My life skills in Daming Liver

On Changningwei's blessing boat, Su Ze held the rudder, and the blessing boat broke through the waves and sailed with the wind.

Lin Mojun stood beside Su Ze, only sailing offshore, Su Ze's [Navigation] skill had no bonus, and it was only Lv5, so his operation was still a bit rusty.

But it is enough to sail in the coastal waters. After Lin Mojun was sure that Su Ze could drive the lucky boat, she stopped watching Su Ze steer the steering wheel.

Lin Mojun is no stranger to Su Ze's all kinds of unnatural learning abilities. Maybe he is a real genius in this world. Even farming Su Ze is second only to Uncle Lin Qi. Learning is also normal.

The goal of this voyage is still Dong'ao Island. As the most important overseas base of Changning Guard, Su Ze is going to Dong'ao Island to visit.

Lin Mojun talked about the changes on Dongao Island these days.

"Now Dongao Island is already a transit point for Ryukyu missions. Ryukyu ships often board Dongao Island to rest before going to Fuzhou Port."

"It won't leak the wind, will it?"

"No, there are so many islands in the outer sea, and only the leaders of thirty-six Fujianese families can master the navigation charts. The ordinary sailors only know that they have docked on one island, and they don't know which island it is at all."

Lin Mojun added: "The goods we want to ship to Fuzhou must also be loaded on Dong'ao Island."

Su Ze nodded and asked again: "Isn't the imperial court paying a tribute every year? How do you hear this mean that Ryukyu merchant ships often go to Fuzhou?"

Lin Mojun smiled and said: "This Eunuch Tao is also a smart man. Although the tribute is paid once a year, Ryukyu ships are allowed to enter Fuzhou many times, but all the tributes will be sent to the capital after the year is up. "

"It's just that Ryukyu merchants are not allowed to trade privately, they can only trade with the Shibo Division."

"What is the profit of the transaction with the Shibo Division?"

Lin Mojun said: "The price has been suppressed very much, and the price of the silk silk given back is also greatly increased, but Daming's goods are too tight, and some of them can still make money."

Su Ze also understood the terrifying commodity competitiveness of the Ming Dynasty.

In this era, the whole world really wants to do business with Daming.

Not to mention the neighboring countries of Japan, North Korea, and Ryukyu, the countries of Southeast Asia also wish to pay tribute every day.

The Portuguese even thought of many ways to do business with the Ming Dynasty, and even pretended to be a tributary country to come over and do business proactively.

There is no way around this, silk, porcelain, tea and other products, only Daming can produce in the world. The high profits of these three products are also the reason why Japanese pirates in the coastal areas have repeatedly banned them.

Another thing can also explain the terrifying trading capabilities of the Ming Dynasty. Just after the opening of Longqing, 70% of the silver produced by the Japanese pirates Iwami Silver Mine flowed into China every year. Through maritime trade, the Ming Dynasty quickly changed from a silver-poor country. It became a silver standard country with silver as the basic currency.

It can even be said that before the opium trade, the great powers that opened up the Qing Dynasty market with strong ships and guns also discovered that trade with China always bought more and sold less, and trade with the Qing Dynasty was a loss-making thing.

This is the terrifying trading ability of the Ming Dynasty. After the opening of the Fuzhou Shipping Department, which actually carried out overseas trade, by wearing the skin of the Ryukyu tribute, the once deserted Ryukyu Island immediately became the trade center of East Asia.

Lin Mojun talked about Changningwei's current industry:

"The main products we export overseas are black tea, citrus and dark plums."

"The main products sold to Fuzhou are cotton cloth, medicines, spices and dyes."

The most important commodity exported overseas is naturally black tea. Not only Westerners, but also Southeast Asian countries are now in love with black tea. tea drinkers.

This year's stocked tea has already been sold out, and the orders for next year's tea have already been paid in advance.

After receiving the order, the tea gardens in Mount Wuyi also transformed rapidly. In the past, only Su Ze’s tea gardens and Xiong’s tea gardens made black tea. Now, seven or eight tea gardens in Wuyi Mountain have expressed their willingness to make black tea next year, and then entrust Su Ze. consignment.

Su Ze is not stingy with the technology of making black tea. The nature of tea as a product is destined to make it impossible for Su Ze to swallow the profits of tea alone.

It takes manpower to manage tea gardens, and it takes several years for a new tea farm to produce tea, and high-quality tea gardens are in the hands of families who have been tea farmers for generations.

This is also the reason why the Cai family tried their best to seize the Xiongjia tea garden. Few people would sell a tea garden with stable production, and the time cost of building a new tea garden was too high, and the places suitable for growing tea on Wuyi Mountain had long been abandoned. People took it.

