Chapter 254: Portuguese Merchants and Spanish Merchants
After three days of staying in the high room of the Hotel Geranza, the business representatives of Macao immediately began to act vigorously.
He was forced to do so, because the room rate here was so expensive.
He had never heard of such an expensive place to live in the world in his life, almost four liels a day, at least three times more expensive than the best hotels in Lisbon and Paris.
From 1518, when Portuguese merchant ships arrived on the coast of southern Fujian, to the end of the 3o years of the 16th century, the trade between Ming and Portugal was mainly based on barter, and some of them were paid for by silver obtained from Portugal's overseas entrepot trade.
However, at that time, the level of currency minting in Portugal was really not high, the local currency of Portugal was light and thin, and the amount minted was not much, and the quantity that flowed overseas was limited at that time, and the circulation range was not wide, and the merchants did not recognize it.
After 1535, Spain mined a large number of silver mines in the Americas and minted silver coins, because the Spanish American colonies of silver dollars were relatively uniform in weight and fineness, so they were widely popular in the trade between the East and the West at that time, and the trade between Ming and Portugal switched to using Spanish silver dollars.
This was also often the case with the Dutch East India Company's means of payment for trade, and it can be seen that the monetary standards of the three brothers at that time were almost the same...... But it's fucking embarrassing that Spain, as a currency bank, can get worse and worse......
The Macau business representative thought that although the conditions were as good as a dream, they were still too expensive, and he tried to bargain, but was politely refused.
If he stays any longer, he fears that he will be blamed when he returns to Macau...... Of course, he could come up with relevant evidence to prove that staying in this so-called Relanza Hotel was a rule of the Han Tang Group, and he had no choice but to stay, but if he stayed for a long time, the cost would be too high - he thought about the mean faces of those old people in the Chamber of Commerce, and decided to fight, although he still wanted to stay for a while.
He got two purchase and sale contracts issued by the Hantang Group, and he had to take them back to the commercial chairman to sign, and then send one back to the Hantang Group, even if his mission was completed.
The rest of the time is his personal time and space.
He immediately bought three hundred quintals of sugar, and then bought a batch of candies and other new things in bulk. These are his private trade practices, and have nothing to do with the Chamber of Commerce.
For example, he specially bought a batch of fountain pens dipped in water and fountain pen water in red, blue and black porcelain bottles.
These two products were originally designed and produced by the Hantang Group to solve the problems of office workers or teaching tools, but because they are simple and easy to make, they are also mass-produced by Ming craftsmen, and they can be used for trade.
The tip of the dipping fountain pen has no technical content, and the Hantang Group found a few Ming craftsmen who played gold and silver hand ornaments, told them the standard, and let the stamping workshop in the Hongxing Industrial Zone use a precision stamping machine to press a batch of steel raw materials, and the level of steel is not too high.
Then they were given a few physical objects, okay, polish them according to them, buy them if they are qualified, don't want them if they are not qualified, and just hand over the scraps -- it turns out that the processing pass rate of the Ming craftsmen is more than 50 percent, which is okay, and they have time......
The body of the pen can be replaced with wood, which is more suitable for celluloid, but as soon as they calculated, it is more cost-effective to use it as an ornament and sell it, so it seems that the production of this celluloid will be greatly increased.
However, the red, blue and black fountain pen water could not find an existing replacement. The so-called "pen water" in this time and space is mostly dyes made from metal minerals, walnut shells, or seeds, or ink from marine animals such as fish and octopus.
Due to the poor purification ability of the ancients, they had to add some gum and other things to the "pen water" to enhance its color condensation ability. But this also makes it very difficult to flow, if you dip the fountain pen to use such a "fountain pen water", it is not as convenient as the original quill pen used by others.
However, this is easy to do, after making various colors of dyes from pyrite tailings in Budai Town Salt Chemical Industry Zone, add water to the iron blue, iron red, and iron black dyes, and then add three percent of the chemically pure grade alcohol. Chemically pure grade alcohol has just reached a concentration of 75 percent, and it is not difficult to produce.
Finally, a thousandth of concentrated sulfuric acid was added to it to stabilize the dìng.
The purpose of stabilizing the dìng agent in the fountain pen water is mainly to eliminate the precipitation of the fountain pen water, and to avoid the phenomenon of water interruption when writing.
After these two small things were designed and processed, the technicians had a problem, that is, their products could not fit the blank paper of this time and space at all.
As the flow intensifies, so does the permeability of the fountain pen water, and the result is evident that the permeability is severe. Therefore, if you want to use it normally, you have to use the hard white paper of Hantang Group.
The white paper in this time and space cannot be used, and the processing process is too primitive, making the paper too loose. Of course, the commercial representative was also told this in advance after buying two products.
He tried it out, and now that it was, he purchased another batch of blank paper.
The quill pen is cheap, but the act of often cutting the nib is too troublesome, and the commercial representative in the process of using it, this dipping pen line is very smooth, and the handwriting is slender and distinct.
Not only was it durable, but it also took much longer than a quill pen to write, so he was so satisfied that he bought a batch to see if he could sell it when he returned to Macau. However, judging from the number of purchases, he is not as confident in this goods as he is in celluloid series products and various candies.
