This is not the first time Li Jie has come to Xintu Island. The last time he came to see Zhang Dingbian and others on a warship, it was called Kyushu Island, and the island is also the world of Japanese people. Now it is not only renamed Xintu Island, but the situation on the island has also changed completely.

Because of Zhang Dingbian and others' arrival, the Japanese people squeezed the living space of the Japanese, which also led to the Japanese people on the island moving away one after another. The immigrants brought by Zhang Dingbian occupied the entire island. It can be said that this place has become the world of the Han people.

Li Jie followed Zhu Gaochi to the other side of Xintugang, and saw that there were large ships parked one after another. Zhu Gaochi said, "Brother-in-law, look, this is the second fleet to the Americas. I will also take these ships to set off together."

"You made so many ships by yourself?" Li Jie couldn't help but ask in shock when he looked at this huge fleet. Although he had known that the fleet to America was large in size, there was still a big gap between hearing and seeing with his own eyes.

"How is it possible? Although we have shipbuilding workshops here, the production of the workshops is limited. If we only make them ourselves, it will probably take at least several years. So only a small part of them is built by us, and most of the rest is ordered from various shipbuilding workshops in the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Gaochi replied with a smile.

"So that's it. The ship that Your Majesty promised to support you is still under construction. It is estimated that it will not be delivered until Uncle Fourth goes to America." Li Jie smiled again when he heard this. He was responsible for the material support for Zhu Di, so he knew the most about the ship.

"Where is the steamship? I heard that the steamship my father asked for has been developed. When will it be used?" Zhu Gaochi asked again. Last time he returned to the Ming Dynasty, he had personally experienced the speed of the steamship, so he also wanted to get on the steamship as soon as possible, so that the connection between America and the Ming Dynasty will become closer in the future.

"The steamboat will have to wait for a while. Before I came, they had already started sea trials, but from sea trials to finalization, a ship will find many problems and make improvements, so it will not be officially produced next year at the earliest." Li Jie replied helplessly. He actually hoped that the steamboat would be built earlier than anyone else, so he might have the opportunity to go to the Americas to take a look.

"Next year?" Zhu Gaochi also looked disappointed after hearing this. He had already arrived in the Americas next year, and he would definitely be in trouble by affairs. He probably wouldn't have time to travel between the Ming and the Americas in a steamboat.

While chatting, Li Jie and Zhu Gaochi visited the fleet in the port. Now they have started to transport some supplies to the ship. Although the fleet this time is mainly used for transporting people, there are also a lot of corresponding supplies, and these need to be loaded in advance.

After a walk around, Li Jie suddenly thought of Zhang Dingbian's incident, so he asked Zhu Gaochi again: "I have always wanted to know what agreement your father and Old General Zhang have reached, and that they actually made Old General Zhang willing to be driven by your father?"

"I don't know this either!" Unexpectedly, Zhu Gaochi answered frankly with his hands spread out.

"You don't know either?" Li Jie also looked surprised when he heard this.

"Yes, my father and General Zhang and others had a long time contact. They started to explore America many years ago, and now they have joined forces to move to America. During this period, we also had conflicts, but later my father and General Zhang had a private talk. Since then, General Zhang has begun to cooperate with my father with all his strength." Zhu Gaochi explained again.

"Then you are not curious about what they talked about?" Li Jie continued to ask.

"Of course I'm curious. I asked my father privately, but my father was unwilling to say more. However, Master Daoyan seemed to know something. When I asked him, he smiled but didn't say anything, just asked me to guess by myself." Zhu Gaochi said helplessly again.

Zhu Di's mouth was very strict. As long as he didn't want to say something, it would be useless no matter who asked. Daoyan was a master of riddles, so Zhu Gaochi had no choice.

"This is strange. With my understanding of General Zhang, he is not so easy to be driven by others!" Li Jie also whispered to himself when he heard this. This incident had been bothering him for a while, and he couldn't figure it out no matter how he thought about it.

"Brother-in-law, don't think about it. General Zhang is about to come back from Japan. Then you can just ask him personally, right?" Zhu Gaochi saw that Li Jie was worried about this matter, so he spoke and reminded him.

"That's true!" Li Jie nodded after hearing this, "By the way, why did General Zhang come back this time? Don't he need to take charge of Japan?"

"The old general's return is also related to this trip to America. In addition to ours, there are also many of them from General Zhang, so he also needs to come back and arrange it." Zhu Gaochi replied immediately.

After hearing this, Li Jie nodded again. Indeed, thinking about this now is useless. It would be better to ask him in person after seeing Zhang Dingbian. Although he and Zhang Dingbian had not seen each other for many years, he believed that the other party would definitely not hide anything from him.

After visiting the fleet, Zhu Gaochi took Li Jie to other places in the port, such as the shipbuilding workshop where he was working hard to build ships and several large workshops that produced various materials. Each workshop was full of enthusiasm and there was almost no idle person.

It was late at night when Li Jie and Zhu Gaochi returned to the city. There was originally a special inn in the city, but Zhu Di always regarded Li Jie as his family, so Li Jie moved into Zhu Di's mansion, which was convenient for them to meet.

Li Jie returned to her residence for dinner and was about to read a book and rest, but unexpectedly someone suddenly came to report: "Report to the prince consort, the third prince is here to visit!"

"Zhu Gaoxu? What is he here to do?" Li Jie also looked surprised when he heard the report, but then he frowned, because in his impression, Zhu Gaoxu was a very cunning person and was definitely not a good person to talk to.

"The third prince said that he had important things to discuss with the prince consort. Please be sure to meet him!" The person who came said again.

Li Jie frowned again when he heard this. He was also hesitating whether to see the other party? However, after thinking about it for a while, he finally said, "Go back and tell the third prince, just say that I had been running with the prince for a day, and I had already rested early after I came back. Let's talk about anything tomorrow!"

"Yes!" The servant agreed and immediately turned around and left.

Li Jie fell into deep thought again. Although he didn't know why Zhu Gaoxu came to see him at this time, based on his understanding of the three brothers of the Zhu family, it was probably related to Zhu Gaochi when he came to see him, so it would be better not to see him.
Chapter completed!