"Thirty-nine thousand five hundred and twelve gold?" Liu Mang was also dumbfounded, more than thirty-nine thousand five hundred gold, simple rounding, that is forty thousand gold, and the Chen Chen that Liu Mang gave him How much is it, that is five thousand gold, this is eight times the harvest.
This is not counting the value of the five boats of grain and grass. If the grain and grass were also sold, it would be worth a thousand gold more.
"Is this true?" Liu Mang looked at Sun Wen over there in disbelief.
"How dare Caomin deceive Your Highness!" Sun Wen said respectfully to Liu Mang, and gestured to the people behind him, and someone naturally brought the account book over there.
Liu Mang really saw the numbers from this ledger, but this Sun Wen is a careful person, and the numbers on it are actually accurate to one gold.
Five thousand gold, even if all the five thousand gold is used, if calculated, it is eight times the profit.
"It wasn't five thousand gold, but only two thousand five hundred and sixty gold!" said a young man who looked very similar to Sun Wen.
"This is?" Liu Mang looked at the young man.
"Go back to Your Highness, this is a dog! Come on, kneel down for Your Highness!"
"No need, why did it only cost 2,560 gold?" Liu Mang asked Sun Wen's son over there.
"That's because there are no more ships!" When I first went to sea, there were not many merchant ships in Yangzhou, and the large merchant ships with hundreds of tons were all Galen ships, which were rebuilt, and other large ships. And so on, either the tonnage is not enough, or it is too tall, and there are too many superstructures. Such a ship can still be used in the river, but it is more difficult to use when out of the sea than a piece of wood. If one is not careful, the whole ship will have to go in.
This Sun Wen is because of Liu Mang's favor for him. That's why a few more ships were given. That's how those ships couldn't be filled.
"Caomin want to go to sea like this. Buy more boats!" Sun Wen said to Liu Mang. Only when there are boats can he be able to earn a lot of money.
Ten times the profit.
"Huh? Filial piety fee?" Liu Wei saw a filial piety column over there, and it actually said three thousand gold!
It's really a big deal.
"Hehe, hehe!" Sun Wen's face was filled with embarrassment. Everyone knew what this filial piety fee was, and it was a bribe from top to bottom.
"Boss Sun. You really are rich!" Liu Mang said angrily.
"I actually earned this 40,000 gold, should I pay back my money?" Liu Mang asked with a smile.
"This is natural, this is natural!" Sun Wen nodded quickly. But at random, he was in a difficult situation.
"Your Highness this!"
"What's the matter?" Liu Mang was still thinking about this harvest.
"I don't know, Your Highness, can you send all the experts from Habayashi Guard and me!" Sun Wen said to Liu Mang over there.
"Bold!" Guan Hai stood up next to him, "Habayashi Wei is His Highness's personal guard, how can I lend you a businessman!"
"Why do you want Habayashi Guard?" Liu Mang asked suspiciously.
"Your Highness, this finance is touching. I am afraid that some people will risk their lives for money!" Sun Wen explained.
"It's all gold?"
"En!" Sun Wen nodded.
"Okay, Habayashi Wei, I can't be with you. Your Xuzhou governor is here. Why don't you ask him?" Liu Mang pointed to Chen Deng beside him.
"Come and I will go to the Armed Police Department and dispatch two thousand armed police to clear the way!" Chen Deng was also a man who said he would do it.
For Yangzhou, the Armed Police is now a paradise for retired soldiers, and it is also a paradise for reserve soldiers.
Outside Guangling City, there really is an armed police force.
Two thousand soldiers and horses marched into the port of Guangling. Although each member of the armed police force did not have a sword in their hands, the stabbing sticks were shining with cold light.
"Patriarch Sun, go!" Liu Mang said to Sun Wen.
"Hey!" Sun Wen nodded, and then happily asked his son to take these armed policemen to his merchant ship.
Liu Mang asked Chen Deng to send two thousand armed policemen, thinking it would be enough, but soon Liu Mang knew that he had made a mistake, and he had to continue to mobilize troops.
Because the scene in front of me was too sensational.
Have you ever seen gold? But have you ever seen so much gold? A total of forty thousand gold. The splints were opened on the entire ship, which were all glittering with gold.
