The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 489 Putesman's Deal

In mid-November, Ding Yi, Zhao Dashan and others went all the way south from Dengzhou to Songjiang. Ruan Siqing bought goods, bought silk, etc., and sold some special products from Japan, Korea, and Jeju at the same time.

This time they brought over a shipment of Jeju tangerines, which were newly produced this year. When Ding Yi returned from Japan, he brought them through Jeju.

Tangerines in this era are very rare, highly sought-after, and even more expensive.

In Japan and North Korea, only nobles and royal families are eligible to eat it.

In Daming, in addition to the nobles of the royal family, ordinary officials and wealthy businessmen would also buy them.

But the output of this thing is really small, and the price is expensive.

In the past, Songjiang used to purchase goods from Fuzhou and Guangzhou, and only Fuguang and Guangxi in the whole Ming Dynasty would supply to the outside world.

But the production of Fuguang is not much. It is mainly for the royal family and clan, and only a small amount is listed every year.

Since the establishment of Jeju, Ding Yi has been selling it here, especially in the later generations of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. They are all rich people. Last year, they sold more than 1 taels.

This year I have shipped more, and this time I have brought a boat, which weighs about [-] catties.

After arriving, they will all be unloaded in Songjiang and handed over to the Xu family.

According to Ding Yi's request, the Xu family built a new wholesale market in Songjiang. At the beginning, it was dedicated to customers when Xu's raw silk was sold.

For example, if a customer buys one hundred catties of raw silk, he will get two catties of oranges for free.

One year's work is well-known far and wide, and the citrus of Xu's in Songjiang is very popular for its sweet taste and tender juice.

There are silk merchants from all over the world who want to buy goods with the ship and take them back to buy.

Now the [-] catties are all placed in Songjiang, and the Xu family will distribute them.

Last year, Ding Yi received Koreans in Jeju at a penny per catty, and sold them at his stores in Lushun, Phi Island and Dengzhou at a penny per catty.

Selling to merchants from all over the world costs eight cents a catty. Selling to your own people is more expensive than selling to merchants, because selling to merchants is at wholesale prices, and the quantity is large. Ruan Wenlong said that he has a dark heart.

Last year, the response to citrus was very good, even after he sent it to Beijing, businessmen in Beijing came to ask if there were any more. Ding Yi judged that the market demand was huge, very huge.

In this era, the output is low, and there are not many places and people to grow it. What is a hundred thousand catties of citrus?
If the price is low, one Songjiang can consume all of it.

So Ding Yi directly skyrocketed.

This year, it was sold to merchants from all over the country for five yuan a catty.

For Xu's side, it is four yuan a catty. Xu's distributor doesn't care about the price, but if he can't sell it, he will take it back at the original price.

Many people say it's crazy, it's a money grab.

Who would spend one tael of silver to buy two catties of fruit.

Ding Yi said, my clients are wealthy businessmen from Songjiang and Jiangnan, as well as the royal family. Ordinary officials can afford it or not.

As a result, many merchants who came to Dengzhou this year did not buy any products, thinking that they were too expensive and unacceptable.

But there are still some people who are bold enough to buy goods and sell them to the capital, Jiangnan and other places. Some businessmen may not necessarily want to make money, but may give them to the clan and officials to win relationships.

Ding Yi put the [-] catties with Mrs. Xu, and took [-] silver with him when he left.

The Xu family distributes them at a price of [-] to [-] renminbi. Merchants from Nanjing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang came to buy raw silk with them, and they sold it in less than a month.

After coming to Songjiang, Ding Yi naturally wanted to find Mrs. Xu to be gentle.

Mrs. Xu is also very dedicated. In addition to warmly entertaining Ding Yi, she also prepared more than 100 craftsmen for Ding Yi's recruitment, all of which were found from all over Zhejiang and Nanjing. mouth.

