Chapter 1371

As for the rest, we can only wait a little longer, and we can't just meet their needs and work in vain. ”

"That's right, it's all given to them, so we can't do business yet." Tong Guan also thinks it is authentic. He is the spokesperson of Duanwang Zhao Ji in maritime trade, so he naturally has to plan for his master, as for national affairs, hehe, it doesn't matter to him, the eunuch next to His Royal Highness Duanwang, to worry about.

It didn't take long for them to drive to the shipyard, which now doesn't look like it looked like it was more than a year ago.

Today, there are 3,500 craftsmen and handymen alone. In addition to the 10 large dockyards where ships are being built, construction is underway on five more docks, and it is expected that by the end of autumn 15 giant seagoing vessels will be working here at a time.

There is another shipyard not far away, there are many docks there, but most of them are small docks, mainly to build some auxiliary ships, by the way, whenever a new ship is designed, a prototype ship will be built there first.

The new sailboat designed by Wang Yang, after being praised by these old boatmen invited from Jiangnan with a lot of money, after the trial voyage of the prototype ship with 500 to 1,000 materials, confirmed that this newly designed sailboat not only has excellent sinking resistance, but also is extremely fast, at least nearly one-third faster than the current Da Song Fu boat and Dashi spinnaker.

Wan Bin, the old driver, ignored Wang Yang's personal letter and persuasion, and immediately made a decision and directly got on the new sailing ship with 7,000 materials. That is, a sailing ship with a cargo capacity of up to 360 tons and a displacement of about 1,000 tons.

However, this is naturally not the largest giant ship in the Great Song Dynasty, because before, the Quanzhou shipyard where Wan Bin went has been able to successfully manufacture an ocean-going giant ship with a length of more than 30 zhang and a load of up to 10,000 materials, and it is called the Mulan boat.

And Wan Bin is in the shipyard in Quanzhou and other places, spent a lot of money, from there to dig a lot of shipwrights, so that Jiaonan Port directly from the past to make small fishing boats, directly into a large shipyard that can make seven or eight thousand giant ships.

The old shipwrights, after referring to the types of trees in the north, believed that there was also a lot of wood in the primeval forests of the north that was a good material for building giant ships, and there was no need to transport wood from the south to build them.

In the middle of last year, several 5,000-material ships had been launched here, and their quality was not inferior to that of Quanzhou Shipyard.

After Wang Yang learned the news, he thought of a question, it seems that the source of ship timber in the Ming and Qing dynasties was concentrated in the northeast, because of the prosperity of ancient trees and a wide variety of varieties.

The treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, which had a lot of shipbuilding timber, were specially transported from the northeast to the Nanjing shipyard at that time.

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After arriving at the place, Wan Bin and Tong Guan looked at the hot dock with great interest, and could see that a huge hull was slowly taking shape, and around the hull was a workbench built with countless giant nanzhu bamboos.

The shipwrights are like dense ants, all of them are working diligently, and there are also some supervisors who are responsible for checking the progress of the work and the quality of the work.

Whenever a problem is found and pointed out, it will be graded on the form they hold in their hands, and those who do it well and quickly will be able to get more prizes.

It is precisely because of such a reward and punishment mechanism that almost no one is willing to slack off in the Wanhong Trading Company's ship-making stone of the rubber ship, and they are eager to do more work, and the more they do, the more money they get, so why not?

What's more, most of the workers were specially recruited from poor places, and these people were particularly hard-working and obedient.

"Well, this can be called a sea ship, look, such a big size, and this hull feels more slender than the previous ships, it feels like a giant whale in the sea." Wan Bin admired the giant ship of 7,000 materials, and sighed with great satisfaction in his heart.

"Yes, it does seem to be much more pleasing to the eye than the big food sailboat we purchased from those big cannibals before, as well as our Great Song Dynasty's lucky boat." Tong Guan also nodded thoughtfully.

"After this new ship is launched, let's see how its sea trials are, if it is good enough, then in the future, our Wanhong Trading Company Shipyard will mainly build this kind of ship."

Hearing what Wan Bin meant, he seemed to feel that such dumpling-like shipbuilding was not enough, and he had to continue, which made Tong Guan a little big.

You must know that even if it is a ship of 1,000 materials, its cost will need at least about 1,300 yuan, and about 20,000 yuan for 5,000 materials, as for the largest kind of 7,000 materials, then the price will almost have to be doubled, after all, the larger the ship, the materials and even labor consumed are an exaggerated number.

"Shopkeeper Wan, we are just doing business, do we need so many ships?"

"What do you think we can do with our ship?" Wan Bin raised his eyebrows, seemingly disdainful of Tong Guan's words. "Do you know how many ships are in one ocean-going fleet?

There are more than a dozen small ships, dozens of ships, I remember that time Wan saw a big food ocean fleet enter Quanzhou Port, there are 34 ships, of which the number is close to 20 similar to 5,000 large ships. ”

"And now, all the ships that can be used are added together, and it is not enough for this number. I know that if Wan Mou goes to the Wa Kingdom once, he can earn a profit from building more than ten ships of 7,000 materials, and if I can have 20 sea ships of 5,000 materials, even if it takes twice as long to sell goods in the area of the Wa Kingdom, it will be worth it. ”

"Do you know why those big cannibals are willing to take risks and travel thousands of miles to my Great Song Dynasty to do business? That's because every time they run back and forth, they will have a hundredfold benefit. ”

"A hundredfold advantage!" Tong Guan's voice suddenly raised an octave, and he looked at the old driver in a daze, unable to speak for a long time.

"That's natural, otherwise, who would want to take their lives so seriously? Let's do business here, a round trip, less than three times the profit, more than ten times the profit, it's already very remarkable, but it's a pity that compared to those big food merchants, what are we ......"

Speaking of this, Wan Bin couldn't help but sigh with emotion, specially, the world is really too big, there are no surprises, in the past, Wan Bin already felt that his Wanjia business was already super rich in the Great Song Dynasty, but compared with those big food merchants who came from thousands of miles away, it was still a little insufficient.

Hearing Wan Bin's words, Zitong Guan really didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment except for smashing his tongue. Earn so much money in one trip.

Even if more than a dozen large and small ships on his side go to Yalu water, if all the furs and native products they get are sold out, after deducting the cost, how can they have an income of more than 100,000 yuan.

Originally, Tong Guan already felt that it was quite good, but after listening to Wan Bin's words, Tong Guan knew that he really underestimated the huge profits of maritime trade.

"No wonder why those big cannibals traveled thousands of miles to my Great Song Dynasty to do business."

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