However, after Li Sheng said this, he did not continue, but there was a playful smile on his face. It was obvious that he had a far-reaching plan in his heart, but he just didn't say it.
At night, Li Sheng planned to take an early rest, because Wu Meiniang was contacting people everywhere to recruit jewelry craftsmen. Since Hangzhou has been a gathering place for off-duty craftsmen and scholars since ancient times, it would be easy to find them, so he would have to meet people tomorrow morning.
Then the screening work is carried out.
But just that night, Li Sheng also saw a group of acquaintances, it turned out to be Lao Li and others.
When Lao Li and others came to visit, Li Sheng felt that he was quite lucky, because Lao Li and the others had arrived in Hangzhou a few days ago to inspect the sea trade business - this made Li Sheng a little helpless to complain, hadn't he already
He said that the most profitable thing in the future is to engage in sea trade. If you want to serve the country, then sea trade export is a standard career to serve the country... As a result, these old people who don't look very old have just made up their mind now... Li Sheng only
I can sigh that indeed the country’s power trainers are all at the grassroots level, not these Chang’an guys.
However, when he came to Hangzhou temporarily, he could meet old friends by chance. As soon as these guys heard that he was coming, they immediately came to him for a drink. Li Sheng still had to say that the reason for this was... it was indeed a bit heartwarming.
.
However, as they talked, Li Sheng felt that none of these guys were business material. They were probably wealthy businessmen now, and their family conditions were indeed good...
"Isn't this a shady secret in the import trade?"
When they met and talked about sea trade, Lao Wei, who was opposite Li Sheng, started talking about recent news.
It is said that the merchants in various ports in Hangzhou... no, the entire Jiangdong generation are all talking about one thing.
There was a particularly large-scale maritime merchant. It turned out that when maritime trade first emerged, there was a short period of time when everyone was ignorant and they all sailed their own ships to go to sea. However, they soon realized that it was better to join forces than to go to sea separately.
As a fleet, we can take care of each other when facing various situations at sea.
But no matter how ordinary maritime merchants unite, in the entire Tang Dynasty... among almost all maritime merchants, there is basically no maritime merchant on a larger scale than this one.
From the very beginning, they never went to sea in single-ship small groups. From the very beginning, they operated in large fleets, a scale that is rare in the world.
Such a large force, whether it is the huge size of the fleet or the massive assets on board, is breathtaking. It is almost like a small mobile country on the sea.
However, such a huge force has repeatedly overturned recently!
And it's not an ordinary rollover.
Because the maritime merchants on this route were different from other maritime merchants. They mainly engaged in export business. After all, in addition to being profitable, they could also receive rewards and protection from the court, so they were very conspicuous.
It is also for this reason that after this line of maritime merchants became famous for a while, suddenly one day, news spread throughout the entire Jiangdong generation of merchant circles that this wave of maritime merchants actually encountered pirates and a huge fleet... Surprisingly, the entire army
annihilated.
That's right, the entire army was wiped out!
In an era without the Internet, this matter could spread throughout Jiangdong overnight, which meant that the spies trained by various merchants had to treat this matter as intelligence with almost the highest priority and immediately report it to their bosses.
After all, with such a big waste appearing on sea trade routes, it would be remiss not to report back immediately.
However... this mysterious merchant was also very impressive and responded quickly.
The large fleet has not appeared again, and it is not just them, because of this extremely large-scale terrorist robbery, all maritime merchants are facing difficult choices...or give up maritime trade, the risk is too outrageous,
But the boat has been bought, so giving up is tantamount to bankrupting everything... Then it would be better to just surrender and join the bandits when encountering pirates. Or...
You have to use your brain to think of a way. When you go to sea, you must try your best to pretend to be poor to avoid being targeted. Not forming a large fleet is one of the ways.
Of course, there are still many merchants with older and dilapidated ships who choose to form a group. Such fleets are also relatively large, but because the ships are not that new and not so refined, they are not easily regarded as fat sheep. At this time, the large fleet
It still feels safe.
However, the ships of these mysterious merchants are all the best, so there is no problem with this decision. Of course, outsiders don't care much about whether there are problems. Everyone is concerned about two points.
First, this group of people responded quickly and they will continue sea trade.
Second, this group of people... have the conditions to respond.
The huge fleet was completely wiped out. After such a horrific loss, these people are still able to continue to operate maritime trade... This is really scary.
At first, the operation of merchant ships of the same type was a small-scale operation, which made other merchants first think that it was over. If such a powerful merchant was robbed and all was lost, then a few of our brothers are still engaged in gross maritime trade.
But soon, small-scale merchant fleets began to sail out more frequently than before.
As a result, the whole Jiangdong was shaken and boiling overnight.
This kind of strength can only be said to be outrageous!
So soon...
Astute businessmen quickly investigated who built these exquisite merchant ships and found out that they were all produced by the Su family. The Su family in Hangzhou was the largest wealthy family in Jiangdong, so it made sense.
But building large ships is still the kind of high-quality human-made sea-going ships. This... the cost is estimated to be unbearable even by the Su family in Hangzhou.
Therefore, the merchants quickly guessed that maybe some top aristocratic families were behind this, and the Su family in Hangzhou was probably only at the entry level.
Only by calculating in this way can this matter be explained!
However, after the explanation was clear, everyone gradually forgot about it. After all, the level of Qiwang of the Five Surnames was too high, and it was not something that ordinary merchants could talk about cooperation with. If they couldn't establish a relationship, they would naturally forget about it.
But recently...
Another piece of breaking news has appeared.
Although Qiwang of the fifth surname adjusted the fleet's attitude towards sea and strengthened its armament, these are things that ordinary merchants can think about but never have the strength to do. Logically speaking...
If the deal behind this matter is really the business of Wu Xing Qi Wang, then with the strength of this group of people, there should be no need to worry about pirates and the like at sea, no matter how powerful the pirates are...
With a fleet that has been broken into pieces, pirates cannot hunt every inch of land like they can on land. And if a small group of pirates faces a small group of merchant ships, can these small groups defeat the five surnames?
The merchant ships armed by Qiwang? I’m afraid it’s probably impossible!
But the latest news is that after the adjustment of the fleet's mode of going to sea, these merchant ships are still encountering robberies. As time goes by, people are panicking! The level is far greater than before!