What this business representative didn't know was that his actions not only led to the Hantang Group adding an export item, but also led to a term called the phenomenon of "dipping fountain pens".
The technicians in question said triumphantly on the Internet: "Look, it's a small project, but what does it mean?" One is that we are moving in the direction of industrialization, and the other is that as long as others use one of our products, in order to achieve better use results, they must use our other products.
For example, if you want to use a fountain pen with water, you must use it with water and paper - wait for us to produce large products in the future, and then export them in large quantities, and the world will change for us!
Everyone suddenly got excited together, and there were all kinds of ideas on the Internet, anyway, people in various industries had similar bad ideas, and a group of young "middle-aged uncles" were trying in vain to maintain all the global supply relationships on the Hantang Group.
Originally, there is an old saying that "history is a strict father, and the future is a loving mother", and now for these "middle-aged uncles" who are 20 years younger, their future is to dress up how they want to - this is the power of the Hantang Group, if you are not convinced, please consult the security department, hehe.
Teacher Fan Weiye was very unhappy when he saw that these young "middle-aged uncles" were collectively obscene, and he said: "Is it difficult to have an automatic water absorption technology? Even if the capsule is difficult to get, don't you know the capillary phenomenon? It makes my students have to have an ink porcelain bottle in their hands - there is often a phenomenon of knocking over the bottle, what is there to ...... awe"
These "middle-aged uncles" are rare and relaxed, and some replied: "Automatic absorbent pen, small ca, but we don't have time to get it, besides, you only look at the product, don't look at how many Ming people this pen will feed, do you know how many people we will come in the future?" Huh-"
Teacher Fan Weiye didn't say anything for a while--he really forgot that the more low-level the product, the easier it is to feed people, and he deeply felt that these "middle-aged uncles" may really have their deep meaning in doing things. I'll have to look at it more and think more about it in the future.
The representatives of the Macau Chamber of Commerce left, and at the same time they took with them a large order from the Han Tang Group, and they also ordered large quantities of Indian cotton or cotton yarn, and wheat, as much as they wanted—it was a good thing to have a lot of hard money in hand, but it could also bring inflation...... In the current time and space, all kinds of materials are the more critical items, and the control of a large number of materials is the basic strategy of the Hantang Group.
In the Dutch East India Company the Dutch Indian Viceroy represented Tony . While Fernandez was fighting with He Bin, the Spanish merchant representatives were very leisurely.
He believes that it is very normal business practice for two parties to start a company jointly, and it is also very common in Europe...... But it only asks one point: can the Hantang Group provide what they call the epoch-making technology?
Hantang Group has no argument, and there is no way to come up with various manual production equipment now...... But they have physical ...... The next day, Hantang Group hired a female technician to show off the various colored socks she carried...... Includes slightly thicker wool socks, cartoon cotton handkerchiefs......
This female technician is a real member of the chemical department, and her name is Hu Liu...... has a sad past, but resolutely refuses to confide in others...... When she applied for the job, she turned in all her resumes. When Sunder tried to talk to her about his family, she always subtly led the topic to the future, expressing a desire to work in a strange and extremely remote place, which pleased Sundebi with everything.
When the Hantang Group posted the situation in Spain on the Internet, it wanted to solicit some colorful socks, hand towels, and preferably sister outfits...... They suspect that the Spaniards might like this kind of thing.
Technician Hu Liu happened to come to Relanza City at this time to do business, and when she learned about it, she immediately said that she happened to have it, so she went back and took it out...... These colorful cotton fabrics and wool fabrics make the male technicians really dizzy...... What a waste of the quota for carrying private goods...... We can produce it in a few years, of course, the workmanship is not demanding...... But, in her favorite aspect, the man who can convince the girl can become a saint. Besides, that's their own quota.
As soon as these things were brought out, the representative of the Spanish merchant covered his mouth like a woman and shrieked...... As a girl, Hu Liu technician can't stand such cute movements, and she has goosebumps all over her body.
The representative of the Spanish merchant looked at the things lightly, and his mouth murmured, and he spoke very quickly to the interpreter, who kept saying, "This is the ornament of heaven, the goddess of the sea, the goddess of the Mediterranean, the ornament of the tree nymph, the ornament of the water nymph......
Well, the Huliu technician was touched by the sincerity of the Spanish businessman...... She appreciates being able to speak so highly of her own taste...... The boys of the Hantang Group are no longer good, they only think about the so-called rational use of quotas...... What do you like, can you measure it with ordinary value?
For some reason, the Spanish merchant suddenly stopped and looked at Hu Liu's face in surprise...... That's by no means lustful, this can be seen by technician Hu Liu......
The Spanish merchant spoke quickly to the interpreter, who kept nodding.
After a while, the interpreter said that he could see that this young lady with the temperament of Aphrodis had put on makeup, and he could know how this young lady had made up her face and lips. What is it used for?
When the interpreter said this, he had been bending down, and he didn't dare to look at Hu Liu, but the Spanish merchant was still staring at her with blazing eyes, like a village girl in the wilderness, suddenly seeing a girl in a beautiful dress in a big city, boldly expressing her envy and yearning with her eyes, and even a little jealousy.
The male technician, who had been accompanying him, raised his eyebrows, feeling that another business opportunity had appeared......
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