Zheng Tingqiu nodded: "I sent someone to Dayuangang before, but why didn't I see Mr. Mark?" ”

"You don't know this, Mark is not from the Lord, but from Batavia." Li Zhaoji told the lies that he had already made up, and Zheng Tingqiu was even more cloudy and incomprehensible.

Li Zhaoji sighed and said: "We are a fleet, starting from Batavia and going north to Nagasaki, Japan to trade, but we accidentally encountered a storm, killing and wounding many people and losing a lot of goods. ”

"Wait a minute, brother." Zheng Tingqiu interrupted Li Zhaoji and said, "Go to Nagasaki, what are you going to do to buy piglets?" ”

Zheng Tingqiu may not be familiar with other places, but Nagasaki has been there, but the country is a densely populated place, no less than the Cantonese people, and there is no need for piglets.

"This is where I can't talk about my brother, I have to be assured by the leader, after knowing the reason, I will sell the piglet to me, and after I sell it, I will tell the reason without telling others." Li Zhaoji was embarrassed, begged and said, seeing Zheng Tingqiu's face change slightly, he said again: "Of course, the price is easy to say." ”

"Haha, then there's nothing you can't say." Zheng Tingqiu laughed, he just wanted to make money, and the rest didn't care much.

Li Zhaoji said: "As I said earlier, our northbound fleet encountered a storm, but not once, since leaving Batavia, storms, heavy rains, thunderstorms, huge waves, all kinds of dangers have been experienced, and four ships have sunk one.

They just felt that it was a devil from hell who was disrupting the voyage.

Chief, Yangyi is religious, do you know? ”

Zheng Tingqiu nodded: "How can you not know, there is a cross hanging all day long, the gods are chattering, they don't worship their parents, they don't worship any god, grandma's, all of them are gods." ”

"Mark, draw a cross." Lee Siu Kee said to Mark, who drew a cross on his chest very appropriately.

"Yes, yes, you look like that." Zheng Tingqiu said with a grin.

Li Zhaoji sighed: "What the leader said is that they are extremely religious, and they feel that if they can't solve this matter, going north will be a dead end, and the priest who accompanied the ship has come up with a way - sacrifice, and it is to sacrifice the living, chief, I said this, you understand." ”

Zheng Tingqiu nodded slightly: "I understand, brother, you don't have to say it." But my brother is also in trouble, I have no boys and girls in my hands. ”

Li Zhaoji waved his hand again and again, and called his brother along the pole: "Don't use boys and girls, you need to be strong men!" Brother Zheng, people are Yangyi, they believe in God, and their rules are different from ours. This Western devil and our Ming Dragon King are not the same taste. ”

Speaking of this, Li Zhaoji patted his mouth and muttered: "Oh, sins and sins, don't come to me to settle accounts with the Dragon King and the Devil Lord, sin and sin." ”

"Haha, brother doesn't have to be like this, you say, how much!" Zheng Tingqiu said briskly.

Li Zhaoji's words made Zheng Tingqiu fall to the ground: "A thousand people." ”

"A thousand! Full sacrifice? This Yangyi's ritual is so ruthless! Zheng Tingqiu's eyes were about to bulge.

Lee said, "No, if you want a thousand, but two hundred of them are sacrificed. ”

"What do you want a thousand for?" Zheng Tingqiu was confused again.

"Brother Zheng hasn't been to Batavia." Li Zhaoji asked with a smile.

Zheng Tingqiu smiled, he had never been to Nanyang. "Batavia, where Hung Maoyi is based, is now promoting the cultivation of sugar and tobacco on a large scale, and there are not enough manpower," Lee said. Brother Zheng, you may not have seen the barbarians in Nanyang, they are all stupid and stupid like pigs, what to do if they don't eat enough to do anything, what to do, it's not for us to provide people here. ”

"Well, that's the truth, I went to Dayuan last year, and sugarcane was also planted there, and the people who worked were all from our Ming Kingdom, and the local barbarians couldn't use it at all." Zheng Tingqiu himself confirmed Li Zhaoji's lies.

"That is, 800 working piglets, 200 sacrificial piglets, yes and no!"

"Yes, Brother Zheng, can you help solve it? Two hundred piglets, they will be in hand within five days, and the eldest brother doesn't know that the foreign ship is still waiting in the open sea. The other 800, three months later, returned from Nagasaki and returned along the way. Li Zhaoji said.

Zheng Tingqiu felt that there was no problem, and his subordinates could take out two hundred of them now, and he rubbed his hands: "What about the price?" ”

"Big brother, come on." Li Zhaoji looked refreshed.

Zheng Tingqiu gritted his teeth and said, "Fifty taels and one, a strong man." ”

Li Zhaoji nodded immediately, feeling that Zheng Tingqiu's price was fair, and now Africa is selling black slaves to the Americas, and the price of a strong male black slave can exceed two hundred taels of silver on shore. The Dutch East Indy Company, which abducted a person from the impoverished German region to become a sailor, was only more than 80 taels in a year.

"Fifty-five taels one, the extra five taels are mine." Lee Siu Kee is even more refreshing.

Zheng Tingqiu said: "Brother, I have your share in the price I said." ”

Li Zhaoji laughed: "Brother Zheng, it's not me who paid for it, why are you distressed?" ”

"Yes, it's the one who pays the money." Zheng Tingqiu also smiled.

