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-- He asked for a huge ship for the imperial court from Shorthair, and those who saw it said it was very good. It can be used to make up for the loss of the naval division after the Dengzhou Mutiny. For the sake of prudence, the reconstructed sailor station was no longer located in Shandong, but was placed in Tianjin, which was for the Tianjin Sailor.

The idea is good, but when it is actually implemented, all kinds of practical problems will pop up. The most basic thing: you have to have at least a military port, right?

Tianjin Wei opened the port very early, but it was more used as the northern port of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, serving the Grand Canal. Rather than being established as a seaport city, the three acropolises were built near the mouth of the river, which is actually quite far from the sea. The only one close to the sea that can be used as a port is at the mouth of the Haihe River, and there are piers in the Dagukou area, and a few old-fashioned copper cannons are placed, which is regarded as having the simplest coastal defense system. In the plan of the imperial court, the future Jinmen sailor station was placed here.

However, this system did not take into account the need to set up ports and house fleets - before the Ming Dynasty, to be precise, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Central Plains regime never suffered a strategic attack from the sea. Even if there is harassment by pirates, it is still just pirates wandering and robbing mode. The tactic of landing a large army from the sea and directly taking the important place of the Beijing division was only thought of by a group of literati after seeing the many comings and goings of the Qiong navy, and the princes of the imperial court could think of placing a naval division here to take precautions, which was already very strategic.

Just thinking about it, but it doesn't mean that you can do it. The central center sent a document to the military department, and the military department sent people to go over to see on the spot, and the terrain and water potential were not bad, and large ships could indeed be berthed. However, the wharf and trestle facilities are far behind, and the local area was originally at most a private port for fishing villages, and it was okay to traffic some smuggled goods, but if they wanted to build more than enough to be able to station naval warships, they would not be able to do it without the investment of tens of millions of taels of silver. And today's Ming court, as long as anything comes to silver, it will definitely be caught blind immediately. Not to mention Emperor Chongzhen, even the cabinet ministers could not agree to take out a large amount of silver to build a port when the war in the northwest and northeast was tight.

The imperial court refused to allocate money, but things had to be done, after all, the giant ship sent by Qionghai Town had already set off, and it was not necessary to wait until the ground to find that there was not even a dock to moor, which was definitely a big joke. So the burden fell on the magistrates. If it were any traditional Ming Dynasty bureaucracy, in the face of this situation, it would definitely be a spread of hands, and it would be incompetent to say that it was not the lower officials, but this thing would definitely not be done!

The imperial court did not pull out a dime, but asked for a military port that could dock huge ships in a short time, who could do this?

-- Wang Jieshan can.

The appearance of the Joan Navy in this era, in addition to the great changes in the events in which they were personally involved, also caused the "butterfly effect" in many other inconspicuous small places. For example, the merger of Tianjin Sanwei and the upgrading of Tianjin Prefecture to Tianjin Prefecture, in addition to the original military defense purpose, also added civil affairs, salt transportation and taxation and other institutions, which in history was originally to happen until the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, but in this time and space, it was greatly advanced -- taking advantage of the fact that some time ago, the Ming Dynasty newly established Luzon in the south, and the establishment of the Tianjin Mansion in Taiwan also took a ride and handled it together.

And Wang Pu and Wang Jieshan, as the first prefect of Tianjin, just arrived in office, and they were put down such a heavy burden head-on, and it would definitely be a belly of fire for others, but he became more and more interested - no matter how small and broken Tianjin Mansion was, the conditions in all aspects were always much stronger than those of Qiongzhou Mansion back then. In the past few years in Qiongzhou Mansion, Wang Pu has seen how the dozen or so short hairs have grown step by step from scratch, and he has long thought that he has the opportunity to imitate himself, and now in this situation, Tianjin Prefect is the most suitable position for him.

Want to build a port? That's right, even if there is no imperial court's edict, the first thing he will do after ruling Tianjin will definitely be to build a port. It's as if the first thing Shorthair did after occupying Qiongzhou Mansion was to expand Baisha Port. Compared with the surrounding areas, the biggest advantage of Tianjin is that it is close to the sea. As long as the sea route is unblocked, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou...... The resources of these places can be used for their own use.

As for saying that there is no money? For mediocre officials who generally only know how to loot the fields, most of the areas near Tianjin are saline-alkali land, swamp ponds, and the grain harvest is low, so it is indeed difficult to make money. But in the eyes of Wang Pu, who has studied with shorthair for several years, the location of Tianjin Port itself is a priceless treasure - this is the closest seaside port to Jingshi! That alone is enough to rival any land of fish and rice. Merchants are so profitable that when the port is built, they don't even need to loot it, as long as the necessary services can be provided locally, and huge wealth will roll in. This point, but in the years when he was in Qiongzhou Mansion, he watched what Shorthair did, and finally realized it. And as long as he understands this, even if the treasury is empty, he can manage to raise funds for the start of construction.

