"Good Hetao, Yu Gong Gaozhi. Your white-famous crane is not bad either!"

After Xu Chengshou praised Bai Minghe, he went straight to the topic: "I have another thing to do, to borrow money from you. How to borrow money, you have the final say. The Nanjing Navy is the most difficult among the five major navy masters of the Ming Dynasty. The Dongting Navy can earn some silver liang and transport goods in the inland river. The Liaodong Navy has no burden. The Guangdong Navy is no longer the same as the Fujian Navy. There is no problem with it. The only thing I have in Nanjing Navy is that the ship is not much smaller than that in Guangdong. It is hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to keep these ships every year. And it is just to keep them!"

"Please sit down!"

Bai Minghe was a little surprised. Your Duke of Wei did not look for the six ministries of Nanjing or the officials in the capital, but came to me Bai Minghe.

This pressure is really considerable.

"I don't want to give alms!" Xu Chengshou just sat down and blocked the Baiminghe tightly as soon as he opened his mouth.

Looking at Bai Minghe's reaction, Xu Chengzong said: "Nanjing is also going out to sea in secret, and there are also Fujian. Why is it said that Fujian is both a business and a bandit? They still have some profits on the sea route? But the business cannot be done like you. Yang Duke's subordinates are good, but I can't find out your goods price. But I have also calculated it."

Bai Minghexin said, of course you can't find it. I just want to pick up goods in Siam and then pile them up in large quantities. Only about ten people actually came into contact with the value of the goods, so naturally they won't spread it.

"Those rice, you may be able to buy five stones for one tael of silver!"

"One tumbler of silk, two thousand stones of rice!" Bai Minghe gave a half-true and half-false truth. The truth is 3,300 stones, but two thousand stones are also the truth, because the cost on the road and the losses in the sea transportation are to be removed, and of course, there are labor fees for ship loaders.

Xu Chengzong thought for a while: "Bai Minghe, I ask you. Please give me a brief explanation. Now the Nanjing Navy gives you, how do you use it?"

"Let them repair it first. It takes at least three months to restore their combat power. Then, the Ming Dynasty East China Sea took half a year to clean it up and completely clean it. The simplest sentence is that I only have kneeling subjects under the Ming Dynasty King's flag, and there are only corpses thrown into the sea to feed fish. Of course, they have intact ships on their hands, so lend me some first, but the capacity has been insufficient recently."

"I heard that all the ships from Guangdong Dusi are renovated in the port. There are no less than 400 transport ships available, with a total transportation volume of more than 500,000 materials. Is this insufficient transportation capacity? I said that I don't need to give alms!" Xu Chengzong's tone was a little unhappy. No matter what, he was also a Duke of Wei. He held heavy troops and was a powerful Duke of the real power.

He came to Guangdong, but he didn't come privately.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty issued a secret decree asking him to send troops when Bai Minghe encounters a strong enemy and in case of defeat, he hopes that he can send troops.

When he came to Guangdong, he had three things to do. The first was to support the Fujian Metropolitan Department, the second was to see Bai Minghe. The third was to seek some real benefits for the Nanjing Navy.

When Bai Minghe heard that he had a capacity of 500,000 materials in his hand, he even said that he had insufficient capacity. Xu Chengzong had a reason to be angry.

The white-famous crane is not angry.

"Duke, I will settle the calculations for you. I will only say one thing. The Duke thought that 30,000 looms could weave a year. How many fine linen materials would be weighed before processing."

Xu Chengzong shook his head, asking him to talk about how heavy the armour is and how long it will take to make it, but he doesn't understand how weaving cloth.

"Duke, the national duke has a capacity of 100,000 yuan, and it is not stopped day and night, and I cannot afford the hemp material for these weaving households. The cost of linen is calculated by weight, and the weight of the coarse material is more than ten times the weight of fine linen raw materials. In other words, I need a capacity of 10 million stones per year. One hundred thousand stones per year. One is only fifty times, which is a capacity of 5 million stones. This is not finished. The coarse material becomes fine material, and after processing, it is transported to various places again. There are only one business of fine linen, and various transfers on waterways, which is no less than 20 million stones a year. This is not counted as the land transport of carriages from the dock to various towns!"

Yang Neng added another sentence next to it.

"Duke, Xiaobai, didn't you just say that you still need 100,000 barrels of coconut oil. The raw materials for that thing may also require millions of stones, and it will be transported to tens of millions of stones in Guangdong."

"I also want to transport grain to the north?" Bai Minghe also added.

Xu Chengzong calculated in his mind: "According to what you said, the entire Ming Navy will give you all, which is not enough!"

"Yes, so the Guangdong side has started to build ships. A large ship with two thousand materials requires two thousand workers to work for one hundred days. I want one hundred boats, and two hundred thousand workers to work for one hundred days."

"It's a pity that you don't have so many shipyards!" Xu Chengzong knew this.

Bai Minghe nodded helplessly.

Xu Chengzong said again: "The entire Ming Dynasty, all ships combined. It would be great if you can build thirty large ships of 2,000 materials a year."

"But, I need more, let alone one hundred, I want even one thousand!"

