Seeing that Craftsman Yao made it clear that he could help buy and sell ships, Yang Chao was too lazy to sigh about the army.

Yang Chao asked directly: "I don't know how much silver should be paid by this official?" ”

Yao Jiangtou smiled: "It's not much, one or two hundred taels is enough." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "Okay." One or two hundred taels of silver. I want three boats, each of which is 1,500 taels of silver, not a penny more, and as for the amount of the boat, it will be troublesome to the head of the craftsman. ”

Yao Jiang was stunned: "How can this be?" ”

He didn't expect that Yang Chao didn't come up with the money to buy the ship at all, but relied on him.

Yang Chao smiled: "Why not." One or two hundred taels of silver only, but the official will spend one thousand and five hundred taels of silver. If it succeeds, the official will have three ships, and if it doesn't work, the official will only need this one. ”

Yao Jiangtou pondered for a while, weighing the pros and cons, if these few warships that no one wanted were sent away, and a few more ships could be built if the slipway was vacated, and these ships were backlogged here, and I didn't know when the government would be willing to get rid of them, it would always be a trouble.

"Okay, it's a deal!"

Yao Craftsman made a lot of determination, in fact, he may not use one or two hundred taels of silver, Yao Craftsman has a number of empty ships in his hands.

"And how big is this ship?"

At this time, more than twenty soldiers also stood on the slipway and watched, chattering and discussing, and they couldn't help but marvel at the ship as if it were a small house.

Craftsman Yao didn't care that they were soldiers, and replied very politely: "The captain is ten zhang, and the width is two zhang." ”

The soldiers, who did not have an intuitive impression of the length, continued to ask: "How many people can be pulled, and how many goods can be pulled?" ”

Yao Craftsman said: "This ship has more than 20 cabins, and it can fit one or two hundred people. If you pull the goods, it can hold 15600 quintals! ”

"Wow, there are two or three hundred cows on the top!"

A soldier who had raised cattle suddenly converted it.

A group of soldiers couldn't help but let out an exclamation, and the big boat under their feet suddenly became a group of stout cattle in their eyes.

"Craftsman Yao, how do you get into the water?"

Yang Chao was already in a hurry to take his boat.

Yao Jiangtou smiled: "Don't worry, please look over there!" ”

Yang Chao looked along the hand of Yao Craftsman, there was a deep waterway connected to the slipway, and suddenly Yao Craftsman shook his hand.

In the distance, people were busy, and then Yang Chao heard the sound of splashing, and those people opened a sluice gate along with the Qinhuai River.

Seeing the water swimming like a long dragon, there are also boatmen on the slipway here who are busy, the slipway is surrounded on all sides, and there is a sluice built on one side, which is a large stone door, and dozens of people can only open it by agitating the winch.

Soon the water came and flowed into the locks.

As the water from the canal poured into the dock, the boat, which had been lying quietly on the sand, began to rock.

The old shipwrights of the shipyard were now tightly pulling the dozens of thick hemp ropes tied to the ship to prevent the boat from shaking too much and hitting the slipway.

The old water ghost Jiang Huai took the helm with his chest open, and beckoned his old brothers to run left and right on the boat, balancing the hull.

"Pull!"

An old boatman shouted.

The other boatmen were pulling the ropes desperately.

"Force on the left, loosen on the right."

The old boatman continued to shout.

"Push the right, loose on the left."

With the shouting, the water at the bottom of the boat became more and more, the boat shook more violently, and the boatmen struggled even more, but under the command of the experienced old boatman, the ship finally floated calmly and never hit the slipway.

Soon the dock was filled with water, as high as the level of the canal, and as high as the river farther away, and at the same time gently rippling with the water.

"Lord Yang, it's up to you now."

Yao Craftsman said, meaning to hand over the ship to Yang Chao now.

Yang Chao gave Zhang Dawei a color, Zhang Dawei nodded, and shouted at the soldiers to take the rope from the boatman's hand.

"Listen to me, pull!"

Zhang Dawei shouted like an old shipwright just now.

"Pull again!"

Zhang Dawei shouted.

The soldiers pulled the ropes desperately, but they were obviously not as skilled as the boatmen, and the big ship shook violently.

"Force on the left, loosen on the right."

Zhang Dawei shouted loudly.

"Force on the right, send on the left."

Due to the unskilled soldiers, Zhang Dawei shouted the trumpet much faster than the boatman just now.

However, under the command of Zhang Dawei, the ship finally sailed out of the slipway smoothly, fortunately this is a large slipway, otherwise it would definitely crash.

Out of the slipway, there is a canal that leads directly to the Qinhuai River, close to the new Jiangkou wharf.

The wharf of Xinjiangkou is also called Longjiangguan Wharf, and there is a tax collection gate set up by the government on the wharf, and the banknote customs is called Longjiang Pass.

The boat soon arrived at the dock, which was lined with buildings, large and small shops, and more warehouses.

Wang Yihe grocery store also has a warehouse here.

Yang Chao's first transaction was to receive Wang Xiao's goods.

On the first day of departure today, there will be no delay, and Wang Xiao was notified before coming in the morning, and Wang Xiao came to the dock early to organize.

This pier is a civilian dock, and unlike the abandoned dock outside the naval camp, although it also looks dilapidated, it is still functioning.

Because this wharf always has income, the banknotes set up on the wharf have to collect tens of thousands of taels of silver from here every year.

However, Yang Chao has never seen a tax collector, because he doesn't have to worry about paying taxes or anything, he is only responsible for transporting goods.

This batch of Wang Yihe's grocery store goods only needs to be transported to Pukou on the other side of the Yangtze River, and the freight is ten taels.

If there is also goods over there, it will be twenty taels back and forth, and this one and then it won't take a day.

So now the freight market is really good, and Yang Chao's investment is very worthwhile.

Of course, this investment is also very expensive, 1,500 taels of silver, enough to eat for a lifetime between three bites, and all of them were given to Yao Craftsman.

Fifteen hundred taels, very expensive, not expensive.

Fifteen hundred taels is a lot of money, but it's a small amount of money for buying a boat.

It is not uncommon for such a large ship to cost no less than six or seven thousand taels or tens of thousands of taels to build such a large ship.

However, because it was a warship made of materials allocated by the government, and Yang Chao did not give the price of the ship, but the regular money for the civil officials and eunuchs sitting on the field, so it could be so cheap.

Fortunately, this was a warship, and it was not cost-effective to use purely to pull goods, so the other officers preferred to accept real boats and shallow ships for more than a thousand taels of silver, rather than this kind of sturdier warship, so they kept lying in the dock of the shipyard.

Now it's cheaper Yang Chao.

Of course, this is due to the different perspectives of the problem.

The other officers who used the ship were all for business, but Yang Chao took the warship as his capital, and this warship, like the soldiers, would be the power in his hands in the future.

Therefore, this warship was sold to Yang Chao for 1,500 taels, which is a value-added asset, but for other officers, the cost performance is not as good as that of a merchant ship that can pull goods.