Chapter 293: Venice Scroll (9)

Seeing Sandro, Huang Xuan was like seeing an animal with countless tusks and rhinoceros horns, carrying a heavy work of art on its back, and sheep hair fluttering in the sky as a background.

With a sincere smile, Huang Xuan gave Sandro a smile and said, "Praise God, it's so nice to see you on such a bright morning." ”

"Me too." Sandro wiped Huang Xuan with his beard, then looked at Li Shenggang and said, "This is yours?" ”

"This is my butler, Antonio." Huang Xuan gave Li Shenggang a name that had no "sexual" personality.

Li Shenggang was disguised as a 40-year-old vendor, with a high nose and deep eyes, and some hair that was blown "messy". The use of physical alterations instead of line of sight camouflage is also a matter of energy consumption.

After having the censorship authority, Li Shenggang could also get preferential treatment as an Italian translator, and when he heard Huang Xuan's introduction, he bent down in the form of a person behind Sandro and said, "Hello Mr. Sandro." ”

Sandro smiled and nodded, looked in the direction of the dock, and said, "Is Mr. Cossa waiting for your fleet?" ”

"The fastest team has arrived and is back with the goods." Huang Xuan found a reason for not having a fleet, and pointed at Li Shenggang with a smile and said, "Antonio came with the fleet, and I asked him to stay to deal with some accounting problems." ”

"That's great." Sandro sincerely complimented, and then said: "Mr. Cosa's needs for sheep wool and wool, I asked my friends around me, and finally I want to introduce you to this gentleman. He stepped out of the way a little, and standing behind him was a tall man in an aristocratic "uniform", Sandro raised his voice, and said as if he were introducing guests in the banquet hall: "From the Medici, Joseph. Mr. Medici. ”

Huang Xuan was indeed surprised.

The Medici family was the king of Florence, and half of the Renaissance was financed by the Medici family, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, these names are written in the Medici family's entrainment list, and the patron of the San Marco Library, Cosi the Elder, his surname is also Medici.

Joseph. With a little arrogance, Medici shook hands with Huang Xuan and said, "If it's convenient, can we go to see your goods now?" ”

"Of course." Huang Xuan's smile is very bright, compared to the windfall profits that ivory may bring, the stable income of sheep "wool" can also make people quite excited.

At this time, Huang Xuan regretted a little - this is a kind of unsatisfied regret, if it is the end of the 16th century, or a few years later, as long as he gets some famous paintings from the fingers of the Medici family, he will return home for hundreds of millions of dollars, and this is because many works have survived to this day and cannot be sold.

Li Shenggang is a diligent person, especially when the boss is there, his two legs are like being produced in Kenya, and he can travel 24 hours a day.

Full of wheat flowed down the warehouse door, which is why Nick was too practical and filled the warehouse with grain.

A small thin man behind Sandro floated out of the crack, twisted two wheat grains from the ground, and chewed two mouthfuls in his mouth, Huang Xuan looked at him straightly, the R plane is not a high-level plane, but the standard grain produced by others, it must be very standard, at least the quality and normal nutritional composition are much higher than the standards produced by Europeans in the 15th century, and the kind of edible grain is a product added by nutritionists, and it is given to the Venetians, and they can't recognize it.

The little thin man was about to eat the whole grain, and just then he spit out what was left, and nodded at Sandro with a smile.

This is the difference between the Venetians and the Europeans of the same period, the Europeans before the Renaissance were quite honest, according to the 21st century, that is, what to say. If you are also a Briton who is in business, you will say it if it is good at this moment, and if it is not good, you will say it, but between this thin man and Sandro, there is a bit of a code.

Joseph next to him didn't react otherwise, it seemed that this was also the common pattern of Venetian merchants, Sandro rubbed his hands, rubbed away the morning cold, and said, "How much wheat does Mr. Cossa have this time?" ”

Huang Xuan clicked on the energy screen, and saw that Nick listed all the remaining materials and release materials in the dimensional space, and this time there were as many as 200,000 tons of wheat sent, which was 7.7 million bushels, he discounted it a little, and said: "About 7.5 million bushels, thank you." ”

Joseph didn't have any expression, Sandro was obviously a little surprised, he took Huang Xuan's so-called tens of millions of bushels as just a pretext, after all, in the view of this era, a large Genoese merchant ship can carry 20,000 bushels of wheat is already very good, after all, 800 tons of ships are a minority, people are more using 200 tons of upload, but even the former, Huang Xuan refers to 7.5 million bushels, also needs more than 300 large merchant ships to transport.

