Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 245 Never seen such crazy
At the wharf of Taicang Port, more than a dozen giant ships stand upright like rows of towers, and the huge sense of oppression is simply suffocating.

Fortunately, they came to load and unload goods, not to fight.

At this time, two thousand chariots of the Shenwu Battalion were lining up in two long lines, unloading rubber and copper from the armed merchant ships of the Spanish Ocean Fleet, and transferring them to the military camp in the city for guarding. All the officials carefully counted the records there.

Suddenly, as if he had taken the wrong medicine, Carinho excitedly ran down from a gunboat, ran to Xia Yunyi, danced and shouted for joy.

It turned out that he had already discussed with the commander of the ocean-going fleet. First, he would bring a hundred carts of silver to the city to buy goods. When the time came, the goods would be shipped to the European continent, and everyone would share dividends when they were sold.

Although he had already exchanged a lot of high-end goods with the Ming Empire this time, they were all official transactions, and he didn't have much commission.

The goods purchased by him and the commander of the ocean-going fleet are different. These are all sold by them privately, and the profits are almost all theirs. They only need to pay a little tribute to the current Governor of Luzon.

Buying hundreds of carts of silver can earn at least two to three hundred carts of silver back. Even if it is divided between two people, it is more than 100 carts per person!

Can he not be excited that he can earn so much money in one go?
The problem, according to the regulations of the Ming Empire, the sailors of the ocean-going fleet were not allowed to disembark with weapons, and they did not bring any flatbed carts.

Therefore, he wanted to ask Xia Yunyi for a favor, and asked him to arrange a hundred Shenwu camp chariots and two hundred Shenwu camp soldiers to help him transport the silver to the city for exchange, and then buy the goods and bring them back.

Xia Yunyi is struggling with this, he doesn't know when he will finish unloading tens of thousands of barrels of rubber and tens of millions of catties of copper, yet this guy is still pestering him for help.

Can I help you with this?
Fortunately, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who were sent to ask the emperor for instructions returned soon, and Xu Fuyuan also followed.

The emperor said that this job can help, and the emperor also specially sent Xu Fuyuan to accompany this guy to exchange gold and silver and buy goods.

Soon, teams of Spanish sailors unloaded brick-like silver nuggets onto the chariots of the Shenwu Battalion.

These guys, the gold and silver are all robbed anyway, and the cast is quite rough, just a long square, and it's still heavy, maybe a piece weighs not more than forty or fifty catties.

Naturally, such silver nuggets cannot be taken directly to shops to buy things, one piece is several hundred taels, without special detection methods, who dares to pick it up, if they receive a fake one, it will be a loss!
Therefore, this thing has to be transported to the Daming Bank and exchanged for silver ingots or bank notes minted by the imperial court.

Xu Fuyuan's family is considered rich, but he has never seen a hundred carts of silver. He was really taken aback by the generosity of these guys. It is a bit scary to buy things directly by cart, and it is a hundred carts. .

After Carinho followed them to the Daming Bank, he was a little dazed

They are very quick. After a few experienced masters carefully inspected the silver bricks, they began to weigh the silver. It was more than 100 catties, about [-] million taels of silver. It took less than half an hour to weigh the ten rods together. The time is up.

Immediately afterwards, they brought him a large box of paper!

This means that the exchange is complete, and all the silver bricks have been exchanged for silver notes.

He took out a bank note and looked at it carefully.

This bank note is really beautiful, the patterns on it are really exquisite, and some places even sparkle.

The problem, this is paper, no matter how beautiful it is, it is still paper!

One hundred carts of silver would be exchanged for this box of paper, he was really a little dazed.

He looked at the bank note for a while, and then asked, "Can this really be used to buy things? Can I replace it with your standard silver ingot?"

There are no banknotes in Europe right now, nor did Daming before.

Can this thing really be used as silver?

He was a little confused.

As soon as the shopkeeper heard Chen Siming's translation, he immediately pointed to the merchant who kept the silver and said, "Look, people exchange silver for bank notes. You can exchange it for silver ingots if you want. I wish you could exchange it for silver ingots." As for the bills, because when you buy things, people have to exchange them for silver notes, and we can earn more than 1 taels just for the handling fee. I am afraid that you will find it troublesome. A hundred carts of silver ingots It will take a long time to move, if you don't mind the trouble, I'll let someone move it for you."

Uh, this, Carinho looked at the Daming merchant who was holding silver in exchange for paper, hesitated for a while, and still gritted his teeth: "Okay, the bank note is the bank note, Andre, hold this box of bank notes , let's go shopping."

Hearing this, a strong guard behind him quickly stepped forward to pick up the box containing the bank notes, and followed him out.

Right now, he really couldn't wait to go shopping. As for the banknote, he thought about it a little bit so he wouldn't be afraid of being cheated.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire is here. Can he be afraid that someone will cheat him of money?

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire will never go to war with them for this little money!

They have large ships and gunboats, and the armed merchant ships are also equipped with a lot of artillery. If they really want to fight, let alone who wins and who loses, the merchant ships in this port will definitely be wiped out.

As long as His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Empire hadn't been out of his mind, he wouldn't have fought them for such a thing. He still had confidence in that.

When he walked out of the bank, he couldn't wait to ask: "Chen, where is the silky high-end cloth sold, take me there to have a look."

This guy is talking about silk and satin, right?
How do I know this!
It's my first time here too.

Chen Siming looked up at the street, and soon saw a big cloth shop not far away.

He simply pointed at the cloth liner and said, "Your Excellency, why don't we go there and have a look."

