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Chapter 1222 Come on, let's start building ships by the sea (second update)
Chapter 1231

Wan Bin didn't keep Wang Yang waiting for too long, and he appeared in Wang Yang's mansion, and heard that Wang Yang was going to do business with the Nvzhi tribe.

It was nothing at first, but after hearing the local specialties of Liaodong mentioned by Wang Yang, his businessman's heart began to beat rapidly.

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

"It seems that this business with the straight female tribe is just the beginning. Hey, judging from this, Brother Yu feels that once the business here becomes big, it will not be worse than that of the North Shaanxi Road. …”

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

"...This, about this point, I'm afraid it's quite difficult." After listening to Wang Yang's request, Wan Bin couldn't help showing a look of embarrassment.

"I think you should know, dear brother, that those maritime merchants are different from us. They are much more greedy than us. The important thing is that those guys are most likely not willing to sell the ships in their hands."

"There are many ports in the south, but those sea routes are all controlled by big food merchants. Among the merchants in Song Dynasty, there are probably only a few who have mastered such technology. Therefore, brother Yu thinks it's better not to do this... ..."

Wang Yang narrowed his eyes slightly. "Brother, there is something wrong with your thinking."

"Why is there a problem? Since we want to do maritime trade, we naturally need sea ships and a lot of skilled hands. But we don't have any of these."

"I don't need to hire their ships from those sea merchants. What I need is to buy them. As for craftsmen and sailors who can make sea ships, I believe that they can be recruited by spending a lot of money. As for the design drawings of sea ships, I Yes." Wang Yang pointed to the tip of his nose, confidently speaking.

"Brother, what do you really want to do? You are willing to spend money to buy ships, but you have to hire sailors to serve us. Since we already have ships and sailors to deliver goods for us, why bother to build ships ourselves? After all It takes a lot of time to build a ship, and it costs a lot of money."

"The important thing is the time. Three years and five years are short. Even if you really have the blueprints for seagoing ships... Sigh, I don't know what else you don't know."

In the middle of the conversation, Wan Bin couldn't help but spit out something casually. He was afraid that someone who had never even seen the sea told himself that he could even build sea ships. Is this guy still a human?

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

Wouldn't it be better to do business this way?After all, the boats we buy are not as real as the ones we build ourselves. As long as we know how to build our own boats, we can build as many as we want without being restricted by others. "

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

Wan Bin pondered for a while, and had to nod his head to admit that Wang Yang's vision was indeed more long-term than his own. In the short term, borrowing or hiring merchant ships from sea merchants to run trade is naturally the fastest choice .

However, that is equivalent to being severely cut by those maritime merchants as middlemen, scraping off a layer of profit.This is not what Wan Bin, who considers himself the number one shrewd businessman in the Song Dynasty, wants to see.

More importantly, if those sea merchants find out that such a business is very profitable, they also start this way, wouldn't they have more competitors?
"That's right, what are you going to do, dear brother?" Wan Bin has such an advantage. Once he thinks about the problem clearly, he will immediately make a choice that is more beneficial to himself and the company under him.

"As for the starting port for our future trade with Nvzhi, Korea, and Wa, I have also determined the goal."

Seeing Wan Bin's inquisitive look, Wang Yang didn't hold back and said directly. "Located on Jingdong East Road, Penglai in the north of Dengzhou has a natural good port. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, it was the starting point for traveling between the mainland of Kyushu and surrounding countries."

"Nowadays, there is also a port there, but there are not many ships coming and going. But all ships coming from Liaodong must stop there first to buy fresh water rations."

Wan Bin scratched his chin. "Then where is my brother going to put our shipbuilding workshop? Is it also in Penglai?"

"Well, let's consider putting them together for the time being. In this way, we can facilitate the repair and maintenance of the ship." Wang Yang raised his finger and scratched his cheek and smiled.

In fact, Wang Yang has another idea, which is to design a newer, faster and stronger sailboat in the future.But he was worried that if the shipyard was placed at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it would be easy to be known by those big cannibals.

This will make it more difficult to keep secrets, but if it is placed in the north of the Jiaodong Peninsula, there are almost no big food merchants willing to set foot there.

Maybe it's because those big food merchants are from the scorching sun and the desert area where the temperature is almost never lower than [-] degrees, so they can bear a little bit of 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 understand that there is still a lot of money to be made in the bitter cold places in the north, but they don't know it yet.

Inside Wang Yang's head are the structural diagrams of the best sailing ships in the Age of Discovery, equipped with giant ship cannons.And it has been drawn by him early on, and it is treasured in his pile of manuscripts.

As long as there is a shipyard and enough craftsmen at that time, what kind of ship they want to build will be decided by Wang Daguan with the stroke of a pen.

This is why Wang Yang prefers to build ships himself rather than hire those seagoing ships.

As long as you have enough sea-going ships, hehe, no matter if they are used for business or for war, they will be awesome.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 food and sea merchants living in the Great Song Dynasty that the Northern Yuan Dynasty also had a powerful navy, and the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty , The clothes of the Han family were strangled on the South China Sea.

Even if this matter is not 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. Only when Da Song's technology trees are all full and stand on top of the world, then , will no longer be afraid of any enemy.

After discussing for more than an hour, the two began to poke their buttocks and lie on the map to find the most suitable route for river transportation and connecting sea transportation.

(End of this chapter)