"Please look at the prince consort. This is a new sea ship sent from Nanjing. This ship is not only larger and more stable, but also has no slow speed. The goods prepared before are also being shipped on the ship. At that time, they will go to Jeju Island with the craftsmen to meet His Royal Highness Yan..."

Director Wei pointed to a row of large ships in the port and introduced to Li Jie. On the dock, many coolies were loading on the ship with cargo pieces on their backs, making the ship's draft deeper.

"Let's go, let's get on the boat and have a look!" Li Jie stepped forward and said, and Chief Wei and others hurriedly followed.

Li Jie came to Dengzhou not only to appease the craftsmen, but also to inspect the operation of the entire port, especially the preparation of various materials. These are his job and he must not be careless.

Commander Wei took Li Jie on one of the boats. The boat was filled with cargo and the cabin was full of lime. It was mainly for moisture prevention. The cabin was filled with boxes of weapons and farm tools.

Weapons are for the purpose of developing the country. After all, to reach a new land, there must be enough force to protect and expand, while agricultural tools are for the purpose of reclaiming land. No matter when and where, people need to eat enough, so agriculture is also the first industry that needs to be developed.

Although there are craftsmen, these craftsmen cannot immediately create various tools when they arrive in America. For example, taking weapons and agricultural tools as examples, they need to find iron ore first, then smel, build, etc., which takes countless time and energy, so it is better to transport them directly.

After Li Jie carefully checked the boat and made sure there was no problem, he went to the second boat. In addition to weapons and farm tools, there were also some tools used by craftsmen on this boat. All of these were prepared by the craftsmen in the camp. After all, no matter how excellent the tools were, they could not show their skills without any bare hands.

Li Jie personally checked all the ships, checking them while looking at the accounts to ensure that there were no mistakes in these materials. After all, if something went wrong with the support of Zhu Di this time, Li Jie would probably have no shame to see Zhu Di and Zhu Yunsheng.

Speaking of which, although Director Wei was a little inappropriate in handling craftsmen, he was very qualified in managing materials. Each material was recorded in detail. He also answered some questions raised by Li Jie, which made Li Jie secretly complain that it was a bit insignificant to stay in the Ministry of Works. He would definitely have greater development when he went to the Ministry of Revenue.

After inspecting these materials, Li Jie and Chief Wei and others held another meeting and discussed the next plan. After all, the transportation of materials and personnel has just begun, and more materials and personnel will be recruited here in the future. Even the entire plan may take decades to complete.

There is nothing to say about the recruitment of materials. It is nothing more than strengthening supervision in all aspects to prevent people from filling their pockets in the name of recruiting materials. However, Li Jie is not very worried about this. After all, the Jinyiwei and the Censorate are involved in this matter, and there are people to supervise every link. Even if he is, it is not easy to get benefits from it, let alone other officials.

Therefore, the focus of the rumor discussion is on personnel recruitment. This time, the mobilization of craftsmen has caused many problems. Li Jie has scolded Wei and others before, so the next step is to change the method of recruiting personnel.

Li Jie also made a decision directly about this matter. When recruiting personnel in the future, the main focus should be on Huairou. In the early stage, the situation in the Americas was promoted, and then listed generous conditions, so that the entire recruitment process would be voluntary. After all, there are so many people in the Ming Dynasty, there will always be people willing to take risks.

Of course, if such generous conditions are placed and the need is still impossible to recruit the personnel, it will not be too late to use some coercive measures at that time. Moreover, even if someone is dissatisfied, the resistance will not be too fierce. After all, the court has already given many generous conditions. If they cannot resist, they can only obey.

Speaking of which, it is not easy to let the people move. When Zhu Da was immigrating, many people also opposed it, but in the end, these people took their families to embark on the road of migration. After all, compared to the personal will, the will of the country cannot tolerate these people to resist.

Two days later, the craftsmen finally boarded the boat one after another, and Li Jie personally came to the dock to see them off. At the same time, he told the accompanying officials to arrange the lives of these craftsmen after seeing Zhu Di.

Zhu Di was also preparing to migrate to the Americas. He and Zhang Dingbian didn't know what kind of agreement they reached. The two sides worked together and all kinds of materials had gathered on Jiuzhou Island, using it as a base to travel to the Americas.

However, after these materials and personnel arrived at Zhu Di's side, they would not set off immediately. Instead, they would have to wait until Zhu Di and others formed a large enough fleet and then set off together. This would reduce the risk of going to sea. As long as they did not encounter a devastating shipwreck, there would not be too many problems.

As for the steamship, Zhu Di couldn't wait for the time being, because even if the sample ship was built, it would still take some time to test the sea, and the new steamship also needed port supply, so Zhu Di also had to send people to find a port that could be replenished in the Pacific Ocean, which would not be completed in one or two years.

So in this case, the early migration must be mainly sailboats. In fact, sailboats also have their own advantages. For example, compared with steamboats, sailboats now have advantages in load capacity, because there are heavy steam engines on the steamboat and also need to carry a large amount of fuel and fresh water, so the space for shipping goods is much smaller.

In addition, after years of improvement, especially with the development of the Academy of Juezhen, various engineering skills have been greatly improved, which has greatly improved the performance of sailboats. Therefore, today's sailboats are already very adaptable to ocean sailing. If it weren't for the appearance of steamboats, the sailing battleships of later generations would probably appear soon, which is also the pinnacle of sailboats.

After seeing off the craftsmen, Li Jie stayed in Dengzhou for a few days, mainly because another batch of new materials was to be transported, and new personnel were also needed to be recruited. Li Jie was worried about these. In the past, he could make decisions in remote control in Beijing, but it was far from making on-site arrangements here in Dengzhou.

However, with the arrival of various materials, Li Jie had an idea in his mind. He suddenly wanted to go to Zhu Di to take a look. After all, compared to Dengzhou, Zhu Di was the front line of migration. Various materials and personnel gathered together and were about to begin the largest overseas migration in human history. That scene was definitely very spectacular.
Chapter completed!