Chapter 878 - Self-directed and Self-Acting (3)
When Chai Xiang heard the news, he immediately became vigilant, and he sneered:
"Yongxing Hou, you're not joking, how can raw silk be traded."
"Between heaven and earth, if nothing can be traded, why do they have to stick to the rules? Although raw silk is banned by various countries, it does not necessarily set a precedent. Besides, it is also good for your country to ask for a large amount of silk, and your country has earned gold and silver, and Benhou has also received goods, so is it not the best of both worlds. β
"Hmph, raw silk is where my eldest grandson Guogen is, how can I sell it to others, there is no need to mention this matter."
"If Lord Chai insists on this, Ben Hou will not do anything else."
Baili Yan was embarrassed, but Chai Xiang sneered:
"Huh...... Yongxing Hou started my idea of raw silk early. β
"Why did Lord Chai say this!"
Bailiyan's face was not red, her heart was not beating, and she denied it, Chai Xiang clenched her words tightly:
"At the beginning of the month, I learned from Bo Yuanjun that you Yongxing Hou had already plotted to make silk for my country, and this time the envoy was in trouble, and you pretended to give an explanation to my king, but in fact, you bribed the envoy with a lot of money, so that the envoy was so good that he would sound the gong and open the way for you to get my country's raw silk, such a despicable act is simply cold!"
"Where did Lord Chai start with this, you don't have to listen to Bo Yuanjun's instigation. Don't forget, how Liang promised to divide the land of Sun Guo to your country, and then how he promised Sun Guo's land to Wei Guo, and then how he betrayed Wei Guo and promised the land to our country and Zhiguo, such a clumsy plan, can't Lord Chai still see it?
Besides, the matter at the beginning of this month, why did Ben Hou delay it until today, could it be that Ben Hou knew that Lord Chai had this difficulty at the beginning of the month? Besides, about the transaction between you and me, Ben Hou and Bo Yuanjun said very much, Ben Hou was stupid. β
"It is clear that you and Bo Yuanjun share the profits and want, and want to make him come forward to buy my country's raw silk, and you Yongxinghou is still pretending to be false in front of this envoy, if you don't give this envoy an explanation today, this envoy will immediately play my king."
Chai Xiang was aggressive, and Bai Liyan pretended to be a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry and said angrily:
"Lord Chai, Ben Hou is telling the truth, if you don't believe it, Ben Hou has no other way. How to play the lord of the Changsun country is the business of Lord Chai, but if your country provokes my king with this matter, the sword of this marquis is still sharp, and the Changsun army can try it with his horse. β
"You dare to threaten the envoy!"
"Lord Chai's words are wrong, as the saying goes, buying and selling is not benevolent and righteous, Ben Hou came sincerely, but Lord Chai listened to the villain's slander, and slandered Ben Hou to plot against your country, such ridiculous words are really chilling. Hmph, farewell! β
Baili Yan brushed his sleeves away, Chai Xiang was at a loss in his annoyance, and he suddenly found that this matter was strange before and after.
At the beginning of the month, Ji Kang came to inform Bailiyan that he wanted to grow his grandson, and at that time, the bidding news had just been released, and the eldest grandson's inferior silk benefited from it, and Chai Xiang naturally thought that Baili Yan wanted to take away the eldest grandson's silk and seek other benefits.
Now that I think about it, why should Bailiyan's business be told to Ji Feng, even if he told Ji Feng and Ji Feng told him what to do, shouldn't such a taboo transaction as raw silk be a secret agreement.
Chai Xiang thought about it, but he couldn't figure it out, but the heavy money had been accepted, and the relationship was inexplicably stiffened, what is this called!
Because Chai Xiang exposed Bailiyan's "conspiracy" and was defeated by Bailiyan's army, Chai Xiang undoubtedly suffered a dumb loss, and he could neither ask Ji Kang to verify the incident at the beginning of the month, nor could he continue to speak out.
Obviously, it is no secret that Ji Kang reached a deal with Xianguo, and there are only two results to ask him for verification, one is that it was Ji Kang who came to negotiate at the beginning, and Ji Feng can be completely inferred that he does not know. The second is to deny it flatly, only saying that it is Ji Kang's personal behavior.
If he continued to publicize the fact that he was beaten, he would have become a handle of the Xianguo after receiving a large amount of money.
Of course, Chai Xiang can also hold Bailiyan and ask for raw silk, but he can only describe it more and more blackly, depicting that Chai Xiang is greedy for profits and agrees to Bailiyan to facilitate the raw silk transaction, but because he failed to satisfy his appetite, he deliberately seriously injured, but the matter is self-defeating.
So Chai Xiang had a hard time, and the matter fell into a dilemma, and finally had to give up.
Two days later, the Yixian Pavilion opened again, entering the second link of the first stage, trading and buying Jin Xuedi people's goods. Since the princes were all interested in making money, none of them wanted to spend the money they had already received, so the enthusiasm for bidding was far less than the enthusiasm for bidding.
The first bid is the ice velvet flower produced by Jin Xuedi, the ice velvet flower has the ancient saying of "resurrection from the dead, the fairy grass in the world", and it is difficult to find gold. Of course, it is an exaggeration to describe the magic and preciousness of this kind of fairy grass.
