Wang Xuan received Yang Cong's secret letter, and he couldn't laugh or cry, Yang Cong actually asked him to make an earthen cannon, is there a mistake?

What Dongying iron cannon, that's a fart, he looked at the drawings and understood, this is obviously an earth cannon, and the earth cannon can't be soil anymore.

He really didn't understand what Yang Cong meant, just let him build the earth cannon, and let him build it desperately, as fast as he could, as much as he could!

What's the use of making more of this kind of thing?

The earthen cannon is the earthen artillery, and there is no comparison with the new artillery at all, because the earthen cannon not only cannot fire continuously, but the range cannot be guaranteed, as for the accuracy, not to mention, the earthen artillery basically has no accuracy at all, and it is good to ensure that the shells fall within a radius of about 100 steps.

Compared with the new tiger squat cannon equipped by the Ming army, this thing is a pile of scrap iron, because you don't have a head, you may not be able to hit people, but people can hit you, make this thing, isn't that looking for abuse?

Of course, Yang Cong also said in the secret letter that this thing was not made for the Ming army, but for the princes of Dongying, according to what Yang Cong said, once this thing is made, the princes of Dongying will definitely rush to ask for it!

What are you kidding, someone will rush to ask for this thing?

Are all the princes of Dongying stupid?

Wang Xuan expressed serious doubts, but he still organized manpower to start producing this backward earthen cannon as soon as possible according to Yang Cong's request.

This kind of earth cannon is really too simple for the current Ming Dynasty, iron ore, that is ready-made, and you don't even need to spend money to buy it, as long as you hire someone to mine it, as for the casting technology, it is not to mention, casting this thing, it is simply more fun, and you don't even need a master to shoot, and the novice apprentice can cast it quite well.

However, for the quality, Wang Xuan is still quite concerned, although Yang Cong said, as long as it is made of this thing, he still transformed a number of machine tools, specially used to scrape the inner hole, grinding the outer circle, anyway, it is a matter of clamping to the machine tool to turn a few times, and it will not delay much time at all.

In this way, the clay cannon is beautiful, not only the inner wall is extremely smooth, but even the outer circle is bright.

That's it, Wang Xuan still felt a little reluctant to go, because Yang Cong said that this thing will sell at least 1,000 taels and one doors.

What is the concept of a thousand taels?

If it is used to buy food, it is enough for a family of five to eat for more than ten years!

Even if it is used to buy a house, it can buy more than ten sets of courtyard houses in the capital!

And the cost of this thing, to put it bluntly, there is no cost, because the iron ore of the Ming Dynasty is owned by the imperial court, even if you hire someone to dig it, it will not cost a few dollars, the coal mine is also the imperial court, and the craftsmen responsible for casting are also under the management of the Ministry of Industry.

Is it possible that something made from a few taels of silver can be sold for a thousand taels?

When Wang Xuanzheng was puzzled, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces were also a little puzzled, because Taishi Hui'an Hou Yang Cong actually played the imperial court at this time, please open the sea ban!

At this time, the Japanese Bandits had disappeared, and even the Dongying Hirado Domain, the old nest of the Japanese Bandits, was occupied by the Ming army, and there was no problem in opening the sea ban.

The problem is that it is a bit puzzling that this Taishi Hui'an Hou Yang Cong proposed a ban on opening the sea.

In fact, the court officials have heard that the maritime trade at this time is controlled by Yang Cong, the Marquis of Taishi Hui'an, and the entire gentry class in the southeast even has to act according to Yang Cong's eyes, because if they offend this prince, the loss will be great, not only can the goods in the shops and workshops under their hands not be sold, but even the grain produced in the field should not be sold at a good price.

It can be said that Yang Cong, the Marquis of Taishi Hui'an, was able to firmly hold the entire southeast gentry class in his hands through maritime trade, and no one dared to disagree with him.

At this moment, he actually proposed to open the sea ban, wouldn't he lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot!

Yang Cong's behavior is really a bit puzzling, why did he do this?

His idea is actually very simple, he just wants to let the entire business of Daming develop and let Daming become rich and strong.

As for his personal income, in fact, the impact is not very great, because what he did was originally a business of buying and selling, and their Yang family actually did not produce any goods, they just sent people to collect the goods produced by the workshops and workshops under the hands of the local tyrants and squires and official eunuchs in various places and transport them overseas for sale.

The profit in this middle is indeed quite amazing, because when they buy the goods, they will pay at most double the current price of the Ming Dynasty, and after they are transported to Dongying, the price of the goods can increase at least ten times, that is to say, the profit they earn is almost about eight times the current price.

However, it is also very expensive for him to do so, because everything from the purchase of goods, to the transportation of goods, to the sale of goods, has to spend money.

For example, to purchase goods, the Yang family has to raise a lot of stewards and shopkeepers, not to mention, but also to ask a lot of eunuchs to help, the Lu family represented by Lu Bing, the Gu family represented by Gu Kexue and Gu Kejiu brothers, and the Xu family represented by Xu Jie are all partners of the Yang family, and they get at least more than 30% of the profits.

Then it also costs money to transport goods, whether it is to ask for help from the local capital guards in the Ming Dynasty or to hire Wang Zhi's fleet at sea, they will share a lot of profits, and this piece is at least about 20%.

In the end, it is not costless to sell goods in Dongying, at least, he has to hire a lot of people to run the business and deliver goods, which also accounts for about 20%.

In other words, the profit that fell into his hands in the end was actually less than 30%.

After the opening of the sea ban, everyone will definitely think of ways to do overseas business, and the cost of purchasing goods and transporting goods is basically gone, because traders who want to do maritime trade will find their own ways to transport goods to various treaty ports, and they don't have to worry about it at all.

At this time, only Wang Zhi and Yang Cong's Hong Tiezhu under Wang Zhi and Yang Cong can organize a huge fleet to transport goods to Dongying or even Nanyang, most traders still don't have the ability to go to sea alone, and he can't afford to increase the price of goods by two or three times, and people will definitely be happy to hand over the goods to him for transportation or sales.

In this way, no matter whether the final sales link is the merchant's own way or handed over to them to do, he can still get more than 20% of the profit in the end.

In other words, he lost about 10% of his profits at most, at least, before the development of vendors everywhere.

What is the profit compared to the development of the entire Ming Dynasty?

Moreover, with the development of the entire Ming business, the business will definitely get bigger and bigger, and the profits of these two percent will definitely snowball, and it is not impossible to exceed the original three percent of the profits.

This is what Yang Cong thinks.

If the sea is banned, he will not necessarily lose, but the business of Daming will definitely develop, so why not?