Yu Wenwen, as a traverser, actually sold the glass mirror at a 'cheap price' because he had never seen a 'big scene', and he wanted to get the loss back from Wang Yue on the other side with blood dripping in his heart.

So as soon as he opened his mouth, he was difficult: this 'package goods' skips the transaction price and does not mention it, anyway, I want cash that is, copper coins, you can look at it yourself!

Nowadays, it is not the Ming Dynasty when there was a large influx of silver, and the only currency on the market is copper coins - five-baht coins have been minted and circulated since the Han Dynasty, and different dynasties have also minted five-baht coins over the centuries.

The weight of a five-baht coin minted in different eras fluctuates between three and five grams in modern weight.

If a penny of five baht weighs four grams (the modern unit of weight), a total of one thousand wen weighs four kilograms, that is, four kilograms, and a glass mirror of 3,500 yuan is paid with copper coins, which is 14,000 kilograms equal to 14 tons.

If ten mirrors are shipped at a time, they are worth 140 tons of copper coins, and Yu Wenwen is embarrassed to see how the other party transports the money to pay the bill.

Nowadays, all over the world, the main states of Yizhou region, the Yangtze River Basin, and the Chen State in the south of the Yangtze River mainly use copper coins as currency because of developed commerce, and most of the rest of the places such as the Yellow River Basin are mainly bartered in kind, such as silk and silk.

To the north of Jizhou, copper coins are basically not used but traded in grain and silk, while Lingnan and Jiaozhi are all gold and silver as the main currency.

In order to solve the problem of 'using money', various dynasties and generations have come up with many tricks, such as one as five, ten or even as a thousand dollars.

In the case of the Great Zhou, Emperor Wu of Zhou in the first year of Baoding (20 years ago) minted a new coin 'Buquan' to be a five-dollar and a five-baht coin.

In the third year of Jiande (seven years ago), the 'Five Elements of Great Cloth' money was cast in parallel with the Buquan money, but only a year later, because there were too many large cloth coins stolen, the Zhou court had to prohibit the use of large cloth money, and then because the Buquan money also continued to depreciate, it was abolished in the fifth year of Jiande (six years ago).

Two years ago, Emperor Yuwenyun of Tianyuan gave his son 'Zen let' - today's little emperor Yuwen explained the first year of the Yuan elephant, and minted Yongtong Wanguo money to be a thousand, and the market reacted strongly after the money was launched: You say that when a thousand is a thousand, when everyone is a fool!

Then the three kinds of money called "Northern Three Products" by later collectors, such as Buquan, Wuxing Dabu, and Yongtong Wanguo, have now been swept into the "garbage heap of history", and Yuwen Wenke identified five baht coins, as for Chen Guo's side with six baht coins of one as ten, it is even more hehe.

Previously, Wang Yue had bought a total of four mirrors on two occasions, relying on the copper coins and silk, silk cloth, and some jewels that An Lu's mansion had in the store to pay the bills.

The north and south banks of the Yangtze River are in a hostile state, dare to cross the river so blatantly, who will let go of this fat fish, if Yuwen Wen has a boat, he wants to eat black on the river.

Knowing that the other party was embarrassed by himself, Wang Yue coughed a few times and said that it is not easy to transport copper coins, can you use the equivalent to offset the price, if the county prince needs any rare goods, there are many in the southern dynasty.

In these years, money was often scarce, so people mostly bartered when trading, silk cloth, cotton cloth, silk were common equivalents, and most of the money issued to officials in various dynasties was in kind and corn.

The peasants pay taxes, field rent is also mainly in kind and corn, according to the current situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the implementation of the uniform field system, each household pays a horse of silk cloth a year, eight taels of cotton, and five taels of millet are all in kind, and the singles without wives are halved.

Therefore, if you really want to reach an agreement, let Wang Yue package the goods, and the other party will not have so many copper coins to give, it is necessary to have a large part of the price in kind, which he means to use high-value but easy-to-carry things such as jewelry or something as part of the payment.

Liu Caiyun, who had been pouring wine before, began to sing and play red and white with Yuwenwen, and the two of them judged that the final price of the glass mirror was at least 10,000 guan according to the 'price appraisal expert' Yang Lihua, and believed that the shipping price could not be lower than 5,000 guan at present.

