Qianzi brought hot tea and knelt on the mat. The tray was placed beside the table. The teapot and teacups were taken out, and everyone placed a teacup in front of them.
After placing the teacups, she picked up the teapot, walked to each person one by one, and filled the teacups in front of each person with tea.
After doing all this, she bowed deeply to the people in the house and backed out of the wooden house.
Zheng Tie looked at the back of Qianzi who was leaving and said, "They say Japanese pirates are vicious, but I didn't expect that the women of the Japanese country are not only docile, but also bow at every turn. In just a short time, they have already bowed three times."
"Shopkeeper Zheng, please have tea." Zhang Yun raised his hand and pointed at the tea cup, and then said, "In the Japanese country, not only women, but men also bow frequently. This is the custom of the Japanese people."
Zheng Tie picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea. The taste was very ordinary, not as good as the tea on their ship.
But for him, tea is just for quenching thirst, and the taste is secondary. He doesn't really understand it anyway. As long as the difference is not too big, the taste in his mouth is almost the same.
Zheng Chao, who was sitting aside, said, "There were real Japanese pirates who attacked the coast of the Ming Dynasty back then, but there were also many Han people who were doing business with no business at sea and pretended to be Japanese pirates to attack the coast of the Ming Dynasty."
After all, he had traveled across the sea and knew more about some maritime matters than Zheng Tie, a northerner.
The three of them didn't talk much about the Japanese pirates. After a few words, they stopped talking.
Zhang Yun filled the teacups for the two of them, put down the teapot, and said with a smile, "Shopkeeper Zheng, if you choose to live here, Qianzi will prepare meals for everyone every day, and each person only needs ten Ming copper coins." Can."
Zheng Tie was not disgusted with Zhang Yun soliciting customers for his family.
They came to Hirado for the first time and were not familiar with many places. It was more convenient to stay at Zhang Yun's house.
Zheng Tie thought for a while and said, "Let's stay at your house. But we didn't bring any copper coins. We might as well use the goods on the ship as the cost of living here."
"I wonder what kind of goods are on Shopkeeper Zheng's ship?" Zhang Yun asked hesitantly.
If it's some popular goods, it won't take long to get rid of them. If it's some ordinary goods, it will be more troublesome and it will take more time.
"Ironware." Zheng Tie said, "Iron pots, spoons, kitchen knives, fine iron wine bottles, iron hoes, iron axes, and iron ropes. Most of the ship's goods are made of iron."
Zhang Yun took a breath.
Originally, he saw a large ship with thousands of materials coming from the Ming Dynasty. He thought it carried a lot of cargo, but he didn't expect it to be a ship full of ironware.
It’s not that ironware was hard to sell in the Japanese country, but it was so easy to sell that if it were put on display, it would be snapped up by buyers in less than a day.
But he knew he couldn't do that.
The shortage of iron in Japan was worse than that in Ming Dynasty. Iron was priceless but not marketable in Japan. If the other party really wanted to bring a shipload of iron goods, he had to contact Mr. Li. If he dared to take off the iron goods privately, , Hirado will no longer have a foothold for him.
Noticing Zhang Yun's expression, Zheng Tie frowned and said, "Why is it hard to sell iron?"
Before coming to Hirado, he already knew that ironware was in high demand in Japan. If Zhang Yun said that his goods were not easy to sell, then he would naturally not dare to use this broker again.
Zhang Yun saw that Shopkeeper Zheng in front of him had misunderstood, and said hurriedly, "Shopkeeper Zheng, don't get me wrong. This batch of goods is not difficult to sell, but it is very easy to sell. I will not deceive you two. This batch of iron goods is in my hands." , it will be clean in less than a day.”
"Then I'll leave it to you to contact the buyer." Zheng Tie grabbed the tea cup and took a sip of tea.
Zhang Yun had a bitter look on his face and said, "It is precisely because these iron goods are so popular that the young ones dare not sell them privately, so they can only ask Mr. Li to eat them. No one in Hirado dares to do so except Mr. Li." Not even the red-haired barbarians can eat this batch of iron goods."
Zheng Tie said, "The Master Li you are talking about is Li Dan, right?"
Zhang Yun nodded.
"Okay." Zheng Tie said, "But I don't want to suffer too much in terms of price."
As for Li Dan, he had known him before coming to Hirado. He was a famous sea merchant. Kapitan was what the red-haired Yi said. If he could be related to such a big shot, it would be of great benefit to the Tiger Flag.
Hearing this, Zhang Yun breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly said, "Shopkeeper Zheng, please rest assured that the price given by Master Li is absolutely fair, otherwise Master Li would not have such great prestige in Hirado."
"Okay, then I'll sell it to Li Dan as you said." Zheng Tie said.
Zhang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that shopkeeper Zheng in front of him would not be willing to sell the goods to Mr. Li.
If this batch of iron goods is really not sold to Mr. Li, he can guarantee that no one in the entire Hirado would dare to touch this batch of iron goods, and once these people in front of them leave Hirado, they will never end well.
And he, who is looking for work in Hirado, will also offend Mr. Li.
"This is a list of all the iron items on the ship. Take a look at it first." Zheng Tie took out a folded notebook and pushed it from the low table to Zhang Yun's hand.
Zhang Yun put down the tea cup, raised his hand to pick up the book, opened it and read the contents. After reading it, he exclaimed, "There are so many iron products. Your company must be an iron yard."
The total iron goods on the list amounted to a total of 150,000 to 60,000 taels of silver, and ordinary shops would not be able to assemble such a large amount of complete iron goods in a short period of time.
Many merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty carried very little ironware and more tea, porcelain, Songjiang cloth and leather goods.
"Our Hu Zi Banner Company does have an iron yard, and these iron tools are all made of iron produced in our own iron furnace." Zheng Tie nodded and admitted directly.
"No wonder," Zhang Yun said.
After working as an economist in Hirado for so long, this was the first time he saw a merchant ship carrying a cargo of iron cargo to Hirado.
Qianzi came in from outside and said something to the people in the room.
Zhang Yun smiled and said, "Qianzi said the food is ready. Shopkeeper Zheng, do you want to start the meal now?"
"Tell Qianzi that the food has been served," Zheng Tie said to Zhang Yun, and then said to Zheng Chao on the side, "Let's also try the Japanese food."
Along the way, they came by boat from the sea. The food they ate was not to say fresh, but even had a faint stench. Usually, they could only get some fresh fish to eat when the weather was calm, but most of the time they still ate the smelly food on the boat.
Now that I have disembarked and arrived at Zhang Yun's home, I finally don't have to endure the nausea to eat that smelly food.
Zhang Yun and Qianzi spoke a few Japanese words.
Qianzi nodded, bowed, and exited the cabin.
Not long after, when Qianzi came in again, he was holding a wooden tray with some rice dumplings wrapped in seaweed, cooked sea crabs, and some fried fish.
Zheng Tie looked at it and saw that there was no meat or fresh vegetables that he wanted to eat, so he said to Zhang Yun, "Why are there no large pieces of meat and vegetables?"
Zhang Yun said humbly, "The Japanese don't eat much meat here, they mostly eat rice balls and fish and shrimps. Only their nobles eat meat, but not much. They usually eat fish in small pieces. Otherwise, why are you so short?"
"It's really an exotic place. I couldn't imagine such a situation before I came here."
Zheng Tie said something, picked up the rice ball and started eating it.
Although it didn't have the large pieces of meat and fresh vegetables he wanted to eat, it was much better than the food on the ship.
