Walking out of the store, I saw Aixi running towards the tea stand in front of me, and hurriedly grabbed him. "Ah, girl, you are here." Ai Xi was sweating profusely, seeing that it was Ling Qingyu who caught him, she swallowed back the curse words and said.
"You come in with me first." Ling Qingyu dragged Ai Xi into the knife shop, pointed at the five knives that the boss hadn't had time to take back, and said, "I want these five knives, you bargain for me."
Aixi glanced at her, turned her head and raised her head slightly, talking with the boss in a high-profile manner.
Half a moment later, Aixi asked Ling Qingyu: "Do you have any good wine? And a sewing needle? By the way, add another pineapple, which is the red pineapple you mentioned."
"Want red Luo? Then give me some knives." Ling Qingyu said.
Aixi gave her a thumbs up, and then turned to tell the boss, Ling Qingyu saw that the boss kept nodding, only shook his head at the end, and looked at Aixi curiously.
"It's a deal. One red horse, one pot of wine, one hundred needles, in exchange for these five knives, plus fifty ordinary knives." Aixi wiped off her sweat and said.
Ling Qingyu looked at those knives that were said to be ordinary but also inlaid with jade, and he was impressed by Ai Xi.
"You want him to put away his things, and I'll send someone over to get them later."
After Aixi explained to the boss, they returned to the tea stall and sat in a relatively secluded place.
Seeing Yan San and Yan Qi standing in front, blocking the last line of sight from this position, Aixi's heart skipped a beat again.
Taking out a piece of paper from his purse, and a charcoal pencil, Ling Qingyu said seriously, "Okay, let's see what classmate Ai Xi has gained today."
"Student?" Seeing that Ling Qingyu didn't mean to explain, Aixi smiled and said, "Almost, there are about ten buyers, and those silk and porcelain can sell about 440,000 taels of gold, but some firms are not so More cash, I proposed to exchange jewelry, coral, pearl and tortoiseshell. The exchange amount is about 100,000 taels of gold. Don’t worry, it’s definitely much cheaper than buying it yourself. There is another company that uses cotton cloth and pepper to exchange, and the price is also very high. Low, but the quantity is large, totaling as much as 50,000 taels of gold. I don’t know the quantity of wine, books, needlework and embroidery, but these items are in short supply now, and the price can be sold. I roughly collected the spices. , I won’t hide it from you, the one with the most spices in Calicut is indeed the one in Kathak, but the merchant ships from Dazhou haven’t come for a long time, and there are few merchants from the Red Sea during this period, so other merchants I also hoarded some, and there happened to be a new delivery from the lord of a territory, which can roughly make up 400,000 catties. Add my own 100,000 catties, and you will have a total of 50,000 taels of gold, but I need cash for my part. No exchange, okay?"
Profits! This is simply stealing money! Yan Qi was expressionless, but she was crying in her stomach, remembering that these killers had their heads on their belts every day, and they didn't even earn a single cent.
"Well, it's ok. This saves me trouble. I still want some treasures and cotton cloth." Ling Qingyu thought about it in his mind. It's troublesome, but it will be Aixi and Yang Zhao who will be troublesome at that time, um, it's doable.
"Of course there is no problem. Girl, do you still want to go to the Red Sea? There is a bit of chaos there now, and there is a war. Recently, there are fewer ships coming from there. It is estimated that the prices of spices and gems can be sold at higher prices than before." Seeing that Ling Qingyu agreed, Aixi frowned with a smile, and reminded her specially. If there hadn't been a catastrophe in East Asia and a war in the Red Sea, how could the price of spices in Calicut be so cheap, and how could silk and porcelain be sold at such a high price.
Is there a war? Ling Qingyu frowned unconsciously, and asked, "Ai Xi, do you know which port city is safer on the other side of the Red Sea?"
"Aizab Port is the largest port on the Red Sea side. The war has not yet spread. Egypt has a great demand for Da Zhou's porcelain, silk and spices. Now you go there," Essie smiled and said. : "It's a good opportunity and can be sold at a high price."
"How much spice can you sell?" Ling Qingyu asked unconsciously. Aizab should be an ancient port in Egypt, which leads to Europe. Europe loves fragrance, so the price should be good.
"It shouldn't be a problem for you to double it ten times." Aixi smiled, but unfortunately he couldn't go with the boat, otherwise, he could also make a lot of huge profits.
"It shouldn't be too late, I'll go to the boat to prepare. Is it possible to trade tomorrow?" Ling Qingyu stood up, put away the unused paper and pen, and then said: "Go and change the knife first, by the way, add some money, Buy more. Yan Qi, you will follow Ai Xi to pick them later."
"We need to give some time to prepare for those firms, how about starting tomorrow afternoon?" Aixi asked.
"Can."
Back at the pier, the Fengshen was docked far away in the outer harbor, and there were small boats docked at the pier.
First, I took out the things to Ai Xi and asked him and Yan Qi to buy knives, and then called Zhu Weili and Yang Zhao to start arranging the delivery, because Ai Xi found buyers scattered, so the goods had to be counted and put away first. This time, Yang Zhao was required to make the general plan, and Zhu Weili assisted in arranging the personnel. Half of the six teenagers below counted the goods and half of them were ready to receive the goods. own position.
Yan Qi led people to bring back the knives, bringing back hundreds of Damascus knives in total.
"Yan Qi, you choose it yourself." Putting the five knives on the table, Ling Qingyu smiled at Yan Qi.
