It can be said that the price of goods in Datang over the past year has indeed undergone several dramatic changes.
This period of intertwining black swans and pie-in-the-sky situations will naturally lead to an increase in investors’ speculative tendencies.
But at the same time, the risk rate has also increased significantly.
After going back and forth, Wu Meiniang's family was in trouble...
What made Li Sheng sigh was that Wu Meiniang was still a good girl at least for now.
It is not easy to sacrifice for the family like this. Think about it later, it was under the rule of Wu Zhou that a large number of landless peasants began to lose their land in the Tang Dynasty. The army system based on equalizing land gradually lost its foundation and turned into a recruitment system. The source of soldiers
It is conceivable that Fela is in a state of desperation and there are ruffians but no heroes...
Li Sheng sighed, and sure enough... I can only say that the harem was involved in politics and harmed others and herself. This girl has become a black man.
But it's fine now. Now that I'm working here, I don't have to worry about these things anymore.
Compared with this, Li Sheng was more concerned about Wu Meiniang's business experience at the moment.
"How often do you help the elders in the family with their business...and make suggestions at home?"
Wu Meiniang was startled, did she really want to ask this?
Ordinary men summon concubines at night, don't they all...
But since the other party asked, Wu Meiniang naturally bowed and bowed honestly, and replied, "Master, Meiniang is at home... Because the elders in the family are very good at metaphysics, so Meiniang is mainly in charge of the business at home..."
"Is this so..."
Li Sheng touched his chin and smiled.
If so, that would be perfect.
When it comes to merchants in this era, they are different from the manufacturers of later generations. Basically, they are all merchants.
This is what is meant by "trafficking" goods.
Although the merchants who trafficked goods did not walk on the sea, they were not proficient in many things related to navigation.
But it doesn't matter, I will still start a shipyard for a while, so I can teach you.
It is estimated that it will take more than a month for even a pig to learn this.
Li Sheng nodded.
"Okay, you two, I have a task for you."
"Because recently, a guest is coming to my house, an eight-year-old girl. This is the disciple I have accepted, and in the future she will be... well, the one who will inherit my mantle."
"And I'm quite busy on weekdays, so I hope you two can help me take care of it a little bit."
"Yuhuan, on weekdays you will be responsible for the daily care of this child together with the girl Danqing and the girl Mian'er."
"Mei Niang, you and Ying'er will help me take care of my business on the one hand. On the other hand, this child will do business with you from time to time. I will teach you about maritime affairs, and then... you have to do it for me.
, teach her, do you understand?"
This sounds a bit complicated to say.
In fact, it is simple. During the construction of the shipyard, Li Sheng first trained Wu Meiniang.
Then after Wu Meiniang came to Taoism, Ying'er will return to Chang'an to run Zicheng Zhai.
Wu Meiniang, the shipyard management here, will of course play an important role.
At that time, Li Sheng didn't have time to take care of Lele, so Wu Meiniang took Lele to learn more and broaden her horizons.
After listening to what Li Sheng said, Wu Meiniang and Yang Yuhuan were startled.
I thought that this master was a young demon who would be attacked by demons as soon as he came...
I didn’t expect it to be serious!
However, this matter was easy. The two women felt inexplicably relieved and agreed immediately.
After this day...
Li Sheng got a huge sum of money, and then...
The construction of a maritime industry chain based on Hangzhou has also begun.
Shipyard, sailor training...
Many projects were launched one after another, and Li Sheng was busy non-stop!
period……
Needless to say, various situations naturally arise.
After all, Li Sheng currently has two major tasks.
On the one hand, it is necessary to build a shipyard, and on the other hand, it is necessary to train sailors. Regardless of recruitment and training, it is a big project with varying degrees of difficulty.
First of all, Li Sheng had a big headache as to how to build the dock.
Fortunately, I read a lot of time-travel novels in my previous life, and there are quite a few cases for reference...
Dry dock, arrange directly!
Li Sheng naturally had good reasons for choosing a dry dock, but at the beginning of construction, it also attracted a lot of discussion.
After all, the shipyard is built in that kind of place. After you build the ship, which is such a big ship... how do you plan to get it into the sea?
This is simply outrageous.
But Li Sheng naturally turned a blind eye and turned a deaf ear to the discussion.
Build the ship first and then build it!
certainly……
Dry docks are said to be high-tech, but they are not necessarily so.
At least for this era, when the displacement is far less than 10,000 tons, it is not very impressive at all.
But this idea is definitely epoch-making.
Building a ship in a dry dock can increase a lot of engineering possibilities, and many operations that cannot be done in a water dock can be supported.
Among them, there are some seemingly inconspicuous but extremely important processes.
For example, a new technology that appeared in the Age of Discovery is the foreskin on the bottom of a ship.
Of course, this foreskin is not that foreskin, but a layer of copper covering the bottom of a wooden ship.
Copper skin coating can basically eliminate parasites such as barnacles and corrode the hull. At the same time, the resistance between the hull and seawater is also reduced to a certain extent, which also improves the speed.
certainly……
With the current technology, it would be difficult for Li Sheng to obtain iron sheets, or even just iron plates.
After all, steel is the most mainstream tool metal in the world, and its physical strength is no joke. Since the physical strength is high, it is understandable that it is difficult to process.
But then again...copper is different from iron.
This thing, as iron-making technology gradually matures and develops, it has gradually withdrawn from the stage of history in various civilizations.
The reason why it appeared earlier is because copper is less active as a reducing agent and is easier to process.
The reason why they were eliminated...is actually for the same reason. The two are two sides of the same coin.
If it is easy to be eliminated, it will naturally be easy to be processed...
Melting steel into molten iron is undoubtedly a black technology in this era, but melting copper to make copper coins is really not a high-end job.
It's nothing more than changing the mold and upgrading the technology. This will not be difficult for China in later generations.
Therefore, in fact, the manufacturing of copper sheets did not encounter any difficulties. Li Sheng did not even start an additional project and successfully placed orders directly from the circle of workshop merchants in Hangzhou.
This step is considered a critical step. The improvements in other aspects of the dry dock and its ability to support more complex structures have naturally been continuously reflected in the manufacturing process.
Even in Li Sheng's shipyard, almost all the carpenters recruited from all over the country worshiped Li Sheng.
These people never imagined that a figure like the stars in the sky, such as the Holy Marquis, could be so amazing even as a lowly servant...