On the fourth day of April, in a hidden bay at the southern end of Buhefang, Xiangshan County.

A huge Tongfanfu ship was moored in the bay. The sails on the ship had been unloaded, but the word Zheng hung high on the mast, indicating the identity of the sea ship.

In the late Ming Dynasty, illegally banned landing in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong were very common. In the Ming Dynasty, the people called foreign countries "fan". These ships set sail and communicated with foreign countries, and were called Tongfan ships by the people of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the popular Tongfan ships were the Fu and Guangbo ships.

Guangzhou Ship is a more popular ship in Guangdong. Because Guangdong is close to the South China Sea and the Nanhai Transportation Trade has a long history, the Tongfan Maritime Merchants in Guangdong often emphasize the quality of ships and require the durability of sea ships. Moreover, the ships are built very large and often employ 50 or 60 crew members.

Wang Zaijin, a controversial official in the Tianqi Dynasty, recorded in "Haiping Punishment": "The broad ship considers the blessing ship to be even larger, and its firmness is farther than that. The broad ship is made of iron wood, and the blessing ship is nothing more than pine and pine. If the two ships impact each other in the sea, the blessing ship will be broken and cannot be regarded as the hardness of iron."

The maritime merchants in Fujian do not have an advantage in the geographical location of trade. Whether it is to trade with Zhejiang or trade with Guangdong or Nanyang, Fujian is second to trade with Fujian. In addition, Fujian is rugged in mountains and is more difficult to collect and distribute foreign goods than Zhejiang and Guangzhou, so the lucky ship takes another road.

"The lucky boats are pine and fir trees, and the elm insects are easy to eat. They often need to be burned and washed. After eight or nine news, they will be embarrassed by the wind and waves."

In this era, European shipbuilders built a large Galen ship for 30 to 40 years. The same is true for Guangbo. Shipbuilding is so popular that it wants to use up all the precious woods in the world. The main beams and beams of Guangbo Shipbuilding are mostly precious woods in Southeast Asia, such as iron plows. Fubo Shipbuilding was scrapped in less than ten years, and most of them use easy-to-get fir. The guiding ideology of the shipbuilding was hugely different.

The sea is windy and waves, and ships are not searching for anything. Killing and robbing goods is common. Fujian's seagoers have inherent disadvantages in commodity economy, and the ships they build have developed in the direction of pursuing force. In this era, hot weapons are still in a subordinate position, and force still mainly relies on cold weapons. What is needed to develop maritime force is that the ship can go fast, turn around easily, and build a lot of ships and carry more people.

"Fujian dares not conflict with Guangbo, but Guangbo is difficult to adjust. It is easier to adjust the lucky ship. If Guangbo ship is broken, it must be repaired with iron wood, which is difficult to maintain. Moreover, the (Guangbo ship) is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, and looks like two wings. It is stable in the Caspian Sea and shaken in the outside ocean."

Guangzhou ships pursue the efficiency of marine trade, the ships are durable, while Fu Ship pursues navigation performance and cheapness in the offshore. In the 17th century East China Sea, South China Sea, Fujian, and Guangdong maritime merchants competed fiercely. In the end, Zheng Zhilong from Quanzhou, Fujian defeated Liu Xianglao, the leader of Guangdong maritime merchants in Nanya Island, Guangzhou Prefecture, and became the overlord of the East China Sea and the South China Sea.

Isn’t Zheng Zhilong’s victory also a victory in the development ideas of Fujian’s sea breakers?

In the Western era, the same ideas as those of the Fujian people. England, with many small pirate ships, defeated the Spanish Invincible Fleet and became the overlord of the ocean.

At this time, the one who was anchored in this remote harbor was the big lucky ship under Zheng Chenggong.

The Dafu ship was nearly fifteen meters long, about three meters wide, and more than two meters high. Qin Zhao calculated from a distance and estimated that the Dafu ship had a displacement of at least five hundred tons.

In this era, this is already a big ship that can roam the ocean.

Below the big ship, Zheng Chenggong's shopkeeper Han Fenli stood in front of the ship, watching the boatman transporting sofas one by one onto the ship and placing them in a suitable position.

It was just a bit strange. On the early spring of March, Han Fenli was covered in white, as if he was a mourner.

Turning around, Han Fenli and Qin Zhao said, "Boss Qin, you have built two hundred sofas these days, which is really beyond the Fourth Master's expectations. The Fourth Master was very happy and said that Boss Qin is kind and righteous."

Qin Zhao drove the ox cart to this harbor to hand over the first batch of sofas with the Zheng family.

With the carpentry lathe, Qin Zhao's sofa manufacturing speed has greatly accelerated. Previously, the main thing that restricted Qin Zhao's production speed was carpenters. The carpenters needed a long working time to make a sofa. However, the production efficiency of carpenters has been increased ten times, while other steps only require recruiting ordinary handymen.

It took Qin Zhao only five days to produce 200 sofas for Zheng Chenggong and deliver the first batch of goods.

Zheng Chenggong and Qin Zhao made an appointment to deliver the goods to the bay of Xiangshan County. Because sea boats cannot be taken in the Shuiguan in Guangzhou. If Qin Zhao transports the freight to Guangzhou City, the Zheng family would have to use sand boats to transport the goods to the deep seaside to exchange for sea boats, which is not cost-effective. Therefore, the Zheng family directly called a private dock in Xiangshan County that was prohibited from going into the sea.

Located in this remote bay, this private pier uses wood planks to create access to the deep water area on the beach sand and stones, allowing large ships to be docked.

Seeing that the two hundred sofas were loading the ship, Han Fenli waved his hand, and the two servants immediately walked down from the ship with a heavy box.

"Young Master Qin, this is the payment for these 200 spring soft chairs, a total of 2,400 taels."

Qin Zhao's eyes lit up. He went up and opened the lid of the wooden box and saw that twenty-four large silver ingots were placed in the box. One of the ingots weighed 100 taels, and the Ming Dynasty's 16 taels per pound, which was more than six pounds. Qin Zhao put one in his hand and felt it was very heavy.

Qin Youli, who was beside Qin Zhao, said: "It is better to clear the money and goods between transactions. Let me measure the weight and test the quality."

Han Fenli smiled and asked Qin Youli to test it.

After a while of busyness, Qin Youli smiled and said, "Back to the master, these are all barefoot silver, one hundred taels per ingot."

The so-called household silver is the silver ingots cast in Beijing after the Ministry of Revenue summarized the tax revenues of various places. These silver ingots flowed into the market when the court was used because they had the credit endorsement of the court and were the best silver on the market.

Qin Zhao also picked up a silver ingot and gently stroked it.

Qin Youli and Han handed over the delivery and cashier documents as records and proof.

After receiving these payments, Qin Zhao made a profit of 400 taels.

In this month, Qin Zhao sold more than 400 sofas in Guangzhou and made about 2,000 taels of silver. Including the 400 taels of silver earned by this batch of goods, Qin Zhao's total profit in the sand business was close to 3,000 taels of silver. More than 200 taels of these silver were given to Zheng Chenggong as dry stock returns. Qin Zhao himself could leave 2,600 taels of silver.

With the money seized by Chi Yunfeng, Qin Zhao currently has nearly 4,000 taels of silver in his hand.
Chapter completed!