Pillars of the Wu family

() For a while, the small living room was silent again, only the mechanical clock made a "da da" sound. Old Frank put down his pipe and took the lead in breaking the silence: "Joseph! I think we should talk about other issues, such as business matters Things, I think you understand our situation, if we don’t sell these cargoes, we won’t be able to return to Europe safely, and everything you said will become meaningless.”

"Understood! Then we won't talk about this!" Yoshiki Kira thought for a while, and said straightforwardly: "I believe that the Agote Chamber of Commerce and your allies can get the goods I need. As long as the price is right, I will Willing to trade with you with silver."

"No, no, it's too difficult! I can help you with guns, but I can't do anything with artillery and sailboats, that's true!" Frank shook his head and rejected his proposal.

"Leaving aside the problems of artillery and galleons, I might consider muskets, and I need some Holsteins and Trakehners as breeds, ten of each, three of each kind**, The other seven are mares, and I can afford it even if it is expensive, how about this business?"

Before he finished speaking, Frank Argot began to shake his head and said: "Oh! No, no! This is not possible, these two things are very expensive! Tens of thousands of silver coins per horse! Your request is too high!"

"Okay! Old Frank! Let's be honest! These two things are not that expensive at all! A three-year-old excellent horse with no history of injury is worth two thousand silver coins at most. I'm talking about silver coins. A pound of silver! I think you understand what I mean." Yoshitoki Kira said with a straight face.

"Okay! You win! It is indeed the price, but I need the shipping fee. I will take a boat from far away Amsterdam for several months, and I will stop at the port to change water and feed on the way. You know these guys are delicate and ruthless. If there is a storm or a plague, it will be troublesome! Even if everything is going smoothly, we will release them to walk on the deck, and the cost of these caregivers is very high! It costs [-] silver coins to convert a horse!"

Frank Argot is right. Long-distance horse transport is more troublesome than transporting people and goods. These excellent war horses eat a mixture of beans, grains and alfalfa. These require special preparations, and the amount of salt the horses eat It is ten times the size of a human, and after a few months of living across the ocean, the logistical pressure of wearing it is very high, and it is necessary to free up a lot of space to take care of these horses.

The small probability event of a storm capsizing can basically be ruled out. Those experienced captains know what monsoon should blow in which season and which month is the season with the most heavy rain. Be careful and you can go back and forth safely even if you don’t encounter exaggerated typhoons. The most terrible thing The most terrible is the plague and septicemia as terrible as the plague.

"Let's not talk about the storm, you and I understand it! Talk about the plague! Pay attention to drinking habits. When it rains, hang wooden barrels on the mast to hold water. After clarification, you can quote it. And the septicemia you are worried about There is a solution! Buying porcelain here, I happen to have a batch of porcelain, here I have porcelain worth [-] pounds of silver, and raw silk worth [-] pounds of silver!

right!It is raw silk for weaving satin. I remember that there are complete silk workshops in Sicily, Italy, and Regensburg, North Germany, right?The silk I have here is the best raw silk from the East, and it is definitely top-notch in yours!How about it?How about barter? "

Kira Yoshishi directly counted the porcelain and raw silk that Wang Dan traded with him as his own. The value of the business with Wang Dan was 7000 taels of silver, which was converted to 1687.5 catties of silver. He said it to Frank Ago It became [-] pounds of silver, that is, [-] catties of silver.

"I can buy porcelain, and raw silk is fine too! But what does this have to do with sepsis?" Frank Argot didn't mind his selling this kind of hard currency as a commodity, but he was more concerned about the problem of sepsis. It is necessary to reduce the staff by [-]%. After returning to Amsterdam, he has to pay a sum of money to the families of the victims. This kind of unplanned high expenditure is what worries him.

"Of course it's related! What I'm going to say next is related to the treatment of sepsis! Sepsis is the lack of an element we need, which is hidden in fresh vegetables and fruits. You lack vegetables and fruits when sailing at sea. Supplement, if the lack of elements in the body accumulates over time, you will get sick, and the chance of getting sepsis is especially high, so you must buy the following recommendations!"

"Okay! Please tell me! I'm listening!" Frank Argot shrugged his shoulders to show that he was listening attentively, and even the little blonde girl listened carefully.

"You need to purchase pickled vegetables, tea leaves, and most importantly, beans! Eating some pickled vegetables every day can regulate the body to replenish the lost elements, and it can also appetize and strengthen the spleen. You must have heard of the role of tea! Finally, The beans you mentioned are the most important!" Yoshihiro Kira emphasized.

"Why are beans the most important?" The blond little girl asked strangely.

"You have purchased the porcelain in my hands. This is a prerequisite for ensuring that you will make money and not suffer from scurvy! Good! Don't wait for me to see! Let me just say... When your fleet carries a large number of When the porcelain is returned, the porcelain is stacked on top of each other and is easily broken, so fresh soybeans or mung beans are stuffed between each piece of porcelain to fill the gaps between the porcelain.

