Zhu Yuanzhang first asked Xia Erduo to go back to see Li Qingshui, and then chatted with Westerners. ,!

After some in-depth conversations, Zhu Yuanzhang figured out the real name of this foreigner, his full name is Francisco? Paulino? Emene Hildo? Teoduro? Franco? Bamund, no wonder Xu Renjie couldn't report his original name when he introduced him, so he had to call him by his Chinese name "Feng Wuxi". In fact, it is impossible to get an outsider's full name to remember!

The leaders were amazed at his complicated name, and they couldn't figure out how a person could take such a long name.

Zhu Yuanzhang explained to the leaders with a smile: "The name of the Spaniards is usually divided into many sections, the first few sections are their own names, the penultimate sections are their father's surname, and the last section is their mother's surname, and they use this way to express their blood inheritance." ”

"Oh? So that's it! Wang Er smiled innocently: "If I take a Spanish name, I have to be called Wang Er?" King? Wang, uh...... How does this sound weird? ”

Everyone laughed: "So your mother's surname is also Wang?" ”

Xu Renjie followed in a weird way: "Wang ...... Ear...... Woof...... Woof! ”

Everyone was sweating profusely, Wang Er raised his big fist and was about to hit someone, but Xu Renjie flashed behind Xue Hongqi with a swish.

The Westerners felt quite relaxed when they saw that their group of people were smiling and laughing, not as restrained as ordinary Ming Dynasty people. During the Age of Discovery, Westerners came to the Ming Dynasty across the sea, and they did not know much about the customs of the Ming Dynasty, so they were overwhelmed by all kinds of red tape. This Western businessman rarely encountered a group of people from the Ming Dynasty who did not "observe etiquette" very much, and he felt a lot more comfortable.

He smiled and said: "Stop (listen) and say that you have a lot of good (east) and west, can you chop (see) for me......"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said in a low voice: "Come with me." He turned to lead the way, and the Westerners followed curiously, and everyone followed, and everyone came to a huge warehouse, and pushed open the heavy door and walked in, and the foreigners' eyes suddenly lit up. I saw that the celadon ware was piled up into a mountain-like height, and there were many exquisite Shu brocade and Shu embroidery, which were also placed in a pile in the east and west, not to mention the green tea, which was simply thrown on the ground in a sack like worthless garbage.

After Xu Renjie left, Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to buy these things. At present, there are two main food products of Baishui, one is taro, and the other is millet. The taro is not known to the outside world. It's inconvenient to take it out and trade, so everyone keeps it for themselves. Due to the huge production, it is more than enough to eat by himself, and there is no need for other food to satisfy his hunger. Therefore, all the millet harvested by Baishui can be dumped outside in exchange for various materials.

At this time, the impact of the drought was still there, the rice was expensive and the silver was cheap, and the rice they threw out was exchanged for a large number of commodities, and many merchants from Sichuan sold Shu brocade and Shu embroidery to them at a very low price, just in exchange for a little bit of rice. In such a situation, the celadon, green tea, and Shu brocade embroidery in this large warehouse did not cost much.

The Westerner only looked at it and was intoxicated. He lay on his stomach on a large bag of celadon and said in disbelief, "Oh...... Oh, my God...... There's a lot of porcelain here...... Oh my God, you're piling up such a precious work of art like garbage. ”

Isn't that rubbish? In Yaozhou kiln, the price of grain was extremely high due to the drought, and now a handful of rice can be exchanged for countless porcelain bottles. It's just that Yaozhou is also very chaotic, and although Hao Lin'an has been suppressed, there are still small bands of gangsters from time to time. These porcelains were also brought back by the elite soldiers of the "militia group" sent by Zhu Yuanzhang, how dare ordinary businessmen go to that place.

Xu Renjie seems to have said something to this foreigner a long time ago. At this time, he said with a smug face: "I said, we have a lot of porcelain here, as long as you come, you are guaranteed to have a big harvest." ”

The Westerner was drunk for a short time and then woke up. He put on a face to talk about business again, and said with a smile: "Although there are many porcelain, it is far worse than that in Jingdezhen, and the price cannot be too high." ”

Xu Renjie knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was not good at negotiating prices, so he quickly took over the conversation and said: "Although the celadon ware of our Yaozhou kiln is not as famous as that of Jingdezhen, it is special. If you bring these things back to the West, you are the only one who deals in this kind of porcelain, and no other merchant has ...... Are you afraid that you won't be able to sell for a price? ”

Although Xu Renjie didn't understand the later differentiated management, the ancients were not stupid and knew some related theories. When he said this, the Westerners had nothing to say. It makes sense that if he is the only one among the Western merchants who resells celadon, then the profit will be very considerable, and no competition means price monopoly, and at this time Westerners have begun to understand this truth.

