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Not only did he bring back a ship full of exotic goods, but what surprised Su Jin was that envoys from the three kingdoms of Bangni, Qin, and Persia came with the ship, bringing credentials and gifts.
Pilgrimage to the prosperous Song Empire far in the east.
Su Jin knew that the arrival of these envoys on the ship would cause a sensation in the imperial court. Although Zhao Zhen was not a man who liked great achievements, the fact that foreigners came to the court in great interest meant that he, as an emperor, had managed the country well, so he would definitely be overjoyed.
Su Jin deliberately postponed his trip to meet and express condolences to everyone, and talked about the customs and dangers on the road. He could not help but be fascinated and surprised again and again. It turned out that after the fleet set off, it encountered a storm when it entered the deep sea, and the huge waves almost destroyed the ship.
The entire fleet capsized. Fortunately, God blessed the ship after the wind and rain passed. Although the ship suffered minor damage, there was no serious condition. The only thing to worry about was that the storm blew the ship away from the route. The boatmen and guides on the ship were not experienced, so they spent a lot of time.
It took several days to find the correct route again, which was also a reason for the delay in the voyage.
Arriving at the ports of the countries along the way, the local Tibetan people were extremely hospitable to these distant visitors. The king and ministers welcomed them as distinguished guests, so they were delayed by some etiquette things. Fortunately, there were difficulties and dangers along the way.
Happily, in the end, God will follow one's wishes.[
The joy in Su Jin's heart was not limited to this. The significance of this merchant voyage was not as simple as bringing back sixteen shipments of goods. This time it opened up the waterway and established contact with the Western Tibetan countries. In the future, commercial trade and political
Exchanges will be closer. In this era, the Song Dynasty is probably the richest country in the world. Most of the Tibetan countries are in a barbaric and backward period. The success of this voyage will undoubtedly bring more benefits to the Song Dynasty.
Su Jin couldn't tell what kind of specific positive impact it had, but one thing Su Jin was extremely proud of was that this ocean voyage was hundreds of years earlier than the later generations of the Three Treasure Eunuchs sailed to the West. This was already a pioneering feat. If time and space didn't exist,
If it is distorted, the history books of future generations will contain his deeds of Su Ji's ocean-going merchant ships sailing to the West, but I don't know how future generations will evaluate such a voyage.
One day after Pan Heng, Su Jin went to the capital with envoys from Bangni, Daqin, and Persia. Several of Su Ji's mistresses stayed in Mingzhou to direct the men to unload the goods, classify them, register them, price them, and ship them to various places.
For sales, because these goods from the Tibetan country were in short supply, it took a lot of trouble to set the price. The goods were obtained through barter exchange for Song Dynasty ceramics, tea leaves, silk and other commodities, so there was no price at all.
There is no reference, so we can only make comparisons based on the goods brought by a small number of Tibetan people who took the risk and traveled across the ocean, and then sell them.
A rough estimate of the gross profit of this trip made several mistresses of the Su family vomit. The goods they brought on this trip were worth more than 8 million yuan, and the food, wages and rewards for the people who came and went were 1.5 million yuan. The total cost was less than 10 million yuan.
, but the value of the goods exchanged was as high as five times, which means that the gross profit reached 40 million yuan, which is a dizzying number.
Take ambergris as an example. Each cake was bought with ten kilograms of tea leaves and ten ceramic bowls, and the cost was only about five thousand guan and five hundred wen. Once the ambergris arrived in the Song Dynasty, the best quality ones were priced as high as
One hundred guan, and some are at least 70 or 80 guan per cake, with a huge profit of more than ten or twenty times; of course, there are also other commodities with profit of two or three times, and when compared with each other, the average is about five times; Su Ji's trip
The risk alone was enough to equal all the profits of all Su Ji's properties in a year. The girls of the Su family did not understand why Su Jin would take risks and squeeze out tens of millions of dollars to build the ship when money was extremely tight.
The team sailed to make profits. This time I realized that there was such a huge profit. No wonder it was worth taking the risk. Let alone five times the huge profit, it was one or two times. With Su Jin's character, he would give it a try.
Tried.
Yan Biyun knew that Su Ji had bravely taken this step before traveling to the world, and soon tens of millions of merchants would flock to him. In the future, with the import of foreign goods, the profits would not be so huge, so she quickly organized manpower
To sell this batch of goods quickly, she and Su Jin agreed to wait for the returning personnel to rest for three months before immediately embarking on the second voyage. She must make a profit before a large number of merchants set their sights on the cake of overseas trade.
