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096 The low price that shocked both parties

About an hour later, both sides sat down again. This time it was not just a talk, both sides were holding their own samples of goods.

"Mr. Bai, our idea is. We hope to get a lot of porcelain and silk. We can fold the remaining materials into rice or the value of silk. What does Mr. Bai think?"

"It's great to fold it into rice. I agree with your statement!"

"First of all, this kind of ordinary first-class silk comes from the Ming Dynasty as the standard. Please set the price by Lord Bai!" The little prince made a very inviting move.

When the white-famous crane touched this kind of silk, the Ming Dynasty silk was also divided into grades, which belonged to the upper and middle class.

Bai Minghe had already decided in his mind about the whole goods price in Beijing, and he said: "A load of silk can be exchanged for 3,300 stones of rice for one load. Bai Minghe's words scared everyone on the Ming side, gritting their teeth tightly, for fear of making a sound. They knew that this price was a sky-high price."

The amount of this load made the little prince and Sansong a little unresponsive.

Fortunately, Bai Minghe prepared many samples, so people immediately took more and then weighed them.

"Why do you use the burden to calculate it? Because silk is thick and thin, and one piece is long and short depending on the workshop. The error is about two feet. Although one piece is one hundred feet, the error of two feet is also your loss. The weight is different, and it is not appropriate to calculate it with a piece. Since it is a cooperation, I, Baiming Crane, must be sincere. This calculation method has the least error and is the most fair to us!"

A load is one hundred kilograms from the Ming Dynasty, which is the weight of a stone. It is 92.5 kilograms from the modern era.

A piece of silk, because of the different thicknesses, the lightest one is 2.5 kilograms, and the heavy one is 3.7 kilograms. Of course, there are some special thickened silks, including five kilograms per piece.

The little prince went to see each piece of silk in person and asked each piece to weigh it alone.

This silk is almost thirty or forty pieces, and regardless of thickness, it is definitely less than the price of 80 stones.

The little prince and Sansong looked at each other, and the price was already lower than their psychological price. If they sold it to India or Arab merchants, they would have at least twice the profit.

Seeing the expressions of these two people, Bai Minghe thought it was bad and turned around to give Chen Ada a helpless and bitter smile. Bai Minghe laughed because she felt that her offer was low, but Chen Ada was worried that the price was too high and the other party could not accept it.

Now the wholesale goods in the Ming Dynasty are for merchants to get silk. A leash is about 300 taels of silver, and the most expensive one is not more than 350 taels. Based on the calculation of 300 taels, you can buy six or seven hundred stones of rice in Jiangnan of the Ming Dynasty. As soon as the white-famous crane opened its mouth, it was five times the rice, which Chen Ada could not accept.

"Young Master Bai. Your sincerity is too deep. From today on, we are our best friends. I will arrange for the entire kingdom to increase the cultivation of grain, which will greatly subsidize farmers. There will definitely be more and better rice. Each load of silk. In addition to the 3,300 stones mentioned by Mr Bai, I will give another fifty stones of high-quality fragrant rice that our royal family specializes in. And I will arrange for someone to pack it on the boat. I just don't know how much silk you brought this time?"

Chen Ada is going crazy, and the entire Ming Dynasty group is going crazy.

Even if they don’t know how to read, even if the little prince’s Chinese language is not so authentic, they can understand it.

Bai Minghe quoted a sky-high price, but the other party still felt so grateful that he was about to die.

Bai Minghe snapped his fingers behind him!

The clerk in charge of the accounting hurriedly opened the account book: "We have 8,600 dans of broad wire and 1,400 dans of Hang Silk. These are the same as what we just showed, and there are 2,000 dans of Su Jin. This is a special product. It is just negotiated and can be transported here immediately." After that, he quickly picked out Su Si from the sample pile behind and sent it to him.

"Well, this is better than the one just now, it's very close to Shu Jin!"

The little prince's voice was trembling. He didn't expect that Bai Minghe would bring so many.

But think about it again, each ship can hold at least one thousand materials for sixteen cargoes.

One material is about the weight of a stone. One material in Daming is the volume of a cubic foot, so it can only be roughly estimated. Different goods and different weights.

"Stop it. This Su Jin and Shu Jin are both top-notch silk. They are also divided into levels. I gave them as a gift, such as Shu Jin, which is offered in the royal family. This Su Jin is just an ordinary good silk. It is said that this is not because of the price, but because it belittles Su Jin. I am afraid that the silk workers in Suzhou will scold me."

After Bai Minghe said that, he laughed heartily.

"Is it okay to add another five hundred stones?" asked the little prince.

"Yes." Bai Minghe agreed without saying a word.

Just when the little prince thought it was over, who would have thought that the clerk continued: "There are two thousand dans of Gan silk and one thousand dans of Fu silk. These are all flat weavings, which are relatively poor!"

The clerk took another sample. This one seemed to be no different from the standard silk just now in the hands of outsiders. After touching it separately, no obvious difference was found.

