When Li Changxian saw everyone looking at him, he coughed dryly, stood up and said, "I went to the southern coast of Wanling County this time to build a port there.

The ports there have been built now, and the leaders of the tribe leaders of Wanling County have cleared all pirates on the nearby coast, so there is no problem with the waterway to the Nanyang Ocean."

Li Changxian's words immediately caused a sensation among everyone in the county hall, and some people couldn't believe it. Could it be that the people of Wanling County will start doing maritime trade?

Many people in the county hall are very aware of the big maritime merchants doing maritime trade in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and that one is not rich.

Every time they hear people going to Southeast Asia and doing maritime trade business in Japan, they are just jealous of them. They never thought that they could have the day to do maritime trade business.

At that time, even if they wanted to join the maritime trade caravans in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, no one would take them, let alone the people of Wanling County were really poor before.

Since you want to do marine trade, you don’t have to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to purchase goods, Lingnan Prefecture and nearby areas are also rich in many goods suitable for export, such as porcelain, silk, tea, and even iron, earthen miscellaneous goods, medicines, etc.

The key is that the export volume is large, and the profits they make when traveling to Nanyang may be greater than what they earn in business locally for a few years.

As for imports, it was even more popular among residents of the Great Jin Dynasty. Spices, jewelry and other items transported from Southeast Asia every year were often in short supply on the Great Jin Dynasty market.

Seeing this situation, Li Changxian said it was useless and directly asked Zhang Kewen to step forward and started the auction of the right to navigate in the sea trade.

The starting price is 80,000 taels, and the right to use the sea ship is one year. This was negotiated by Li Changxian and Zhang Kewen and others. If Li Changxian is missing, he will not do it. He will send troops again. Is it easy not to make some money?

The first person to hold the sign was Old Man Bai, who directly raised the sign 100,000 taels, which no one expected.

However, Old Man Bai's actions directly angered the local merchants in Wanling County. In their eyes, Old Man Bai was just a country bumpkin who built a house. How could he let him suppress everyone?

Mr. Mi directly asked his eldest son to raise the sign, 150,000 taels.

However, Wanling County is no longer the situation where the Mi family dominates the past. There are still many wealthy Wanling County people who don’t give Mr. Mi face and come up to raise their signs.

But the final result was that Mr. Mi directly bid for the sea trade rights of a sea boat for 200,000 taels.

Li Changxian, Zhang Kewen and others were very happy. They did not expect that the people of Wanling County were so rich and so willful.

Except for retaining seven or eight sea boats for those indigenous tribes, Li Changxian was auctioned off all the other twelve sea boats.

There are also some small sea boats left for those merchants with a weaker strength, so that they will not be happy or left in disappointment.

Among these people who bid for the sea boat, the ones that Li Changxian attracted the most were Zhang Ze and Fatty Xu.

Li Changxian didn't know what Zhang Ze wanted to do for a sea boat, but he also spent money and the price was very high. He suddenly suffocated many people who were bidding, so he couldn't say anything.

Fatty Xu and his two friends of the burlap merchants actually bid for three big sea boats at once. Li Changxian couldn't believe that these burlap merchants were so rich?

The two burlap merchants who were as happy as Fatty Xu were really happy.

They also came to Wanling County by accident and negotiated with Wanling County Government to pay taxes and donations. They were going to leave directly after the negotiations, but Fatty Xu revealed such great news to them.

The Wanling County Government Office bidding, regardless of whether the Wanling County Government Office invited them or was still discouraged by local merchants in Wanling County. Instead, they must get the right to trade.

As for the money needed for auction and how to raise goods after auction, they don’t need to worry at all.

Sichuan's textile industry was very developed. Not only was linen widely circulated in the Jin Dynasty, but Shu brocade was also famous all over the world, with a beautiful and luxurious output, and it has always been a best-selling item for export.

As long as they go back and bring this sea trade right to Sichuan, are they afraid that there will be no goods?

After the noisy crowd left, Li Changxian, Zhang Kewen and others counted all the silver coins and actually got nearly three million taels of silver.

Now that Wanling County has money, road construction and housing construction must be accelerated. In addition, don’t relax the recruitment of refugees. After all, Wanling County still lacks a population and cannot reach the population of Wanling County set by Li Changxian.

After leaving the county government office, Li Changxian met Zhang Ze outside and was stunned. He thought to himself, didn’t this person bid for two sea boats back? Is he waiting for him here?

Li Changxian smiled and said hello, "Shopkeeper Zhang, why haven't you left yet?"

Zhang Ze also smiled and said, "Mr. Li, I still have something to discuss with you here. I wonder if you have time?"

What are you discussing? I will give you the Hai Trade you want, and if I take back the money, I will not talk to you.

If it is a problem with the master of Shi Kingdom, I am still a little interested in talking to you.

So Li Changxian tried to ask: "Is there any news about the master of the Shi Kingdom?"

Zhang Ze nodded and replied: "Yes, my friend is here to get news!"

When Li Changxian heard this, he was very happy and replied repeatedly, "Okay, okay, okay! Then I'll find a place to talk now!"

After all, it is not very good to negotiate this matter outside, so Li Changxian plans to take Zhang Ze to Li's mansion.

When they arrived at Li's mansion, after Li Zhu arranged the tea, Li Changxian and Zhang Ze sat down and drank the tea.

Zhang Ze was the first to speak: "Mr. Li made a lot of profits in today's auction!"

"Where isn't this the financial tension in Wanling County in all aspects? I can't do it myself."

Li Changxian cried and shook his head repeatedly.

After hearing this, Zhang Ze could only laugh twice and said, "I will rely on the care of County Magistrate Li in the future. I hope I can earn back the capital in the Nanyang Sea Trade!"

Li Changxian just laughed twice and nodded, but thought to himself, if you don’t make money, why are you doing for my two boats?

After drinking the tea in his hand, Li Changxian asked: "Shopkeeper Zhang Zhang, how did your friend reply?"

But Zhang Ze did not answer directly, but said: "Mr. Li, do you know the Qingyiwei?"

Li Changxian didn’t know about the Qingyiwei before, but after Zhang Kewen and others introduced it, he didn’t want to hide it anymore, so he replied: “I only knew about it recently. I don’t know what this matter has to do with the Qingyiwei?”

Zhang Ze smiled and said, "To be honest, my friend is from Qingyiwei. He wants to get to know you, County Magistrate Li. I wonder what County Magistrate Li thinks?"
Chapter completed!