"It seems that these people from the Ming Kingdom are really here to do business. Although the battle is a bit bigger, the things from the Ming Kingdom are really good. Now, not only the merchants near the royal city are coming over with their own goods to take a look.
Can we trade something with the people of the Ming Dynasty? Even the towns farther away will get the news at this moment, and the merchants who have the goods in their hands will not be able to sit still!"
"Oh, I saw their goods, but what do they want from our goods?"
"Sumu wood, suma liqing, myrrh, styrax, benzoin, frankincense, pepper, peony, clove, bean paste, agarwood, costus, dipterocarp, etc., as well as Da Feng Zi, Nie Cheng Ke, dried blood, sulfur,
Rhino horns and antelope horns!”
Jinuer took a list and read it to Borki. This was what the people of the Ming Dynasty originally intended to trade with the Boni merchants in the past few days. Of course, if it was real gold and silver and the goods they brought were exchanged, so would they.
Welcome, but looking at the amount of goods they brought, even if they ransacked the royal city, they wouldn't be able to find that much gold and silver to exchange for their goods. It would be more practical to exchange goods for goods.
"Wood, ore, spices and medicinal materials?" Borki listened to him read this common list and summarized it: "It's not that important!"
Of course, he didn't know that what he said was not important, but in the Sihai fleet, it was quite important.
Sappan wood, also called sappan wood. It is very rare in Ming Dynasty. It is a plant native to Southeast Asia and can be used as a dye. Its roots are an effective detoxifier.
Among the products of the Ming Dynasty, silk is a good thing that everyone likes. The quantity is so large that it goes without saying! Sappan wood can extract a large amount of colorants. Just like the colorants need to be refined from the sumac green ore in the production of porcelain.
In that case, it is also necessary to extract dyes from sappan wood to refine and color silk. As an antidote, this is also an important use. Up to now, the war in the north of the Ming Dynasty has not completely subsided. In the war, both the offensive and defensive sides will use poisonous weapons.
Therefore, the demand for antidotes is very high. This kind of thing that cannot even be bought with money is regarded as "not very important" by people only in its place of origin.
Sumali blue ore was also very rare in the Ming Dynasty. It is a coloring agent for brightly colored blue and white porcelain - cobalt blue material. The blue and white porcelain in Jingdezhen in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty was fired using this green material.
Porcelain is characterized by its rich and dignified color, with a faint black luster, like rust spots. Let’s put it this way, porcelain made with the colorants proposed by Suma Liqing and the local colorants of the Ming Dynasty, that is
Two completely different concepts. When it comes to blue and white porcelain, everyone must have known it. This blue and white porcelain is famous both at home and abroad, and outsiders cannot imitate it. Naturally, there is its secret in it.
As for spices, well, most of the spices in the Ming Dynasty were not actually used for luxury goods. Europeans’ desire and demand for spices is because they mainly eat meat, and the cooking techniques for these ingredients are really difficult to master.
If you take action, if this meat is not spiced and smells extremely fishy, the common people can certainly use it, but the nobles and wealthy businessmen will not be able to eat it.
In the Ming Dynasty, many spices were actually used as medicinal materials, such as: storax. Styrax oil is extracted from the gum flowing from the branches of Gao Ada maple. The Chinese have known about storax for a long time, "Tang Materia Medica"
It is said that it comes from the Western Regions and Kunlun. It is purple-red, similar to the male red sandalwood, and is very fragrant. Lei people often use it to paint their bodies. The Fujian people are affected by this custom, and those who suffer from strong winds also imitate it. It can be seen that storax is mainly used for
Apply medicine externally.
Another example: frankincense, which is the name of the song in Arabic, is the resin secreted by the frankincense tree. Frankincense is also called incense, which is divided into upper, middle and lower grades. The earliest record of the use of frankincense by Chinese doctors can be found in Qiannan Liang Tao Hongjing's "Famous Doctors"
"Records", Chinese medicine believes that frankincense has the effect of treating fengshui poisonous swelling, removing bad gas, wind, lame rash, itching and poison. "Supplements to Materia Medica" written by Chen Zangqi in the Tang Dynasty records that frankincense can cure deafness, stroke, speechlessness, and women's blood.
, stop large intestine diarrhea, treat sores, promote internal elimination, relieve alcoholism, and relieve wind and cold. In the last generation, doctors had further understanding of the efficacy of frankincense. "Muhua Zhujia Xiaocao" records that frankincense can relieve cholera and relieve pain in the heart and abdomen.
.The decoction can relieve pain and increase muscle gain. This means that frankincense has analgesic and myogenic effects in the treatment of surgical diseases.
There are many others, so I won’t mention them one by one. The problem is that these are all good things, but they are not available in the Ming Dynasty. Even if they occasionally flow into the Ming Dynasty, the prices are ridiculously high, like the dozens of ships now.
