"Have Cheng Dawei went to Majiagang?"

In Beiyang Yamen, Chen Mu was surprised to see the guests who came to pay their respects and said: "It seems that the winner of the Wanli Mathematics Award cannot be passed. He went to Majiagang to sell what goods he sold, Brother Wu knows?"

The person sitting opposite Chen Mu was named Wu Shouli, who was also a Huizhou merchant, just like Cheng Dayi. He had two sons and nephews in his family who were promoted to an official of Guanglu Temple in Nanjing by Emperor Wanli.

Because of the severe drought in the north a few years ago, when Zhao Shizhen took the Nanyang Military Administration to provide disaster relief silver for the court, Wu Shouli, a wealthy merchant from Huizhou Prefecture, also donated 200,000 taels of disaster relief silver to the court to provide relief to the floods in the south.

what does that mean?

This means that Wu Shouli, a businessman in Huizhou who is engaged in timber business, is much richer than Chen Mu.

During this visit to Chen Mu, Wu Shouli also made a lot of courtesy and submitted a letter of worship a few days in advance. He also attached a letter of introduction from his brother-in-law Yang Yinglong. The letter explained the source of the Wu family's timber transaction in Huizhou. His family had a large forest farm in Zixia Peak to Tangkou area of ​​Huangshan. Its business in the Yangtze River Basin is very large. Every year, three of the wood transported from Bozhou to Nanzhi are sold by Wu.

In addition to wood trading, we naturally operate salt, pawn shops and other transactions, but they are not the main business.

"Last year he sold a boat of rice to a hundred houses with 4,000 miles and a boat of rice. He brought back a boat of fur and more than 70 walrus tusks. He was rescued by Chen Fo when he was killed on his way back. He entrusted it to the next agent to buy the tools Chen Foyan needed in the East, horse and dog."

The "Chen Fo" mentioned by Wu Shouli is nothing else, but Chen Ju who has been to Majiagang.

He actually did nothing, but in this era, most eunuchs made great contributions to the Forbidden City and blackmailed the local area, and all officials and post stations along the way had to serve them well. However, Chen Ju did not harass the local area several times, but also used the rewards given to him by the court to see where the road was difficult to walk along the way, so he spent some money to repair the road. Wherever the City God Temple or temple was damaged, he paid for the repair, so he was called Chen Fo by the people.

Chen Mu sighed. The world knew that there were still too few people, so why didn’t anyone call me Buddha?

"It seems that Brother Cheng will not lose money this time."

Chen Mu was actually surprised that people who have already made the math to the extreme will lose money when doing business. He also hoped that Cheng Dawei could make more money from the bottom of his heart.

However, he was still unhappy when he heard that Cheng Dawei bought walrus tusks from 4,000 miles and 100 households... The customs of the ports in Dadongyang were set up as soon as possible. These Hui merchants had already smelled the trick of making money, and every tax he missed in the future was deducted from him, Mr. Chen!

More than seventy walrus tusks, huh?

At least ten of his Eastern Military Mansions belong to him!

However, Chen Mu would not recover the energy. Cheng Dawei's chance loss of rice was solved by chance. However, when the supply of the flag army on the northern route was normalized, this would not be possible.

Speaking of walrus, Chen Ju brought back a lot of walrus from Magui when he came back. He followed Magui's request and sent these walruses, which were equal to the number of soldiers in the Dead Banner, to the home of the Dead Banner as a pension, each person.

"Brother Wu has spent a lot of effort to meet Chen this time. He went to Bozhou for two months with a letter, so Chen must ask."

Chen Mu stretched out his left hand under his official robe and sleeves and said, "What's the purpose of the foot?"

"I know that the imperial court's Eastern Army Mansion is about to go to the expedition of Yamelica and Europa. Although I am a merchant, I also intend to lose money to help the war and serve the country. I know that the Beiyang Army Mansion is not short of real money and silver. Therefore, the Wu family bought 177 double-bred sea ships from our Huizhou fellow townsmen to provide for their effectiveness."

A double-brig sea ship, which is at least 300 people's information, is one hundred and seventy-seven?

One person gathered half of the first batch of missing baggage ships in Chen Muyuan's expedition to the East?

Build a ship with a price of 400 materials, and the cost of 70 to 200 taels of silver is only 70 to 200 taels of silver. Even if there is a loss and discount, buying one is more expensive than building one.

Chen Mu quickly estimated it in his mind and concluded that this batch of sea ships was worth at least 50,000 taels of silver.

But Wu Shouli had not put down his hand, and then said, "These sea ships are still drifting along the coast, and soon they will be loaded with full ships to Dagukou. The pine trees on the ship are also the only way to serve the court."

This is amazing!

Although fir and pine are the lower-grade wood for shipbuilding materials, this kind of wood is rarely used in a warship because its texture is relatively soft and is only used for masts. Because the fir is straight and the length is not enough, it is spliced ​​and then made iron hoops to surround it inch by inch.

Usually, the hulls, beams, rudders, door shutters and studs are nanmu, pinewood, camphor, elm, and locust trees. Moreover, camphor wood is cut in autumn and winter. If the logging time is long in spring and summer, it will be eaten by insects.

Until now, teak is imported from southwest, Malacca and Southeast Asia, and teak is now used for wood that requires hard texture.

However, the baggage ship can lower these requirements slightly, especially when Chen Mu lacks baggage ships, this batch of "reward" is of great value, no less than the silver donated by Wu Shouli due to floods in the south.

And Wu Shouli solved two major problems in front of Chen Mu.

One is the problem of the first batch of logistics ships that crossed the East Ocean to the east. With this batch of sea ships joining, Chen Mu will set sail immediately; the second is the problem of the future logistics fleet. The wood carried by the sea ships can help the rapid construction of the second batch of logistics fleets and can also provide assistance for the construction of warships.

The bilge or pavement pallet is not affected by any wood.

Of course, shipbuilding is also adapted to local conditions. If you have better choices, you will use better ones. Most of the time, it is used for whatever you want. For example, the combined caravans of the Nanyang generals used ships to catch pirates in their early years. The decks, structural parts and masts of those ships are all Penghu cypress wood. They are strong and durable wood straight, and are also corrosion-resistant and wet-resistant.

Chen Mu was thinking about it all over again, and did not agree lightly. He said carefully: "Mr. Wu has heard of the righteousness of serving the court. However, he has not received any rewards without any merits. You have served the Eastern Military Office a lot. What can Chen give to him?"

"Wu really has something to ask for, one official business and one private matter. His private matter is to invite Chen Shuai to be a middle-aged man, to attract our Hui merchants to enter Hexingsheng, and join forces with Fujian and Guangzhou merchants to go abroad."

Wu Shouli did not come for himself this time. After he said this, he said: "As for official business, as I said to Mr. Chen, our Hui merchants are to help the imperial court win the victory of the East. We always ask Mr. Chen to fight overseas and call merchants to travel. The West is profitable, and the East is also profitable. We, Mr. Hui merchants, do not compete with the Fujian and Guangxi merchants for the West, but only want to enter the East. Therefore, we hope that Mr. Chen will win every battle, and can protect us from worry-free at sea."
Chapter completed!