If the time difference in profit is enough to make a huge profit, from now on, the Su family will undoubtedly become the richest family in the Song Dynasty, with a net worth of hundreds of millions.
Su Jin greatly appreciated Yan Biyun's courage. Even he did not expect that the opening of the trade route would lead to a reduction in the huge profits of foreign goods. However, Yan Biyun suddenly saw through the future trend. He was a traveler and the huge profits from overseas trade were not discovered until today.
Moreover, they don’t know much about the consequences of opening the channel. If Yan Biyun was the one who traveled through time, I am afraid that the Su family would have been filled with money and made mountains of gold and silver. She is more commercially sensitive than herself.
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Su Jin raised his hands to agree with Yan Biyun's proposal. He has always been a leader in industries such as banks and mines. He only knew that these were profitable, so he started to open them with great enthusiasm, but in fact there was no Yan Biyun behind him.
Help him correct his mistakes and provide corrections in management and operation by applying inferences. I am afraid that the loss has long been lost to my grandma's family. Naturally, this time it was Yan Biyun who followed behind the plan, and Su Jin had to quickly take the envoy from the Fan Kingdom.
I rushed to the capital, but the chamberlain who came to deliver the edict was extremely anxious. Mr. Su didn't seem to take the emperor's edict seriously at all. He still delayed the arrival of the edict for a day. He was really brave.
But these murmurs were quickly suppressed by the few fine Nanzhu presented by Su Jin. Eunuchs love money, this is an eternal fact, let alone the precious Nanzhu. The Nanzhu was kicked in his pocket,
The servant who had never experienced any kind of pleasure had an unprecedented orgasm.
What people are heading north is the half-built national highway. The national highway under construction by the Development and Reform Department is distributed in a tic-shaped shape with two vertical and two horizontal directions. Going west from Mingzhou, passing through Jiangnan East and West Road and crossing Jinghu North Road is the national highway named "Horizontal National Highway".
The second-line road, after nearly a year of construction, although this national road has not been completed, it has begun to take shape. The Department of Development and Reform requires that the road be ten feet wide, the foundation must be gravel, and the top must be paved with fired green bricks.
It cannot be like the official roads of the Song Dynasty in the past, which were just rammed earth, smoothed, and sprinkled with gravel. After a long period of traffic, the roads became rutted and pitted like mountains with criss-crossing ravines. If it rains or snows, it is impossible to pass.
Of course, the required specifications are so high, and the price is naturally high. Su Jin once joked in Chao Shang that the four national highways were paved with copper coins one by one, which cost a lot of money; now it seems that such an investment is definitely worth it, in Mingzhou
As far as the Hongzhou line, the road paving has basically been completed. The wide blue brick avenue is straight and open, with ditches dug on both sides for drainage and neatly planted trees. People and horses can walk on it, walking hundreds of miles a day, which is very comfortable.
The accompanying Tibetan envoys kept their mouths open all the way, and even called Allah and God to appear. Su Jin was quite proud. Through a simple interpretation, the envoys learned that these roads were under the auspices of the young official in front of them.
When it was built, everyone expressed their highest respect to Su Jin.
When you reach Jinghu North Road and Jiangling Mansion, turn north and then turn onto the National Highway. This is the earliest national highway built and the one that is nearing completion because it leads directly to Bianliang Kyoto and goes up to Pearl City, running through the Song Dynasty.
The Eighth North and South Roads in the West cost a huge sum of more than 20 million yuan on this road alone.
After reaching the vertical line, the team moved even faster. Along the way, you can see the intersection of official roads and national roads. New market entrances have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The national highways are busier than the caravans of mules and horses loaded with goods going south and north. The traffic is very busy.
Convenience has promoted the prosperity of business. Although Su Jin expected all this, after seeing it with his own eyes, Su Jin was still very excited.
The journey that used to take more than twenty days to reach, although Su Jin and his party took a big right-angle turn, still saved half the time. On the evening of April 11, Su Jin and his party returned to the capital, and they were still sitting down.
Sure enough, an explosive news had reached Su Jin's ears. Only then did Su Jin understand the reason why Zhao Zhen was eager to recall him to the capital.