Take mirrors as an example, at the beginning of the 14th century, the Venetian people invented the method of making mirrors, and they knew that only by keeping the method of making this thing secret could they make greater profits, so they made a law: whoever leaked the method of making mirrors to foreigners was immediately sentenced to death. Later, the French ambassador took great pains to smuggle the method of making mirrors to France, and only then did he break the monopoly of this thing.

In short, when Westerners were told by Xu Renjie, they knew that they were also knowledgeable businessmen, and it would not work to use the general price reduction method, so he had to say: "It's okay to have a higher price, but you must sign an exclusive license contract with me, and you can't sell these goods to other Western businessmen." ”

"That's fine!" Xu Renjie winked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and the two tacitly agreed. What they want to talk to Westerners about in the future is an arms deal, of course, the less people know about this kind of thing, the better, and the exclusive authorization will be exclusive, anyway, they don't want more Westerners to get involved and leak the news.

At present, the two sides have set a standard that everyone is satisfied with on the exchange of gunpowder and porcelain, Shu brocade and Shu embroidery, and green tea, and agreed to carry out long-term transactions...... In order to obtain greater benefits, they do not care about doing all kinds of things that hurt nature and reason, let alone smuggling arms, even if they smuggle women and children, they have no scruples.

After talking about gunpowder, we began to talk about something further. Xu Renjie glanced left and right, and saw that the people in the warehouse were all his own people, so he no longer had any worries, and stretched out his hand to the Westerner and said, "Feng Wuxi, the new firearm you promised can play with me." ”

Wind Without a Trace laughed and didn't answer him.

Xu Renjie walked to the pile of goods, pointed to a bundle of Shu brocade, and said seriously: "Give me that thing, this pile is yours." ”

"That's not enough!" Feng Wuxian said with a smile: "A (plus) a bunch of more." ”

Xu Renjie blushed and had a thick neck, stood angrily for a long time, and said helplessly: "Okay, two piles." ”

Everyone was curious, what was it that made Xu Renjie not even dare to talk about the price, and he wanted to get his hands on it? I saw that the Westerner opened a bag he was carrying, and took out a golden firebolt from it, which was several times more gorgeous than an ordinary firebolt just by looking at its appearance, and the handle was actually inlaid with gold and silver......

Of course, this bit of gold and silver is only a few taels, and the two bundles of Shu brocade that Xu Renjie promised to foreigners are worth at least a few hundred taels of silver, and it is definitely a loss to exchange this gold and silver. Everyone widened their eyes and looked carefully, only to see Xu Renjie take the firecracker, proudly raised it in his hand, and then everyone finally saw clearly, the biggest difference between this firearm and ordinary firecrackers is not that it is inlaid with gold and silver, but that there is something similar to a turntable on the back of its head.

The Westerner said proudly: "This is a fire-firing musket, it does not need to burn the fire rope, it only needs to pull the trigger, and it can shoot bullets." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled and said: "What kind of treasure should I be, it turned out to be an exposed revolver musket." ”

As soon as he said this, the proud smiling faces of Westerners seemed to be punched head-on. He just saw Xu Renjie's hillbilly-like expression, and he was proud, but he was suddenly broken by Zhu Yuanzhang's words, as if the old bottom was debunked. But he quickly perked up, the Ming Dynasty could not have known what it was, and this thing was also the latest firearm in Europe.

He looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and asked, "Do you know this kind of firebolt?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "Of course I know that this is the revolver rifle invented by the watchmaker Johann Geeves in Nuremberg, Germany in 1517 AD, which is divided into three types: completely exposed, hidden, and exposed...... The built-in type has good protection, and the runner is not easy to be damaged by accidents, but it is more difficult to clean up the gunpowder residue after launch. The exposed type is easy to clean, but because the runner is exposed, it is easy to stumble and break......"

This explanation slapped the Westerner in the face again, and he exclaimed: "Oh, this can't be! You can't possibly know that. ”

"But I just know." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "Okay, don't make a fuss, let's hurry up and teach Xu Yuanwai how to use this firecracker, otherwise he will die in a hurry." ”

At this time, Xu Renjie was really anxious, he jumped up and down with a revelor musket, but he just didn't know how to use it, scratching his ears and disturbing strontium, he really looked like a monkey. The Westerner deliberately did not open his mouth and watched from the side.

I saw Zhu Yuanzhang walk over and skillfully teach Xu Renjie to load ammunition, and then teach him to pull the trigger with his fingers to shoot bullets.

"It's amazing, every militia leader in the Ming Dynasty is so powerful?" The Westerner stroked his chest and said in disbelief: "There are not many people in Europe who know how to use this kind of firecracker. ”

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