Weihe, which is the Haihe River in later generations, the reed marsh by the river stretches for dozens of miles. Although it is a sunny day, when the cold wind blows, snowflakes will sprinkle in the reed marsh.

"Oh, Zhiyuan, I said it's such a cold day, why do you have to pull me here for?"

With his shoulders shrank, Zhu Yingzhen couldn't help complaining. Although he was wearing a bear fur coat, he still felt the cold wind was urinating.

"Duke, Western companies will be going to travel to sea in the future. The most important thing is the dock and merchant ship. Now there are neither of these two, how can I not be nervous?"

After hearing what Shi Yiwen said, Zhu Yingzhen said directly and directly.

"Zhiyuan, although, although I am the chairman now, you are not that president. This president is just "summarizing the matter". You can do the business of this company well. I don't understand business and don't know how to sell the sea..."

For Zhu Yingzhen, who is overly polite, it is extremely painful to go to the river dam to get a breath in such a cold day, not to mention that he doesn't understand these things at all.

"Look at what the Duke of China said, the president is just working. In the final analysis, the chairman still needs to take care of this company."

Shi Yiwen had a smile on his face. He never thought about fighting for the position of chairman with Zhu Yingzhen. After all, the Western company was the thunder he buried, and let the honorary ministers fight with the civil servants a thunder that will die. Once this thunder is buried, he will withdraw from it.

"Besides, the lower officials still have money in charge of the money, and they are really unable to do anything. When the company is on track, they will still have to rely on the Duke in the end."

"Well, okay...oh, who asked you kid to lead the emperor's mission? Well, what should you do if you talk about these things?"

Zhu Yingzhen endured the biting cold wind and asked at the reed marsh in front of him.

"Is it just to build the dock here?"

"Yes, Duke, you see that the river in this area is wide, more than a hundred feet long, and the terrain on the shore is high, so I think we can build the wharf here. I sent someone to inquire about it. The water here is three meters deep, and even the three meters shallow water on the shore is about two meters. Just a little remediation can be used as a wharf. However, only a wharf is not enough..."

Pointing at the reed marsh, Shi Yiwen continued.

"The warehouse needs to be built on the dock to store goods, and also a shipyard needs to be built. After all, we don't have a suitable sea boat now, and we have to start everything from scratch. If we want to send the ship out next year, we will recruit ship craftsmen now. I have calculated that from building a dock to building a ship, these will cost about 50,000 taels of silver. The company's share capital now has a total of 247,863 taels. In addition to the stock capital for stocking, I also want to run a seafarer school."

"Seasoners' School? What does it mean?"

Zhu Yingzhen said in confusion.

"It's a place where we specialize in training crew members. After all, we can't always rely on others in the south and north, especially in the Jiangnan area. Duke, you know that now the sea merchants in the Jiangnan area monopolize the sea merchants. If we rely on them, if they cut off the firewood from the cauldron and dig out our captains and crew members, then we will have only ships and cannot go out to sea. Therefore, we have to use our own people. I think in addition to getting some sailors in the Cao army, we still have to train some captains by ourselves."

Cao Army!

There are tens of thousands of soldiers who specialize in transporting grain along the canal. Since they are going to the sea, they naturally need sailors. Naturally, everyone is staring at the Cao army. Although the company does not have a ship yet, in fact, it has been spread among the Cao army all over the river. Western companies recruit sailors with a monthly money of 3 taels. For the Cao army, who cannot earn one tael of silver a month, they are naturally waiting for the recruitment point to be tested.

Of course, the craftsmen in the shipyard also write articles in the Caoboat Factory in Tongzhou, Qingjiang, Huaian and other places. There are thousands of skilled craftsmen there. They can attract a group of people at any time as long as they need them. Of course, the price must be appropriate. But compared to this, the real important thing is the captain. After all, everything depends on the captain when he arrives at sea.

"After all, without a captain, it would be useless for some people to have a boat. After all, it is impossible to have no head. When you arrive at the sea, without a captain, you don't know where you should go!"

"It should be so, it should be so! Zhiyuan's consideration was very appropriate, and I think it would be appropriate to do this."

Zhu Yingzhen naturally accepted Shi Yiwen's suggestions. It was not because he had no opinion, but because he really didn't know much about Tonghai Business. Even until now, he didn't know what the East and West meant. Naturally, he followed Shi Yiwen's suggestions on orders, but this did not mean that he did not have his own opinion. While agreeing to run a crew school, he asked again.

"Zhiyuan, this sailor's business is easy to deal with. I have already greeted the Caojun Yamen. As long as we want people, we can release people there at any time. But, just like the captain you said, what should I do? I asked my family members at home, those people are still huddling in the Bohai Sea, but they can leave the Bohai Sea..."

Shaking his head, Zhu Yingzhen said without any concealment.

"They don't have the courage to go out to sea yet. They say that going out to sea is not something that ordinary people can do! The farther they are, the more they are."

Originally, Zhu Yingzhen thought that going to sea should be like transporting wood from Liaodong by his servants, and it was no big deal, but later he realized that this was very different, and this was even the reason why he set up a joint-stock company. After all, the risk of going to sea was too great.

"It's true that ordinary people can't get out!"

Shi Yiwen nodded and looked at him and said.

"I have been thinking about this issue these days. I want to use Yu Zigao from Fujian."

"Yu Zigao? Who is he?"

"He is the son of Duke Yu Wuxiang, the former left governor."

The Duke of Yu Wuxiang mentioned by Shi Yiwen is Yu Dayou.

"He has been following his father to fight in the east for many years, familiar with the sea and sailing. I think no one is more suitable than him. After all, there are endless pirates on the sea. I think we can take him as the captain. At least we don't need to worry about pirates."

The reason why Yu Dayou's son was chosen was because Yu Dayou revealed the core of naval battle in one sentence - "Marine combat is nothing more than using large ships to fight small boats, using the crowd to fight few, and using large guns to fight small guns." In fact, the basic core of naval battle is technology to technology, a struggle between shipbuilding technology and cannon casting technology.

Perhaps, Yu Dayou is dead, but his son is still alive.

"This, did Duke Yu Wuxiang just die this year? His son should be in his hometown now."

Zhu Yingzhen glanced at Shi Yiwen. As Zhang Juzheng's confidant, didn't he know the series of troubles caused by his love?
Chapter completed!