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At the end of April, with the continuous flow of Australian mirrors and exquisite glass products, the coastal people and fishermen have become more aware of the existence of Australia.

Especially in Guangdong and Fujian, with more and more Australian goods entering the area, with more or less secret immigration in the two places, some careful people have discovered that something is wrong.

In Quanzhou City, the original Zheng family courtyard has been bought by Zhang Tianwen for 1,000 taels of silver, as the office location of the Consulate of the Republic of Australia in Daming, the Zheng family in order to show their close cooperation with Australia, originally wanted to give the house to Zhang Tianwen, but under Zhang Tianwen's repeated shirk, in the end only let the other party give a symbolic 1,200 taels of silver.

Australian glass mirror has become the abbreviation of Australia, now Zhao De in Guangdong has relied on the mirror business provided by Australians to get bigger and bigger, the store has been from the past five to the current ten, just like the scale of the landlord's old wealth.

Now Zhao De is no longer running Batavia or Christmas Island in person, but staying in Guangzhou City as a big shopkeeper, personally managing the business of each store, and the three sea ships have been handed over to his nephew Zhao San to manage.

After hearing that Zhao De had money, he was very grateful to the Australians, and often said to his concubine at home that all this was given by the Australians, but the most grateful thing was the fog, if it wasn't for the fog that made him go in the wrong direction and meet the old Australian, he would not have today's achievements.

Mirrors, a high-priced cherished commodity, have changed from the initial rarity to the current monthly on-time supply, although the amount of money put into the market to a certain extent has increased, but the money earned is indeed getting less and less, which also makes Zhao De have to pay attention to controlling the monthly shipments.

In addition to the control of the amount of mirrors put into the market, Zhao De also began to plan for his business, as a businessman, he can basically foresee that the price of mirrors in a few years will definitely not be as high as now, even if the price of each mirror is still tens of thousands of taels of silver, but obviously everyone has not accepted it.

According to the regional agent qualifications of Australians, the Zheng family in Fujian has the agency rights in several provinces such as Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui and other provinces in addition to Guangdong, and the Zheng family gets far more than Zhao De in a year, to a certain extent, the Zheng family in order to monopolize the trade of mirrors, and even lower than the price difference of 500 to 2,000 taels, which is such a price difference, which directly makes buyers more willing to spend more money to go to Fujian.

Don't look at it as just a few hundred taels, it's nothing for a dignitary who can buy a mirror, but there is often a comparison in people's psychology.

Guangzhou City, in the newly built mansion of the Zhao family, after several months of renovation, it has been moved in, which is more luxurious than the original, Zhao San walked from the front hall to the back hall with a wooden box in his hand.

The third shopkeeper is here, the lord is waiting for you at dawn, the official family of the Zhao Mansion, seeing that Zhao San is coming, he is very respectful and greeted, don't look at him as an official of the Zhao Mansion, but he has not been here for a long time, and this Zhao San is the most important one among the sons and nephews of the Zhao family, managing the most important sea ship transportation of the Zhao family, and several little grandmothers of the Zhao family also respect him very much.

"Sanzi, what are the fresh goods when you come back this time, look at you holding a wooden box, it must be fresh goods from Australia again."

Zhao De saw Zhao San holding a small wooden box in his hand and guessed that it must be fresh goods from Australia again, and in the past, Australian goods were packaged in wooden boxes.

"Uncle, you are really a god, this time there is indeed a fresh goods, the Australians drove a Western ship out, this time there are not many goods, just this, I bought it from a Spanish merchant at a high price."

"High price, you open it and let me see," Zhao De stood up from the Taishi chair, he knew that Zhao San generally didn't buy things indiscriminately, let alone Australian goods, with the relationship between himself and the Australians, he didn't need to buy from the Spaniards at all.

The wooden box opened, and a milky white statue of Jesus appeared in front of Zhao De's eyes: "This is the god worshiped by the red-haired and Dutch, I have seen this image, but the milky white glass statue is the first time I have seen it." ”

Zhao De is also well-informed, and he recognized the statue of Jesus at once, if it were an ordinary Ming businessman, I am afraid that he would really not be able to see it.

"It's new from Australia."

"Yes, uncle, this is the new goods brought by the Australians this time, Lord Zhao of Australia said, this time the statue of Jesus brought less, so he will not give it to us, the main sales objects of this batch of goods are the Spaniards and the Dutch, and we can't sell much." Zhao Sanyuan told Zhao Shijie's words to Zhao De.

"Well, this thing is indeed difficult to sell in Daming, but if it is replaced by my Daming gods, it will be different, those Bodhisattvas worshiped by dignitaries and dignitaries have jade and ceramics, but there is no such glass." Zhao De is worthy of being a qualified businessman, and he can say these words immediately when he sees something, which shows that he is not only relying on Australian goods, but also has a more long-term vision that he can think of at any time.

"Sanzi, what do you think, tell your uncle."

"Uncle, didn't you just say, if this thing is replaced by the gods that my Ming people believe in, the price will definitely be better than the mirror, and as long as we order before the Zheng family, just like the Australians often say, the first pot of gold must be ours."

"Well, yes, the tempering in the past few months has really improved, and the ability to deal with things is more far-reaching, it seems that my Zhao family is not without a chance to become big, as long as your second brother is the top student in high school, maybe it will really compete with the Zheng family in more than ten years." Zhao De nodded with satisfaction, extremely satisfied that the nephew he brought out with his own hands could have such understanding.

Although Zhao De, who was deeply suppressed by the Zheng family, had more respect for the Zheng family on the surface, as he became more and more dissatisfied, he became more and more dissatisfied in his heart, and he had already given birth to the idea of confronting the Zheng family.

"Uncle, as long as we have more than ten years, we will be able to develop the strength of the Zheng family, and then the Zheng family will not be able to control my Zhao family."

"Yes, the Zheng family was only born as pirates, and my Zhao family can be regarded as an heirloom, but I just didn't seize the opportunity before, but now it's different, we have boarded the big ship of the Australians."

"Yes, uncle, you are right, as long as you follow the Australians, you will definitely be better." Zhao San said with great agreement.

"Sanzi, having said that, but outside, you still have to keep a low profile, you must not be arrogant, and expose it too early, otherwise it will only be a snake swallowing an elephant." Zhao De finally carefully advised (the novel "Crossing 1640" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )