"This, this," Listening to Zhu Menghan's words, Miura Keigo sweated on his forehead, and he didn't know how to answer.

"Don't worry, this king will give you money, and he won't ask for your things in vain." Zhu Mengyan said.

"This amount is too much, according to the rules of the shogunate, you can't sell goods to foreigners in private, and Daming also approves of it." Keigo Miura said.

"It's not for sale, it's that the king likes the fan of Sagami country, so I want it; And this king is sympathetic to the craftsman, so he pays for it. Zhu Mengyan said.

How could Miura Keiwu believe Zhu Menghan's nonsense, if he only wanted one or twenty, he could still think that Zhu Mengtan kept it himself or gave it to relatives and friends; Five hundred at once, and there is no other explanation than smuggling.

Miura Keigo sneered in his heart: "What about the prince of the kingdom, he doesn't love money," and said, "Lord, these five hundred are not easy to get." ”

"Haha, this king is joking with you, where do you need so many fans? Unless it's smuggling. The king only needs fifteen fans. Zhu Mengyan suddenly laughed, making Miura Keigo a little overwhelmed.

"This king heard that Mitsubishi came to Odawara Castle a few days ago?" Zhu Mengyan changed the topic very bluntly.

"Ah, yes." Keigo Miura couldn't keep up with his rhythm for a while.

"The rice wine he offered is good, not at all like the one shipped from Nagasaki, it is very fragrant." Zhu Mengyan said. After saying this, Zhu Mengyan stopped talking to him and turned around and left Miura Keiwu's side.

But Miura Keiwu's face suddenly changed, he understood what Zhu Mengyan meant, glanced at him, and sat down again with a sad brow. I don't know how long it took, but he seemed to understand something and raised his eyebrows.

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Yan Xiu and Yan Tingjing stood on the dock until the fleet completely disappeared from sight, then they put down their waving hands and turned to leave the dock.

"Is the house good?" Yan Xiu asked.

"Dad, the house is optimistic, and I bought a house near the side wall from a nearby village, not far from the Yokohama General Military Mansion." Yan Tingjing said.

"Although we will inevitably move to the city after Yokohama Castle is built in the future, it is still too early for the city to be built, and the houses in the city that can be lived in by the people are not only in the Year of the Monkey, so we will live in this house in the next few years, and we can't be sloppy." Yan Xiu admonished.

"Dad, don't worry, my son also understands this truth, and he won't be sloppy, just look at it." Yan Tingjing said. As he spoke, he took Yan Xiu to the house he was optimistic about.

When they arrived at the village gate, Yan Tingjing spoke to the local fishermen in broken Japanese, and the fishermen let them in. Seeing the house, Yan Xiu circled around it, nodded and said, "Well, yes, the house looks sturdy, the location is good, and the house can be renovated and decorated, this time you read it right." Who is the owner of this house, call over and sign a contract and pay the money. ”

Yan Tingjing, who finally got his father's praise, excitedly called the owner of the house, and the two sides signed a contract, and Yan Xiu took out the copper money brought from Daming to pay the bill.

However, there was a problem with where to register after that. Yan Xiu is in a foreign country, and he is afraid that these Fusang fishermen will pit him, so he must go to the government to register, and the fishermen agree.

But now, according to the scope of the land for Akiko's dowry, this village is within the scope of the land for Akiko's dowry, so it seems that it should be registered with the Yokohama General Military Office.

At the same time, however, there was a stipulation that the Yokohama General Military Office had no jurisdiction over the people of Fuso, and that all the people still belonged to Sagami. So they don't know where to register.

"That's it, just spend a little more money, and register in both places, just in case." Yan Xiu said.

Yan Tingjing was a little reluctant, but he didn't object to it out of insurance; But the two Fuso fishermen had a problem. They thought they were going to the Yokohama General Military Mansion of the Ming Dynasty to register, and they were not afraid; But when he heard that he was going to Fusang's yamen, he was very scared. Yan Xiu had to appease them for a long time before they agreed to go to the relevant departments in Sagami to register.

Facts have proved that the fear of these two fishermen is not unreasonable, the Fusang people working in the relevant departments are greedy and shameless in the face of two ordinary fishermen, if they don't see the two Ming people walking with them, the money they get from selling their houses is likely to be squeezed away without a penny; Even if they were accompanied by people from the Ming Dynasty, they also charged a large registration fee.

After leaving the door of the relevant department of Fusang, the two Fusang fishermen ran away, as if someone wanted to arrest the two of them.

Yan Xiu shook his head. He is not young anymore, and he still remembers how shameless Meng Yuan's yamen officials were that his father told him back then, but he still didn't believe it at the time. But even the very greedy old man in his father's mouth is not as greedy as these Fuso people.

'Thank you Mazu Niangniang for letting me be born in Daming. He prayed silently to Mazu in his heart.

"These two fishermen sold their houses to us, where do they live?" Yan Xiu came back to his senses and asked.

"They have other houses, and they are in the village." Yan Tingjing replied.

"That's good, the province depends on us. After that, I have to stay here for at least half a year before I can go home. In the past six months, let's see if we can find something that Fusang can export to Daming. Yan Xiu said.

