Out of the true character of a businessman, Zhang Chenglei subconsciously wanted to understand the shipbuilding market in preparation for negotiations for a while, so he asked about the two lucky ships outside.

In fact, since Liu Neng and Zhang Chenglei revealed the background of the governor of Zhejiang and the identity of the Duke of Qi, Yang Gonghui has been apprehensive in his heart. Whether it is the governor of Zhejiang or the Duke of Qi, they are all behemoths to Yang Gonghui, and it is not something he can provoke.

The Yang family of Yangjiapu has been in Ningbo for more than 200 years, and has built thousands of ships of all kinds, whether it is the relationship between the official or the rivers and lakes, it can be said that the relationship is not deep, but this relationship is not enough compared with the governor of Zhejiang, let alone the Duke of Qi who holds a soldier.

Of course, whoever builds a ship is a shipbuilder, but the problem is that the money earned by building for the official family is different from the money earned from the private shipbuilding. For example, there are two lucky ships outside, one is set by the Fan family in Ningbo, for the upcoming sea trade in the Japanese country. The other was ordered by Gu Rong, a Zhoushan pirate.

The same lucky boat was sold to the Fan family for three thousand taels of silver, but it was sold to Gu Rong for four thousand taels. Because the Yang family wants to settle down in this Ningbo Mansion, he can't afford to mess with the Fan family of the four major families in Ningbo, and Gu Rong is doing a business with no capital, the silver comes quickly, and what he earns is the money of a pirate like him.

Therefore, Yang Gonghui would rather do the same business with smugglers and pirates, but he would rather do business with people in the official face.

Now, Qi Guogong's people found the door, and Yang Gonghui could only sigh in his heart, and he had already reported that he planned not to make money.

"The two ships outside are all three-masted ships of 400 materials, and it took half a year for the men of the whole village to completely make them, and all kinds of materials such as wood, lacquer, brown rope, sails, and iron anchors cost 2,500 taels of silver, and the price was 3,000 taels."

Out of caution, Yang Gonghui said a little more about the money, for fear that Zhang Chengkai's counteroffer would be returned to the book after a while. If the price of doing business with other people is not suitable, he can not do it, but he doesn't dare to do these two people on the other side, whether it is the governor of Zhejiang or the Duke of Qi, they can make him fall into a place of no return.

"Okay, I'll give six thousand taels of silver, and I want the two ships outside!" Zhang Chenglei said categorically.

"This is not good, everyone has paid the deposit, and the ship will be delivered in half a month, so you can't explain it to others." Yang Gonghui hurriedly said, what he is most afraid of is this, the owners of these two ships are for the upcoming sea trade, if they can't hand over the ships by then, how can they stop, whether it is the Fan family or Gu Rong, Yang Jiapu can't afford to provoke them.

Zhang Chenglei just looked at it with a smile, and saw Yang Gonghui's red face and his efforts to defend and persuade him, telling that he could not lose his trust in others. On the side, his son Yang Shiyun was already full of anger.

"In this case, since this is the case, I will not be strong." Finally, Zhang Chenglei sighed, which made Yang Gonghui breathe a sigh of relief.

"Forget about the ships that others have already set, don't take orders from others in the next year, Qi Guogong has a big business for you." Zhang Chenglei's next words made Yang Gonghui's heart rise again. Not receiving other people's orders for a year means that Yangjiapu will not have much income at all in the next year, and how terrible it is for more than 100 households and nearly 1,000 people to have no income for a year!

"Don't worry, if you do something for Qi Guogong, I won't treat you badly, and the salary will be preferential and generous, and I will never owe it!" As if he knew what Yang Gonghui was thinking, Zhang Chenglei promised.

"Qi Guogong is a hero of the Ming Dynasty, doing things for his old man, and talking about making money." Yang Gonghui hurriedly responded.

"You still have to take the money that should be taken, otherwise wouldn't it become the Duke of Qi to oppress the people? I can't let Grandpa Guo bear such a reputation. Zhang Chenglei said lightly.

