"Master Hou, this is a small boat of 200 materials, and a big ship of 500 materials over there. In the future, when this dock is bigger, we will start to plan the next one, and we will build a large ship of more than 500 materials. The boatmen reported.

"Okay, thank you guys. These boats are well built, come, each of them will be rewarded with 100 catties of pork and 50 taels of silver, plus 300 catties of white flour. Each of the big workers will be rewarded with an additional ten taels of silver, twenty catties of pork, and fifty catties of white flour. Zhu Zilong, who was quite satisfied with the progress, waved his hand and gave out a bonus.

Immediately, it caused a cheer and kneeling on the spot.

During the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the implementation of the maritime ban policy that began in the Yuan Dynasty in order to prevent the coastal warlord Yu Dang and pirates from harassing him.

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, although Zheng He had the feat of going to the West, only tributary trade was released, and private people were still not allowed to go to sea.

During the Longqing period, the Ming government adjusted its policy to allow some special areas of the private sector to go overseas for trade, which was known as the "Longqing switch" in history. However, there are regulations on the size of private construction ships, and only ships with a maximum of 500 materials can be built.

However, now in the Ming Dynasty in 1626, this policy is becoming more and more loose.

It was as if Zhu Zilong had the cheap right to be his emperor's doppelganger and could build a strong navy, and this specification restriction would not work for him.

How many tons was the displacement of an ancient 500-material ship?

From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, Chinese ships often used "material" as a unit of its size, and "200 materials", "2000 materials" and so on can often be seen in the literature. In addition, the load of the ship is also often measured in "stone".

One material is ten cubic feet (Song or Ming ruler). The load of a "material" volume depends on the proportion of the goods. Ship feed can be estimated by multiplying the product of length, width and depth.

After loading and sending warmth to the shipyard, Zhu Zilong added an extra salary to the craftsmen before leaving.

A group of simple craftsmen, tearful and non-stop, are all talking about the good of Marquis Zhu. If it weren't for shouting long live and violating the ban, it would probably be shouted.

Just when Zhu Zilong walked out of the shipyard and was about to return to the barracks to inspect again.

In the distance on the Grand Canal, a big boat came by.

As soon as the boat was parked, a fat merchant came down crying. Butler Liu, who was in charge of the dock, howled: "Shopkeeper Liu, the old pit jade rough you want." I've got it for you! A whole shipload of goods almost didn't kill me. It's really hard along the way! ”

Vaguely, Zhu Zilong understood it from a distance.

It turned out that this fat man surnamed Ma used a Dian horse to carry the rough stone to Chongqing Mansion, and it took half a year to get together two ships of goods. Then take the waterway, and when I crossed the Three Gorges, half of my soul was scared off, but fortunately, it was much better in the future!

I heard that Zhu Zilong's body received the rough stones of the old pit at a high price, so he shipped them here.

The old pit jade rough stone, grandma is a bear!

Zhu Zilong, who was originally quite calm, suddenly became excited, and quietly pretended to be an onlooker who did not know the truth, and walked over.

Unlike other minerals, jadeite rough is divided into primary and secondary minerals. Primary jadeite rough mainly refers to jadeite rough minerals that have no or have been transformed by relatively weak late dynamic geological processes.

The secondary ore of jadeite rough refers to the jadeite rough mineral after the jadeite rough has been strongly transformed by natural geological processes such as weathering, earthquakes, and river water, and can also become water stone or water sand stone, which is usually called old pit rough stone.

In the modern 21st century, if you are making jade or something like that, you know the word "gambling stone".

Gambling stone or gambling goods refers to the jadeite when it is mined, there is a layer of weathered skin wrapping, and it is impossible to know the quality of the jadeite, and the jadeite that must be cut is called the gambling stone.

The skin of a piece of jadeite raw material is colored, the surface is very good, and the green is seen when the first knife is cut, but the green is not there when the second knife is cut, which is also a common thing.

Where you leave the jadeite mine, the bet is only 1 in 10,000 (referring to the pigment), and the probability of gambling in the jadeite mine is much higher. Gambling up a jade, there are many people who get rich overnight!

In Chinese history, one of the most famous gambling stones is the "Heshi Wall".

According to legend, in the state of Chu 2,000 years ago, there was a man named Bian He, who found a piece of jade. He took it out and presented it to the two monarchs of the Chu State, and the monarch thought that he had been deceived and cut off his left and right legs one after another. Bian He couldn't walk without legs, he cried on Chu Mountain for three days and three nights with Yupu in his arms, and then King Wen of Chu knew, he sent someone to bring Yupu and asked Yugong to dissect it.

As a result, he got a gem-quality jade, and in order to reward Bian He's loyalty, the beautiful jade was named "He's Bi", which is the legendary He's Bi in later generations.

A piece of jadeite that has not been opened, in addition to the shape, weight, and appearance, no one can tell what is inside, and only by cutting and dissecting can there be a real conclusion.

In the modern 21st century society, the price of jadeite rough is increasing day by day.

A small piece of the best jadeite, millions, tens of millions, and even more than 100 million can be seen.

Taking hundreds of thousands, or even millions, and gambling to get rich once has become one of the choices of many people in this industry. Sometimes a rough stone that only costs a few hundred yuan, if you bet right, it is possible to produce a jadeite worth tens of millions.

It's crazy!

Because of the great uncertainty of gambling stones, it is known as the saying that one is poor and one is rich.

For example, someone used 10 million yuan to gamble on stones, but the knife went down, and the green was not cut, and the person suddenly collapsed and sat on the ground with a butt. From a rich man to a begger!

In the past ten years, the price of jadeite rough has risen year by year, and the cumulative increase is about 100 times.

In the past, Zhu Zilong naturally couldn't afford to gamble, and even if he gambled, there weren't many genuine goods that existed in modern times. After all, after hundreds of years of mining, there are basically not many good rough stones out there in the modern 21st century.

However, in 1626 of the Ming Dynasty, there were still a large number of unmined rough stones in the old mining areas of Myanmar and other places.

Therefore, last time inadvertently, Zhu Zilong said that he wanted to buy a large number of Laokeng rough stones.

Because, compared with the price of rough stones in the modern and Ming dynasties, one is sky-high, the other is the general price, and the sky-high price is very few. The latter is cheap and easy to produce the best jadeite.

I don't want to know all the benefits.

Soon, under Zhu Zilong's explanation, this ship of hundreds of tons of superb rough stones will definitely be the price of cabbage compared to the modern 21st century.

However, this price was high for the fat merchant, and both parties were happy.

Zhu Zilong had to sigh that the prices in the Ming Dynasty were really cheap. In modern times, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of kilograms of the finest rough stones. On the side of 1626, Jingran only needed a few taels of silver, about 1,000 yuan.

When it is shipped back to modern times, it will not make a fortune, and the name can be written upside down.

Well, cut a few by yourself at night to play, anyway, hundreds of tons! -

(To be continued.) )