Chapter 20: A Hot Business
"How much does this iron pot cost?" A middle-aged Spanish woman squatted beside the crew's stall and asked, pointing to an iron pot.
Zhang Chi's eyes widened, looking at this Spanish woman blankly, he couldn't understand what she was saying?
"Xiucai, Xiucai!" Zhang Chi shouted Ren Siqi, and only Ren Siqi could understand Spanish on the entire Fuchun.
"Dear lady, what do you want?" Ren Siqi said politely.
"God, it's great that you can speak Spanish. I want to ask how to sell this iron pot? The Spanish woman said.
Ren Siqi translated her words to Zhang Chi, Zhang Chi spent a penny of silver when he bought this iron pot, he thought about it and stretched out three fingers, meaning to ask for three coins.
"He said that this iron pot costs three taels of silver." Ren Siqi said to the Spanish women. The flabby eyes next to him bulged suddenly.
"Three taels of silver, but I only have silver coins here, how many silver coins should it be?" The Spanish woman untied a bag from her body and poured out a handful of silver coins.
Ren Siqi picked up a silver coin and saw an eagle printed on one side of the silver coin, which should be the famous Eagle Ocean.
It weighs more than 20 grams by hand.
"Dear lady, your silver coin weighs about twenty grams." "No, it's a real Mexican eagle, it weighs twenty-seven grams." The Spanish woman corrected.
"Okay, it's just twenty-seven grams, you know that one pound is five hundred grams, one tael of silver is fifty grams, and three taels is one hundred and fifty grams, which is about five eagles and more, so you can give five eagles." Ren Siqi pretended to be generous. In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, the hexadecimal system was implemented, and one tael of silver was not fifty grams, but only thirty-seven grams.
The Spanish woman did not bargain, threw down the five eagles and took the iron pot and left.
Holding the Ying Yang in his hand in disbelief, Zhang Chi couldn't speak for a long time, he really couldn't imagine that the iron pot he bought for a penny of silver had increased more than thirty times.
Just when he was in a daze, Ren Siqi had already been pulled away by other crew members, and they also needed translators. Zhang Chi hurriedly picked up Ren Siqi, and couldn't help but stuff an eagle into Ren Siqi's arms.
Ren Siqi became the busiest person in the crew, because everyone needed him as a translator, after all, he couldn't do business just by making gestures.
Ren Siqi also lived up to expectations, and the price of all the business negotiated by him was several times higher than the asking price of the crew, which made the crew members happy.
The Spaniards were so rich that they occupied Mexico and produced one-third of the world's silver mines, while Luzon had been materially scarce for more than a year, which caused prices in Manila to be extremely high, and even if Ren Siqi doubled the asking price, it was still within the range of the Spaniards.
In the end, Ren Siqi, who took the trouble to set the price of each product, wrote it on paper in Spanish, and when the Spaniard asked, he picked up the paper and let him see it, which made him much more relaxed.
Mao 18 led his four pirates (originally five, one died in the naval battle) and Xiong Er, carrying twenty horses of silk and satin, to the dock slowly, and set up a stall in an open place.
Among the twenty horses of silk, there are five horses of Ren Siqi, and of course they must be more attentive to their business.
Twenty horses of colorful satin were neatly arranged on a thick layer of oilcloth, and several Spanish women immediately came up and touched the smooth and delicate satin.
Ming silk was always the most popular commodity in the West, and although the Spanish colony of Mexico also produced silk, they also learned to raise silkworms and weave silk. However, the cost of the silk they produced is much higher than that of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is shipped from the Ming Dynasty to Mexico by thousands of miles, the intermediate price has increased several times, and the price is much cheaper than the local silk produced in Mexico, and the quality is more than a step higher.
"How do you sell this?" A Spanish woman in her forties fell in love with a royal blue satin embroidered with a large peony pattern that amazed her.
"Madame, you have such a good eye, do you want the whole horse?" Ren Siqi asked.
"No, I want to make a dress, a dress."
"If you want to make flowers for a skirt, you need at least a foot of material." Ren Siqi looked at her bucket-like figure and said, "Madam, you can buy the whole one, so that you can make at least three sets of skirts." ”
Ren Siqi didn't want to sell it for nothing, after all, it would be a lot of trouble to tear the silk and sell it.
"No, no, I can't just wear one color." The Spanish woman pulled the blue satin apart and pulled it out about three meters long, "That's what I want." ”
A piece of silk is more than three feet long, and what she has to sell is about one-third of a horse.
"These cost ten eagles." Ren Siqi thought about it for a while and gave a price. The purchase price of this silk in Hangzhou is only one or two dollars, and ten eagles are about eight taels of silver, but they can only buy one-third of the silk, and the price has increased by more than 20 times.
"The price is expensive! I think it's only worth eight eagles. This Spanish woman will actually reduce the price, and pull Ren Siqi to talk endlessly, saying that in Spain, such silk can't be sold so expensive.
Ren Siqi couldn't entangle her, so he had to sell eight Yingyang to her.
Mao Eighteen smiled and pulled out the long knife, and cut off the silk with a "swish".
"Brother Xiucai, I can't imagine that your heart is really black." Mao Eighteen smiled and whispered in Ren Siqi's ear.
"Could it be that Brother Eighteen you are kind and want to sell it to them cheaper?"
"The kindness of the fart, it's good to slaughter them!" Mao Eighteen said with a smile.
"Excuse me, how do you sell this, silk?" A female voice interrupted the conversation, and to their surprise, the voice spoke in Chinese, albeit stammering.
When he looked up, he saw a Spanish girl in a white dress standing in front of them.
With long wavy blond hair, a snow-white face that can be broken by blowing, dark blue eyes like the sea, and bright red lips on the bridge of her nose, this is a very beautiful Spanish girl.
Mao 18 and Ren Siqi were stunned all of a sudden, in Mao 18's eyes, all Fanbang women were hateful, far less good-looking than Ming women, but this Spanish girl broke Mao Eighteen's inherent thinking, it turned out that Fanbang women are also good-looking! It turns out that beauty has no borders, and of course Mao 18 can't say such philosophical words.
In Ren Siqi's eyes, this Spanish girl looks a lot like Kate Winslet, the heroine of the Titanic, but she is much younger than Kate Winslet.
She is twenty years old at most, her body is full of youthful breath, and a faint fragrance emanates from her body that goes straight to the tip of her nose, it smells so good, Ren Siqi is a little intoxicated.