"Why do you care so much about everyone?" Wen Jianzhou looked at Jiang Hexi in confusion.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Hexi smiled slightly, glanced at Wen Jianzhou with a confused look on his face, and said inexplicably: "I'm not feeling sorry for seeing the beauty fall."
Wen Jianzhou raised his eyebrows, very suspicious of her reply.
"Do you come here often? Are you familiar with the woman just now?" Jiang Hexi's eyes rolled and he said gossip.
"It's okay, she is the top player. I have such a status, so I naturally have to ask the best girl to serve you." Wen Jianzhou proudly sorted out his purple brocade robe and looked at Jiang Hexi who was excited.
Jiang Hexi looked at Wen Jianzhou's expression carefully, but found that he was very open and had no shame at all, and could not help but feel sympathy for the beauty just now.
"When will the auction day next month be? I want to come and have a look." Jiang Hexi thought about it and said curiously.
Upon hearing this, Wen Jianzhou glared at her and said angrily: "You are a woman, why are you attending a pickup meeting? No way!"
"Forget it if you don't tell me. I'll ask Hong's mother later, she will definitely tell me." Jiang Hexi was not afraid of him and took a sip of tea slowly.
Wen Jianzhou pressed his temple with some headache and said helplessly: "Nineth day of next month."
When he heard him tell the truth, Jiang Hexi smiled and looked at him terrifiedly, his eyes full of cunning.
"You all retreat." Wen Jianzhou waved his hands to several women singing and dancing.
"Yes." Several women responded respectfully and left with a light step.
"You have seen this beauty, and I'll tell you the truth. Now you can always tell me how you plan to make money, right?" Wen Jianzhou poured Jiang Hexi a cup of tea and looked at her expectantly.
Hearing this, Jiang Hexi took a sip of tea slowly and said slowly in his anxious expression: "There are naturally many ways to make money, and the streets outside are the best channels to make money."
As he said that, Jiang Hexixu pointed to the street outside the window, smiling meaningfully.
"Don't keep it aside, tell me quickly!" Wen Jianzhou urged hurriedly.
Seeing that he became more anxious, Jiang Hexi sighed helplessly, but said seriously: "In fact, we can not only exchange goods, but also use the other party's raw materials to make better goods and sell them."
Looking at his eyebrows slightly frowning, Jiang Hexi patiently explained: "That is, we buy their food or other animal skins, then process them, make them into other items, and sell them back."
"We are rich in cotton, grapes, horses, cattle, sheep, and jade. We can use these good things to make money."
"For example, don't I have a knitting workshop now? But we don't produce a lot of cotton. If we buy cotton from the Western Regions and then make knitted clothes or other cotton jackets to sell to them, we will definitely be able to
Make more money.”
"We can also buy a lot of grapes in the Western Regions. At that time, we can make more wine in the winery and sell it to merchants in the Western Regions or Beidi people in the future."
"There are also glass bottles of Western Region merchants. You can make a mirror by adding a few steps of craftsmanship. This is a rare good thing and it will definitely attract a group of Western Region merchants."
"At that time, we can sell tea, porcelain, silk and other goods, and then exchange them for jade, horses, cattle and sheep, and then sell these things to Dasheng. We will definitely make a lot of money!"
Wen Jianzhou interrupted, "Wait, what is the mirror you are talking about?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Hexi smiled mysteriously, then carefully took out a smooth mirror from his purse at his waist and handed it to Wen Jianzhou.
Wen Jianzhou looked at himself clearly visible in the mirror in disbelief, stunned for a few seconds, and then pulled Jiang Hexi's arm excitedly.
"How did you do it!"
"This mirror uses glass bought from merchants in the Western Regions as raw material. First, stick tin foil on the glass surface, then pour mercury. After the mercury dissolves the tin, it forms an alloy called "tin amalgam".
It adheres to the glass surface and becomes a real glass mirror.”
"This tin foil is something that is usually used to make gold and silver ingots. Like mercury, it can be bought easily, but it is a bit time-consuming to make."
"But mercury is highly toxic, so you must pay attention to safety when making it. I haven't made better materials yet. Then I will study it to see if I can change the method to make a mirror."
Thinking of this, Jiang Hexi couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. After all, if the silver mirror reaction is used as a mirror, she would need many chemical reagents. Now she has not found a better raw material, and the glass technology in the Western Regions is not very mature...
Wen Jianzhou was completely stunned and stunned for a moment. He seemed to float in the ocean full of silver. After a while, he murmured: "We really want to make a fortune."
