Datang: Time travel in two months, wait online, hurry up!

Before that, Li Ke told him to expand the scale of the shipyard, and he also wrote an appropriation letter to the Yangzhou government.

After all, the shipyard stopped building big ships and lost a lot of income. In the past year, it mainly built two Galen ships, so funds were still a little tight.

But it's different now. There are hundreds of thousands of guns in our own shipyard, and the expansion is far enough.

Besides, another 50 guan will be credited in half a year, which is ample funds.

"Yes, Lord Zheng!"

The accountant of the shipyard nodded immediately.

Although the shipyard is government-run, it also has to pay taxes.

For the next period of time, there were people advertising on Datang Daily every day.

For example, the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce advertised in newspapers: high salaries to recruit captains who are proficient in ocean sailing, talents who understand the languages ​​of Japan, Luzon, etc., etc.

The Shipbuilding Association advertised in newspapers: recruiting shipbuilders and apprentices with high salaries.

In short, both Yangzhou and Suzhou are getting busy.

The merchants recruited people with special talents, such as navy veterans and people who knew the languages ​​of overseas countries.

These people are still very easy to recruit. After all, there are many people from Japan, Luzon and other places in Datang. They understand the language of their own country and also understand Datang dialect.

In fact, in this era, many high-level officials and dignitaries in the dependent countries can speak Tang dialect and know Chinese characters.

Shipyard owners recruited shipbuilders and apprentices.

They have received a lot of orders, and if they want to deliver the ship within half a year, they must recruit more manpower.

And what's quicker to recruit than a newspaper?

As long as the salary is high enough, there is no fear of not being able to recruit craftsmen and apprentices.

After seeing job advertisements in newspapers, many people jumped into action.

At this time, Li Ke also received an exciting news.

"My lord, the 'train' you mentioned earlier seems to have been built!"

Someone below ran over to report.

Hearing the news, Li Ke's eyes lit up immediately, and a happy smile appeared on his face!

PS: The third update! .

Chapter 335 A train that can run with white smoke?The take-off of Greater Shanghai!

Not only were the remaining 6 large ships sold out, but many shopkeepers did not buy enough ships!

After all, some shopkeepers bought two ships at once, and in order to ensure that everyone can buy the ships, they also shared them.

As a result, although every merchant bought a ship, some merchants only bought one ship!

For example, shopkeeper Chen and shopkeeper Zhang, who called out to be thieves at the beginning, only bought one boat, which made them very angry.

A ship means that every time you go to sea, you can take out the same amount of goods as other people.

Naturally, the money earned on each trip is basically the same.

After all, everyone is the big shopkeeper, you are the only one who can fool, and others can't?

If you can sell at a high price, others will naturally be able to sell at a high price.

They are angry that others can only buy one big boat with this ability, while they have the financial resources to buy two or more big boats, but there are only so many big boats for sale!

Obviously they have more advantages, but in the end they stand on the same starting line as businessmen whose strength is far inferior to their own, which is naturally very dissatisfied.

So, they had an idea in their hearts.

"Boss Liu, I want to place an order with your shipyard to help me build two large ships with high quality and quantity at the fastest speed. The price can be higher, how about it?"

Shopkeeper Chen and Shopkeeper Zhang and a group of wealthy businessmen approached the bosses of the shipyard one after another to place orders.

We are all in the same boat, so we stand on the same starting line and earn about the same amount of money.

And overseas trade is very profitable, even equivalent to stealing money!

After arriving in overseas countries, commodities are a sharp weapon for robbing money. Whoever has more goods has a greater right to speak.

And the goods are transported by big ships. Whoever has more big ships can transport more goods, and naturally can gain a greater right to speak and earn more money.

Therefore, the more big ships you earn, the more you earn. This is a very simple truth.

Now that this batch of large ships has been sold out, they can simply go directly to the shipyard to place an order.

In this way, more large ships can be obtained faster, even if the cost is a little higher, there is no problem, anyway, overseas trade makes enough money.

As long as one trip comes down, not only can the cost of the big ship be earned back, but also a lot of extra profits can be made.

And the next trip will be pure profit!

"Naturally, this is no problem. How about a big ship with 5% deposit and half a year's delivery?"

For so many merchants to place orders, the owners of the shipyard are naturally smiling, and the smiles on their faces have never stopped!

In the past, the boats could not be sold, but now not only the boats are sold out, but also the future boats are starting to be sold!

In the future, they don't have to look for buyers anymore, they just wait for everyone to come and book a boat.

We will build as many ships as we receive orders, and we will never worry about selling them.

"no problem!"

For this price and conditions, the shopkeepers agreed without thinking about it.

In this regard, the bosses of the shipyard are naturally very happy.

Not only is the price of a ship 1 guan higher, but they can also receive a 3% deposit, which greatly relieves their financial pressure.

Next, the owner of each shipyard negotiated with the shopkeepers.

The shopkeepers who came from Chang'an City were naturally rich and powerful, and they were all from the mansions of various county kings and dukes.

Those county kings and princes followed Li Ke to do business, and they had already made a lot of money and had very strong financial resources.

Naturally, they also saw the huge profits of overseas trade, so they also began to book ships aggressively.

Instead of ordering two ships for one, they started with five ships!

Faced with such big customers, the bosses of those shipyards naturally treat them as big money lords.

In this way, as if it had become a large market in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, shipbuilding orders were signed one after another.

Finally, the owner of the shipyard and the businessmen left the Metropolitan Government with satisfaction.

This time, the owners of the shipyard not only sold the 6 large ships in stock, but also received an order for nearly 1 large ship!

