After Wu Mu went ashore and stood on the land, his body shook for several minutes to adapt to the feeling of solid ground. Wu Mu now run Chu land run very fast, run once a few thousand gold income, face such a rich return, except for the long river river boats due to the wind and waves can not sail, Wu Mu has been in the Chu and the south of the port between the non-stop running. Counting on his fingers, from the time he started the business of selling cloth in Nambu, the days Wu Mu stayed at home in Dacheng in the past few months were not as many as the number of two fingers.
"Cui Fu, you unload the corn and wheat to the shore and send it to the fifth proprietor's place, I'll go to Lord Zheng's place first to discuss things." Wu Mu stretched his waist, kicked his legs, old stay on the ship body bones shake loose. Wu Mu now no longer bring cotton and hemp from Chu to return to the south port, because the acquisition of cotton and hemp is very time-consuming, Wu Mu calculated that the delayed time can be more than one trip, more than one trip to the sale of cloth income to be worth the transportation of several times the difference in price of cotton and hemp. Calculated in this way, Wu Mu will stop in Chu to buy cotton and hemp, the South Port cloth sold out on the return, South Port cloth in Chu is really too best-selling, Wu Mu's ship to Chu, basically anchored one day can be sold empty warehouse.
Because the purchase of corn and wheat do not need to wait, you can sell cloth while loading grain, grain has always been the South Port open to purchase items, Wu Mu return trip to carry goods will be changed to grain, grain to the South Port, Zheng Yuming will be in the purchase price of the purchase price of more than 10% of the price of the receipt. With this 10% profit, Wu Mu's freight back.
"Aye! Master." After promising his master, Cuifu immediately negotiated the unloading of the goods with the dock drudges next to him, he was too familiar with the dock drudges and finalized the handling fee in a few words.
Wu Mu stretched his body and headed for the textile factory, and when he walked to the wood factory next to the textile factory (the wood factory was also built near the water), Wu Mu stopped in his tracks.
"Where did all this wood come from?" In front of the woodworks, some laborers were fishing large round logs from the water to the bank, which were braided into wooden rows to hold up the bank of this river.
"To the proprietor! This is the aged wood purchased by the woodwork factory." The one in charge of directing the hard laborers was a carpenter from the woodwork factory, and this carpenter knew Wu Mu.
"Chenmu? The wood factory is going to build a ship?" Wu Mu's eyes lit up.
"Yes! Lord Zheng said he wants to build a twenty-ton ship." Building wooden ships must use large wood, this large wood must be shade-dried for about three years before it can be manufactured, using freshly cut down wood to build a ship, don't take more than a dozen months to fall apart, whereas a wooden ship made of shade-dried large wood, as long as it is properly maintained it can be used for more than ten to fifteen years.
"A twenty-ton ship?" Wu Mu stumbled on his feet, pointing at the large wood carried by the laborers and unable to speak.
Ancient people were inspired by the wood and leaves floating on the water, and moved the idea of sailing on the water. The earliest boat used by primitive people is a canoe, and then developed into wooden rows, bamboo rows, plank boats. In the long-term practice, people invented the use of wind power to exercise the sailboat. In the original time and space, the heavenly dynasty in the Qin dynasty can build up to 30 meters long, 6 to 8 meters wide, can carry 60 tons of weight floating across the sea sea ship. Development to the Ming Dynasty, Zheng He went to the West, Zheng He took the treasure ship has been up to 140 meters long and 60 meters wide. It is said that the largest treasure ship in the flotilla to the West Ocean has a displacement of 7500 tons, close to the modern aircraft carrier standards.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Zhaohui wore to this time and space, to count from ancient times, to the present should be after the BC, equivalent to the original time and space of the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Probably because the continent of this dynasty has not been a real unification, did not form an authoritarian centralized system of the kingdom, this time and space of the productive forces of the majority of the time and space is not as developed as the same period in the previous time and space. Although the wooden ships in the Yangtze River Basin had already used canvas for sailing, most of the wooden ships in commerce had a load capacity of about five tons, and only the war ships of the Chu Kingdom barely reached a load capacity of ten tons.
Wu Mu's two boats are the five-ton sail wooden boat, is moored in the south port pier tonnage of the largest merchant ships, like the Eagle Tribe's boat most of the only 2, 3 tons of load capacity. Now the wood factory can make twenty tons of large boats, does this mean that his future can have four times more loaded wooden boats, there are on two twenty tons of large boats, Wu Mu run a trip can be offset now run four trips, then his annual income is not seventy to eighty thousand gold, to more than three hundred thousand gold.
