Chapter 451 profiteers
.When Palawi left in Persia, Huang Jin finally couldn't help but say, "Mr. Shen, why are you doing cheaper? Not only do you agree to reduce the price, but you also take risks for him?"
"Haha..." Chen Si smiled faintly and said, "If it weren't for this, how could they agree? Let's send someone to the ship?"
"Follow the boat?" Huang Jin and Tang Ruyi realized that silence had his abacus... It was simply an insult to silence. When did our Lord God not have a small abacus?
"Yes, follow the ship." Silent nodded and said, "What is the most expensive in the 16th century? Navigation technology!"
"Pomegranate Poem Collection?" Tang Ruyi asked strangely: "Whose work?"
Huang Jin had been in the Maritime War for a long time and had a lot of contact with the Western merchants, so he explained to him: "According to the Western calendar, one hundred years and one century, now is their sixteenth century."
"That's not only more than 1,600 years..." Tang Ruyi looked down upon him.
"It's one thousand five hundred years," Huang Jin scratched his head and said, "Chamas told me yesterday, "It's now 155 AD.........5 years have passed?"
"1557 years." Silent said softly.
"That's even less." Tang Ruji smiled and said, "Do we have a thousand-year-old brilliant civilization? They can't even shake a third of us. I said, why are we so dense and we use a knife fork when eating, but it turns out that we haven't evolved yet." Silence is so unsophisticated that we argue with such people. She only believes that facts are better than words, and then smiled and said, "Yes, but aren't they stupid and have more money? If we want to get out of trouble, we have to rely on doing business with those people."
"Yes." Tang Ruyi did not object this time, and said deeply: In the Ming Dynasty, those who paid taxes had no money, and those who had no money did not pay taxes. The government was so poor that they could only rely on those Westerners to survive the difficulties."
"A porcelain bottle from Jingdezhen is sold in the Ming Dynasty for a high price, but it may be fifty taels, one hundred taels." Silently, "If we wait for others to come to our door, we will never go up the price... After the market is opened, it will not be the same. Everyone can do business. We don't sell the five taels or eight taels, but there will always be someone to sell it, so this loss is a must."
"Yes." Huang Jin and Tang Ruji said, "It turns out that sir is trying to leave them aside and do business by yourself!"
"The ocean is a hundred times better than the land, and no one can eat alone." Chen Si shook his head slightly and said, "But as long as there is a fleet of ours, people will have to do business with us in a regular manner."
After signing an agreement with the Persians, the two parties began to deliver the goods. It took three days to clarify that the people of Palawi asked to set off.
After thinking silently and thinking repeatedly, there was nothing wrong with it, so he allowed the auction house to list the Persian goods for sale... As he expected, merchants from all over the country who made a lot of money in foreign trade were unwilling to go back to their homes for nothing. In two days, they bought all these exotic luxury goods and prepared to ship them back to their hometown to make another profit!
He bought and sold both in and out, and he was the ideal trade state. And after the final settlement, he made nearly 200,000 taels of silver, which made Huang Jin and Tang Ruji's hearts clear.
Until he saw Tang Ruyi off, he shook his head and said: Oh, what's the point! It's so important!"
He was silent and said, "Okay, don't sigh! Look at what this is." Then he threw an envelope to him. Tang Ruyi opened it and saw that it was a 50,000 taels of exchange bill.
Tang Ruyi quickly refused and said, "I agreed last time that we will get the full amount. If you eat the goods, now you have made more money, so naturally we shouldn't have a share."
Silent shook his head and said, "It's true that we can't do anything for nothing... We do business for the court. We can't really treat ourselves as a businessman. We just want to make profits." As he said that, he pushed the letter into his arms and said, "Just hold it, I haven't thanked you for the last time. Only this little bit of Ah Du is put into the account of the Tea Horses."
Tang Ruyi was very moved and held his silent hands tightly, feeling a little reluctant to let him go.
He pulled his hand back without a trace and smiled silently: "Please set off."
"I'm so mean to take care of my chest!" Tang Ruyi replied with a strong respect.
When Tang Ruyi left, he looked at Huang Jin who was overlord, and cursed silently and laughed: "Look at your success, of course you are indispensable!" Huang Jin immediately smiled like a bun with a face, and stretched out his thumb and said flatteringly: "I said earlier, Lord Shen, you are a friend, loyal, and you are much better than being in the palace."
"Don't say that, father-in-law." Silently smiled, "I can't afford to be a stumbling with the emperor."
"The emperor is my boss, you are the second..." The two walked to the bridge with a giggle, and Huang Jin passed by happily and lifted the curtain for Chen Si, saying, "Where are you going?"
"Go back to the house." Silently rubbed the sun** and said, "I have been in the Maritime Bureau for this period and have abandoned all the affairs in the house."
