Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 603 The Power of Merchant Players

Under the construction of Xinluo Minfu, the port area of ​​Dahang City can be said to change every day.

Li Fuhai stood on the newly built pier, looking at the sea ahead.

Three port pontoons have been built in the entire Dahang City. These pontoons can allow sailboats to park in relatively deep water, allowing ships with relatively large drafts to dock.

The shipyard in Dahang City, after the Xinluo shipbuilder joined, the progress of the work has also been greatly accelerated.

Suhang's shipyard is working very efficiently, and two new ships have been launched this month.

The reason why the speed is so fast is because Su Xing found a good way to build a new ship - dismantling the ship.

Some of the large ships that Su Xing brought back from Silla were made of high-quality wood. Su Xing's method was to dismantle the wood from these ships and put them on new ships of his own design.

Because there is no need to deal with wood, only the original boat needs to be reassembled, Su Xing finally built a standard flying shear boat.

The length of this ship has reached 30 meters. There are three huge sails on the whole ship. The fastest sailing speed is the same as the first clipper ship made by Su Xing. Under the condition of tailwind, it can reach ten nautical miles per hour.

The crew of this flying shear ship can reach 40 people. Although the cargo warehouse is not big, it can also store some goods.

In fact, the flying shear ship is not suitable for long-distance transportation, but in short-distance transportation, this kind of ship can be said to be an artifact.

Clipper ships used to appear widely in southern China in the [-]th century. At that time, colonists occupied Hong Kong and used clipper ships to transport tobacco and soil to Guangzhou and Fuzhou, and then transported tea from Chinese ports. This short-distance trade was once very prosperity, so that it became the foreign trade that the Qing Dynasty relied on for its survival.

But on long-distance voyages, clipper ships are more suitable as spacecraft for delivering messages.

The clipper ship that Li Fuhai was going to board was rented by forty players in partnership, and their destinations were different.

For example, several players including Li Fuhai went to Baoan County to develop at the invitation of the magistrate of Baoan County.

The other businessmen and players are planning to go to Quanzhou to see the grand occasion of Datang's largest port, and at the same time consider whether there is any opportunity to make a fortune in Quanzhou.

The other group of players are going to Qingzhou. Now that Nan Jiyun and Zhang Duanyang are going to fight, these generals and players who are chasing the war will naturally join in the fun.

There are also several players who were invited by Wang Yadong of Yangzhou to assist Wang Yadong in preparing for the establishment of a new city shipping department in Yangzhou. Now that the land transportation is cut off, they chose to go by sea from Dahang City.

These players jointly rented a clipper ship, and the captain is Su Xing who built the clipper ship. This voyage means a lot to him. Going to Bao'an County at the southernmost tip is enough to prove the excellent performance of the flying shear ship, and then the Dahang City Shipyard can get a large number of orders!

So Su Xing put down the construction work in the dock, as the only player with sailing experience, of course Su Xing had to personally drive the ship for its maiden voyage.

But this voyage is a gamble for all crew members.

Because of the lack of hydrological and meteorological data, the probability of capsizing in this kind of ocean voyage is extremely high, and sailing has been accompanied by great risks and great benefits from the very beginning.

"Player, you have new items, please check."

Li Fuhai suddenly received a message from the system. He opened the mailbox and found that it was a message from his brother Li Fusheng.

Resurrection book?
Li Fuhai looked at the attached items in the mailbox, and suddenly clenched his hands.

This time, in order to be able to travel as soon as possible, Li Fuhai exchanged a lot of skills related to navigation, and basically used up all the remaining contribution points, and there was no extra contribution point to exchange for the resurrection book.

Unexpectedly, my brother had already thought of this, and exchanged a resurrection book for himself.

"If you die, you still want me to save a game account for you. It's better to buy you a book of resurrection. Good luck."

Li Fuhai's eyes were a little sour, and brothers often couldn't say anything too hypocritical, but this kind of blood connection was always something that people couldn't let go of.

Li Fuhai also secretly made up his mind that when he has accumulated enough contribution points, he must buy a resurrection book for his brother and return it to him!

This clipper ship, carrying the dreams of dreamers, was finally named "Dreamer" by Su Xing. It will make a long-distance voyage along the coastline of Datang.

Except for the captain Su Xing, the first and second mates are all experienced sailors in real life, and the lookout is a marine physicist. His purpose of going to sea is to survey and map the ocean current data in the coastal area of ​​Datang.

After fully resupplied, the Dreamer set sail under the witness of Dahang City players!
And this time the sailing competition is not just a competitor like Dahang City.

In the dock in Yangzhou, Li Daoyuan is watching an Arabian sailing ship gradually taking shape. This ship is the design drawing he submitted to Gao Shi. Under the skillful hands of Yangzhou shipbuilders, the construction of the keel and deck has now been completed .

