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"What's wrong with you, you were really sick last night and didn't sleep well?" Cheng Yiyi asked with concern.

"You ask him." Xu Lang pointed at Jiang Beiming and said hatefully.

"Alright, be quiet, let's have a meeting." Jiang Beiming quickly diverted the topic, "We decided to set off for Thang Long Mansion in a few days, and this time we will take the waterway and follow the Red River from Ha Long Bay. Thang Long, later known as Hanoi, is now called it? ”

"Tokyo. It has the same name as Tokyo in Japan. Xu Lang replied.

"Yes, it's Tokyo." Jiang Beiming patted his head, "Look at my memory." Well, that Tokyo, Tianhao, do you have any questions? ”

"I don't have a problem, now it's you who speak." Sun Tianhao was stunned when asked: "What's wrong with the two of you, one yawns all day, the other is full of nonsense, I don't know what to do, what did you two do last night?" ”

The impromptu meeting was over. A few days later, Yang Tao led an infantry platoon to escort Jiang Beiming and others on the God to Thang Long Mansion.

The God did not drive directly to Thang Long Mansion, but found a nearby place to anchor. Jiang Beiming and the others hid their hands in their clothes, followed Yao Han and Yao Chun into the city, and Yang Tao led the infantry platoon to live on the ship temporarily.

Thang Long is divided into an inner city and an outer city, with a circumference of about 25 kilometers, and the inner city is the location of the forbidden city, the imperial city, and the capital city. The forbidden city is the residence of the emperor, the concubine and his descendants, and the servants to be served. The imperial city was outside the forbidden city and served as an office for the emperor and courtiers. The capital surrounds the imperial city and is a neighborhood, bazaar, and residential area. The 61 neighborhoods of the Li and Tran dynasties and the 36 neighborhoods of the Lê and Nguyen dynasties are all concentrated here.

At present, Thang Long Province is still prosperous, with a population of about 100 to 200,000 people. Everyone followed Yao Han around the city for a long time and came to the door of a mansion. Yao Chun stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, a Vietnamese guy came out of it, looked at the dress of Yao Chun and others, and asked in Chinese: "Who are you looking for, and where did you come from?" ”

"This little brother." Yao Chun replied, "If you are troubled, your master and the young lady will say that the young grandmother of the Yao family in Guangzhou has come to visit." ”

Jiang Beiming asked Yao Han, "Does Mrs. Yao know this family?" ”

"Go back to Master Jiang." Yao Hanshi smiled at Jiang Beiming, which made Jiang Beiming's heart itch again, "The owner of this family is also a Ming person, and he was a good friend of my family before his death. We sold all of our property in Annam last time, so we're borrowing it for now. ”

"Is my sister back?" People arrive before they can make a sound. As everyone was talking, a young woman about the same age as Yao Han floated out of the door with the voice, followed by a man dressed as a businessman in his 30s.

"My sister is worried, it's me who is back." Yao Hanshi stepped forward and took the young woman's hand.

"It's really my sister who is back, you miss your sister. Didn't my sister originally say that she wouldn't go back to Annan, did you come back alone this time or did Yao Gongzi come back with you? The young woman didn't allow Yao Han to speak, and questions popped out of her mouth one after another.

"Sister, don't worry, the things here are too tortuous, it's a long story." Yao Hanshi took the young woman and walked to Jiang Beiming and the others, "I'll introduce you first, these people are also my Ming people, and they are also the life-saving benefactors of my Yao family." After speaking, he pointed at Jiang Beiming again, "This is my Lord Jiang Beiming of the Daming Hainan Wei Baihu." ”

Hearing Yao Han's words, the businessmen behind him walked up and bowed deeply to Jiang Beiming and the others: "Xiaomin Mu Suide has seen all the adults, thank you for saving the Yao family's life." ”

The young woman also bowed: "The women have also thanked the adults. ”

"No need to be polite." Jiang Beiming stepped forward to help Mu Suide, "It is within the responsibility of my Ming people to help the people in need, and Mrs. Yao is also a comrade of the same country, how can she stand by and watch." ”

After hearing this, Mu Suide unconsciously looked at Jiang Beiming carefully: "If my Ming officials can be like adults, it will be a blessing for us." ”

The young woman secretly pulled the corner of Mu Suide's clothes behind her, and Mu Suide said quietly: "Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Yao, it is inconvenient to speak here, please come to the mansion to talk about it." ”

Yao Han's family and Cheng Yiyi were welcomed into the inner house by Mu Suide's wife, and Jiang Beiming and others sat down with Mu Suide in the main hall.

