Chapter 54. Gift Package
Mao Jue was really a little crying and laughing, the two maidservants with flower petals buried their faces in the flower basket, and the four little girls who carried the sedan chair also held back their laughter and suffocated their handsome little faces.
"Brother Mao! The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, although Qian Mou is like Pan An and Song Yu until he looks like Song Yu, but you are too active! ”
"Brother Qian!"
"I think my Qian Mou has always been clean and self-conscious, and his body is better than corundum, this time, how can Qian Mou still have the face to fight in the rivers and lakes?"
"Brother Qian!"
"Qian still threw himself into the river to Mingzhi Festival......"
Seeing that this thing is still going to be said, Mao Jue's head really jumped up a few green tendons, and he suddenly raised a finger.
"A mirror! Three thousand five hundred mink skins, seventy boxes of ginseng, eight boxes of Dongzhu, as well as deer antler velvet, and a number of medicinal materials, since Brother Qian wants to die, then these goods can only find another buyer! ”
"So much!"
really doesn't change the true character of a businessman, as soon as he heard this, Qian Zeng's eyes were as bright as a light bulb, and he didn't pretend to be pitiful, he bounced off the chair directly, and then turned his hands behind his back again, and turned around excitedly two times.
"By the way, Brother Qian has been promoted to the rank of Iron Mountain General, and the property here is not as much as you want! This is a real ......."
"Don't be too happy, whether the things will be handed over to you or not, it depends on what you bring back to Mao!"
This time, it was Mao Jue's turn to ignore it, holding his arms and holding his head high, forcing this self-interested guy to quickly take out the account book from his arms and curry favor with such a fist.
"Isn't this all ready for Brother Mao!"
…………
"Wow!"
Breathing was a little short, Su Yi's beautiful big eyes were even a little round, holding a brush, staring intently at the boxes that were being moved around, sometimes even forgetting to write and draw on the account book, or Su Changmei behind her coughed softly twice, which made this girl wake up.
No wonder this girl is so, in this era, there is no region in the world that can surpass Jiangnan, Paris, London, Berlin, these famous metropolises in later generations are still only tens of thousands of people, like a big town, the population of Jinling has exceeded hundreds of thousands, and some people even speculate that the population here exceeds one million, plus the floating population, the peak reached two million, not only here, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Changshu, Shaoxing, a series of areas, all are densely populated, The development of the population has also brought about a highly developed commodity economy.
Boxes of tea, fine porcelain, lacquered boxes with an agate-like luster, red leather furniture, and especially silk that makes Suyi breathe fast! Tightly knitted, brightly patterned, batches of silk moved in the hands of those workers, just as they northerners carried the cabbage for the winter, she had never seen so much silk cloth in her life, this thing was also in her little brain, quickly made up into all kinds of beautiful clothes.
took up so much space for the brain processor, and Suyi's little face was red and hot, no wonder she was confused.
Qian Zeng knew how to do things, and I don't know how he made a move, anyway, a mirror with a capital of less than a few taels was fried by him to a sky-high price of 66,666 taels, and was unceremoniously accepted more than 6,000 taels of silver by a local tyrant salt merchant who didn't know which reading family or Yangzhou's salt merchant unceremoniously accepted, he purchased 30,000 taels of goods for Mao Jue, planed all the way to transport them, and brought back more than 16,000 taels of silver.
Here, just silk and tea are enough for Mao Jue to make two or three times more profits, as a warlord, in fact, the core strength is also silver, there are soldiers and guns with silver, no wonder Mao Wenlong is willing to personally run to Tieshan for this purpose, to praise Mao Jue.
However, Jin Shi Zhuyu, hungry and not foody, cold and not clothing, for those shiny southern goods in front of him, Mao Jue is more concerned about some inconspicuous other things.
"It's all here!"
led Mao Jue onto the boat, and the kidney-deficient boy also stretched out his hand to the other side with some apprehension.
Now Mao Jue is a shotgun for a cannon, and the Tieshan Ginseng General is not just a border guard, it is directly established on the land of the Korean Kingdom, and it is adjacent to North Korea and Houjin.
As for how much benefit can be obtained from ginseng and mink skins, from Nurhachi's smuggling of these trade prices at high prices to the iron weapons that the Ming army did not allow to leave the customs, paying a series of high war expenses, and finally arming the Manchurian Eight Banners, turning back and defeating the master of Liaodong Daming in one fell swoop, becoming the confidant of the Ming Dynasty.
The value of these unknown fairy grasses growing in the deep mountains is even more expensive than the same volume of gold in Jiangnan, and the Jiangnan people's enthusiasm for ginseng has indirectly become a major boost to the rise of Houjin.
Therefore, for Mao Jue, this money is even more inevitable.
