Chapter 626 Blueprint! Naval Academy Idea!
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The group arrived at Wusongkou.
What comes into view is a wild and wild land.
Seeing this situation, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but frown.
"Magistrate Tang, how is the implementation of the new law going?"
Zhu Gaoxu looked at Tang Wenming, ready to learn about Shanghai's customs and customs.
Seeing the prince's unhappy expression, Tang Wenming immediately bowed and explained.
"Your Highness, Huating's new law has been successfully implemented."
"But since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Huating has been mainly engaged in maritime trade and fishery, with a large number of sea ships. In the pre-Song Dynasty, it was a place where sailors and merchants gathered."
"In addition, Huating is close to the sea, and the land is so salinized that it is impossible to farm, so there is a lot of wasteland. There is no way around it!"
Tang Wenming was very smart and saw the problem at a glance.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at him and nodded subconsciously.
There is really no way around this. The entire Songjiang Prefecture is dominated by the cotton textile industry, and Huating County is close to the sea, which facilitates commerce and trade. In addition, the fields are seriously salinized, making it impossible to grow food, so the cotton textile industry can only be the main business.
Zhu Gaoxu remembered that by the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Shanghai had become the largest cotton textile industry center in the country. The cloth was sold across the country and exported overseas. It was known as "Kapok Wenling, Clothing and Quilts Worldwide". Moreover, due to its geographical advantage, Shanghai also became a place for shipping grain storage. distribution center.
Since Shanghai is to be built into a commercial city, these two advantages must be taken advantage of.
But these wastelands are not completely useless and cannot be left abandoned.
“If we can’t farm, then we need infrastructure!”
"This place can be built into a huge textile base. It is close to the sea and has abundant water. Using waterwheels as weaving power, the output will be very scary."
"And right here at the customs port, the silk cloth produced can be sold immediately."
Everyone looked at each other in shock when they heard this, but no one responded.
They all know that His Highness the Crown Prince has always attached great importance to industry and commerce. When he was still the King of Han, he caused quite a disturbance in Peiping.
But the prince paid too much attention to industry and commerce, which was not a good thing.
Zhou Chen was silent for a moment, and then he finally spoke.
"Your Highness, since ancient times, those in power have given priority to farming, and food and clothing are the basis for people's survival!"
"His Royal Highness attaches too much importance to industry and commerce. As the saying goes, if the superiors do something good, the subordinates will follow suit. Now that His Highness is the crown prince, if he does not pay attention to agriculture and commerce instead of focusing on industry and commerce, the officials below will not pay attention to agriculture and mulberry. In the long run, it will only I’m afraid there will be a big mess!”
Zhu Gaoxu did not expect that Zhou Chen had such profound knowledge.
But what they said was correct, so he didn't get angry.
"Xun Ru, what you said is good, but it's still a bit one-sided."
“There will be no stability without farmers, no strength without workers, no wealth without businessmen, and scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are all indispensable!”
"The Ming Dynasty has developed for so many years. Scholars and farmers have always dominated, while industry and commerce have fallen behind. If this continues, the Ming Dynasty will not develop. You must keep this in mind!"
There is no stability without farmers!
No work, no strength!
No one is rich without business!
Everyone was silent for a while, pondering these three sentences carefully.
Zhu Gaoxu did not explain too much. Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is the basic concept of China that has been passed down to this day. It is simply impossible to change it in a short time.
But now that he, Zhu Gaoxu, has become the prince, he has greater power than before and can do more things.
As long as the order is given, the people under him will do it. Whether they can accept it is not something Zhu Gaoxu should consider.
The group continued to move forward, spending half a day touring the entire town of Shanghai, and finally returned to Wusongkou again.
Zhu Gaoxu already had a rough idea of how to build this natural port.
The first step is to build a large commercial port in Wusongkou, and then drive the development of the entire Shanghai town and gradually turn it into an industrial base specializing in maritime commerce.
Secondly, a military port must be built on Changxing Island opposite Wusongkou, with naval garrison to deter smugglers.
