Only then did the chief realize that the streets of Daliang were still bustling with people even if there were not so many people watching him.
Jiang Hexi pointed to the small stalls by the river and said to the chief: "This is our Daliang. Coming and going are all our Daliang's products."
The chief looked around and saw that there were people selling steamed buns and vases. All kinds of things that you could think of were displayed on the streets.
The chief walked to a porcelain shop, picked up a vase, and asked, "How much does it cost?"
"Three..." The boss originally wanted to say three cents, but he felt that the speaker had a special accent and his movements seemed different. He looked up and saw that he was a foreigner, so he immediately changed his words and said: "Thirty taels of silver!"
The chief usually uses blue and white porcelain with very exquisite patterns on it. The painter is worth a lot of money. He didn't see that it was a white porcelain, so he was ready to pay for it.
Suddenly she was stopped by Jiang Hexi. Jiang Hexi looked at the porcelain seller in front of her and said with a smile: "Boss, are you selling silver vases? Even if it's silver, you don't even have a tael here, do you?"
The boss was startled by Jiang Hexi's aura, and immediately changed his face to a scoundrel: "Oh my, where did you come from? I'm selling things, when will it be your turn to take charge?"
Jiang Hexi shrugged, looked at the boss, and said with a smile: "Grandpa boss, can you please tell me a little bit of truth? This thing is plain and has no substance. Why do you charge so much?"
The boss looked at the sky and then looked at Jiang Hexi confidently: "It's getting late today. I want to sell out and go home. That's why the price is so high. Can you give it to me?"
Jiang Hexi shrugged, looked at the porcelain sellers nearby and said, "Since the boss's things are so expensive, we will buy them elsewhere. Goodbye!"
The owner of the porcelain seller stopped Jiang Hexi angrily and said, "Little girl Pianzi, stop here. If you touch my things, you have to buy them. If you don't buy them, no one can leave."
The chief saw that there was a quarrel, and he quickly took out a tael of silver in an attempt to settle the matter. However, Jiang Hexi held him down and said, "Chief, don't be soft-hearted. There is a thousand times difference between three cents and three taels of silver.
No matter how rich we are, we can't let these bastards extort us like this."
The chief looked at Jiang Hexi in surprise and said, "What did you say? A thousand times? The money I gave him can buy a thousand bottles like this? This is too much, too much!"
Although the sheik is a small country in Arabia, the number of daily transactions rarely exceeds a thousand. But these thousand bottles can be seen with a little gesture. It seems that this is really a businessman.
The chief gave up completely. He shook his head and said to the boss, "I'm sorry, your stuff is too expensive. I don't want to buy it."
"Do you want to buy it or not?" The boss suddenly took out a knife, pointed it at the chief's chest, and shouted: "I have never seen anyone on this street who can say no to me. Do you want to try it?"
Give it a try?”
The chief took a step back, took out a musket from his waist, and shouted at the porcelain boss: "Don't think that I am so easy to bully because I am a foreigner. Let me tell you, I am not so easy to mess with."
"Hey, are you still trying to be tough with me?" The boss saw the chief take out something like a copper pipe. It didn't look like anything big, but he didn't know what it was used for.
After all, he didn't want to kill anyone, so he took out the knife and lightly scratched the piece of cloth next to him. The piece of cloth split into two halves from beginning to end.
Then, the boss looked at the chief with sharp eyes and said, "Have you seen this guest? Do you want to be like this piece of cloth?"
The chief was so angry at the boss that he loaded his musket and fired at the fragment.
I saw sparks coming out of the gun and falling on the piece of cloth. The piece of cloth actually caught fire and burned.
This time, it was the porcelain boss's turn to take two steps back and look at it with some embarrassment.
The chief asked, "Oh, what is this? Why don't you give it to me and let you choose from the items on my stall?"
The chief showed an expression of contempt. He had always been soft-spoken about these things, but now that he saw this boss kneeling and licking himself like a dog, he felt a sense of disgust coming from his heart.
He sneered and said, "I'm afraid that your whole family won't be able to afford anything, so you might as well forget it. If you don't get out of the way, I'll let you have a taste of the power of this gun!"
After saying that, he raised his musket. The porcelain boss was frightened when he saw it. He quickly moved out of the way and said to the chief: "I'm sorry, Sir, please treat me well. Please treat me well!"
Jiang Hexi gathered around, looked at the chief's proud look, and said with a smile: "Chief, you are really smart. This thing in your hand is so powerful. Can you sell some to us and equip it in the court?"
The chief nodded, looked at Jiang Hexi and said: "To tell you the truth, something like this only costs three taels of silver in our Arabia. At first, I thought those porcelains really cost three taels of silver to make, but I almost didn't expect it.
People were lied to."
Jiang Hexi looked at the chief happily and said, "That's it, how much did you bring?"
The chief shrugged helplessly, looked at Jiang Hexi and said: "How much can I bring? Do you think I'm here to sell this thing? We brought more than ten muskets with us. We have to protect ourselves when we go back, so I'm afraid we can only sell them
I’ll give you ten handfuls, do you want them?”
Jiang Hexi nodded happily and said, "Yes, yes. Let's talk about it when we go back."
The chief looked at Jiang Hexi with curiosity and said, "Why was that person so arrogant just now? Don't you have anyone here to take care of it?"
Jiang Hexi looked at the chief with some embarrassment and said: "Guan, of course, we have a kind of people here called urban management, who are specifically in the city to take care of those who buy things. But you see there are too many people here.
If you can’t see clearly, you can’t control it.”
The chief nodded and said with a smile: "He is an ant and wants to fight us with swords and guns. He is really overestimating his capabilities."
Jiang Hexi looked at the chief with a victorious smile on his face: "Aren't we already victorious now? Are you still afraid of him?"
The chief shook his head and said, "What are the porcelains here made of? If you don't know a little bit about it, I'm afraid the water inside is too deep and I can't even see through it."
Jiang Hexi looked at the chief's humble and studious eyes, and suddenly felt an urge to educate, so she said to the chief, come with me, I will take you to Luogu Lane and show you how porcelain is made.