Chapter 48 The Way to Make Money

With that, Yu Xiaotian handed the small mirror he bought to Li Yi. Li Yi picked it up and looked at it and immediately said, "This is a glazed mirror made by Taixi. It's really a good thing. I've seen it twice before. Compared with the bronze mirror we use, it does shine much more clearly, but this thing is too expensive. Most of it is from Frank. My son is here!

What? Yu is not the head of the family who wants to do this business, right? This thing is not brought much, and it is very expensive. You still need someone to get along with them to get it, but I'm afraid you can't make much money by doing this alone!"

Yu Xiaotian took back the small mirror and shook his head and smiled, "I didn't say that I wanted to find a Buddha machine to buy goods. I just know how to make this thing. Wouldn't it be much cheaper if we do it ourselves?

If I can make it, then how much do you think we can make in the future?

Li Yi's eyes lit up as soon as he heard this. He stood up and almost rushed to catch Yu Xiaotian. After he stabilized his mood, Li Yi said, "Are you serious about what you said? Do you really know how to make this thing?

Yu Xiaotian picked up the tea bowl with a proud smile and took a sip. He nodded and said, "When did I lie to you, Manager Li? Not to mention this, Yu will still have a lot of rare things!"

Li Yi was immediately happy when she heard this. She walked back and forth in the room, rubbed her hands and began to calculate: "If the head of the house can do this, then I'm afraid we will really get rich!"

On the small side of this thing, you can sell a hundred taels of silver. If it is a little bigger, it now costs hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver!

If we can make it ourselves, then even if it is cheaper, a mirror can be shipped according to 50 taels of silver!

Yu, don't laugh! I'm serious about this!"

Yu Xiaotian smiled and said, "Hey hey! To tell the truth, when Mr. Li was overseas, he happened to work in a workshop specializing in manufacturing this kind of thing. I dare not say that I am proficient in this, but at least I know a little about it. As long as I give you two or three months, I am confident that I can show you this kind of thing. At present, I don't know how much the cost is, but it will definitely not be too much. Gao, it is said that fifty taels of silver are shipped. Even if fifteen taels of silver are shipped, it is estimated that we can make a lot of silver!"

Li Yi now doesn't know what to say to Xiaotian. Yu Xiaotian can always bring him surprises one by one. From the beginning, he was just a small pirate leader, and now in just over a year, he has become the hegemon of the sea of Fuzhou, and even the mixed river dragon has been cleaned up by him. , I can only honestly retreat back to Funing Prefecture.

Now they go to Zhejiang to purchase goods. When they walk to the sea of Funing, they only need to hang the flag given by Shanghai wolves to be unimpeded in the coastal area of Funing. The visible mixed river dragons are really put up by Yu Xiaotian.

Now that he cooperates with the sea wolf, his business has become bigger and bigger. He is already very satisfied with this, but Yu Xiaotian can still bring him a bigger surprise.

Now he feels more and more that knowing Yu Xiaotian is really the luck brought to him by God. Without this Yu Xiaotian, I guess he is still carefully doing his "small business" now!

So he turned to Xiaotian and said, "In this case, it should not be late, the sooner the better!" Yu Dangjia should do it quickly. As long as Yu Dangjia can get this kind of thing, there will definitely be no problem with the market.

We can not only sell it in Fuzhou, but also sell it to Guangdong, and even to the capital. In that case, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us not to get rich!"

Yu Xiaotian nodded and said, "Well, after I go back this time, I will start to do this. In addition to this, I'm afraid I can take out a lot of decent things and will never worry about the market. Not to mention selling them in our Ming Dynasty, I plan to return these things back to those Thais and let them They know that we are no less capable than them!"

Li Yi was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth with a smile. After the wine and dishes came up, he drank it with Yu Xiaotian.

During the dinner, Yu Xiaotian put down his business affairs and talked about some current events. Li Yi is now very clear about what he should do for Yu Xiaotian, so he is very attentive to the affairs of Fujian officials. When he looks at the opportunity, he inquires about all kinds of information, and then brings them up and let people know it to Yu Xiaotian.

At present, as far as Li Yi knows, the situation in Fujian is also very tense. Nanjuyi is still sitting in Zhangzhou Prefecture to find ways to deal with the red-haired people who occupy Penghu.

In November, because the red-haired ship blocked Zhangzhou Bay, the Ming army could not go to sea, and several confrontations ended in failure.

So Nanju had no choice but to break this dilemma and prevent his colleagues from impeaching him, so he asked the fraudsters to contact the red-haired people and asked them to send people to Zhangzhou Prefecture to negotiate.

As a result, during the negotiation, Nan Juyi suddenly arrested the red-haired man who went to the appointment and imprisoned him as a hostage in Zhangzhou.

On the same day, taking advantage of the unforeseen people on the red-haired ship on the sea, they suddenly sent a number of fire boats to surround the red-haired ship and set fire to a red-haired ship.

