Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 307 Shipping Planning
Give the multiple-choice questions to the emperor three thousand miles away, and Yang Chao can just wait.

Of course, it's not just waiting in the barracks foolishly, what should be done is still to be done.

Even if the emperor chooses not to let Yang Chao help him make money in the end, Yang Chao still has to do other business, after all, money has become a matter of life and death now.

Forty large ships were snatched from Liu Kongzhao's hands. Although not all of them were the kind of large chasing boats owned by Yang Chao, they were all big brigs no smaller than Yang Chao's chasing boats.

With more than 40 large ships, Yang Chao became the most powerful water force in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in a short time, enough to monopolize the trade on the river.

The previous kind of operation was somewhat unjustifiable.

In the past, there were usually two routes for Yang Chao. The short distance was from Xinjiangkou to Puzikou. This short route charged 30 taels of insurance per ship. Although the profit was not high, it was stable. On average, he could receive 400 taels of silver per day. , In the past, only a boat could escort.The other is the canal route from Nanjing to Guazhou and Zhenjiang. This route is highly profitable, and Yang Chao charges hundreds of taels per ship, but it is not stable enough, with an average of 600 taels a day.

In the past, because of the small number of ships, escorts often dared to escort only ten ships, and they were all large ships of more than a thousand loads, and they dared not accept small ships at all.

Now that the power in his hands has become stronger, Yang Chao immediately re-plans.

The fleet crossing the river doubles every day, and there is still one ship at a time, escorting ten merchant ships. However, if conditions permit, five consecutive sailings are made every day, and it is not limited to large ships of 20 tons. The insurance fee for 30 dan is 1000 liang, for [-] dan is [-] liang, and for [-] dan is [-] liang. Although it is impossible to expand the business by five times, it should be three times after receiving these small boats. In this way, you can earn more than [-] taels a day.

In addition, the canal route was re-planned, from Nanjing to Guazhou and Zhenjiang at the mouth of the canal, once a day, ten warships escorted, and thirty merchant ships were escorted at a time, and each merchant ship charged 100 taels of insurance. You can get 2000 taels of income.

But this is not the big head, the real big head is behind the sea trade, even if the emperor's choice makes Yang Chao give up the sea trade, Yang Chao still intends to do it himself.

It’s just that it won’t be as ostentatious as it is for the emperor. You must be careful, follow the market rules, honestly supply the Zheng family at twice the market price, and share this market with the wealthy family, instead of directly monopolizing it and charging Zheng’s four times. Prices for profiteering.

Therefore, Yang Chao also planned to send warships to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Yang Chao now has a total of 43 large ships, of which five are used for escort from Xinjiangkou to Pukou, and ten large ships are dispatched each time for the canal route, but only one round trip takes three days, so maintaining the uninterrupted daily fleet requires three batches Thirty big ships, so there are only eight big ships that Yang Chao can use.

Each of the eight large boats can carry 150 loads of goods at a time, and a load is [-] catties. Converted to the tonnage of later generations, a hundred tons is a very small tonnage. Zheng's three-masted ship can carry [-] There are not a few people who carry the cargo, so eight ships can be dispatched at once, just enough to satisfy Zheng's appetite for a large ship.

It's just that Yang Chao's planning is very good, but it's not so easy to start it all at once.

Yang Chao had just robbed Liu Kongzhao's boat, and now the merchants, large and small, are still watching, wanting to see how Uncle Liu will fight back, and they don't believe that Uncle Liu will just let it go if they are killed, and the Earl will lose face .

Therefore, they didn't dare to let Yang Chao escort them for a while. They would rather put the goods in the warehouse first than be robbed by Uncle Liu. Chao Escort made a human error instead of an accident like a big wind and a big wave. Yang Chao would compensate them for their losses according to the price, but still no one dared to do business with Yang Chao at this time. That meant getting involved in the battle between Yang Chao and Liu Kongzhao, no? Their little businessmen can bear it.

