In addition, at the beginning of the year, Mr. Zhao asked Jinke to build a Chongming Navigation School on Chongming Island. In addition to cultivating qualified crew members for the Royal Maritime Transportation Group, the school also acted as a delivery of outstanding navigation talents to the Coast Guard School, which can be regarded as a preparatory course for the Coast Guard School.

Zhao Hao hopes that this can reduce the teaching pressure of the coast guard school and shorten the police training cycle, so as to achieve his goal of expanding the coast guard troops to 8,000 as soon as possible, and at the same time not affecting combat effectiveness - although he was in a peace talks with the Portuguese, he must also be prepared to start a war!

By then, the Portuguese would definitely send a powerful enough fleet to expand their military and prepare for combat and improve their combat effectiveness. How to defeat the invading enemy?!

So in the next two years, most students of Chongming Aviation School will be transferred to the Coast Guard School after graduation.

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The next day, Mr. Zhao inspected the future timber yard and timber processing plant. In the future, the logs sent by Japan will be dried here by strong sea breeze, and then roughly processed into suitable transported wood and transported to the Jiangnan Shipyard to build warships.

Marine timber is the most important military material at present, and of course it must be built in the security base to ensure safety. However, after comprehensive consideration, Zhao Hao decided to place the shipbuilding location in Chongming.

It can only be placed in Chongming, because if you want to build an excellent sea ship, you need the support of a complete handicraft system. Danluo Island does not have this system.

Large shipyards are places with high concentration of personnel, funds and materials. They can be said to be the super factory with the highest technological content at present. They need to purchase thousands of materials. At least they need dozens or hundreds of upstream supporting workshops such as blacksmith shops, bronze ware bureaus, weaving workshops, rope making yards, sesame oil workshops, paint yards, etc.

Moreover, these workshops and their respective upstream workshops can be moved to the security area?

Although this handicraft system is not as desperate as the industrial system, it is still not something that can be built. Otherwise, why did Japan's shipbuilding industry still stay at the level of five hundred years ago? Without it, even if there is no complete handicraft system, he could not build a Dafu ship, let alone Western ships...

If Mr. Zhao had not been backing the Jiangnan region, where the most developed handicraft industry in the world, he would not have dared to catch a Garen ship and imitate it when he came back.

So he couldn't put the shipyard in the isolated and deserted island of Danluo. Besides, such a large industry can also bring the economy of the entire county... The consumption of thousands of middle- and high-income craftsmen is enough to restore Chongming's grand occasion in the East China Sea.

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After inspecting the timber yard, he followed the advice of the Danlu Chamber of Commerce on trade with Japan.

Although they have to accept everything no matter what Jiangnan Group supplies, they actually have to accept it all. In fact, domestic suppliers are not as good as them in Japan's market, so what kind of goods are purchased and how much goods are purchased, these Li Chao merchants actually have a great say in what kind of goods they buy.

According to Zhao Hao's request, Kim Hee-sun compiled a price list of major Japanese products. He really didn't know if he didn't read it, and he was shocked when he saw it.

Due to the lack of resources and backward handicrafts in Japan, there is a very scarce variety of products produced by itself, and there is no shortage of gold and silver... Therefore, all Ming Dynasty commodities in Japan increased at least five times, generally around ten times, and twenty or thirty times.

Zhao Hao saw that the most demanding thing in Japan is raw silk. Currently, a pound of raw silk costs only 700 cents per pound in Jiangnan, but the landed price in Japan is 8 taels of silver per pound.

The Japanese satin made of raw silk is simply unbearable for ordinary Japanese people. Therefore, the various silks, silk satin and cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty, which are relatively affordable, are also very popular, and the profit is nearly ten times.

In addition, the export profits of various porcelain, pottery, ironware, fragrant fan umbrella tea, castor felt socks, paper, ink, pen and ink, book and picture are about ten times. Even if direct copper coins are sold to Japan, you can make more than five times the profits...

Of course, the most profitable are war materials, such as medicinal materials, which have a profit of dozens of times, and there is a shortage of supply. For example, valuable medicinal materials such as Chuanxiong and licorice are actually worth 70 taels of silver per catty in Japan! The profit can reach a hundred times, surpassing saltpeter and becoming the most profitable single product!

Using the booklet in his hand to cover it, Mr. Zhao tried hard to close his mouth before putting down the price list.

In the past, he only knew that China-Japan trade could make a lot of money, but today he knew exactly how much money he could make.

If you manage properly, you will be worth tens of millions of taels of silver a year!

No wonder the nine people have brainstormed for this, no wonder the Portuguese were shameless and wanted to break the contract and make a fuss.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hao felt a little enlightened in his heart that there must be a battle between himself and the Portuguese!

What did Ma Zi say? If he has 50% profit, he dares to take risks; if he wants to make 100% profit, he dares to trample on all human laws; if he has 300% profit, he dares to commit any crime or even risk hanging.

Trade with Japan is more than 500% profit. Damn the Portuguese can't go to heaven?

How could they agree if they cut off their financial path?

Although Mr. Zhao suggested that they could sell goods to Ryukyu, it was absolutely impossible to give them too much profit. The people of the Jesuits didn't care, because they were all ascetic monks who made the four vows. As long as they could preach, they would not care about so many or not.

