The shipbuilding industry had already developed greatly during the Song Dynasty. Based on the accumulation of the previous dynasty, the shipbuilding industry in the Yuan and Ming dynasties reached the heyday of ancient China's shipbuilding industry. During this period, the shipbuilding capacity was strong, the number of ships was large, and the scale was large... It was the top country in the world.

The Yuan Dynasty had a vast territory. On the basis of continuing to use important ports of the Song Dynasty, the Maritime Department was also established in Shanghai, Wenzhou, Hangzhou and other places.

Navigation trade developed rapidly, and people from countries and regions who came to the Yuan Dynasty traded were sailing through maritime transportation. China-foreign exchanges between Yuandu were prosperous for a while. In summary, there were four main maritime transportation routes in the Yuan Dynasty.

First, you can enter the sea from Dadu via the canal to the Yellow River, and sail eastward to the near North Korea today; or go north from the coast of Hangzhou to Dengzhou, head northeast to near North Korea, and finally lead to Japan.

The second is to cross the east from today's Ningbo Port to Japan.

The third is to sail southwest from Quanzhou or Guangzhou through Hanoi, Vietnam, today’s Kalimantan Island, and then east to the Philippines; or to travel from Kalimantan to Indonesia today.

Fourth, from Quanzhou or Guangzhou to Southeast Asia, passing through today's Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia; in Singapore, you can reach today's Myanmar, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and sail southwest to today's Maldives Islands; or from Sri Lanka to today's West Asia through southern India, and even reach coastal countries in South Africa.

From this we can see the wide range of maritime activities in the Yuan Dynasty.

The shipbuilding technology of the Yuan Dynasty was greatly improved, and there were three main types of ships built: warships, canal ships, and sea ships. For military needs, the Yuan Dynasty vigorously built ships for combat and trained soldiers for water combat.

There were as few as hundreds of warships as many as thousands. According to records, there were more than 20,000 warships in the Yuan Dynasty, which shows how many warships and how strong shipbuilding capacity of the Yuan Dynasty were at that time.

Zhu Lang has integrated all shipbuilding industries in the Yuan Dynasty. With the support of Zhu Yuanzhang, basically all shipbuilding craftsmen in the Yuan Dynasty were taken to the Longjiang Shipyard. Now the first task of the Longjiang Shipyard is to build ten lucky ships.

Fu Ship has four floors: the first floor is equipped with ballast stone to improve the stability of the ship, the second floor is the place where soldiers live, the third floor is a fresh water cabinet, and the upper floor is a terrace, which requires the ladder to be climbed from the third floor. In order to meet different needs and the overall stability of the ship, the principle of layered setting of Fu Ship reflects the scientific idea of ​​classification and practicality.

Each lucky ship carries three hundred people, and ten lucky ships three thousand people. To be honest, Zhu Lang doesn’t need to worry about the production of the ships. The masters left behind from the Yuan Dynasty directly brought all kinds of drawings of the large ships.

The shipbuilding industry in the Yuan Dynasty was really too powerful. Among them, the lucky ship was the smallest one. The craftsmen and masters of shipbuilding also proposed to build a sand ship type, one of the four major ship types in ancient times. This sand ship was the treasure ship of Zheng He in the future.

Shipbuilding craftsmen told Zhu Lang that in the longitudinal structure of this kind of sand ship, the bottom of the ship consists of several thick plates, which are narrow and wide in the middle, and can withstand all the weight on the hull when resting sand, which is conducive to driving on the beach.

There are large oars pressing directly to the head on both sides of the sand boat, which can resist wind and waves. Because it is close to the water surface, it also plays the role of fenders. In the transverse structure, the sand boat is surrounded by solid water-tight horizontal bulkheads.

The beam is mounted on the compartment plate, with ribs placed under it, which not only prevents the ship's distortion and deformation, but also ensures the lateral strength, so that each cabin is different. For example, when a few cabins are damaged and leaked, it will not cause the entire ship to sink.

Zhu Lang was really shocked. He never expected that the craftsman now had a watertight horizontal bulkhead when it was opened, which was really eye-opening. Originally, Zhu Lang was thinking about whether to give some guidance, but now there is no need.

