Chapter 206: Counting money is actually a painful thing
This time unloading is a bit much.
There were sacks of wool, hides.
Some live animals, like cows, sheep, pigs, and the like.
Countless books, scriptures, histories, children, and righteousness, since they like Sinology, then Cao Yan doesn't mind sinicizing them all.
And the barrels containing copper coins, the last time I came, I didn't prepare so much money, and the money to buy the land was still owed, of course, this time I didn't bring so much, only a part of it.
There are also some silk fabrics, which are the inventory of the Luo Ming family.
The last thing is some iron ore and the like, the katana made by Sakura Country, which is still quite famous in this era, adhering to the idea that thieves will not go empty, and holding the idea that it is better to find something to do if they are idle, so Cao Yan brought some iron ore.
It's a pity that this ship is a battleship after all, and it didn't consider too much warehouse location at the beginning of its design, and it didn't have many loading locations, and it was all crammed to load the things in front of the dock.
Although the things are not heavy, the wool and livestock take up a lot of space after all.
Cao Yan looked at the family stewards who were already glowing with red eyes, the officials of the household department of this country, and the guards generals, all looking at him a little anxiously, he knew that these people's thoughts were there.
"Come with me!" Cao Yan led them to the vicinity of the barrels,
He reached out and grabbed the edge of the barrel, shook the barrel, and there was a metallic sound from it, and said: "This bucket is 100,000 copper coins, of course, there may be more or less, you also know that this thing is a bit difficult to count, I weigh it, but if you want to count, you can count, if it is less, tell me, I will make up for the less." ”
Fortunately, Lin Jiazhai's snack business during this period of time has earned all these copper coins, otherwise Cao Yan really doesn't know how to get so many copper coins at once.
When the others heard this, they all gathered around, wanting to shake it like Cao Yan.
However, the wooden barrel that looked at Cao Yan shaking very easily, when it came to them, except for a few people who could shake it slightly, everyone else used up the strength of milk, but the wooden barrel did not move at all.
Looking at their blushing faces with all their might, Cao Yan smiled inauthentically.
At this time, everyone thought that the person in front of them was an immortal, could he be comparable to these mortals?
The stewards smiled awkwardly at Cao Yan and asked, "Sir, how much does this bucket weigh?" ”
"With the bucket, it should be six hundred and fifty pounds, right, do you want to count?" Cao Yan asked again, with a little desire to see the excitement.
"No, don't we still believe sir?" The stewards of each family hurriedly spoke, I don't know if they were afraid of trouble or afraid that Cao Yan would be angry, but the stewards of each family were unwilling to count.
However, the secretary of the household department and the general of the guards looked embarrassed, after all, this money is not their own, and they will trouble them if they are less, and the two of them said embarrassedly: "Sir, it's not that we don't believe you, but where the duty lies. ”
Cao Yan looked at the expressions of the two of them, and smiled indifferently, he still wished there were many of them, "It's okay, I understand!" ”
Anyway, it's not your own counting, and it's actually a pleasure to watch other people's stupid money, so Cao Yan shouted to the boat, "Drop the scale." ”
"Got it," replied the ship's voice.
Immediately afterwards, a huge scale was hoisted down by a block of pulleys on the side of the ship.
Then a few more people found a flat and hard place and lifted the scales and laid them flat.
"Brother Zhuang, move a bucket of money up." Seeing that the scales were placed, Cao Yan shouted to Lin Dazhuang beside him.
Lin Dazhuang rubbed his hands, no spitting, he used to spit and rub his hands, but after everyone was taught by Cao Yan to talk about hygiene, this habit changed.
He held a bucket near the scale, and as if it didn't take much effort, he picked it up, walked to the scale, and put the barrel on the scale.
There was a burst of inhalation and exclamations of "Si Guoyi" around him.
This made a group of people in Linjiazhai a little disdainful, "I haven't seen the world." ”
The pointer on the scale jumped a few times at the position of six hundred to eight hundred, and after Lin Dazhuang stabilized, the pointer of the scale finally stopped at the position of six hundred and fifty.
"Let's all come and take a look, the weight is okay, right?" Cao Yan pointed to the number and said.
Everyone leaned over to look at it, then nodded.
"Well, this hundred barrels is the first money to buy land, a total of 10 million, you can count it," Cao Yan said to the head of the household, pointing to a wooden barrel.
Hearing what Cao Yan said, the secretary of the household department looked at the ten household officials behind him, his face was a little dark, eleven people were nearly one million each, what special is the rhythm of counting death?
"My lord......" The others were obviously not stupid, so they asked weakly and inquiringly, wanting to see what to do?
"Let's count the buckets first." In the end, the secretary still compromised, he wanted to see how much difference this bucket was, if it wasn't much worse, it wouldn't be counted, it was really too bad, then it must be all counted.
This made Cao Yan look down on him a little, what about the craftsman spirit of the cherry blossom country? What about the meticulousness that says yes??
Of course, Cao Yan is not the only one who wants to see the excitement.
When a bucket of money was poured out, all the people around gathered around and watched them count with great interest.
Cao Yan also asked people to bring a chair over, make it in a high place, and pour a pot of tea, which made many people look at Cao Yan's tea and secretly swallow their saliva, after all, as soon as this tea is brewed, there is a fragrance coming, so that people can immediately know that it is extraordinary.
The group of people in the household department at the beginning of the household are still very energetic, and the speed is also open, after all, counting money is always a happy thing, but when it reaches thousands, these people obviously slow down to count, and the corners of their mouths are still squirming and foaming a little.
Especially around the people watching the excitement, some people also deliberately led the people who counted the money to talk, so that after a few people were wrong, everyone was even happier.
Of course, after all, it was a bucket, not much, and when the last copper coin was counted, the number of several people was added up, and there were 100,000 and 42.
This means that they counted for a long time, but they had to return Cao Yan's forty-two copper plates.
This made Cao Yan smile gloatingly, looked at their dry mouths, and waved his hand: "These forty-two pieces should be used for tea." ”
This made these household officials look at each other, and one official directly picked up, "I don't count the money anymore, whoever wants to count it." After the man finished shouting, he went straight to the ground tired.
"Hehe," the people around were really amused by that person, and the consequence of this was that those stewards were even more reluctant to count, anyway, they were all so heavy, and it was estimated that there would be a few less, and there would be more if they couldn't get it.
The head of the household looked at the hundred barrels of copper coins on the side of the dock, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he gave up the idea of continuing to count.
Of course, after that, it is commodity trading, and the sales of Da Chu's books here are still good.
Moreover, Cao Yan still gave Da Chu the price, five hundred wen a copy, all of which he printed himself, and the cost was more than ten wen.
This made the more than 1,000 books he brought with him sold out in an instant.
And because the cloth was dragging the old goods of the Luo Ming family's inventory, he bought them at a price of fifty percent, of course, these are conscience prices, and other merchants will sell them at least twice as much.
As for those iron ores and the like, they were divided among the families, and they were ready to make some katana swords in exchange for more goods from Cao Yan, and through this time, they found that it seemed that doing business with Cao Yan was a bit insufficient, and he brought too many things.