Everyone is a little surprised how profitable this maritime trade is, and the Governor is so sure that the profits of the maritime trade can feed tens of thousands of troops.

Of course, except for Wang Zhi, if he didn't know how profitable the maritime trade was, he wouldn't have put his head on his belt and become a pirate and a pirate.

The profit of this maritime trade is a bit exaggerated, taking Dongying as an example, once the goods of the Ming Dynasty are transported to Dongying, the price can be increased at least tenfold!

For example, rice, on the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, rice is about one tael of silver and two stones, and in Dongying, five or six taels of silver may not be able to buy one stone of rice.

For example, in the area of Suzhou and Hangzhou, one tael of silver is enough to buy three or four horses, but in Dongying, three or four taels of silver is normal.

What's going on, could it be that the Dongying people at this time are all in the water, and they don't know the price of Daming's goods, and they sell it so expensive, won't they produce it themselves?

Of course, their brains are not in the water, and they also know the price of Daming's goods, but they can't buy it

Even if the Ming Dynasty does not implement the sea ban, it is also Kanhe trade, only the designated trade mission can trade with the Daming, and there is a time and number of times to be compatible, even if the designated trade mission can not buy what you want, you can come to Daming when you want.

Every year, only the Jingzhao doctor of Dongying can organize a trade mission to Daming to carry out trade, and its scale is at most more than ten large and small sea vessels, and how many goods can be brought back can be imagined.

Don't look at Dongying's big place, there are a lot of people in Dongying at this time, according to historical records, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the population of Dongying was at least 10 million, and it even reached 20 million at the peak!

You know, at this time, the official population of the Ming Dynasty was only 50 or 60 million.

With so many people and more than ten ships of goods, where is there enough for them!

Therefore, even if the people of Dongying know that the price of Daming's goods is useless, they can't buy it at all.

The so-called "scarce is expensive", it is not surprising that the price of Daming's goods has doubled in Dongying.

As for what to produce by yourself, don't even think about it, Dongying is fighting at this time, a big place, a total of more than 60 vassal states of all sizes, today I will fight you, tomorrow you will fight me, let alone weaving, even if there are many places where food cannot be produced.

This is also the reason why the Japanese invaders were the most ferocious during the Jiajing period, because Dongying was in the late Warring States period at this time, and all the princes were like crazy everywhere to conquest, and there were few places in the entire Dongying that did not fight, and the living materials were therefore extremely lacking, and the samurai and civilians under the defeated daimyo were basically poor and could not eat, and they had to loot everywhere to survive.

There is a more important reason why the price of Daming's goods can be sold to Dongying to double wildly, that is, silver.

Dongying lacks everything at this time, except that there is no shortage of silver, because Dongying's silver reserves are already abundant, and the winning princes generally drive slaves to go crazy to mine people's silver mines after occupying people's territory, which leads to a surge in Dongying's silver production, and at this time, Daming because of mine corruption and many other reasons, silver production has decreased sharply, and under this increase and decrease, the silver price ratio between Daming and Dongying has also reached a very exaggerated level.

According to historical records, in the early Ming Dynasty, the silver output of the Ming Dynasty was about ten times that of Dongying, and the population of the Ming Dynasty at that time was almost ten times that of Dongying, so the silver price gap between the Ming Dynasty and Dongying was not very large, but in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the silver production of Dongying gradually overtook the Ming Dynasty and became about ten times that of the Ming Dynasty, and the silver price ratio was naturally different.

According to Wang Zhi, at this time, in Daming, one tael of gold can be exchanged for about twenty taels of silver, while in Dongying, one tael of gold can be exchanged for one hundred and fifty taels of silver!

That is to say, not counting anything else, just counting the silver price ratio, the price of Daming's goods to Dongying will almost have to increase by about seven or eight times, or in other words, Yang Cong doesn't have to do anything, as long as the silver in Daming is crazy to exchange for gold, and then transport the gold to Dongying, exchange gold for silver, and then transport Dongying's silver back to Daming, and then exchange silver for gold, so that a round trip, every time you can make the silver in your hand increase seven or eight times!

Of course, this is only a theoretical number, if you really operate like this, it is impossible to keep turning over like this, because Dongying's silver reserves are limited, and Daming's gold reserves are also limited.

Yang Cong will not waste energy to do such stupid things, what he wants to do is a long-term business, not a one-shot deal.

He had high hopes for this maritime trade, and long before he cleaned up the Longxi Chen clan and the Zhangpu Lin clan, he discussed with his grandfather Yang Rong and sent the steward and shopkeeper to contact the vendors from all walks of life.

After the completion of the Moon Port, all kinds of commodities poured over like a tide, and Li Jianlin was too busy arranging people to transfer them day and night, and the goods at the Moon Port Wharf were soon piled up.

It's a pity that although Wang Zhi is the largest maritime merchant, there are only thirty or forty large and small sea ships under his command, even if he adds more than ten sea ships in Hong Tiezhu's hands, he will transfer goods worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to Dongying at most, and because Dongying is far away, it will take them at least two or three months to run back and forth, so the scale of their business at the beginning was not as big as he imagined.

Fortunately, at this time, the maritime trade is indeed a huge profit, hundreds of thousands of taels of goods, transported to Dongying, the value has become millions of taels, and because the control of the coastal provinces is quite strict at this time, whether it is the original maritime giants or pirates and pirates, they basically can't get any goods, which leads to a shortage of goods in Dongying, and there is no need to worry about sales at all, basically the goods are swept away as soon as they are delivered.

On the first trip, Wang Zhi took away goods worth about 500,000 taels, and when he came back, he brought more than 5 million taels of silver!

Of course, these silvers are not all owned by Yang Cong alone, after removing the cost of procurement and transportation, the profit is actually only more than four million taels, and the Li family Yicheng he promised at the beginning, the Lu family Yicheng can't be missing, and Wang Zhi can't let him run for nothing, Yang Cong also said in advance, share thirty percent of the profits, and Hong Tiezhu, Li Jianjiang, Li Jianlin, and even Yu Dayou and Tang Kekuan can't let them work in vain, Lin Lin finally came down, and what finally fell into Yang Cong's hands was more than one million taels.

This guy, even Yang Cong, who is a child of a rich family, is so excited that he can't do it when he earns so much silver at one time.

One trip is more than one million taels, four trips a year is more than five million taels, if you multiply the sea ships under Hong Tiezhu's hands, and earn 10 million taels or even 20 million taels a year, it will not be a problem!