Professor Luo is very mysterious, and after crossing over, he only said that his surname was Luo, and everything else was kept secret, so at first people called him Lao Luo. Later, everyone found out that this person likes to forcibly give people popular science, understands the sky and understands the air, and is a bit similar to Xie Er. It's just that when this thing is debating with people, all kinds of data come out of his mouth, whether it's true or not, anyway, ordinary people can't scare him, so Professor Luo's title was called by the masses.

Ever since playing AK and swollen his cheeks, Professor Luo has been rushed to work in the logistics department, and it is his job to inventory goods. I saw Feng Jun talking about sandalwood just now, and as soon as the old problem was committed, he came up and started popular science.

"If you say that, wouldn't a ton cost tens of millions?" Listening to Professor Luo's finished talking about the price, Xia Xianze was a little surprised.

"The market is now full of Indonesia, Australia, and Africa's various sandalwoods, just this, a light fluttering bracelet also costs hundreds of thousands, and 5,000 pounds of old sandalwood in southern India is no problem." Professor Luo smiled and patted the veneer with his hand and added.

"Then process 10 cubes and come out first, the bark is peeled off, only the core is left, and when Mr. Cao comes, it will be transported back to see the market." Xia Xianze made the final decision.

"It's easy." Professor Luo nodded: "We have carpenters in our hands now, and there must be some in the Dutch, and there should be a lot of non-combatants who have survived. ”

A total of 40 cubic logs were measured and weighed. Next are the spices: pepper, nutmeg, cloves and other commonly used spices are found in the warehouse, and the proportion of pepper is the highest, but the total number is not much, these spices add up to only 150 quintals. During this period, spices had a lower status in the Ming trade than sandalwood.

A few loads of white ivory undoubtedly aroused the interest of visitors. While denouncing the Dutch and Indians for having no concept of animal protection, they held a whole ivory in their hands and stroked it around, and their mouths were full of slurp and ugliness.

After a loud bang of "Duang", people came to their senses. Turning his head, it turned out that Professor Luo had an extra gong in his hand.

"Where did the Dutch get so many gongs?" Everyone soon found out that there were no less than ten loads of gongs piled up in the corner.

"The gong is originally a traditional musical instrument of the Malays, is it good, there are so many copper mines in Indonesia." Professor Luo smiled evilly and struck the gong with his knuckles: "The Dutch want to collect spices, and it is easy to collect some gongs by brushing maps in the Spice Islands over the years. This belongs to the distribution, and generally speaking, the Ming merchants still recognize the bronze......"

The unique goods are all checked. Several of the Dutch's warehouses also stocked some rough benzene miscellaneous goods: sumac wood for dye, Dutch linen for shirts, some tweed, glass beads to deceive the natives, some pieces of lead and tin, and hundreds of locally purchased deerskins. Foods include flour, rice, palm oil, salted fish and dried venison. The latter two were apparently obtained from indigenous and Fujian fishermen.

Daming's fist products: raw silk, porcelain and cotton cloth are only in pitiful quantities in the warehouse. It seems that the information is still accurate - the Dutch are having a hard time at this stage, and the chaotic situation in Fujian has made it impossible for the red hairs to build a trade channel with the Ming.

After the goods were counted, everyone rushed into the Dutchman's governor's mansion in an uproar. There were a lot of documents and letters in the two simple solid wood houses, and Professor Luo and Cai Feiming were very busy digging up treasures.

The others ignored the two completely, and their destination was a small storeroom inside the Governor's Residence.

Yes, that's right, a small treasury is a silver treasury.

Silver is the real fist product of Westerners. After the colonists came to East Asia, silver from the Americas finally found an outlet for catharsis, and the beautiful metal was fashioned into all kinds of coins, which converged into a rolling silver dragon, only in and out, and finally disappeared in the magical land of China.

Marked by the Portuguese occupation of Macao, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the silver of the Ming Dynasty imported from the outside, including Japan, every year, never less than 2 million taels, and exceeded 4 million taels at the peak. Even after 1640, during the period of shrinking trade caused by the Great War in Europe, the annual import of silver into the Ming Dynasty did not fall below 1 million taels.

These bastards don't need anything, and the most hateful thing is that they are ingenious enough to produce porcelain, raw silk, and oh, and in the future, tea and other goods that drive the colonists crazy. The red-eyed Europeans, however, had nothing - not to mention the spices, and the total volume of trade, the entire goods of the colonizers combined, did not account for much of it. The only thing that Ming people like is silver.

In the deal against the Ming, the term trade balance does not exist at all. Those poor goods have always been supporting roles: they have no ability to resist, they can't find the temple gate with a pig's head, they are dead skinned, they fight to death, just to get the qualification to pour silver into the bottomless pit of the Ming Dynasty, which is the true portrayal of the early colonists.

The boxes of silver that the Dutch had brought to the Grand Clerk were now piled up in the silver vaults, awaiting the arrival of a new owner. Xia Xianze took square steps, the first to walk into the warehouse, and after entering, he bent down and grabbed a handful of coins from the wooden box, and looked at them.

In terms of the level of craftsmanship in the early 17th century, these guilder silver coins in Xia Xianze's hands are worthy of the comment "good condition".

The shape of the coin remains almost perfectly round, with an inscription on the outer ring, a bust of a samurai and a shield on the obverse, and a lion on the reverse as a common symbol in European flags. The Dutch coins of this period were more haphazard, with the basic rules of an imperial head on the obverse and a crown and shield on the reverse not yet fully formed.

The guilder has a high silver content of more than 95 percent. The silver coins in the chests can be found in large and small sizes, ranging from 1 guilder to half a guil, and even large silver coins of 2.5 guilders and 10 guilders.

The amount of money will not be clear for a while, and the content will be classified and measured, Wang Liguo and they will be busy in the next few days.

In addition to dozens of boxes of guilders, there are several other boxes of Spanish pesos in the warehouse.

These pesos are the classic early Spanish cross coins. Handmade silver coins that can't even be round are minted in Mexico City, with a lion and castle split by crosshairs on the obverse and an early Spanish coat of arms on the reverse.

This peso has been circulating in Daming for at least 50 years, especially in the Fujian region, where it is known locally as "wedge silver". The Spanish peso is 95% fine, and 1 standard peso weighs 27 grams, which is equivalent to 0.7 taels. The denominations are also divided into 8 liel, 4 liel, 2 liel, and other silver coins.