Chapter 279: Preparations Before Going to Sea
In the morning, Li Chen confirmed that more than 20 children who were going to go to sea with him, such as Xiaohu, Xiaopu, Silly Baby and Big Head, were all going to follow him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
'Uncle, if you're stupid, don't take him there.' Ah Xiang said worriedly, "Uncle, it's too dangerous to go to sea, if Uncle has three long and two short, the family will be scattered." ’
'Don't worry. Li Chen rubbed Ah Xiang's hair, "Actually, going to sea is a little bitter, but it's really not that dangerous." But that's not what I heard. Ah Xiang still didn't believe it, and retorted, "There are many reasons for that." Li Chen explained.
It is dangerous to go to sea, which is known to many citizens of Yangzhou. But there are some reasons for this, on the one hand, although it is really dangerous to go to sea, and every year there are people who go to sea and never come back. On the other hand, it is a spread of falsehood, and the word of mouth of the citizens has increased the danger of going to sea tenfold.
Thirdly, of course, the maritime merchants do not want more people to go to sea. Although the profits of maritime trade were very high, the potential of the Tang Dynasty's maritime trade had not yet been exerted to the limit, and compared with the Song Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's maritime trade activities were much inferior. But the problem is that not many people like to have outsiders intervene. A large piece of bread is very large, very large, and can be divided among many people, but there are many people who would rather die and spoil the bread than divide the bread.
'Okay, don't worry, Uncle will take care of himself, and he will take care of Xiaohu and them. Li Chen gave Ah Xiang a big smile, hoping that she would rest assured, "You don't know, Uncle always likes to think about things in the worst place, and it is inevitable that the words will be heavy, and it is really not that dangerous." ’
After comforting Ah Xiang, Li Chen brought Huang Tiansheng close to the study, if he wanted to explain to him, he and Yixin were his biggest reliance on this trip to sea. These two people, together with the map of the world in his mind, were a support for his safe return.
After talking to Huang Tiansheng and leaving him over there for a long exam, Li Chen was ready to go out, he was going to visit Suleiman. Taking over Suleiman's property, seeing whether to buy it or whatever, it was all his plan in his heart, and he hadn't told Suleiman yet.
In case he doesn't agree, I'll just go to the country." Li Chenxin calculated that if Suleiman did not agree and could not follow, he would take the Japanese route. The profit is also not small, and when he has enough henchmen, he will run the route of Nanyang by himself.
The profits of the Wa Kingdom are also very large. After coming back, Li Chen sent people to inquire, now Yangzhou really no one runs the Japanese route, because there is nothing to sell in Japan, Yangzhou people's impression of the Wa country is that the people there are short, often send students to come, pious people will say, the great monk Jianzhen passed the Dharma successfully, many Buddhist monks have to go to the Dharma to preach, only last year there was a master, take a believer's merchant ship, and passed, it is said that there is a success. Except for those, the Wa Kingdom is a wilderness... To be developed on your own.
And if you don't let me follow, won't I go myself? The world is in your mind, where is Nanyang, and you can't run, what is there to be afraid of. If you want to go with others, in addition to knowing the way, you also need to know which goods are easy to sell in each place, and what are produced.
In his previous life, in the Age of Discovery, he had played it n times. It doesn't matter if it's the second or fourth generation, or the online version. He's been to Southeast Asia many times. Which places have what specialties, he cooks.
Of course, real life doesn't provide that kind of product like a game. However, he can only buy those goods that he knows can be sold at a high price in Datang.
And he can ask if he has a mouth, and the local natives can also ask, but no one told him that he is so great that he buys everything he can buy and buys a copy and brings it back, and I admit that I lost money this time and earn it back the next time.
And what Datang can sell, don't worry. Yangzhou is a place where commerce is developed, and there are many merchants who specialize in supplying to maritime merchants, and he does not worry about not being able to buy goods, so he will bring the goods that maritime merchants most often bring to sea. As for people not selling him? That's not even more, most of the people who go to sea are those big food merchants, and the supplies are all Han Chinese, and they can't pee in a pot at all. Coalition to exclude him? Well, the local businessmen don't look down on those Hu merchants at all, okay?
Li Chen calculated as he walked, he had considered all of this, although going to sea was for many goals, but he would never forget that going to sea was all about making money. Without making money, he simply couldn't complete the plan in his heart.
Thinking more about winning, less is not winning, thinking about it, what else is not considered. By the way, the worst thing is that those Hu merchants have influence overseas, and their goods cannot be sold locally.
Well... By the way, he still has a way in Southeast Asia. Li Chen grabbed his beard and looked up at the sky, he found that he was standing in front of the horse, the horse he was used to riding had been led out by the groom, and now he was tilting his head and looking at him with wide eyes, Li Chen smiled and touched its head.
This horse is a variegated flower horse, although the color is mixed, but it can also be called a good horse, don't be too picky, the Tang Dynasty is no longer the Tang Dynasty in the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the horse is definitely precious in China, and this good horse in the Western Regions also cost him a lot of money.
'Ferrari, Ferrari, gone. Li Chen turned over on the horse, tapped the horse's belly, pulled the rope, and was about to set off, but the Ferrari didn't move, Li Chen sighed lightly, and shouted in aion, "Huahua is gone." ', the flower horse briskly raised the hair...
Yes, the horse's name is Flowey... Don't laugh, I know it's very motherly, but there is no way, as soon as the group of dead children came, they named it themselves, and when Li Chen wanted to change it, it was too late, so he recognized the name Huahua.
Li Chen took a few guards and went out to Su's house. In a short period of time, he has already had a case for the worst dilemma he faced. Southeast Asia is easy to do, and when he reads history, he remembers that the most enviable thing is that those European pioneers often took worthless glass beads in exchange for large tracts of land.
He can do the same, he doesn't believe it, those natives in Southeast Asia will be especially immune to glass beads. Don't like glass beads? It doesn't matter, I still have glass mirrors, I have spirits. I don't believe you're not taking the bait. When the time comes, send these things to the local chief or the king, and all the problems will be solved.
As for the fact that if you sail all the way to Dashi, and you arrive in the local area, the goods cannot be sold, and there is no way to buy them..., by the way, doesn't Suleiman have a rival? If Lao Su doesn't agree...
'Master. ''How?'' Ayong? Suddenly, Li Chen was pulled by the guards, looked up, and found that Ah Yong was blocking in front of him, "Fu Bo asked Lang Jun to come over the door to speak." Ah Yong said solemnly. (To be continued.) )