Hearing this, Carinho immediately walked towards Nabu.

He walked into the cloth shop and saw that this place indeed sold cloth, with many, many shelves, and many, many cloths.

However, he did not see that kind of silky high-end cloth.

No?

impossible!

He said anxiously, "Chen, hurry up and ask for me!"

Chen Siming said helplessly: "Shopkeeper, do you sell silk and satin here?"

Hearing this, the shopkeeper couldn't help being startled.

Why are you asking me this in front of Master Xu!

The Department of Shipbuilding is in charge of this!

He quickly shook his head and said: "No, no, silk and satin are forbidden to be sold, we don't have to sell them here."

what?
Banned!

As soon as Xu Fuyuan heard Chen Siming's words, he understood that this guy probably wanted to buy a lot of silk and satin, official kiln porcelain and tea back home.

Sorry, the emperor said, these things cannot be sold to you casually.

He calmly explained: "Yes, goods such as silk and satin, official kiln porcelain, and tea are prohibited from sale. These are all officially run by the imperial court, and you cannot buy them here."

Carinho couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this.

Originally, he wanted to buy more high-end porcelain, satin and tea leaves, etc., but the problem is that the sale of these "high-end goods" is prohibited!

How to do?
He froze for a while, then turned to look at the cloth on the shelf.

These ordinary goods are actually fine, even ordinary cloth and porcelain, as long as they are shipped back to Europe, they can earn several times the difference.

After thinking for a while, he still raised his hand and said, "Show me these cloths."

The shopkeeper hurriedly brought him several bolts of white cloth and several bolts of floral cloth.

He took a closer look and nodded in satisfaction.

These cloths are all well woven, and they will definitely sell for a good price when shipped to the Continent.

He asked without hesitation, "What's the price of these?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly introduced: "A piece of high-quality white cloth costs one tael, and a batch of high-quality floral cloth costs one tael or five."

Sox?

Am I right?
Carinho turned around and took out a bank note from the box, put it in front of the shopkeeper, and asked excitedly: "This one, how many horses can I buy?"

Doesn't this guy know how to count?
The shopkeeper said without hesitation: "If you buy high-quality white cloth for 100 taels, you will get 67 pieces. If you buy high-quality floral cloth, I will give you a discount, [-] pieces."

It's so cheap!
Carinho looked at the bank note in his hand in disbelief, then looked at the cloth on the shelf, then waved the bank note excitedly and blushed and howled, "I want all the cloth you have here." Already!"

what?
The shopkeeper was frightened by him.

Could it be that this guy had a sudden epileptic fit?

He has tens of thousands of white cloth and tens of thousands of calico here!
He asked in disbelief, "You really want them all. I have more than 1 bolts of white and floral cloth!"

Carinho nodded without hesitation and said, "All of them. Calculate the total amount."

Really?

Big business!

This business is really successful, at least tens of thousands of taels can be earned!
Hearing the words, the shopkeeper quickly took out the ledger and started counting.

After a while, he said in a trembling voice: "320 and five bolts of white cloth, and 510 and three bolts of floral cloth. I'll wipe off the odds for you, and the total is 9000 taels."

Carinho said without hesitation: "Chen, do the math, how many bank notes are there?"

Does this count?

You are all 100 taels of silver bills!

Chen Siming said without hesitation: "290."

it is good!
He immediately turned around and rummaged through the box containing the banknotes for a while, and quickly took out a stack of banknotes, put them on the table, and said eagerly, "Count them and see if you're right."

The shopkeeper took a careful count, then nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, yes."

Carinho carefully confirmed again: "What do you mean, I can ask someone to move the goods?"

The shopkeeper still nodded and said: "Yes, yes, yes."

OK!

Carinho immediately waved his hand and howled excitedly, "Move!"

This move has loaded dozens of cars.

Carinho looked at the dozens of carts full of cloth and looked at the large amount of banknotes left in the banknote box. His mouth was almost crooked from laughing. Now he has made a fortune. I want to buy, buy, buy, and have fun!
He didn't know that the price had doubled or tripled. The purchase price of better white cloth was only three pieces and one tael, and the purchase price of better floral cloth was only two pieces and one tael.

The cloth shop owner's mouth almost crooked.

He has also been in business for decades, and he has never seen such a crazy customer who wants everything no matter what it is!
It's a pity that he only has more than 2 bolts of cloth here, and if the warehouse is full, he can earn more from this business than all the money he earned in the first half of his life combined!
After buying dozens of car cloths, Carinho went to the porcelain shop to ask the price of the porcelain. As a result, he was so excited that he almost went crazy.

Sox?

Buying a large number of porcelain is based on the burden!

Sox?

There are at least a few hundred pieces in a load!

Sox?

The cheapest one is only 50 taels a load, and the most expensive one is only 100 taels a load!
Bought them all!
He went shopping like crazy, and emptied out cloth and porcelain shops one after another. When he ran out of money, he went to discuss it with the commander of the ocean-going fleet, exchanged all the gold, and continued to buy!

As a result, he emptied all the cloth and porcelain shops in Taicang City, and he bought more than 200 million taels of cloth and porcelain!
Of course, these people have to pay 20% tax when they go out of the city gate. The Shibo Division received more than [-] taels of transaction tax!

This should be regarded as the craziest purchase in history. The one-time purchase of more than 200 million taels of silver seems to have never happened in history.

Of course, this crazy record is likely to be broken, because Carinho was completely unprepared this time!
Who knows how crazy it will be for this guy to come back next time he's ready.

(End of this chapter)