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Chapter 1362 The Thriving Wanhong Shipyard (Part [-])
Chapter 1371

As for the rest, we can only wait a little longer. We can't just live in vain just to meet their needs. "

"That's true, if we give it all to them, then we won't be able to do business anymore." Tong Guan also said with deep approval.He is the spokesperson of King Duan Zhao Ji's maritime trade, so he naturally has to think about his own master. As for state affairs, hehe, he, the eunuch next to His Highness King Duan, can't worry about it.

Not long after, they drove to the shipyard. Today's shipyard no longer looks like it was more than a year ago.

Nowadays, the number of craftsmen and handymen alone has reached [-].In addition to the ten large docks where ships are being built, there are five more docks under construction. It is estimated that by the end of autumn, fifteen giant sea-going ships can be started here at the same time.

There is another shipyard not far away. There are also many docks there, but most of them are small docks, mainly for the construction of some auxiliary ships. By the way, whenever a new ship is designed, a prototype ship will be built there first.

As for the new type of sailing boat designed by Wang Yang, after being well received by the old boatmen who spent a lot of money from Jiangnan, after a trial voyage of [-] to [-] samples, this new design was confirmed. The sailing boat is not only excellent in sinking resistance, but also extremely fast, at least nearly one-third faster than today's Dasong Fuchuan and Dashi dhows.

Wan Bin, the old driver, disregarded Wang Yang's personal letter to persuade him, and immediately made a decision and went straight to the new sailboat with seven thousand materials.That is to say, a sailboat with a cargo capacity of 360 tons and a displacement of about [-] tons.

However, this is naturally not the largest ship in the Song Dynasty, because the Quanzhou Shipyard that Wan Bin visited before has been able to successfully manufacture an ocean-going ship with a length of more than [-] feet and a load of [-] materials. It is Mulan boat.

And Wan Bin is in the shipyards in Quanzhou and other places. He spent a lot of money and hired a lot of shipwrights from there, so that Jiaonan Port can directly make seven or eight thousand materials from the small fishing boats in the past. A very large shipyard for giant ships.

And those old shipbuilders, after referring to the types of trees in the north, believed that there are also a lot of wood in the virgin forests in the north that are good materials for building giant ships, and there is no need to transport wood from the south to build them.

In the middle of last year, several sea-going ships of [-] materials have been launched here one after another, and their quality is not inferior to that of Quanzhou Shipyard.

After Wang Yang learned the news, he thought of a question. It seemed that the source of ship timber during the Ming and Qing Dynasties was concentrated in the Northeast, because ancient trees flourished there and there were many varieties.

As for the treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, many shipbuilding timbers were transported from the northeast to the Nanjing Shipyard at that time.

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After arriving at the place, Wan Bin and Tong Guan looked at the bustling shipyard with interest. They could see that huge ship hulls were slowly taking shape, and around the hulls, they were built with countless giant bamboos. Stand up workbench.

The shipwrights are like dense ants, working diligently, and there are also some supervisors who are responsible for checking the progress of the work and the quality of the project.

Whenever a problem is found and pointed out, they will be graded on the form they hold, and those who do it well and quickly will be able to get more bonuses.

It is precisely because of such a reward and punishment mechanism that almost no one in the Wanhong Trading Co., Ltd. of the rubber boat is willing to be passive and sabotage. They all wish to do more work. The more they do, the more money they get. , why not do it?
What's more, most of the workers are specially recruited from poor places. These people are particularly hardworking and obedient.

"Well, this can be called a sea boat. Look, it's so big, and the hull feels more slender than those previous boats. It feels like a giant whale in the sea." Wan Bin admired The huge ship with seven thousand materials sighed with satisfaction in his heart.

"Yes, it seems that it is indeed much more pleasing to the eye than the big food sailboats we purchased from those big cannibals before, and our blessing boats from the Song Dynasty." Tong Guan also nodded in agreement.

"After this new ship is launched, let's see how its sea trials are. If it is good enough, then in the future, our Wanhong Trading Company Shipyard will mainly build this kind of ship."

Hearing what Wan Bin meant, he seemed to feel that this kind of dumpling-like shipbuilding was not enough and had to continue, which made Tong Guan a little dizzy.

You know, even if it is a ship of [-] materials, its construction cost is at least [-] guns, and that of [-] materials needs about [-] guns. Double it again. After all, the bigger the boat, the more materials and even labor it consumes is an exaggerated figure.

"Master Wan, we are just doing business, why do we need so many ships?"

"What do you think we can do with our small boat?" Wan Bin raised his eyebrows, as if he was very disdainful of Tong Guanzhi's words. "Do you know, those big food fleets, how many ships are there in an ocean-going fleet?
The small ones are dozens of ships, and the many ones are dozens of ships. I remember that time Wan saw the Dashi ocean-going fleet entering Quanzhou Port. There were 34 ships, of which nearly [-] were similar to the five thousand ships. The number of ships. "

"But now, if we add all the ships that can be used together, it's not enough for this number. Do you know that Wan can make more than ten ships with seven thousand materials if he goes to Japan? , if I can have twenty sea-going ships of [-] materials, even if it takes twice as long to sell goods in the Wa country, it will be worth it."

"Do you know why those big cannibals are willing to take risks and travel thousands of miles across the ocean to do business in Song Dynasty? That's because every time they go back and forth, they will benefit a hundred times."

"A hundredfold profit!" Tong Guan's voice suddenly rose an octave, staring blankly at the old driver, speechless for a long time.

"That's natural, otherwise, who would be willing to take their own life so lightly? We do business here, a back and forth, at least three times the profit, at least ten times the profit, it is already very great Unfortunately, compared to those big food merchants, we are nothing..."

Speaking of this, Wan Bin couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. What the hell, the world is so big and full of wonders. In the past, Wan Bin already felt that his Wanjia business was already considered a super rich man in Song Dynasty, but he was thousands of miles away from those people. Compared with the big food merchants who came from across the ocean, it was still not enough.

Hearing Wan Bin's words, Tong Guan really didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment other than smashing his tongue.Made so much money in one trip.

Even if more than a dozen large and small ships on my side sailed down the Yalu River, if all the furs and local products they got were sold out, after deducting the cost, they could still have an income of more than one hundred thousand.

Originally, Tong Guan already thought that it was quite good, but after hearing Wan Bin's words, Tong Guan realized that he really underestimated the huge profits of this maritime trade.

"It's no wonder why those big cannibals traveled thousands of miles and traveled across the ocean to my Song Dynasty to do business."

(End of this chapter)