Just like this, Liu Baiyu handed over his hand and said: "I escaped from Liaodong. I don't know the actual market situation. I would like to ask Magistrate Guan for advice."

Magistrate Guan thought that I had to set the price myself. He thought for a moment and gave the price:

Compact boxes, ten taels of silver each.

Glasses, one or two each.

Plastic dishes cost five cents for large ones, two cents for small ones, and one cent for spoons and the like.

Plastic lunch boxes, three taels each.

Plastic raincoats, one yuan each.

Knives, five cents each.

The profits of modern products in the late Ming Dynasty were not much, and there is no essential difference between them and white sugar and salt!

It turns out that the overseas trade of the Ming Dynasty was in principle monopolized by the Folangji people. No matter where the foreign businessmen came from, their ships could dock in Macao and wait for measurements and taxes before the goods could be sold. Only the Folangji people could enter Guangzhou for trade.

Langji merchants. There are thirty-six firms in the city that specialize in exports. We do business with them and order large quantities of porcelain, raw silk, sugar and other various goods every year.

But in fact, the merchants took another route. This route, to put it bluntly, was the combination of major sealords [pirates and armed merchants], big landowners, and big bureaucrats to transport European freight to various coastal areas.

Although he felt that it was unspeakable that these nobles and thieves were collaborating, he could not explain what happened to Liu Baiyu's natural way from later generations.

Magistrate Guan said that the most promising thing was the mirror in the powder box. He said that this thing was occasionally sold by Folangji people. A large mirror can cost hundreds of taels. Although their small mirror is a bit smaller, it is still better than that of Taixi.

The mirror I got is much clearer and translucent. If you can get a larger size, the price will be better. As for the "soft porcelain"-melamine dishes, in terms of texture, feel and pattern, there is nothing surprising, but it is light and does not break.

Above. The "soft glass bowl" is a plastic lunch box. Although it is not broken, it is not as crystal clear as a glass bowl. As for the plastic raincoat and knife, in the eyes of Magistrate Guan, they are just playthings. Maybe they work well in Jiangnan.

If it can be sold at a good price in Shandong, then it will be hahaha.

There is no huge profit! Liu Baiyu sighed and had to encourage himself to change his thinking, change his thinking! He suddenly thought that the Manchu Qing could collude with Shanxi merchants, didn't it rely on the profits of ginseng, fur, and pearls? And he could use it

The plane merchant system exchanges for a massive amount of modern products!

After all, in this era, no one bothers about the difference between garden ginseng and wild ginseng. Besides, do they understand?! And if it works properly, Li Gui can kill Li Kui! Economically, it is impossible to kill the Manchu Qing Dynasty without any blood.

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Thinking of this, Liu Baiyu smiled mysteriously at Magistrate Guan:

"These are all small things. Of course I have the best stuff in the box, but please step aside, Brother Guan. This is a top secret!"

"This! That's good!" Magistrate Guan went out and walked a few more times with Zhang Tianhong. After ensuring complete safety, he walked in with Zhang Tianhong again, but there was also a woman with a delicate face beside him, who looked to be in her mid-twenties.

Liu Baiyu observed the married woman and found that the two looked intimate, so naturally they were husband and wife. Magistrate Guan had red lips and white teeth, and he was considered a handsome man. His wife, Magistrate Guan, had good facial features, although she had a poor figure according to modern standards and had no breasts.

Not *, but according to the aesthetic standards of the late Ming Dynasty, they were both great beauties, and they could be considered a pair of beauties.

Liu Baiyu went up and called Guan's sister-in-law, which made Magistrate Guan blush. He introduced her in a low voice as a descendant of the Kong family. He relied on his wife's help for many things. In fact, he could not make the final decision on major matters in the family. This

Let Liu Baiyu sigh, in these days without a background, it is not easy to be an upright official!

Sister-in-law of the Guan family, however, was very generous. She gave Liu Baiyu a blessing and started business evaluation directly.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Guan! Some things are related to my ancestral secrets. Please don't spread them out!"

"That's natural!" County Magistrate Guan, Zhang Tianhong, and Guan's sister-in-law said in unison.

"Then let me tell you what, Tatars, one person is worth ten people for killing, but when it comes to craftsmanship, they are stupid as hell. When it comes to ginseng, fur, and dongzhu, our Liu family produces the best!"

As Liu Baiyu spoke, he exchanged several modern garden ginseng sticks from the plane merchant system, each weighing two ounces, modernly raised fox skins, musk, and two modern artificial pearl necklaces!

"This is a peerless treasure! Brother, take it back quickly! Don't expose it!" Magistrate Guan hurriedly wrapped up Liu Baiyu's things and added:

"These things are really causing trouble. Even I can't protect you!"

