At that time, the population density of Yunnan was not very large, all kinds of fruits were very cheap, people who had been to Yunnan had seen jackfruit, in a foreign land, when it was just listed, it cost dozens of yuan a catty, a few yuan in Yunnan, and a dozen yuan in the Qing Dynasty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoBut it's a long way, and it takes a month to ride a fast horse for 5,000 miles, right? What fruit does not rot in a month? Therefore, it was difficult for the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to eat jackfruit.

Bing'er and Xue'er not only purchased fruits in Xishuangbanna, but also rented a shop, and put exotic ornaments, jewelry, toys, Buddha beads, Buddha statues, etc. on the shelves. It's so fresh.

Exotic handicrafts have become a big highlight here, because many foreign merchants are handicrafts from the Central Plains in addition to silk and porcelain business. Bing'er Xue'er's handicrafts don't even have the Central Plains. Some foreign, Kunming and mainland bosses were so happy that their eyes were about to fall out, and they exchanged their spices, medicinal herbs and even gems for exotic resin ornaments, glass crafts and jewelry. There are also exotic cloths. There are still a lot of exotic fabrics in the house, and even Xiaoli Butou has become the object of robbery. These cloth heads have been cut neatly by Yun'er, or they are three feet a piece, five feet a piece, and a piece of paper is pinned with a tack to indicate the size and price, and put it in a conspicuous position in the counter. Bing'er was the shopkeeper, Mingming and Xiao Liuzi and Xiaolinzi were buddies, Qing'er was the bodyguard and guardian of the hospital, and Xue'er recruited several teenage girls in the local area to process cloth in the backyard. While exchanging goods for gems, spices, and medicinal herbs, they also bought fruits. Then let the little lady carry it through the air at any time, neatly and inconspicuously. The goods in my hand are gone, and the small lady will send them over the air, and there is no need for long-distance trafficking, which saves a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and is safe. Later, they also added a content that is potted flowers, Yunnan flowers bloom all year round, there are many varieties. For example, camellias, primroses, roses, moon flowers (there are precious varieties of blue enchantress and vine moon season), phalaenopsis, tulips, chrysanthemums, glass flowers, lilies, rhododendrons, gentians, cherry blossoms, orchids, magnolias, begonias, lotuses, plum blossoms, and so on. Cher humbly asked the local flower farmer how to grow each flower, and wrote it down for Ama to fly back. Seeing pots of blooming flowers, the prince felt that his eyes were spicy, but his daughter was still intimate, knowing that his father liked flowers, so he brought back so much. Hurriedly ordered his soldiers to move into the glass flower house, Fu Jin was very proud that his daughter could think of Amma's preferences from such a distance.

Their shop is also called "Jade Dragon Trading Company", which is a branch of the Jade Dragon Trading House in the capital. Merchants from all over the world, local merchants in Yunnan, and those foreign merchants who had received the sweetness went to Bing'er's shop and carried the resin ornaments, glass crafts, cloth, and silk from the mainland to their cars according to their usual barter prices, and then put a lot of cat's eyes, emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds on Bing'er's counter, and carried the truckloads of spices and medicinal materials to Bing'er's backyard, just like their own goods. If it weren't for Qing'er's strength, I'm afraid even Bing'er would have snatched it away.

Xue'er has always wanted to explain that her own things are not as valuable as other people's gems, but no one listens to her "verbosity", takes it and leaves, he himself feels that it is worth it, and does not give you a chance to reason.

Xue'er felt that large gems must not be easy to sell in the capital, so she asked these merchants if she could exchange them for some small diamonds or ruby sapphires used in jewelry. Well, the next day, someone pulled the chest full of broken gems, and several people couldn't lift it. Then people go to the counter to pick out ornaments and crafts. The exotic glass crafts are indeed good, the glass is of high purity, without a little impurity, crystal clear. Fruit bowls, glass bowls, and animal-shaped glassware are all things that these people are crazy about. There are also stainless steel products, plastic products and ceramic products. Because of its beautiful shape, it is popular with many foreigners. These things have no price, and people don't bargain with you, anyway, they barter, and they will give you as much as they think they are worth. Of course, Bing'er Xue'er has never suffered a loss, and a glass ornament gives you a lot of gems, even broken gems are worth it.

