Chapter 295: Venice Scroll (11)

Sandro regretted for a while, he knew that he shouldn't have said anything "spices" at this time, and as a result, he let the Perot Chamber of Commerce share a sum in vain, when there is a shortage of spices, even if the price of spices is high, they can always be sold, and its cost is very high, and the absolute profit is also very large, plus the speed of capital return caused by scarcity "sex", it is the favorite of big businessmen.

Of course, the most important thing is that spices from overseas are always cheaper.

Huang Xuan took a deep breath, but he was not in a hurry at this time, he sat down shortly, and said with a smile: "Don't be busy, wait for Antonio and them to order the grain first, and then we will go to see the spice warehouse." Oh, Mr. Perrault, did you bring this? ”

Xiao Huang shook the list in his hand.

Messero glared at Sandro, as if resentful of him for stealing his grain business, and also handed a list to Huang Xuan, "Has Mr. Cosa's fleet arrived?" ”

"About half of them have arrived." Huang Xuan squinted his eyes and was stunned again.

There were 3,000 black slaves on the Perot comptoir's list.

Slaves were needed for glassmaking and shipbuilding in Venice, armor and weapons in Milan, and woolen production in Florence.

However, in 15th-century Europe, the demand for slaves was far less intense than it had been during the colonial period, and the vast Piazza San Gacomo was fascinated by the things that could appreciate in war—cannons, swords, armor, wood, gunpowder, cloth, woollen wool, sugar and salt, and everything else that could be eaten.

Huang Xuan took his eyes off the word slave very regrettably, slave means that there is no autonomous "sex", the war in the R plane is over, and the level 4 mercenary is not easy to sell at all.

Continuing to look at it, the business of the Perot firm was obviously much more extensive, but relatively speaking, the total amount was much less, the total number of ivory and rhinoceros horn did not exceed 2,000, and the sheep "wool" was also a unit of 100,000 pounds, which was too small compared to the orders of the Sandro or Medici families.

Huang Xuan looked at it while thinking: Cannon, skip it; weapons, skipped; The wood, mostly walnut, is too little.

Seeing Huang Xuan shaking his head vigorously, Messero hurriedly said, "Mr. Huang, please take a look below." He was worried that Huang Xuan would be impatient and lose the business.

Like Sandro, it was impossible for Mecero to come up with hundreds of thousands of gold coins at once, and bartering was a two-share for the Venetian merchant who occupied a powerful position.

The three of them all paid attention to Huang Xuan's expression, and Xiao Huang also turned the page seriously and continued to read, if there are enough spices, in fact, there will be enough spices, then the materials provided by Sandro are a little insufficient, and now he is not satisfied with hundreds of millions of dollars in petty fights.

China's annual electricity consumption is as high as 3 trillion kilowatt hours, equivalent to 1.3 billion energy circles, and the global annual electricity consumption is more than 14 trillion, which is 6.3 billion energy circles.

It's just that American knives must be indispensable.

In the face of the Space-Time Authority, there is only so much he can do.

Huang Xuan's pupils were a little disfocused, and Messelo immediately became anxious, seeing that Huang Xuan had already seen the third page, he hurriedly said: "If Mr. Huang is not interested in pine resin, then we currently have a lot of leather you mentioned the day before yesterday, not only ordinary cowhide and sheepskin, but also many mink, bear and deer skins from the Slavic region, most of these precious "fur" skins are priced below 5 gold ducat, and the supply is sufficient. ”

"How many?" Huang Xuan immediately began to flip through the list, and compared with Sandro Comptoir's, Perot's list was more than 10 times thicker.

"Here." Mecero pointed out the location for Huang Xuan and said: "You see, there are 40,000 calf skins, 100,000 adult cowhides, and sheepskins are also divided into adult goats and adult goats, a total of 250,000 pieces, and adult goatskins are 180,000 pieces; There are up to 300,000 skins, all of which are processed adult skins that have just been delivered from the European continent. ”

He took a breath, let Huang Xuan turn the page again, and then said: "There are not many horse skins left, about 30,000 sheets, these are all stripped off by army war horses, and there are very few ordinary civilian horses, and the price is calculated according to a relatively low price, 100 skins and 150 gold ducats." There are many types of fur leather, mainly 20,000 fox fur leather, 30,000 mink fur leather. ”

As he was talking, Huang Xuan pointed to the mark in the middle again and asked, "There are so many kinds of fox skins?" ”

