Chapter 126: Doing Business for the First Time
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In order to keep a low profile, the heavily armed 1oo elite guards of Phuket Island were also brought by Tianming.
In addition, in order to prepare for the possibility of being surrounded by a large number of people, Tianming also made hundreds of flexible fish skin armor and put them on the escorts, including boots. After a full set of dresses, the spirit immediately came up, not at all like an ordinary crew member who was dressed and shaped like a stinky fish.
Tianming's own armor, of course, more, in addition to the human suit, but also set a relatively thick fish skin armor, this kind of fish skin armor is made of a special fish skin, very difficult to cut, the thickness is also more suitable, after Tianming made the armor, he put it on.
After sailing for 3 hours, the gourd boat finally sailed into the Crescent Bay (named after Tianming) on Bluebird Island.
Carefully avoiding the big boat, approaching the beach, sure enough, a group of soldiers who looked like guards of the island came and stopped the ship that was about to board 6.
What reassured Tianming was that those Blue Star people just checked and looked at the goods on the ship, and after verifying their identities, after there was nothing abnormal, they also confiscated any island fees and let them go directly.
Therefore, Tianming commanded 16o subordinates to move the dried fish, fish bone daggers, fish skin clothes, linen cloth and other goods on the ship to the trade market in the market town in the middle of the island.
It took three trips back and forth to move the goods to the town 1 km away from Li Beach.
Since there were no spare stalls, Tianming stacked 4o boxes full of dried fish, stacked them waist-high, and then laid a wooden board on them, and so on. A booth will be set up.
"Sure enough, this place is a place where you can do business." Tianming laughed. With a grin in his head, he is already beginning to fantasize about exchanging these goods for countless money.
"How do you sell %_ things? "No, the stall was only set up for a while, and a customer pointed to Tianming's fishbone dagger and began to ask the price.
Tianming can now understand some common Blue Star languages, and most of the words are still incomprehensible. After negotiating with the Blue Star man for a long time, Tianming really didn't understand what he meant, only knew that the customer wanted to buy a fishbone dagger. But I just don't know how much to charge.
"I don't know what you're paying for, so look at it."
"%_1o Caibei, I took this thing _%"
The first customer took out a handful of 'money shells' from the fish skin bag, threw it on Tianming's table, and happily took the fish bone dagger.
"1o colored shells?" , Tianming fixed his eyes. The shell beer bottle cap is so big, the shape is exquisite, there are colorful stripes on the outside, it is small and light, and you can tell at a glance that it is naturally formed and picked up by the sea.
"This kind of shell. Isn't it the kind of shell that the golden melon seeds gave me yesterday? It's exactly the same, this is the money of the Blue Star people? ”
Tianming couldn't believe that the aliens directly regarded the shell as a unit of currency, although this kind of shell is more beautiful. But if someone picks up at the beach every day, they pick up more. Isn't he a billionaire?
History proves that shells are such a currency. It is a very primitive transitional currency with little value, which only has circulation significance, not value preservation significance, and will be eliminated sooner or later.
"I'll exchange a fishbone dagger for 1o of this? No gold, silver, or even copper coins? Do you want it to be so cheap? ”
Tianming looked at the 1o colored shellfish in his hand very speechlessly, and wanted to complain, but it was the first business, and if he lost a little, he would lose a little, so don't worry about it so much.
"%_ The master has made money, how good! _%”
The golden melon seeds next to him clapped their hands and grinned very happily. He remembered that when he was a child, he secretly went to the beach to pick up fish and colored shellfish with a few friends such as silver melon seeds, and the fish could pick up dozens of them, and the colored shellfish could not pick up a few for half a day. You know, 1oo colored shells can ask someone to build a stone house......
In the second business, I sold a waterproof fish skin suit that had been modified by Tianming, the workmanship was very exquisite, and the fish skin was almost not a trace of protrusion, falling off, damaged, and very complete. The inside is also very silky, and it feels very smooth to the touch. A customer, without thinking about it, took out 3o colored shellfish directly from the fish skin pocket and handed them to Tianming.
The third business, a fishbone dagger, 1o colored shellfish.
Until the 17th transaction, the customer bought a linen cloth, a linen cloth with exquisite workmanship.
In fact, next to Tianming's stall, Tianming also saw several merchants who were also selling fabrics. It is similar to their own hemp silk cloth, which is woven by weavers from hemp silk in the hemp silk fruit. The weaving machine qì, seen in Tianming, is very primitive, only one turn, to shake for a day, in order to weave a consistent thread. Then, the consistent hemp silk thread is placed on a loom with a slightly more complex structure, and it takes a week to weave a linen silk cloth.
The value of linen cloth is very high, and ordinary Blue Star people usually wear a fish skin coat. The consistent hemp silk thread is an extremely important material, which can be used to make ropes, weave fishing nets, sew clothes, and make sails.
