Everything went surprisingly well.

The first to make a move was Qixia Commercial Bank.

In addition to the construction of various warehouses in Taiping Province, as well as ferries and wharves to cope with the large number of overseas goods in the future, some railway branch lines were added.

It was to order a large number of ships.

For this reason, a large number of docks also need to be built, and in the docks where shipbuilders are recruited, shipwrights and laborers are vigorously recruited.

At this time, the boom in the West has passed, but a large number of shipbuilders are still there, and now the large-scale recruitment has made these people who were craftsmen attracted by the salaries of the Taiping Mansion, so a large number of shipwrights from Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang began to pour in.

As for the dockyard, how to quickly manufacture a sea ship that can go to sea, you can make a lot of money, so in order to speed up the manufacturing process, each dock also racked its own brains.

This is different from the ships that were built to go to the West.

The ships that went to the Western Ocean were built by the decree of the imperial court and supervised by the government.

And this dock manufacturing, because of the large number of orders, in order to speed up delivery, in terms of manpower management and manufacturing process, there is room for optimization.

If any of the docks optimizes the process and improves the process, the other docks will not hesitate to start copying immediately, and on this basis, more docks will think hard and continue to optimize.

Shipbuilding is a big project, involving both wood and the processing of wood, as well as ship paint, metal construction, canvas, cables, and so on.

Because of this, workshops in various counties have also begun to rise from the ground.

After ordering a lot of merchant ships on the Qixia trading bank, some commercial banks have begun to follow up, although other commercial houses may not dare to be sure that this sea trade can earn a large amount of silver, but at least they know that Qixia commercial houses will not do loss-making transactions.

Soon after, other small merchants began to follow.

It's just that the price of a sea ship is high, and if you have to buy goods and recruit a large number of sailors and crews to go to sea, the cost is huge.

This is no longer something that small businesses can afford.

But seeing such a good deal, if you are indifferent, it is really greedy.

At this time, some people began to appear in the market.

These people wandered up and down Qixia, and by virtue of their own credibility, they began to organize people to enter into contracts for the purchase of ships in partnership, and they often had enough credibility, and at the same time, they were also proficient in the law, of course...... They are often clever tongues.

And Ma Yu is one of them.

He is a native of Shandong.

In Daming, perhaps in Taiping Mansion, the status of scholars has been greatly reduced, and people may not be able to look up to ordinary talents.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, people can go directly to the ministry to select officials, and be officials, and at least they can be released as a county or the main book in a county.

To put it bluntly, people are people with official status.

Not only that, Ma Yu got Xie Yuan in the township test in Shandong.

The reason why he didn't choose to be an official was because he still wanted to take the entrance examination and become a junior sergeant.

Xie Yuan, the political envoy of Shandong, is basically equivalent to stepping into the ranks of Jinshi with one foot, and even luckier in the future, it may not be impossible to be among the best in Jinshi and directly become a Jishi.

It can be said that such a person definitely belongs to the star of tomorrow.

In this way, this gave Ma Yu a lot of room to operate, and he first contacted the Shandong Chamber of Commerce where Qi Xia was located, where most of the merchants from Shandong were doing business in the capital, or landing in Shandong.

Since he is a fellow villager, it is easy to talk, the Ma family is on the ground in Shandong, it is a scholarly family, and there are still connections, many businessmen see that he is willing to approach, and they can't ask for it.

You must know that although many businessmen do business in Qixia, but a large number of goods need to be sent to Shandong to peddle, you can meet a friend like Ma Yu, if you are troubled by officials in Shandong, you may spend thousands of taels of silver may not be able to solve it, but this Ma Yu repairs a letter, you can solve this trouble.

To put it bluntly, the circle of mixing is different, and the headache you feel is just a gesture for others.

Ma Yu immediately, with the help of many big businessmen, began to find a money bank to borrow, and some businessmen from the same township were willing to vouch for him, and directly borrowed 30,000 taels of silver.