It turned out that Cher thought that the small pieces of gems were the slag left over after the processing of large stones. Not really. Gemstones are contained in stones, and most gemstones are mined artificially. Excavation is usually carried out by hand near the bank of the river, with the help of a pickaxe and shovel. The excavated stones are placed on a sieve or basket and washed with water, or washed in a nearby river. Experienced people then select the small stones left over from the sieve surface to select the irregularly shaped pieces of raw stones. In a small handful of stones, you may be able to find one or two original gemstones. There are also stones that contain gems mined underneath similar mines.

Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the southeast of India and Nepal in the north of India are gemstone-rich countries. Nepal also produces crimson crystal, topaz, sea blue stone, lapis lazuli and so on. Both rubies and sapphires of the decors are produced.

Many Indian merchants sold gemstones from Sri Lanka and Nepal at low prices, and sold them at high prices on the border of Yunnan in the Qing Dynasty or in the capital city of Kunming. That price is also much cheaper than the gems in the capital. Xue'er once asked Xiao Eniang for the price of gems in the capital through Tianyan, and Xiao Eniang personally dressed up as a man to inquire about the jewelry store, compared to the price of buying gems in Yunnan is much lower. In this way, it has to be sold at the price of the capital. But Xue'er is worried that the price of this kind of thing in the capital is too high, and whether it is easy to sell. Fu Jin asked his aunt to touch the price among the families of the first and second grades. These ladies are really rich, and they say that the processed jewelry, as long as the gems on it are real, you can make any price.

The Commander's wife, who had been silent for seven or eight years and had not shown up, fell ill because of the death of her daughter Concubine Tong, and she has not helped with business. The grandson became the emperor, and the son of the commander also rose step by step, and the commander's wife slowly got up from the hospital bed from sadness and despair, went to the Rui Wang's mansion to visit the house, relax, and then help contact business.

Yun'er thought of the hairpins and semi-finished products such as hairpins and step shakes that she had set in the exotic land, as well as those good-looking titanium and alloy jewelry that were not inlaid with real gemstones, so she asked Xue'er to prepare some red, green, blue, topaz and other broken and small gemstones. You can earn more than 10 times the cost of Cher! Those noble ladies not only took a fancy to the bright red and verdant gemstones, but also to the extremely bright stainless steel hairpins, and the crystal glass on the hairpins as tassels. For the sake of stinky beauty, take the initiative to give a high price of a few hundred taels!

Although Yun'er and Fujin don't want the price to be too high, they can't give it away, right? Let Cher buy all kinds of gems at a fair price.

Since there is such a convenient way to carry it by air, there are many things in exchange. In addition to boxes of small gemstones, there are also hundreds of large pieces of dazzling gemstones, including diamonds (diamonds), cat's eyes, emeralds, and red and sapphires. The kind of gems the size of millet grains, rice grains, and mung bean grains are given in boxes. Of course, this box is not a one-meter-cube box brought back from a foreign land, or the size of a jewelry box, or a slightly larger one, also called a box.

Yun'er can carry the things they exchanged or bought back to the house at any time, and Bing'er Xue'er will not have a backlog of goods. When it comes to things like gemstones, Yun'er is a complete layman. I only know what it's worth, and as for how much it's worth, I don't understand. Everything that Bing'er Xue'er "sent back", Yun'er handed it over to Fujin. Seeing the gems, Fujin was very surprised, how could such valuable things be shipped back in boxes and boxes?

But the prince didn't stop doing his own business because of this. Gemstones are not juices, someone buys them anytime and anywhere, and that thing must be sold at the price of Daqing, otherwise it will disrupt the gemstone market in Daqing and cause huge economic losses to others. And it takes a lot of effort to set the fine stones in the jewelry. Jewelry is a delicate thing, you can't make it shoddy, and you can't expose the boxes of gemstones to others, you can only process them yourself. Fortunately, Yun'er has ordered a lot of resin-quality, stainless steel-quality, hairpins and hairpins without any decoration in the exotic land, and now she can use exotic all-purpose glue to set gemstones on jewelry. The ladies and ladies of large families are still very knowledgeable and know that these are real diamonds and gemstones.

Everyone's beautiful Fujin is a lot more good at gemstones and other things than Yun'er, at least she can distinguish cat's eyes, emeralds and ruby sapphires. I'm sure it's the real thing, and I'm scared: why does Xue'er dare to do such a big business? She didn't know how precious stones were worth in Nepal and India at this time. Nepal's small gemstones are weighed, is such a thing valuable? But this one is a cat's eye, this one is an emerald, this one is a ruby, this is a sapphire, oh yes, there's a diamond here!