However, this kind of sand ship has to be slightly backward. Now the ten lucky ships are the first to be made. The shipbuilder also said that in three months, all ten lucky ships can be launched. The silver taels of one lucky ship are about 50,000 taels, because the size of the lucky ship is not very large, and the sand boat is at least 100,000 taels.

Zhu Lang's 500,000 taels of silver were immediately in place, and the construction of ten lucky ships officially began.

In the following days... In September of the seventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Lang announced the construction of a casino in Qiuxin Lake. If you want to bet legally, then go to Qiuxin Lake Casino. Once this news was released, it really made the gamblers very happy. Finally, there can be a place where you can bet legally. Can gamblers be unhappy?

Then in October of the seventh year of Hongwu, Prince Zhu Lang and Xu Miaoyun of Taiping had a wedding. The wedding was really grand. Even ordinary princes and princes were not as good as Zhu Lang and Xu Miaoyun's wedding.

For this wedding, Zhu Yuanzhang also set up a special authority: the wedding ceremony office, which is responsible for all matters for the wedding.

The bride price...the great chasing ceremony...even even offered sacrifices to the Taimiao...and then Zhu Yuanzhang personally enthroned the ceremony to welcome the ceremony and the ceremony.

Among them, the engagement gifts include 4 horses with saddles and bridles, 10 pairs of armor, 100 silk and satin, and 200 weavings.

Satin includes 20 pieces of bright yellow satin, big red satin, green inner satin, big red satin, and green satin. These are converted into about 20,000 taels of fresh silver.

The gifts of the Grand Conquest were even more terrifying. The gifts included 2,000 taels of gold, 100,000 taels of silver, 1 gold tea barrel, 2 silver tea barrel, 2 silver basins, 10,000 silk and satin horses, 200 casual horses, 400 idle horses, and 200 pairs of carton armor.

The gifts given to Xu Da were: 1,000 silk, 2,000 weavings, 40 horses, and 40 pairs of saddles and bridles.

The gifts given to Xie include: 1,000 taels of gold, 50,000 taels of silver, 1 gold tea barrel, 1 silver tea barrel, 1 silver basin, 5,000 silk and satin, 10000 weavings, 60 horses, 10 pairs of armor and helmets, 10 bows, 10 clusters of arrows, 10 pieces of morning clothes each in winter and summer clothes each in winter and summer clothes each in 10 collars each in marten fur, and 10 bunches of high-quality exquisite belts.

Xu Miaoyun's younger brothers and sisters were given 40 pieces of silk, 100 pieces of weaving, 2 horses, and 2 pairs of saddles and bridles.

During the wedding, Zhu Yuanzhang also specially prepared these items himself: 2 gold Ruyi handles; 14 crowns; 15 pieces of Dongzhu, coral, red Bi Yao, green jade, rosary, bracelets, etc.; 9 pieces of green jade, fat jade, shaved south fragrance, and golden amber; 12 pieces of fat jade, green jade, and agate tobacco bottles; 12 pieces of leather, cotton, clips, single court robes, court gowns, dragon robes, and various types of wound robes, wound robes, rat robes, rat robes, cotton robes, cotton robes, clamps, single robes, single robes, gauze robes, gauze robes, various clothes, etc.; 10 pairs of warm boots and sandals each.

Zhu Yuanzhang also issued an order to impose a general amnesty for the world. You should know whether Zhu Yuanzhang was born on the last time he imposed a general amnesty for the world, so you can see from this that Zhu Yuanzhang loved Zhu Lang.

After the wedding, on October 27, the seventh year of Hongwu, Zhu Biao's legitimate son Zhu Xiongying was finally born. Just after Zhu Xiongying was born, Zhu Lang, the prince of Taiping, immediately gave him his gift. All the part of the business of Zhu Lang, Taiping, was worth at least tens of millions of taels of silver. Zhu Xiongying became the richest person in the Ming Dynasty as soon as he was born. He really envied others.

It was November of the seventh year of Hongwu... This November is very interesting. First of all, the casino has been built and will be put into use soon during the Spring Festival. Secondly, the three-month recruit training of Zhu Lang's maritime inspection team will end, and the competition for the first place has officially begun.
Chapter completed!