The heavens begin to realize the Tao and become gods from the divine carving

Chapter 288 Sailing is finally back

"Still Mr. Xiang is very powerful. He knows astronomy from the top and geography from the bottom. He is omnipotent."

"You think I'm a god."

"Xianggong is God."

In the evening, Jiang Chen ordered the imperial dining room to prepare ingredients and eat hot pot at night.

It is most suitable to eat hot pot in the palace on this rainy day. Everyone chatted and laughed together, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

The beef and mutton are thinly sliced, put it in the hot pot and it can be eaten after a few times of boiling. There are also various vegetables and ingredients. The spicy hot pot is very refreshing for everyone.

So many people ate together, and the soup base was changed twice to make them feel full and satisfied.

This torrential rain lasted for three consecutive days, and the rain made the people of Hangzhou City panic and feel very uneasy.

According to past experience, with such a heavy rain, the entire city of Hangzhou would be flooded, but now it is no different from an ordinary heavy rain. Everyone can't help admiring the emperor's wise and decisive.

On the fifth day, the heavy rain finally stopped.

Jiang Chen immediately organized officials and soldiers to go out to fight the flood and rescue and rebuild after the disaster.

This time, although the loss was greatly reduced due to Jiang Chen's advance prevention, many houses collapsed and the plants were also damaged due to the continuous torrential rain.

First of all, we must settle the victims and solve the problem of food and housing for the victims.

The second is to help the victims rebuild their houses.

The third is to solve the health problems after the disaster, so as to avoid the formation of plague.

Jiang Chen took out 5000 million taels from the treasury to help the victims rebuild after the disaster.

The disaster relief effort is huge and unprecedented.

In the past, even if there was a disaster and there were too many refugees, it would be very powerful for the court to issue a few million taels at most, but this time it directly took out 5000 million taels.

Under Jiang Chen's order, all soldiers and organized labor quickly carried out post-disaster reconstruction.

Food from other places has also been continuously shipped to the disaster area.

This time the officials will be dismissed if their command is not strong enough, Jiang Chen has already said it seriously in the early court.

In just half a month, the post-disaster reconstruction was completed, all the victims lived in new houses, and received one stone of grain and one tael of silver.

Fortunately, only a few people died in this disaster, which is already considered a good situation.

The sun is shining, the floodwaters are receding, and the roads and ditches are being cleared of silt.

The entire city of Hangzhou returned to its previous appearance.

And because the collapsed houses are all dilapidated, the new houses after reconstruction have made the entire city of Hangzhou more prosperous.

Through this disaster, the people supported Jiang Chen even more, and they had more confidence in the court.

It's finally over!
If it wasn't for Jiang Chen's judgment this time, as well as the prevention in advance, and the vigorous reconstruction after the disaster, the loss this time would be incalculable.

After the disaster was over, everything was back on track.

Jiang Chen was comfortably basking in the sun at this time.

"Father, the little fish didn't come out of the water anymore."

"Hahaha……"

Ever since she knew that it was raining when the fish came out to breathe, she often went to observe it.

Compared with the power of nature, the power of human beings is too small.

Even if Jiang Chen has reached the pinnacle of martial arts in this world, he still feels powerless in the face of the power of nature.

Unknowingly, another three months passed.

Just when Jiang Chen was holding his child, it was an eunuch who came to report.

"The emperor's fleet from Nanyang has returned and is now in Quanzhou."

"Great, let Cao Aiqing meet immediately, and I want to listen to his report."

"According to the order."

Finally, after seven or eight days, Jiang Chen finally met Mr. Cao, and listened to him face to face about his experiences and gains from this trip.

Leading the fleet from Nanjing, assembled in Liujiagang, Taicang, Jiangsu, and stopped at Changle Taiping Port, Fuzhou, Fujian to wait for the wind and open the ocean, sailed to the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean, and visited more than 30 countries and regions, including Java, Sumatra, Su Loc, Pahang, Chenla, Guri, Siam, Bangkala, Adan, Tianfang, Zuofar, Horumos, Mugudusu and other places, and the farthest known reaches East Africa and the Red Sea.

The voyage lasted a total of one year and eight months.

And one voyage also exposed the disadvantages of the ship. The current shipbuilding technology is not as good as when Zheng He went to the West.

Before Zheng He's voyage to the West, Huaxia's shipbuilding technology had already made great progress.Around the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese had already invented watertight compartments, vehicles and ships, balanced rudders, and perforated rudders.In terms of ship types, during the Song and Yuan dynasties, the ship types of Huaxia ships had been finalized. Among them, Fuchuan, Shachuan, and Guangzhou Ship were the most famous. They were regarded as the three major ship types in ancient China, and Fuchuan was the most widely used and most influential.

In the hull structure of sea-going ships, Huaxia Sea-Ship adopts the lap joint method to form a "fish scale" structure (also known as "wrong armor method" structure), so that the hull plates are tightly connected, the overall strength is high, and it is not easy to leak.The load capacity of the ship is also considerable, reaching more than [-] stone in the Southern Song Dynasty; in terms of passenger capacity, a large ship can carry a thousand passengers, and in terms of the living environment of the ship, the Huaxia ship can provide complete living facilities and washing facilities , with elegant rooms that can bring family members, with plenty of food, and even raising pigs, growing vegetables, medicinal materials, wine, and planting bonsai for viewing on board.

The fleet bought a large amount of jewelry in the West and brought back spices.

In addition to jewelry and spices, which are only enjoyed by the upper class, Mr. Cao also brought back batch after batch of animals, such as African giraffes, lions from Horumos, and camels from Bujawa, and of course East Africa. The "Kirin" of Malin Kingdom.

The so-called unicorn is a giraffe, Jiang Chen knows this better than anyone else.

In addition, everything that Jiang Chen explained was also found.

Jiang Chen ordered to spread the planting and cultivation techniques of sweet potatoes, potatoes, and tomatoes, and popularize these kinds of agricultural plants.

Although this voyage consumed a lot of financial and manpower, it was of great significance.

The first is to make a huge contribution to solving the food problem.

Then it is the introduction of cultures from various places and advanced productivity.

Jiang Chen asked Mr. Cao to rest for a few days, and then started to work drastically.

Master Cao also looked excited.

Jiang Chen also asked the royal newspaper and the women's newspaper to promote planting techniques, and then reported the significance of this voyage.

After a few days of publicity, everyone is looking forward to the high yield brought by those plants. Is it as good as the report?

Master Cao began to train farmers to grow these things, first in southern Fujian, and then spread to the north.

The planting is over in two months, and the next step is to see how the harvest will be in a few months.

After the planting is over, now is the quality inspection of water conservancy projects.

Jiang Chen deliberately read the evaluation results, since the evaluation was done by the disciples he cultivated, so there is still some credibility.

However, Jiang Chen used cross-assessment, and the results were almost the same, which meant that the data was not falsified.

The next step is to develop the economy and increase jobs.

Then there is the development of agriculture.

The last is the prevention of various natural disasters.

(End of this chapter)