Wu Mu's head dazzled at the thought of an income of more than three hundred thousand gold.
"Lord Zheng, I want to buy that twenty-ton ship!" Wu Mu rushed into Zheng Yuming's textile mill office, and for the first time, he requested urgently without saluting.
"The boat hasn't been built yet!" Zheng Yuming was dumbfounded, where did he have a twenty-ton wooden boat for sale, a twenty-ton wooden boat was still on the drawing board. This wooden boat that was ready to be started was an experiment for the woodcraft factory.
"If you build it, sell it to me first, with a big ship, the amount of cloth sold to Chu can be doubled several times." Wu Mu mentally envisioned a prosperous business.
"Dongji Wu, there are some things I need to talk to you about." Zheng Yuming frowned slightly, there were some things that had to be prevented now, countermeasures had to be laid out first.
"Lord Zheng, please speak." Wu Mu saw Zheng Yuming's cautious face, and his agitation slowly calmed down.
"How is the business of the textile workshops in Chu now? Is the cotton cloth they spin still selling?" Zheng Yuming asked.
"The business of the textile workshops in Chudi has always been bad, they can only weave some coarse cloth for the use of the commoners, and their cotton cloth has always been unable to sell as well as Dacheng's green cloth, and Dacheng's nobles, who used to wear green cloth, are now wearing Nambu cloth." Wu Mu's face has a winning color.
Zheng Yuming listened to the heart of certain, it seems that the South Port cloth on the impact of the cotton industry in Chu is not as big as Dacheng, but in the long run, with the expansion of the South Port cloth production capacity, sooner or later will impact on the low-end market in Chu, but this is going to happen at least two or three years later.
"Are there any nobles in Chudi who resent Nambubu?"
"Resentment? With the high quality, delicate and beautiful Nambu cloth for them to make clothes, how could they be resentful? Besides, Nambu also buys a large amount of cotton and hemp from Chu, so that the nobles who grow cotton and hemp have more income, and they can't wait to be happy."
"Wu Dongjia, although the people of Chu now welcome Nambu cloth, but we still have to seek powerful people in Chu to be allies, or else Nambu earns more money from Chu, sooner or later, people will be jealous of it, and the jealous nobles will have to slander in front of the King of Chu, and forbid the Nambu cloth to be sold in the Chu land will be bad."
"What then? How to find allies?" Wu Mu was anxious after hearing this, yes, the original he went to the Chu land to earn only a few thousand gold a year, now it has doubled two dozen times, in the future the transportation capacity is strengthened, the profit will have to be doubled a few times, at that time, if no one is red in the eyes, then the Chu nobles can be all good people.
"Binding interests! Only when we're bound to the interests of the Chu nobles can we keep earning Chu's money." Zheng Yuming was helpless, the reasoning that businessmen in the twenty-first century understood, in this time and space, even someone like Wu Mu who had been doing business for twenty years did not understand.
"A bundle of interests means that it's good for everyone or everyone loses?" Wu Mu understood a little.
"As for how the interests are bound, Wu Dongjia himself to think of a way." Zheng Yuming side of the most lack of talent, now out of the mouth to mention Wu Mu, but with what method he did not want to teach, Zheng Yuming do not want to do everything, assistants are trained in practice.
Wu Mu hadn't thought of the best way to bundle interests before his housekeeper, Cuifu, came looking for him, and was still thinking hard in his car as he passed through the village of Nambu in his family's mule cart.
"Great proprietor Wu! How about coming to Yu Mou's place for a cup of green wine?" Yu Kui stood in front of the wine shop and solicited customers, in the past two months, his wine shop's business had gotten a few times better than it was originally, the original green wine that he didn't quite dare to enter was now a must-have wine for the wine shop.
"Great! Let's have a few drinks here at the Yu Restaurant!" Seeing Yu Kui, Wu Mu's eyes lit up, this Yu Kui and Wu Da were very good friends, Wu Da had praised Yu Kui in front of him for his extraordinary insights, and thought that Yu Kui's life had a great deal to offer, but what kind of offerings, Wu Da didn't go into detail with Wu Mu.
"East Master Wu came back quickly this trip, huh?" Yu Kui took out the hotel's best altar of green wine.
