Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 798
Why does Gao Pragmatic take the initiative to provide goods for it, which is obviously a profitable business for nobles?The reason is actually very simple to put it bluntly: controlling the upstream supply of goods controls the interests of these nobles.

In other words, if you want to make money, you first need me to supply you.If you are disobedient, I just need to cut off the supply of goods, and the fleet you have built may immediately become negative equity.

In this case, Gao Wushi actually became the food and clothing parents of the nobles.

Besides, there are comparisons among the nobles: Why does your British government earn 5 taels a month, while my Dingguo government only earns 3 taels?
Therefore, for the sake of profit and face, each family can only compete to please the high-level pragmatist compromise.

This is the reason.

However, in the area of ​​maritime trade, high pragmatism will not give dry shares-do I still need to help you build a fleet?

dream!The construction of ships is also a profitable business. My Jinghua Shipyard doesn't eat?
So next, everyone started to talk about ship construction.

First of all, Gao Wushi asked Gao Qi to introduce the products of Jinghua Shipyard to all the nobles.

At present, there are three types of merchant ships produced by Jinghua. The lowest-grade one, Gao Qi, just briefly mentioned it, because the "tonnage" is too small, only 600 materials, that is, [-] tons. In Gao Qi's words, "very It doesn't fit your identities."

The nobles are very satisfied with this statement.This kind of ordinary civilian merchant ship is sold to those ordinary sea merchants. How can they value these nobles who have lived with the country for many generations?
The next two are more worthy of discussion.

One is a medium-to-large sea-going ship of 1200 materials. In the words of later generations, it has a displacement of [-] tons, which can fully meet the daily ocean trade. If it is only in the "Northern Ocean" area, it will not be a problem.

But this kind of sea-going ship has a problem, that is, it does not carry guns, but is a pure merchant ship.

The other is the low-profile version of the Jinghua armed transport ship, with 1400 materials and a displacement of 28 tons.The reason for the low configuration is mainly due to the reduction of the gun load. Originally, the standard version for Jinghua’s own use was 16 guns. This “foreign trade version” has been reduced to [-] guns. Therefore, the hull structure has undergone some changes, and the displacement has also dropped a little. .

In view of the fact that Jinghua deliberately made the pirate problem more serious during the "class" before, so although everyone found that the price of the gun-carrying merchant ship was much more expensive at this time, most people still preferred to buy the gun-carrying merchant ship.

Several uncles were more inclined towards merchant ships without guns, but they were aroused by others-"I wait for the military officials, how can there be no guns on board? It must be there!"

Some people even came up with nasty jokes: "I wait for a man, how can I have no guns?"

However, when the price came out, everyone was a little bit heartbroken.

This castrated version of the Jinghua Armed Transport Ship cost as much as 4 taels of silver a piece!
This is still under the situation that Gao Pragmatically said that the personnel on board are handled by the nobles themselves. If it is necessary to entrust Jinghua to help recruit and train sailors, an additional 8000 taels will be added.

Zhu Yingzhen has made a lot of money following Gao Yushi these years. Originally, he planned to buy [-] ships, which would directly form a large fleet. Hearing the price, he couldn't help backing down.

However, considering the huge profits and the fact that he has never suffered a loss from being a high-spirited man, he gritted his teeth and invested nearly 50 taels of silver into it, and directly ordered ten ships!

Zhang Yuangong's eyelids twitched, and he still pretended not to care, and said, "Since Brother Yingzhen is so heroic, and brothers are not stingy, let's also get ten ships."

Xu Xigao, the young master of Duke Dingguo's mansion, usually does not hold power. Although his father died early, his grandfather Xu Wenbi is in very good health and is still alive and kicking. If he hadn't gone to pay homage to Maoling on behalf of the emperor this time, today must be He comes in person.

However, Grandpa Xu had a calculation in his mind: If grandpa came in person, with his seniority, he would definitely not be able to lose to Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong, and ten ships would certainly be indispensable.

So he pretended to be an old god, and said: "Then Dingguo's mansion should also come with ten ships."

The three princes have unified the caliber, no, the number has been unified, and they are all ten ships. Then the Lord Hou and the uncle will also have to think about it.It can't be too much, it's definitely not enough to exceed the three national governments, but it can't be too little, too little seems not enough courage.

During this period, Gao Wushi took the initiative to plead guilty and left for a while, saying that he was taking a bath and changing clothes, but in fact it was nothing more than letting them discuss on their own.

After he went back, each family had already negotiated, and the masters were unified into six ships, and the uncles were unified into four ships.

In addition to those who have been expelled and are not allowed to be hereditary, there are several nobles in the Jingnan line who sit in the northwest. They are not in today's meeting. There are eleven nobles in Beijing, which is 66 ships.

On the contrary, there are fewer uncles (the three categories of delisting, extinct, and not allowed to attack account for more than half), and there are a total of eight participants, that is, 32 ships.

Adding up all the honorable guests at the meeting, Jinghua Shipyard suddenly received a huge order of up to 128 "foreign trade version" armed transport ships!
Not counting the staffing, just counting the cost of the ship (including artillery), it is as high as 512 million taels of silver!Although the artillery is very expensive, Gao Pragmatic roughly estimates that the profit of the shipyard is at least more than 150 million taels.

Fuck, selling boats is fucking profitable!

In fact, Gao Yushi played a trick here: he said that the prices of these ships were the prices purchased by Jinghua internally, but he had secretly changed the concept here.

Generally, if other companies have an "internal price", it must be extremely low, and it may be the complete cost price, but Jinghua does not calculate it this way.

The shipyard and the private port are two independent parts. In order to ensure the profit of the shipyard so that it can develop normally and sustainably, the private port is actually looking for the shipyard to buy ships from the shipyard outside the sea merchants. The price There is no difference above, the real difference lies in the materials and specifications - the standard will be a little stricter.

So from a certain point of view, the nobles were fooled by high pragmatism: they didn't take advantage of the price.

But from another point of view, I have not been fooled, because even if it is the "foreign trade version", the construction standards of these ships are still in accordance with internal standards, which are still the most stringent ones, so the high quality is still guaranteed. of.

Gao Wushi accepted the deeds signed and sealed by the nobles on the spot, and handed them to Gao Mo beside him with a smile, asking him to keep them carefully, and then pointed his knives at the nobles who had already boarded the pirate ship. .

"Everyone, I forgot to mention something just now: There was a big review recently, and you should all know about it. I am ashamed to say that this matter has something to do with the Annan War below. Therefore, Gao has to I would like to ask you all to do me a favor..."

(End of this chapter)