"By the way, do you know where there is a mine? I want to go and find some materials to make better mirrors." Jiang Hexi saw Wen Jianzhou in a daze and his eyes lit up.
Upon hearing this, Wen Jianzhou came to his senses and said, "The imperial court will open mines every year, and we have several mines in Jingzhou. Then I will tell you and I will secretly take you there."
"That's great!" Jiang Hexi patted Wen Jianzhou's shoulder excitedly and looked at him with a smile.
Wen Jianzhou was still a little confused, but when he saw the mirror in his hand, he couldn't help but smile.
"Stop laughing, I have some serious things to talk to you." Seeing his rare silly look, Jiang Hexi twitched and quickly spoke up to interrupt his fantasy.
Wen Jianzhou calmed down and nodded slightly.
"The merchants in the Western Regions certainly did not transport all our Dasheng goods back to their own country to sell. They could sell many young women to us, and even slavery."
"It means that their country is not very rich, at least not as rich as our Dasheng."
"I've inquired about it. They sold our Dasheng goods to other countries far away, and then sold glass, spices and other things from those countries to us."
"You also know how popular our porcelain and tea are among the merchants in the Western Regions, and how cheap this gem is sold in their hands."
"Maybe there are better things waiting for us in this distant country?"
When Jiang Hexi thought of the exquisite clocks and watches in modern Europe, the gorgeously patterned glass bottles, and various advanced inventions, he was a little anxious and could not help but think of the humiliating modern history before...
Although this is in the book, the situation is definitely different, but it can make everyone live a better life. Why didn’t she use her advantages to do this?
"Instead of letting them earn this intermediate fee, why don't we just go to do business with those countries? Wouldn't it be better to make money by ourselves?" Jiang Hexi encouraged.
Wen Jianzhou was thinking, and couldn't help but touch his chin. After pondering for a moment, he said, "But our Dasheng does not attach importance to shipping, which is a problem."
"Not paying attention now does not mean that you don't pay attention in the future. Brother Jinghe, you are a businessman. I don't need to tell you how much money you can earn here, right?"
"As long as you go and talk to the emperor, please tell the officials of the Ministry of Revenue how much profit they make, I don't believe they are not moved!"
Hearing this, Wen Jianzhou narrowed his eyes slightly, glanced at Jiang Hexi with a scrutiny, and said meaningfully: "I didn't expect you to know a lot."
Jiang Hexi smiled awkwardly, glanced at the side with guilt, and said dryly: "I am a businessman, and pursuing profit is the nature of a businessman, so I naturally learned more about this."
"So that's it." Wen Jianzhou spoke in a long voice, looking at Jiang Hexi who pretended to be calm.
"I will go back and think about it carefully. If there is good news, I will send someone to tell you."
Wen Jianzhou thought that this was not a bad thing anyway, and he was even looking forward to future business, so he didn't want to dig deep into how she knew these things.
After all, this seems not something he should be worried about...
"That's great! Thank you, Kuojing and brother." Jiang Hexi knew that this matter was basically successful when he heard him say this.
After all, no one in Dasheng likes silver more than Wen Jianzhou!
"It's getting late. Do you want to use it here or go somewhere else?" Wen Jianzhou said with a breaking topic.
Jiang Hexi thought for a while and said warmly: "Why don't we go out for dinner? I just saw a lot of Western food on the streets outside, and I want to try it."
"Okay, let's go!" Wen Jianzhou nodded with a good temper.
The group walked to the bustling streets, tasted the fresh, fragrant, soft and glutinous rice, ate the crispy, soft Hu cakes, drank the spicy and fragrant horse milk wine, and finally went home with satisfaction.
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The ink blue sky is rich in color, pure and thick, and the stars are hanging high in the curtain, a bright white crescent moon shines with milky white halo on the tip of the crescent moon, covering the quiet earth with a layer of clean and hazy silver yarn
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A man in black returned home over the stars and moonlight, with two tall men following behind him.
"Well, you are back, I have something to discuss with you." Wen Jianzhou, who was waiting in the main hall early, saw the familiar figure, and immediately walked over.
"Okay." Huo Jingchen pressed his tired eyebrows and nodded.
The two men walked to Huo Jingchen's study in parallel.
"What's going on with you lately? You've been back so late?" Wen Jianzhou couldn't wait to complain as soon as he sat down.
Huo Jingchen sighed helplessly and said, "Didn't King Xiang and King Xin be deceived by a mysterious person before? I was really unwilling to let him escape like this, so I sent Liuying and Xingluo to Beidi.
There I found clues.”
"I have been busy with this matter all these days." Huo Jingchen pressed his temple and leaned on the chair.