Tianjin.

Cheng Bo'an, Zhu Benduan, Feng Xiang, and Ye Li walked very leisurely in the streets and alleys of Tianjin New Area, carefully observing the increasingly prosperous city.

Today's Tianjin City, especially this Tianjin New Town, is very prosperous and lively.

There are many high-rise buildings here, and almost all the surrounding buildings are built of reinforced concrete, basically there are seven or eight floors, and the seven or eight storey buildings are naturally nothing in later generations, but in this era, they are high-rise buildings.

The land in Tianjin New Town is basically monopolized by Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao, so the planning here is also neat, the roads extend in all directions, all of them are cement roads, and they are very clean and tidy.

The streets are lined with restaurants, teahouses, restaurants, shops, etc., which are basically decorated with a large number of glass and glass products, and there is a sense of trend that is different from that of this era.

When they came here, Cheng Bo'an and Zhu Benduan all felt that they were dirt buns, from the countryside, and they had never seen the world, so they looked at them curiously on both sides.

"This Tianjin City really lives up to its name, it is indeed very prosperous."

Cheng Bo'an said with some sighs, coming here is like Grandma Liu has entered the Grand View Garden, it is dazzling to see, a few people are dressed extraordinarily, but there is a feeling of soil buns.

People here in Tianjin New Town are popular to have short hair, shave beards, and wear short clothes and shorts, because these are the standard for sailors going to sea, as long as the crew members who go to sea are short haired and shaved beards, wearing shorts and shorts (this shorts and shorts are actually the clothes and pants of later generations, compared to the robes of this era, they are shorts and shorts, not the kind of shorts and shorts of later generations).

Because the crew members who go to sea are all representatives of high-income people, all of them are very rich, which naturally drives the atmosphere of the whole Tianjin.

This has been the case since ancient times, and only those with wealth and status can form a trend and drive the atmosphere.

The income of the crew is high, and the status is gradually improving, so they can naturally play a leading role.

"I heard that it costs thousands of taels of silver to buy a house here in Tianjin New Town."

Zhu Benduan also said.

"A thousand taels of silver? The courtyard of Sanjin in the capital doesn't need thousands of taels of silver, right? ”

When Feng Xiang on the side heard this, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"Yes, you don't need to, but how expensive is the house here in Tianjin, do you see that billboard?"

Zhu Benduan nodded, and then pointed to a billboard hanging on the side of the street in front of him, which was an advertisement for Tianjin Real Estate, which read, 'Moon Bay Phase VI will be on sale on October 15, with a minimum price of 1,200 taels of silver per set!' ’

"One thousand two hundred taels of silver?"

"Can this house be sold?"

Ye Li looked at the billboard, and the whole person was dumbfounded, what an expensive house, who would buy it.

"Not only can it be sold, but it is also very popular, and I heard that you have to grab it to be able to buy it."

"You may not know that this Moon Bay is the most famous place in the entire Tianjin New Town, where Liu Jin and the crown prince have mansions, gathering rich people from all over Tianjin."

"Those who opened factories and workshops in Tianjin, as well as all kinds of businessmen, as well as those seafarers who went to sea, they were all very rich, and they were all rushing to buy these houses."

"In addition, there are some rich people from all over the Ming Dynasty, this house in Tianjin, the tide is rising, and the price is getting higher and higher."

Zhu Benduan smiled and shook his head, it was really incomprehensible, but these were all situations that he let people know.

Such an expensive house can not only be sold, but also sold very hot, which is unbelievable.

"Don't talk about that, find a place to drink tea and discuss things."

Cheng Boan shook his head slightly, he didn't understand this, how much silver to buy some land was not good?

Soon, the four of them came to a restaurant, asked for a private room by the window, ordered a pot of tea, a few snacks, and drank tea while watching the traffic below, and then chatting, it seemed to be a kind of enjoyment.

"Feng Xiang, how about you go to Tianjin Shipyard to talk here?"

The first thing Chen Bo'an asked was about the ship, since Du Mingen emphasized the importance of the ship so much, although the ship of the Tianjin shipyard was expensive, but in order to make money, he still had to buy it.

"The price of the ship here in Tianjin Shipyard has risen, and the ship that can sail to the ocean has risen to 200,000 taels of silver per ship, and it is necessary to pay a deposit of 50,000 taels of silver in advance, and then queue up for production."

