Under Li Guozhu's courteous stay, Ren Siqi and others stayed in Hirado for several days, eating, drinking and playing every day, and their lives were extremely chic. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the end, he was still worried about the two ships, so Ren Siqi took his farewell and left Hirado with a few people by boat.

All the goods were sold, and Ren Siqi felt relaxed. On this trip to Japan, the two ships brought 1,600 taels of raw silk, and sold them at a price of 350 taels each, and sold more than 500,000 taels of silver for this item, and went to the purchase price of raw silk at 80 taels per load, earning more than 400,000 pieces of silver. In this way, this trip to Japan earned at least 400,000 taels. As for the silver that should be given to Li Qiankuan, the prefect of Hangzhou, Ren Siqi did not plan to give it at all.

The profits of sea trade can be seen in general, but Ren Siqi is not the person who makes the most money. Zheng Zhilong, who dominates the Japanese route, is said to have a harvest of millions of taels of silver every year, and the silver he earns is more than the annual treasury income of the Ming Dynasty.

Qiyun Trading House made a lot of money, each crew member had a share, everyone was elated, and Anthony and Xiong Er and the others laughed from ear to ear. As for how much dividends each person should share, Qiyun Commercial Bank has its own rules.

Although the goods have been sold, they cannot return to Zhejiang now, because it is the southeast monsoon, and they must wait until winter and the northwest monsoon to start before they can leave Japan. This is the case with sail-driven seagoing vessels, which are difficult to move on the sea without a monsoon.

Since he still had to stay in Japan for a while, Ren Siqi restrained the crew and announced that half of the crew must be on board at all times. The goods were transported out of the cabin one by one, and the silver was packed into the bilge one by one, and there were not enough people left behind, so Ren Siqi was not at ease at all.

The sea ships from the Ming Dynasty also arrived in Nagasaki one after another, dozens of merchant ships came in more than ten days, Nagasaki Port was lively again, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hokkien, Cantonese in Nagasaki one after another, mixed with Japanese and occasionally a few Dutch words, the whole Nagasaki seemed to have become an international metropolis.

The price of raw silk did not fall, because the total number of ships from Daming this year was less than in previous years, but it did not rise much, because when it rose to three hundred and eighty taels, a batch of mysterious raw silk was put into the market, which suppressed the overall price, making the price quickly fall back to about three hundred and fifty taels. Ren Siqi suspected that this batch of raw silk was his 1,600 quintals, which were jointly purchased by Matsupu Dong and Li Guozhu, and the two of them each earned at least tens of thousands of taels between buying and selling. I'm still too young to have the two old foxes scheming at all.

Depressed, Ren Siqi often went in and out of Matsuura Dong's mansion to ravage his daughter Ayako.

The maritime merchants from the Ming Dynasty also knew that a Xiucai came from Zhejiang and brought raw silk to two large ships of Japan, and someone came to visit Ren Siqi. Ren Siqi naturally warmly welcomed and paid a return visit one by one.

In July, Nagasaki was approached by an oversized ship, a five-masted ship with five tall masts soaring into the sky, and its fluttering sails obscuring the sky, and all the ships in the harbor were like children and adults, and even the three armed Dutch merchant ships were nowhere near as large.

At the top of the middle mast floated a red flag, on which the word "Zheng" was embroidered with black thread.

"This is Zheng Zongbing's ship, could it be that Zheng Zongbing personally went to Japan?"

"No, Zheng Zongbing is now in a high position, how can he come to Japan in person?"

There was a lot of talk in Nagasaki. Could it be that Zheng Zhilong went to Japan in person? Ren Siqi and Mao Eighteen looked at each other.

"I'll have to visit in person." Ren Siqi said. Mao Eighteen nodded, and it was rare that he did not object. Zheng Zhilong's power is too great, although Fu Chun, the former proprietor of Mao Eighteen, and Zheng Zhilong do not deal with each other, but at present, if Qiyun Commercial Bank wants to do business in Japan safely, it must flatter Zheng Zhilong.

At that moment, a few gifts were prepared, and Ren Siqi carried a musket and took the heavily armed Mao Shiba, Xiong Er, Anthony and Li Xingjiu to Zheng Zhilong's ship by boat to pay a visit.

When I went up the deck from the gangway, I found that there were already many acquaintances waiting, most of whom were the owners of the ship I had known these days.

"Ren Xiucai is also here, come on, I'll introduce you to a few brothers." Zeng Mou, the owner of the ship from Jinhua, Zhejiang, was very enthusiastic and pulled Ren Siqi to introduce him.

Zeng's group of people are all maritime businessmen from Zhejiang, and they are naturally enthusiastic when they see Ren Siqi as a fellow countryman, especially after hearing Zeng say that Ren Siqi is a scholar with a reputation for showing talent, he is even more respectful. After Ren Siqi greeted everyone, everyone started talking. Ren Siqi learned that the owner of the ship was not Zheng Zhilong himself, but Zheng Zhilong's brother Zheng Hongkui.

"Zheng Hongkui was born in Wujinshi, and he is the commander of the official worship Jinyi Guard, I don't know why he has the leisure to come to Japan?" A maritime trade road. Everyone shook their heads in confusion.

"Alas, the first to be introduced are all maritime merchants from Fujian, and we Zhejiang people may have to wait last." Another maritime road.

"Who makes the family powerful, you can't do it if you don't stammer." The third maritime merchant said helplessly.

A group of people were talking, and suddenly a voice sounded in Ren Siqi's ears.

"You, but, Qiyun Firm, the owner?" A high-nosed, deep-eyed, red-haired Dutchman stood behind Ren Siqi and said to Ren Siqi in stammering Daming official language.

"Exactly! I don't know what to say? Ren Siqi said coldly. He had dealt with the Dutch many times, and the two sides could not resolve the feud.

"I'm Gilt the captain of the Princess, how did the Shark end up in your hands, you must give me an explanation!" The Dutchman Geert said to Ren Siqi seriously.

"What explanation do you want? Your ship failed to rob it, but it was captured by me and became my ship, what explanation do you need? Ren Siqi said disdainfully.

Seeing the conflict between Ren Siqi and the Dutch, the deck suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at this side with blazing eyes.

"You're lying! We are serious businessmen, how can we do pirate things, you must have resorted to conspiracy. Geert exclaimed angrily.

"Are you serious businessmen? If you are serious businessmen, then all of you are saints! Ren Siqi sneered.

"Haha, haha." Ren Siqi's words caused all the Ming merchants on the deck to laugh. None of the people who go to sea think that they are good people, and the identities of everyone are both maritime merchants and pirates, and they are not offended by Ren Siqi's words. Seeing that Ren Siqi dared to compete with the Dutch, they all secretly praised his boldness, so they automatically took the stage.

Geert knew that the Ming people present were laughing at him, so he became even more angry.

"I warn you that you must hand over the Shark to me at once, and compensate the dead and wounded Dutch crew."

"What if I don't?" Ren Siqi sneered.

"If you don't agree, don't think about leaving Japan safely, I'll be waiting for you outside Nagasaki and sink your ship to the bottom of the sea!" Geert's threat silenced the deck. Everyone knows the power of Dutch ships, and only Zheng Zhilong dares to compete with the Dutch by relying on many people and ships, and ordinary maritime merchants are the opponents of the Dutch.

Everyone looked at Ren Siqi quietly, waiting to see his reaction, would he bow to the Dutch?

In everyone's eyes, Ren Siqi smiled slightly, stretched out his right hand, and stretched out a slender middle finger towards Geert!