Cultural landscapes such as the Temple of Confucius, the team with special tasks did not plan to spend time to visit, and those who really wanted to see it could also wait until Yazhou was occupied in the future to see enough. After Yan Chujie's consent, Schneider simply proposed to Luo Shengdong to go and see the largest local trading house first. Of course, Luo Shengdong would not object to this mentions, he had long known that these Haihan people came to Yazhou for two purposes, one was to introduce population, and the other was to do business with the merchants of Yazhou. Since it is a business, there must be profits in it, and Luo Shengdong is also looking forward to helping the Haihan people reach a few deals, so maybe he will have the opportunity to get some oil and water. Of course, no matter what, it is definitely better to do business than to go to war, this truth is always true, if the Haihan people want to do business in Yazhou, then there will definitely be no more war in the short term, and the turning point in the middle is related to Luo Shengdong has long figured it out.

There are two largest businesses in Yazhou City, but they are all outsiders, namely "Fu Ruifeng" from Guangzhou and "Anfu Xing" from Qiongzhou Fucheng. The first thing Luo Shengdong led the action team to was the "Anfu Xing" located in Nancheng.

Through the crowd, they found that Yazhou City was not what they thought before, located at the end of the world, full of criminals, full of depression, on the contrary, the market here was extremely lively. There are many small shops selling groceries on the street, and there are also people on the street who set up stalls to sell some seasonal vegetables and fruits or snacks and hot food, and the pedestrians are orderly, and from time to time you can see groups of people reading books shaking their heads while walking.

The only thing that makes people feel a little dissatisfied is the poor sanitation in the city, with the scattered household garbage abounding on the streets, and the occasional puddle of steaming fresh horse manure in the middle of the road, leaving the crowd from 400 years later to hide their noses. In this era of lack of professional sanitation workers, residents do not have the habit of dumping garbage at designated points, and such environmental problems exist in different places in every city with a large population. If you want to change the status quo of an urban environment like Yazhou City, I am afraid that you will have to wait until the Executive Committee takes over this place.

"An Fu Hong" is not far from the South City Gate, and after passing through two streets, you can already see the signboard with red letters on a black background outside the store. The guy who greeted the guests at the door saw that an officer came to the door with a group of strange people in strange clothes, and he didn't know what to do at the moment, so he hurriedly went inside and called the shopkeeper out. The shopkeeper of "An Fu Xing" was settling accounts in the room, and when he heard the news, he hurried out, and at a glance, the officer who took the lead was someone he knew.

"Mr. Luo Bai, I am here today, I don't know what advice?" （.）

"Shopkeeper Zhang, I'm bringing you money to the door today!" Luo Shengdong laughed, pulled Shopkeeper Zhang to his side, and introduced to him: "These are all wealthy businessmen from overseas, and if they want to purchase some things in Yazhou, I will be the first to think of you!"

"Thank you Mr. Luo Bai for your care!" shopkeeper Zhang relieved himself when he heard this, as long as he didn't come to the door to find trouble. As for Luo Shengdong's initiative to show goodwill, Shopkeeper Zhang will naturally express it afterwards.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, here is a list, please see what goods you can provide?" Schneider, the business negotiation of the task force was represented by Schneider, and he did not intend to go around in circles, and went straight to the point as soon as he came up.

After taking the list, the shopkeeper did not rush to read the contents, but told the men to hurry to the back hall and move a few more stools out to let the guests take their seats. In the eyes of Shopkeeper Zhang, these people who wore strange short shirts and only had short hair brought by Luo Shengdong were all taller, fair-skinned, and had no sense of humility, but instead revealed a kind of self-confidence of the superiors, and they seemed to be pampered nobles on weekdays.

Shopkeeper Zhang just stood and greeted Schneider and the others for a while, and inquired about their origins by the way. Shopkeeper Zhang is also a little skillful, he heard Schneider speak with a northern accent, so he also used a similar accent to talk to him. Of course, Schneider also took the opportunity to bring out the story of the descendants of the Han people who were thousands of miles overseas to find their roots, and the shopkeeper was also embarrassed when he heard it. After the group had all sat down, he picked up the list and looked at it carefully.

Taking into account the reading habits of the Ming people, the procurement list issued by the Executive Committee is specially written in traditional Chinese characters in a vertical manner, so that there will be no deviation in the understanding of the other party. After reading it, Shopkeeper Zhang put down the list, nodded at Schneider and said: "Most of the items on this are available in Anfu Bank, but the quantity you need is not small, and some of the goods may need time to raise." ”

"Which ones can be offered to us right away?" Schneider didn't intend to hang himself from a tree, and there was another trading house in the city, "Furuifeng".