But the Portuguese would never agree to give up such a terrifying profit.

So if you take a step back, everyone will share the Japanese market? Obviously, it won’t work at all, because the premise of huge profits is exclusive monopoly. If you don’t buy mine, you won’t have to buy it, so you can only accept my extortion. But as long as you can produce any product in China, the price will drop immediately. Or another seller appears in the market, which will cause the price to collapse.

Therefore, Zhao Hao must crack down on Japan's national handicraft industry with one hand and drive all competitors out of the market with the other.

Therefore, a showdown with the Portuguese is inevitable - either they completely defeated them and cut off their thoughts of trade with Japan. Or they defeated themselves and cut off their thoughts of trade with Japan for the time being.

'There will absolutely be no other possibility...' Zhao Haomo made acquiesce to clear the reality.

Fortunately, he has been making the worst plan - so anxious to expand his army and prepare for war, isn't it just to prevent the final collapse of the talks and fight against the Portuguese?

‘In short, we must try to delay the arrival of this battle…’ Mr. Zhao secretly thought: ‘The sooner the war, the more unfavorable it is, and the later the war, the better!’

"Young Master, Young Master..." Seeing that he turned into a clay sculpture and did not speak for a long time, Jin Hee-sun couldn't help calling.

"Oh, ah?" Zhao Hao came to his senses and looked at him and said, "Where did you say it?"

"When it comes to the selection of products for lost Japanese goods," Kim Hee-sun quickly reminded.

"Oh..." Zhao Hao picked up the teacup and sipped it, and organized the following words: "First, of course, you should pay attention to the rich variety of shipments and the proportion should be reasonable. Don't always ship according to a few goods, as the price will not be kept if it is oversupply."

"Yes." Jin Hee-sun nodded and smiled, "But you can rest assured that the Japanese have a huge demand, such as raw silk, which is not enough to collect all the raw silk on the Ming market."

"Do they take it to eat?" Mr. Zhao laughed and scolded: "Anyway, just be careful. The profits have dropped too hard, so don't do it, you, the president."

"I understand!" Kim Hee-sun couldn't laugh immediately.

"The second is to pay attention to controlling the flow of military supplies into Japan, saltpeter, gunpowder, muskets, swords, armor, leather, medicinal materials, etc...." Mr. Zhao reminded again: "It's not that you can't import Japan. You can't miss the opportunity to make a fortune in war, but you must ask me first for the number of money you sell to and who you sell it."

"Yes." Kim Hee-sun responded with great caution.

The flow of strategic materials can change the strength comparison of Japanese princes. It must be controlled by Mr. Zhao himself in order to use military supplies to maximize the power of offshore balance.

"Third, we should focus on cracking down on Japanese handicraft industry." Mr. Zhao often talked: "You should investigate and see what local products they have that can compete with us. Then sell them cheaper than them, and squeeze their products out of the market. I have already greeted the merchants in Sakai City. Please cooperate with us and try your hand with cotton cloth and porcelain first."

"Young Master, all Japanese porcelains were sold from our court..." Jin Hee-sun said proudly.

"Oh, is that?" Mr. Zhao heard the Tang people say that Japan has expensive Ming porcelain and cheap coarse porcelain. He subconsciously thought that it was made by the Japanese themselves.

"The Japanese are only good at firing pottery and do not have porcelain making technology. We just use porcelain as ballast stones and sell it to Japan." Jin Xishan hurriedly eliminated Mr. Zhao's ill-intention for Li Chao and said: "Of course, our dynasty is not good at learning skills, so we can only produce some coarse porcelain, and the quantity is not large, which cannot threaten the exquisite Jingdezhen porcelain of the Celestial Dynasty..."

"Well." Mr. Zhao nodded without comment, making the guy remember it when he said it. Indeed, Japan later abducted a large number of people from the Li Dynasty, including porcelain craftsmen. Then, around the death of the old turtle, ten years after the end of the Warring States Period, these craftsmen successfully fired porcelain in Feiqian's state-owned Tianjun, which opened the history of the Japanese porcelain industry.

By the Qing Dynasty, Japan not only no longer imported a large amount of porcelain from China, but also produced Karak porcelain and sold it to Europe, directly impacting the sales of porcelain in the Qing Dynasty.

"We must prevent the problem from happening, and we cannot let the porcelain making technology of your country go out. Remember?" Anyway, the porcelain making industry in Jiangnan is not developed, so Mr. Zhao will not compete with the Li Chaoren for this little leftovers.

"I understand." Jin Hee-sun said with confidence: "The porcelain in our dynasty is produced by craftsmen and slaves in the official kilns. Private production is prohibited by the people. It is precisely for the purpose of keeping the porcelain making technology for the Celestial Dynasty!"

"Yes." Zhao Hao nodded, and couldn't help but think that the Ming Dynasty also concentrated all the porcelain making industry in Jingdezhen, and it was afraid that there were considerations for confidentiality technology from outside. However, it seems that the folk kilns in Fujian are already very developed and can even provide customers with in-depth customized services. It can be seen that the level of confidentiality in Ming Dynasty is just that.
Chapter completed!