The greed of human nature!

Li Mu sighed and continued: "There are two major ports in the Tang Dynasty, Guangzhou Port and Yangzhou Port, Guangzhou Port and Yangzhou Port, and Yangzhou Port are sold domestically. However, this marquis thinks that these two ports are far from enough, so this marquis has requested Your Majesty to allow the establishment of two more ports."

Set up two more ports!

Everyone's eyes lit up! They all understood what this means, how much benefit can a port bring? That's an astronomical figure.

In fact, building a port does not require much investment, as long as there are people, there is nothing that cannot be done. However, the construction of a port is very large. If it is not for the national action, building a port in private is a taboo. No emperor will allow a huge private port to appear without his own permission.

Someone couldn't help asking: "Marty, I don't know the location of the two newly built ports..."

Li Mu smiled faintly, pointed to the bamboo in his hand, and said, "Here!"

"Mr. Marquis, this is not Lin Yi..."

"Yes, it's Linyi, but under the conquest of my brother, Linyi has already belonged to my Tang Dynasty." Li Mu slid the bamboo up a little and said, "This is Jiaozhou, and the port is set up in Jiaozhou, but Jiaozhou and Linyi will become a trading area of ​​the Tang Dynasty."

What does the trade zone mean? Although the people present have never heard of it, Li Mu does not need to explain it. The bamboo in Li Mu's hand continued to slide upwards: "Through Lingling and Guiyang Bridge Road, Jiaozhou not only has sea routes to connect to Fujian and Guangxi, but also cross Nanling north by land. In the next three years, the court will increase its investment in this section of land and build a land route. After completion, the throughput of this section of road will be increased by three times."

Everyone's eyes slid with the bamboo in Li Mu's hand, and he was calculating quickly in his heart.

What is the most important thing about a port? Is the transportation convenient?

The convenient transportation here not only refers to whether the water depth here is suitable as a safe haven, but more importantly, whether the goods transported to the port can be quickly distributed.

Yangzhou Port became the largest port in the inner world through rapid distribution.

Everyone knows this place of Jiaozhou. As early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were ships traveling with Jiaozhou. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the ports of Jiaozhou were already very prosperous. Most of the Nanyang countries that traveled to and from the Central Plains to and from Jiaozhou. History records that this place is "gifted and strange in all directions, so don't take this first. It hides the mountains and is full of dazzling numbers. The merchants and banks are far away and the quota are lost to Nanzhou. Although it is not as good as Guangzhou Port, it is also very good.

However, why did the great clans in the Central Plains not operate in Jiaozhou? The reason is very simple. Jiaozhou is adjacent to Linyi. During the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Jiaozhou was eroded by Linyi and was in chaos. Merchants were pursuing profits. An unstable environment could not be operated.

But now the court has pacified Jiaozhou and Linyi with the power of thunder and included it in the territory of the Tang Dynasty. It would be different if it wanted to open this place into a trade zone.

Nowadays, all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are invincible. There is nothing in the South China countries that can be shaken. If the court is really willing to manage it, the prosperity of Jiaozhou is just around the corner. But the question is, what is Jiaozhou that is worth the court's investment?

What if it was a blank check written by Li Mu, wouldn’t everyone have all turned it in?

Everyone looked at each other and Gu Sizhi asked: "Mr. Marquis, please forgive me for being shallow. The investment in building a port is very large. The remote area of ​​Jiaozhou is not abundant now. How could you be willing to invest such huge manpower and material resources? This..." The implication is that you are not lying to me!

Li Mu was not surprised that someone would raise such a question, but he would not tell Gu Sizhi that the court did not intend to invest money, but wanted to make a fortune. He smiled faintly and said, "The court will invest such huge financial and material resources. Of course, there is a reason that the court must do this. There are many things, and it is not convenient to disclose them. But you also know that there is one thing. I might as well mention it. Next to Linyi, there is a kind of rice in Zhenla country, which can reach three or four ripens a year. Once Jiaozhou Port is built, the rice in Zhenla country will be continuously imported into the Tang Dynasty. Do you understand now?"

"So that's it!" Everyone suddenly realized!

Food is the foundation of the country. If the food crisis can be solved, there is no cost to invest. Although the matter of Zhenla rice was little known in the Tang Dynasty, they actually knew that these people who often deal with sea routes were just sea transportation trade. It is obviously inappropriate for anyone to choose expensive transportation.

But if there is a port, the situation will be different. It can be transported through the bridge routes in Lingling and Guiyang, or it can be transported to Guangzhou Port first and then transported, because the cost has dropped, and there is no loss of money to transport rice.

What's more, if there is a famine, money is worthless. Food is the hardest hard currency. At that time, no matter how high the transportation cost is, you still have to be lucky when it is time to be transported.

Everyone accepted Li Mu's statement, and all the doubts were gone. They thought about it in their minds. First of all, the current situation of Yangzhou Port is probably in which more than ten companies divide their forces and jointly manage them. A piece of meat pie is eaten by twelve families. Even if the meat pie is large, each company will have limited food.

If you give up the meat pie in your mouth, you can exchange it for a larger meat pie in the future. It is obviously more appropriate. In addition, if you change it in this way, the family can go out instead of staying in Jiangnan, which is far away from the political center, cutting the flesh with a soft knife, and facing a gradually desolate situation.

What's more, they vaguely expect that when the Tang Dynasty's fortune declined, they would be independent in Linyi, Jiaozhou... Of course, these are all later stories, and they would never dare to think about it now.

In comparison, this choice is not necessarily higher than the benefits brought by cement plants and iron ore, but relatively speaking, it is more free. It is a better choice. However, everyone still did not draw conclusions easily, and they decided to wait for Li Mu to finish.

"The second port is set here." Li Mu clicked on the bamboo in his hand on the picture, and everyone looked over. Not far below Yangzhou, it was under the jurisdiction of Kuaiji. It was called Juzhang County in the Sui Dynasty, and was changed to Mingzhou in the early Tang Dynasty. In fact, it was Ningbo in later generations.

This choice made everyone even more confused. Because of Yangzhou Port, it seems to be a bit redundant to set up another port at such a close distance.

"Do you think that with Yangzhou Port and Mingzhou Port are some extras?"

Everyone looked at each other and said in unison, "I would like to ask the Marquis to solve the doubts."

"It seems like this, but it is not!" Li Mu pointed to the location of Yangzhou and said: "Although Yangzhou Port is good, it has a disadvantage. If you want to reach Yangzhou, you must come in through this seaport. With the current port throughput, there is not much problem, but if the throughput increases in the future, it will cause congestion."
Chapter completed!