"Tung oil, all kinds of shipbuilding tools, and good Songjiang thick cotton cloth, these things because we want to supply Yazhou Water Village, so we have long-term stocking, Luo Bai has a lot of times, you can rest assured of the quality. As for cassiterite and dansha, although they are in stock, the amount is not much. Shopkeeper Zhang inadvertently pointed out that this "Anfu Bank" is one of the official suppliers of Yazhou Water Village, and Luo Shengdong should have also received a lot of purchase rebates from here.

"And the saltpeter, sulfur, coal, and coke that you have specified, these things are not easy to buy in our trading firm, even in the whole Qiongzhou Island. Shopkeeper Zhang shook his head helplessly: "If you need one hundred and eighty catties, it may be easy to raise, but your list starts with a thousand catties, and if you want to buy enough in a short time, I am afraid it will be a little difficult." ”

"Don't be busy with things that are not easy to procure, let's talk about the price you can provide for these goods here!" Schneider shook his hands, ready to let his fellow friends show his bargaining skills.

However, with Luo Shengdong, a former buyer, present, the shopkeeper did not leave much moisture in the quotation, and the thick cotton cloth with a width of more than three feet was finally sold at the price of eight coins of silver, which was still based on the special preferential price given by them on the face of the two hundred horses of "Anfu Xing" in one go. According to Zhang's shopkeeper, the supply price to Yazhou Water Village is at least one or two silver horses. Of course, everyone present knew in their hearts that the supply price to Yazhou Water Village included public relations costs, which was completely different from the current commercial procurement.

These fabrics are the procurement items required by the Ministry of Shipping, when the cotton production of the Ministry of Shipping is still far away, the Ministry of Shipping can not expect to have its own textile production in a short period of time, and the cloth produced locally on Qiongzhou Island does not meet the requirements in terms of strength, so the Ministry of Shipping requires the Ministry of Commerce to purchase a batch of good quality Songjiang cotton cloth for trial production of sails.

After agreeing on the prices of several commodities one by one, the shopkeeper Zhang still refused to give up, and continued to sell all kinds of "luxury goods" such as porcelain, lacquerware, jewelry, and high-end stationery to Schneider and others. I have to say that his recommendation was actually carefully considered, because these Haihan people do look like rich businessmen, and when they come out to talk about business, they are accompanied by officers at the level of the hundred presidents, and this shelf is so big that the shopkeeper has never seen it in the past. It stands to reason that these social elites should be very particular about the quality of life, there are no two high-end vases in the study, no lacquer toilet in the bedroom, and no set of lake pen emblem ink and ink on the desk?

If before the crossing, a group of people saw so many Ming blue and white flowers in front of them, I am afraid that they would have gone crazy, this thing has been so expensive in the cultural relics market in later generations that it can be directly priced. But now it's different from the past, everyone knows very well that these things won't help their ongoing careers, let alone like improving the quality of life, so the attitude is also relatively cold Everyone now lives in a collective dormitory, and these useless things are not even put in the place.

The shopkeeper Zhang worked hard to sell and finally returned in vain, and his face was naturally not so good-looking. However, Schneider didn't plan to end this business negotiation, the things bought were finished, and the things sold hadn't started yet.

"We also have some special products, I wonder if your firm is interested in selling them?" Schneider said, opening his backpack and carefully taking out a few items.

Shopkeeper Zhang's eyes lit up, he reached out and picked up a crystal clear glass wine glass in front of him, and then grabbed another glass bowl to examine it carefully: "This is the glassware sold by the Franco man? I have seen this kind of glassware in Guangzhou, and the price is indeed high, I don't know how much you are asking for?"

"These glassware are not made by the Franc machine, but our Haihan products, and the quality is definitely better than the Franc machine. It's just that we come from overseas and are not very familiar with the local commodity prices, so the shopkeeper may wish to make a price for our reference. Schneider saw that the other party showed obvious interest, and knew that this matter was already half done.

The glass, which has become a weapon for collecting money in the hands of countless traversers, will naturally not let go of it. As the basic material for making zuò glass, Sanya has a huge reserve of quartz sand, and the conditions are unique. In order to pass through the hands of the super era of technology, in terms of cost and quality will be greatly superior to any competitors of this era, in the future glass products will be excellent foreign trade products in both the East and the West. In order to make glassware on a large scale, the Ministry of Industry also sent several people to the glass factory to receive special training to learn glass production techniques and various common glassware manufacturing processes. Some of the dozens of tons of refractory clay that are still installed on the New World are crucible kilns that are intended for the construction of molten glass.