Chapter 53: Barbarian
Fujian and Guanghe are flourishing and have become a giant gold-eating beast overseas.
Since Lin Feng joined, their main source of wealth has been no longer relying on selling goods to make profits, but instead drawing commissions for ships. According to the layers of division, almost 80% of overseas ships are tied to Hexingsheng's chariots and rolling forward.
Last year it was 70%. In fact, the number of ships that joined Hexingsheng has not changed much, but the number of overseas ships has increased to 80%. There is only one reason.
If it is not a prosperous ship, it will be plundered by Lin Feng.
However, there are actually not many overseas ships. Yuegang only sends 50 ship entries every year. Even if officials and businessmen collude to issue fake entries, they only have 100. The most common ones on the sea are still private merchants. According to Hexingsheng's estimate of 400 ships, there will be no more than 300 ships, and the total number of ships of large and small ships will not exceed 1,000.
Regardless of whether it is the official ship or the private ship, there are as many as 773 sea ships that are nailed to the bow of Xingsheng, of which 400 large ships are 280.
Such transportation capacity is very terrifying. Four hundred-fire-fu ships are used as warships, and their combat power is worrying. However, if used as cargo ships, there are few sailors, few water and grain, and sufficient warehouses, and large cargo capacity. A ship can carry nearly 300,000 kilograms - of course, this is just an ideal state, and the actual transportation of goods can only reach a small and a half of this number.
Two thousand stones.
It’s just that the alliance of Hexingsheng is too loose, and no one can directly issue orders to them. Although the internal situation occasionally helps each other, it is actually half the relationship between Altan and Ji Neng, sometimes joining forces and sometimes dispersing, without a common purpose and vision, and only uniting for maritime security is very fragile.
However, Chen Mu believes that there will always be one day when Hexingsheng can bring him and this empire in addition to money.
From last year to October this year, Hexingsheng brought Chen Mu more than 50,000 taels of silver. In order to save Chen Mu's silver, Bai Yuanjie specially asked Yang Yinglong's craftsmen to build a house and a golden cellar in Weigang, and put all their silver there.
Yes, it's their money.
Lao Bai was very frank about gold and silver. Even though he had already handled a lot of silver, his money was put together with Chen Mu's money and took it when he used it. In fact, the status of high-ranking officials and powerful officials overseas was like warlords. They had fewer and fewer places to use silver.
Bai Yuanjie understands better than anyone else why Chen Mu needs copper and iron when selling guns and cannons, because hard currency like silver has little impact on them. Nanyang Guards are self-sufficient. In addition to the upper and lower expenses, more than 200,000 taels of silver were buried in Weigang. I don’t know how to spend it.
The money was not only Chen Mu, Bai Yuanjie's private money, but also the Nanyang Guard's Weiyin. Speaking of which, Lao Bai went further and further on the road of joining hands with Chen Mu, and felt that he was the most correct choice to let him farm.
This guy is skilled in training and fighting, but the court is not a general who can train and fight. It is his indispensable professional skill to lead troops to make money while leading troops to fight.
The Nanyang Guard is not only the most powerful ward in the southeast, but also the richest ward in the world. Gold, silver, copper and iron are piled up like mountains, and there are all kinds of armor and weapons.
Bai Yuanjie knew Chen Mu's idea and knew that since the construction of the Self-Defense Port, the Nanyang Guard's defense center shifted from land to sea. Therefore, during the construction process, the Nanyang Guard's center was also shifting there. Starting from the Military Weapon Bureau, it gradually moved to the Harbour Port, and then backed by sea routes, all the matters were transported from Guangdong by sea ships.
Everything seemed to be moving in a better direction, including him in the north.
Although no one came to tell Chen Mu what happened, it was obvious that the cabinet ministers and Shangguan had more plans, and they would tell him if they settled.
The only flaw is that his son flew to Luzon and went to learn how to farm; and his Japanese pirates ran to Japan to deliver goods twice, as if he couldn't come back.
