Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 380 New Concept of Sea Area Colonization

Taichang casually threw out something from memory, and everyone was already so excited.

Originally, no one thought that the development of marine resources would have such terrifying profits.

After all, Daming has been implementing a sea ban, who would want to develop marine resources?
If someone could have thought of this during the Yongle Dynasty, then Daming would have been extremely rich by now.

You must know that at that time, the whole world was only able to build ocean-going sailing ships, and no one would compete with them for the resources in the sea.

If at that time Daming started to build large fishing boats and fish like crazy, not to mention earning tens of millions of taels a year, it would not be too easy to earn tens of thousands of taels!
Unfortunately, no one thought of this at the time.

Of course, developing marine resources is not so easy.

First of all, there must be large fishing boats dedicated to fishing.

This point, everyone has not realized yet.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, why don't we rent ten Spike warships from the navy first, and start fishing immediately and do seafood business?"

What can the Spike ship do?
Taichang shook his head again and again and said, "No, the Spike is too small to hold much cargo, and overseas fishing and shrimp fishing will inevitably encounter storms, and the Spike can't handle it at all."

Could it be the dragon tooth battleship?
To be honest, if it is only used for fishing, the Dragon Fang battleship is not as good as the Spike battleship.

Because the deck of the Dragon Tooth battleship is too high, even if it is used for fishing, it will be difficult to lower the rope and pull it up. If you cast a net to catch fish, it is impossible to do it.

The deck of the Dragon Tooth battleship is so far from the sea, even if the net is cast down, if there are fish in the net, it may not be able to be dragged up. You must know that there are water wheels on both sides of the Dragon Tooth battleship, how can it be dragged up?
As soon as you drag it, the net is completely hung on the water wheel!
Thinking of this, Zheng Zhilong carefully reminded: "Your Majesty, it seems that the Longya battleship is not suitable for fishing!"

Who said fishing with the dragon tooth battleship?

Taichang explained: "What I mean is that if you want to fish, you should develop a special large-scale fishing boat to go fishing. Dragon tooth warships are not good at fishing, but are wolf tooth warships easy to fish? A warship is a warship, how can it be a warship? What about fishing boats? We developed special fishing boats based on Zheng He’s treasure ship, so wouldn’t the fishing efficiency be higher?”

Also develop a special fishing boat?
Very good!
Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but excitedly said: "Your Majesty, are you going to build a ship for our company?"

Originally, Taichang even said that it would have to consider and reconsider even building ordinary armed merchant ships for Western companies, and after thinking about it for a long time, it still didn't build it.

Now why is he suddenly thinking about developing a special fishing boat for Xiyang Company?

Of course it was because he realized the terrifying profits of exploiting marine resources!

Taichang nodded without hesitation and said: "Yes, the reason why we didn't build ships for the Western Company before was because it wasn't necessary, because the Western Company was only doing business between Daming and Dongying before, anyway, the Eastern Navy He and the Beiyang Navy often go back and forth between Daming and Dongying, and it is enough for you to let them bring some goods. Now that the Western Company is going to develop marine resources, it is natural to develop a special fishing boat. The profit in this is not This business between Daming and Dongying can be compared."

This is easy to understand.

It turns out that there is only freight demand between Daming and Dongying, and the demand is not very large. Whether it is the materials from Dongying to Daming, or the goods from Ming to Dongying, or even the labor from Dongying to Liaodong and other places, Dongyang The Navy and the Nanyang Navy just take it along.

Anyway, the Dongyang Navy and the Nanyang Navy were constantly going back and forth between Daming and Dongying, and it would not delay them to bring something.

More importantly, it turned out that the trade between Daming and Japan was not very profitable.

It turns out that the materials that Dongying can transport to Daming are only timber, and these timber are basically used for shipbuilding by the Ministry of Industry, and basically not included in the calculation of profit.

In the past, the goods delivered by Ming Dynasty to Japan could not make much money, because Japan was still fighting, and the common people did not have much spending power.

It's different now. If you can monopolize the seafood in the waters near Dongying, the profit will be tens of millions of taels every year!

How much silver is a fishing boat?

Even if the large fishing boats transformed from Zheng He's treasure ships cost a few 10 taels of silver, ten ships would only cost a few million taels of silver.

This investment will be paid back in a few months, and the rest will basically be profits.

The profit of at least tens of millions of taels a year is naturally worth a lot of investment.

Upon hearing this, Zheng Zhilong rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "Your Majesty, how many large fishing boats are you going to build for the Western Company?"

this problem?