"Master Jiang." Mu Suide said, "I have thanked Master Jiang again, Brother Yao and Zai Xia were friends before his death. Lord Jiang was able to help in time at sea, the bloodline of the Yao family was preserved, and Lord Jiang was also immeasurably meritorious. ”

"Brother Mu has won the prize." Jiang Beiming said politely, "You and I hit it off at first sight, this is not my Ming territory, Brother Mu doesn't have to call me my lord, wouldn't it be better for us brothers to be commensurate with each other?" ”

"In this way, it will be rude to be below." Mu Suide asked again, "I wonder if Brother Jiang is here, except for escorting Mrs. Yao, is there anything else?" ”

"Naturally, there are other things." Sun Tianhao grabbed the words again, "We came this time mainly to re-establish the business with Mrs. Yao." ”

"But I don't know what kind of business Sun Gongzi wants to do?" Mu Suide asked.

"We have a lot of goods, but we don't know which ones are suitable for sale in Annam." Sun Tianhao began to play his specialties again. Through Yao Han's narration and Lu Tianxiang's recollections, Sun Tianhao knew that the commodities of Sino-Vietnamese trade during the Ming and Qing dynasties were basically fixed on general daily necessities. Ming merchants sold Vietnamese silk, cloth, shoes and socks, paper, pigments, lamp oil, tea, sugar, betel nut, candy, cigarette barrels and common medicinal materials, and bought nothing more than sand kernels, yarrow, white lead, bamboo and wood from Vietnam. Occasionally, there will be some mineral transactions between the two sides, such as in the 61st year of the Kangxi reign (1722), because China needed Vietnamese copper mines, Kangxi ordered the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou to Fu Xing Wen Annan, "All merchants who buy copper, order that trade as usual, without prohibiting and curbing".

But Sun Tianhao doesn't really want to do these things. Sun Tianhao's heart is getting bigger and bigger, and if he wants to do it, he must be the biggest and best trader, otherwise he will be sorry for the 400-year-old advantage of the times.

"Brother Mu, please take a look." Sun Tianhao said as he took out a few things from the box he was carrying, glass, sugar, soap, and finally a piece of cotton cloth and a mirror.

With regard to mirrors and cotton cloth, the Directorate of Industry has so far developed the most primitive human Jenny spinning machine and shuttle. However, it has been suffering from the problem of raw materials, so it has not been promoted on a large scale, and only a few units of the garment group are still in a state of strict secrecy, and they are only used in the production of military uniforms for the army. Now the situation in Yulin Bay is that basically everyone has a job, everyone has food, although each factory is an extremely inefficient workshop, but Yulin Bay does not dare to rashly adopt technological innovation. Because in the development of history, especially in the early days of the industrial revolution, because of technological innovation, workers lost their jobs, and machines were destroyed from time to time. Even Hargreaves, who invented Jenny's spinning machine, was once burned down and driven out of his home.

The new year's crossing congress set the goal of the development of the next few years as the expansion of armaments, which made it possible to greatly increase the labor required for iron smelting and the military industry in the coming years, so the committee decided that the Jenny spinning machine and the shuttle could be used on a large scale, and cotton cloth would be the main product of the new year.

As for the mirror, since Sun Tianhao promised Huang Yuansheng to give him the monopoly right to the mirror, more than a year has passed now, and Huang Yuansheng has not even seen a mirror. Fortunately, he has been busy with the sugar factory now, and gradually forgot about the mirror.

