After about an hour, the two sides sat down again, this time not just talking, both holding their own samples.

"Bai Gongzi, our thoughts are. I hope to get a lot of porcelain and silk. The rest of the materials can be folded into rice, or into the value of silk. What does Bai Gongzi think? ”

"It's good to fold it into rice, I agree with you!"

"First of all, this kind of ordinary first-class silk from the Ming Dynasty is the standard. Please make a price for Lord Shiro! "The little prince made a gesture of please.

Bai Minghe touched this kind of silk, and the silk of the Ming Dynasty is also graded, and this one belongs to the middle and upper class.

In the capital, Bai Minghe had already decided on the batch price in his mind, and immediately said: "Such silk is exchanged for 3,300 stone rice per load." Bai Minghe's words scared everyone on Daming's side gritted their teeth tightly, for fear of making a little noise, they knew that this price was sky-high. ”

This amount of load made the little prince and Sang Song a little unable to react.

Fortunately, there are many samples prepared by Bai Minghe's side, so I asked people to take more at the moment and weigh them.

"Why do you use this to calculate, because silk is thick and thin, and a horse is also long and short depending on the workshop. Among them, the error is about two feet, although one horse has a hundred feet, but the error of two feet is also your loss. This weight is different, and it is not suitable to calculate the same horse. Since it is cooperation, then I must be sincere, this way of calculation, the least error, is the fairest to us! ”

One load is one hundred catties of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the weight of one stone, which is 92.5 kilograms in modern times.

A piece of silk. Because of the difference in thickness and thickness, the light one is at 2.5 kilograms. The weight is 3.7 kilograms. Of course, there are also some special thickened silks, which are five kilograms each.

The little prince himself went to see the silk of each horse. Let each horse be weighed individually.

This load of silk is almost in the number of thirty or forty horses, and no matter how thick or thin, it must be less than the price of eighty stone meters.

The little prince and Sansong looked at each other, this price was already lower than their psychological price, and if they sold it to Tianzhu, or an Arab merchant, it would be at least twice as profitable.

Seeing the expressions of these two people, Bai Minghe said badly. turned around and gave Chen Adaa a helpless wry smile. Bai Minghe smiled because he felt that his offer was low, but Chen Adaa was worried that the price was too high and the other party could not accept it.

Now the batch of goods in the Ming Dynasty is the price of silk taken by merchants, which is about three hundred taels of silver, and the most expensive will not exceed three hundred and fifty taels. According to the calculation of three hundred taels, you can buy six or seven hundred stone polished rice in the south of the Daming River. As soon as Bai Minghe opened his mouth, it was five times the amount of rice, and Chen Ada's amount couldn't accept it.

"Bai Gongzi. Your sincerity is too deep. From today onwards, we are best friends. I will arrange for the whole kingdom to increase the cultivation of grain, and I will greatly subsidize the farmers, and there will be more. Better rice. For each load of silk, in addition to the three thousand three hundred stones that Bai Gongzi said, I will give fifty stones of high-quality fragrant rice for the exclusive use of our royal family. And arrange for someone to load it on the ship for you, but I don't know. How much silk did you bring this time? ”

Chen Ada's mind is going crazy, and the entire Daming gang is going crazy.

Even if you don't know how to read. Even if the little prince's Han dialect is not so authentic, they can understand it.

The white crane quoted a sky-high price, and the other party still felt so grateful that he was going to die.

The white crane snapped his fingers at the back!

The clerk in charge of bookkeeping hurriedly opened the account book: "We have in the warehouse, 8,600 quintals of Cantonese silk and 1,400 quintals of Hangzhou silk. These are the same as the ones just shown, they are first-class filaments. There are also two thousand quintals of Su Jin, which is a special product. It's just a matter of negotiating, and we can ship it here immediately. With that, he quickly picked out Suss from the sample pile in the back and sent it over.

"Well, this is better than just now, it's already very close to Shu Jin!"

The little prince's voice trembled a little when he spoke, he didn't expect Bai Minghe to bring so much.

But if you think about it again, sixteen goods, each ship can carry at least 1,000 materials.

A material is almost the weight of a stone, and a material in Daming is a cubic foot of volume, so it can only be an approximate estimate of the weight, and the weight is different depending on the goods.

"Excuse me, this Su brocade and Shu brocade are both top-grade silks. It's just that there are also grades, and what I gave as a gift was a special product of Shu brocade, which was offered by the royal family. This Su brocade is just ordinary good silk. Saying this is not because of the price, but because I belittled Su Jin, I am afraid that the silk workers in Suzhou will scold me. ”

Bai Minghe said and laughed heartily.

"This, is it okay to add another 500 stones?" The little prince asked.

"Yes." The white crane agreed without saying a word.

Just when the little prince thought that it was over, who thought that the scribe continued: "There are also two thousand quintals of Gansi and one thousand quintals of Fusi." These are flat weaves, which can be relatively poor! ”

The scribe took another sample. In the hands of outsiders, this seems to be no different from the standard silk just now, and after touching them separately, there is still no obvious difference.

