Datang: Huchi served as a bodyguard, but refused to enter the court as an official

Liu Bai didn't resist Dugu's family joining in the fun.

He started the Lingnan Project not only to make money, but also to make more contacts.

In this era, the relationship of friendship and blood is only limited to a small circle, and sharing profits and responsibilities is the long-term way.

Dugu Cheng smiled and said: "In the early years, my Dugu family stockpiled more than a dozen sea ships on the seaside of Jiangnan Road. Although they are a little old, they should still be useful after repairing them. I don't know Mr. Liu, are you interested?"

Chapter 714 Having something to do is always better than being idle

If you don't mind, it's fake.

Datang's sea-going ships are really too few.

The development of maritime trade is close to zero, and most of the aristocratic families look down on people of other races, let alone the "petty profits" of doing business with them.

The only sea-going ships have to be supplied to the navy.

In this way, ships that can be used for maritime trade are even more rare.

Although the ship that Dugu Cheng mentioned is definitely not as good as the sea-going ship that the Liu family plans to build, at least it can meet the temporary needs.

You must know that during the period when the Liu family was building a ship, only the craftsmen were busy, and other people, such as sailors, buddies, and personnel related to maritime trade, were idle.

If you are idle, you will be paid!

To put it bluntly, every day of delay, the Liu family will pay countless labor costs.

The longer the delay, the greater the cost.

If they can get those boats from the Dugu family, even if they can only take a turn in the offshore waters, they can make up for some losses.

It's just that he doesn't know what Dugu Cheng really wants.

Liu Bai cupped his hands slightly, and said, "Please also invite the two of you to come with Liu!"

Liu Bai's cabin can't be regarded as the best condition on the entire five-fanged ship, but it can definitely be called the strongest security work!

It is not far from the restaurant, and it is the lowest floor where people can live in the entire five-toothed ship.

The tide is a bit damp, and every day someone carefully cleans it, and there are boxes specially used for dehumidification in every corner of the cabin.

Inside are some old rough paper and dried daylilies.

Changing it every day can absorb most of the moisture in the cabin.

In terms of furnishings, Liu Bai's study in the old house is almost completely restored.

Except that you can't light a fire and make tea in the cabin, it's not much different from at home.

The two old fellows followed Liu Bai into the cabin and sat across the table.

There are many rules in a rich family, and someone like Liu Bai is not very particular at all.

It is said that in Changsun Wuji's house, even the cook who cuts shallots was retired from the former Sui Palace.

On the wall on the left side of the cabin, a huge chart attracted the attention of two old guys.

Just as Dugu Cheng sat down, he stood up again, walked to Haitu, and began to observe carefully.

It seems that this old man has experienced the storms at sea, he stared at a certain area on the chart, his brows frowned into a big pimple.

"Mr. Liu, I don't know where I found this sea chart? It seems to be quite different from the collection of my Dugu family."

Of course Liu Bai would not tell him that this sea chart was copied bit by bit by himself from the "Wan Guokun Map" according to the geographical marks of the Tang Dynasty.

"The folks at home traveled all over the world and went to many places, so I just wrote it down, it's not worth mentioning."

For maritime trade, charts are absolutely second to none.

From a certain point of view, the life of a ship is not necessarily as important as this chart.

Charts are wealth!

Liu Bai is not afraid of people watching.

This sea chart is extremely detailed, staring at it for a whole day, it may not be possible to memorize the three or four inches of the position.

Moreover, there are many symbols added to it that others can't understand at all.

Throughout the Tang Dynasty, there are no more than five people who can understand these symbols.

And these five people are all Liu Bai absolutely trusts.

In other words, even if this chart is leaked out and placed in the hands of others, it is just a piece of waste paper.

Dugu Cheng watched it for a long time, his mind was full of fog.

All he could see was a slight difference in outline.

Give him eighty brains, but he still can't figure out what the so-called longitude and latitude are.

On the sea chart, even the latitude and longitude changes of several digits after the decimal point, the difference is tens or hundreds of nautical miles.

After a few days, I originally wanted to land from Lingnan, but I might have gone to the Lion Country.

Liu Bai smiled and said, "Both of you, it's getting late at night, why don't we discuss the matter of the ship first?"

Dugu Lan was not interested in sea charts, so when he heard Liu Bai's words, he inevitably felt a little embarrassed by Dugu Cheng's behavior.

He smiled embarrassedly, and pulled Dugu Cheng back.

Dugu Cheng seemed a little unwilling. After sitting back, his eyes still glanced at the chart from time to time.

"The Dugu family's sea boats have thirteen ships in total, all of which can carry more than a hundred people, and the large boxes of fifty buckets can hold thousands of them. Although they have been laid aside for more than ten years, the wood in some places has rotted. , but if you fix it"

Dugu Cheng knew those sea ships very well.

Liu Bai became more and more certain that this old man must have been on a boat, or even gone out to sea.

Some data, if you don't live on the ship for ten days and a half months, you can't observe it at all.

