Chapter 923: Cotton on the Road (6)

Ma Zhiwen dragged people away, leaving the soldiers all over the ground with an uncontrollable surprise on their faces.

"I heard you right, right? It's all cotton? More than 10,000 packs?! ”

"Eighteen thousand five hundred packs, pinch me quickly, isn't that the number?!"

"Wait a while, wait a while, who counts, a pack of 100 catties, more than 10,000 packs, how many catties is in total?"

“…… More than 100,000 catties? ”

"How can it be so little, it can't be impossible, you miscalculated."

"And how much do you say?"

"I can't come, but it's definitely more than 100,000."

"Are you stupid or not, is this so difficult to calculate? More than 10,000 packs, a pack of 10 catties is more than 100,000 catties, and a pack of 100 catties is not more than 1 million catties. ”

"More than a million? 18,000 bags, 1,800,000 catties?! ”

"Oh my God! So many? ”

"How many acres of land do you need to grow so much cotton......

"Wow, which country are these five ships from, it's amazing......"

The soldiers counted the weight of the cotton, and turned to look at the five building ships in the distance, full of admiration.

"If only our own cotton farmers could grow so much cotton."

"What do you think, if we have this ability, we will be frozen every year for so many years, and it is rare to get even a warm cotton coat?"

"So I'm not hoping."

"To be able to grow so much cotton, it must take a lot of land, thousands of acres, there is so much farmland, we would rather grow grain, will we grow cotton?"

"That's right, cotton is difficult to serve, and it's really better to grow grain with such good farmland."

"Hey, what are you talking about, don't think about those bad things in the past, think about it now, more than a million catties of cotton are in front of us, how much can we get?"

“…… Huh?! Many of the soldiers who were talking endlessly about it, hearing this reminder, blinked their eyes, pulled their thoughts back to the present, looked at the building and the ship, and slowly floated a dream-like smile on their faces, "Hey, maybe!" There is this possible! ”

"Such a big ship is here, we can't be the master, we must report it to Qing Shao, more than 1.8 million catties of cotton, how many people are up and down in our Bai family's army, and I don't think it's enough to share it on everyone's head." Finally, there are people who are better at arithmetic who are more sober and not overly excited like everyone else.

"People are here to do business, so much cotton must cost a lot of money, even if we want it, it depends on whether our general can squeeze out the money to buy it."

"Yes, foreign goods are not cheap, and if you buy all this cotton, it will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, right?"

"Wow, it's so expensive?!"

"How can foreign goods be cheap, when we were in the north before, what was the price of the tea bricks brought by the merchants all the way to the ground? Is this still the mainland's transportation to the border, and the big merchant ships can be cheaper to come over the sea and sail some things? ”

"Eh, yes, we couldn't even afford to drink coarse tea foam before, but when we came here, at least we didn't have to worry about eating and drinking tea."

The soldiers remembered bittersweet for a while, and sighed that life was not easy, and then someone saw that they had finished talking about Ma Zhiwen, and the expressions of the three should have been good, and they were all smiling, which made the soldiers have a little more expectations in their hearts.

Ma Zhiwen saw that his soldiers were still there, so he beckoned and shouted over, asking them to immediately prepare boats and fresh water and send them to the five big ships.

There are a small boats moored here at the wharf, all of which are old boats bought from foreign shipowners through the roads laid by Jiajia Village and Jia Ji Boat Company after the village chief Jia came, which are cheap and can be used for daily water training for soldiers.