It was all captured in the war before, so it was really not easy to come, so the price has been extremely high. There is no specific market price, because every time the ice velvet flower is captured, it is used to pay off debts to various countries, or to trade physical goods to make up for war expenses, so the value of each transaction cannot be estimated, and it is difficult to have a constant index
And because the Xianguo can produce ice velvet flowers in the early years, although the export is still strictly prohibited, there is no sale in the market, but since the Central Plains has been able to assets, there is also a bargaining chip to suppress the sales price of the Jin Xuedi people, so at the beginning of the bidding, as Bailiyan expected, the princes of various countries bid not high, and the highest price of each plant is only equivalent to sixty large gold collars, which is not half a star and a half difference from the expected price in Mooney's heart.
In the end, Baili Yanshi shouted out the sky-high price of two hundred large gold collars per plant, and as soon as the news came out, the four people were shocked, and the princes of all countries were dumbfounded and gritted their teeth.
Obviously, once the price is set on this, whether it is shipped from Xianguo in the future, or whether Jin Xuedi sells goods, today's pricing will become the market price.
Mooney only carried a total of 30 ice velvet flowers on this trip, and the total price was equivalent to more than 30,000 inches of gold and 300,000 silver, and of course Bailiyan couldn't really give him 300,000 silver. Therefore, an agreement was made with Mooney before the bidding, and some commodities were raised by Xianguo for him, and Bailiyan would make a profit by bartering.
The 30 ice velvet flowers in this transaction were finally discounted to Mooney at a lower price for the above pearls, telescopes, special medicines, high-grade ceramics, and glass, and Mooney brought the goods obtained from the barter trade back to the country for sale, which was also exchanged for far more than the price of the 30 ice melts.
In addition, the two sides have reached a preliminary agreement that the gold and silver treasures of the Xianguo country will be allowed to be exported to the two provinces outside the customs as a trade currency, which can reduce the dependence of the two sides on the use of precious metals in most commodities in commodity trading links in the future, and reduce the output of precious metals in the south.
Second, the Jinxuedi people refused to trade with the Central Plains, largely because their demand for goods exceeded their needs in the Central Plains, so there was a long-term deficit expenditure. In view of the fact that the Jinxuedi people were obsessed with the unknown situation of gold and silver, they did not want to flow out of gold and silver in large amounts, and in view of this, the use of a mutually agreeable currency could greatly reduce the outflow of precious metals.
The gold and silver treasure of Xianguo contains gold and silver, the currency value is very high, and the workmanship and anti-counterfeiting degree are excellent, and it already has the basic characteristics of hard currency, and it is undoubtedly a compromise method to open up the trade between the north and the south with gold and silver Tongbao, at least it can block the mouth of religion.
However, the circulation of gold and silver Tongbao is only a significant reduction in the transaction amount of precious metals, and it cannot be completely eliminated, but at least there is no need to export a large number of precious metals like this time. This is not only conducive to the export of inflation from the Xian country, but also conducive to the long-term trading of the Jinxuedi people with the Central Plains.
The agreement still needs to be approved by the Lunas King and the Lunas Church, so it is still only a draft.
The enthusiasm of the princes for bidding rose and fell, and the main commodities purchased by various countries were still concentrated in medicinal materials, spices, ivory, precious stones, leather goods, mountain goods, blankets, etc., which were not available in the Central Plains, and there was a lack of interest in the food and handicrafts of the Jinxuedi people.
Since there are no elephants in the Central Plains, every ivory needs to be auctioned. Spices and herbs are the same, although there are magical herbs and spices in the Central Plains, but the overall quality and variety are far inferior to those of the Jinxuedi people.
As a result, spices and herbs have become the new focus of Mooney's new profit-making, and with the cooperation of Baili Yan, the price has also been pushed to an acceptable height.
The bidding lasted for nine days, and after a ten-day break, Mooney sent an attachΓ© to the warehouse in Chenling to inspect the goods that had arrived, while Bailiyan now sent the herbs he needed to the south for him to transport back to the mainland for emergency relief.
There is no harm if there is no comparison, and while the countries compete to buy and sell and make a lot of money, the country has no income, but it is even more greedy for the delicious spices and fairy grasses, gorgeous gems and ivory and woolen blankets of the Jinxuedi people, and the jealousy in his heart is increasing day by day.
However, due to the beating of the eldest grandson's envoy, Bai Liyan invited the royal guest to come forward to deter the "Xiaoxiao" hiding in the shadows, and the guard envoy did not dare to unscrupulously commit violence in secret. In fact, at this moment, everyone's psychology is "clear", who did these dirty deeds.
In mid-June, the transaction entered the second stage, the transaction was open to the wealthy businessmen and wealthy people from all over the world, in view of the experience of the previous transaction, Mooney adjusted the trading rules, the day before the transaction will be announced the list of commodities traded each time, and the transaction is in a three-day period, the first three days of trading Central Plains commodities, a day of rest in the middle, the next three days of trading Jin Xuedi specialties, and then a day off to start the first three days, and so on, until Mooney's heart expectation.
Private bidding was more popular than expected, because businessmen and magnates from all over the world flocked to Chenling when they heard the news, the inn in the city was already full of people, so Bailiyan called the military tent in advance to open up a camping place in the open space in the city and rent it to merchants from all over the world.
At the same time, thanks to the new policy measures and commercial opening of Xianguo for many years, the large and small merchants of Xianguo are especially large, and the purchasing power is also strong, and the transaction of hundreds of people in the Yixian Pavilion for three days each time is far from meeting the needs of tens of thousands of merchants, and the second phase of the transaction is bound to last longer.
Different from the organization of the princes' transactions, the merchants who heard the news from all over the world needed to exchange gold and silver collars to trade, so tens of thousands of inches of gold and silver flowed into the money shop every day, and the difference in the discount in the middle accumulated into a lot, which invisibly brought a large amount of income.