"No, Your Excellency, I absolutely cannot accept your price. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Unlike paper and honey, blue dye has appeared in this world for a long time for an unknown number of years, and its value is clear to everyone, let alone these merchants, so at that time, when the little Tang Grand Duke proposed a very low price, the Scottish merchants led by him didn't think about it, and directly waved their hands and refused the discussion of the little Tang Grand Duke.

"But no matter how expensive it is, you can't ship it out, can you?"

It's a pity that the little Tang Grand Duke's fluttering words almost choked the Scottish merchant to death, but the Scottish businessman thought about it for a long time, and he couldn't hold back a word against the little Tang Grand Duke.

Because what the little Tang Grand Duke said was the truth.

Scotland is located between the mountain peaks, known as the highlander tribe, the overlapping mountains have certainly developed the Scots are not afraid of death, brave character, but also Scotland's largest natural barrier, throughout the ages, any invader has to bow down in the lofty mountains of Scotland, which is prohibitive. However, there is also a disadvantage that there are too many mountains, there is no port.

Of course, this is not to say that Scotland does not really have any ports, but compared to England and Ireland, there are too few ports in Scotland. What's more, the Inner Hebrides are still under the control of the Vikings, Glasgow, one of the three major ports, is now only a flat land, Edinburgh is useless, and Aberdeen, the only one that can trade with the outside world, has been blockaded by the Normans.

Not bad at all, it was indeed blocked by the Normans. Although several years have passed, and large-scale land wars have stopped, King William still can't let go of the fact that the King of Scotland stabbed him in the back, causing him to almost destroy the country. What's more, King William even contacted his Scandinavian countrymen, and countless poor and crazy Vikings willingly acted as pawns, and only needed to pay a little protection money, King William agreed to act as their umbrella......

Really, the East India Company, privateering licenses, sure enough, no matter what era, the British will always be the same bad character.

At that time, hearing such news from England from the spy, the little Duke Tang was stunned, but he could only sigh in private, and at the same time, his vigilance against King William went up a notch.

Such a guy who is completely eclectic, doesn't care about any bullshit rules, is bold and meaningless, and can do what he wants, is really too dangerous!

But if King William knew the thoughts of the little Tang Duke, he would definitely point at the little Tang and roar angrily: "It's not all you bastard!" ”

Well, it's actually not bad to say that it was the Duke of Xiao Tang, so classmate Xiao Tang, you are really a man of great sin.

In order not to let Xiao Tang shout that he was wronged, I would better explain the reason - in order to defeat King William, Xiao Tang, who was still an earl, contacted the King of France and the King of Scotland and invited them to attack England together, and the final result can only be said that King William won a disastrous victory with his superb command skills and the ballista car he got from the Earl of Little Tang.

The meaning of this disastrous victory is that if there are no accidents, the three parties are afraid that it will be another lost decade, and it will be necessary to wait until the next generation of young people grow up to have enough soldiers to use.

However, there is a surprise here, and that is that King William, whether he wants to admit it or not, in distant and cold Scandinavia, there are brave and warlike Vikings for him to drive, as long as he ...... He can drop a little bit of discipline......

So King William did not hesitate to sell the festival, recruited a large number of reinforcements from his countrymen two hundred years ago, the coastline was long, and he had to bypass France in the Strait of Brittany...... May God bless them.

However, although it seems that all the benefits are in reality at the moment, there are many disadvantages of invisibility, and the most important one is that King William's reputation is even worse.

Fame is something you can't see or touch, but it does exist, because of the sad and tearful speed of information spread in the Middle Ages, a good reputation is enough to attract more talents, more knights, more merchants, and more monarchs willing to cooperate with you, and it will be faster to increase the power of the country; And once your reputation deteriorates, these benefits mentioned above basically have nothing to do with you.

Not only that, but since King William fought with almost all the surrounding kings, the punitive tariffs on trade alone could punish him to cry, and the reason why he sent Vikings to rob was actually helpless, no way, if he didn't rob, he wouldn't even be able to get enough goods!

