In addition, at the beginning of the year, Zhao Gongzi asked Jinke to build a Chongming Navigation School on Chongming Island. In addition to training qualified seafarers for the Royal Maritime Group, the school also plays the role of sending outstanding seafaring talents to the Coast Guard School, which can be regarded as a preparatory department for the Coast Guard School.

Zhao Hao hopes that this can reduce the teaching pressure of the coast guard school and shorten the training cycle of police officers, so as to achieve his goal of expanding the coast guard force to 8,000 people as soon as possible, while trying not to affect the combat effectiveness - although he is negotiating peace with the Portuguese, he must also be ready for war!

At that time, the Portuguese will definitely send a strong enough fleet, how can they defeat the invading enemy if they do not go all out to expand their armaments and improve their combat effectiveness?!

Therefore, at least in the next two years, the vast majority of the students of Chongming Aviation School will flow to the Coast Guard School after graduation.

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The next day, Zhao Gongzi inspected the future timber yard and timber processing plant. In the future, the logs sent by Japan will be dried here in the shade by the strong sea breeze, and then rough-processed into timber suitable for transportation, which will be transported to the Jiangnan shipyard to build warships.

Marine timber is currently the most important military material, and of course it must be built in the base of the garrison area to ensure safety. But after comprehensive consideration, Zhao Hao decided to put the location of shipbuilding in Chongming.

It can only be placed in Chongming, because if you want to build an excellent sea ship, you need the support of a complete handicraft system, and Tamna Island does not have this system.

A large shipyard is a place with a high concentration of personnel, capital and materials, and it can be described as the most high-tech super factory at present, with thousands of materials to be purchased. At least dozens or hundreds of upstream supporting workshops such as blacksmith shops, bronze bureaus, weaving mills, rope making yards, sesame oil mills, paint yards, etc. are needed.

Moreover, these factories also have their own upstream factories, how can they all be moved to the security area?

Although this handicraft system is not as desperate as the industrial system, it is still not something that can be built. Otherwise, why is Japan's shipbuilding industry still at the level of 500 years ago? Without it, there is no complete handicraft system, and he can't build a Daifuku ship if he gets it. Not to mention Western ships......

If Zhao Gongzi hadn't backed the Jiangnan region, which has the most developed handicraft industry in the world, he wouldn't have dared to imitate it if he had come back from a Galen ship.

So he couldn't put the shipyard on Tamna Island, which was lonely and starved of everything. Besides, such a large industry in Chongming County can also bring up the economy of the entire county...... The consumption of thousands of middle- and high-income craftsmen alone is enough for Chongming to restore the grand occasion of Yingzhou in the East China Sea.

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After inspecting the timber yard, he turned around and listened to the advice of the Tamna Chamber of Commerce on trade with Japan.

Although no matter what goods Jiangnan Group supplies, they have to accept all the orders. But in fact, the domestic suppliers are not as familiar with the Japanese market as they are, so what goods to buy and how much to buy, these Li Dynasty businessmen actually have a lot to say.

At the request of Zhao Hao, Kim Hee-sun compiled a price list of Japan's main commodities. I really don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

Due to the lack of resources and the backwardness of the handicraft industry, Japan has a very scarce variety of self-produced goods, and there is no shortage of gold and silver for survival...... Therefore, the price of all goods in the Ming Dynasty has risen by at least five times in Japan, generally around ten times, and there are also twenty or thirty times.

Zhao Hao saw that the largest demand in Japan is raw silk, and the raw silk in Jiangnan is currently only 700 yuan a catty, and the CIF price in Japan is eight taels of silver a catty.

Ordinary Japanese people can't afford such expensive raw silk woven satin, so all kinds of silk, silk satin, and cotton cloth of the Ming Dynasty, which are relatively inexpensive, are also very popular, and the profit is nearly ten times.

In addition, all kinds of porcelain, pottery, ironware, incense fans, umbrellas, tea, castel felt stockings, needles, paper, ink, pens, inkstones, books, pictures, etc., the export profit is also about ten times. Even direct copper coins can be trafficked directly into Japan, which can be more than five times more profitable......

Of course, the most profitable are war materials, such as medicinal materials, and the profits are as high as dozens of times, and they are in short supply. For example, worthless medicinal materials such as Chuanxiong and licorice are actually worth 70 taels of silver per catty in Japan! The profit can be up to 100 times, surpassing saltpeter to become the most profitable single product!

With the booklet in his hand to cover it, Zhao Gongzi tried to close his mouth before putting down the price list.

In the past, he only knew that Sino-Japanese trade could make a lot of money, but today he knows exactly how much money he can make.

If you manage it properly, tens of millions of taels of silver a year will not be a problem!

No wonder the nine families have made a brainstorm for this, and no wonder the Portuguese have the cheekiness to break the contract and insert a bar.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hao had a hint of realization in his heart, there must be a battle between himself and the Portuguese!

How did Ma Zi say that? With 50 percent of the profits, he dares to take risks; For the sake of 100% profit, he dares to trample on all human laws; With a profit of three hundred percent, he dared to commit any crime, even risking hanging.

Trade with Japan is more than 500% profitable, and the Nima Portuguese are not allowed to go to heaven?

I cut off their financial path, how could they agree?

Although Zhao Gongzi proposed that they could sell their goods to the Ryukyus, it was absolutely impossible to give them too much profit. The Jesuits don't care, because they are ascetics who have made four vows, and as long as they can preach, they don't care if they have so many or not.

