Chapter 494: Profiteering

A villa, built in great luxury, with a red carpet engraved with patterns, bookshelves full of English books, a polished wooden floor, and blonde men in suits sitting together, with a strange look on their faces, and in front of them were a few things, birds, silk, and soap!

"Gentlemen, have any of you ever seen such a musket? I've visited all the countries of Europe and never seen this kind of musket? A handsome young man said, looking at the musket in front of him with a strange look on his face.

The gentlemen in suits all around were pushing their own eyes with long lines, looking at this musket, and their eyes were full of strangeness.

"The push-ignition device, this device, and all the muskets are upside down, and I have heard that in the far East, their muskets look like this"

"What is the power of these little muskets, I think they must have been made by stupid Frenchmen, who made this trigger to push the fire in order to be different from us!"

The handsome man's gaze fell on the musket, and he said, "Far East? Hehe! This musket came from the Indian tribes of the West, and the Indians used this musket to shoot at our soldiers!! ”

The crowd was horrified, they had all seen the firearms made by the Indians, and they were so crude, and this one was so exquisite, and an old man said, "Could it be the Spaniards, who deliberately found fault with us and sold them fine muskets!" ”

"The Spaniards don't make this kind of musket," said the young man, with a strangeness on his face, "not the Spaniards, they are not so stupid" and humane, "Could it be the Chinese of the East!" As he said this, the crowd looked at him.

Hahahaha - the young man laughed and said, "Chinese? Don't laugh, have you read too much of Marco Polo's travels, that place is very rich, but not warlike, they are a group of Nov, last time the Spaniards were ready to conquer this place, but it didn't catch up with the good time! Otherwise, they will end up with the Indians."

"I listened to the Portuguese generals who came back from where, they are not cowardly, but they are extremely strong and have a strong ability to learn! Not weak," said the old man, but the crowd burst into laughter.

"Haha! The Portuguese are always so superstitious, and my Portuguese friend also told me that he saw the devil in the East who mastered the meteor shower, told me to go to church and he is now a priest! The young man laughed, and the old man's face was a little unpleasant, and said, "Monsieur Joseph, it is impossible for all Portuguese to be superstitious."

"Humph! They just want to monopolize the riches of the East," the young man named Joseph said, looking at the crowd in front of him, continued, "What surprised me the most was not this musket, but this" He pointed to the frame in front of him, which was so bright as a soap, he took it out, and Haruko experimented with his efficacy!

Everyone wiped their eyes in disbelief.

"What? This thing can wash hands so easily, this thing must drive all European noblewomen crazy, and with it, a fool can make noblewomen's money"

"This scent, I decided to buy it for my wife quickly, he will be very happy"

"See, gentlemen, this is our most important discovery, this thing called soap!" Joseph smiled and said, "This is something brought by indigenous people from the West, look at it."

"The natives of the West? They can make this kind of treasure "All the guys in suits and leather shoes are unbelievable, looking at the soap in front of them, and all kinds of things, there are greedy eyes in their eyes, is there some tribe in the West that is good at creating!" They thought so, it must be so.

"The princess is coming, if we can give this thing to the princess, he will be very happy" said a person, with anticipation on his face, maybe he can still mix up the title, everyone is angry when they raise their heads, give it to the princess? Wouldn't the money be divided with the royal family, they refused.

"Go west first! Find out the situation," said Joseph, "or let the Indians investigate the situation first, and our men will not use it."

Joseph nodded, and agreed, it was indeed excellent, let the Indians go and take the lead, let them go and find out the situation for themselves, this is not the first time they have done this kind of thing.

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Furs, boxes of furs, and cattle were enough to feed more than 10,000 people in exchange for food from the Indians, and even the raw materials for making soap on their faces could be herds of livestock, horses, and sacks of grain.

Guilt, some, the workshop on the side has been established, using the raw materials obtained from the Americas to process in the Americas, in exchange for money and materials, and constantly transported back to the Ming Dynasty, this is their own business.

The Indians were still very proud, and exchanged a lot of good things for very little supplies, soap, silk, and looking at their appearance, the nobles who sold things were crazy, and they felt that the money was so easy to make for the first time.

Xu Wenjue touched a gem in his hand, this gem exudes a crystal clear luster, it was given to him by an Indian woman, the woman seemed to regard this gem as a good-looking stone, exchanged a piece of soap with him, thought it was a big fortune and turned around and left.

Xu Wenjue gently wiped the treasure in his hand, looked at the grain behind him, and said, "Damn, it's grain again, there is so much grain that we can't eat it all, this group of Indians is so good at growing grain, as well as corn and potatoes!" ”

These two things are the most, especially corn, so much that Xu Wenjue wants to vomit when he eats it, and he doesn't have the slightest freshness when he saw him before. There is a lot of food, potatoes, corn and other crops, as well as grazing, farming mix, there is no shortage of food at all.

Some of the nobles were lying directly on top of the grain, and for the first time, they felt that this thing was so cheap, they wiped their firearms, Xu Wenjue had an indescribable comfort on his face, and glanced at a few people in the training in the distance, their Shenji Battalion was selling things here, if it was in the past, he would definitely be happy to be so leisurely, but at night someone would definitely come to mock them.

"The embroidered pillow of the Shenji Camp has become a merchant" Merchant, this mocking word made Xu Wenjue very angry. "Don't lie on it, get up for me, get up, don't you hear!" Training, all for me"

"Boss, don't, it's such a good weather" The women all looked like they were crying and sad and unwilling to train.

"There will be other tribes coming over to sell things in a while!" Listening to the words of his subordinates, Xu Wenjue only had one feeling, it was time to go to the so-called lecture hall to listen to the lessons, such as learning how to punish his lazy subordinates and how to establish his prestige.

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