Chairman Lee bowed his head and didn't say anything when he heard this, but his attitude showed that he meant it! There's definitely something wrong with your request, but we haven't seen it yet! So we may not dare to borrow this silver!

Liu Haojia waved his hand to signal Chairman Li to sit down, and then said, "It seems that if you don't say it clearly, you probably won't be at ease!" Then the official will talk about it! ”

When they heard him say this, they all pricked up their ears to hear what he was saying. And Liu Haojia pondered for a moment before he said slowly: "The first reason, the official can tell you without lying, that is, the interests of the sea trade are too great, and the official can't eat it alone!" So instead of wasting this silver and not making it, it is better to let our Ming merchants earn it! Moreover, there are rules on the sea, and the official will take a cut after you go to sea, so the profit in this regard is enough to compensate for the loss caused by lending the silver to you! ”

In fact, the reasons he said are not all the reasons! The interests of Haimao are too great, and he can't eat it alone, it's true! But that doesn't mean he's willing to share it! If you can't eat it alone, eat it slowly! Slowly expand the team, establish a supply of goods, and recruit people can always do it! Especially when he still has a lot of things and needs silver, he is even more reluctant to share the benefits of maritime trade with others!

But it was because the interests of the sea trade were too great, especially after he occupied Sri Lanka, and the exquisite goods that appeared there attracted the attention of merchants from all over the world! With his supply of goods insufficient, merchants from all over the world are trying to find a way to continue eastward and want to open the shipping route to the golden country of the east!

In this case, there is a lot of pressure on the defense of the fleet! After all, it is a place thousands of miles away from the mainland, and it is difficult to replenish combat power! And he's not crazy, it's impossible to go to war with the whole world! Then the only way to solve this problem is for him to have enough goods to counteract the will of the nations to move eastward!

At the same time, he is now the most powerful maritime merchant in the Ming Dynasty, and he doesn't mind sharing some marginal interests with others. He just needs to make sure that he is always the biggest beneficiary, and at the same time he can direct the power of the people to the sea and share his pressure, which is a relatively complete answer!

As for the shopkeepers present after listening to this request, after a brief discussion, they all nodded deeply in agreement, thinking that this reason convinced them! Because the south has always had a tradition of going to the sea, it's just that the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River used to carry out large-scale smuggling.

After the rise of Liu Haojia's navy, the smuggling route was cut off, so he had to sell the goods produced to Liu Haojia's fleet, transferring the high profits. They are always dissatisfied with this aspect and have been trying to find a way to re-meddle in the sea trade!

But Liu Haojia has the navy as a support on the surface, and secretly has a large number of part-time pirate maritime support, and also controls the ports of trade areas in Southeast Asia, so even if they get a ship, they can't trade when they go to sea, they can only watch the huge profits fall into Liu Haojia's pocket!

And back then, it was these people who smuggled the most people who shouted the forbidden sea, and now they can't change their words, so they can only watch others make a lot of money! So they have been pressuring Liu Haojia in the officialdom to let go of the sea trade, and now he can't bear the pressure and it is possible to completely let go of the sea trade!

If Liu Haojia can really agree to liberalize the sea trade, these officials and gentry in the south will agree very much! Maybe they will be the first to buy a boat and recruit people to go to sea!

Liu Haojia knocked on the table to signal everyone to be quiet, and then he continued: "The second reason is for state affairs!" Just to know how serious the land annexation in Daming is now? There are many ordinary people who don't even have land to cultivate, so they can only be reduced to homelessness! But if you open up to the north, you will have to face the great enemy of the Tartars, so this official thinks that maybe you can expand to the south by sea! After all, there is also a lot of land in the south, and the degree of civilization is still very low! If you can expand the territory in the south and immigrate to the past, it can greatly alleviate the land contradiction in the Ming Dynasty! Of course, this official also has a little selfishness, so he wants to use this to seal the public! ”

As soon as this reason came out, compared to the previous reason, everyone here immediately believed it! Of course, what they believe is not that he said that he helped Daming expand his territory, but that he wants to seal the country!

As a martial artist, where is the benefit of not fighting? Where are the titles? If he didn't want to fight, then why did he go to great lengths to train new troops and build a navy? Therefore, he said that he hopes that everyone will turn the direction of commerce and trade to the ocean, although there is a reason for profit, and more importantly, this is to open the way for the army! Even those ships can provide transportation and supplies for the great army!

And as soon as the army moves, the materials needed are massive! If you expand to the south, the materials must be purchased in the south of the Yangtze River, which naturally contains a huge amount of profits! And if you can catch the car of the Hou Ye in front of you, your own children may be able to get rid of the cheap status of a businessman and become a human being! So these businessmen looked at Liu Haojia with a little enthusiasm!

And Liu Haojia knew what they were thinking when he looked at their eyes, so he said lightly: "Don't worry, if you really want to move troops to the south, you will naturally need your help!" Of course, this is off topic, and back to the topic! What the official said just now is the main reason, and there are some other reasons that I won't talk about, because you can figure it out yourself, how about it, are you satisfied with the official's reasons? ”

At this moment, everyone nodded in unison to express their satisfaction, and then everyone began to discuss Liu Haojia's plan and help him make up for some shortcomings. And to Liu Haojia's delight, their topic gradually turned to the direction of maritime trade.

In the face of their endless problems, Liu Haojia did not hide it, and directly told them about his own overseas profits by two! Especially when they heard that Liu Haojia had occupied a large island off the coast of Tianzhu and had started trading with Arabs and whites, they were almost crazy!

These merchants in the south are not blind and don't understand anything, but naturally they know what it means to trade with them! That is to put the spoon into the meat pot, and the fish is all delicious, and they can't help but be excited!

When he heard Liu Haojia promise to provide nautical charts and naval escorts, the atmosphere in the shipbuilding reached its highest point! Now what they are discussing is not whether to accept Liu Haojia's conditions, but how to cooperate! Liu Haojia estimated that at this time, they had already decided which sons and nephews in the Pai family would accompany the army!