After that, their father and son inspected here, and after a few days of continuous inspection, Yan Tingjing said to Yan Xiu: "Father, I haven't seen what Fusang can export to Daming, but I have found the same thing that Daming can export to Fusang." ”

"What?" Yan Xiu asked.

"Grain. The land of Fusang is too barren, and the yield per mu is much lower than that of the Ming Dynasty; There are mountains everywhere, and there are very few suitable places for farming, and if they were not surrounded by the sea on all sides, and the people ate a lot of fish and shrimp, some people would have starved to death a long time ago. ”

"So the price of grain here is very expensive, the price of coarse grains is the same as domestic rice, rice is even more expensive, and it may not be available. Fortunately, our family brought a little more food when they set off from China before, and we haven't finished eating it yet, otherwise we would have to eat brown rice. Yan Tingjing said.

He has never eaten coarse grains since he was a child, because he was young, even when his family was poorest a while ago, he ate millet and drank gruel, and he never ate coarse grains; When he arrived in Fusang and earned a lot of money, he was even more reluctant to eat coarse grains. But the reality is that they may not be able to buy enough rice if they have the money.

Yan Xiu hadn't paid attention to this matter a few days ago, but now after listening to Yan Tingjing's words, he thought about it, it was indeed rare to see ordinary Fusang people eating rice, they all ate coarse grains and grilled fish, if there was a little salt, it would be a rare delicacy.

"Bringing rice to Fuso for sale? Even if you fill a shipload of expensive rice and transport it to Yokohama, you won't make much money, but if you can't get there safely, let the pirates rob a few ships on the way, and the gain outweighs the loss. If you want to make money, you have to have enough ships to make pirates dare not make up their minds. Yan Xiu said.

"By the way, Dad, before I set off from China, I heard that someone ordered grain from Fanshang in Ningbo Mansion and asked them to transport it to Shanghai City, but I don't know if it's true or not. Is this Nanyang rice cheaper than Jiangsu and Zhejiang? Yan Tingjing said suddenly.

"Don't care if Nanyang's rice is cheaper than Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it's not too late to care when you go back. Now let's go to the Yokohama Shogunfu neighborhood and see if there is any rice for sale. We only have enough rice left over for two days, even if we eat more fish and shrimp like fishermen, we will last for five days at most. You have to buy some rice. Yan Xiu said. He himself could accept coarse grains, but his son had to eat rice.

After listening to his father's words, Yan Tingjing didn't think about the question of who was cheaper in Nanyang or Jiangsu-Zhejiang rice, and followed his father's footsteps to the vicinity of the Yokohama General Military Mansion.

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"Haha, get rich, get rich." Xiao Zhuo looked at the rice in front of him and smiled.

Li Taiyuan, who had just arrived, asked excitedly, "How much is this rice!" ”

"One hundred wen per stone, one hundred wen per stone." Xiao Zhuo said with a smile.

"One hundred texts." Lee Tae-won felt like he was going to faint happily. It is now the seventh month of the Ming calendar, the early rice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has been harvested, and the grain is the cheapest time of the year, but it costs 1670 wen to buy a stone of rice in the market, even if the big grain merchants collect grain from the farmers, the price is definitely more than 100 wen and a stone. Their Li family also has several hundred acres of land to grow grain, and the purchase price from the peasants is never less than 110 yuan.

And it also needs to be transported from the village to the warehouse, which costs manpower; This is directly unloaded from their ship, weighed and put into their own ship, and can be easily transported back, saving not a little bit.

"Tai Yuan, can I remind you, they have transported more than 10,000 stones of rice in one go this time, we want to eat it all?" Xiao Zhuo reminded.

"More than 10,000 stone of rice, but more than 1,000 yuan, what can't you eat?" Lee Tae-won asked rhetorically.

"Money is enough, but what about place? There must not be enough granaries in Shanghai, do you have enough granaries to put these grains in your family now? Anyway, our family's granaries are full now. Xiao Zhuo continued to ask.

"This, I guess not." Li Taiyuan's family usually doesn't do grain business, and there are not many granaries, but now they have just harvested, and it is estimated that the granaries at home are full.

"What do you say?" Li Taiyuan asked Xiao Zhuo rhetorically.

"Isn't that easy? Looking for Wang Rende, he is not a local in Shanghai? Find him to contact the grain merchant in Songjiang Prefecture, we bought it from here for 100 yuan, sold it to the local grain merchant for 120 yuan, and made a fortune without moving. Xiao Zhuo said.

"Our family had to leave more than 1,000 stone as a tax for the mulberry fields. More than 1,000 stones, our family's granary can still be placed. Lee Tae-won said.

"Our family also has to leave a few hundred stones to pay taxes." Xiao Zhuo also said.

"Then I'll go to the city to find Wang Rende immediately, Brother Xiao, you watch here first." Lee Tae-won said immediately.

"Slow!" Xiao Zhuo shouted.

"What's wrong, Brother Xiao?" Lee Tae-won asked curiously.

"Li Taewon, haven't you realized the biggest problem in this matter?" Xiao Zhuo said to him.

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Thank you for the book friend, Nima, for the reward.