Chapter 159: The sea and boats lead to all countries, and the wealthy are full of Quanzhou. A big plan!

September 27, 14th year of Shaoxing, Fujian Road, Quanzhou.

There is a vast sea outside Quanzhou Port, with thousands of sails competing for the show and thousands of boats competing for the current. The berths inside the port are crowded with dense crowds. A large ship of Thousand Stones slowly sails into the port. The Maritime Bureau official dressed in a green robe and boarded a boat to inspect the boat. The owner nodded and bowed: "Master Zhou, we are from Pingjiang Prefecture. Here is the road guide of the Maritime Bureau of Pingjiang Prefecture, but the goods were ordered by Luzon merchants and left in three days. Please give me some convenience. The young one dare not betray me."

While talking, while the two sleeves touched each other, he stuffed a small bag of silver. The official named Zhou gently weighed it in his sleeve, and his face slowly turned from a white board to a red one. He laughed and said, "Old Zhu is so polite. Since there is the Pingjiang Mansion Bureau's documentary, our family doesn't need to say much. The ship is moored and the ship will be delivered to the yamen tomorrow. It will be three days. What is worth?" While joking, he directed the helmsman to park the ship into the harbor. Sure enough, the road is sophisticated and covered by the sails. He found a convenient pier in the waterway that could accommodate the ship, and he got off the boat with a gentle aura and left. The owner looked at the back of the green robe, spat and cursed: "My thief, I don't know how to get tired of it!" The friend on the side advised: "Boss Zhu, forget it, this is already a huge advantage. If he is like the foolish person of the Yang family, he would not give this surname Zhou last time, and he forced the Maritime Bureau to collect 10% of the goods, and he had nowhere to cry!"

A tall and red-faced man was transferred from the cabin behind him. He took a deep breath of sea breeze and smiled: "As the saying goes, county officials are worse than to take care of them now. Such villains are easy to deal with, but they can't afford to offend them. Wang has seen them!" Seeing the visitor, Boss Zhu hurriedly bowed: "Master Wang has worked hard all the way, there are many people on the ship, and the old man is troubled and has poor care. Please do not blame him!"

Wang Lan bowed and said, "What did Boss Zhu say? I caused so much trouble on the boat, and I didn't even collect a penny for the ship. How can I take this?" Zhu waved his hands repeatedly: "Scared! The king can get on the boat, so how much face is it for our old Zhu! In the future, the boss Li of Pingjiang Mansion needs to take care of him. Even our wealth Bodhisattva is not enough to offer. Where can I collect the ship? When I return to Quanzhou from Luzon the next day, if the boss has not returned to Pingjiang, the old man will definitely come to serve!"

At that moment, Mr. Zhu accompanied Wang Lan to get off the boat and lived in the "Qingquan Pavilion" in Quanzhou City. After paying the five-day house for Wang Lan, he told the owner to take care of him before nodding and looking for the merchants in the city. Wang Lan ordered a few plates of exquisite side dishes in the quiet place on the attic on the third floor of the store. He warmed up a pot of Shaoxing rice wine, and carefully looked at the Quanzhou Port inside and outside, feeling very touched.

When working in Jincheng, the most ships I saw were the ones on Kaifeng Prefecture and Ezhou Pier, among which the most were on Ezhou Pier. But they were just small boats of one or two hundred stones. In addition to loading, they could accommodate thirty-four people. This time, when they set off from Pingjiang Prefecture, Li De casually called him and rushed to load his cargo ships south. Four of them reached more than a thousand stones, which could accommodate hundreds of people on the ship. Although there were a little more cargo, the new ship he chose last had more than 100 sailors and merchants. They didn't feel too crowded at all, and they felt very eye-opening along the way. When they came to Quanzhou, they saw that there were no less than hundreds of such big ships in the port! And strange people on the pier. People with different skin and hair colors gathered, and the locals didn't even look at them. They thought they were used to it.

"The transaction here must be much worse than the Jincheng market!" Wang Lan, who has always been focusing on Jincheng's foreign trade as the main business, turned her eyes green when she saw this situation. She did not rush to find the Quanzhou City Branch, but sorted out her ideas and planned how to use the information she got from this trip. Most of the merchants on the ships traveled here with the goods they bought. However, Boss Zhu also has three identities: the ship owner, the official, and the cargo owner. As the ship owner, the ship is several shareholders.

Funding and co-creating. Zhu Boss is only one of them. As an official, he was also appointed by the Pingjiang Prefecture Maritime Department to be responsible for the sharing of taxes and profits of a ship. If the taxes are paid more in total, the Maritime Department will apply for a formal position in the future, and it is not necessarily below the rank of the green-robed official. As the cargo owner, naturally, Lao Zhu will carry a little of each batch of goods on the ship, or draw some from the merchant's goods as shipping funds, so he must also participate in the transaction.