Of course, if you want to act smoothly, you have to rely on the strength of Qionghai Town in the end - the bank branch opened by Qiong Haijun in Tianjin, the first major loan customer was the Tianjin Mansion of the Ming Dynasty signed and guaranteed by Wang Pu and Wang Jieshan.

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"Wang Jieshan dared to borrow money from Qiongzhen in the name of the imperial court? What a bold man! If the money is not paid by then, will the court still have to pay off the debt for him? ”

When he first heard the news, Zhou Yanru was furious. However, he was soon explained in detail by his staff, who had really worked this new thing, because they found that there was much to be done.

"There is no need for the imperial court to repay, in fact, even Wang Jieshan himself does not need to repay - he used the future management rights of the new port as collateral to the short-haired family...... Qionghai Bank loan. In the future, the construction and operation of the port will be handed over to the short hair, and the loan will be repaid year by year with the income. ”

The staff also made a special trip to Tianjin to find out the matter before rushing back, and at this time, he was holding the paper of the record and reported the news he inquired to Zhou Yanru in detail:

-- The total amount of the "port construction fee" that Wang Pu borrowed from the Qionghai Bank was 500,000 taels, with a loan term of 12 years and an annual interest rate of 10 percent, or 10 percent. According to the repayment method provided by Qionghai Bank, about 860,000 taels of silver need to be repaid with principal and interest at maturity. But this silver is not repaid together at that time, but from the next month of the loan, that is, from February of the sixth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the repayment of one period per month, to the end of January of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. There are a total of one hundred and forty-four installments, and each installment requires a payment of about five thousand nine hundred taels of silver, less than six thousand. It's not a lot of pressure for the Tianjin government.

However, the money did not leave the bank vault at all, and after the loan formalities were completed, Wang Pu paid the money to the engineering team under the name of the Qionghai Trading Company as a fund to hire them to build the port. At the same time, a cooperation agreement was signed with the trading company: Tianjin Government and Qionghai Trading Company cooperated in the development and construction of Tanggu Port Area. The Tianjin government is responsible for providing the land, policy support and the start-up capital of 500,000 yuan, while the trading company is responsible for the main construction and subsequent management.

In the future, the main sources of income for the port area will be the cost of water diversion and berthing for ships entering the port, as well as the cost of terminal management, as well as the rent of the cargo warehouse in the port area, etc., and the profits of these revenues after deducting the costs will be divided equally between the trading company and the Tianjin government. The money used by the Tianjin government to repay the loan was also paid from this dividend.

In addition, Wang Pu added three special requirements in it:

First, in addition to the commercial wharf in the port area, it is also necessary to build a military port for the use of the Jinmen naval division, and in addition to the military wharf, it is also required to build forts, fortresses, and supporting military barracks at Dagukou for the defense of the military port -- the corresponding drawings and scale requirements are all indicated in the annex, and they are by no means something that can be fooled around.

Second, although the silver repaid by the Tianjin government was paid out of the dividends belonging to the imperial court, because the management of the entire port area was entrusted to the trading company, the trading company had to support the dividend expenses. Specifically, it is at least necessary to ensure that the amount of dividends is not lower than the loan repayment fee. If the money to repay the loan is not enough, the difference will be made up by the trading company itself, and the Tianjin government will not care!

-- This article was used as soon as it was signed: In February, the port area was still a blank field, and the first installment of nearly 6,000 taels of silver was paid by the trading company, and had nothing to do with the Tianjin government and Wang Jieshan.

The third, and most important one, is that the dividends between the Tianjin government and the short hair are only the management fees charged after the port provides services. The tax and silver collected by the Ming court from the goods entering and leaving the port with the power of the state belonged to the imperial court, had nothing to do with the trading company, and were not included in the amount of dividends.

“…… If these terms are really implemented, the imperial court will take a big advantage! ”

After listening to the staff introduce the content of the relevant terms, Zhou Yanru's first reaction was similar to the feeling of negotiating salt industry affairs with Short Mao before: the conditions proposed by the other party were too good, but he didn't dare to believe it.

"Wang Jieshan was able to use a port that didn't exist as collateral to borrow such a large sum of money from Short Mao, and he didn't have to repay it himself...... He really learned a little bit of shorthair's real skills! ”

"In the student's opinion, the biggest beauty of Wang Jieshan's move is that the imperial court actually didn't pay a penny, but it earned a complete military port including fortresses, batteries and barracks!"

"Not only that, but in addition to the military port, there is also a civilian port. What's even better is that even if the port is discounted, the imperial court doesn't have to worry about repaying the money, and even the tax and silver revenue will not be affected in the slightest - such a good clause is also a loss to Wang Jieshan to be able to negotiate with Shorthair! (To be continued.) )