Chapter 424 The Price of the Ship
Panyu City in South Vietnam was in full swing to build a port and develop commerce. At the same time, Langya City was almost completed.
Langya City originally had a port, so now it is easier to renovate and expand the original port than Panyu City.
Moreover, the industry here is even more impressive, and there is also a shipyard. This shipyard is a shipyard built based on Qin An's design.
It is completely different from the previous shipyard. It uses Qin'an's advanced technology.
The ships built by the shipyard are even larger treasure ships, which were used by Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty for his voyages to the West.
The shipyard even recruited 100,000 workers. These 100,000 workers were recruited workers, not labor servants of the imperial court.
Moreover, this shipyard is a joint venture between businessmen, and the nobles basically do not participate. Of course, the largest shareholder is Qin An, followed by General Lu.
The shipbuilding department is fully functional and has a small water tank, which is used to test model ships.
According to Qin An's intention, it would be a great loss to find out after building the big ship that the ship could not launch into the sea, and the losses would be very great.
If you make a model ship on a scale and then test the ship in a water tank, you will know whether the ship can be launched into the sea.
Only after the model ship is successfully launched can the ship be produced on the production line.
The shipyard's ships are very strict, and every part is designed with precise calculations and strict size requirements.
Both the keel and the sail are designed to precise dimensions.
That's not all. The shipyard also has a very mature assembly line, with 100,000 people, and a total of thirty assembly lines, which is a complete assembly line.
An assembly line can independently build a treasure ship. Of course, not all assembly lines build treasure ships.
Thirty assembly lines produce a total of ten ship types, and every three assembly lines produce one type of assembly line.
One of the ship types is different from the others. That is the warship.
According to Qin An, whoever controls the ocean controls the whole world, so he must become the overlord of the sea.
Warships are absolutely indispensable.
The war shipyard also built ships very quickly. It originally took a month to complete. Under Qin An's design, the Mohist family and the Gongshu family jointly produced a large number of tools.
Therefore, the shipbuilding time that originally took one month suddenly became fifteen days.
It takes fifteen days to build a ship, but a treasure ship takes twenty-five days.
There are already thirty ships floating on the sea now.
The shipyard immediately informed the First Emperor Ying Zheng of this matter, and the entire Xianyang City also knew about it.
Everyone was wondering what the imperial court would do with these thirty ships.
Today, in the court hall, the First Emperor Ying Zheng brought this matter up.
Ying Zheng said: "My dear friends, I have just received a report from Langya County. Thirty ships have launched into the sea, three of which are warships. Each warship can carry five hundred soldiers.
The other three are supply ships, of which three warships and one supply ship are under the control of the imperial court. Twenty-four merchant ships and two supply ships will be sold to all your beloved ministers.
If you are interested, you can go to Right Minister Feng Quji to bid.
Feng Quji told me about the bidding. "
"No." Feng Quji responded.
Then he walked to the middle, faced the officials, cleared his throat, and said, "Everyone, it goes without saying that everyone should be able to imagine this bidding model. This was the idea of the Imperial Master.
The bidding mode is very simple, the highest bidder wins.
Today, I will tell you the base price of the ship. The largest treasure ship costs 500,000 taels. In addition to labor costs, maintenance fees, etc., it costs 550,000 taels.
The largest treasure ship can carry nearly a thousand people and transport more than two million catties of cargo. The emperor said that it is not impossible to transport three million catties.
This will cause more damage to the ship, so two million pounds is the best choice.
Then there are the medium-sized treasure ships, which can hold one million kilograms of cargo, and the small treasure ships, which can hold five hundred thousand kilograms.
The base price of the large treasure ship is 550,000 taels, and each bid cannot be less than 5,000 taels, for a total of three ships. .
A medium-sized treasure ship, three hundred and fifty thousand taels. Each bid cannot be less than five thousand taels. There are only three ships.
A small treasure ship worth two hundred thousand taels. Each bid must not be less than five thousand taels.
In addition to these five ship types. There are five other ship types, frigates, which are the same as the imperial warships, but much smaller, and are used to escort the goods you transport.
This is His Majesty's favor to you, and only the colleagues here have such an opportunity.
Your Majesty will sell the next batch of ships to merchants, and everyone will bid together with the merchants. In addition, frigates will not be sold to merchants.
There are four other types of fishing boats. In addition to large, medium and small fishing boats, there are also very large fishing boats.
For very large fishing boats, the general and the young master are responsible for them. "
The ministers can understand about merchant ships, frigates, warships, etc., but they are very puzzled about fishing boats. How much profit can this fishing boat bring to everyone?
"Right Prime Minister." Fu Zikang asked: "Why do we need to build fishing boats? Are we allowed to go fishing? How much can this fish be sold for?"
Jiang Lu smiled at this time and said, "It seems that Mr. Fu hasn't seen Emperor Master's latest seafood recipe yet.
There are a variety of seafood preparation methods in it, and the ingredients have been specially processed so that they can last for several years.
The emperor said that there are a lot of fish in the sea, which can be pickled into salted fish. The longer it is preserved, the more delicious it will be.
Just imagine, after people know that this kind of fish exists, will they buy it?
This is the most common fish in the sea, and there are all kinds of seafood. As long as it is shipped back, it will definitely be loved by everyone.
Especially in cities near ports and coastal areas, they like to eat seafood very much.
It won't be long before seafood restaurants will appear in various places in Daqin. In the future, seafood will be accepted by people all over the world. "
Feng Quji nodded and said, "Master Jianglu is right. Seafood will be very popular in the future. Although you won't make a hundred thousand taels from a ship of seafood. But there is no problem with one or two thousand taels."
The business of catching seafood and drinking it in other places is completely different. If you are lucky, you can return to the sea in ten and a half days and earn more than 100,000 yuan.
It mainly depends on what seafood you caught in the boat.
And there is a treasure in the sea called Longyanxiang, one of the most precious spices in the world.
The prices of this fishing boat are 300,000, 200,000 and 100,000 respectively. There is freedom of buying and selling, and neither Your Majesty nor I will impose it on everyone.
And this is an internal price. If you want to buy a fishing boat or a commercial boat in the future, you will need to pay more.
Langya Shipyard is the first royal shipyard in Da Qin. It is a royal shipyard. There are shares of the imperial master and the royal family, as well as some shares of merchants.
Therefore, His Majesty decided to give preferential treatment to court officials first.
After I retire from the court, I will organize an auction. If you are interested, please come and participate. "
