Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 148, fooling Hashim
Ancient and modern buildings.

Accompanied by Liu Jin and Zhu Houzhao, Hasim entered the Gujin Building.

As soon as he entered, his eyes widened. He is also a well-informed person. He has been to Venice and Rome in Italy, Damascus and Jerusalem in the Middle East, and even Tianzhu. He has seen this Many bustling cities in the world.

But the moment he entered Gujin Building, he felt like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world. He couldn't help but feel dirty, and he was even ashamed to buy his own foot in it.

Without it.

The inside of the ancient and modern building is really resplendent, with the extensive use of gold and brass, coupled with the reasonable layout of the mirrors, the dazzling light from various glass products, and the huge crystal chandelier above the head, everything looks So regal.

He believes that even if it is the Holy Court of the Pope, the palace of the Sultan of Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire is far less magnificent than here, and it is far less golden than here.

The most luxurious place in the world will pale in comparison with this place.

"Mr Hashem, please~"

Liu Jin looked at Hasim, who was slightly dazed, and said with a smile.

"Oh, please~"

Hasim came back to his senses and walked quickly to the mirror exhibition area. Looking at the mirrors of different sizes and shapes, sparks appeared in his eyes.

He picked up a mirror and looked at it carefully. Like the full-length mirror at the door, it was also very clear, and everything could be seen clearly.

Carefully playing with the mirror in his hand, the workmanship of the frame is also extremely fine and exquisite, even the back of the mirror is also decorated with silk, this is after all a high-end and elegant route, impeccable in every aspect.

"How much is a mirror like this?"

Hasim's Daming language is a bit lame, but he can still speak clearly so that people can understand what he means. What he holds in his hand is a mirror the size of a plate.

"A mirror like this costs eight hundred taels of silver."

Liu Jin replied with a smile, then pointed to mirrors of other specifications and said, "This full-length mirror costs two thousand taels, the one with a dressing table costs one thousand taels of silver, and the one with a makeup box only costs four hundred taels." Silver, and the smallest one is only three hundred taels of silver."

"Eight hundred taels of silver!"

"Too expensive, too expensive!"

When Hasim heard this, he quickly put down the mirror in his hand and shook his head repeatedly.

He has been with Daming for a long time, and he is very clear about the purchasing power of silver in Daming. Eight hundred taels of silver is definitely a huge sum of money, and it can only buy a mirror in front of him.

"Mr. Hasim, I don't think it's expensive at all. This thing costs eight hundred taels of silver in our Ming Dynasty. If you ship it to the Middle East or Italy, even if you sell it for eight thousand taels of gold, someone will want it."

Liu Jin smiled slightly and said.

"No, no, I know this thing. It's glass. Glass is very common here in the West. It's not worth much at all, but it's so expensive here. Only a fool would buy it."

Hasim is obviously well-informed, and he already knew it was made of glass just by touching the mirror.

"Mr. Hasim is really joking, let's go, let's go to the second floor and sit down and talk slowly."

Liu Jin panicked when he heard Hasim's words, and hurriedly dealt with it with a laugh, and then took Hasim up to the second floor to have a detailed talk.

This businessman is relatively shrewd and well-informed. It is not easy to fool him. We can't let everyone know about the glass. It's safer to go upstairs and talk about it.

There are many private rooms on the second floor of the Gujin Building, all of which are used to discuss big business and deals. Liu Jin took Hasim to one of the private rooms. The layout of the private rooms is also very particular. There are also a variety of glass products, also for the convenience of negotiation.

Several people sat down, and someone immediately offered fragrant tea. Naturally, the glass tea set was used, and the tea leaves were also the top-quality Biluochun. With the tumbling of the tea, the tea leaves were clearly visible in it, which made Hasim couldn't help but look carefully again. looked up.

"Mr. Hasim, please use tea!"

Liu Jin picked up a cup of tea by himself, tasted it lightly, and talked about things while drinking tea.

"Mr. Hasim has traveled far and wide, and must have been to many places. I wonder if it is convenient for Fang to tell me something about the West?"

On the second floor, Liu Jin was not in a hurry to discuss business matters, but chatted instead.

"I didn't expect Mr. Liu to be so interested in the world outside of Ming Dynasty. He is quite different from other Ming people I have come into contact with."

Hasim took a sip of tea, fond of the glass tea set in his hand, but soon he put down the teacup, looked at Liu Jin carefully, and said slowly.

When he came to Daming to do business, he naturally had contact with a lot of Ming people, from court officials to ordinary traffickers and pawns. Although this Daming was not as rich as the rumors, the people of Daming had a kind of blind self-confidence, and they all thought that Daming was the middle. Tushang Kingdom, outside of Ming Dynasty is a land outside the law, either barren and barren or full of miasma, people outside of Daming are barbarians, belonging to the barbaric and uncivilized kind, very disdainful to understand the world outside of Ming Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, Liu Jin in front of him was very interested in the world outside of Ming Dynasty, and asked about the West.

"I'm really interested in the world outside of Ming Dynasty. If I have the opportunity, I would also like to learn from Mr. Hasim, walk around the world, take a look, and see the elegance of different civilizations."

"It is said that the Ottoman Empire seems to have wiped out the Byzantine Empire now, and the capital is Istanbul."

Liu Jin smiled and nodded, and then kept recalling some of the history he had learned in his mind. He also knew from reading the contents of the novel that during this period, because the rise of the Ottoman Empire blocked the ancient trade routes between China and the West, so Europeans after the Renaissance.

After great progress and development in astronomy, geography, art, navigation, mathematics, physics, medicine, music and many other aspects, the era of great navigation began, seeking to find commercial routes to the East from the sea.

"Oh, my lord! I didn't expect that in Daming, thousands of miles away, someone would know about the Ottoman Empire."

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Hasim's eyes changed suddenly, and he couldn't help crying.

He really didn't expect that in this distant and ancient country, there were people who knew about the Ottoman Empire, and even more so about the fact that the Ottoman Empire destroyed the Byzantine Empire. You must know that this happened in 1453, that is, decades ago matter.

(End of this chapter)