Li Zicheng took his own soldiers and personally went to Jinshanwei to inspect and determine the address of the shipyard.

Jinshanwei Fort is almost a small city, the circumference is twelve miles, the city wall is as high as three zhang and three feet, the base is as thick as two zhang, there is a guard in the city, in fact there are only less than two thousand soldiers, it was originally to resist the Japanese in the coastal area, after the Japanese were annihilated, Jinshanwei did not remove, but retained, but the role of Jinshanwei was greatly reduced.

The fort is full of Ming military households, with the fall of the Hongguang court, the soldiers are uneasy, and hundreds of soldiers have fled from the fort.

After Li Zicheng came to Jinshanwei, he disarmed all the soldiers, selected more than 500 people who knew how to water and ships, and prepared to join the South China Sea Fleet.

The original house in Kanayama was to be left to the workers of the shipyard.

The 500 soldiers did not need to board the ship now, they were temporarily the guards of Jinshanwei, and when Cao Jian's fleet arrived, they would become the young and strong laborers of the shipyard, responsible for leveling the land, building docks and other peripheral matters.

As a shipyard, the biggest convenience of Jinshan Weibao is that it is very close to the coastline, and the workers of the shipyard can go back to the fort at night to reunite with their families, and for this reason, the shipyard was named "Songjiang Jinshan Shipyard" by Li Zicheng.

According to Li Zicheng's plan, the Songjiang Jinshan Shipyard mainly built warships, and could also build merchant ships during the interval, so as to avoid unnecessary losses caused by idle workers and docks.

Xu Wangjia and Zhou Shun respectively recommended to Li Zicheng the missionaries Wei Kuangguo and Julio from Italy, as well as Chen Zilong, the military department of the Hongguang Imperial Court.

Li Zicheng personally questioned that Wei Kuangguo and Julius were good at astronomy, while Chen Zilong only knew the surface of science, and had almost nothing to do with the textile and shipbuilding technology that Li Zicheng expected, but had a certain relationship with navigation.

There's no way, let's make do with it first! If China wants to build higher education on a large scale, there will be a shortage of teachers for a while, and it can only rely on these Western missionaries.

The missionaries from Western countries, in addition to being devout believers, also possessed the most advanced scientific and technological knowledge of this era, and they came to the land of Daming and China with a desire to spread religion, which is fundamentally the same as Li Zicheng's purpose of "using Catholicism to transform China and block the terrorist religion in the southwest", and they can give full play to the strengths of these missionaries and squeeze out their cumulative value.

Li Zicheng made Wei Kuangguo the president of Songjiang Textile Institute, Chen Zilong was temporarily the vice president, and Julius was the head of astronomy.

With these three people, they could not afford the entire college at all, and after Li Zicheng prepared to return to Beijing, he sent several teachers from among the students who graduated from Xining and Lanzhou high schools.

In addition, Cao Jian will be stationed at the Jinshan Shipyard in Songjiang, and as long as time permits, he can go to Songjiang Textile Institute as a visiting instructor to explain the knowledge of shipbuilding and cultivate new shipbuilding talents for China.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm of Wei Kuangguo and Julius in their work, Li Zicheng allowed them to spread Catholicism within the academy; In Songjiang City, some Catholic churches will also be built to spread the gospel of God to ordinary people, and as long as the behavior is not too radical, the local government will cooperate with them.

However, Li Zicheng asked them to spread Catholicism in a Chinese way, in a word, to recognize his papal status.

Chen Zilong doesn't care, after all, Rome is tens of thousands of miles away, and the emperor's status in China is not much different from the pope, and even higher than the pope, but Wei Kuangguo and Julius hesitated.

Both Wei Kuangguo and Julius received a systematic theological education and were loyal to the papacy.

But Li Zicheng told them that John Tong had long recognized his papal status and status, which was a necessary condition for spreading the Gospel of God, and that Catholicism would only spread widely in China if it had received the help of the government.

Hearing that there are more than one million believers in Xining and Lanzhou, reaching seventy or eighty percent of the local population, the two hesitated again.

China is so big, with a population of nearly 100 million, if half of the population of China believes in God, the number of believers will be equal to that of the whole of Europe.

There are many missionaries who come to Daming and Huaxia, but there are too few true believers, far exceeding their original expectations......

The spread of the Gospel of God in the East is inseparable from the permission and support of the imperial court and the government!

The most important thing is that not all the people who come to China to spread religion are spreading Catholicism, but also Protestantism, Terrorism, and so on, and if the Chinese emperor is angry and converts to paganism and bans all the activities of Catholics, will the efforts of Catholicism for decades be in vain?

Under Chen Zilong's persuasion, Wei Kuangguo and Julius finally recognized Li Zicheng's status as pope, but required Li Zicheng's status to be slightly lower than that of the Pope of Rome, and the two were commensurate with each other, the Pope of Rome was the brother, and Li Zicheng, the Chinese Pope, was the younger brother!

Li Zicheng smiled secretly, it turns out that Europeans can also play word games, but this is also good, this kind of comrade-brother relationship can attract Western missionaries to serve China and spread science in China.

