Forty-seven years after Wanli, with the strong rise of the Later Jin, the Ming Dynasty lost control of Liaodong, and Wu Qinghou also lost the trading goods from Liaodong, and his sea ships became mainly southern goods.

Haining Lin Jia was originally the largest supplier of southern goods in Wuqing Houfu, but with the Lin family being broken by Wei Zhongxian, the supply of southern goods in Wuqing Hou also began to have problems.

By this year, the last pillar of Wuqing's sea ship channel, his source of overseas luxury, was temporarily lost with the war between Zheng Zhilong and Daming.

Wu Qinghou's sea ships have now fallen into a state of suspension. Wuqinghou lost its biggest source of profits, which made Wuqinghou unable to support it anymore and had to bow to Zhu Youzhen and admit defeat.

Wu Qinghou originally calculated very well, he wanted to gain Zhu Youzhen's understanding by admitting defeat, so as to get the right to buy and sell the goods of Xinwangfu.

Wu Qinghou wanted to rely on the novelty products of Xinwangfu to reopen the market in the south of the Yangtze River.

Before the Jiangnan market is opened, Wuqinghou's sea vessels will still be in a state of loss and suspension.

After reading the report, Zhu Youzhen couldn't laugh.

According to the report, the sea trade ticket he worked so hard to get turned out to be an expired ticket that was out of service at a loss.

It's really depressing.

This cunning, damn Wu Qinghou.

Angrily slapping the table, Zhu Youzhen cursed in a low voice.

didn't scold a few words, and Zhu Youzhen showed a relieved smile on his face again.

Thinking about it, if it weren't for the problem with the sea ship channel, how could Wu Qinghou admit defeat to him, and how could he be willing to let go.

These nobles of the Ming Dynasty may not be able to do anything else, but when it comes to business acumen, they are still very shrewd.

Okay, expired tickets are tickets.

Anyway, what Zhu Youzhen wanted was originally the sea vessel channel itself.

As long as Zhu Youzhen can be connected with the Daming sea trade channel, whether Wu Qinghou's sea ships can be profitable, then Zhu Youzhen does not care about it.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen's mentality finally returned to peace.

By the way, how big is this Wu Qinghou's sea ship, and is it suitable for transporting grain?

Zhu Youzhen remembered another purpose for him to take over the Wuqing Waiting Sea Ship, and reopened the report in his hand.

"Huh?"

After careful searching, Zhu Youzhen let out a surprised sound.

The size of the Wuqing ship was somewhat unexpected by Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that the sea ship that could allow Wu Qinghou to support for so long under the squeeze of King Xin's Mansion was only 30 in size.

30 material sea vessels, even if Wu Qinghou has three, this capacity is a little too small.

material is the unit of measurement of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youzhen heard that the Zhenyun ship with a displacement of nearly 400 tons was set at 1,300 materials at Dengzhou Shipyard. In this way, the displacement of 30 materials is about 10 tons.

Can this displacement also be called a sea vessel?

For such a small sea vessel, Zhu Youzhen is really a little unacceptable.

The sea is stormy and has high requirements for the stability of the ship. After loading the ballast necessary for navigation, how much more loading capacity can this small boat with a displacement of 10 tons have?

3 tons or 5 tons?

Frowning, Zhu Youzhen guessed wildly.

With such a small carrying capacity, it is a bit too little to transport food.

However, according to the report, the ships of Wuqinghou transported goods from the north and south to the north and south, which belonged to the category of luxury goods.

If this is a special luxury goods, the 3-ton capacity of this sea ship is enough.

Thinking of the profits of luxury goods that far exceeded ordinary goods, Zhu Youzhen was relieved again.

Anyway, Wu Qinghou's sea ship, Zhu Youzhen is only used to take lines and travel, and if you really want to transport goods in the future, you still have to rely on the treasure ship that will be built.

Thinking of the more than 300 tons of loading capacity of the treasure ship, Zhu Youzhen suddenly showed a narrow smile.

With a loading capacity of more than 300 tons, I don't know if Wu Qinghou's partners can provide so many luxury goods.

Changchun Palace

"Ugh."

Closing the recital, Zhu Youxiao let out a long sigh.

"Come, go and ask the king to come, right now."

Let's see what Xiao Wu can do, maybe that kid can have a good way to solve this difficulty.

While asking the chamberlain to summon Zhu Youzhen into the palace, he patted his palms with a piece of music in annoyance, and Zhu Youxiao couldn't help pinning his hopes on Zhu Youzhen.

"Big brother, find me for something good."

After receiving the summons, Zhu Youzhen came quickly. Zhu Youxiao was still thinking about the possibility of other methods, and Xiao Wu's thief's voice came from his ears.

"A good thing? It's a big deal. ”

Seeing Xiao Wu, Zhu Youxiao unceremoniously stuffed the music in his hand into his hand.

"What is this?

Ah, big brother, are you going to start building the Victory?

The eldest brother has a really good vision, and the eldest brother is really upright and wise. ”

flipped through the music casually, and before he looked at a few lines, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but slap Zhu Youxiao's ass indiscriminately.

Before the sound of sycophants landed, Zhu Youzhen's face had become extremely solemn.

stopped talking, and hurriedly flipped through the recital, Zhu Youzhen didn't seem to believe it, and turned the recital again from the beginning.

That's it.

Flipping through the music twice in a row, confirming that he had neither read or understood wrongly, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but groan in his heart.

It's over, it's really done this time.

In the short term, it seems that there is no need to expect to start building the Victory.

I'm stupid.

Straddling his face, Zhu Youzhen scolded himself in his heart.

Mr. really scolded right, academic things really can't tolerate shortcuts. You're used to taking shortcuts, and one day you're going to pay a heavy price.

Zhu Youzhen finally has a deep understanding of Xu Guangqi's theory.

"Little Wu, do you have a way to solve this little trouble?"

Seeing that Xiao Wu was about to cry, although he knew that there was little hope, Zhu Youxiao still asked with the hope of just in case.

"A little trouble? Big brother, what are you kidding, can this still be a minor trouble? ”

was asked by Zhu Youxiao, Zhu Youzhen couldn't hold back any longer, and he shouted with great regret: "Big brother, I'm so stupid!"

How could I have forgotten that a ship of such a displacement as the Victory had to have a deep-water dock to build.

This deep-water dock, now I really can't help it. ”

At this moment, Zhu Youzhen's tears of regret were about to flow out.

Zhu Youzhen was indeed a little careless, and he was carried away by the success of the treasure ship.

When he took out the Victory, Zhu Youjian thought about using the Victory to make it difficult for Zhu Youxiao, and he completely ignored the difficulty of building the Victory.

Not to mention the other difficulties in the construction of the Victory, now the Dengzhou shipyard cannot find a dock to build the Victory.

Dengzhou Shipyard is capable of building treasure ships.

With a length of 35.5 meters, a width of 10 meters, a height of 5 meters, and a displacement of less than 400 tons, the Zhenyun ship is not a grade at all compared with the Victory.

You know, with a displacement of 3,600 tons, the Victory alone has a draft of a rare 8.8 meters.

How tall is 8.8 meters?

The height of the ship is only 5 meters.

In other words, the underwater part of the Victory alone has exceeded the height of the ship's side.

Not to mention anything else, this alone, the treasure ship and the Victory are not in the same grade at all.