"I returned after selling the cloth without stopping, I have to rest at home for two days this time, otherwise, my little child will be angry." Wu Mu boasted as he drank from the ceramic bowl. "Not bad, this wine is fragrant and mellow, not bad for a tribute wine that Chu honors Lord Qin!"
"I see the proprietor in the mule cart face has a mind?" Yu Kui poured himself a cup of green wine sat opposite Wu Mu to drink, Yu Kui opened a wine shop to earn money Paleo are exchanged for wine to drink away themselves, he has no interest in saving money.
"Winemaker Yu, do you know what interest bundling is? How can you do a good job of bundling interests?" Wu Mu carefully scrutinized Yu Kui, Yu Kui was a country face, half of his face was covered by a beard, leaving only two thick eyebrows and a pair of big copper bell eyes to be seen. If Yu Kui had darker skin, he would have been the image of Zhang Fei in later times. Yu Kui looks like Zhang Fei, but his character is not at all similar.
"Bundle of interests?" Yu Kui froze, this word was new. "Bound by interests with whom?"
"Hehe, I just want to do business in Chu to be more secure, and a high ranking person mentioned that I use this method." Wu Mu deliberated seeking advice.
"Doing business a little more peacefully?" Yu Kui pondered for a long time and suddenly slapped his thigh. "Wonderful! This is a wonderful idea! With a successful bundling of interests, Dongbei Wu will have no worries about selling cloth and silk in Chu!"
"Yeah! It's a wonderful idea, but how do we do a good job of tying up the benefits?"
"This is simple, the proprietor knows more or less about the Chu King's Court, right?" Yu Kui immediately had a suggestion as he phased through the joints of the matter in the middle of the morning.
"After doing business in the Chu land for more than twenty years, I know some powerful nobles and have offered gifts to them." Wu Mu was not without any connections in the Chu land and knew some minor nobles.
"You can think of befriending the right-hand man of Chu."
"Only befriend the right doctor?" Wu Mu was puzzled, the King of Chu trusted the left doctor the most, why didn't Yu Kui advise him to befriend the left doctor? Great Qin was left-oriented, and the left doctor had more power than the right doctor.
"The left doctor's family can't, the clan's sons and daughters have little success, he can be in the left head, all rely on the king of chu favor, the king of chu's age will soon reach sixty birthday, the left doctor's dependence still has a few years? The right doctor is a famous family in Chu, and all the big families in Chu have in-laws, the right doctor is stable, there is the title of not falling down, the king of Chu and the crown prince are relying on him. You and the right doctor's interests are bound, he will be able to ensure that your business is smooth in Chu."
"Yu Winehouse, please teach Wu more." After listening to Yu Kui's analysis of the Chu King's Court, Wu Mu straightened up and stood, respectfully performing a long bow salute to Yu Kui.
"East Master Wu, please rise!" Yu Kui did not look flattered in the face of Wu Mu's honorable salute, and only faintly asked Wu Mu not to be polite. "This is not a difficult thing to do, you just need to make Nambu Bu's business in Chu become Righteous Dafu's own business, and the bundle of interests will be done."
"Turn it into Righteous Doctor's own business!" Wu Mu thought about it for a moment before spreading his face and giving another discreet bow to Yu Kui. "Many thanks to Winemaker Yu for enlightening me, Wu Mu will not forget Winemaker Yu's kindness in solving the problem."
Yu Kui watched Wu Mu's mule cart go away, returned to the wine shop and looked around the place where he had lived for six years, drank the remaining wine in the wine altar, and slammed the empty wine altar to the ground: "A great man can't do nothing! It's enough for him to live on until today!"
Wu Mu got the idea from Yu Kui, and rushed to Dacheng in a mule cart, the road has been conceptualizing the action steps, halfway to the road, Wu Mu suddenly patted his head, he felt that he guessed Yu Kui's life.
Wu Mu in Chu did twenty years of business, the things of the King's Court of Chu is still half clear, but this Yu Kui, talking about the things of the King's Court of Chu head, like a family treasure, Yu Kui as if it is the Chu dynasty in the general dignitary. Six years ago, the state of Chu had a sensational thing, there is a family of nobles in that year was convicted of the king of Chu, the whole family was killed. Folk rumor is that the family nobles are innocent, is framed by the villain, and so the king of Chu sober regret, the family nobles have been extinguished. Yu Kui is six years ago in Nanbu, that was exterminated family clan name is 'Yu'.