When Lehi Dog returned again, he brought back more than 500 victims, and the whole ship was densely packed.

They were accompanied by two more Song ships, which brought with them a large amount of pig iron, lead, cotton cloth, wine, some coal and fine paper, as well as a batch of candles and yellow calendars.

The Song family sent another ship with 300 materials, the meaning was obvious, that is, it couldn't be given to the shipbuilder, and it really couldn't sell a new ship, so it gave an old ship with 300 materials.

Yan Zheng expressed his gratitude for this, and he really felt that the Song family was sophisticated in handling affairs, which can only be described as dripping.

Although there were some disappointments, it was not a matter of a day or two to build a ship. He had already ordered the start of stockpiling the giant wood in preparation for future shipbuilding.

And this time, the Song family took away more than 1,500 furs and 3,000 catties of saltpeter.

In the two transactions, the Song family ate more than half of the fur in Mo's inventory, and it can only be said that he is worthy of Daming's father, and there are many rich people in his mother.

Fortunately, with this thing of saltpeter, the tribe has built forty more nitrate piles, and the total output can reach 40,000 catties per month.

In addition to self-use, all of them can be used for export, and the number of nitrate piles will continue to increase.

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"What did you inquire about this time, how did you inquire about it?"

In the red room, Yan Zheng summoned Li Haigou, who rushed back.

Li Haigou said with a smile: "My lord, the villain has inquired clearly this time, but as long as he arrives at the nautical chart to go to the Ryukyus!"

"Ryukyu is enough!" Yan Zheng approvingly: "This thing is good!"

Li Haigou bowed down and said, "The shopkeeper of the Song Dynasty said that if the king wants to go to Japan to do business, he can join their Song family!"

"With them?" Yan Zheng snorted and said, "It's not that we're afraid that we will contact Japan alone and sell the furs over there."

Li Haigou nodded: "The Song family must have this meaning, but it is not worth tossing to sell fur to Japan!" If you can collect some raw silk and silk in Zhangzhou, you can earn more! ”

Yan Zheng glanced at him and asked, "What about what you saw and heard in the city of Zhangzhou Mansion?"

"Well, this one!" Li Haigou thought back for a while and said: "What the shopkeeper Song Derong said is indeed not bad, but in Zhangzhou City, I think the first major business is grain and oil!" The second is cloth and salt, and in addition, there is something that the villain has not thought of before. ”

"What's that?"

"Candles!"

Yan Zheng was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "How many famous businessmen are there in Zhangzhou?"

"This, I also take a look at the villain, and I don't know too much! However, there are four private teeth in Yuegang, and those who can open private teeth must be giants.

They are Song, Shi, Chen, and Wang. As for those who do maritime business, there are also some who are attached to these wealthy families. In the case of Lu merchants, the water here is relatively deep, but most of them are merchants from Jiangxi who are supplying. ”

"Jiangxi?" Yan Zheng was surprised, "I know that there is a Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, but are you sure that most of the goods sold by these maritime merchants come from Jiangxi?" ”

Li Haigou smiled and said: "The king doesn't know, even if the villain is a non-reader, he also knows that the pen, ink, paper and inkstone of Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion are of the highest quality, not to mention that it also produces tea, silk and summer cloth!" And with Fujian, there is also the convenience of water conservancy, and you can take the waterway all the way. ”

Yan Zheng hurriedly wrote this down on paper, he was historically blind, and naturally did not know that at this time, the eastern Jiangxi region was already a very developed handicraft industry, even far beyond the Suhu area after the outbreak of the silk weaving industry.

And the four famous towns of the Ming Dynasty, especially three in Jiangxi. Dexing County and Yinshan Town, which can also produce copper and silver, not only set up a mint bureau, but also known as the largest copper mine in Asia in later generations.

"What about the people in the countryside? Have you visited? ”

"As for the countryside, it's all pretty much the same. Let's take the villain himself as an example, in the past, he was reluctant to tear a piece of cloth for five or six years, he was salty, and he often couldn't eat a proper meal, in short, all year round, and during the New Year's holiday, he was willing to spend money to buy some meat to eat. My daughter, on the other hand, buys a few feet of cloth every two years to make her a piece of clothing! ”

Yan Zheng sighed, Li Haigou was still unprofessional, this kind of investigation should have been done by himself, but he couldn't leave.