No matter how much gold you said, I have seen it. In the Yangzhou Gold Bank, when His Royal Highness the King of Han asked people to accept the gold Lu Bu, he took out a lot of gold.
But have you ever seen this piece of gold the size of a human head
Even Liu Mang's family has opened their eyes. Those gold transported from the ships, the smallest one is about the size of a fist, the normal ones are as big as a watermelon head, and the largest one is actually a small gold mountain. , more than a dozen big men carried him and pulled him out of the boat.
Those common people, businessmen and clans in the scene were really dumbfounded. Just such a rockery is probably worth a few thousand gold. So it's all an association, that is, the Sun family has made a fortune, a fortune.
Sun Wen seemed to be very satisfied with the expressions of those people below. When Sun Wen went to sea, everyone looked disgusted.
There is no shortage of sarcastic remarks, and some even cursed that Sun Wen would not come back, but now, it is proved by the facts, and the mouths of those individuals have been completely blocked.
Waiting for Jinshan to be transported in front of Liu Mang, Sun Wen waved his hand and asked people to put Jinshan down slowly, walked up to Liu Mang and knelt down.
"Your Highness, thanks to you, I, Sun Wen, can have what I am today. Thanks to you, I, Sun Wen, can have such brilliance. The kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by the spring. This golden mountain is dedicated to Your Highness, and only you can deserve it." If you can get it, please accept it with a smile!" Sun Wen kowtowed to Liu Mang while speaking.
Jinshan, Liu Mang couldn't help shaking his head. In his previous life, Liu Bei had a big dream, that was to hold Jinshan and eat it for a lifetime.
Now it actually came true.
But although Jinshan is good, Liu Mang is not someone who has never seen the world.
"This golden mountain is what you, Sun Wen, earned through your hard work. If I, Liu Mang, accept it, then how is it different from bribery?" Liu Mang said to Sun Wen.
"this?"
"If you have the heart, then give me a few more trips to the sea to bring back more food. Build more roads, bridges, and schools for the people of Xuzhou and Yangzhou, and do more good deeds! This should be possible.
I have answered! "Liu Mang started talking to Sun Wen over there.
"Yes!" Seeing that Liu Mang would not accept it, Sun Wen immediately knelt down, nodded and said, "Caomin must obey His Highness's orders.
"There is no need to call yourself a grassroots!" Liu Wei suddenly said to Sun Wen over there.
Sun Wen was taken aback for a moment, then secretly elated in his heart. Could it be that His Highness the King of Han
That's right. Liu Mang had already made a plan. Once the first batch of people who ate crabs brought back huge vitality, then the people behind would naturally follow suit.
Even if you can't get the profit of several times or tens of times like the first time, you can still get several times the benefits. In this way, there will naturally be more people going to sea.
Just like the Silk Road back then, this sea route was to go to the sea and experience the wind and waves of the sea, while the original Silk Road had to cross the desert. It is also a challenge, a struggle.
After the Maritime Silk Road opened. There must be an endless stream of businessmen coming and going, so there must be a management organization.
Today Liu Mang was finalized.
"From today onwards, starting from Guangling Port, the Maritime Affairs Office will be established under the Ministry of Household Affairs. All disputes at sea and all permits for leaving and entering the port will be handled by the Maritime Safety Administration!" Liu Mang said to the crowd over there.
"And you, Sun Wen, should be the master of the Maritime Mansion! Fifth rank!" Liu Mang said to Sun Wen over there.
Sun Wen was in ecstasy, he was overjoyed. What kind of person is he, Sun Wen? He is a businessman, a scholar, a farmer, a businessman, no matter how much Yangzhou values businessmen, it is impossible for him to have such a deep-rooted connection for so many years. It changed all at once, so for many people, a businessman is a lowly person.
So Sun Wen had a great harvest after his return trip, so he planned to spend a lot of money to pave a pipeline for his son, so that his son could enter Yangzhou Academy first, and then become an official.
But if that is the case, it will take a lot of time for his son to get ahead in the officialdom.
But now it's different, it was completed overnight, the Maritime Office, although Sun Wen didn't know what the specific functions were, but he still knew the fifth-rank officer.
