Chapter 32 Puzzle Clearing "What Mr.
Jingren said is exactly what the minister wants to say."
Liu Renliang also followed: "Don't talk about anything else, let's just talk about this sea, in the future, when the great maritime trade really starts thoroughly, Your Highness, with the prophetic foresight of the Book of Heaven, the fattest meat must be eaten by ourselves, and eating the remaining bones can only be eaten by those chambers of commerce, how can they be our opponents?"
If Your Highness is still worried, if you don't want to draw a few pieces of land for your own use in the later voyages, as long as there is such land, where is there any need to worry about others surpassing us?
” "And don't forget a little bit, Your Highness."
The eldest grandson Wuji also said with a straight face: "In the final analysis, in this world, it is still according to the fist, the fist is the truth, as long as we can control the army of the whole country, even if others have more money, what is the use?"
Or are we at the mercy of us?
” "That's right......"
Eldest Sun Wuji's words can be regarded as a complete enlightenment for Li Zhen, nothing has happened yet, what's the use of worrying about these now?
What's more, what the eldest grandson Wuji said is right, as long as the military power is in hand and the independence of the military power is maintained, those so-called big conglomerates are simply just nests in their own hands, and they can gnaw whatever they want.
As for how to maintain the independence of military power, this is also simple, Li Zhen already has a preliminary idea, military power itself has a certain degree of independence, the reason why the imperial court can control the army, in addition to the name of righteousness, the other is money and food, as long as the salary of the army is guaranteed to be paid directly by the royal family, others will not be able to intervene in any way.
And don't forget, the current Datang is not a capitalist society, paying attention to the so-called human rights, equality and freedom or something, Datang is a real feudal society, the supremacy of imperial power, and it is not a simple matter to bring down a few chambers of commerce?
The prefect who raided the family, the county order that destroyed the door, some petty officials can bring down a family, if the court makes a move, isn't it easy?
Laws such as the Anti-Monopoly Law, the Patent Law, and the Intellectual Property Protection Law are enough to limit the development potential of consortia.
Coupled with the property left by itself, even if Datang becomes a capitalist society in the future, it is enough to ensure the smooth transition of power and there will not be too much chaos.
Besides, is it because we are worried about the development and growth of the consortium that we will not open the shipping routes?
So what did you work so hard to explore the sea for?
Isn't it ridiculous to abandon this plan because of a little worry—isn't that a choking waste?
Therefore, the route must still be opened, but before the route is opened, Li Zhen feels that she needs to do something - at least not to make those chambers of commerce feel that the money is too easy.
In this way, another half a month passed, and under Li Zhen's secret encouragement, the matter of the new route was hyped up more and more hotly, and those chambers of commerce were even more impatient.
However, when they scraped together enough money to buy a boat, they suddenly became confused, because they suddenly realized that it is useless to have money, and no matter how rich you are, if you can't buy a boat, you can only stand on the shore and stare dryly.
Of course, it's not that they don't have a place to buy ships, under Li Zhen's secret layout, the entire Datang coast is basically a port of a little scale, there are shipyards, these shipyards are of different scales, such as the large Yue shipyard can manufacture warships alone, and the small ones such as Hangzhou Shipyard can only produce accessories for large shipyards, but the accumulation of technology is there, as long as Li Zhen is willing, these shipyards can be upgraded to regular shipyards at any time.
However, regardless of the size of the shipyards, these shipyards have one thing in common - that is, they are all Li Zhen's.
It's not that all the ships in Datang are Li Zhen's, but Li Zhen's shipyard has also accounted for more than 10% of Datang's total ship production, and the remaining 10% are some shipyards that are not large in scale and can only produce inland river ships.
Of course, whether it is a sea ship or a river boat, there is one thing in common, that is, they are all made of wood, theoretically speaking, there is no difference between the two in terms of technology, but how can things be so simple?
A shipyard specializing in the production of river boats, if it wants to completely transform and manufacture a qualified sea vessel, it will definitely not work without a few years of testing.
Moreover, the construction time of a ship is usually measured in months (the fastest one of the vertical and horizontal class merchant ships also took a little more than two months, and that is still when the technology is mature), and it will take several years to make a fleet.
So the current situation is that all the shipyards in Datang that can produce sea ships are in the hands of Li Zhen, and these chambers of commerce want to get ships, or they have to start from scratch and reinvest in a shipyard, but this will take a lot of time.
So in fact, there is actually only one choice they face, and that is to buy from Li Zhen.
It's just that if you want to buy from Li Zhen, it's not that simple, not to mention whether they are willing to send money to competitors, just say that Li Zhen's own ships are not enough, all the shipyards are already in production in three shifts, all the docks have been filled with ships, and there are still a large number of orders waiting in line, where is there still free time for people to build ships?
If they place an order at this time and want to get their first ship, they will have to wait until two years later, how can they afford to wait?
Then the only way is to buy at a high price, and the only one who has a large number of sea ships in his hands at present is Li Zhen......
But whether Li Zhen sells it or not, it's a matter of two words.
Li Zhen's ambition is not just Luzon, in his plan, although Luzon is precious, the imperial court will also garrison troops there and assign it to the administrative region, but Li Zhen's next action will definitely not be based on the rate.
During Liu Renliang's trip to Luzon, he had already learned the details of Luzon, which was enough for the imperial court to initially control there, and the next step should be the overseas part of Southeast Asia.
For example, Malaysia (Malaysia).
For example, the Indonesian region (Indonesia).
For example, the Malacca area. …… These are all places that Datang will search next.
Especially the first two, are famous island countries, compared to several in Luzon, these two countries have thousands of islands, and they are extremely widely distributed, although they are marked as regions, but this is also Li Zhen according to the habits of later generations to mark, in fact, in the current eyes, the division is not scientific.
If the Tang Dynasty wants to rule here in the future, it will definitely redivide the region, so these two places need to be explored.
If you want to explore these two places in detail, the number of ships needed is not small, Li Zhen's own ships are not enough, where can they be given to others?
Unless......
The price they give is huge......