Merchants value interests and security, these Tang Ming can easily satisfy them, the royal gold-lettered signboard, and the fleet of the sea overlord Zheng He, just take it out and make people speechless. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It is the nature of businessmen to pursue profits, and they can talk to you very kindly about anything, except for one thing, and that is money. As soon as it comes to money, they immediately put on a different face, a soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, and in the same way, a businessman who does not want to make money is not a good businessman.

When Tang Ming met with these merchants, he opened his mouth at the beginning and asked them to take out all the money for shipbuilding. To put it bluntly, they had to scrape together the money to build merchant ships, and Tang Ming's treasure shipyard was responsible for building them.

After three years, all these merchant ships will be returned to the merchants who paid for them, and they will be considered to be truly their own. In the first three years after it was built, they had to pay ship tax to Tang Ming every time they went to sea.

On the surface, this condition is understandable, and it can be barely agreed. But the shrewd businessman soon discovered that the sea ship was no better than the boat in the inland river, and the same wooden ship was put on the open sea to sail, and its life span was about 5 years at most.

However, if you put it in the Neijiang River or river, it can reach about 10 years, and you don't need to overhaul it. According to this calculation, all the businessmen here feel that they have suffered a loss, and they have suffered a big loss.

Although the technology of Bao Shipyard is excellent, the sea-building ships are even more top-notch, and no one can compare with them. But this is a voyage at sea, and its service life will be greatly reduced, and it will be three years before they, the merchants who paid for the shipbuilding, can get the ships back, and it is estimated that there will be only a pile of rotten planks left.

He Fu, the representative of the merchants, was elected to bargain with Tang Ming, and the thin old He looked very shrewd, and his small eyes exuded a thief's bright gaze. He bowed down and clasped his fists and whispered: "Hou Ye asked us merchants to build ships at our own expense, and we have no opinion, but why do we have to pay taxes for three years on the ships we built at our own expense, this seems to be a bit difficult for strong people." ”

Tang Ming glanced at the thin old He and smiled and said: "Actually, this tax book Hou Ye is not too much, you think about it, this ship will be built in my treasure shipyard, this labor cost will have to be paid, as well as the repair and maintenance in the next three years, these are a lot of expenses, Hou Ye, I can't always post it for everyone!" ”

According to this point of view, it is indeed this principle, Lao He is a shrewd businessman, who knows how to advance and retreat, and knows how to be proportionate, which is the way of business. Especially when doing business with the royal family, the usual means naturally cannot be used, and appropriate regression can ensure safety.

Besides, what Hou Ye said was also reasonable, he had no reason to continue to dwell on this issue, and simply admitted the facts. His ultimate goal is not here either, but the age of those ships.

"What Hou Ye said is very true, Lao You has not considered the right thing to collect some taxes, but the service life of this ship seems to be a bit long, and I hope Hou Ye can shorten it. This sea navigation is no better than the inland river, the service life of the ship will be greatly shortened, and we dare not use the ship after three years! ”

Lao He had a distressed look on his face, this is the worst thing to do business with the official family, everything has to be centered on others, which is somewhat contrary to the first major rule of businessmen. Like this, it is clear that they have suffered a loss, and they have to be careful when they want to bargain, otherwise, once they annoy the officials, they are likely to lose all their money.

"Oh, how long should this ship take, according to you?" Tang Mingpi didn't smile, and an invisible pressure from the official family slammed into Lao He's mind of being careful and careful.

It was really embarrassing for Lao He to be beaten upside down like this, and it was only at this moment that he realized that these businessmen should have the intention of negotiating. Because from the time they promised Tang Ming to come here, they were destined to be losers.

Their official status was a trench that the most unsocial businessmen could not cross. Under the system of imperial supremacy, their so-called struggle seems so ridiculous. Lao He thought about this, and sighed in his heart and accepted his fate.

"It's all up to the Hou Ye arrangement, Lao He has no objections!" If you put it down, you have to put it down thoroughly, and Lao He can be regarded as a person who can see it.

Tang Ming didn't press forward, and he was a little embarrassed to use his official identity to oppress people at this moment. Since everyone is clearly convinced, then everything is easy to discuss.

The ship will be used for three years, which he is preparing to bargain for Lao He and them, but in fact, the bottom line in his heart is two years. Lao He didn't dwell on this matter anymore, and Tang Ming simply lost a year, which was a good sign and also gave Lao He a happy situation, and the next thing was easy to do.

Three days later, Lao He directly pulled the money to the Treasure Shipyard and handed it over to Tang Ming in person, and the Treasure Shipyard, which had been idle for nearly half a month, began to get busy again. This is the first unofficial order received by Bao Shipyard, and it is also the only list that has been recorded in the account of Bao Shipyard from the beginning of its establishment to the present.

The boat built was not owned by the official, so Tang Ming naturally could no longer rip off the craftsmen like before, and the wages had to be given and the benefits had to be improved. A lot of silver was scattered, and no one in the entire Treasure Shipyard was unhappy, and Tang Ming's prestige in the Treasure Shipyard overshadowed Zheng He for a while.

The changes in the treasure shipyard soon reached the ears of the queen, and the queen mother, who was obsessed with wealth, was thinking about how to take out some more silver taels from Tang Ming's body. From the time Zheng He began to build the Treasure Shipyard, it was always the emperor who was raising money for it, and he had never heard of a profit.

But Tang Ming only took over for a few days, and immediately reversed the situation, turning a treasure shipyard that could only invest and never make a profit into a chicken that could lay golden eggs. After ordering someone to call the crown prince and ask Tang Ming how he ran the treasure shipyard, the queen's mind became active.

She wondered if she wanted to withhold the monthly allocation of 350,000 taels of silver from the treasure shipyard, and the more she thought about it, the more feasible she felt. But she didn't notice Zhu Gaochi, who was standing silently on the side, his face had become extremely pale.

The treasure shipyard has just started now, and there is no real profit, the queen mother is playing the idea of the treasure shipyard at the moment, it seems that he has invested 50 taels of silver in the bankruptcy, I don't know if he will lose all his money, this matter has to be told to Tang Ming as soon as possible, he doesn't want his last bit of family money to be hollowed out by the queen mother.

That night, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took a carriage under the pretext of inspecting the Agricultural College and went straight to the Zheng Mansion to find Tang Ming. The carriage was driven by the groom, and the prince's anxiety seemed to infect the groom, making him slap the horse's ass with red eyes and a muffled sound. (To be continued.) )