Zhu Xiongying couldn't help but smile and came over to mend the knife and said.

"Your Royal Highness, in fact, the mailing needs to be sealed and packaged, are you sure you can stand it?"

Hong Changxin was taken aback and immediately said.

"No, no, no, don't pack me up, I'm not a thing!"

"You're not a thing?"

Zhu Xiongying couldn't help but smile and asked rhetorically.

Hong Changxin took Lu Ning's hand and said.

"Your Royal Highness, I'm really not a thing, I'm a living person, you must mail me by mailing a living person."

Lu Ning frowned and said helplessly.

"But we have never mailed a living person, this is not easy to do, and the risk on the way is not easy to solve, you must know that we cannot reach you Siam directly, either by sea, or by real wax, and diverted to your country."

Hong Changxin thought carefully for a while and said.

"The sea route is protracted, but I am afraid that by the time we get to the place, my father and mother have already been killed, so let's go by land."

Lu Ning thought for a moment and said.

"It's okay to go by land, and the real wax is also a vassal of our Ming Dynasty, the question is how to calculate the postage?"

The other party took out a lot of copper coins and said.

"This is our Siamese baht, I can give you 10,000 baht."

Their currency is similar to the Hongwu Tongbao in the early Ming Dynasty, except that the former is oval in shape with a thin square hole in the middle.

On one side is a lotus platform painted below, a seated image of the Buddha is painted above, and on the front side is written its denomination: one baht.

Lu Ning looked at this copper coin carefully, the copper content was not high, the handwriting was also a little blurry, and it was thinner than the original Hongwu Tongbao.

The size of Hongwu Tongbao has to be a lot thinner, which means that he is much lighter than Hongwu Tongbao.

So he went up to the scales and weighed it, about five Siamese baht, before he caught up with the weight of one Hongwu Tongbao.

"Your Royal Highness, your thing is not worth much, even if you give me 10,000 baht, converted into my Ming currency, it is only 2,000 Wen, not to mention, the copper content of your money is quite low, and the rest is scrap copper and rotten iron, and we can only throw it into the garbage heap."

This time, it made this guy quite embarrassed, and said.

"We still have gold leaves here, as a member of the royal family, I carry 10,000 pieces with me, can I use these 10,000 gold leaves for postage this time?"

Lu Ning weighed his gold leaves on the scales again, each piece was the same size and thickness, and the weight of each piece was five yuan.

So, he took out the abacus, and while calculating the weight of these things, he analyzed to the other party how much Ming currency his gold leaves could be exchanged for.

Seeing that the other party was very skillful in fiddling with the abacus, he directly stunned the Siamese prince.

Lu Ning analyzed with him while pulling.

"The purity of your gold leaves is not high, after smelting, about half of the impurities can be produced, and the pure gold is about half of what it is now, only two dollars and five cents."

Hong Changxin's face fell and said.

"Your Highness, it's not that we deliberately fake, it's just that our smelting technology is too backward."

Lu Ning smiled and said.

"According to the price comparison of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty, one tael of pure gold can be exchanged for six taels of official silver and six thousand five hundred yuan for copper coins."

Hong Changxin immediately became happy again and said.

"I'll just say, it's gold, even if there are impurities, it won't be garbage."

Lu Ning snorted and said.

"But you can only exchange one tael of low-purity gold from Siamese for three thousand two hundred and fifty copper coins, and as for his gold leaf, which is only half a tael, when exchanged for copper coins, it is only one thousand six hundred and twenty-five copper coins."

At this moment, Hong Changxin was already dumbfounded, and Zhu Xiongying continued to mend the knife.

"Your five-dollar gold leaf is probably equivalent to the exchange rate of one or two or six thousand of our Ming official silver, say him

It's not an exaggeration to say it's scrap metal."

Hong Changxin gritted his teeth and said.

"Even if he can exchange it, you have one or six taels of silver here, then let's just exchange it in this proportion, I have 10,000 gold leaves, how can I exchange it for 16,000 taels of silver."

Lu Ning shook his head and said.

"No, no, no, of course, coupled with the process of smelting and purification, the final benefit will be about a thousand yuan, which means that your gold leaf is equivalent to one or two taels of silver from my Ming Dynasty."

At this time, Hong Changxin wanted to cry without tears.

And Lu Ning wants to return the other party to Siam this time, even if he gets these 10,000 gold leaves, the gross profit he can get is 10,000 taels of silver.

And that's not even counting the consumption of gasoline and men along the way, as well as the possible battles along the way, plus compensation for the dead.

If this business is really calculated, it will be a loss to grandma's house.

This operation was nominally a bodyguard, but in fact the Ming sent troops to send the fallen prince back to inherit the throne.

This is not too big or small, it can be regarded as a military activity, since it is a military activity, the profit obtained is less than 10,000 taels of silver, why do you play with me?

Lu Ning figured out the pros and cons of this operation in an instant, and he was a little unhappy.

"Your Highness, if you want to send you back, you need to organize an army of at least a few thousand people, and there may be encirclement and suppression with pirates and some rebel forces in your territory along the way.

The other party saw Lu Ning crackling with a calculus, telling him all kinds of expenses, and after listening to it, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

"Then two highnesses, what do you want to order in our Siamese country? As long as we have, I will give it to you."

Lu Ning shook his head: "Your country is too small. Even if they empty their finances, they may not be able to pay for our military expenses."