300 Genoese large merchant ships is a very terrifying number, if any merchant house has 300 large merchant ships, how can Sandro Merchant House know nothing about it, but Sandro did not put his disbelief on his face, he could not have thought that there would be such a thing as Lorraine in the world, in fact, he would rather believe that this is Huang Xuan's grain that has long been in Venice, for some reason, it may be inconvenient for him to trade with the wider Chamber of Commerce, or trade with the British.

The tolerance and risk-taking ability of the Venetian merchants is unimaginable for later generations of multinational companies, which is also determined by the times - a reputable Venetian businessman, even if he loses three-fifths or even four-fifths of his property of 10,000 gold ducats, he can also do business with the commercial credit of 10,000 gold ducats, and countless banks are willing to lend to him, and in Genoia, the lowest interest rate in the same industry was once as low as 1.5%, which is one-third of Wall Street in the 21st century. And for businessmen who have no credit, the interest rate on usury is often more than 15% per month.

Just like all the businessmen who are not very well-behaved in this era, Sandro is quite fond of certain secretive things, he shook hands with Huang Xuan again, and said, "Are they all here?" ”

"There are a few more to the south." Huang Xuan shrugged, in order to hire these warehouses, he spent all the 600 gold ducats in his hand, which can buy a warship.

"Roberto, go and see this Mr. Antonio." Sandro took a deep breath, touched the ground with his heel, and smiled, "Mr. Medici, Mr. Cosa, shall we find a place nearby to talk?" ”

Huang Xuan nodded reservedly.

The canals in Venice are busy, and one of the special features of Venice is that the "tidal" phenomenon is not obvious, which allows ships not to collide with the shore due to the waves, so that ships can be unloaded directly on the docks, which was quite useful in the early days of its development.

Behind Sandro and the others there is a large single-oared boat, although it seems to be very small, but in terms of area, it is already the limit in the canal of Venice, and about a hundred people can sit on the upper and lower floors, and there are several servants waiting at the moment.

Huang Xuan was not polite, and only gave Nick a sentence of "teach Li Shenggang about the energy screen and history" and walked on the boat, he felt that with Li Shenggang's instigation, he should also be a master who does not learn and has no skills.

He guessed wrong, although Li Shenggang is not deeply educated, but fundamentally speaking, he is still a cultural person, but he is a little more obscene, a little more bad water, and a little distorted in his outlook on life, world view and values.

The cultural people who make a lot of noise are all people who have showered a distorted world view and then can produce and sell themselves. Li Shenggang is barely one now.

Sandro was too enthusiastic at this time, he personally pulled out a chair for Huang Xuan, and waited for Huang Xuan to sit down before saying, "Mr. Cosa, what are your thoughts now?" ”

Huang Xuan saw that no one from the Perot Chamber of Commerce came, and he knew that Sandro wanted to eat alone, but this Medici family was a little inexplicable, he thought so, with a smile on his face, and said: "1 million bushels, 60,000 gold ducats, this is the price we said before, if Mr. Sandro does not object, then it will be according to this price." ”

The red and white rose families pinched each other, which made the Venetian merchants who had already recovered from the mental trauma of the fall of Byzantium very happy.

The mighty Republic of Venice was not a commercial city as half the people imagined, a city regime that occupied the largest number of colonies in the Mediterranean, and they had the largest arsenal, shipyard and the only factory for the production of transparent glass in the world at the time, and the war could bring them too many benefits.

And the most direct benefit, of course, is the profit of interconnection.

Among them, the grain trade has long been vigorous. In Venice, where the futures market is still in its infancy, the price of grain has been rising, and it has long broken through the threshold of 1 million bushels and 70,000 gold ducats. After all, in this era, the war is far from ending in a few years, and the British proved with a real Hundred Years War that England can feed a family of arms dealers for three generations.

Huang Xuan is still willing to trade 1 million bushels and 60,000 gold ducats, which can be said to be quite fair.

Joseph of the Medici family also looked up at Huang Xuan, a credit merchant is always worthy of praise, how did he know that Huang Xuan was just pressed for time and was unwilling to have more branches.

Sandro agreed to Huang Xuan's price with a smile, and then took out a list and handed it to Huang Xuan: "Mr. Cosa, you look at our offer, if you buy a large quantity, we can also reduce the price." ”

This is also a bit of a reciprocation for him.