Chapter 296: Venice Scroll (12)

On the one hand, there is a so-called violent society (la societa violenta), with grudges and grievances against magnates (meaning the rampant and domineering families in Italy with feudal customs), but on the other hand, the business practices here are quite safe, and many people will be very relieved to run around with tens of thousands of gold coins of credit or thousands of gold coins in cash, etc., Others are not slacking off because Huang Xuan's entourage is too small.

In fact, the development of a commercial city such as Venice, which was the commercial center of the world until the decline of Venice in the 16th century, would have been hampered if its merchants were not guaranteed financial security.

In this city surrounded by water, logistics are quite developed, there are many warehouses with canals, each store has its own territory, its own fleet, and even its own dock workers, and in this city of only 100,000 people, it creates the same value every year as 100 million people in other regions.

If it weren't for the fact that the exotic buildings were too dilapidated, Huang Xuan would almost have thought he was walking in Nanjing's business district.

Joseph. The Medici were also frequent visitors to Venice, sitting on a chair on the right deck and sipping coffee from central Italy. Mecero sat behind Huang Xuan with his body in arrears, compared to the Medici family, he was only a side branch of the Perrault family, and he only had the opportunity to communicate with Joseph because of a transaction. The Medici just sat together.

Huang Xuan sat beside Joseph.

The young Medici believed that since Huang Xuan was an Italian who could own hundreds of thousands of gold ducats, he could naturally be on an equal footing with the Medici family. That's fair.

Huang Xuan didn't mean to thank Mr. Medici in front of him in the slightest, and he wasn't even in the mood to compliment Joseph.

In the middle of his busy schedule, Huang Xuan naturally thought of the Time and Space Administration, a damn institution.

The three of them quietly came to the old warehouse area near St. Mark's Square.

Huang Xuan temporarily rented three warehouses here, because it was far away from the place before the three of them, Li Shenggang had not come here to see the grain, and in this kind of transaction involving more than 100,000 gold coins, it was difficult for the management personnel to try to do everything themselves.

Xiao Huang stepped off the boat and let the two Italian gentlemen ask, "Nick, did Lu Min send their things?" ”

Shi Yu said he had bought about 120 tons of spices, mainly pepper and cardamom, because it would take a buffer time to buy them from the trading floor......

"Then put these spices in these two warehouses first, and put the grain back into the plane passage."

"Great Yellow Master, frequently opening the plane channel is a very resource-consuming thing, judging from the material energy in the current plane channel, you will waste about 200,000 yuan of electricity every time you open it."

Huang Xuan snorted and said, "Nick, do you want to be the most expensive doorman in history?" ”

"Oh master, Nick's body should beat with your ambitions, if you want to own the most expensive hotel ever."

"Change the spices." Huang Xuan let out a low roar.

"Well, if you don't want to continue the topic." Nick is like a skilled 6th grade student, and after completing his work, he bargains: "The owner of the yellow 'color', just today, you are equivalent to smashing a Mercedes-Benz 600, or a dozen Santanas." ”

"Look forward." Huang Xuan said as he walked forward, the materials that passed through the passage of the R plane have their own packaging methods, and the area of spices is indeed not small.

After arriving at the nearest warehouse, Huang Xuanfang waited a few seconds before asking the warehouse management to open the door.

Pungent aroma.

Of course, this is for the Venetians.

For Huang Xuanwen, this is like a playground for sneezing.

The Venetian will meet a warehouse of valuables every day, just like a worker in a banknote printing factory, without much passion and wondering, no one seems to have come to this warehouse yesterday to load things? You should check the records.

Joseph and Messero were pleasantly surprised.

It's not that their concentration is not as good as others, but because the profits that these things can bring belong to them.

Joseph pretended to wipe his face, put away his happy appearance, and asked as if serious, "Can Mr. Cossa tell us more about your spices?" ”

"Half pepper, half cardamom, all Indian. There are about 130,000 pounds of spices in this warehouse. Huang Xuan shrugged, it was very hard, it was normally 60 tons of spices in it, and at this moment, I don't know how much error Nick put in, after all, it is not necessary to control the precise energy consumption of the plane channel.

It only took a split second for Mecero to calculate the value of these spices, which was at least 520,000 gold ducats. More than two years of profit from Perot Comptoir.

The Venetian merchants, as they are commonly called, should have assets of more than 50,000 gold ducats, and a few people should have 100,000 gold ducats. For the latter, their annual turnover should also be around 100,000 gold ducats. As for 500,000 gold ducats, this is already the total asset value of many big families, some people will have so much money for a short time at some point, and the family that can last for many years to own 500,000 gold ducats is also naturally standing at the top of the world.

In terms of grain equivalent, such a warehouse of spices is equivalent to $30 million in assets, and 120 tons of spices are worth 1.04 million gold ducats, 60 million US dollars. A hundred years ago, Comrade Shen Wansan of the Ming Dynasty sold his capital, but there were so many.

Joseph naturally knew the price of these spices, and he and Mecero glanced at each other, but said: "130,000 pounds of spices, divided by three families, although it is a lot, but it is still a little insufficient." ”

Neither the Medici family nor the Perrault firm could come up with 520,000 gold coins in cash in a short period of time, just like Huang Xuan couldn't do the same, but the people on the three sides were not worried about the total amount of the goods, because if it was an exchange of goods, it would be a very profitable thing for Sanfang.

Venice is the distribution center of the world's goods, and when a certain material is scarce, its speed of sale will make the Federal Reserve feel terrified.

Huang Xuan's mind turned, and he understood Joseph's thoughts, 520,000 gold ducats of spices, it would be good to raise the price to 600,000 gold ducats, but if you only earn tens of thousands of gold coins, it would be too boring, and when there is no problem with sales, merchants will naturally try to expand the supply.