Feng Xiang shook his head slightly and said.

Today, when I went to the Tianjin Shipyard to talk about buying a ship, he can be regarded as a long-term insight, and these ocean-going ships worth 250,000 taels of silver are the same as cabbage, and many people are rushing to buy them, and they don't regard silver as money at all, and they place orders for a few or a few ships.

"Two hundred thousand taels of silver?"

"Do you have to pay a deposit first, and then queue up for production?"

When the others heard this, they immediately said in slight surprise.

"Yes, 250,000 taels of silver for a ship, pay the deposit first, and then queue up for production, and now it is already lined up until next year."

Feng Xiang nodded and said.

"They will build ships in the world, no matter how expensive it is, there is no spot yet, and you have to pay a deposit to queue up for production."

Ye Li couldn't help but complain at once.

"There are a lot of shipyards in Tianjin, Zhang's shipyard, Li's shipyard, Hongyuan shipyard, etc., there are more than a dozen shipbuilders of all sizes, but everyone has said that the ships of this Tianjin shipyard are the best."

Feng Xiang told what he knew.

"Why can't there be more shipyards when other shipyards can't build ocean-going ships?"

Cheng Boan also asked.

"Yes, other shipyards also have ocean-going vessels, fishing boats, whaling ships and the like, but it is said that the quality is not very good, and the quality is far inferior to the ships of Tianjin Shipyard."

Feng Xiang said.

"What about the price, how much does it cost?"

Ye Li hurriedly asked.

"The ocean-going ships of other shipyards are cheap, you can buy one for 100,000 taels of silver, and some shipyards still have stock, even if they are in line for production, they only need to wait for a month or two."

"However, didn't Master Hou say that the ships of Tianjin Shipyard must be used to go to Golden Continent, because the quality of their ships is the most reliable, and many crew members who go to sea also say that the ships of Tianjin Shipyard are of the best quality."

Feng Xiang replied.

"It's all ocean-going ships, the quality is almost nothing, these 250,000 taels of silver a ship, and we won't be able to get the goods until next year, and the daylilies will be cold by then, and other people may have come back from the gold side."

Zhu Benduan shook his head slightly and said.

"Yes, the ships of other shipyards can also be visited, they are all ocean-going ships, even if they are a little worse, they should not be too far behind."

Ye Li also said.

"With so much silver, we can build a shipyard here in Jiangnan and build our own ships, isn't it just shipbuilding, what is the difficulty?"

Cheng Boan thought about it and expressed his support.

"I'll just say this, let's do whatever you say, shipbuilding has always been our southerners, and we will also build a few shipyards in the south when we go back, so we don't need to ask them in the future."

Feng Xiang nodded, this ship is also too expensive, this ship is actually enough to build a ship with a few thousand taels of silver, and it is a huge profit to sell tens of thousands of taels, Tianjin Shipyard is good, it is actually sold for 250,000 taels of silver, it is too dark.

"Why don't we go check out the ships from the other shipyards first?"

Cheng Boan thought for a while and proposed.

"Yes, let's take a look first~"

"I heard that the ships of this Zhang's shipyard are very good, it is the first batch of shipyards established in Tianjin, and this Zhang's shipyard is also the industry of the two brothers Jianchangbo and Shouninghou, and the fishing boats and whaling ships of Zhang's shipyard are also very popular."

Feng Xiang nodded, and then also said Zhang's shipyard.

"The Zhang brothers' shipyard?"

"Shou Ninghou, Jian Changbo?"

When the others heard this, they were slightly surprised, of course they knew the names of the Zhang brothers, but they didn't expect that they also had their own shipyards.

"The Zhang brothers have a lot of industries, because they have their own shipyards, the Zhang brothers have their own fishing fleet, whaling ships, the scale is very large, and there are several caravans that go to Korea and the Japanese country, and the business is very large."

"In Tianjin and Beijing, there are also coal factories, cement factories and textile factories run by the Zhang brothers, which are doing a lot of business and are said to have made a lot of money."

"In the past, I heard that the Zhang brothers drank porridge at one meal, but now it is said that they can have four dishes and one soup for one meal."

Feng Xiang smiled and nodded, and then said some interesting anecdotes about the Zhang brothers.