At this time, Li Er couldn't help but think of a folk proverb he heard many years ago when he was still in the wilderness.
A man is not rich without windfall, a horse is not fat without night grass!
In other words, this means that small wealth depends on liver, and big wealth depends on heaven.
It's very easy to develop, but generally speaking, it depends on luck... you can't force it.
Originally, Li Er had almost finished chatting with Wei Zheng and the others in various meetings during this period, and he gradually accepted it in his heart... The imperial court must control expenditures, and the profits brought by some industries must really be sacrificed. It is impossible.
Save it all.
But the harvest this time was simply extraordinary.
Such a large amount of assets cannot be described as an ordinary "large amount of money" at all. It can almost be calculated as a percentage of Datang's annual output value.
And if you think about it this way, you can imagine how terrifying it is, and the most important thing is that this thing can be replicated.
If you can do it once, you can do it a second time and a third time. Anyway, since there are always a group of disobedient fools...
Then why can’t the imperial court always have a group of good brothers who keep giving freely? Hehe...
Thinking of this, Li Er was simply ecstatic.
Yes, obedient merchants will be rewarded.
Where does this reward come from? This...
Shouldn’t it be taken out of the pockets of other merchants?
Simply a top-notch idea!
So how could Li Er not be excited? This is like rain from heaven!
…
Li Er received a message from Chai Shao and was informed of the results of the South China Sea Forbidden Army's battle. He immediately became excited.
Originally the "phone" had been hung up, but who could stop Li Er from being so excited? He didn't mind the trouble and directly called back on the spot, telling the messenger on the other side to get Chai Shao back to me.
Then tell Chai Shao directly to increase my efforts!
Li Er's increased efforts, of course, meant a verbal order to let Chai Shao continue to perform the task.
And I have to say that Chai Shao was quite satisfied with such a decree, which meant that his work was done quite well! Hehe...
Just when Li Er asked Chai Shao to increase his efforts.
Chai Shao happily started to increase his efforts.
Shortly after this...
After Wang Jing and others' cargo ship was destroyed by a group, everyone's mentality stabilized because of Pei Ji's rational analysis, and they all soon understood the situation - this is a technical adjustment!
Of course, Wang Jing also knew that things were not that simple. After all, the destruction of the cargo ship was a huge loss.
Although Wu Xing Qi Wang has a lot of assets, he has devoted almost all his efforts to overseas trade this time and used extremely strong capital. However, such a big loss is still very painful, so...
In addition to adjusting their mentality, Wang Jing and others also made extra efforts.
This time it was not Pei Ji's idea, but Wang Jing's idea.
Because dozens of cargo ships were involved in the accident at the same time before, it is conceivable that the opponent must have strong troops and a large number of people. If they can easily move, it must be a big move.
The fleet of the Five Surnames and Qi Wangs can easily consist of dozens of ships. Even if it is all the armament that comes with the cargo ship, it is enough to give a heavy blow to any bandit and pirate in the world.
Not to mention bandits and bandits, even the Forbidden Army, except for the elite ones, has to be weighed and weighed to face them.
And if you look at it this way, you can consider reducing the size of your fleet!
Of course, Wang Jing, Pei Ji, Li Tiancheng and Cui Baihe all have huge family fortunes. It is impossible to reduce the intensity of making money, so we finally discussed it and decided to reduce the size of the fleet every time!
The size of the fleet is reduced, but the number of trips to sea is increased.
In this case, fleet management will be much more complicated and troublesome. After all, the large fleet is broken down into small fleets...
It may seem like it has no impact, but a large fleet has a much larger number of people than a small fleet. Under such circumstances, the fleet itself is a small society, and the sailors and managers supervise each other.
After all, the sea is a land outside the law. If there are no certain means to suppress the ships carrying heavy gold, it is easy for problems to arise.
But now, the large fleet has turned into a fleet of small fleets, and there are even many ships that go to sea alone. There are also such organizations.
This poses a relatively severe test to the ability of each ship's management team, and it is a double test...it also tests the loyalty of the management team.
Taken together, it is actually a test of the human resources in the hands of Wang Jing and others. Only those who are loyal and thoughtful can be used as supervisors.
but……
The five surnames and Qi Wang are, after all, the five surnames and Qi Wang.
There aren't many people in this group except for younger brothers. That's really a lot of people.
This is also one of the important reasons why wealthy families can exist for a long time. On the one hand, they acquire the strongest personal financial resources in history by annexing land. On the other hand...
The annexation of land will also cause the people at the bottom to lose their livelihood, and in the end they will have to work as servants for these wealthy families.
And among the countless young men, there will always be some outstanding seed players, such as Gao Huan...
Although Wang Jing and others were faced with a special need for talents in a small fleet, relying on Wu Xing Qi Wang's profound background, Wang Jing and others were able to select a group of dead men under his command.
They are both ruthless and very loyal!
In this way, the problem of increasing management difficulty is solved.
The advantage of doing this... is that the entire fleet will become less conspicuous, at least much more invisible than the large fleets of the past!
Since the pirate bandits that have emerged recently are specifically targeting large companies, then reducing the size of the fleet should have an evasive effect, right?
Wang Jing and others are not minting figures, they calculate very clearly.
Most of the merchants who run ships on the ocean have to face many problems. For example, there is no source of food and water on the sea, the winds are high and the waves are rough. For example, the sea is a lawless place. People on the ship are unstable, and a murder may occur at any time——
And there is no such thing as a "murder case" in the vast sea...
In this way, you can see it.
It’s not that the scale of Wu Xing Qi Wang’s fleet is large because of his family’s big business and big business, but when it comes to sailing on the sea, the bigger the better, and this also means that the scale of the fleet itself is
The bigger the better, at least under normal circumstances.
Among other things, a large fleet is an excellent deterrent to ordinary pirates, just like a large caravan in the wilderness can deter wolves and wild beasts.
but……
Those are all normal situations, but the current situation is not normal.
It is an exaggeration to say that the pirate bandits were able to organize themselves to annihilate a large-scale merchant fleet.
It's just like Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions with the elite escort of the Western Han Dynasty Forbidden Army. However, not long after he left, he passed by a mountain col and was directly eaten by wolves in the mountains...