Of course, Su Ze doesn't want to rob other people's tea like the Cai family, so he can only continue to promote the technology of cooperative black tea production, and pull more tea gardens into his industrial alliance.

As long as the channel, that is, the way of selling, is in his own hands, the black tea business will definitely make money.

However, this is temporary. Dayuan Island also has a lot of places suitable for building tea gardens. Later generations here will also be an important production area for oolong tea. As long as Dayuan Island is developed, the entire tea trade can be mastered.

Tea makes money, and citrus and ebony plums have also become popular products. Su Ze is still a little surprised.

After hearing Lin Mojun's explanation, Su Ze was not surprised.

When Zheng He sailed to the West, the Chinese captain had discovered that citrus and dark plums could prevent sepsis.

All experienced captains in East Asia will purchase citrus and dark plums when they go to sea to supplement the lack of vitamins during sea voyages and avoid the occurrence of sepsis.

Fujian itself produces citrus and black plums, and Changningwei just bought these agricultural products and sold them to Ryukyu.

In addition to tea, Su Ze is more concerned about cotton tea.

He asked, "How is the cotton cloth sold in Changningwei?"

Su Ze also knows that Changningwei has a large industry now. He just returned to Changningwei and saw several large weaving workshops. Under the leadership of Lin Xianyang's sister-in-law Lu, Changningwei has become the largest cotton textile base nearby.

Relying on the cotton supply in Beishan Village alone is far from enough. Fortunately, there are many cotton-growing places in Fujian. After Su Zezhong was promoted, Changningwei sent people to discuss cooperation, and reached long-term cooperation with several surrounding cotton-producing villages. protocol.

Lin Mojun said: "Sister-in-law Lu said that if it is not easy to sell under the name of Changning cotton cloth, let us send the cotton cloth to Fuzhou and put on the name of Songjiang cotton. It will be much easier to sell."

Su Ze couldn't help but sigh with emotion, this Lu family is really talented, Songjiang cotton cloth is famous all over the world, and only under the banner of Songjiang cotton cloth will the big households in Fuzhou Prefecture be willing to buy it.

"What about the raw cotton?"

Lin Mojun said: "It's still not enough, but according to what you said last time, it's too wasteful to let the Japanese pirates caught at sea jump into the sea. Now they are all placed on Dong'ao Island to open up wasteland cotton fields."

Su Ze remembered that he did mention this matter in the last correspondence, but he did not expect Lin Mojun's mobility to be so high.

Dong'ao Island is only two or three days away from Changningwei, and soon Su Ze saw the Observatory, a landmark building on Dong'ao Island.

This time when I came to Dongao Island, it has changed a lot from the last time Su Ze came.

The pier built by Deer King has been repaired, and even added berths on this basis.

On the outermost islands and reefs of the lagoon, a lighthouse was built according to the Western style. Lin Mojun mentioned this lighthouse in his previous letter, and it was actually built under the suggestion of Captain Alfonso.

It was almost evening at this time, the lighthouse was lit up, and the light of the flame was reflected by the mirror, guiding the course of the lucky boat.

The pilot ship sailed out of the port, and Lin Mojun also asked people to raise a torch to mark the semaphore, and the pilot ship also lit up lights to guide the blessing boat into the port slowly.

Su Ze boarded the pier. At this time, the thatched house in the early years had been upgraded and transformed into a wooden house, and Lin Mojun transformed the Tianshou Pavilion of the King of the Deer into the appearance of a hundred households. a temporary place to live.

Following Lin Mojun into her Baihu mansion on Dong'ao Island, Su Ze felt a little guilty for no reason, but seeing Lin Mojun's generous appearance, he was relieved.

The next day, Lin Mojun took Su Ze to inspect Dongao Island.

"Uncle Zong Yuan was left by Eunuch Tao in Fuzhou Shipping Department. Recently, Fuzhou is rushing to build ships to Shanghai. Now the dock is managed by Lin Xianlu, a disciple of Uncle Zong Yuan."

From the first day of landing on the island, Lin Zongyuan also built a dry dock on Dong'ao Island in accordance with Changningwei's dry dock standards.

Su Ze met Lin Xianlu. He remembered that when Lin Xianzong was in charge of the dock, he was a young man who didn't like to talk.

But when it comes to shipbuilding, Lin Xianlu is a little eloquent.

"Mr. Su."

"Are you the same generation as Brother Xianyang? Just call me Brother Aze."

"Aze, Brother Aze, the master has gone to Fuzhou, and now the dockyard has two main jobs, one is to repair the ships returning from the voyage."

Su Ze nodded. Ships have wear and tear. The reason why shipping and coastal ports are so important to navigating countries is because ships need regular maintenance.

