Because the situation in America is quite special, it is different from other places in Datang’s current maritime trade industry.
Other places are all mature routes. Of course, the benefits are
In fact, it is still very high, but after a few years, it is no longer as exaggerated as it was at the beginning. A shipload of China's iron pots and porcelain bowls can directly repay almost the same weight of gold - this is no joke, it's just that customers are not that easy to find.
But the profit margin is really that exaggerated.
Of course there is no such thing now.
But that’s not necessarily the case in the Americas!
Because America is still a completely unfamiliar place, after the goods from the Tang Dynasty are shipped there, it is really possible to sell the goods with the same effect as before, such as porcelain bowls being exchanged for gold ones.
But with such obvious huge profits in front of them, maritime merchants are.
Basically, it’s just four words that no one cares about.
The reason for this is too obvious. It is still risky to go to sea! And the north is a very cold place. Most merchants don’t want to go there when they hear it. Do you want to do an egg business in the bitter cold land of Mader? It’s not like the Western Region is still connected.
Places like Europe, Rome, and Persia are all underworld territories.
Therefore, Li Er really felt that this new type of ship was very exciting!
However, after being directly rejected by Li Er with a blind eye, he was very upset.
Is this idea so unpalatable? It really is.
However, Li Er was also very concerned about Li Sheng's response.
"What kind of weird boat is that? Can this kind of boat be used?"
"I'm talking about submarines, submarines, do you understand?"
Li Sheng said these two sentences.
Thinking about it afterwards, Li Er also regretted it, because he met his children and had dinner and drinks. When he was in a good mood, he couldn't stand it and drank a little too much. Although it was not very high, the final result was.
Li Er didn't take it seriously after hearing this!
At that time, Li Er was still thinking about how to mobilize merchants to go to the Americas, so his mind naturally turned back to his idea of a double-decker ship. Why couldn't it work? What's wrong with it?
——But at this moment, what Li Er wants to do is really not the submarine that Li Sheng mentioned.
Although it's a pity that I didn't ask in detail, thinking about it, it's not a particularly important matter.
Of course, Li Er does not doubt Li Sheng's ability to survive. After all, he is his own son and has a bright mind.
But awesome things and things are not necessarily important or critical, and now Li Er feels that the most critical thing is the ship.
Is there any ship in the world that can sail freely on the vast ocean? This is the most important thing right now!
Although there is nothing that can be called a special medicine now, Li Er doesn't care about that much anymore. In the current situation,
If it can be of some use, thank God.
Of course, there is an ultimate way for merchants to go to America.
That is to directly build steel ships for them!
But this thing about steel ships.
Li Er didn't know that there would be something called a "spaceship" in the future world, but at the current stage of the Tang Dynasty, the technological content of steel ships was, sorry, comparable to that of a spaceship.
For something so complex and difficult to make, of course the cost is also high.
It is extremely exaggerated. Even the steel ships currently owned by Datang, in terms of the ratio of their counterfeiting to the treasury's annual revenue, are really no cheaper than the manned rockets of later generations. Even if the entire project is taken into account, it is cheaper than the moon landing.
The projects are not much different either.
Not to mention that ordinary merchants can afford to use this kind of thing, they are really afraid of going bankrupt just by smelling it.
Of course, this steel ship is not completely useless. It is used as a warship.
This thing is the strongest warship in the entire Blue Star today.
As for its greatest effect, fighting the Romans was only a secondary, direct effect. The real indirect, long-term effect was to ensure that merchants of the Tang Dynasty could freely sail around the world without suffering military threats.
Peace is never a wish, but a service product.
But the problem now is that Datang can ensure that merchants can go to America as they please without encountering problems at sea.
But not many of these merchants were willing to go.
In the final analysis, most people still dare not think about exchanging porcelain bowls for gold ones. Such stories are too fantasy and rarely appeared even in the early maritime trade between Southeast Asia and the Tianzhu subcontinent.
But now faced with the words "Go to America", on the other side of the dangerous and unpredictable sea, no one thinks that extreme huge profits are reliable. And no one thinks of ordinary huge profits.
The essential.
The warships of the Tang Dynasty were very powerful, but the problem was that the warships only operated on the sea. Legend has it that America was as vast as China.
In such a huge place, how can the protection of warships alone be enough? Once we reach the place, we may still be doomed.
Of course.
The social contract in ancient times was quite different from that in modern times, especially since the Tang Dynasty was a regime with a military merit system. In other words, you still had to get fame, wealth, and these things yourself on horseback - which means that the huge potential of America
To obtain the benefits, the merchants need to find their own way to the Americas and survive!
Of course, it is impossible for Li Er not to give support. It can even be said that Li Er will do his best to provide support. But having said that, the intensity of support is not something Li Er can decide. After all, it is
Ancient.
Unlike modern wars, which rely on industrial resources to defeat the enemy, to put it bluntly, overseas interests can only be fought for by the heroes of China.
But this is the situation now.
There is only one sentence: the Pacific Ocean is as fierce as a tiger.
After all, the vast sea cannot be conquered by a mortal body. The final result is the current situation. The merchants are gradually showing signs of ruin. Li Er is in urgent need of a powerful and easy-to-use ship to conquer the sea.
, the important thing is to help maritime merchants conquer maritime territories, and at the same time.
Building such a large ship is also an industrial upgrade in itself!
And it is conceivable that the influence will be huge. While solving the difficulties of maritime merchants in sailing, the tide of industrial upgrading is also likely to start directly from now on!
Li Er's calculations are quite clear. To build such a new ship, first and foremost, it is not something like artillery or grenades that people in the world have never seen or heard of, but it is just an upgrade of the previous ships!
As long as this upgrade can really conquer the waves of thousands of miles, the price can easily be at least three times that of the previous ordinary ships!
After all, this price comes with the huge sea trade income of America, so there is absolutely no problem.
This is exactly what Li Er thought of!
After thinking about it in the Manna Hall, Li Er touched his chin.
