At the beginning of the lanterns, the hall on the second floor has removed the tea and replaced it with a sumptuous banquet, and the small singers who were temporarily found from the jade belt hao painting boat are playing tunes to make the people who dine feel refreshed and happy.

Sitting on the top, Fu Xiaofei and Gu Ziming are on the left and right, and Gao Chongde and Liu Jinggui are diligently distributing vegetables. Because it was not an official banquet and did not sit at separate tables, the table of the Eight Immortals seemed more extravagant but also more intimate and lively.

"Mr. Fu tasted this soup, and he used the best squirry from the East, and it has been simmered until yesterday afternoon."

Fu Xiaofei knows that this thing is commonly known as dry goods, and it is the best from Japan, such as some dried abalone and sea cucumber are counted in two, and the best ones are sold for five or six dollars of silver.

Because the cook in the family often entertains distinguished guests, he hired him from Nanjing at a high price, and the monthly money of eight taels per month is not considered a reward, and it is also first-class in this Guangzhou city, so he is very confident in the taste of his own family banquet.

But Fu Xiaofei didn't have a second bite after taking a sip, and he didn't even touch the dishes such as white chicken on the table, and he quickly saw the problem.

"Isn't it to the taste of the two?" Gao Ju has also seen the customs of Nanyang, and knows that there is actually no good taste there, so this question is just out of politeness.

But I heard Gu Ziming scold: "I didn't expect that today is the day of the autumn decision, and when I came over, I happened to bump into the people who had retreated from the Dharma field, all carrying them into the water in their hands, which was really disgusting." ”

In this era, the masses everywhere like to watch, and it is also a case of onlookers to see the execution of prisoners, especially here in Guangdong. It's just that the custom that the people here like to buy the dead people and drink at home is really unacceptable, and when I came down in the afternoon, there were guys in the store who explained that I really had no appetite when I saw this simmering soup.

Holding up such a daily contact with dignitaries and dignitaries, how do I not know that people who read are disgusted with this, so they just blindly relieved a few words, but their hearts were full of slander, thinking that Nanyang Shengfan is not like this, and ran to Daming to pretend to be high.

Now that the deal has been negotiated, how to pay for the goods can be brought to the banquet, there is no need to make the atmosphere too mysterious and tense, it is not that he can't get the silver, he has opened a dumping shop outside the east gate of the old city, but the nature of the merchant is always to want others to buy his goods instead of taking the cash.

Fu Xiaofei had not talked much in the previous negotiations, but now that he has said that he is no longer restrained, he has mentioned his demand for goods through wine.

First, the total amount of silver exchanged for today is more than 100,000 taels, and it will be wasted to take all the silver back, and there is no commodity trading in the minting of silver coins, which does not play any practical role except for causing inflation. What's more, they still had tens of thousands of Spanish silver dollars hidden in their bilge books, which were also intended to be exchanged for urgently needed supplies. Although Tian Shengjin promised Fu Xiaofei that he would sell a batch of iron pots, the official can give it after all, Fu Xiaofei knows that these businessmen are privately connected to the private merchants and sea owners outside, and there should be a way to do it.

There is also the population, there is a city outside the south gate of the new city, and displaced people from all over Guangdong have gathered there, Fu Xiaofei and others have also been there a few times, but overseas people at least on the surface cannot buy Chinese people as slaves, so people will not take the initiative to find them. However, Borneo itself is extremely short of population, and the local natives do not obey discipline, and there are not many adults who can be honestly trained except for children, not to mention that there are many language barriers. In addition to being oppressed, there are also many treacherous merchants in Nanyang, and it is difficult to restrain these people who are accustomed to taking chestnuts from the fire, so although both the military source and the workers' senate do not think that the Ming Dynasty can become a major export center, they still tend to test the way to introduce population from the mainland.

And these two things are just right to be exalted.

Master Gao had also solemnly recommended his goods to Fu Xiaofei, but whether it was silk, porcelain, musk, jewelry, or even gold, these people were not interested, and the demands they put forward were all forbidden by the government. Saltpeter, sulfur and iron tools are not to mention, they are all controlled items, this population is a big taboo, in the eyes of the Ming government, the head is the source of tax, and the trafficking of human beings to foreign countries can not be said that no one is doing, but they are all invisible, and to a large extent, with the voluntary nature of immigration. But after discussing with the Senate, Fu Xiaofei felt that it was better not to take the initiative to introduce Fujian immigrants, and it was better to select some young boys and girls in Guangdong, which would also be conducive to the balance of the local Han naturalized people in Borneo.

People are easy to find, but how to transport them out of the Ming Dynasty is very problematic.

