Great Tang Southern Emperor

There was this profession in ancient times, and it developed very prosperously. It was in the West at first, but it was soon accepted by the East (later in the Battle of Talas, Gao Xianzhi hired Ge Luolu's army to fight, It was also because of their mutiny at a critical moment that led to the failure of the Battle of Talas).

Moreover, Li Zhen himself had a mercenary slave—Bill K Creevey Rawls Rogers, who bought it when he was three years old. Zhen arranged to go to Dashi and set up Tingfeng, and his deputy was Ben Yin, the black strongman, an African who was proficient in the art of catching snakes.

The mercenary formed by Creevey is Tingfeng, and this Creevey is indeed a talent. With the support of Datang's elite weapons, in just three short years, he has developed Tingfeng into a A well-known mercenary group throughout Asia, with more than 1 elite warriors in their hands, roaming the battlefields of Central Asian countries.

Even Datang hired them when they attacked Tubo, and they pulled in the reinforcements of Tubo in the west, and they made great contributions to Datang's conquest of Tubo.

This battle raised Tingfeng's reputation to the peak, so that there were two sayings in Asia later-"Wherever there is war, there are shadows of Tingfeng mercenaries.", "As long as there is Tingfeng To join the battle, all you have to do is wave the flag and shout from behind."

This shows the power and pervasiveness of Tingfeng.

It's just that at the very beginning, Tingfeng didn't have an intelligence organization, and their intelligence was learned from the Blood Dragon Guard, but later Li Zhen considered that Tingfeng was a separate army after all, and although the Blood Dragon Guard also had Overseas intelligence offices, but their focus is in the country after all, coupled with Creevey's reaction, so in the ninth year of Zhenguan, Li Zhen mobilized elites from various intelligence organizations to form an intelligence department that listened to the wind. His name is still Tingfeng, and he is mainly responsible for intelligence in the Western Regions and Central Asia.

However, in the later development, Tingfeng inevitably infiltrated into the Central Plains, so Li Zhen had another powerful intelligence organization in his hands-this was also a surprise.

It’s just that at the prisoner offering ceremony, Tingfeng seriously dereliction of duty, Li Zhen dismissed Creevey in a rage, the leader of Tingfeng’s intelligence department was obliterated, and after Creevey was dismissed, Li Zhen arranged him to another place That is to say, not only the Tingfeng intelligence department lacks a leader, but even the Tingfeng mercenary army also lacks a leader.

Listening to the fierce internal fighting in the intelligence department, and the mercenaries are also having a hard time. After the lack of Creevey, the mercenaries have fallen into a state of leaderless—although the prestige of Benyin is sufficient, but because of his lack of ability, He can only be regarded as a fierce general who charges into the battle, but cannot become the marshal of an army, otherwise he can only bring Tingfeng into a desperate situation.

This is also where Xue Rengui's guess was wrong - Li Zhen arranged for Luo Lin to enter Tingfeng, not for the purpose of letting him compete for the position of commander, but for the purpose of letting him, as Tingfeng's intelligence officer, be transferred to hire at the right time. In the army, under Li Zhen's arrangement, he will make a few great contributions, and then he can be supported to become Tingfeng's new leader.

As for why such a big detour was made, instead of directly arranging Luo Lin into the army...

Well, there are two reasons:

First, Tingfeng's mercenaries are all desperadoes licking blood on the edge of their swords. They have no military discipline at all. An orthodox soldier like Luo Lin may not be able to adapt to the military environment immediately after entering. It is the best way to get in touch with the identity first, and then enter the army after the adaptation period.

As for the second reason, uh...

Because Tingfeng is not under Li Zhen's control, although he is the big boss behind Tingfeng, and he is also responsible for the establishment of Tingfeng, but he never showed his face in front of Tingfeng from the beginning to the end. Therefore, there is no prestige in the army. If Li Zhen directly arranges for Luo Lin to join the army, I am afraid that he will be rejected by everyone.

On the contrary, Tingfeng's intelligence department has a lot of business in Central China, and Li Zhen often contacts them, so it is easier to accept Li Zhen's orders.

Chapter 783 Crazy Ship Price

1Chapter 16 Crazy Ship Prices

In the final analysis, Li Zhen didn't really want to kill Luo Lin. After all, this is a top talent who has received all of Xue Rengui's inheritance. He can be called a small Xue Rengui. mainstay.

It's just that Luo Lin made too many mistakes this time, and Li Zhen really couldn't find a reason to forgive him, otherwise it would not be enough to stabilize the morale of the army.

Fortunately, Xue Rengui gave him a sufficient reason - to voluntarily give up all the credit accumulated over the past ten years in exchange for Luo Lin's life. This reason is reasonable enough, and no one would say anything after hearing it.

"Okay, you go down." Naturally, Li Zhen would not tell Xue Rengui these things - after all, as a superior person, one should still have the arrogance that one should have.

"Yes, thank you Your Highness."

……

Although the fleet is at sea, this does not prevent Li Zhen from controlling the various departments under her command. After everything has been decided, carrier pigeons fly away from the ship carrying orders one after another, and fly to their respective destinations , There will be a dedicated person to receive the pigeons, and then carry out the order rigorously.

A month passed in a trance, and the Yuezhou Wharf was still bustling with people coming and going.

