As the New Year is approaching, the temperature on the island has also dropped, and the sea water on the beach is not so comfortable.
Li Yuanxing sat alone on the beach, flipping through the map.
"Your Highness, General Qin Qiong has returned to Chang'an. The Tianying Pavilion has discussed the theory of elite troops and believes that it can be tried out in some less important prefectures and counties. Shannan Road was selected!" Pei Xi reported beside him.
Li Yuanxing just expressed kindness but said nothing.
"Yuanxing, it seems that the Chinese New Year is about to come?" Mr. Cabinet took a boat and came to the shore from the boat.
"I don't want to go home!" Li Yuanxing replied directly.
"You don't want to go home, where do you want to go?" The cabinet master didn't react at all.
Li Yuanxing pointed at the map: "How about going to Guam for a tour. Anyway, we can avoid the time of passing the customs. It's not bad to return to Chang'an during spring plowing. At least we can avoid many things."
"It seems good!" The cabinet master smiled and nodded.
Pei Xi heard that His Highness the King of Qin planned to avoid those powerful people. During the New Year, not only the powerful people of the Tang Dynasty, but also all the powerful people in the world who relied on the Tang Dynasty would come to Chang'an.
In Chang'an City, an invitation to a Lantern Festival banquet at Prince Qin's residence was sold on the black market for a thousand guan, and it was priceless.
If you are a soldier, celebrating the Chinese New Year abroad is not a big deal?
Pei Xi didn't have much resentment in his heart. Anyway, they only got together at home during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
But the cabinet master knew that Li Yuanxing was hiding from a woman.
First of all, Silla and Baekje were determined to marry a royal girl into the Prince of Qin's palace. There would be no movement from them during the Chinese New Year.
Then there is Li Yuanxing who is hiding from his seven princesses.
Although the seven children can't walk yet, these seven little guys are real princes. The seven princesses were not so harmonious before. They were fighting. And they were fighting fiercely.
Those who joined forces with Li Chengqian, those who joined forces with Li Ke, those who joined forces with Li Daozong, and the Cui family who had roped in more than a dozen second-rate aristocratic families to prepare for a big fight in Australia. How come they hadn't discovered before that these guys were so ambitious?
It's really not small. Li Er seems to like seeing this kind of struggle, because the only person who benefits from such a struggle is him, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
It is now the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and the real Chinese New Year will not be celebrated until the twenty-ninth lunar month.
The princesses of Qin, who are noble enough, naturally do not need to prepare anything hard for the New Year. They eat hot pot around the stove and chat about some nonsense that is neither salty nor bland.
"Let's play mahjong!" Zheng Xiuyan said suddenly.
"When playing mahjong, seven people can only play one table, and there is one person missing from the other table." Wang Yuyan teased the child and said to Zheng Xiuyan with a smile: "Tell me, who won't play?"
"Sister Lan Yue, please fight together." Zheng Xiuyan said.
This idea seemed good, and Cui Yingying and Li Changying went to find Li Lanshan in person.
At this moment, Li Lanshan was in Li Yuanxing's study calculating the benefits that could be obtained from the Japanese island. In addition to the silver mine, Li Lanshan was more interested in turning the Japanese island into a super mulberry field. Then, she would get out 70% of the people on the Japanese island.
, then the annual raw silk production of Wadao alone can even reach the same amount of raw silk as the Tang Dynasty now.
It's just that this requires detailed planning and discussion with the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuanxing did not come back, so Li Lanshan decided to make a good plan and then wait for Li Yuanxing to come back so that she could start immediately.
Cui Yingying came in, and Li Lanshan did not avoid what she was doing. Yuan Chun and other girls hurriedly gave Cui Yingying gifts and brought chairs.
"Sister Lanyue is still busy. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. You should take a rest."
"For 30 million yuan, it's worth the trouble. No grain is grown on the island. All the grains on the island are replaced by mulberry trees. All the grain on the island is shipped from Nanyang. If they want to rebel, they have to have grain reserves. And they grow all of it.
As for the mulberry tree, just like raw silk, it can bring 30 million yuan of benefits to the Tang Dynasty."
Cui Yingying couldn't help but say the word "convinced" in her heart.
Li Lanshan's vision and thoughts are not comparable to theirs, but fortunately, Li Lanshan will not argue with them. Although Li Lanshan's son is also a prince, he does not have a fief and does not want anything. Moreover, he has long declared that everything in the Qin Palace is left to
No one will inherit the Tang Dynasty.
Although Cui Yingying and others have never understood, what did Li Lanshan leave to her son?
But this does not affect their admiration for Li Lanshan.
"Let's go! Let's go to mahjong. There are eight tables set up today."
Li Lanshan just said it as a joke, but the seven Qin princesses did not take it as a joke.
Eight tables is too exaggerated, but four tables is no problem. Each of the seven Qin princesses chose a personal maid. Li Lanshan chose Yuanchun to represent herself. Although Li Lanshan's personal maid was good, she could not help Li Lanshan with anything except work.
, asked Li Lanshan to give it to Wu Zhao, and asked Yuan Chun and Qiulan to be his maids.
Wu Zhao is still in Yaozhou now, and he might not be able to come back until the 29th of the twelfth lunar month.
