Chapter 130: Overseas Trade
After talking with Song Derong for an hour, Yan Zheng had a deeper understanding of the Daming market.
Finally, several products that Dongfan can export were determined, one was fur, the second was refined salt, the third was Xia Bu, the fourth was iron pots and ironware, and the fifth was saltpeter.
Originally, sulfur was still more expensive, but sulfur Yan Zheng himself lacked it.
On the other hand, saltpeter is a thing that the tribe is already very skilled in piling up nitrate, and as long as it is a little harder, the production capacity can be quickly increased.
It's a pity that now he can only take out fur and saltpeter, and if he wants to take the rest of the rest, he needs to plan and support the industry slowly.
He had high hopes for Shabu and Fur, because Shabu was linen, and as long as this industry was established, it could include the surrounding tribes.
The same is true for furs, which can tie other tribes to the chain of interests from the beginning, so that they can draw more benefits from other tribes.
And Song Derong also established a new business through this conversation, that is, all kinds of medicinal materials.
Yan Zheng originally didn't put medicinal materials in the first place, but after learning that he had brought back more than 300 victims this time, he immediately took the initiative to ask the Song family to buy some medicinal materials for him.
Song Derong knew that the medicinal materials were profitable, so he readily agreed.
At the same time, the two reached an intention to cooperate with deer antlers, and the Song family sent good wine, which was made into deer whip wine and deer antler wine by the people on Dongfan Island, and then sold back to Fujian.
Yan Zheng was also able to put down his winemaking business first, saving food to recruit more people.
Anyway, the wine sent by the Song family, after he mixed it with water five times, he could still sell it to other tribes to make a lot of money!
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Early the next morning, Song Derong was ordered to follow Yan Zheng and ride all the way down on a bamboo raft.
The purpose of this is to let him wander around the city less. According to Yan Zheng's intentions, a place will be set up in Yangang in the future to manage entry and exit.
This would prevent anyone from snooping on the secrets of Mocheng, and he now felt that this place in Mocheng was very suitable for initial development. There are rivers and ports, but ships cannot enter.
Song Derong could guess the thoughts of this short-haired king, but when he set off, he saw the barbarians gathering and setting off, and he didn't know if these people were going to conquer other forces or hunt.
After spending the night in Meaux, he slept soundly, without lice or fleas as expected, and without many mosquitoes.
And he saw a lot of laborers early in the morning, and he felt that if this place could be cultivated, it would also be a blessed land.
What puzzled him was that this short-haired king brought a lot of women and young men with him this time, and among these women, there seemed to be a Ming woman.
"Shopkeeper Song, I see that you are also in your forties, right?" After drifting for a while, Yan Zheng suddenly asked.
Song Derong smiled and said, "The king has good eyesight, it's thirty-seven in the next Chinese New Year's Eve!"
Yan Zheng's face darkened, it seems that the ancients are old. He added, "Thirty-seven! You've been to quite a few places, right? ”
Song Derong nodded and said: "In the early years, I ran a lot in other places, and later relied on the palm and eye skills of buying and selling raw silk, and slowly stayed in Zhangzhou!"
"Oh, that must also be the right-hand man of the Song family!" Yan Zheng smiled and said, "Then have you ever been to North Korea, Japan and other countries?"
"Been there! And Ryukyu, Nanyang has also been there! ”
"And what are the specialties of these Gentiles?"
"That's a lot, Japan has copper! There is no shortage of silver, and there are folding fan screens, their knives are also good, and iron is sometimes available! ”
"Can Japan still produce iron? That's a surprise! ”
"Mmmm, it's just that the iron is dry, not as good as Fujian Iron and Guangzhou Railway!"
"What about the rest of the world?"
Song Derong saw that Yan Zheng was interested, so he simply opened up and said: "And in this North Korea, there is no shortage of silver, and its main producer is ginseng, and the people in that place are poor!" You can't make a lot of money by running a trip, and the court officials there are more greedy, so it's not as easy to do business as in Japan. ”
"As for this Ryukyus, brown sugar and copper are produced, and wood is produced!"
"And Nanyang, it's a treasure land! Emerald, rumored, tortoiseshell, spices, ivory! There are also cotton cloth from Tianzhu, tin, lead and other minerals, a trip to the South Seas, worth a few trips to Japan! ”
After Song Derong finished speaking, he laughed smugly.
Yan Zhengting's saliva is about to flow out, if he has the strength and opens these ways, I am afraid that the original accumulation of capital will be opened at three times the speed.
"What kind of goods do you like in these places?" Yan Zheng asked again.
"In these places, the first thing they like is silk and porcelain, and they don't refuse to come to raw silk! And then there's the iron pot I told you about.
As well as all kinds of commodities of the Ming Dynasty, as long as they are transported over, there will be people over there who want them! Especially in Japan, its food, clothing, housing and transportation all need the goods that our Ming merchants sent to him! Song Derong said proudly.
Yan Zheng nodded, thinking about it again in his heart.
"What do I need to pay attention to when I go to Japan to trade?"
Song Derong raised his eyebrows and chuckled: "Be careful of pirates, and be careful of the wind and waves!" Fujian maritime businessmen, generally several families set off together, taking care of each other on the road!
But the most important thing is still Lu Shang! There is no way on land, so it is difficult to get the goods! Among them, it will take many years of operation! ”
Yan Zheng thought to himself, Lao Tzu exploded his own production capacity, so he still uses you to get goods. It's just that he can lead in technology, and it seems that he is only ironwork.
"What about the Ryukyus?"
"Ryukyu? When you go to the Ryukyus, most of them are also trading with Japan! ”
"Why?"
"This ...... The king is afraid that he does not know what the national conditions of Japan are, and it is now divided into four or five parts, and there is an Shimazu family in the southwest, and its way to the north is blocked, so he has to send a ship to Ryukyu to contact our Ming merchants! ”
This Yan Zheng didn't know, but it didn't prevent him from dreaming. He even wanted to keep Song Derong by his side so that he could be a staff member.
The two talked all the way like this, and Yan Zheng couldn't wait to squeeze the last bit of Song Derong's value.
He asked for a great deal of information about the South Seas, Japan, and Korea, much of which he did not know.
As a result, Yan Zheng's vision can be regarded as being opened well.
And Song Derong also said very energetically, for this short-haired king's curiosity, he often deliberately exaggerated.
For example, when the short-haired king talked about Japanese women with great interest, he vividly described the geisha performances he had seen in Fukuoka.
It's just that after listening to it, the short-haired king asked, can Dongying women ride horses and!
This made Song Derong not understand what this short hair meant, so he had to answer that there are ponies in Japan, and women should also be able to ride, as for the Dongying woman who plays the flute, he has never seen it, but he has heard the Dongying woman who plays the sheng.
After Yan Zheng heard this answer, he immediately laughed so much that he turned his back and asked Dongying if he had the surnames Aoi and Hata!
Song Derong was even more confused, so he had to say seriously that he had never heard of it, maybe there was!
In this way, after talking about the secrets of the Dongying woman for about half a day, she finally arrived in Yangang.
After Yan Zheng went ashore, his expression suddenly became serious.
In front of him were the first batch of Ming immigrants who moved to Dongfan Island.
Unfortunately, there are no tools to record this historic moment.
Yan Zheng waved his hand at these victims and shouted: "Naturalize and shave your head, you don't have to worry about food and clothing!"
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