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Chapter 1117 Golden Route

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    In addition, at the beginning of the year, Mr. Zhao asked Jin Ke to build a Chongming Navigation School on Chongming Island.  In addition to cultivating qualified crew members for the Royal Shipping Group, that school also plays the role of sending outstanding sailing talents to the Coast Guard School. It can be regarded as the preparatory course for the Coast Guard School.

    Zhao Hao hopes that this can reduce the teaching pressure of the Coast Guard School and shorten the police training cycle, so as to achieve his goal of expanding the Coast Guard force to 8,000 people as soon as possible without affecting combat effectiveness. Although he is in peace talks with the Portuguese,  But you must also be prepared for war!

    By that time, the Portuguese will definitely send a fleet that is powerful enough. How can they defeat the invading enemy if they do not fully expand their military preparations and improve their combat effectiveness?  !

    So at least in the next two years, the vast majority of students from Chongming Aviation School will go to the Coast Guard School after graduation.

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    The next day, Mr. Zhao inspected the future lumber yard and wood processing plant.  In the future, the logs sent from Japan will be dried here using the strong sea breeze, and then roughly processed into lumber suitable for transportation, and transported to the Jiangnan Shipyard to build warships.

    Ship wood is currently the most important military material. Of course, it must be built in the base of the garrison area to ensure safety.  But after comprehensive consideration, Zhao Hao decided to place the shipbuilding site in Chongming.

    It can only be placed in Chongming, because if you want to build excellent sea-going ships, you need the support of a complete handicraft system, and Tamna Island does not have this system.

    A large shipbuilding yard is a place where people, funds, and materials are highly concentrated. It can be said to be a super factory with the highest technological content at the moment, and thousands of materials need to be purchased.  At least it needs the support of dozens or hundreds of upstream supporting workshops such as blacksmith shops, copper bureaus, weaving workshops, rope making yards, sesame oil workshops, paint yards, etc.

    And these factories also have their own upstream factories, how could they all be moved to the security area?

    Although this kind of handicraft system is not as desperate as the industrial system, it is still not something that can be built just by building it.  Otherwise, why is Japan's shipbuilding industry still stuck at the level it was five hundred years ago?  Without it, even if there is no complete handicraft system, even if he gets a big fortune ship, he will not be able to build it.  Not to mention Western ships

    If Mr. Zhao hadn¡¯t been backed by the Jiangnan region, which has the most developed handicraft industry in the world, he wouldn¡¯t have dared to catch a Galen ship and imitate it.

    So he couldn¡¯t put the shipyard on Tamna Island, which was isolated overseas and had everything he wanted and lacked.  Besides, if such a large industry is placed in Chongming County, it can also bring up the economy of the entire county The consumption of thousands of middle- and high-income craftsmen alone is enough to restore Chongming to the grandeur of Yingzhou in the East China Sea.

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    After inspecting the lumber yard, he turned around and listened to the Tamna Chamber of Commerce¡¯s suggestions on trade with Japan.

    Although no matter what Jiangnan Group supplies, they have to accept everything as ordered.  But in fact, domestic suppliers do not understand the Japanese market as well as they do, so these Li Chao businessmen actually have a big say in what and how much goods they purchase.

    ¡°According to Zhao Hao¡¯s request, Jin Xishan compiled a price list of major Japanese commodities.  I really don¡¯t know it until I see it, and I¡¯m shocked when I see it.

    Due to lack of resources and backward handicraft industry, Japan has a very limited variety of self-produced goods, and there is no shortage of gold and silver Therefore, the price of all goods in Japan during the Ming Dynasty has increased by at least more than five times, and generally around ten times, twenty or thirty times.  There are times as well.

    Zhao Hao saw that the most demanded raw silk in Japan was raw silk. The current price of raw silk in Jiangnan was only 700 cents per catty, but the CIF price in Japan was eighty taels of silver per catty.

    The Japanese satin woven from such expensive raw silk cannot be afforded by ordinary Japanese people. Therefore, various silks, satins, and cottons from the Ming Dynasty that are relatively inexpensive and high-quality are also very popular, and the profits are nearly ten times higher.

    In addition, the export profits of various porcelain, pottery, ironware, fans, umbrellas, tea, castor felt stocking needles, paper, ink, pens and inkstones, books, pictures, etc. are also about ten times.  Even if you directly traffic copper coins to Japan, you can make more than five times the profit

    Of course, the most profitable items are war materials, such as medicinal materials, with profits as high as dozens of times, and demand exceeds supply.  For example, cheap medicinal materials such as Ligusticum chuanxiong and licorice are actually worth seventy taels of silver per catty in Japan!  The profit can reach a hundred times, surpassing saltpeter to become the most profitable item!

    With the cover of the book in his hand, Mr. Zhao tried his best to close his mouth before putting down the price list.

    In the past, he only knew that Sino-Japanese trade could make a lot of money, but today he knew exactly how much money could be made.

    If you manage it properly, you can earn tens of millions of taels a year!

    No wonder the nine families had to beat their brains out over this, no wonder the Portuguese were so shameless that they broke the contract and intervened.

    Thinking of this, Zhao Hao suddenly realized that there must be a battle between himself and the Portuguese!

    &?China imported a large amount of porcelain and also produced Karak porcelain for sale in Europe, which directly affected the sales of Qing Dynasty porcelain.

    "You must guard against the slightest change and don't let your country's porcelain-making technology leak out, remember?" The porcelain-making industry in Jiangnan is not developed anyway, so Mr. Zhao will not compete with the Li Dynasty people for these scraps.

    "Understood." Jin Xishan said with confidence: "The porcelain of our dynasty is produced by craftsmen and slaves in the official kilns. Private production is prohibited among the people, just to keep the porcelain making technology secret for the dynasty!"

    "Yeah." Zhao Hao nodded, and couldn't help but think that the Ming Dynasty also concentrated all the porcelain making industry in the world in Jingdezhen. I'm afraid there were also considerations of keeping secrets from the outside.  However, it seems that the private kilns in Fujian have become very developed and can even provide customers with in-depth customized services.  It can be seen that Ming Dynasty¡¯s level of confidentiality is just that.

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