In this way, as a producer, his own profits are close to the profits of the middlemen, and it is better to feel better, and this mirror is not unsellable, and the consumption power of Chang'an is not low.

The diffusion of glass mirror production technology used to be only rare and expensive, and it is now a luxury rather than a daily commodity, so Yuwenwen wants to make a lot of money while it is fresh, and someone is willing to wrap it up, which can speed up the return of money, and naturally everyone is happy.

Although Yu Wenwen was unhappy, he had to admit that Wang Yue, a 'profiteer', had grasped his own key point: he had no business route of his own, so he could only sell mirrors to middlemen.

If it can be directly put into the market at a price of 10,000 yuan, of course, the profit is amazing, but Yu Wenwen has no team and business routes in this regard.

The south of the Yangtze River is completely blind and unable to find the way, and the north of the Yangtze River also has to rely on local merchants in Anlu to sell mirrors to other places.

So before his own business route is established, he has to pinch his nose and let the middleman make a lot of money, but Yuwenwen also grasped Wang Yue's weakness: time.

The commerce in Jiangnan is very developed, and there are many capable businessmen, such as 'glass mirror', which is obviously a sure profit, and anyone is willing to package the goods, as long as he moves slowly, he is contacted by other merchants and he has contracted the source of goods, so this big pot of meat will have no share.

As for how Wang Yue keeps this cash cow from being eaten and killed by other families, it is none of his business, he pays the money with one hand and delivers the goods with the other hand, and the other party goes out of his own territory, gets on the boat, and leaves the north bank of the Yangtze River, then he bears his own risk.

Therefore, after a 'warm and friendly' full discussion, the two sides finally decided:

First of all, if the mirrors that Yu Wenwen 'got from the merchants of the Western Regions' during this year were to be sold to the south of the Yangtze River, then most of them would be sold to Wang Yue, and the shipping price of each mirror would be 5,400 yuan.

Secondly, for the rest of the buyers south of the Yangtze River, except for Wang Yue, they will sell this year, and only sell three mirrors of the same style in total, and the shipping price for them is not less than 6,000 yuan, this agreement is valid for one year, as for next year, how to wait until the end of this year to talk.

Third, the king crossed the Yangtze River to the border of Anzhou, Jiangbei, and there is Xiyang County, and it is the governor's office to ensure that you are safe all the way.

Wang Yue was excited to see the preliminary negotiation of the business, but then asked: "I don't know what kind of goods the county prince needs?" ”

He hoped that Yu Wenwen wanted jewelry, these things were small in size, easy to carry and high in value, for example, a pair of beautifully made amber hairpins could be worth 500,000 yuan, at least 500,000 yuan, and 20 pairs could almost be worth the price of two mirrors.

And this is just a small package size, which can be carried on the body without a trace, and there are also things like ivory, pearls, gemstones, night pearls, exotic fragrances, etc.

"Strange fragrance?" Hearing this, Yuwen Wen couldn't help but think of the strange fragrance in the meditation room of the Chang'an Royal Temple, which made him and Yang Lihua turn the sky upside down and then 'hit the target', of course, that thing should be an anomaly, and the strange fragrance from the southeast coast in these years is about ambergris and other rare things.

But he didn't need any ivory, jewelry, and other exotic goods, his goal was to raise cash, and he was a private soldier, and he relied on military salaries to maintain it, so copper coins were a must.

I don't know when there will be a big war, in order to maintain morale, the reward will ask for money, and the soldiers will also need money for the pension after they die, and those soldiers who will lose their ability to work due to disability at that time He also decided to pay a settling-in allowance, which also costs money.

In the future, the craftsmen will also be paid for the construction of workshops and waterwheels and other related supporting facilities outside Xiyang City, Bazhou Prefecture, and the renovation of the mansion in Xiyang City after taking office will also be paid.

When you do business with the enemy country, you have to "buy road money" for your father, who is the manager, and if the father and son eat alone, the business will not last long sooner or later.

There are a lot of places to use money this year, so although the glass mirror is not worried, since someone is willing to package the goods, he will admit it, as long as the money comes quickly.

"The transaction is still based on copper coins as much as possible, and there is as much gold and silver as you want." Yu Wenwen thought for a while and said, not to mention the gold these days, the silver is hard currency, and the value is maintained wherever it is obtained.