"Me first?" Yan Qi was surprised.
"Yes, I think you like it very much." Ling Qingyu said with a smile.
Yan Qi looked at her, and picked out two knives, one long and one short.
After Yan Qi picked it out, Ling Qingyu gave the knife to the crew to choose by themselves. The Damascus knife was not only sharp, but also inlaid with jewels and gold, which was very valuable. The crew were overjoyed, and even the children chose their favorite knife. short knife.
In the early morning of the second day, Yang Zhao and Zhu Weili led people to vacate the cargo hold, and then planned the vacated cargo hold, and there were only three people on board at leisure, Ling Qingyu, Yansan and Shi Fang.
Seeing the orderly and undisturbed scene below, Shi Fang took a sip of tea and sighed: "A talent like General Yang, hey."
"Why are you drinking tea here? Don't you want to see what goods are there?" Ling Qingyu stared at him and said, in the past, you and Zhu Weili were both the fastest runners, so you want to see what medicinal materials are there? And going ashore is also the most active, half of the galley on the boat has been planted and raised by you with a lot of strange things.
"General Yang said, if I run around, I will be fined to squat and lift. I am an old bone, are you willing to be in charge?" Shi Fang sighed again, when can I go shopping for things.
When it was getting dark, huge torches were lit on the pier, crowds gathered, and many businesses brought people and cars to wait on the pier one after another.
After Ling Qingyu finished speaking, Yan Qi was left behind, and Yan San went down to the temporary shed on the pier, sat aside, and watched the bustling trading scene at the pier.
There are more than 20 merchants. Aixi thought they would come one by one, but she felt a little dizzy looking at the people and cars on the pier. Unexpectedly, that handsome man directly arranged for people to do business with three companies at the same time, collecting money and ordering goods. , delivery, payment, and receipt, the hundreds of people on the big ship were not in a hurry, and even the children guarding the sides of the ship also looked dignified and unmoved.
The shed was isolated from the outside. Ai Xi brought the merchants in and told Yang Zhao the quantity and total price of the goods he wanted. Zhu Weili started recording beside him. After counting the money, he put it next to Ling Qingyu, and then handed over the list to the boy outside the shed. , After the young man made two copies, another person took the list and took others up to pick up the goods, and the other list was put aside and handed over to Ling Qingyu for final calculation. If the goods are for sale, the quantity should be reported first, Zhu Weili wrote The good list was handed over to the young man outside to make a copy, and then the other one took it up for delivery, and finally brought the counted list to settle.
Shipment and purchase, dozens of commodities, hundreds of thousands of catties of goods in and out, used the manpower of hundreds of people, and there was no mistake in the whole night.
Ling Qingyu had been sent back to sleep long ago, Zhu Weili had already left, and there were only Ai Xi and Yang Zhao in the shed, Ai Xilei couldn't open his eyes, seeing Yang Zhao still in good spirits, he couldn't feel the pain in his heart. admire. But he wanted to talk to him, but he was always discouraged by Yang Zhao's bland answer.
"Aixi," the last businessman picked up the goods, came in to greet Aixi, and said with a smile: "You boy is doing well this time, such a good red Luo, tell your friend, and return it to me next time."
"Hehe, I must say."
"In the past, I could only buy it from Xie's house. They sold it too high. Now it's fine, Ai Xi, let's go first."
"Everything is ready." Yang Zhao cleaned up his things and walked out of the shed. The sky was already slightly bright, and the coolies on the pier gradually dispersed.
"Yeah, I'll go back to bed first, please remember to wait for your girl." Seeing Yang Zhao looking over coldly, she hurriedly said, "I still have money and she didn't give it to me."
After packing up his things, Yang Zhao took the last few crew members back to the Fengshen, told the Fengshen to stay away from the pier first, in case the Galle incident happened, and then went to Ling Qingyu's cabin.
Her cabin door was left open and a lamp was lit, but she was in a deep sleep.
Putting the list and the last collected gold into the big box next to her bed, took off his shirt, and kissed her lightly on the lips, Yang Zhao lay down and hugged that soft body, and fell asleep right away.
When Ling Qingyu woke up, the sky was already bright, and he opened his eyes, facing Zhang Junmei's face, and felt his heart skip a beat.
Seeing that he was fast asleep, she picked up the thin sheet on the bed and covered his naked upper body, Ling Qingyu got up quietly.
Picking up the list and doing the calculations, and looking at the boxes of gold piled up at the foot of the bed, the smile on the corner of Ling Qingyu's mouth widened and he almost couldn't help laughing out loud.
Not to mention those precious jewels, there are already 270,000 taels of gold alone, oh, and 50,000 taels for Ai Xi, that is 220,000 taels of gold. Well, the spices are 620,000 catties, and there are a lot of precious spices in it. The pepper alone is 200,000 catties. Even if you don’t go to Africa now, you can sell it directly for several million taels of silver. Ten thousand taels of silver, remove the raffle, remove the dividends, and remove the cost, at least a net profit of five million taels,? But this time it is considered lucky, if it is usually not such a high profit, but even if it is only half of the normal profit, there will be a net profit of two to three million for a trip, no wonder the Xie family wants to monopolize the route that falls here Well, my father can earn a million dollars just by running the offshore route, so how rich is the Xie family? Well, it's a rare opportunity, let's go to Africa, so that when we return to Dazhou, we can earn tens of millions of taels of silver this time. I'm afraid there will be no such opportunities in the future.