"Thank you Zhongcheng, thank you Zhongcheng." Tiju wanted to kowtow to Wu Shi again.

"Don't thank me." Wu Shilai pointed at Zhao Hao and said, "It's this Director Zhao of Jiangnan Company who placed an order with you."

"Uh..." Although Jiangnan Company is very popular in Suzhou, Yang Tiju, a shipyard in Jinling, has never heard of it.

"Thank you, my grandson, for the meal, I am grateful!" But he still expressed his gratitude to Zhao Hao obediently.

"You're welcome, I should thank you." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "Because you're still busy next."

"Hehe, we are afraid of being idle or not." The name of this sermon was Yang Fan, rubbing his hands and smiling, "Young Master, how many pieces do you want to order and how much material?"

"Four hundred items, one thousand materials." Mr. Zhao reported the number and specifications.

"Four, four hundred pieces, one, one thousand materials?" Yang Tiju asked stutteringly.

"You stutter?" Wu Shilai glared at him.

"No, no, the villain used this method to express his inner surprise." Yang Fan responded quickly, still full of shock.

"Don't worry about anything else, just say whether it can." Wu Shilai said in a deep voice.

"It can be made, it can be made, it can be made too much." Yang Fan nodded excitedly and said, "Our treasure shipyard is the place where big ships are built. The bigger the ship, the greater the advantage we have."

"Oh, what are your advantages?" Mr. Zhao asked with a smile.

"Go back to the young master, our advantage is in all aspects." Yang Tiju boasted: "First of all, our treasure shipyard has a history of more than two hundred years. The Ming Dynasty warships were all from our factory. So a ship with a thousand materials is nothing to us."

"Then we have thirteen ponds, and each pond can build eight thousand-feed ships at the same time, so if the workers are enough, we can build one hundred thousand-feed ships at the same time!"

"In addition, our factory has 2,000 craftsmen who have been engaged in shipbuilding for generations. If necessary, we can recruit another 2,000 people from their homes. Four thousand craftsmen work together, and at least 200 thousand-proper ships can be built a year!" Yang Ti raised his saliva and flew across.

"Oh?" Wu Shilai looked at Yang Tiju in surprise. He thought that the treasure shipyard could build up at most 180 ships a year and it would last for the sky.

"Do you dare to issue a military order?"

"This..." Yang Tiju immediately choked like a duck with his neck pinched. "What the villain said was to recruit two thousand more craftsmen."

"Just just take the initiative, our company will give you enough money." Mr. Zhao said lightly.

"Then... the new craftsmen have to take the lead in the area. In this first year, 150 ships should be fine." Once the military order was to be issued, Yang Tiju began to be cautious.

"One Hundred and Eighty ships." Wu Shilai said in a deep voice: "If you can't build it, don't do it."

"Hey, the villain can do it, he can do it." Yang Tiju wiped his sweat and gritted his teeth to respond.

"How much is the cost of a ship?" Mr. Zhao asked the price.

"There are two types of ship prices. One is to contract labor and materials. Each ship with a thousand-feeding ship costs 600 taels of silver." Yang Tiju replied cautiously:

"Other shipyards are at least 50 taels expensive. Because our Bao Shipyard has a lacquer garden that has been in Zhongshan for two hundred years, and a palm garden with tens of thousands of trees planted, and there are very little losses in recent years. Therefore, the auxiliary materials for shipbuilding such as tung oil and brown cables do not need to be purchased from outside, and can save a lot of money."

Zhao Hao naturally knew the price before coming. There were seven or eight yards where the Ming Dynasty could build a thousand-stuffed foreign ship, and the largest Qingjiang factory quoted an external price of 1,000 taels... Of course, that was because people could not build a canal ship, so if they didn't give enough money, they would not squeeze out working hours.

The quotations for Suzhou Shipyard and Hangzhou Official Shipyard in Taicang are both 800 taels.

Of course, these are all single-ship quotations. If you order hundreds of ships, there will definitely be discounts. However, it is unlikely to be as low as 600 taels.

"What about another kind?" Zhao Hao asked calmly again.

"The other way is to only contract labor and not materials, so that each boat can use...two hundred taels of silver." Yang Tiju gritted his teeth and said, "Of course, your company has to transport the wood itself."

"Well." Mr. Zhao nodded without comment and asked, "What kind of way do you prefer in the boat yard?"

"This... is half and half." Yang Tiju said hesitantly: "Of course we hope to contract labor and materials, so that we can make more money. But there is too much wood required for 180 ships a year, and the pressure of the shipyard to prepare materials alone is too great..."

"There are so many pine, fir and nanmu trees on Ma'anshan outside. It's not enough to build 180 ships?" Wu Shilai said in disbelief: "That was the one who prepared the treasure ship to build it back then, and it has been a hundred or tens of years, right?"

"Main capital has been stolen..." Yang Tiju wiped his sweat and said, "I have to keep some for the time being prepared for the imperial court, right?"

"Hmph." Wu Shilai was not easy to fool, and he sneered: "I think most of them were sold privately by you!"

"Sometimes, if you really can't get rid of the blame, you will cut some emergency..." Yang Fan whispered.

"What does it have to do with you, the Longjiang Coffin Store in Jinling?" Wu Shilai asked again.

"Yes, the side job of the Tiju Department..." Yang Tiju wanted to shrink into the crack of the ground.

"Okay, I'll take the materials for hundreds of years of sea ships to kill the coffin!" Wu Shilai was so angry that he kicked him in the butt.

"Chief of the Central Command, please calm down. The shipyard has not entered the market. Thousands of craftsmen can't drink the northwest wind." Yang Tiju crawled on the ground in a shiver.

"Hmph! You're lucky, Mr. Zhao is still waiting to build a ship, so I'll leave you to commit crimes and make meritorious service!" Wu Shilai was not really trying to mess with him, but just dealing with these lazy little officials, so that his virtues would be better than fearing power.

"Thank you for your kindness at Zhongcheng!" Yang Tiju hurriedly kowtowed like pounding garlic, and then expressed his opinion to Zhao Hao: "Young Master Zhao, don't worry, the villain must do his best to build your company's ship as quickly as possible!"

"Quality is more important than speed." Zhao Hao said lightly: "One will come to discuss the specific contract in two days, but I will give you another warranty of 200 taels per boat in addition to the ship price."

"The warranty?" Yang Tiju looked at Mr. Zhao in confusion.

"But this money will not be given to you immediately." Zhao Hao said in a deep voice: "But you will be given fifty taels every year, so if you want to get the full warranty, you will guarantee me that there will be no problems for at least four years!"

According to the experience introduced to him by Elder Ma of the Sand Boat Gang, the quality problems of sea ships will be exposed two years before they are launched.

As long as there was no problem in the past two years, there would basically be no problems. Mr. Zhao was cautious and added a two-year warranty to the shipyard.

"Ah, that's how..." Yang Tiju was overjoyed and looked at Zhao Hao like a boy Shancai.

Building a boat actually has double the profit, it’s really a pie that falls from the sky!

"Do you have confidence?" Wu Shilai asked with a glaring look.

"Yes, so there is!" Yang Tiju quickly said with a heavy emphasis: "The siege ships in our Longjiang factory have strong plate plants, tight nails, and strict regulations. They can be used normally for 30 years. Even if they are used for sea transportation, there will be no problem for fifteen years - so the villain has settled the warranty!"

"That's the best." Mr. Zhao nodded slightly with satisfaction. If he built it every fifteen years, the financial pressure would be negligible.
Chapter completed!