"Xuan Ke Nan Zhong Yong Berlin Yi Hu appears in court!"
Following Huang Xiaobao's soft call, Lin Yihu, the good Ming Dynasty agent whose pseudonym was Jiabus, took a breath and carefully walked to the place where Zhu Cihong, Huang Jiang, and Mary Mancini were. On the second floor platform.
"Yihu, there's no need to kowtow. Sit down." Before Lin Yihu could kowtow and salute, Zhu Cixi warmly greeted Lin Yihu to sit down and said to Mary, "Pour him a cup of milk tea too."
The emperor was approachable, but Lin Yihu's little heart was always trembling. Accompanying you is like accompanying a tiger! Now the big tiger is smiling at him and asking a pretty little western tigress to pour him some tea. How can he not be afraid? He knows that he is a fat pig that is extremely rich!
However, he did not dare to stand when the emperor offered his seat, and he did not dare not accept the milk tea mixed with the aroma of milk and tea that Mary Mancini handed him.
"Yihu," Zhu Cixiang asked with a smile, "how are you doing with North Korea's fur and pearl trade outside the customs? Can you still do it?"
Lin Yihu's heart sank, and he asked about the business...
"If I go back to Lord Long Live, I can continue to trade furs and dongzhu with North Korea outside the customs... But I can't do it with the Spaniards. I have to find another buyer. But as long as the goods are good, you don't have to worry about no one." I want it. Even if we sell it in Jiangnan, Dongzhu and fur are not cheap."
Dongzhu and fur are actually a seller's market. As long as the goods are good, there is no need to worry about lack of sales. Even if it is not sold to Europe, the purchasing power of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty is still very strong - the market in the Ming Dynasty is no smaller than that in Europe, and the political and social environment of the Ming Dynasty is relatively stable, Emperor Zhu's policies are also more pro-business, and the number of tax cards in the country There are not many, and the economically developed areas are concentrated along the coast and the Yangtze River, so logistics costs are low.
As he spoke, Lin Yihu had already taken out a lacquerware box that had been prepared long ago and handed it to Emperor Zhu with both hands, "Long live my lord, this is a little bit of my heart. Please accept it."
Mind?
Zhu Cixiang glanced at him, reached out to take the lacquerware box, and opened it. Inside was a pearl necklace, which was strung with twenty or thirty white, round, and similar-sized East beads.
"Pearl necklace! It's so beautiful..." Before Emperor Zhu could comment, a little foreign pony already exclaimed.
Zhu Cixi turned his head and glanced at Mary Mancini, and saw that she was looking at him with a pair of big eyes, full of expectation!
"Give it to you!" Zhu Cixiang smiled and handed over the pearl necklace, "If conditions permit...you can try making a few more milk teas and put more thought into it. Later I will invite Prince Kong Dai, Special Envoy Kirkbert, and Ma Envoy Weir, Ambassador Pitt, Ambassador Dimen and Governor Spauer come to have tea together, and drink your Miss Mary’s milk tea.”
Although the pearl necklace is expensive, as long as the Miss Mary milk tea brand is successfully launched...a necklace is really nothing.
"Dear, thank you!" The little foreign horse immediately rushed forward in surprise. Instead of getting the necklace, he kissed Emperor Zhu's unshaven face first, then turned around, with his back to Emperor Zhu, and flirted with him. He lifted up his black, curly hair, revealing his white and slender neck, "Your Majesty, please put it on for me."
"Okay," Emperor Zhu nodded repeatedly, smiled and took out the pearl necklace from the lacquer box in Mary's hand, and carefully put it on Mary, "Here, let me take a look."
Mary turned around, but she was looking down with her head down, and gently touching the pearls with her slender fingers.
Zhu Cixiang actually didn't think it looked good at all - in fact, Mary Mancini was naturally beautiful, and when she was at her freshest and most delicious, she didn't need any decoration at all, and she looked good even without wearing anything.
"Okay, let's go look in the mirror!"
Zhu Cixi knew that Mary was focused on the pearl necklace, so he waved his hand and gave her a "leave".
Seeing Mary Mancini leaving like a gust of wind, Zhu Cixiang smiled and said to Huang Jiang and Lin Yihu: "Did you see it? Those who like it are going crazy... I really don't have to worry about selling this pearl." !”
