Zhao Dagui's current capital strength is naturally not comparable to Liu Yong before he made a fortune, with a team of big ships and bodyguards in his hands, and nearly 100,000 silver dollars in cash, he can also have huge profits by buying raw silk directly from the local silk village.

After renting a house in a local hotel in Nanxun, Zhao Dagui took Xie and several martial arts masters to visit the local silk village and inquire about the price of raw silk for sale and the amount of raw silk that can be sold, and he felt very excited.

These silk villages are mainly to Suzhou and Hangzhou and other weaving popular cities to supply raw silk, the hands of the raw silk supply is very rich, and because of the saving of freight rates, the price is much cheaper than those big cities to buy.

Zhao Dagui inquired, the price of the silk here is around one hundred taels of silver per bag, and each silk village can sell dozens or hundreds of packs of raw silk.

The unit price of raw silk is one or two dollars and five cents per catty, which is more than 20% higher than the direct purchase of raw silk from farmers, but it is also inevitable to leave a certain profit for the silk village.

Zhao Dagui is more concerned about whether the silk village here can provide more raw silk in order to make more profits.

After turning around, Zhao Dagui and Shopkeeper Xie had points on the raw silk market here, and then began to place orders, raising 300 bags of raw silk from six silk villages, worth nearly 50,000 yuan.

Shopkeeper Xie didn't know the details of Zhao Dagui, and persuaded him several times not to buy so much raw silk at one time, or at least not to buy it in such a hurry, if it took a month or two to buy it slowly in Nanxun, the price could be reduced by about one percent.

However, Zhao Dagui was anxious to seize the market and make the maximum profit as soon as possible, so he naturally would not listen to him, and he was still not satisfied, so he also took people to Huzhou Mansion thirty miles away to visit the big silk village in the city.

The silk village in Huzhou City sells Huzhou silk naturally, although it may be a little worse than the best Nanxun silk, but it is also the best raw silk, the quality is excellent, and the price is three or four percent cheaper than Nanxun raw silk.

Zhao Dagui was very happy, still bought 300 bags of high-quality raw silk, and said to the shopkeepers of those silk villages that they would come again in a few days, hoping that the shopkeepers would help Dagui Commercial Bank prepare more goods, and then they were satisfied to transport the goods back to Nanxun, and together with the Nanxun silk they bought before, all of them were loaded on the ship.

Whether it was Shopkeeper Xie or Zhang Darttou, they were secretly surprised to see Zhao Dagui acting vigorously and resolutely and making a business of 100,000 silver dollars in just a few days, and they were even more respectful to Zhao Dagui.

However, Li Yingqiong watched coldly, her expression remained unchanged, and she did not take Zhao Dagui's big business in her eyes at all.

Zhao Dagui has a ghost in his heart, and he has been observing Li Yingqiong from the side, but he doesn't go to provoke people directly.

After everyone got on the boat and returned to the magic capital, they were safe all the way, and after arriving at the wharf outside the east gate of the demon capital county, they all moved the six hundred bags of raw silk into the courtyard of the Dagui firm, and then Zhao Dagui settled the balance with the Fuwei Dart Bureau, and gave a thank you gift of two hundred taels, which was considered a great joy.

Fuwei Dart Bureau did not make any effort this time, and did not encounter any unsightly thieves, it was a very easy dart, and got acquainted with a big businessman like Zhao Dagui, there must be many business opportunities in the future, and the dart board was very satisfied.

Zhao Dagui sent everyone away, and then asked the guys to close the door, and he would not do business on this day, and it was the right thing to count all the raw silk he bought first.

"Owner, it's a good thing that this raw silk is in stock, but how are you going to sell so many goods? The shopkeeper Chen, who was originally left behind, was older and older, so he said with worry.

"It's easy to shoot this raw silk, don't worry. First take out all the foreign cloth we have on hand, and let's wrap all the raw silk with foreign cloth. Zhao Dagui naturally didn't take the difficulty of selling raw silk to heart, but just ordered everyone to take out the high-quality Manchester cloth in stock and use it to wrap the raw silk.

It turns out that this raw silk is a valuable commodity, and the silk village in Huzhou is packed with locally produced homespun cloth, but in order to save costs, the cheapest local homespun cloth is naturally used.

Zhao Dagui knew that packaging was a very important thing in business, so he asked everyone to take out a beautiful British cloth and repackage the raw silk.

After getting it, this raw silk bun really looks much better than before.

"This foreign cloth is more expensive than homespun cloth in terms of weight, but it is much cheaper than homespun cloth in terms of area, and it is light and beautiful, and it is the most suitable cloth for wrapping raw silk. ”

"That's what the owner said. The shopkeeper and the guys all nodded in agreement.

After the opening of the Magic Capital, the raw silk trade soon flourished, and Chinese merchants initially used local cheap homespun cloth to pack raw silk, but soon replaced homespun cloth with foreign cloth, so that British raw silk factory owners received raw silk wrapped in fine Manchester cloth, and surprised the Chinese to do business.

Later historians have deduced many issues from this, saying that the use of foreign cloth instead of homespun cloth to wrap raw silk actually proves that foreign cloth is unsalable in China and its price has plummeted, so it can only be used as cheap packaging for wrapping goods.

However, Zhao Dagui has been in this era for a long time, and he has personally handled many businesses, so he has a deeper understanding of this issue:

That is, British foreign cloth is the cheapest cloth per unit area in this port, much cheaper than the cheapest and worst homespun cloth, even if the foreign cloth is not unsalable, it is inevitable that merchants will use foreign cloth instead of homespun cloth to wrap raw silk.

As for the foreign cloth, it looks better and lighter, and it is more decent to use, but it is just an incidental thing.

There is a historical question in later generations that goes like this:

In 1852, an Englishman in China reported that Chinese raw silk shipped to London by British merchants was packed in "useless" Manchester fine cotton, whereas until then it had been mainly Chinese homespun cloth that had been used for packaging. This change in the wrapping cloth reflects the ()

The four options for this problem are: A) the rough quality of China's homespun cloth, B) the price of British cotton cloth is more advantageous, C) Chinese raw silk sells well in the United Kingdom, and D) the British cotton cloth is unsalable in China.

The theoretically correct answer is "D. British cotton cloth is unsalable in China".

However, in terms of Zhao Dagui's personal experience, this answer is obviously debatable, or "B. British cotton cloth price is more advantageous" is more appropriate.

It took a night to repack the raw silk, and it looked bells and whistles from the outside, much better looking, and much more decent.

The next day, Zhao Dagui hired someone to pick up fifty bags of raw silk and went straight to the British Consulate in the courtyard of Yao's house.

"I recently bought a batch of new goods, and I would like you to take a look. Zhao Dagui called all the foreigners in the consulate and went to the courtyard to see the raw silk he bought.

"This is raw silk, or the best Zhejiang silk. "These Englishmen are very familiar with Chinese goods, and after looking at the color and brightness of raw silk, they accurately judged that this is the best Zhejiang silk.