Gao Junshan asked: "Is this indeed Jingdezhen porcelain?" ”

The proprietress replied: "This guest officer, you can see clearly, this is the most famous ceramic master in my China fired ceramics, you look at this color, you look at this shape, beautiful and beautiful, unique style." Look at this porcelain, white as jade, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, and then listen to the sound of my tapping, its sound is like a chime. ”

Gao Junshan holds up a blue and white flower and bird pattern bowl, carefully examine, this bowl is a bowl pier type, open, its bowl deep belly, circle foot, the mouth edge of the bowl and the foot wall have double strings, the bottom blue and white double circle book "Huaxia 1653 system" double-line regular book.

He tried to tap the porcelain bowl, and sure enough, it sounded like a chime, and he gently put the porcelain bowl down, and said, "This bowl looks really good." ”

The proprietress smiled and said: "You really have an eye, this porcelain bowl is a blue and white bowl with colorful flowers and birds." You see, the outer wall of this bowl is decorated with blue and white colors, and painted with two pheasants and two flying swallows, and also lined with mountain stones, peonies, and magnolias. You see, this pair of pheasants stand on the rocks and look into the distance, the tail hangs down and the swallow flies up and down, very dynamic. If you look at it again, this mountain stone is depicted in blue and white, and the water division method is used to express yin and yang to the back. Peony flowers are colored more, with red, yellow, green, light purple and other colors, colorful and gorgeous. ”

Gao Junshan exclaimed: "It's beautiful! It's beautiful! ”

The proprietress further promoted: "Guest officer, do you know the meaning of this decorative theme? ”

Gao Junshan said: "Could it be the good news of spring?" ”

The proprietress gave a thumbs up and said, "Guest officer, you are too talented, talented!" Its meaning is the good news of spring, and it has the meaning of Yutang wealth. ”

Gao Junshan said: "These porcelains are very precious, if you put them at home, after three hundred years, your family will be terrible, a bowl like this is enough for your family to eat for a lifetime, you have so many porcelains here, leaving it to future generations that is the property of a rich country!" ”

The proprietress said: "This guest officer is not afraid of you laughing, we are a small business, our profits are very meager, you see, just such a bowl, only sold for three cents, what you said is rich and rivals the country, we dare not have such extravagant hopes!" If the guest officer takes a fancy to it, you can buy it, and I will only charge you two pennies. ”

Gao Junshan asked: "Is it delivered or not?" ”

The proprietress said happily: "If you want more, of course we will send it." ”

So Gao Junshan chose ten blue and white bowls with colorful flowers and birds, a set of nine-headed tea sets, and asked Guide Ge to leave the address to the proprietress.

After selecting the goods, Gao Junshan asked, "Are there many foreigners who come to you to buy porcelain?" ”

The proprietress replied: "There are not many foreigners who come to buy porcelain, and occasionally one or two foreigners come to see it in a day." ”

"What kind of foreigners are they?"

The proprietress said: "There are people from all countries, there are whites, blacks, and there are not many people like us. ”

Gao Junshan wanted to tell her that she should not sell to foreigners, especially Europeans, that such a good porcelain would flow abroad, and after hundreds of years, these foreigners would come back to make us Chinese's money, which was not cost-effective.

But he can't open this mouth, people open the door to do business, as long as the money is reasonable, it doesn't matter who his buyer is!

Gao Junshan asked: "If you sell it to foreigners, will the price be higher?" ”

The proprietress hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Absolutely not!" Absolutely nothing! We are honest businessmen, young and old, fair trading, no matter who comes, it is the same price. ”

The proprietress disappointed Gao Junshan, he really hoped that such a high-quality porcelain would be sold to foreigners, and the price might as well be raised a little, the price would be higher, and the foreigners would buy less, so that the porcelain flowing abroad would be reduced a lot.

It seems that it is more difficult to control the flow of some special commodities by raising prices, and now is the time to adopt some administrative measures, Gao Junshan thought so, and said goodbye to this porcelain shop.

After he walked past a few busy businesses, he saw that there was a shop that bought biscuits, and Gao Junshan walked into the biscuit shop curiously.

The boss is a Chinese man in his thirties, and Gao Junshan took the initiative to greet the boss in Chinese after entering the store: "Boss, business is booming!" ”

The boss smiled and said, "Business is booming!" ”

"How do you sell your cookies?"