"There's no need to worry about selling the furs," Lin Yihu said with a smile, "Especially the mink furs. Businessmen from Jiangnan and Spain are eager to snatch them!"
Huang Jiang laughed from the side and said: "Of course I have to grab it, and you will get the money! Mink skin, Dongzhu, ginseng...all of them are in demand in Jiangnan, so don't worry about selling them!"
None of these things can be mass-produced, the supply is limited, and the demand has increased greatly due to the economic development in Jiangnan. Of course, the supply exceeds the demand.
And this kind of thing is originally for rich people. As long as the thing is good, it can definitely be sold for money.
Lin Yihu smiled bitterly and said: "I don't have to worry about selling, but there are few good things. Dongzhu and ginseng are better. They are about the same every year, but mink skins are less and less every year..."
Go to America and catch it! Zhu Cihong said to himself: North American ferrets... If you catch them, you will get money. Hurry up and take a boat to North America to catch them!
Huang Jiang added: "However, Dongzhu and mink fur are not big business after all. Once we can have hundreds of thousands or millions of goods shipped to Europe, it will be a lot. If we really want to make the business bigger, we have to rely on milk tea." !”
Dongzhu and mink grow naturally, and their numbers are limited after all, and they cannot be harvested indiscriminately. If they are caught to the point of extinction, it will destroy the jobs of future generations.
And tea is grown, and there are plenty of them!
"It's not difficult to promote tea," Zhu Cixiang smiled, "Let's let the Mancini sisters and Louis XIV promote it first... If it doesn't work, I have another trick!"
Huang Jiang asked: "Your Majesty, do you have any other magic tricks?"
"Tea can strengthen the body!" Zhu Cixiang said with a smile, "Drinking tea, especially green tea, can prevent scurvy... Drinking tea can prevent disease and live longer!"
"Is this true?" Huang Jiang asked.
"Of course it's true..." Zhu Cixiang paused, "But don't reveal it unless you have to. Because Westerners don't know this secret yet, and their crew members will get scurvy if they go to sea for a long time. Often a lot of them die! In the Pacific, it is a huge advantage for our people not to get sick!"
However, this secret could not be kept for long, because the Ming Navy hired too many Western officers, and many Western merchant ships could now freely enter and exit the Ming ports and commercial ports. Therefore, many Westerners have discovered this very strange phenomenon - Chinese people almost do not suffer from scurvy!
Neither the Ming Navy nor the Chinese merchant ships knew what scurvy was?
Curious Westerners will definitely study this issue, and sooner or later they will discover that the Western sailors who followed the Ming Navy never got scurvy...
"I understand," Huang Jiang said, "I will never reveal the miraculous effects of tea until our Chinese navy has the entire Pacific Ocean."
Zhu Cixiang nodded and said to Lin Yihu: "Yihu, can your Jiale Bank shift the focus of its business to Europe? Shopkeeper Huang is mainly in charge of the bank's affairs, and the task of expanding the European market will be left to you. !”
What? Are you going to Europe?
Lin Yihu thought to himself: Who does Jia Le Shixing belong to?
He asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, are you going in the name of Jabs, or..."
"Of course I went in the name of Jiabus." Zhu Cixiang smiled, "You, the big boss of Jia Le Market, are also well-known in Europe, right?"
"It is indeed somewhat famous." Lin Yihu was ecstatic! Emperor Zhu meant that he could continue to be the boss of Jiale City!
Zhu Cixiang smiled and said: "We need to prepare more furs and dongzhu, and bring dozens of boxes of high-quality green tea, black tea... and lacquerware boxes to use them to pack the furs, dongzhu, and tea... ....If we want to open up the market, we have to make it beautiful.
In addition, we cannot just buy but not sell. Trade must be exchanged. Buying but not selling will unbalance trade. Over time, all silver will flow into China, and Westerners will have no money to buy our things.
Moreover, our country has a large population, a vast territory, a happy life, and a vast market, which is even worse than that of the whole of Europe. How can we not buy something back? You two also know something about Western things, right? They all told me, what do you want to buy back? "
