Although it is difficult and there are many problems to get involved in overseas trade, after several years of experience in the business field since the time travel, as well as the understanding of maritime trade when doing things in the Cui family, Jia Runan did not retreat or shirk in the face of this problem, but faced the difficulties and took this responsibility on his shoulders without hesitation.

After returning to Beiping City after completing the "Beiping Military Trade Parade", Jia Runan devoted himself to the work of opening the sea trade road for the crossing team. Through what he saw and heard during the two-month "cruise", through in-depth exchanges with Fan Wucheng, through effective communication with the relevant departments of the crossing team, and through his own understanding of overseas trade and various situations in neighboring countries, Jia Run'an submitted a detailed overseas trade development plan to the committee at the end of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, that is, only ten days after returning to Beiping City, showing his extremely high work efficiency.

According to the planning report submitted by Jia Run'an, Jia Run'an proposed solutions one by one in view of the many difficulties encountered by the crossing team in the development of overseas trade.

In terms of commodities, Jia Run'an did not open the door to overseas trade by breaking the contract and distributing glass products on his own, nor did he rack his brains to ponder other new products that are similar to glass products and can almost be called ultra-high profits, but on the basis of understanding the overseas market situation and weighing the economic interests of the team, he proposed to use the official identity of the Beiping Army that ordinary businessmen do not have, and set the Dagu Port, which has been completed and fully qualified for use, as a bonded port. With very low transaction taxes and fees as bait, it attracted northern merchants who used to have to transport goods to Shandong or ports further south to the sea, and transported their goods to the Beiping Army, and transported them to Goryeo, Wa and even the South China Sea countries through the port of Dagu. In this way, it can not only obtain sufficient supply of goods for the crossing team's own fleet at sea, but also effectively reduce the purchase price of various commodities, so as to obtain higher profits.

In addition, Jia Run'an's Jihua also specifically pointed out that this tax incentive is not only for those merchants who transport goods from the mainland, but also for those maritime merchants who come to Dagu Port to buy goods. In this way, although the Beiping Army will lose part of the tax revenue of Dagu Port, considering that on the one hand, the purpose of crossing the team to build Dagu Port is more of a basis for its own development of maritime strength, rather than just a commercial facility that can increase economic income for the team, and it is not a big problem to earn less money. On the other hand, with the gradual increase in the number of mainland and maritime merchants coming to Dagu Port to trade, it will also boost the popularity of the port and its surrounding areas, making it more prosperous and dynamic, thereby stimulating the economic development of the region and recovering the loss of tax revenue through peripheral industries such as catering, accommodation, warehousing services, etc. Therefore, on the whole, it is still very cost-effective to open up a bonded port.

In terms of trading objects, after some comparison and weighing, Jia Run'an still set the trading object in the initial stage of the overseas trade of the crossing team on the Goryeo Kingdom, which was closer to the Central Plains Dynasty and at the same time. The reason why Jia Run'an made this choice was, on the one hand, considering that Goryeo was relatively close to the Beiping Army, and it was only more than 1,000 miles by sea, which was much closer than going around the Goryeo Peninsula to the Wa Kingdom. On the other hand, it was also the previous year's encounter with the Cui family in the Wa Kingdom that made him extremely distrustful of the Wa people in addition to his indignation, and he was naturally reluctant to cross the overseas trade that the team had just started because of the despicable performance of the trade object.

As for the means of transportation, Jia Run'an did not dig into the corners of the "Flying Dragon Army" navy and marines to fight the idea of the three sea-going ships, nor did he sit back and wait for the construction of new sea-going ships, but found another way and set his sights on his old employer, the Cui family in Shandong. …,

After the previous year's seizure of ships and people, the Cui family in Shandong not only lost a huge amount of goods and ransom, but also greatly affected the trade between them and the Japanese due to their bad relations with the local nobles of the Japanese State. Although the Cui family's business partners in the Wa Kingdom are not only this Wa nobleman, they are afraid that other business partners will follow the same example and make a hammer deal like the Wa nobleman, and they will also knock the Cui family hard; Second, after the last dangerous and helpless experience in the Wa Kingdom, many of the bows and sailors in the Cui family's merchant fleet were very resistant to going to the Wa Kingdom to trade again. Unless the Cui family greatly increases the commissions of these people, it is impossible to impress the other party to re-embark on this trade route.

But the loss of hundreds of thousands of yuan in property last year was a bit painful even for a wealthy businessman like the Cui family, and it was obviously unrealistic to let them greatly increase the commission of the bow and sailors. As a result, some of the sea ships in the Cui family's fleet had to be suspended. The ship parked in the harbor not only failed to generate profits for the owner's family, but required the owner's family to spend a lot of money to maintain it, which was a heavy burden for the Cui family, whose financial situation was not good. Moreover, if this situation goes on for a long time, it will also cause the dissatisfaction of the bows and sailors of the ships that are not sailing, which is also quite a troublesome thing - these guys who make a living at sea are brave and brave men, and if they are really in a hurry, they do not care to use knives and guns to fight for their own interests.