After that, Ma Yu came to his senses, and he did not use all the silver to order one ship, but scattered it and ordered ten ships directly, and the insufficient silver was collected from other merchants.

In his opinion, the usefulness of a ship is not great, on the one hand, the price of ordering one is not the same as ordering ten, because the order is more, often the dock is willing to give some concessions, after all, it is a large order.

On the other hand, the name of a ship and the name of the ten ships to do business is not the same, there is only one ship under the name, may only transport some bulk cargo, and if there are ten, then there is a direct cooperation with some large merchants of the capital, for large merchants, they require a steady stream of goods, the other side of the ship more, the risk of supply is small, would rather pay more fare, but also willing to accept.

If you buy insurance, the price of ten ships will also be slightly discounted.

In this way, one plus and one subtract can pocket all the profits.

These are all Ma Yu's observations in Qixia these days.

In his view, this kind of thing is the same as reading, observing the situation of the shipping industry, just like reading, as long as you grasp the key points, sort out the main relationships, then you don't have to worry about not being able to do a good article.

On the contrary, it seems that the brain is hot, and I just want to read all the books well, and I only know that people who memorize by rote often take the test to show off, and then it will be difficult to go up.

When Ma Yu raised money, he also deliberately avoided those big merchants, because the big merchants had a lot of money and were willing to give more silver, so they became the major shareholders of these ships and could influence the use of the ships.

And if you are just looking for those small merchants, you are one hundred taels and two hundred taels, and the trouble is a little troublesome, but their shares are scattered, so that Ma Yu, who invested three thousand taels in one ship, has become the largest shareholder.

is not only a major shareholder, but also has the identity of a person, even when facing the problem of negotiating the transportation of goods in large commercial houses, he does not ignore it, and can even negotiate directly with the government on an equal footing, even if it is negotiated in various vassal states, the long history of these vassal states, he can easily deal with it, and there is no need to compromise.

Therefore, although these ten ships are fund-raised, in fact, these ten ships can almost be Ma Yu's own decision, and the rest of the small businessmen can only participate in dividends at most.

What Ma Yu wants is to be able to master these ten ships, although there are many people ordering ships now, but after all, no one has officially begun to taste the sweetness, so although there are many docks and many orders, it has not yet formed a trend.

And once someone gets rich by sea, at that time, the price of the ship, as well as the price of transportation, is only afraid that it will skyrocket.

Even after Ma Yu ordered ten ships, he was ready to make sure that once the ships were launched, he immediately discussed with other small merchants to use these ten ships as collateral to continue to borrow money from the bank, and then expand the scale.

He was from a scholarly family, and knew very well that this thing was the same as the local gentry.

If you have 10,000 acres of land, it's not the same as if you had 100 acres.

With 10,000 acres, the more savings you have every year, you can continue to annex the land, and every disaster year, the stronger your ability to resist disasters, and when a famine passes, there is hunger everywhere, and you have surplus food, so you can make huge profits.

And if you only have 100 acres of land, except for the family to eat and drink, the surplus is too small, whether it is the ability to resist risks, or the speed of saving surplus grain to buy new fields, it is outrageously low, maybe in less than a few decades, you will fall into the middle of the family, and from then on you will become a tenant.

The same is true for boats, the more ships you have, even if you owe debts, it doesn't matter, but your ability to resist risks is greatly enhanced, and the annual profits are huge, which is not only enough to cover the annual arrears, but also enough for you to continue to lay eggs and eggs.

A full month passed, and this Ma Yu began to become simple in the eyes of his classmates in the same year.

Every morning, he went out of the inn, and became silent, and did not return until midnight.

After that, Ma Yu simply moved to Qixia.

Some of the scholars who were good friends with him gradually did not know his whereabouts.

Ma Yu is different from others, his family is in the middle of the road, although the family of the scholarly family is different from the family of ordinary people.

