Chapter 146: Crazy Ship Prices

In the final analysis, Li Zhen didn't really want to kill Luo Lin, after all, this is a top talent who has received all the inheritance of Xue Rengui, and he can be called a trumpet Xue Rengui, even if he is not as good as Xue Rengui, he can definitely become the mainstay of Datang in the future.

It's just that Luo Lin's mistake this time is too big, and Li Zhen really can't find a reason to forgive him, otherwise it won't be enough to stabilize the morale of the army.

Fortunately, Xue Rengui gave him a sufficient reason - to take the initiative to give up all the credit accumulated in the past ten years in exchange for Luo Lin's life, this reason is enough to be reasonable, and no one will say anything after hearing it.

"Alright, you can go down." Li Zhen naturally wouldn't tell Xue Rengui these things - after all, as a superior, there should still be arrogance.

"Yes, thank you, Your Highness."

……

Although the fleet is at sea, this does not prevent Li Zhen from controlling the various departments under his command, after deciding everything, one by one carrier pigeons carry orders one by one, fly away from the ship, and fly to their respective destinations, where there will be special people to receive carrier pigeons, and then strictly carry out the orders.

A month has passed in a trance, and the Yuezhou wharf is still bustling, and people are coming and going.

Today's Yuezhou wharf, the number of ships has increased significantly, and most of the increase is large ships - this is a good phenomenon, which shows that the harvest obtained from Liu Ren's voyage has begun to ferment, and people have realized that compared with the inland business environment that has almost reached its peak, overseas is still a wilderness at this time - at least it seems to be a barren, but from the harvest of Liu Ren's fleet, it seems that under this barrenness is endless wealth, who can take the first step to occupy here, Whoever can eat the brain is full of fat.

What's more, now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has opened up the route, although he has eaten the first bite of meat, the part he has eaten is actually only a drop in the bucket compared to the wealth hidden overseas.

This is something that all far-sighted businessmen are convinced of.

Especially before leaving Lingnan and returning to Chang'an this time, Li Zhen had already announced the route to Luzon, which also led to the fact that during the period of Li Zhen's meeting in Chang'an, the major chambers of commerce in the Tang Dynasty sent fleets to Luzon to explore.

It's just that unlike Li Zhen's fleet, these chambers of commerce don't have large merchant ships, but this obviously can't help but be a businessman whose eyes are red almost stimulated by overseas interests - they don't have big ships, but Li Zhen does.

So during this period of time, Li Zhen's fleet was actually bought by all the chambers of commerce at an average price four times higher than the market price - you must know that it is not a new ship, but a used ship, although there are still eighty percent new, but eighty percent of the new ones are also old ships, and they are bought at several times the market price, I have to say that the merchants are really out of control.

This is still a normal law, and what really surprised Li Zhen was his new boats, that is, those that were still being processed on the slipway and had not yet been launched—even such ships were bought back from Li Zhen by those merchants at ten times the market price.

After learning the news, Li Zhen was confused, he knew that the interests were moving, and before leaving, he also left an instruction to Feng Zhibao (the deputy envoy of the City Shipping Division, the reason why he gave the task was because Feng Zhibao was a businessman, and he could slaughter them) that he could resell the fleet and the shipyard's ships to those merchants, and he could also slaughter those merchants at an appropriate price.

But he didn't expect Feng Zhibao's heart to be so black, he originally thought that he was black enough, but now it seems that he is still not completely black enough - or he still underestimated the determination of businessmen to go to sea to make money.

The shipyard was opened by Li Zhen, so he knew the price of a ship very well.

In terms of the current best cargo ship vertical and horizontal class, even if the labor, time, materials, etc. are added, the cost of a ship is only a thousand yuan.

However, please note that this is the cost price, which is the price at which Li Zhen picks up the boat.

In addition to the cost price, there is also the market price.

And what is the market price of this vertical and horizontal level?

Li Zhen set 3,000 yuan - a full 200% profit, which in his opinion was enough to be mad.

But I didn't expect Feng Zhibao to be even more frustrated......

The price of the old ship is four times, that is, 12,000 yuan, and the one that has not been launched in the dock is ten times, that is, 30,000 yuan, and a ship is 30,000 yuan, Li Zhen's fleet has more than 30 old ships, and there are more than a dozen new ships in the dock - just such a batch of ships came down, and Li Zhen made hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What other voyages did he explore? Just build a ship.

In fact, Li Zhen was also stunned by this crazy price, he felt that if he didn't have a bigger goal, he could become the richest man in the world just by building ships, and he was as rich as the country.

"Sure enough, you are a qualified businessman, and it is really wronged to let you be in charge of the City Division, you should be in control of the Chamber of Commerce." Looking at the account book in front of him, Li Zhen sighed and said, worthy of being called the Lingnan God of Wealth, Feng Zhibao's ability is indeed very strong.

Feng Zhibao received Li Zhen's praise, so happy that his eyes couldn't see, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said modestly with a little self-satisfaction: "Your Highness has won the award, in fact, this is not the highest price, it is because the subordinates have not figured out the market situation, if the subordinates are given another chance, the subordinates can increase the price of the new ship to twelve times, even if it is an old ship, it can also have five times the price." ”

"No, no, no, it's enough, any more will really be damned." Li Zhen was taken aback, and hurriedly waved his hand and refused, he developed navigation and created communication not only to make money, but his main purpose was to open the Age of Discovery.

Such an era cannot be accomplished by one person alone, and only by working together can the trend of the times be completely set off.

So in order to get more people involved, it is necessary to reduce the cost of difficulty, and what is the most basic cost of the Age of Discovery?

Naturally, it's a ship.

So the price of the boat can't be raised too high, otherwise what do you do with those who want to go to sea, but can't afford to buy a boat?

Isn't it a sigh of hope?

How many dreams of the tide have to be stopped?

Therefore, the price of this ship must not only not be increased, but must also go down.

"What? Still want to reduce the price? Feng Zhibao was stunned by Li Zhen's thoughts, and then said with some reluctance: "Your Highness, isn't it too kind to do this?" You don't know how crazy those merchants are, our ships are not enough to sell, on average, each merchant can only buy one or two...... Your Highness, do you know how they form a fleet? They directly use the vertical and horizontal class as the flagship, and then buy a large number of small boats to use as cargo ships, and some fleets don't even let go of small sampans......"

"They're crazy?" Li Zhen was also taken aback, using a small sampan to go to sea? You don't want to live, do you? Where is this going to sea, this is looking for death, right?

"That's the madness of those merchants." Feng Zhibao smiled bitterly: "The subordinates are also businessmen, and the subordinates know their psychology too well, in the face of absolute interests, where can they still be rational - just like Yindao, the major forces are fighting for their heads." ”

"......" Li Zhen was speechless.

(End of chapter)