Ming Dynasty: Huddle in Beiping County as Magistrate Chapter 256 The Koreans are good at pepperLatest website:Hearing this, Shang Kezhou suddenly became excited.
"Your Highness, Guo Changshi, you two have never seen that after taking a bite of chili pepper, those Koreans seemed to have seen dragon liver and phoenix marrow, and they couldn't stop at all.
In fact, many people's mouths are so swollen that they are still eating.
In less than two days, the ten kilograms of chili peppers brought by the fleet were completely eaten by those Goryeo dignitaries!"
"This time, those Koreans came out with gold and silver just to buy a lot of chili peppers."
"Chili is so spicy, why do they like it so much?"
Hearing this, Zhu Di, who didn't care much at first, couldn't help but look weird.
"Back to Your Highness, those Korean people not only like it, but also eat it raw. They don't even put the chili pepper in their meals or steamed buns, and just bite it with empty mouths..."
You can still reply with joyful eyebrows.
"This...will their bodies feel uncomfortable after eating it?"
At this time, Zhu Di couldn't help but be stunned.
Shang Kezhou nodded slightly, "Your Highness is wise."
Guo An, on the other hand, was much calmer. Later generations of Koreans also liked to eat chili peppers, and they ate them in an unusual way. It was super spicy, abnormally spicy.
"This year, I didn't receive many chili peppers. They have to be sold to Sichuan, and Beiping Prefecture also has to keep some.
How much can those Koreans pay for each kilogram of chili peppers?"
Zhu Di also stared closely at Shang Kezhou.
Shang Kezhou replied: "Back to your highness, Guo Changshi, this time the minister brought the ten kilograms of chili peppers, and sold them at ten taels of silver per kilogram of peppers according to the price set by Guo Changshi.
However, I didn’t expect that after eating, those Goryeo dignitaries were willing to raise the price when they heard that I didn’t have many peppers in Ming Dynasty, and only I, Beiping Prefecture, could grow peppers!”
"Twenty taels of silver per pound."
"Twenty taels per catty?"
Zhu Di's eyes widened, his whole body trembled, and he felt like he was in a state of ecstasy.
Twenty taels per catty.
The price they paid for it from those common people was only a small amount of money.
"Sell, as long as the Korean people pay, all the peppers taken back by the Yan Palace in the past few days will be sold to Korea."
Shang Kezhou looked at Guo An aside.
In terms of foreign trade, all of them knew that the matter still needed to be decided by Guo Changshi.
Sure enough, after calming down, Zhu Di also looked at Guo An.
"What do you think, Guo Qing?"
Guo An bowed respectfully and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, I believe that rare things are valuable.
Although the Goryeo dignitaries discovered gold and silver mines, they were not sure how many gold nuggets and silver they could produce every month.
Moreover, it is precisely because of the scarcity of peppers that they pay such a high price.
If they knew that Prince Yan's Mansion actually supplied them with more chili peppers, they would inevitably become greedy and want to lower the price.
Now, I can sell one catty of chili peppers for the price of two catties of chili peppers, so why not?"
"In addition, Your Highness Mingjian, although many farmers in Wanping County have planted peppers this year, the total is not too much.
Our Yanwang Mansion has purchased more than 8,000 kilograms of chili peppers in total.
Of these eight thousand kilograms, I, Prince Yan, have to keep some for my own consumption, donate several hundred kilograms to the capital, and then sell some to the merchants and dignitaries in Sichuan...
In this way, the maximum we can sell to the powerful people of Goryeo is four thousand catties."
Zhu Di nodded slightly and said: "Four thousand catties, which is eighty thousand taels of silver, is quite a lot!"
Guo An said again: "Your Highness, these four thousand catties can only be sold to the powerful people of Goryeo for two thousand catties."
Zhu Di was stunned: "Why is this?"
Guo An explained: "Your Highness, chili peppers are spicy and can dispel cold.
The Goryeo Kingdom is geographically remote and suffers from extremely cold winters. At that time, those Goryeo dignitaries will definitely beg me, Prince Yan’s Mansion, to buy chili peppers.”
Zhu Di suddenly became energetic, "By then, the price of chili peppers will still rise!"
Guo An nodded, "Your Highness, it can still rise!"
"In this case, then sell one thousand catties to the powerful people of Goryeo and save three thousand catties!"
After a pause, Zhu Di asked again: "Guo Qing, how much did the peppers sold to those people in Sichuan cost?"
Guo An replied: "Go back to your highness and sell it to Yingtian City for four guan per pound of pepper. Sell it to Sichuan for five guan per pound of pepper."
"Five Guan?"
Zhu Di pondered for a moment and then said: "Can you sell less peppers to Sichuan people and sell the rest to Korea?"
Guo An shook his head simply, "Your Highness, the barbarians of Goryeo are not worthy of eating so many chili peppers. Even if they sell less to Sichuan people, they can still be sold to Shanxi and Shaanxi!
We, the people of Ming Dynasty, can also eat some chili peppers to keep out the cold.
Moreover, if it is really sold to those powerful people in Goryeo, they will think that the peppers in Prince Yan’s Mansion are plentiful and worthless!”
"If that's the case, then only four thousand chili peppers will be given to the Korean barbarians!"
"Your Highness is wise!"
Guo An said again: "Your Highness, in the past two years, our cotton and wool workshops in Prince Yan's Mansion have been able to weave tens of thousands of pieces of cotton and wool clothing every year.
Weichen thinks that we can try to send some to Korea this year."
"Selling woolen clothes to the Koreans?"
Zhu Di's eyes lit up again, "Guo Qing has the final say on these matters!"
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
Guo An thanked him again.
This time, Guo An finally found a happy way to make money by doing business with Goryeo.
As for Zhu Di, Shang Kezhou and others, the same is true.
If you sell any items to the Koreans, you can earn several times the profits. Moreover, the Koreans always look grateful.