Sui and Tang Dynasties: Killing Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty to sacrifice to heaven at the beginni

Chapter 583 Maritime Trade
With the successful trial of the treasure ship, the tone of the future work of the Dasui Shipyard has been completely set.

The main focus is on the manufacture of treasure ships, supplemented by the manufacture of blessing ships.Compared with Fuchuan, treasure ships are much more complicated and lengthy, both in terms of the manufacturing process and the time required.

On average, the time it takes to build one treasure ship can almost produce three blessing ships.

After some research by Li Mu, it happened to be determined that the fleet for this long voyage should be dominated by one treasure ship, and supported by six lucky ships.

After several months of preparation by Li Mu, the Maritime Affairs Department has a preliminary team.As the treasure ships and blessing ships have been launched for sea trials, the Maritime Department can start recruiting seamen for the first time.

This Huating County is located on the sea. As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, relying on the sea, most of the people are fishermen.

Whether it's sailing a boat out to sea, going to the beach for a few fierce shots, diving or something, these fishermen are all very good at it.

Li Mu's Maritime Department recruited seafarers from among these fishermen.These fishermen are familiar with water and can drive a boat. After a little training, they can drive a boat to sea.

As for the treatment of seafarers, he wanted to be pretty good. Li Mu's salary was really high, which could catch up with the officials in the government.

You know, in the eyes of common people, that official is also an official!My own salary is about the same as that of the official, and these fishermen are scrambling to sign up.

Moreover, the general has spoken. If anyone is unlucky and dies on the sea, they will all have pensions.

With this guarantee, these fishermen became even more enthusiastic.

After all, life is hard being a fisherman.Not to mention making money and living a good life, even eating a full stomach is a problem.

Given this opportunity, these fishermen by the sea were naturally unwilling to let it go.

The Maritime Department has been established, and who is the new director is naturally Wei Zheng and Wei Xuancheng.

At the beginning, when Li Mu established the Road Administration Department in Shandong, he appointed Wei Zheng to be in charge of the Road Administration Department.

Now that the Maritime Affairs Department was established, Li Mu transferred Wei Zheng and used him.

Wei Zheng is a brick under Li Mu's hands, and he can move it wherever he needs it.

Why does Li Mu like to use Wei Zheng so much?

Firstly, Wei Zheng is capable and worthy of Li Mu's use, this is inevitable.

Secondly, Wei Zheng is stern and selfless, and he will not let anyone come through the back door. With this temper, he is worthy of Li Mu's importance.

This yamen, a newly established government office, what does this mean? It means that there are vacant official positions here.

What are the fifth-rank, sixth-rank, third-rank, and fourth-rank, these are all official positions!
In the past, above the court, there was a carrot and a hole. Many people wanted to be officials, but he couldn't be promoted.

As soon as the new Yamen is established, there will be more official positions.Naturally, some people want to go through the back door and ask for an official position for their relatives or disciples.

If it's someone else, they have to pay more or less attention to personal relationships, and if they can't say it, they have to release water, sell personal favors and so on.

However, Wei Zheng doesn't care about you, if he doesn't give face, he won't give face to anyone else.

Hand over the Maritime Affairs Department to Wei Zheng, Li Mu is one hundred, one thousand don't worry.

Huating County, Department of Maritime Affairs.

"Report to the general, the first batch of [-] sailors has been recruited and is preparing to start training!"

"The shipyard is stepping up the construction of the remaining Fuchuan. According to the current progress, it will take at least three months, and our first fleet will be completed."

"In addition, our crew training period is also three months, so we can go to sea for the first time!" Wei Zheng reported to Li Mu.

After hearing the news, Li Mu also felt a little joy in his heart. Three months later, Da Sui had entered the age of sailing.

Li Mu nodded, and told Wei Zheng: "Xuancheng, I will leave the affairs of Huating County to you for the time being!"

"I'm going back to Daxing City to do another important thing."

Li Mu said that he would leave Huating County temporarily and go back to Daxing City.To Wei Zheng, it was indifferent.

Who is he, Wei Zheng, whether the general is there or not, he is always working hard for the general.

