Even with the existence of the camouflage net, people could not see Chu Yining disappearing gradually, but the Venetians on the street still noticed Chu Yining who disappeared all of a sudden.
Venice in the 15th century was still a republic where Christianity was prevalent and the people were pious. Huang Xuan had to use a camouflage net to disappear on the street, and then turned a corner to try to change his image.
He is not planning to go back to P11 now, that would be too eager. What's more, with Huang Xuan's current strength on Earth, he does not have the ability to search for an alien without a passport around the world.
That Mr. Spy will eventually try to find Huang Xuan's flaws. At this time, the flaw cannot be revealed.
Huang Xuan encouraged himself: He must be as brave as the first time he hit someone with a stone when he was a child.
Asking Lorraine to change her skin, Huang Xuan looked at his bleached image on the energy screen and said: "Nick, you can replenish Lorraine with 1 billion thermal circles of energy through Yasuo, Lorraine, As soon as the energy comes, you level up.”
"OK."
"how long it takes?"
"Three to four days, the time ratio between P01 and P11 is about 1:. You only need to wait for two days and it will be completed."
"That's best."
Nick said with some dissatisfaction: "Should we let the uninterested Lorraine become a level 18 traveler?"
"If you can get Lu Min to sell the drawings of the level 4 transfer base for the materials of a level 17 base, I will upgrade it for you."
Nick suddenly became excited and said, "I'll urge them right now."
Huang Xuan sighed. Both bases have no emotions, and accordingly there is no so-called sense of crisis. Even if Nick really wants to blow himself up, he won't have any complaints. Only he will really have emotional fluctuations because of the future.
Trying to speak a few words in Italian - naturally through Nick's translation, Huang Xuan walked outside. He now needs to improve his strength. Every bit of energy can make a qualitative leap in his strength - Chu Yiningzhi So I let him go, probably because I was really worried that he would jump over the wall in a hurry. If he really died, there might be no clues. But she never imagined that a complete program base that was almost invisible in the plane era would appear in P11.
Lorraine is a base that can be upgraded with energy.
Even in the era of large planes, apart from those important strategic planes, there were few such forward bases.
Back on the main road of San Giacomo Square, the Venetian merchants just now were still selling treasures from Constantinople.
The Ottoman Turkish Empire's capture of Constantinople was perhaps the most tragic scene in the entire history of Europe. Three days and three nights of burning, killing, looting, and a long period of looting and control in the future left this thousand-year-old city in devastation. The "New Rome" of Byzantium was the continuation of Roman civilization. Its cultural skin has always been one of the most prosperous civilizations in the world. However, the Turkish army burned, killed and looted the city, not only looting all the art treasures of the past dynasties, but also destroying the gorgeous buildings were burned to the ground. Later, Mehmed II renamed Constantinople Istanbul and converted countless churches into mosques.
The European world is keenly aware of this.
Of course, the Venetians also had fear, resentment, and unconcealed religious emotions, but this did not hinder their pursuit of wealth.
Buying back precious works of art from the hands of Turkish soldiers and generals seems to allow them to vent their various emotions. Perhaps, it is wealth that allows them to vent their emotions. Due to the relationship between war and supply and demand, it may originally cost 00 Du Carter's scroll can now be bought for only 50 ducats, and can even be exchanged for food and spices with only 0 ducats. There is nothing more exciting for Venetians than this.
It was now 1455, two years after the fall of Constantinople. The threat of the Turkish army was gradually forgotten by people. Instead, there was a trend of rising art prices that started in Florence. It also drove up the prices of art in Venice, which made the European market boiling.
Huang Xuan saw that almost half of the businesses were doing similar or related things.
They either sell and buy handicrafts, or exchange them for things that the Turks need, and most of all they do things related to them. Just like the increase in oil prices will drive the plastic market, the prices of goods related to the Arab world are not only at It is in the rising stage and is quite easy to sell - such as grain, wood, woolen textiles, etc.