In fact, long before Jia Run'an led a caravan to Beiping Army, Cui Yongnian had vaguely revealed to him or to others at different times and occasions that he wanted to sell a part of the sea vessels -- five to seven ships -- in order to reduce the cost of maintenance expenditures, so as to save the necessary liquidity for the Cui family, which was a little strapped for funds, to maintain more important business interests. It's just that selling a ship, especially a sea-going ship like this, is not an easy task, and there are not many buyers who can eat five or even seven ocean-going ships in one go. Moreover, in a sense, the buyers who really have the strength to buy so many ships are basically competitors of the Cui family. In the eyes of these people, if they bought these ships at the Cui family's offer, it would be tantamount to helping the Cui family in their most difficult time, using their own money to inject liquidity into their competitors, so that the other party could successfully tide over the crisis. If the price he offered was too low, the Cui family would obviously not suffer this loss and let himself profit from it. In addition, for Cui Yongnian, it is also a very shameful thing to sell his own sea ship to his competitors, which is also unacceptable to the ancients who attached great importance to the issue of face. Therefore, those buyers who can buy so many big ships basically adopt a wait-and-see, hilarious, and joke-watching attitude towards the Cui family's intention to sell the big ship. So much so that until Jia Run'an went north to Beiping City, the Cui family's sea-going ships still failed to make a move.

At this time, if the crossing team buys these ships at the price offered by the Cui family, then with the harmonious relationship between the crossing team and Cui Yongnian who has been working together all year round, and the existence of Jia Run'an, a middleman who has a deep relationship with both parties, it should not be difficult to negotiate this deal.

After some discussion and weighing, the committee finally approved Jia Run'an's planning report, and allocated a large amount of funds for it. After receiving the committee's approval, Jia Run'an once again showed a positive work attitude and good efficiency, and he handed over the plan approved by the committee to Huangshan, the prefect of Lulong Prefecture, who was about to leave Beiping City and take up his own office, and the local official in charge of his parents would follow it. While applying for procurement funds from the committee, he personally led a group of agents of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade assigned to him by Fan Wucheng and a company of soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Army" Marine Corps who were dressed as companions and guards to leave Beiping City and go south to Qingzhou, Shandong, to negotiate with his old boss Cui Yongnian about the acquisition of the sea ships under his name, and planned to buy some common goods in overseas trade nearby after the successful acquisition of the sea ships, and directly cross the sea from Shandong to Goryeo to carry out the first overseas trade activities of the team. …,

Of course, Jia Run'an's development plan and the purchase of second-hand sea vessels are only the first step in the development of marine trade and the opening of ocean passages through the team. While actively building the Dagu Bonded Port, negotiating the purchase of sea vessels, and conducting the first overseas trade, the committee has also made a series of measures to lay the foundation for its own maritime strategy.

The first of these was to start building their own sea-going ships at the Dagu Shipyard, so as to keep the foundation of overseas trade firmly in their own hands. At the same time as the construction of civilian sea vessels began, the committee also instructed Huang Shan, who was a ship design professional, to start designing and trial-producing combat ships for combat missions while presiding over the construction of the Dagu Bonded Port and building civilian cargo ships -- in addition to Huangshan, the Yellow Sea, who had been in the navy before the crossing and had some knowledge of warships, and Xin Feiyu, who had the same rich knowledge of combat ships in the sail era as Huang Shan, also took an active part in the design and trial production of relevant combat ships while completing their own work.

This multi-pronged and multi-handedness strategy has provided sufficient impetus for the development of the maritime liliang of the crossing team, which has made the smooth implementation of Jia Run'an's "overseas trade development plan" and the rapid development of the maritime strength of the crossing team have a solid foundation. Therefore, when Jia Run'an, after more than half a year of traveling, led a fleet of seven large ships from the Goryeo Kingdom in late April of the lunar calendar of the seventh year of Xiande to return from the Kingdom of Goryeo loaded with local specialties, they were greeted not only by a fleet of traders from the north and south of the river, at home and abroad, but also by the crossing team itself, three large cargo ships that had just been launched, and nearly ten ships jointly designed by Huangshan, Xin Feiyu, Huanghai and others, and also built by Dagu Shipyard, in the style of Western sloops or fast reconnaissance ships in the previous life. A light combat vessel equipped with a heavy machine gun or a small-caliber (37mm) direct-aim gun to provide security for Dagu Harbor.