The clerk said in his heart, Lord Bai, you are already very dark, so let’s not be black in such small details.

"Please look carefully. Although the quality of the silk in these two places is similar, the level of the weaver is significantly different." As he said, he opened the silk: "The weaving line, density, and the contacts of the broken wire are not as good as those of wide wire. The difference is that it is bad, and I dare not hide it at all!"

Full of sincerity.

Reduce 300 stones of rice to acquire these.

"There are also more advanced silks, not whether your country needs them." Under the strong hint of the clerk, Bai Minghe said: "But the number brought this time is not large, with only five pounds in total, called makeup floss, and more than a dozen more advanced gold velvets. To be honest, I bought two of these gold velvets for my wife last time, and they were all painful for several days."

A large number of people like Baiminghe will feel pain in their flesh with goods that are connected to each other, which shows how precious it is.

There was no sample at hand, only a long velvet dress, which was originally intended to be given as a gift to others. And a piece of towel that Qinghe picked out from the scraps and used for himself.

Some of the velvets have colorful velvet flowers on the satin ground, called "silk satin". Some of the velvet flowers on the striped ground, also called "silk velvet". This long skirt alone is enough to show the world the pinnacle of Chinese silk. Why is the white-famous crane sore? One price in the Ming Dynasty costs eighty taels of silver.

More expensive, gold-colored velvet is made of gold and silver threads, and colorful velvet flowers are formed on the ground, with luxurious and magnificent colors. You may not be able to buy a piece of silver for 200 taels of silver.

"This is a gift to my father, and it is the best!"

The price is easy to say, but good things dare to be sky-high. If you don’t change the rice, you will only change the precious medicinal materials. If you don’t want to change the rice for 30,000 stones, the white-famous crane is not willing to change it. The little prince can understand that even the Ming people feel that such a top-notch one is extremely precious, and naturally the value will not be low.

The result of porcelain is also calculated based on the burden.

This time, the price was sold at a tumble of porcelain for 87 stones of rice. The five famous kilns and porcelains were calculated based on ones or sets, and were not included in this transaction.

The two parties began to write an agreement, writing one in Chinese, then in Siamese, and finally in Nanzhang. Each part was in duplicate, and both parties kept the bottom.

While writing the agreement, Bai Minghe leaned his head to Chen Ada: "We only prepared 100,000 taels of silver. He said so much silk, and we came from there."

"No, it's all in the merchant's warehouse. We have checked all the silks in Guangdong Province now. The inventory is only more than 10,000 pieces. These 8,600 pieces are calculated by the Dusi Yamen and the Jinyiwei. We can get the largest number we can get." Chen Ada explained to Bai Minghe.

This time they came here, they brought the most wine, then porcelain, and some handicrafts.

The silk is the least, only 2,000 tons. Of course, except for the best white crane belts.

"Mr. Bai, if it were all replaced with rice, it would probably be six or seven million stones. This amount of rice is almost as high as the tax of Jiangnan." The Jiangnan mentioned by Chen Ada is not a province. It is better than two and a half provinces, plus Nanzhili. The annual rated tax is 13 million stones.

During the Zhengtong period, Shanxi ranked second, with a tax of 2.8 million shi per year. It can be said that the tax in Shanxi is the heaviest. Because Shanxi only has 420,000 hectares of land.

Henan has the most land, and the Ming Dynasty recorded 1.5 million hectares of land, but only 2.2 million shi of taxes.

"How much tax does our Guangdong have?" Bai Minghe asked.

Chen Ada really wants to despise Bai Minghe. You are an official in Guangdong, and you are a county magistrate or a civil servant. Don’t you know the taxes in Guangdong? No matter how despise you are, you still answer Bai Minghe: "One million stones."

The contract is established by signing and sealing. The little prince is the witness of the white-name crane and Sangsong, and the little prince is the witness of the white-name crane and Sangsong. Next, the grain transportation transaction is the first to move all the porcelain of the white-name crane from the ship.

These porcelains were almost exchanged for more than one million stones of grain.

According to the price of the Ming Dynasty, it is worth 500,000 taels of silver, but according to the purchase price of porcelain, it is 123,000 taels of porcelain.

For the little prince and Sangsong, the porcelain they obtained was only one million stones of grain. If they were to lose their hands, it would be a guaranteed value of 30,000 taels of gold. Even if it reached 35,000 taels of gold, it would not be surprising.

At least the civil servants and slaves give me some meals to eat, and at most one meal of meat is added.

The clerk sat in the boat warehouse, laughing all the time, never closing his mouth. Standing at the bow of the boat, he could clearly see the small boat connected to the inland river channel, constantly transporting the grain to the port.

Bai Minghe calculated, but he didn't feel it was right. "Uncle Chen, our money is not enough to buy these porcelains, right?"

"The military recruitment will be taken away first and let them come to check in a few days." Chen Ada answered calmly.
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