Then you have to remember to spray some water between these beans, the beans will germinate in the chao humid air, while protecting the porcelain from breaking, you can also get fresh bean sprouts, these bean sprouts are the fresh vegetables you need , they are clean and harmless and can be stewed with cured meat or fish. As long as you eat bean sprouts every day, you can effectively avoid the occurrence of sepsis! "

Frank Argot was silent for a moment, sat upright, and asked with a serious face: "Oh! Is that so? What a clever idea! Did you come up with it or was it told to you?"

"Um, it was a businessman from the Ming country who told me!" Yoshihiro Kira shifted the responsibility to the unfounded Ming country businessman with an innocent face, and then said: "There should be no doubt about the horse problem? Just follow the method I said and deal with it for sure." There will be no problem!"

"Okay! Horses! I'll do my best!" Frank Argot shrugged and said no problem. He probably thought Joseph was a young man pursuing interests.

For this kind of young man, Old Frank had a hundred ways to get him to buy his goods, so he said enthusiastically: "Our fleet came from the East India and brought many new things, including beautiful gems. There are intoxicating spices, exquisite wind-up clocks, beautiful mirrors, fashionable woolen blankets, England's new woolen products, and the best-selling products linen, ivory, sharkskin, tortoiseshell and various plant seeds. Flowers also have high-yield seeds that can grow food, as long as you can think of anything, I have it on board!"

"Oh? There are still many seeds? Do you have a matchlock gun?" Yoshiki Kira took a deep breath, trying to look as natural as possible, and pretending not to care about the temptation of high-yield seeds. This era has a clear understanding of high-yield grain seeds There are very few people. Both Japan and the Ming Dynasty are facing the problem of food shortage. The same problem often occurs in Europe. Famine is the root cause of infectious disease outbreaks, and famine is usually accompanied by drought or flood. The main cause of the dynasty's demise.

"Of course matchlock guns are indispensable! I have a hundred Spanish Harquebuser matchlock guns here. As long as you buy them, you will also get a support frame, powder packs, and some bullets. The price is also very reasonable!" Old Frank continued to sell. .

"I will help you eat this batch of goods at a reasonable price, and let you go back with silver and special products." The business was settled, and he didn't mind being generous to him, and readily agreed to his request.

As we all know, East India is actually the Nanyang region. Its name is also called the Spice Islands. It has always been a treasure held by the Portuguese. The trade in the entire Indian Ocean region is monopolized by the Portuguese. Except for Spanish merchant ships, no Any vessel is allowed to enter this area.

The Argot Chamber of Commerce from the Netherlands seems to have used some means to get Spain's acquiescence to enter here, but their intrusion into Japan was really unexpected, and the Spaniards probably thought they would only turn back in the Spice Islands Go back, but the Agot Chamber of Commerce did not do this, which is why it provoked so much criticism.

Of course, there must be a lot of water in what Frank Argot said. A fleet was hit by a storm midway and could sadly come to East Asia thousands of miles away. This shows that their damage is not serious. There are several important stops in East Asia. They can replenish supplies, rest damaged ships, and most importantly, resell the goods in their hands in exchange for local special products.

For example, ivory, shark skin, tortoise shell, and spices are obviously goods trafficked from Southeast Asia, and these goods are very in short supply. As long as they can land safely, there will be chambers of commerce who will take the initiative to trade them. They are guaranteed to be able to sell these items. Of course, Frank would not be ignorant of what he said, and the two parties chatted happily for a long time and finally finalized the agreement.

Frank breathed a sigh of relief and was finally able to sell the goods on several ships. Yoshihiro Kira was also very satisfied. Frank was a kind-hearted and cunning businessman, but he still misjudged the current trade situation in Japan, or he didn't know what he was selling at all. How tight things are, luxury goods can be sold to Gongqing and Wujia in the name of Ashikaga Yoshito, the shogunate. The sales of iron cannons, whether it is Miyoshi or Liujiao, will not be polite. It is absolutely impossible to exchange these goods with relatively cheap silver. big money.

Then the old and the young chatted all over the world, and Yoshihiro Yoshihiro didn't mind showing his rich knowledge in front of this new friend. Some fresh and unheard of stories not only attracted Frank, but even Claudia, who had been in a daze, seemed to be paying attention. Listen, it didn't take long for the unpleasantness just now to disappear.

Frank knocked out the tobacco in the pipe, carefully put the pipe away, then stood up and said: "Thank you for your hospitality, let us have a pleasant morning, I think we have to go back, the crew is still hungry With a stomachache, I have to buy lunch for them today, see you next time."

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ps: I thought it was an interesting story that was not understood, because this plot was criticized as a noob, I don't want to say anything more.

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