After visiting all the way, the hired guide led Robin and his party to an inn and stayed.

Although it is only an inn, its hygiene and environment have surprised Robin.

Pure wooden buildings, carved patterns, tall floors, clean quilts, and steaming, fragrant wine and food.

All this surprised and admired Robin, here, much better than the inn in London.

Subsequently, in the evening, the hot water service delivered to the door made Robin feel emotional.

You know, in England, although thousands of public baths have been built, and the government has vigorously promoted the benefits of bathing, there are still a large number of people who are still reluctant to spend a penny to take a hot bath.

In this way, there is very little hot water in the hotel.

Being able to get plenty of hot water and take a hot shower is a refreshing taste for Robin.

"Sure enough, Mingren's skin is so white and tender, it has a lot to do with taking a bath every day!" Soaking in the tub, Robin couldn't help but think of the man's speech relayed by the guide, and sighed softly.

"In this way, bathing does not lead to the invasion of evil diseases, and the previous view is indeed wrong!"

Even if he accepts the idea of bathing often, Robin is still skeptical of the idea that bathing can invade diseases, after all, it has been circulated for many years and is easy to change.

Until now, it was found that the people of the Ming Kingdom bathed every day, but there were few evil diseases, which completely collapsed the view of disease invasion.

After a good night's sleep, under the guidance of the guide he hired, Robin and his party began to go shopping again.

This time, they are no longer out of curiosity, but for business.

Traveling to the Orient is for spices and raw silk, as well as oriental items such as silk, porcelain, and tea.

And to say, if they say what they love the most, it is still raw silk.

The price of raw silk is not only easy to preserve, but it is also more profitable to sell and is the most valuable of all commodities.

The so-called raw silk is the product obtained after the silk is reeled from the cocoon of mulberry silkworms. Commonly known as silk, machine reeling is also called factory silk, hand-reeling is called soil silk, raw silk is called cooked silk after degumming.

The silk purchased in the East, although the texture is exquisite and the technology is superb, how can it compare with the favorite style that you let people make?

Yesterday, Robin was not without harvest when he went shopping, at least, he knew the market he was buying from.

In Macau, raw silk is extremely rare, and it is often sold out as soon as it is available, and it will be even more difficult for ordinary people to get it and insert a foot.

The price of raw silk is generally about 60 taels of silver, and as long as you sell a load to Japan, you will immediately get 400 to 500 taels of silver, and the gross profit is close to 7 or 8 times.

And if it is sold to Goa (Portugal is a colony in India), the gross profit will reach ten times, and if it is painstakingly transported back to Europe, a load of raw silk will be sold for thousands of pounds, the gross profit will reach more than fifteen times, and the profit will be even more staggering.

Of course, tea porcelain or something is still relatively easy to obtain.

For example, when he walked into the largest shop he observed yesterday, Robin observed it for a while, then asked the guide to translate and start bidding.

"Sir, we need a huge quantity of tea and porcelain, as well as silk!" Robin said seriously.

And the guide also translated word by word.

"Shopkeeper, this gentleman needs a lot of tea and porcelain, as well as silk!"

The shopkeeper, who was dressed in a fine fabric robe, hurriedly touched his goatee, looked at Robin and his party who walked in, looked at their appearance, and hurriedly ran over to meet them.

"Sir, we have everything here, please just ask, from silk to chopsticks, I can match it for you, as long as you want!"

The shopkeeper looked at Robin, who was in the middle of the command, with a gentle smile on his face, and bypassed the guide translator to speak directly to Robin in Portuguese.

"Oh! I didn't expect you to speak Portuguese! Robin was surprised.

"It's just a mix of food, and it doesn't hurt to order more!" The goatee shopkeeper squinted his eyes and said with a smile, but his eyes quietly drifted to the abacus on the counter, and this time the profit will definitely make him a big profit.

"Dongzi, why are you not pouring tea for your guests!" Glancing at the guy who was still taking care of the other little guests, ignoring his aggrieved eyes, the shopkeeper made a gesture of please:

"Sir, please inside, this is the place where we talk about business!"

Later, Robin, who was brought into the private room, found that the porcelain was even more exquisite than the outside, and the silk texture was becoming more and more delicate and beautiful.

"You see, these are the porcelain and silk we offer, which one do you prefer?" The shopkeeper asked with a smile, pointing to the number of exquisite items on the table.

"No, sir, I don't need much of these, but the porcelain like the one out there is what I need!"

Looking at the exquisite porcelain, Robin resisted the temptation in his heart and reluctantly refused.

No matter how stupid he is, he understands that the consumption of porcelain along the way is too great, and only cheap and large quantities of low-end porcelain outside are the best transportation goods.

"The price outside, each plate and vase, only needs a hundred Wen, a big discount!" For the sake of his rookie, the shopkeeper suddenly doubled the price.

After learning about the market price and currency yesterday, Robin frowned when he heard this: "Sir, the price is higher than yesterday!" ”

"You really know how to do it, so let's give you seventy wen, if the amount is large, it can be reduced to fifty wen!"

The shopkeeper smiled, and then lowered the price back to square one.

Robin nodded reluctantly.

"Porcelain, I need to customize, the quantity is 100,000 pieces!"

"As for silk, please give me a hundred horses, medium price!"

"Tea, that's it! Take a hundred loads! ”

Around the room, Robin observed, and the shopkeeper was also carefully explaining the price, and after a while, Robin bought a large number of goods under the recommendation of the shopkeeper and his entourage.

"Guest officer, the total amount is fifty-six thousand eight hundred and sixteen taels of silver, count you as a whole number, fifty-six thousand eight!"

"Do you collect ivory?" Robin calculated, and found that the silver he brought was a little insufficient, so he coughed awkwardly and asked softly.

"Of course, of course we will accept it, and since you are a big customer, I will buy it at the market price of six floors!" The shopkeeper was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly patted his chest and said with a clear conscience.

Robin's face was a little ugly, and he asked a little stiffly:

"Do you need muskets? Beautifully crafted muskets! ”

As soon as these words came out, the shopkeeper's eyes lit up, this is a sharp weapon to guard against the Japanese bandits, of course it is needed.

"Guest, if you have a musket and sell it to us, then I will buy your ivory at seventy percent of the market price!" The shopkeeper hurriedly said.

"So, do you have raw silk?" The shopkeeper said that the raw silk was sold out, Robin didn't believe it at all, such a big shop must be unusual.