Ancient and modern buildings.

Accompanied by Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao, Hasim entered the ancient and modern building.

As soon as he entered, his eyes widened, and he was a well-informed man, having been to Venice and Rome in Italy, Damascus and Jerusalem in the Middle East, and even Tianzhu, where he had seen many prosperous cities in the world.

But the moment he entered the ancient and modern building, he felt like a hillbilly who had never seen the world, and the whole person couldn't help but feel dirty, and he was even embarrassed to buy his feet into it.

Without it.

The use of gold and brass, the rational layout of the mirrors, the dazzling light emitted by various glass products, and the huge crystal chandelier overhead, all look so magnificent.

He believed that even though it was the papal court, the palace of the Sultan of Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire was nowhere near as splendid as it was, nor as glittering as it was.

The most luxurious places in the world are pale in comparison.

"Mr. Hasim, please~"

Liu Jin looked at Hasim, who was slightly stunned, and said with a smile.

"Oh, please~"

Hasim came back to his senses and walked quickly to the mirror exhibition area, looking at the mirrors of different sizes and shapes, and sparks appeared in his eyes.

He picked up a mirror and looked at it carefully, just like the full-length mirror at the door, it was also very clear, and everything was seen clearly.

Carefully play with the mirror in your hand, the workmanship of the frame is also extremely fine, exquisite, and even the back of the mirror is also decorated with silk, which is after all a high-end atmosphere on the grade route, and all aspects are impeccable.

"How much does a mirror like this cost?"

Hassim's words were a bit lame, but he was able to speak clearly and make people understand what he meant, and he was holding a mirror the size of a plate in his hand.

"Such a mirror costs eight hundred taels of silver."

Liu Jin replied with a smile, then pointed to mirrors of other specifications and said: "This kind of full-length mirror costs two thousand taels, this kind of one with a dresser costs one thousand taels of silver, this kind of one with a makeup box only costs four hundred taels of silver, and the smallest one only costs three hundred taels of silver." ”

"Eight hundred taels of silver!"

"It's too expensive, it's too expensive!"

When Hasim heard this, he quickly put down the mirror in his hand and shook his head again and again.

He has been in Daming for a long time, and he knows very well the purchasing power of silver in Daming, eight hundred taels of silver is definitely a super huge amount of money, and he can only buy a mirror in front of him.

"Mr. Hasim, I don't think it's expensive at all, this thing is eight hundred taels of silver in our Ming Dynasty, if you ship it to the Middle East or Italy, you will sell it for eight thousand taels of gold and someone will ask for it."

Liu Jin said with a slight smile.

"No, no, I know this thing, it's glass, glass is very common in the West, it's not worth anything at all, but you're so expensive here, a fool will buy it."

Hashim was apparently well-informed, and just touched the mirror and knew that it was made of glass.

"Mr. Hasim is really joking, let's go, let's go to the second floor and sit down and talk slowly."

When Liu Jin heard Hasim's words, he panicked, quickly laughed and dealt with it, and then took Hasim to the second floor to talk carefully.

This businessman is more shrewd and well-informed, and it is not easy to fool him, and this glass matter cannot be known to everyone, so it is safer to go upstairs and say it.

There are many private rooms on the second floor of the ancient and modern building, all of which are used to talk about big business and big deals, Liu Jin took Hasim to one of the private rooms, the layout of the private rooms is also very exquisite, and there are also a variety of glass products, which are also for the convenience of negotiation.

A few people sat down, and immediately someone served fragrant tea, using a glass tea set, and the tea was also a high-quality Biluochun, with the tumbling of tea, the tea leaves were clearly visible in it, which made Hasim couldn't help but look carefully again.

"Mr. Hasim, tea, please!"

Liu Jin picked up a cup of tea by himself, tasted it gently, and talked about things while drinking tea.

"Mr. Hasim must have been to many places when he traveled from south to north, so I wonder if it is inconvenient for Fang to tell me some things on the western side?"

went up to the second floor, but Liu Jin was not in a hurry to discuss the sale, but chatted.

"I didn't expect Mr. Liu to be so interested in the world outside the Ming Dynasty, which is still very different from the other Ming people I have come into contact with."

Hasim took a sip of tea and couldn't put it down the glass tea set in his hand, but soon he put down the teacup, looked at Liu Jin carefully, and said slowly.

He came to the Ming Dynasty to do business, naturally came into contact with a lot of Ming people, up to the court officials down to the ordinary peddlers and pawns, although the Ming Dynasty is not as rich as rumored, but the Ming people are a kind of blind self-confidence, all think that the Ming is the Middle Earth country, outside the Ming Dynasty is a place outside the law, either barren or miasma, people outside the Ming Dynasty are barbarians, belonging to the barbaric and uncivilized kind, very disdainful to understand the world outside the Ming Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, Liu Jin in front of him was very interested in the world outside the Ming Dynasty and asked about Western things.

"I am indeed very interested in the world outside the Ming Dynasty, and if I have the opportunity, I would also like to learn from Mr. Hasim, walk around the world, take a look, and see the demeanor of different civilizations."

"It is said that now the Ottoman Empire seems to have eliminated the Byzantine Empire and set Istanbul as its capital."

Liu Jin smiled and nodded, and then kept recalling some of the history he had studied in his mind, reading what he had read in the novel, and he also knew that during this period, because the rise of the Ottoman Empire blocked the ancient trade routes between China and the West, the Europeans went through the Renaissance movement.

After making great progress and development in astronomy, geography, art, navigation, mathematics, physics, medicine, music, and many other fields, the Age of Discovery began, seeking to find a trade route from the sea to the East.

"Oh, my lord! I didn't expect that in the Ming Dynasty, thousands of miles away, someone still knew about the Ottoman Empire. ”

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Hasim's eyes changed suddenly, and the whole person couldn't help but scream.

He really didn't expect that in this distant and ancient country, there were people who knew about the Ottoman Empire, and even more so about the Ottoman Empire's destruction of the Byzantine Empire, knowing that this happened in 1453, that is, a few decades ago.