Chapter 1231

Wan Bin appeared in Wang Yang's mansion without asking Wang Yang to wait too long. He heard that Wang Yang was going to do business with the Female Tribe.

It was nothing at first, but after listening to the local specialties from Liaodong mentioned by Wang Yang, his businessman's heart began to pulsate quickly.

Wan Bin couldn't help but breathe a long breath and became excited again.

"It seems that the business between this and the Nuzhi tribe is just the beginning. Hiss, in this way, Brother Yu feels that once the business is bigger, it is probably not worse than the northern Shaanxi road..."

"That's natural, but before that, I'm afraid you need me to help you with some things." Wang Yang nodded and then made his own request.

"...This is probably quite difficult about this." After hearing Wang Yang's request, Wan Bin couldn't help but look embarrassed.

"I believe you should know that those maritime merchants are different from us. They are really greedy than us. What's important is that those guys are most likely unwilling to give up the maritime ships in their hands."

"There are many ports in the south, but those sea routes are all controlled by those big food merchants. Among the merchants in the Song Dynasty, I am afraid that only a few of us mastered such technology. So, Brother Yu thinks, it is better not to do this..."

Wang Yang narrowed his eyes slightly. "Brother, you have a problem with your thoughts."

"Why are there any problems? Since you want to trade at sea, you naturally need to have sea boats and a lot of experienced people. But we have nothing to do with these."

"I don't need to hire their ships from those maritime merchants. What I need is to buy them. As for the craftsmen and sailors who can make ships, I believe they can definitely recruit them. As for the design drawings of the sea ships, I have them." Wang Yang pointed to the tip of his nose, and was confident.

"What do you want to do now? If you are willing to spend money to buy a ship, you have to hire sailors to serve us. Since you already have a ship and a sailor to transport goods to us, why do you have to build a ship by yourself? After all, it takes a lot of time to build a ship, and it costs a lot of money."

"What's important is that time, three years and five years, is short. Even if you really have a design drawing of a sea boat... Alas, I don't know what else you don't know about a handsome guy."

Halfway through the conversation, Wan Bin couldn't help but complain. I'm afraid that someone who had never even seen the sea before told him that he could even make sea boats. Is this guy still a human?

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Wang Yang smiled. "But you don't think that if we own a strong enough fleet, able to travel between the Song Dynasty and Japan, transport Japanese silver and gold to the Song Dynasty, and dump countless products from our Wanhong Trading Company into Japan and Goryeo.

Wouldn't this be better for doing business? The ships we buy are not as good as the ones we build ourselves. As long as we know how to build our own ships, we can build as much as we want, without being restricted by others."

"As for hiring other people's ships, it is the most unreliable way, and it is easy to have problems of one kind or another."

Wan Bin pondered for a while and had to nod and admit that Wang Yang's vision was indeed longer than himself. In the short term, borrowing, or hiring merchant ships from maritime merchants to trade is naturally the fastest choice.

However, that is equivalent to being cut by those maritime merchants as intermediaries and scraping a layer of skin on profits. This is not what Wan Bin, who believes that he is the most shrewd businessman in the Song Dynasty, wants to see.

What’s more important is that if those maritime merchants find that such a business has made a big profit and they also start this path, wouldn’t they have more competitors?

"That's right, what are you going to do?" Wan Bin has such advantages. Once he thinks about the problem clearly, he will immediately make choices that are more beneficial to himself and to his affiliated companies.

"I have also set a goal for the starting port for our future trade with Nuzhi, Goryeo and Japan."

Seeing the inquiry sent by Wan Bin, Wang Yang didn't care and said directly. "Located on Jingdong East Road, Penglai in the north of Dengzhou, there is a natural good harbor. During the Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, it was specifically responsible for the starting point between the Jiuzhou continent and the surrounding countries."

"Now, there are ports there, but there are not many ships coming and going. But any ship coming from Liaodong must first moor there to purchase freshwater rations."

Wan Bin scratched his chin. "So where are you going to place our shipbuilding workshop? Is it also in Penglai?"

"Well, I will consider putting it together for the time being. In this way, the maintenance of the ship can be facilitated." Wang Yang raised his fingers and scratched his cheeks and smiled.

In fact, Wang Yang also had another idea, that is, he wanted to design a newer, faster and stronger sailboat in the future. But he was worried that if the shipyard was placed at the mouth of the Yangtze River, it would be easy to be known to those big cannibals.

This will make it more difficult for confidentiality work, but if placed north of the Jiaodong Peninsula, there are almost no Dashi merchants who are willing to get involved.

Perhaps because the big food merchants all came from the desert area where the temperature was almost not lower than 30 degrees, they could still bear the climate in the south of the Yangtze River, but they were not very grateful to the cold north.

But there is another factor, that is, those big food merchants may not understand it yet, and there are still large sums of money to make in the bitter and cold places in the north, but they just don’t know it yet.

In Wang Yang's head, there were the best structures of the sailboats in the era of navigation, which were loaded with giant ships and cannons. It had been drawn by him early on and treasured in his manuscripts.

As long as you have a shipyard and enough craftsmen at that time, what kind of ship you want to build is something that King Daren took out those patterns and took a big pen to get it done.

This is also why Wang Yang is more willing to build his own ships than hire those sea boats.

As long as you have enough sea boats, hehe, whether it is used for business or for war, it is awesome. What is important is that Wang Yang deeply remembers that in the late Southern Song Dynasty, it was precisely because of the betrayal of the great merchants living in the Song Dynasty that the Northern Yuan Dynasty also had a powerful navy, strangling the emperors and Han families of the Southern Song Dynasty on the South China Sea.

Even if this incident is no longer known whether it will happen in this historical time and space, Wang Yang understands very well that self-reliance is more important than anything else. Only when the Song Dynasty's technology trees are all full and stand on the top of the world, can they no longer be afraid of any enemies.
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