Fortunately, in his eager eyes, Mao Jue, who got on the boat, was also bright.
The sack is filled with bud rice sticks, home in the north, this scene makes Mao Jue too familiar, reach out and take out one, although it is smaller than the big bud rice stick in memory, the grain is not too full, but the white bud rice grains still exude a faint fragrance.
Not only this thing, the sweet potato next to it has grown sprouts, although the humidity of the sea makes this thing inedible, but this thing is exactly what Mao Jue needs, and there are potatoes that are much larger than in his impression, and red tomatoes are also cultivated in the pot, and there are many plants that look fancy and are not known to Mao Jue.
In the Age of Discovery, it was not only the Western powers that benefited, China was also one of the huge beneficiaries, and it was with the abundant production of these foreign gadgets that the Qing Empire broke through the population to the peak of the feudal era, 400 million!
It seems that in order to collect these, Qian Zeng really spent a lot of thought, pulled out the back garden of many Yangzhou tycoons, and put a piece of sweet potato back into the sack with trembling hands.
"Brother Qian, you are really, really Mao's lucky star!"
"Hehe, a little gardening object is not worthy of Brother Mao's praise!"
If you get cheap, you will sell it, this money used to be typical, holding his arms, the kidney-deficient boy once became proud. However, his words did not go beyond the cognition of this era, tomatoes and peppers were first introduced to China as ornamental plants, and corn was similar, and the inner court used to plant it in the imperial garden, and took some as a special starch every year for the royal use.
These foreign new things, the most unlucky should be potatoes, were brought into the Ming Dynasty by chance, the first contact was the low-latitude coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River, but these places are the most unsuitable for planting potatoes, so these round guys received the cold, until the Qianlong period in history, which was brought to the north by the wandering people to successfully try to plant, began to become popular.
The only thing that is good is sweet potatoes, and there are only some cultivation near Fujian when the old officials do not pay attention to it.
If this crop enters Shaanxi and Henan in time when it is most needed, it will be difficult for a vigorous farmer to set off such a wave of Li Zicheng's million-strong army, and if there is a life-saving straw, it will be planted in the garden, Chongzhen is still worried about military salaries and food year after year, whenever he sees Ming Fan and Ming Hei spraying each other on the Internet, Mao Jue always feels that this is really a great irony.
People are always greedy, with so many things, Mao Jue was still a little dissatisfied, and turned around and asked Qian Zeng excitedly.
"By the way, Brother Qian, have you found the tobacco I wanted?"
The food is almost solved under this boat's crops, even if it doesn't work this year, you can test it again next year, after all, the money has been found for the first time, and it should be able to find the second time, and Mao Jue's pursuit has improved by one level.
How profitable tobacco is, even if it is posted everywhere in later generations that smoking is harmful to health, smoking is not allowed in public places, all kinds of tobacco and alcohol shops are still popular, and there are camel cigarettes in their mouths and carbines that once became one of the important images of the US military on the battlefield of World War II.
This thing is still a disguised mental analgesic, and now Liaodong is in this dangerous atmosphere of no day and no war, how much mental pressure there is, it is conceivable that even if you don't take it out and sell it, it will be issued as a reward to the soldiers under your command, which is also a disguised way to improve combat effectiveness.
"Haha, Brother Mao really asked the right person, this thing is only a small amount in Zhejiang, if it weren't for Qian Mou's few friends who have dealings with the Xifan people, Qian Mou really can't get it!"
Boasting triumphantly, Qian Zeng opened a bag again, Mao Jue looked at the past hopefully, but almost didn't vomit blood in the next second.
The bag was all sun-dried, and it was already a tobacco-scented brown smoke!
"Brother Qian, seeds! Yes! Seed! Target! ”
Seeing that Mao Jue turned his face faster than turning a book, and roared with a black face and gritted teeth, Qian Zeng's head covered with thick white cream couldn't help but flow out of the beads of sweat, stumbling and smiling and gesturing his hands.
"That, Brother Mao, this thing is planted too little, and the imperial court has explicitly banned smoking, it is contraband, I really haven't found much!"
"But Brother Mao, the Yangzhou tycoon Fan who bought Brother Mao's mirror, heard that Brother Mao likes gardening, so he gave Brother Mao a slave! With her help, it should be a lot easier for Brother Mao to plant these! ”
It's really a full set of gift packages, not only seeds, but also technicians have arrived, Mao Jue, who listened to it, was really interested, and he didn't notice that when he mentioned this, a thick layer of obscenity appeared on the face of the kidney-deficient son.
"Why don't you take me to see it!"
It's really a bit obscene, standing on the stairs, peeking down, this Qian Zeng's kidney deficiency face is completely a perverted smile, hehe pointed to his little finger, but the corners of Mao Jue's mouth twitched wildly again.
"You say, it's her?"