"No, it won't! The goods sent by our council hall this time are probably more than 2,000 taels of silver, because it is a pathfinder, and we have not prepared too many valuable things, if you want to say that one or two silver is exchanged for ten catties of saltpeter, the price is about the same! Usually we buy saltpeter from others, and the price is even higher than this! When Zhao Mazi heard Yu Xiaotian's words, he was a little unimpressed, and explained to Xiaotian.

"You're not doing the right thing! The price you press is the price of our sitting, not the price of the landing, the goods we sent this time, I have seen the manifest, and the local shipment is indeed two thousand taels of silver, which is quite good.

But you didn't take into account the freight of our trip, we went out on the ship, ran so far, and took a lot of risks, and when these goods arrived at the Manila dock, they were at least worth 5,000 taels of silver! Otherwise, why would so many maritime merchants travel thousands of miles to do business with them?

When you go to sea, the profits of the maritime merchants are generally doubled, otherwise who would risk being killed in the belly of a fish or being intercepted by people like us to do this business?

Besides, the Spaniards collected saltpeter, although it was transported to Manila a long distance, but their cost was very low, and they used the local natives to help them mine, they just needed to transport these things over, so they at least made us several times cheaper this time!

In fact, we suffered a big loss in this transaction! You're still complacent! Hum! Yu Xiaotian is no longer the black-eyed guy he was when he first came, he has paid attention to collecting all kinds of commercial price information in the past two years, and with Li Yi's collaborator by his side, he understands some things very clearly, so he said that this trip to buy and sell their sea wolf has lost a lot.

Zhao Mazi counted with his fingers, his face suddenly became ugly, and he slapped his thigh and scolded: "Grandma, it's true, we were cheated by the dry silk people!" This Zhang Feng is really confused, why didn't he talk to them more about the price? When I go back, I'll settle accounts with him again! ”

Yu Xiaotian shook his head and said: "Zhang Feng can't be blamed for this matter, it's because we didn't think it through in advance, and the Spaniards are too cunning, so we suffered this loss!" But it doesn't matter, what we urgently need now is saltpeter, it is normal for the Spaniards to sit on the ground and raise prices, the next time we go again, we can talk to them again, if they can't negotiate, they will refuse to trade, if the Spaniards have more inventory, they must be in a hurry to sell, which is much easier!

After all, Zhang Feng came back this time, and solved our urgent needs, after having these saltpeters, we can prepare more than 20,000 catties of gunpowder, at least enough for us to last for a while!

You can arrange the next batch of goods, according to the requirements of the Spaniards, give them some goods, in addition, this time I am on the side of the Taiwanese, I also brought back a batch of deerskins, by the way to send them some, see how they offer, in the future we estimate that there will be a large number of deerskins shipped, it is not bad to sell to the Spaniards! ”

After Zhao Mazi heard this, he was angry, nodded and agreed, and then remembered one thing and said to Xiaotian: "By the way, the Spaniards that the big boss said, that is, what we often call the dry wax people alive, saw us buying a large amount of saltpeter, and roughly guessed our identity, asked us if we wanted their cannons and firearms, and said to Zhang Feng that if we want, you can sell us some!" ”

After Yu Xiaotian heard this, Ha Lu Ha Da Lu laughed, shook his head and said, "Don't!" The Spaniards are quite good at their calculations! I'm afraid that if we kill them, they won't be able to guess that the cannons we are casting ourselves now are not necessarily worse than them, and even I can guarantee that the iron cannons we cast in the future will be even better than theirs!

If they had come to us before, I would have welcomed them with both hands, but now...... Hum! It's late!

As for the firecracker! We can talk to them, and if they want to, we can buy a batch from them cheaply, and if the price is higher, forget it! ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

"By the way, how is the business over there in Maoshengyuan? Is there any news about Li Yi during this time? Yu Xiaotian remembered one more thing and asked Zhao Mazi.

Zhao Mazi couldn't close his mouth with a smile when he heard this, and nodded again and again: "I almost forgot if the big boss didn't mention it, Li Yi sent a message a few days ago, saying that according to the idea that the big boss gave him at the beginning, he gave a batch of soap to some dignitaries, and also asked his concubine to secretly go to the rich people's homes, visit the wives and concubines of those rich families, and send them some soap."

During this period, more and more people began to take the initiative to buy soap in Maoshengyuan, but Li Yi still followed the instructions of the big boss to stock up on Juqi and only ship a small amount.

Nowadays, Fuzhou City and even the whole of Fujian, today's soap is hard to find, and the price is even fried to ten taels of silver, and some people still ask for orders.