The city outside the west gate is not too far from Huaiyuanyi, and you can see it when you enter and leave the city gate several times these days

Gao Ju also hopes to cooperate with these so-called Song people for a long time, and also knows that although they are under the banner of the Boni Kingdom, they will not be willing to live under the people for a long time, otherwise why bother to travel thousands of miles to transport the Han people to Nanyang, most of them are also in the intention of stabilizing their own territory. Although he does not participate in this human trafficking on weekdays, he can do it in his relationship, so he no longer sees the outside, although his political and business relations in Guangzhou cannot support the two new customers, but it is okay to use private means a little.

He said: "Actually, you shouldn't have gone to ask Tian Yuan to buy saltpeter and sulfur, where does he know the trick of this, and he is a minister, or will he only handle it according to the regulations." ”

Fu Xiaofei saw that there was a door, and stepped forward with a look of asking for advice, "I still hope that the owner of Gao will solve his doubts." ”

Holding it high and taking down the mercury mirror monopoly was in a good mood, and he started talking after taking a sip of wine.

"There is a swimming fish island in the Pearl River five miles outside Guangzhou, I don't know if you have heard of it?"

"I seem to have heard that there seems to be a well-known Haizhuang Temple over there."

"The saltpeter, sulfur and other things you want will be landed there, and this matter can be explained to Liu Jingye in detail later."

"Then there is the Laoliu economy."

"Where Mr. Fu said, this is exactly the duty of a villain."

Thinking that it is not the duty to take a share of it, Liu Economy will also say so, and he will be happy for a while.

Fu Xiaofei turned to ask again, "What about this population?" ”

"Didn't you give Luo Guan a gift, maybe the silver was not heavy enough." Holding it up to the sidelines, it is expected that they do not understand the rules.

Fu Xiaofei really asked with concern: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Ordinary human trafficking is very strict, but there are always sailors and handymen on board, and you can't let an empty ship go to sea."

"What does Master Gao mean?"

"I don't mean anything else, if the two gentlemen don't know the secret, Gao still has a little bit of thin noodles here in front of the masters of the sea road."

Fu Xiaofei's words made Fu Xiaofei pause, that Yuzhou is probably a private port here in Guangzhou, in fact, there are many private ports along the way from Fujian to Shandong, and there are also such private ports for smuggling on the islands near Nagasaki, Japan, and those prohibited things are probably transported out of Daming in this way, but the two of them have just arrived, and no one will take the initiative to tell them about such a secret thing. Although the official will also participate in these bad things and share the profits, he will not mention it to outsiders, and Luo Zhiding is estimated to have a lot of profits in these things, and may even have shares in the Gao family firm.

Fu Xiaofei has no bad impression of this person, since Master Gao said that he can do it, I believe there will be no problem, and now the wind is about to rise again, and the southward journey is just recently. Fu Xiaofei went to see it in Foshan, although the scale of the iron factory is very large, but the workshop-style production is not very efficient, and the smelting technology must not be compared with the traverser, so he does not plan to recruit any craftsmen, the blacksmiths here are quite passable, and it is not easy to train if they are recruited, it is better to buy some boys and girls, population balance is equally important, and children are also easy to educate, with the current education system in Brunei to train some craftsmen is not difficult, they are all aware of it and do not need to be very advanced theories.

Immediately negotiated with Gao Ju, first, he arranged for someone to send them to Youyuzhou to contact private goods in the past two days, and the other was to recruit child labor.

A night banquet was enjoyed by the guests and hosts, and the travelers could be regarded as initially opening up the situation in Guangzhou, and generously lent them a house outside the city to settle the purchased population. When a banquet came out, the two insisted on going back to the post house, and finally had to let Liu Economy send all the way, and he had a son who was on duty at Taipingmen tonight and went out of the city gate.

Along the way, Liu Jinggui and Fu Xiaofei talked about some things about Yuzhou, it turned out that it was really a private port, there was a hill on that continent that could overlook Guangzhou, and there were many private merchants in the continent who passed through the big households on Haopan Street, as long as it was the goods that Daming had, they could toss it out. The Gao family has done a lot of business, such as the Nanyang Francophone and the Dutch, and the bulk of saltpeter, sulfur and other materials also rely on the Ming or Japanese smuggling, so this Xiyi business is very good.

Liu Jinggui heard that Tian Shengjin had allowed them to go to Macao with the official high school a year ago, and he also expressed his affection for the Macao Council, and if there was anything inconvenient to do in the official face, he could help pass it on.

There were only Liu Jinggui, Fu and Gu in the car, and Fu Xiaofei did not shy away from it, and directly stuffed Liu Jingye with a piece of silver, and Liu Jinggui had five taels in his hand, and immediately smiled.

"I have to worry a lot about the economy."

Liu Jinggui, who had received the benefits, had already identified the two of them, and he would have a double share of the profit as soon as this transaction went, and immediately said, "You two just rest assured, your goods are all wrapped in the villain." ”