Caesar didn't think about the Grand Duke of Moscow after all, but he thought about smoothing out the good places around him.

Shira-Ming Crane is not in a hurry to convince Caesar that this kind of thing should come slowly.

Go on vacation.

In his previous life, he always wanted to come to the Mediterranean, and he read a few thick books of travel brochures alone, but unfortunately, he had no money when he had time, and no time when he had money.

The Aegean Sea, a picturesque and romantic place, is said to be the best place to date a little lover.

Five large ships headed for the most beautiful island in the Aegean Sea. Of course, there may be something more beautiful than this island, and the island on Aegean is not the most beautiful, only more beautiful. I think that in the future, the local tyrants of Dubai drove yachts and went to sea with dozens of beauties, and I don't know how many ordinary people they envied.

The white crane ......, don't compare, this is not comparable, it is no longer on the same level.

The difference, of course, is that there are no bikinis here!

The white crane went to sea to play, but the officials of the Ming Dynasty could not be idle. Yue Zheng took Su Muyun, a merchant who was a close confidant of the white crane, who was the same Su Muyun who helped the blue sea train the Japanese people in Wa Island, and this person began to learn the language of the Byzantines when the Byzantines had just arrived in the Ming Dynasty.

Greek, not the lingua franca of Europe, can be used as the main language of communication here.

"Lord Yue!" Su Muyun followed behind, and his voice was not loud.

Yue Zheng's steps are still very fast, he has something on his mind, and it is a very heavy matter. On the one hand, there is morality, and on the other hand, there is the expectation in his heart, so he has always struck a balance between the two. Even if he has already said cruel things to Bai Minghe, when he really wants to start doing it, it is still difficult to make up his mind for this degree.

Degree! A very interesting word, the most important thing in Daming officialdom is, degree!

"Lord Yue!" Su Muyun shouted again.

"Ahh Mr. Sue! Yue Zheng stopped and nodded slightly.

"The businessmen want to talk to Lord Yue, and of course they want to see Lord Bai even more." Su Muyun said softly.

Yue Zheng didn't understand too much, is there a difference? This kind of trivial matter is also worth alarming again, of course, the white crane is still ...... at the moment. Yue Zheng scolded in his heart, what is this. Long live can't you give the white crane a promotion? I am a fourth-grade official, and the white-named crane is still a sixth-grade official.

Thinking about it like this, Yue Zheng also reacted: "They are afraid of their own officials, are they afraid? ”

"My lord, that's what I mean to be honest, but the villain also understands that let Lord Yue preside over this matter, so it is estimated that Lord Bai means that there is some restraint!"

"Okay, right now. Talk to the businessmen. Just send three or five representatives. Yue Zheng had also been waiting for the opportunity for the merchants to talk in detail, after all, this was the first time to trade with Europe on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, and these merchants had also experienced trade with Da Nang, Wa Island, and Goryeo.

Su Muyun made arrangements, and soon the businessmen sent representatives.

In fact, there were no three or five people at all, only one person, Wang Fulin.

"My lord, Brother Su!" Wang Fulin came in and clasped his fists and saluted. After Yue Zheng and Su Muyun returned the salute, all parties sat down.

Three people. They sat at three tables, and next to them sat two small scribes who were in charge of taking notes. All three of them had a small book in front of them. Everyone also has two pens on hand, and then only one teacup.

"Let's start with the first item, the supplies that need to be shipped back. Ivory, silver, some spices obtained from Africa. Here's a list for the Qing people to look at. Of course, the most important one is, people! ”

Mention people. Yue Zheng was a little nervous in his heart, after all, this was the first time that human traffickers had been in business.

But who would have thought, Wang Fulin had already said: "Lord Yue, this person is not a cargo, but a passenger." Our Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette. Trafficking as a slave is not allowed. The Ottomans fought everywhere, killing many people and sacking many villages, and most of them were young men and young women. ”

"Yes!" Yue Zheng nodded, he had a number of points, and the number was indeed large.

I heard that there are tens of thousands of young women in just one ethnic group called Ukraine. I don't know how the Ottoman Empire dealt with this, but it was rescued when the port was attacked, of course, it was called rescue.

Their homeland was still under Ottoman occupation, so no one wanted to go back.

"Adults, who own private property, receive dowry, and children have the corresponding inheritance rights. It doesn't belong to slaves, this is our Ming rule, so whether it is a man or a woman, as long as you are willing to go to Daming, take them with you. Daming needs craftsmen with craftsmanship, and their technology combined with Daming's technology can make the craftsmanship level to the next level. And if a woman marries my Da Ming people, whether it is a wife or a concubine, I listen to what Lord Bai said, mixed-race children are smarter and stronger, and they will be born with the advantages of the two nationalities combined, think about women who are more than seven feet tall......"

Wang Fulin was a little excited, because he was also planning to take a concubine.