Some merchants have now discovered that this thing can make a lot of money, and they have also come to the door to buy it, and even two Jin merchants have also gone to Maoshengyuan to ask for goods after hearing about it.

Visible soap will never be sold again! Now on the side of the soap factory, more than a dozen people have been added, a few cauldrons, and they have been making it day and night.

It turns out that the blubber we have in stock may not be enough for a long time! So when the big boss was not there, the sixth brother discussed it and took out three boats from the fleet to go whaling, otherwise the whale fat would be insufficient and the goods would be out of stock!

In addition, the craftsmen on the side of the glass field have made several sets of molds, in addition to the glass bowl, glass wine cup, glass tea bowl, and now there are two craftsmen blowing out of the large glass jar and glass vase.

The kind of fish tank that the big boss wanted, now it has been made into several, and sent to the Maoshengyuan Fuzhou General Number, priced at a price of 1,500 taels of silver, which was immediately bought, and the Fuzhou prefect also ordered one, saying that it would be sent to the capital as a tribute this year!

The prefect of Fuzhou also sent someone to Maoshengyuan to order fifty pieces of pearl soap, saying that it would also be sent to Beijing as a tribute this year! ”

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he also grinned, this result was expected by him, the wealth of the Ming Dynasty magnates and businessmen in this era is unimaginable to ordinary people, and the luxury of their lives is not at all what ordinary people can imagine.

As long as the things are good and have face, they don't care about the price, which is not just a matter of whether it is easy to use or not, but a matter of face.

Like he let people grind out pearl powder mixed into soap, made pearl soap, propaganda that this soap beauty and beauty, in fact, how the real effect, he himself dare not say, but can be guaranteed that pearls are harmless to people, Chinese have used pearls to nourish beauty since ancient times, so as soon as this kind of thing is listed, it will definitely be sought after, and the price is no longer a problem to consider.

If this continues, the two industries of glass and soap alone will allow him to make money in the future, and he will be rich in the future.

"Good! Li Yi did a beautiful job this time! As long as someone wants it, I won't be afraid that I won't have to do business in the future! Fujian is just the beginning, how big can our glass and soap factories produce every day? Yu Xiaotian's interest rose.

"The glass field can now blow out a pair of vases and a glass fish tank of about one foot every day, and can make more than 200 glass bowls, more than 300 glass tea cups, and more than 400 glass wine cups.

But the mirror seems to have an average yield, and it is good to be able to make forty or fifty sides of different sizes in a month!

As for the soap factory, at first, it could make more than 100 pieces a day, but now it can make 4 or 500 pieces a day! Even if a piece is sold for ten taels of silver, we can earn six or seven taels of silver, and the soap factory alone can give us a net income of three thousand taels of silver in one day, which is more money than sending the brothers out to rob it! Zhao Mazi drooled and said to Xiaotian.

When Yu Xiaotian heard about this output, he was a little deflated, he knew that whether it was glass or soap, it was just on the market, and it was in the high-end market, so the demand must be very large, and if he only produced it, it would be strange to live in for many years, and there was no need to worry about the market being saturated.

And the current output, really makes him a little embarrassed, this is compared with any small factory in later generations, even a fraction of others, such an output, can not meet the needs of the market, so the next step he must be a substantial expansion.

But looking back, although some small factories in later generations have also used a lot of modern machinery and equipment for production, he is currently all manual production, and the raw materials are also very limited, although blubber can be solved by whaling, but soda ash he can only use plant ash to solve, and now it can achieve such an output, which is already good.

In addition, after all, the pattern of Nanri Island is still a little too small, the resources are limited, and if he wants to continue to expand production, it is obvious that the conditions are limited.

The area around Jonlong Bay is mountainous and not very suitable for agricultural development, but with the easy and difficult terrain and the number of whales in the surrounding area, it is a very good place to develop industrial production.

He vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a lot of minerals in the Keelung area, including the important industrial fuel coal, and there were also resources in the Keelung area, although the quality of the coal was not very good, but at least it could solve a lot of problems, and if it could be mined, it would solve a big problem.

Thinking of this, Yu Xiaotian was no longer in a hurry, nodded and said, "That's very good!" It seems that you old people are doing quite well here! I'm relieved to have you guys here to help me! ”

After hearing Yu Xiaotian's praise, everyone was very happy, and continued to talk and laugh in the hall.

(Today, I would like to thank the two brothers Nanbo and Qingyu Wings again for their generous rewards!) Thank you for your support! ）