Wang He took Zheng Sen, Zheng Fu and others into the house through the small door on the right, and someone came over and took the others to rest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and Zheng Sen and Zheng Fu followed Wang He around a rockery and entered a hall. In this hall, there is a large picture of the Tiger Roaring Mountain forest, and there is a large plaque hanging on the picture, with four gilded characters on it, and the Tao is: "Megatron Huaxia". Below is a brand-new rosewood table with a silver chisel and a bronze tripod encrusted with gold and precious stones. On either side of the table were two chairs of the same brand new rosewood, each covered with a tiger skin. On either side were seven or eight equally brand-new rosewood chairs, but the tiger skins on them had become leopard and wolf skins.

"This is probably the place where Zuo Liangyu will meet guests, looking at the posture of the tiger skin on this chair, it is really a nest of mountain carvings." Zheng Sen thought secretly.

It's just that Wang He didn't take Zheng Sen to sit down, but took him around a marble screen, out of the large living room, and through a section of the verandah, to a small courtyard. Wang He took Zheng Sen and Zheng Fu into the small courtyard, walked to the front of the main house and said, "Young Master, Zheng Gongzi and they are here." ”

At this time, the door was opened, and a handsome-looking little guy came out of the door and said, "My son-in-law has invited two." ”

Zheng Sen and Zheng Fu glanced at each other, and then walked in.

When he entered the house, he saw a man in his twenties leaning on an official hat chair with Erlang's legs crossed, and when he saw Zheng Sen and others, he didn't get up, but only looked at the roof with his eyes and said, "You are the people sent by General Zheng of Fujian?" Is there something to do with coming to the father? ”

When Zheng Sen saw his posture, he knew that he intended to give himself and others a disadvantage. Although Zheng Sen didn't understand why Zuo Mengeng did this, he knew that if he continued to negotiate in such a situation, no matter how he talked, he would not talk about anything beneficial to him. Maybe this is also a kind of temptation on the other side.

"Hmph," Zheng Sen first sneered, and then said, "Who are you?" How dare you pretend to be the son of Lord Zuo? I heard that Mr. Wakaya (Hou Sui) once praised Zuo-sama for being studious, tireless, and courteous. Thinking about it, the son of Lord Zuo is naturally the same. Besides, Lord Zuo and Lord Hou are good friends, and I came today with a letter from Hou Gongzi, because I heard that although Lord Zuo has been defeated repeatedly, he is trapped in the lack of military salaries, so I came here to see if I can help Lord Zuo. If you are the son of Lord Zuo, and now that I have come for this, not to mention that you should be lowered to greet you, how can you be so rude? ”

Zheng Sen said as he put his hand behind his back and reached into his left sleeve, where a sharp Malaysian dagger was hidden. At the same time, Zheng Fu also retracted his right hand into his sleeve. Although according to the history that Zheng Sen knew before, this Zuo Mengeng is not a good thing like his father. But it doesn't seem to be a bear kid who can only mess around. Even if he is topped up like this, in his own capacity, he should not make any too irrational moves. However, the necessary preparations are still necessary. Zheng Sen just took a closer look at Zuo Mengeng's physical condition, and found that although he was a child of a military general's family, the joints of his hands and feet did not look coarse, and his skin looked very delicate, and he didn't look like he had practiced seriously. And Zheng Fu, who was beside Zheng Sen, still had a short fire gun with gunpowder hidden in his sleeve. If he really wanted to turn his face, Zheng Sen felt that he was sure that he could restrain Zuo Mengeng in front of him within a few seconds, and then hijack this person and retreat to the Anjiang. As long as he got on the Anjiang, Zheng Sen felt that his safety was completely guaranteed.

Zuo Mengeng listened, and suddenly stood up, glaring at Zheng Sen with angry eyes, Zheng Sen also stared at his eyes unceremoniously, and at the same time clenched the Malaysian dagger in his right hand.

"Hahahaha......" Zuo Mengeng suddenly laughed, and then said with both hands: "Little Brother Zheng, I'm just joking with you, but don't take it seriously." The two of them sat down, I don't know what Brother Zheng found here for. ”

Zheng Sen noticed that just now, there was a fierce light flashing in Zuo Mengeng's eyes, and at this time he suddenly said that it was a joke in front of him, but he should not be careless. He sat down on the chair next to Zuo Mengeng.