The most accidents always happen at sea.
In the Changzhen Schoolyard, five hundred soldiers stood in line. Their battle formation was not as square as the Nanyang Guard Flag Army, and more like Bai Yuanjie's usual battle formation. There were many cold soldiers in the formation, including ring swords, waist knives, and long crossbows. Although Yishui'er's new carousel and armor, there were very few firearms. Five hundred people had only one bird gunner with the general flag, and they were still fifty long guns that were rare in the Nanyang Guard.
The so-called long gun is a Nanyang Guard imitating the heavy gun of the Westerners, paired with a long steel-rod bayonet designed by Chen Muxia. It is a big gun with a six-foot-long length, and it is a two-fold bullet - a killing weapon with extremely low actual attributes and price ratio.
No one of Chen Mu's troops used this kind of gun, because his direct flag army has been expanding, from fifty to one hundred, from one hundred to one thousand, from one thousand to five thousand six. The more flag army he has, the more cost-effective Nanyang short guns, the more cost-effective Nanyang team came. However, at this moment, it was time for this heavy gun team to come.
In fact, Chen Mu did not pay attention to what weapons Man Liao used for military use. What he cared more about was the new carousel tools on these people.
These carousels and clothing are all newly built to cope with the coldness of northern Xinjiang.
The leather short robe is dyed with red commonly used by the Ming army, and the clothes are often used by Ming people, instead of the original purple cloth jacket of the Southern Army. The round-collared clothes are sewn with fur inside, which is beautiful and warm. The long iron grille on the legs of the leather boots under the feet is tied together with the tangled ties, and the breastplate on both sides of the body is a mail that is close to the knee and up to the wrist. The wrist and the hem of the clothes are nailed thin leather armor, and a six-petal iron hat helmet with a single word is majestic enough.
Carrying equipment is still the same, but the armed belt and backpack are all leather, wrapped in new felt, tung oil tent cloth, and the felt is covered with a small blue cloth quilt.
"All things like Nanyang Wei have been recommended as customized?"
Zhang Yongshou didn't understand the matter of Nanyang Guard and said vaguely: "It should be customized. Nanyang Guard has sold these things to Guangdong Guards, but they are all cloth. It's not as beautiful as theirs. I have bought twenty sets, and each set costs 70 cents of silver, which seems not easy to sell."
"Later, Jingchen gave me twenty sets of skins. Qingyuan commander bought three hundred sets for his soldiers. Jingchen seemed to sell him one or four." Zhang Yongshou said while walking in Xiaoxiying with his hands behind his back, turning his head and said, "I don't know anyone else."
Chen Mu shook his head with his mouth and looked unhappy. Before he left, he told Lao Bai that no matter what he sold, as long as others want to buy, he would increase the price by twice and triple. They only know how to make many things, and they form an assembly line to make them. Not only is the technology better than others, but the output is also larger than others, but Lao Bai still seems to be ruthless.
Three hundred new leather carrying equipment, in Chen Mu's opinion, can buy the commander they used to be two taels. This set costs almost seven cents of silver, anyway, the commander has money.
"Tsk tsk, it's not easy to sell if it's too expensive. Even Jingchen of the cloth wants to sell one or four, but he won't be allowed to bargain." Zhang Yongshou also shook his head with his mouth and said, "It's not that he doesn't sell it, but Jingchen insists on a set of three or four. Who can afford it?"
Chen Mu stopped pouting and smiled and said with a happy smile: "The old-fashioned one or four sold? OK, very good! Lao Qi!"
As he said that, Chen Mu called Bai Qi and said, "Let the Man Liao army take the things on their bodies first, and use them for the flag army first. In the future, it will be a big day. Then I will send you Brother Xin Jing and send them five hundred sets. By the way, the Man Liao gun team should not be solved, I want to use them!"
Chapter completed!