Liu Ze got up and took the guests to visit the samples of Shu brocade.

"These are ten kinds of brocade...... This is the rain silk brocade...... This is a paving brocade...... This is Fang Fang Jin, and there are Huanhua Jin and Cai Halo Jin over there. ”

Rukaz is worthy of being a silk expert, and after a brief glance and touching it with his hand, he knew the authenticity of the pros and cons, and nodded his head incessantly, saying: "Yes, yes, all of them are of the highest quality, and it is really rare to see such a good thing on the market now." Shopkeeper Liu, you make a price, I want all this batch of goods. ”

Liu Ze was puzzled: "The stock of the small shop is limited, there are only fifty horses left today, and if Mr. Rukaz wants them all, there will be no goods to sell when it opens today, which seems to be a bit inappropriate." ”

"Shopkeeper Liu, we don't lie in front of real people, only fifty horses of Shu satin, I haven't seen it yet, since I want to buy it, I want all the goods in the hands of Shopkeeper Liu." Lukaz is very wealthy, and he wants to eat all the Shu brocade in Liu Ze's hand when he opens his mouth.

"Liu has some Shu brocade on hand, but now Shu Road is difficult, traffic isolation, for a while, Liu can't figure out how much the price is appropriate, not only you Mr. Lukaz, yesterday many merchants and local rich businessmen in your country are interested in bidding to buy, I did not agree, if you sell gentlemen, Liu can still stand in Luoyang? It is based on Liu's trade-off, and now only 50 pieces of brocade are produced every day, and after the market price stabilizes, a large number of them will be shipped. At that time, Mr. Liu should welcome Mr. Lukaz and the major merchants of your country. ”

Liu Ze is familiar with the books of war, and there are clouds in the books of war: if you want to capture the old and indulge, the so-called waiting for the price to sell, and the so-called merchants from all over the world come here, they are all smoke bombs. When Lukaz heard this, he was obviously anxious, the batch of Shu brocade in Liu Ze's hand is now a strange commodity in Luoyang City, and if he starts a little later, he is afraid that others will take the lead.

"Shopkeeper Liu is too worried, the current situation of the spot, the price is now calculated, the transaction itself is a matter of your willingness, even if it is expensive, I can't complain about anyone. Shopkeeper Liu, I sincerely want to buy this batch of goods, you can just offer the price. ”

Despite his repeated requests, Liu Ze never spit out the price, Lukaz was anxious, and said: "Shopkeeper Liu, in the past three days, you have started with seven taels of gold, and the daily price has risen by half a percent, and yesterday it closed at eight taels and one money, and today's price must be eight taels and eight dollars, I am willing to bid ten taels of gold to buy all your Shu brocade, how about it?" ”

Buy less at a low price and buy more at a high price, Liu Ze, who is doing this business, wanted to laugh in his heart, but he couldn't help it, thinking that everyone had already bid to ten taels, so he would accept it when he saw it, so he pretended to mutter: "I already understand Mr. Lukaz's sincerity, if you regret to sell again, it is indeed disrespectful, as said, let's make friends." ”

When Lukaz heard that Liu Ze agreed to sell it, and did not raise a higher price, he was overjoyed and said, "I don't know how many Shu brocades the shopkeeper Liu has?" ”

"It's not too many, it's just more than 10,000."

Lukaz was happy and worried, happy that Liu Ze actually had 10,000 Shu brocades in his hands, if he really got this batch of Shu brocade and transported it to Rome, the profit would be ...... I was worried that I thought it would only be a few thousand horses at most, so I didn't prepare so much cash, but I didn't know that Liu Zeken was unwilling to be accommodating.

Liu Ze saw that his face was embarrassed, most likely because he was not so wealthy, so he said: "If Mr. Rukaz is embarrassed, you can take less, and it just so happens that several merchants from your country are also interested in buying." ”

This obvious opportunity to make money Lukaz was willing to give it to others, and hurriedly said: "No, no, I want all this batch of goods, but I came in a hurry today, and I didn't prepare so much gold, and I asked Shopkeeper Liu to give up a grace period of two days, and wait for us to make up the gold and trade again." ”

"Doing business is about credit, a promise, since I have promised Mr. Lukaz, I will not break my promise, don't say it is two days, even five days and ten days."

Lukaz was overjoyed, and with a wave of his hand, the entourage immediately brought in several large boxes, and he said: "Two thousand taels of gold, the right to make a deposit, two days later, we will definitely bring the rest of the gold to trade." ”

The two sides shook hands and said goodbye. This kind of Western etiquette Rukaz has never used when he came to China, and he was very stunned when he saw Liu Ze's outstretched hand, which added a little bit of admiration for this young man.

