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454. Chapter 454 Ambitious

"When we were in Nanjing, the fleet issued a batch of shipping tickets. You all know this, right?"

Qian Wubing pondered for a while and then said, basically everyone who pays attention to the Sihai Fleet should know this. In fact, more than half of the reputation of the Sihai Fleet is due to the skyrocketing ticket prices.

"Of course we know about this!" Anyuan Hou replied, and a group of old men around him also nodded repeatedly.

"So far, less than 30% of the ferry tickets collected by our Sihailou are less than 30%, and there are still 70% scattered outside. These tickets, as long as the fleet is there, as long as our Sihailou is here, we will accept their dividends.

of!"

"We all know this, but two hundred taels per ticket, even if it is divided into dividends, how much can we do with it? No matter how poor we old guys are, we still can't look down upon this little money!"

"What if it's a ticket worth ten thousand taels a piece!" Qian Wubing smiled slightly, "A ticket worth two hundred taels a piece can't be divided into many cents. The tickets worth a thousand taels a piece should, sir,

Still worth it!

Marquis Anyuan frowned. Anyone who knew him well knew that this was a sign of his unhappiness: "Qian Wubing, what do you mean? What we want is members, not some boat tickets that fool people."

!”

"Haha!" Qian Wubing smiled and explained: "Master Hou, don't worry, this job has the benefits of being a member, and the ship ticket also has the benefits of the ticket. If you have members in this fleet, you will be the owner of the fleet.

, this fleet will inevitably encounter some troubles when running within and outside the Ming Dynasty. Although these things are not on the table, they are still a bit troublesome. The owner will inevitably have to spend a lot of time and effort to solve these things.

, and you have to pay for it yourself, which is always unpleasant, but if you hold the ticket, it is different. The ticket is guaranteed by the Sihai Tower and the Internal Affairs Bureau, so you don’t have to worry about losing your money, you just need to be comfortable.

Isn't it better to stay at home comfortably and not have to worry about anything, and then you can comfortably distribute your money than to work so hard!"

Anyuan Hou smiled and said: "I don't even need to discuss this matter with my old friends. I can just reply to you directly now. Even if you only offer a ticket of 100,000 taels a piece, we are not interested. We

These old guys are never afraid of any trouble. Don’t think that they can fool us about the boat tickets. We know the details very well!"

He smiled proudly, and the beard on his chin raised up and down: "If someone pays to be the boss, and if He Guang provides some money, how can the benefits be comparable? Boy, you are still a little too young to fool us!"

"I know what you mean. It's just that you are worried that the guests will deceive the host. I am worried that we old guys will join the gang. This fleet will not listen to your greetings in the future. You are the Jinyiwei. It is normal to have this thought, but you don't want to think about it.

, Even if some of the juniors in our old guys' families are a little wild-minded, can they make the decision on this matter? Thanks to the eunuchs guarding Nanjing and the lineage of the king, they can still use money to fill it, but, thanks to the

His Majesty's internal treasury has to be filled with the lives of a whole family. Do you think we old guys will let the juniors do whatever they want? How many kilograms do they have? Can they hide it from others, even from their own family?

, if you are really so capable, at this time, it is not us begging you, Commander Qian, to give us money, but Commander Qian is begging you to give us money!"

"So, don't worry, we are unambiguous about giving money and effort, and we will never do anything that hinders or makes trouble. As long as you can make everyone money every year and satisfy everyone, you can do whatever you like!"

After talking to this point, what else could Qian Wubing say? He took a deep breath and slapped his hand: "In that case, I won't talk nonsense, this number!"

"Five hundred thousand taels?" Anyuan Hou nodded. According to the cost of the fleet, this is indeed not excessive. When spread among these dozen families, it is only two to thirty thousand taels per family, which is nothing more than the price of a village outside the city.

.However, this income cannot be compared to the output of a village outside the city.

Qian Wubing shook his head.

"Fifty thousand taels?" Marquis Anyuan chuckled, "Even if we old guys try our best to send you to the position of commander of the Imperial Guard, you won't sell it at such a low price, right? You are not afraid that His Majesty will know about it.

Will I ask you to accuse me when the time comes?"

Qian Wubing shook his head again.

Anyuanhou's face suddenly turned ugly: "You mean five million taels, right? It's not worth selling all your broken ships. We only need 20%, so you dare to ask for this figure. Are you?"

Are you so poor that you think we are all fools?"

A group of old men in the room, who were still laughing just now, started shouting one by one when they heard this number. Even though they were all distinguished uncles and marquises, they became anxious and started quarreling with the people in the tea shop.

There really isn't much difference among the old men.