Jincheng must have its own big ship! This is the first conclusion that Wang Lan got. At present, the Jincheng ships are considered big ships on the river surface. There is no second business on the river surface. However, compared with the big merchants in Quanzhou, the Jincheng merchant ships are pitifully small compared to those big merchants who can sail thousands of miles of water. Wang Lan has inquired along the way that the cost of a ship is about ten stones per stone. If you want to build a ship with a total cost of about four thousand stones, it will cost about four thousand silk, which is particularly large.

The land ship has a complex structure and naturally higher price. Large ships worth thousands of stones are generally more than 20,000 yuan. They are made of high-quality red pine wood, waterproof and insect-proof. The sea ship cabin is divided into many closed compartments, even if there is a little damage, it will not overturn. There are three masts and six sails on the ship, which require twenty or thirty people to operate safely. But if the cargo is good, a trip to the South China Sea will be enough to recover the ship, and there are many large ships in Quanzhou City. The land shipbuilding technology in Quanzhou is now unparalleled, and such a large ship will not fall into trouble.

The second is to go to Southeast Asia to trade! This is an important conclusion that Wang Lan got after gritting her teeth for several days. According to Zhu Boss Zhu, there are no less than 100,000 households in Quanzhou City, and except for Lin'an, Jiangnan has the most populous population. Several of them started with maritime trade. They had never studied and studied, but in more than tens of millions of dollars, some of whom had a net worth of millions of dollars, which was much richer than the wealthy families in Lin'an City. Of course, there are still two rich people in Lin'an City, such as Zhao Gou and Qin Hui, who are proud of these merchants, but there is not a single one among the people.

When Wang Lan heard this, she just smiled: If you have money, the only one who can compete with Yang Zaixing in the world is only three. Only the wealth accumulated in Jincheng comes from 70% of the trade land between the north and the south, and will eventually be used to restore the great cause. Unlike the wealthy families in Quanzhou City, they can renovate the big houses and enjoy the bliss of the world. But if they can copy this way of making money, they can accumulate a lot of wealth for Jincheng in a very short time, but will it not help the great cause of resisting the Jin Dynasty?

At night, the shop owner received instructions from Wang Lan to inform the instructor of the Jincheng business Quanzhou branch notifying the in charge of the person in charge to Qingquan Pavilion. Before the light was taken, the in charge of the Quanzhou branch Zhang Yuancai ran to Qingquan Pavilion with a big belly and sweating. When he entered the door, he shouted: "Shopkeeper, where is the prince? Take a family quickly!"

Wang Lan patted the railing upstairs and smiled: "Brother Yuancai is fine?"

Zhang Yuancai raised his head and bowed: "Prince, He Guang surrendered to Quanzhou Prefecture? Why didn't he know how to make Lao Zhang rude!"

Wang Lan shook her head and smiled bitterly: The leaders of all the sub-communities in Jiangnan are all the leaders of the branches of various chivalrous society, all of them are generous men and heroes. Unlike Zhang Yuancai, she is like a rich businessman. If the heroes of chivalrous society are like this, how could they still play tricks? At that moment, Zhang Yuancai asked Wang Lan to move out of Qingquan Pavilion and live in the sub-communities, but Wang Lan refused, saying that she wanted to make more friends in Qingquan Pavilion, but there were brothers on the sub-communities. Besides, she had already paid five days of house money and it did not fade away. Zhang Yuancai couldn't resist it, so he had to rely on it, but asked the store to take Wang Banyi's consumption on the Quanzhou sub-communities account. Someone came to settle the settlement. Seeing that he could not spend a penny along the way, Wang Lan had to smile bitterly.

That night, Zhang Yuancai sent a lot of posts and invited the well-known wealthy businessmen in Quanzhou. He placed more than ten seats in the Qingquan Pavilion and covered all the private rooms. The Quanzhou opera team came to seven or eight, and the cost was less than two hundred pieces this day. Wang Lan was shocked. After all, he was used to being frugal in Jincheng, so he didn't know such extravagance. Zhang Yuancai thought it was okay.

"Everyone, I'm neglected. This is Zhang's boss, the landlord of Jincheng Commercial Company, Prince, everyone will be close to each other in the future!" Zhang Yuancai's face was flushed today, no matter how embarrassed he was yesterday, he brought Wang Lan to introduce it. The wealthy businessmen heard that they were the head of Jincheng Commercial Company. They all looked awe-in-law. They were actually quite respectful in their words.

After the song ended, Zhang Yuancai and Wang Lan bought the top floor. He drove away all the other guests and asked the shop owner not to disturb him. He whispered: "Wang Lan has always been only in Lin'an Mansion, but now she has arrived in Quanzhou. Is there something big of a deal?"

"Haha!" Wang Lan raised her thumbs up: "I just think that Brother Zhang is already a businessman, so I don't know if he still looks like a chivalrous society!"

