"Why turn down money? They couldn't ask for better. Actually, I've thought about it. The Chu Kingdom doesn't have many seagoing merchant ships, which shows that maritime shipping hasn't taken off yet.
The Cloud-Sea Sect's business isn't doing well. They probably just deliver daily necessities to nearby islands, and the silver they earn has to pay for elixirs, weapons, firearms, and cannons. It probably isn't even enough to cover their expenses.
That's why, when Gui Wusong asked for three or four hundred thousand taels, they were only willing to offer a hundred and fifty thousand.
The Cloud-Sea Sect has several thousand people, after all, yet they're so poor they can't scrape together a few hundred thousand taels. That's our opportunity.
We're their gods of wealth. When we go over tomorrow, I'll have a proper talk with them," Tang Wen said.
"Actually, you could tell from the clothes they wore that day that they weren't doing well. Almost all of them wore homespun cloth, looking little different from pirates," Luo Yiwu said with a nod.
That afternoon, Tang Wen went to the dock himself and finalized the dock expansion arrangements with Zhan Dongwen and the others.
Tang Wen discovered that the town's dock had nothing going for it except its proximity to town. Its location was far from ideal.
Moreover, the ground wasn't open enough, and it didn't extend into sufficiently deep water. Expanding it would cost a fortune.
So he changed his mind. He decided to abandon the town's dock and choose another site to build a deepwater port.
Of course, a temporary expansion of the town's dock would suffice, as long as it made it convenient for him to transport cement for the time being.
The dock the Cloud-Sea Sect had built for itself was quite good and could