"What is my gentleman going to do again, didn't he say not to help me!" Wen Nan can be regarded as having endured the warmth and coldness of the world in the past two months, and after leaving Hong Tao, he suddenly found that he was nothing. Those maritime businessmen were very polite to him, and they would be entertained with good wine and food when they went to any house, but don't talk about substantive issues, when they talk about substantive issues, they only ask one sentence: Does Chairman Hong know? If you want to say you don't know, yes, people won't talk to you later. For this reason, Wen Nan was holding his breath, and at the same time, he also had a deeper understanding of what Hong Tao had said about businessmen before, if there is no benefit, you should not chat with businessmen!

"Brother Wen, you are in the midst of blessings and do not know blessings. This gentleman of yours is a treasure and a great talent! It's a pity that he doesn't recognize me as a student, otherwise I would have wanted to worship him as a teacher. You may not have figured out his temper, everything in this world, he has already made a conclusion in his heart, if your ideas do not conform to his conclusion, and you insist, he will not persuade you, but torture you in a different way, so that you can wake up yourself. Anyway, this style is sometimes very infuriating, but in hindsight, it is indeed a good way, and it is much more practical than just talking about it. When you came to Guangzhou this time, it is estimated that he deliberately forced you to come, as for why Brother Wen suffered this hardship, I don't know. However, he had already agreed that he would help the imperial court borrow ships to transport grain, not only to borrow, but also to make those maritime merchants willing to compete to lend their ships and sailors. Convinced, right? Otherwise, he's a gentleman, and you're a student! "Luo Youde is much more shrewd than Wennan in dealing with people, and he has the earliest contact with Hong Tao, and he can see the Tao the most.

“…… He—he's not going to force him to die! The Hong Tao in Wen Nan's eyes is another Hong Tao. If Hong Tao in Luo Youde's eyes is a business wizard. The Hong Tao in Wen Nan's eyes is more like a pirate leader who kills people without blinking. I always like to solve things by force.

"No, no! Brother Hong would not have made such a decision, and those maritime merchants were not enough for him to use force to coerce. As long as he wanted to, it was not difficult to borrow a ship at all, but the question was how he could make the maritime merchants willing and scramble to lend the ship. I'm afraid you and I can't guess his means, so let's wait and see what kind of immortal means you can have! Luo Youde's mind is relatively clear, and he analyzes the Tao at the head, but he can't figure out what Hong Tao's means are. I don't even have a clue.

What means does Hong Tao have to make the maritime merchants so obedient? Without it, it's still two words, interests!

After Wen Nan left, Hong Tao also carefully thought about whether he could try his best to help the Southern Song army resist the possibility of the Mongol invasion when he was not fully prepared, and finally came to the conclusion that exposing the combat effectiveness of Jinhewan too early would not outweigh the losses, which might scare the Southern Song Dynasty court half to death, and it would be even more difficult to cooperate with them in the future, and maybe it would bring other uncontrollable consequences. But not by force in the Golden River Bay. It can also help to some extent, and the way is these Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants.

Originally, Hong Tao was just planning to do it himself. Borrowing their ships as a logistical supply fleet, Wen Nan was so troubled, he suddenly figured out a problem. They should be the protagonists of the defense against the Mongol invasion, that is their country, if they don't contribute themselves, what is the point of helping them to defeat the whole of Asia?

But the truth is this truth, if you want to raise your arms with empty white teeth, there will be thousands of people responding, it is purely a dream. What happened to the north of the Yangtze River was not at all touched by the maritime merchants located on the southern coast. On the one hand, the transmission of news in this era is too slow, and the battle situation in front cannot be fed back in time; On the other hand, it also shows that the people at this time did not have a particularly clear concept of the state, and they were more accustomed to distinguishing each other by regions and families. Having not seen the scenes of war and alien rule, it is difficult for the maritime merchants in Guangzhou to worry about and contribute to the common people in the north.

What to do? It is not impossible to forcibly order these maritime merchants to lend their ships, but this is contrary to the promise that Hong Tao gave them at the beginning, that is, everything should be done according to the rules set in advance, and no one can violate it. There is no such thing as the chairman of the board of directors who can arbitrarily dispose of shareholders' property in those rules, and the establishment of rules is not a few pieces of paper full of clauses, but how to see how it works, and if you, the founder, take the lead in violating these rules, how can you ask others to abide by them?

If you can't force it, you have to exchange, but fortunately, Hong Tao is very good at exchanging benefits, and he is willing to use this way to influence everyone around him. Isn't it good that everyone trades equally, no one should suffer a big loss, no one should take a big advantage, and everyone takes what they need.