Gao Shi wrote a letter to lift the ban on the sea, but the emperor and the Zhengshitang did not officially issue approval, but the emperor issued a secret decree to Gao Shi, allowing him to experiment with sea trade in Yangzhou.

The sea area of ​​the Tang Dynasty is huge, and the emperor and the prime ministers were worried that there would be unscrupulous businessmen funding Hedong in some ports, but they were allowed to conduct a pilot project in Yangzhou first, and Gao Shi was very excited by the result.

After discussing with Wang Yadong, Gao Shi decided to sell the license for ocean trading in Yangzhou City.

According to Wang Yadong's suggestion, if the sea trade is fully liberalized, there will definitely be bad businessmen mixed in. If there are really rebels colluding with Hedong, then Yangzhou sea trade will definitely be banned again.

Therefore, Wang Yadong proposed to sell the first batch of [-] sea trade licenses, and only allow powerful sea merchants to participate in sea trade.

The advantage of this is that the government can obtain a large amount of income by negotiating and selling marine trade licenses, and once these large merchants discover illegal activities, they will immediately revoke their marine trade licenses and punish them, so as to avoid the chaos of opening the sea .

Gao Shi took Wang Yadong's suggestion seriously, and immediately posted a notice in Yangzhou City, if the first batch of [-] maritime merchant licenses would be sold in the business hall of the Municipal Shipping Department.

As soon as this news was posted, the entire city of Yangzhou erupted.

Before the ban on the sea, Yangzhou was a place where sea trade flourished, and many businessmen made money through sea trade.

Later, after the An Lushan Rebellion, the imperial court banned Datang ships from going out to sea. Although foreign ships were allowed to call at the port, the scale of sea trade shrank a lot.

Although there are still big merchants who rely on foreign merchant ships for trade, but compared with the previous grand occasion, it is far worse.

In fact, many sea merchants have changed their careers to become salt merchants, but this time the imperial court lifted the sea ban so quickly, which surprised the merchants in Yangzhou City.

Anyone with a little business vision knows that this maritime license is very valuable.

However, the funds of many maritime merchants in Yangzhou have already been invested in other places. For a while, Yangzhou City is full of merchants selling assets to raise money.

During this period of time, the newly opened Wangfu Bank in Yangzhou was also trampled by players.

Wang Yaping had already conveyed to the players the news that the Jiedu Envoy's government was planning to sell the maritime merchant license. Now the merchants and players in Yangzhou are united. They have withdrawn their deposits from the Wangfu Bank one after another, and even brought the Wangfu Bank to Yangzhou to prepare for it. Gold is empty.

The manager of the Wangfu Bank had to send an urgent message to the head office, but Yangzhou was too far away from Longyou, so the money could not be transported here for a while.

The businessmen and players in Yangzhou can only unite and prepare for a joint venture to take a maritime license.

Yangzhou Trading Company was established in Yangzhou City. This is the first joint-stock company established by players, and they enjoy corresponding proportion of shares according to the proportion of capital contribution.

A player who was a lawyer in reality drafted the articles of association of Yangzhou Trading Company. This company, which would become famous in the commercial history of Datang in the future, was established in this humble shop.

The company sets up a board of directors, and the top nine players who contribute money automatically enter the board of directors, and the lawyer player who drafts the company's articles of association becomes the company's first supervisor.

All the money raised by Yangzhou Trading Company was used to participate in the auction of maritime trade licenses. The company's goal was to win two licenses for maritime trade, and then wait for other funds to be in place before setting up a fleet to go to sea for trade.

Li Daoyuan also came from Yangzhou Shipyard to attend this board meeting of Yangzhou Trading Company.

Li Daoyuan also used his savings during this period to become a shareholder of Yangzhou Trading Company.

Li Daoyuan is very famous among the players. Although his shares are not many, Yangzhou Trading Company still specially hired him as a consultant, hoping to participate in his voyage to Fusang.

The first trade partner of Yangzhou Trading Company is to open the door of Fusang and establish a route to Northeast Asia.

This is consistent with Li Daoyuan's destination. Li Daoyuan readily accepted the company's appointment and said that he would take the company's people to Fusang after the sailboat in the shipyard was completed.

At this time, Li Daoyuan also saw the great power of today's merchant players.

Unknowingly, merchant players have set foot in many lands of Datang.

The "Longyou Commercial Daily" issued by the Street Lamp Association in the past has now expanded from four pages to sixteen pages. At the same time, an electronic version is also issued, which publishes business news and price levels in major cities. Players have already started appearing in various parts of Datang.

It's all rolled out too!The development of Longyou's transportation infrastructure has made the profit of Longyou's short-distance trade lower and lower. If merchants want to make more money, they have to go to farther places.

After the restoration of Chang'an, merchant players started to develop into various big cities based on Chang'an. As the most prosperous commercial city in Datang, Yangzhou naturally had the most merchant players.

Unknowingly, the power of the player has become so great, Li Daoyuan said with emotion.

(End of this chapter)