Chapter 598. Face and silver
How much did this caravan earn, in fact, Wang Hou didn't know how much, but the big small goal of the king in the future was at least two or three! You must know that after the Chang'an Rebellion, the Silk Road was broken for a whole decade, like the last caravan trapped in Yumen Pass, there are still a lot, and in ten years, Wusun and other Western Regions countries have reached a peak in their thirst for silk, tea and other Han goods.
In this case, a Han caravan of 2,000 people crossed the Xianbei grassland and desert, and arrived at Chigu City with a full cargo box.
On the one hand, this westward expansion, Wang Hou, who searched for the first time, simply brought all the goods, and did not carry gold and other precious currencies to the caravan, on the other hand, during the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, as long as the goods imported into the Han Empire, what were they? Cotton from Arabia, cotton, pepper from Kushan, frankincense, myrrh, coral agate, pearls and whatever!
But now, pepper is imitated by Wang Hou, although this southern dry spice is too difficult to grow in a place like the north, the yield is not much, and it even needs to be cultivated with a fire well greenhouse!
But! Even if you burn coal to warm up, you need someone to cultivate it quietly, and the local pepper is cheaper than the pepper transported from thousands of miles! Even now, the boiled pork slices in the high-end restaurants in Guihua City are peppered, and this bulk import is naturally free!
One more! Cotton cloth!
Good fellow, this time the cotton merchant from Persia sat on the ground and cried for the first time after seeing the Han merchant! Among the commodities in the Naturalization City are cotton cloth, and the texture weaving in the territory is more exquisite than the cotton cloth of the Western Regions, but the price is more than half cheaper than the cotton cloth of the Western Regions, and the largest commodity imported from the country has actually been re-sold
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On the other hand, the goods brought by Wang Shuang this time are really hot goods, bone china! There are not enough to sell in China! As soon as a few boxes of porcelain as white as jade and painted with several catties of exquisite patterns of artistic bacteria appeared, they were immediately robbed by Wusun officials and nobles.
There is also tea, this kind of emerald green commodity does not need to be promoted by Han merchants at all, and it has long formed a trend in the Western Regions! Before drinking coffee, the Arabs have been particularly fond of tea for a long time, and the Persians with greasy food are also particularly fond of tea, as well as Guishuang, and the Ceylon tea produced by the third brother in later generations has even robbed a lot of markets in the tea country of China, and the best-selling tea can be seen.
Moreover, this time, Wang Hou also sold almost all fermented and fried black tea, as well as tea bricks similar to Pu'er tea in later generations, in accordance with the tea drinking habits of Westerners in later generations.
Just like selling insurance in later generations, it is not called selling insurance, it is called selling the concept of risk, this time Wang Hou is selling the concept of drinking tea, the rich taste of black tea, boiled with milk powder, and then boiled with sugar and then served in a teapot and tea set of bone china, that kind of English afternoon tea way, three or five friends while drinking tea and eating pastries, while chatting, this kind of tall flicker, let him bring thousands of boxes of imported tea from Wu Guo is sold to the point that there is not even a tea stalk left.
Several bulk commodities for Wang Hou to get back more than four or five thousand taels of gold, and even fished back an antique, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used to buy the golden horse of the Western Han Dynasty! Looking at the opening of the first few boxes, the golden precious metals inside, regardless of the Hu Han nobles, their eyes all burst out with dazzling golden light!
But buy and sell! Of course, there must be a sale, and it took four or five thousand miles to arrive at Wusun, or to maximize the benefits, although the cotton cloth and pepper are not popular, but the horses of the Western Regions, the jade of Wusun, the frankincense of Guishan, myrrh, cinnamon, cloves, etc. are still in demand in the Han Empire.
Especially spices!
Cut off from trade with the Western Regions, to what extent is the Central Plains lacking smoked spices?
Even Cao Cao had an allusion there.
