"Buy? Where to buy?"
Question marks popped up in everyone's head.
Zhao Jun pointed to the locations of the four southeastern counties on the map and said:
“Buy it from them!
Although we don’t have a ship, let alone a shipyard, they must be near the sea. As far as I know, these wealthy families in the southeast often go to sea. The reason why so many wealthy families are born in the southeast due to the scarcity of land in the southeast is because the southeast is adjacent to the sea. The huge profits from trade have nurtured such a group of wealthy families.
So they must have a boat.
Now that we don't have a boat, let's go directly to them to buy it. Don't be afraid of spending money. I can still afford the money, and this is also an opportunity.
During the process of buying a ship, we should find out the details of those shipyards. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the best thing to do is to snatch back a group of skilled shipbuilders from northern Jiangsu to build our own shipyard.
As the saying goes, it is better to build your own than to buy. When we have our own shipyard, we can develop rapidly by relying on the resource advantages of Yunzhou County.
When the time comes, I will also form my own navy in Yunzhou!
Our Yunzhou must not only fear no one on land, but even the endless sea must have a place for our Yunzhou! "
Everyone immediately understood what Zhao Jun meant, and the meeting was quickly finalized.
First, Yunzhou County issued a request to Shendu in the name of Tianyun Kingdom, and Wang Cezhi, the ambassador stationed in Shendu, passed the news to King Shendu.
King Shendu agreed to set aside several places for the Tianyun Kingdom in Atlia as ports to go out to sea, and the ten miles within the port area were the inherent territory of the Tianyun Kingdom, and no one was allowed to enter without permission.
Secondly, Yunli, the vice-president, arranged for the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce to start purchasing merchant ships capable of going to sea in the four southeastern counties, creating the illusion that the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce was going to engage in maritime trade and purchase merchant ships.
After the meeting set the goal, the entire Yunzhou County became active, and all arrangements and preparations were put on the agenda.
Wang Cezhi, who had just returned home from the embassy, suddenly received a report from his servant who was in poison, saying that there was something going on at the embassy and he was asked to return urgently.
Wang Cezhi went out in confusion, and then he saw his boss waiting anxiously outside his house. He asked curiously: "It's already this time, why don't you go back to rest, why did you come to me?"
When the officer heard this, he immediately smiled bitterly and said: "Ambassador Wang, there is news coming from Ponti, but I don't know if the news was delivered incorrectly."
Wang Cezhi was immediately shocked. News came from Bendu. Could it be that the news was sent wrongly?
What's going on at this time, in order to understand the situation.
Wang Cezhi immediately took the principal back to the embassy and saw the official document with the Pontic seal.
After he finished reading, the officer on the side immediately said: "Ambassador, do you think the Pontic side sent the wrong message? They actually asked us to let King Shendu cede the territory. This is impossible in that country!"
But what he didn't expect was that after reading the official document, Wang Cezhi's expression looked unusually calm.
After silently putting away the official documents, Wang Cezhi asked his attendants to change into his official uniform and walked out.
The chief officer immediately asked in confusion: "Ambassador, where are you going this late at night?"
Wang Cezhi didn't look back, waved his hand and replied: "Go to Shendu Palace and let Shendu King cede the territory!"
"What?!"
The principal was immediately confused and stunned with shock.
Is he crazy or is the ambassador crazy and letting others cede territory?
Can people agree?
But his boss set off directly, and he did not dare to neglect, and immediately called a few colleagues to follow him.
In this way, the current Poison King Dingte, who had just fallen asleep, was woken up in the middle of the night and learned about the late night request for an audience with Wang Cezhi, the Poison Ambassador of Tianyun Kingdom.
Dingte, who had been the Poison King for nearly a year, cursed and woke up from the warm fragrant jade. Although he was extremely reluctant, he quickly got dressed and prepared to go out to receive him.
After all, the body poison is now attached to the Tianyun Kingdom, and the representatives of the suzerain country here cannot be ignored if they want to see him.
Soon, the two parties met at Shendu Palace.
After the meeting, Wang Cezhi immediately put forward the request of Yunzhou County. Yunzhou County originally only had a few ports. Wang Cezhi thought it was too small, so he immediately asked for half of the coastline land of Atria, heading inland. The area extending for fifty miles belongs to the territory of Tianyun Kingdom.
I don’t know what happened that night, but King Shendu announced something to Minister Shendu when he went to court the next day.
Shendu officially ceded half of the coastline of Atria to the Tianyun Kingdom, and the fifty miles from the coastline to the land was officially classified as the territory of the Tianyun Kingdom, and Shendu had no jurisdiction over it.
The first time the poisonous ministers heard the news was shock and disbelief, followed by anger.
They clamored to fight Tianyun Kingdom again if they couldn't do it. The other party was clearly blatantly asking them to cede land again.
But when Dingte said with a livid face, if they didn't agree, the king of Tianyun Kingdom would send an army of 300,000 to teach them how to agree.
Everyone fell silent, and then voted in favor.
Oh my God, two hundred thousand Tianyun soldiers were already able to unleash poison on the body, but now there are one hundred thousand more. How can we fight this?
give him! Give it all to him!
Isn't that half the point? Atria's salt will not be greatly affected. At most, other salt-producing areas can produce more salt.
In this way, Yunzhou County successfully obtained half of the coastline of Atria and the land extending fifty miles inland.
The news quickly spread back to Yunzhou County.
Everyone was overjoyed and began to make arrangements quickly. All the materials needed to establish the port were quickly transported to Atria.
The manpower and material resources required for this actually boosted the economy of Yunzhou County and the local economy of Shendu along the way, which surprised the Shendu officials.
Soon, Atria's port was officially put into construction. With Yunzhou County's infrastructure capabilities, I believe that it won't be long before each of these ports will be put into use.
After all, the ships at this time were not as big or as expensive as those of later generations. They did not need the professional ports of later generations. They were still very easy to build. They had no technical content and were just time-consuming.
Everything is going well at the port, but the four southeastern counties have encountered problems in purchasing ships.
It turned out that Feiyun Trading Company's massive purchase of ships attracted the attention of maritime merchants in the southeast.
Feiyun Trading Company itself was already one of the top large trading firms in the Song Dynasty. Now it actually wants to get involved in ocean trade. Isn't it to compete with them for jobs?
So these maritime merchants spontaneously formed an interest alliance and prohibited anyone from selling ships to Feiyun Trading Company.
Be sure to stop this giant beast trying to cross the border!
But as the saying goes, fortresses are breached from within.
Not all maritime merchants became rich.
Maritime trade is highly profitable, but also risky. Not only is the unpredictable weather at sea prone to shipwrecks, but it is also common to encounter islands.
So there are always some people who were originally good at sea and lost all their money overnight.
After suffering heavy losses, they always have to make up for the losses or even pay off debts in other ways, so as Feiyun Commercial Bank pays out more and more money.
Finally, someone within the maritime business who was short of money couldn't help but secretly contact Feiyun Trading Company.
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(End of chapter)