The scribe said in his heart, Lord Bai, you are already very dark, let's not be black in such small details.

"If you look closely, although the quality of the silk in these two places is similar, there is a clear difference in the level of the weavers." As he spoke, he opened the silk: "The weaving line, the density, and the contact points of the broken silk are not as good as the wide silk." Bad is bad, don't dare to hide it in the slightest! ”

It's full of sincerity.

Drop three hundred stone of rice to buy these.

"There is also better silk, not whether your country needs it or not." Under the strong hint of the scribe, Bai Minghe opened his mouth and said: "It's just that the number brought this time is not much, there are only five quintals in total, called makeup velvet, and a dozen more high-grade golden colored velvets. To tell you the truth, I bought two of them for my wife last time, and they both hurt for several days. ”

A big family like the white crane will say that the flesh hurts with the goods that are worth it, which shows the precious Cheng dù.

There were no samples at hand, just a long dress with floral velvet, which was originally intended as a gift. And, a one-foot-square scarf, this is still a piece that Qinghe picked out from the scraps and used it for himself.

Some of the makeup velvet is a colored velvet flower on the satin ground, which is called "makeup velvet satin". Some are colored velvet flowers on the striped ground, also known as "makeup velvet". This long skirt alone is enough to show the world the pinnacle of Chinese silk, why does the white crane have a painful meat, the price of a horse in the Ming Dynasty, it costs eighty taels of silver.

More expensive, the gold velvet is woven with gold and silver thread into the ground pattern, and the ground is colored velvet flowers, and the color is luxurious and rich. Two hundred taels of silver may not be able to buy one.

"This, dedicated to my father as a gift, is of the highest quality!"

The price is easy to say, and good things dare to ask for sky-high prices. This is not for rice, only for precious medicinal materials, and for 30,000 stones of rice, Bai Minghe is not willing to change a load. The little prince can also understand that such a superb product is extremely precious even to the Ming people, and its natural value will not be low.

The porcelain turned out to be counted according to the burden.

This time, the price was opened to 87 stone rice for a load of porcelain. The five famous kilns and famous porcelain are priced by one or by set, and are not included in this transaction.

The two sides began to write an agreement, one in Chinese, then one in Siamese, and finally one in Nanzhang. Each copy is made in duplicate, and both sides are left behind.

When writing the agreement, Bai Minghe leaned his head to Chen Ada: "We only prepared 100,000 taels of silver, and we came from there so much silk he said." ”

"No, it's all in the merchant's warehouse, and we have checked all the silk in Guangdong Province at the moment, and the inventory is more than 10,000 horses, and these 8,600 horses are the maximum number that we can get our hands on." Chen Adaa explained to Bai Minghe.

This time, they brought the most wine, then porcelain, and some handicrafts.

Silk is the least, only 2,000 quintals. Except, of course, for those superb ones that the white crane belt.

"Lord Bai, if it is all converted into rice, I am afraid that there will be six or seven million stones, which is almost as much as the amount of tax rice in Jiangnan." The Jiangnan that Chen Adaa said is not a province. Two and a half provinces, plus Nanzhili. The annual tax is 13 million stones.

During the Orthodox years, it ranked second in Shanxi, with a tax of 2.8 million stone a year. It can be said that the tax relative to Shanxi is the heaviest. Because there are only 420,000 hectares of land in Shanxi.

The largest number of fields is in Henan, and the Ming Dynasty records 1.5 million hectares of land, but only 2.2 million stone is taxed.

"How much is our tax in Guangdong?" Bai Minghe asked.

Chen Adaa really wants to despise the white name crane, you are an official in Guangdong, and you are a county order, or a civil official, don't you know the taxes in Guangdong? 鄙shì returned to 鄙shì, and still replied to the white name crane: "One million stones." ”

Sign it, seal it, and the contract is considered to be established. The little prince is the witness of the white crane and the mulama, and the son is the witness of the white crane and the little prince. Next, it's time to trade grain. The first was to remove all the porcelain from the ship.

These porcelains were exchanged for more than a million stone of grain.

According to the price of the Ming Dynasty, it is worth 500,000 taels of grain, but according to the purchase price of porcelain, it is 123,000 taels of porcelain.

For the little prince and Sansong, the porcelain they got was only one million stone of grain, and if they let them pour their hands, it would be a guaranteed value of 30,000 taels of gold, even if it reached 35,000 taels of gold, it would not be surprising.

At least the minmen, the slaves were rewarded with a few full meals, and at most one meal of meat.

The scribe sat in the cabin, laughing all the time, and never closed his mouth at all. Standing at the bow of the boat, you can clearly see the small boats connected from the inland rivers to continuously transport grain to the port.

Shira-naka did the math, but it didn't feel right. "Uncle Chen, our money is not enough to buy these porcelain, right?"

"Requisitioned in the army, pull it away first, let them come back in a few days to settle the bill." Chen Adaa replied quietly. (To be continued......)

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