Sure enough, early in the morning of the third day, Lukaz and his party came to Fuyuan Silk Village early, moved more than a dozen huge wooden boxes into it, counted the gold, and delivered Shu brocade, which was naturally a matter for Jian Yong and Zhang Fei to manage Hai. After transporting 10,000 horses of Shu brocade into the city yesterday, Guan Hai naturally didn't have to stay in the warehouse anymore.

Liu Ze was so happy that he ordered someone to make a pot of tea, chatted with Lukaz, and listened to Lukaz talk about the customs of Persia and the Roman Empire, and couldn't help but be a little fascinated. I heard Rukaz say that the nobles of the Roman kingdom admired the oriental culture, and were very interested in silk, paper, porcelain, and jade from the east, because they were able to travel thousands of miles to sell silk, especially the high-quality Shu brocade, which has always been the object of pursuit by nobles and nobles.

Liu Ze asked with interest: "Since paper, porcelain, and jade are not available in the West, why do you only transport silk and do nothing else?" ”

"We sometimes bring some others, for example, when the fleet has spare vehicles, but porcelain and jade are fragile and not easy to preserve, and the quality of porcelain is uneven, and it is really difficult to buy better quality, and the paper is heavy and the profit is far lower than silk, so silk is our main business, which is why your country calls this road 'Silk Road'."

Until near noon, Jian Yong came forward to report: "The shopkeeper received 80,000 taels of gold, plus a deposit of 20,000 taels, a total of 100,000 taels of gold, 10,000 horses of Shu brocade, and two pieces of money and goods." ”

Rukaz's entourage over there also reported the results in Rukaz's ear, and they couldn't understand a word of the mutter, and it must have been in Persian.

Hearing the news that the goods had been received, Lukaz was full of smiles, and this time he took the initiative to shake hands with Liu Ze to say goodbye.

Zhang Fei looked at the gold piled up all over the place, and said to Guan Hai with a smile: "Brother Guan, when you were a thief, did you see so much gold?" "He no longer calls Guan Hai a black-faced thief, but he likes to be big, obviously Guan Hai is older than him, but he calls him a brother.

Guan Hai didn't think it was wrong, he also seemed to be dazzled by the dazzling brilliance of gold.

"Gongzi is a true god, I made so much money in one trip to Yizhou, even if I rob for a lifetime, I won't see so much gold."

Liu Ze said to Jian Yong: "Jian Yong, do you calculate how much we earned in total on this trip?" ”

Jian Yong was like an iron abacus, thought for a while, and said: "When we first entered Luoyang, we had a total capital of 10,000 taels, 8,000 taels to buy ironware, 1,800 taels of gold, 32,000 taels of gold from selling ironware in Yizhou, 10,000 and 900 horses of Shu brocade, 26,200 taels to be used, 1,500 taels of road expenses, 3,000 taels to buy a store, 10,000 taels of Shu brocade to be sold, 102,500 taels of gold, plus the original balance of 1,500 taels and the remaining 600 horses of Shu brocade were discounted by 6,000 taels, a total of 110,000 taels of gold, After deducting the cost, the profit is a full 100,000 taels. ”

Liu Ze bowed slightly, Jian Yong's calculation was about the same as he estimated, while Zhang Fei and Guan Hai were stunned, 100,000 taels, 100 million copper coins! I made ten times the cost of money, but it took me two months to go to Yizhou.

Zhang Fei exclaimed, "Wow! It's really famous, big brother, you were born to do business, and you made ten times as much money in just two months, so let's go to Yizhou five or six times a year, won't it be even more famous? ”

Liu Ze shook his head and said: "This is the time, luck, people can't always be lucky, I don't plan to do Shu Jin's business anymore." ”

Everyone was stunned, it was really strange that Liu Ze wanted to let go of such a profitable deal.

"Why?" Zhang Fei is anxious and is always the first to ask.

"We have made such a lot of profits on this trip, all because of the cut off of Shu Road, now we can transport out of Shu brocade, others can also, not more than three months, the price of Shu brocade naturally plummeted, meager profits, plus the road is hard, this business is no longer our first choice." Liu Ze was far-sighted, and everyone took it early, and they all thought it was true.

"It's all to blame, big brother, if you don't give the Xiajiang route map to Boss Bai, we can monopolize the Xiajiang shipping and monopolize the Shujin business, why worry about having no business to do now." Zhang Fei couldn't help but be a little discouraged, he missed the opportunity in vain with such a good money-making business, and no one felt comfortable.

Liu Zezheng said: "Xiajiang shipping is related to the livelihood of the people of Yizhou, the livelihood of Yizhou is withered, the production is backward, and the cover is caused by transportation difficulties and poor logistics. I will never do such an unrighteous thing. ”

Jian Yong praised: "Brother Liu is worried about the world, and he always has the heart of helping the world, we can't compare with this kind of mind." Presumably Brother Liu has already had an idea, what business will we do next? ”