"Quiet, quiet, listen to what our Lord Qian has to say!" After all, he still has a higher reputation. Anyuanhou suppressed the shouting of a group of old men, turned his head, and said teasingly: "Sir Qian, these five hundred

If you can convince us all, we will collect this money for you even if you sell it. If you talk randomly and make fun of us as fools, hehe, you definitely don’t want to know about us.

If these old men get angry, what will be the consequences?"

"The fleet consists of sixteen ships of various sizes. Before they were launched, the cost of construction reached more than 3.5 million taels. Later, after reconstruction by Nanjing Manufacturing Bureau and Longjiang Shipyard, there were more than 600 large and small artillery pieces and more than 5,000 muskets on board.

Zhi, all you old men have crawled out of the dead. I don’t need to introduce the cost of these ordnance to you! The crew on the ship include skilled shipwrights, scribes, accountants, and former naval officers from all over the world.

There are more than 3,000 generals and other people, and these people are trained together until they can fight without fear of any pirates overseas. The cost of training and supporting these people, the bosses are all people who have led soldiers, and I don’t need to say how much of them they have.

Come on!"

Qian Wubing clapped his fingers and calculated them one by one: "This is the value of the fleet itself. I calculated it as ten million taels. It's not too much!"

"Our fleet is either good or big. This business is not a matter of equal influence. If others make more, then we must make less. Didn't the Marquis mean those civil servants in the past?

Can't anyone get involved in controlling this sea trade? Now that we are in business now, they will be the ones who can't get involved in the future. In this sea trade, we are not just one ship that can only take one trip for a year.

We can all take a trip to Fuso, Goryeo, Ryukyu, Annan, and even along the routes that the treasure ships of the Three Treasure Eunuchs used to travel. Everyone must know how many treasures the Three Treasure Eunuchs' fleet brought back from overseas. Since it was a big deal,

Naturally, we have to spend a lot of money..."

Once Qian Wubing started talking, he couldn't listen. A group of old men, listening to the blueprint drawn by Qian Wubing, looked at the young man talking in front of them in shock. They just wanted to

Earn some money, how could you think so far ahead?

"As you may know, in addition to my duties as Jinyiwei, I also have the title of a consolation envoy to the Li people. These Li people are a group of immigrants who were naturalized from the Far North. Although these people are not large in number,

But it is still of some use. With the permission of the cabinet, I have moved these people from the northwest to Dongfan. In Dongfan, there is a newly built big city called Tamsui. Of course, you don’t need to know this.

What you need to know is that Tamsui City has an extremely suitable deep port. Although it is not comparable to Guangzhou and Quanzhou, it is more than enough for our fleet! I don’t think two million taels are needed to build the city and port.

More!"

"Nagasaki in Kyushu in Fuso is the same place as Quanzhou in the Ming Dynasty. However, in the Ming Dynasty we have Quanzhou, Guangzhou and all the large and small ports along the coast. In Fuso, it is just this place.

Those who come from the west or go to the east can only transit there. The lord of Fusang City here is also following my own path. He is not going to Qian Wubing to brag. If someone in the court doesn't deal with Qian one day,

And if their family happens to be engaged in maritime trade, they don’t need to go to Fuso. It’s useless to go there. They can’t even enter the port! The money and manpower consumed in this cannot be calculated in money.

"When I went to Fuso, I only had thirty-two months per person and hired thousands of soldiers!"

"Next, the fleet's next plan is to find a place similar to Fusang in Goryeo. Goryeo's dongzhu, fox fur, and ginseng are all good products. When the business of these two places is taken up,

It's almost done, our fleet will continue to expand..."

Qian Wubing paused and looked at the room full of dumbfounded old men: "Gentlemen, do you think that two percent of this fleet is not worth even five million taels?"

After a long while, Marquis Anyuan seemed to have come to his senses. Qian Wubing's plan was too big. No wonder he would rather sell some boat tickets at the beginning than let them interfere!

"How much money can you earn in that year?" Marquis Anyuan's mouth was a little dry.

"Right now!" Qian Wubing pondered for a moment, then calculated his income in the past six months, neither exaggerating nor shrinking: "It's probably only four to five million taels. However, our fleet only sails to Fusang, and also,

We can’t monopolize this business. With more money, we can build more ships and occupy more routes and trading places!”

The principal of five million taels can be returned to one million taels a year. Such a transaction is already considered a huge profit. After all, when the money reaches a certain level, it will definitely be impossible to rise like it did before, but

, the prospect described by Qian Wubing, the money will definitely only increase year by year. Even if they can't see that far, they don't expect that far. In the past five years, the money invested can double the business.

Moreover, they don't worry at all that others will take their money. It seems that they no longer need to think about this matter.


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