"Another job is to build the Clippers according to the drawings of the Azer brothers."

Lin Xianlu took Su Ze to the depths of the dock, and Su Ze saw a medium-sized ship in the style of a clipper ship.

It is said to be a medium-sized ship, which is according to Su Ze's standard. This is a ship with a material of 300 materials. In fact, the draft is almost the same as that of the lucky boat that Su Ze took. Converted to tonnage, it is about 100 tons.

"This is a replica based on the proportion of the 'Flying Dutchman' that attacked Dongao Island that year."

"Master has done the calculations. During long-distance travel, the outer plate of the flying shear ship bears the greatest load, so the outer plate of this ship is the deck of a sunken ship or damaged ship, all of which are made of high-quality wood! "

After talking about the boat, Lin Xianlu was no longer taciturn, but became eloquent.

"However, there are still two problems."

Su Ze also knew that the flying shear boat was not so easy to build, and waited for Lin Xianlu to tell about the problems he encountered.

"The first is the sail. If you want to sail at high speed and smoothly on the sea, you must have a large sail, and the strength of the sail must be sufficient. It needs to be woven at one time rather than spliced."

Su Ze nodded. Before crossing, he didn't think it was difficult to build a ship. He even thought that as long as he talked casually, he could immediately build a modern fast ship.

But after actually getting in touch with the shipbuilding industry, Su Ze knew that it was a proper high-tech industry.

Needless to say, wood processing and ship building, even sailing is one of the most high-tech industries in the world today.

And now the best place for sails in this era is actually India.

Yes, Indian cotton cloth is now defeating European cotton cloth steadily, and even some traditional cotton textile countries such as France have issued restrictions and bans, not allowing Indian cotton imports.

Lin Xianlu said confidently: "However, this problem should not be a big one. Mrs. Lu's sister-in-law is already studying how to weave a larger canvas."

Lu's is really talented in weaving. After Su Ze made the textile machine, Lu's was able to repair the textile machine.

Hearing this news, Su Ze was naturally very happy. His weaving skill level is very low, and he has a lot of things to do now, and it is too strange for a big man to have weaving skills.

"The second problem is the mast. It needs a mast made of strong and durable high-quality wood to withstand the wind. The master said that we should think of a way in Fuzhou Prefecture. It is best to import some high-quality wood from Nanyang."

Su Ze patted Lin Xianlu on the shoulder, encouraging him to keep working hard.

The clipper ship's cargo capacity is not strong, but its sailing speed is extremely fast, and it can reach 15 knots using sail power.

Some well-designed clipper ships in the later period can reach a speed of 20 knots.

What is this concept? The speed of battleships during World War I was generally 15 knots.

If you can take a clipper boat, the sailing time from Dongao Island to Shanghai can be shortened to five days. After going to Jiangnan in the next year, Su Ze can also take a clipper boat to quickly travel between Fujian and Jiangnan.

After visiting the dock, Su Ze followed Lin Mojun to the cotton manor in the center of the island.

"In fact, it is not good to grow cotton on the island. Once there is a storm, it must be covered with tarpaulins immediately. The climate at sea is changeable and often requires rush harvesting."

It is already November now, and the cotton fields have naturally been harvested, but some Japanese-haired people can still be seen digging the soil.

"Only a few of these are real Japanese, and most of them are Daming people who have shaved Japanese pirate hairstyles, but as long as they are from Japanese, they are Japanese pirates, and it doesn't matter which clan they are from."

Lin Mojun said coldly, Su Ze only saw a few warped hoof supervisors holding whips and urging the Japanese prisoners to work.

"As long as they can work for five years, they can be granted farmland on the island, but according to their appearance, it is estimated that very few people can live beyond five years."

Su Ze looked at Lin Mojun, only seeing her cold tone, but thought that she was the one who could take the lead in fighting the Japanese pirates, Lin Mojun was a qualified commander.

It turned out that it was not Uncle Hei who worked in the cotton fields but Japanese pirates. Su Ze felt a strange sense of confusion.

He nodded and said, "The Dayuan Island will be developed in the future. The climate there is warmer, and we can plant plantations on the island."

"careful!"

Lin Mojun hugged Su Ze and rolled to the side of the road.

At this moment, a group of seabirds flew over, only to see bird droppings falling like white raindrops, and the Japanese working in the fields were all drenched.

Realizing the distance between the two, Lin Mojun immediately rolled over from Su Ze.

Su Ze also changed the topic in embarrassment and asked, "Where do these seabirds come from?"

"These are sea ducks, and they all gather on a nearby island, which we call Sea Duck Island."

"Sea Duck Island? Let's go and see!"