Even if it was dawn, when I looked at the nearby stalls, I didn't see a few people selling hemp silk cloth, but there were many selling hemp silk threads.
Tianming's linen silk cloth, which he had woven with his own abilities, was extremely delicate and silky, but the customer only gave him a colored shell.
1 color shell, yes, the customer really only gave Tianming a color shell: it looks no different from ordinary color shells, but there are a few more word color shells on the inner side that don't know the words.
Tianming grabbed the customer and said to him: "This linen cloth is worth more than 1 colored shell, you give less money." ”
The customer was very puzzled and couldn't understand Tianming's words, but seemed to understand what he meant, and said, "%_ The money I gave is enough, this price is the standard price_%"
"You want to be in the rogue business, don't you?" Tianming snatched the cloth from his hand and returned the colorful shellfish to him, "I won't sell this cloth!" ”
The confused Blue Star people understood what Tianming meant, and it turned out that they felt that they were giving less. After the fabric was taken away, I didn't want to buy it, but the linen silk cloth in the nearby stalls was sold out, and the quality of this batch of cloth was so good...... Gritting his teeth, he took out another 3oo colored shells from the fish skin bag, plus the previous colored shellfish, and photographed them on Tianming's stall, and then said a few more words, and took away the hemp silk cloth.
"3o1 colored shellfish, I gave 3oo more at once, fortunately I just grabbed him, otherwise he would have been deceived."
When the second linen silk cloth was taken by a customer, this kind of problem also appeared, at first only gave 1 colored shellfish, after Tianming pulled him back, as a last resort, the man had to take out another one more from his pocket, two still can't work, and finally, the guest really wanted the linen silk cloth on the Tianming stall too much, so he simply added all the colored shellfish in his pocket to the fish skin bag and threw it on Tianming's stall.
"%_ I want to buy this cloth for the owner, I only have so much money, it should be enough. _%”
After speaking, he picked up the cloth and left without looking back.
When I opened the money bag, I saw that in addition to the 2 colored shells engraved with words, there were about 28o colored shells that were not engraved with words, totaling 282 pieces.
"A poor ghost, it's better than the customer who gave 3o1 just now, and he won't sell anything to him next time." Tianming said angrily.
Maybe Tianming's appearance is too peculiar, and the people of Lanxing can't understand what he says. The Blue Star people who passed by his stall couldn't help but be attracted by him, like watching monkeys, and slowly, passers-by surrounded Tianming's stall. Some of the Blue Star people who thought that the goods he sold were very good, generously donated and bought the goods he placed on the stall, and many people also raised their heads and greeted this tall alien race, and said a few words that the bull's head was not in the horse's mouth.
The stars are about to set, and the bluebirds, which are about to return to their nests, are dyed red in the light of the setting sun and become red birds. The waves are also dyed with a layer of golden light, glowing with golden waves, which is extremely beautiful.
"It's not early, and if you don't go back, it'll be dark."
Looking at the remaining goods on the stall, the fish bone dagger, fish skin clothing, and linen cloth were all sold out. However, 1oo boxes of dried fish, no one cared, only 2o boxes were sold, and only 5 colored shellfish were taken out in each box, which was extremely cheap.
"It seems that these Blue Star people live a down-to-earth life, there are countless fish in the sea, and when they meet fish sellers, they have no desire to buy. Hopefully, if you give money, you will pay the price of a box. Fish, not worth much. The reason why I say this is because Tianming didn't see a few fish sellers in the market, and even if there were, the business was bleak, so Tianming came to such a conclusion.
Counting the money earned, I made a total of more than 6ooo coins, and filled a fishskin bag.
"Golden melon seeds, silver melon seeds, move things away, leave."
Tianming said hello, carried a bag of money weighing 6o catties, and walked a few steps to the place where the beach boat stopped, feeling a little heavy, so he didn't mention it and handed it over to the two guards behind.
Walking to the beach, just as he was about to walk to the boat, he was stopped by several men armed with weapons.
These people were the Blue Bird Island guards who checked them before going to the island, but they didn't expect to come to check again when they left.
"%_ If you come to the island for business, leave a tenth of your goods and go _%"
"What are you talking about?" When Tianming was very confused. But the golden melon seed understood, he used to go through the city, and he clearly remembered the rule that when he entered the city, no one had to hand over a colored shell, and it was the same here, even if he didn't know what the concept of 'tenth' was.
After negotiating for a while, the 8o box of dried fish did not move, but the bag of more than 6ooo colored shellfish was taken away, about a thousand.
"%_I'm going to grab another handful_%" Next to the captain of the guard, there was a lean and deceitful person, seeing that the business tax collected was not enough, he greedily looked at a bag of colored shells, grabbed a handful again, and put it in his pocket.
"You ......" Tianming's heart was like dripping blood, just now, at least 1oo colored shells were arrested, and he wanted to kill the tax officer.
"%_ Release! _%”