In fact, the principle of making mirrors is very simple. At the beginning of the 14th century, the Venetians used tin foil and mercury to coat the back of glass to make mirrors, which are very clear, and in the 15th century, Nuremberg made convex lenses, which were made with a layer of tin amalgam on the inside of glass balls. Modern mirrors are made using a method invented by the German chemist Libiger in 1835, mixing silver nitrate with a reducing agent to precipitate silver nitrate and attach it to the glass. The reducing agent generally used is table sugar or potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate. Using silver nitrate as a mirror is not yet possible for the Industrial Bureau. However, it is feasible to use tin foil and mercury, so the production of mirrors is also on the agenda, but it is limited to the problem of raw materials, and the production may not be very large.

Mu Suide took these things out of Sun Tianhao in his hand and slowly observed: "Sun Gongzi, these things you bring are indeed very novel, they are rare in Annan, but I don't know if the price will be too high?" ”

"This Brother Mu, please rest assured." Sun Tianhao patted his chest, "We have discussed with Mrs. Yao, let's jointly agree on a price, open the market, and expand sales is the most important thing." ”

"If you buy it, you sell it." Mu Suide put down the things in his hand, "I don't know what Sun Gongzi wants to purchase in Annan?" ”

"We just need food."

"Grain? Hahahaha. Mu Suide laughed, and then clasped his fists at Sun Tianhao and the others, "It's rude, you guys laugh." But when it comes to food, the brothers have found the right person, and what they are doing in Annan is the grain business. ”

"We know this, Mrs. Yao just told us." Xu Lang said, "That's why we're here to disturb Brother Mu." It's just that Brother Mu can provide us with a lot of needs. ”

"It's easy to say, don't worry." Mu Suide diverted the topic, "Everyone, it's not early. I, Mu Suide, will be the host once, please enjoy the light, the small place of Annan, can not be compared with my Ming Dynasty, please forgive me. ”

"Brother Mu is polite."

In the next few days, Sun Tianhao and others lived in Mu Mansion, and Yang Tao led 30 soldiers from the infantry platoon to quietly infiltrate the city in batches, and also found a small courtyard to live in Mu Suide's house. After a few days of negotiations, Sun Tianhao, Yao Han and Mu Suide reached an agreement that Yulin Bay and Yao Han would jointly fund to find a new place in Thang Long Mansion and reopen Yao's warehouse. Yulin Bay was responsible for supplying Yao Han and Mu Suide's own trading houses, and since the treaty with Zheng Jie only opened Hongji, the goods from Yulin Bay had to be transported to Hongji first, and then exchanged for Vietnamese ships to be transported along the Red River to Thang Long. In addition to selling goods from Yulin Bay, Mu Sui Duc must also supply no less than 3,000 tons of Vietnamese rice to Yulin Bay every year and be responsible for delivering it to Hong Kai Port. Of course, the price of rice is 10% higher than that of Vietnam.

Cheng Yiyi secretly revealed to Jiang Beiming, Xu Lang and others that according to the news found in the inner house, this Mu Suide has been in Vietnam for more than 20 years, and he has followed his father to Vietnam to do business since he was a child. His wife, Mu Nguyen, is of mixed Chinese and Vietnamese descent, his mother is Chinese and his father is Vietnamese, but they are now both deceased, leaving only two brothers in the family. In addition to Mu Nguyen, Mu Sui Duc also has a concubine, who is also Vietnamese. In general, I haven't found anything wrong with this Mu Suide, he belongs to the businessman of Anfen, and the business is not small, and he has a certain status among the Chinese in Thang Long Province.

After everything was clarified, everyone put aside the matter of going to see Zheng Jie, and accompanied Yao Han to find a suitable place to make a warehouse.

The group walked around Thang Long Mansion for a few days, and after looking at several places, they felt that it was not suitable. On this day, the crowd was again browsing the city, accompanied by Mu Suide.

"Official, official. You are a master of the old man, and it is not easy for a villain to do this small business. As the crowd was walking, suddenly a Vietnamese voice came from the front, and a group of people crowded in front of a shop.