Chapter 51: Unexpected News (Part 1)

How much is a sea ship with a drainage of 300 tons in the Song Dynasty? It's only 1,000 guan, and up to 3,000 guan can be bought for 500 guan. Zhao Xing's huge sum of money is enough to buy a fleet and build a large manor. Jiao Tu's complaint was just because he had only received less than 50,000 guan of commission, which he had to build a manor and buy land near Hangzhou. The remaining money was also distributed to his son Jiaozuo, who had just separated, so he felt that it was a little less.

Thinking that if Zhao Xing had finished disposing of these goods, he would have ten times more wealth than his current property, so he couldn't help but feel excited, so he kept encouraging Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing glanced at the busy workers under the hillside and said thoughtfully: "Then pick up another batch and wait for the goods to be released, and only the pearls are put out. Those good goods are kept and sold when I go to Bianliang City."

Jiao Tu's face was disappointed. In fact, what he originally meant was that if Zhao Xing was in a hurry to sell that batch of goods, he should give him an equivalent reward so that he could sell it slowly, and even if he had made up his money, he would follow Zhao Xing's way, collect some of the goods and wait for the opportunity to sell it at a high price. But Zhao Xing's answer completely shattered his expectations.

Zhao Xing's refusal was due to modern financial concepts. The intermediary's commission should only be paid with money, not goods - this is the rule and the most basic principle of the modern accounting system. Therefore, although he knew Jiao Tu's scruples, he still protected him.

Dongzhu, Nanzhu and Xizhu are the three famous pearl systems in the world. Japanese pearls are called "Dongzhu" in China. But in fact, the "Dongzhu" in the commercial sense does not refer to Japanese pearls, but refers to natural pearls produced by the Persian Gulf "wingshell" - and this pearl happens to be called "Xizhu" in China.

Although Japanese pearls are not one of the three famous pearls in the world, they are also second-class products in the pearl system. In the commercial sense, "Japanese beads" refer to a pearl bred by Japanese oysters called akoya, so it is actually an oyster bead. Among Japanese beads, the highest quality is called "Pipa beads", which specifically refers to the pearls produced in Lake Biwa, the largest freshwater lake in Japan.

Japanese pearls are not big, but because the water quality of Lake Biwa is clear, the biggest feature of Japanese pearls is that their pearls are evenly colored, almost translucent, round in size, and light green in color.

The highest level of the pipa bead is called "Zhupanzhu", which means that the pearl is gorgeous and round in size and will keep spinning in the jade plate, which is amazing.

The rarest among the beads is the "blue bead", which is a dark gray and blue bead that is cultivated in the body of Japanese oysters or silver-lipped oysters. Their size is not necessarily round, but round ones are even rarer and their value cannot be measured by money.

This time, Zhao Xing had a relationship with the Japanese royal family and the largest samurai group in Japan. The pearls he obtained were all the best, among which there were more than 40 beads, and he obtained three more blue beads. In addition, although the other pearls were of excellent quality, with the former comparing the other things Zhao Xing no longer looked down on.

After discussing the details of the cargo selling, Zhao Xing turned to the oar master Liu San: "I placed an order in Mingzhou and customized 10,000-meter ships (displacement of 600 tons and volume similar to the Shenzhou built by Emperor Shenzong of Song). This is a new type of fast ship. There will be two ships delivered by the end of this year. You can hire more people to adapt to the new ship as soon as possible. By next year, we will use this ship to Nanyang.

In addition, I bought two pointed boats, carrying 5,000 materials. You can quickly get all the sailors. Now there are two months left. How about we go to Goryeo?"

The oar master Liu San is only left to admire him. Zhao Xing is a famous juren, and it was beyond his expectations that he would talk to him so kindly. What he admired was Zhao Xing's courage.

Judging from Zhao Xing's behavior during his first trip to sea, he vaguely guessed that this juren may have been going to sea for the first time. Although he always seemed so calm when encountering things, this was also calm and unfamiliarity. The juren master was proficient in navigation matters. In the eyes of Liu San, who had a low level of education, this was nothing. People often say that "a scholar does not go out and knows the world's affairs." However, facing the vast sea and facing the huge waves in the sea where life and death are unpredictable, the legendary sirens, where the abyss is, this scholar dares to take only one student and rush into the sea lightly. This courage is rare in ancient and modern times.

Since ancient times, people have been helpless when they are desperate. After all, the Chinese nation is a land nation, so the sea has become the place of the gods and monsters imagined by literati. Since ancient times, there have been only a handful of scholars who have entered the sea, so Liu San only admires Zhao Xing.

However, he still had to question Zhao Xing's voice: "Master, you need to organize a fleet after what you meant? The fleet is not that simple. The sea is vast, and you may not be able to catch up with the ship opposite for a day. How to connect with each other and how to inform each other is all difficult.

The little old man only learned to control a single ship, and the fleet is not clear, but the little old man heard that a fleet needs to be big and small, fast and slow - it is not possible to be the same boat."

"I thought of this... I placed an order for ten ships, but I only asked them to make two ships in advance. The rest were mainly to prepare materials. When I came back from Nanyang, I would do it again...

So, your current task is to be familiar with ships - these early built ships are experimental products. When the technology is mature, these ships will be eliminated. The key is to be familiar with the operation. I heard that the sea surface in Tianzhu is strong and the waves are strong. When the ship sails there, it is easy to be thrown away by the wind and waves, because it is a ship with a mortise and tenon structure..."

When Zhao Xing said this, he suddenly realized that he had said too much, so he quickly stopped.

He said too many new words, and with Liu San's cultural level, he could not hear these words at all. He pretended to understand and nodded and added self-righteously: "There is also the compass mentioned by the great official - this thing is good. If we go to Goryeo, we can still use it if we take the Danluo route in the first half of the first half."
Chapter completed!