"This is His Majesty's order...... Liu Yan explained to Yuan Ang triumphantly: "Of course, the widow also contributed......

"Your Majesty has decreed that if you want to hunt whaling, you must charter the ships of the building, and in addition, you must apply for permission as you would in the case of copper and gold mines!"

"The fee for this license ranges from 100 to 1,000 gold per year!"

"Long Xi has wanted to hunt whale......s since last year," Liu Yan said with a smile: "For this whaling ship, the widow heard that Long Xi also borrowed 2,000 gold from Joseon!" ”

Yuan Ang was dumbfounded when he listened.

Although Liu Yan didn't say it too carefully, he understood it too well.

But Yuan Ang still knew two pieces of information.

First, this giant ship, before it was built, Long Waiting for Chen Huan had already paid all the fees!

Moreover, it seems and the situation that even if Long Hou Chen took out the cost of building the ship, this ship does not belong to him.

It's just that he rented it from the Lou Ship Yamen.

Just to charter this ship, he has to pay a thousand gold tax every year!

In addition, he has to pay another thousand gold to the state for the whaling license of this ship!

Second: Even in the case of such a high cost, Long Xihou is still willing to pay such a huge amount, and even borrow money from Joseon.

Joseon-kun's money is not so easy to borrow!

Borrowing his money is no different from borrowing King Liang's money.

I am afraid that this interest rate is about the same as that of usury.

This shows that the profit of whaling is probably higher than that of gold mining!

However, Yuan Ang still couldn't understand.

If Long was thinking about taking this boat to fish in the Xinhua River, he would be understandable.

After all, the river of Xinhua, which now earns tens of millions of dollars, is simply an inexhaustible gold mine.

Lou Chuan Yamen regarded it as a treasure and did not allow anyone else to interfere.

In Xinhua City alone, the Yamen, the general of Lou Chuan, was stationed with a thousand people.

But this whaling ......

Unheard of!

Can there be a profit?

After thinking about it, Yuan Ang felt that there should be.

Otherwise, with Chen Huan's personality, how could a scumbag who plucked his feathers and didn't even want fame and reputation to spend such a large amount of money on such a gamble?

It must be that there are huge interests in this that Yuan Ang does not know.

"King, if you spend so much money, can he get it back?" Yuan Ang asked deliberately.

"How can I not pay back?" Liu Yan smiled slightly: "Mo Yuan alone is willing to buy back the muscles and bones of the whales caught at a price of one pound!" ”

Liu Yan stepped on the giant ship under his feet and looked at the huge bed crossbow.

This whaling ship is a terrible ship capable of hunting all the behemoths of the sea.

It is equipped with a bed crossbow that can shoot any behemoth that comes within sight, a powerful winch, and a powerful dragging function.

So far, the largest whale hunted by the Han family weighed thousands of stones!

Its muscles and bones are peeled off, and there are as many as 100,000 catties!

In other words, a whale alone can be worth 100,000 dollars!

What's more, whale oil is more expensive than gold!

"Taifu knows, how much is a pound of whale oil worth in Andong and Liaoxi now?" Liu Yan asked mysteriously, and then stretched out a finger: "One hundred dollars!" And it's priceless! ”

"And whales, even the smallest calves, can refine at least a thousand pounds of fat! Worth 100,000 dollars! ”

"As for the whales...... Totally unimaginable......"

"Long thinks about this ship, at most half a year, you can return to the original ......" Liu Yan said: "Is there a more profitable business in the world than this?" ”

Yuan Ang was also dumbfounded when he heard this.

Can you earn back 5,000 gold in half a year?

If it weren't for Liu Yan's mouth, he would have thought it was crazy!

How is this possible?

Today's most lucrative salt and iron trade, last year, it only contributed more than 200,000 yuan of profits to the country.

Converted into gold, it is only about 200,000 gold.

But that's the output of the whole world, and it's a lot of costs.

The actual net profit may only be tens of thousands.

Yuan Ang suddenly thought of a question.

Things in the world have always been scarce and precious.

These whale fats, produced, if only 10,000 catties or 20,000 catties, can probably maintain the price.

But once the production exceeds one million catties a year old.

Doesn't this price have to dive?

After all, whale fat, Yuan Ang only heard that it has antifreeze effect.

"Who can you sell to?" Yuan Ang asked, "You can't go around peddling it, just like a businessman, right?" ”

If that's the case, then the ocean is bigger.

