Chen Adaa personally helped Bai Minghe: "Lord Bai, are you drunk?" ”

Bai Minghe shook his head: "I'm a little dizzy, but I'm still awake." I guess I'm drunk, and I feel a little weak in my feet. ”

Chen Adada asked people to prepare the decanting soup, and sat next to Bai Minghe: "Lord Bai, Wu Bin told me about your conversation." Those two people are not kind, let us stand in front of Annan. Here, we can send more troops, and once the war starts, I'm afraid that the people sent here won't be able to go back! ”

"I know, so I asked for a dock. Once the war starts, everyone throws away a qiē supply and gets on the boat to go home, why should I use the white crane as cannon fodder for them. After Bai Minghe finished speaking, his tone changed: "However, if they really cooperate." If there is really a war, rush to the front first, then it is okay to fight a dozen. ”

"Will it fight? I've heard that Annam's southern expedition is ambitious! Chen Adaa is still not very relieved.

Bai Minghe suppressed his voice: "They want to fight, and they have to prepare for a few years." If within three years, let me occupy Siming Mansion and Shunyi Mansion, Annan will be the meat on the board! ”

"The troops?"

"There are so many people alive here, there are no soldiers?" Shira-Ming Crane smiled coldly.

"Lord Bai, this is a capital crime to exterminate the clan. Alien private soldiers, there is no explanation! Chen Ah Da kindly reminded. Bai Minghe laughed a few times, and hugged Chen Dada's neck with the strength of wine: "If, if the boss of these soldiers is Yu Gong, long live." Do you dare to ask for a knighthood? ”

Chen Adaa shook his head: "Lord Bai, you are drunk." ”

The white crane was carried back, and Chen Ah patted his head vigorously. Shira's thoughts were so crazy that he decided to forget about those words first. Occupy a plot of land here and set up a camp. It's still possible to fix a dock. After all, this will be a warehouse, a transit point for their goods, and a supply point in the future.

The next day, as soon as the white crane woke up, the prince's luncheon was ready again.

This time it's not a small banquet, Chen Eda and others on Bai Minghe's side, about 20 people, all of them are sixth-grade and seventh-grade officials, of course, they only say that they are captains.

The white crane took four maids. Accompanied by a dressed Kiyohe. Let's go to the feast together.

The singing and dancing of Nanzhang is unrestrained, and the singing and dancing of Siam is gorgeous. Daming, Qinghe personally played the piano, shocking the audience. On the spot, he gave a picture of a hundred flowers and flying swallows to the princess, which shows the depth of the cultural heritage of the Ming Dynasty.

An ordinary woman, just a concubine of a white-named crane, has such a level, which makes the people of Siam and Nanzhang have a huge yearning for the Ming Dynasty, and the true Chinese dialect is what the nobles are qualified to learn.

It is the congratulatory message of the two palace scribes, and their second-rate calligraphy works. It is also enshrined as a treasure book.

After the banquet, in the huge bamboo building, everyone sat down in a circle and began the first formal trade negotiations.

"Bai Gongzi. I don't know what goods Bai Gongzi wants this time? ”

"I like your country's rice, and so do my subordinates. I'm going to buy some, it's just that my subordinates are more. The amount of food is also good. So buy more! "Shiramei Crane is serious, this is a formal negotiation. Every sentence will be recorded by a special person. Even if the white crane claims to be a businessman, but the prince is not a businessman.

He got some information. For example, some of the white cranes' subordinates wore armor under their coats. And the weapons they use and so on. Those who have knowledge recognize it, and only Ming officers are qualified to use it, especially the armor, which low-level officers are not qualified to use at all.

Then, it is very likely that these seemingly ordinary officers are sixth- and seventh-rank military attachés in the Ming Dynasty.

Even if this news was speculation, it also made the little prince excited for a long time.

"Bai Gongzi, I don't know how many meters are needed?"

"I don't know, how can I give me a million stone first, of course, if there is still a lot of rice in your country, then I want to buy some more. Two hundred and three million stones is not a problem, I have a lot of people in my family, and I really like your country's rice! "Shira-chan Crane is still serious.

The little prince nodded quietly: "Bai Gongzi, please wait for a while, we need to discuss." ”

"Well, there are some things by the way, Governor Sansong must be interested." Bai Minghe took out a list and stated that as long as he had it, he would accept it.

Sanson looked at that list with the little prince.

This list is listed by the white crane, I don't know if there is one in this era, and there is always nothing wrong with writing it first.

First of all, there are medicinal materials, natural matsutake mushrooms, ganoderma lucidum, bees, iron maple buckets, agarwood tablets, etc. Then there is the wood, all of which are extremely precious woods, at least in modern times, which are absolutely sky-high, not only red sandalwood, but also pear, ebony, etc.

Finally, it is thick sugar cane juice. It is a thick juice that boils off as much excess water as possible after the juice is out of the dregs.

"So much, Bai Gongzi is generous!"

