Chapter 55: My Struggle
"I will write a book on the method of building a new ship, and whoever wants to learn it in the future, including your grandson, will be able to support his family by this craft, depending on whether he can learn it well." Talking to honest people, Hong Tao is unwilling to fool people, and it is guilty of bullying real people.
"That's not possible, the Tan family can't read!" Wen Lao Er was not very happy.
"I can teach the Tanjia men to read and write, arithmetic, and in the future, I can also teach them the knowledge of navigation, which is more powerful than the star holder on the native ship, whether there are stars or not, they can be unimpeded on the sea, no longer need to sail along the yellow water, go directly to the black water." Hong Tao knew that Wen Lao Er had to ask like this, he was a bit like Bo Fu, the only purpose of living and struggling was the future of his family, and he wanted nothing else, neither greedy nor ambitious, but actually sometimes people couldn't laugh or cry.
"If you want to build a sea ship, it's not enough for my family, my brother's family is in Wan'an, and it is also the Wen family's shipbuilding skills." Hearing that he could let his children go to school and read and write, Wen Lao Er not only joined the gang by himself, but also dragged his brother's family into the gang together. From ancient times to the present, everything has changed, but the hearts of people of all ethnic groups have not changed for their children to go to school and get ahead.
The craftsmanship of the Wen family's shipbuilding, Hong Tao doesn't know whether it's good or bad, he hasn't seen other shipwrights at any level of shipbuilding, and he can't use that kind of top craftsman, not to mention whether people listen to their own fools, even if they are willing to come, they can't come. The state-owned enterprises of the Song Dynasty were much more ferocious than the state-owned enterprises of later generations, except for the army, other technicians and laborers were semi-compulsorily employed, and how much money should be given is a lot, but you can't make up your own mind whether to do it or not.
The craftsmanship of the Wen family is enough at present, mainly because they are more reassuring to themselves, and the Song people will not pay too much attention to what the Tan family is doing, and they have never thought that the Tan family is a part of the Song people, and it is already very benevolent to tolerate these sea people living in the Great Song Sea area. It is precisely because the external social environment cannot tolerate them that these Tanka family members are grouped together, and everything is operated in a family and ethnic mode, and they will not easily come into contact with foreign races. This custom makes it easier to control, at least at the beginning of the business, there will be no trouble.
With the addition of the Wen family, Hong Tao can really stand firm. The Tanka family is their own ethnic group, and it is also their own foundation, and where there is a Tanka family, it is equivalent to having its own intelligence station, human resources network and supply station. And with a practical way of fishing, and then with this kind of fast boat, the cooperative can be officially launched. Relying on large-scale collective operations and more advanced fishing tools, the catch will definitely increase a lot, and with a suitable sales channel, the income will also increase a lot compared to before.
As long as you earn more, the other Tan family members will be able to see it, and then attract more Tan family members to join in, catch more fish, sell more money, build more and bigger boats, and go farther to catch fresher and bigger fish. This is a beneficial cycle of chickens laying eggs and laying eggs, and the cooperative will get bigger and bigger. When the manpower reaches a certain level, the catch reaches a certain level, and the sales channel spreads to a certain extent, it is the time for the cooperative to degenerate and upgrade for the first time.
At that time, this cooperative will no longer be a single production department, it will become a fishery association, it will dominate the market with its huge production capacity, it will use all kinds of means to crack down on its peers, it will infiltrate the loose social system of the Great Song Dynasty, so as to get rid of the reputation of the Tan family as homeless people and difficult to control pirates. Since there are enough taxes, Arab merchants can become registered in the Great Song Dynasty and become officials, and the native-born Tan family should also be able to. This is a way out designed by Hong Tao for himself, he wants to use the Tan family to help him enter the Great Song Dynasty society, not to mix, but to enter openly, the starting point is not low, but it is also a strong party.
This method is a bit like the underworld organization in later generations, through strong control of a certain industry, and then begin to launder, or half-white and half-black wandering in the gray field, continue to grow and develop, and even penetrate into the political field. This method is not used in other dynasties, whether it is the Tang, Yuan, Ming, or Qing dynasties, this kind of organization can not be tolerated, no wonder some people in later generations have said that the underworld can only really survive in relatively tolerant social conditions, this sentence is very reasonable.
The Italian mafia is powerful, right? Why did they land in the United States? Because since before World War II, the Italian dictator Mussolini began to sweep through the Italian underworld organizations. Compared with a state apparatus, the triad is also in vain, they did not land in the United States at all, but fled to the United States, and as a result, they took root in a more tolerant American society.
According to Hong Tao's plan, once this cooperative was officially integrated into the Great Song Dynasty society and had a foundation on land, it could start to carry out long-distance trade. At that time, no one can stop themselves, and when they reach the sea, they will be the king of the world's oceans. With fast enough ships, enough sailors, a complete industrial chain, and advanced navigation technology, you can go wherever you want, and no country can do anything about it. Because they will bring enough benefits to the local merchants, any malice against them will attract strong opposition from their own people in the country.
Even if these voices of opposition are finally suppressed, they can rely on their powerful maritime power to blockade the ports of any country, and even attack important cities of any country from the sea. How the British tortured the whole world with giant ships and cannons back then, I repeated it myself.
Of course, this is only a relatively long-term idea, and it may take more than tens, decades, or even hundreds of years to complete this plan. Hong Tao can afford to wait, if he is only 29 years old according to his age before the crossing, at least 3 or 40 years of hard work can be consumed, it doesn't matter if it can be completed or not, the important thing is that this process is very fun and exciting.
As for the Mongols, there's no hurry! The demise of the Southern Song Dynasty will not come in a few years, and when they control the sea, the Mongols probably will not have the energy to deal with the Southern Song Dynasty court that intends to divide the river and rule. This court had no desire to regain lost territory to the north, and it was not a great threat to the Mongols. At that time, it should be himself, the sea overlord, who could really hurt the Mongols, and Hong Tao had a bad plan to deal with those Mongols.
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