Dignified princes, shameless, selling everywhere, the face of the royal family and the country will be disgraced!

"Shaofu buys ...... with unlimited restrictions for 100 yuan a catty," Liu said, "and whale oil can also offset the lease fee and license fee......

"Huh?" Yuan Ang listened, and was a little incomprehensible.

What is this going to do today?

On the one hand, he rented out whaling ships at high prices, and also set high fees for so-called 'whaling permits'.

Come to think of it, in order to maintain this whaling license fee, the Lou Chuan Yamen will actively inspect the sea area very carefully, and prohibit others from whaling without permission.

That's what is always the case today.

Using a highly profitable industry to maintain an institution that doesn't seem to work at the moment.

For example, horse racing and horse betting are used today to maintain the existence of the lord's duke and lieutenant yamen.

For example, in the past, the profits of the salt and iron yamen were used to subsidize the expenditure of the ink garden.

Take the money of the merchants, build roads and lay tracks for the country.

There is probably no one in this world who is better at leveraging power than today.

The same is true of the ship's yamen on this floor.

In the past, it was by fishing in Xinhua to maintain the existence of a large fleet and various bases.

However, this is still criticized.

Many ministers felt that there was no need to maintain such a large fleet and so many bases in this building of the ship yamen.

Anyway, it's just fishing and delivery transportation.

It would be better to cut off half of the unnecessary bases and ships and save money for the benefit of the world.

In the past, Yuan Ang was a member of this critical group.

Moreover, to this day, Yuan Ang still feels that he is very reasonable.

What is the use of maintaining such a large scale in this building of the ship yamen?

Can it help the country produce more food, or can it help the country expand its territory?

Fishing, delivery and transportation do not need to be on such a large scale.

If you cut it in half, you can save 10,000,000 dollars a year.

This money, whether it is used to repair channels or raise cavalry, is very good!

However, with the advent of whaling ships and the policy of the Son of Heaven stipulating the unrestricted and open purchase of whale fat.

This will inevitably lead to the fact that countless people will participate in this wave of whaling.

Although Yuan Ang has never been to sea, he has never known what a whale looks like.

But from the words of King Jiangdu, he knew that those were probably the super giant beasts of the Kunpeng genus that Zhuangzi said.

One can reach hundreds or even thousands of livestock.

With the foundation of the Son of Heaven, in the future, the nobles and ministers of the Han family and even the scholars and doctors will frantically pour into the whaling industry, and the merchants will not be left behind.

In this world, no one does the business of losing money, but there are people who are willing to do this broken business!

As long as the whaling industry rises, the Lou Chuan Yamen naturally has a reason to exist.

And, look at the so-called 'whaling ship' at your feet, which is no different from a battleship.

Yuan Ang could already think of General Lou Chuan's face.

"Your Majesty, that whaling ship is better than the warship of my ship...... This year, the funds of the Lou Ship Yamen must be increased by 50% to build more powerful ships to defend the sea frontier and protect the four seas for His Majesty! ”

What a lofty reason!

Isn't this the same reason that the generals in the court asked for military expenses in the past?

"The Huns control 400,000 strings, the country's border defense is tight, Your Majesty, if you don't increase military spending, the ministers are afraid that if something happens in the future, the society will be in danger!"

Moreover, driven by interests, the Lou Ship Yamen will also desperately build ships, racing to launch more terrible and powerful ships.

They will demand biger, stronger, faster, and more powerful ships.

And then what?

As the behemoths of the offshore sea are hunted and slaughtered.

When the whaling ship goes to the open sea, will the building ship yamen follow?

They only need to expand a hundred miles to the open sea every year, and in ten years, the Hanjialou ships will probably reach the unprecedented sea area, and then they will discover a new world that has never been seen before.

Thinking of this, Yuan Ang took a deep breath.

"What a grand plan......

The whaling industry, which no one paid attention to in the court, may become the driving force for the expansion of the Han dynasty in the future.

This is not an exaggeration, but it will surely become a fact!

Long and waiting for Chen Huan is proof of this.

This gentleman in Chang'an just discovered the so-called Japanese Nu Islands, and then drove the enthusiasm of the entire Andong countries to catch slaves.

But......

Yuan Ang feels that there is more to this whaling industry than that.

He looked at the giant ship at his feet.