When he thought of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zheng He.
"Old Zheng, the island opposite is good. It can be turned into a naval base and a naval academy!"
Naval Academy!
Zheng and Wang Jinghong were very excited when they heard these four words.
Back then, the King of Han made a promise to build a naval academy to train naval talents to pass on their mantle and ensure that there would be no successors to the Ming Navy in the future.
But until so many years ago, the Naval Academy was nowhere to be seen.
On the contrary, the King of Chu, Zhu Zhen, built a Dongkun navy in Dongkun, and also had a special naval academy, which was ahead of them!
"May I ask, Your Highness, when can we start construction?"
"Right away, I will dispatch a royal engineering team to take charge of this matter."
Zhu Gaoxu replied with a smile to show how much he valued the Ming Navy.
Zhu Gaoxu has always had this idea in mind to build a naval academy and cultivate professional talents.
Originally, the Ming Dynasty Navy was extremely powerful, and had a foundation in the Chaohu Navy. There were many naval generals who were familiar with water warfare.
However, due to the long-term strict maritime ban policy implemented by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and the death of the older generation of navy generals, the Ming Dynasty Navy had no successors. Zhu Di had to let Zheng and Wang Jinghong, two eunuchs who had never had contact with the navy, be employed. Going to the Western Ocean, I have to say, is a very ironic thing.
If Zheng He was not a brave and resourceful man, but a mediocre and incompetent eunuch, I am afraid that there would not be another historical feat of seven voyages to the West!
The Navy is in short supply of talent, extremely short of talent!
Not only is there a shortage of shipbuilding talents, there is also a shortage of qualified and professional sailors!
If you only rely on the experience of the older generation to train professional sailors, the speed will be very slow, and in many cases the original experience may not be reliable, or even some of the experiences themselves are wrong, which will mislead the younger generation!
Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu wants to set up a professional maritime academy to cultivate professional marine talents.
The children of the academy conduct a systematic study of ocean currents, climate, global geography knowledge, astronomy knowledge, ocean survival knowledge, ocean-going ship structure and other ship knowledge through the school.
Of course, this is the most ideal situation. Just returning to the Naval Academy is a difficult problem. UU read www. uukanshu.net
There's no way he, Zhu Gaoxu, the prince, should stop being a prince and hide in the Naval Academy to teach, right?
Even if Zhu Gaoxu is willing, Zhu Di will skin him!
Moreover, college students must start from a young age, starting from reading and learning calligraphy at the very beginning, otherwise they will not be able to learn at all.
But there is another way, and that is the new students!
Zhu Gaoxu discussed with Zheng He and Wang Jinghong for a long time, and finally decided to wait until the Changxing Island Naval Academy was completed and send a group of new students to serve as trainees.
As for the problem of teachers, Zhu Gaoxu will write a comprehensive book on basic ship knowledge and ask Wang Jing, the Minister of Rites, to arrange some new students to come as teachers, so that teachers and students can learn and make progress together.
Then Zheng He would select experienced naval officers to teach, combining theory with practice.
As long as this first step is taken and the Naval Academy is on the right track, the rest will be much simpler.
"Old Zheng, you two are getting older too."
"Going to sea is also very risky for you."
"It's better to retire here at the Naval Academy and train heirs!"
Zhu Gaoxu persuaded him sincerely that he did not want Zheng He to go to sea again and end up with the tragic end of dying at sea.
But Zheng He and Wang Jinghong looked at each other and smiled, and they both shook their heads decisively.
"Your Highness, the two of us have been sailing for a lifetime, and our hearts can no longer stop."
"If possible, we still want to continue our voyage, this time to the west, to see those Western barbarians who claim to be noble and elegant, as His Highness said!"
Zhu Gaoxu's eyes were also full of yearning, and he faintly uttered a frightening sentence.
"Well, if there is a chance, when I solve these messy things in Daming, I will take you two with me!"
Everyone: "???"
What?
The prince is going on a long voyage?
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