Liu Bai waved his hand and said: "Mr. Dugu, what kind of boat is it? Let's discuss it later. Liu will ask a question first."

Dugu Cheng smiled and said, "Young Master Liu, just speak up!"

Liu Bai's complexion gradually became serious.

"How did these ships come here?"

He didn't care too much what had become of those ships.

Sea-going ships are easy to repair as long as they have a model.

With the cooperation of Liu family craftsmen, Zhang Liang's family and Feng An's family, it is not difficult to completely transform it.

Dugu Cheng was taken aback.

"Is this question important?"

Liu Bai looked into the old man's eyes, "It's important!"

The source of the ship was his biggest concern.

From Dugu Cheng's answer, he can deduce a lot of news.

Moreover, Dugu Cheng would definitely not tell him these news.

For example, what did the Dugu family do at sea?

Liu Bai would not want an 'unclean' boat.

His emphasis on maritime trade is unprecedented.

In the past, the Liu family had done so many businesses, but Liu Bai just started the business. After setting the tone, he handed it over to other people to manage.

As for maritime trade, Liu Bai intends to do the whole process by himself.

Because of this, he does not allow any flaws in this business.

The purpose is not to give anyone an excuse to attack him.

In this business, what Liu Bai wanted was money and connections.

Once someone took the opportunity to attack, the connections would cease to exist.

Therefore, the origin of the ship is the premise of everything.

Ten years ago, that was still the world of the Sui Dynasty.

Who can tell for sure, are there black materials on these ships?

In fact, the five-tooth warship is the same.

The reason why Liu Bai bought it is because, firstly, the five-yad ship belongs to the Dou family, and secondly, because the current five-yad ship is not Liu Bai's ship.

In the external declaration, the five-tooth warship is Li Yuan's boat!

Anyone who wants to criticize him has to pass the level of the Supreme Emperor first.

But Liu Bai can't throw Li Yuan to Lingnan and let him go to sea with the fleet, right?

Dugu Cheng, as the current head of the Dugu family, is naturally not a fatuous person.

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Bai's concerns became clear.

He laughed and said: "Mr. Liu, don't worry, those boats are absolutely 'clean'. Speaking of which, they have some relationship with the Supreme Emperor. They were built by the King of Shu under the order of Shizu!"

Shizu is Li Yuan's father, Li Ying.

Li Yuan is the mother of Li Yu's mother, the mother of the mother, the cherry, the benevolence, the book, the book, the seal, the mu, the relief, the franc.

The Dugu clan was originally the mother clan of the Li Yuan brothers.

It is normal for the sea-going ship built by Li Zhan to fall into the hands of the Dugu family.

Chapter 715 So you want to recommend yourself?

There are a total of thirteen large ships, each of which can carry hundreds of people, which is enough to organize a large sea caravan.

Although in Liu Bai's vision, more than 1000 people are far from meeting the needs of maritime trade.

But everything is difficult at the beginning, at least it can be guaranteed that within a year, the guys who join this business will have something to do.

Especially in the early stage of opening up business channels, these more than 1000 people have heavy responsibilities.

They will start from Lingnan and continue south along the coastline.

All the places they pass through must be recorded in detail.

Even if Liu Bai had the super-era existence of Wan Guokun Tutu, there was no guarantee that every detail would be accurate.

In the vast sea, any mistake may cause irreversible consequences.

In later generations, Liu Bai had seen several sea charts handed down from the Tang and Song Dynasties. It can be said that everything on it was detailed, even a submerged reef and a stream of water were clearly remembered.

So even with these thirteen ships, the selection of sailors in the early stage is a headache.

Obviously, those people sent by Zhang Liang were not suitable candidates.

They are used to being unscrupulous in the East China Sea and the Bohai Sea. Where have they seen the dangers of the South China Sea?

In order to select suitable personnel, Liu Bai disembarked again after three days.

His destination is the thousand-year-old capital, Handan City!

Around Handan City, there is no river suitable for the five-yaded ship to sail, so when Liu Bai arrived at Handan Ancient City, it was already four days later.

At this time, there are still three days before the time for Li Ertai Mountain to be enshrined in Zen!

Liu Bai left in a hurry, he wasn't very interested in Mount Tai's enshrining of Zen, but he couldn't stand Li Yuan's nagging in his ear all day long.

For some reason, Li Yuan was particularly interested in Feng Chan.

Therefore, Liu Bai can only stay in the ancient city of Handan for half a day.

Like Lao Qian, the shopkeeper in Hedong Road, Lao Mo, the shopkeeper of the Liu family in Hebei Road, heard that Liu Bai could only stay for half a day, and the creases on his face almost drooped to his feet.

In their eyes, it was a great honor for the young master to come.

There are more than a dozen big shopkeepers in the whole family, only Lao Zhou from Youzhou has received the young master for a few days.

Since then, he has had the trend of being the top of all big dispensers.

Apart from Shen Wansan, he is the most powerful.