Han Du looked dejected and shook his head. Without saying a word, he sat down on the main seat and sighed heavily.
Huang Yuanwai and others looked at each other, and a bad premonition suddenly appeared in everyone's mind.
'Buying a boat is a dirty deal? '
Huang Yuanwai couldn't stand it anymore and hurriedly came forward and begged: "Master Marquis, whether it is to kill or to behead, please tell me the truth. What does the emperor mean?"
Han Du sighed, "I have told the emperor about your idea of buying a naval warship."
Speaking of this, Han Du paused deliberately.
Huang Yuanwai and others waited for a long time with their eyes wide open. Seeing that Han Du didn't respond at all, they quickly trembled their hands and asked, "Master Marquis, what about the emperor's holy will?"
Seeing that the fire was almost done, Han Du said: "The emperor said that naval warships are ordnance and no one is allowed to buy or sell them. If you want to buy a ship, you can go to Longjiang Bao Shipyard."
"Oh, my good Lord Marquis. The ships at Longjiang Bao Shipyard have been sold out for a long time, and even the scheduled ships have been queued up for more than half a year. We came to see Lord Marquis just because we couldn't buy a ship. Yes, didn't the Marquis explain it to the Emperor?" Huang Yuanwai and others jumped anxiously.
"Of course I explained it to the emperor." Han Du's words immediately made Huang Yuanwai and others feel hope, but the next words made them fall into the dust again.
"But the emperor didn't listen and said that ordnance cannot be bought or sold."
"Alas!" Huang Yuanwai and others lamented together, feeling that the duck, which had been roasted and sliced and wrapped in sauce, actually flew away. Now as long as there is a boat, you will definitely make a lot of money if you go out to sea. But if they don't have a boat, they can only watch others make a lot of money.
This uncomfortable feeling cannot be experienced by any businessman.
This is called watching silver turn into water.
Han Du looked at everyone's expressions one by one and smiled slightly, "I know that you are eager to buy a boat, so I told the emperor that you are willing to pay a high price."
"High price, we are willing to pay a high price. As long as we can sell the boat, we will accept any price." As soon as Han Du finished speaking, Huang Yuanwai and others felt that there was a sudden turn of events and shouted loudly.
"I don't know the price at which the Marquis will sell the boat to us. Please tell me."
Han Du smiled and stretched out four fingers, "A lucky boat with 400 materials and 4,000 taels of silver each."
When Huang Yuanwai and others heard this, their eyes suddenly widened.
high! It's really high.
The price is simply too high.
"Isn't the Marquis entertaining us? Four thousand taels of silver? Even if a ship with 400 materials is a new ship, it only costs eight or nine hundred taels of silver. Lord Marquis, this is an old ship. No one can pay such a price. I bought it." Huang Yuanwai's words were full of grievance and anger. He thought that Han Du was entertaining them and had never thought about selling the boat to them, so he proposed such an outrageous price. When you can buy five new boats, who would buy an old boat? At such a price, they have no interest in bargaining.
"Times have changed. In the past, if a lucky boat cost eight hundred taels, I would be able to sell it to you. But now, at this price, four thousand taels will not be sold for a penny!" Han Du looked like he was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. .
Huang Yuanwai glanced at Han Du with regret. Originally, he thought that the price Han Du could offer would be at most the price of a new ship, or even a little cheaper. After all, these were old ships. But he didn't expect that Han Du's price would be so exorbitant, and he had no interest in buying a boat at all.
"It's too expensive. It seems that the lower class people have no choice but to give up and bother the Marquis."
The rest of the people also looked like they were shaking their heads, obviously giving up on buying a boat.
When Han Du saw it, he said: "It's expensive, of course there is a reason for it to be expensive."
After hearing Han Du's words, Huang Yuanwai and others all looked at him, waiting for his next words.
"If you have a ship now, you can transport goods to the sea immediately. When you arrive at the old port or Java, you can make a lot of money immediately. Have you heard of Fu Yong?"
Huang Yuanwai nodded. He had heard about some overseas situations from Fu Yong and felt that the business could be done, so he thought of buying a ship and running it himself. Of course, Fu Yong was very tight-lipped and didn't reveal much information to him at all. He guessed a lot of it based on experience. For example, if you ask Fu Yong whether life abroad is hard, and then carefully observe Fu Yong's expression, you can guess a bit about the situation overseas. As long as Fu Yong's expression is relatively relaxed when asked, it means that the situation overseas is not bad.
Han Du looked at everyone with a smile and continued: "He just built a boat, loaded some worthless porcelain, tea and silk to sell to the Old Port, and then resold some spices back from the Old Port. How much did he earn? You must have heard about money, right? Compared with the income that can be obtained, is a lucky boat worth four thousand taels really expensive? I'm afraid it's just drizzle."
Huang Yuanwai knows better than anyone how much money Fu Yong made. He took hundreds of thousands of dollars from him in exchange for spices. The cargo of a lucky ship is only 10,000 to 20,000 guan at most, but it can earn more than ten times the profit every time.
Compared with such a profit, four thousand taels is really a drop in the bucket.
Now the price of a ship is no longer its own price, but if you have a ship, you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit, but if you don't have a ship, you can't make a penny. Boats have become the key to making hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit. Four thousand taels of silver a boat is really not expensive.
Huang Yuanwai looked back and gritted his teeth when he saw everyone's faces showing excitement and eagerness to try.
"Okay, four thousand taels is four thousand taels, but we need to get the boat immediately. And the Marquis must ensure that the boat given to us must be strong enough. Even the old boat must be repaired properly, but it must be transported directly. The goods are shipped overseas.”
The old ship was sold for five times the price of the new one. Naturally, Han Du had no objection at all, and he didn't even care about the rudeness in Huang Yuanwai's tone.
He clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will definitely choose the best ship for you, ensuring that it can make more than one round trip."
After hearing Han Du's assurance, Huang Yuanwai and others looked a little better. As Han Du said, boats are the most important thing now. With boats, you can make huge profits. Without boats, you can't make a penny.
Although the price of four thousand taels per ship is extremely expensive, it is not unacceptable to them under the current circumstances of huge profits.
In the Qianqing Palace, Lao Zhu was also curious about what price Han Du could sell these old ships for. In Lao Zhu's view, if he could sell the new ship at the price, even if Han Du had the ability.
"What? How much do you think Handu sold for?" Lao Zhu stood up suddenly after hearing the old eunuch's report.
