How big are the rights of the white crane?

It wasn't until Yu Qian gave the secret decree to Bai Minghe that Bai Minghe himself was startled.

Emperor Ming's handwriting, the matter of Goryeo of the Li family, as long as Bai Minghe can persuade Hu Hu and Gao Gu to support. Don't kill indiscriminately, don't damage the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, and don't lose the trust of the Ming Dynasty. First, the facts can be decided first, and then reported.

And even more so for Hamiwei.

As long as Hamiwei becomes a strategic point, Bai Minghe can convince Yu Qian, Gao Gu, and Hu Hui. You can also make your own decisions.

"Build a road, spend five years to build a 4,000-mile road, and the road is 20 zhang wide!" After reading the secret decree, this was the first reaction he made.

"As long as the money is not spent from the household!" Yu Qian is not a scoundrel, but Jin Lian can't come up with this silver. Four thousand miles away, the astronomical amount of silver was piled out, and it was estimated that Jin Lian could faint in fright.

Bai Minghe was not afraid, the ordinary village-level cement road in later generations was seventy or eighty yuan per square meter, and the thickness was eighteen to twenty centimeters. The labor cost of the Ming Dynasty is not high, the cost of cement is higher than that of later generations, the transportation capacity is lower than that of later generations, and the mechanization of road construction is lower than that of later generations. Then even if it is tripled, it is 200 yuan per square meter.

Then according to Daming, it is three square meters and one tael of silver.

Four thousand miles is two thousand kilometers. According to the original Silk Road, there is no need to build bridges, and the ferry port is changed when encountering water. This is a road of 120 million square meters, which is 40 million taels of silver.

That's the maximum, and in fact it certainly doesn't cost that much.

The white crane calculated, there is no need to repair the bridge. Twenty zhang of the road surface is a waste in Daming, in fact, the road surface has three zhang is a super practical width. The white crane has credit. Eight million taels of silver can be repaired, and the only headache is time, and it may not be able to be repaired before the tile.

But. It is feasible to build the road to Liangzhou Wei first, which only requires a few million taels of silver, and it will definitely be repaired within a year.

"Cheng, I want to solve the problem of silver, but the taxes in the northwest are according to the accounts. How much there used to be, how much the household takes. The surplus part was subsidized to repair the road, and then this initially went to the business of Hamiwei. Tax exempt for three years. ”

"Tax exemption is not possible!" Yu Qian knows very well that tax exemption is a kind of grace. This requires the personal decree of the Ming Emperor. Officials can only report, so Yu Qian said: "You can reduce some taxes as a subsidy." ”

"The tax on alkali, miscanthus and borax will be reduced by 70% in three years, and the commercial tax on the Silk Road will be reduced by 50% in three years. Except for some. I also have a very good deal. This matter has nothing to do with the court, it is just an investment qualification for some businesses. I'll put the news out first, and I'll wait until I'm done talking to the people in Goryeo. ”

Yu Qian didn't object, these things are too small. As long as Hamiwei is satisfied. The business thing is that he doesn't understand, and secondly, this thing can't affect the national policy of the Ming Dynasty.

But Hami is different, it's too far away, it's too bitter. But it's a strategic location.

The loss of Hami is equivalent to the loss of the protection of Shaanxi and Gansu, and it is not only the wind and sand that comes. And the greedy Tile Thorns!

The White Crane's strategy in the Loop was successful, but the Loop held back the Watters. Then the Watters will think of other ways. This makes Hamiwei even more important. Yu Qian would not say these words to Bai Minghe, after all, Bai Minghe's strategy in Hetao is also dedicated to the country, but unfortunately the quilt is too short to cover his head.

One can only blame the Ming Dynasty's insufficient defense line in the northwest, and the northwest is too bitter cold.

The businessmen were still in a meeting, and it was very useful to study the two books of the white crane. Although some of them are inconsistent with the current rules of the Ming Dynasty, it is feasible to learn from experience. No one will say that a certain person is an all-rounder, even the great god Zhuge who is blown into a god does not have the reputation of a white crane at the moment.

How much can a carriage pull, there were already four-wheeled carriages in the pre-Qin period.

In order to pull goods, more than 1,000 years have passed, and they are also in continuous improvement.

At present, the carriage of the Ming Dynasty, two horses and four wheels, can pull eleven people, including the driver. It is possible to pull fifteen stones, but it is also necessary to pull one stone of beans as a nutritional supplement for the horse, as well as a water bag in case water cannot be found.

There were pastures along the Silk Road, and there were also those that specialized in the forage business.

Xi'an Fu and then the rest of the place can be used boats, from Xi'an Fu to Hamiwei, generally it takes fifty days, a horse, need eight stones of forage, one stone of beans. Thirty men and sixty horses are needed for a convoy of twenty cars, and thirty taels to fifty taels of silver are needed for food and drink on the road.

Valuable goods will also be protected by guards, or local guards can be hired to protect them, and this cost will be calculated separately.

However, no one grabbed such a thing as soda ash. Even if you rob it, you can't exchange it for silver, and no one buys it at all.

Therefore, for the guards who are now starting to do transportation business, they change people and horses instead of cars, and this way is also a settlement with a health office, and one stone pays three to five dollars of silver, and the safety of the goods is also guaranteed, and the transportation capacity is also guaranteed.

