When Wang Xuan received Yang Cong’s secret letter, he was a little amused. Yang Cong actually asked him to build a local cannon. Is there any mistake?

What about Japanese iron cannons? That's a nonsense. He looked at the drawings and understood that this was obviously a local cannon, and it was no longer a local cannon.

He really didn't understand what Yang Cong meant. He just let him build a local cannon, but he also tried his best to build it. He could build it as quickly as possible and as fast as possible!

What's the use of making such things in many ways?

Earth cannons are earth cannons, which are incomparable to new types of artillery, because not only cannons not be continuously fired, but the range cannot be guaranteed. As for the accurate head, let alone the earth cannons basically have no accurate head. It would be good to ensure that the shells fall within a range of approximately 100 steps.

Compared with the new tiger squat cannons equipped by the Ming army, this thing is a pile of scrap iron, because you may have the right head. When you hit it, you may not be able to hit someone else, but they can hit you. If you create this thing, isn’t that asking for abuse?

Of course, Yang Cong also said in his secret letter that this thing was not made for the Ming army, but for all the princes of Japan. According to what Yang Cong said, once this thing was made, all the princes of Japan would definitely rush to ask for it!

What a joke, someone will rush to ask for this thing?

Are all the princes in Japan fools?

Wang Xuan expressed serious doubts, but he still organized manpower to start producing such backward local cannons as soon as possible according to Yang Cong's request.

This kind of local cannon is really too simple for the Ming Dynasty today. Iron ore is ready-made and doesn’t even have to spend money to buy it. Just hire someone to mine it. As for casting technology, let alone casting this thing is even more fun. It doesn’t even take a master’s action. It can be cast very well by a novice apprentice.

However, Wang Xuan was quite concerned about the quality. Although Yang Cong said that as long as he made it, he still transformed a batch of machine tools, which were specially used to scrape the inner holes and grind the outer circle. Anyway, it was just a matter of pinching it on the machine tool for a few turns, which would not take much time.

In this way, the earth cannons made are beautiful, not only the inner wall is extremely smooth, but also the outer circle is illuminated by people.

Just this, Wang Xuan felt a little disgusted because Yang Cong said that this thing can be sold at least thousands of taels per store.

What is the concept of thousands of taels?

If it is used to buy food, it will be enough for a family of five to eat for more than ten years!

Even if it is used to buy a house, you can still buy more than ten courtyard houses in Beijing!

To put it bluntly, there is no cost to the cost, because the iron ore of the Ming Dynasty owned the imperial court, and even if you hire someone to dig, it would not cost much money. The coal mine was also owned by the imperial court, and the craftsmen responsible for casting were also under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry. Basically, a local cannon could only cost a few taels of silver, and it would be a big profit to sell it for ten taels.

Is it possible that something made from a few taels of silver sold for thousands of taels?

When Wang Xuanzheng was puzzled, the civil and military officials in the court were also a little confused, because the Grand Tutor Hui'an Marquis Yang Cong actually submitted a memorial to the court at this time, asking for the ban on sea!

At this moment, the Japanese pirates had disappeared, and even the Japanese pirates' nest, the Hirado family, was occupied by the Ming army. There was no problem in opening the sea ban.

The problem is that it is a bit puzzling that the Grand Tutor Hui'an Hou Yang Cong proposed to open the sea ban.

In fact, the officials of the court heard that the maritime trade was controlled by the Grand Tutor Hui'an Marquis Yang Cong. The entire Southeast gentry class even had to act according to Yang Cong's eyes. Because of offending the Grand Tutor, the losses were huge. Not only could the goods in the shops and workshops under his command not be sold, but even the grain produced in the fields could not be sold at a good price.

It can be said that through maritime trade, Yang Cong, the Grand Tutor Hui'an Hou, could hold the entire Southeast gentry class firmly in his hands, and no one dared to sing a counter-tone with him.

Now, he actually proposed to open the sea ban. Wouldn't he shoot himself in the foot?

Yang Cong’s behavior is really a bit puzzling. Why did he do this?

His idea is actually very simple. He just wants to develop the entire Ming Dynasty business and make the Ming Dynasty prosperous and strong.

As for his personal income, the impact was not very big, because he was originally a business of reselling. The Yang family actually did not produce any goods. They just sent people to collect the goods produced in workshops and workshops under the tyrants and gentry families from all over the country and transport them overseas for sale.

The profit in the middle is indeed quite amazing, because when they purchase goods, they only double the price of the Ming Dynasty at most, and after being shipped to Japan, the price of the goods can be at least ten times, which means that the profit they earn is about eight times the price of the time.

However, it is also very costly for him to do this, because everything from purchasing goods, transporting goods, and then selling goods, it has to be spent.

For example, when purchasing goods, the Yang family had to maintain a lot of managers and shopkeepers, but also asked many families of officials to help. The Lu family represented by Lu Bing, Gu Kexue, Gu Kejiu brothers represented by Gu Kejiu, and Xu Jie were all partners of the Yang family. The profit they shared was at least more than 30%.

Then it also costs money to transport goods. Whether you ask local military departments and guards in the Ming Dynasty to help or hire Wang Zhi's fleet at sea, you will get a lot of profits, which is at least about 20%.

In the end, selling goods in Japan is not costly at all. At least, he has to hire many people to go to business and deliver goods, which also accounts for about 20%.

In other words, the profit that ended up falling into his hands was actually less than 30%.

After the sea ban is opened, everyone will definitely think of ways to do overseas business. The cost of buying goods and shipping goods is basically gone, because vendors who want to do maritime trade will find ways to transport goods to various trading ports by themselves, and they don’t have to worry about it at all.

At this moment, only Hong Tiezhu, who can organize a huge fleet to transport goods to Japan and even Nanyang, is under Wang Zhi and Yang Cong. Most vendors still do not have the ability to go to sea alone. At worst, he can increase the price of goods by two to three times, and people will definitely be happy to hand over the goods to him for transportation or sale.

In this way, no matter whether the final sales link is done by the merchants themselves or handing them over to them, they can still make more than 20% of the profit in the end.

In other words, he lost at most about 10% of his profits, at least, before vendors from all over the country developed.

What is this profit compared to the development of the entire Ming Dynasty?

Moreover, with the development of the entire Ming Dynasty's business, the business will inevitably grow bigger and bigger, and these 20% of the profits will definitely become bigger and bigger like snowballs. It is not impossible to exceed the original 30% of the profits.

This is what Yang Cong thought.
Chapter completed!