Is there such a place around Golden River Bay? Indeed, Hong Tao knows that there is a country rich in sulfur, and that is Japan! For this country, Hong Tao has never been harassed, not because he doesn't want to, but because he hasn't freed his hands. Moreover, the present Japan and the Japan of later generations are completely different, and Japan in the thirteenth century was very friendly to the Song Dynasty, and it was not much different from the subject countries. They worship Tang and Song Dynasty culture, technology, food, clothing, and even human races, and there are Japanese women who came to the Great Song Dynasty to borrow seeds, called Du Chong.

This custom existed as early as the Tang Dynasty, when if a Tang Dynasty ship arrived in Japan, the person with status on board would immediately be warmly received by the local nobles. It doesn't matter if you are tall or strong, or you are good at writing poetry, anyway, as long as there is something to be desired, after eating and drinking, the host will send the most beautiful woman in his family to your room.

Their purpose is not to be hospitable, but to want the women of their family to get pregnant, so that they will have the blood of the Heavenly Empire, and it is definitely not a scandal to say it, but a glorious one. Such a woman is much more noble when she marries, and the more times she sleeps with the Tang people, the more awesome she becomes, and it is a merit worth showing off wherever she goes.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Japanese felt that it was too slow to wait like this, and they couldn't wait for the rabbit, so they had to take the initiative. So he specially sent some young women to the Song Dynasty to borrow seeds, one came to the boat, one by one, not the poor people who couldn't survive, and the people who could get on this kind of boat were all noble girls with status. They would live in the cities of the Great Song Dynasty for half a year, and their daily task was to find the most awesome men they could find in the Great Song Dynasty and they thought was the most awesome, preferably pregnant, and then they ran back to Japan to give birth.

Hong Tao has seen these Japanese women who came to the Song Dynasty in Lin'an and Guangzhou, not boasting, but relying on his height of nearly 1.9 meters. As long as you look at them a few more times, you can immediately come back with a platoon and sleep one by one. Of course, Hong Tao didn't do this, and the Japanese in later generations were a little shorter, but compared with the Song Dynasty, they were quite tall. The Japanese of this era were shorter. It's still a little dark, no matter how you look at it, you can't see the style in the love action movies of later generations. For Hong Tao, the master of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, he can't even look down on most of the girls of the Song Dynasty, let alone take advantage of it, this kind of advantage is a loss for him.

You said that in the face of a country that worships the Great Song Dynasty so much and has no disobedience at all, Hong Tao can't even raise the interest of torturing it. If you have one more ally to rebel against the Mongols, why do you have to make an enemy? In Hong Tao's thinking, problems that can be resolved by peaceful means will never be solved by force. You have to have a plan for everything. Even if Japan at this time was completely blown up, what would it be like except wasting precious shells?

Now that he has a picture, he must also go to it. Sulfur is a Japanese specialty, the quantity is high and the quality is high, but there are not so many ships to transport in Jinhe Bay, and the business scope of the Straits Company is Southeast Asia and the Arab region, and it is not yet able to occupy the routes between Japan and Goryeo. Maritime merchants of the Southern Song Dynasty. It is also sub-regional, doing foreign trade in the south. It is the maritime merchants of the generation of Guangzhou, Quanzhou and Fuzhou, and the maritime merchants of the generation of Wenzhou, Taizhou, Mingzhou and Lin'an who do business in Japan and Goryeo. If you want to control the routes between Japan and Goryeo, the interests will be too great, and the resistance will be more intense. After all, this is the essence of the Southern Song Dynasty. Unlike Guangzhou and Quanzhou, which are far away from the emperor.

In fact, Hong Tao will not lose much by buying sulfur from other maritime merchants, that thing is not very valuable. But sulfur is not another cargo, it is a strategic resource of Jinhe Bay, and how much money is not the point. The point is that you must be in your own hands, and you can make your own decisions about how much you want and when you want to be at ease. As a result, building a merchant fleet to Japan became the easiest and most effective way.

Originally, Hong Tao planned to ask Luo Youde to introduce a few familiar Mingzhou or Lin'an maritime merchants, and then adopt a cooperative approach to form a merchant fleet to go to Japan to purchase sulfur, and by the way, he could also sell the specialties of Jinhe Bay, such as whale oil, sugar, rum or something. Now that he has met Xu Liangzhi, through his observation of words and feelings, Hong Tao feels that he is quite reliable, at least he can try. And he is familiar with the road, and it is not a day or two to dump saltpeter and sulfur, he has been engaged in this business for several years, and has been helping Jinhewan to procure, and he is also an old customer, and he does not need to be raw. In addition, the deeper meaning is that Hong Tao is too a chicken thief, and he is not willing to bet on one person for anything, which is not in line with the laws of business, even Luo Youde is like this, buying and selling is buying and selling, and people talk about favors.

