In these years, Fuso is a good place, many daimyo occupy a small village, a small town, and then fight each other, the whole Fuso does not have a regime that actually unifies the whole of Fuso, the shogunate is a puppet, and the emperor is a puppet among the puppets.

Now the whole situation in Fusang is a few powerful daimyos, with a group of small daimyos, and then a large-scale armed fight between two ends in three days, as for the scale, it is similar to the Tang Dynasty in the Huangzhushan era to conquer other bandits, and even the pirates who escaped from the coastal areas of the Tang Dynasty can gain a firm foothold in Fusang.

And this kind of Fusang is a good place for foreign businessmen!

The daimyo who were in the middle of the war were in great demand for all weapons, and the stainless steel waist knives, spears, plate armor and even arquebuses produced by the Tang Dynasty were widely popular.

Especially the plate armor produced by the Tang Dynasty, which is a weapon of war, those warriors have to buy a set of plate armor as much as possible.

Of course, the plate armor they purchased was a special version of the Tang Dynasty's export to Fusang, not a full-body armor, and the thickness was greatly reduced, which is not to say that the three major weapons companies of the Tang Dynasty were black-hearted merchants, but the Fusang people took the initiative to ask for it.

For Mao, because their physical fitness is generally too poor, if it is a heavy body armor, they can't walk when they wear it, and they have a hairy fight!

Not every army can be like the Tang Dynasty Wangshi, white rice, steamed buns are all-you-can-eat, there is meat at both ends in three days, and the soldiers are all extremely strong.

Of course, even the half-length armor with reduced thickness is quite amazing, at least much better than the traditional iron armor, and there is no problem at all in resisting bows and arrows, and it is possible to resist muskets from a distance.

In addition to ordnance, the sales of other daily necessities in Fuso are also very good!

After buying these things, merchants like Sland would bring back not only gold and silver, but also some other Fuso specialties.

After all, in addition to gold and silver, there must be other specialties on the Fuso side, such as some messy handicrafts or something.

Then in the winter, when the northeast monsoon began to return south, passing through Shanghai and Guangzhou, selling goods, and then buying goods, and finally returning to Malacca, a large number of porcelain, silk and other goods purchased from the Tang Dynasty, Fuso, and North Korea were sold in Malacca to those merchants who ran the Indian Ocean route and even the European route.

In this way, it is a complete route back and forth.

In the sea trade of East Asian seas, many people run such a route in this way, which is nothing more than the difference between running a few more ports and running a few fewer ports.

Of course, if you want to run a complete round trip, the time is more tight, and the requirements for navigation technology, the requirements for ships, and even the sale and purchase of goods are more stringent.

If one is not careful, he will miss time, and then miss the monsoon, he will not be killed!

Sland has been crisscrossing the sea for decades, and he has recruited a group of professionals under his hands, so there is naturally no problem with sailing skills!

The Galen ship in his hand is not bad, sailing along the monsoon, although it is not as fast as the 680 merchant ships made by the Tang Dynasty, but it is not slow, and there are more loads.

As for the purchase and sale of goods, he tried to contact directly by himself at the beginning, but found that this was too time-consuming, so he simply cooperated directly with local second-hand dealers, selling goods at a lower price than the market price, and then buying the goods at a slightly higher price than the market price.

Although this will dilute the profits, he can run a few more ports, so the hard work is harder, but the profits are more.

Today, it is the day when he entered the port of Guangzhou Trade Zone, in order to earn more profits, he took a lot of effort, and purchased a large number of saltpeter and spices in Malacca, these two things, now in the Tang Dynasty, that are hard currency, especially saltpeter, like sulfur, the price is very strong, absolutely do not worry about selling.

Of course, a large amount of gold and silver used to press the bottom of the ship is also indispensable, in addition to a thick stack of silver bills issued by the Datang Royal Bank that he personally collected.

The cargo of this ship, plus the silver ticket on his body, was worth a hundred thousand taels of silver!

But when the ship docked, arrived at the port, and found a trading house that had a cooperative relationship two years ago, and was ready to sell the goods in hand, it encountered a little trouble.

When negotiating the price at which the goods were sold, he found that the price was calculated directly in gold coins, not in silver coins!

When he expressed his doubts, the Tang businessman directly gave him a stack of newspapers, although he didn't recognize most of the words on the newspaper, but as a Portuguese businessman who came and went to the Tang Dynasty every year, he didn't dare to call himself a Chinese expert, but the simple words and numbers were still recognized, even if he didn't recognize it, it was okay, but the stack of paper in his hand was a little knowledgeable people know, this is the Tang Dynasty newspaper!

