Chapter 176: Going South 6
One hundred and fifty cannons were made by Superbrain after a slight improvement on the cannon that appeared on the ship on the left side.
The power is greater than that of the left lane, the range is also long, and there are enough shells.
Originally, it was configured according to the 20 main ships and 14 auxiliary ships, a total of 10 ships.
Now Monk Gao has brought seven ships over, and even if the three pure cargo ships are removed, there are sixteen ships together with the fleet of cold currents.
Cold Wave didn't pay attention to anything at this time, and listened to the general's orders, and had a good argument with Monk Gao.
In the end, Qin Mohan made a case and decided that the main ship would be equipped with two ships with fifteen doors, and the auxiliary ships would be equipped with twelve ships with ten doors, and there would also be two cargo ships left there in the cold stream, and the goods would be transported first.
That's what happened.
Only then did the cold current happily load the artillery ammunition and other things, and unload the goods he brought.
When he was on the ship, Hanliu had already given Qin Qi a detailed list of goods, and Gu Xinyue had already seen it.
However, when she really saw the unloaded goods, Gu Xinyue still took a breath.
Since the beginning of the previous dynasty, whether it is a high-ranking official or a commoner, they like spices, after the state of Chu, the founding emperor was originally a military general, in order to elevate his identity, he loved luxury goods such as spices and jewelry.
In addition, several generations of emperors were lords who liked luxury.
Today's Chu State is the incense of the whole people.
It's just that the royal family and magnates use a few taels or even dozens of taels of silver and a tael of high-grade incense, and the common people use ordinary spices of dozens of taels and a tael.
But even the most common spices are worth a few taels of silver a catty.
Among the spices, pepper, which can be used as a seasoning, and agarwood Suhexiang**, which can be used as medicine, are widely used.
But these spices are basically produced outside the fan.
They were all brought back by sea ship.
(It's not from the Western Regions)
Hangzhou Port is so prosperous.
However, because of the bandits and the restructuring of port taxes, there are very few sea ships going to sea in Hangzhou Port in recent years, and few have returned.
Spices have also been greatly reduced.
Ordinary people don't have to pour it, but those royal magnates can't eat without fragrant food for a day.
The price of spices is a strong increase.
Moreover, the spices that are simply incense can be dispensed with, but those spices that are used in medicine cannot be completely disused by ordinary people.
Therefore, now in the Chu State, spices are high-priced and scarce commodities!
And what the cold snap brought back this time was eighty percent spices.
(That's why I took a long detour)
The spices are just a line of text on the list, but they are placed on the beach.
It really blinded the human eye like gold.
On top of that, there is a full range of medicinal spices inside.
That's something that is indispensable for some medicines, and because of the lack of it, the superbrain can't make it on a large scale.
(For example, in the army, it is used to prevent large-scale diarrhea and plague rotten feet)
The other two percent are gems and some special products, which are also very valuable things.
It's just that after a rough calculation, even if those medicinal spices are removed, those goods can be sold for tens of millions of taels of silver.
If you plan it well, I'm afraid there can be more.
It's possible to double or triple it.
Hanliu's fleet is twelve, plus the seven brought by the monk Gao to make a total of nineteen, removing fourteen to go to Yizhou Island (Hanjia has a shipyard) to be converted into warships (with artillery), and five as cargo ships.
When Gu Xinyue said that most of the medicinal spices were not sold, but were to be made directly for the Qin family's iron horses, the cold current divided the goods again.
Only half of the five ships were loaded, and the rest of the belongings were left on the burning island.
Monk Gao led the fleet and the Xuanyi team to Yizhou Island first, and Hanliu took the cargo ship to Hangzhou.
Before leaving, Han Liu privately found Qin Qi and Qin Mohan.
Looking at the big lump in Hanliu's hand, Gu Xinyue said with some excitement: "Ambergris? ”
Hanliu smiled slightly, took another box from his side, and said, "This is ambergris." ”
Gu Xinyue glanced at the box, then looked at the big lump in his hand, and said, "Then this is." ”
"This is dragon belly incense, and ambergris comes from the same source, both from the inner abdomen of a big fish, however, ambergris has a miraculous effect on curing diseases, but this is highly poisonous." Hanliu smiled faintly.
"Poisonous?" Gu Xinyue was stunned for a moment, stretched out her hand, touched the lump lightly, and scraped it down a little by the way.
"This is also from the secretion of whales, but the main whale of this should have a terminal illness or have eaten something, so this secretion contains severe toxicity." The voice of the superbrain sounded: "This kind of thing must not be burned, otherwise, it will make people hallucinate, and if you smoke too much, it will cause nerve paralysis." ”
"Yes, poisonous." Han turned his head and looked at Qin Qi and said: "This thing is exactly the same as ambergris, and the fragrance is the same, even the imperial doctor can't tell the difference between them, but after lighting it, a little bit every day will make people gradually become agitated, and then hallucinate, and finally go crazy." ”
Qin Qi's eyebrows raised unconsciously, and said, "You won't come back late because you are looking for something." ”
"Yes, that's what I'm looking for." Hanliu shook the lump and said with a cold smile.
In previous years, the route taken by the Han family's fleet could not buy so many spices, so the goods brought back, the spices were only half at most, this time, in order to find this thing, he deliberately bent a few places, but he accidentally bought so many spices.
Moreover, it costs less than before.
"Chief steward, what are you going to do?" Qin Qi glanced at the lump and asked.
"This kind of ambergris costs ten taels of gold for one tael."
"One hundred taels." Qin Qi interrupted the cold snap and said with a smile: "The price of spices has risen dramatically now. ”
I am afraid that this lump weighs only four or five catties, and according to the current value, this lump can be sold for 10,000 taels of gold.
"So." Hanliu smiled: "That's even more, only the emperor can use it." ”
"Are you trying to figure out whose hand was given to the emperor?" Qin Qi raised his eyebrows and said.
"I heard from the next person that Qi Tianao's newly married lady is still in Hangzhou, and she is thinking of rescuing Qi Tianao, if she knows that there is such a piece of ambergris, do you think she will make a move?"
Hanliu smiled faintly.
"I'm afraid, that person will give it to Chu Zheng." Qin Qi said.
"For me, it's the same." Hanliu shrugged his shoulders and said, "Those literati like such a large piece of ambergris very much, maybe they will cut off a few pieces themselves before offering it." ”
"So." Qin Qi laughed.
This man is indeed cunning and cunning.
If Tong Guò Chu Zheng stayed in the hands of the Jiangnan faction and sent it up, he would definitely be from that faction.
Maybe before giving it to the emperor, it will also curry favor with the people they have taken refuge in, and go up layer by layer......
If you order both.
That's not all, once something happens, investigate the source, then these people, especially Qi Tianao, will be blamed.
Well, does he want to remind Chang Gonggong to cooperate with him.
"And what's in this box?" Gu Xinyue kept staring at the box, and asked without drooling.
Ambergris! Qing Ye knows it, but I'm afraid that he will be happy and stupid again!
"Of course it's for the girl." Cold Stream laughed.