It's nothing more than the former servants like clouds, the family has a lot of money, and the fertile land is thousands of acres, but there are only a few servants in the family, and life has begun to become a little tight.

It's just the fall of life, but it makes Ma Yu more interested in running his own family business.

What's more, he was originally from Shandong, and when the Shandong people were in the Yuan Dynasty, they had a lot of experience going to sea, and he had more or less heard a lot, and he was quite experienced in this.

Naturally, the most important thing is that in his opinion, this is simply a pie falling from the sky, as if there is a gold ingot on the ground, if he refuses to bend down to pick it up, then it is really a sin.

But Ma Yu's servant Ma San was in a hurry at this time.

Ma San's face was full of gloom and said: "Young master, the test is approaching, if you don't review your homework at this time, if you fall to Sun Mountain this time, it will be bad." ”

Ma Yu lowered his head at this time, he was repairing the book.

He heard that the long history of King Ning of Luzon was also from Shandong, and this person was also from a high background, speaking of which, he had studied under Mr. Liu Sijing in Shandong for two years, and this long history had also studied under him for a few years during the Hongwu period, and he was still his senior brother.

He decided to repair a book, although the ship has not yet been built, but first pave a way, if you can help carry some of the goods of His Royal Highness King Ning, this is not only good for the order, the most important thing is that once the transaction with King Ning's mansion is made, then it will be of great benefit to the goodwill of the future fleet.

He weighed it, put pen to paper, and every sentence in the letter needed to be carefully considered.

On the one hand, it is necessary to talk about the love of teachers and brothers, and not to appear to be philistine. Second, it is necessary to give some hints to let the other party know what he is trying to do.

It's like dancing on a tightrope, if you don't want to be impartial, any deviation from both sides may cause the other person to resent it.

Soon, the epistle was completed.

He blew the ink, looked up and smiled: "Don't worry about the test, that's how you read and write, you know the trick, you can write a thousand words, if you only know rote memorization, it will be difficult to write." ”

Ma San was still very worried, and wanted to say something.

Ma Yu sighed: "These days are in Qixia, and I know that the way of the world has changed, hey...... Once the trend of the world changes, if you can't follow the trend, what will happen in the future? ”

After a pause, he continued: "You haven't read a book, so you don't know the reason. Some time ago, I read a script, and there is a sentence in it, saying: The dragon can be big and small, and can be raised and hidden; The big one is the clouds and the fog, and the small one is hidden and hidden; The rising is soaring between the universe, and the hidden is lurking in the waves. You see, the dragon changes with the times, and the Jews have the will to cross the seas. This great husband is alive, and he should follow this, only if he can bend and stretch, change with the times, and be a hero. ”

Ma Sanzi couldn't understand such profound words, and only kept blinking his eyes.

Seeing him like this, Ma Yu shook his head and said: "All in all, you just talk less and see more, by my side, sooner or later, you will be able to open your mind, maybe in the future, I will borrow you." ”

Ma Yu said, then carefully sealed the letter, handed it to Ma San, and repeatedly advised: "Send it out, don't delay." ”

Ma San had no choice but to take the letter and go in a hurry.

The spring of the nineteenth year of Yongle.

This early spring examination attracted everyone's attention.

After suffering a huge blow this time, the reader finally ...... I encountered a thing that deserves the attention of all readers and is not blocked.

People from all over the world have already gathered in Nanjing.

Immediately afterwards, the triennial imperial examination was ushered in.

For this imperial examination, Zhu Di showed great interest.

He knows the truth of a big stick in one hand and sweet dates in the other.

At present, in this world, in addition to Zhili, whether it is the parents of the official or the local squire, these people are still the power to stabilize the world after all, if they blindly press their heads and beat them desperately, no one will be able to stand it. Once these people go crazy, if they simply come to a broken jar and break it, although it is nothing to Zhu Di to quell the rebellions in various places, the turmoil in the world that can be caused, and the displacement of countless people, is what Zhu Di does not want to see.

