The matter of opening the sea in Quanzhou City finally began, and Dong Chang, who had been idle for seven years, plunged into it and began to keep his feet on the ground.

Zhang Zhijie just asked about the progress from time to time, and decided that Dong Chang was difficult to decide. However, Zhang Zhijie is not idle, because the fleet will also sail to sea, and on the one hand, he has to arrange the cargo of the fleet, and on the other hand, he has to start separating the fleet from the sailors.

Because since the sea is about to open, the sailors must patrol the sea, and if they encounter a ship that does not have a passage flag and passage documents issued by the city shipping department, they will definitely be seized, and if they resist, they will be sunk immediately.

Zhang Zhijie transferred new warships from Longjiang Shipyard to supplement the fleet, and reorganized the warships of the original sailors back into the ranks of the sailors!

Seeing that the Quanzhou City Ship Division was almost ready, Zhang Zhijie set off for Ningbo again, and the Ningbo City Ship Division also wanted to open the sea, but the Ningbo City Ship Division opened the sea a little later, and the scale was worse than that of the Quanzhou City Ship Division.

Because Zhejiang's smuggling is much less than that of Fujian and Guangdong, after the opening of the sea from Ningbo, Zhejiang's former smuggling ships will mainly go to sea from Ningbo, and compared with Quanzhou, where ships from Fujian and Guangdong provinces gather, the momentum and scale will be much smaller.

There is a far post in Quanzhou, and an yuan post in Ningbo, which is specially designed for the Japanese country. Zhang Zhijie lived in Anyuanyi, although he flattered Zhang Zhijie like Dong Chang, but Ningbo Bo Si promoted Zhao Xin and failed to restrain himself like Dong Chang.

Zhang Zhijie would not ask for a promotion from the city department who received a lot of gifts, so he decisively replaced him and chose one of the officials he brought to be the city department promotion! It just so happened that this official also saw Dong Chang in Quanzhou, who was busy and quickly got started.

Busy days always fly by, and Quanzhou is still overcrowded, but Zhang Zhijie knows that there should not be many people who go to sea this year, mainly the coastal wealthy families who have been smuggling in the first place. Because those wealthy tycoons who want to go to sea have no money but no ships!

Now it's really hard to find a boat, and now that the sea has been opened, there will definitely be patchwork sea boats, but there won't be too many! There are so many people in Quanzhou, most of whom are interested in going to sea to see it in person.

Although everyone in the world knew that the imperial court was going to open the sea, when the Quanzhou City Bosi really posted an announcement, it still caused a sensation. The water that was blocked near the city port division was impassable, and the content of the city port company's announcement was also widely circulated.

In fact, there was nothing written in the announcement, mainly about the process of going to sea and the official opening of the sea! But all of this has been rumored.

Zhang Zhijie was not in the city, but went to the dock, and the ship he sent to Tianjin returned. After such a long time, the Ordnance Bureau also copied a batch of arquebuses, and Zhang Zhijie was the most worried about the fleet going to sea, so he reloaded this batch of arquebuses first.

However, it is a pity that the artillery has just been successfully copied and has not yet begun to be mass-produced. Although artillery is more important to the fleet than arquebuses, Zhang Zhijie cannot wait any longer.

The day of opening the sea has finally arrived, Zhang Zhijie and a large group of Jinyi guards rushed to the port in person, the wharf was already crowded, and there were many ships gathered on the sea.

If you want to go to sea, you need to report to the city shipping department first, record the ships to go to sea and the goods carried, and when the ship goes to sea, the city shipping department will check according to the records, confirm that it is consistent with the report, collect tax silver and then issue the passage flag and passage documents.

The first one to go to sea this time is Zhang Zhijie's fleet, this is Zhang Zhijie's arrangement, even Zhang Zhijie's own fleet is in accordance with the rules, obediently reported to accept the inspection of the city shipping department, and then pays the tax silver, and goes to sea after obtaining the pass flag and the passage paper! Who would dare to object?

The officials of the Municipal Department began to inspect Zhang Zhijie's fleet according to the record, and they also knew that this was the fleet of the Admiral, but they still issued an order to carefully inspect it. As for whether they are serious or not, I don't know.

The onlookers on the dock talked a lot, and they all knew who this first fleet to go to sea belonged to, that is, the Admiral who was sitting in Quanzhou! I didn't expect the Admiral's fleet to go through this process.

After all the inspections were completed, Dong Chang touched the sweat on his head, and said loudly: "The inspection is correct, when the tax is paid, 23,467 taels!" ”

Feng Haisheng handed over the silver ticket and broken silver that had been prepared to Dong Chang, and after Dong Chang took the silver ticket and silver, he raised his voice and said: "Deliver the pass flag and pass paper!" ”

Everything went in an orderly manner, Feng Haisheng sent the passage flag and passage paperwork, and then the fleet set sail, left Quanzhou Port one after another, and began the second ocean voyage of the fleet. Zhang Zhijie didn't say a word from beginning to end, just watched calmly until Feng Haisheng left Quanzhou Port with the fleet.

The first fleet had already gone to sea, and although it had also caused a wave of exclamation, the crowd of onlookers had not felt it deep enough, after all, Lord Admiral's fleet could have gone to sea.

But the next fleet is the Xu family, and the Xu family is also a well-known wealthy family in the south, although it is not as famous as the Xia family, but it is indeed famous in the south. This time I went to sea and Xu Sanye personally came to suppress the formation.

The people of the city division began to check according to the Xu family's report, and Xu Sanye had already come to Zhang Zhijie, and said respectfully: "Lord Admiral has worked hard!" ”

Zhang Zhijie said with a smile: "Now that the imperial court has opened the sea, and the promise of the governor has been fulfilled, in the future, we must come in accordance with the rules of the imperial court in peace, otherwise it will not be easy for the sailor to hold the governor!" ”

Xu Sanye hurriedly laughed and said: "That can't, that can't, the Xu family will definitely come according to the rules of Lord Admiral, and will never mess around!" I won't cause trouble for the Admiral! ”

What Xu Sanye said was indeed heartfelt, they had been suppressed by Zhang Zhijie when they were in the south, and they were shocked again when they went to the capital later! It turns out that Lord Admiral is not only powerful in the south, but also in the capital!

Therefore, Xu Sanye has already made up his mind, and he must honestly follow the rules of Lord Admiral! For this first time to go to sea, Xu Sanye attached great importance to it, and only went to the city to report after confirming and checking it many times.

If something goes wrong the first time they go to sea, it will be humiliating, and it will make the Admiral think that they are deliberately concealing it, and it will not be good!

After the inspection was completed in strict accordance with the record, Dong Chang came to Zhang Zhijie and said respectfully: "My lord, the Xu family's fleet has been inspected, and there is no discrepancy with the record!" ”

Zhang Zhizhi nodded and smiled: "You guys follow the normal process!" ”

(End of chapter)