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"If that's the case, what's the matter with a three-percent increase!"

After Shi Da laughed heartily, he suddenly smiled again, stared at Zhu Yifeng with his eyes, and his smile turned cold,

"If that's right, I'm afraid your ship is not far from here!"

If you are as shrewd as Shi Dakai, don't you know that the reason why the other party is saying such a sentence now, I'm afraid this person has already put the goods here.

"Five thousand years old!"

Seeing that Shi Dakai seemed to be unhappy, Zhu Yifeng hurriedly bowed first, and then explained.

"In the next time, I did come with the cargo ship, but now the cargo ship is berthed in Jiujiang, but if the kingdom of heaven can reach trade, then you can go down the river to Jiujiang and lead the ship into Hankou, and take a foreign ship below, which is actually a steamer, even if the time required from Shanghai to Hankou is as short as three days, and as long as four or five days!"

explained half-truths and half-truths, Zhu Yifeng didn't want to offend the current "big financier".

"A steamer?"

Glancing at Zhu Yifeng in surprise, Shi Dakai pondered for a moment, and then turned the conversation around.

"According to the previous agreement, if you can transport 5,000 foreign guns within two days, you can increase the price by 30%!"

Just when Shi Dakai was about to explain the matter to the warden office around him, he heard Zhu Yifeng say.

"Five thousand years old, I don't know how the kingdom of heaven is going to pay for this, after all, those things are worth six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver......

Although he hasn't gotten the silver yet, the dozens of times the profit still makes Zhu Yifeng excited, but it's not yet time to celebrate, at least before returning to Shanghai!

"How can my kingdom of heaven send you hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!"

Shi Dakai said casually, on the way from Guangxi to Wuchang, the Taiping army often sent a lightly armed advance force, posted notices in the camp in advance, set up a tribute collection hall, and ordered the people to receive food and salary from the Taiping army. Of course, what is more important is that every village and village, find the poor people of the village or the servants of the rich family in advance, find out the details of the rich households, and then collect them from house to house, ordinary landlords and rich people generally order them to hand over part of the silver, grain, and rice, and confiscate all the property of the Qing Dynasty bureaucrats. Moreover, along the way, he attacked the city and plundered land, and he seized a lot, that is, in Yuezhou alone, he paid hundreds of thousands of taels from the official treasury. Now there is really not a bad amount of money in the holy treasury.

"But, five thousand years old, now that the Kingdom of Heaven is in the process of starting a business, there are many places to use silver in the future, if you can, I hope to barter with the Kingdom of Heaven!"

Barter?

His brows jumped slightly, Shi Dakai looked at the person in front of him in surprise, what did he say? Don't want silver? Want goods? What is in Heaven? And in the midst of his doubts, the man's words came to his ears again.

"When I came down, I once passed the wharf, and noticed that there was a lot of stock on the wharf, and I thought that there was also raw silk in it, and if the 5,000-year-old agreed, I was willing to use the raw silk to offset the payment!"

Before the words of "Zhu Mingzong" were finished, Shi Dakai looked at the person in front of him with some puzzlement, but there was a wave in his heart, although he was the winged king of the heavenly kingdom, but because all the property belonged to the holy treasury, he did not have much silver in his hands as a five-thousand-year-old, originally he also wanted to take out two taels of silver from the holy treasury, and it was indeed not easy to take out hundreds of thousands of taels of silver at a time, and how should the foreign guns and cannons purchased at that time be distributed?

But now the words of "Zhu Mingzong" made Shi Dakai's heart move as the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, just the goods that are now accumulated on the wharf, and the goods confiscated by the heavenly army are more than hundreds of thousands, although it is not the season for raw silk to go on the market, but in Hankou and Hanyang, the backlog of raw silk is no less than a thousand loads. If you can use these raw silk to pay for the goods, why do you need to withdraw any more money from the holy treasury?

"If you can, you will be willing to barter for 300 taels per load of raw silk! I don't know what 5,000 years old thinks? ”

300 taels per load of raw silk?

Is it high?

Now the price of raw silk in Shanghai is 510 taels of silver per load of market value, in other words, as long as the other party agrees to this condition, then it does not include others, and with the difference in the price of raw silk per load, Zhu Yifeng can get nearly double the profit.

"Oh!"

Responding lightly, Shi Dakai just stared at the young man in front of him who was even a few years younger than himself, and he continued to explain.

"At the age of 5,000, this raw silk cannot be made into clothes, nor can it be used as food, it is like waste in the kingdom of heaven, but we merchants can turn this waste into wealth for the great cause of heaven!"

Zhu Yifeng's words made Shi Dakai groan and glanced at him with slightly confused eyes...... Hear, "And we merchants can turn this waste into wealth for the cause of heaven!" The muscles on his cheeks trembled, and he stared at Zhu Yifeng in front of him and asked.

