I am Da Song

Later generations' research on merchant ships in the Song Dynasty is still very profound. After all, the maritime trade in the Song Dynasty was too frequent, and there were bound to be a large number of shipwrecks.

And Zhao Huan could think of the valuable things on the sunken ship just by thinking about it for a while.

Including a 1.7-meter-long gold necklace, a large number of gold products, a large number of copper coins, and 10,000+ pieces of porcelain.

So much so that the estimated value of the items on the sunken ship Nanhai No. 3000 is [-] billion U.S. dollars, which is higher than the gross domestic product of countless small countries.

Even a medium-sized country known as a regional power, Guozhong Husky, has a GDP of only 8000 billion, which is about equal to two sunken ships.

A captain took the initiative to introduce to Zhao Huan: "Officials, the ship is indeed dominated by industrial supplies, which are divided into several categories. One is porcelain, and the other is iron. Among them, porcelain is expensive, and there are a lot of iron."

"On a ship, the merchants share the storage, and each person has a few feet to store the goods, and lie on it at night. There are many pottery and iron wares, which are of the same size, and there is no gap."

That is to say, there are so many cargoes that fill all the space in the cabin, and people can only sleep on the cargo at night.

Zhao Huan asked: "How much porcelain can be pulled on a ship?"

Han Sui replied: "This is related to the size of the ship. Before the Daxing Shipyard in the Jianye period, a ship could hold more than 20 sets, about [-] pieces. In addition to this, it can hold a lot of other materials."

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were all moved by it.

20 pieces of porcelain!

It's just the cargo capacity of a small boat with several thousand materials.

These porcelains are sold to the West, but they are all three or four times or even more than ten times Lilan.

Such a ship can earn at least 10,000+ coins for one year of sailing.

And this is the scale that Jianye already had before.

Han Sui continued: "After the establishment of the industry, the country developed the shipyard, invested a lot of wealth, countless scholars and craftsmen improved day and night, and the shipbuilding technology advanced by leaps and bounds. There were huge ships with millions of materials, and more than 500 million pieces of porcelain could be transported on one ship. pieces."

Zhao Huan was really surprised. He always thought that a huge ship with hundreds of thousands of materials and seven to eight thousand tons was already very impressive.

As a result, Zhao Huan found that he really underestimated the ancient technology of the Central Plains.

Whether Zheng He's treasure ships had [-] tons or not is still uncertain, but the Great Song Dynasty itself really had huge ships with tens of thousands of tons.

The economic and strategic value of this giant ship is really unparalleled.

Nowadays, this kind of huge ship with millions of grains means that the displacement can be several million stones. It can be said that it is easy for her to load 80 million stones of grain.

It can transport a large amount of grain from Indy, Nanyang, and these grain-producing areas back to the Central Plains.

Although these places have a large population, you must know that as long as the government does not strictly restrict the export of agricultural food, the largest food exporting country is often the country with the largest number of poor people in the world.

You don’t need to look into this. Indigo and Brazil are all the same, especially Brazil. The land area is about the same as that of China, but the large area of ​​plains and the humid climate make its per capita grain production nearly three times that of China. More than 900 kilograms per person.

But in this super vast country with 27 billion mu of arable land, known as the "breadbasket of the world", one tenth of the population lives in absolute poverty and cannot eat enough.

It is hard to imagine that in a country with 27 billion mu of land and nearly one ton of grain per capita, one tenth of the population would not even have enough to eat. …

The breadbasket of the world has fed others with plenty of food and clothing, and starved to death tens of thousands of poor people in our own country.

This kind of thing happens every era.

In the Song Dynasty, there were [-] million mu of grain fields, and there were starvation everywhere, and the people had to rise up.

So with this huge ship, the first thing Zhao Huan thought of was grain trade.

Under the vassal system of the Song Dynasty, countries certainly cannot ban grain trade on their own.

Moreover, many countries cannot ban it, and they also count on grain exports to satisfy the luxurious life and dreams of the nobles.

As for what was traded for so much grain, it was obvious that they were all industrial products from the Song Dynasty and luxury goods such as spices and pearls.

Otherwise, where did the 10,000+ pieces of porcelain in the Song Dynasty be sold?

However, Zhao Huan was quite interested in another statement they said, and said, "I heard you say that besides porcelain, another major item in industrial trade is ironware? What is the main content?"

Han Sui immediately said: "It's iron nails and iron pots. Guangnan East Road is the place where ironware is abundant in our dynasty. The two most important things in foreign trade are iron pots and iron nails."

Zhao Huan smiled, he really didn't think of this, it was actually two small things, iron pan and iron nails.

But if you think about it carefully, the first industrial revolution actually did not have any particularly epoch-making output.

After all, it means the steam engine and the textile machine. These two things lead to the social productivity to take off.

All industries in the society have developed rapidly, and there has been a lot of wealth.

Seeing that Zhao Huan didn't take it seriously, Han Sui said solemnly: "Although the official iron pots and iron nails are small, they are two items that really affect the basic necessities of people in various countries."

"The iron pot was invented by me. It is because of the iron pot that the people's diet can be greatly improved."

"And iron nails are more related to construction industry, manufacturing industry, carriage industry and other aspects. This is the most widely used tool."

"Tens of millions of these two items are exported from Guangdong South Road to the world every year."

Tens of millions!
The princes and princes who were lowering their heads to sort out the information instantly raised their heads at the same time.

Zhao Huan looked at Li Gang, the envoy of the Third Division, and asked, "Is this data accurate?"

Li Gang frowned slightly, and said: "With regard to the export of materials, the imperial court has not collected taxes, and the statistics are not detailed, but judging from the taxes paid on Anguangdong Road, there are a large number of metallurgical workshops, and this figure is not impossible to achieve."

All the officials took a serious breath, and sold tens of millions of ironware. How much wealth will be reaped?

They are all outstanding people, and they don't ask stupid questions about why other regions don't make simple industrial processed products such as iron pans and iron nails.

If it can be made, the local people will definitely make it. Who will spend a lot of money to import from the Central Plains every year?

The key is that they can't make it. The limited steel production in most countries can meet military use, and the demand for armor, weapons and even kitchen knives is already in short supply.

How can there be surplus production to make iron pots and iron nails.

Behind the export of ironware is the take-off of the entire Dasong steel industry. What kind of concept is this? The steel production capacity of the Dasong family supplies the needs of the world.

This is a well-deserved crushing of heavy industry. As long as the machine is running, a ton of steel can harvest a lot of wealth from all over the world. Food, gold and silver, rare treasures, exotic treasures, even beauties, servants, as long as there are wealth resources in the world today , They were pulled back to the Central Plains one by one.