High-quality silk and brocade can also be used, but if you have more, you can't use it up, and you have to resell it, although you won't lose money, but you don't want to be so troublesome, a Xiyang county prince who has just come to Anlu for a long time, has no foundation, where does the caravan come from, so many goods, in case "the second son of the chief manager buys goods from the enemy country, does business and makes a fortune", this kind of thing is always too ugly to hear.

Well, although it is true that I have colluded with Chen merchants to do business and make a fortune

Yuwenwen also wants a large amount of sulfur for ulterior purposes, that is, one of the raw materials used to make a 'black technology' item, Huo Mouyao, anyway, there are many mosquitoes, snakes and ants in the Jiangnan area, and no one will think much about it in the name of insect prevention.

As for the other raw material - nitrate, he has a way to make nitrate by local method, so forget it, although he currently does not have the ability to equip the fire gun to train the lobster soldiers of the British Empire, but it is one of his plans to make a "heaven-shaking thunder" to deal with Chen Guo's water army.

The water war in these years is a slap stick, but who wants to play with you to play bumper boats, eat me close to the sky and thunder first!

Salt also, the source of salt in the world is nothing more than well salt, sea salt, pool salt, Ke'an, Xiang, Huang three governors do not have these salt-producing areas, sea salt don't think about it and do not rely on the sea, well salt, pool salt is not available, so it has to be sold from other places.

In peacetime, a bucket of diet salt is between dozens and a hundred Wen, but it can't stand a large amount, everyone has to eat salt every day, otherwise there is no strength, especially Yuwen Wen is ready to train desperately, recruits are not only eating a lot of food, but also sweating a lot, and do not replenish salt, those big men who pick their feet will sooner or later 'lie on their stomachs'.

Taking advantage of the fact that there is no war between the north and the south, hurry up and put more tun, the grain can be produced locally, and the salt will really be eaten out when the stock is gone.

"The county lord doesn't need jewelry?" Wang Yue was a little disappointed and a little surprised, sulfur and salt are not high-value and cheap things to carry, it is better to bring copper coins.

Yu Wenwen said that he just wanted some jewelry, and he was not going to sell jewelry, as for other rare goods such as ambergris, it was not impossible, anyway, what did Fang Chang really want in the future, and he would talk about it later.

Wang Yue was a little depressed, his owner had a lot of jewelry in his hands, but the sulfur may not be able to get a lot for a while, and the value is low, and the salt is not high even if he can get the goods.

Yuwenwen didn't mean to embarrass Wang Yue, but he really didn't care about any jewelry, if there were other businessmen under him, he could consider being a middleman, the key was that there were not enough people.

Judging the value of jewelry depends entirely on the vision, his little wife Yang Lihua is well-informed, but now it is inconvenient to have a big belly, and it is not convenient to do business, in case others recognize it, "It's the Queen Mother of the Great Zhou!" "That's a lot of trouble.

Liu Caiyun is a good hand at trading, but she knows the secret of making glass mirrors, so she can't let her run outside all day long, in case she is caught by others, the game will be over, and her biggest and only source of wealth will be cut off, what kind of soldiers will she train.

How to raise two wives who look like fairies without money, this golden house has to spend a lot of money to buy a whole outfit, and it will cost a lot of money to give birth to a group of children.

"If the king's shopkeeper can sell stone honey, it will also be good."

Stone honey is sucrose, and in today's era, sugarcane juice has been widely cultivated in the Lingnan area of Chen Guo to make stone honey, a high-profit specialty.

Wang Yue finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt that this Xiyang County Duke had asked for normal goods, and he judged that the other party did not have enough business hands and had no business routes, and he was not interested in being a middleman to resell goods to make the difference.

But the other party is not interested in jewelry, which is portable and of high value, so if the shipment is large, where can he get these many copper coins in a short time, so he strongly encourages the other party to consider using more equivalent items to offset the price.

"The proprietor of the king's shopkeeper should be really strong, the goods are sufficient, and the hands and eyes are all over the sky?" Yu Wenwen raised his eyebrows.

"Exactly, I don't know what the county prince wants?" Wang Yue came to the spirit.

"What's that? Hehe, of course it's a forbidden item" Yu Wenwen smiled like a fox.

"Well, grass people are law-abiding businessmen, and prohibited items are never dealed," Wang Yue also smiled like a fox.