Stopping here, the whole country of Boni came with these things, bag after bag, just to exchange for a few porcelain plates, porcelain jars, a few bolts of silk and so on. Such a good thing simply made the fleet
All the businessmen were laughing from ear to ear.
This is the first time that the fleet has done such a big deal. They had a chance in Champa before, but how big is Champa and how big is the Boni Kingdom? To be honest, the current king of the Boni Kingdom
, he was a master who worked hard and made Boni prosperous, while Panluo, who occupied the city, was forced to jump into the sea. Can these two be the same thing?
"Look for an opportunity and ask their boss whether their firearms can be sold. Can we exchange them for the goods they want?" Borji slowly said to Jinu'er, who went to trade with the people of the Ming Dynasty.
There are also his spies among the merchants. Although they cannot go to the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty to find out, they can see the artillery on the ship and the firecrackers in the hands of the escorting soldiers. The Boni Kingdom did not make them themselves.
As for the skill of firearms, the few firearms he had were bought from others at a high price. The Four Seas Fleet's practice of treating firearms as treasures made Borki really envious of him.
If Qian Wubing were here, he would definitely laugh out loud again. It seems that overseas, the people are interested in the porcelain, silk, tea and other things brought by the fleet, but these powerful people value
But it was the firearms carried in the fleet. The Dai Viet people were like this, and the clay men were like this. Of course, this was thanks to the Spanish. If they had not been harmed by the Spanish firearms, these big shots might not always be thinking about this.
"I can try this!" Jinnu'er nodded solemnly: "However, the person who receives their leader has always been the Prince of Chiang Mai. If I rashly contact them, will the Prince of Chiang Mai be a little bit embarrassed?
Not happy!"
"What's there to be unhappy about? One of you is my brother and the other is my nephew. You are all working for the kingdom!" Borki glanced at him: "Just think of it as doing business with the people of the Ming Dynasty.
If they sell it, let’s see what their asking price is. If that doesn’t work, next year’s production of these spices can be mortgaged to them!”
Thinking of this, Borki laughed. He made this wishful thinking quite well. If the people of the Ming Dynasty really meant this, he really wouldn't worry about selling part of next year's production to them. Of course, in this case, he would wait until
When these spices are produced next year, their fleet must make another trip, or in other words, they may simply set up a trade war in Boni. I heard that this is what the Spaniards did in Manchuria.
Of course, Manlajia had to let the Spanish set up a trading post under the weapons of the Spanish, while the Boni Kingdom took the initiative to invite the Ming Kingdom to set up this trading post. This is a huge difference.
After the Ming people set up this trading post in Boni, if the Spaniards wanted to get involved in Boni, they would have to consider the reaction of the Ming people. Looking at the warships escorting these merchant ships, we can see the power of the Ming people at sea.
, may not be worse than the Spanish. This time, dozens of merchant ships can come, and next time, of course, dozens of warships can come.
As for whether the people of the Ming Dynasty would covet the Boni Kingdom, Borji did not consider this at all. Decades ago, his great-grandfather was the king personally conferred by the Ming Kingdom. If the people of the Ming Dynasty wanted to annex Boni Kingdom,
, is there any need to wait until today? Looking at the records left by our ancestors, the Ming fleet that came to Boni that day was not as small as the dozens of fleets in front of us. At that time, it was said that there were hundreds of ships.
, tens of thousands of people.
"If they agree, no, they don't have to agree, as long as they are willing to relent, you don't have to take care of the rest. I will find a time to entertain them. Since they have Ming soldiers on board, then the leader,
There must be official positions in the Ming Dynasty. After all, our Boni Kingdom is still the king of Boni who was personally conferred by the Ming Dynasty. If we use this great justice to suppress them, we won't get them in vain. I think they will give in!"
Qian Wubing has been really free these past few days. Even Zhu Yunniang is very busy, but he is the only one who is bored.
The hospitality of the Boni people made him a little unbearable. Whenever he planned to go out, the prince would pop out of nowhere. This made him want to walk around in Boni incognito.
The idea of going shopping has become a luxury. However, you can't let others greet you with a smile. Right now, the fleet is still making a fortune here.
Therefore, although he dealt with the Prince of Chiang Mai with a smile, Qian Wubing felt a little bored.
"Siniang, it's just the two of us. Let's go out for a walk. Can you not be noticed by others?" Qian Wubing really didn't want to be like hundreds of people following him when he went out. If he went out like that, everyone would stay away.
Okay, can you see anything interesting?
"Do you want my mask?" Mu Siniang tilted her head and thought for a moment: "But, sir, you told me not to wear that mask a long time ago. I don't even have it on me!"
"Just don't let those annoying guys follow you!" Qian Wubing smiled bitterly and pointed outside, "Are these guys so annoying?"