Diamonds are such a thing, and it would be too much of a loss not to earn the gold coins of those European nobles in Europe at that time.

The European aristocracy was too willing to spend money on luxury.

I believe that diamond jewelry can make a lot of money if you take it.

For Tang Ping's request, how could Gou Chengan not agree, and said directly to Tang Ping: "No problem, take whatever you like from the things in our store, and then I will ask them to send you some of the boutiques in the warehouse, as long as you like them, take them." ”

I don't know, I thought he wasn't talking about diamonds but cabbage.

Tang Ping, Gou Shaoqun and Li Shan found a barbecue stall that they often went to at night, and while they were eating barbecue, Tang Ping's mobile phone rang.

Gou Shaoqun glanced at it, pouted and said, "The old man is so stingy, this advance payment was only given to 200 million." ”

The people next to him all looked sideways, wanting to see who had drunk too much and bragged about it here.

When he returned to South Africa the next day, Tang Ping gave Egbert the location of some other minerals and asked him to slowly arrange for people to mine them.

It's not just diamonds, it's 80% of the world's platinum reserves, more than 50% of the world's total reserves of cobalt and gold, and then there's also coal, iron and copper.

Moreover, southern Africa has quite rich oil resources, large oil reserves, good quality, and relatively low extraction costs.

Tang Ping plans to build several small-scale oil refineries here, so that when Datang's ships pass through here in the future, they can replenish fuel here.

Of course, Egbert has no opinion on this, minerals are now his main source of funds, and he is also very covetous of those steel giants of the Tang Dynasty.

He even plans to secretly build some steel warships after mining iron ore in the future, but he has always had ambitions.

After dealing with the affairs of South Africa, Tang Ping did not take the boat anymore, and directly opened the portal and took Lao Cui and them back to Porto.

When you return to Porto, you find that it has become even more lively.

The streets are full of people, and you can say that there are many people shopping in almost every store.

By this time, Porto's reputation had been forged, and wealthy people from all over Europe flocked here to see what they could afford.

Yes, there are many things in Porto that even some big aristocrats can't afford.

It is also nicknamed the Devil's Land that devours gold coins.

"Don, you're finally back, someone has been waiting for you for days."

"Someone waiting for me?" Tang Ping looked at Old Peter and asked, "What are you waiting for me to do??" ”

Old Peter helped his glasses, and felt that they were too high, so he wore them all right.

"Recently, we have opened a few out-of-towners in Porto, didn't you say that you have to introduce some outsiders to compete in order to be energetic? One of them is my ...... Yes, it's called a fellow, my fellow has a jewelry store. ”

"Fellow?? Oh, you mean like you, the Merchant of Venice, right? When you open a jewelry store, you open a jewelry store, what's wrong? ”

"He launched an industry duel!" Old Peter said. "Industry duel?? What is that? How many shop owners threw gloves in each other's faces, and then slashed each other with swords? Tang Ping asked with a smile.

Seeing that Tang Ping was still in the mood to joke at this time, Old Peter was also amused by him.

"Of course it's not such a duel, the so-called industry duel is in a city, if a store wants to become the only store in the city to do this kind of business, then he will initiate this kind of industry duel, of course, the consequence is that he will become the public enemy of other peers."

Tang Ping understood that they had a conventional rule to initiate such an industry duel, and then whoever won would be the exclusive businessman in this category in the city.

This Venetian merchant seems to be very confident in his jewelry store to send out such an industry duel, right?

But is it just that he knows that he has dozens of diamond jewelry brought back from the modern era in his bag?

Originally, Tang Ping was still thinking about how to open the European market and promote his diamond jewelry.

Isn't this just someone handing a pillow when sleepiness comes??

"How do you compare this?"

"Because the main consumers of these things are aristocrats, it is natural to ask the nobles to form a jury, and then the jury will score them." Old Peter still learned a lot of modern vocabulary, and it was a set of words.

"Oh!" Tang Ping nodded: "Then what if someone buys those nobles?" ”

"Tang, if there is a merchant in a city who has the ability to buy those nobles, then do you think his strength is not strong enough to become an exclusive businessman?"

Tang Ping thought about it for a while, and now Porto can be said to have nobles from all over the world here, since the other party wants to compete, then he will make the scale a little bigger, and gather as many of these nobles as possible.

"Okay, go and get that fellow of yours over." Tang Ping planned to meet this arrogant Venetian merchant.

Before the appearance of the Tang merchants, they always felt that they were the most powerful people in the world, and Tang Ping also heard from old Peter that some Venetian merchants were dissatisfied with the Tang merchants.

Soon, a chubby bald man was invited by old Peter.

"Don, this is Cole from Venice, Cole, this is Don from the Tang Dynasty."

"Dear Lord Tang, I know that you are a top nobleman from the Tang Dynasty, but I also heard that you Datang have a saying called business, so can we have a fair duel as a businessman?"

This one named Cole also specialized in learning the Tang dialect, and the words "in business" are said in Chinese.

Tang Ping said with a smile: "Of course, but I remember that there doesn't seem to be much jewelry for sale in our fashion store, why did Mr. Cole start an industry duel?" ”

Cole pointed to the glasses on his face and said, "This is also jewelry, and it is jewelry that has never appeared before, so if Lord Tang can't sell these glasses in Porto, can you give me the right to sell them?" ”

Tang Ping understood that this guy was plotting the right to sell glasses, and he didn't know where he inquired about the rules of business, so he blocked himself with words first, and then let himself have a fair industry showdown with him.

"Okay, if you win, I really can't sell glasses in Porto, and it's not impossible to wholesale glasses to you at cost price when the time comes."

"But!" Tang Ping paused when he said this: "Can we change the way we play to a fairer way?" ”