"Yes," Huang Jin echoed and cursed: "These Western Japanese are too difficult to deal with, and they waste your precious time." Then he volunteered: "Sir, please go back. I'll keep an eye on the Maritime Bureau. Nothing will happen to Guanjiao."
Chen Si returned to the government office, went to the backyard to talk to his wife for a while. After returning to the signing room, he just put the ** on the chair and had not opened the documents to read it, so he stood up at the outsider and said, "Sir, Eunuch Huang is here." Chen Si couldn't help but be surprised: Which Eunuch Huang?" He saw Huang Jin's big face covered with sweat appeared at the door. Before the person came in, he heard him shouting: "Sir, something is wrong!"
"What's the matter?" Chen frowned.
"There is a problem with that batch of Persian goods!" Huang Jin led two merchants in and said, "When they inspected the goods, they found that the carpet was soaked!"
Chen Shu straightened his waist and asked in a deep voice: "Come from the beginning!"
"Oh...that..." Huang Jin scratched his cheek and said, "You'd better tell me."
The two merchants introduced themselves. They were Min Shang, Fujian. They auctioned 1,000 Persian carpets and 500 kilograms of spices at Pingju Auction House. They were delivered at the wharf today. They heard one of them say, "At first we didn't find any abnormalities, but later a pack of carpets was broken and turned on the ground. We saw salt stains." Huang Jin added on the side: "I have transported the carpets."
"Take in 1" said silently: "But changed your mind immediately: "I'll go out." Then he got up and went out and saw a thick Persian carpet.
"Let go!" A businessman issued an order, and the carpet was rolled on the ground with the bottom facing up.
"Sir, look." The merchant pointed to the obviously white circle above and said, "You can still see small salt grains under the sun." Silently squatted down, stretched out his fingers, stroked them a few times, and tasted them with his tongue. It was really bitter and salty, and it really tasted the sea water.
As a result, the mouthwash handed over by Huang Jin exhaled a breath of turbid air in silence, and said softly: "Have you checked other carpets?"
"Checked." The two merchants said in unison.
"Is other people the same?" "Most of them can't see or touch something strange." The first half of the merchant's sentence made Chen Si's calm heart slightly rise, but as soon as the second half came out, his heart fell and destroyed the valley... They only heard them say: "But it's salty..." Chen Si was there motionless and silent, like a clay sculpture, until Huang Jin could no longer wait, and whispered in his ear: "Sir, are you okay..."
Silent shook his head slowly, supported his tingling thighs and slowly stood up, refused to support him in panic, and walked back to the signing room with some staggering staggeringly. After sitting in the big case, he shrank his body in a chair and fell into deep thought...
Obviously, I was fooled by Persian profiteers... In this era, all the wooden boats that crossed the oceans, thousands of miles away, across several oceans, and they would inevitably encounter storms and heavy waves, and it is very likely that water would enter the bottom of the ship and soak the goods. This batch of goods in Balayad is probably in this situation, but the profiteers were unwilling to suffer huge losses, so they would park the boat somewhere, hire someone to dry the damp carpet, brush it off the salt, and then enter the port. It is impossible to distinguish it with the naked eye and touch alone.
The situation is extremely serious! Once it is irreversible, I will definitely not be able to escape the reputation of "official g hook, fake cheating people". As time goes by, all attempts to make a future will be ruined... The most important thing in the Ming Dynasty is the word benevolence and righteousness. Even if you are a gang of men and women, you have to put these two words on your face! Why do you have to share them with Huang? Tang and the other two? Isn't it just that they are afraid that they will be profit-oriented, and even their colleagues will have to plot?
This batch of goods will be distributed across the country, and it will be distributed to thousands of wealthy households. If anything goes wrong, it will offend thousands of officials and gentry at once! When I think of this, I shuddered and suddenly stood up and said, "Seal the Persian goods that have not been delivered! Put the wolf smoke and keep the Balaya in my arms!" Because the criticized river channel of Wusong River is narrow and shallow, and it is not loaded with Shanghai ships there. In addition, Balaya's appetite is too big, Feifei fills his ocean fleet, so the small fleet from ancient times has to travel three times. It takes three days and four times to move around day and night.
So although it was released the day before yesterday, Balaya left Suzhou City with the last batch of freight ships early this morning, and probably didn't even arrive in Songjiang. This day, it was pitiful that once again verified the philosophy of "Sai's man's loss" that was not so narrow and shallow. If the Wusong River was not so narrow, it would probably be that Balaya's fleet had arrived in Zhejiang now, so it would be beyond reach to chase him, and he had to hang himself.
After hearing the orders of Sanchi, he released the carrier pigeons, and they trained and flew directly to Shanghai City. There was a Maritime Office, and would transfer his orders to the escort fleet there... This is the fastest communication method at present, and is called Wolf Smoke to the outside world.