"Silver is not a problem, and neither is gold!" The white crane replied angrily.

"No, we don't want gold, we don't want silver. Barter, how to change, let's talk about it later. Let's start by discussing these products. The prince was frightened by the sheer number of white cranes he wanted.

Since there was a discussion here, the white crane also went to the outside of the bamboo building and sat down by a pond.

"Lord Bai, why don't you send someone back immediately to prepare a larger amount of goods?" Chen Ada's question about Bai Minghe, but Bai Minghe did not respond, Chen Ada's continued to explain: "My lord, the goods we have at the moment are not enough to pay for what the adults want. ”

"How much does a bowl cost? Ordinary! ”

"This, we pay by the pound. and a load of ten taels of silver. A scribe replied.

The white-named crane was blinded, and it was not counted by one, but by weight. One load is now one hundred and eighty-eight pounds, and the three fine porcelain bowls with a diameter of ten centimeters weigh less than one pound.

"Almost three or four cents for a penny?"

"On the market, it is not a problem for such bowls to sell for ten cents, and merchants and transporters always have to make some money. And in case it is broken along the way, it is counted as a merchant. The scribe explained. This scribe is also a seventh-grade official, but in front of Bai Minghe, he actually put himself in a lower position.

"Ten bowls, how about one stone of rice?" Shirana Crane proposes the price point in his mind.

It's too dark! Almost everyone is in the same mind, and the price of the white crane is too low. Seeing that these people didn't speak, Bai Minghe immediately said: "In this way, take this bowl as the standard, and ask for seven bowls and one stone of rice." No, five. Give them a chance to bargain. ”

Speaking of this, Bai Minghe let out a long sigh: "The people sent out did not see half a Ming porcelain in the entire Da Nang. It's hard to find a price, otherwise we wouldn't be guessing like this. ”

"Yes, not only is there no silk from us, there is no porcelain. Even the grain store doesn't have many bones. In their grain store, we don't understand the calculation method, and that bucket is different from our Ming bucket. A bucket of rice for a roll of linen seems to weigh a catty, and I don't know how long! ”

It's not Bai Minghe, these people haven't done market research.

Another scribe complained: "There is no standard market price here, it is all barter." There is not even a uniform coin! ”

"No, they have money. I've seen it once before, it's a silver nugget, like a tongue. It's a big chunk, about three or two. It's the Siamese coin," Chen said, and in Bai Minghe's opinion, this is about the size of a child's palm.

Siam has coins, but Nanzhang really doesn't.

"Or, four bowls?" Bai Minghe asked the others with a smile, and these soldiers all shook their heads, how could it be possible for more than a dozen cents and a stone. Even if it is calculated according to the market price, fifty yuan per stone of rice, there is no such price. It's simply impossible.

"Okay, five bowls, four saucers!" The white crane set the price in his heart.

"Or, by weight?" Qinghe interjected next to him, and Bai Minghe nodded and shook his head again. I don't know what Shira-naka is thinking, whether he really agrees with this statement.

The white crane is calculating the cost, and the prince and Sangsong are also calculating.

"The rice that Bai Gongzi wants to buy is said to be for his subordinates to eat. I'm afraid this amount is military rations, so we just give ordinary rice. According to the calculation of rice, three stone rice is two burlap cloths in our place. There is not much else, but there is a lot of rice, as long as the people of the Ming Dynasty are willing to exchange for a long time, they can cultivate a large amount of rice! ”

Sansong cares a lot about this business, not only him, but also the little prince.

In the Indochina Peninsula, you can get three seasons of rice a year, and the kind that grows for two seasons is high-quality rice. Three seasons are ordinary rice.

The output is so huge that it is amazing, that is, in the fifteenth century, the annual rice output of Siam is more than 50 million stones, according to the calculation of the Ming Dynasty, although compared with the export volume of 25 million tons in modern times in later generations, this output is only one-tenth, but the productivity of ancient times is not comparable with modern times.

Not to mention that the white crane opened a million stones, even if there are 10 million stones here.

"The porcelain is in our hands, and we can continue to sell it to the south and west. You can also exchange it for huge wealth, but I don't know what price this white prince will offer. "Sanson would love to change more rice.

What I hope more is that Bai Minghe can have more goods to pull, and what he has is rice.

"A long time ago, eight pieces of tiger tongue silver could be exchanged for one silk. Like this high-class ......" After recalling the white crane's statement, the prince continued to speak: "Shu brocade, I am afraid that it is difficult to exchange for one horse even if it is thirty pieces, and I am afraid that such a quality is used by the Ming royal family and even nobles." ”

Sang Song also said: "For the ordinary high-grade silk, I hope that one hundred and fifty stone rice can be exchanged for one horse, and even if we add another thirty stone, we will have a huge profit." ”

"Okay, you can mention it in a while, see Bai Gongzi's reaction, and add dozens of stones, it's okay." (To be continued......)