Great Tang Southern Emperor

Li Zhen looked at the piles of goods and said: "From the beginning to the end, this king has only one purpose, and that is to build Lingnan. Everyone has been in Lingnan for a while, so naturally you should be able to see the potential here. Although Lingnan is indeed Just like the rumors, the ground is full of smoke. But it is not without its advantages, that is, it is very close to Nanyang, and it is the best in the world in terms of geographical location, and it is even farther away from Tianzhu. , all fleets must start from here. This is its biggest advantage, and the only one that can compete with it is Quanzhou (in fact, Quanzhou’s location is better than Guangzhou, otherwise it would not be the world in the Yuan Dynasty The first port, but it is a pity that the opposite is Wanwan, which cannot be developed now), as long as these two places develop, it will naturally drive the economic development of Lingnan, and not only these two places will become the number one cargo in Datang The distribution center, and even the whole of Lingnan can benefit from it.

As long as these two places are successfully built, there will be plenty of businessmen who are willing to go to sea here, and the business will be prosperous, so the tax revenue will naturally be more. Within ten years, it will not be a problem for Yuezhou to surpass Chang'an—at least in terms of taxation, after ten years There is no suspense about killing Chang'an in seconds. "

Li Zhen is still going to say less. Compared with inland cities, the biggest feature of seaport cities is that money comes in quickly. The commercial and trade taxes in inland cities are just the same, and the taxes are not too much, but seaport cities are different. , in and out are all precious goods, as long as they can be sold, the price can be doubled at least several times. In this case, even if the imperial court collects [-]% of the tax, for those fleets, there is still a profit ——Of course, Li Zhen wouldn't kill the chicken to get the egg like this.

After hearing Li Zhen's plan, everyone was shocked by his far-sighted gaze, Liu Rengui was even more ashamed, and apologized: "Your Highness is absolutely right, it's my minister who is too short-sighted."

Li Zhen said indifferently: "It's okay, you are also thinking about this king, what's your crime?"

"Then Your Highness, where will you go next time?" Hearing Li Zhen's plan, Liu Rengui couldn't wait any longer. As long as he finds out a few more islands, then Liu Rengui will definitely be famous all over the world, and his real name will go down in history—the future history It is exciting to think about the originator of the age of exploration, the archipelago and the archipelago, and the discoverer of the archipelago.After sitting on the boat with Liu Rengui for half a month, all the exhaustion seemed to be swept away, and the whole person became excited again.

"Don't worry." Seeing his impatience, Li Zhen said with a smile: "The sea is so big, there are many opportunities for you to go out to sea, but it took you half a year to go out to sea this time, not only did you not contact your family, but you may also be exhausted. You should take a good rest at home for a while, reunite with your family well, and it will not be too late to go to sea after the typhoon season is over."

"Yes, the subordinate is too eager."

Cen Wenwen asked: "Your Highness, when do you think we should publicize the news of the opening of the air route?"

"Of course, the sooner the better." Li Zhen said with a smile: "Just taking advantage of the shareholder wind that the fleet has reaped, it will completely ignite everyone's enthusiasm."

"What do you think, Your Highness, how will tomorrow be?"

"No hurry, although it is said that the sooner the better, but the plan still needs to be done step by step." Li Zhen said with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "Now the first step can be started——tell us the specific gains and the price we paid. , let’s spread the word.”

"Yes."

Soon, the specific gains of the fleet were publicized by Li Zhen's guards.

"What? You actually harvested 230 million guan at one time?"

"More importantly, the cost of this voyage, even including the boat, is only 50."

"My God, this is faster than stealing money."

"What's the point of stealing money? This is faster than digging gold mines directly."

"Where is this Luzon Island? This is clearly a golden mountain."

"I guess Silver Island is the only one that makes more money than here?"

"It's not necessarily true. Can you dig 200 million silver mines a year in Silver Island?"

"And you have to pay attention. Silver Island has been fighting for more than half a year, and there is no clue yet. It is estimated that it will take at least half a year in the future. Such a long time is enough for the fleet to go back and forth two more times."

"Hey, I really want to go to Luzon Island to make money."

"Don't think about it, how can we have the right to share what King Yue discovered?"

"That is to say, besides, even if the king of Yue allows you to go, do you have a boat? The sea is full of waves, and your fishing boat can't stop it."