Therefore, there is still only one boat going to Pukou every day, the shopkeeper Mao, who was forcibly kidnapped by Yang Chao, and there is no boat going to Guazhou or Zhenjiang.

But ordinary people are afraid of Liu Kongzhao, and some people are not afraid, so Zheng's will not be afraid.

Therefore, the transaction with Zheng can be carried out now.

But to do business with the Zheng family, Yang Chao needed a nomination certificate, and Shi Kefa quickly gave this nomination certificate under Yang Chao's urging.

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"Hahahaha, brothers, you have caused everyone to suffer. On behalf of my elder brother, I would like to offer a toast to everyone, and I have the right to make amends!"

In the Jinchai Building, in the elegant room downstairs, there are several tables, and all the big and three rough guys who still exude a stinky smell are yelling and eating and drinking with great joy.

These were the Japanese criminals caught by Zhang Guowei and imprisoned in Susong Prison, and they were finally caught by Yang Chao.

As soon as they were released, Yang Chao immediately invited Zheng Hongkui.

Zheng Hongkui greeted them immediately.

"Fourth Master, if you say this, you will be offended. Brother, what you said is not pleasant. If it weren't for your Zheng family's loyalty these years, I would have given my life a long time ago, and that old man Zhang Guowei would have killed him a long time ago. brother's head."

"That's right, although the brothers have suffered a bit in the past few years, it's good to save their lives."

"That's right, I'm still talking about being a bird, but when the old men came out of prison, they drank the wine and ate the meat. Fourth master, if you don't get some women for your brother to play with, don't blame your brother for scolding your mother."

Speaking of which, a group of rough men burst out laughing.

"Yes, yes, women are the business. Before you came here, you, Mr. Zheng, praised Haikou, and bragged about the women in the Nobile House. We didn't hear about all the nobiles when we went in before. Lou, since you, Mr. Zheng, have made a promise, we will stay here tonight. Didn’t you say that Yuanyuan and Xiaowan are the women that the emperor has his eyes on? Call them over to let the brothers sleep, ah ,Ha ha ha ha!"

Others followed suit.

Zheng Hongkui laughed a few times, and realized that it was a mistake to bring this group of people to the Jinchai Tower. Where is the Jinchai Tower? This is the most refined place in Nanjing. I have been in prison for seven or eight years, but I didn't expect that this group of rough people only think about sleeping women, but the women in Jinchai Building sleep well?
Maybe Yang Chao can sleep in, and there is no way for others to sleep.

Thinking of this, Zheng Hongkui could only cup his fists in apology: "I'm sorry everyone, the woman in the Jinchai Building, he won't sleep with you."

"What? Don't sleep with me!"

A group of rough blanks immediately became unhappy.

Immediately, someone complained: "If you don't sleep with me, why did you bring me here to entertain me?"

"That's right, even though it was your Zheng Jiabao who came out, everyone knows that this prisoner is for your Zheng family."

Some people have a tendency to turn their faces, and they are immediately persuaded.

"Hey, brother dog just drank too much again. Fourth Master Zheng, don't be surprised, this bitch hasn't been drinking for a few years, he's drunk, he's drunk too much."

Zheng Hongkui also knew that this group of people were not good people. Not many of them were clean, but quite a few had their lives in their hands. Although they were not desperadoes, they were not much worse.

Zheng Hongkui was not surprised either, he laughed and said, "It's the brother who didn't think carefully and should be punished."

Talking and drinking three cups.

After drinking, he said: "Everyone will give the brothers a chance to correct their mistakes. Later, the brothers will arrange for everyone to go to the Nanshi Building. There will be four girls for one person. Let's take care of them."

But at this time, the "drunk" guy refused to let go: "No—use! It's here, let the round and round Xiaowan serve me, I still don't believe it, how can there be a brothel in this world?" There is no reason to let people sleep with girls."

After finishing speaking, he immediately pulled a girl who was serving beside her, and stretched out his hand to touch her bosom. He had been looking at this juicy girl for a long time.