"Excuse me, officer, do you want it in large quantities, or just a few?"

Gao Junshan asked: "How much does a large amount of land cost, and how much does it cost as long as some land?" ”

The boss stretched out three fingers and said, "If you want it in large quantities, I can ask for this price." Then he held out a slap, "If you just want some, it can only be this price." ”

Gao Junshan didn't bother to buy any biscuits at all, he just asked, he wasn't interested in what three fingers and a slap represented, he wanted to know who would come here in large numbers to buy biscuits.

So he asked, "Who will come and buy your biscuits in large quantities?" ”

The boss said: "Fishermen and merchants who go to sea. ”

"Are there any foreigners who come to you in large quantities to buy biscuits?" Gao Junshan asked.

The boss replied, "I don't have it here." ”

"Where do you get your biscuits from?"

The boss said bluntly: "This is a trade secret, and the purchase channel cannot tell you." ”

Gao Junshan knew that he couldn't ask anything, so he went to the next one, and the boss asked in disappointment: "Guest officer, don't you buy some?" ”

Gao Junshan replied as he walked: "I'm just going to take a look today." ”

After he walked through a few more shops, he finally saw a shop that did not put the goods out on the street, and when he walked in, it turned out to be a watch shop owned by a foreigner, and Gao Junshan walked into this shop.

As soon as I entered the store, I heard the sound of various clocks, which were a bit like the sound of music boxes in later generations.

There are four people standing behind the counter, which is separated by a glass that allows you to see the contents of the cabinet.

Three were white, expressionless, and one was Chinese with some smiles on his face.

"What do you want to buy, sir?" The smiling Chinese clerk asked.

Gao Junshan asked, "Where did you get these watches?" ”

"Switzerland. Our clocks here are all from Switzerland. The Chinese clerk introduced.

Gao Junshan said: "I want to buy an alarm clock, can you introduce it?" ”

The Chinese clerk said, "Yes, I don't know what you want." ”

Gao Junshan said: "There is no big request, I just hope that it can wake me up at half past seven every morning." ”

The Chinese clerk took out a half-meter-high, bucket-thick grandfather clock from the counter and said: "Sir, this is a grandfather clock that has recently been shipped from Switzerland, you can set it in advance if you want it to make a noise, if you want to make an alarm at half past seven in the morning every day, you can rotate this button, and at half past seven o'clock, the music will automatically sound, you listen, this music is very good." ”

Gao Junshan asked, "How much does this grandfather clock cost?" ”

The Chinese clerk said, "It's not expensive, it only costs three hundred taels of silver dollars." ”

Damn, three hundred silver dollars is not expensive? Gao Junshan scolded in his heart, he didn't show it, and pointed to a pocket watch in the cabinet and asked, "How much is that pocket watch?" ”

"One hundred and fifty silver dollars."

Because Yangon's foreign trade here is very prosperous, since the Chinese State took over Yangon, the export trade here has increased exponentially every year, and in recent years, Yangon has absorbed as much as 80 million taels of overseas silver every year.

What is the situation of the outflow of silver, Gao Junshan is not very clear, but from this watch shop Gao Junshan can see that foreigners want to make Chinese money because they want to go crazy, a table clock is 300 silver dollars, and a pocket watch is 150 silver dollars, which is obviously to rob money!

Gao Junshan decided that they could not set their own prices for these foreign goods, but must come up with a set of plans to implement price control over these imported goods.

"One hundred and fifty taels of silver is too expensive." Gao Junshan blurted out.

The Chinese clerk relayed Gao Junshan's words to one of the foreigners, who might be a manager or a shopkeeper, and he said in a firm tone that not a single silver tael could be missing.

The foreigner spoke English, and Gao Junshan also spoke English, so of course he understood the foreigner's words, but he didn't pay attention to them, because he didn't really want to buy them.

The Chinese clerk told Gao Junshan that the price had been set by the boss, and that there was so much money that there was no price to negotiate.

Gao Junshan turned around and left the watch shop, and Guide Ge and Li Derong, who were following him, also hurriedly followed behind and left the watch shop.

Gao Junshan went to several shops opened by foreigners, some selling jewelry, some selling woollen velvet, and some selling ivory carvings, and the general situation of these shops was the same, all foreigners came to China to collect money.