"The boat is really not a problem. Even if I can't afford it alone, why don't I allow a partnership to buy a boat?"

"..."

As soon as these words came out, there was silence all around, and inexplicable brilliance shone in everyone's eyes...

Chapter 668 Li Zhen's Worries

Chapter 31 Lee Jung's Worries

What happened at Pier No. [-] spread throughout Lingnan in just three days, and spread throughout the world in half a month. Even Li Shimin, who was still far away in Goguryeo, knew the news. A month later, the news had spread throughout East Asia.

For a time, the world was in an uproar, and there were many discussions.

The common people just envied that the King of Yue was worthy of being a little God of Wealth. His ability to make money was really extraordinary. He only built a few ships, but he could make so much money. They had no other ideas—anyway, if you want to go to sea, you must have a big ship. They are a bunch of mud legs, how can they have money to buy a big boat?Even if it is to raise funds, if one family makes a consistent contribution, it will take more than 1000 households. In addition, the risk of going overseas is too high, and it is too unrealistic.

But those businessmen won’t think so—it’s only a thousand pens, and they can afford it. Even if those small businessmen can’t afford so much for a while, find a few people to pool together and buy a boat. Still no problem.

Not to mention those big businessmen, they are not short of money at all, they just need a way to get money. Now that Li Zhen has found such a profitable business for them, it is impossible for them to say that they are not tempted Yes - what Marx said is good, from the day capital was born, every pore is dripping with blood and dirty things, if there is 30.00% profit, people will be active, if there is 50.00% profit, people will be active Try your best, if you have one hundred percent, people will trample all laws.If there is [-]%, people dare to bet their lives, even risking the risk of being hanged.

Three times the profit can make them ignore any obstacles, and now it is dozens of times the profit... Who cares if you belong to the king of Yue?

According to the information obtained by Li Zhen, several large chambers of commerce in Datang have already started to mobilize funds, and are preparing to buy large ships to go to sea——Will the King of Yue not announce the route, so why don't we explore it ourselves?

Li Zhen didn't care about this. If the route was so easy to explore, so many people wouldn't die in the Age of Discovery.

What's more, the entire Datang shipyard that can build sea-going ships is in your own hands. No matter how rich you are, if I don't sell the ship, what can you do?Are you going to swim there?

As for rebuilding the shipyard from now on, of course there is no problem. The problem is that even with Li Zhen's financial resources, it took several years to build the ship and board the ship, and searched almost all the shipbuilding companies in the world expert.Those chambers of commerce build their own shipyards, not only have to train their own talents, but also need to spend a lot of time. When their shipyards are built, I am afraid that Li Zhen has already completed the exploration of Nanyang here.

In fact, Li Zhen was not as confident as he showed outside that day. He was actually in a state of entanglement with the opening of the Luzon air route—of course, he didn’t care about the interests of the Luzon Islands. He knows the situation of the world too well. Although Luzon is rich in resources, but in terms of ranking in the world, Luzon may not even rank in the top ten.

To put it bluntly, Luzon is just an archipelago. No matter how big it is, how big can it be?

Could it be bigger than Siberia?

Can it be bigger than Australia?

Bigger than Africa?

Bigger than America?

Not to mention these continents, there are many places in the archipelago that are much richer than Luzon.

Borneo (Kalimantan).

Golden Island (Sumatra).

java island.

Bali.

……

To put it bluntly, compared with these resource-rich places, is Luzon a fart?

So Li Zhen is not entangled in Luzon's interests, what he is entangled in is-what will be the consequences of Luzon's opening up.

According to his plan, after the opening of Luzon, the first batch of eat meat must be those large chambers of commerce, and they will plunder nearly [-]% of the profits of the Luzon Islands.

Of the remaining [-]%, [-]% are occupied by Li Zhen and the court, and only [-]% of the soup is what those small chambers of commerce and retail investors can eat.

But to be honest, Li Zhen didn't want to support those large chambers of commerce.

Originally, the scale of these chambers of commerce was already large enough. If they were allowed to eat up half of Luzon Island, their principal would be doubled, and in the end, they would definitely develop into consortiums one after another— — Just like those monopoly consortiums in later generations.

These consortiums have a lot of money, so they will definitely not be satisfied with the current situation, they will find ways to improve their status, and the best way to improve their status is to use money to support their spokesperson in the court...

Then came what Li Zhen feared the most.