This convoy can pull 300 stones.

It can be said that according to the price of grain in the south of the Yangtze River, the transportation of grain is a lot of loss. But the price of rice in the northwest, especially Hami itself, is expensive. There are still merchants who bring grain over, but they don't earn much.

The purchase price of materials offered by Bai Minghe is five taels of silver for one stone of soda ash, and the subsidy for Hamiwei is one tael of freight.

Moreover, Bai Minghe promised that his alkali would never be used to mass-produce the products he normally listed in the household department, and that a small amount of zuò was made in order to try out a better formula, and second, he had other uses.

Three hundred stones, or one thousand five hundred taels of silver.

That is to say, every two months, there is at least a net profit of one thousand taels of silver, and this business can be done.

However, if you use your own soap in Jiangnan, the cost is still a bit high. According to the net cost of three hundred taels of silver, the material cost, one stone is one tael of silver, the cost of various materials for soap adds up, I am afraid that it will be eight cents, this is sold to the outside line, and it is estimated that the price will increase when it is sold in Nanjing.

The businessmen's abacus crackled, and some big businesses did not have the idea of giving up.

Although for big businesses, this one is a bit of a chicken rib. But for the sake of long-term development, it is not sticky now, and it may not be in the future. So you can't let go, and you have to stick a little bit anyway.

While the merchants were discussing, a man dressed in a eunuch's military uniform came to the place where the merchants were meeting.

"Everyone, the miscellaneous family is from the White Horse Pavilion!"

A few businessmen with high enough status hurriedly invited people in.

The first was an official document with the seal of the white crane and the seal of the Daming Haisi, which was signed by five merchant gang elders. Daming Haisi is a very, very small yamen, there was originally no one left, the biggest official here was originally a small official of the seventh grade, this yamen let Bai Minghe take over, and he is the only one who is really making up. From the six pins!

But now, who looks down on this Da Ming Haisi!

An official document on tax reductions, as well as a grain subsidy for Hamiwei to grow cotton. If you plant ten acres of cotton in Hamiwei, you can reduce or exempt seven acres of grain tax in any state capital in Daming. This is a great temptation for businessmen who own Daming land and cannot afford to reduce the number of children according to the common people.

"The official document has been delivered, and the miscellaneous family is leaving!" The messenger didn't say much, he didn't understand these things and wouldn't be involved.

A few high-ranking people still sent people to the street, watched them get on their horses and leave, and then returned to the house.

Inside, everyone was looking around a piece of paper.

"The paper is made of the same kind as a silver ticket, but it is more delicate. It says that there are 1,000 shares of Maoshan Iron Mine, what does this 1,000 shares mean? What can be brought over in this official document is probably not an ordinary object, and it can be as good as the paper used for silver tickets, let alone ordinary. ”

"There's a note down there!" Someone found a note in the bag.

The note said that it was not to be circulated for 10 days.

"Ten days, it seems that there will be results in ten days." Xie Yiyuan, who had been sitting on the top drinking tea, finally spoke, and the eunuch who delivered the letter did not need to greet him or send it. Because he is seventy years old, there are regulations for respecting the elderly in the Daming Law, and the official can not kneel, no matter how big the official is.

Xie Yiyuan said again: "Presumably, Lord Yu should have a sword when he comes to Nanjing. ”

"However, Lord Bai is a kind person." The young Wang Fulin answered on the side.

"Yes, Lord Bai is a kind person. He knows how to write the word integrity better than we do, and he writes it better. He is compensating for the people who have gone to Hami there, although it is advantageous. But these profits are too small compared to the huge profits at sea. Moreover, the sea is still an undeveloped wasteland at the moment, and the old man is convinced that under the guidance of Lord Bai, it can be expanded tenfold or hundredfold. ”

Many people stood up, and someone asked, "What about Elder's opinion?" ”

Xie Yiyuan also stood up: "People, learn to be gracious!" ”

"The grace of dripping water should be reciprocated by a spring!" The businessmen responded in unison.

The white crane has never thought about what grace is, what is righteousness, what is benevolence, and what is affection. He has been a businessman for a long time in modern times, and he has been brainwashed by a proverb in the business circle, that is, people who have no use value have no meaning to exist.

Merchants are taking advantage of each other.

But Bai Minghe really hasn't realized that in addition to earning silver, the people of the Ming Dynasty and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty also have benevolence and morality in their hearts, and they also have the pride of being a citizen of the Great People who are willing to pay a qiē for the righteousness.

So, the first thing that came to the mind of Shiraaki was to compensate these people.

But what he doesn't know is that even if he doesn't have these compensations, in the end, for profit, for kindness, and for this affection. The merchants would not forsake him.

Two days later, Hu's boat arrived.

Looking at the White Shark anchored in the center of the river from a distance, Hu Hu knew that this name was not given by the white crane, but the name of the ship given by the generals of the sailors, and after knowing what the great white shark represented in the sea, when he saw the ship again, Hu Hu realized how strong the white crane was in the sea.

And the people of the Li family only saw the shock and emotion of this giant ship like a god under the top shipwright technology of the Ming Dynasty, but few people realized why such a big ship was needed in the sea. (To be continued......)