Chen Si hurried to the dock warehouse, took out a bag of carpet, laying the floor with the back side up, carefully checked it, and found another carpet with salt, but after tasting each one... it turned out to be very salty.
This verified the silent inference. Obviously, the salt stains on the carpet have been treated, but there are too many carpets, and it is inevitable that there will be some negligence. Only then can the negligence be discovered. But he couldn't be ridiculous. Wen's "bricks" kneeling on the shaking said, "What's wrong with such a carpet?"
"The fur of the carpet is dyed with special craftsmanship and can last forever and never fade."
The two old men whispered: "But the place where the seawater is soaked must fade quickly. Maybe one or two years later, or three or five years later, ugly spots will form."
"It's true..." The so-called "bricks" were all hindsight, and they all said, "This is all common sense." Of course, Chen Si would not praise them. The warehouse ambassador beside Wen said, "How many have been delivered?"
"Sir, say at least one third." The warehouse ambassador whispered.
Chen Si whispered: "Before you have not yet been transported away, we will recover all of them..." "Sir, what we have found out is just an example. As long as we don't say it, no one knows it... Didn't the experts say it too? There will be problems in a few years, and then we won't be able to pay the debt..." Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the silent gaze as cold as a knife, and he only heard the silent sentence: "Remember, my silent reputation, five-price!" There is no secret in this world that will never be revealed? If you always think about being deaf and being dumb, you will sooner or later pay off your debts!
In the afternoon of the same day, the Maritime Coin opened a notice. Because it was found that there were hidden quality problems in Persian carpets, all carpets sold were recalled unconditionally, and the full amount was refunded, and the resulting use was compensated.
As soon as the notice was posted, the merchants did not react fiercely, but instead praised him for his kindness, openness and courage, which was unexpectedly silent.
Some people also asked the Maritime Department about spices and gems. Fortunately, the spices were all in jars and would not be flooded, not to mention gems, so the problems were concentrated on those Persian carpets.
The person who bought Persian carpets silently went to the Maritime Bureau for a banquet at noon the next day, and it is said that he wanted to clarify the truth.
The next day, it was just a blink of an eye. The invited Chinese and foreign merchants came to the Maritime Bureau and sat at the eighteen large eight-immortal tables, waiting for the prefect to appear.
Before he was silent, Balaya appeared, and a tall Ming officer followed him... It turned out to be Yao's eldest son. The eldest son performed well in recent years, fought bravely, and liked to use his brain. Therefore, he has been promoted to the fifth-rank escort fleet photographed by Qianhule, Yu Dayou. He is the second-in-command. After blocking Balaya's fleet, he volunteered to lead the team to escort him and meet his long-lost brothers.
Of course, no one in the room recognized him, and no one cared about the small Qianhu. He surrounded Balaya and asked him all the time, what was wrong with the carpets.
Balaya blinked her eyes and said innocently, "Please promise Allah there is no problem, and I don't know what the lord called me back for." As he said that, he smiled lightly and said, "Maybe it was a misunderstanding."
Before he finished speaking, he heard no emotion saying: "I am really willing to be a misunderstanding!" Everyone looked in the voice, wearing a crimson official robe, Yunyan on his chest, and a plain gold belt around his waist appeared in the hall expressionlessly.
Seeing the silence appear, Balaya's expression changed and she protested loudly: "Sir, you have let go, but you have pulled me back, delaying my future. This is a change in the Xishi Dynasty and it is difficult to convince the public!" He decided to take the lead and would not admit it no matter what the accusation was.
Chen Si was not anxious with him, but instead chuckled a little at the corner of his mouth and said, "Mr. Balaya, everyone is hungry to wait for you, so let's have a meal." Even though he wanted to eat him, Chen Si still maintained the demeanor that a Ming official should have.
Balaya punched the cotton and had to sit down and said, "I'm hungry too."
After everyone sat down again, he ordered the food to be served in silence. When the waiter only served an empty bowl and put one in front of the artist, he had no intention of serving the food again.
Everyone thought that what is this? We want to be willing to take a plate? We don’t have that good teeth.
Seeing everyone's doubts, he smiled silently and said, "Push up the main dish." Everyone thought to himself that it was a mouse pulling a bellows, with a big head behind it. I don't know if it was a roasted whole beef or the kind of Arab roasted camel.
But the officials from the Maritime Bureau introduced bags of Persian carpets.
"Please inspect the goods and see if the seal of the delivery money is still there and if the carpet is damaged." Silent said lightly.
Balaya had to get up, and looked over and then. He really wanted to say that there was any damage... The guest couldn't find any problem, so he had to say in a muffled voice: "No problem." He confirmed the signing.
Chapter completed!