"Do you dare to make a bigger bet? If you always pay twice, you won't be nervous at all during the fight." Li Liyuan never spoke, but this opening was powerful.
"I will accompany you no matter how old you are." Li Changying stood up and was about to ask the maid to bring the money box. But Cui Yanyan said at this moment: "Sister Lanyue said that mulberry trees are planted on the Japanese island, why not let this girl next to me bet on mulberry trees?
One plant at a time!"
The mulberry trees in the Tang Dynasty were all large mulberry trees. To ensure fertility, there were only sixty trees per acre.
If we lose Mulberry, we can't pay more for the land.
The mahjong of the Tang Dynasty can be played up to 50 times, which is big three yuan, big four and so on. Then you can add three cannons, so the largest bet is 200 mulberry trees, which is almost four acres of mulberry field.
It's really a big bet.
"Just follow this." None of the princesses showed weakness.
Li Lanshan felt funny next to her, but she just smiled in her heart.
What is most worth investing in in the Tang Dynasty is the raw silk industry. Not to mention selling it to the Western Regions, the supply exceeds demand in the Tang Dynasty alone. Even ordinary people want to wear silk, let alone dignitaries.
Otherwise, Li Lanshan would not have inspired all the people of Japan to plant mulberry trees.
Li Lanshan can afford to lose. Although the Japanese islands have not yet been planted, millions of mulberry trees are already there, right here in Izumo.
Li Liyuan and Cui Yingying are definitely the closest. Li Liyuan was pushed hard, so Cui Yingying naturally wanted to help her out. At this time, she said: "Girls have already made bets with mulberry trees. Why don't we do something more exciting? Bet on tonnage!"
Hiss..., Li Lanshan took a breath of cold air.
The entire shipbuilding industry in the Tang Dynasty, coastal boats and inland river boats are privately owned, but sea-going ships are nominally under the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact they are controlled by the Prince of Qin's Palace.
Last year's maximum output has been reported, and it was only 270,000 tons a year.
And the main production is still two hundred craftsmen, a 1,200-ton armed merchant ship that takes three months, and a 500-ton pure merchant ship that takes 43 days. The production cycle of large ships is long, and the process is complicated. Five hundred
Last year's tonnage output was 173. This is Dandong, Weihai, Yizhou, Huating, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Yalong Bay. There are a total of fourteen large and small shipyards with full production capacity.
Divided into seven princesses, there are only 21,000 tons.
Three thousand tons per person. With such a gamble, it is very likely that after two days, all the tonnage in one person's hands will be transferred to another person's hands. This bet is too big.
But none of the seven princesses wanted to do it.
"No more cannons!" Li Lanshan persuaded, and the seven princesses also got off the road.
Betting on tonnage, one ton, even without cannons will make people nervous. You must know that 500 tons is a ship. Each of them only has two 1,200 tons armed merchant ships and a 500-ton armed merchant ship.
For a 100-ton boat, the extra 100 tons can be saved and used next year.
"Sister Lanyue didn't get the tonnage, why don't you ask Your Highness to get it?" Zheng Xiuyan said beside her.
"That's it, send a telegram!" Wang Yuyan also said.
Send a telegram? Send it to Li Yuanxing?
Li Lanshan couldn't stand being encouraged by the seven princesses, so she had to get up and go to the telegraph room.
Soon, Li Lanshan came back with a note in her hand: "Don't ask me what the outcome was. It's just that Li Yuanxing asked me why I was fighting in my own nest. So I sent a telegram to the emperor's wife and asked her if she could play mahjong and bet on tonnage.
And I also released a message that Mingyue said that the total output will quadruple next year, because one of the five major shipyards in Wodao is already available. The new shipyards in Huating are also available, Guangzhou, Palembang, Malacca, and Haiya.
There are a total of seven shipyards that can start building ships in the spring, so why should I gamble?"
Four times, that is a production of more than one million tons.
Cui Yingying was moved: "My sister has married into the Xiao family. I want to see if she dares to gamble."
Before the seven Qin princesses went out, they did not forget to tell their maids: "Play cards carefully, and the mulberry tree is also very important."
On the ship, Li Yuanxing stood on the deck chewing a cigarette: "Grandpa, I realize more and more that I am wiser. Fortunately, I didn't go back, otherwise it wouldn't be so lively if I was here. Originally, I was still worried about the amount of shipbuilding.
Once we go up, how do we allocate the tonnage? These aristocratic families are all wealthy owners, and based on the current profit, a seagoing ship can recoup its capital in two months."
"Let's make a bet, this is really a big bet!" The cabinet man said to himself that a 500-ton sea-going ship is currently selling for more than 2,000 guan, which is about 4 guan.
But when I think about it again, the stakes are not money.
It is about the control of trade routes. Whoever has the most ships has the right to say in trade.
"It's better to set up a marine engineering school, and maybe we can bet on the number of workers we will recruit next year!" Li Yuanxing said suddenly.
After the cabinet master was stunned for a moment, he laughed loudly.
People of the Tang Dynasty loved gambling, but they never gambled on ripe fruits. Gambling was all about opportunities.
Whether it is a ship or a mulberry tree, they are the most critical parts of the profit chain. Whoever controls these controls the business chain.
