"It's only been a few days since the establishment of this port, and you are the first merchant to come to do business, and this Zhao Dagui is also the first time to preside over trade.

When it comes to credit, I can't really talk about it. Bafur said truthfully.

"Are you saying that this Zhao Dagui is not credible at all?" The captain's face suddenly became very ugly.

"In a foreign country, thousands of miles away, who can guarantee how much credit anyone has?

However, one thing is certain, that is, hold the money bag tightly, and never let go if you don't get the goods in your hands.

As long as this is guaranteed, even if there is any moth, the British government and consulate can make decisions for you, and no Chinese will be allowed to encroach on the interests of our British. Bafur reassured with a serious face.

Captain Kellett thought about it for a moment, then nodded, and felt that what Mr. Consul had said was simply reasonable.

On the other hand, Zhao Dagui walked out of the door of the consular office, and then out of the door of the consulate and the door of Yao's house, feeling full of excitement.

Anyone who has a little understanding of the history of the opening of the port will understand how good the foreign cloth at this point in time was, at least during 1844, it was almost a good commodity that was scrambled by thousands of people, and its popularity was not much worse than opium.

At the beginning of the five-port trade, the officials of the ports worriedly gave the emperor a discount, saying that the price of foreign cloth was only one-third of that of homespun cloth, so it was sold out as soon as it arrived on the market, and the pomp and circumstance were unprecedented, crowding out a large number of homespun cloth markets, which would have a huge impact on the livelihood of the people.

Although it was not a few years before there would be a large backlog of foreign cloth, which led to the bankruptcy of many merchants, it was a few years later, at least not in 1844, let alone in 1843 when the foreign cloth had just gone north and began to be sold in the four northern ports.

More importantly, there are many inaccuracies in Zhao Dagui's words to the consul and captain, such as emphasizing that silver dollars are not as widely used as silver.

In fact, how could it be.

The silver dollar is the silver dollar, although the silver dollar on the magic city may not be as many as Guangzhou, and it is not so common, but it is not because everyone doesn't like it, but because there are relatively few silver dollars here, from local money banks to ordinary people, in fact, the acceptance of silver dollars is very high.

Zhao Dagui also knows a little historical knowledge, according to the denomination of silver dollars should be worth 7,0100 cents, according to the actual silver content, it may only be 6 coins and 2 cents, but the actual transaction price can be much higher than this.

Because of the exquisite appearance and convenient pricing, a large number of silver dollars were generally welcomed after flowing into the magic capital, and the price immediately appreciated a lot, generally increasing by ten to twenty percent, and even to the extent that one silver dollar was exchanged for one or two silver.

Therefore, the 50,000 silver dollars brought by Captain Kellett are hard currency at all, and they are absolutely no different from silver taels.

In this way, it is easy to sell the 130,000 yuan of goods brought by Captain Kellett, and Zhao Dagui can make more than 20% of the profit from the sale of this business alone, and then use the silver to buy the return goods of the same value, and he can also get more than 20% of the profit in the middle, which is the actual income of 50,000 to 60,000 yuan.

Just think about the purchasing power of silver dollars in this era, and you can understand what a huge profit this is (equivalent to about 130 kilograms of gold), which Zhao Dagui has never seen in the modern world.

However, the first thing Zhao Dagui has to do is to help the captain buy tea worth 50,000 yuan first, of which even if he only earns 20% of the profit, it is also more than 10,000 yuan (and it is a legitimate and legal business income, not the kind of kickback income of later generations of buyers), and he can immediately get out of the current situation of working for people and being half poor but not rich.

Speaking of which, Zhao Dagui has to be glad that he is now in the newly opened magic capital, not Guangzhou, which has a long tradition of ruling the Thirteen Foreign Firms.

In the case of the public bank, even if someone obtained the right to sell and purchase such goods, he had to report to the public bank first, and then pay all kinds of formal fees and bad rules to the relevant personnel at the first level, from the tooth shop, the official officer, the general officer, the cashier, to the crew and porter of the transport ship.

Moreover, even if you buy tea, you can't buy it directly from a tea merchant, but go to the designated tea merchant to get the goods at a specified price according to the instructions of the official bank, and there is a limit on how much you can buy, and there is no freedom at all.

Relatively speaking, the magic capital is much more free to do business, there are not many restrictions, as long as you have money, you can get everything, no wonder it was later called the paradise of adventurers, the magic capital of the East.

Zhao Dagui was able to get a shipload of goods so easily, and thanks to the fact that Bafur and the British merchants were not familiar with China's trade methods, and they were still stuck in the Thirteen Lines model in Guangzhou, Zhao Dagui was very powerful and profitable.

But in another year or two, or a month or two, there will be no such good thing.

In short, Zhao Dagui happily went out and went straight to the tailor's shop.

Zhao Dagui had previously taken 50 yuan from the consul for the signing fee, and on the same day he took out 30 yuan from it and asked a tailor to order an expensive and decent set of clothes suitable for the businessmen of this era.

The innkeeper brand gown that I had been wearing before looked too shabby and was not suitable for this kind of big business of hundreds of thousands.

When I went to the tailor's shop, the clothes were really done, the coat made of silk, and there was a layer of cotton clothes inside, with silk shoes on the feet and a melon skin hat on the head, and it was the image of the nouveau riche in the TV series, but it is said that the people of the Qing Dynasty ate this set, so let's follow the customs.

I bought some jewelry, such as the folding fan on my hand and the jade pendant on my waist, etc., I felt that this dress was very weird, but the tailor applauded vigorously, saying that it was both good-looking and rich, so that Zhao Dagui secretly pouted, and it was not a good word to be rich in later generations.

Then, Zhao Dagui took a figure-eight step and went to the famous tea house in Modu County.

There is a tea business of the Qing generation, there are many links before and after, and it is also extremely cumbersome, people who don't understand this industry, just have money and may not be able to get good tea, even if they do, it is not necessarily the right price.

Since Zhao Dagui wants to do this business, he must first determine his next step according to the information on the information in the later generations and the information he secretly learned from the innkeeper and other businessmen during this time.

To put it simply, tea itself is produced by tea farmers from all over the country, and in most cases they are small farmers with only a few acres of tea plantations (there are also cases of buying large tea gardens to produce tea by themselves like the Thirteen Xingwu family, but it is not universal), and they work hard to produce tea with their backs to the sky and facing the loess, and then find a way to fry it themselves or find a trustworthy tea factory to help fry it;

Then, all kinds of tea sellers will buy tea from tea farmers or tea factories, and then send it to tea merchants, who will then sell it to tea merchants who are bigger than themselves, and so on to the big tea merchants in the tea-producing areas near the tea producing areas.

Then, the big tea merchants in the tea-producing area transport the tea to the big ports where the big businessmen who buy tea, such as the magic capital, and then store the tea in a special tea house and ask the tea house to sell the tea on behalf of the tea house;

After that, the merchants who wholesale tea come and buy the tea from the tea houses and deliver it to the target city where the tea is to be sold;

It is then wholesaled to small retailers and sold.