"Just take this to vent fire first!"

After speaking, she was about to push it on the table, and the girl struggled and shouted immediately.

Suddenly the door of the room was pushed open, and several thugs with whistle sticks rushed in.

The little girl was stunned and her clothes were messed up, she broke free immediately, and rushed out of the room crying, while the other girls also ran away in panic.

There was only a group of thugs in the room, confronting a group of gangsters who had just come out of prison.

This group of rough people is not easy to mess with, especially one of them, Wu Shiliu, a man with a scar, is even more vicious. When Zhang Guowei found out that they were having an affair with the officers of the guard, he led a boat to surround them. This Wu Shiliu Injured several passers-by and escaped from the pass. Although he was still arrested in the end, he was indeed fierce.

Seeing a few thugs coming in, this Wu Shiliu immediately turned over the table, stepped on a table leg and held it in his hand, staring at the thugs with cold eyes, always ready to hurt someone.Other rough blanks also followed suit, and those who copied chairs copied chairs, and those who took off table legs took off table legs, and they were all ready to do it.

The thugs are steady, they are thugs from Nanjing, they are hired by Jinchai Building to protect the home, and they rarely encounter the opportunity to attack, but they are all experienced people, they know how to deal with it, and they just confront each other temporarily Now, knowing that these are the guests of Jinchai Building, it is not easy to offend, as long as the master comes forward to solve it, it may not be necessary to actually do it.

When Zheng Hongkui saw the situation, he knew it was going to be bad. If they couldn't get it right, these people would have to make a big fuss in Jinchai Building, but Yang Chao was so easy to offend?
"Brothers, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"

Zheng Hongkui quickly persuaded him to make peace.

Wu Shiliu, who took the lead, didn't buy it: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. These grandchildren are holding sticks in their hands, are they here to beat me?"

"Hmph, Fourth Master Zheng, I think it's weird that you invite our brothers to drink but you get a woman. I didn't realize that this is trying to plot against the brothers."

The man who was "drunk" just now also snorted coldly, and did not buy Zheng Hongkui's account. After all, they were not really grateful to the Zheng family. The strength is not as good as their respective families. Otherwise, the Zheng family would not have to recruit their families to do sea trade. They can survive and come out now. I am afraid that it is more of their family's strength. I thank the Zheng family, but It's to save face, depending on the situation, you may have to do business with the Zheng family in the future.

But when such an incident suddenly happened, the group of guys in the prison who were so suffocated that their brains were not working, immediately exploded.

"Brother Ang, don't talk about it, let's do it, the brothers will fight together."

"Kill? Who wants to kill! Just came out and wanted to go in?"

Suddenly there was a cold voice at the door, and then a noble young man in brocade clothes came in with a guard in iron armor, immediately chilling a group of rough people, they are not blind characters, each of them can It can be seen that the group of armored guards have a murderous look on them, they are all masters who have killed people, and they are definitely not easy to mess with.

Zheng Hongkui breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the person, and hurried over.

"Master Yang, you are here. It's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"

It was Yang Chao who came here. Zheng Hongkui wanted to entertain his brother at the Jinchai Tower, and Yang Chao also betrayed his face, otherwise Yang Chao would not welcome such people. The rules of the Jinchai Tower are very strict. People who wear Confucian uniforms are not allowed to enter.

This group can come in wearing prison clothes. Yang Chao has already given Zheng Hongkui a big face, but he didn't expect to dare to make trouble.

So after a few girls cried and reported Yang Chao, Yang Chao immediately asked his soldiers to put on armor and hold weapons. He really planned to kill people if he couldn't control them. It's all stained with blood, if you kill it, you will kill it, there will be no psychological burden at all.

"Misunderstand?"

Yang Chao sneered.

Looking at the leader Wu Shiliu, he asked, "Is it a misunderstanding?"

At this time, the "drunk" man next to Wu Shiliu immediately smiled and said, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, definitely a misunderstanding."

(End of this chapter)