Chapter 1231

Wan Bin didn't let Wang Yang wait too long, so he appeared in Wang Yang's mansion and heard that Wang Yang was going to do business with the female tribe.

At first, it was nothing, but after listening to the local products of Liaodong mentioned by Wang Yang, his merchant's heart began to beat rapidly.

Wan Bin couldn't help but let out a long breath of turbidity, and became excited again.

"It seems that this business with the Nuzhi tribe is just the beginning, hey, according to this, how do you think that the business here is not worse than that of the North Shaanxi Road once it becomes bigger......

"That's natural, but before that, I'm afraid I need you to help me do a few things." Wang Yang nodded, and then made his own request.

“…… This, on this point, I am afraid that it is not easy. After listening to Wang Yang's request, Wan Bin couldn't help but look embarrassed.

"Presumably, Brother Xian, you should know that those maritime merchants are different from us, they are more greedy than us, and the important thing is that those guys are not willing to give them the ships in their hands."

"There are many ports in the south, but those sea routes are all controlled by those big food merchants, and among our merchants in the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that only a few have mastered such technology, so the foolish brother thinks that it is better for us not to do this......

Wang Yang's eyes narrowed slightly. "Brother, there's something wrong with your idea."

"What's the problem, since you want to run maritime trade, you naturally need to have sea ships, and you need a lot of skilled hands. But we don't have anything. ”

"I don't need to hire their ships from the maritime merchants, what I need is to buy them, and as for the craftsmen and sailors who can make them, I am sure I will be able to recruit them for a lot of money. As for the design of the sea boat, I have it. Wang Yang pointed to the tip of his nose and said confidently.

"Brother Xian, what are you trying to do here? If we are willing to spend money to buy ships, we have to hire sailors to serve us, and since we already have ships and sailors to transport goods for us, why bother building our own ships? After all, it takes a lot of time to build a ship, and it costs a lot of money. ”

"The important thing is time, three years and five years, which is considered short. Even if you are a virtuous brother, you really have the blueprints of the sea boat...... Alas, I don't know what else you wouldn't. ”

Halfway through the words, Wan Bin couldn't help but spit out a groove in his mouth, afraid that someone who had never even seen the sea would actually tell himself that he could even build a sea boat, is this cargo still a person?

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Wang Yang smiled. "However, don't you think that if we have a fleet strong enough to travel between the Great Song Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom, and transport the silver and gold of the Wa Kingdom to the Great Song Dynasty, we can dump the countless commodities of our Wanhong Trading Company into the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo.

Wouldn't it be better to do business in this way? As long as we know how to build our own ships, when the time comes, we can build as many as we want, and we don't have to be limited by others. ”

"As for hiring someone else's boat, that's the most unreliable method, and it's easy to have problems of one kind or another."

Wan Bin pondered for a long time, and had to nod his head to admit that Wang Yang's vision was indeed longer than his own, and in the short term, borrowing, or hiring the merchant ships of those maritime merchants to run trade, was naturally the quickest choice.

However, that would be equivalent to being severely cut by those maritime merchants as middlemen, scraping a layer of skin on profits. This is not what Wan Bin, who considers himself the most shrewd businessman in the Great Song Dynasty, wants to see.

What's more important is that if those maritime merchants find out that such a business is profitable, and they themselves start this road, won't there be more competitors?

"That's right, what are you going to do, brother?" Wanbin has such an advantage, once he thinks about the problem clearly, he will immediately make a choice that is more beneficial to himself and his enterprises.

"I have also set a goal for the starting port of our future trade with Nüzhi, Goryeo, and Wa Kingdom."

Seeing Wan Bin's inquiry, Wang Yang didn't sell it, and said directly. "Located in Jingdong East Road, Penglai in the north of Dengzhou, there is a natural harbor, during the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, it was the starting point for traveling between the mainland of Kyushu and the surrounding countries."

"Nowadays, there is a port there, but there are not many ships coming and going. However, all ships coming from Liaodong must first anchor there to procure fresh water rations. ”

Wan Bin scratched his chin. "So where is the virtuous brother going to put our shipbuilding workshop, is it also in Penglai?"

"Well, for the time being, we will only consider putting it together so that we can facilitate the repair and maintenance of the ship." Wang Yang raised his fingers, scratched his cheeks, and smiled.

In fact, Wang Yang also has an idea, that is, he wants to design a newer, faster and stronger sailing ship in the future. But he was worried that if the shipyard was placed at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it would be easy for the big cannibals to know.

This would be more difficult to keep secrets, but if it were placed north of the Jiaodong Peninsula, there would be few big food merchants willing to set foot in it.

Maybe it's because those big food merchants are all from the desert where the temperature is almost not lower than 30 degrees Celsius, so they can still tolerate the climate in the south of the Yangtze River, but they are not sensitive to the cold north.

But there is also another factor, that is, those big food merchants may not know that there are still large sums of money to be made in the bitter cold land of the north, but they don't know it yet.

In Wang Yang's head, there are the structural drawings of the best sailing ships of the Age of Discovery, which are equipped with giant ships and cannons. And it had already been drawn by him early on, and treasured in his pile of manuscripts.

As long as the time comes, there will be a shipyard and enough craftsmen, so what kind of ships do you want to make, that is what Wang Daguan can do with a stroke of a pen.

This is also the reason why Wang Yang prefers to build his own ships rather than hire those sea vessels.

As long as you have enough sea vessels, hehe, whether it is used for business or for war, it is a bull. The important thing is that Wang Yang deeply remembers that in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was precisely because of the betrayal of those big maritime merchants who lived in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty that the Northern Yuan Dynasty also had a powerful navy, and the Southern Song Dynasty's son of heaven and the Han family's clothes were strangled in the South China Sea.

Even if this matter is no longer known whether it will happen in this historical time and space, Wang Yang understands very well that self-reliance and self-reliance are more important than anything else, and only when the science and technology trees of the Great Song Dynasty are all full and stand on top of the world, then they will no longer be afraid of any enemy.

After the two discussed for more than an hour, they began to pout their butts and lie on the map, looking for the most suitable route for river transportation and sea transportation.