Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 198, Twenty Thousand Two Ships

In Tianjin Shipyard, everyone gradually dispersed, only Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, Zhang Mao and others were still thinking about what Liu Jin just said.

A whale is equivalent to the beef of hundreds of cows, and the lard of thousands of fat pigs... Liu Jin's words are still echoing in the minds of Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao.

"Li Gong~"

Here, Liu Jin came to Li Dongyang and the three with a smile on his face, and greeted Li Dongyang with a smile. As for Zhou Jing and Zhang Mao, although they didn't know each other, they also bowed their hands and saluted, which was regarded as a greeting.

"Liu Jin, this whale is really what you said, a whale can be equivalent to hundreds of cows, thousands of fat pigs?"

Li Dongyang came back to his senses, looked at Liu Jin with piercing eyes and asked.

"Whether what I said is true, I think it will be revealed soon. When this whaling ship is built, it can go to the sea to hunt whales. At that time, I will order someone to send a whale back to the capital, and Li Gong can personally Go and have a look."

Liu Jin smiled and said confidently.

"Well, then I'll wait and see."

Li Dongyang nodded in satisfaction, then pointed to Zhou Jing and Zhang Mao next to him and said, "This is Zhou Jing, Minister of the Household Department, and this is Zhang Mao, the British Duke."

"I've seen Duke Zhou and Duke Zhang."

Liu Jin bowed his hands respectfully to Zhou Jing and Zhang Mao again.

"Hmm~ Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times, it really lives up to its reputation."

Zhou Jing pinched his mustache, his eyes were full of admiration for Liu Jin. Along the way, he saw the ground full of starvation, and saw the unique miserable scene of the famine era, but when he arrived in Tianjin, he saw other things. A scene.

Everything here in Tianjin is undoubtedly inseparable from the young man in front of him. If there is no Liu Jin, it is unknown how many victims will starve to death. Where is it like now, the victims eat meat to survive.

Also, Liu Jin invented cement, an artifact of the country. Once this cement is widely used, great changes will take place in the Ming Dynasty. The significance is too great.

"Good, good~"

Zhang Mao also nodded to Liu Jin with a smile and said, this made Liu Jin confused, he didn't know what he meant when he said good, whether it was a good person, or something else.

"Li Gong, Zhou Gong, Zhang Gong, let's sit down and chat slowly."

Liu Jin looked at the environment of the shipyard, and it was obvious that this was not a place to entertain guests. After thinking about it, he suggested finding a place to drink tea and chat.

"No need, we are very curious about the changes here in Tianjin, how about we walk and chat here in Tianjin?"

Li Dongyang smiled and shook his head, then thought about it and suggested.

"Everything is under Li Gong's arrangement."

Liu Jin nodded and replied, and then everyone started chatting while walking in the shipyard.

Li Dongyang, Zhou Jing, and Zhang Mao were all very curious about everything here, so they were not in a hurry to talk about business, but instead started to talk about everything here.

Zhou Jing looked at the shipyard in front of him. This shipyard is very large and has a large number of shipyards. At this time, there are ships under construction in each shipyard.

These boats vary in size. The small boats are just the size of ordinary small river boats, and the big boats are smaller than the blessing boats. Some are almost ready to be built, while others only have a keel laid.

Some boats can be seen at a glance as the traditional lucky boats, yellow boats, fast boats, Jianghan class boats, eight oar boats, etc., and some boats look very special, similar to the shape of the boats on the Ming side. The structure is quite different.

"Liu Jin, the shapes of these ships are very strange. What kind of ships are these?"

Zhou Jing pointed to several ships and asked.

"This is a fishing boat specially developed by our Tianjin shipyard for fishing at sea. Its tail is different from ordinary boats. It adopts an open design. This is to facilitate the fishing of sea fish caught. Get it into the fish tank."

"A fishing boat like this can catch more than [-] catties of sea fish in just one day by going out to sea once and using trawling."

Liu Jin proudly explained to the three of them.

"What is trawling?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Jing hurriedly asked again.

"Trawling is a fishing method that casts a large net into the sea and then uses a boat to tow it forward. Simply put, it is a fishing method that uses a boat to tow a fishing net in the sea."

"This trawling is the best way to catch fish in the ocean. Once a fish enters the mouth of the net, it will never come out again."

Liu Jin kept gesticulating with his hands, explaining the principle of trawling.

"So that's it~ How much does your fishing boat cost? Will it be sold?"

Zhang Mao looked enlightened, and then he thought about it and asked, to be honest, he was moved. He could catch more than [-] catties of sea fish in one day. That is more than [-] Wen, which is almost two thousand taels if converted into silver.

Putting aside all kinds of costs, there is no problem at all for a trip to the sea, half a thousand taels of silver a day, and in a year, this fishing boat can earn more than [-] taels of silver , There are several such fishing boats that can earn millions of taels of silver a year.

This is not ignorance, but it's a project that earns millions of dollars a year. Zhang Mao is naturally very excited, so he asked the price.

"The cost of this fishing boat is quite high. The wood it uses is not ordinary wood. It needs to use big trees from the previous year. In terms of materials alone, this boat needs more than two thousand taels of silver. Including the labor at the shipyard, etc., if this ship is sold to the outside world, it will cost at least [-] ships."

Liu Jin looked at Zhang Mao, rolled his eyes, and quoted a sky-high price of [-] taels.

Of course, Liu Jin did not tell the truth. This shipbuilding really needs to use good wood. The best is naturally teak, but there is no teak in the northern region, and we can only use local materials. Basically, fir, pine, and cypress are used. , elm, camphor, nanmu and other common trees.

Although the wood is also carefully selected and used from the previous year, the purchasing power of silver in this era is leveraged. The wood needed to build a fishing boat will not cost more than two hundred taels of silver.

The reason why Liu Jin shouted is obviously for the sustainable development of the shipyard. The biggest expense of the shipyard is not to buy wood, but to train these shipbuilders and masters. Their treatment is very good, not only high wages, but also many benefits Remuneration, housing and other allocations.

These all need money, and the shipyard is not a charity, and no one will support it. Naturally, it needs to make a profit, and the ship must be sold.

Since it is going to be sold, it is natural to sell it at a high price. Only in this way can it follow the path of high-tech enterprises in later generations. The price of things with technological content and technological content is extraordinary.

Because it needs to be sold at a high price to support these skilled workers and masters, to recover the high R&D investment in the early stage, and to accumulate funds for the continuous upgrading and transformation in the later stage.

If this fishing boat is not sold for [-] taels, the shipyard will not be able to make much money, and naturally there will be no way to continue to develop.

Although the price is high, Liu Jin believes that this fishing boat will definitely not worry about selling. Now the whole Tianjin is full of the smell of sea fish. Someone has already noticed all this and asked the shipyard for the price of this fishing boat.

Since Zhang Mao in front of him could ask, he must be moved. Liu Jin was also waiting for someone with great influence like Zhang Mao to take the bait.

Again, only when more people benefit from the sea can they have a stronger force to push Ming to open the sea ban.

In the final analysis, it is actually a matter of interests. Since ancient times, everything has been a game between interest groups, and everything has never changed.

　Regarding the issue of putting it on the shelves, it should be next week, and this time it should not be wrong. Please support me a lot when the time comes~~
　　
　
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