The 6 large ships were all sold at the price of 4 ships, including the previous 3 ships at the same price.

According to the previous agreement they signed with Yangzhou Shipyard, every time a large ship with 5 to 1 material is sold, 10% of the sales will be handed over to Yangzhou Shipyard.

10% of a large ship is 4 guan, and 9 large ships are 36 guan!

In other words, this time Yangzhou Shipyard will receive a full authorization fee of 36 guan!

Moreover, these merchants also ordered nearly 1 large ship, and it was still at the price of 5 ships!

And when this big ship is delivered half a year later, it will bring another 1 licensing fees to Yangzhou Shipyard!

With so much money, Yangzhou Shipyard can naturally expand the scale of the shipyard, recruit a large number of new craftsmen, train a large number of apprentices and so on.

In addition, there will be more money to develop new technologies and build more advanced ships.

Therefore, it will be a huge boost and help for the development of Yangzhou Shipyard.

Moreover, as long as merchants made money overseas, they ordered more and more large ships.

As a result, orders from major shipyards in Yangzhou and Suzhou will increase.

When they were unable to deliver the ships within the time limit, they would choose to continue to expand the size of the shipyard, recruit more craftsmen and apprentices with higher salaries and benefits.

In this way, a virtuous circle is formed, and the shipbuilding industry in Yangzhou and Suzhou will take off completely!

Moreover, more and more people are engaged in the shipbuilding industry in these two places, and the treatment and salary are getting better and better.

This will cause a large number of people to find jobs with high salaries, and will reserve a large number of excellent naval architects.

Once a few geniuses appear among these shipbuilding engineers, they will be absorbed into Yangzhou Shipyard.

Under Li Ke's guidance, the shipbuilding technology of the entire Tang Dynasty can be completely promoted!

In addition to the 36 yuan authorization fee that Yangzhou Shipyard will receive next, these shipyards will also be able to withdraw funds.

A large ship has 4 strings, and three ships are 1.2 strings.

The 1.2 guan can be used to pay wages to craftsmen and apprentices, to pay for raw materials, to repay bank loans, to purchase raw materials for new ships, and so on.

In addition, this time, on average, each shipyard has received orders for about three new ships, priced at 5 per ship, and paid a 3% deposit.

After three ships, a deposit of 45 guan is needed, and with a little loan from the bank, the shipyard can be expanded and new craftsmen and apprentices can be recruited.

In short, this time they were completely revived!

As for the shopkeepers, they started to go back and prepare to go to sea to do business.

For example, it is better to study where to do business, who to find to be the captain, and so on.

For a time, the entire Yangzhou shipbuilding industry and business circles were busy.

Even in order to save them time, Li Ke asked Qu Wenkang to give them a list and information of navy veterans, and asked them to hire them themselves.

Anyway, as long as the salary is high, no one will refuse the job.

Besides, it can be regarded as providing a job for those navy veterans.

Yangzhou Shipyard soon received news from more than 300 shipyard owners in Yangzhou and Suzhou, asking Yangzhou Shipyard to send someone to the bank, and they sent money to Yangzhou Shipyard.

When Zheng Tiancheng and many old craftsmen of Yangzhou Shipyard learned that they had received a full 36 licensing fees in just this year, they were all stunned!

At that time, technology was decentralized, and Yangzhou Shipyard only built huge ships, and the strategy of abandoning all large ships was promoted by Li Ke.

They also felt that this strategy was very good at the time, but the estimate of the licensing fee charged was still too conservative.

In their view, the annual authorization fee can be almost the same as the previous profit of Yangzhou Shipyard.

However, they never imagined that the shipyards in Yangzhou and Suzhou directly built a total of 9 large ships at one time!

And the most outrageous thing is that all 9 big ships were sold!

You must know that they know that the navy will focus on giant ships in the future, supplemented by large ships, and the demand for large ships will be greatly reduced.

Under such circumstances, all nine large ships were sold, which was a bit unexpected for them.

Especially when they learned that they had not only sold all the 9 large ships, but also received an order for 1 new large ship to be delivered within half a year, they were immediately stunned!

When did it become so easy to build a big ship?

When did everyone have such a big demand for big ships?

And now that big ships can be sold for 5 pieces, do you still need to place an order in advance?

Zheng Tiancheng and the master craftsmen of Yangzhou Shipyard were all dumbfounded. They felt that the times had suddenly changed, and they hadn't kept up.

"These are all thanks to His Highness King Qin. His Highness King Qin has been preparing for this day since a year ago."

Later, Zheng Tiancheng and others learned the news from the bosses and craftsmen who came to the shipyard to study.

After hearing that it was His Highness King Qin's plan, Zheng Tiancheng and the others were not surprised immediately.

And it wasn't until this time that they finally understood why Li Ke asked Yangzhou Shipyard to decentralize technology.

Not only has the income of Yangzhou Shipyard been greatly improved, but it has also improved the shipbuilding technology and background of the entire Yangzhou and Suzhou countless times.

At the same time, the output of large ships also had an exaggerated growth.

The most important thing is that Yangzhou Shipyard does not need to be distracted to build those big ships, it only needs to concentrate on developing more advanced ships.

Anyway, there is a lot of money to support them in research and development.

And a large number of large ships built in Yangzhou and Suzhou can be sold to merchants, so that merchants can go to sea to do business.

Thus making Datang richer!

In short, Li Ke's plan a year ago directly revitalized several shipbuilding industries and businesses, but did not provide a lot of employment, and also earned a lot of wealth from overseas.