Is it possible that the general is still here, and he works hard, and when the general leaves, he will cheat and play tricks?

Li Mu is going to do something important, he is going to pick out sea merchants.

From the land age to the sailing age, this is a huge change.

In order to make the Great Sui develop rapidly during this transformation, it is not enough to rely solely on the official strength of the Great Sui. It is only reasonable to rely on the strength of private merchants.

The sea is so big, if you want to draw a more complete sea chart, you need more people and more strength.

According to Li Mu's plan, this first voyage, the treasure ship as the main ship, is for official use.As for the remaining six blessing boats, they are all leased to private merchants.

Then, explore new continents in the form of concentrating voyages on high seas and splitting voyages on short seas.

What is long-sea group voyage and short-sea voyage? To put it simply, it is to use the method of fleet sailing on the sea far away from the mainland.

In this way, if there is a problem with that ship, it is convenient to support each other.

Offshore diversion means that after reaching the offshore area where the danger is relatively small, everyone disperses to explore the land and conduct transactions.

After the transaction in one place is completed, gather at one place and return together.

The advantage of doing this is that you can explore as many routes as possible.Moreover, a group of maritime merchants can be cultivated.

Merchants seek profit, as long as the first voyage has tasted the sweetness, next time, these merchants will spontaneously carry out maritime trade.

With this experience, next time, Li Mu can lease or sell the seaboat to these merchants, and then let them sail for sea trade by themselves.

Since the maritime trade in this era is immature, Li Mu had to go back to Daxing City first to teach these merchants what is called maritime trade.

Then, among these merchants in Daxing City, those reliable merchants can be selected to take on the duties of maritime merchants.

After arranging the affairs of Huating County, Li Mu hurriedly returned to Daxing City.

After these three months, the first sea voyage will be carried out. In addition to the selection of sea merchants, time must be given to these sea merchants to prepare goods, so this time is not particularly sufficient.

Li Mu didn't delay, and returned to Daxing City in a hurry.After returning to Daxing City, Li Mu didn't even have the time to be tender with his wives for a moment, so he immediately met with these merchants.

When Li Mu was still in Huating County, he had already sent someone to pass down an order to get all these big merchants from the Sui Dynasty to gather in Daxing City.

As soon as these businessmen heard that the general ordered them to go to Daxing City, they rushed to Daxing City one by one.

Who is Li Mu? He was a very popular figure in the Sui Dynasty.

In terms of the present, in the Sui Dynasty that was a three-year-old child, and he knew that following the general, he could eat meat!

After the news spread that Li Mu was going to meet with merchants from the Great Sui Dynasty, the entire Daxing City could be said to have gathered all the prominent merchants from the Great Sui Dynasty.

Daxing City, Huixianju.

This Xianju restaurant can be regarded as the most high-end restaurant in Daxing City, and even a simple meal here is enough for a family of five to last for three to five months.

Today, these merchants from the Sui Dynasty will take over the entire Xianju.

This will be Xianju up and down, inside and outside, all merchants.These merchants gathered together, eagerly waiting for Li Mu to visit.

What kind of person is this general? He is a person who is under one person and above ten thousand people.In the entire Sui Dynasty, apart from Yang Guang, the general had the greatest power.

These merchants were able to dine with the general, which was a matter of face.

These merchants were waiting in Huixianju, each of them was very anxious, they only knew that Li Mu would meet them in Huixianju today, but they didn't know when they would meet.

At this time, Li Mu was still on his way back to Daxing City. Li Mu didn't delay at all along the way, and kept hurrying.

noon.

Daxing City, outside the city gate.

"General, all the merchants have arrived at Huixianju. Do you think we should go back to the mansion first or go to Huixianju first?" Duke Qin Qiong reported to Li Mu.

Without thinking about it, Li Mu said directly, "Let's go directly to meeting Xianju!"

After saying this, Li Mu took people to Huixianju.

Daxing City, inside Huixianju.

"The general is coming this way, everyone, go out to greet him!" At this time, a person came to pass the message.

Upon hearing this, these merchants quickly got up, sorted their clothes, and went to greet them outside the gate of Huixianju.

