"Then you don't want to be authentic, but you have to seduce me to complain before you say anything about buying a shipyard. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info In this way, we have also dealt with a lot, and my shipyard has also invested more than 4,000 pounds one after another, and I don't want much, how about selling it to you for 3,000 pounds?"

Old John had been trying to sell the shipyard all this time, but he couldn't find a pick-up, and now he knew that the only chance to escape from the bitter sea of war was in front of him, and he trembled with excitement and tried his best to sell his shipyard.

"You just said two thousand five hundred pounds, this is the price increase, take me for a fool?

Well, even if I didn't mention it, let's assume it didn't happen. Li Xian was furious, turned around and wanted to leave, but finally let John stop him.

"Don't be like this, Brother Li, Mr. Li, I know that you defeated the Hell Lord of Leizhou and got a lot of money, and it is said that the government of your Qing Kingdom will make you a big official.

You don't lack any money. Let's negotiate the price, you Qing people said well, bargaining can do business. Old John stopped Li Xian and refused to let him go.

The so-called Hell Lord is Hai Yama, and the word Yama is most appropriate in the understanding of Europeans, that is, the Hell Lord.

At the beginning, Hai Yan Luo had crisscrossed Leizhou Bay for decades, and it was conservatively estimated that there were hundreds of thousands of taels of property, many people thought that Li Xian had destroyed Hai Yan Luo, and naturally inherited his huge wealth, and he had soap in his hands and was definitely not short of money, but no one would have thought that the mixed yuan concept was actually bright on the surface, and the financial situation was actually not very good.

"Old John, old John, there are so many shipyards in Macau that want to sell now, and I want to pull you for the sake of the past, so don't think about killing me.

Your shipyard is worth about 1,300 pounds, and if the price is too high, I'll go find someone else..."Li Xian wanted to leave before, which was a strategy, and he took advantage of the situation to talk to Old John about the price.

After a period of fierce bargaining, the two finally reached an agreement to buy and sell the shipyard: Li Xian would buy the shipyard in Old John's name for 1,900 pounds, and another 400 pounds to buy a small 120-ton sailing boat for Old John's own use.

This sailing ship, if it is new, is worth at least more than a thousand pounds, but unfortunately it has been used for several years, and it cannot be sold for the original price, and four hundred pounds is considered very fair.

Li Xian likes that although this ship is old, it is small and easy to control, and the most important thing is that it is a famous clipper, which is particularly suitable as a reconnaissance ship or a whaling ship.

In the end, the two parties signed a contract and went through the formalities with the Macau authorities, and Li Xian became the new owner of the shipyard.

Li Xian didn't pay much attention to the land and buildings attached to this captain, and the most important thing was the workers and machines of this shipyard, which could greatly improve the current industrial processing strength of the Mixed Yuan Sect.

The Portuguese have been operating in Macao for hundreds of years, and the real Portuguese are only willing to engage in business that comes quickly and make money, and craftsmen and other things are done by hired workers, so more than ninety percent of these workers are Chinese, which is the first batch of rare industrial workers and skilled workers in the entire Qing Dynasty.

Bringing these workers and machines to Donghai Island, the Mixed Yuan Sect will be able to have the ability to design and build European-style soft sailing ships of less than 400 tons, which is not even nine streams at the European level, but in terms of the Qing Kingdom, it may not be the largest, but it is certainly the most technologically advanced.

What's more, European shipyards use both wood and iron, so this shipyard has a lot of metalworking machine tools and woodworking machine tools, as well as a large number of workers who can skillfully use these machines, which Li Xian especially wants to obtain.

Originally, with Li Xian's influence in Macau, he could buy the machines of the bankrupt shipyard piecemeal, and then recruit workers alone, but that would be much slower, and what Li Xian lacked most now was time.

If you don't have enough money, you can do anything, but now when the official money is hot, you are more willing to spend some money to get more complete technology.

With Old John's shipyard as the foundation, Li Xian also continued to buy machines, books, and materials from some shipyards that had closed down or were about to go bankrupt, and obtained quite complete shipbuilding resources.

This is also because it is now in a time of war, and these things cannot be sold at a price, and if it is a time of peace, not only will the price be doubled, but many things may not be able to be bought with money.

As for the workers, Li Xian not only recruited all the workers laid off by Old John, but also contacted the workers of other shipyards through them, but all the workers who had worked in European shipyards and those who had experience in using European machine tools were recruited.

Leizhou is very close to Macao, and the sea route is more than 200 kilometers, Li Xian said that because he was worried that Macao would be affected by the war, he wanted to send people to Leizhou and build a shipyard in Leizhou.

Li Xian is now a legitimate businessman in the eyes of the Qing government or the British, and the workers are also worried that there will be a fight here in Macau, and it is also a good way out to work in Leizhou, which is not far away.

In the case of Li Xian, during the gap between the looting of two foreign ships, now is the only time when he can legally spend money to build an industrial base, and he is not afraid to spend money, but just tries to get these things done as soon as possible.

After a delay of five or six days in Macao, a large number of machines, materials, workers, and materials were sent to Donghai Island in Leizhou, laying a solid foundation for the future development of the Mixed Yuan Sect's escort force, not to mention.

Li Xian spent 10,000 pounds, or 30,000 taels of silver, in Macao to send a large amount of production equipment, materials, and workers to the outside of Peach Blossom Island, and also replenished a lot of military supplies, such as gunpowder, steel, artillery, and muskets.

Among them, there are more than 300 workers with experience in Western-style shipyards alone, and there is no need to go into detail how important these workers are to the industrial development of the mixed yuan sect with the best discipline and organization of the era, and who have mastered the various professional skills required for heavy industry.

The only fly in the ointment is that the prices of various military-related items in Macao have risen sharply, so that Li Xian now spends more money than before when buying gunpowder, steel, weapons and other materials.

However, these things will only become more expensive in the next few years, not the other way around, and Li Xian can only grit his teeth and buy them.

As far as the price of military supplies is concerned, the price of gunpowder has soared from 20 yuan to more than 40 yuan, and the price of artillery, flintlock guns, rifled guns, and weapons, shells, and bullets has also at least doubled compared with before.

Since Li Xian took charge of the escort force, he has also vigorously developed the military industry, but everything started from scratch, and the time he set foot in was too short, and many military items had to be purchased, which was far from self-sufficient.

For example, gunpowder cannot be produced by itself, so it can only be purchased by foreign merchants in Macao; bullets can be processed by themselves, but this is only possible when gunpowder is purchased; as for artillery shells, iron must be processed into spherical shapes, and the current metalworking capacity of the islands in the east has not yet mastered such a high level of technology.

As for more technical things such as artillery and barrels, it is naturally even more impossible to do.

In many novels that Li Xian had read before, there were plots in which the time-traveler quickly built guns and cannons after arriving in ancient times, and then rebelled against the invincible world, but when he actually did these things, he realized that this was impossible.

The production of military products is indispensable in everything from the acquisition of raw materials to engineers, workers, technology, and capital.

Normally, even if these resources are complete, it is actually a dream for the government to find a big war and find a poor ravine to farm behind closed doors.

If it weren't for the fact that the Mixed Yuan Sect had now moved to Donghai Island, where he was almost not suppressed by the Qing Imperial Court, and suddenly had a lot of cash on hand, Li Xian would not have dared to start climbing the military technology tree now.

Spending some money to exhaust the essence of Macau's shipbuilding industry, Li Xian feels that this business is doing well.

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