Xu's younger sister married Ruan Siqing, and now the Xu family is tied to the same car with Ding Yi, Xu is very serious about things.

Then Ding Yi continued south.

When passing through Fuzhou, I felt a lot of emotions.

After passing Fuzhou, Ding Yi arranged how to capture the Netherlands.

In the original history, there were only three routes for Zheng Chenggong to attack Taiwan. Lumener, South Waterway, and North Waterway. The South Waterway was covered by the gunfire of Zeelandia City, and the North Waterway was silted up. Therefore, Zheng Chenggong had no choice but to go through Lumen. Ear.

But Lumen's ears are quite narrow, and it is said that only three boats can enter at the same time. Legend has it that Zheng Chenggong also asked the water god, so when the tide rose that day, their fleet sailed in.

Ding Yi didn't plan to do this, he left most of the ships and soldiers first, and went around to the south of Zeelandia City. There were no passing ships here, because most of the passing ships went from the southwest.

Then he took three ships with a large amount of silk and five hundred firearms.

Among the 400 gunfire soldiers, [-] of them brought wheel-wheel guns.

The manufacture and replacement of flintlock guns and wheel-wheel guns was slow, and the manufacture of cavalry was given priority. Therefore, in order to attack the city of Zeelandia this time, he borrowed [-] short guns from the cavalry.

Ruan Siqing's boat has been doing business with this side all year round, and it docks with ease.

This time is the off-season, and there are relatively few ships coming to Taiwan, and there are not many ships in the port.

Fortunately for them, most of the Dutch boats did not go to sea, and they were also parked by the docks.

Not long after Ding Yi disembarked, Putesman, Pilut and others came to the pier to meet them.

After the last defeat, Putesman thought he was going to be transferred back to China, but he didn't.

Afterwards, he discussed a business with Ding Yi.

In a blink of an eye, it has been more than a year.

When the two met again, Putesman was very enthusiastic.

Ruan Siqing also chatted cordially with Pilut, and then acted as an interpreter for Ding Yi and Putesman.

Ding Yi said, this time I brought a lot of silk fabrics, and I want to exchange them for your sugar. Now that autumn and winter are coming, sugar sales are the best.

With an embarrassed expression, Putesman said hesitantly that the price was about to change and wanted to increase the price.

It turned out that only Ding Yi did business with them, and they had to transport them to Japan and other places for sale, so Ding Yi would meet Pilut in Japan back then.

As Zheng Zhilong unified the sea, the Dutch and Zheng Zhilong also compromised, and this place became safer. Many Ming merchants came over immediately to buy their sugar.

Putesman said, I can't help it. It is the company's upper management that the price should be unified. However, Ding Yi, the personal friendship between the two of us will always exist.

Ding Yi expressed his understanding that the price is not a problem.

Putesman and Pirot were overjoyed.

Then Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, dressed in common people's clothes, hid all the short guns in their clothes, and carried a large amount of silk fabrics down to transport them. The silk was also wrapped with short knives and daggers.

Ding Yi also said, I also prepared a lot of fine wine and gifts for a few of you.

Putersman was even happier.

Ding Yi asked fifty soldiers to carry a large amount of fine wine, various gifts, and a large amount of oranges to the city of Zeelandia.

Putesman and Pilut smiled when they saw the crates of citrus, which is also a popular commodity in Zeelandia, and many Dutch women like to eat it.

He said that in the evening, guests from afar should be well entertained.

Putesman quickly brought Ding Yi to a room, accompanied by his translator Ruan Siqing.

Pirot was left outside to wait.

As soon as he entered the room, Putesman slowly took out a pile of papers from under the bed.

Then pass it to Ding Yi.

Ding Yi opened it and saw that it was full of shipbuilding blueprints.

This is the most advanced sailing battleship blueprint in Europe.

At this time, the European sailing battleships are basically divided into three levels, namely the first-level battleship, the second-level battleship, and the third-level battleship.

(End of this chapter)