Just a while ago, Mr. Cao's baby saddle was bitten by bugs! Wang Houqian, who managed the warehouse, was a fellow official with a sad face, for fear that Mr. Cao would make a dream killing sword, so he clicked himself. Free Chinese
As a result, one of Wang Hou's brother-in-law, Cao Chong, who had only been kicking his legs for a short time, knew about it, and asked the little official not to tell him first, and then pierced his clothes into a hole, and first complained to Mr. Cao with a sad face, and his clothes were bitten by insects!
This Cao Cao comforted him for a long time, and comforted his favorite little son, and the little official came in again, and asked for the saddle being bitten by insects, and when he thought that his son's clothes could be bitten by insects, and the saddle was bitten, he was taken for granted by Cao Cao, and he didn't blame him, and he told him to be careful after two sentences, and let go of the little official!
From here, we can see how lacking spices are in the Central Plains! As long as there is a mothball, Cao Cao's beloved saddle and Cao Chong's clothes can't be bitten by insects!
Although they don't use much, these grassland patriarchs are also knowledgeable, behind the gold, all kinds of fragrant, but they look very strange, like a lump of rat poop, the spices of the insect poop are carried up in boxes, and the golden light in their eyes simply turns into green light, and then rhinoceros horns, elephant tusks, tiger skins, it is really called rich! Those precious goods that were smuggled in later generations were enough to squat for half a lifetime, and the eyes of the patriarchs of the various tribes changed from golden light to green light, and even the chief of Xianbei sighed in his heart, why didn't Wang Hou send more people when he was a dignitary, and now there are fewer achievements!
Everyone was staring with bated breath, and in the silence of the palace that could be heard, watching the last treasure chest being moved, Wang Hou finally stood up in anticipation, pretended to cough lightly, and then said in a very forceful manner like the Apple press conference in later generations.
"Thanks to the sincere cooperation of my colleagues in Liaodong and the elders of Xianbei, this westbound caravan has achieved remarkable results, and the goods sold and purchased are all here! After a while, according to the ledger, these gold treasures will be distributed to everyone on the spot! ”
"The general is wise!"
Whether it is a Hu person or a Han person, if there is money to take, he is not stingy with sycophants, and they all stood up excitedly, shouting excitedly, and even Kebineng himself showed a rich smile on his face, according to the proportion that Wang Hou found him before, he could also get as much as one percent of these treasures!
But Wang Hou's next sentence made the corners of his mouth stiffen, full of overflow, Wang Hou continued to laugh happily as if he hadn't noticed him.
"In view of the huge profits from this golden trade route, we decided to open another import and export trading company in the vacant land to the west of the milk powder factory! Specializing in this trade route in the Western Regions! If you are interested, you can join the trading company! Let's get rich together and create a win-win situation! ”
In the end, another miscalculation! This is different from the real estate that Wang Hou gave out for free in Guihua City before, Xianbei people have never lived in a Han house, so they don't live in it! But in front of him, this is real money, even the most backward nomadic tribes know that gold is valuable! Looking around, the twelve clan patriarchs who participated in the dividends, the excitement and greed in their pupils were even about to flow out!
But once they join this import and export trading company, will these clan patriarchs still obey their words?
Inadvertently, Wang Hou dug a big spoon on his rights, and in an instant, Kebineng's face was gloomy and even frozen!
However, after all, he is also a grassland hero, compared to those reckless men who will take out knives and cut people, there is a world of difference, at this time, the contradiction, undoubtedly pushed these tribes into Wang Hou's hands, so for a gloomy moment, Ke Bineng actually stood up with a big laugh, and actually hugged his fist at Wang Hou, who was smiling and dividing the gold.
"General Cheng is the pearl of immortality given to me by the immortal heaven! Please allow me to be the first to join this import and export trading company! ”
It's a hypocritical political show again, and it can't be stopped anyway, so it's better to show goodwill! Sure enough, the patriarchs of the originally greedy clan were still worried, but seeing that Kebineng was the first to join, this worry was suddenly eliminated, and the bearded and rectangular patriarchs of the grassland clan once again touched their chests with their right fists and bowed in praise.
"Great Chief! Wise! ”