"It's mainly divided according to 'hair' and 'color'." Seeing that Huang Xuan was willing to ask, Mecero became happy, and his big noses were also huddled together and smiled: "Mainly silver foxes, white foxes and red foxes." The characteristics of the silver fox's "hair" are that the "hair" is relatively long, and the "hair" needles are somewhat uneven, and the "hair" is thicker than the "hair" of other foxes, but the "hair" surface is shiny, and the original "color" is gray "color" and black "color". The white fox's "hair" is fine and neat, this kind of skin "hair" is better than the silver fox, but the length of the "hair" is shorter than the silver fox, if it is made of clothing, it can be very convenient to dye all the "color". ”

Messero paused for a moment, and saw that everyone was looking at him, a little proud, the so-called art industry has a specialty, and he has been specializing in grain, leather and other products in the Perrault family for some years.

Taking a breath, Messero said: "The characteristics of the red fox's 'fur' are similar to those of the white fox, but it is slightly longer than the silver fox, and the whole 'color' is red 'color' and gray 'color', and it is not dyed 'color' when used for clothing. This is the best fur. The rest of the mink and the like are nothing special, except that they are divided into male and female mink. ”

How did Huang Xuan know that there were so many differences between such 'hair', he picked up the list and asked, "What about these precious 'hair' skins?" ”

"Mr. Kossa, you're in a hurry, so we're going to simplify the classification. There are 5 gold ducats in bearskin sheets and 12 ducats in large sheets, for a total of 20,000 gold ducats. There are so many types of deerskins, there are 12,000 in total, if you want them all, it's 30,000 ducats, mink skins are 5 ducats each, there are 2,000 ducats, and a small number of snakeskins, about 1,000 ducats, as long as you have 1,000 ducats. ”

"Nick do the math."

"At least 1.2 million gold ducats."

Huang Xuan was a little excited and couldn't sit still, he didn't worry about the price, as long as the more quantity, the better. If you change to an illiterate traveler and see that there are no livestock or slaves here, he may not even look at it, and just blow it up, or grab a handful and leave.

But just like all commercial cities in the world, how can the warehouse be placed in the center of the city or even near the city, Perot Commercial Bank must have to transfer goods in the past two days to meet the demand, and how much can be grabbed.

In addition to being a little troublesome, spend a little money to get the highest returns.

Even the welfare lottery knows how much money to come up with to claim the prize......

Mecero was also a little nervous, and looked at Huang Xuan relaxed, he was actually not going to sell so much leather to Huang Xuan, after all, after all the processing of it, the income was also very good, but when he heard the spices, he couldn't help it.

If there are two ships of spices, or only one shipload of spices, they are also worth a huge amount of money, as long as they are sold out, it will be more profitable than the hard work of processing leather, not to mention that the leather can be purchased again, and the spices have always been monopolized by the Portuguese. A few years ago, when some Venetian merchants organized a fleet to Beirut and Alexandria for their annual trade, they found that there were no spices left to sell. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, became a storehouse of oriental goods, much to the displeasure of Venetian merchants.

Perhaps Mr. Xhosa is a new spice supplier.

Thinking so, Mecero glanced at Sandro and the young man next to him, and the latter two were also not easy.

However, if Huang Xuan really didn't plan to buy so much leather back, then Perot Commercial Bank wouldn't really have any losses, just a little disappointed.

The merchant is just a little anxious.

Huang Xuan's face still doesn't understand the "color", which makes people unable to see joy and anger.

Silent in the cabin, only the sound of the wind and shouts on the canal resonate, Venice is a realistic and happy city, and the dream of the center of the world once woke the Italians with laughter.

There was a sound of pedaling on the ladder again, and Roberto and Li Shenggang, who were thin like a big monkey, walked in together, and their appearance was obscene enough, and they had a taste that complemented each other.

Huang Xuan was unmoved and continued to turn the page, until he finished the entire list, and then he saw the rum marked with thousands of cases, but unfortunately there was no brand and no source of wine, and the profit was not too high.

Closing the list, Huang Xuan looked up and saw that Roberto was squeezing his eyebrows with his boss, he didn't see it, and asked with a smile: "Antonio, have you seen it all?" ”

"I've seen it all." Li Shenggang is a little used to the name Antonio, and he wants to go back and simply give him an Italian name, just call Antonio, or call Augustus is not bad.

"Then let's make a deal." Huang Xuan stood up and stretched, shook hands with Joseph, Sandro and Mecero one by one, and then said, "Whoever has spices with me, the grain trade here will be handed over to Antonio." ”

"Me." Joseph spoke out with Messero.

It seems that the Sandro family should be vassals of the Medici family.