Liu Baiyu ignored it, but stared at Guan's sister-in-law and said:

"Sister-in-law! What if I let Yan Shenggong sell these things on behalf of me?"

"Mr. Yan Sheng? This man likes to save face and looks like a sincere gentleman, but secretly he is cunning and untrustworthy!" It seems that this Mr. Yan Sheng is not a very good person. Even his clan members are scolding him.

Dirty words.

Liu Baiyu gritted his teeth and said word by word:

"What if the price of my ginseng, dongzhu, and fur is only seven levels higher than the Manchu price! And let me make it clear here, these high-quality things are not only made by my family's secret method, but also require the payment of my family in the end.

Only the essence and blood can be used to worship ancestors, both are indispensable, otherwise the success will be in vain!"

Liu Baiyu directly took out some settings from fantasy novels. However, the more vague the things are, the more people leave room for their own imagination. People are like this. You may not believe what others tell the truth. You have to make up your own imagination.

It’s something that’s been talked about so much that many people believe it’s not true!

"I'm afraid this won't work! You will offend the Shanxi merchants. It's you, even Yan Shenggong himself can't afford to offend the Shanxi merchants!" Sister-in-law of the Guan family reminded.

"How is it possible? The Shanxi merchants themselves colluded with the Manchus, and they actually dared to arrogantly resist Yan Shenggong?" Liu Baiyu felt that the world was completely crazy? Can a traitor shake the spiritual leader of Confucianism? Is this still a feudal society?

Magistrate Guan had no choice but to explain thoroughly the strength of Shanxi merchants.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the harassment of the remaining Mongolian forces, Zhu Yuanzhang established nine military towns along the Great Wall. Each military town had its own granary. Two of them were located in Shanxi. In the early days, trade with Mongolia

It is completely prohibited. Even the so-called trade caravans are basically spies of the Jinyiwei, spying on Mongolian intelligence. Since the Mongolians lack salt, tea bricks, iron pots and other living materials, they have to endure it even if they know the details of these Jinyiwei caravans.

But later, due to the increase in the population of the garrison and the disintegration of the frontline farming system, the most important thing was the Ming Dynasty's weird policy of small government and small finance. In order to ensure the supply of military grain, the government encouraged private individuals to transport grain to the military town granary, and after receiving the grain

The two systems of issuing salt-trafficking "salt hiki" (certificates of quota for selling salt) to merchants ostensibly save money, but in fact, a large amount of salt tax is lost. In order to seek excess profits, these grain transport merchants naturally target

Due to different production methods, many items have huge price differences in the Mongolian market, making the effective court blockade a big joke. The greater harm is that the food lifeline of the Nine-Border Army fell into the hands of Shanxi merchants.

Instead, they kidnapped the Ming Dynasty court.

Later, in order to reduce administrative costs [Nima, besides reducing costs, the Ming Dynasty did not consider anything else] the government directly changed the "salt quota" to silver. Many Shanxi merchants began to engage in farming and selling grain in exchange for silver, and then silver

Lending money, using usury capital and hoarding food quickly amassed huge amounts of land.

The Shanxi merchants with huge wealth stole a large number of official positions from the Ming Dynasty's border troops through marriages, bribes, etc. Many officers and soldiers had actually become the private guards of the Shanxi merchants and had long since stopped listening to the state's command.

The scale of Shanxi merchants is expanding day by day, and they need a larger market. A large number of Shanxi merchants are tempted by ginseng, furs, and pearls and begin to look for new partners. Houjin in the Northeast is their best choice. In the late Ming Dynasty, Shanxi merchants

They sold a lot of strategic materials to the Qing Dynasty. These strategic materials were actually banned by the Ming Dynasty. The armed Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties entered the customs many times to plunder gold and silver and then came to buy medicinal materials and weapons, etc. In this cycle, the Ming Dynasty became weaker and weaker.

This is the origin of the traitorous behavior of Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty. In fact, they were selling out as early as the middle of the Ming Dynasty. But is it like the yy novel, the emperor knew nothing about what the Shanxi merchants were doing? Of course not, but if

If you directly suppress the Shanxi merchants like some YY novels, it will be difficult for the emperor to pass the large number of civil servants bribed by the Shanxi merchants in the court. What's more, even if you pass this hurdle, the nine-sided army will be riddled with holes and penetrated by the Shanxi merchants.

There may be an immediate mutiny, or even lead the Qing army into the pass, then the Ming Dynasty may not survive until 1644...

In fact, even the national hero Lu Xiangsheng in the late Ming Dynasty relied on Shanxi merchants to train his troops in the fields. This is evident from the actual influence of Shanxi merchants.
Chapter completed!