However, from Li Haigou's words and previous conversations with those Ming women, Yan Zheng could still judge that the consumption power of most people in the Ming Dynasty was basically limited to grain, oil, salt and cloth.

The people in the city may have more places to consume, and the people at the bottom of the countryside are really extremely poor.

This is a very embarrassing situation, the population of the Ming Dynasty is large, but only the landlord class has a decent spending power.

As for the ordinary people, except for the necessities, everything else is to be saved as much as possible, even if it is a small landlord, it is estimated that it is also a swish.

"What about the iron pot?"

Li Haigou replied: "King, if you use an iron pot, a pot can be used for a long, long time, and the tinker will make up a pot, and it will only cost more than a dozen yuan!" In some people's homes, a pot can be passed down! ”

"I forgot about it!" Yan Zheng smiled bitterly: "It seems! There are really not many things that can open up the vast market of Daming! ”

Yan Zheng now experienced the despair of Daiying, who had to spend a lot of silver every year to buy tea and porcelain, but the Qing Dynasty, which was a small peasant economy, did not buy anything from Daiying.

Li Haigou lowered his head and thought about it and said, "If the Dawang iron ware can really be sold cheaper, I think it should be able to sell a lot in Daming."

"Why?"

"As far as the villain knows, the most willing thing for a farmer in the countryside is to spend money on farm tools! As long as a plow is cheaper than one percent, and if it is strong and easy to use, it will definitely make many farmers pay money! ”

This remark reminded Yan Zheng that Daming is an agricultural country, and the production efficiency is not high, anything that can increase production, anything that can be conducive to farming, will have a market.

He hurriedly wrote this down on a piece of paper, and asked, "What about Penghu?" How's the contact with that side? ”

Lehi-dog replied, "The men above are short of cloth and iron tools, and they have a lot of cattle, and almost all of them have a lot of free-range!"

Yan Zheng was a little curious: "Isn't Penghu some islands?" How can you raise so many cattle? ”

Li Haigou didn't know why, but said: "Maybe it's on the island, there isn't much beef to eat, so there are more cattle."

Yan Zheng nodded, what he didn't know was that Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong in another time and space had purchased a large number of buffaloes in Penghu and sent them to Dongfan.

"Okay, you stop Zhangzhou to accept the victims first, and in a few days you will bring a batch of iron and silver to Penghu! If the locals are willing to sell in large quantities, then you should buy the cattle first! ”

Li Haigou nodded, looked at Yan Zheng and said, "King, now that there is one more boat, there may not be enough people to operate the boat!"

"Huh? Can the tribal boy you teach take the helm? ”

"Naturally, I can't, I can't distinguish the direction of the wind and know the wind, I can't do it without seven or eight years of hard work!"

Yan Zheng thought for a while, and said with a smile: "Are you thinking of recruiting Tan households?"

Seeing that he was seen through, Li Haigou smiled embarrassedly and said: "This is also for the sake of the king, two boats are always more than one boat to carry more things!"

"Okay, it's up to you!"

"Also, the king should find a few carpenters to learn how to repair the ship, these two old ships must be carefully maintained, otherwise they will not be able to drive for two or three years!" Lehi said again.

Yan Zheng sighed and said, "Go and pick among the victims, if you need something, go to the Song family to change it!"

Li Haigou nodded, wanting to say goodbye, but hesitated: "Wang, last time I was in Zhangzhou, I picked up a child, it was a woman who escaped from the wilderness, and it was handed over to me before she died, I plan to adopt this child, and I want to ask the king to name this child!"

"Oh!" Yan Zheng smiled and leaned back in his chair and asked, "Son or daughter?"

"Son!"

"Son!" Yan Zheng raised his eyebrows and pondered for a while and said, "Let's call Li Hua!" One gorgeous and one elegant, just right! ”

As he spoke, he wrote the word Li Hua on the paper, sealed another piece of broken silver, and handed it to Li Haigou with his own hands.

"Li Hua! Li Hua! After Li Haigou took the paper, he read it twice, and said with a happy face: "Thank you, the king!"

Yan Zheng smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Nu work hard, although the Dongfan woman I gave you is a little rougher, she can also give birth to a baby!" You can't sit in the pit and not, or I'll have to get someone to help!" ”

Li Haigou was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "You must do your best, the villain will go back, this will go back!"

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