Among Yangzhou, what are the third-rank officials! That is the ministers of the various ministries. That is the official of the third rank. The governor of Xuzhou like Chen Deng is an official of the fourth rank, and the officials of the fifth rank are all county guards.
Now he, Sun Wen, has become an official of the same size as the prefect, how can he be unhappy.
"Thank you, Your Highness, thank you, Your Highness!" Excited, Sun Wen kept kowtowing to Liu Mang.
"Okay, okay! Go down!" Liu Mang waved his arms and said to Sun Wen.
If you stop Sun Wen's words over there, the blood will come out.
Those merchants in the back also landed from the port one by one, big or small, no matter if they are big or small merchants, as long as they go to sea, they will not lose money.
That is, a person who went to sea with two ships and sank one, and after selling the grain on that ship, he covered his capital, which is equivalent to going out to see something.
The tallest person is the Mi family, who gave the family 70,000 gold at once, and the other gentry who followed also transferred tens of thousands of gold. The Zhang family, the gentry from Yanzhou, was originally here to make soy sauce, and he was dumbfounded .
He didn't use the five thousand gold that Liu Mang gave him to go out to sea at all, but just put some cloths piled up in warehouses on the ships going out to sea, just like that, he also earned 10,000 gold return.
But it was this ten thousand gold that made the Patriarch of the Zhang family cry so hard that his intestines were all green with regret. If he had listened to the words of His Highness the King of Han back then, then the five thousand gold would have been exchanged for supplies, ships, and sold. Going out will not be much less than that of the Mi family.
"Are you back?!" Liu Mang didn't leave and was waiting for a person, and this person was Liu Neng, the observation envoy who came back from this version.
"Returning to Your Highness, Liu Neng fulfilled his mission and returned with a rewarding experience!" Liu Neng said to Liu Mang.
This time, Liu Neng finally played a big role. The entire caravan, combined, has a harvest of nearly 600,000 gold, and there are countless grains and grasses, which are enough for Xuzhou for half a year. This is just the first time to go to sea. Once.
"Is there any gain after going there?" Liu Mang continued to ask.
"Yes!" Liu Neng nodded, and he told Liu Mang about the changes over time.
After they entered the South China Sea, the two small countries of Funan Linyi were still wary of the ships of the Han Empire at the beginning. Liu Neng sent several envoys ashore, but they were all detained by the city lord of the Funan Kingdom.
In the end, Liu Neng used a ship of goods in exchange for the city lord's generosity, opened the port, and let the big man's caravan enter the city.
It's not so much a city as it is a small fishing village. It's dilapidated. It's not that no one builds it, nor does it lack materials, but it's lazy!
In the two countries of Funan and Linyi, this Liu Neng has finally learned a lot.
What does it mean to not be full and starve to death? The fertility of their land has reached the level of two or even three crops a year, so as long as the seeds are sown at will, basically there will be a harvest, and even some lazy people don’t want to farm, and there are those wild ones in the wild. of rice.
Such reaping for nothing naturally makes people inert.
"He and I are really two different types of people!" Chen Deng said with emotion.
If there is such a fertile land among the big Han, these ordinary people would have already planted all the places that can be used to grow rice for him.
The common people will certainly not waste a place.
The city will also become bigger and bigger, and the common people can only save or sell their food to expand their family business step by step, instead of doing nothing like this.
This is the industriousness of the Han nationality, which has been passed down thousands of years ago.
When we get there, everything brought by the Yangzhou Army is novelty, cloth? ceramics? And those utensils.
They are not interested in working things like sickles and shovels. On the contrary, what they are interested in are those cloths, those shoes, and some playful things.
Many merchants with agricultural equipment suffered a lot. In the end, they could only turn the sickle into a murder knife and sell those shovels as pig iron.
That's it, and it's very profitable.
The people there seem to think that gold is worthless. Although dog's head gold is not seen everywhere, the gold that those Funan nobles trade is all dog's head gold.
"Is there a gold mine?" Liu Mang thought of such an idea.
"En!" Liu Neng didn't do anything, he also sent people into the two countries of Funan and Linyi, and indeed found traces of the treasury. (to be continued..)