Huang Xuan smiled, stared at Joseph and said, "Actually, I still have a warehouse now. ”

Joseph also felt a little embarrassed, half an hour ago, he was still a little contemptuous because Huang Xuan couldn't come up with the money, at this moment, all the negative emotions were carefully stuffed into his trouser pocket.

Venice is definitely a city where "milk" is a mother.

At this time Mecero had to speak: "Monsieur Medici, Monsieur Cosa, I think that we should divide these spices between two families. "If it's three, the Medici and Sandro families will take two-thirds of the spices.

Perot Comptoir is worth 1.2 million gold ducats for leather alone, which is not the property of Perrault's family, in other words, Perot's family will not make as much profit as the Medici family, and of course, the risk is reduced accordingly.

Huang Xuan immediately nodded in agreement: "Then who of you will bid for the spices in this warehouse?" ”

"Me." The two men grabbed it again.

Huang Xuan pouted and said, "Ivory and rhinoceros horn are easier to transport, so let the Medici family come first, Mr. Perrault wait." ”

"Okay." Being able to get a half, Mecero was already satisfied.

Huang Xuan clicked on the energy screen with his hand and said: "Mr. Medici, 4,800 ivory, worth 350,000 ducats, 40,000 pounds of rhinoceros horn, 80,000 ducats, plus odd heads, a total of 430,000 gold ducats, that's right." ”

"Yes."

Huang Xuan groaned for a moment and said, "There are a total of 7.5 million bushels of grain being counted, and for every 1 million 60,000 ducats, then it should be 450,000 ducats." With the addition of 520,000 ducats for this batch of spices, there is a total of 970,000 ducats, no problem, right? ”

"Yes."

Huang Xuan took a breath, looked at the number calculated by Nick, and said, "Without counting the deposit I gave you, you should pay all the ivory and rhinoceros horn now, plus then, you should also pay 2.7 million pounds of sheep 'wool'." I hope to be able to complete the delivery by this evening. ”

"Pozo." Joseph shouted loudly and said, "Pozzo, go and supply according to the things on the list, immediately." ”

It was almost noon now, and the Venetian merchants attached great importance to the accurate delivery time, in the words of today's people, hundreds of thousands of dollars per minute.

Huang Xuan nodded with satisfaction, and then asked the warehouse keeper to close the warehouse door, and said to Joseph at the same time: "In fact, tomorrow, I should have one or two more boatloads of spices ashore, if you need it, you should prepare sheep 'wool' in advance, after all, this is a bulk commodity, in addition, some celebrity paintings, I mean art on wooden boards or drawing boards, can also be used as trading items." ”

"I see." Joseph looked a little ambitious.

Huang Xuan shrugged, walked to the warehouse on the other side with the manager of the warehouse, and said, "Mr. Perrault, the same thing, the same price, are you ready to pay the bill with leather?" ”

"Of course." The pungent "scent" of the warehouses opened made the Messero. Perrault was intoxicated.

"If possible, I'd like to include those tusks and rhino horns, about 2,000 of them, right?"

"As you wish." Massero even put away his favorite bargain.

Huang Xuan also relaxed a little, and said, "Then like Mr. Medici, if you still need more spices and food, then I hope to see more leather in the port area tomorrow." ”

"I'll keep the leather from the nearby warehouse together." Messero said quite eloquently.

"Well, then you can check the goods." Huang Xuan said and took two steps back. There are still three days to go, and the process of large transactions will definitely collapse any merchant.

What sustains them in this tedious work is just a shot in the arm from money.

……

For three days and two nights, Huang Xuan never closed his eyes again.

The night breeze of Venice mixed with the smell of the sea blows in your face, and you can also taste the special "dampness" when hiding in the thick teak deck. The trumpets of the workers never ceased from the beginning. Boats and sampans clogged up most of the canal.

It wasn't just the Medici and the Perrault comptoir that joined in.

Due to the sound guild system in Venice, even the Medici family could not really eat alone, and at the same time, in order to reduce the risk, the two sides coincidentally began extensive cooperation with their own allies.

If you open the list of the richest people in the history of the world, one can hardly see the name of a Venetian merchant. But if you count the wealth of the major families in Venice, the accumulation of these families, which have occupied the prosperity of the world for 300 years, is unmatched by any country or individual.

Huang Xuanqiang opened his eyes and watched the workers below busily counting the numbers, and there were at least seven or eight representatives of the Chamber of Commerce standing beside him.

The credibility of the Venetian merchants made them rarely do things that were contrary to business ethics in the course of their transactions, and with Nick's help, Huang Xuan didn't need to worry too much about this.

The reason he really couldn't rest was that he needed to find any reasonable or unreasonable excuse to load the exchanged supplies into the plane tunnel.

Even if time didn't allow people here to have any special suspicions, Huang Xuan still couldn't blatantly stuff things into the plane passage in full view of everyone, and had to run around the canal.

In order to make the transaction go more smoothly, he had to buy several merchant ships.

And Li Shenggang's work is naturally harder than Huang Xuan's.

He hired as many as 300 people to count the quantities and weights of ivory, leather, and sheep wool in every warehouse, answer questions from other merchants, and even have to value the artworks, which could have taken him six months without Nick's help.

The Venetian merchants, represented by the two merchant houses, could afford to carry 2 million gold ducats a day, and by the third day, Huang Xuan had already begun to buy woolen wool - sheep "wool" was all sold out.

It was not Huang Xuan's supply that constrained the speed of transactions, but the inventory of goods of the Venetians.

During the hard time of fighting the Sandman, Huang Xuan happily forgot about the threat of the Time and Space Administration.

Maybe just for a moment.