Many of the generals had already started their work, and learning Greek was a very popular activity among the Ming generals. Teaching Chinese here is an exciting thing for civil officials and scribes, and it is also needed by both nobles and low-class people here.

Marry to Daming!

It's a slogan, it's an ideal, and for a homeless woman, it's a dream.

"Well, you're really thinking about human trafficking by making such a high-end thing." What else can Yue Zheng say, he has even thought of reasons and excuses.

"My lord, this is really not called human trafficking."

"Cashier?" Yue Zheng asked rhetorically.

There is no way to answer, who will make such a lot of effort to return if you don't collect cash, and make great efforts to teach these women the language, etiquette, and so on.

"My lord, this is still called, ocean matchmaker, it is naturally necessary to receive some red envelopes and happy money. This 100,000-mile journey, the boat fare also has to be paid, plus the purchase of some local daughter's furniture, naturally there must be a gift, as for the bride price, if there are people in the woman's family, there are naturally some of them. ”

Su Muyun was stunned when he turned over his words, and this one raised his thinking to another level.

"Okay, there is no need to discuss this matter, but there must be a standard for the first batch, and there is a fixed number of ships going back this time, and there are other goods to bring, so the position is limited!" Yue Zheng gave a full stop to the returning people.

"Lord Yue, there is one more thing next." Su Muyun said again: "Lord Bai has two things to do in trade, the first is that he hopes to exchange gold from the Ottoman Empire for goods, or silver. The reason is that the gold and silver here are one to sixteen, and when the gold is pulled back, we suffer a loss. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Yue Zheng didn't expect the gold-silver ratio to be so big.

Over the years, the Ming Dynasty desperately came back from the Wadao to get gold, and the original gold and silver ratio of the Wadao Island was forcibly raised to 1:8, but it still did not reach the standard ratio of 1:10 in the Ming Dynasty. It's 1:16 here, such a big difference in gold and silver, if you really ship the gold back, it will really be a loss.

"Then a large amount of silver was brought back. What impact will we have? Yue Zheng asked again.

"It won't have an impact, except for the merchant gang and the silver trumpet, ordinary people don't know. Moreover, most of the silver tickets in circulation in Daming are Bai Daren's silver tickets, not cash silver. Su Muyun explained.

"Okay, this matter can be done immediately, and the official warrant will be transferred immediately!" Yue Zhengxin said that there was a fifty percent difference in the price of gold and silver just after this pouring, and of course he had to do it immediately.

Yue Zheng wrote a warrant and used the seal. Naturally, these things were left to the merchants.

"Lord Bai's second plan is to do arms business with Portugal!" Su Muyun stopped when he said this, the arms business is not something that businessmen dare to stick to. This matter must be Yue Zheng in person, and then let the businessmen handle the specific details, there can be no official arms dealers in Portugal, this is a private businessman.

"This official knows it." Yue Zheng also thought about this matter, and he also knew a little about what kind of bird Alfonso V was.

"So, what do you merchants have in mind about the goods?" Yue Zheng pulled the topic back again.

Wang Fulin replied: "My lord, the business has studied the transaction, although it is very poor here. But there are still some specialties that are worth pulling back, but the quantity is also limited. At this point, the minus wrote an official paperwork, and unless there was a new trade point, there would soon be no goods worth trading here, except for gold and silver! ”

Yue Zheng opened the paperwork.

The population density in Europe is not low, and the Ming Dynasty has Nanyang as a resource point in terms of resources, and the conquest of Tianzhu has been on the agenda, and there is the whole of Africa in hand, who cares about the resources of the size of a toothpick in Europe.

The distance is far away, the resource level is poor, and there is not much worth trading here at all. Under the stimulation of the white crane, the clothing, food, housing, transportation and other materials of the Ming Dynasty were at least a hundred years ahead of Europe on the basis of the original lead of Europe for more than a hundred years, and the cloth here in Europe is still coarse cloth. Daming is already a fine linen, and cotton is also increasing a lot.

There are things here in Europe, artillery, swords, clocks, glass......

If it weren't for the white crane, these things would definitely be worth trading, but in fact! The white crane made the artillery of the Ming Dynasty a hundred years ahead of Europe, and the steel quality of the sword was two hundred years ahead of Europe.

As for glass, pure transparent large plate glass, have Europeans ever seen it?

Wine! Is this thing worth shipping by ocean? You have a French estate, I have a Turpan grape ditch, the level of wine technology, the technology of desugaring, a few pieces of silk in exchange, who still needs to pull back from here.

It can be said that what the Europeans don't have, the Ming has, the Europeans have, the Ming is better.

However, the merchants believed that the white crane had come here halfway around the world and had definitely not come here for tourism. At least 10 years later, Europe will not be able to squeeze out gold and silver, but in the long run, it is not wrong. (To be continued......)