The rising sun slowly rises.

Dispel the mist that filled Haizhou Bay.

The dark gray sea water rises and falls, like a lightly waving brocade, which makes people feel refreshed.

Under the combined action of sails and long oars, the sea boat broke through the waves, traveled from the southern part of Haizhou Bay, and headed towards Yuntai Xianshan, more than ten miles away. Wu Haogu sat in the cabin, tasting the cloud-fog tea produced by Yuntai Mountain, leisurely and contentedly.

Mi Youren, Ximen Qing, Ma Zhi, Guo Jing, Liu Wuji, Hua Manshan and Pan Qiaolian were also sitting in the cabin, enjoying the scenery outside the cabin while tasting tea.

"This is where the merchant ships and boats entering and leaving Haizhou are moored." Hua Manshan is a native of Haizhou. His family has been doing business in Haizhou since the beginning of the Song Dynasty and has no idea about the situation in Haizhou, so he guest-starred as a "tour guide".

Wu Haogu asked with interest: "Where do so many ships here come from? Who built them?"

Hua Manshan smiled and said, "The ships here come from everywhere, from Jiangnan, from Japan, from Goryeo, from Daliao, from Western Baifan... Compared with ships from other places, the ships from Baifan are the best, and they can run far away."

The "Baifan Kingdom" he mentioned refers to the Arab Empire. This great empire that emerged in the first half of the 7th century AD has now entered its twilight years. However, due to the arrival of the Seljuk Turks, the old empire seemed to have a revival. Although the real power of the country was in the hands of the Seljuk Turks, these Turks who converted to the YSL religion basically inherited the various systems and cultural traditions of the Arab Empire.

The prosperity of Baghdad City and the control of Arab maritime trade routes on East-West have generally not affected them.

The Arab merchants who controlled the East-West trade routes naturally seized a lot of wealth, and their business grew bigger and bigger, and they all came to Haizhou!

"Our Song Dynasty ship cannot run far away from the sea?" Wu Haogu asked.

"There are also people who can run far away," said Hua Manshan. "In Mingzhou, some sea commerce companies in Quanzhou and Guangzhou run far away, and the farthest ones have been to Tianzhu Kingdom.

Oh, Dongweng doesn’t know that the boats and sails that run far away are both particular, and the methods of running boats are different. The Taoheng here is very deep.

Also, because you can't see the land when sailing in the distant sea, you have to be able to see the stars and sunshine to grasp the direction, and have a special chart to avoid being confused. In addition, you have to grasp the climate and wind direction of various sea areas all year round...

And these are the lifeblood of various maritime merchants, which is difficult for outsiders to learn."

It turns out that it is very difficult to do maritime business!

Without years of accumulation (usually several generations or dozens of people), your boat can only walk near the sea, and you can't even think about going to the far sea.

Not to mention discovering a new world...

"Where is your Hua family?" Wu Haogu continued, "Can you run far away?"

Hua Manshan smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "My family can travel to Goryeo at most, and even encountered a typhoon and overturned the boat!

Dongweng, don’t you want to do something on the sea? This is difficult, not only ships, weather, charts and sailors, but also this one!”

As he spoke, Hua Manshan made a gesture of chopping people.

"Hua Silang, what are you doing?" Wu Haogu didn't understand the meaning of Hua Baishan.

"He is chopping people!" Ximen Qing said while drinking tea.

"Cutting people?" Pan Qiaolian, who was watching the scenery, heard it, blinked her eyes and looked at Hua Manshan curiously, "Are there also heroes of Liangshan on the sea?"

Hua Manshan smiled: "Pan Xiaolang, there is no law on the sea. Which trade route was not shot with bows, arrows, swords and guns?

Not to mention meeting such a pirate who kills and robs, or being a serious maritime businessman, he still has bad intentions when he sees you with a small boat and a small person.

As for the big merchants fighting for shipping routes and territories, the fight was even more fierce. But hundreds of large ships with thousands of materials started a war on the sea!”

"A hundred and thousands of large ships fighting in sea?" Guo Jing took a breath, "Even the navy in the court does not have such large ships, right?"

"No," Hua Manshan smiled, "the navy of the court was just walking around the sea, and it was not even possible to go to the sea far away.

On the far sea, there is the world of maritime merchants and pirates!”

"Oh, that's really hard to do at sea," said Pan Qiaolian. "Brother Dawu, do you think so?"

Isn't it? The rice for Haishang is not delicious! Wu Haoguxin said: It seems that he had thought too simply before, and it is not easy to build Haizhou into a "anti-Jin base".

However, these maritime merchants fight and kill at sea all day long, and they should have combat power. If they can really develop, they can rely on a force. Although it is not easy for this maritime merchant to do, they still have to bite the bullet and take projects!

Even if you burn money, you have to burn a fleet...

...

The wind direction on the sea today is wrong. The passenger boat that Wu Haogu and others ride against the wind and can only rely on long paddles, so the speed of travel is very slow.

After Wu Haogu and Hua Manshan finished talking about maritime business, the boat was halfway through.

So Wu Haogu turned his conversation to the matter of starting a company with Ximen Qing.

"Company..." Ximen Qing was a little confused.

"From Confucius' "Datong. Biography of Ci", the public means the wealth of several people, and the officials means the operation." Ma Zhi, who was beside him, immediately gave an explanation, "It means to start a joint business."

"Is it a company in the calligraphy, painting and arts business?" Ximen Qing asked.

"Yes." Wu Haogu nodded, "Now, do this business first, wait until you firmly grasp the calligraphy and painting business of Kaifeng Prefecture, and then expand to other activities."

After wandering around outside Kaifeng Prefecture for a long time, Wu Haogu had fully realized the principle that business was difficult to do.

So although his ambition is not small, his steps are very cautious. He must first take the most familiar calligraphy and painting business before he can plan another industry.

"Then I have to invest some money," Ximen Qing smiled and looked at Wu Haogu and Mi Youren, "Isn't your master and apprentice the Kaifeng Mansion's calligraphy and painting business the final word?"

"Do you have to do something else?" Ma Zhi was also interested in Wu Haogu's business philosophy and asked with a smile, "Can you tell me?"

"Yes," said Wu Haogu, "there is only a layer of paper between calligraphy and painting and calligraphy engraving, and it is easiest to enter."

He just said half of his words to Ma Zhi. He entered the book engraving business not for the benefit of book engraving, but for the purpose of issuing newspapers at the right time. Newspapers are the mouthpiece of public opinion, and they cannot be easily entered, and they have to wait for the opportunity.

"After the book engraving business, it will be the real estate business in Kaifeng Prefecture."

"Real Estate?" Pan Qiaolian looked at Wu Haogu in surprise, "Brother Dawu, how should we do the real estate business?

There are not many open spaces in Kaifeng Prefecture City.”

Because of the existence of a tall and solid city wall and a wide moat, the transportation between Kaifeng Prefecture and outside the city is very inconvenient (there is no public transportation these days), and you have to pass a tax card to enter and exit the city. Therefore, there is not much room for real estate development outside Kaifeng Prefecture, and there have been a long time to find a chance in Kaifeng Prefecture, and the places where you can build houses have long been built.

However, this difficulty is hard to see Wu Haogu, who has developed greatly in the future real estate industry... It is difficult to expand the surrounding city of Kaifeng, but there is still a certain amount of room for upward movement and can be fully utilized.

Moreover, building high-rise buildings can also drive the development of the construction industry in the Song Dynasty, which is also quite beneficial to fighting the Jurchen invasion in the future.
Chapter completed!