At this time, the translator he hired was also next to him, translating the above content.

The content of the translation is naturally the latest developments affirmed in the newspapers of the Tang Dynasty, the Holy Son of Heaven issued a holy decree, requiring the transactions in the trade area to be denominated in gold, and at the same time, the collection of customs duties is also directly levied on gold.

Naturally, Sland doesn't know what the gold standard is!

After finding out that it was denominated in gold, I didn't feel anything, I just felt a little troublesome, anyway, gold and silver are exchanged for the ratio, and it is directly according to the proportion.

This is also the attitude of most merchants to the overseas trade promulgated by the Tang Dynasty to be denominated in gold, and the tariff collection is also denominated in gold.

It's just that they have changed the unit of denomination, and the money is still the same money, and they will not lose a copper coin because of this.

After all, the exchange ratio of gold and silver coins and copper coins in the Tang Dynasty has always fluctuated with the market, and the official price is the same whether it is denominated in silver coins or gold coins.

The purpose of Li Xuan's move is not to increase or depreciate the value of silver, he is just to pave the way for the implementation of the gold standard, first in overseas trade to implement gold pricing, and then in domestic bulk trade to implement gold pricing, at the same time the Royal Bank began to reserve gold, and finally large-scale issuance of gold coins and gold bills, and finally replaced silver bills with gold bills as large-scale circulation of paper money.

After Sland sold a batch of goods in the port of Guangzhou, he planned to take the remaining batch of saltpeter and spices to Shanghai to sell, because according to his experience, the purchase price there was higher, and at the same time, he also purchased a batch of ordnance in Guangzhou, which were ready to be shipped to Fusang, as for why he bought it in Guangzhou instead of Shanghai, it was naturally because the price of ordnance in Guangzhou was cheaper, and today's Guangdong was the largest arms production base in the Tang Dynasty.

Later, he will leave Guangzhou, and then go to Quanzhou, if the price is suitable, he will sell a batch of goods, buy another batch of goods, and if the price is average, then stay in Shanghai.

However, these saltpeters must be emptied before leaving Shanghai, because this thing is also in high demand in the Tang Dynasty, and if he takes saltpeter to Fusang, he will be killed.

Slander continues to trade in a foreign land, and some people of the Tang Dynasty are now struggling in a foreign land, even in a more distant place!

The combined fleet of the Tang Western Company and Guedes is now anchored in a small nameless port on the southwest coast of India, and they have also become the first fleet in the Tang Dynasty to reach the western coast of India, or in other words, the first, or even the only Tang fleet to enter the Indian Ocean!

They anchored in a small deserted port, a few days ago their fleet came here, and then anchored here, Ying Zihua according to the old rules, directly sent people ashore, set up a supply depot, and by the way, also erected a stone tablet, on which the words of the territory of the Tang Empire and the territory of the Tang Western Company were written.

This small port is very small and does not have much strategic value, but it can still be used as a supply port, along the way, Ying Zihua has established more than a dozen similar supply ports, and they all chose to be sparsely populated, or even deserted small ports, in order to avoid being noticed by the Portuguese or others.

Today's Datang Western Company is still too weak, and it can only be sneaky to explore the Indian Ocean, but it has no intention of clashing with the Portuguese in a short time.

Guedes and Ying Zihua stood on the bow of the ship, behind them were a group of senior employees of Guedes Trading Company and Datang Western Company!

"Now the wind is already quite unfavorable for us, if we continue to sail to West Africa, the voyage will be very difficult, I suggest rest here for half a year and wait for the new monsoon," Guedes said. ”

It's already May, and the northeast monsoon is over, which is quite unfavorable for the subsequent voyage of their small fleet!

Because without the northeast monsoon, they would not have been able to cross the western Indian Ocean and reach the east coast of Africa!

In this era of sailing, especially long-distance sailing, the monsoon is very important, which is why Guedes started to set off last autumn, because it happened to be the season of the beginning of the northeast monsoon, taking advantage of the northeast monsoon, they went all the way to the southwest of India, of course, there were many troubles in the middle, pirates or anything else.

The Portuguese merchant ships each encountered them once, and as a result, Ying Zihua personally ordered them to be captured.

This is not to avoid being discovered, but that they are short of food and drinking water at that time, and they want to rush through the storm to the next scheduled destination.