Chapter 534 The Rise and Nostalgia of Shipping Industry
Although emperors can be romantic, they cannot be the norm. Everyone has their own mission and responsibilities throughout their lives, and so does the emperor.
After a period of free and unrestrained life on Java Island, Zhu Youxiao had to set sail again, and the next stop was the newly established Taiwan 0wan Prefecture.
After the first stage, the Pearl River Delta, Liaodong and northern Mobei were the key construction and development areas, the newly established Taiwan 0wan Prefecture, Java Island and Siberia were the key construction and development areas in the second stage of the Ming Dynasty steam industry era.
And Taiwan’s 0-wan Prefecture is among them, which naturally means that its status is not low. In fact, in the entire East China Sea, it is indeed an important stronghold connecting the mainland and the vast ocean.
In this stronghold, due to its fertile soil and numerous excellent ports, this place can carry a large number of military and important transit maritime trade materials.
In order to save transportation costs, many emerging steam industrial workshops have successively opened factories in Taiwan 0wan Prefecture, so that products can be produced and processed in Taiwan 0wan Prefecture, and then shipped directly to other countries.
In order to meet the needs of marine transportation, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty had asked the Ming Dynasty Shipbuilding Bureau to build a Fujian-Zhejiang Branch of the Ming Dynasty Shipbuilding Bureau in Mawei, Fujian, in order to enable the steam industry to promote not only military progress but also economic activities and scale development.
However, Zhu Youxiao did not allow royal capital to monopolize the transportation industry caused by the prosperity of trade. It only encouraged private shipments to establish ship companies to meet the transportation tasks in inland and offshore waters when establishing Royal Steamships Corporation to lead the transportation industry.
Naturally, Zhu Youxiao would not object to the purchase and ownership of steam engines by private merchants, nor even foreigners to purchase and ownership, because the core technology is still in the hands of the Ming Shipbuilding Bureau. Even if these people get this ship, it is difficult to copy it. Even if they can understand the principles, they cannot find suitable materials to meet the same process requirements.
Zhu Youxiao did not want to block technology products to achieve the purpose of technological blockade. He wanted to make the progress of the whole world rely on the development of the Ming Dynasty through his advanced science and technology, and the Ming Dynasty made continuous profits.
The Royal Academy of Sciences and Engineering was established from the beginning, and education was first popularized, broadened the Confucian academic system and extended it to the development of multidisciplinary disciplines, instead of using gold fingers to build guns and cannons from the beginning, just to truly gain a ability to change and progress in the Ming Dynasty. Even if one day without himself, His Majesty, could still enter electrification, and even the information age.
The Ming Dynasty is now at the forefront of the times. Whether it is the liberal arts, such as economy and capital operation, science, physics, chemistry, chemistry, and even the research of various materials and new substances, it has its own system. This is comparable to that of no country in the world, and no country or region has fully reached the level of the Ming Dynasty.
Even the West is now far from the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, although Zhu Youxiao's explicit instructions stated that it is not necessary to prohibit the sale of high-end and sophisticated products to any country, because the conflict between the Ming Dynasty and the Western Fans is in a relatively fierce stage, in the current Ming Dynasty, it was the Ming Dynasty's own merchants who really increased the prosperity of the steam era.
Even in the ship transportation industry, a large number of newly established ship companies are mainly merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the customers of the Fujian-Zhejiang Branch of the Ming Dynasty Shipbuilding Bureau are private merchants of the Ming Dynasty.
By the time Zhu Youxiao arrived in Chicing City, Taiwan, this area was filled with ships, and soft sails, hard sails, masts and towering chimneys were crowded by the sea like people of different colors in different clothes.
Ship repair workshops, large and small, and shops and places for food, clothing, housing, transportation and even entertainment are also radiantly arranged in the city and outside the city. It is more than ten times more prosperous than when the Ming Dynasty just recaptured it from the Netherlands.
Today, in the marine trade of the Ming Dynasty, inland river trade and offshore trade have almost all been operated by private economy, while royal capital only controls the ocean trade that concerns the national economy and people's livelihood, as well as the transportation of important inland rivers and offshore materials such as grain and ore.
Here, Macau and Guangzhou are mainly used to meet the concentration of large ships, China Merchants and foreign merchants controlled by Royal Capital, while several cities in Taiwan meet the trade of private merchants in the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, when Zhu Youxiao arrived here, he found that it was a bit messy, but the fireworks on earth were stronger, which was also because there were more people in this area.
Just like when the canal transportation was developed, there were various gangs of all sizes in this area, so the new Taiwan 0-wan prefect dared not change the status quo, because once it changes at will, it will affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
At this time, Taiwan’s 0wan Prefecture was no longer as prosperous and developed in later generations. Except for the coastal ports, other regions were basically farming society or some primitive society existed. Therefore, Zhu Youxiao did not stay here for too long and set off for Japan.
During the time I went to Japan, Zhu Youxiao and others basically spent their lives on ships. Although it was very quiet, it lacked the beauty of Java Island and the lively bustle of Taiwan 0wan Prefecture.
Looking at the stars in the sky and listening to the sound of waves striking outside, Zhu Youxiao's mood became very quiet at this moment.
Now in the entire Minghai, there are no pirates or foreign armed forces, so there is no danger in the entire sea area. Warships, such as war-based ships, have begun to become very slow, while merchant ships that are busy making money are in a hurry and fast.
Sometimes Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but think of the day when he had a lingering maid with him in the sea at the Java Island Resort.
He missed his unfamiliar but seductive figure and soft skin.
All the maids who were lucky enough to be visited by him at the Royal Resort of Java this time were brought to the ship in order to directly bring them into the palace. After all, no one is sure if anyone here will get pregnant, so it is better to keep a record at that time.
But Zhu Youxiao never found who was the maid he saw that day, and the maid who was in the sea that day and night was obviously a young man, which means that he would not be taken away by himself, so Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but feel a little regretful about this.
Liu Rushi often looked at Zhu Youxiao sneakily, and sometimes he would unconsciously glance at a place, and even wanted to touch it again, but reason told her that it was shameful to do so.
So Liu Rushi still restrained herself, but like Zhu Youxiao, she also missed the fishy behavior that night.
"Hey, where are you pouring it? Do you want to burn me to death?" Zhu Youxiao saw that Liu Rushi poured the tea directly on his wrist, so he hurriedly pulled his hand away and asked.
Only then did Liu Rushi notice that he was distracted, and he said his forehead and quickly denied it.
Chapter completed!