"Are you a businessman from Eastern Qi who came to Northern Qin to do business?" Xiao Lingyue asked.
"...How do you know?" The man was stunned.
"When I entered the bandit village before, I found a telescope in the village with a pattern of stingrays from Dong Qi on it." Xiao Lingyue reached out and touched her arms, but found nothing.
I don’t know where the telescope fell.
Xiao Lingyue shrugged: "Eastern Qi and Northern Qin are far apart, and the telescope is a rare item. It is difficult for ordinary people to encounter it."
"Since you are from Dong Qi, and something with Dong Qi characteristics appears in the bandit village."
"It's obvious that you came to Northern Qin to do business. That telescope is one of the products you brought?"
The man nodded subconsciously: "I am indeed a businessman from Dong Qi. My name is Meng Wenhao. My family has been maritime merchants for generations. What do you call a girl?"
Although Xiao Lingyue was dressed as a man, she looked embarrassed at the moment, and her tied hair was disheveled. It was not difficult to tell that she was a woman.
"My surname is Shen." She asked, "Are you from a maritime merchant family?"
Meng Wenhao said awkwardly: "I don't dare to call you aristocratic family. It's just that our ancestors have made a living by the sea for generations and do some small business."
Xiao Lingyue raised her eyebrows.
Maritime merchants who can leave their own country to do business are not ordinary small businesses, they are equivalent to modern multinational companies.
The so-called maritime merchants refer to merchants who specialize in maritime goods.
Such as sea pearls, corals, sea fish, etc.
Such merchants can only be found near the sea.
In a country like Northern Qin, which is far away from the coastline and most of the country is covered with plains and grasslands, there are very few maritime traders.
"As far as I know, maritime merchants from Dong Qi generally like to go to Western Chu and Nan Yan. The waters of the two countries are widely distributed, and it is more convenient to travel by boat for business."
"Northern Qin is so far away from Eastern Qi and we are not keen on sea goods. How could you think of doing business in Northern Qin?"
Xiao Lingyue did not completely believe Meng Wenhao.
What seemed like a curious inquiry was actually somewhat probing.
Meng Wenhao didn't hear it at all, nodded and said: "Miss Shen knows our maritime affairs very well."
"I've seen him a few times before, just heard about it," Xiao Lingyue said.
In Nanyan, there are quite a lot of sea goods merchants.
Nanyan has many water towns, but it is not close to the sea, so it loves products from the ocean.
Even in the aristocratic homes of Nanyan, pearls and corals have always been the favorite jewelry of women, even more than gold and gemstones.
Meng Wenhao had a good temper and explained gently: "The girl is right. In our Eastern Qi, most maritime merchants go to Western Chu and Nanyan to do business. Especially in Nanyan, both the common people and the nobles are very interested in us. I like the goods very much, and they can often sell them at high prices and make huge profits.”
Xiao Lingyue thought to herself: This is too normal!
After all, among the seven kingdoms, Nanyan is an established and powerful country with a rich family fortune.
From the royal family to the common people, their lives are quite prosperous and they are naturally willing to pay high prices.
"But it is precisely because of this that there are too many people doing business in Nanyan and Xichu. Without high-quality goods or connections, it will be difficult for new maritime merchants to compete with established merchants, and the goods they bring cannot be sold at high prices. .”
Meng Wenhao continued.
"Although my family has been doing business in Dong Qi for generations, it cannot compete with those business families. It can only be said that it is not as good as those above, but more than enough."
"This year I am strong and weak. It is the first time that I have led a caravan away from Dong Qi, Nan Yan and Xi Chu. There are already two elder brothers in the family who are in charge of the business routes. It is really not my turn." Popular 『』 This chapter has been completed!