Now the new policy carried out by the Taiping Mansion has nothing to do with the provinces and prefectures and counties in the world for the time being, since this is the case, then take advantage of the imperial examination to express the importance of scholars, feed them a sweet date first, and then attack them with heavy fists to beat them for the top imperial skills.

Therefore, for this imperial examination, Zhu Di attached great importance to it, and ordered Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the household department, to take the main examination, and asked about the preparation of the imperial examination several times, and issued an edict ordering that Tianfu must take care of the people who come to Beijing.

After a meeting, the discussion of the imperial examination among the people at this time has obviously covered up the previous Taiping Mansion's going to sea.

This is actually understandable, after all, this imperial examination determines the fate of countless people. The high school will become the minister who will govern the world in the future, not to mention ...... There are a lot of anecdotes for many readers, and there is a lot of room for discussion.

Zhang Anshi is also happy that he is not noticed.

He has too many things to do, and it is not easy to earn money from sea trade, the vassal states must be in contact, the foundation must be solid, the money of the money bank must be scattered, and the military and civilian people must also preach the benefits of overseas.

There are too many stereotypes that need to be resolved slowly, and there are too many obstacles that need to be overcome.

Not to mention anything else, it is a problem to use the river boats walking in the river to connect the goods after the Songjiang Estuary sea ships dock.

Songjiang Mansion also carried out a new policy, but it was far less enlightened than Taiping Mansion.

In desperation, Zhang Anshi had no choice but to implore the imperial court to set aside a piece of land at the mouth of the Songjiang River as a port and put it under the jurisdiction of the Taiping Mansion.

The only thing that made Zhang Anshi happy was the preparation of the customs.

Yu Qian is a very disciplined person, not to mention that he is in the county king's mansion and has been exposed to a large number of official documents, and he has long been familiar with the operation of the Taiping Mansion.

Although he is young, he has his own way of doing things, and he doesn't like Zhang Anshi or others to dictate, but he only does it according to his own ideas.

For Zhang Anshi, this is actually a good thing, the problem of customs does not need to be flexible at all, it only needs to be done according to the regulations.

What's more, he can worry less and have more time for other things.

After the beginning of spring, Zhu Di summoned Zhang Anshi to meet him.

When Zhang Anshi arrived at the Wenlou, he knew that today was the day of the list.

Zhang Anshi is not very enthusiastic about the examination.

This is a scholar's business, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with him.

It was Xia Yuanji, with a red face on his face, who presented the list to Zhu Di, and Zhu Di took a look at it and said: "This time Huiyuan, is it a northerner?" ”

Zhu Di looked very surprised.

The ministers were also stunned, especially Hu Guang, who has always been ...... are all candidates from Jiangxi, including the top three of the examination and the palace examination, if one of the top three is not a Jiangxi scholar, it is an accident.

But who would have expected that this time it would ...... There was actually a northerner.

Zhu Di said in horror: "Interesting, this Ma Yu is from the state capital, do you have any impression of this person?" ”

Everyone was silent, and there was a blank in their eyes.

There are not many impressions of the people who read in the north.

Zhang Anshi vaguely remembered that the first northern champion of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be surnamed Ma, but he didn't know if it was this person. However, this person's life, logically speaking, should be the champion of high school in the next imperial examination, and should not be in Yongle eighteen-year high school.

It seems that this time, when I entered the imperial examination, I heard that my mother was sick, so I had to give up the imperial examination.

Could it be that history has changed? After many of Zhang Anshi's prescriptions came out, medicine had made great progress, and although his mother was sick, she was not so sick that she was life-threatening, so she ...... The people who were supposed to shine in three years finally shined ahead of schedule.

"This person is amazing, I never thought that a scholar from Shandong is also so powerful!" Zhu Di's whole face was full of red light.

Out of the imbalance between the north and the south of the imperial examination, there is now a sudden outlier, which is undoubtedly a great thing for Zhu Di.

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