"Lord Admiral, then we can make up our minds, our Jirentang will order two 'Jiaolong-type' sea ships, with a deposit of 10,000 taels I have already asked people to replace them with grain, and they are on the way to Jilong Town." I haven't seen him for many years, Xu Haibin has a little more honor, and a little less of the spirit of his early years, and now when he faces Li Tianyang, he is like a spring breeze, talking with Li Tianyang on the side like a friend with a good relationship.

"Okay, no problem!" Li Tianyang also had a friendly smile on his face, and the other party used grain to deduct the deposit with knowledge, clearly knowing that Hongmen now has a huge demand for food, so he sent grain instead of silver as a deposit.

The actual cost is more than 6,000 taels of labor, and only more than 100 taels of "Jiaolong-style" sea vessels spent on the purchase of raw materials, which were priced at 35,000 taels of silver by Li Tianyang, which may be an astronomical amount for others, but for large and medium-sized firms such as Jirentang in ocean trade, it is only a slightly expensive price.

If you build a ship along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, plus the actual cost of purchasing raw materials, the actual cost of a sea ship will exceed 10,000 taels of silver, plus the shipbuilder's own profits, the cost will be almost more than 10,000, nearly 20,000.

And this is still the construction price of the general 2,000 material Daifuku ship, in the face of a more outstanding performance, and the most suitable for ocean trade "Jiaolong" sea ship, 35,000 taels of silver is actually worth the money.

Xu Haibin has not traveled to Dayuan Island for many years, and many things are dealt with by his own shopkeepers, and he usually stays in Songjiang's hometown to preside over the overall situation.

This time, Hongmen's sudden appearance of the "Jiaolong-style" sea ship, in Jirentang in Jilong Town's shopkeeper of the pigeon to send back to Yuegang, and then quickly whipped to his own hands, Xu Haibin for the sake of safety, personally came to visit Li Tianyang in Jilong Town, it can be said that it is inevitable.

Since the death of the former first assistant Xu Jie, his protégés and former officials have either died of old age or returned to their hometowns in these years, and there are fewer and fewer people who can help the Xu family.

His own family is not angry, although the family has been increasing education since Xu Jie, but there are too few people who have made achievements in the imperial examination, so far only two or three are working hard in the position of the county prefect, which is of little help to the family.

Therefore, the officialdom that Xu Lao Shoufu saved for his family in the early years has become more and more shallow with the passage of time, which has made Xu's business in the inland of the Ming Dynasty more and more difficult in recent years, and its prestige and strength in the local area are also fading, living up to its original strength.

In this way, Xu Haibin, as the main branch of the Xu family, is also beginning to think of ways to break this deadlock for the future development of the family, and his ultimate goal is to throw himself on the vast sea.

Compared with the fierce competition in the hinterland, the ocean-going trade did not have much conflict in competition because of its higher risk and Confucian culture's contempt for barbaric lands.

In addition, the sea route is vast, even if others have the intention to make it bad and stumble behind it, but many times it is a matter of half the effort, so that many businesses with strong backers are beyond the reach of the whip and cannot use their means to the fullest, giving many seafarers an opportunity, unless it is a gang like Hongmen that has strong strength at sea.

Not to mention the high returns brought by the high risk of ocean trade, the profits earned by a trip back and forth are multiplied, so that Xu Haibin can not give up this way to make money, but must increase the input and output of maritime trade to make up for the family's losses in recent years.

This time, I came to Jilong Town in person and found Li Tianyang, just to persuade Li Tianyang to sell the Western-style sea ships in their hands to him in installments, so as to strengthen his transportation and self-protection capabilities at sea.

Things went unexpectedly smoothly, although Li Tianyang also had many refusals during this period, but in the end, he still made concessions to Hongmen at his high purchase price and in business, which made Li Tianyang moved and should make this deal.

On the way back, Xu Haibin was very complacent, as long as after this year, Hongmen promised to deliver the two "Jiaolong-style" sea ships to him, then his sea caravan would not only be able to go straight to the South Seas, but also follow the footsteps of the big Franco-machine people to explore the rich places outside the Americas.

After dealing with the Spaniards in Manila, Luzon for a long time, these shrewd and adventurous seafarers of the Ming Dynasty were no longer satisfied with trading with Westerners, but secretly inquired about where the silver and gold sent by the Spaniards every year were transported from there.

In the case of inquiry, the source of the silver of the Spaniards was also discovered by the seafarers of the Ming Dynasty, and it turned out that further east of the Ming Dynasty, there was a vast land, where it was said that there lived barbarians who did not wear clothes and did not understand shame, and gold and silver that could be sifted out of the soil with one hand.

Of course, the shrewd Ming merchants may not believe all these rumors, but one thing can be confirmed is that the silver and gold in the hands of the foreigners in Manila were indeed transported from the American continent in the east.

The target is there, and the winter is also exciting, although the rumors are exaggerated, but I am afraid that there is a real and conclusive fact that silver and gold are abundant there, so in front of the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty, there is only one biggest problem, that is, the East is good to wear in the deep water in the face of hurricanes and waves is insufficient, and at the same time, the speed of navigation is also too lacking, even if there are enough supplies, in the end there is little vitality.

Therefore, until now, the maritime merchants and seafarers of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to coveting the rich source of wealth of Westerners, are also waiting for an opportunity to let themselves have the ability to travel far and wide.

In the meantime, it was not without the adventurous spirit of the Daming sea guests from the coast of the Ming Dynasty, towards the vast east, and finally they all disappeared into the deep sea, and no one turned around.

Thinking of the bright prospects that are coming in the future, Xu Haibin couldn't help but smile on the corner of his mouth, and there were several suppressed opera tones in his throat, and the whole person was intoxicated with the prospect of the future.

Before Xu Haibin's frame, several henchmen who escorted Xu Haibin to travel and manipulated the carriage for him smiled at each other, it seemed that their master was in a really good mood for a few years!

However, what Xu Haibin didn't know was that the scene he showed in the Yamen Mansion of Li Tianyangdu in Jilong Town, before him and after he just left, there was already a picture similar to his picture.

And the shopkeepers and proprietors who came to visit Li Tianyang, when they left the Admiral's Yamen, the expressions on their faces were also like the brilliant expressions on Xu Haibin's face.

(End of chapter)