Liu Neng listened quietly on the side, and couldn't help but secretly praise Zhang Chenglei, but he just pretended to buy two sailboats outside to make Yang Gonghui scared, and Yang Gonghui would definitely not dare to play tricks in the next negotiations.

Yang Gonghui didn't even dare to say it, and then asked, "I don't know what kind of ship Qi Guogong wants to build?" ”

Zhang Chenglei didn't say much, and took out a drawing from his arms, which was the structural diagram of the four-masted Galen ship drawn by Chen Yue.

"This is a sailboat of the Xiyi people, this kind of ship has never been built." Looking at the drawings intently, Yang Gonghui frowned.

The Yang family has built ships for generations, whether it is a fortune ship, a Guangzhou ship, or a flat-bottomed sand ship, almost all kinds of ships have been built in Yangjiapu, but this Xiyi sailing ship has never been. When Yang Gonghui was young, he also went to sea to see the Xiyi sailboat, but seeing it does not mean that he can build it, and he does not know anything about the internal structure of the ship.

"Isn't that a drawing?" Liu Neng on the side couldn't help but interject, this is to build ships, if this Yang Gonghui can't do it, wouldn't it be in vain!

"Lord Liu, you don't know, this drawing can only see the shape of the sailboat, but the inside of the ship can't be seen, the structure of the Xiyi ship and my Ming ship is very different, just imagination is not enough." Yang Gonghui smiled bitterly.

"Let you build a ship must be able to build, naturally it will not be difficult for others, this is just a drawing of a sailboat, and there will be a model of a sailboat sent over after the matter is negotiated." Zhang Chenglei said indifferently.

"A model sailboat?"

"It's a shrunken ship, more than three feet long and more than a foot high, and its internal structure is exactly the same as the real thing." Zhang Chenglei explained.

"Where is there such a thing?" Yang Gonghui was pleasantly surprised, if there really is such a model that is the same as the real thing, if it can't be built, he won't have to do it, the old shipwright who has worked all his life.

"Of course, it is at Qi Guogong in Hangzhou, as long as the cooperation is negotiated, it will be sent soon."

"As long as the model is sent, we will start work immediately, and the salary and everything can be said, as long as we give a material money." Yang Gonghui said categorically that for him, who has been addicted to shipbuilding all his life, there is no more temptation to build a new sailboat. The sailing ships of the Xiyi people, I have only heard and seen them, but all the shipwrights of the Ming Dynasty can not find a single person who can build them, if they can learn it, even if they lose money to make Yang Gonghui for the Duke of Qi, they are willing.

"However, Qi Guogong has the conditions, this kind of Galen ship is currently no one in Daming, and Qi Guogong also spent a lot of effort to get the atlas model. So he asked that this kind of ship can only be built for us, you can't build a boat and sell it to outsiders privately, in order to prevent technical leakage, the Qi State Guild sent people to your village to supervise.

As for the wages, they will not be unkind to you, and after deducting the money for the materials, I will pay your village two thousand taels of silver for every ship that is built. ”

"Where can two thousand taels of silver work?" Yang Gonghui smiled bitterly, "According to the size on the drawings, this ship will use at least a thousand materials, and even if all the people in the village go into battle, it will take more than half a year to build." There's no time for anything else. Two thousand taels of silver were distributed to nearly 1,000 people in the village, and even their stomachs were full. ”

"And how much do you say you will be paid?" Zhang Chenglei asked.

Yang Gonghui lowered his head and secretly calculated, if it weren't for the fact that he could learn the shipbuilding method of the Xiyi ship, he didn't want to take this kind of job at all. But Zhang Chenglei has something to say first, even if he learns to build ships, he can only build them for Qi Guogong. It would take more than half a year for a ship, which meant that in the next few years, the village would not be able to take on other jobs, and if the wages were less, the villagers would have to go hungry.

"The wages of five thousand taels of silver per ship cannot be done any less." Yang Gonghui gritted his teeth and reported the bottom line that he could accept.