Li Zhaoji said: "But Brother Zheng, let me give you a thorough explanation, the foreigners must not have so much cash in their hands, please understand, we are a fleet that goes north to Nagasaki to do business." ”

Zheng Tingqiu thought about it a little, and it felt reasonable.

In fact, in the 17th century, a large amount of silver poured into the Ming Dynasty, but of this, silver from Japan accounted for the vast majority, and a small part came from the Americas. The king of Spain had long ago restricted the number of Manila galleons to two per year, with a tonnage of no more than 300 tons, and could not bring more than 300,000 riyals of silver to the East.

Of course, there are policies and countermeasures, and there are two Manila galleons per year, but the tonnage is generally more than 1,000 tons, and all kinds of smuggling bring in more than the limit amount of silver.

But Japanese silver was still a hard currency, especially for the Dutch, whose cash flow from trade was mainly to raise various commodities to exchange for silver in Japan, and then buy in-demand goods in the East and sell them back to Europe.

Because Japan needed deerskin, the Dutch occupied Taiwan, and Japan needed raw silk, so the Netherlands urgently traded with the Ming Dynasty to obtain raw silk, and looked for raw silk production areas in Siam, Quang Nam and other Nanyang countries.

It can be said that any country goes to Nagasaki with a full load of goods to exchange for silver.

Zheng Tingqiu asked, "What about the 800 people when they returned?" ”

Li Zhaoji said: "Brother Zheng, let me ask for you." ”

Zheng Tingqiu said: "Okay, brother, you can discuss with him, my brother has time." Let's talk about things, the first transaction, fifty-five taels one, with the goods to offset it, my brother guarantees that you can get it. The second eight hundred, you and he have a good discussion. In this way, if the price of each piglet exceeds forty taels, it will be divided into one percent for you, and if it exceeds fifty taels, it will be divided into one and a half for you. But when the time comes, you'll have to pay the bill in cash. ”

Li Zhaoji nodded, and then discussed with Mark, he needed to show a fierce quarrel with Mark, but he felt that Mark didn't have the courage to quarrel with him, so he thought of a clever trick and said: "Mark, do you remember Captain Johnson?" ”

"Of course I remember, it's a villain, BOSS, you killed him, you killed the cruelest devil in the world." Mark's face immediately turned red and he spoke loudly.

"Tell me about him, how he bullied you!"

Mark was immediately outraged: "God testifies that I will never forget his cruel ........ to me in my life." ”

This made Mark open the conversation, waving his fist and scolding angrily, this is his true feelings, but in Zheng Tingqiu's eyes, it is extremely dissatisfied with the price. And Li Zhaoji is constantly persuading and discussing.

Although he couldn't understand a sentence of English, just looking at Li Zhaoji's gestures, he understood that Li Zhaoji's hand was drawn from eight to seven, and then to six, which was obviously a trick to play the sky-high asking price and repay the money on the ground.

Let Mark reminisce about a cruel past, after showing the negotiation scene of the baht. Li Zhaoji said to Zheng Tingqiu: "Brother Zheng, hurry up and help, this price is about to be completed." ”

"How can I help, brother." As soon as Zheng Tingqiu heard that the business was going to be successful, he thought of the silver in vain, and immediately got up, at this time, even if Li Zhaoji asked him to contribute his daughter-in-law, Zheng Tingqiu would not say a word.

"Pull out your sword, scare and scare this guy, and then take the door out." Lee Siu Kee said.

Zheng Tingqiu immediately understood, and laughed: "Brother, you are really a good means." ”

With that, he actually drew his knife, made a gesture in front of Mark's eyes, and then slashed a chair in the room, and then opened the door to leave.

Li Zhaoji stepped forward and grabbed Zheng Tingqiu, Zheng Tingqiu also knew how to cooperate, the two sides pulled and pulled, and finally Li Zhaoji used two hands to draw two fives, and under Li Zhaoji's order, Mark sat on the ground with a butt.

"Brother Zheng, it's done." After Li Zhaoji's performance, he said triumphantly to Zheng Tingqiu.

Zheng Tingqiu secretly gave a thumbs up: "Brother, with you, my brother will definitely not lose you." ”

"Mark, get up and bow to this man." Lee Siu Kee ordered.

Mark immediately bowed, and Li Zhaoji said to Zheng Tingqiu again: "Brother Zheng, show him fifty-five taels." ”

Zheng Tingqiu was naturally willing, and Li Zhaoji said to Mark again: "Mark, give him a hug and kiss him." ”

"Why?" Mark asked.

Li Zhaoji said: "It's over, Mark, you have completed the task, I will reward ten pesos." Isn't this something to celebrate, come on, Mark, hug him, kiss him, it's he who has done a good show with you. ”

When Mark heard that the performance was over, he was relieved, and when he heard that there would be a reward of ten silver dollars, he was even more ecstatic, and immediately rushed over like crazy, first gave Zheng Tingqiu a bear hug, then hugged his face, and directly bit Zheng Tingqiu's mouth, and came to a long French kiss full of affection.

Li Zhaoji's whole person collapsed, his original intention was to have a Western-style veneer ceremony, where is the mouth-to-mouth kiss?

I patted my head and remembered that this Mark is an Englishman, which is rare in British veneer ceremonies, and exists in high society, where does this mud leg know, and I thought it was a real kiss.

"What are you doing, foreign devil!"

With a bang, the door was rushed open, and when Zheng Tingqiu's men rushed in, what they saw was Mark pressing Zheng Tingqiu to the ground and kissing him bitterly!