"How did Bing'er and Xue'er get the gems back? Sister, hurry up and take a look and ask them, but it's not a Meng's thing? ”

"No, Fujin, don't worry, it's a country called Nepal that produces this kind of thing, the price is very cheap, and the fine pieces are all on the scale. Cher said they traded our ornaments and alloy jewelry for them. It's all the other party's willingness. ”

"That's good, that's good. We must not harm others because of making money. ”

Xue'er said that when they exchanged things with others, they first told them that the alloy was not gold, but metal, and it was a combination of gold, silver, copper, and iron. The other party said, as long as it looks good, what we like is not what material you use to make it, but whether its style is beautiful or not, because we can't make it ourselves, and our women can like it. ”

"But my sister always thinks that others have suffered."

"If you compare the prices of the goods on both sides, the other party still does not suffer. They bought it in the place of origin, and we transported it back after many journeys. Moreover, the treasures they exchanged for were not processed and decorated in any way, they were just stones one by one, and they could not be worn at all. Reprocessing is required. ”

"So what do we do? What to do with these things? ”

"After selling it, I used a small gemstone the size of a mung bean to set it on the jewelry and sold it at the price of the Qing Dynasty. Xue'er also said that they can exchange for all kinds of gems one after another, using our glass crafts and resin crafts in exchange, and many foreigners over there like crystal glass more than their gemstones. There are also necklaces made of resin, agate beads, beads, glass ornaments, etc., which are all things that are popular with foreign merchants over there. ”

Bing'er and others often move around Xishuangbanna. While processing cloth products, he also exchanged materials that were not available in the capital in the local area, and also did a fruit business. Bing'er and Xue'er's whereabouts in Xishuangbanna were noticed by Wu Sangui's spies and reported to Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui understood: these little couple are purely making money, and the last time they came to Kunming, they were exploring the way, and whatever business they did was harmless to their own people and animals. No one wants to put their head on the waistband of their trousers, anyway, they are so far away from the emperor, and the emperor still thinks how loyal they are.

Even if they came to spy on the military, they knew how to spy on it? Run to the barracks in Nanshan Pass to count the number of people? Go and see the weapons? No way! There is no way to know about the training in Nanshan Pass, the front cannot be entered, and the back is full of cliffs, and there is no way to go up at all. It's just a few hairy children, too lazy to take care of them. Where did Wu Sangui think that his major secret, Emperor Kangxi had known it for a long time, and he was also preparing for war, selecting officers, selecting soldiers, and raising grain, grass and weapons.

Two months after Bing'er and Xue'er came to Yunnan, Mrs. Kieran and Mrs. Ashmita came and told Bing'er that they had written to the king and queen about Xue'er's situation, and the king and queen had sent an invitation to Xue'er and Bing'er to go sightseeing in India, and Xue'er was a little hesitant. She would have liked to walk around, but that would have wasted a lot of time. Lady Ashmita said, "It seems that the Snow Princess still can't trust us." ”

"No, no. I don't think we know any about Indian etiquette and customs. And you are all aristocrats, and you are naturally high-class people who deal with you. We don't understand anything, and when we come to you, we will be like fools, and this will not be good for our reputation in Qingguo. ”

"Actually, Indian etiquette and customs are not very complicated. Many Indians believe in Buddhism and Brahmanism, and a considerable number believe in Catholicism, Christianity, and Islam. The two of us believe in Buddhism, the method of Shakyamuni Buddha. Our king and queen are also Buddhists, so it's good to put your hands together when you meet. Besides, you are the princess of the Qing Dynasty, and you don't have to kneel or kowtow when you see our king. I mean I want you to meet our king and queen, Buddhism was still introduced to Middle-earth from India, and you also know that Tang Xuanzang came to India to learn scriptures, since the Tang Dynasty, India has been connected with the Tang Dynasty. Besides, the two of us can also be interpreters for you. There is no dispute between India and China, and in the future, you should be an envoy to communicate all aspects of the two countries, and come to India to do business, and India also has a lot of production and a large population. Nepal, which is adjacent to India, is rich in gemstones, and their small gemstones are not on the block or on the scale, and the price is very cheap. We produce cotton, jute cloth, Indian essential oils, Darjeeling black tea, wooden bracelets, divine oil, Kashmiri carpets, Lao Shan Sandalwood Buddha beads, spices, Indian seed dates, mati rice, painted vases, handmade tapestries, Indian shawls, Qi Nan agarwood Buddha beads, sarees, curries and so on. India is also a fruit-rich country......"