"Can the chairman make it clear...... How should the old man do it? When Xu Liangzhi talked about business, he had the same virtue as Luo Youde, and even forgot about his son, and he was bold.

"Go to Japan, where there is a lot of sulfur, gold and silver. I will mention two ways, the first is that I will introduce you to some merchants who can offer goods such as sugar, whale oil, soap, soap, candles, rum, etc. But you can't buy it with money, you have to exchange it for sulfur, the price...... According to the current market price of sulfur in Mingzhou. Second, I will ship the goods and the manpower, and we will partner to open a company to run the routes between Japan and Korea, and gradually build the company's warehouses in Japan and Korea. Just like the Strait Company, I will also provide additional escort services, but you may not have much of this share, after all, my side pays more. Choose these two ways yourself, see which one is more suitable, and let me know. You can do both, you don't have to have a psychological burden, you can also discuss it with your son, and Jiang Niangzi and I will go inside and wait. Hong Tao pondered and said, and soon gave two ways to cooperate.

These two ways of operating are completely different, the first is just ordinary cooperation, acting as a supplier on your own side, bartering goods, nothing special. This is a bait, which is to test whether Xu Liangzhi's brain is easy to use, and it is also to identify his character. If he chooses the first option, then Hong Tao should give him a compensation, let him go to Luo Youde's store in Mingzhou, and exchange one hand for one hand as before, Hong Tao will not take care of him in the future, basically no intersection.

If the Xu family chooses the second way, it means that he really wants to enter his own group and is not tempted by the immediate interests. In fact, it is said that there are few shares, but no matter how small this share is, it is more profitable than him fighting alone, because the base is large. It can be imagined that since Hong Tao has promised to arrange warships to escort the ship, and will also set up warehouses in Japan and Goryeo, can this deal be small? Just like Luo Youde, he doesn't have many shares in the Strait Company, but he not only earns a lot, but also has a high status, and when he stomps his feet in the city of Guangzhou, the ground will really tremble, and even the sea will tremble.

"Sit down, let's talk, it's the first time we're on my boat, right? How's your perfume shop going? Leaving the Xu father and son in the outhouse to plan their future, Hong Tao returned to the inner room with Jiang Zhuyi and made her a cup of tea with his own hands.

"There are already three, one in the north of the city, one in the south of the city, and one is on the edge of the east city wall, very close to the wharf, there are many merchants from outside here, and I plan to do a large transaction with them. Japanese businessmen were very interested in perfume, and they planned to use perfume to incense clothes, so that the smoke was free and the taste was better. Jiang Zhuyi is the daughter of a maritime merchant, and there is no doubt that the genes of a businessman are flowing in her blood, eating from the bowl and looking at the pot, her heart is not small, and she has started to do wholesale and foreign trade business. In just half a year, three stores have been built, and the development is not fast.

"It's better not to rush into development just yet, perfume can become both a daily commodity for ordinary people and a lucrative luxury. The former sells a hundred bottles and is not as profitable as the latter selling a bottle; The former is about quantity and earning hard money, while the latter is earning taste and brand money; The former requires you to invest more manpower and raw materials to increase production and expand the market, while the latter only needs to make your own brand famous. I think with the current situation of your family, it is better to do the latter, take the high-end route, every bottle of perfume sold, let it become an advertisement for your home, and it can only be bought from your home, and no one else has it. It's easier to make money this way, but it takes some effort, can you understand what I mean? Out of a sense of guilt, and out of a heartfelt liking for Jiang Zhuyi, a girl, Hong Tao decided to help her again, so that she could really become the queen of Da Song perfume.

“…… I don't really understand! Tell me more about it, what is advertising? What is a brand? Jiang Zhuyi really didn't understand, there were too many modern terms in Hong Tao's words.

"Advertising, advertised, is like a guise for a restaurant to let more people know about your products. Brand, that is, what distinguishes your family's perfume from other people's homes? In addition to the difference in quality, taste, and packaging, the most important thing is a famous brand. It's like the sign of a restaurant, when you talk about Li Sijiao's shop, everyone knows which store it is, and the same goes for perfume, it has to have a brand, for example...... Trimeresurus! Here it is again, as he speaks, Hong Tao began to deviate, and the problem of messing with the name was committed again.

"Bamboo leaf green...... It matches my name very well...... "If you don't say that there is Xi Shi in the eyes of the lover, Jiang Zhuyi's hatred for Hong Tao in his heart is far less intense than his love, so he almost said that he likes it, but the expression on his face is more obsessive than saying it."

"I mean, for example......" Hong Tao wanted to retract, where is the perfume called Zhu Yeqing.

"It's good, it's called Zhu Yeqing, so what?" It's a pity that Jiang Zhuyi didn't give him a chance to retreat, so he gave the perfume brand. If she could know what Hong Tao was thinking, she would definitely kick it over. (To be continued.) )