Today, Wang Lancai discovered that there were not less than dozens of Hebei men around Zhang Yuancai, all of whom were full of energy and old brothers. They all had military styles in their actions. It seemed that Zhang Yuancai was hidden and not as rough as he appeared. Hearing Wang Lan's praise, Zhang Yuancai's fat face turned red, and said, "The prince was joking. The actions of the chivalrous society are the foundation of the business. Money is nothing but external things, but just accumulating savings for Mr. Yang's great cause. Zhang's family is in Xiangzhou, and it is only a dozen miles away from his old house. Now he is trapped in Hu dust. If Mr. Yang had not presided over Jincheng, I am afraid that he would never think of burning incense in front of the ancestral tomb in this life."

Wang Lan then said, "I think Brother Zhang has heard of Li De in Pingjiang Mansion?"

Zhang Yuancai nodded slightly: "The largest satin shop in Jiangnan is well-known. At present, 30% of the silk in Quanzhou must be sent from Li De. Someone is in Quanzhou, so he naturally knows."

Wang Lan put down the teacup and said, "What if she opened such a large satin workshop in Quanzhou?"

To Wang Lan's surprise, Zhang Yuancai's eyes lit up and then said sadly: "How can Quanzhou be compared with Pingjiang? There are plenty of people there, and there are so many silkworm households within 200 miles! There are 100,000 households here, 70,000 or 80,000 households on the sea to make a living, and even if there is no farmland, no one can cultivate mulberry trees. How can anyone grow mulberry trees and raise silkworms? There are also small families who make a living from this, but there are very few people. They are really not a place to open satin workshops."

"Since that's the case," Wang Lan pondered: "Brother Zhang thought, what is the right way here?"

Zhang Yuancai slapped the table and said, "Where can you tell me the difference? Naturally, sea trade is the first!"

Wang Lan looked directly at Zhang Yuancai's eyes: "Brother Zhang also has a lot of savings here. How can you not build some sea boats and go into the sea by yourself?"

Zhang Yuancai was like a deflated ball: "The prince doesn't know that in recent years, although Zhang has delivered more than 400,000 yuan with Jincheng, he has accumulated some furniture, but he has not dared to go into the sea! If you don't know how hard you work, you must be very familiar with the Maritime Warehouse to make a profit. In addition, the ship's staff must be very capable. I have been searching for many times in Quanzhou City, and some Hebei men are not good at water and cannot go to the sea.

.If you can get on the boat, there are pirates on the road, where can you only drive the boat? There must be swords, guns, crossbows, arrows, etc., but you can't do it. If you keep the whole family, you can make four or five ships, but you can only make seven or eight hundred people. Where can you have so many people and soldiers? You have to turn over the goods in this section, buy some goods from the foreigners, sell them to other sections, and sell some northern goods to Nanyang, and have a safe holiday."

Wang Lan heard Zhang Yuancai telling him that he was pitiful and couldn't help laughing: If people like this still pretend to be pitiful, there are really not many people in the world who are not pitiful!

But what Zhang Yuancai said was the truth. Wang Lansizhi asked again and again: "If Mr. Yang agrees, a certain family can find a manpower for Brother Zhang, but this ship must be started by Brother Zhang and ordered early. In terms of money, according to the old rules, you will need ten thousand-stone ships, the first batch of Jincheng merchants will require ten thousand-stone ships. You can do it!"

Zhang Yuancai heard this, his mouth was wide open, and his eyes almost fell off. Today, he spent a lot of money and had the meaning of being a landlord. However, in Quanzhou City, a table of more than twenty pieces of tables was considered a platform. Is Zhang Yuancai a petty man? But as soon as Wang Lan opened his mouth, he had ten thousand stone ships. I am afraid that few people in Quanzhou City dare to compare with this work. The four major families of the Yang family, the Zhou family, the Shao family, and the Zhu family have more than millions of wealth.

I'm afraid I won't build so many big ships at once. As far as Zhang Yuancai knows, there are currently hundreds of ships of all sizes in Quanzhou City, but none of them have ten large ships of more than 10,000 stones. After all, not every cargo can be guaranteed to be filled with a large ship, and the combination of sizes is a reasonable configuration. Zhang Yuancai has a little face in the Quanzhou business community, but he can mainly organize a large amount of goods, rather than dominating the sea. At first glance, Wang Lan's big work is so great that he is not shocked!

"Master" Zhang Yuancai asked stutterly: "Building ten large ships at a time is a little more, so you have to raise the price during the boat trip, and you don't have to pay for the wood. What about ten ships of sizes or easy to handle?"

Wang Lan smiled and said, "Ten big ships are indispensable at all, but it's okay to build more small boats. Brother Zhang tried his best to raise them, how much silver can he pay?"
Chapter completed!