Bai Minghe’s ambition was that the Ming fleet occupied every route and every island on this earth.

"Duke, I will give you two hundred stones of gold first. Three months later, Tianjin Wei, Nanjing, Quanzhou Wei, Guanghai Wei. I want a 100% safe route. Any small country, who dares to take a knife here and send him to the sea to feed fish. The boat doesn't feel much this year, but what about next year? What about the year after tomorrow?"

"You don't have to worry about your ship. As long as you have enough money, you can build two million ships a year."

"We need more, and we have to build a large ship in the future. We must have a super dock. The money is definitely not a problem. The only thing we have to do is the boatman." Bai Minghe was a little excited.

"The boatman left by the eunuch Sanbao was not dead yet. No matter where the person is, it is our problem. No matter where the person belongs to that camp, he will send the person to Nanjing." Before Xu Chengzong finished speaking, Bai Minghe rushed to say, "Hurry, don't let the governor of Caoyun rob the person."

"He, a joke!" Xu Chengzong laughed. "He doesn't have that vision, and he, as the governor, has a hard time!"

Bai Minghe lowered his voice: "Duke, all the food is changed to the canal, Jiangnan and other places, as well as Fujian, Guangdong, and the military rations I gave to the north, all of them are on the water route. In a word, block his canal. He either worked hard to organize the canal well, or switched to small boats, a boat of dozens of stones and hundreds of stones to the capital."

"Poison..." Xu Chengzong praised Bai Minghe.

Details are easy to discuss.

If shipbuilding is decided, the details still need a huge team to consider the details.

After saying this, Bai Minghe asked again: "Duke, I have something to ask for advice. About the civil servants in the Guangdong officialdom."

Xu Chengzong waved his hand: "I can't help you, no one can help you in this matter. You are a county magistrate every year. Don't talk about others, but only say how much money you can spend in a month. Just look at it now, your annual salary is not enough for you to spend a day now. There are so many people under you to support. Do you think others don't have to support your family or your servants?

"Then..." Bai Minghe didn't know how to continue asking.

"This is the salary set by Taizu. This is not the case in the officialdom. So I can't help you and dare not help you. No matter what you do, you will be beaten a few times by long live. But once you pull us, your trouble will be more than just hitting the board, so don't mention this matter!"

The white-famous crane sighed long.

"Well, I'll give you a suggestion. Guangdong is still stable at the moment. You can wait until the real thing gets into trouble before dealing with it. It's easy to discuss it!" It's hard to say that Xu Chengzong is very clever. When Bai Minghe forced these civil servants to death, they wouldn't ask for a price everywhere.

Over time, Baiminghe's foundation in Guangdong has become stable and has enough negotiating capital.

So let the trouble start and then solve it. In Xu Chengzong's words, you can do whatever you want now, regardless of what the low-level civil servants mean, they are all stupid people who only know how to study and don't know what is important for eating.

Bai Minghexin said, OK, then wait and see.

I always have to wait for some reaction from the capital to say that shipbuilding is not a trivial matter, but fortunately I don’t have to worry about it myself. With so many veteran generals who love the navy from the bottom of my heart and contribute to the navy, the navy will definitely become stronger.

"Go back and go back to Chunhui Garden. Guangzhou City is not your place to stay. Don't act like you can control the officialdom in Guangdong. It's not good for you." Xu Chengzong persuaded Bai Minghe again.

Bai Minghe nodded: "This matter is my fault, and we should not interfere in the affairs of Guangdong officialdom."

"Silly guy. Don't openly control the Guangzhou officialdom, but secretly kill anyone who doesn't obey." Xu Chengzong's words made Bai Minghe's brain fall directly, and there are people who are even more cruel than him to the civil service group.

Go back to Chunhui Garden and enjoy the life of the landlords and old wealth.

When leaving Guangzhou City, Baiminghe asked Qinghe to write two letters, one for Sansong and the other for the Siam Prince, and arranged a three hundred-material fast ship along the coastline and delivered it to Da Nang. Next, Sansong will forward the other letter to the Siam Prince.

Get on the boat at Guangzhou Port, go down the river, and return to Chunhui Park that night.

When he arrived at the door of his house, the white-known crane sighed.

"Why are you sighing, husband?" Sun Yuanjun asked in a low voice.

The street opposite Bai Minghe's house: "I had known that I would have bought all eight streets around, and I guess I could make a big profit, and I wouldn't have earned hundreds of taels of silver anyway."

"Hahaha!" A hearty laughter came from the door.

Xie Yiyuan led several elders of the merchant gang out together. When he saw Bai Minghe, he bowed: "Sir Xiaobai, I, Xie, ask someone to carry a stone of gold to compensate for the regret of missing the land business."

"Xie Lao is really funny. I guess he has been waiting for a long time."

"No. The adults left Guangzhou, and Xie also went out of Guangzhou. It's just that the adults used an official boat, and the family needed to take care of him. They got on the boat directly, and the boat was fast, so they got here first. They were in a hurry to meet the adults. There were so many things they wanted to tell the adults, and every item was urgent." Xie Yiyuan was straightforward.

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