The merchants came to the guard, and stood in two rows on the left and right, waiting for Li Mu to come.

Not long after, I saw Li Mu bringing people over from a distance.

Arriving in front of the gate of Huixianju, Li Mu had just dismounted when he heard a group of merchants shouting, "Greetings, General!"

The shouts of these merchants are quite a bit elated.These merchants thought to themselves that even the generals valued them so much, and I am afraid that there will be no officials to embarrass them in the future.

Not to mention the ancient merchants, even the modern merchants are eager to establish a good relationship with officials.

"You don't need to be too polite, let's go in and talk!" Li Mu smiled at these merchants.

Li Mu didn't mean to discriminate against merchants, on the contrary, Li Mu also attached great importance to merchants.

Li Mu is very clear that if he wants to make the Great Sui develop rapidly, he must evolve the Great Sui from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

"Admiral please first!"

"Admiral please first!"

All the merchants said one after another, motioning for Li Mu to enter the hall.

Li Mu is not too polite, there are still some high and low status, how dare these people walk in front of him.

Even if Li Mu asked them to go ahead of him, these merchants would not dare.

There are quite a few merchants here today, there must be a hundred or so people.The merchants who are qualified to meet Li Mu today are not easy, and they are all rich and powerful merchants.

Today's Huixianju has been booked by the merchants. There are more than a dozen tables in the hall, and the food and drinks have been placed on the tables.

These wines and dishes are very rich, it can be said that there are things that fly in the sky, swim in the water, run on the ground, and drill in the soil.

"General, please take your seat!"

A group of merchants greeted Li Mu to the main seat, and then selected the nine wealthiest merchants from among the group of merchants, and came up to sit with Li Mu.

There are more than 100 people, a dozen tables, and a table for ten people.

After everyone was seated, the hall was very quiet, and it could be said that a pin drop could be heard.These merchants don't even dare to breathe!

Given their status and status, if Li Mu didn't speak, how could they dare to speak first.

"Ha ha!"

"Everyone, don't be nervous. Today is not a banquet at the Hongmen, nor is it a feast of decapitation. I invite everyone here today, because I have something good to tell everyone!"

"Today, I want to work with everyone to make the business bigger and stronger!" Li Mu said with a smile.

Hearing Li Mu's words, the people present all burst into smiles.

Listen to what this means, the general is going to take them to do business, and hanging out with the general is not a hot food.

In these years, Li Mu first conquered the Eastern and Western Turks, and then Goguryeo and Tuyuhun.

The land in the Sui Dynasty increased so much at once, and the merchants who were the first to occupy these places could be said to have made a lot of money.

Now, the general wants to lead them to get rich again, wouldn't this be a great thing.

At this time, a well-informed businessman asked: "I heard that the general recently organized the Maritime Affairs Department. I don't know if it is related to this matter?"

Li Mu nodded and said with a slight smile, "That's right, it's related to the sea!"

"As you all know, the territory of our Great Sui Dynasty is just a drop in the ocean, and there are countless countries on the other side of the ocean."

"Among them, the more powerful ones are the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire and so on!"

"Everyone is doing business on land, but no one has gone to the other side of the sea to do business with these aliens!"

"What I mean is that I want to take everyone across the sea and do business in foreign countries!"

Li Mu's words can be said to mean that these merchants are full of enthusiasm!
But anyone who does business understands a truth, that is, the larger the market and the larger the population, the larger the consumption base will be.

Only when the market is big enough can the business grow, and the business can make money when the business grows big.

If according to what Li Mu said, there are countless foreign countries on the other side of the ocean, then this is simply a blue ocean!

It can be expected that under such circumstances, the first person to eat the crab will naturally earn a lot of money.

And from the fact that the general invited them to conduct maritime trade together, this can be analyzed to a point.

That is, this so-called overseas market is definitely big enough, so big that even the Great Sui Dynasty Hall can't eat this market.

There is no doubt that this overseas market must be dominated by the imperial court.But even so, following Li Mu to eat some leftovers was enough to keep them full!
(End of this chapter)