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help being taken aback.

How many large fishing boats are suitable for building?

This is really hard to say.

Because no one thought about developing marine resources at this time.

In other words, they can not only develop the resources in the East Ocean Sea Area, but also the resources in other sea areas.

How big is the profit here?

Thinking of this, Taichang immediately waved his hand and said, "Take the "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu" here."

Soon, Cao Huachun fetched "Kun Yu Wan Guo Quan Tu" and spread it out on the large table among the crowd.

Taichang pointed to the sea area of ​​Dongying and estimated: "The cargo capacity of a large fishing boat is at least one million catties, and considering that it takes time to fish and go back and forth, a large fishing boat can only be calculated at most three to four million catties a day. Catches of 40 from, Dongying sea area a year certainly no problem, that is to say, at least 70 to 2000 Fishing boat."

My God, catch 2000 million catties a day?
Sixty-seven billion catties are caught a year!

When everyone heard this, they were all dumbfounded.

The emperor really dares to think!
Xu Yunchu couldn't help but gasped and said: "Your Majesty, how many people can eat six to seven billion catties a year? Can we finish it? If we can't finish it, how can we sell it?"

This amount is indeed terrifying. At first glance, it seems that no matter how many people there are, they will not be able to eat them all.

actually not.

As long as you do the math carefully, you will know.

Taichang said calmly: "You can figure it out casually. The 70 billion fish catches are planed to be used as fertilizer, feed, and fish oil. After counting the loss of drying and smoking, there will be 30 billion yuan left." Catty is not bad. How many people can eat 30 billion catties? Take Daming as an example. Daming has a population of more than 1 million, 30 billion catties a year, and it is more than 20 catties a year for each person. That is to say, if a person eats a catty of fish for about half a month, can't he finish all this?"

If this little catch is sold in Daming, it's really nothing.

Question, Daming Western Firm seems to be mainly engaged in overseas business!
Xu Yunchu couldn't help but asked again: "Your Majesty, isn't our firm engaged in overseas business? Could it be that we are going to transfer to the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty and the thirteen provinces to open stores everywhere?"

Just kidding, of course the Daming Western Company is not used to make money for its own people.

Taichang shook his head slightly and said: "I'm just making an analogy. Most of these catches are still sold to overseas countries. For example, the countries in Southeast Asia, as well as Mughals, Persia, Dashi, and even European countries. "

Uh, it's not that there is no sea over there, can't they go fishing by themselves?
Xu Yunchu looked at the map, and then couldn't help reminding: "Your Majesty, there are seas near these countries, they can go fishing by themselves, why should they buy ours?"

Good question!
Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help but look at the oceans all over the world.

Yes, there is sea near my house, why not go fishing by myself, why buy your catch.

Now, no one pays attention to marine resources.

Because the only European powers capable of building ocean-going ships are all focused on overseas colonization, and their eyes are still on land resources.

The purpose of their frantic construction of strong ships and guns is also to plunder land resources all over the world, and they have no thought of developing marine resources at all.

However, people will think of it one day!
Once they find out that Ming has made a lot of money by exploiting marine resources, how can they follow suit?
When the time comes, other people's catches will be enough for me to eat, so why buy yours?
Even, they will learn from the Daming Western Company, vigorously develop marine resources, and grab the market everywhere.

Can this kind of thing happen?
Of course not!

If you seize land and land resources, we will seize ocean resources!

In fact, land colonization is a little more troublesome, because there are basically people on land, and there are not many places where there are no people.

Sea area colonization is different, there is no one at sea!
Sea area colonization is really simple, as long as the Daming navy is strong enough to overwhelm the navies of the European powers, then all sea areas belong to Daming!

You want to go to sea, yes.

However, if you want to develop sea area resources, you can't!

It's that simple!
Anyway, the thinking of the European powers is like this.

As long as they find it, or even see it, it's theirs.

This is how the land colonies they seized came about.

Daming can do the same!

As long as the Daming Navy goes, all the sea resources are ours!
If you dare to develop, I will beat you!
Can't it?
no problem!

The colonization of this sea area is simply huge profits!

Now that I thought about it, why didn't I do it?
Thinking of this, Taichang slapped the map directly, and said domineeringly: "We seize all the sea areas and stop them from fishing. Whoever dares to fish, we will beat them!"

what?
When everyone heard this, they were dumbfounded again.

Can you do this?

(End of this chapter)