"In recent days, the imperial court's salary has become less and less." Zheng Sen said, "My family's life is also tight, fortunately, by the sea, I can also do some business with foreigners to subsidize the use of raising the army." Now this military general, if he doesn't get his own money, just waiting for the military salary of the imperial court, I am afraid that the whole army will starve to death. My father heard that Lord Zuo's army also encountered these problems, and Lord Zuo was stationed in Hubei, and there were some things in Hubei that were worthless locally, but if they were sold overseas, they could be exchanged for a lot of money. Therefore, my father sent a boy to your mansion to talk about how to make a fortune in trading. ”

"I don't know what Zheng Zongbing plans to do?" Zuo Mengeng also sat down. His actions just now were out of jealousy of Zheng Sen's genius name, and secondly, he wanted to overwhelm Zheng Sen in momentum first, so that he could take advantage of the things to be discussed later. Although this trick does not seem to be particularly effective, making money is extremely important for Zuo Liangyu's army today. And now Zheng Zhilong's reputation for being good at making money is something Zuo Liangyu has heard.

"Hehe, when Lu Buwei did business, the secret was just that people abandoned me and took four words." Zheng Sen smiled and said, "Brother Zuo, now, what is the most valuable and least valuable in Hubei?" ”

Zuo Mengeng thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Brother Zheng, I don't know much about this business, you might as well say it clearly, I'll write it down first, and then let Pegasus report it to my father, see what my father means." ”

Since Zuo Mengeng said so, Zheng Sen stopped going around in circles, and said directly: "Now in Hubei, the most and most worthless things are people." And what we're going to do now is the human trade. ”

Since Zheng Sen said it directly, Zuo Mengeng didn't plan to go around in circles more, so he asked directly: "How does this person calculate the price?" ”

"Since ancient times, there have been several classes of goods and several types of people. Naturally, the price is not the same. The cheapest are the women who are not in good health among the homeless people, followed by the thin men, these two, generally speaking, we don't want. To be honest with you, the buyer who wants to buy people is overseas, and when our Zheng family does this business and they count the number of people, it counts how many people are sent and how many people die on the road, and they can't count the money. These people who are not in good health, after a long journey, are too easy to die. Once they died, the food we fed them along the way, and the money we spent on the boat, was thrown into the water. I can't get a penny back. So we generally don't want such people.

The second is the ordinary able-bodied woman. It's just that women are always not as good as men. Therefore, such a person, our Zheng family is willing to buy one or two pieces of silver......"

"One or two pieces of silver, that's too cheap, isn't it?" Zuo Mengeng interrupted Zheng Sen's words and said, "Generally speaking, adult women are not only at this price. ”

"That's a good thing, but if you buy them in a kiln, it's not the price. But Brother Zuo, how many kilns are there in Hubei, and how many women can be bought? Therefore, the price of the kiln cannot be calculated. Zheng Sen was not in a hurry, but said slowly, "Brother Zuo may not know, our family has been doing this business for a day or two, and we used to collect displaced people in the Songjiang area. As long as they are given a bowl of porridge to drink, even if they are not given a penny, they are willing to sign a death deed to sell themselves. It's just that when the displaced people ran to Songjiang from Hubei or something, most of them were in poor health. Directly loaded into a sea ship and going to sea, eight or nine out of ten will die on the way. Lost the freight in vain. So my family can only give them some good food before letting them get on the boat, and then get on the boat after they are healthy, so that most of them can be delivered alive. It's just that in this way, I have to pay a sum of rice money by myself when I go to my house. If Lord Zuo can cooperate with my family, most of these displaced people are in good health when they are in Hubei, and my family will directly send a boat to load them, go down the river, and when they arrive in Songjiang, they can directly change to a sea boat and go to sea, so that they can save some money for their health care. If Brother Zuo's asking price is too high, let us buy them, and the money to send them to Songjiang will exceed the money our family spends on giving them physical support, then our family will not need to do this business, right? And my family doesn't just buy these least valuable people. ”

"And what other people are there?" Zuo Mengeng asked.

"A man with a strong body is naturally worth more than a woman, and one is worth two taels of silver." Zheng Sen said, "Anyway, you don't have to spend money to get such a homeless person, do you?" If it is a carpenter, or a stonemason, or a mason, or the like, it is worth twenty taels of silver. If it is a blacksmith or a coppersmith, it is worth twenty-five taels of silver. If you can read and write, whatever kind we have passed through the investigation, we will add ten taels of silver. If you know how to count, no matter which kind of person you mentioned above, you will also add ten taels of silver to the original price. What does Brother Zuo think? In addition, if Lord Zuo can exchange goods for people here, that is to say, if Lord Zuo gets the money we gave to buy people, he is willing to entrust us to buy some goods, such as knives and guns, such as Hongyi cannons or something. We can also offer a better price. In fact, although the unit price is not high, Brother Zuo, the number of transactions is large, so there is still a lot of money to be made every year. ”

"And how many do you want?" Zuo Mengeng asked.

"Mainly due to capacity constraints, in the first year or two, we can only buy one or two thousand people a month. In the future, if we make more money, we will increase the number of ships, so that it will not be a problem to increase to 10,000 people a month. Zheng Sen replied.