Chapter 289: Venice Scroll (5)

Even with the existence of camouflage nets, people couldn't see Chu Yining who was gradually disappearing, but the Venetians on the street still noticed Chu Yining who disappeared all of a sudden.

In 15th-century Venice, still a republic where Christianity was prevalent and the people were pious, Huang Xuan had to use the same camouflage net to disappear into the streets, and then turn a street corner to try to change his image.

He wasn't going to go back to P112 right now, that would be too eager. What's more, with Huang Xuan's current strength on Earth, he does not have the ability to search for an alien without a passport all over the world.

That Mr. Spy will eventually try to find Huang Xuan's flaws, and the more this time, the more he can't "show" the flaws.

Huang Xuan cheered himself up: You must be as brave as the first time you hit someone with a stone when you were a child.

Let Lorraine change his skin, Huang Xuan looked at his image as if he had been bleached on the energy screen, and said: "Nick, you replenish Lorraine's energy with 1 billion hot circles through Kangfu, Lorraine, as soon as the energy arrives, you upgrade." ”

"Okay."

"How long will it take?"

"Three to four days, the time ratio of P301 and P112 is about 1:2, you just have to wait two days, and you're done."

"That's for the best."

Nick said with some dissatisfaction: "Do you want Lorraine, who has no interest, to become a level 18 traveler?" ”

"If you can get Lu Min to sell the blueprints of that level 24 transit base for a level 17 base, I'll give you an upgrade."

Nick suddenly became excited, and said, "I'm going to urge them." ”

Huang Xuan sighed, the two bases are emotionless, and there is no so-called sense of crisis accordingly. Even if he really wants Nick to blow himself up, he will not have any complaints, only he will really have emotional fluctuations because of the future.

Tried to say a few words in Italian - naturally through Nick's translation, Huang Xuan moved outside, he now needs to improve his strength, every bit of energy may make a qualitative leap in his strength - the reason why Chu Yining will let him go is most likely really worried that he will jump off the wall in a hurry, in case he really dies, there may be no clues. But she never imagined that a full program base, which was barely visible in the Plane Era, would appear in P112.

Lorraine is a base that can be upgraded with energy.

Even in the era of the Great Plane, except for those important strategic planes, there are very few such forward bases.

On the way back to Piazza San Gacomo, talented Venetian merchants are still selling treasures from Constantinople.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire's capture of Constantinople was perhaps the most tragic scene in the entire history of Europe, with three days and three nights of burning and looting, coupled with a long period of looting and control in the future, leaving this thousand-year-old city devastated. The "New Rome" of Byzantium is the continuation of Roman civilization, and the skin of culture has always been one of the most prosperous civilizations in the world, but the Turkish army burned and looted in the city, not only looting the art treasures of the past dynasties, but also burning the gorgeous buildings. Subsequently, Mehmed II renamed Constantinople Istanbul and converted countless churches into mosques.

The European world is in the grip of this.

Of course, the Venetians also had fear, resentment and religious sentiments, but this did not stop them from pursuing wealth.

Buying back the precious works of art in the hands of Turkish soldiers and generals seems to allow them to vent their various emotions, perhaps, it is wealth that allows them to vent their emotions, due to the relationship between war and supply and demand, the picture scroll that may have cost 300 ducats can now be bought for only 50 ducats, and even food and spices can be exchanged for only 30 ducats, nothing excites the Venetians more than this.

It was already 1455, two years after the fall of Constantinople. The threat of the Turkish army was gradually forgotten, and in its place was a wave of art price hikes that began in Florence, which also drove up art prices in Venice, which made the European market boiling.

Huang Xuan saw that almost half of the businesses were doing similar or related things.

They either sell and buy handicrafts, or exchange them for what the Turks need, and at most they do things related to them, just as the price of goods related to the Arab world is not only on the rise, but also quite easy to sell – such as grain, timber, wool textiles, and so on.