"You have a heart! However, each load of raw silk used to be worth no less than 400 taels of silver, and now you are only bidding 300 taels, and it is rare for the business to do this! ”

Although Shi Dakai didn't know the current market of raw silk, before the incident, he was also an ordinary person, and naturally he had sold raw silk, and he knew more or less about the price of raw silk, which was three hundred taels per load, which could not be said to be a low price.

"Back to the 5,000-year-old words, in the next is just a businessman, not far away to bear many risks to come here, the seeker is naturally for business profits, in business, please forgive the 5,000-year-old!"

Zhu Yifeng, who was smiling, did not show the slightest hint of cowardice, the reason why he offered this price was precisely because he prepared raw silk for the Taiping Army, which was useless waste at all, and he was just a waste utility. Even for the Taiping army, this move of his own opened up a new source of wealth for them.

"What a businessman!"

Shi Dakai nodded, glanced at Zhu Yifeng seriously, and then said.

"As long as you can bring foreign guns and cannons in these two days, even if the interest rate difference between the price of one hundred taels is allowed to you, what's the matter!"

Just as Zhu Yifeng said, raw silk is just a worthless waste for the Taiping army, and even when they finally leave this place, they will follow the convention and often burn it with the city and goods.

"Thank you 5,000 years old, please rest assured that within two days at most, the guns and cannons needed by the army will arrive in Hankow!"

On January 9, 1853, in the early morning of the 30th winter month, a Western-style ship was dragged by two man-powered sampans in the snowflakes and slowly approached the official grain wharf in Hankou.

It seemed that they had come to Hankow for the first time, and they had stayed on the wet deck to look at the wharf, which covered an area of several acres and was stacked like a hill of all kinds of goods, but on this wharf there were no boatmen, coolies, and even the goods were left to dry in the snow, and a thick layer of snow fell on the piles.

Among the hundreds of sampan boats at the wharf, this Western-style foreign boat is even eye-catching, as soon as the ship is stable, there are several Taiping soldiers wearing yellow clothes and red scarves on the wharf to the side of the ship, but they do not get on the boat, standing on the wharf bluestone strip stunned to look at this never-before-seen foreign ship.

Not to mention those Taiping soldiers who had never seen the world and were speechless for a long time when they were shocked by this foreign ship that was more than ten feet long, even Li Ziyuan, who was nesting with a group of captive people in the grass hut at the dock, also opened his eyes wide and looked at this foreign ship with astonished eyes. As a native of Guizhou, he was originally going to go to the capital to take the exam, but who would have thought that he suffered this military robbery, not only was he killed with his servants, but he also fell into the hands of bandits.

"Where did this ship come from?"

Looking at the oceanic ship, Li Ziyuan thought in his heart, he had vaguely guessed why they were driven here from the "men's camp" early in the morning, I am afraid that they were going to unload from this ship.

But where did the ship come from?

Almost half an hour later, under the shouting of several captains, Li Ziyuan and others were driven to the ship and unloaded from the cabin to the dock, that is, when unloading, he noticed that the cabin of the ship was huge, and a person hiding here would not be found at all, and what surprised him even more was that he saw several blonde and blue-eyed Westerners!

If only I could escape on this foreign ship! Looking at the big boat in the river, the first thought that came to Li Ziyuan's heart early was to escape.

However, he did not dare to escape, because beside him, there were at least four pairs of eyes staring at him, according to the rules of the Taiping Army, one person fled, and the other four people sat in the same army, and because of this, the escape of the people in this male camp would be extremely limited.

I don't want to die, I don't want to die under Wuchang City like those ant thieves...... The desire to survive hit Li Ziyuan's heart, making him struggle between impulse and reason, and at this moment, a voice came from the side of the boat,

“…… After this plus the cash, there is still a lot of difference, Mr. Zhu, you see, I still have tea bricks here, I don't know if Mr. Zhu is interested? ”

"Tea bricks? The price of tea bricks is not very clear to the villain, and the villain's foreign company has always specialized in raw silk, this tea, so I have never understood it......"

"Well, that's a bit tricky......"

The Cantonese spoken by the two people on the side of the boat may be like a book in the ears of others, but Li Ziyuan can understand it, the reason is simple, Guizhou Xuezheng was a Cantonese back then, in order to please the Xuezheng, he deliberately studied Cantonese for several years, this will listen to the words over there, but his heart jumped suddenly.

"Big, big, villain, villain know the price of tea!"

"Someone has escaped!"

Suddenly, a scream rang out on the dock, and I looked in the direction where the shout came from, and saw a coolie swimming desperately on the river......