet in a circle outside surrounded by a wall. The wall reached the riverside and built a wall along the breakwater embankment, extending towards the center of the river, blocking all the illegal people who tried to take a detour into the shipyard outside.

Eight brick and wood towers were built around the wall. The warning tower was seven meters high. Standing on the tower, you can see the entire view of the shipyard. A plaque was hung on the gate with the words "Nanjing Royal Shipyard of the Ming Dynasty" written on it.

Although the shipyard is called the Royal Shipyard, it is actually not a wholly owned by the Ming Dynasty Royal, but a joint venture between the Ming Dynasty Royal and Zheng Zhilong and the Donglin Party. Among them, half of the capital was invested by Zhu Cilang, Princess Kunxing and Zhao Peng. Zheng Zhilong and one-quarter of the capital was invested by one-quarter of the capital.

Zhao Peng's proposal of win-win between the royal family and the people was deeply welcomed by the people of the Donglin Party.

Before, Emperor Wanli was "competing for profit with the people" and drew taxes from the Donglin Party, but did not give them any benefits. Now, the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty, the Daming Daily and other facilities have all given the Donglin Party a lot of convenience, and the Royal Royal also provided the Donglin Party with advanced mechanical equipment, which greatly improved the production efficiency of the factory run by the Donglin Party members and made it more convenient for them to make money.

Although the Ming Dynasty Royal Family also opened textile factories, garment factories and other factories, these profitable businesses allowed the Donglin Party to invest in shares, allowing the Donglin Party to affiliate with the royal family with strong financial strength to obtain huge profits.

Seeing that the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty made money, the Donglin Party also established the Jiangnan Bank of the Yangtze River, which was both a competition and a cooperative relationship with the Royal Bank of the Royal Bank of the future. According to Zhao Peng's long-term plan, the Royal Bank of the Ming Dynasty will only issue currency and manage various commercial banks in the future, and will no longer be responsible for the services of storage and lending, and will become a pure central bank, specializing in managing various commercial banks.

When I walked into the shipyard, there were a row of neat and beautiful dormitory buildings. The dormitory buildings were all three-story brick and tile buildings, with a total of 36 buildings, namely single dormitory and employee dormitory. There were eight people in a single dormitory, with bunks and bunks in one room. There was a public bathroom on the corridor on each floor. The single dormitory was like a military camp, and the single dormitory was managed in a military manner. The buzzer was blown at 6 o'clock every morning, and the canteen was open on time. The meals were free. The meals were free. From 8 o'clock to 12 o'clock, from 10 noon to 10 o'clock, from 10 o'clock to 10 o'clock, from 10 o'clock to 5 o'clock, and from 10 o'clock to 5 o'clock, and from 3 meals were included.

The employee dormitory is the dormitory of the shipyard employees who have already started a family. The building style is the same as that of a single dormitory. However, every employee with a family business can be assigned to two houses, and the stove can be built in the corridor and cooking in the corridor is the same as the tube buildings in the 1960s and 1970s in China, with public bathrooms and corridors.

However, employees assigned to family dormitories do not cover food expenses and need to buy vegetables and cook by themselves. If they go to the canteen for dinner, they need to spend money to buy meal tickets and make meals in the canteen with the tickets.

The experienced old craftsmen in the factory were sent by Zheng Zhilong from Fujian. The Nanjing shipbuilders who were able to produce treasure ships have long become history. Today, the locals in Nanjing only produce some small inland ships.

There is an office building at the back of the living area, where managers work; behind the office building is a canteen, which is a tall single-story building, and there is a shared bathroom behind the canteen.

After passing through the living area, a wall in front blocked it, and after passing a door, we arrived at the factory area inside.

When entering the factory area, the first thing is to do is the factory that produces various ship accessories, where sails, anchors and anchor chains are produced. Walking inside, you will almost reach the riverside, and the riverside is the shipbuilding area.

Zhao Peng saw a group of craftsmen with Fujian accents competing and commanding the newly recruited workers of the shipyard to work. The shipyard has not officially started construction and has just been completed three days ago. When Zhao Peng left Nanjing to quell the rebellion, the shipyard had already started to build the foundation. After a year of construction, the work was finally completed.

"Uncle Shi, can we start shipbuilding today?" Zheng Sen asked a middle-aged man.

The man was named Shi Fu, and he was also a famous figure in history. Hearing Zheng Sen asking, Shi Fu replied: "If you say the young master, you can start construction today."

Zheng Sen pointed to Zhao Peng and introduced to Shi Fu: "This is the loyal and brave man, and he drew the Clippers drawings."

Shi Fu hurriedly saluted Zhao Peng: "I didn't expect that Zhongyong Hou was so young, about the same age as my incompetent nephew." As he said that, Shi Fu pulled a young man next to him: "Shi Lang, meet Zhongyong Hou!"

"Shi Lang?" Zhao Peng was stunned for a moment. The name was so familiar. I remember that there was a TV series in later generations called General Shi Lang, which was the boy who was about the same age as him.

"It's just another one!" Shi Lang bowed respectfully, "I'll take a look at the Marquis!"

"What a young hero!" Zhao Peng looked at the young man carefully and saw Shi Lang had thick eyebrows and big eyes, very handsome. Although Shi Lang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in the original historical time and space, he became a shameful traitor. But in this time and space, such a thing could not happen. First of all, Zheng Zhilong will not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong and Shi Fu will not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and Shi Lang will not surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

Shi Fu said: "Loyalty and courage have been awarded too much. My nephew is stupid. How can I compare to Loyalty and courage to you?"

Shi Lang suddenly asked, "Zhongyonghou, I heard that the Clippers were designed by you?"

"It's not all right, right? It's just that Ben occasionally got some inspiration from the Europeans in the West, so he thought of this ship." Zhao Peng said.

When talking about the boat, Shi Lang's eyes lit up: "I like boats the most. I am willing to help Zhongyong wait to supervise the construction of this boat myself!"

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "General Shi, perform well, and you will become a great man in the future!"

"Zhenggong has been awarded the award. My incompetent nephew is just a little Qian Zong. When will I become a general?" Shi Fu bowed and bowed.

Zheng Sen said: "Uncle Shi is too humble. The Shi Lang brothers joined the army at the age of 17, wiped out countless water bandits and pirates, and made great military achievements for the court. They are really talented!"

As the few people spoke, they walked towards the riverside. After a while, they arrived at the riverside.

Five large docks have been dug by the river. In fact, docks have existed in the Song Dynasty. Oriental docks were more than 400 years earlier than Westerners.

There is a gate at the dock water inlet, which is usually dry. When the ship is built, open the gate and pour the river water into it, and the ship can directly drive out of the dock. What is more troublesome is that after the ship is launched, the water in the dock must be drained, relying entirely on manpower, carrying the water bucket, and pouring out buckets of water.

Thinking of this, Zhao Peng decided that it was necessary to invent a water pump. In the era without steam engines, wind pumps could be built. Even human-powered foot pumps were much more convenient than pouring out a bucket of water.

Zheng Sen pointed to the wood piled on the edge of the dock and said, "These are iron woods, Zhongyonghou, can we start construction?"

"Let's start work, lay the keel bones first." Zhao Peng said. In fact, he only knew some theoretical knowledge. He really wanted to get him to come down to command workers to build ships. He still couldn't do this. At least he didn't understand how to coordinate the division of labor among workers. After all, he had specialties in techniques.
Chapter completed!