What do you use to trade with those maritime merchants? It's easy to do, Hong Tao has already saved a cabinet of whale skin paper rolls, which are all some whimsical ideas that he dug out of his mind and recorded in combination with the current actual situation, politics, military, nature, geography, science and technology, and life...... Every aspect is there. From these things, pick out some relatively simple projects that are more in line with the actual situation of the Southern Song Dynasty and take them to those Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants for investment, production, and sales, which is a win-win situation.

Maritime merchants not only have to run around on the sea, it is useless to run people and ships, the core is commodities. No matter what you are lucky, you have to have something you can get your hands on, and you have something that no one else has, in order to make money. At present, the maritime merchants in Guangzhou and Quanzhou have understood this truth, and some of them run all kinds of small workshops at home, and the goods produced in them are the goods they take out to exchange with others, and this will expand their profits. Another part of the less powerful maritime merchants also have close ties with various production-oriented workshops, which is their home.

However, there are still too few commodities that can be exported in the Southern Song Dynasty, which is Hong Tao's feeling. At present, the handicraft industry of the Southern Song Dynasty is already very developed, and the vast majority of the goods exported are processed finished products, which are full of added value. Most of the goods exported by other countries are raw materials, which will be bought back by the merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty, and after processing, they will be sold back.

But Hong Tao felt that this was not enough, far from enough! Not only are the export commodities insufficient, but there is also huge potential for domestic consumption in the Southern Song Dynasty. Since the Southern Song Dynasty was already a commodity society, and even more than half of the grain was commercial grain, why not let it go further into a commodity society? I am not the one who makes the policy, and I am not qualified to do so, but I can influence the policy from the bottom up, because I have countless products in my hands that can be produced.

Some of these products can be used now, and some can't be used yet, so Hong Tao found a few more suitable things, and he planned to use these things to exchange with the Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants. They will contribute their own technology and they will contribute funds to carry out large-scale production in joint ventures. In addition to taking some technical shares, another condition is to let those maritime merchants who plan to set up joint ventures with them to produce new commodities consciously and voluntarily rush to help the Southern Song Dynasty court. If this agreement can be completed, Hong Tao will cooperate with them to set up a factory and provide more technical guidance; If you can't do it, no matter how rich you are, you don't have to talk about it, buddy's technology is not sold, only exchanged, it's so capricious!

Then the question is, are these technologies in Hong Tao's hands so powerful? Can the maritime merchants be willing to lose money and make money, and even risk a little bit of their lives? When you get to the front line, who can tell when there will be danger, maybe you won't even be able to come back with people on the boat!

Hong Tao thinks there is! The goods and technologies he provided were all unseen on the market in the Southern Song Dynasty, but there were related finished products, at least they could be compared at a glance. To put it bluntly, it is an upgrade of some products. This kind of thing is more profitable than new things, because new products come out, and they have to go through a period of familiarization, and whether they can be accepted by the original market is also a problem. However, there is no such problem in the upgrading of old products, it can be sold after production, and the coverage of old products is as wide as the new products are as wide as the new products. With this trait, the transaction has to be done, and the risk for investors has been minimized. As long as he is not a fool, anyone will calculate how big the profit is, and Hong Tao, who is a fool, will not talk nonsense with him, and he will not be among the shareholders of the Strait Company, there are all human spirits here, at least in the matter of doing business, no one is more stupid than anyone.

In addition, Hong Tao also used himself to make an endorsement to the maritime merchants, the warships of Jinhewan will provide escort protection for the transport fleet, but not in the name of Jinhewan, but only in the name of the Strait Company, that is, these ships nominally belong to the Southern Song Dynasty maritime merchants. With the escort of warships, the maritime merchants may not worry about the safety of their ships and sailors, and everyone has an evaluation in their hearts about the strength of Chairman Hong's fleet.

If the land is the world of the Mongolian cavalry, then the ocean is the world of the big sea ships, but this is the saying of the previous two years, and now the ocean is the world of Chairman Hong. The original big food fleet with teeth and claws has been crushed to the ground by the fleet with the rat flag, and even the Pu family in Guangzhou and Quanzhou have settled down a lot. These maritime merchants have become accustomed to getting up early in the morning, standing on the deck and looking left and right, and when they see a sailing ship with a mouse flag in the distance, the mood of the day is stable, and there is nothing to fear, just go to the cabin to play fortune and calculate how to buy and sell goods after going ashore, and wonder how to make more money back. (To be continued.) )