Looking down on Piazza San Gacomo from the air, its plan is like a large wholesale market in later generations, with low-rise bungalows or two-storey buildings playing the role of a trading house in their respective functional areas in a horizontal and vertical manner, many houses of only more than 100 square meters may represent the interests of hundreds of sailing ships of the entire Eastern fleet, here, many merchants have financial resources that surprise modern people, and tens of thousands of florins or ducats often appear in the books here. At the end of the 15th century, the ratio of gold ducats to pounds was usually between 1:6.2, and the amount of pounds borrowed by the British "government" from Italian banks during this period was only 70,000 pounds at a time due to financial crisis.

The so-called rich country is just a common thing in the small city of Venice.

Huang Xuan pretended to be an ordinary small businessman, walking quietly on the stone-paved square road, the pace of life of the Venetian is very fast, at least much faster than Nanjing, and Huang Xuan was also a little infected when he heard the hundreds of Ducatt transactions from the surrounding shops.

It's like a 15th-century version of a futures market.

Passing by the nearest rum franchise store, Huang Xuan finally saw a shop with a wheat logo named Perot, and there were four people standing behind the counter inside, and two people were standing farther away to talk.

Huang Xuan "touched" his cheek, disguised as a white man, coughed, and walked into the store.

A young apprentice immediately approached him and asked, "Sir, what do you need?" ”

Whoever runs a shop in Venice must be a recognized member of the guild, divided into manager, master, apprentice or helper according to their rank, which is a long and strict hierarchical sequence, but it is this sequence that guarantees the continuity of production and self-discipline.

According to the habit of Italians, Huang Xuan tried to be as rigid and stiff as possible, and then said in prepared language: "I have a shipment of goods about to arrive, it is grain, so I want to sell it to you." ”

"Are you a member of our guild?" The apprentices did not change their attitude because Huang Xuan spoke of "a batch", in fact, Venice has always been a non-self-sufficient country in food, and they can be said to be true champions of free commerce: there is no trade protection, and there is no antitrust. On the other hand, Italians have never been so kind to their customers, such as the expression "the customer is God", which Italians still scoff at until the 21st century.

Huang Xuan shook his head, and at this time, the store manager had already walked out. Huang Xuan immediately added: "You see, this is my first time in Venice, but I have long admired the credit of the Venetians, and I am willing to make myself a part of this credit collective, so I can ask for payment after the goods arrive, but I need to get a warehouse to store the grain." ”

Venice's trading system is already quite well-established, and in the city of Venice, you can't just get a warehouse, especially in the busy waters of the city, where the daily traffic is huge and easy to hide, but most of the warehouses already have owners.

Hearing Huang Xuan's words, the store manager walked out slowly, stood in front of Huang Xuan, and said with a smile, "I am the manager of this store, Daister." ”

Huang Xuan shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Xhosa, you can call me Xhosa." My ship will arrive in three days, maybe later today, so I need to prepare early. ”

He made a helpless expression, and Daist, knowing that merchants without guilds were not convenient in Venice, asked with a smile: "So how much grain do you have?" Where did it come from? What type? ”

"Well, about 20,000 bushels of wheat, I don't know how much is going to be lost on the road, you know, it's all from France."

A bushel is a unit of capacity, and 1 bushel of wheat should have 23.309 kg. At that time, the displacement of sailing ships sailing on the sea was increasing year by year, but the size of 200 tons was still relatively small, and 20,000 bushels had about 600 tons of wheat, which was already a large amount.

Daist was obviously very interested, he looked at Huang Xuan for a while, beckoned a middle-aged man in his 30s, and said to Huang Xuan: "This is Massimo." He will take you to our warehouse and arrange your accommodation, and if your fleet arrives within three days, you can pay for the transaction after the inspection. ”

Massimo was supposed to be a master, and he smiled at Huang Xuan in a friendly manner, and said, "Mr. Cosa, please come with me." ”

"Oh, okay." Huang Xuan is a little uncomfortable, 100 bushels cost about 6 gold ducats, and 20,000 bushels is 600 gold ducats. Its value is equivalent to $34,000. Huang Xuan is sure that even in the United States, no manager in the grain company will complete the transaction of 600 tons of grain so easily.

What's more, relative to the productivity of the 15th century, 600 gold ducats can be regarded as a city-state's budget for about two months.

Perhaps, this is the so-called self-confidence that all the wealth of the world gathers here.