It is a larger, stronger, and more spacious ship than the building ships of the Han army in the past.

It can be turned into a warship at any time!

In other words......

"Use the people's money to raise the country's warships......" Yuan Ang was completely convinced.

"Once something happens, the Han family will immediately pull out hundreds of warships...... Yuan Ang has a terrible scene in his heart: in the future, there will be a distant country that will not accept it, and the Son of Heaven will issue an edict to crusade against it, and overnight, the entire sea frontier will be occupied by the fleet that covers the sky and the sun.

The nobles, merchants, and scholars took the whaling ships they 'rented', and led the retainers and soldiers with the fleet of buildings to extinguish the disobedient kingdom.

It may even happen that some guys simply deliberately force rebellion in order to make merit, and even fabricate evidence that 'the distant Yidi is not convinced'.

This is not a delusion, but a fact that has already happened.

Last year, the killing of Han merchants on the border of Changsha was not used by the kings of Qilu?

If it weren't for the quick opportunity of South Vietnam, the whole of South Vietnam would now be in flames and the flames of war would be burning.

"Lile is broken...... Yuan Ang sighed in his heart.

As a scholar with a relatively Confucian stance, Yuan Ang did not advocate simple expansion.

He advocated righteous warfare.

The so-called king Shi obeyed the heavens, crusaded against the unreasonable, and saved the people from fire and water.

Fabricating excuses and deliberately provoking wars is something that Confucianism does not like.

However, the current situation is dominated by voices advocating war and expansion.

The army that was eager to be rewarded for meritorious service and gave wives and children, as well as the scholars and nobles who were eager to take their families to higher places, brought the hearts and minds of the whole world and the social atmosphere to warlikeness.

Nowadays, the people of the people are inseparable from the war.

Even in the Jiangdu country in this southeastern place, the common people also stretched their necks and waited for the annual conscription notice.

I don't know how many people want to join the army even if they break their heads.

There have even been cases in Jiangdu Kingdom where people bribed conscripts to infiltrate the army, especially the cavalry troops.

This was unthinkable in the past.

Affected by this, the entire Confucian ******** also collectively turned to the right.

The Ram Pie is making a big move!

Even the Gu Liang faction is secretly agreeing to the war.

Therefore, Yuan Ang wisely did not talk too much in this regard.

He even found a relationship with several of his sons and stuffed them into Yu Linwei.

The general trend is unstoppable!

But Yuan Ang still couldn't figure it out.

The Son of Heaven buys whale fat without restrictions, what does he do with it?

Can this whale fat still make money?

But Yuan Ang knew that this whale fat could indeed make money!

Now, in the homes of the princes and nobles and relatives in Chang'an City, the lights are lit every day, and they are burned whale fat!

Because this whale fat burns colorless, odorless, very bright, and burns for a long time, it is very popular.

This alone can make a lot of money.

In addition, whale fat can also be processed into oil that can be eaten by people.

This market is even bigger!

It can also be used as a maintenance oil for weapons and equipment, especially the equipment of cuirassiers.

It can even be used as lubricant for waterwheels and some precision machinery!

It's the best soap ingredient!

What's more......

In one of the secret laboratories of the Ink Garden, a secret project based on whale fat has been established.

This project is the Manhattan of this era.

If it succeeds, it will completely change the world in a profound way.

It is the most cutting-edge and high-tech chemical science in the world today.

When it succeeds, the Zhuxia nation will master the highest deterrent power in the current world and set the hole card of King's Landing.

However, this project is still in its infancy, and there is no hope of success for a while.

Because it requires that the chemical industry of the Han family can at least develop and separate substances, and it must also have the cooperation of other related industries and technologies.

Even so, the existing projects are enough to absorb the whale fat produced each year.

As for the whale's muscles, bones, skins, Shaofu and Moyuan, they are all in large demand.

Especially in Shaofu, the annual demand for fertilizer alone is as high as tens of millions of catties.

In this day and age, there is no better source of natural fertilizer than whale bone meal.

Last year's small-scale whaling, the bone meal produced was used to apply to the land of Shanglinyuan, and as a result, the land of Shanglinyuan immediately exploded, and the average yield per mu increased by as much as 50%!

And how much land is there in the world?

This market can only be described as infinite!

This market will never shrink until the chemical industry has grown to the point where it can produce fertilizers.

It's only going to get bigger. (To be continued.) )