By the way, now King William's biggest trading partner is the Little Tang Grand Duke, the Little Tang Grand Duke is equivalent to a transit station, those speculative, smuggling merchants can sell goods to England to make a lot of money without risking their heads, and the Little Tang Grand Duke can also take advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money, both sides are happy, and the only depressed may be King William.

That's it, although these Scottish businessmen are very reluctant, they also have to admit that what the little Tang Grand Duke said is really not wrong at all.

"Wisdom is as great as you think, and the humble villain can guess one or two, you want woad grass, which is nothing more than a fancy to the huge profit of dye."

A few Scottish businessmen made eye contact, and finally stood at the front of the opening, and at the beginning they flattered the little Tang Grand Duke greatly, whether it is useful or not, there is no one in this world who does not like to listen to good words.

"But my lord, you also know that the dye is really profitable, although woad grass is a thing that can be seen everywhere, but if you buy it on a large scale, you will definitely not be able to hide it from the king and the nobles, if we do this business, we will first have to come up with a large sum of money to open up the joints, and the price you paid is really not even enough for us to get back!"

After the flattery, there was a complaint, this Scottish businessman was quite smart, and he did not directly refuse to sweep the face of the Duke of Xiao Tang, but objectively described the difficulties from the side, which made people feel convincing when they heard it.

But the Duke of Xiao Tang is only a vague smile, this kind of small means, I don't know what it will develop into in the future, we have seen a lot of knowledge, I want to be fooled, it's a thousand years early! Woad grass, woad grass, all with a grass word, how valuable can it be? For these merchants, it is nothing more than the cost of hiring a few peasants, and the rest is net profit, and besides, they are capable of doing national trade, and you tell me that you don't have the support of a few nobles or even kings behind you, do you think I can believe it?

Having said all that, it's not like you want to raise the price.

"Of course, I also think about your difficulties, in fact, the price I just told you is the external price, and for you, of course, you have to use other prices."

Xiao Tang raised a finger and said mysteriously, other businessmen were immediately attracted, internal price and external price, these two new terms immediately aroused all the attention of businessmen, and even businessmen with flexible brains just found new business opportunities from these two terms - but to put it bluntly, that is, to give kickbacks.

"You all have the support of your own nobles behind you - don't be in a hurry to deny it, yes or no, I'm just saying this, just listen to it - the price I just gave should actually be the bottom line of the nobles behind you, and not a penny of money has flowed into your hands, so you say that you are trading at a loss."

The Scottish merchants who were ashamed of what the little Tang Grand Duke said were embarrassed, but the lie he just told was suddenly exposed, but being a businessman has to be thick-skinned, so none of them blushed.

"The price just now, although you regard it as the lowest price, it is specially used to coax the backers behind you, but in fact, for every wagon of woad grass you transport, I add 2 gold coins, and for every boatload of woad grass, I add 20 gold coins, how, these are all pure profits that belong to you, and they can be held tightly in your hands and do not need to be handed over to anyone."

The price of this rebate, to be honest, is really not low, with a gold coin worth 1400RMB, a carriage of rebates turned out to be 2800, if you count once really traded, the carriage every day does not know how much, it is really profitable, and now I don't know how many people are willing to do this business.

However, once the profit of dyes is taken into account, then it is not unacceptable, besides, this can be regarded as a cross-border trade, and it is normal to be a little more expensive - the most important thing is that the rebates are enough, these businessmen can work harder, and they can take the initiative to settle the people behind them without the urging of the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang, in case someone finds out - I mean that if the desire for profit wants to betray, they will also take the initiative to remove the betrayer, I don't know how much trouble they have saved.

"How, what do you think of my suggestion?"

As soon as this statement of the Grand Duke of Xiao Tang came out, it suddenly made the Scottish businessmen into a pot of porridge, and eating kickbacks is really too despicable, too shameless, too indecent, and too ...... It's enviable.

Coach, give me a bite too!

So, after all the Scottish merchants quarreled, fight, and even duel, and watched such a good show for free, the little Tang Grand Duke yawned and asked the opinions of the merchants who had finally finished the discussion, and although the Scottish merchants led by him had a blue nose and swollen face, and looked quite embarrassed, he even had a gold coin in his eyes, and nodded without hesitation, and said:

"Deal!"