After those merchants of the Great Song Dynasty carefully tasted the tea, they had to admit that the Liuqiu tea ceremony was also quite good!

The tea set is exquisite, the color of the tea is green, the taste is fragrant and sweet, and it is very thirst-quenching. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Xiao Ergang is right, tea is originally used to quench thirst, and the best tea ceremony is to let more people drink it......

Well, those merchants of the Great Song Dynasty agreed with this point of view very much, and everyone drank such tea...... There are a lot of business opportunities here.

Xiao Ergang said happily at that time: "In the Cairo area, I heard that some merchants of the Great Song Dynasty have set up teahouses...... Our Liuqiu green tea is also very popular in the local area! ”

Can they afford such a tea set there?!

The eyes of those Great Song merchants are round, they are knowledgeable, this teacup is worth a thousand yuan!!

Wang Zheng took over at that time and said, "Where can they afford it? A few large porcelain bowls sent them away......"

Sure enough, everyone drank happily together, and after refilling the water again and again, there were more words.

Wang Zheng and Xiao Er heard them start to tell the truth...... It's good that they're there, but the king of Shiraz actually charges them 30% of the tax on their business!

How unfair this is!!

Those few Great Song merchants just complained a few times, but they didn't expect the two young leaders to react like this!

They immediately shook their hands and said, "It's okay, it's okay...... Only 30% of the tax on sales is very ......"

Their meaning is obvious, if compared with the overall profit of dozens of times, the thirty percent of the purchase and sale tax is just to spend three porcelain bowls, and give him one more, what is this compared to the profit of shipping back to the Great Song Dynasty?

Wang Zheng sneered again and said, "You can bear it, but we can't bear it!" What is the tax on the purchase and sale of returning merchants and black merchants who come here? ”

"It's only a ...... of one percent"

"Why do you want us to be thirty?!"

“…… I waited for the extra goods to be stored in the warehouse...... The king of Shiraz thinks that we have inflated the local market......"

"The more you buy, the more you sell, and the materials of nature are endless...... Why do you take me three times?! ”

“……”

Xiao Er suddenly sighed and said:

"Well, we just wanted to replenish supplies here, and in that case, we had to do some business here...... I'm just going to see the king of Shiraz, and I can talk to him! ”

Don't be!

The faces of several Great Song merchants turned red...... Don't mess with the king of Shiraz!

"It's just a matter of reasoning...... Why should you panic? ”

Be reasonable?! You have to reason with the king here!!

If you're done reasoning and leaving...... How will we be treated!!

Hehe, Xiao Er can completely see the thoughts of those people, he said: "You don't have to worry about this matter, we are a merchant who is begging, so naturally it has nothing to do with you, and besides, we will also set up a merchant station here------"

Only then did those people put their minds at ease...... But I didn't feel very comfortable in my heart, they weren't from the Great Song Dynasty after all, so everyone finally dispersed, and finally left a person to help them translate the language here.

A few people spoke with their eyes, don't let the two young people talk nonsense.

Wang Zheng arranged the guy to rest in the next room, and when he turned around, he frowned and asked the second captain: "Are we really going to be here for a while?" There's just some common spice ......"

The second captain said happily: "You haven't noticed, there must be countless rhinoceros on the continent to the west...... When we were young, it was not interesting to hunt sambar deer, so it was good to practice with a rhinoceros! ”

Rhino horn is no ordinary thing, it is much more profitable than spices.

But the whole team stayed here just for the rhino horns------

"Didn't you notice that those black men were born sailors...... This is a good supply point for our next trip south! ”

"Well, that's right! You want to occupy this place?! ”

"Nope! No! Our number of people is too small now, and the occupation is unstable, so it is better to build a trading station first......"

Wang Zheng tilted his head and thought about their experience in the Cairo area.

The trading station they built there has become the leading street of the Great Song Dynasty...... Around the commercial station, there were merchants of the Great Song Dynasty who settled down to set up shops on that street, and even the official government of the Great Song Dynasty built a business residence there, but they did not accept ordinary merchants, only the official personnel came and went, and the official and commercial atmosphere was full.

Wang Zhengba clicked his mouth and said, "Let's just lay out the layout first when we come......"

Xiao Er didn't answer him for this regret, and Wang Zheng didn't care whether he answered or not.

At that time, they only wanted to find the island of Madagascar as soon as possible, and who cared about anything else?!

Now it's different, everyone has completed all the tasks, everyone is in a good mood, and naturally they have spare hands to deal with others.

The two discussed it again, and decided what they wanted to talk to the king of Shiraz.

The kingdom of Shiraz had more than a hundred soldiers on the docks, either to keep an eye on the merchant ships, and Wang Zheng and Xiao Er had learned that their king had sent half of the country's military force here.

Those big sea ships made the people here a little excited, and a little panicked, after all, they had never seen so many big sea ships together.

The sailors in the fleet don't pay attention to them, they are just here to replenish supplies, not to make trouble, who cares if your soldiers look like soldiers.

The sun slowly set in the west, and Wang Zheng and Xiao Er looked out through the celluloid window together, and several elite guards from the Shiraz Palace appeared again, but this time it seemed that a civil official had been dispatched...... It was a white-bearded old man in a white robe who led the team.

The king of Shiraz was really serious about them.

Wang Zheng and Xiao Er brought eight of their subordinates and went with some gifts.

Eight of their men did not carry any cold weapons, and each of them carried four grenades and two short guns.

The old man who came to greet them also received a separate gift package of his own...... The contents of the bag were the same as those given to the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty, and they were filled with some very practical daily necessities.

The appearance of the old civil official obviously had the characteristics of a Hui person, with gray-white skin, blue eyes, and deep wrinkles all over his face.

He first made a standard Great Song style bow to the two of them, and then spoke with a smile.

This old man seemed to be familiar with the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty......

What he said, as the merchant relayed, probably meant that their king welcomed friends from the far east, and that he was to invite them to dinner.

Wang Zheng and Xiao Er smiled and expressed their gratitude.

But they knew that it was not because they had come from far east that they were welcomed by the king of Shiraz, and that none of the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty had been treated like this.

If you are courteous to others, you will have something to ask for!

The old man led them all the way to the palace of Shiraz on the west side of the island.

The two of them had already discovered that there didn't even seem to be a backward means of transportation like a sedan chair here, even if it was an ox cart...... Along the way, they didn't see a single wheeled vehicle. (To be continued.) )