The purpose of the Duke of Little Tang coming to Cork City is very clear, that is, to negotiate a big deal with a few big businessmen. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, it is said that it is a big business, in fact, there must be more than one, in fact, among these big businessmen who came to take over, they can be divided into several factions: Venice, Genoa, Pisa, these are the most common, commercial areas of Italy several powerful forces, they do not like each other, if they meet the dragon always have to fight, and the financial director Klein is best at provoking the struggle between these factions, and then fish in troubled waters, for Desmond and the little Duke Tang to maximize the benefits.

However, recently, these businessmen from Italy have a tendency to learn smartly, and gradually began to report to the group, regardless of whether their internal dog's brains have been beaten out, and they have always advanced and retreated together on the outside, and they are very united, so that it is becoming more and more difficult for Klein to complain more than once and want to fool them......

In addition to these more common merchants, there was also a confederation of merchants from the German land region consisting of the independent city-states of Cologne, Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, etc., who were born in more remote and cold places, and whose capital was far less abundant than that of Italian merchants, so they were more united, and according to rumors, these merchants even planned to form an alliance to share the monopoly of trade on the Baltic coast.

All of the above are organized and planned teams, and the rest are all single-handed, perhaps because of the geographical advantages, or because the items traded cannot be known, these businessmen are generally alone, and the great thing is to cooperate with fellow villagers temporarily, and continue to part ways after the end of the trade.

And this time, the two waves of merchants that the little Tang Grand Duke wanted to meet were all in the form of gangs, one from Breton and the other from Scotland.

"Greetings to Marseilles, of House de Nant, from Bretagany, and your honorable Grand Duke of Donchester, may your fame spread as far and wide as your kindness, and may your prestige be as high as your generosity."

The first thing that the little Tang Duke met was a thing with a name or something? But forget it, that's not the point anyway, the real background information Klein has already told him. The merchant claimed to be a member of the House of Denant, who in turn had an ambiguous relationship with the current Grand Duke of Breton, Conouille, as if they had been a family five hundred years ago. In short, this guy in front of him, Grand Duke Xiao Tang only needs to regard him as a representative of Conuwaye.

Since it is just a representative, something similar to a prop, the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang naturally does not need to give him any good face, and the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang has also consumed the number of times he uses the golden finger today, and specially watched the attributes of the businessman in front of him, barely speaking, he can be regarded as an excellent person among ordinary people.

In that case, there is no need to waste time at all.

"Just be polite, you and I are very busy people, there is no need to waste precious time in this kind of place, you and I open the skylight to talk brightly, we have only one content to discuss, salt."

Yes, salt, salt, iron, salt, salt, salt, salt, in ancient times, salt was a very important business, people can't live without eating, people can't eat without salt, but the general sea salt, but can not be eaten directly.

Of course, if you insist on saying that you can eat alone, I didn't speak, after all, the peasant serfs of this era rely on eating this work, there may be friends who have seen it, it has not been treated at all, it is just a simple sea salt from the sea water, the purple of the kelp with a trace of fishy white spots, completely disgusting, the little Tang Duke can't eat a little bit at all.

But with the sea salt of Bretagany, it's a different story.

If other places still need development to make money, then the Breton aristocracy is like today's Saudi princes, who can make money even in bed, and Breton sea salt is like the same as the modern industrial process, and perhaps even better, so it has always been a sought after by the wealthy aristocracy.

Originally, this kind of business did not need to be discussed by the Duke of Xiao Tang in person, after all, he was the only one who ate this kind of high-grade salt (perhaps plus the knights), at most, it was more to celebrate with the people when the banquet was held, and it was enough to use the salt of a few carriages for a whole year, but now, the Duke of Xiao Tang had to come to talk about this business in person.

Because before you know it, the low-grade salt produced in Desmond can threaten the high-grade salt export business in Bretagnia.