Seeing that things were not good, the red-haired man had to withdraw from the periphery of Zhangzhou Bay and return to Penghu. The red-haired man was angry with the Ming Dynasty officials to go back on their point. At the same time, they also sent boats to attack villages and towns along the coast, shelled a town, killed and injured many Ming Dynasty people, and also robbed many cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks. Waiting for supplies.

Nowadays, Fujian sailors have all gathered in Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Prefecture, and the fierce soldiers and horses are only waiting to go to Penghu to fight against the Red-haired people. This time, Nanjuyi and the governor of Guangdong have gathered nearly 200 ships, with more than 10,000 soldiers. They have made it clear their attitude to fight to the death with the Red-haired people in order to expel them away from Penghu.

Yu Xiaotian was not surprised after hearing this. In fact, he had already heard about this kind of thing in advance. Although the Dutch ships were strong and profitable, after all, they were partial division expeditions, and the ships and troops were very limited. Even if they could gather one or two thousand people, they were still at an absolute disadvantage in number.

And the Ming side can give full play to the advantages of local combat, and the logistics supplies and troop deployment are relatively easy. In addition, although the warships of the Ming Dynasty are far less powerful than the Western-style warships, the Fuchuan and the Guangchuan still have a certain combat effectiveness after all. In terms of quantity, the Ming Dynasty has an absolute advantage. Many ants bite the elephants, and the Dutch Without effective support, it is impossible to win the war.

So it was only a matter of time before the Dutch were forced to leave Penghu, but historical records also told Yu Xiaotian that the combat effectiveness of the sailors in the Ming Dynasty was limited to this.

This time, Nanjuyi gathered ten times more troops and ships than the enemy. Although he finally won the so-called victory and drove the Dutch away from Penghu, he could not destroy the Dutch and their fleet in the end.

This also fully shows that the Ming navy has been greatly weaker in technology and combat effectiveness than the Western maritime powers in this era. This victory is actually not so glorious.

This is also a very sad thing for Yu Xiaotian. If the Ming Dynasty is not compladen and not banned from the sea, with the wisdom of the Chinese people, today's shipbuilding level may not be much worse than that of Western countries. In such a situation, if there is a strong navy, it can kill the Dutch in one fell swoop. If the invagators are captured in one fell swoop, how can the Dutch occupy Taiwan in the future?

Now he has made up his mind to take Taiwan as his base, so he will inevitably have a head-on conflict with the Dutch and even the Spaniards in the future. With his current strength, there is no way to compete with the other party.

Therefore, he is very anxious at present, so that he is busy living non-stop, building Nanri Island, developing his ship house, and casting cannons by himself.

Because he knows better than anyone that if he wants to build a strong navy, the navy, whether now or in future generations, is definitely a very expensive service. If he doesn't have money, he doesn't have to think about anything.

At the current cost of ships, even the most common Haicang boat or a smaller bird boat needs more than 1,000 taels of silver. For larger lucky boats, Songsong needs more than 2,000 taels of silver. This is only the cost of shipbuilding. In addition, if it is equipped with artillery, more money is needed.

It seems that he is not very short of money now, but if he wants to do these things, then with his current financial resources, it is simply a drop in the bucket, which is why he is eager to make money faster.

After talking about Nanjuyi and the Dutch, Yu Xiaotian asked about the situation of the local officials in Fuzhou. Li Yi nodded and said, "You don't have to worry too much about this. Now Nan is busy with the affairs of the red-haired people in Penghu. The whole Fujian has focused on that side, around Fuzhou. Yu's home has been attacked, and Yu's family has not harassed the coastal villages too much recently, so the official has not called for troops to fight against Nanri Island. Please rest assured!

Li is here and will keep an eye on this matter on behalf of the head of the family. Once there is any wind, he will send someone to inform you as soon as possible!"

Yu Xiaotian was relieved. Now he is not afraid that the Fujian government will send troops to suppress him. According to the style of the Ming Dynasty officials he knows, these officials, whether they are clear officials or faint officials, they are all better than one thing. As long as they can fool the past, they are unwilling to quarrel with others. Armed.

What's more, the pirate industry has existed for a long time, and it's not that he came to the coast of Fuzhou today. The people here have long been accustomed to these pirates. The government can't suppress it, so they want to cut grass and grow a stubble. Instead of cutting it repeatedly, it's better not to cut it.

In the past, there were officials who wanted to make contributions and sent troops to suppress Nanri Island. As a result, instead of destroying the shark gangs, they were shocked. Later, many colleagues who were implicated and were convicted of provocation. It was light to lose office, and some People were even exiled thousands of miles away.

So for officials, especially civil officials, soldiers are the most important weapon of the country and cannot be used lightly. When there is no way, they will not easily dance knives and guns with people.

At least so far, he has not attracted enough attention from the government. As long as he does not go too far, the government will not be interested in coming to trouble him.

At present, what he needs most is not to fight with people, but to have a stable time to devote more energy to making money. Therefore, since the government does not intend to trouble him, he will not take the initiative to fill in too much trouble for the government now.