Looking down at San Giacomo Square from the air, its planning is like a large wholesale market in later generations. Low bungalows or two-story buildings play the role of commercial houses in their respective functional areas in a horizontal and vertical manner. Many only have more than a hundred A square meter house may represent the interests of hundreds of sailing ships of the entire Eastern Fleet. Here, many businessmen have financial resources that surprise modern people. Tens of thousands of florins or ducats often appear in the account books here. The ratio of gold ducats to pound gold coins at the end of the 15th century was usually between 1:6. During this period, due to the financial crisis, the British government borrowed only 70,000 pounds from Italian banks each time. Just pounds.
The so-called extreme wealth is just a common thing in the small city of Venice.
Huang Xuan pretended to be an ordinary small businessman and walked quietly on the stone-paved square road. The pace of life in Venice is very fast, at least much faster than that in Nanjing. He could hear the noise coming from the surrounding shops. Huang Xuan was also a little infected by the hundreds of people who came forward to trade ducats.
This seems to be a 15th century version of the futures trading market.
After passing the nearest rum store, Huang Xuan finally saw a store named Perot with a wheat logo. There were four people standing behind the counter inside, and two people standing farther away talking.
Huang Xuan touched his cheek disguised as a white man, coughed, and walked into the store.
A young apprentice worker immediately came over diligently and asked: "Sir, what do you need?"
Anyone who runs a shop in Venice must be a recognized guild member. According to their rank, they are divided into managers, masters and apprentices or helpers. This is a long and strict hierarchy, but it is this This sequence ensures the continuity and self-discipline of production.
Following Italian habits, Huang Xuan tried to be as rigid and stiff as possible, and then said in prepared language: "I have a shipment of food that is about to arrive. It's grain, so I want to sell it to you."
"Are you a member of our guild?" The apprentices did not change their attitude because Huang Xuan said "a batch". In fact, Venice has always been a country that pursues non-self-sufficiency in food. They can Said to be a true advocate of free commerce: no trade protection and no antitrust. On the other hand, Italians have never been so friendly towards customers. For example, expressions such as "the customer is God" were still scorned by Italians until the 1st century.
Huang Xuan shook his head. At this time, the store manager had already walked out. Huang Xuan immediately added: "Look, this is my first time coming to Venice, but I have admired the credibility of Venetians for a long time, and I am willing to become a member of this credibility group, so I can I’m asking for payment again, but I need a warehouse to store the grain.”
Venice's trade system is already quite complete. In Venice, it's not just a warehouse that you can get, especially in the busy waters of the city. The daily transportation volume here is huge and it is easy to hide, but most of the warehouses already have owners. .
Hearing Huang Xuan's words, the store manager walked out slowly, stood in front of Huang Xuan, smiled and said, "I am Deste, the manager of this store."
Huang Xuan shrugged and replied: "Xhosa, you can call me Xhosa. My cargo ship will arrive in three days, maybe later today, so I need to prepare early."
He made a helpless expression. Dest knew that it was not convenient for merchants without a guild in Venice. He smiled and asked: "So how much food do you have? Where does it come from? What type?"
"Well, about ten thousand bushels of wheat, I don't know how much is lost on the road, you know, all from France."
Bushel is a unit of capacity, 1 bushel of wheat should weigh .09 kilograms. At that time, the displacement of sailing ships sailing on the sea increased year by year, but the 00-ton ship type was still relatively small. There were about 600 tons of wheat in 10,000 bushels, which was already a large amount.
Dest was obviously very interested. He looked at Huang Xuan for a while, waved to a middle-aged man who was more than 0 years old, and said to Huang Xuan: "This is Massimo. He will take you to our warehouse and Arrange your accommodation and if your fleet arrives within three days, payment can be made after inspection.”
Massimo should be a master. He smiled at Huang Xuan in a friendly manner and said, "Mr. Cosa, please follow me."
"Oh, okay." Huang Xuan was a little uncomfortable. 100 bushels cost about 6 gold ducats, and 10,000 bushels cost 600 gold ducats. Its value is equivalent to US$4,000. Huang Xuan was sure that even in the American grain company, no manager would be able to complete the transaction of 600 tons of grain so easily.
What's more, compared to the productivity in the 15th century, 600 gold ducats can be regarded as the financial budget of a city-state for about two months.
Perhaps, this is the so-called confidence that all the wealth in the world is gathered here.
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