The low-grade salt exported by Desmond is actually a filtered salt that has been improved twice by the Duke of the Tang Dynasty, sea salt is a kind of crystal, the crystallized sea salt is soaked in fresh water, the top is sealed with an iron sheet, boiled over high heat to completely evaporate it, and the crystals are cooled and then soaked in fresh water, and then evaporated.

To tell the truth, not to mention the yield of sea salt obtained in this way, it is good to have one-tenth of the original after evaporating so many times, and the finished product obtained is not very delicious, at most it is to remove that layer of fishy smell, and the color is also half yellow and not white, and even half yellow and not white can be regarded as perfect, but it is such sea salt, which sells very hot.

Because it is cheap, the shipment is large.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, and the peasants and serfs use Desmond's low-grade salt, and I don't look down on those lowly guys in Great Britany, but even the nobles use your low-grade salt, aren't you forcing me to commit suicide!

But the Duke of Xiao Tang said that he was innocently shot, after all, not every nobleman is as rich as him, and he can casually throw out a large sum of money to satisfy his appetite, most of the nobles are actually quite hard, to support the army to develop the territory, from time to time to hold a banquet and contact his subordinates to have a relationship, the landlord's family has no surplus food, can save a little is a little!

Like the other aristocrats in Ireland, they all look like they see through the red dust and enjoy only in the present day, aren't they all still eating your high-grade Breton salt?

"That's different."

"Then tell me what's the difference."

Holding back his anger, Mathias continued to say this to the little Tang Duke, but he was choked back by the little Tang Dagong's words, yes, what's the difference, there are contacts that are business, and now there are just competitors, which have an impact on your business, so you rushed over to threaten me, instead of thinking about how to increase your own production, and deserve to be eliminated in the future.

Thinking like this, the little Tang Grand Duke showed a sneering smile, almost making the dry-mouthed Marseilles directly turn his back on his anger, I said so much about feelings, in your eyes, it is actually no different from a clown performance?

To be honest, Duke Tang thinks that this is much more boring than the clown performance, and the clown performance can still laugh twice, and now it is boring to count the foaming stars spewed by Macaius.

"Merchant, put away your boring show, the issue of salt can be discussed, but first you have to show sincerity, without sincerity, everything is not to be discussed."

Seeing that Marsaius's saliva still had a tendency to splash everywhere, the little Grand Duke of Tang yawned and interrupted directly, hearing this, Matthius's face was red and white for a while, but in the end, he still regained his composure, bowed deeply to the little Grand Duke of Tang, and said: "Yes, Your Excellency, I will convey your will to the Grand Duke of Conuaye." ”

is worthy of being an excellent person among ordinary people, and he can be regarded as knowing how to advance and retreat.

Xiao Tang Dagong commented that his meaning was already obvious, salt is a good thing, everyone wants to monopolize it, but now that they can't monopolize it, they have to cooperate.

I can cooperate with you, after all, once the trade war starts, it will not be good for me to lower the price of salt, and my income will be reduced, but you can't just send a businessman to fool me with empty words, I want to meet someone with enough weight, at least a nobleman or a treasurer with real power, and then I can continue to discuss the future issues with you. If you don't see this person, then the trade war is a trade war, anyway, I still have paper and honey, the two things that print money, and you only have one salt, why don't you bet on who can't hold it first?

That's it, Marselius, who knew the time and knew the advance and retreat, got a clear request from the Grand Duke of Little Tang, and he didn't want to waste a second, and after giving another salute, he hurriedly retreated, and the spies who had been lurking around them reported that they planned to rush back to Breton overnight and report the matter here to the Grand Duke of Conoille.

"Is time money? Only at this point, he still has the demeanor of a businessman. ”

The little Tang Grand Duke sighed like this, and then said to Klein, who had been standing by his side and did not move: "Call all the merchants in Scotland, I have to fight quickly, otherwise I will not be able to return to the castle before dark." ”

Ps: The salt drying method in this chapter is adapted from the sea salt drying technology of Xiangshan County, Zhejiang Province, the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage, but due to the limited space, I personally do not know about the salt drying, if there is anything wrong, please correct.