Chapter 471 Jiangnan Shipyard turns from left to right
Chapter 471 The Jiangnan Shipyard that turns its left leg to its right leg (fourth update)
Author: sunny
Chapter 471 The Jiangnan Shipyard that turns its left leg to its right leg (fourth update)
Anyway, such operations were very common in the Song Dynasty, not to mention that they were bought with money.
As for Bu Nao, the scale of the shipyard is not too big. It has several dry docks and can build as many as one thousand ships.
There were only two dry docks that could make ships worth two thousand materials, which made Gao Zhang very unhappy.
After all, it has become something of its own, and the boat manufactured by its own factory can easily be considered a mid-range product.
So Gao Zhang set his sights on the government-run shipyard in Mingzhou.
Gao Zhang also inquired carefully and found out that the Mingzhou government-run shipyard was definitely the pinnacle of shipbuilding technology in that era.
When Master Zhao Ji's biological father Shenzong was in power, he allowed the Mingzhou shipyard to build two Shenzhous named "Lingxu Zhiyuan Anji Shenzhou" and "Lingfei Shunji Shenzhou" by Emperor Shenzong.
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It is also known as the Shenzhou of Ten Thousand Hu of Dendrobium, which means no, those two Shenzhous can carry tens of thousands of Dendrobium's cargo.
According to the conversion method of 30 kilograms of large cargo, and two tons of material are equal to one material, it means that the two Shenzhous are large ships with a weight of 5,000 materials, and their displacement must be at least 300 tons.
When Gao Zhang heard this, he thought Ke Ke was bragging until he spent some time in the Jiangnan area.
After seeing the ships along the coast of the Song Dynasty, I realized that this was not nonsense.
Ships with a displacement of 5,000 tons are indeed rare, but they do not exist after all. As for ships with a displacement of 1,000 to 3,000 tons, they are definitely the most common and commonly used ships in the sea.
Therefore, it is necessary to improve the quantity and quality of Jiangnan shipyards and let the shipyards of Song Dynasty enter an atmosphere of healthy competition.
As the official envoy of the Song Dynasty and Zhejiang Province, Gao Zhang specially recruited nearly one-fifth of the craftsmen from the government-run shipyard in Namingzhou.
Although it was only one-fifth, the number reached three thousand.
And among the three thousand craftsmen, there are almost a thousand of them, all of whom have experience in manufacturing giant ships made of five thousand materials.
Gao Zhang's purpose in bringing them there is naturally self-evident.
Whether you are engaged in maritime trade, whether you want to engage in large-scale navigation, or whether you want to discover a new continent, all of these require ships, sea-going ships of high quality.
A sea-going ship like that with five thousand materials has been tested by the winds and waves of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
It has been determined whether they can be used as vessels for ocean voyages and trade.
Now it is clear that among the five new docks being excavated by Jiangnan Shipyard, three are built with materials worth 3,000 yuan and two are built with materials worth 5,000 yuan.
As for the craftsmen who had arrived at Jiangnan Shipyard, they immediately got to work.
In addition, the salaries of all craftsmen are fully doubled compared to those at the government-run shipyard in Mingzhou.
He also made a request to the craftsmen to design an ocean-going ship suitable for long-term voyages of at least two to three months without the need for supplies.
Exactly when they can do it is up to the craftsmen.
Gao Zhang was responsible for waving his money bag to encourage them.
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With the promotion of the Hangzhou International Commodity Expo in Jiangnan Business Daily, and the wonderful serialized stories in the Business Daily.
The circulation of "Jiangnan Business Daily" in the Liangzhe Road area has reached 100,000 copies.
In Suzhou alone, the sales volume of each issue can reach 20,000 copies.
This made Gao Zhang quite satisfied. When he was in Bianliang, Tokyo, he had also considered starting a newspaper.
Could it be that we were engaged in foreign trade with the Liao Kingdom at that time, so we naturally printed books and had no chance to do anything about it.
On the contrary, after arriving in Suzhou, I learned that Suzhou could be regarded as a metropolis in the southeastern region of the Song Dynasty.
The extremely developed papermaking, textile and shipbuilding industries can be said to be the key areas with the most prosperous industries in the Song Dynasty.
The prosperity and development of the paper industry has caused the price of paper to plummet.
Is that why the popularity of tabloids in the Song Dynasty, coupled with the prosperity of the leg industry in the Jiangnan region and the frequent international trade activities in the coastal areas, have led to a very prosperous business on the Liangzhe Road.
Therefore, it can be said that it is the right time to launch "Jiangnan Business News" there.
Just when Gao Zhang was worrying about the country and the people, the impatient voice of Cai Laoliu beside him suddenly sounded.
"Hey, senior brother, what am I doing in a daze? It's my turn."
Gao Zhang came to his senses, took a look at the cards that Cai Laoliu had just thrown out, and threw two in consciously.
The Qilinzi of the Cai Mansion couldn't help but change his expression, and Tong Zhisheng even rolled his red eyes with a look of despair.
"He said, Brother Guizhang, why am I so lucky? How can I win?"
"No, no, no, playing cards depends not only on luck, but also on..."
Gao Zhang was about to say that he needed to rely on his brain, but he saw the clear stupidity in the eyes of the idle Wolong Fengchu.
After thinking about it, I swallowed the second half of the sentence. After all, Lan Xi and the others were not very good either, so we had to let them retain a glimmer of hope that they were actually very smart.
On the side, Fang Baihua, who had been standing obediently and quietly not far away, saw clearly the changes in Gao Zhang's expression and eyes, and almost couldn't control herself from laughing.
Fortunately, at that time, the rich man rushed over and told Gao Zhang that Liu Qi had something urgent and came to visit him.
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After Gao Zhang said hello to the two good brothers, he walked quickly away. Soon, he met Liu Qi, the good brother who was temporarily serving as the deputy envoy of the Suzhou regiment training, in the front hall.
"Mr. Yuan Gong, guess who the general has brought to me?"
"Thieves?"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's almost the same. At the end of the day, Mingyue met a group of Japanese at the dock, where they were trading with a few merchants."
"Trading? Japanese merchants...then don't they abide by the rules of the shipping company?"
Gao Zhang couldn't help but curiously asked, after all, where is Suzhou? Since Suzhou is not open as a port, outside merchants are not allowed to do business there.
"Have you not abided by the rules of the shipping department? They and these merchants are not trading copper coins."
"Copper coin trading?" Gao Zhang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then he came to his senses.
Generally speaking, when Japanese merchants come to the Song Dynasty for trade, they usually use gold, sulfur, wood, Japanese fans, Japanese knives and other Japanese specialties to trade with the Song Dynasty.
In exchange for their favorite tea, silk, lacquerware, spices, medicinal materials, ceramics, and even books from the Song Dynasty.
But there is a problem. From ancient times to the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese country never had its own currency.
They have always been cooperating with the currency of the Central Plains Empire. Now, the currency in circulation in the Ming and Japanese countries is the copper coins of the Song Dynasty.
But because the Song Dynasty banned the export of copper coins, it naturally led to a money shortage in the Japanese country.
Otherwise, the Japanese merchants had no choice but to engage in smuggling business and exchange gold for copper coins.
