Chapter 387: Profiteering
The next day, there was a different kind of perfume floating in Shunchang Fort, all kinds of floral fragrances mixed with rich fragrances, the whole city became different, the streets were lined with perfume places, the door was crowded with people attracted by perfume, they were crazy crowded outside, they were all wealthy people in the city and the like.
"It's amazing how there is such a fragrant thing, which tastes worse than the sachet."
"I heard that this water is on my body and the perfume can't be dispersed for a long time, if it is given to my lady, she will be happy, she is too tired for the family, if she gets this perfume, she must be very happy!"
Everyone is discussing, but there are some who are not men, the noblewomen who are attracted by this perfume are all ecstatic, come to the front of this perfume, they have only heard of things with perfume in the past, but the price is too high from abroad and they are hungry and sent to the court, at this moment they are not surprised to see this thing.
"This thing is so fragrant, if I buy it, I will be surprised, the vixen at home, hum, see which little vixen fights with me!" A young woman who looks quite beautiful but has wrinkles.
"Hey, Madame can't say that, you bought it, your little vixen must have bought it, isn't it" The guy who sold the things smiled, but the young woman had a worried look on her face, thinking that this is indeed the case, she must be able to think of the little vixen in the house when she thinks of it.
"Hehe, madam, I have an out-of-print perfume here, and there will be a smell that makes men want to stop when applied to the body, but unfortunately there is only one bottle, wouldn't it be fast if you bought it, so that your husband is absolutely obsessed with you, and the little vixen can't buy this out-of-print perfume!" The man said, holding a very beautiful-looking bottle of perfume and saying, "It's not expensive, it's only fifty taels of silver."
"This?" The lady immediately showed a kind of pain in her face, and bought a hundred stones of rice for fifty taels, but when she saw the perfume in her hand, he gritted his teeth, took out the silver, and took the perfume happily. It's leaving.
"Hehe, Childe's trick is really useful" The man smiled, that is, he continued to buy Qi perfume, perfume is always the most popular commodity, women are irresistible to things that can enhance their charm, and men can't live in the requirements of the little vixen who grinds people at home, so with a little more means, it can be sold for an unexpected price.
Perfume dumped the whole city, which tasted better than the rumored, cheaper perfume immediately won the mad pursuit of the noblewoman, a cart of perfume was transported to the south, began to be shipped to Nanjing, Yangzhou and other places in the south, where the real rich people of the Ming Dynasty lived, the real rich place.
Perfume things are sold from Shandong to the south of the Yangtze River, it is the silver of white flowers, although the middle road is mostly attacked by horse thieves, but there is no one who dares to rob the escort of Qingzhou army, there are many cars escorting perfume on the road, or take the sea transportation, from Qingzhou Port to Nanjing, and then fill the silver back from Nanjing.
The smell of silver is about to make Xiao Chuan a little obsessed, population is always his biggest pain, which makes Xiao Chuan can't help but think about what to do to have more population, the money is used to equip the army, and the 70,000 troops under his command are all equipped with heavy armor with an outer layer of iron cotton armor and an inner layer of chain mail.
You Heng on the side complained and said, "Childe, I still like the original armor" He said that the iron armor wrapped his whole body, even his neck was guarded, and the whole person was like a black iron man.
"The original fried armor is easy to rust" Xiaochuan lost, which is a trend in the development of armor in the Ming Dynasty, not only for the local fire, silk wrapped projectiles can reduce damage, and the Ming armor is easy to rust in the wind and sun, but this kind of dark armor is not easy, and the inner dark armor also uses cold forging technology, and the inner layer of chain mail.
By October, almost all the 70,000 troops would be equipped with this kind of armor, Mi Heng shook his head helplessly, this uncomfortable feeling made him unable to be in a daze all the time, the arm guard wrapped around his arm, and the part that blocked his neck even made him breathe a little troublesome, he adjusted it again, and there was a glove.
China's excavation of gloves, the earliest unearthed in the Warring States tomb, means to prevent the winter is not good to hold the weapon, such an armor made of the price is not under forty taels, you can buy four of the best Ming Dynasty Lu Mi gun, if the conditions allow, they will have a heart shield on their chest.
How much good iron is needed for so many ironclads, and how many craftsmen rely on the money transferred by the maritime merchants to deal with it, there is still a big gap between such an ironclad army and the 100,000 Qing army, especially in the future, if you are not afraid of your own tactics of 10,000 enemies, your advantage is only equipment and firearms.
"My lord, the perfume sold to Nanjing City has been sold, but the prince will charge one-fifth of the toll tax!" You Heng on the side suddenly took out a note and said.
Xiao Chuan smiled: "Then go to sea!" ”
"But the other party still has to collect money at sea" Mi Heng on the side said, Xiao Chuan shook his head and smiled: "Then we don't have to sell, wait for the southern merchants to buy it!" ”
"Huh? Why are they coming to buy it? Mi Heng was a little confused. Xiaochuan smiled It seems that they still don't understand smuggling, the reputation has been out, there must be a lot of people who want to make a difference in price to buy, so that smuggling activities will happen, especially perfume, which is so small, or liquid, when the time comes, it will be up to the prince to make his own money. The battle of wits between the smugglers and his tax collectors has nothing to do with him.
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"This thing is really fragrant," the prince took a breath of perfume with some intoxication, and said greedily: "Send Jinyiwei to Shandong, if only I could find a way to make this perfume," he said.
"I'm afraid it's difficult" The eunuch on the side said: "The spies we sent to Shandong to Jinyiwei have no whereabouts!" ”
"My Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty has been inherited for more than 200 years" The prince couldn't believe that his Jinyiwei couldn't fight a spy organization formed by a local warlord for several years.
"Alas, Your Highness, you can't imagine how cunning and cruel those people are, and the Jinyi Guard has been killed." The eunuch didn't continue to talk about this, which means that when Chongzhen came to power and moved to Wei Zhongxian ten years ago, he weakened the two factories and one guard!
The prince sighed, and he understood that it was his father who fell into the stupid trick of the Donglin Party, which caused the current Jinyi Weidong Factory to lose its past glory. "Forget it! Although I can't make more money, I can make the perfume in Shandong not make money, and the caravan with perfume will charge heavy taxes in the future! ”
After speaking, the prince continued: "Go! Today, we will continue to visit the nobles of the city! ”