Zheng Shaolai said: "Is it Li Guozhu?" ”

"Exactly." Zheng Yiguan said: "If my uncle is willing, I can lead you to see the eldest prince." ”

"Okay, let's go see him."

Zheng Yiguan said: "Uncle must think clearly, unless there are indeed a lot of goods and they are good goods, it is not a good thing to ask for a casual meeting." ”

The Li family father and son control the trade power of this private port, but they did not prohibit the maritime merchants from their own trade, but the bulk of the trade is controlled by themselves, others trade here, they will extract a certain benefit fee, many small merchant ships along the coast of Fujian and Guangzhou are their own trade, or they are also looking for the subordinates of the Li family father and son, directly ask to see Li Dan or Li Guozhu, what is not taken, it is likely to anger the other party, with the power of the Li family father and son here, even if it is a relative of the emperor, it will not work.

Zheng Shaolai said: "Don't worry, my cargo is worth nearly 200,000 yuan, and it is an absolutely easy-to-sell hard cargo." ”

Zheng Yiguan said: "A shipload of nearly 200,000 is not a lot, just this alone is enough to be qualified to meet, okay, the little nephew will be introduced." ”

Jiang Kui looked at this Zheng Yiguan coldly, feeling that the other party was a little younger than him, but he did things steadily, and the soup did not leak, and he explained the possible accidents in advance, so that even if something was wrong, it was no wonder that he was on his head, and sure enough, what could be mixed up in this kind of place was not an ordinary person.

Jiang Kui began to probe Zheng Yiguan's bottom and chatted slowly.

When they arrived near the mansion where Li Dan's father and son lived, the mixed flow of people gradually decreased, and the number of people patrolling with weapons began to increase.

The place where the Li family and his son live is backed by green mountains, with the sea in front of them, and the sea and mountains are gently blowing, which makes people feel comfortable in such a summer day.

The mansion is Japanese-style, and even a Japanese-style small city integrating residence and defense, with tall multi-storey attics at the four corners and in the middle, and the bottom base is built with stones, although it is not high, but it is very thick, and there are many arrow holes and firearms in the courtyard wall, and Jiang Kui saw many guards holding slender bird guns in their hands...... He nodded slightly, confirming the impression in his mind.

The guards of the Li Mansion are Han and Japanese, and they all seem to be elites with very rich experience in fighting, and there are also leaders of the guards at the door.

"Everybody wait here." Zheng Yiguan hurriedly walked in and asked Zheng Shaolai and Jiang Kui and others to wait at the door.

Everyone stood in place and didn't dare to move, surrounded by Han and Japanese guards walking around, all with fierce faces, the periphery is no longer a town like the port, there is silence all around, only this castle-like mansion, Zheng Shaolai spat on the ground and said: "Damn, I feel a little panicked like this." ”

Wen Zhong smiled and said, "Lao Zheng, don't panic if you stand up straight, there are people here staring at us." ”

"Huh? Oh good. ”

After all, Zheng Shaolai also often runs to the sea, and instantly calmed down.

A group of people just stood there, each with a relaxed smile on their faces.

On the top of an attic not far away, a young man in a cocoon silk robe under thirty was looking over from the window, and Zheng Yiguan stood respectfully behind the young man.

"These people you brought are good-looking, not like ordinary maritime merchants who run the sea." The young man looked at it for a while, then turned around and said, "Let's go, take me to meet them." ”

"Yes, eldest son."

After Jiang Kui waited for a while, he saw seven or eight people coming from the inside, Zheng Shaolai stepped forward to greet him a few steps, and the two sides saluted each other.

Zheng Yiguan said: "This is our eldest son." ”

Zheng Shaolai and Jiang Kui all said: "I've seen Master Li." ”

Li Guozhu smiled and said, "You're welcome...... I heard that you brought a lot of goods? ”

"Yes!" Zheng Shaolai took a step back and was pushed up by Jiang Kui.

Jiang Kui said: "On the orders of the proprietor, I came here with about 100,000 iron tools. ”

"Iron is indeed a hard commodity in the Wa Kingdom, but how can you bring so much at once?" Li Guozhu was a little surprised, all cargo ships have iron tools, which are very good for ballast, but no ship comes with iron tools worth 100,000 taels at once...... One is that the boat is small and can't move, only the big ship can be carried, and the second is that it is difficult to buy so much silver ironware, for example, Nanjing is the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is estimated that buying 100,000 taels of silver ironware at once will have a serious impact on the use of ironware by the entire Nanzhili people!

Jiang Kui said: "In addition to the big trading houses, the lower proprietor also has iron ore and blast furnaces, smelting pig iron, and iron yards, and a large number of masters are constantly making all kinds of ironware. ”

"Remarkable." Li Guozhu didn't say much nonsense, and gave a thumbs up.