What is the relationship between "brother" and "brother", who said that the identity of "brother" is higher than "brother"?

Whether or not to recognize the Pope of Rome does not depend on Wei Kuangguo and Julius, but on the strength of China!

Li Zicheng wandered around Songjiang Mansion for a long time, and a message came from the government that the matter of the civil wharf had also been settled to a certain extent.

Wusongkou at the mouth of the Huangpu River is indeed an excellent deep-water wharf that can dock large ships; On the coastline east of the Huangpu River, a place called Fuxing was also found, and it was initially thought that it could be used, although it was not as good as the Wusongkou wharf, which should be able to dock small and medium-sized ships.

Li Zicheng waited for two more days, and Cao Jian's fleet arrived at Wusongkou Wharf, but the personnel did not land, the goods were not unloaded, and after a short stay, they went directly to Jinshanwei in the south, which is now called Jinshan Wharf, which is the location of the shipyard in the setting.

Li Zicheng personally rushed to Jinshan Wharf, both for Cao Jian and Zhou Qingrou.

On the makeshift Jinshan Wharf, the sea breeze blows, bringing a faint muddy smell.

Li Zicheng sat on horseback, looking at a black line in the distance, which gradually faded into black spots, the black spots became bigger and bigger, and only when the shape of the ship was revealed, he took off the telescope on his waist, and sure enough, he saw a familiar figure in men's clothes on the deck, "Silly girl, what's the hurry, this is Songjiang, it's still far from Hangzhou!"

Zhou Qingrou was the first to step off the deck, and when she saw the familiar figure jumping off the horse, her tiredness from the past few days was swept away, and she didn't care about the crowd around her, and immediately rushed towards Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng thought that Zhou Qingrou would throw himself into his arms in public and stage the most touching scene in the world, his arms were outstretched, he was ready, as long as Zhou Qingrou pounced, he would hold her and turn around at least twice.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Qingrou suddenly stopped four or five steps in front of her, her beautiful eyes met Li Zicheng's gaze, and in just the shortest moment, she lowered her head, swayed her body, and then twisted her hair with both hands......

Damn, Lao Tzu forgot, this is China, and the people still continue the science of the Ming Dynasty!

Li Zicheng came to his senses at this time, took three or four steps forward, and approached the past, "Qingrou, how is it, can you still adapt to life on the ship, are you seasick?" ”

"It's okay," Zhou Qingrou raised her head and said with a smile: "The river is quite calm, but when you get out of the estuary, the sea is a little bumpy." ”

Li Zicheng took Zhou Qingrou's hands and said, "Qingrou, I'll go and greet Cao Jian for a while, you wait here!"

"Hmm!" Zhou Qingrou smiled shyly, but she also obediently found a place where no one was and waited patiently.

Li Zicheng found Cao Jian and explained a few words about the shipyard, the entire Jinshan Weibao will be used as the living area of the shipyard, and the R&D department will be set up in the fort, and the imperial court will soon send personnel as his deputies.

Cao Jian looked at the wide terrain, the dock that could park dozens of ships, and the faint Jinshan Weibao in the distance, his heart fluctuated, and after paying a big salute to Li Zicheng, he said carefully: "Your Majesty, is this the permanent home of the shipyard?" ”

"A permanent home?" Li Zicheng looked at the busy crowd on the dock and said with a smile: "Cao Jian, do you know why I asked you to separate the R&D department?" ”

Cao Jian was stunned and said, "Isn't it to let the grass people concentrate on developing the latest warship?" ”

"It is for you, not you personally, to concentrate the wisdom of everyone in order to develop advanced warships faster," Li Zicheng said with a faint smile: "Huaxia is so big, it is impossible to have only one shipyard, R&D is R&D, production is production, and the drawings from the R&D department can be handed over to Jinshan Shipyard in Songjiang, or they can be handed over to other shipyards, and the speed of production will be greatly accelerated." ”

Cao Jian has always only been in charge of R&D and production of warships, and basically doesn't pay attention to things outside his body, but after listening to Li Zicheng's words today, he seems to have some understanding, squinted his eyes, and muttered: "Your Majesty, the grass people understand!"

Li Zicheng patted Cao Jian's shoulder and said with a smile: "Cao Jian, work hard, Huaxia attaches great importance to the development of science and technology, if your contribution is outstanding, it is not impossible to be knighted in the future!"

"Knighted?" Cao Jian was stunned for a moment, this is a matter of Yinfu's descendants, but thinking of his past, he once accepted people to bewitch and assassinate Li Zicheng, and he was so frightened that he fell to the ground, "Your Majesty, the grass people are not for knighthood, but for atonement!"

"Get up quickly," Li Zicheng waited for Cao Jian to get up, and said: "This is all in the past, I will mention it again in the future, Cao Jian, look forward, for the fleet, for Huaxia!"

Cao Jian was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted and grinned, "The emperor is right, the grass people don't want to do anything outside of their bodies for the time being, everything is for the fleet, for the sake of Huaxia!"

Li Zicheng explained a few more words to Cao Jian, and then left the dock, took Zhou Qingrou back to Jinshan Fort City, and stayed temporarily in the city that night.