Chapter one hundred and seventy first strange tricks
Liang Qian's pupils suddenly tightened, and he caught the glass beads with quick eyes and hands.
"Sir! It's estimated that there are one or two thousand taels of silver here." Liang Qian lost her voice and looked a little incredulous.
With this throw, you may lose one or two thousand taels of silver!
Zhao Jin laughed and glanced at the glass beads held in Liang Qian's arms, "The raw materials for this bead only cost a few cents. Plus the labor, it might cost twenty cents."
This is due to the fact that the craftsmen are not very skilled in making glass beads from glass water.
As for the glass water made from sand, limestone, and one tael of silver, I don't know how many glass beads can be made.
"How many pennies?" Liang Qian raised the glass beads in his hand, and the light shone through them, making them even more exquisite and clear. He rarely expressed doubts about Zhao Jin's words, "Sir, are you lying to your subordinates?"
"The colored glazes of those Western merchants have been sold for more than a thousand taels of silver. This bead looks more precious than those colored glazes."
Crystal clear, the whole bead seems to be transparent and can reflect the surrounding scenery. Liang Qian's estimate of one or two thousand silver is already considered a good deal.
Zhao Jin nodded and agreed with Liang Qian's statement, "This colored glaze bead is actually also called a glass bead. It is indeed more precious than the colored glaze sold by Western merchants."
Liang Qian breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Zhao Jin, and whispered: "Why are you still lying to this subordinate?"
"I didn't lie to you." Zhao Jin looked at Liang Qian and pointed at the glass beads in his arms.
"So, the raw materials for those colored glazes only cost a few pennies."
Zhao Jin paused and thought of something, "But they came a long way, and the cost of sailing along the way was quite high. It is estimated that they will have to add more than ten taels of silver."
Liang Qian was shocked, looking down at the glass beads in his hand blankly, "So, the glass sold by those Western merchants has actually increased a hundred times a thousand times?"
"That's right." He opened his thin lips slightly and spat out two words. Zhao Jin's face showed obvious anger because of Liang Qian's words, "Those Western businessmen are simply slaughtering us like fat sheep."
"Damn it!"
Liang Qian held the glass bead and didn't feel sorry for it anymore. Hei scolded with a stern face: "Those idiots, we let them come in to do business, but they dared to fool us like this!"
Looking at the twenty-nine glass beads on the table, Liang Qian was so angry that he wished he could immediately pick up the knife and kill every one of those Western businessmen.
Zhao Jin paused, Liang Qian had always been relatively calm, and even he was so angry. Those who bought colored glaze were just hoping to go directly to the shops of those Western merchants.
"Sir! We can't just let this matter go!"
Liang Qian was indignant, "We must teach them a lesson so that they will not dare to deceive the people of Zhao State like this again!"
These Western businessmen clearly regarded them as fools! How could Liang Qian swallow such a breath!
Zhao Jin twitched his lips and said with a cold expression, "I will ask them to spit out everything they have eaten."
Hearing this, Liang Qian's eyes lit up. He looked at the glass beads in his hand and guessed: "Is it possible that your Excellency wants to..."
"The great prince!"
Along with the angry shouts, there was a sound of footsteps.
When Ning Ce reached the entrance of the lobby, he called Zhao Jin loudly, the anger in his tone obvious.
Zhao Jin was slightly startled, then looked up and saw Ning Ce, dressed in a green shirt, walking towards him with long strides, the sides of his face tensed and his expression serious.
"teacher?"
Walking into the lobby, Ning Ce hurriedly saluted. His anger was not directed at Zhao Jin. He calmed down and said in a less harsh tone, "The eldest prince."
"Teacher, have you heard about the glass beads?" Zhao Jin guessed.
Ning Ce frowned, "Glass beads?"
Soon, he glanced around and discovered the transparent beads placed on the table. Then he recalled the message he had received, "The glass beads the eldest prince mentioned, are they glass beads?"
"Exactly."
"It is indeed for this matter." Ning Ce waved his robe, clasped his hands together, and gave an extremely solemn salute to Zhao Jin.
"Please also ask the eldest prince to severely punish these Western merchants and prohibit them from entering Yunzhou County again!"
Ning Ce raised his head and looked at Zhao Jin with burning eyes, "Ning Ce will also report this matter to His Majesty to ask His Majesty to agree to close the port of Yunzhou County!"
"Teacher, there is something wrong with this." Zhao Jin frowned, but he did not expect that after Ning Ce found out about this, he would first close the port.
However, there is no history of closing ports.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, the imperial court closed itself off to the country, and ended up like this, which already shows that this method is not feasible.
Ning Ce immediately said loudly: "My eldest prince! These Western businessmen are all deceivers and deceivers. If you continue to keep them in Yunzhou County, they will do a lot of harm without any benefit!"
Zhao Jin shook his head, still disagreeing with this matter, "Teacher, what you said is wrong. It is true that these people deceived the people of Zhao State in order to make money, but they also introduced a lot of clever gadgets."
"Hmph!" Ning Ce snorted coldly: "They are all some weird and skillful things, what's the pity."
Ning Ce's tone was full of disdain for Western things.
Zhao Jin's eyes narrowed slightly. Ning Ce is a typical Confucian school. I'm afraid that in the eyes of these scholars, Western items are just fancy tricks.
It seems that even in another time and space, the contempt for business and technology still exists.
Zhao Jin took a deep breath, let out a long breath, and asked unusually calmly, "Teacher, does that potato also have some weird tricks?"
Potato……
Ning Ce was speechless for a moment. Potatoes are food, and a lot of them were planted as food seeds this time, and according to the yield per mu mentioned by the eldest prince.
Not surprisingly, these potatoes may be able to directly change the entire agriculture of Zhao State!
"Of course not." Even if he didn't want to admit that the potatoes brought by the Westerners might be a good thing, Ning Ce couldn't deny that potatoes were different from those weird tricks.
Zhao Jin turned around and walked to the table and knocked on the table next to him, "Teacher, there may be many things like potatoes in the West that are of great benefit to Zhao State, but we haven't discovered them yet."
"In this case, do you still want to prohibit Western businessmen from landing on the land of Yunzhou County?" Zhao Jin turned his head and looked at Ning Ce intently.
Ning Ce opened his mouth, but found that he didn't have many reasons to argue.
"However, the harm is also obvious."
Zhao Jin smiled, and Ning Ce began to compromise.
He asked again: "Are there no such black-hearted businessmen in the Zhao Kingdom?"
Of course there are, and there are quite a few who are even more sinister.
Ning Ce didn't say these words, he already understood what Zhao Jin meant.
There are also evil-minded merchants in Zhao State, so why only ban Western merchants?
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