But the Portuguese would never agree to give such a terrible profit to others.

So take a step back and share the Japanese market? Obviously, it doesn't work at all, because the premise of huge profits is an exclusive monopoly, and if you don't buy mine, you don't have to buy it, so you can only accept my blackmail. But as long as you can produce any goods in your country, the price will come down immediately. Or another seller appears in the market, which will cause the price to collapse.

Therefore, Zhao Hao must crack down on Japan's national handicraft industry with one hand, and drive all competitors out of the market with the other hand.

Therefore, a showdown with the Portuguese was inevitable - either they would defeat them completely and cut off their desire to trade with Japan. Either they defeated themselves and temporarily cut off their thoughts on trade with Japan.

'There will be absolutely no other possibility...... Zhao Hao tacitly cleared up the reality.

Fortunately, he has been preparing for the worst - isn't it in such a hurry to expand the armament war just to prevent the final collapse of the talks, and he will have to fight with the Portuguese in the end?

"In short, we must try to delay the time when this battle will come......," Zhao Gongzi secretly calculated: "The sooner the war starts, the more disadvantageous it is, and the later the war starts, the better!" ’

"Childe, Childe......" Seeing that he had turned into a clay sculpture, he didn't move for a long time, and Kim Hee-sun couldn't help but arouse it.

"Oh, huh?" Zhao Hao came back to his senses at this time, looked at him and said, "Where did you go?" ”

"When it comes to the selection of goods that are lost in Japan." Kim Hee-sun hurriedly reminded.

"Oh, ah......" Zhao Hao took a sip of the teacup, and organized the language: "First, of course, we should pay attention to the rich variety of goods and the proportion to be reasonable. Don't always send a few goods, the price will not be maintained if there is an oversupply. ”

"Yes." Jin Xishan nodded hurriedly and smiled: "But Gongzi can rest assured, the Japanese have a huge demand, such as raw silk and the like, even if they collect all the raw silk on the market in the Ming Dynasty, it is not enough." ”

"Do they take it and eat it?" Zhao Gongzi scolded with a smile: "Anyway, just pay attention, the profit has fallen too hard, don't do it as the president." ”

"Understood!" Kim Hee Seonden couldn't laugh anymore.

"Second, we must pay attention to controlling the flow of military materials into Japan, such as saltpeter, gunpowder, muskets, swords, armor, leather, medicinal materials, and ......," Zhao Gongzi also advised: "It's not that you can't import it into Japan, and you can't miss the opportunity to make war money, but you must ask me first how much to sell and to whom." ”

"Yes." Kim Hee is busy and responding.

The flow of strategic materials can change the balance of strength of the Japanese princes, and it must be grasped by Zhao Gongzi himself, so that the power of offshore balancing can be maximized by using military supplies.

"Third, we should focus on cracking down on Japan's handicraft industry." Zhao Gongzi often said again: "If you want to investigate and see what local products they have, which can compete with us, then sell them cheaper than them and squeeze their goods out of the market." I've already said hello to the merchants of Sakai City, so you should be cooperative, and try your hand at cotton cloth and porcelain first. ”

"Childe, Japanese porcelain is all from my court......" Kim Hee-sun whispered proudly.

"Oh, really?" Zhao Gongzi only heard from the Tang people that there were expensive Ming porcelain in Japan, as well as cheap coarse porcelain. I subconsciously thought that it was fired by the Japanese themselves.

"Until now, the Japanese have only been able to burn pottery, and they have no porcelain-making skills. We used porcelain as a ballast stone and sold it to Japan. Jin Xishan hurriedly dispelled Zhao Gongzi's evil intentions for Li Dynasty and said: "Of course, my dynasty is not good at learning and art, and I can only produce some coarse porcelain, and the quantity is not much, and it cannot threaten the exquisite Jingdezhen porcelain ...... of the Celestial Empire."

"Hmm." Zhao Gongzi nodded noncommittally, which reminded him of what he said. Indeed, it was during the later invasion of Korea that the Japanese abducted a large number of people from the Li Dynasty, including porcelain craftsmen. Then, around the time of the death of the old turtle, that is, ten years after the end of the Warring States period, this group of craftsmen succeeded in firing porcelain in Hizen Prefecture-owned Tagun, and this began the history of the Japanese porcelain industry.

By the time of the Qing Dynasty, Japan not only stopped importing porcelain from China in large quantities, but also produced Karak porcelain for sale to Europe, which directly impacted the sales of Qing Dynasty porcelain.

"You have to prevent the slightest slight, you can't let your country's porcelain-making technology leak out, remember?" Anyway, the porcelain industry in Jiangnan is not developed, so Zhao Gongzi will not grab this little leftover food with Li Chaoren.

"Understood." Jin Xishan said with confidence: "The porcelain of our dynasty is produced by craftsmen and slaves in the official kiln, and the people prohibit private production, just to keep the porcelain technology secret for the Celestial Empire!" ”

"Hmm." Zhao Hao nodded, and couldn't help but think that Daming also concentrated the world's porcelain industry in Jingdezhen, and he was afraid that there were also considerations of secret technology to the outside world. However, it seems that the kilns in Fujian are already very developed, and they can even provide customers with in-depth customized services. It can be seen that the level of secrecy of Daming is just like that.

ps. continue to write, but it's a little bit worse today, so let's send it again tomorrow morning.