Today's Yuezhou Wharf, the number of ships has increased significantly, and most of the increased ships are large ships-this is a good sign, which shows that the gains obtained from sailing back from the Liuren Rail have begun to ferment, and people have realized that they are different from the inland Compared with the business environment that has almost reached its peak, overseas is still a barren land at this time - at least it looks like a barren land, but judging from the harvest of the Liu Rengui fleet, there is endless wealth hidden under this barrenness , Whoever can take the first step to occupy this place will be able to eat a lot of fat.

What's more, His Royal Highness has now opened up the sea route. Although he ate the first bite of meat, what he ate was actually a drop in the bucket compared to the wealth hidden overseas.

This is something that all far-sighted businessmen are convinced of.

Especially before leaving Lingnan to return to Chang'an this time, Li Zhen had already announced the route to Luzon, which led to the fact that all major chambers of commerce in the Tang Dynasty sent fleets to Luzon during the period when Li Zhen was in Chang'an. Song exploration.

It's just that unlike Li Zhen's huge fleet, these chambers of commerce don't have large merchant ships, but this obviously can't help the red-eyed merchants who are almost stimulated by overseas interests-they don't have big ships, but Li Zhen has them .

So during this period of time, Li Zhen's fleet was bought by all chambers of commerce at an average price four times higher than the market price—you must know that it is not a new ship, but a used ship. There are [-]% new ones, but [-]% new ones are also old ships, and they were bought at several times the market price. It has to be said that the merchants have really lost control.

This is still a normal method. What really shocked Li Zhen was his new boats, that is, those boats that were still being processed on the berth and had not yet been launched-even such boats were sold by those merchants at a price higher than the market. Bought it back from Li Zhen at ten times the price.

After hearing the news, Li Zhen was stunned. He knew that the benefits were touching, and before leaving, he gave Feng Zhibao (the deputy envoy of the Shibo Department) the task because Feng Zhibao was a businessman and could kill him. They) leave an order that they can resell the fleet and the ships of the shipyard to those merchants, and they can also slaughter those merchants at an appropriate time.

But he didn't expect Feng Zhibao's heart to be so black. He thought he was enough, but now it seems that he is still not thorough enough—or he still underestimated the determination of businessmen to make money.

Li Zhen owns the shipyard, so he knows the price of a ship very well.

Taking the current best cargo ship of the vertical and horizontal class as an example, even with the addition of labor, time, materials, etc., the cost of a ship is only a thousand dollars.

But please note that this is the cost price, the price for Li Zhen to pick up the boat.

In addition to cost price and market price.

And what is the market price of this vertical and horizontal class?

What Li Zhen ordered was [-] guan, a full [-]% profit, which in his opinion was already insane enough.

But unexpectedly, Feng Zhibao became even more frenzied...

The price of an old ship is four times that of 1 guan, and that of a ship that has not been launched in the dock is ten times that of [-] guan. A ship is [-] guan. Li Zhen's fleet has more than [-]. There are more than a dozen new boats on the dock——with just such a batch of boats, Li Zhenxue earned hundreds of thousands.

What kind of voyage does he still explore?Just build the ship.

In fact, Li Zhen was also stunned by this insane price. He felt that if he hadn't had a bigger goal, he would have become the richest man in the world just by building ships.

"Sure enough, you are a qualified businessman. It is really wronging you to be in charge of the Shibo Department. You should be in charge of the Chamber of Commerce." Looking at the ledger in front of her, Li Zhen sighed. The ability is indeed very strong.

Feng Zhibao got Li Zhen's praise, and he was so happy that he couldn't see his eyes. He quickly waved his hands and said with a little self-satisfaction: "Your Highness has praised you. In fact, this is not the highest price. It's because my subordinates haven't figured out the market conditions clearly. In the next opportunity, I can increase the price of a new ship to twelve times, even if it is an old ship, it can be five times the price."

"No, no, it's enough. If you add more, you will be punished by God." Li Zhen was taken aback, and quickly waved her hand to refuse. His development of sailing and broadcasting is not just for making money, but his main purpose It is still the beginning of the age of great navigation.

Such an era cannot be achieved by one person alone. Only when everyone works together can we completely set off the trend of the times.

Therefore, in order to allow more people to participate, it is necessary to reduce the cost difficulty, and what is the most basic cost in the age of great navigation?

Of course it is the boat.

Therefore, the price of the boat cannot be raised too high, otherwise what will you do to those who want to go to sea, but because they can’t afford the boat?

Isn't it hopeless?

This has to stop the dreams of many hipsters?

Therefore, not only can the price of this ship not increase, but it must go down.

"What? Still want to lower the price?" Feng Zhibao was startled by Li Zhen's thoughts, and then said with some reluctance: "Your Highness, is it too kind to do this? You don't know how crazy those merchants are. It’s not enough to sell. On average, each merchant can only buy one or two ships... Your Highness, do you know how they build their fleet? They directly use the vertical and horizontal class as their flagship, and then buy a large number of small ships to use as cargo ships. Some ships The team didn't even spare the small sampans..."

"Are they crazy?" Li Zhen was also taken aback, using a small sampan to go out to sea?Does this mean you don't want to live?Where is this going to sea? Is this looking for death?

"This is the madness of those businessmen." Feng Zhibao said with a wry smile: "The subordinates are also businessmen, and the subordinates know their psychology too well. In the face of absolute interests, they have no sense at all - just like Silver Island. , the major forces are fighting for their heads."

"..." Li Zhen was speechless.