If what this group of people said is true, their proprietor must be a powerful businessman with a huge net worth, the key is that iron is a best-selling hard goods, in the Ming Dynasty are serious iron shortage, self-use is insufficient, unlike tea and silk porcelain, mass production is specifically for export, and there is no market gap among the people...... Of course, many people can't afford to drink tea and use silk for export sales, but there is no need to buy this part of the market, so there is no shortage of goods, but iron is used by everyone, and there is a big gap in the domestic market, who will sell a large number of overseas? The point is that you can't buy it if you want to! Only every time I crossed the sea to trade, I brought some iron tools over, because there was a shortage of iron on the Japanese side, the price of iron was higher, and the profits were greater!

Li Guozhu is now concerned about the quality of this batch of ironware, if the quality is too good, he decided to eat this batch of ironware at the price Jiang Kui said, 100,000 taels!

The Li family father and son have always done business like this, they are beneficial to themselves, and they also give benefits to others, they must abide by the rules in everything, and when they arrive at this port, they are maritime merchants, they can't rob or bully the weak, they can't talk about business, they talk about it, and they can't talk about it.

When it comes to the open sea, it is the rule of the open sea, and the Li family's fleet will rob it when it encounters a merchant ship that is easy to rob, and the rule of the open sea is that the law of the jungle is the law of the jungle!

The group rode to the port, the Japanese lacked horses, but there were always dozens of horses here in the Li family, and everyone came out of the castle-like mansion, passed through the village-like settlement, and went to the shipside trestle to watch the goods under the large number of Japanese and Han merchants.

Zheng Shaolai asked the men to move the goods out of the bilge, and asked them to move a few baskets of each goods, these iron tools are packed in grass, and there is grass stuffed between them, and the sea is very bumpy when the wind and waves are strong, this set is a method of loading porcelain, in fact, if the iron is fine, it is difficult to break each other.

Zheng Shaolai is also a little nervous, this deal is done, here he can run often in the future, the profit to the country is not small, the key is that the voyage is short, and it is safe!

Safety is the most important, Manila or Batavia, or Malacca, or even to the coast of India, these places are far from the voyage, the safety is also reduced a lot, in the sea typhoon is fate, whether you can survive can only depend on God, in the area of the Zengmu reef is full of shipwrecks, from the Song Dynasty to the present hundreds of years down, I don't know how many sea ships sink there.

It is still the best route to run the Japanese country, but this route also has the most pirates, and if there is the favor of the Li family's forces, the Japanese waterway is very safe, and it can be run often in the future.

"Big iron pots, big soup pots, spoons, kitchen knives, iron wine kettles and iron basins, as well as large wide pots, large pots, iron tongs and iron stove nails, big princes, and iron hoes, iron shovels, shovels, shovels, iron cables, iron locks, iron axes and other things, there is no way to count iron needles of different sizes, they can only be weighed by catties......"

Zheng Yiguan was young in the end, and his face was excited at this time, there were dozens of kinds of iron tools that had passed through his hands, and there were many of them, and when he finally saw the iron needle, the crowd around him had a feeling of disbelief.

What is the origin of the proprietor of this ship?

So many iron tools, such a large ship loaded more than half of all iron, even if you buy it with a lot of money, you have to buy empty the storage of a big city, and you may not be able to buy so complete, the lack of iron in the Ming Dynasty is very serious, from the two lakes to the Yunnan-Guizhou region, the more southwest the more iron is lacking, in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, many people still use stone hoes and other agricultural tools, because there is too much lack of iron, money can not buy. There is also a shortage of iron in the Han area, and it is also common for several families to share farm tools, and farm tools and living tools are very expensive!

The iron of this ship, not to mention the Wa Kingdom, is a good commodity even in Daming, and everyone must rush to ask for it!

Li Guozhu still had an indifferent attitude at first, but then his expression became more and more solemn, and he understood better than everyone what the iron tools in front of him meant.

The lack of iron in the Japanese people is ten times more powerful than that of the Ming Dynasty!

Only a small number of their generals can wear armor inlaid with iron leaves, most of the samurai only wear leather armor, and those ashigaru have no armor at all, although the shogunate hunts for martial arts, but the local daimyo still have their own direct weapons, and a small amount of iron is used to build weapons and iron arrowheads, and there is a shortage of agricultural tools, and there are very few things like iron needles, otherwise an iron needle can be sold for two cents of silver?

According to the copper coin ratio of the Ming Dynasty, now one or two silver is exchanged for 600 Wen Wanli gold back money, one money 60 Wen, one cent 6 Wen, a needle is sold for more than 10 Wen gold back money, although there is a shortage of iron in Daming, a penny is enough to buy a needle.

This is ten times the difference, and it is a hard commodity that can be sold out when it is transferred out!

"Eldest son, I have seen it, all ironware is the same fine iron casting, the craftsmanship is excellent, and no defective products have been found."

Not only Zheng Yiguan, but also the attachés brought by Li Guozhu were also inspecting, and the number and types of iron tools transported down were quite a lot, and they were obviously randomly transported, they checked more than 100 grass, and did not find a single defective product, each piece of iron exuded a soft luster after fine iron casting, compared with those crude pig iron, it was obviously several grades higher.